13th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130076741 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light path control element capable of electrically controlling the path of light output from a backlight source is provided. During display of a left-eye image, a light path allowing the left-eye image (L) to reach the left eye is formed by adjusting the voltage applied to the light path control element. In synchronization with switching of the display image from the left-eye image (L) to a right-eye image (R), the control of the voltage applied to the light path control element is switched to form a light path allowing the right-eye image (R) to reach the right eye. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076742 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AMPLIFIER APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SYSTEM - A reproducing device capable of superimposing a reproducing device image onto a stereoscopic image which can be viewed stereoscopically to generate and output a stereoscopic image signal. The reproducing device includes: an acquisition unit operable to obtain information about device image depth, the device image depth being stereoscopic vision depth that a device connected to the reproducing device and capable of superimposing a device image onto the stereoscopic image gives to the device image when the device superimposes the device image onto the stereoscopic image; a superimposing unit operable to give reproducing device image depth to the reproducing device image based on the information about device image depth obtained by the acquisition unit and superimpose the reproducing device image onto the stereoscopic image to generate the stereoscopic image signal; and a transmission unit operable to transmit the stereoscopic image signal to the device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076743 | Method and System for Transparency Adjustment and Occlusion Resolution for Urban Landscape Visualization - According to certain embodiments of the present invention, a graphical presentation is generated from a data representation. A lens is applied to reveal a region-of-interest occluded by an occluding portion of an image. The lens includes an extent of the lens, a focal region including a magnification and a transparency to reduce occlusion of the region-of-interest by the occluding portion, and a shoulder region between the extent of the lens and the focal region. The shoulder region provides context for the focal region with respect to a portion of the image outside of the extent of the lens by preserving visibility of information surrounding the focal region. The shoulder region also has decreasing transparency as depth decreases from the focal region to the portion of the image outside of the extent of the lens. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076744 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - A high frequency component detector detects a high frequency component of an R signal. A high frequency component comparator outputs a flag indicating a threshold value division range having the highest threshold value including a value of a high frequency component in a specific period. A gain calculating unit calculates a ratio as a gain, the ratio set according to the threshold value division range indicated by the flag input. A multiplying unit multiplies the R signal and the gain to generate an object signal R′ wherein a concavity and convexity difference with adjacent pixels in a small region of an image is suppressed compared to the R signal. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076745 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - An RB rate calculator calculates an RB rate based on an R signal and a B signal. A starting point changing unit changes a starting point based on the RB rate. An offset calculating unit calculates an offset value to adjust for selection of a basic depth model type based on a bottom high frequency component evaluation value. An adding unit adds a signal from the starting point changing unit and an offset. Another adding unit adds an offset-added signal from the adding unit and a basic depth model-composed image signal supplied from a composing unit, and generates depth estimation data wherein a degree of superimposition of object information is changed according to a composition of a composed image of basic depth models selected to be composed. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076746 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying stereoscopic images and image display apparatus thereof, the displaying method includes producing a depth map using left eye images and right eye images; adjusting depth values of the produced depth map according to any one of a plurality of depth level adjustment modes; and displaying the stereoscopic images using the adjusted depth values, wherein the depth level adjustment modes include a forward 3D depth adjustment mode increasing the depth levels representing perspective of objects included in the stereoscopic images, a backward 3D depth adjustment mode reducing the depth levels and a bi-directional 3D depth adjustment mode simultaneously increasing and reducing the depth levels. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076747 | Processing and Rendering of Large Image Files - Tomographic data representing an imaged three-dimensional object is divided into macro blocks and filtered by visibility and presence in a projected frame of a rendered three-dimensional object to speed rendering of the object. The data are loaded and rendered in parallel for improved speed and capacity. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076748 | 3D VISUALIZATION OF MEDICAL 3D IMAGE DATA - A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying medical 3D image data. In an embodiment of the method, for every image voxel of the 3D image data which is assigned to a number g of the n regions, where g≧2: the transfer functions T | 2013-03-28 |
20130076749 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A depth image conversion unit | 2013-03-28 |
20130076750 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND RESOLUTION COMPATIBILITY METHOD THEREOF - This specification relates to a mobile terminal capable of being compatible with market applications with various LCD resolutions, and an LCD resolution compatibility method thereof. When resolution of a market application is different from LCD resolution, the application image is displayed on a window based on virtual WVGA resolution and then enlarged or reduced based on an actual LCD resolution to be finally displayed on a display unit. This provides an effect of displaying the application image with the same figure as displayed on the WVGA LCD and text and lines more clearly irrespective of an actual LCD size. In addition, a set value for a resolution compatibility mode of an application downloaded from a market may be provided to a user at a specific time point (upon downloading or purchasing), based on usage patterns of a plurality of users and versions of applications. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076751 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY CHANGE USING OF TECHNOLOGY LIFE CYCLE GRAPH - A method for providing a technology trend displayed on a technology lifecycle graph, which is performed by a technology trend providing system, is provided. The method includes (a) obtaining year-specific stages or year-specific representative principal agents with respect to a specific technology displayed on the technology lifecycle graph; and (b) displaying the year-specific stages or the representative principal agent in each year with respect to the specific technology on the technology lifecycle graph. Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide the year-specific stages and the year-specific representative principal agents with respect to each technology displayed on the technology lifecycle graph. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076752 | COMPUTING METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS - In a computing apparatus, a computing unit performs statistical analysis on data including the values of a plurality of input variables and the values of a plurality of output variables optimized by adjusting the values of the plurality of input variables, thereby generating the values of intermediate variables that indicate relative positional relationship among the values of each of the plurality of input variables and the plurality of output variables. The creation unit creates scatter diagrams representing the tendency of magnitude relationship among values of a variable, by using the generated values of the intermediate variables, for the respective input variables and output variables. The display unit displays the created scatter diagrams. