16th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090096723 | PIXEL DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT - A pixel circuit including a storage capacitor to which data is written including a black level; a second driving transistor supplies a drive current corresponding to data written to the storage capacitor to a second organic electroluminescence element; a first driving transistor supplies to a first organic electroluminescence element drive current that reflects brightness degradation or current degradation in the second organic electroluminescence element, wherein the second driving transistor supplies a predetermined drive current to the second organic electroluminescence element including data of the black level; and the drive voltage of the first driving transistor is set to a voltage reflecting the brightness degradation or current degradation in the second organic electroluminescence element. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096724 | Display apparatus, quantity-of-light adjusting method for display apparatus and electronic equipment - A display apparatus includes display means for displaying an image, a light source that irradiates light to the display means, and control means for controlling the quantity of light of the light source with pulse width modulation. The control means controls the quantity of light of the light source based on the ratio of the light-on period with pulse width modulation to the light-off period when the light source is turned off. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096725 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - In an organic light-emitting display screen, each picture dot includes an organic diode (OLED) and first and second current driver circuits for the diode. Each driver circuit includes: a driving transistor connected between a reference voltage and one electrode of the said diode, a switching transistor for switching a gate voltage onto the gate of the said driving transistor, and a capacitor connected to the gate of the said driving transistor, to maintain the gate voltage. The gate voltage of a driving transistor is alternately a video voltage controlling a display phase, or a turn-off voltage, controlling a recovery phase. The driving transistors are controlled alternately, one in recovery phase, the other in display phase, and vice versa. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096726 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD - To provide a plural-viewpoint display device having an image separating optical element such as a lenticular lens or a parallax barrier, which is capable of achieving a high image quality by suppressing deterioration in the display image quality caused when a block division driving method is employed, and to provide a terminal device, a display panel, and a driving method thereof, which can be preferably used for those devices. A pixel group configured with pixels for displaying a right-eye image includes a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the first phase of a block division driving method, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the third phase, and a pixel connected to a data line phase-deployed in the second phase. In this manner, it is designed to have no deviation in the phase deployment orders in the pixel groups for each viewpoint. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096727 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a light emitting device, luminance irregularities caused by fluctuation in threshold of TFTs for supplying a current to EL elements among pixels hinder the light emitting device from improving the image quality. A voltage equal to the threshold of a TFT | 2009-04-16 |
20090096728 | Test Circuit for Liquid Crystal Display Device, LCD Device Including Test Circuit, and Testing Method for LCD Device - There is provided a test device for a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal display unit has liquid crystal display elements arranged in matrix, and thin film transistors have their respective drains connected to the liquid crystal display elements, their respective gates commonly connected to row lines, and their respective sources commonly connected to column lines, the transistors arranged in the same row sharing the line of that row, the transistors arranged in the same column sharing the line of that column, the rows of the lines being controlled by a row driver, and the columns of the lines being supplied with multi-level voltage depending upon gradation of a display image by a column driver; the test device comprising a comparator circuit provided in each of either the rows or columns of the lines for detecting which of the rows or columns of the lines is selected, an encoder circuit receiving the detection result from the comparator circuit and scanning bi-directionally from head to tail or vice versa of the rows or columns of the lines to obtain the number of the selected row or column line, a plurality of bus lines constituting a bus being varied in voltage level depending upon the obtained number of the selected row or column line and encoding the voltage level in relation with the number, and a read-out circuit reading the voltage level of the bus lines from the encoder circuit to determine if the encoded number is identical with the number of the selected row or column line, wherein the comparator circuit, the encoder circuit, and the read-out circuit being built in the same substrate as the liquid crystal display elements. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096729 | Correction of visible mura distortions in displays by use of flexible system for memory resources and mura characteristics - A display that includes at least one gray level being provided to a plurality of pixels that illuminates each of the pixels with the gray level. The display applies interpolated corrective data for the pixels so as to reduce the mura effects of said display for those characteristics generally visible by the human visual system and so as not to reduce the mura effects of the display for those characteristics generally not visible by the human visual system. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096730 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display substrate includes first and second storage electrodes, a pixel electrode and a direction control electrode. A slit is formed through the pixel electrode. The direction control electrode is positioned in a region aligned with the slit, and a level of a voltage applied to the direction control electrode is changed. The level of the voltage applied to the direction control electrode may be periodically changed. The voltage applied to the direction control electrode may be changed after substantially the same voltage is applied to the pixel electrode and the direction control electrode. A voltage difference between a reference voltage and the direction control voltage may be greater than a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the pixel voltage. The reference voltage may be a common voltage. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096731 | Method and apparatus for generating gradation voltage for X-axis symmetric gamma inversion - A method and apparatus for generating gradation voltages are provided. Maximum and minimum reference voltages are selected from a distribution of voltages ranging from a first source voltage to a second source voltage. The maximum reference voltage is selected as a 1 | 2009-04-16 |
20090096732 | Display device - The present invention provides a display device which can achieve the high breakdown voltage proof property, the enhancement of reliability or the expansion of the designing/process tolerance of transistors by the improvement of a circuit. A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit which drives the plurality of pixels. The drive circuit includes a p-type first transistor which has a first electrode thereof connected to a first power source line to which a reference voltage V1 is applied, a p-type second transistor which has a first electrode thereof connected to a second electrode of the first transistor and a second electrode thereof connected to an output terminal thereof, an n-type third transistor which has a first electrode thereof connected to a second power source line to which a reference voltage V2 is applied, and an n-type fourth transistor which has a first electrode thereof connected to a second electrode of the third transistor and a second electrode thereof connected to an output terminal thereof. A first bias voltage Vcp is applied to a control electrode of the second transistor and a second bias voltage Vcn is applied to a control electrode of the fourth transistor. Further, a relationship V22009-04-16 | |
