12th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100073238 | MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA WITH HIGH GAIN AND WIDE BAND CHARACTERISTICS - Provided is a microstrip patch antenna. The microstrip patch antenna includes a dielectric layer, a feed circuit disposed in the dielectric layer, at least one slot disposed in the dielectric layer and vertically spaced apart from the feed circuit, and a patch antenna disposed outside the dielectric layer and vertically spaced apart from the at least one slot. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073239 | Compact Circularly-Polarized Antenna with Expanded Frequency Bandwidth - Disclosed is a circularly-polarized antenna comprising a flat conducting ground plane, a radiator, and an excitation system disposed between the radiator and the ground plane. The radiator comprises a plurality of conducting segments separated from each other by a first dielectric medium and separated from the ground plane by a second dielectric medium. The plurality of conducting segments are symmetrically disposed about an antenna axis of symmetry orthogonal to the ground plane. The excitation system comprises a flat conducting exciter patch and four excitation sources with phase differences of 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees. The excitation sources are generated on two orthogonal printed circuit boards. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073240 | ANTENNA - An antenna is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate with a first surface and a second surface; a first radiation unit, disposed on the first surface; an insulating unit, disposed on the first surface on top of the first radiation unit; a first feed point, formed on the second surface and electrically connected to the first radiation unit; a grounding unit, disposed coplanar and connected with the first radiation unit; a first gap, formed between the first radiation unit and the grounding unit; and a second feed point, formed on the second surface and electrically connected to the grounding unit; wherein, as the second surface with the two feed points disposed thereon is adjacent to at least a metallic component and the radiation units are disposed on the first surface, the radiation units do not directly face the metallic component and thus prevent the same from being interfered by metallic shielding. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073241 | CAVITY ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Wireless portable electronic devices such as laptop computers are provided with cavity-backed monopole antennas. A wireless device may have a housing. Conductive portions of the housing such as a conductive outer metal layer and internal frame structures may form a cavity having conductive walls. An antenna resonating element structure may be formed from monopole antenna resonating element arms of dissimilar lengths. One of the arms may be straight and another of the arms may be implemented using a meandering path. The antenna resonating element may be mounted over the cavity to form a cavity-backed monopole antenna. A display within the device may be covered by a cover glass. An opaque bezel region around the periphery of the cover glass may cover the antenna and block it from view. The antenna resonating element arms may run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cavity. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073242 | CLUTCH BARREL ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Wireless portable electronic devices such as laptop computers are provided with antennas. An antenna may be provided within a clutch barrel in a laptop computer. The clutch barrel may have a dielectric cover. Antenna elements may be mounted within the clutch barrel cover on an antenna support structure. There may be two or more antenna elements mounted to the antenna support structure. These antenna elements may be of different types. A first antenna element for the clutch barrel antenna may be formed from a dual band antenna element having a closed slot and an open slot. A second antenna element for the clutch barrel antenna may be formed from a dual band antenna element of a hybrid type having a planar resonating element arm and a slot resonating element. Flex circuit structures may be used in implanting the first and second antenna elements for the clutch barrel antenna. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073243 | WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH CLUTCH BARREL TRANSCEIVERS - Wireless portable electronic devices such as laptop computers are provided with antennas and radio-frequency transceiver circuitry. Antenna structures and transceiver circuitry may be provided within a clutch barrel in a laptop computer. The clutch barrel may have a dielectric cover. Antenna elements may be mounted within the clutch barrel cover on an antenna support structure. The antenna support structure may be mounted to a metal housing frame. The metal housing frame may have a tab-shaped extension that serves as a heat sink. The heat sink may draw heat away from the transceiver circuitry. The transceiver circuitry may be coupled to the antenna using a radio-frequency transmission line path that contains microstrip transmission lines or coaxial cable transmission lines. The transceiver circuitry may be coupled to logic circuitry on a laptop computer motherboard using a digital data communications path. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073244 | Apparatus Comprising a Radio Antenna Element and a Grounded Conductor - An apparatus including: an exterior housing; a radio antenna element within the exterior housing; and a grounded conductor extending adjacent the antenna element and having a first area that is physically associated with a portion of the exterior housing. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073245 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In order to provide a wireless communication apparatus which reduces noises and keeps receiving sensitivity, a stub ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100073256 | REMOVABLE FINE TUNE ELEVATION ADJUSTMENT TOOL FOR A SATELLITE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A removable tool for adjusting the elevation of a satellite antenna having a shaft, a knob engaging the threads of the shaft at one end, a pivot member slideably disposed over the shaft threads; an upper pin for selectively engaging a hole at the other end of the shaft and with upper holes on the antenna mount; and lower pin for selectively engaging a pivot hole in the pivot member and lower holes on the mount. When the knob is turned the shaft adjusts the elevation in the mount by pivoting between the two bracket pairs. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073257 | REMOVABLE AZIMUTH FINE ADJUSTMENT TOOL AND METHOD FOR A SATELLITE DISH ANTENNA SYSTEM - A fine azimuth adjustment tool and method for a satellite antenna system having a clamp with opposing jaws for clamping around the mast pipe, a lever connected to the clamp for opening and closing the opposing jaws; a cam with a protrusion engaging a formed slot in the mast clamp when said opposing jaws are closed, the protrusion rotating the mast clamp when the cam is turned, the protrusion in the slot holding the mast clamp to the mast pipe at a desired fine tuned azimuth position while the mast clamp is tightened and secured to the mast pipe. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073258 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes a supporting board, a planar first radiating plate having a feeding point formed on a first surface of the supporting board, a transmission line electrically connected to the feeding point formed on the first surface and extending up to a side of the supporting board, and a planar second radiating plate formed on a second surface of the supporting board. The first and the second radiating plates are each formed in line symmetry with respect to the centerline of the transmission line and/or the extended line of the centerline. At least one of the first and second surfaces has a dielectric which is formed in either one of the two regions located on mutually opposite sides of the center line of the transmission line and the extended line of the center line when viewed from the thickness direction of the supporting board. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073259 | Antenna device - An antenna device includes two antenna members each having a support member disposed on a transmission facility, and two helical antenna elements disposed on the support members and arranged in different directions or opposite to each other and having polar directions preferably arranged perpendicular to each other for facilitating a throughput or signal transmitting effect and for increasing the isolation. The helical antenna elements each may include a terminal electrically coupled to a cable, and each may include two or more helical conductors and one or more non-conducting spaces disposed between the helical conductors. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073260 | ANTENNA DEVICE WITH LENS OR PASSIVE ELEMENT ACTING AS LENS - An antenna device has a divider producing first and second signals, and amplifiers amplifying the signals at a changeable amplitude ratio of the first signal to the second signal. A Rotman lens gives first phase differences to first high frequency waves, produced from the first amplified signal at an input port and transmitted to output ports, and gives second phase differences to second high frequency waves produced from the second amplified signal at another input port and transmitted to the output ports. An antenna forms a beam composed of electromagnetic waves, having the first phase differences and electric power corresponding to the first amplified signal on an antenna surface, and electromagnetic waves, having the second phase differences and electric power corresponding to the second amplified signal on the antenna surface, and radiates the beam in a particular direction corresponding to the phase differences and the amplitude ratio. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073261 | TUNABLE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE - An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The methods disclosed teach how to tune the frequency selective surface to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073262 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - A head mounted display device has a frame. The frame includes a front portion mountable on a nose of a user, and extending to a right side edge of the front portion, and to a left side edge of the front portion, in front of at least one eye of the user, a connection portion connected to an edge portion of at least one of the right and left side edge, and the connection portion extends rearward from the edge portion, and a temple portion configured to be mountable on an ear of the user, rotatably connected to the connection portion, and rotates around a rotation axis. The head mounted display also has an image display unit having an optical system, for generating an image to be displayed at a position viewable by the user, and a retaining mechanism to hold the image display unit within the connection portion. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073263 | E-Paper application control based on conformation sequence status - A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to:obtaining information associated with one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly and coordinating the one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073264 | DISPLAY MEDIUM INITIALIZATION DEVICE AND RECORDING DEVICE - A display medium initialization device includes: a case containing an irradiation unit that irradiates light to an optical-recording-type display medium configured to display an image according to irradiated light; a light-taking unit that takes outside light into the case from outside the case; and a light-guiding unit that guides the outside light taken by the light-taking unit to the irradiation unit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073265 | ACTIVE-MATRIX DISPLAY AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - An active-matrix display includes a data line, at least one select line, a control unit supplying a voltage signal and a current signal to the data line, and a pixel circuit receiving the voltage signal and the current signal from the data line to drive a light emitting element, the control unit including a voltage or first current source supplying a voltage or current pulse to the data line in order to make the voltage holding unit hold the voltage signal for making the light emitting element emit light having predetermined brightness in a first selection period in which the first switch is closed, a second current source supplying the current signal for making the light emitting element emit light having the predetermined brightness to the data line in a second selection period in which the first switch and the second switch are closed, a detection circuit detecting potential held in the voltage holding unit in the second selection period, and a correction unit correcting the voltage signal based on a relationship between the current signal and the detected potential. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073266 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - The present invention provides a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a light-emitting device; a first capacitor connected between a first contact point and a second contact point; a driving transistor including an input terminal connected to a first voltage, an output terminal, and a control terminal connected to the second contact point; a first switching transistor controlled by a first control signal and connected between a data voltage and the first contact point; a second switching transistor controlled by a second control signal and connected between a second voltage and the first contact point; a third switching transistor controlled by a third control signal and connected between the second contact point and the second voltage; a fourth switching transistor controlled by the first control signal and connected between the second contact point and the output terminal of the driving transistor; and a fifth switching transistor controlled by the second control signal and connected between the light-emitting device and the output terminal of the driving transistor. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073267 | Image display device - Disclosed herewith an image display device capable of displaying high quality images and preferred for reducing the manufacturing cost. The image display device is provided with illuminating state controlling state for controlling the illuminating state or non-illuminating state and constant voltage supply for supplying a constant voltage to each pixel through a signal line when the illuminating state is selected for the pixel. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073268 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND PATTERNING METHOD - An organic electroluminescent display device includes a driving TFT and pixels which are formed by organic electroluminescent elements and provided in a pattern on a substrate of the TFT. The driving TFT includes at least a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; the driving TFT further includes a resistive layer between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and the pixels are formed in a pattern by a laser transfer method. A patterning method by a laser transfer method for producing the fine pixels is also provided. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073269 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device capable of displaying a picture of vivid colors maintaining a good balance of colors and a good balance of light-emitting brightnesses of the EL elements. The widths of the detour wirings supplying current to the power source feed lines are increased for those EL elements into which a current of a large density flows. This constitution decreases the wiring resistances of the detour wirings, decreases the potential drop through the detour wirings, and suppresses the amount of electric power consumed by the detour wirings. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073270 | Sequence and timing control of writing and rewriting pixel memories with substantially lower data rate - A spatial light modulator driven with binary pulse-width-modulation requires very high data transfer rate to achieve high grayscale. This invention enables to reduce substantially the data transfer rate using non-sequential order of binary bits, wherein the combination of the sequences of binary bits is selected from the combinations which avoid simultaneous writing of multiple rows. The possible number of such combinations is astronomically large and mathematical programs were developed to find right combinations. These results were proposed. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073271 | BALANCE BOARD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME - A balance board includes; a substrate, a first wire disposed on the substrate, a second wire disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first wire, a plurality of first balance coils connected to the first wire and which uniformly distribute a first power supply voltage, a plurality of second balance coils connected to the second wire and which uniformly distribute a second power supply voltage, and a conductive pattern disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first and second wires, wherein the first and second wires are disposed substantially in parallel with each other, the second wire being divided into a plurality of parts with respect to an area where the first wire and the second wire cross over one another and the plurality of parts of the second wire are connected by a plurality of jumper connectors overlapping the first wire. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073272 | Display Device - In a display device having driving circuits formed on the same substrate where pixels are formed, the lateral frame area of the display device is reduced. A gate signal line driving circuit is placed in parallel with a source signal line driving circuit, so that no driving circuits are provided in at least two opposing directions out of four directions with respect to a pixel region. With the above-described structure, the area the gate signal line driving circuit occupies in prior art is removed to reduce the width (side to side) of the display device. Therefore a display device that has a small frame area in the lateral direction can be provided. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073273 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device having the same - A liquid crystal panel with an improved picture-quality and an LCD device having the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel and the LCD device allows a distance between a pixel electrode and a data line not connected to a thin film transistor and another distance between the pixel electrode and another data line to be asymmetrically formed within a single pixel region. Accordingly, the vertical cross-talk can be minimized, and furthermore picture-quality can be improved. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073274 | Liquid crystal display device - An LCD device includes: a backlight unit including a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) which generate light, and emit the light to a liquid crystal panel; a main flexible circuit board on which driving circuits to drive the LEDs and the liquid crystal panel; a sub-flexible circuit board on which the LEDs are mounted and electrically connected to a wire pattern formed on the main flexible circuit board by being soldered to a side surface of the main flexible circuit board to electrically connect the light emitting diodes and the driving circuits for the light emitting diodes; and a support main encompassing the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit and including a step portion at a side surface thereof to accommodate a soldering portion between the side surface of the main flexible circuit board and the sub-flexible circuit board which are connected by soldering. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073275 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING SAME - A backlight device includes a backlight array that provides light to a display panel such that the display panel displays an image in accordance with one or more embodiments. The backlight device may include a plurality of backlight drivers that drive the backlight array and a controller that selects one of the backlight drivers in response to backlight driving information supplied from an external device and transmits the backlight driving information to the selected backlight driver. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073296 | COMPUTER INPUT APPARATUS - A computer input apparatus includes a keyboard and a mouse. The keyboard includes a housing, a number of input keys, and a telephone module for responding to a call or initiating a call according to a user's input. The input keys include standard keyboard keys and standard telephone keys. The mouse includes a main body, a number of buttons mounted on the main body, and a motion detecting unit for detecting motion of the mouse. The main body includes a mouse speaker configured for converting electrical signals into sound and a mouse microphone configured for converting sound into electrical signals. The buttons include a number of standard mouse buttons and an enable telephone button configured for enabling a telephone function of the mouse to answer a call. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCORPORATING A PERSONALIZED WRITING STYLE INTO A WORD PROGRAM - A system, method and computer writeable medium for creating a personalized font and which includes an electronic pad exhibiting a display. A stylus pen is manipulated to mark upon at least one field exhibited by the pad on its display. A separate processor operable device incorporates a keyboard, and to which the electronic pad is communicated. In this fashion, the pad is utilized in combination with the keyboard in order to create a personalized font associated with a software writing program of the processor operable device. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073298 | DATA INPUT APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a data input apparatus which is capable of implementing more key values even in less area and causing a key position to be confirmed easily and thereby recognizing the confirmation of the key position intuitively while minimizing movements of finger when entering the key using the finger, especially thumb. The present invention can implement more key values with less number of switches and reduce movements of fingers during input operations, since the key input switch is shared with each other. Further, the present invention can allow the input position to be confirmed easily because of the step of selecting the unit cell which is a first input step, thereby allowing blind-touch operation. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073299 | Handheld Electronic Device With Text Disambiguation - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073300 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A KEYBOARD OPTIMIZED FOR USE WITH THE THUMBS - A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs is disclosed. In order to operate within the limited space available on a hand-held electronic device, the present invention optimizes the placement and shape of the keys, preferably using keys that are oval or oblong in shape, and that are placed at angles designed to facilitate thumb-typing. The angles at which keys on either side of the keyboard are placed is complimentary. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073301 | Correction of Parasitic Capacitance Effect in Touch Sensor Panels - Embodiments of the invention relate to correction of erroneous touch data on a touch sensor panel. Erroneous touch data may occur when a user is touching locations on the touch sensor panel but fails to be in good contact with another part of the device including the touch sensor panel. These erroneous readings may be statistically compensated for. A capacitance value that combines various external capacitances that may cause erroneous results can be calculated. Then, if necessary, received touch data can be modified to take into account the external capacitance. Accordingly, improved accuracy is provided for determining touch event(s) on a touch sensor panel. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073302 | TWO-THUMB QWERTY KEYBOARD - A method performed by a device having a touch panel includes detecting a location of a primary touch on the device and detecting on the touch panel a set of near-touch coordinates associated with the primary touch. The method also includes identifying the approach orientation of the primary touch as one of a left-side touch or a right-side touch based on the location of the primary touch and the near-touch coordinates. The method further includes generating a command signal based on the location of the primary touch and the approach orientation of the primary touch and performing an action based on the command signal. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073303 | METHOD OF OPERATING A USER INTERFACE - A user interface operating method is provided. The method is suitable for an electronic device having a touch screen. First, a touch sensitive area is activated to detect a first touch. Then, a second touch on the touch screen is detected when the first touch is detected to be laid on the touch sensitive area. Finally, a function of the user interface is enabled according to the second touch. Accordingly, overall operations supported by the touch screen can be increased and the convenience for operating the user interface can be improved | 2010-03-25 |