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076753 | Machine Generated Wrap Data - A method of determining and displaying wrapping data generated by a wrapping machine during wrapping of a load with a packaging material comprises determining forces exerted on a load by the packaging material during wrapping of the load, and displaying a graph of the forces exerted on the load during wrapping of the load with a display device, the graph including an axis indicative of the face of the load and one or more indicators along the axis indicative of the forces exerted on the load and the height of each force on the load. At least some of the indicators of the graph of the forces are displayed in a first color if above a predetermined value and are displayed in a second color if below a predetermined value. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076754 | Seismic Image Filtering Machine to Generate a Filtered Seismic Image, Program Products, and Related Methods - Seismic image filtering machines, systems, program products, and computer implemented methods are provided to generate a filtered seismic image responsive to filtered seismic image data generated by attenuating coherent seismic noise from surface waves of an unfiltered wavefield constructed from unfiltered seismic image data through a single downward extrapolation of the unfiltered wavefield using a plurality of nonstationary convolution operators to perform localized filtering at each of a plurality of spatial locations of the unfiltered wavefield. Various embodiments, for example, can beneficially handle strong lateral velocity variations thus making various embodiments effective tools to remove complicated coherent seismic noise which is typically in the form of exponentially decaying evanescent waves. Embodiments of the present invention, for example, can use, as a part of the filtering mechanism, specially designed nonstationary convolution operators that are implemented in the space-frequency domain as nonstationary filters. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076755 | GENERAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR DATA FRAME ANIMATIONS - Multiple data frames can be processed to produce a general animation representation that represents the data frames. The general animation representation may be in a general language that is suitable for being translated into any of multiple different specific languages. The general animation representation can be translated into a specific animation representation that is in a specific language suitable for processing by a rendering environment. The specific animation representation can be sent to the rendering environment, where the specific animation representation can be rendered on a display device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076756 | DATA FRAME ANIMATION - Data can be received from a first data source that is a first type of data source, and data can be received from a second data source that is a second type of data source. Data frames can be processed to produce an animation representation that represents the data frames. The data frames can include the data from the first data source and the data from the second data source. The animation representation can include one or more key animation frames that each defines a full graphical representation of one of the data frames. The animation representation can also include one or more delta animation frames that each defines one or more graphical updates without defining a full graphical representation of one of the data frames. The animation representation may be sent to a rendering environment for rendering. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076757 | PORTIONING DATA FRAME ANIMATION REPRESENTATIONS - Multiple portions of a set of data frames can be processed to produce portions of an animation representation. Each of the portions of the set of data frames can be processed to produce a corresponding portion of the animation representation that represents one or more changes during a portion of an animation sequence in an animation of the set of data frames. The animation representation can be sent to a rendering environment. Sending the animation representation to the rendering environment can include sending each of the portions of the animation representation in a separate batch. Each portion of the animation representation can be formatted to be rendered before receiving all portions of the animation representation at the rendering environment. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076758 | Page Switching Method And Device - A page switching method and device. The method includes: displaying current message page; when detecting a touch operation, drawing a page-turning animation according to the touch operation, and playing the page-turning animation; and when the touch operation stops, displaying an adjacent message page. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076759 | MULTI-LAYERED SLIDE TRANSITIONS - Architecture that enhances the visual experience of a slide presentation by animating slide content as “actors” in the same background “scene”. This is provided by multi-layered transitions between slides, where a slide is first separated into “layers” (e.g., with a level of transparency). Each layer can then be transitioned independently. All layers are composited together to accomplish the end effect. The layers can comprise one or more content layers, and a background layer. The background layer can further be separated into a background graphics layer and a background fill layer. The transition phase can include a transition effect such as a fade, a wipe, a dissolve effect, and other desired effects. To provide the continuity and uniformity of presentation the content on the same background scene, a transition effect is not applied to the background layer. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076760 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a display panel displaying a still image and a motion picture; a display panel which displays a still image and a motion picture; a signal controller which controls signals to drive the display panel; and a graphics processing unit which transmits input image data to the signal controller, where the signal controller includes a frame memory which stores compressed image data generated by compressing the input image data, and a mixer which mixes compression recovered image data generated by recovering the compressed image data and the input image data to generate mixed image data. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076761 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - In a tile-based graphics processing system having plural rendering processors, the set of tiles | 2013-03-28 |
20130076762 | OCCLUSION QUERIES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING - The fragment processing pipeline | 2013-03-28 |
20130076763 | Tone and Gamut Mapping Methods and Apparatus - Tone and/or gamut mapping apparatus and methods may be applied to map color values in image data for display on a particular display or other downstream device. A mapping algorithm may be selected based on location and/or color coordinates for pixel data being mapped. The apparatus and methods may be configured to map color coordinates differently depending on whether or not a pixel corresponds to a light source in an image and/or has special or reserved color values | 2013-03-28 |
20130076764 | DISPLAY SCREEN SHARING SYSTEM, DISPLAY SCREEN SHARING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Display screen sharing system that shares common screen among a plurality of terminals comprises transmission side terminal that has operation right for common screen; and reception side terminal that does not have operation right for common screen. Reception side terminal comprises display area detection unit that acquires display area information indicating area of common screen displayed at reception side terminal itself, and supplies display area information to transmission side terminal. Transmission side terminal comprises common display area frame control unit that determines common display area based on display area information supplied from reception side terminal, and displays common display area on screen at transmission side terminal itself. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076765 | Image Data Displaying System and Method for Displaying Image Data - Disclosed are an image data display system and a method for displaying image data. A user just inputs the portable storage medium | 2013-03-28 |