20090096733 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - (Object) To prevent the chromaticity from changing due to the gradation in a display system for improving the blurring in an animated image where one frame is formed of two fields having different brightness. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096734 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A method of driving a liquid crystal display apparatus is provided. Each pixel of the liquid crystal display apparatus has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The method of driving the liquid crystal display apparatus includes receiving a selecting signal and then deciding the display mode of the liquid crystal display apparatus. When the liquid crystal display apparatus is in a normal display mode, the second sub-pixels are deactivated. When the liquid crystal display apparatus is on a restricted view-angle display mode, some of the second sub-pixels are chosen and activated. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096735 | Liquid crystal display having compensation circuit for reducing gate delay - An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a gate driving circuit, a data driving circuit, and a compensation circuit. The liquid crystal panel includes gate lines and data lines intersecting the gate lines. The compensation circuit includes capacitors corresponding to the gate lines. The gate driving circuit is configured for providing scanning signals to the gate lines in sequence. The data driving circuit is configured for providing gray scale voltages to the data lines. The compensation circuit is configured for compensating the scanning signals. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096736 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a driving circuit for a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. A signal controller of the driving circuit generates a data signal according to an input image signal input to the display device, generates a clock signal according to the input control signal, and generates a differential pair image signal by modulating the clock signal to the data signal. Here, a data signal period of the differential pair image signal and a clock signal period are converted with a different level and are output. A data driver of the driving device receives the differential pair image signal, divides the data signal and the clock signal from the differential pair image signal, and generates a data voltage by sampling a data signal by using the clock signal. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096737 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a gate driver of a display device, a plurality of first stages each transmit a first gate signal having a first gate-on voltage to first gate lines, and a plurality of second stages each transmit a second gate signal having a second gate-on voltage to second gate lines and output a carry signal corresponding to the second gate signal. Each first stage outputs the first gate-on voltage based on a third gate-on voltage of the carry signal from a previous second stage, and each second stage outputs the second gate-on voltage based on the third gate-on voltage of the carry signal from the previous second stage. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096738 | DRIVING CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DRIVING THREE-COLOR BISTABLE LIQUID CRYSTALS - This invention provides a driving circuit for simultaneously driving three-color bistable liquid crystals, which employs a voltage-shift circuit to provide different-color bistable liquid crystals with respective level-shift voltages. A grey-scale voltage is respectively added to the respective level-shift voltages. By this invention, the whole grey-scale voltages are capable of falling in the voltage ranges for displaying grey scales for the different-color bistable liquid crystals. The grey-scale display can be optimized. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096739 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR BACKLIGHT MODULE - A light source driving circuit for a backlight module is disclosed, wherein each driving unit includes a reference resistor, a transistor, a bias resistor and a shunt regulator. The transistor is coupled between an LED string and the reference resistor, and the bias resistor is coupled between an operation voltage and the control terminal of the transistor. The shunt regulator is coupled between the control terminal of the transistor and a common terminal, and the reference pin of the shunt regulator is coupled to the common node between the reference resistor and the transistor. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096740 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Apparatus and Method for Controlling Luminance of Liquid Crystal Panel Thereof - A liquid crystal display device, an apparatus and a method for controlling a luminance of a liquid crystal panel thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display device receives an image signal, generates an image compensating parameter according to the image signal and a plurality of luminance control parameters, and generates a compensated image signal, wherein each luminance control parameters relates to the liquid crystal panel. Then, the control signal is generated according to the image compensating parameter so that the liquid crystal panel displays an image of the compensated image signal. With this device and method, the power consumption of the liquid crystal panel display could be reduced, while the picture quality is preserved. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096741 | Liquid crystal display device including backlight unit and method of driving the same - A liquid crystal display device includes: a light emitting diode array unit including at least two groups of light emitting diode arrays for emitting light; a light emitting diode driving unit for supplying at least two pulse width modulation signals having different phases from each other to the at least two groups of light emitting diode arrays, respectively; a liquid crystal display panel for displaying images using the light from the light emitting diode array unit; and a timing controller for controlling the light emitting diode driving unit and the liquid crystal display panel. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096742 | Backlight modulation circuit having rough and fine illumination signal processing circuit - An exemplary backlight modulation circuit includes a backlight source, a backlight driving circuit, a rough modulation key, a fine modulation key, a scaler, and an illumination modulation signal processing circuit. The backlight driving circuit is configured for driving the backlight source. The rough modulation key and the fine modulation key are configured for generating a rough triggering signal and a fine triggering signal. The scaler is configured for receiving the rough triggering signal and the fine triggering signal, and generating an illumination modulation signal. The illumination modulation signal processing circuit is configured for receiving the illumination modulation signal, and processing the illumination modulation signal to generate one of a rough modulation controlling signal to modulate illumination of the backlight source in a large range and a fine modulation controlling signal to modulate the illumination of the backlight source in a small range. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096743 | DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME WITH PERIPHERAL AUDIO INPUT - An apparatus for displaying digital image data includes a display panel of a plurality of rows and columns of pixels. The selected ones of the pixels are activatable to form a visual representation of the digital image data. The apparatus further includes a memory module for storing the digital image data, and an image processing unit for converting the digital image data to a display signal transmitted to the display panel. There is also an audio input port receptive of a peripheral audio connector in electrical communication with an external signal source such as a portable media player. The apparatus includes an acoustic transducer for reproducing an audio signal from the external signal source. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096744 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND GAMMA DATA ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF - A display device including a display panel which displays an image, a signal controller which comprises a gamma data storing unit, and receives an external signal to drive the display panel. The signal controller extracts a gamma data signal from the external signal, stores the gamma data signal in the gamma data storing unit, and controls displaying of an image based on the gamma data signal to the display panel. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096745 | APPROACH TO ADJUST DRIVING WAVEFORMS FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is directed to methods for adjusting or selecting driving waveforms in order to achieve a consistent optical performance of a display device. When a method of the present invention is applied, even if there are changes in the display medium due to temperature variation, photo-exposure or aging, the optical performance can be maintained at a desired level. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096746 | Method and Apparatus for Wearable Remote Interface Device - A method and apparatus of using a wearable remote interface device capable of detecting inputs from movements are disclosed. The wearable remote interface device, which could be attached to a finger or a hand or any parts of a body, includes a sensor, a filter, an input identifier, and a transmitter. The sensor, in one embodiment, is capable of sensing the movement of the finger or any part of body in which the wearable remote interface device is attached with. Upon detecting the various movements associated with the finger, the filter subsequently removes any extraneous gestures from the detected movements. The input identifier, which could be a part of the filter, identifies one or more user inputs from the filtered movements. The transmitter transmits the input(s) to a processing device via a wireless communications network. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096747 | Method of rolling picture using input device - A method of rolling picture by using input device is disclosed. The input device has a housing and a rotatable component relative to the housing, and through rotating the component, an instruction signal for rolling picture being produced. The method includes steps of setting picture rolling, wherein the input device is set to have at least a first mode or a second mode for rolling the picture, in which each mode is set to have a picture rolling displacement which is corresponding to the driven picture rolling by the single instruction signal every time, and different modes have different displacements; and deciding the mode, wherein a standard value which is compared with the number of instruction signal generated per unit time for deciding the mode of the instruction signal is provided, and through the standard value, the instruction signal is decided to enter the first mode or the second mode. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096748 | INPUT DEVICE WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURING FUNCTION - An input device with the physiological measuring function includes a housing, a position-adjustable mechanism and a sensor module. The housing has a handheld part and an opening. The position-adjustable mechanism is disposed in the housing and a part of the position-adjustable mechanism is exposed from the opening. The sensor module and the position-adjustable mechanism are joined together for traction. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096749 | PORTABLE DEVICE INPUT TECHNIQUE - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a portable device that receives user input. The portable device includes a touchpad and a display screen on opposite sides of the portable device. During operation, the portable device obtains a position on the touchpad provided by a user, obtains a screen position from the position by transposing a coordinate of the position, and updates the display screen using the screen position. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096750 | SCROLL WHEEL DEVICE - The major characteristic of the present invention lies in the adoption of electromagnetic means to translate the spin of a wheel module into continuous electrical signals. A permanent magnet is incorporated in the wheel module to provide magnetic field. Two sensors tangential to the spinning direction of the permanent magnet are used to detect the variations of the magnetic field from the spin of the wheel module in accordance with the Hall Effect. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096751 | PROJECTED CLEANABLE KEYBOARD - Systems and methods are described for simulating physical features of a projected keyboard in a sterile environment by incorporating a mechanical keyboard and a virtual keyboard. A keyboard projection apparatus projects light toward a mechanical keyboard. When a key is pressed, the keyboard projection apparatus tracks finger locations. User input is created by the keyboard projection apparatus and can be processed by a computer or other electrical equipment. By using an actual keyboard having simple mechanical components with the keyboard projection apparatus, the tactile feel can be realized and the keyboard can be easily cleaned or disposed of. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096752 | Hand tool with touch display - A hand tool with a touch display comprises a rod body having a control section; one end of the rod body being formed with a handle and another end thereof can be installed with a tool head for driving a screw means; a strain gauge installed in the rod body for measuring twisting force; a control section having a touch panel for receiving touch signals to set control values in the control section; wherein settings about twisting force can be set through the touch panel. The touch panel has a hand writing input function. The hand tool body has a pen rod attached thereon for inputting data to the touch panel. The touch panel is equipped with a back light illuminator or light emitting diodes. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096753 | Apparatus and Method for Changing On-Screen Image Position, and Navigation System Using the Same - Provided are an apparatus and method for changing a position of an image on a screen of an image display device, such as a map provided by a navigation system or mobile phone and a broadcast program played back by a television receiver, allowing the image to be reduced, enlarged, rotated, etc. through touching the on-screen image, and to a navigation system using the apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a display, a touch sensor, and a controller. The display displays an image. The touch sensor senses touching of the image displayed on the display. The controller changes a position of the image displayed on the display in a touched direction sensed by the touch sensor. The touch sensor generates positional coordinates of a touched point of the image sensed by the touch sensor, and relays the generated positional coordinates to the controller. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096754 | TOUCH PANEL, ELECTRO OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a touch panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a first electrode film formed on the first substrate, a second electrode film formed on the second substrate, the second electrode film opposing the first electrode film. An openings is formed in each of the first electrode film and the second electrode film, and the opening formed in the first electrode film and the opening formed in the second electrode film are overlapped in plan view and each of the openings has a different opening area. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096755 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096756 | Video Display and Touchscreen Assembly, System and Method - A touch screen assembly for use with a display, such as, for example, a flat panel display. The touch screen assembly includes a transparent panel, preferably in the form of a panel of tempered glass adhered to a touch screen panel. Consoles having touch screen assemblies are also disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096757 | MULTIPOINT TOUCHSCREEN - A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096758 | MULTIPOINT TOUCHSCREEN - A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096759 | TOUCH PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TOUCH PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A touch panel includes an insulating substrate, a transparent touch electrode provided on the insulating substrate, and a frame portion connected to a periphery of the touch electrode. The touch panel detects a touched position on the touch electrode based on an electric signal through the frame portion. The frame portion is provided between the insulating substrate and the touch electrode. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096760 | CAPACITANCE TYPE TOUCH PANEL - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a plurality of display units formed with a first substrate, a color matrix formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the color matrix, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a pixel electrode matrix formed on the second substrate, a liquid crystal material disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode matrix. The LCD includes a touch sensing member integrated onto the color matrix of the first substrate. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096761 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel and a touch substrate. The display panel displays an image. The touch substrate is disposed on the display panel. The touch substrate includes a first transparent layer having an elasticity, a second transparent layer disposed on the first transparent layer, a transparent electrode layer forming a touch capacitor with an external object, and a voltage-applying electrode being electrically connected to an edge portion of the transparent electrode layer to apply a reference voltage to the transparent electrode. The display apparatus displays an image having enhanced display quality when performing the touch function. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096762 | INPUT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH INPUT FUNCTION, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An input device includes: a resistive film type input unit; and a non-contact type input unit that overlaps at least a portion of the resistive film type input unit. The resistive film type input unit includes: first and second substrates each having a first surface and a second surface; a first electrode that is formed on the first surface of the first substrate; and a second electrode that is formed on the first surface of the second substrate. The second substrate is provided on an input operation side of the first substrate, and the first electrode of the first substrate faces the second electrode of the second substrate. The resistive film type input unit is in a standby state that does not perform input detection until an input to the non-contact type input unit is detected. When the input to the non-contact type input unit is detected, the resistive film type input unit is turned on to perform input detection. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096763 | TOUCH PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH INPUT FUNCTION, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A touch panel includes: first and second substrates each having a first surface and a second surface, the second substrate being arranged on an input operation side of the first substrate; a first electrode that is formed on the first surface of the first substrate; a second electrode that is formed on the first surface of the second substrate; a resistive film type input area in which the first electrode of the first substrate and the second electrode of the second substrate face each other; and a capacitance type input area in which third electrodes are formed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The resistive film type input area and the capacitance type input area are separated from each other in plan view. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096764 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device includes a first insulating substrate, a plurality of sensing lines extending in a first direction on the first insulating substrate and disposed at predetermined intervals thereon, a second insulating substrate facing the first insulating substrate, a plurality of sensing spacers disposed on the second insulating substrate and operable to make electrical contact with corresponding sensing lines in response to an external pressure applied thereto, and a sensing controller that detects the resistance of a contact closed loop formed by at least two sensor contacts making contact with a pair of corresponding sensing lines and determines the position of the contacted sensing lines in the first direction from the resistance detected. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096765 | TOUCH PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A touch panel having a color-filtering function is provided. The touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The second electrode layer is disposed above the first electrode layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, while the second dielectric layer is disposed on the second electrode layer. Further, the second electrode layer is located between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. Here, either the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer is a color filter layer. A liquid crystal display panel using the above touch panel as a color filter is also provided. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096766 | Touch panel, method for driving same, and display device using the same - A touch panel includes a first conductive coating ( | 2009-04-16 |
20090096767 | Touch-sensing display device and method for manufacturing the same - A display device and method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a touch-sensing element, and a liquid crystal. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface thereon. The second substrate has a pixel array and is disposed on the second surface of the first substrate. The touch-sensing element locates on the first surface of the first substrate. Furthermore, the touch-sensing element includes a conductive layer, a patterned electrode, and a passivation layer. The patterned electrode is correspondingly located on the periphery of the first substrate, and electrically connected to the conductive layer. The passivation layer covers the conductive layer and the patterned electrode. In addition, the liquid crystal is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096768 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POINTED POSITION - At least two infrared light-emitting areas are displayed within a display screen of a liquid crystal display apparatus. The infrared light-emitting areas are areas for emitting light having a wavelength in the infrared region. Then, an image is captured by an operating device in the direction of a position pointed by the operating device. A position on the display screen that is pointed by the operating device is calculated based on the positions of the infrared light-emitting areas that are included in the captured image. This arrangement makes it possible to appropriately calculate the position on the display screen that is pointed by the operating device, independently of the distance between the operating device and the display screen of the liquid crystal display apparatus. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096769 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, gate and data drivers providing the liquid crystal panel with gate and data signals, and a timing controller receiving input signals that include an image signal, a sync signal, a data enable signal and a clock signal, wherein the timing controller includes a gate control signal generator controlling the gate driver, a data control signal generator controlling the data driver, a data processor supplying the image signal to the data driver, and a vertical enable signal generator generating a vertical enable signal according to the data enable signal and controlling the gate control signal generator and the data control signal generator. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096770 | DETECTING DEFECTS IN DISPLAY PANEL PIXELS - A method of detecting a defect in a display panel, includes providing a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, wherein each pixel comprises a static memory and emits light according to data stored in the static memory; writing data to the static memory of each pixel; reading the data stored in the static memory of each pixel; and comparing the data written and read for each pixel to produce a respective comparison result indicating presence of a defect. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096771 | DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE CAPABLE OF REDUCING DISTORTION OF SIGNAL AND/OR POWER CONSUMPTION, AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A display driving device includes a plurality of data drivers; and a timing controller including a data transmission unit. The data transmission unit transmits data to the data drivers, The data transmission unit controls an electrical signal based on a distance difference between each of the data drivers and the data transmission unit, to reduce distortion of the electrical signal and/or power consumption due to the distance difference, and transmits the controlled electrical signal. The electrical signal corresponds to the data. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096772 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ITS DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus ( | 2009-04-16 |
20090096773 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrophoretic display device includes a common electrode and a plurality of pixel electrodes, a disperse system containing electrophoretic particles, the disperse system being held between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes. The electrophoretic display device includes a switching transistor and a control portion. the switching transistor supplies a corresponding one of the pixel electrodes with a low electric potential signal or a high electric potential signal supplied from a signal line. The control portion controls an electric potential applied between each of the pixel electrodes and the common electrode to cause the electrophoretic particles to move. The control portion provides, in a period during which control for causing the electrophoretic particles to move is performed, a first period during which the switching transistor is held in an on state and a second period during which the switching transistor is held in an off state. The first period continues until charging of the pixel electrode is complete. The second period continues from an end of the first period until movement of the electrophoretic particles is complete. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096774 | DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a display includes selecting at least one of pixels which can be seen as a luminous line or a luminous dot with a dark line-like tail when an inspection image is displayed, and breaking a first conductive path connecting a display element to a power supply terminal and a second conductive path connecting the first conductive path to a video signal line in the selected pixel. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096775 | Differential signal interfacing device and related method - The present invention provides a differential signal interfacing device, including a reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS) transmitter and a plurality of RSDS receivers, in order to improve RSDS signal capacity. The RSDS transmitter is coupled to the plurality of RSDS receivers via a bus and transmits a RSDS signal in a discontinuous manner. The plurality of RSDS receivers receives the RSDS signal for signals of different types. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096776 | Device for controlling output of light source unit in single panel display system - The present invention relates generally to a device for controlling the output of a light source unit in a single panel display system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a device for controlling the output of a light source unit in a single panel display system, which adjusts the time of application of light source driving voltage based on the output characteristics of each light source, and adjusts video data for the light source based on the adjusted time, thereby preventing a garbage image from being generated. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096777 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A data driver outputs image data to a liquid crystal panel, using a trailing edge of a timing signal as a trigger. When a user operates a remote control for power-off, a main controller outputs, to a driver controller, a stop signal for stopping the timing signal, and a power switching signal for switching the image data to a low power for output after a predetermined time from the stop signal. Accordingly, the image data is switched to a low power for standby mode after the supply of the timing signal to the data driver is completely stopped. Thus, when the data driver outputs image data to the panel in response to a last pulse of the timing signal, the data driver is prevented from outputting image data having been switched to a low power, so that noise can be prevented from appearing on the screen of the panel. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DETECTING IMAGE-STICKING OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of measuring image-sticking of a display device based on a vision model is described. A display device is provided, and a test frame is displayed on the display device. The test frame has a pattern formed by a maximum gray level and a minimum gray level. After burning-in the test frame for a period of time, a gray frame at a medium gray level is displayed on the display device. The test frame, including portions of extreme black and extreme white, leaves image-sticking on the gray pattern at a medium gray level at the same time. Next, an image capture device is used to capture the image-sticking on the display device after burn-in. Finally, a vision model is employed to simulate the human visual perception on the image-sticking and to grade the image-sticking according to the human eye sensitivity for viewing the image-sticking on the display device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096779 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT AMOUNT CORRECTION METHOD - A light source device includes: a light source; a driving signal generating unit that supplies a driving signal to the light source; a light amount measuring unit that measures the amount of light of the light source; and a light amount correcting unit that calculates as a light amount error a difference between a target light amount corresponding to a gray-scale value indicated by gray-scale data input from the outside and the amount of light measured by the light amount measuring unit, corrects a differential efficiency by an integrated value of a product of the light amount error and the gray-scale value, corrects a threshold value of the driving signal, and outputs to the driving signal generating unit a command signal for generating a driving signal having a differential efficiency and a threshold value after the correction. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096780 | Interface Apparatus and Method Thereof - Provided is an interface apparatus. The interface apparatus comprises a signal synthesizer, a connector, and a signal separator. The signal synthesizer outputs at least one of display signals, display control signals, and chip control signals. The connector includes a transmission line connected with the signal synthesizer and through which the display signals and the chip control signals are transmitted in common, and a transmission line through which the display control signals are transmitted. The signal separator separates the display signals and chip control signals from the signals transmitted through the transmission line through which the display signals and the chip control signals are transmitted in common. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096781 | Plasma Display Device And Driving Method Thereof - A driving method of a plasma display device, the plasma display device having a plurality of first and second electrodes disposed adjacent to each other and a plurality of third electrodes disposed so as to intersect with the first and second electrodes, the driving method includes providing a reset period, an address period and a sustain discharge period for driving of the plasma display device, applying to the second electrode in the reset period a voltage with a waveform in which an applied voltage value increases with time, shortening a sustain time of achieved potential of the voltage with the waveform when a first display ratio of an input video signal is low as compared with a second display ratio which is higher than the first display ratio. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096782 | MESSAGE SERVICE METHOD SUPPORTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ON MOBILE PHONE, AND MOBILE PHONE THEREFOR - A message service method supporting a three-dimensional (3D) image on a mobile phone, and a mobile phone therefor, are provided. A memory stores at least one 3D image code and a 3D image mapped to each 3D image code. When a text-based message is created, a controller inserts a 3D image code mapped to a 3D image selected by a user into the text-based message and sends the message. When the 3D image is dynamically displayed along with text of the message, a sender can better express his or her emotions. A 3D moving image is a more effective means of expression than a still image or text. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096783 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING USING SPECKLE PATTERNS - Apparatus ( | 2009-04-16 |
20090096784 | COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING SUBDIVISION TRIANGULAR SURFACES - A system is described for generating a plurality of identifiers, each associated with one of a like plurality of subdivision surfaces of a surface element, and for generating, using an identifier for a subdivision surface, coordinates for the subdivision surface. Each identifier includes one or more position codes. Each position code indicates the position of a subdivision surface at a respective level relative to the next higher level, so that successive position codes in the identifier indicate the positions of subdivision surfaces through successive subdivision levels. To generate coordinates for a subdivision surface from the identifier associated with the subdivision surface, the system sequences through successive position codes in the identifier to determine locations of the subdivision surfaces through the successive levels. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096785 | Method For Producing Technical Drawings From 3D Models With At Least Two Colliding 3D Bodies - The invention relates to a method and a computer-aided modelling system for creating a technical drawing from at least two modelled 3D bodies that collide with one another. In a first step, one or more of the regions of the 3D bodies that are affected by the collision are selected. In a second step, a group of colliding faces of the selected regions of the two or more 3D bodies are combined to form a respective collision group and a technical drawing of the two or more colliding modelled 3D bodies is produced. A 2D edge or its associated boundary of a face that belongs to a collision group is treated by masking the other faces that are associated with the same collision group. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096786 | APPARATUS OF AND METHOD FOR DRAWING GRAPHICS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An apparatus of drawing graphics includes an edge coefficient calculator calculating, from vertex data on vertices of a triangle, edge coefficients of edge functions used to determine whether a pixel is present in an inside region of the triangle, and a bounding box calculator calculating a bounding box of projected images of the triangle on a projection plane based on the edge coefficients. The apparatus also includes a starting point determiner and a traverser. The starting point determiner classifies the projected images of the triangle based on a combination of the edge coefficients for respective sides of the triangle, and determines a scan starting point from a corner of the bounding box based on classification of the projected images. The traverser generates pixel data used in rasterization by scanning the bounding box from the scan starting point. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096787 | Method and apparatus for processing three dimensional images, and recording medium having a program for processing three dimensional images recorded therein - A pseudo three dimensional image is generated, based on an aspect image and a mapping image generated from an original three dimensional image, using a volume rendering method. A mapping image that represents the functions of a subject is generated using first voxel data that constitute an original three dimensional medical image of the subject. An aspect image is generated using second voxel data that constitute an original three dimensional medical image of the subject. A position matching means causes positions within a heart represented by the mapping image to correspond to positions within a heart represented by the aspect image. An image generating means executes volume rendering based on degrees of opacity within the mapping image, to generate the pseudo three dimensional image. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF TRANSMISSION AND/OR STORAGE OF RAYS FOR PARALLELIZED RAY INTERSECTION TESTING - For ray tracing, methods, apparatus, and computer readable media provide efficient transmission and/or storage of rays between ray emitters, and an intersection testing resource. Ray emitters, during emission of a plurality of rays, identify a shared attribute of each ray of the plurality, and represent that attribute as shared ray data. The shared ray data, and other ray data sufficient to determine both an origin and a direction for each ray of the plurality, are transmitted. Functionality in the intersection testing resource receives the shared ray data and the other ray data, and interprets the shared ray data and the other ray data to determine an origin and direction for each ray of the plurality, and provides those rays for intersection testing. Rays can be stored in the shared attribute format in the intersection testing resource and data elements representing the rays can be constructed later. Programmable receiving functionality of the intersection testing resource can accommodate many ray types and other situations. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096789 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR LIGHT ENERGY ACCOUNTING IN RAY TRACING - For ray tracing systems, described methods, media, apparatuses provide for accounting of light energy that will be collected at pixels of a 2-D representation without recursive closure of a tree of ray/primitive intersections, and also provide for adaptivity in ray tracing based on importance indicators of each ray, such as a weight, which may be carried in data structures representative of the rays. Examples of such adaptivity may include determining a number of children to issue for shading an identified intersecting primitive, culling rays, and adding rays to achieve more accurate sampling, if desired. All such adaptivity may be triggered with goal-based indicators, such as a threshold value representative of rendering progress to a time-based goal, such as a frame rate. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION - The present invention provides a system and method for recognizing a 3D object in a single camera image and for determining the 3D pose of the object with respect to the camera coordinate system. In one typical application, the 3D pose is used to make a robot pick up the object. A view-based approach is presented that does not show the drawbacks of previous methods because it is robust to image noise, object occlusions, clutter, and contrast changes. Furthermore, the 3D pose is determined with a high accuracy. Finally, the presented method allows the recognition of the 3D object as well as the determination of its 3D pose in a very short computation time, making it also suitable for real-time applications. These improvements are achieved by the methods disclosed herein. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096791 | OVERLAP DENSITY (OD) HEATMAPS AND CONSENSUS DATA DISPLAYS - Systems and methods that generate or provide overlap displays of multiple sets of data in a manner that advantageously simplifies trend visualization in large sets of data. A two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or greater-dimensional occurrence count array is generated for a plurality of similar data sets. Each element in the array is a number of times a corresponding vector of data values occurs in the plurality of N data sets, wherein each array element corresponds to a discrete interval of data values. Once the array has been generated, a graphical display of overlap density may be generated by comparing a desired degree of overlap with the value of each array element. Those array elements having values that satisfy the desired degree of overlap are rendered, as a display object, using one or more colors, shades and/or patterns representing varying degrees of overlap. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096792 | FILL MODE DETERMINATION IN VECTOR GRAPHICS - An efficient method for improving use of different fill modes in vector graphics and a system using the method. The filling method uses a graphics hardware that is capable of producing objects to be filled. Before the actual filling the edges of the objects must be computed. Edges are then stored into an edge buffer. The buffer may be a separate buffer block or a pointer to a memory. The edge buffer comprises only the edges of the object to be rendered. When the object is actually is rendered, rendering function is called with at least one parameter. The parameters include the fill mode with which the object is rendered to the screen. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096793 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM THEREOF AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An electronically implemented method for processing an image is disclosed, the method including: receiving an electronic command for creating a printable image from a vector image, the vector image including a first arc connected to a second arc; converting the first arc into a plurality of first line segments, including a first start point and a first end point, the first start point and first end point having a first center point which represents the center of the first arc; converting the second arc into a plurality of second line segments, including a second start point and a second end point, the second start point and second end point having a second center point which represents the center of the second arc; determining that the first end point and second start point are both located at a connection point; determining that the first center point, connection point, and the second center point are aligned in a linear relationship with respect to each other; and adding a connection point shape which extends from the connection point in a tangential direction with respect to the first and second arcs. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096794 | THICK LINE DRAWING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A thick line drawing method includes: drawing at least a predetermined pattern according to a thickness of a thick line to be drawn and at least one of a start point and an end point of a line path corresponding to the thick line; determining a plurality of polygon vertexes according to the predetermined pattern; and performing a polygon filling operation to fill a polygon region defined by the polygon vertexes, and storing a drawing result of filling the polygon region into a frame buffer. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096795 | Method for Processing Font Data in Embedded System - A method for processing font data is used in an embedded system exhibiting a display function. The embedded system includes a first processor, a second processor, a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The method for processing font data includes steps of: issuing a request by the first processor; converting vector-based font data stored in the non-volatile memory into bit-based font data by the second processor wherein the bit-based font data are stored in the volatile memory, and generating a finish notice by the second processor after the vector-based font data are converted into the bit-based font data; and activating the on screen display function of the embedded system responding to the finish notice by the first processor. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096796 | Animating Speech Of An Avatar Representing A Participant In A Mobile Communication - Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096797 | DEMAND BASED POWER CONTROL IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT - Disclosed herein is power controller for use with a graphics processing unit. The power controller monitors, manages and controls power supplied to components of a pipeline of the graphics processing unit. The power controller determining whether and to what extent power is to be supplied to a pipeline component based on status information received by the power controller in connection with the pipeline component. The power controller is capable of identifying a trend using the received status information, and determining whether and to what extent power is to be supplied to a pipeline component based on the identified trend. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096798 | Graphics Processing and Display System Employing Multiple Graphics Cores on a Silicon Chip of Monolithic Construction - A high performance graphics processing and display system architecture realized on a monolithic silicon chip, supporting a cluster of multiple cores of graphic processing units (GPUs) that cooperate to provide a powerful and highly scalable visualization solution supporting photo-realistic graphics capabilities for diverse applications. The present invention eliminates rendering bottlenecks along the graphics pipeline by dynamically managing various parallel rendering techniques and enabling adaptive handling of diverse graphics applications. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096799 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a memory circuit for storing information regarding the display apparatus, a read enable unit for allowing an external device to read information from the memory circuit, and a write disable unit for inhibiting a write operation in the memory circuit when either one of the power sources of the display apparatus and the external device turns on, allowing the write operation in the memory circuit in response to a signal from an external terminal used by the read enable unit. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096800 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a memory circuit for storing information regarding the display apparatus, a read enable unit for allowing an external device to read information from the memory circuit, and a write disable unit for inhibiting a write operation in the memory circuit when either one of the power sources of the display apparatus and the external device turns on, allowing the write operation in the memory circuit in response to a signal from an external terminal used by the read enable unit. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096801 | DISPLAY DEVICE, OUTPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING OUPUT CONTROL PROGRAM - A display device includes a plurality of electronic papers that are each provided with a display surface outputting a piece of display data, a binding member that binds together the plurality of electronic papers, and an output device that controls output of the piece of display data to each of the plurality of electronic papers, a first storage device that stores rewrite information, a second storage device that stores a plurality of pieces of display data to be displayed on the plurality of electronic papers, an allocation device that respectively allocates the plurality of pieces of display data stored in the second storage device to a consecutive series of electronic papers for which the rewrite information permits rewriting, and a display control device that respectively displays the plurality of pieces of display data allocated by the allocation device on the consecutive series of electronic papers. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096802 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONS OF DISPLAY - The present invention provides an apparatus for programming functions of a display. The apparatus comprises a memory, a programming device, and a program code checking unit. The memory is for storing a program code. The programming device coupled to the memory is for reading the program code with a predetermined length from the memory. The program code with the predetermined length is part of the program code. The program code checking unit coupled to the programming device is for checking whether the program code with the predetermined length is consistent with a predetermined state, and for selectively generating a control signal. Under control of the control signal, the programming device determines whether to write the program code with the predetermined length into a memory of the display. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096803 | Shading of translucent objects - Embodiments of the invention relate for rendering translucent objects. According to some embodiments, the color of a pixel of a translucent object that is not directly illuminated by a light source can be determined by decaying the illumination contributed by the light source according to a predefined decay function. The decay function may be, for example, an exponential decay function. The decay function may be evaluated based on an initial illumination contributed by the light source, and a transmittance distance. In some embodiments, the initial color of the pixel is decayed instead of the illumination. Also disclosed is modifying the renderings of different regions of an object which have been rendered using different methods in order to remove sharp contrasts between these regions. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096804 | REDUCING VISIBILITY OF DISPLAY ERRORS - A method and system are described for adjusting displaying of images to be displayed on a display system. The method is suitable for display systems comprising at least one hardware feature (f | 2009-04-16 |
20090096805 | CORRECTION ARITHMETIC CIRCUIT - A plurality of one-port split lookup tables having alternately stored therein correction data corresponding to input data is provided as a lookup table that has stored therein the correction data corresponding to the input data at predetermined intervals relevant to predetermined higher-order bits. An address generating unit generates addresses for a plurality of the corresponding split lookup tables from the input data. An interpolation arithmetic unit executes interpolation arithmetic with the use of lower-order bits of the input data for readout data read from two lookup tables. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096806 | Image Signal Converting Apparatus And Image Display Apparatus - The image signal converting apparatus is used in a lighting unit. The lighting unit includes a liquid crystal panel modulating a red component light according to a red image signal, a liquid crystal panel modulating a green component light according to a green image signal, and a liquid crystal panel modulating a blue component light according to a blue image signal. Yellow component light is superimposed on any of the red component light, the green component light and the blue component light. The image signal converting apparatus includes a controlling unit which controls a superimposition amount of yellow component light based on a specific image signal among a red image signal, a green image signal, and a blue image signal. A color corresponding to the specific image signal has a hue adjacent to a hue corresponding to the yellow component light. The controlling unit controls a reduction amount of the specific image signal based on the superimposition amount. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096807 | Systems and methods for image colorization - Systems and methods for colorizing an image. In one embodiment, a method for colorizing an image comprises assigning a first color from a first color map to a data point to define a first graphical element, assigning a second color from a perceptual color map to the data point to define a second graphical element, calculating a first luminance for the first graphical element, calculating a second luminance for the second graphical element, adjusting a brightness associated with the first graphical element until the first luminance and the second luminance match within a first predetermined range, and adjusting a saturation associated with the first graphical element until the first luminance and the second luminance match within a second predetermined range. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096808 | Object-Level Image Editing - Systems and methods for editing digital images using information about objects in those images are described. For example, the information about objects comprises depth ordering information and/or information about the class each object is a member of. Examples of classes include sky, building, aeroplane, grass and person. This object-level information is used to provide new and/or improved editing functions such as cut and paste, filling-in image regions using tiles or patchworks, digital tapestry, alpha matte generation, super resolution, auto cropping, auto colour balance, object selection, depth of field manipulation, and object replacement. In addition improvements to user interfaces for image editing systems are described which use object-level information. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096809 | COLOR QUANTIZATION BASED ON DESIRED UPPER BOUND FOR RELATIVE QUANTIZATION STEP - A computer system ( | 2009-04-16 |
