19th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130113780 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. A first driving circuit and a second driving circuit output a scanning signal to a scanning line and alternately output a first auxiliary capacitive voltage and a second auxiliary capacitive voltage to a auxiliary capacitive line. A first switching circuit is connected to the first driving circuit and alternately switches between a first state and a second state. A second switching circuit is connected to the second driving circuit and alternately switches between the first state and the second state. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113781 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and an address electrode, a driving unit which supplies a driving voltage to the scan electrode, the sustain electrode, and the address electrode so that each of a plurality of sub fields which form one frame include an address section and sustain section, and a control unit which controls the driving unit so that a width of the sustain pulse increases during the sustain section. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113782 | Method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs and determining the position of an environmental condition at situs - The present invention includes methods for generating a 3-dimensional rendering of a subject space, and for determining the location of a desired situs therein and preferably further including dimensional positioning of an environmental condition therein, and which data may be particularly useful for use in a complex work structure, such as a nuclear power plant, an industrial plant, a mine or other complex structure. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113783 | ORIENTATION-BASED 3D IMAGE DISPLAY - This disclosure describes a host controller configured to combine image data associated with left and right images of a 3D image to control a display consistent with an orientation for the display (e.g., a first and second plurality of active parallax barriers of the display). In response to an orientation for the display, the host controller may combine image data associated with respective left and right images of with a 3D image in a first or second interleaved format to be consistent with the orientation for the display. For example, the host controller may combine the image data to be line-interleaved or pixel interleaved, based on an orientation for the display. In this manner, the display may receive the combined image data and present the 3D image consistent with the orientation for the display, while reducing processing performed by the display to present the 3D image. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113784 | Maintenance of Three Dimensional Stereoscopic Effect Through Compensation for Parallax Setting - Maintaining a three dimensional stereoscopic effect may include determining a distance between a position of a virtual camera and a first center of interest of a three dimensional image, calculating a scaling factor based on the distance, and compensating for a parallax setting associated with a second center of interest within the three dimensional image by applying the scaling factor when generating the three dimensional image to maintain the three dimensional effect. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113785 | STEREOPHONIC DISPLAY DEVICES - In one embodiment of the invention, a stereophonic display device is provided. The stereophonic display device includes a pixel unit including a plurality of subpixels, wherein the subpixels include at least two right eye subpixels and two left eye subpixels, a barrier with a plurality of apertures formed on the pixel unit, wherein the smallest distance between the locations of the apertures projected onto the pixel unit and boundaries of the pixel unit is equal to or greater than a quarter of the width of the pixel unit, and a display image processor controlling the pixel unit rendering of the right eye subpixel block and the left eye subpixel block sequentially. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MASK ADJUSTMENT IN 3D DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY - Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for presenting a stereoscopic, 3-dimensional image to a user. The system may comprise a mobile device having a camera and a pixel-selective mask overlaying a display. The system may perform facial and object recognition techniques to determine the location of the user's eyes. Subsequently, the system may adjust the mask so as to maintain an optimal stereoscopic effect for the user, regardless of the user's position. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113787 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel includes determining a driving mode including a two-dimensional (“2D”) mode and a three-dimensional (“3D”) mode and charging a voltage which varies according to the driving mode to at least one subpixel in a unit pixel of the display panel. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113788 | Imaging path speckle mitigation - Disclosed herein are optical projection systems and related methods for projecting imagery employing shifting image position in-time to mitigate speckle. Exemplary optical systems may include a projector having a light source, a relay lens and at least one projection lens for projecting images. The relay lens or the projection lens may have at least one lens element that may be translated in-time substantially orthogonal to the optical axis of the optical system. Alternatively, the projection lens in its entirety may be shifted in-time to reduce speckle. Further, in stereoscopic embodiments, two projection lenses may be employed, wherein at least one element in each projection lens is moveable to shift the image in-time to reduce speckle. Moreover, electronic compensation, such as electronic addressing or image warping, for the image shifting may be employed to shift the image in a direction opposite to the speckle-reducing shift in position. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113789 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a comparing unit comparing a size of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories based on dimensions set in advance and a size of a subject that has been captured; and a display control unit reshaping at least one of the virtual clothing or accessories in accordance with a comparison result produced by the comparing unit and displaying at least one of the reshaped virtual clothing or accessories overlaid on the subject. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113790 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention intends to provide an image processing apparatus that can process geometrical primitives rapidly and with restrained memory consumption. A sequence of vertex data of a primitive sequence is stored in an index buffer, and size data of the primitive is stored in the head of the sequence. The result of processing of the primitive sequence in a geometry shader is stored in a cache buffer, and a primitive output, which is the output result stored in the cache buffer, is reused in reprocessing of the primitive processed in the geometry shader. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113791 | Imaging System and Method for Use in Surgical and Interventional Medical Procedures - A system and method for displaying images of internal anatomy includes an image processing device configured to provide high resolution images of the surgical field from low resolution scans during the procedure. The image processing device digitally manipulates a previously-obtained high resolution baseline image to produce many representative images based on permutations of movement of the baseline image. During the procedure a representative image is selected having an acceptable degree of correlation to the new low resolution image. The selected representative image and the new image are merged to provide a higher resolution image of the surgical field. The image processing device is also configured to provide interactive movement of the displayed image based on movement of the imaging device, and to permit placement of annotations on the displayed image to facilitate communication between the radiology technician and the surgeon. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113792 | Three Dimensional Computer Graphics System - A blend buffer has a pre-determined plurality of locations, each with a set of registers. The locations are allocatable to pixels. The blend buffer has a first write port and a second write port. The first write port couples with a texture read unit and the second write port couples with a blending unit. The blending unit also interfaces with a read port of the blend buffer. The texture unit receives texture coordinates from a texture coordinate calculator. The blending unit is operable to interface with the texture coordinate calculator. The blending unit is operable to perform write only transactions of pixel data to locations of a render target that corresponds to respective locations in the blend buffer, once after completion of processing the pixels for which data is being written. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113793 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A parallax amount between the plurality of images for each subject on the images is calculated, a subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a first predetermined amount as a subject targeted for display position adjustment, using a cross point provisionally set for the plurality of images as a reference is identified, and parallax is gradually adjusted such that the absolute parallax value of the subject targeted for display position adjustment does not exceed a second predetermined amount after adjustment. In this case, a subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a third predetermined amount is identified as a subject to be blurred, in each of an image having the provisional cross-point position, an image undergoing parallax adjustment, and an image after the parallax adjustment, and a blur process is performed on the subject to be blurred within the images. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113794 | ANTIALIASING IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND ANTIALIASING IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - An antialiasing image generation apparatus includes a distribution information acquisition unit configured to acquire distribution information that indicates the distribution of a plurality of Z values, a polygon data expansion unit configured to expand polygon data into display coordinates, a representative point pixel data generation unit configured to generate pixel data including a Z value at a representative point, an antialiasing technique selection unit configured to select an antialiasing technique using the Z value included in the pixel data and the distribution information, and an antialiasing processing unit configured to generate a graphics image by performing antialiasing processing on the pixel according to the selected antialiasing technique. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113795 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MULTI-VIEW IMAGES FROM A SINGLE IMAGE - From only a single two-dimensional source image ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113796 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, METHOD OF PREDICTING A VISIBILITY OF A TRIANGULAR FACE IN AN ELECTRONIC MAP VIEW, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DATABASE - A navigation device for a vehicle comprises a database storing, for a plurality of tiles of a tiling, at least one triangulated irregular network (TIN) defining a three-dimensional surface, and, for a plurality of triangular faces of the at least one TIN, control information defining a nested bounding sphere for the respective triangular faces. The navigation device comprises a processor coupled to the database configured to calculate a screen-space error for the plurality of triangular faces based on the respective control information and based on at least one of the following: a viewing angle of an electronic map view, a virtual camera position of the electronic map view. The processor is configured to predict whether a triangular face is visible in the electronic map view based on the calculated screen-space error. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113797 | PARAMETERIZED GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF BUILDINGS - The invention relates to generating a three-dimensional ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113798 | METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED AND ASSISTED ACQUISITION OF ANATOMICAL SURFACES - The method for the automated and assisted acquisition of anatomical surfaces includes a first acquisition of the surfaces undertaken in order to create a first numerical model and a perioperative second acquisition undertaken by scanning the surfaces in order to create a second numerical model for identifying the coordinates of the surfaces. The surfaces are supported by a robotic arm; and then the models are brought into correspondence by resetting. The scanning in the second acquisition includes making a preliminary identification of the coordinates of noteworthy points on the surfaces manually, assisted by the robotic arm, and the identifying parts a the points, in order to construct a reference frame and to determine a scanning region; creating an intermediate model from the reference frame and at least one of the points; preliminary resetting the first model with the second model; and automatically scanning the determined zone. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113799 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TILE BINNING - An apparatus and method for tile binning are provided. The tile binning apparatus may include a determination unit to determine whether a triangle obtained as a result of geometric processing includes an abnormal edge, an overlap test unit to perform an overlap test with respect to each edge of the triangle when the abnormal edge is absent from the triangle, and to sort three vertices of the triangle according to Y-axis values and perform the overlap test with respect to each edge of the triangle based on a sorting result when the triangle includes the abnormal edge, and a bin array update unit to update a bin array based on an overlap test result. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113800 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3-D SCENE ACCELERATION STRUCTURE CREATION AND UPDATING - Systems and methods for producing an acceleration structure provide for subdividing a 3-D scene into a plurality of volumetric portions, which have different sizes, each being addressable using a multipart address indicating a location and a relative size of each volumetric portion. A stream of primitives is processed by characterizing each according to one or more criteria, selecting a relative size of volumetric portions for use in bounding the primitive, and finding a set of volumetric portions of that relative size which bound the primitive. A primitive ID is stored in each location of a cache associated with each volumetric portion of the set of volumetric portions. A cache location is selected for eviction, responsive to each cache eviction decision made during the processing. An element of an acceleration structure according to the contents of the evicted cache location is generated, responsive to the evicted cache location. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113801 | Profiling Ray Tracing Renderers - A profiler for a ray tracing renderer interfaces with the renderer to collect rendering information, such as ray definition information, a pixel origin, objects hit, shader invocation, and related rays. In an interface, an artist views a simplified 3-D scene model and a rendered 2-D image. A pixel in the 2-D image is selectable; the profiler responds by populating the simplified 3-D scene with rays that contributed to that pixel. Rays can be displayed in the simplified 3-D scene to visually convey information about characteristics of each ray, such as whether the ray intersected an object, portions of the scene where it is occluded, and a direction. Statistics can be produced by the profiler that convey information such as relative computational complexity to render particular pixels. The profiler can step through multiple passes (e.g., multiple frames and passes of a multipass rendering), and the UI can allow pausing and stepping. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113802 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VISUALIZATION OF 3D PARAMETRIC DATA DURING 2D IMAGING - Methods and systems for visualization of 3D parametric data in a 2D image. The set of 3D parametric data includes a plurality of voxels in 3D space each associated with at least one parametric value, and the set of 2D image data includes information about a known camera position and a known camera orientation at which the 2D image was obtained. A graphical representation is generated of the parametric values of the voxels corresponding to a viewing surface in 3D space. A virtual 2D view of the viewing surface is determined. The 2D image is displayed registered with the graphical representation of the parametric values of the voxels corresponding to the virtual 2D view. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113803 | ACCELERATED RENDERING WITH TEMPORALLY INTERLEAVED DETAILS - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for interleaving consecutive display frames rendered at complementary reduced resolutions. The GPU driver configures a command stream associated with a frame received from a graphics application for reduced frame rendering. The command stream specifies a nominal resolution at which the frame should be rendered. The reduced resolution associated with the frame is determined based on the reduced resolution of an immediately preceding frame (i.e., the complementary reduced resolution), if one exists, or on GPU configuration information. The GPU driver then modifies the command stream to specify the reduced resolution. The GPU driver also inserts an upscale command sequence specifying the nominal resolution into the command stream. Once the command stream is configured in such a manner, the GPU driver transmits the command stream to the GPU for reduced rendering. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113804 | Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Summarizing a Meeting - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for providing a compact, yet informative, representation of meeting content. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113805 | Psychological integration state graph display apparatus - An apparatus for displaying psychological integrity state graph, including: a transition graph screen generating means; an input trial number variable initialization means; a first elapsed time storing means; an input detecting means; a second elapsed time storing means; an input time interval calculation means; an input trial number storing means; an input time interval plotting means; and a transition graph plotting means. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113806 | Rendering Texts on Electronic Devices - In one embodiment, dividing a set of texts into one or more text blocks, each text block including a portion of the set of texts; rendering each text block to obtain one or more rendered text blocks; determining a placement instruction for each rendered text block, the placement instruction indicating a position of the rendered text block when it is displayed; and sending the one or more rendered text blocks and their respectively associated placement instructions to a electronic device for displaying on the electronic device. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113807 | User Interface for Controlling Animation of an Object - A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. In one embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes an arrow. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes two points on the circumference of the ellipse. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes a first rectangle, and the user-manipulable control element includes a second rectangle. In yet another embodiment, the user-manipulable control element includes two triangular regions, and the control area includes an area separating the two regions. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING PLAYBACK SPEED OF ANIMATION MESSAGE IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for controlling a playback speed of an animation message in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes recognizing at least one object to be displayed included in the received animation message; determining the playback speed of the received animation message with respect to each object to be displayed according to the recognized feature of each object; and displaying the animation message according to the determined playback speed. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113809 | TECHNIQUE FOR INTER-PROCEDURAL MEMORY ADDRESS SPACE OPTIMIZATION IN GPU COMPUTING COMPILER - A device compiler and linker is configured to optimize program code of a co-processor enabled application by resolving generic memory access operations within that program code to target specific memory spaces. In situations where a generic memory access operation cannot be resolved and may target constant memory, constant variables associated with those generic memory access operations are transferred to reside in global memory. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113810 | SIDEWALL SPACERS ALONG CONDUCTIVE LINES - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for electromechanical systems devices having a sidewall spacer along at least one sidewall of a conductive line. An electromechanical systems device can include a sidewall spacer along at least one sidewall of a conductive line under a movable layer. The sidewall spacer can be sloped such that the sidewall spacer has a decreasing width away from a substrate under the movable layer. The conductive line can be configured to route an electrical signal to the electromechanical systems device. In some implementations, a black mask structure of an electromechanical systems device can include the conductive line. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113811 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel for displaying a still image and for displaying a motion picture. The display panel includes a gate line, a data line, a storage electrode line, a first switching element connected to the gate line and the date line, a storage connected to the switching element and the storage electrode line. The display device further includes a signal controller for providing controlling signals to drive the display panel. The display panel is driven at a first frequency when the motion picture is displayed. The display panel is driven at a second frequency lower than the first frequency when the still image is displayed. When the display panel is driven at the second frequency, a common voltage inputted to the storage electrode line changes. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113812 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes an information input unit, a reader, a condition information storage, an image data processing device, and a controller. The information input unit inputs information matched to each projection surface. A information storage medium that can communicate information with other device without contacting can store identification (ID) information of a corresponding projection surface. The reader reads the ID information stored in the information storage medium disposed at each projection surface. The condition information storage stores the information. Upon reading ID information, the read ID information is correlated with the stored information, and then stored in the condition information storage. The image data processing device corrects image data. The image data projection device projects the corrected image data. The controller searches for information correlated to ID information and instructs the image data processing device to correct image data. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113813 | COMPUTING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LOCATION HOLES OF MOTHERBOARD - In a method for processing location holes of a motherboard, a motherboard image of the motherboard is converted into a grayscale image. The grayscale image is normalized and converted into a binary image. Closed contours in the binary image and a minimum circumscribed circle of each of the closed contours are acquired from the binary image. A radius, a circumcenter coordinate and an average pixel value of each minimum circumscribed circle, and an average pixel value of the binary image are calculated. One or more minimum circumscribed circles are selected if each of the selected minimum circumscribed circles has a radius in a predetermined radius range and an average pixel value that is greater than the average pixel value of the binary image. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113814 | Matching Based on a Created Image - A method of matching based on a created image is provided. This method includes permitting a user to review and select a plurality of feature parts from a database located in a memory containing feature parts. A created image is generated based on the plurality of feature parts selected by the user. The created image is compared with real images of other users. A set of real images similar to the created image is determined. The set of real images is displayed to the user on a user device. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113815 | INTERACTIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE OBJECT DATA VISUALIZATIONS - Interactive analysis of data objects within a display includes displaying icons representing different data objects on a graphic display device at each of a plurality of unique locations within a multi-dimensional relational structure as a function of unique respective values of dimensions of a display data variable that is relevant to the display structure and common to each of the data objects represented by the icons, and wherein the icons each have initial respective graphic display appearances. Selecting an icon specifies a comparison data variable common to the data objects, wherein graphic display appearances of each of the icons are updated at their same, unique locations to revised dimensional graphic display appearances that visually indicate relationships of respective values of the selected common comparison data variable of their represented data objects to a value of the selected common comparison data variable of the data object represented by the selected icon. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113816 | VISUALIZING BRAIN NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A method for visualizing brain connectivity includes receiving image data including molecular diffusion of brain tissue, constructing a tree data structure from the image data, wherein the tree data structure comprises a plurality of network nodes, wherein each network node is connected to a root of the tree data structure, rendering a ring of a radial layout depicting the tree data structure, wherein a plurality of vertices may be traversed from the top to the bottom, duplicating at least one control point for spline edges sharing a common ancestor, and bundling spline edges by applying a global strength parameter β. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113817 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus including: an image receiver which receives an image signal from an external image source; an image processor which processes the image signal; a display unit which displays an image processed by the image processor; and a controller which extracts color information of the image and adjusts a color of an area complementary to a predetermined area with respect to a color of the predetermined area if a degree of change of a color level in the predetermined area of the image is equal to or less than a threshold value. Accordingly, a hue felt by a viewer is maintained by adjusting a color of an area complementary to another area of a displayed image with respect to a color of the other area, for which a gain adjustment is not available, of the displayed image. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113818 | IMAGE QUALITY CONFIGURATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes detecting one of an application access or a file type access, and configuring, in response to detecting the application or file type access, automatically without user interaction, a display system in an image quality configuration for the application or the file type where the image quality configuration is based on providing best image quality with respect to the application or the file type. Configuring the display system in an image quality configuration, may involve determining that a profile associated with the application or associated with the file type is stored in memory, and configuring the display system according to the profile. The method may adjust at least one anti-aliasing parameter or at least one anisotropic filter parameter. The method may monitor an operating system to obtain an indication that an application has been accessed or that a file type has been accessed. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113819 | TRAFFIC SYMBOLOGY ON AIRPORT MOVING MAP - A method and system is described for enhancing ground situational awareness to an aircrew via the display of an airport moving map within an own-ship, including determining the position of the own-ship and an aircraft on one of a taxiway, a runway, or an apron, displaying each of the own-ship and the aircraft on an airport moving map by displaying for each a first symbol that indicates the location on the airport moving map; and displaying a second symbol that changes in transparency in proportion to the range of the airport moving map. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113820 | GALAXY VIEWS FOR VISUALIZING LARGE NUMBERS OF NODES - A system and method for illustrating data. An example method includes organizing the data into objects; assigning a transparency value to each object; and graphically depicting the data by distributing nodes representing the objects in a region of a visualization in accordance with a distribution method or function. Each node is displayed as partially transparent in accordance with the transparency value. In a more specific embodiment, the visualization includes a galaxy visualization with nodes that are randomly or pseudo randomly distributed about a center point or region of the visualization. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113821 | ASSIGNING COLOR VALUES TO PIXELS BASED ON OBJECT STRUCTURE - Systems and methods are provided for assigning color values to pixels based on object structure. For example, when rendering a writing system symbol on an electronic display, a non-color characteristic of the symbol can be measured and the measurement can be used to select a color value for a pixel associated with the symbol. Legibility of open and closed line-based graphical objects can be increased by inferring spatial depth and distance through application of a color assignment model. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113822 | INTERFACE FOR HOME ENERGY MANAGER - A device includes a device manager stored on a computer readable storage device. A display has multiple tiles corresponding to smart devices installed in a user home having inter-dependent statuses and settings. The device manager generates the tiles with corresponding smart device information displayed in the tiles, and selection of a tile provides a view showing details about the smart device while not obscuring unselected tiles. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113823 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a system managing unit configured to manage an apparatus status of apparatus hardware; an acquiring unit configured to acquire application status information of an application from the application and apparatus status information from the system managing unit; an input unit configured to accept a display request for displaying a status monitor screen indicating an overall system status; a screen generating unit configured to receive the display request and generate the status monitor screen based on the application status information and the apparatus status information acquired by the acquiring unit, the status monitor screen including an application status display and an apparatus status display; and a display unit configured to display the status monitor screen generated by the screen generating unit. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113824 | GRAPH DISPLAY DEVICE - A graph display device includes a display module, a graph display control module which displays a graph corresponding to an expression on the display module, a specifying module which specifies a point on a graph displayed on the display module, a setting module which sets a tangent that contacts the graph at the specified point, an area determination module which, of two areas divided by the tangent set by the setting module, determines one area opposite to the area in which the graph lies to be a display area for coordinate values, and a coordinate value display control module which displays coordinate values of the specified point in the area determined by the area determination module. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113825 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION OF A DESIGN ACROSS MULTIPLE PRODUCT PACKAGES - Systems and methods are described for dynamically applying a single design across a display field composed of visual surfaces of a number of non-adjoined product packages to create an impression of a single, unified aesthetic. Geometries and layouts of product packages are used to calculate a display field. A source image can be mapped to some or all of the display field to generate one or more field maps. Individual package images can be generated from the field maps, according to various factors, including the individual product package geometries and layouts. Some embodiments allow the generated package images to be previewed, the entire display field to be virtually previewed, and/or the package images to be output. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113826 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit for combining a virtual object with a captured image. The image processing unit determines the virtual object based on a size, in a real space, of an object shown in the captured image. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113827 | HANDS-FREE AUGMENTED REALITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - This disclosure relates to techniques for providing hands-free augmented reality on a wireless communication device (WCD). According to the techniques, an application processor within the WCD executes an augmented reality (AR) application to receive a plurality of image frames and convert the plurality of image frames into a single picture comprising the plurality of image frames stitched together to represent a scene. The WCD executing the AR application then requests AR content for the scene represented in the single picture from an AR database server, receives AR content for the scene from the AR database server, and processes the AR content to overlay the single picture for display to a user on the WCD. In this way, the user may comfortably look at the single picture with the overlaid AR content on a display of the WCD to learn more about the scene represented in the single picture. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113828 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit which combines a virtual object with a captured image. The image processing unit determines the virtual object based on a state or a type of an object shown in the captured image. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113829 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation detecting unit detecting an operation of a subject that has been captured, and a display control unit controlling at least one of wearing or removal of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories to be displayed overlaid on the subject in accordance with the operation detected by the operation detecting unit. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an operation detecting unit detecting an operation of a subject that has been captured, and a display control unit changing a worn state of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories displayed overlaid on the subject in accordance with the operation detected by the operation detecting unit. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113832 | EYE IMAGE SIMULATION DEVICE, EYE IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND EYE IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM - An eye image simulation device is provided that generates an eye image using information relating to an eyelash shape that is set up by a user. The eye image simulation device includes an eyelash generation unit that generates eyelashes with polygons using the information relating to the eyelash shape, a form alteration unit that alters a form that is configured by connecting the tips of the eyelashes generated by the eyelash generation unit, and a simulation image generation unit that generates the eye image using the eyelashes generated by the eyelash generation unit or the form altered by the form alteration unit. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113833 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING IMAGES IN A REMOTE WEB BROWSER - A processing device receives graphical output data from an application. The processing device generates, based on the graphical output data, at least one of an image or a drawing command that is formatted for an application programming interface (API) of a web browser. The processing device then transmits at least one of the image or the drawing command to a web browser instance executing on a remote client device, wherein the web browser instance is natively capable of rendering at least one of the image or the drawing command to a display on the remote client device. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113834 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES AND OCCLUSION PREVENTION FOR FISHEYE LENSES WITH LINE SEGMENT FOCI - A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, comprising: establishing a lens for the region-of-interest, the lens having a magnified focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region having diminishing magnification, the focal region having a perimeter defined by a radius r from a line segment; receiving one or more signals to adjust at least one of the radius r and a length len of the line segment to thereby adjust the perimeter; and, applying the lens to the original image to produce the presentation. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113835 | CALENDAR APPLICATION VIEWS IN LANDSCAPE DUAL MODE - A communication device comprising a microprocessor readable computer readable medium is provided that includes microprocessor executable instructions to alter displayed information based on screen orientation. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113836 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROTATION OF SCREEN AND TERMINAL AND TOUCH SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for controlling rotation of a screen according to a user request regardless of an orientation state of the terminal is provided. The terminal for supporting screen rotation control, includes a sensor unit including a sensor for confirming a horizontal state of the terminal and a sensor for collecting angular velocity information of the terminal, a controller for confirming the horizontal state of the terminal based on sensing information of the sensor unit, and for confirming a rotated state or a rotation change state of the terminal in a corresponding horizontal state when the terminal is arranged in the horizontal state, and a display unit for outputting a screen having a different output direction according to the rotated state or the rotation change state of the terminal. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113837 | Parameter Controlling Apparatus - By user's pinching operation on a slider | 2013-05-09 |
20130113838 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAYS - The present disclosure relates generally to systems and techniques for applying color adjustments to a display. In certain embodiments, the color adjustment techniques may be employed to transition current color correction values, which are based on a previously detected temperature of the display, to target correction values, which are based on a presently detected temperature of the display. Adjustment increments for each color channel of the display may be determined based on the color channel that has the largest difference between the current color correction value and the target color correction value. In particular, the number of adjustment steps may be determined so that the adjustment increment for each channel is less than or equal to a maximum adjustment increment. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113839 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A three-dimensional (3D) display panel has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the rows has at least one sub-row. The 3D display panel includes at least one first group and at least one second group arranged on the first row. The first group and the second group respectively have a first color region, a second color region and a third color region. The first color region and the second color region of the first group as well as the third color region and the first color region of the second group are arranged on one sub-row, while the third color region of the first group and the second color region of the second group are arranged on another sub-row. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113840 | Method for Panel Color Calibration and Associated Color Calibration System - A method for panel color calibration for corresponding a source input to a calibrated input is provided. From color components of the calibrated input, a primary calibrated component and secondary calibrated components are selected to perform a color characteristic value fitting for the calibrated input. In the color characteristic value fitting, the primary calibrated component is kept unchanged and the secondary calibrated components are adjusted, such that a color characteristic value of the calibrated input matches a target characteristic value. A luma comparison is next performed to determine whether a luma corresponding to the calibrated input obtained from the color characteristic value fitting matches a target luma. When a result from the luma comparison is negative, the primary calibrated component of the calibrated input is updated, and the color characteristic value fitting and the luma comparison are iterated accordingly. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113841 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A backlight unit includes: a light source unit including at least one light emitting diode (“LED”) string; a driving current controller which is connected to a cathode terminal of the at least one LED string and controls a driving current which flows through the at least one LED string; a feedback unit which generates a feedback signal based on a dimming input signal and a voltage of the cathode terminal of the at least one LED string; and a direct current to direct current (“DC-DC”) converter which generates a driving voltage in response to the feedback signal and provides the driving voltage to the light source unit. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113842 | METHOD OF DRIVING AN ELECTRO-WETTING DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRO-WETTING DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving an electro wetting display panel includes applying a first data voltage to a pixel part of the display panel during a first section of a frame and applying a second data voltage different from the first data voltage to the same pixel part during a second section of the frame. The first data voltage is converted from display data based on a first gamma curve. The second data voltage is converted from the display data based on a second gamma curve. Light transmittance through the pixel part is changed based on movement of a fluid within the pixel part. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113843 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a display device including a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels which have a display element and a transmissive portion. The display element includes a light-emitting element which does not transmit external light, while the transmissive portion is arranged to transmit external light. In the display element, a top-emission or bottom-emission type light-emitting element is provided. On the other hand, no light-emitting element or a dual-emission type light-emitting element which possesses an EL layer interposed between two light-transmissive electrodes is provided to the transmissive portion. The emission color of the display element is controlled by a color filter which overlaps with the light-emitting element in the display element, while no color filter is given to the transmissive portion. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113844 | LED DRIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE LED DRIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image; a light-emitting diode (LED) module which provides backlight to the display panel; an LED driving unit which applies a driving voltage to the LED module; and an LED driving control unit which senses the driving voltage from the LED module and stops an operation of the LED driving unit if the sensed driving voltage is lower than a first reference voltage or higher than a second reference voltage. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113845 | DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A normal video data acquisition section acquires, as normal video data, a plurality of pieces of video data respectively assigned to a plurality of light sources in normal display from an input video signal A computing section performs a predetermined computation on the plurality of pieces of video data included in the normal video data to generate auxiliary video data used in place of the normal video data in auxiliary display. A selection section performs, in accordance with an instruction from a control section, a selection process for providing any one of the normal video data and the auxiliary video data to a modulation driving section. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113846 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DRIVING A PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - High image display quality is achieved when a 3D image is displayed on a plasma display panel ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113847 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113848 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of driving a display device includes analyzing input data of the display device to confirm whether there is a predetermined image pattern in an image corresponding to the input data, where a common voltage is distorted to an extent that a clock signal for a gate driver of the display device is distorted when the display device displays the image including the predetermined image pattern, and changing a slew rate of an output buffer of a data driver of the display device based on a result of the analyzing the input data. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113849 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays a 3D image with a left-eye image frame including a plurality of subfields and a right-eye image frame including a plurality of subfields, a driving unit which drives the display panel and a control unit which controls the driving unit to drive remaining subfields in advance as much as a subfield section of a plurality of subfields which are unused when an image having a grayscale level less than a predetermined value is being displayed. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113850 | Method of Printing - A method for printing on a substrate, wherein the substrate is printed upon with a plate-based printing process, particularly with an offset printing process, and with a plateless printing process, particularly with an inkjet printing process, inline with the plate-based printing process. According to the invention, a printing resolution of the plateless printing process is determined depending on a printing speed of the plate-based printing process. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113851 | PRINTER, SUPPLIED POWER CONTROLLER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A printer includes: an inkjet print head; an image processing part that processes image data and supplies the data to the print head; a main power supply that is connected to a commercial power source and supplies first power to the print head; a rechargeable sub-power supply that supplies second power for supporting the first power to the print head when power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power during execution of printing; and a switch part that is located on a power supply line and electrically connects the sub-power supply to the power supply line when the power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113852 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND LIQUID CIRCULATION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a liquid discharge apparatus including a transporting unit to transport a medium, a storage unit to store liquid, a head unit to discharge the liquid onto the medium, a plurality of supply flow paths to supply the liquid from the storage unit to the head unit, a plurality of bypass flow paths, and a controller that causes alternately to repeat a transport operation which transports the medium by the transporting unit and a liquid discharge operation which discharges the liquid from the head unit, thereby to form an image on the medium, and to circulate, when the liquid is not discharged during execution of the image forming process, the liquid within a circulation flow path constituted only by the supply flow paths and the bypass flow paths among the storage unit, the head unit, the supply flow paths, and the bypass flow paths. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113853 | Printing Apparatus - A printing apparatus includes a printing material container | 2013-05-09 |
20130113854 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CIRCULATING WHITE INK - A printing apparatus includes a transporting unit which transports a medium, a head unit which discharges a plurality of types of ink onto the medium, a storage unit which stores white ink of the plurality of types of ink, a plurality of supply flow paths for supplying the white ink from the storage unit to the head unit, a plurality of bypass flow paths which are bridged between different supply flow paths from each other, and a controller which repeatedly performs a transport operation by the transporting unit, a color print operation and a white print operation to perform an image forming process on the medium and circulates the white ink in a circulation flow path formed only of the supply flow paths and the bypass flow paths among the storage unit, the head unit, the supply flow paths and the bypass flow paths, during the color print operation. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113855 | Method and System for Adjusting Printhead Voltage Parameters in an Inkjet Printer - A method of operating a printer enables the mass of the ink drops ejected by the printheads in the printer to maintained in an optimal range without measuring the drop mass being ejected by the inkjets in the printheads. After calibration of the printheads, the printheads are operated with electrical signals having different peak-to-peak voltages. The number of inoperable inkjets for each printhead is determined from image data of the ejected ink on the image receiving member and the number of inoperable inkjets for each printhead is compared to a predetermined threshold. The peak-to-peak voltage for the electrical signals used to operate a printhead is adjusted with reference to the number of inoperable inkjets and the predetermined threshold. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113856 | DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND DATA GENERATION METHOD - An apparatus for generating data used to apply a plurality of inks similar in color and different in color material density, including a first ink and a second ink higher in color material density than the first ink, onto a pixel area on a recording medium with a recording head includes a generation unit configured to generate the data in such a way that out of a plurality of pixels constituting the pixel area, a number of pixels onto which dots of the first ink are applied in an overlapped manner is greater than a number of pixels onto which dots of the second ink are applied in the overlapped manner. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113857 | MEDIA TRANSPORT SYSTEM INCLUDING ACTIVE MEDIA STEERING - A digital printing system, for printing on a continuous web of print media, includes a media operation zone in which an operation is performed on the print media. A support structure guides a continuous web of print media under tension through the media operation zone. The support structure includes a first mechanism and a second mechanism. The first mechanism, located upstream relative to the media operation zone, includes structure that positions the print media in a cross track direction so as to establish center justification of the print media as the print media enters the media operation zone. The second mechanism, located downstream relative to the media operation zone, includes structure that positions the print media in a cross track direction so as to maintain center justification of the print media as the print media travels through the media operation zone. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113858 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE WITH ENHANCED MEDIA AND RIBBON LOADING AND UNLOADING FEATURES - A device for processing media may include a printhead pressure adjustment assembly including a barrel and a biasing element configured to apply a biasing force to the printhead, where the biasing force may be adjustable in response to the barrel being rotated about its axis. The printhead pressure adjustment assembly may further include a threaded insert received within the barrel and configured to move axially within the barrel in response to the barrel being rotated. The printhead pressure adjustment assembly may further include a cup received within the barrel and attached to the biasing element. The adjustment assembly may include a spring disposed between the threaded insert and the cup, where the spring is compressed in response to the barrel being rotated in a first direction and the spring is decompressed in response to the spring being rotated in a second direction. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113859 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING PRINTED MATERIAL - Disclosed is an inspection apparatus which avoids a defective item from being mixed with good items, even when a marking device does not work appropriately and a mark for identifying a good item and a defective item cannot be applied. For this purpose, the apparatus is provided with a quality inspection device ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113860 | INKJET INK, INK CARTRIDGE, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INKJET RECORDING DEVICE, AND INKJET RECORDED MATTER - To provide an inkjet ink, which contains: water; a wetting agent; a surfactant; and a colorant, wherein the wetting agent contains at least an amide compound represented by the following structural formula (I): | 2013-05-09 |
20130113861 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a carriage having a contact portion and an image forming unit that ejects liquid onto a recording medium to form an image on the recording medium, a height adjustment mechanism provided to the carriage to change a height of the carriage, a guide member to support the height adjustment mechanism and to guide the carriage in a main scanning direction, and an impact reduction member provided to the guide member that is contacted by the contact portion of the carriage upon adjustment of the height of the carriage by the height adjustment mechanism to temporarily hold the carriage as the carriage is lowered from an upper position to a lower position by the height adjustment mechanism. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113862 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a carriage, a height adjustment mechanism provided to the carriage to change a height of the carriage and including a cam member and a rotation guide member, a guide member to guide the carriage in a main scanning direction, and a pressing member to drive the cam member. The rotation guide member is pressed against the pressing member to drive the cain member and change the height of the carriage. Upon a change in the height of the carriage from an upper position to a lower position, the carriage moves through at least a part of a range extending from one end to an opposite end of the guide member at a speed slower than a speed of the carriage during image formation to contact the rotation guide member and the pressing member against each other at the slower speed. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113863 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid discharge head having a structure in which nozzles for performing droplet ejection of a functional liquid onto a substrate are aligned in a row in a predetermined direction, and including liquid chambers connected to the nozzles respectively and piezoelectric elements which are provided correspondingly to the liquid chambers and serve to pressurize the liquid in the liquid chambers; a relative movement unit for causing relative movement between the substrate and the liquid discharge head; and a droplet ejection control unit for operating the piezoelectric elements so as to cause the liquid to land discretely on the substrate, and controlling operation of the piezoelectric elements according to each of groups formed by grouping the nozzles correspondingly to the structure of the liquid discharge head. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113864 | AQUEOUS INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The invention provides an aqueous ink comprising a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, which can provide images excellent in scratch resistance and highlighter resistance and can inhibit the seeping out phenomenon of the polymer and the deterioration of ejection characteristics even when it is stored for a long period of time. The aqueous ink comprises a polymer having hydroxyl groups, a pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the water-soluble organic solvent comprises a polyhydric alcohol having a value of number of hydroxyl groups/number of carbon atoms in its molecule of 0.50 or less. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113865 | INK SUPPLY STRUCTURE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - An ink supply structure includes at least one ink cartridge, at least one dye ink chamber, and at least one pigment ink chamber. The at least one dye ink chamber is contained in the at least one ink cartridge for storing a dye ink. The at least one pigment ink chamber is contained in the at least one ink cartridge for storing a pigment ink. One of the dye ink within the dye ink chamber and the pigment ink within the pigment ink chamber is selectively supplied from the at least one ink cartridge. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113866 | NON-AQUEOUS INKJET INK - A non-aqueous inkjet ink including at least a pigment, a dye and organic solvents, wherein the total amount of the pigment and the dye is at least 3 mass % relative to the total amount of the ink, the content ratio of the pigment to the dye is in the range from 7:3 to 4:6, the pigment has a DBP oil absorption in the range from 60 cm | 2013-05-09 |
20130113867 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head which discharges ultraviolet curing inks toward a recording sheet while reciprocally moving in a reciprocal movement direction M crossing a transportation direction S of the recording sheet; and an ultraviolet irradiation head which irradiates ultraviolet rays toward the ultraviolet curing inks discharged from the recording head and attached to the recorded medium. The recording head includes a going recording head and a returning recording head which are disposed at the front and the back of the reciprocal movement direction M with respect to a region in which the ultraviolet irradiation head irradiates the ultraviolet rays to the recording sheet. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113868 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR PRINTING ULTRAVIOLET (UV) CURABLE INK - An inkjet printing apparatus ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113869 | INKJET PRINTER - An Inkjet printer includes a movable conveyance belt, a first charging device, and a second charging device. Upon the conveyance belt, a recording medium is placed and conveyed at a given conveyance speed in a longitudinal, conveyance direction of the belt. The first charging device is disposed in contact with the belt while supplied with a first alternating current voltage to create a first electrified portion in the conveyance belt where positive and negative electric charges are arranged alternately with each other in the conveyance direction for electrostatically attracting the recording medium to the belt. The second charging device is disposed adjacent the belt to contact the recording medium conveyed on the belt while supplied with a second alternating current voltage to create a second electrified portion in the recording medium for cancelling an electric field originating from the first electrified portion of the belt. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113870 | TAPE DRIVE AND METHOD OF OPERATION OF A TAPE DRIVE - A tape drive ( | 2013-05-09 |