20130076766 | MAP DATA DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MAP UPDATE SYSTEM - A difference map distribution server wirelessly distributes update information contained in map data to a navigation apparatus that stores map data representing a road network using multiple links and nodes. Specifically, a difference information database stores difference data items to be categorized into multiple types of update information that enable update information about the same link or node occurred during the same period to be categorized into different types. A difference data extraction portion extracts a difference data item categorized into a type of update information to be distributed to a targeted navigation apparatus from the difference data items categorized into the multiple types of update information stored in the difference information database. A distribution controller wirelessly distributes the difference data item categorized into the extracted type of update information to the navigation apparatus via a network interface. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076767 | INSTALLATION OPTIMISATION - A computer-implemented method for determining a configuration of a plurality of components in a systems installation which satisfies one or more constraints. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076768 | DYNAMIC PROVISIONING OF VIRTUAL VIDEO MEMORY BASED ON VIRTUAL VIDEO CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION - Memory is reserved in a virtualized computing environment for graphics processing of each child partition in the computing environment. A video memory controller can identify video settings for child partitions. The video memory controller can determine an amount of memory for graphics processing for a child partition based on the video settings for that child partition. The video memory can also request an amount of memory to be reserved for that child partition based on the calculated amount of memory. Reserving memory for graphics processing of child partitions in this way allows for a sufficient amount of memory to be reserved for a child partition without wasting memory resources by reserving significantly more memory than is needed for the child partition. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076769 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of signal lines, a liquid crystal panel driving unit configured to provide a driving voltage to the plurality of signal lines, an image data judging unit configured to judge whether input image data is still image data or moving picture data, an image data correcting unit configured to correct moving picture data to output corrected moving picture to the liquid crystal panel driving unit, a plurality of light sources configured to provide a light to the liquid crystal panel, and a light source driving unit configured to detect a display region having a motion value larger than a reference value from among an image of which frame data is displayed, based on a comparison of current frame data of the moving picture data with previous frame data of the moving picture data. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING DATA OF MULTI-TILE ENCODED PICTURE STORED IN BUFFERING APPARATUS - A method for read pointer maintenance of a buffering apparatus, which is arranged to buffer data of a multi-tile encoded picture having a plurality of tiles included therein, includes the following steps: judging if decoding of a first tile of the multi-tile encoded picture encounters a tile boundary of the first tile; and when it is judged that the tile boundary of the first tile is encountered, storing a currently used read pointer into a pointer buffer, and loading a selected read pointer from the pointer buffer to act as the currently used read pointer. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076771 | GENERATING A VISUAL DEPICTION OF A COVER FOR A DIGITAL ITEM - Techniques for generating a visual depiction of a cover for a digital item are provided. A base-depiction-selector-value is generated based on one or more values from attribute metadata associated with the digital item. A mapping table is then accessed to select a base visual depiction item using the base-depiction-selector-value. A visual depiction of a cover is generated for the digital item based at least in part on the selected base visual depiction item. The visual depiction is then caused to be displayed to a user on a display device. The techniques may be employed, for example, in the context of an online digital item retailer or in the context of a personal computing application to generate visual depictions of covers for digital items that users browse, purchase, download, access, or use. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076772 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE EDITING - A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the light intensity levels of pixels within a second range of light intensity levels that is less than the first range of light intensity levels, without reducing the range of light intensity levels in the image file. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076773 | NONLINEAR REVISION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGES - A nonlinear revision control system for images is designed with the common digital editing and sketching workflows in mind. DAG (directed acyclic graph) is used as the core structure and DAG nodes represent editing operations, and DAG edges indicate the corresponding spatial, temporal and semantic relationships. DAG is visualized in RevG (revision graph), which provides not only a meaningful display of the revision history, but also an intuitive interface for common revision control operations such as review, replay, diff, addition, branching, merging, and conflict resolving. Beyond revision control, the system also facilitates artistic creation processes in common image editing and digital painting workflows. A prototype system has been built upon GIMP, an open source image editor, and demonstrates its effectiveness through a formative user study and comparisons with alternative revision control systems. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076774 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING FUNCTION OF AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGING ICONS AND METHOD THEREFOR - The present disclosure provides an electronic device having a function of automatically arranging icons. The device includes a screen for displaying a plurality of icons, each icon corresponding to an application and a usage parameter, and a processing unit to record usage parameters of all the icons and update usage parameter of an icon if the corresponding application of the icon is run, and rearrange all the icons and display the rearranged icons on the screen. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076775 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - It is an object of the invention to provide a display device which performs high grayscale display in accordance with display contents and a game machine with an improved realistic sensation. The invention is a display device characterized by including a pixel portion which performs display based on a video signal and a driver circuit portion inputted with the video signal, wherein the driver circuit portion has a unit for controlling a grayscale in accordance with display of the pixel portion. In a liquid crystal display device, luminance of a lighting unit is controlled based on a signal from the unit for controlling a grayscale whereas a current supplied to a light emitting element is controlled in a light emitting device. By applying such a display device to a game machine, a realistic sensation can be improved. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INDEPENDENT GAMUT REMAPPING FOR MULTIPLE SCREEN SUBSECTIONS - An apparatus and method for providing display information generates, independently from an operating system, different screen subsections of a screen image using independent gamut remapping configurations to generate an output image in a target gamut space of a display. The method and apparatus also provides the generated output image for display or may display the generated output image. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076777 | COLOR CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INCLUDING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, color calibration method, and a color calibration system are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an interface unit which communicates with an external display apparatus; a graphic card unit which outputs a graphic image which will be displayed in the display apparatus and first color patch information for color calibration of the display apparatus; a color calibration unit which receives the output graphic image and first color patch information from the graphic card unit, generates second color patch information based on the first color patch information and stored internal color patch information, and transmits the graphic image and the second color patch information to the display apparatus through the interface unit; and a control unit which controls the color calibration unit to perform color calibration process by adjusting a color patch displayed in the display apparatus. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076778 | COLOR LOOKUP TABLE SMOOTHING EMPLOYING NODE ADJUSTMENT PROPAGATION - Color lookup table smoothing employs propagation of a portion of an adjustment of a modified node to an unmodified node of a color lookup table (CLUT). | 2013-03-28 |