20090096810 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY REMOTING WINDOWS - Methods and apparatus for the display of an image at a remote computer, where the image includes a graphical object to be at least partially omitted from the image displayed at the remote computer. Different regions of the desktop are identified and processed by different capture methods, in such a way as to achieve the desired result while keeping the computational cost low. Applications include the sharing of a local user's desktop with remote users without sharing a local user interface. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096811 | Display device and method for mounting the same - An object of the invention is to provide a display device having a display section that displays different images intended for a plurality of different viewing ranges on the same screen, wherein provisions are made so that the image intended for at least one viewing range can be viewed in good condition, and a method for mounting such a display device. More specifically, a display device according to the invention includes a display section that displays different images intended for a plurality of different viewing ranges on the same screen, wherein the viewing range of at least one of the different images displayed on the display section is not narrower than 20°, but not wider than 40°. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096812 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MORPHING DATA VISUALIZATIONS - A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to display a first visualization associated with a first set of data. A display transformation from the first visualization into a second visualization is animated by morphing selected polygons in the first visualization into corresponding polygons in the second visualization while fading the first visualization into the second visualization. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A ROTATED IMAGE IN A DISPLAY DEVICE - A method controls display of an image by dividing a source image into a plurality of M×N blocks of pixels, selecting a first one of the blocks, and transferring the pixels in the first block from a source memory to a display memory, the pixels in the first block transferred based on orientation change information. The selecting and transferring steps are then repeated to transfer pixels in remaining ones of the blocks to the display memory. Each block corresponds to only a portion of the source image, where any given portion represents less than a full line of pixels in the source image. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A ROTATED IMAGE IN A DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for controlling display of an image includes generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image. The lines in the source image are then transferred in non-sequential order from a first memory to a second memory based on the random numbers in the list and orientation change information. The resulting image in the second memory is then displayed in the desired orientation. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096815 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND COLOR CONVERSION PROCESSING METHOD - A color conversion processing execution portion | 2009-04-16 |
20090096816 | DATA DRIVER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A data driver includes a D/A conversion circuit that receives grayscale data and outputs a first grayscale voltage and a second grayscale voltage corresponding to the grayscale data by time division in each of first to Nth sampling periods, and first to Nth data line driver circuits that share the D/A conversion circuit. Each of the first to Nth data line driver circuits includes a grayscale generation amplifier that samples the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage output from the D/A conversion circuit in a corresponding sampling period among the first to Nth sampling periods, and generates a grayscale voltage between the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096817 | D/A CONVERSION CIRCUIT, DATA DRIVER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A D/A conversion circuit includes a first D/A converter and a second D/A converter that respectively output a first voltage and a second voltage. An ith two-input selector among a plurality of input selectors of the first D/A converter selects a (4i+1)th input voltage or a (4i+3)th input voltage based on input data, and outputs the selected input voltage to a selector of a selector block in the subsequent stage. An ith three-input selector among a plurality of three-input selectors of the second D/A converter selects a 4ith input voltage, a (4i+2)th input voltage, or a (4i+4)th input voltage based on the input data, and outputs the selected input voltage to a selector of a selector block in the subsequent stage. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096818 | DATA DRIVER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A data driver includes a D/A conversion circuit, a switch circuit, and a data line driver circuit. The switch circuit includes a first switch element provided between a first voltage output node of the D/A conversion circuit and a first input node of a grayscale generation amplifier, a second switch element that is provided between a second voltage output node of the D/A conversion circuit and the first input node and is exclusively turned ON/OFF with respect to the first switch element, a third switch element provided between the first voltage output node and a second input node, and a fourth switch element that is provided between the second voltage output node and the second input node and is exclusively turned ON/OFF with respect to the third switch element. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096819 | DRIVING CIRCUIT APPARATUS - A driving circuit that reduces chip size of a source driver while maintaining image quality when image data is configured by multiple bits. The source driver provided in connection with a timing controller that converts image data into color data. The source driver displays an image by controlling pixel density of a liquid crystal panel. The source driver is divided into plural regions in units of pseudo linear elements to perform a gamma correcting operation based on a gamma characteristic. In the source driver a GMA voltage for each region is divided by resistive elements arranged between input signal lines. With respect to variation of plural divided GMA voltages, variation of the maximum high density region becomes coarser than variation of the maximum low density region in compliance with visual sensitivity of the density, thus reducing the number of input data lines of the source driver. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096820 | Method and device for printing details onto a document - The invention relates to a method for printing details onto a document, especially a passport, which comprises the following steps: a) detecting, by means of a first camera, two intersecting edges of the document; b) calculating the position of a first field of the document to be imprinted with a first detail using the position of the detected edges; c) positioning a print head on the first field to be imprinted and printing the first detail; d) detecting, by means of a second camera, a graphic element in the document; e) calculating the position of a second field to be imprinted using the position of the detected graphic element; f) positioning the print head on the second field to be imprinted and printing the second detail. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096821 | LIQUID DROPLET DRYING METHOD OF LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet drying method of a liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes discharging liquid droplets from respective nozzles of a discharging head onto a substrate, the droplets being discharged from the nozzles at timings different from each other; and drying the liquid droplets by irradiating a laser beam to the liquid droplets vertically to a discharging direction of the liquid droplets while the droplets are flying toward the substrate, the laser beam being irradiated in a layout direction of the nozzles of the discharging head. | 2009-04-16 |
20090096822 | Printer With Rotated Ejection Nozzle Correction - A printer is provided having a printhead and controller. The printhead has a plurality of printhead modules each having a plurality of ejection nozzles. The nozzles of at least one of the printhead modules is rotationally displaced relative to the other printhead modules. The controller communicates ejection data to the ejection nozzles in accordance with a cumulative correction factor for each printhead module, including printhead modules having non-rotationally displaced nozzles, to at least partially compensate for the rotational displacement. | 2009-04-16 |