25th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120154352 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display panel that includes display elements having a current-driven light-emitting portion and that displays an image on the basis of a video signal; and a luminance correcting unit that corrects the luminance of the display elements when the display panel displays an image by correcting a gradation value of an input signal and outputting the corrected input signal as the video signal. The luminance correcting unit includes an operating time conversion factor holder, a reference operating time calculator, an accumulated reference operating time storage, a reference curve storage, a gradation correction value holder, and a video signal generator. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154353 | MATRIX SUBSTRATE, DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DETECTION DEVICE - A matrix substrate which realizes high operation speed and high reliability and which is capable of obtaining a high-quality image while the number of connection terminals is limited is provided. The matrix substrate includes pixels arranged in a matrix, N driving lines arranged in a row direction, P connection terminals where P is less than N, a demultiplexer which is disposed between the connection terminals and the driving lines and which includes first polycrystalline semiconductor TFTs and first connection terminals. The demultiplexer further includes second polycrystalline semiconductor TFTs and the second control lines used to maintain the driving lines to have non-selection voltages which bring the pixels to non-selection states between one of the connection terminals and two or more of the driving lines. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154354 | PHOTOSENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE - By reducing the potential drop of a storage node that occurs due to feedthrough, the capacitance of a storage capacitor is reduced and sensor sensitivity is improved. In a photosensor, the first terminal of a storage capacitor (C | 2012-06-21 |
20120154355 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus is provided that avoids discontinuity in a high luminance and gradation range and is capable of displaying gradations where differences in sense of luminance change at equal intervals from an intermediate gradation range to the maximum value of the gradations. A gradation/light emission luminance converter | 2012-06-21 |
20120154356 | Timing Controller, Source Driving Device, Panel Driving Device, Display Device and Driving Method - A source driving device, capable of reducing stand-by period and saving power consumption, includes a plurality of source drivers connected in series, which include one or more cascade source drivers. The one or more cascade source drivers include one or more first-type cascade source drivers, each of which, at different times to other first-type cascade source drivers, is respectively activated by a pulse signal generated by a previous source driver, and after the activation, is triggered by a frame signal to receive corresponding frame data in the frame signal. Each of the source drivers generates a pulse signal after receiving the corresponding frame data to activate the next source driver. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154357 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A GAS ELECTRIC DISCHARGE DEVICE - A method for driving a plasma display panel having at least three electrodes. The method includes applying a first pulse having a voltage changing with time in a positive direction and a second pulse having a voltage changing with time in a negative direction to a second main electrode in an address preparation period. The method also includes applying a scan pulse to the second main electrode in an address period. The method also includes at least one of the first and second pulses in the address preparation period has a stepwise waveform whose voltage rise or fall stepwise. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154358 | SOURCE-DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A source-driving circuit comprises a plurality of first and second data-outputting units, a first and a second charge-sharing units and a charge-sharing switch circuit. The first and second data-outputting units have corresponding first and second output terminals respectively for outputting data signals with a first polarity and a second polarity. The first and second charge-sharing units comprise a plurality of first and second switches respectively. Each first switch is electrically connected between each two first output terminals and each two second output terminals. Each second switch is electrically connected between one of the first outputting terminals and a corresponding one of the second outputting terminals. A charge-sharing switch circuit is electrically connected to the first and second charge-sharing units for outputting a switch signal to the first and second charge-sharing units according to a polarity signal, so as to determine the on/off statuses of the first and second switches. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154359 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - The stereoscopic display device has a display panel, a barrier liquid crystal panel disposed on the display panel, and a driving circuit for driving the display panel and the barrier liquid crystal panel, in which the frame frequency of the display panel and the alternating frequency of the barrier liquid crystal panel are different, the barrier liquid crystal panel is driven by a driving voltage input from the driving circuit, the driving circuit has an inverter circuit for outputting the driving voltage, independently controls a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor in the inverter circuit, and has time periods in which both the p-type transistor and the n-type transistor are turned off when the driving voltage is switched from a high level to a low level or a low level to a high level. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154360 | Method and Device of Gate Driving in Liquid Crystal Display - A gate driver for controlling a display apparatus is disclosed. The gate driver includes a logic circuit for generating a plurality of switch signals, a breaking signal and a plurality of sharing signals, a plurality of buffers, each for determining to provide a first voltage or a second voltage according to one of the plurality of switch signals to generate a gate driving signal, and a charge recycle module for sharing charges with a plurality of loads according to the plurality of sharing signals. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154361 | GATE DRIVING METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND GATE DRIVER USING THE SAME - A gate driver for controlling a display apparatus is provided. The gate driver includes a logic circuit, a plurality of buffers, and a charge sharing module. The logic circuit generates a plurality of switch signals. The buffers are coupled to the logic circuit. Each of the buffers determines to provide a first voltage or a second voltage according to one of the switch signals to generate a gate driving signal. The charge sharing module is coupled to the output ends of the buffers and allows the output ends of the buffers to share charges according to a plurality of sharing signals during a forward edge and a backward edge of a square wave of each of the gate driving signals. Furthermore, a gate driving method for controlling a display apparatus is also provided. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154362 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection system including an electronic device and a projection apparatus is provided. The electronic device has a first power connector and a signal transmission portion. The projection apparatus includes a main body, a second and a third power connector, and a signal receiving portion. The main body is coupled to an external power source through a power cable. The second power connector is disposed on the main body and is coupled to the first power connector. The third power connector is disposed on the main body and is coupled between the second power connector and the power cable. The external power source provides power to the electronic device through the power cable and the third, second, and first power connectors in sequence. The signal receiving portion is disposed on the main body. The electronic device transmits a projection signal to the signal receiving portion through the signal transmission portion. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154363 | LINE FILTER AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - There are provided a line filter and a flat panel display device using the same. The line filter includes: first and second bobbins each including a pipe shaped body part having a through-hole formed therein and a flange part protruding outwardly from both ends of the body part; a core inserted into the through-hole to thereby form a magnetic path; and a coil part including coils, each wound in the first and second bobbins, wherein the coil wound in one of the first and second bobbins is wound clockwise and the coil wound in the other thereof is wound counterclockwise. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154364 | ELECTRONIC READING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD - An electronic reading apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic reading apparatus includes an electronic paper, a photoelectrical conversion unit, energy storing unit, a power module, and a controller. The photoelectrical conversion unit is superposed by the electronic paper and converts light energy to electrical energy. The power module stores the electrical energy to the energy storing unit for charging the energy storing unit. The controller converts at least one part of the electronic paper into transparency in a time interval, such that light energy passes through the electronic paper and is received by the photoelectrical conversion unit. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154365 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes liquid crystal capacitor element interposed between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The pixel electrode, one terminals of a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit, and a first terminal of a second transistor form an internal node. The other terminals of the first switch circuit is connected to the source line. The other terminal of the second switch circuit is connected to the voltage supply line and is configured by a series circuit of transistors. A control terminal of the transistor, a second terminal of the transistor, and one terminal of a boost capacitor element form an output node. The other terminal of the boost capacitor element, the control terminal of the transistor, and the control terminal of the transistor are connected to a boost line, a reference line, and a selecting line, respectively. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154366 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120154367 | DISPLAY PANEL DRIVER FOR REDUCING HEAT GENERATION THEREIN - A display panel drive circuit is provided with a first display output terminal to be connected with a data line of a display panel, first and second output stages, and a control circuit. The first output stage is directly connected with the first display output terminal and configured to output a data signal with the positive polarity with respect to a standard voltage level. The second output stage is also directly connected with the first display output terminal and configured to output a data signal with the negative polarity with respect to the standard voltage level. The control circuit controls the first and second output stages so that one of the first and second output stages is selectively activated while the other of the first and second output stages is deactivated. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154368 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD EMPLOYED IN LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - Picture element electrodes ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120154369 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes liquid crystal capacitor element formed between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode. One terminals of the pixel electrode, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit, and a first terminal of a second transistor form an internal node. The first switch circuit and the second switch circuit have other terminals connected to a source line. The second switch circuit is configured by a series circuit of transistors, and a control terminal of the transistor, a second terminal of the transistor, and one terminal of a boost capacitor element form an output node. The other terminal of the boost capacitor element is connected to a boost line, the control terminal of the transistor is connected to a reference line, and the control terminal of the transistor is connected to a selecting line. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154370 | SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR WITH STORAGE REDUCER - Described are devices and methods for reducing the need for storage on a display panel, for reducing the required bandwidth to a display panel, for increasing the light-on time for a display panel. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154371 | DISPLAY DEVICE, EYEGLASS DEVICE AND IMAGE SYSTEM - A display device including: a display portion for displaying a video; a generator for generating a synchronization signal including a command signal synchronized with display of frame images of the video; and a transmitter for transmitting the synchronization signal, wherein the command signal including a predetermined member of pulse signals has a leading pulse signal for notifying a start of the command signal, a terminal pulse signal for notifying an end of the command signal, and a control pulse signal for notifying a content of synchronization control synchronized with the display of the frame images. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154372 | TIMED READING EXPERIENCE ELECTRONIC BOOK - An electronic book ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120154373 | PARALLEL PROCESSING MACHINE LEARNING DECISION TREE TRAINING - Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to generating a decision tree through graphical processing unit (GPU) based machine learning. For example, one embodiment provides a method including, for each level of the decision tree: performing, at each GPU of the parallel processing pipeline, a feature test for a feature in a feature set on every example in an example set. The method further includes accumulating results of the feature tests in local memory blocks. The method further includes writing the accumulated results from each local memory block to global memory to generate a histogram of features for every node in the level, and for each node in the level, assigning a feature having a lowest entropy in accordance with the histograms to the node. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154374 | 3D IMAGE CONVERSION SYSTEM - A 3D image conversion system is disclosed. A 3D image signal is input via HDMI to a field programmable gate array for conversion. The result is output via HDMI to a 3D display. By converting the 3D image signal into checkboard, field/frame sequential, or line interlaced signal, the invention enables a DLP, PDP, or LCD 3D display etc. to support several 3D image structure. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154375 | Techniques For Enabling Remote Management Of Servers Configured With Graphics Processors - A technique for enabling the use of a baseboard management controller in a computer system configured to stream 3D graphical user interfaces to remote clients is described. In an exemplary configuration, a cap driver that is written to conform to a driver model that can interface with a 3D graphics application program interface can be loaded for use with the baseboard management controller instead of a legacy driver that was written to conform to a legacy driver model. This allows a control program to load a graphics driver that can interoperate with the 3D graphics application program interface. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the text of the summary and detailed description, the claims, and drawings. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154376 | TRACING-TYPE STEREO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TRACING-TYPE STEREO DISPLAY METHOD - An exemplary tracing-type stereo display apparatus includes a tracing member, an index member, a sub-pixel array, and a stereo display member. The tracing member is configured for obtaining a space position of a viewer. The index member is configured for obtaining an index factor according to the space position and generating an index table according to the index factor. The sub-pixel array member configured for arraying sub-pixels according to the index table. The stereo display member configured for displaying the sub-pixels arrayed according to the index table. A tracing-type stereo display method is also provided in the present disclosure. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154377 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A game apparatus acquires a designated position Q, on an image, which corresponds to a touch position T detected by a touch panel, and a depth value of the designated position Q. A game apparatus calculates a designated three-dimensional position P in a three-dimensional virtual space, based on the designated position Q on the image and the depth value. The game apparatus next determines an orientation of a cursor object to arrange the cursor object at the calculated designated three-dimensional position P. The game apparatus next uses a virtual camera to take an image of the virtual space including the cursor object, and displays the image on an upper LCD. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154378 | DETERMINING DEVICE MOVEMENT AND ORIENTATION FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL VIEWS - A device may include a first sensor, a display, and a processor. The first sensor may track orientation and location of the device. The display may include a plurality of pixels and light guides. Each light guide may be configured to direct light rays from a first sub-pixel within a pixel and a second sub-pixel within the pixel to a right eye and a left eye, respectively, of a viewer. The processor may be configured to select a sweet spot based on viewer input, obtain a relative location of the device based on output of the first sensor, and determine a stereoscopic image that is to be viewed at the sweet spot, the stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image. The processor may be further configured to display, based on the orientation and position of the device, the right-eye image for viewing by the right eye via a first set of sub-pixels and the left-eye image for viewing by the left eye via a second set of sub-pixels. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154379 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT IN A NON-VERBAL MANNER - Disclosed is a system for comparatively displaying values using non-verbal means. The system is recorded on a non-transitory medium. Included in the system is an identification component that identifies a first metric that has a first value and a second metric that has a second value. A processor selects a respective first and second non-verbal symbol to represent each of the first metric and the second metric and calculates a size of each non-verbal symbol based on the values of the first and second metrics. A high definition output means displays the non-verbal symbols. Each of the non-verbal symbols has a single dimension that is divisible by a single denominator. The processor also creates and displays on the high definition output means, a non-verbal reference symbol and a reference value associated with the reference symbol that represents the relationship of the first and second values to the size of the non-verbal symbols. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154380 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - A stereoscopic image display device is disclosed. According to one aspect, the stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, and a gate driver. The timing controller alternately outputs a left frame image signal and a right frame image signal, and outputs a plurality of first and second control signals. The data driver drives the data lines in response to the left frame image signal, the right frame image signal and the first control signals. The gate driver drives the gate lines and outputs a transfer signal in response to the second control signals. Each of a plurality of pixels includes a first transistor, a hold capacitor, a second transistor, a storage capacitor, and a liquid crystal capacitor. The first transistor is connected between a corresponding data line and a first node, and has a gate connected to a corresponding gate line. The hold capacitor is connected between the first node and a ground voltage. The second transistor is connected between the first node and a second node, and has a gate configured to receive the transfer signal. The storage capacitor is connected between the second node and the ground voltage. The liquid crystal capacitor is connected between the second node and the ground voltage. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional (3D) image are provided. The method includes receiving a left-eye image and a right-eye image, estimating an overlap region of the left-eye image and right-eye image; generating an overlap image based on the estimated overlap region; and controlling the left-eye image, the right-eye image and the overlap image to be output. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154382 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a generation module and a controller. The generation module is configured to generate | 2012-06-21 |
20120154383 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a first generation module, a second generation module, and processor. The first generation module is configured to generate 3D image data. The second generation module is configured to generate 3D graphics data. The processor is configured to make the 3D image data fall within a first display range which has a first depth range in a depth direction, and makes the 3D graphics data fall within a second display range which has a second depth range which does not overlap the first display range in the depth direction. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154384 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a parallax image rearrangement module configured to rearrange parallax image components respectively included in a plurality of parallax images and generate an image for three-dimensional image display having a plurality of pixels for three-dimensional image respectively including parallax image components of different parallax images; a warning message setting module configured to set a warning message; and a compounding module configured to generate a compounded image by compounding at least one of a parallax image component of a parallax image corresponding to an image shot by a camera disposed on a left side of a subject as one faces the subject and a parallax image component of a parallax image corresponding to an image shot by a camera disposed on a right side of the subject as one faces the subject with the warning message. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154385 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, which displays a left eye image on odd-numbered lines and displays a right eye image on even-numbered lines, a patterned retarder including a first retarder passing through first polarized light of the left eye image and a second retarder passing through second polarized light of the right eye image, polarized glasses including a left eye polarizing filter and a right eye polarizing filter, and a 3D formatter, which receives 3D image data from a host system, assigns left eye image data of the 3D image data to the odd-numbered lines, and assign right eye image data of the 3D image data to the even-numbered lines. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154386 | IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus for generating image data is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving information related to a display orientation of an image on a display unit of an image display device; and an image generation unit for generating image data according to the information. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit which acquires information of acceleration, angular velocity, and magnetic intensity of an operation device, a coordinate conversion unit which converts the angular velocity acquired by the acquisition unit into global angular velocity in a global coordinate system using information of posture angles of the operation device, an initial posture angle calculation unit which calculates a posture angle of the operation device in the initial stage in the global coordinate system based on the information of the acceleration and the magnetic intensity, an updating unit which updates the posture angle of the operation device in the global coordinate system based on information of the global angular velocity, and a control unit which causes the coordinate conversion unit to convert the first angular velocity into the global angular velocity and to convert a second angular velocity into the global angular velocity. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154388 | STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereo image device includes a representative point selection unit for selecting a plurality of representative points in a first image of a stereo-pair image; a corresponding point control unit detecting a plurality of corresponding points corresponding to the plurality of representative points in a second image of the stereo-pair image and excluding any corresponding point(s) judged to be a deviating point; a deviation value calculation unit for judging whether corresponding points are the deviating points or not; an approximation curve calculation unit performing a curve approximation on all the corresponding points except the excluded corresponding points; a height correction value calculation unit calculating a height correction value from a plurality of approximation curves drawn up by the curve approximation; a parallelization execution unit performing parallelization of the second image on the basis of the height correction value. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154389 | Hardware Accelerated Graphics for Network Enabled Applications - A method and system are provided for providing hardware accelerated graphics for network enabled applications. The method includes providing a network enabled application on a host, the application requiring hardware accelerated graphics not provided on the host; providing a 3D library wrapper at the host for connection to a broker of 3D graphics rendering resources. The broker receives a request for 3D graphics rendering resources, and evaluates available rendering resources and allocates a selected 3D graphics rendering resource to the 3D library wrapper, in order to return final 2D rendered images to a client. The network enabled application may execute on a virtual machine on the host or on a terminal services session on the host and is accessed by a remote client. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154390 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus including an acquisition block configured to acquire a detection result associated with a user attention to an object displayed on a display screen capable of displaying stereoscopic image, and a display control block configured to animation-display the object in the direction of depth in accordance with the user attention on the basis of the acquired detection result. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154391 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLIPPING FOR 3D GRAPHIC RENDERING - Provided are a clipping apparatus and clipping method for a three-dimensional (3D) graphic rendering. The clipping apparatus may reset or convert a triangular object based on distance information of vertices configuring or comprising the triangular object where a perspective projection scheme is applied. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154392 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a display element selectively implementing a 2D image and a 3D image and a patterned retarder. The display element includes a pixel array including a plurality of subpixels, which are respectively formed at crossings of column lines and row lines. The patterned retarder includes a plurality of first retarders, each of which transmits light from the display element as a first polarization component, and a plurality of second retarders, each of which transmits the light from the display element as a second polarization component. The first retarders and the second retarders are alternatively arranged. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154393 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING ANIMATION BY CAPTURING MOVEMENTS OF NON-RIGID OBJECTS - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for creating animation by capturing the motions of a non-rigid object. The apparatus includes a geometry mesh reconstruction unit, a motion capture unit, and a content creation unit. The geometry mesh reconstruction unit receives moving images captured by a plurality of cameras, and generates a reconstruction mesh set for each frame. The motion capture unit generates mesh graph sets for the reconstruction mesh set and generates motion data, including motion information, using the mesh graph sets. The content creation unit creates three-dimensional (3D) content for a non-rigid object by generating a final transformation mesh set, having a topology similar to that of the reconstruction mesh set, using the motion data. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154394 | APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - An interocular luminance analyzing unit analyzes luminance perceived between eyes of an observer based on a luminance distribution image, thereby generating a stereoscopy determination image, a stereoscopy determining unit determines a stereoscopy possible region based on this stereoscopy determination image. This is applicable irrespective of the kind of 3D displays including the two-view type, the multi-view type, and the integral type. Therefore, with the apparatus for evaluating optical properties of a 3D display and the method for evaluating optical properties of a 3D display, the evaluation of optical properties can be performed independently of the kind of 3D displays. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154395 | A MONITOR AND A METHOD FOR REPRESENTING AUTOSTEREOSCOPICALLY PERCEIVABLE PICTURES - A monitor for representing autostereoscopically, three-dimensionally perceivable pictures includes a matrix screen with a multitude of subpixels which are arranged in lines and columns and which may be changed in their illumination intensity and may be put together into a multitude of picture points, a control device for activating the subpixels in dependence on picture information of at least two stereoscopic fields, in a manner such that the picture points are divided in at least two subgroups for reproducing in each case one of the fields, and a barrier raster, with which light coming from the picture points of each of the subgroups may be led into in each case one of several observation zones which lie in a laterally displaced manner, said one of several observation zones being assigned to this subgroup by way of this. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154396 | 3D Display System - Methods and systems for displaying three-dimensional (3D) images using motion parallax are described. Images are projected onto a reflector with a rippled or faceted surface. The reflected images are viewed at a plurality of viewing locations and a different image is perceived according to the viewing location. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING MESH FROM IMAGES - A method for generating mesh from an image. The method includes inputting an image; setting a quality bound and a fidelity bound for a mesh to be generated; generating an initial mesh for the image with a maximum fidelity and a very high quality; generating a refined mesh by coarsening the initial mesh while maintaining the quality bound and the fidelity bound. The refined mesh includes a smaller number of elements than that of the initial mesh. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154398 | Method of determining implicit hidden features of phenomena which can be represented by a point distribution in a space - A method of determining implicit hidden features of phenomena, representable by a point distribution in a space, includes the following steps:
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20120154399 | Hierarchical Bounding of Displaced Parametric Surfaces - Hierarchical bounding of displaced parametric surfaces may be a very common use case for tessellation in interactive and real-time rendering. An efficient normal bounding technique may be used, together with min-max mipmap hierarchies and oriented bounding boxes. This provides substantially faster convergence for the bounding volumes of the displaced surface, without tessellating and displacing the surface in some embodiments. This bounding technique can be used for different types of culling, ray tracing, and to sort higher order primitives in tiling architectures. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154400 | METHOD OF REDUCING NOISE IN A VOLUME-RENDERED IMAGE - A method of reducing noise in a volume-rendered image includes generating a volume-rendered image from data, identifying a pixel location of suspected noise in the volume-rendered image, and calculating a voxel location that corresponds to the pixel location and intersects a rendered surface in voxel space. The method includes implementing a region-growing algorithm using the voxel location as a seed point to identify a plurality of voxels in a suspected noisy region. The method includes modifying the data to generate modified data by assigning lower opacity values to the plurality of voxels. The method includes generating a modified volume-rendered image from the modified data and displaying the modified volume-rendered image. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154401 | METHOD OF SIMULATING LIGHTING AT A POINT OF A SYNTHESIZED IMAGE - Simulating lighting at an estimation point of an image synthesized in three dimensions describing a scene provided with a light source, the estimation point situated on a surface. The method involves selecting a cloud of virtual photons by sending photons from the light source and by following the paths of the photons, each interaction with a surface of the scene potentially generating a new photon in the cloud, and storing a surface characteristic of the surfaces touched by the photon; and selecting a local volume of the photon map arranged around the estimation point. Additional steps can involve analyzing the photons contained in the local volume to detect the presence of at least one other surface different from the surface and extending in the vicinity of the estimation point; and calculating the indirect lighting at the estimation point while taking account of the at least one other detected surface. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154402 | DISCOVERING AND CONFIGURING REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA VIA AN INSIGHT TAXONOMY - An insight that a user desires to obtain from graphically presenting and manipulating a data set may be identified. A graphical object may be selected for representation and analysis of the data set based on whether the graphical object is capable of revealing the desired insight. The selection may be made based visual characteristic(s) of the graphical object and parameters, such as a type, of data in the data set. Different graphical objects may be selected to gain different insights about the data set. For example, a bar chart may be selected to gain an insight such as a trend in the data. The selected graphical object may be provided as a suggestion on a user interface for potentially using the graphical object to represent the data. A graphical object may include visually interactive components for use within a graphical user interface. The interactive components may be used to receive user input indicating a change in representation of the data set so that appearance of visual characteristics of the graphical object is modified to reflect the change. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154403 | INCREMENTAL CREATION OF A GRAPHICAL OBJECT TO VISUALLY REPRESENT A DATA SET - A computerized tool to visually display data using a graphical object. Visual display components may be identified that can represent a portion of the data and may be proposed to a user, based on visual characteristics of each of the visual display components and parameter(s) of the data. A visual display component selected from these components based on user input may be linked to the portion of the data set so that the visual display component will modify the appearance of the graphical object in a way that represents the portion of the data. Different visual display components may be identified and suggested for a user's selection to represent other portions of the data using the graphical object. The graphical object may thus be incrementally refined to ultimately result in the visual representation of the data. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154404 | ASSESSMENT RESULTS VIEWER - An assessment results viewer displays the results of assessments that quantify the performance of an aspect of a computing device. The viewer presents both an overview of the collected data and mechanisms for displaying ever-increasing details, including raw data itself The viewer further provides actionable information to the user that can offer the user guidance, or otherwise suggest potential courses of action. The viewer automatically aggregates multiple iterations of the same assessment to generate derivative overview data, and automatically aligns data collected by the same assessment across multiple job files. Such aggregation and alignment is performed by reference to metadata, including identifying information. Data can be presented in tabular form, and users can pivot along different axis to focus on groupings of data. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154405 | Identifying Reroutable Data Columns in an ETL Process - Reroutable data columns are identified in an ETL process by receiving an ETL process definition describing a set of processing stages and how each processing stage output data column is a result of a function that operates on a set of input data columns, representing the ETL process definition as a directed graph with nodes representing processing stages and links representing data flow between processing stages, traversing at least part of the directed graph and identifying a set of subsequent nodes of the directed graph where at least one data column is involved only as input data in identity functions, the at least one data column being reroutable between outmost nodes of the set of subsequent nodes, and in connection with traversing the at least part of the directed graph, maintaining information about reroutable data columns and the respective outmost nodes. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154406 | CURVE-DIVIDING DEVICE, CURVE-DIVIDING METHOD, CURVE-DIVIDING PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A curve division device is provided enabling a multiprocessor system to perform effective curve division on Bézier curves. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154407 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SIMULATION RESULT AS IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a simulation result as an image. The method includes performing a simulation of a predetermined system and generating a result log of the simulation, and converting the result log of the simulation into an image on the basis of a database storing a state and operation of a model of the system as image data. Accordingly, a simulation result of a system can be provided without detailed information about the system, an additional application, or a separate storage. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a display panel, a frame, a touch sensor, and a controller. The display panel includes a display surface of a predetermined display area. The frame includes a frame surface that surrounds the display panel and determines the display area. The touch sensor is configured to detect touches to the display surface and the frame surface. The controller is configured to execute predetermined processing when a touch to a first area on the display surface is detected, and to execute the predetermined processing when a touch to a second area on the frame surface is detected, the second area being adjacent to the first area. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154409 | VERTEX-BAKED THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANIMATION AUGMENTATION - A method for controlling presentation of three dimensional (3D) animation includes rendering a 3D animation sequence including a 3D vertex-baked model which is derived from a 3D animation file including vertex data of every vertex for every 3D image frame in the 3D animation sequence. The 3D vertex-baked model includes a control surface that provides a best-fit 3D shape to vertices of the 3D vertex-baked model. The method further includes receiving a motion control input, and if the motion control input is received during an augmentation portion of the 3D animation sequence, deviating from a default posture of the control surface in accordance with the motion control input. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A FRAME IN CONSIDERATION OF THE PROCESSING CAPABILITY AND POWER CONSUMPTION OF EACH CORE IN A MULTICORE ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus and method for processing a frame in consideration of processing capability and power consumption for each core in a multi-core system are provided. To perform a user interface drawing in a multi-core environment, an optimum combination of hardware components capable of operating with the minimum of power consumption while satisfying a requirement of a user may be obtained and a parallel user interface drawing may be performed by use of the optimum combination of hardware components. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154411 | MULTIPLE DISPLAY FRAME RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a plurality of image processing circuits. Each image processing circuit generates an image frame corresponding to a single large surface. The first image processing circuit provides a portion of the generated image frame for a first display or plurality of displays and provides a remaining portion of the image frame to the remaining image processing circuits. The next image processing circuits provides the remaining portion of the image frame for the next plurality of displays. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154412 | RUN-TIME ALLOCATION OF FUNCTIONS TO A HARDWARE ACCELERATOR - An accelerator work allocation mechanism determines at run-time which functions to allocate to a hardware accelerator based on a defined accelerator policy, and based on an analysis performed at run-time. The analysis includes reading the accelerator policy, and determining whether a particular function satisfies the accelerator policy. If so, the function is allocated to the hardware accelerator. If not, the function is allocated to the processor. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154413 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MODE SWITCHING THEREIN - A mobile terminal including a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external terminal; a memory configured to store at least a first and second operating system including at least first and second modes, respectively; and a controller configured to execute the first operating system and to activate the first mode corresponding to the first operating system, to display a first information screen on a display unit corresponding to the activated first mode, to receive a switching signal indicating the first mode is to be switched to the second mode, to perform an authentication procedure for authenticating that the first mode can be switched to the second mode, to activate the second mode and deactivate the first mode when the authentication procedure is validly performed, and to display a second information screen on the display unit corresponding to the second mode and that is different than the first information screen. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154414 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR USE IN PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - Provided is a plasma display system capable of restricting peak data traffic when a shared memory is used. In the plasma display system, a control unit | 2012-06-21 |