20130076779 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A method of configuring an image for data storage on a storage device in an overlapping-tiled format and a method of displaying a desired image selected for viewing on a display are disclosed. The method of configuring an image for data storage includes formatting an image to include a plurality of image tiles, each image tile in the plurality of image tiles having at least a portion that is substantially identical to at least a portion of an adjacent image tile in the plurality of image tiles. The method further includes converting data of the image from data in a first color space into data in a second color space so as to reduce a size of the data of the image, and storing the image data in the second color space. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076780 | UNIFIED DESKTOP STATUS NOTIFICATIONS - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment. The unified desktop can present notifications for both the computer system and the device in the unified desktop. Thus, regardless of the origin of the notification, the notification may be presented on the unified desktop on the device user interface and/or the computer system user interface. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076781 | SMARTPAD - MULTIAPP - A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076782 | GALLERY OPERATIONS FOR A DEVICE IN LANDSCAPE MODE - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface in a dual screen device. More particularly, the method includes providing a gallery for the dual screen device. The gallery can present one or more images in a user interface. The gallery user interface can adapt to changes in the device configuration. Further, the gallery can display images or videos in the various configurations. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076783 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus includes at least a time information obtaining unit, an image storage unit, a display unit, a display unit, and an indicating unit. The time information obtaining unit obtains information on a scan sequence and obtains scan time information as information of a time when a medical image is picked up in accordance with the scan sequence. The image storage unit stores the scan time information in association with the medical image. The display unit simultaneously displays the medical image including the scan time information stored in the image storage unit and a time chart indicating the scan sequence. When a predetermined medical image displayed on the display unit is selected, the indicating unit displays an image indicating a time position on the time chart corresponding to the scan time information included in the medical image. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076784 | RENDERING MAP IMAGES USING MODIFICATIONS OF NON-RASTER MAP DATA - A map server generates vector descriptors in a non-raster format, each indicating a geometry of a respective map element, to render a first map image of a selected geographic region at a client device. The map server then provides the vector descriptors to the client device. Upon receiving an indication that a second map image for the selected geographic region is to be rendered at the client device, the map server generates a modification indication that indicates a set of one or more vector descriptors, each of which corresponds to a respective map element that is rendered in one but not both of the first map image and the second map image, and provides the modification indication to the client device, so that the client device can render the second map image using at least some of the vector descriptors and the modification indication. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076785 | ANTI-PEEPING DISPLAY SYSTEM - An anti-peeping display system comprises an image processor for receiving a normal image and generating a mosaic image according to the normal image; and a display module which is coupled to the image processor for receiving the normal image and the mosaic image, the display module displaying the normal image during a first frame period and displaying the mosaic image during a second frame period that is adjacent to the first frame period. A user only by wearing a pair of special glasses can view the normal images. The present invention can make a display device to equip with an anti-peeping function. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076786 | CONSTRAINING DISPLAY MOTION IN DISPLAY NAVIGATION - Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position of the visible portion of the page of information on the display is constrained if the motion does not exceed the threshold. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076787 | DYNAMIC INFORMATION PRESENTATION ON FULL WINDSHIELD HEAD-UP DISPLAY - A method to dynamically register a graphic representing essential vehicle information onto a driving scene of a subject vehicle utilizing a substantially transparent windscreen head up display includes monitoring subject vehicle information and identifying the essential vehicle information based on the monitored subject vehicle information. The graphic representing the essential vehicle information is determined and determining, and a preferred location for the graphic upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display is dynamically registering in accordance with minimizing an operator's head movement and eye saccades for viewing the graphic. The graphic is displayed upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display based upon the preferred location. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076788 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT - The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamic content management, the method including generating content associated with an object, dynamically adjusting the content associated with the object according to a user profile to form a user-defined object-based content package, displaying at least one captured image of the identified object on the device, and uploading the user-defined object-based content package associated with the identified object to the device simultaneously with the displaying step to provide dynamic content to the user on the device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076789 | AUGMENTED REALITY USING PROJECTOR-CAMERA ENABLED DEVICES - An augmented reality scene may be registered onto an arbitrary surface. A camera may capture an image of the arbitrary surface. The camera may analyze the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. In some embodiments, a processing computing device may analyze data captured by the camera and an adjacent camera to reconstruct the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. A scene may be registered to a three dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the arbitrary surface. A projector may project the scene onto the arbitrary surface according to the registration so that the scene may not display as being distorted. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076790 | METHOD FOR AUGMENTING A REAL SCENE - Methods, systems and devices for augmenting a real scene in a video stream are disclosed herein. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076791 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM - Independent optical unit for head-up display system for motor vehicle, intended for the display in the field of view of the driver of a virtual image obtained from an object image coming from a projector, including a first optical component reflecting the incident light rays emanating from the projector towards a second optical component placed in the field of view of the driver for the positioning of a final virtual image, means being provided for the adjustment of their relative position. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076792 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes an object adjustment unit and a synthesis unit. The object adjustment unit is configured to modify an image of an object based on parameters of an image of a face to create a modified image of the object. The synthesis unit is configured to synthesize the image of the face with the modified image of the object. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076793 | DESKTOP APPLICATION MANAGER: TAPPING DUAL-SCREEN CARDS - Methods and devices for selecting a card from an application stack, wherein the card represents a corresponding application that a user would like to make active or bring focus to. The selecting includes one or more of a dragging and a tapping action, with these actions being triggers for transitioning the device to an optional drag state or tapped state, respectively. Transitioning through this state executes the activating of a corresponding application or other action on the device to facilitate window/application/desktop management. The selecting further allows a user to specify which a touch screen (or portion hereof) on which a particular application should be launched. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076794 | AUTOMATIC ROTATING DISPLAY SYSTEM BASED ON WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM - An automatic rotating display system is adapted to an electronic device based on a windows operating system. The electronic device includes a display for displaying one or more images. The automatic rotating display system includes a gravity sensor, a processor, a keyboard controller and a display card. The gravity sensor is configured for sensing or detecting different positional variations of the electronic device, and generating corresponding different sensing signals, according to the direction and magnitude changes of the electronic device. The processor electrically connects with the gravity sensor for receiving and processing the sensing signals. The keyboard controller connects with the processor for receiving the directional control signals and translating the directional control signals into directional control instructions. The display card connects with the keyboard controller for receiving the directional control instructions and driving the image shown on the display to rotate. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076795 | SMARTPAD SMARTDOCK - DOCKING RULES - A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076796 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile electronic device and method are presented. One or more contacted positions are detected in response to a user contacting at least one contact detection module not located on a display module. An application program is executed in response to the contacted positions being transitioned, if the contacted positions comprise a predetermined number of contacts. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076797 | SIMULATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS AND SECONDARY DEVICES IN A WEB BROWSER, WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, AND METHODS USING THE SAME - Device simulators and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the device simulators are capable of permitting accurate pixel to pixel and inch to inch mapping between a simulated display and a display of a target device. Web application development tools utilizing such simulators are also disclosed. In some embodiment, such web application development tools provide a convenient method to convert electronic document source files to interactive document web applications for multiple operating systems and form factors. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076798 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image display system for multi-viewing, including a display device for displaying right-eye images and left-eye images. A system controller is electrically connected to the display device and a light modulating device. A motion sensor, in response to a control signal from the system controller, is utilized for determining the positions of the eyes of a viewer. A processor, in response to one or more image signals from the motion sensor, provides the system controller with the positions. The light modulating device is utilized for spatially or angularly deflecting the right-eye images to the right eye of the viewer and for spatially or angularly deflecting the left-eye images to the left eye of the viewer in accordance with the positions. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076799 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY TERMPREATURE DETECTION - Disclosed embodiments relate to a display temperature detection system that can detect temperature variations in different regions of a display panel. The temperature measuring display system includes a display panel that provides graphical images. Further, the temperature measuring display system includes temperature measurement circuitry. The temperature measurement circuitry includes one or more thermal diodes, transistors, or a mesh layer useful to determine at least one temperature measurement of the display panel. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076800 | SCANNING PROJECTION APPARATUS AND SCANNING IMAGE DISPLAY - In a light beam scanning projection apparatus which scans a light beam emitted from a laser light source, an image display apparatus is configured including a plurality of light beams, a reflection mirror for reflecting the light beams to project them onto a screen or the like, and a mirror driving unit for driving the reflection mirror so that the plurality of light beams are incident on the reflection mirror with different optical axes and projected on different projection areas, thereby displaying a single image with a plurality of images. Further, by forming a single image by causing a plurality of the light beams to have predetermined relative angles thereamong so as to make a plurality of images overlap on each other with slight shifts, a scanning projection apparatus is provided with which the luminance of the image is improved while conforming to safety standards. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076801 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A display method includes: performing display by driving a display pixel at a drive interval that conforms to a weight of each bit in a gray-scale code that includes the bits; and so correcting the drive interval, the gray-scale code, or both of the drive interval and the gray-scale code as to change a luminance of the display pixel smoothly. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076802 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVE CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A drive circuit includes: a control section generating address information by which a horizontal line to be driven in a display section is designated, the display section including a plurality of display pixels; and a driving section driving, at a drive interval that conforms to a weight of each bit in a gray-scale code that includes the bits, the display pixels based on a value of each of the bits, within a unit driving period that is set to drive the horizontal line designated by the address information. The control section sets a start timing of the unit driving period on an optional basis. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076803 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display device includes: an APL calculation unit; a current value calculation unit output a first result value or output a second result value; a peak luminance controller configured to output a first luminance control signal based on a first gamma conversion value when receiving the first result value from the current value calculation unit and output a second luminance control signal based on a second gamma conversion value when receiving the second value from the current value calculation unit; a programmable gamma unit configured to output a gamma voltage; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal and supply the generated data signal to a display panel. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076804 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A light emitting device includes: a wiring including an AuGeNi layer; and a semiconductor light emitting element bonded to the surface of the AuGeNi layer with the aid of intermolecular force, and electrically connected to the wiring. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076805 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided is a display device and a control method of the same which suppress the occurrence of color separation. The display device includes: a light source of plural kinds of colors; a plurality of elements which are provided to a plurality of pixels respectively, and change over transmission/non-transmission of light emitted from the light source; and a control part which expresses gray levels of the respective pixels by color sequential driving in which the presence/non-presence of lighting of the light source and the transmission/non-transmission of light by the elements are sequentially controlled. The control part fetches image data amounting to 1 screen and performs a display based on the image data for every image data use period, and performs a display of an image amounting to 1 screen for every frame display period. The frame display period differs from the image data use period in length. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076806 | DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display drive circuit of the invention has: an initial-color-gamut-apex-coordinate-storing unit capable of storing initial color gamut apex coordinates; a user-target-color-gamut-apex-coordinate-storing unit capable of storing user target color gamut apex coordinates; a saturation-expansion-coefficient-deciding unit for deciding expansion coefficients of saturation data based on the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates; and an expansion unit for expanding saturations of display data based on the saturation expansion coefficients. The expansion coefficients of saturation data are decided based on the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates, and saturations of display data are expanded according to the expansion coefficients. Thus, the degree of expanding the saturations can be controlled for each color gamut or each of R, G and B color properties of an LC display panel. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076807 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130076808 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention involves in an LCD device, which comprises a scan driving module, a data driving module, pixels, data lines, shift register modules and scan lines, the scan lines include type 1 scan lines, each of which is connected with the scan driving module and the pixel for controlling charging time of the pixel according to a first scan signal and type 2 scan lines, each of which is connected with the shift register module and the pixel for controlling driving time for sub-pixels of the pixel. The present invention further involves in an LCD device driving method. The LCD device and the driving method of the present invention can realize reverse scanning without increasing device costs, thereby solving a technical problem that a current LCD device fails to maintain proper driving effects when utilizing reverse scan driving. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076809 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY PRIMING - In one example, a liquid dispensing device includes a printhead assembly having a liquid port through which liquid may move between a removable liquid container and the printhead assembly and an air port through which air may flow to and from the container. A pressure source is operatively connected to the air port to pressurize the container to push liquid from the container through the liquid port into the printhead assembly. A vent is operatively connected to the air port to vent the pressurized container to draw froth from the printhead assembly through the liquid port into the container. In another example, a method for priming a printhead assembly includes pushing liquid from a container into the printhead assembly through a liquid port and then pulling froth from the printhead assembly into the container through the liquid port. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076810 | LIQUID SUPPLY DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A pressure buffering unit is reduced in size, and thereby the effect of a flexible membrane is suppressed while the performance of the pressure buffering unit is maintained. A liquid supply device includes: a liquid supply passage which communicates with a recording head in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged; a liquid pressure applying part provided in the liquid supply passage that applies a predetermined pressure to liquid; and a pressure buffering unit provided en route in the liquid supply passage and being configured to include a liquid chamber having a supply port and a discharge port through which the liquid flowing through the liquid supply passage flows in and out, a gas chamber provided to oppose the liquid chamber, and a flexible membrane interposed therebetween, wherein the flexible membrane is provided with initial bending in advance. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076811 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge ink, a first ink tank configured to store ink to be supplied to the recording head, a circulation path configured to circulate ink between the first ink tank and the recording head, a measurement unit configured to measure an ink temperature in the circulation path, a second ink tank configured to replenish ink to the circulation path, and a control unit configured to control replenishment of ink from the second ink tank to the circulation path based on the ink temperature measured by the measurement unit. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076812 | TEXTILE PRINTING APPARATUS AND TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD - A textile printing apparatus includes a liquid remaining amount grasping unit which grasps remaining amounts of respective two or more kinds of liquids, and a control unit which performs control of execution of printings onto a plurality of printed textile materials, the control unit has a control mode for, in advance of starting the execution of printings, specifying any print-executable printing specification from among the printing specifications on the basis of the remaining amounts of the respective liquids and the contents of the respective printing specifications, and then, starting execution of any printing based on the any print-executable printing specification having been specified. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076813 | Inkjet Nozzle Flushing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print job data, rasterizing the print job data to generate image data for each page of the print job data to be printed, calculating a coverage per unit area for two or more color planes of each page of the image data and calculating a flushing mask to flush nozzles of the inkjet print head. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076814 | PRETREATMENT METHOD FOR PRINTING MATERIAL, PRETREATMENT DEVICE, INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD - A pretreatment method for a printing material is performed prior to ink jet textile printing on the printing material and includes the steps of imparting a tension force to at least a printing area of the printing material on which ink jet textile printing is performed so as to put the printing area in a tensioned state, and applying a pretreatment agent having an ink permeation inhibiting property on the printing area in the tensioned state. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076815 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - In a head ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130076816 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - A media processing device includes a reception unit that receives commands; a conveyance unit that conveys media; a reading unit that reads information from the media conveyed by the conveyance unit; a recording unit that records on the media conveyed by the conveyance unit; and an initialization process execution unit that, after the media processing device turns on or resets, enters a busy state in which the reception unit does not receive commands, executes a first initialization process that runs a process confirming media conveyance by the conveyance unit, and then cancels the busy state and runs a second initialization process that initializes the recording unit or the reading unit. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076817 | Method and Apparatus For Three-Dimensional Digital Printing - Techniques are presented for digital ink jet printing upon a substrate with a significant third dimension. Droplets in the range of 120 pL to 200 pL have been found suitable for substrates with variability, in the third dimension, of up to approximately 4 cm. A larger droplet can be generated by utilizing a plurality of drive pulses, each of which generates a smaller droplet, and having the plurality of smaller droplets combine in mid-air. The data to be printed can be derived from a 3D model and such 3D model can also be used to guide shaping of the substrate. The 3D model can be produced from 2D image data. If the 2D image data is a two-dimensional portrait photograph, a result, of using the present invention, can be a realistic portrait in the form of a bas-relief sculpture. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076818 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a head unit including a liquid jetting head, a regulating member arranged to sandwich the head unit from a nozzle array direction, a restriction mechanism configured to restrict the head unit from displacement in an orthogonal direction perpendicular to the nozzle array direction, and a landing position correction mechanism configured to correct position of landing the liquid jetted from the plurality of nozzles onto the medium in the orthogonal direction. The restriction mechanism restricts a portion of the head unit inside of outmost nozzle arrays in the orthogonal direction. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076819 | PRINTING APPARATUS, LINE PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - A printing apparatus includes a head section having a nozzle row being configured to emit photocurable ink onto a target and an irradiating section configured to irradiate the target, a moving section configured to move the head section with respect to the target for printing, and a controller configured to carry out control so as to emit the photocurable ink from the nozzles onto an image forming area of the target and to irradiate the photocurable ink having impacted on the image forming area from the irradiation section. The controller controls irradiation energy of the light that the irradiation section irradiates the image forming area with so that irradiation energy of the light that an edge area of the image forming area is irradiated with is smaller than irradiation energy of the light that an area of the image forming area adjacent to the edge area is irradiated with. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076820 | Dynamic Inkjet Nozzle Flushing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes analyzing an image of a first flushing pattern applied on a medium during production of a print job to detect presence of one or more defective ink jet nozzles and adjusting to a second flushing pattern during the production of the print job upon detecting the presence of one or more defective print head nozzles. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076821 | PRINTER AND MEDIUM FOR STORING PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A printer includes a memory that memorizes a value of a maximum stroke and a processor that executes a process. The process includes calculating a maximum stroke time that lasts from when a print pin arranged in a printhead is projected from the printhead by the maximum stroke to when the print pin is retracted in the printhead, setting an adjustment printing area on the printing medium, and switching a movement timing of the printhead in accordance with the maximum stroke time when a printing position of the printhead falls within the adjustment printing area set on the printing medium. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076822 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - When a paper jam is detected, in the case where the cause of the paper jam is a CR motor error in which the speed of the carriage is decreased by as much as a load when the paper jam occurs and becomes equal to or less than a set speed, when there is an instruction to continue printing, cleaning is performed on a printing head. In this case, it is determined whether the paper position is particularly in a one-side supporting range in which the paper is supported by only one pair of transporting roller pairs provided in each of an upstream side and a downstream side of a transporting direction of the paper with interposing of a moving path of the printing head. Then, it is preferable that cleaning be performed as long as the paper position is in the one-side supporting range. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076823 | NOZZLE SHADING METHOD, AND AN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS USING SAME - An inkjet printing apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink, a CIS (Contact Image Sensor) type scanner for reading, as image data, charts for correction printed in the ink discharged from the nozzles, light emitters for emitting light to the charts for correction, a scanner controller for causing the scanner to scan the charts for correction with a plurality of read conditions, a correction table creator for creating nozzle shading correction tables based on the image data read, and a shading corrector for carrying out shading correction for the nozzles based on the correction tables. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076824 | IMAGE AND PRINTHEAD CONTROL - A method of preparing a two-dimensional bit-mapped image is disclosed in which the image has n pixels per row for printing using one or more printheads each having a row of ejection locations. Each ejection location has associated ejection electrodes to which a voltage is applied sufficient to cause particulate agglomerations to be formed from within a body of printing fluid. In order to cause charged particulate agglomerations to be ejected as printed droplets from selected ejection locations, voltage pulses of predetermined amplitude and duration, as determined by the respective bit values of the individual pixels of rows of the image, are applied to the electrodes of the selected ejection locations. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076825 | COLOR MEDICAL IMAGING ON FILM - A method of printing a high density image. An image is accessed, wherein the image has a plurality of pixels, and each pixel has an r,g,b value. For each pixel, each r,g,b value is separated into separate grayscale components and color components. A lookup table is applied to each grayscale and color component to generate an ink value for each of the print heads. The ink values are combined to produce a final ink output value for each pixel, and the final ink output values are employed for printing on medium using an ink-jet printer. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076826 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus, including: a conveyor mechanism; a recording head; a treatment-liquid application portion; a sealing mechanism for selectively taking a sealing state in which an ejection space is sealed or an unsealing state in which the ejection space is not sealed; a humid-airy supply mechanism for performing a humidifying operation to produce and supply the humid air into the ejection space in the sealing state; a forcible discharge mechanism for performing a forcible discharge operation for forcibly discharging recording liquid from the head; and a maintenance control section for, when a time elapsed from an occurrence of a jam to a clearance of the jam is less than a first time, performing the forcible discharge operation, and for, when the time is equal to or greater than the first time, performing the humidifying operation in the sealing state and then performing the forcible discharge operation. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076827 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus including: a liquid jetting head configured to jet liquid; a liquid discharge unit configured to discharge the liquid from the liquid jetting head; a waste liquid recover unit including a waste liquid absorber configured to absorb a waste liquid discharged from the liquid jetting head by the liquid discharge unit and detection electrodes configured to detect a waste liquid amount absorbed into the waste liquid absorber; and a vibration generating source configured to vibrate the waste liquid absorber in a vibration direction, wherein the detection electrodes are disposed to make contact with an end surface defining the waste liquid absorber, and a normal direction of the end surface intersects with the vibration direction. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076828 | INKJET PRINTING USING LARGE PARTICLES - A method of producing a print on paper includes drying a selected region of the paper to a moisture content not to exceed that of the paper equilibrated to 20% RH. Hydrophilic liquid is deposited in a selected fluid pattern on the selected region of the paper within 15 seconds after the completion of drying. The paper is charged so that a charge pattern of charged and discharged areas is formed on the paper, and the discharged areas correspond to the selected fluid pattern. Charged dry ink having charge of the same sign as the charge in the charged areas is on the paper is deposited onto the paper in a dry ink pattern corresponding to the selected fluid pattern in the selected region. The dry ink is fixed to the paper. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076829 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND A PURGING METHOD THEREFOR - An inkjet printing apparatus carries out printing by moving an inkjet head and printing paper relative to each other. The inkjet head has a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink droplets. The apparatus includes a feed pipe connected to each nozzle of the inkjet head for feeding ink thereto, an ink feed control valve mounted on the feed pipe for controlling circulation of the ink, a cap for blocking the plurality of nozzles of the inkjet head, a decompression device for decompressing an inside of the cap, decompression piping for connecting the cap and the decompression device, a decompression control valve mounted on the decompression piping for controlling communication between the cap and the decompression device, and a controller. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076830 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - According to an inkjet recording apparatus as an aspect of the present invention, the nozzle surface is wiped by a wiping member which rotates about an axle perpendicular to the nozzle surface. Consequently, the nozzle surface can be wiped in multiple directions and it is possible effectively to prevent deterioration of the lyophobic film, or adhering material being pushed inside the nozzles, due to wiping in one direction only. Furthermore, since a composition which rotates only the wiping member is adopted, then the composition of the wiping apparatus can be made compact. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076831 | PRINTER AND PRINTING HEAD MOVING MECHANISM - A printing head moving mechanism is configured to reciprocate a carriage equipped with a printing head between a printing position facing a recording medium and a retracted position retracted outside a printing region of the recording medium. In the printing position, the carriage is disposed at a downstream side of a transporting roller which is configured to transport the recording medium in a transporting direction of the recording medium. In the retracted position, at least a portion of the carriage is disposed at an upstream side of the transporting roller in the transporting direction of the recording medium. The carriage is configured to move between the printing position and the retracted position without interfering with the transporting roller. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076832 | Liquid Ejecting Head - Disclosed herein is a liquid ejecting head is provided in which a plurality of pressure chambers is formed along a nozzle row direction where a plurality of pressure chambers is arranged in parallel with one another to be divided by each partition wall, and a change in pressure of a liquid in each of the pressure chambers is generated by driving of each pressure generation unit to allow the liquid to be ejected from each of the nozzles, wherein at least one of the pressure chambers located at opposite ends of the plural pressure chambers is a dummy pressure chamber from which the liquid is not ejected, and the dummy pressure chamber is filled with the liquid. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076833 | USB CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO ELECTRONICS BOARDS - A printer includes a printhead; a media path; a first electronics board including a first connector for a flexible flat cable; a second electronics board including: a universal serial bus port; a second connector for a flexible flat cable; and a plurality of traces connecting the universal serial bus port to the second connector; and a flexible flat cable connecting the first electronics board to the second electronics board and including a characteristic impedance that meets the characteristic impedance specifications for universal serial bus. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076834 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A flexible wiring circuit board has a second terminal section bonded and electrically connected to a first terminal section of a wiring circuit board of a discharge die. A drive signal is inputted to the first terminal section through the second terminal section, and then sent to a driver IC. The driver IC drives a piezoelectric element in accordance with the drive signal through a printed wiring pattern. Thereby, ink is discharged from an ink discharge opening. A copper ion diffusion inhibiting film is formed on a surface of a copper wiring member of the second terminal section on contact with a process liquid containing at least one of 1, 2, 3 triazole and 1, 2, 4 triazole. This inhibits diffusion of copper ions and copper ion migration resulting therefrom. Thus, malfunction due to the copper ion migration is inhibited. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076835 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of discharge ports configured to discharge liquid, a supply port configured to retain the liquid to be discharged from the plurality of discharge ports, a first pressure chamber including a first energy generation element to discharge a predetermined amount of liquid droplets, a second pressure chamber including a second energy generation element to discharge an amount of liquid droplets greater than the predetermined amount, a first flow path through which the supply port and the first pressure chamber communicate with each other, and a second flow path through which the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber communicate with each other. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076836 | INK JET HEAD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet head is provided which includes: nozzles forming a predetermined array; liquid chambers respectively provided for the nozzles; pressure generation elements respectively provided for the liquid chambers which respectively discharge liquid in the liquid chambers; individual supply flow paths which respectively supply the liquid to the liquid chambers; a common supply flow path that is connected to each individual supply flow path and supplies the liquid into each individual supply flow path; and a liquid supply unit that circulates the liquid of the common supply flow path so as to make the liquid flow in one direction in the common supply flow path. The common supply flow path has a shape in which a cross-sectional area is increased and decreased at a predetermined interval. Each individual supply flow path is provided at a position where the cross-sectional area of the common supply flow path is increased. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076837 | PLANAR HEATER STACK AND METHOD FOR MAKING PLANAR HEATER STACK WITH CAVITY WITHIN PLANAR HEATER SUBSTRATA ABOVE SUBSTRATE - A heater stuck includes first strata having a planar configuration supporting and forming a fluid heater element responsive to repetitive electrical activation and deactivation to produce repetitive cycles of fluid ejection from an ejection chamber above the heater element and second strata having a planar configuration coating the heater element of the first strata and being contiguous with the ejection chamber to protect the heater element. The first strata include a substrate and heater strata disposed on it and forming a cavity above the substrate and encompassed on three sides by the heater substrata. The heater substrata includes a pair of conductive layer portions constituting terminal leads disposed on the substrate at opposite sides of the cavity and a resistive layer disposed on the conductive layer portions and defining the fluid heater element that spans the top of the cavity. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076838 | INKJET HEAD - According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a mask part which covers a periphery of an actuator part in a state where a nozzle hole is exposed to outside and a peripheral edge part of which is opposite to an opening peripheral edge part of a frame part at other end while a gap is kept, and the gap between the peripheral edge part of the mask part and the opening peripheral edge part of the frame part at the other end is sealed with a seal agent having thermal insulation properties. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076839 | HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECT USING LIMITED DENSITY FLEX CIRCUITS - A method and structure for an ink jet print head which includes the use of two or more flexible circuits and a piezoelectric element array. A first pad array is included on a first flex circuit to power a first portion of the piezoelectric element array of the print head, and a second pad array is included on a second flex circuit to power a second portion of the piezoelectric element array of the print head. Using two flex circuits requires only half as many traces to be formed on each flex circuit, which can relax spacing requirements and design tolerances. | 2013-03-28 |
20130076840 | SOLVENT FOR INK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLVENT FOR INK, INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, METHOD FOR PRODUCING INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, INK CARTRIDGE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING INK CARTRIDGE - An ink vehicle having a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin produced by suspension polymerization. In the production of the ink vehicle, the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin is partially dissolved in a solvent in a state in which an undissolved gel-like component of the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin is present in the resin. An external force is applied to the solvent containing the gel-like component to dissolve the gel-like component in the solvent. | 2013-03-28 |