20100073304 | Multiple Actuation Handheld Device - A device includes a housing, a processor that is coupled to the housing, the processor is configured to process a software program stored in a memory. A touch screen is coupled to the housing and configured to display graphical objects, wherein a sensor signal associated with a user's interaction with the touch screen is provided to the processor. A first actuator is coupled to the touch screen and positioned within the housing. The first actuator is configured to output a first haptic effect to the touch screen upon receiving a first activating signal from the processor. A second actuator is coupled to the housing and configured to output a second haptic effect to the housing upon receiving a second activating signal from the processor. The first activating signal is associated with a foreground event and the second activating signal is associated with a background event occurring in the software program. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073305 | Techniques for Adjusting a Size of Graphical Information Displayed on a Touchscreen - A technique for adjusting graphical information displayed on a touchscreen of a device includes detecting a first input to the touchscreen. Which one of multiple instruments was utilized to provide the first input is then determined. The graphical information displayed on the touchscreen is then sized based on which one of the multiple instruments was utilized to provide the first input. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073316 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH TOUCH PANEL - The present invention relates to a touch panel (X) including: a first base ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100073317 | COORDINATE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE - A coordinate detection device according to the present invention includes: a conductor for locating a point of contact; multiple terminals that are connected to the conductor at mutually different points; a signal output section, which includes a charge storage section to store electrical charge there and which outputs a signal with a voltage value representing the quantity of charge stored in the charge storage section; a setting section for setting a voltage for the charge storage section equal to a predetermined value; and a switching section for selectively connecting or disconnecting a particular one of the terminals to/from not only the charge storage section but also a predetermined power supply. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073318 | MULTI-TOUCH SURFACE PROVIDING DETECTION AND TRACKING OF MULTIPLE TOUCH POINTS - System and method for touch sensitive surface provide detection and tracking of multiple touch points on the surface by using two independent arrays of orthogonal linear capacitive sensors. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073319 | CAPACITIVE SENSOR HAVING ELECTRODES ARRANGED ON THE SUBSTRATE AND THE FLEX CIRCUIT - A capacitive sensor may include a flex circuit, a substrate facing the flex circuit, and conductive electrodes configured to sense an input applied to the substrate. At least one of the conductive electrodes is associated with a surface of the substrate and an at least one of the electrodes is associated with a surface of the flex circuit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073320 | MULTI-TOUCH POSITIONING METHOD FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A multi-touch positioning method for a capacitive touch panel includes following steps. A candidate touching position array including a first and a second candidate position groups is generated when the capacitive touch panel is touched by two objects. The first and the second candidate position groups include two first and second candidate positions, respectively. Next, the signal magnitude sensed by a sensing element and respectively corresponding to the first and the second candidate position groups are compared. Then, when the signal magnitude corresponding to the first candidate position group is greater than that corresponding to the second candidate position group, one of the two first candidate positions closer to the sensing element along a first direction is determined as a first actual touching position, and one of the two second candidate positions farther from the sensing element along the first direction is determined as a second actual touching position. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073321 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises a display module and an antenna module. The display module is adapted to display a plurality of function icons. When the antenna module detects the approaching of an input device, such as the finger of the user or a metal element, the display module displays an indicator. The indicator is able to overlap at least one of the plurality of function icons, and the user can conveniently and correctly choose the function icon he or she needs without touching the display apparatus. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073322 | Desktop computer - A desktop computer includes a body, a display and a touch panel. The display is connected to the body by a data wire. The display includes a display screen. The touch panel includes at least one transparent conductive layer including a carbon nanotube structure. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073323 | MUTUAL CAPACITANCE MEASURING CIRCUITS AND METHODS - An apparatus for measuring a parameter related to the capacitance between a drive electrode and a receive electrode of a touch sensitive device. The apparatus includes an accumulator capacitor coupled at one end to a voltage measurement circuit and at the other end to the receive electrode, and control circuitry configured and arranged, during each cycle of a measurement sequence, to connect a reference voltage to a first node that electrically connects the accumulator capacitor to the voltage measurement circuit. The apparatus further includes a resistive circuit configured and arranged to draw current from a second node electrically connected to the accumulator capacitor and to the receive electrode during the measurement sequence. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073324 | SENSING CIRCUIT DISCHARGE CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TOUCH PANEL - A sensing circuit discharge control method and device for a touch panel are disclosed. A discharging duration of a current source in the sensing circuit of the touch panel is fine tuned in a digital control manner, so as to control the discharging amount of the sensing circuit without frequently adjusting the discharging current of the current source. By using the present invention, discharging time difference between a condition in which a touch event occurs and a condition in which no touch event occurs for each sensing circuit can approach the same. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073325 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSITION OF OBJECT AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING SUCH DEVICE - An object position detecting device includes a touch film, a first electrode set, a second electrode set, and a sensing and computing circuit. An object position detecting method includes the following steps. Firstly, an object is provided on the touch film. Then, first equivalent capacitance values of multiple first electrode groups of a first electrode set under the touch film are sensed, wherein each first electrode group includes n adjacent first electrodes that are parallel with and connected with each other. Then, second equivalent capacitance values of multiple second electrode groups of a second electrode set under the touch film are sensed, wherein each second electrode group includes m adjacent second electrodes that are parallel with and connected with each other. According to the first equivalent capacitance values and the second equivalent capacitance values, first position information of the object is calculated. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073336 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MARK OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an apparatus for properly displaying a mark of a display device although the display device is pivoted. The apparatus includes a display unit, at least two mark units, a state detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays images. The mark units are disposed at a front region of the display unit and spaced apart from each other. The state detection unit detects whether the display unit is substantially in a horizontal or vertical orientation. The control unit operates at least one of the mark units according to a detection signal of the state detection unit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073337 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A pair of pixel electrodes provided on each pixel in the same pixel array (e.g. PLj) are connected to one or the other of two adjacent data signal lines (e.g. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073338 | INCREASING DYNAMIC RANGE OF DISPLAY OUTPUT - A method of controlling an RGBW electroluminescent display system that receives a three-component input image signal having triplets of intensity values in an image range and a highlight range includes transforming at least one of the triplets having an intensity value within the image range to a four-or-more-component drive signal to produce a luminance less than the sum of the corresponding luminance values of the red, green and blue light-emitting elements and transforming at least one of the intensity values within a triplet having an intensity value within the highlight range to a four-or-more-component drive signal to produce a luminance greater than the sum of the corresponding luminance values of the red, green, and blue light-emitting elements. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073339 | System and method for correcting gamma - Disclosed is a system and method for correcting a gamma for shortening a gamma correction time period and improving gamma correction efficiency and reliability thereof, and simplifying a gamma correction device for reducing a production cost of image display devices. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073340 | IMAGE COMPENSATION DEVICE, IMAGE COMPENSATION METHOD, AND A METHOD FOR SETTING IMAGE COMPENSATION VALUES - An image compensation device includes a transform unit configured to convert a value obtained by multiplying an intensity of the ambient light by a reflection ratio to a value of the same form as a first gradation value, and acquire a second gradation value, a subtracter to subtract the second gradation value from a third gradation value obtained through the first inverse transform performed on a first gradation value, and acquire a fourth gradation value, a transform unit configured to perform a second inverse transform on the fourth gradation value and acquire a fifth gradation value, and a storage unit configured to store a look-up table in which the fifth gradation value is associated with the first gradation value, as a correction value which should be applied to the display panel in place of the first gradation value. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073341 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes a display panel having a switching transistor and a pixel electrode that are disposed in correspondence with an intersection of a scanning line and a data line, an opposing electrode that faces the pixel electrode, and an electro-optical layer that is pinched between the pixel electrode and the opposing electrode, a detection unit that detects a current flowing through the electro-optical layer, and a control unit wherein, when a voltage of a high electric potential is defined to have the positive-polarity and a voltage of a low electric potential is defined to have the negative polarity with reference to the opposing electrode electric potential applied to the opposing electrode as a reference, a data signal of the positive polarity and a data signal of the negative polarity are alternately supplied to the pixel electrode through the data line. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073342 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention efficiently accumulates charges in respective electrodes, using a driving signal supplied in a second set-down period, to prevent a flickering erroneous discharge caused by deficiency of wall charges. As a result, the plasma display apparatus can improve picture quality of a display image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073343 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A LCD device, in which a multi-grayscale level state is produced in a liquid crystal layer by applying a different voltage thereto, includes a liquid crystal display panel having the liquid crystal layer between first and second electrodes, an electrode drive circuit applying drive voltage pulses generated from multi-voltage power sources to the first and the second electrodes, and a multi-voltage power generator circuit. The LCD device further includes a multi-voltage power switch circuit supplying the first or the second multi-voltage power sources from the first or the second multi-voltage power units to the electrode drive circuit, and a control circuit, in a first drive step, setting the first multi-voltage power unit to an active state, and, in a second drive step, setting the second multi-voltage power unit to the active state. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073344 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In at least one embodiment, an electrooptic element is connected between a first power supply wire and a second conducting terminal of a driving transistor. A first conducting terminal of the driving transistor is connected to a second power supply wire. The second conducting terminal of the driving transistor is connected through a first switching transistor to a control terminal of the driving transistor. A control terminal of the first switching transistor is connected to a control wire. The control terminal of the driving transistor is connected through a first capacitor to a node. The node is connected through a second switching transistor to a data line. A control terminal of the second switching transistor is connected to a scanning line. The node is connected through a second capacitor to a third power supply wire. The constitution realizes a pixel circuit that allows freely setting a period for compensation of the threshold voltage of a driving TFT and further reducing power consumption. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073345 | IMAGE-PROCESSING CIRCUIT, RELATED SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD CAPABLE OF REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION - An image processing circuit turns off the writing unit of the controller of the DRAM when the previous frame is identical to the current frame. In this way, the writing unit of the controller of the DRAM does not write the current frame into the DRAM, thereby reducing power consumption. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073346 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a plurality of display pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of display pixels, and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the display pixels. Each display pixel includes a driving transistor having an input terminal, a control terminal, and an output terminal, a capacitor connected to the control terminal, a first switching transistor connected to the data line and the control terminal, a light emitting element receiving a driving current from the driving transistor and emitting light, a second switching transistor connected to the sensing lines and the output terminal, and a third switching transistor connected between the output terminal and the light-emitting element. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073347 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - It is made possible to prevent luminance falling and moire occurrence and change over between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image partially. When displaying one of a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image on a background and displaying the other image in a window, a flag bit indicating whether the first and second electrodes overlap the window is set. Waveforms differing according to the flag bit are applied to the first and second electrodes as pulses applied to the opposed first and second electrodes of a variable polarization cell. As a result, three-dimensional image display is partially conducted in the window and two-dimensional image display is conducted in areas other than the window. Or two-dimensional image display is partially conducted in the window and three-dimensional image display is conducted in areas other than the window. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073348 | Pulse Output Circuit, Shift Register and Display Device - A drive circuit of a display device, which comprise only single conductive TFTs and in which amplitude of an output signal is normal, is provided. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073349 | Pixel driver with low voltage transistors - An image display system implemented with a spatial light modulator (SLM) comprising a plurality of pixel elements each comprises a driver circuit. The driver circuit further comprises at least a first and second transistors cascaded with a first capacitor between a high voltage (Vh) and a ground voltage (Vg) wherein each of the first and second transistors having a breakdown voltage less than the high voltage (Vh). The first transistor receives an input signal to turn on the first and second transistors for discharging the first capacitor and pulling down an output voltage to a ground voltage (Vg) and to turn off the first and second transistors to pull up the output voltage to the high voltage (Vh) wherein each of the first and second transistor is biased to approximately half of the high voltage (Vh/2). | 2010-03-25 |
20100073350 | DISPLAY WITH REDUCED PARASITIC EFFECTS - Visual artifacts in a display are reduced by moving, to the extent possible, display driver components to the display surface itself, thereby shortening conductor distances and reducing the parasitic effects caused by parasitic resistance of the conductors between the display power supply and the display, and between the stabilizing capacitors and the display. To avoid interference with the device housing, low-profile driver components, including either or both of stabilizing capacitors and power supply terminals, can be provided and bonded to the surface of the display side of the outer layer of the display. Alternatively, the stabilizing capacitors can be formed on the display side in the same way that, e.g., in an LCD display, the transparent electrodes for controlling the liquid crystals are formed. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073351 | Ultra-Low-Power Display Control Circuit and Associated Method - An ultra-low-power display control circuit and associated method is provided. The ultra-low-power display control circuit comprises a power conversion controller, a first capacitor, a transforming device, a second capacitor, a regulator, an opto-coupler and a display controller. The first capacitor couples to the power conversion controller and the transforming device. The transforming device converts the relatively-high voltage to a relatively-low voltage. The second capacitor stabilizes the relatively-low voltage. The regulator regulates the relatively-low voltage to generate a regulated voltage output. The display controller is powered by the regulated voltage output. The display controller controls the magnitude of a coupling current of the opto-coupler to activate or deactivate the power conversion controller | 2010-03-25 |