20120154415 | FRAMEWORK FOR GRAPHICS ANIMATION AND COMPOSITING OPERATIONS - A graphics animation and compositing operations framework has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media, or other types of objects for an application's user interface. The application commits state changes to the layers of the layer tree. The application does not need to include explicit code for animating the changes to the layers. Instead, an animation is determined for animating the change in state by the framework which can define a set of predetermined animations based on motion, visibility, and transition. The determined animation is explicitly applied to the affected layers in the render tree. A render engine renders from the render tree into a frame buffer. Portions of the render tree changing relative to prior versions can be tracked to improve resource management. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154416 | Display device, control method of display device and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a display unit in which pixels including memories are arranged; a memory unit holding data; and a control unit rewriting the contents held by memories concerning pixels belonging to a partial area of the display unit based on data held by the memory unit in accordance with instructions given from the outside. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154417 | TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTUM DOT ILLUMINATION - Techniques for extracting light from a light guide are described. In some embodiments, a light source comprises a light guide configured to trap first light through total internal reflection. The light source may further comprise a plurality of light extractors configured to extract at least a portion of the first light upon establishing optical contact with the light guide. The light source is configured to control individual light extractors in the plurality of light extractors to make optical contact with the light guide. Quantum dots may be used with the light source to regenerate light, within desired frequency band, from the at least a portion of the first light. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154418 | IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image control apparatus wherein an acquisition unit acquires position information from attribute information of the image, a setting unit sets a display scale of a map when displaying the image on the map, and a generation unit generates display data for displaying the map and the image on a display device using the acquired position information and the set display scale, when the set display scale is lower than a predetermined display scale, the generation unit generates display data in which the image is laid out at a position corresponding to the position information on the map, and when the display scale is higher than the predetermined display scale, the generation unit generates display data in which the image and the map are laid out without laying out the image on the map. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154419 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image output device includes a receiving unit which receives first input information including position information indicating a position on a display image, an attribute information selecting unit which selects first attribute information corresponding to the position indicated by the position information and is one of pieces of attribute information associated with the displayed image from among the pieces of attribute information, an image selecting unit which selects images having attribute information corresponding to the first attribute information from among images including the displayed image, a display sequence determining unit which determines the display sequence of the images based on the attribute information of each of the images selected by the image selecting unit, and an output unit which acquires and outputs the images such that the selected images are displayed in the determined display sequence on a display device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154420 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF COMPUTER INTERFACE COLORS USING IMAGE PROCESSING - A method for processing an image such as a computer wallpaper identifies a characteristic color representative of the image. Image pixels with similar colors are separated into groups, and the average value of the R,G,B color components in each group is determined, after filtering out pixels with R,G,B values representing white, black, or grey. The group with the maximum difference between the highest average color component value and the lowest average color component value is identified as the characteristic color. Groups representing a number of pixels less than a certain percentage of all of the pixels are not considered. The characteristic color can be used in other displayed images at an intensity α determined by setting maximum and minimum values of α, with α being the lesser of α | 2012-06-21 |
20120154421 | Image Display Apparatus - According to an embodiment, there is provided an image display apparatus in which a display pixel displaying an image comprises a plurality of parallax image pixels respectively displaying a plurality of parallax images. The image display apparatus includes: an intermediate gradation level processing unit configured to prepare an intermediate gradation level generation pattern every parallax image to generate an intermediate gradation level with respect to an image signal including a plurality of parallax images, and perform processing of adding an intermediate gradation level to each of the parallax images by using the intermediate gradation level generation pattern and the image signal; and an image display unit configured to display the parallax images each having an intermediate gradation level added by the intermediate gradation level processing unit. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154422 | N-modulation for Wide Color Gamut and High Brightness - Techniques are provided to support a high dynamic range, high brightness, a wide color gamut, and high resolution in an imaging system. The imaging system may use a light source unit to sequentially emit light of different colors. Color-specific frames may be used to drive, directly or indirectly, multiple display panels that comprise at least one monochromatic display panel. Color bleeding and light bleeding may be prevented, or otherwise mitigated, in the imaging system by controlling the sequential emission of light by the light source unit and by controlling display portions of the display panels in the imaging system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154423 | LUMINANCE-BASED DITHERING TECHNIQUE - Systems and methods are disclosed to enable the creation and the display of dithered images. Embodiments include techniques that use the relationship between the luminance and the color of a source image as a dithering heuristic. In one embodiment, the luminance and the color of a source image is determined. Each color of the source image is approximated to the nearest hardware color level. The hardware color level is then varied to more closely approximate the luminance of the source image. Any color errors introduced by approximating the luminance of the source image are then diffused to adjacent pixels. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154424 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR VIRTUAL DISPLAY - Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to virtually segment a display are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes a display abstraction component configured to interface, at a kernel level, between an operating system and a graphics processor, the display abstraction component to receive, adapt, and process display calls from the operating system and instruct the graphics processor to divide the display into multiple virtual displays according to a user specified virtual configuration preference to allow the display to replicate a multiple display configuration. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154425 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY USING SYNTHESIZED ENVIRONMENT MAP - An apparatus and method for providing Augmented Reality (AR) corresponding to objects that are hidden from view of a user. The apparatus includes a first extraction unit to extract a first environment map corresponding to a location of a terminal; a second extraction unit to determine an expanded area enclosing the location of the terminal and to extract a second environment map corresponding to the expanded area; and a synthesization unit to generate a synthesized environment map by synthesizing the first environment map and the second environment map. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154426 | Displaying User Interface Elements Having Transparent Effects - Embodiments are configured to provide information for display. Various embodiments include processing functionality that can be used to efficiently process pixel data associated with video, graphical, and other information. The functionality can be used in conjunction with different hardware and/or software architectures and configurations. In an embodiment, a computing device includes functionality to use a distinct window having alpha and occlusion features that can be used when processing pixel data associated with user interface (UI) elements and video, but is not so limited. The computing device can use the distinct window to display user interface elements having different levels or amounts of transparency as part of video capture and playback operations. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154427 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING DISPLAY FORMAT - A digital signage apparatus capable of enhancing an advertising effectiveness by improving the attractiveness and the attention value is provided. A digital signage apparatus ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120154428 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL COLOR LUMINANCE DITHERING TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods are disclosed to enable the creation and the display of spatio-temporal dithered images. Embodiments include techniques that use color-shifting and luminance. In one embodiment, adjacent pixels are color-shifted with respect to each other and the color values of the adjacent pixels are temporally alternated with color values of pixels in the group. In another embodiment, the luminance of group of adjacent pixels is determined and the luminance of the group is made more homogenous spatially and temporally by distributing color variations over a larger number of pixels so as to reduce the luminance difference between the pixel with the least luminance and the pixel with the greatest luminance. Individual color components (e.g., red, green, blue) may also be separated and used so that the color-shifts associated with each color component may be simultaneously present in different pixels. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154429 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SMOOTHED ALIASING ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANE - An apparatus for smoothed aliasing on a two-dimensional plane includes a data input unit for receiving at least one piece of data input by a user, a graphic engine processing unit for generating a quadrangle including a form of the at least one piece of data and differently applying transparency to at least one transparent area included in the quadrangle, and a display unit for displaying the at least one piece of data processed by the graphic engine processing unit. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154430 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - When rendering a graphic according to the locus of an input position, it is determined whether a region which has been preset for the graphic to be rendered, and has the start position of the continuous input as a reference overlaps a region preset for an already rendered graphic by a predetermined amount or more. If it is determined that the regions do not overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, a graphic is rendered according to the locus of the input position. Alternatively, if it is determined that the regions overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, control is switched to remove the already rendered graphic according to the locus of the input position. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154431 | DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZABLE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION BEHAVIOR - Systems and methods for customizing behavior of a computing system based on details of interactions with the computing system by a user, such as a direction, intensity, or magnitude of a particular input from a user input device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154432 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus of the present invention generates a whole image by executing a predetermined application; acquires operation time at which a user performs an operation for inputting information; if the whole image has changed, acquires a rectangular area including an area where the change has occurred in the whole image as a change area and acquires the change time at which the whole image has changed; if the difference between the operation time and the change time is equal to or below a predetermined value, acquires the change area as an operation area where the user is inputting information; and generates an operation-area-attached image by acquiring a rectangular area to be displayed on the screen of the information processing apparatus in the whole image as a reference area and by combining the operation area with the reference area. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154433 | PLATFORM AGNOSTIC SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL - A method for platform agnostic screen capture is provided. The method includes acquiring screen data from a computer having a display screen, where the screen data represents an image currently displayed on the display screen. The screen data is converted into a representation capable of being expressed in a plurality of software platforms. The representation of screen data is rendered into a vector graphics file that may be published to a plurality of platforms. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154434 | Human Interactive Proofs Leveraging Virtual Techniques - Human interactive proofs that leverage virtual techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an object is inserted to be displayed as part of a virtual scene and the virtual scene having the object is exposed as a human interactive proof that includes a question that relates to the inserted object. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154435 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An aspect of the present invention includes a detection unit configured to detect content of second drawing data drawn in a second window, which is displayed on a lower layer of a first window, and a display control unit configured to control display by determining, based on the content of the second drawing data, whether to perform first control, in which the second drawing data is displayed in an overlap region, which is a region in which the first window and the second window overlap, in such a way as to be visible in the first window, or second control, in which the second drawing data is not displayed in the overlap region or the second drawing data is displayed in such a way as to be less visible in the first window than when the first control is performed. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154436 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - In an electronic apparatus, a processor is configured to allow the display screen to display a text specified by a user and included in the content stored in the memory, allow a user to specify a string as a keyword contained in the displayed text, create a note screen by receiving handwriting data entered, by a user via the touch panel, in a screen with the text displayed therein, store, in the memory, the created note screen data and the string specified as the keyword such that the note screen data and the string are associated with each other into note information, receive a search string input, by a user, and search the memory for note information including the search string as a keyword and allow the display screen to display a note screen corresponding to the searched-for note information. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154437 | PRESENTING A TELEVISION SERVICES PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION AS A VIDEO MOSAIC - Methods and computer-readable media are provided for presenting program guide information using a mosaic of video sources broadcast in a television services system. An application program executed on a television services set-top box generates a matrix of still images representing multiple video sources presently being broadcast in the television services system. The matrix of still images is presented as a video mosaic representing current program guide information in the television services system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154438 | Interactivity Via Mobile Image Recognition - Systems and methods of interacting with a virtual space, in which a mobile device is used to electronically capture image data of a real-world object, the image data is used to identify information related to the real-world object, and the information is used to interact with software to control at least one of: (a) an aspect of an electronic game; and (b) a second device local to the mobile device. Contemplated systems and methods can be used to gaming, in which the image data can be used to identify a name of the real-world object, to classify the real-world object, identify the real-world object as a player in the game, to identify the real-world object as a goal object or as having some other value in the game, to use the image data to identify the real-world object as a goal object in the game. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154439 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MULTIPLE OBJECT OF AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM - An apparatus for operating multiple objects in an augmented reality system converts a reference point recognized in an input image into copyable basic data, then copies the basic data to each position of a screen where the image is to be output, and then augments an object by using a copy of the basic data as the reference point. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154440 | AUGMENTED 2D REPRESENTATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURES - A method, computing apparatus, and computer readable medium, for augmenting and displaying a 2D-representation of a molecular structure, or assemblage of molecular structures, augmented with various graphical elements. The technology further provides various functionality that permits a user to define the form and number of types of graphical elements to apply to a 2-D structure. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154441 | AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A system includes a head front display device, an eye position tracking camera to track movement of a driver's irises, a front view camera to take a picture of a front view of the driver, a head front display device controller to implement at least one of an angle change, forward movement, backward movement, upward movement, downward movement, leftward movement, and rightward movement of the head front display device, an image adjuster to adjust an object displayed on the head front display device in association with an object of an actual view seen through the front window of the vehicle based on positions of the driver's irises obtained through the eye position tracking camera and an image of the front view obtained by the front view camera, and a display unit controlled by the image adjuster and configured to display information on the head front display device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154442 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes a display controller executing display control to display, on a display screen of a display device displaying an image, a whole of a display target image that is to be displayed and that has an aspect ratio differing from an aspect ratio of the display screen, and to display a partial enlarged image, which is obtained by enlarging a partial image corresponding to a part of the display target image and which has a smaller size than the display screen, at a displayed position of the partial image in superimposed relation to the display target image. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154443 | RECEPTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION DISPLAY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECEPTION DISPLAY PROGRAM, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A reception display apparatus and the like which display display information regarding an information transmission apparatus blocked by an obstacle, on an image representing a taken video image, such that the display information corresponds to the position of the information transmission apparatus, are provided. A reception section time-sequentially takes an image and receives, from an apparatus ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120154444 | SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM - A machine-controlled method may include creating a tile profile including multiple tiles, visually presenting the tile profile using a display, and storing the tile profile. The method may further include adding, removing, and editing the tiles and utilizing tile stacks. The method may further include any of a number of tile scrolling mechanisms. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154445 | PROJECTION CONTROL - A mobile terminal may include a projection device to project, from a first position of the mobile terminal, visual content onto a projection surface to form a projected image; a sensor to sense movement information indicative of displacement of the mobile terminal with respect to the first position; and a controller to activate, based on the displacement, at least one of a zoom mode or a pan mode, wherein the projection device is further configured to perform, in the at least one of the zoom mode or the pan mode, at least one of zooming or panning with respect to the projected image. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154446 | Systems and Methods for Processing Images with Edge Detection and Snap-To Feature - A method for creating image products includes the following steps. Image data and positional data corresponding to the image data are captured and processed to create geo-referenced images. Edge detection procedures are performed on the geo-referenced images to identify edges and produce geo-referenced, edge-detected images. The geo-referenced, edge-detected images are saved in a database. A user interface to view and interact with the geo-referenced image is also provided such that the user can consistently select the same Points of Interest between multiple interactions and multiple users. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154447 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal may include a touchscreen that displays at least one content item on a screen and that receives an area touch motion corresponding to a particular area of the screen, and a controller that analyzes the area touch motion and controls a specific content item and content control operation corresponding to the received area touch motion accordingly. Control of such a mobile terminal may include displaying an execution screen of an application, receiving an area touch motion corresponding to one area of the execution screen, analyzing the area touch motion, and controlling an application corresponding to the received area touch motion accordingly. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154448 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming system comprises a display control part, an instruction input part, and a notification control part. The display control part displays at least one of a plurality of buttons, which is included in a display target range, on a display part as display target buttons. The plurality of buttons corresponding to a plurality of functions, respectively, are virtually arranged in a predetermined direction. The instruction input part receives a scroll instruction input for causing the display target range to virtually move in the predetermined direction to change the display target buttons. The notification control part controls a notifying operation for notifying a user of the presence of the instruction input part. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154449 | VISUAL WHITEBOARD FOR TELEVISION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - A visual whiteboard can be provided as an application, or component of a TV internet browser, for operation on a smart TV. The visual whiteboard provides a lightweight social networking mechanism, e.g., for groups who have physical access to the same smart TV. Content identifiers or other group information can be posted to the visual whiteboard by the authorized users for subsequent display on the corresponding smart TV. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154450 | DUAL-ORIENTATION AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC BACKLIGHT AND DISPLAY - Stereoscopic displays and backlights include a light guide with individually addressable light sources disposed at opposite edges of the light guide, and a light redirecting film disposed in front of the light guide. Light from one light source is emitted from the backlight as a right eye elongated light beam, and light from the opposite light source is emitted as a left eye elongated light beam. Structured surface features, e.g. linear prismatic or linear lenticular features, on the light guide and/or the light redirecting film are oriented such that the elongated light beams are offset from an optical axis of the backlight. Moreover, each of the elongated light beams is oriented to intersect both a first observation plane and a second observation plane perpendicular to the first observation plane, the first observation plane defined by the optical axis and an in-plane axis along which the light sources are disposed. | 2012-06-21 |
20120154451 | BACKLIGHT ADJUSTMENT DEVICE OF A DISPLAY AND METHOD THEREOF - A backlight adjustment device includes a color saturation generation unit, a gain generation unit, and an adjustment unit. The color saturation generation unit is used for receiving red, green, and blue sub-pixels of an RGB pixel, and generating a color saturation of the RGB pixel according to the red, green, and blue sub-pixels of the RGB pixel. The gain generation unit is used for generating a gain of the RGB pixel according to the color saturation of the RGB pixel. The adjustment unit is used for adjusting a backlight source according to an average of gains of a plurality of pixels. | 2012-06-21 |