20130113871 | TELE-PRESENCE SYSTEM WITH A USER INTERFACE THAT DISPLAYS DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION LINKS - A tele-presence system that includes a remote device coupled to a control station through a communication link. The remote device includes a remote monitor, a remote camera, a remote speaker and a remote microphone. Likewise, the control station includes a station monitor, a station camera, a station speaker and a station microphone. The control station displays a plurality of graphical icons that each represents a different type of communication link between the control station and the remote device. The graphical icons can be selected to allow a user of the control station to change the communication link between the remote device and its initial node. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113872 | VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM - An embodiment provides a video conference system including an audio processing unit, a video processing unit and a network processing unit. The audio processing unit encodes an audio signal to an audio stream. The video processing unit encodes a pause image to a first video stream when the video conference system is in a pause mode, and encodes a video signal to a second video stream when the video conference system is in a conference mode. The network processing unit encodes the first video stream to a first network package in the pause mode, and encodes the second video stream and the audio stream to a second network package in the conference mode. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113873 | VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM - A video conference method, applied to a video conference system in a multi-way conference is provided. The video conference method includes: retrieving a first number of a plurality of terminals of the multi-way conference; determining whether at least one other terminal is requiring to join in on the multi-way conference; when the at least one other terminal is requiring to join in on the multi-way conference, increasing the first number of the terminals of the multi-way conference to a second number of the terminals; and determining a resolution of the video signal captured and transmitted by the video conference system according to the second number of the terminals. A video conference system using the video conference method, is also provided. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113874 | BIT RATE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A bit rate control apparatus applied in a video conference system is provided. The apparatus has a bit rate recording unit, configured to update a current bit rate; a bit rate reducing unit, configured to receive at least one event parameter and the current bit rate, and determine whether an event flag corresponding to the event parameters occurs; and a bit rate increasing unit, configured to increase the current bit rate periodically, wherein when the event flag occurs, the bit rate reducing unit reduces the current bit rate. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113875 | STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, MULTI-EYE IMAGING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - A method of the subject matter includes: performing projective transform of a plurality of left images and right images acquired from a plurality of stereoscopic images onto an identical projection surface separately; detecting respective corresponding points in overlapping areas between the left images and between the right images; setting a stereoscopic image in which a main subject has been detected, as a first reference stereoscopic image; with reference to the left image and the projective-transformed right image having been acquired from the first reference stereoscopic image, performing geometric deformation of adjacent left and right images such that the corresponding points between the reference left image and the adjacent left image are matched, and the corresponding points between the reference right image and the adjacent right image are matched; and synthesizing right and left panorama images based on the first reference stereoscopic images and the geometrically-deformed right and left images. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113876 | Method and Device for Multi-Camera Image Correction - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for multi-camera image correction. The method for multi-camera image correction includes: acquiring information of independent images that are captured by each camera and have no overlap area or have an overlap area smaller than a threshold; acquiring, according to information of each independent image, an image correction parameter that corresponds to each camera and allows adjacent independent images to be corrected into a contiguous image; and performing, according to the image correction parameter, correction processing on video data of a camera that corresponds to the image correction parameter. In the embodiments of the present invention, maintenance manpower is saved, adjustment efficiency is improved, and remote maintenance may be performed in the case of no overlap area or of a small overlap area. In addition, images are corrected in a data processing manner, which efficiently ensures precision of image correction. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113877 | DETERMINING FEATURE VECTORS FOR VIDEO VOLUMES - A volume identification system identifies a set of unlabeled spatio-temporal volumes within each of a set of videos, each volume representing a distinct object or action. The volume identification system further determines, for each of the videos, a set of volume-level features characterizing the volume as a whole. In one embodiment, the features are based on a codebook and describe the temporal and spatial relationships of different codebook entries of the volume. The volume identification system uses the volume-level features, in conjunction with existing labels assigned to the videos as a whole, to label with high confidence some subset of the identified volumes, e.g., by employing consistency learning or training and application of weak volume classifiers. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113878 | Methods for Interfacing With an Interactive Application Using a Controller With an Integrated Camera - A method for determining a position of a controller in a three-dimensional space is disclosed. One method includes an operation to calibrate a computer program to identify a group of recognized fixed points from a plurality of fixed points within the three-dimensional space using a depth camera integrated with the controller. Another operation activates use of the controller and depth camera during interface with the application. During use of the controller, image and depth data within the three-dimensional space is captured with the depth camera of the controller. The captured data can then be used to enable input to a computer system. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113879 | Multi-Depth Adaptation For Video Content - A method and system for transmitting and viewing video content is described. In one aspect a plurality of versions of 3D video content may be generated. Each version of the 3D video content may include a different viewing depth profile for the 3D video content. Data representative of a viewing distance between a viewer of 3D video content and a device may be determined. Based upon the received data, a particular version of the 3D video content of the plurality of versions having a viewing depth profile corresponding to the viewing distance may be determined. | 2013-05-09 |
20130113880 | High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Adaptive Loop Filter - A High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) receiver is provided with a method for adaptive loop filtering. The receiver accepts digital information representing an image, and adaptive loop filter (ALF) parameters with no DC coefficient of weighting. The image is reconstructed using the digital information and estimates derived from the digital information. An ALF filter is constructed from the ALF parameters, and is used to correct for distortion in the reconstructed image. Typically, the receiver accepts a flag signal to indicate whether the DC coefficients have been transmitted or not. In other aspects, center luma coefficients are estimated from other coefficients, and the use of k values is simplified. | 2013-05-09 |