20100073352 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A current storing circuit capable of having a small area, a simple structure with the small number of devices, a low consumption current operation and high yield in manufacturing is provided. Applying the current storing circuit to the current-driving type of display device such as an OLED display device can improve the aperture rate of pixels and reliability of the display device as well as highly functionalize the display device. The invention is characterized by using a new semiconductor element in a shape of a transistor having plural drains or sources. When the semiconductor elements is used for both of a writing element and a driving element, reading in and storing a current value and outputting the current can be performed by only the two semiconductor elements, so that the area occupied by the devices would be easily reduced significantly. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073353 | DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY SYSTEM, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DISPLAY CONTROLLER - When there is a circuit that has to wait for one frame cycle to switch LCD resolution, a user feels uncomfortable because the resolution is switched while the screen is temporarily turned off and blackened or while the screen does keep display but causes flickers. When the user switches to an application that will display in QVGA mode on the LCD while the LCD is displaying in VGA mode, a synchronization signal, etc. are stopped from being output from an LCD controller within a vertical blank period (step S | 2010-03-25 |
20100073354 | PANEL ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A panel assembly includes a display panel and a panel driving apparatus. The display panel includes a data line and a gate line extended in a direction that crosses the data line. The panel driving apparatus includes a first gate driving circuit that outputs a first gate signal to the gate line, and a second gate driving circuit disposed in an area that corresponds to an inverter and that outputs a second gate signal to the gate line, the second gate signal being different from the first gate signal. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073355 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A SHIFT REGISTER - An LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines formed in an LCD panel; a plurality of driving stages, each of which sequentially outputting a respective enabling scan pulse to a corresponding one of the plurality of gate lines; at least one dummy stage responsive to an enabling scan pulse from a first one of the plurality of driving stages and supplying a disabling scan pulse to a second one of the plurality of driving stages to disable outputting of the enabling scan pulse; and a dummy gate line electrically connected to the at least one dummy stage. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073356 | Level shifter, shift register with level shifter, and display device with shift register - In one embodiment of the present invention, a NAND circuit, an inverter, a plurality of transistors serve as stopping devices for stopping operation of a circuit in a manner responsive to a level of an initializing signal that is fed. If the initializing signal that is Low-level is fed into the NAND circuit, then a plurality of transistors all become OFF. This makes it possible to reduce steady current flowing across a voltage and a start signal. Steady current flowing across the voltage and a start inverted signal is also reduced. Thus, the steady current flowing through the level shifter is reduced reliably, regardless of the way of use, when necessary. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073357 | 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. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073358 | LUMINESCENCE DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING LUMINESCENCE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LUMINESCENCE DEVICE - A luminescence device according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction. Each pixel includes a luminescence driving transistor, a pixel electrode, a luminescence layer formed above the pixel electrode, and an opposing electrode formed above the luminescence layer. Current supply lines La connect the pixels in the row direction and are arranged to extend in the same direction. Adjoining current supply lines La are electrically connected to each other by a drain electrode of the luminescence driving transistor of the pixel positioned between these current supply lines La. Therefore, adjoining current supply lines La are made to be at the same potential. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073359 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING A WAYPOINT - A display system for use on a vehicle is presented. The display system comprises a cursor control device, at least one electronic display for displaying a first image comprising a three-dimensional conformal view of a terrain and a first movable cursor, and a processor that is coupled to the cursor control device and the at least one electronic display. The processor is configured to move the first movable cursor on the first image in response to input from the cursor control device and to determine a latitude and longitude that correspond to the position of the first movable cursor. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073360 | INPUT DEVICE FOR GRAPHICS - An input device for editing a 3D model displayed in a screen is provided. The input device includes a signal transceiver module and a telescopic sensing component. The signal transceiver module communicates with a graphic system to obtain information of the 3D model. The signal transceiver module includes a first and a second transceiver respectively disposed at a first and a second location of the input device for obtaining a plurality of spatial information of the input device. An expansion of the telescopic sensing component reflects the force of the input device applied to the screen, and the length of the input device is adjusted according to the force. The signal transceiver module transmits the expansion and the spatial information to the graphic system to allow the graphic system to generate a virtual object in the 3D model for simulating the state of the input device merging into the screen. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073361 | INTERACTIVE DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND DELIVERY OF 3D CHARACTER MOTION DATA THROUGH THE WEB - Systems and methods are described for animating 3D characters using synthetic motion data generated by generative models in response to a high level description of a desired sequence of motion provided by an animator. In a number of embodiments, an animation system is accessible via a server system that utilizes the ability of generative models to generate synthetic motion data across a continuum to enable multiple animators to effectively reuse the same set of previously recorded motion capture data to produce a wide variety of desired animation sequences. In several embodiments, an animator can upload a custom model of a 3D character and the synthetic motion data generated by the generative model is retargeted to animate the custom 3D character. One embodiment of the invention includes a server system configured to communicate with a database containing motion data including repeated sequences of motion, where the differences between the repeated sequences of motion are described using at least one high level characteristic. In addition, the server system is connected to a communication network, the server system is configured to train a generative model using the motion data, the server system is configured to generate a user interface that is accessible via the communication network, the server system is configured to receive a high level description of a desired sequence of motion via the user interface, the server system is configured to use the generative model to generate synthetic motion data based on the high level description of the desired sequence of motion, and wherein the server system is configured to transmit a stream via the communication network including information that can be used to display a 3D character animated using the synthetic motion data. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073362 | Method And System For Scene Adaptive Dynamic 3-D Color Management - A video processing system may determine a scene in an image and may adaptively adjust one or more of three dimensional color components of the image based on the determined scene. The three dimensional color components may comprise luma, hue and/or saturation. Statistics for the three dimensional color components may be collected and utilized to determine content and/or scene type within the image. Embedded textual information may also be utilized. Configuration parameters for processing the image may be adapted based on the statistics and/or the knowledge of the content and/or scene type. Hues, saturation levels and/or luma levels may be adjusted based on the statistics, scene type and/or content. The three dimensional color components may be dynamically adapted for at least a portion of the image. The statistics may comprise distributions of saturation over hue and/or luma, distributions of hue over saturation and/or luma, and/or distributions of luma. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT TRACKING AND COORDINATION - A configurable real-time environment tracking and command module (RTM) is provided to coordinate one or more than one devices or objects in a physical environment. A virtual environment is created to correlate with various objects and attributes within the physical environment. The RTM is able to receive data about attributes of physical objects and accordingly update the attributes of correlated virtual objects in the virtual environment. The RTM is also able to provide data extracted from the virtual environment to one or more than devices, such as robotic cameras, in real-time. An interface to the RTM allows multiple devices to interact with the RTM, thereby coordinating the devices. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073364 | Conversion method and apparatus with depth map generation - A conversion method and apparatus with a generating of a depth map for two dimensional (2D)-to-three dimensional (3D) conversion. A depth order may be restored based on a line tracing and an edge map generated from an input image, and a stereo image may be generated using depth information. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073365 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RADIAL FUNCTIONS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MODELS - A system, method, and computer program product for determining a radial function and distribution of a three-dimensional object model. One method includes retrieving a three-dimensional object model in a CAD system and sampling random points on the surface of the object model. The method also includes determining a normal vector corresponding to each of the random points and determining a radial function corresponding to each normal vector and respective random point. The method also includes determining, by the CAD system, a radial distribution corresponding to at least two of the radial functions and storing the radial distribution and average values of the radial functions in the CAD system. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073386 | PROCESSING PIXEL PLANES REPRESENTING VISUAL INFORMATION - A computer system may comprise a graphics controller, which may support a display handler. In one embodiment, the display handler may receive configuration values comprising a quantity value and a blending order. In one embodiment, the display handler may determine the number of universal pixel planes using the quantity value. The display handler may provide a number of universal pixel planes equal to the quantity value and the universal pixel planes may be provided using a reference universal pixel plane. The display handler may render each of the universal pixel planes into a type of pixel plane indicated by the corresponding elements of the blending order. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073387 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH EMBEDDED NETWORKING CAPABILITY - A display device with embedded networking capability is described herein. The display device uses at least a portion of a memory of the display device, the memory of which is used for storing video/image data in the display, to store networking codes for establishing and maintaining the network connection. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073388 | UNIFIED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE AND DISPLAY CONTROLLER TO PREVENT DATA FEED UNDER-RUN - A display controller for controlling data in an isochronous display where fluctuation of data feed latency occurs, the display controller including an input memory which receives pixel data and transmits the pixel data through a main route and a secondary route; wherein pixel data is transmitted through the main route and is processed for delivery to the display in a predetermined manner; characterised in that the secondary route comprises a memory for storing a two-dimensional section of the pixel data that corresponds at least in part to the pixel data being transmitted through the main route at that time; further characterised in that the display controller includes a detector for identifying a data feed latency event and in response there to switching the transmission of the pixel data to the secondary route and processing the pixel data through secondary route for delivery to the display such that when a data feed latency event occurs the stored two-dimensional section of the pixel data from the secondary route is displayed on the display. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073389 | Display device - In a display device which arranges a memory part for every display pixel, an erroneous operation of the memory part and the power consumption can be reduced. In a display device provided with a display panel which includes a plurality of display pixels, video lines which apply video data to the display pixels, and scanning lines which apply a scanning voltage to the display pixels, the display pixel includes a memory part which stores the video data, a pixel electrode, and a switching part which selectively applies a first video voltage or a second video voltage which differs from the first video voltage to the pixel electrode in response to the video data stored in the memory part. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073390 | Color Profiling Of Monitors - A monitor sends an alert to a host computer operatively coupled to the monitor. As a result of receiving the alert, the host computer retrieves display panel data and retrieves monitor control settings from the monitor. The host computer uses the display panel data and monitor control settings to compute a monitor display profile. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073391 | INFORMATIONAL CONTENT PRESENTATION VIA BACKDROP IMAGES - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to presenting informational content via a backdrop image within at least a portion of a computer generated container area. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DRIVING INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATORS - Systems and methods for driving a display of MEMS devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display includes an array comprising a plurality of interferometric modulators, and a driving circuit coupled to said array, said driving circuit configured to provide actuation signals to drive said array based on a temperature of the display. In another embodiment, a method of driving an array having a plurality of interferometric modulators configured into a display is disclosed, where the method includes sensing the temperature at a predetermined location in display, communicating a signal based on the sensed temperature to a display driver, generating an actuation signal to drive said display based on the received signal, and providing the actuation signal to the array. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073393 | CONTENT DETECTION OF A PART OF AN IMAGE - Methods for image content detection calculate ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100073394 | Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats - A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system has a graphics processor includes an embedded frame buffer for storing frame data prior to sending the frame data to an external location, such as main memory. The embedded frame buffer is selectively configurable to store the following pixel formats: point sampled RGB color and depth, super-sampled RGB color and depth, and YUV (luma/chroma). Graphics commands are provided which enable the programmer to configure the embedded frame buffer for any of the pixel formats on a frame-by-frame basis. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073395 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention provides an image processing device and an image processing method capable of generating synthetic image data containing effective image information without being influenced by the variation of the photographing environment. A correcting portion updates (shifts) a “brightness” upper and lower limit range according to a deviation ΔE received from a deviation calculating portion. The correcting portion accepts an initial value Emax0 of the “brightness” upper limit and an initial value Emin0 of the lower limit in advance, so that the “brightness” upper limit and lower limit after update is (Emax0+ΔE) and (Emin0+ΔE), respectively. The “brightness” upper and lower limit range after the update calculated by the correcting portion is provided to a tone mapping unit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073406 | Display Device, and Driving Method and Electronic Apparatus of the Display Device - The present invention provides a driving method of a display device for expressing gray scales with n bits (n is an integer) by dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes. By this driving method, pseudo contours which occur in displaying images by a time gray scale method can be reduced. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073407 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that includes: an intermediate transfer member; an ink absorbing particle supplying unit for supplying ink absorbing particles on a surface of the intermediate transfer member; an ink ejecting unit for ejecting ink to the ink absorbing particles; a transfer unit for transferring the ink absorbing particles to a recording medium; a fixing unit for fixing the transferred ink absorbing particles onto the recording medium; a particle collecting unit for collecting remaining ink absorbing particles on the intermediate transfer member; a humidity reducing unit for reducing humidity around the collected ink absorbing particles; and a particle supplying unit for supplying the ink absorbing particles with humidity reduced by the humidity reducing unit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073408 | ENERGY ACTIVATED PRINTING PROCESS - Reactive inks and methods of generating an image on a substrate using both reactive and heat activated inks are presented. An image is printed on a substrate, without reacting the reagents in the ink. Subsequently, the reagents are reacted to fix the image to a substrate, with substantial permanency and fastness. Sublimation or similar heat activated dyes are printed are also printed on the substrate. The sublimation or similar heat activated dyes are activated, and have an affinity for polymer that is applied to the substrate. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073409 | Techniques for Adjusting a Drying Time of Digital Ink - A technique that facilitates modifying (e.g., erasing or smudging) digital ink includes selecting a digital ink drying time based on a selected digital ink type. An ink stroke associated with the selected digital ink type is then tracked. The ink stroke may then be modified, prior to an end of the digital ink drying time, without using a dedicated tool. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073410 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer member; a supply unit that supplies a curable liquid onto the intermediate transfer member, the curable liquid including at least one curable material that is cured by an external stimulus and a liquid absorbing material; a first temperature information acquisition unit that acquires temperature information related to the curable liquid; a temperature regulation unit that regulates the temperature of the curable liquid supplied onto the intermediate transfer member; an ink application unit that applies an ink onto a curable liquid layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that brings the curable liquid layer onto which the ink has been applied into contact with a recording medium, and transfers the curable liquid layer from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium; and a stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus for curing the curable liquid layer to the curable liquid layer. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073411 | Ink Jet Recording Device - A conventional ink jet recording device has a phenomenon of such that a transverse pitch between longitudinal dot column of a first line and that of a second line of character lines to be printed becomes narrower than that between other longitudinal dot columns when printing out on a printing object traveling in high speed. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073412 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a print medium in a predetermined transport direction, and a printing control unit that performs preliminary printing by ejecting ink droplets through a plurality of nozzles, which are the same as nozzles used for printing a reference mark, onto an area on a downstream side of a specific position in the transport direction in an area of the print medium before printing the reference mark on the specific position of the print medium by ejecting ink droplets through a print head provided with the nozzles for ejecting the ink droplets. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073413 | Pattern forming method - A pattern forming method includes the step of ejecting droplets of a liquid containing a functional component, from nozzles of an inkjet recording head onto a surface of a substrate in one direction in sequence so as to form a linear pattern on the surface of the substrate, wherein: the inkjet recording head is controlled in such a manner that | 2010-03-25 |
20100073414 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The image forming apparatus includes: a first group of large nozzles which eject large droplets of liquid for a color; a second group of small nozzles which eject small droplets of the liquid for the color, the small droplets having volume smaller than the large droplets; a dot data creation device which creates dot data according to input image data; a dot data correction device which corrects the dot data if there is an abnormal nozzle in one of the first and second groups, in such a manner that a corrective nozzle is selected from the other of the first and second groups, and droplet ejection performed by the corrective nozzle substitutes for droplet ejection that is originally to be performed by the abnormal nozzle; and a driving device which drives the large and small nozzles to eject the large and small droplets according to the corrected dot data. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DOCUMENTS HAVING STORED ELECTROSTATIC PATTERN INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for generating documents having stored electrostatic pattern information provides security with respect to the authenticity of documents. A liquid medium including a plurality of electrostatic monopoles is applied to the surface of a document, which embeds a permanent electrostatic pattern in the document. The pattern is then readable by an electrostatic scanner. The monopoles may be associated with differing colors, including black and white, may be transparent or have a neutral color. The patterns may embed data, certificates or shapes. The monopoles may provide a watermark or visible image. The apparatus may be a pen or printer, and may include multiple selectable vessels containing ink and/or electrostatic liquid medium of one or both charge states. Visible features of the document can be compared with the detected pattern, or the pattern may be compared to a database or decrypted with a key. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073446 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A head for ejecting a liquid from ejection holes, including: a first flow-passage member in which are formed (a) a liquid-supply passage, (b) branch passages connected to the liquid-supply passage, and (c) discharge passages each being connected to any of the branch passages; a second flow-passage member in which are formed (a) at least one common passage each communicating with at least one of the branch passages and (b) individual passages having respective pressure chambers, each individual passage being connected to any one of the at least one common passage and introducing the liquid to a corresponding one of the ejection holes via a corresponding one of the pressure chambers; a first filter disposed in the liquid-supply passage; second filters disposed between the branch passages and the at least one common passage: and at least one energy giving member for giving ejection energy to the liquid in each pressure chamber. | 2010-03-25 |
20100073447 | Solid Ink Sticks Having A Verification Interlock For Verifying Position Of A Solid Ink Stick Before Identifying The Ink Stick - A solid ink stick facilitates verification of the position and orientation of a solid ink stick prior to an ink stick identification operation. The solid ink stick includes a solid ink stick body configured for insertion in a solid ink stick printer in a predetermined orientation, and a verification interlock in at least one surface of the solid ink stick body, the verification interlock and the at least one surface being located in the solid ink stick body to engage at least two displaceable members arranged in an insertion area of the solid ink printer to push one displaceable member away from the solid ink stick body and to enable the other displaceable member to move towards the solid ink stick body when the solid ink stick body is in the predetermined orientation in the insertion area. | 2010-03-25 |