33rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 12 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100207914 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In an active-matrix display device using a three-terminal element ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100207919 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ITS DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DRIVE METHOD - An objective of the present invention is to prevent the occurrence of horizontal streaks in a screen of a display device that implements pseudo impulse display by performing black insertion. In a display device that implements pseudo impulse display by performing black insertion, a gate driver applies to each gate bus line a scanning signal including a pixel data write pulse (Pw) for writing pixel data to a pixel formation portion and black voltage application pulses (Pb) for writing a black voltage, based on a gate output control signal (GOE). Here, when the polarity of a polarity control signal (REV) is the same for two consecutive horizontal scanning periods, the gate output control signal (GOE) is maintained at a high level. When the gate output control signal (GOE) is at a high level, the gate driver inhibits a black voltage application pulse (Pb) from being generated in all the scanning signals. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207920 | LOW POWER CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD FOR EMISSIVE DISPLAYS - A display system, a driver for driving the display array, method of operating the display system and a pixel circuit in the display system are provided. The driver includes: a bidirectional current source having a convertor coupling to a time-variant voltage, for converting the time-variant voltage to the current. The pixel circuit includes: a transistor for providing a pixel current to a light emitting device; and a storage capacitor electrically coupling to the transistor, the capacitor coupling to a time-variant voltage in a predetermined timing for providing a current based on the time-variant voltage. The method includes: in a first cycle in a programming operation, changing a time-variant voltage provided to a storage capacitor in a pixel circuit, from a reference voltage to a programming voltage, the storage capacitor electrically coupling to a driving transistor for driving a light emitting device; and in a second cycle in the programming operation, maintaining the time-variant voltage at the programming voltage. The method includes: in a programming operation, providing programming data to a pixel circuit from a data line, the pixel circuit including a transistor coupling to the data line and a storage capacitor; and in a driving operation, providing, to the storage capacitor in the pixel circuit via a power supply line, a time-variant voltage for turning on a light emitting device. The pixel circuit, which includes: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device having an electrode and an OLED layer; and an inter-digitated capacitor having a plurality of layers. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207923 | MICROPLASMA CURRENT SWITCH - The present invention relates to a microplasma current switch enabling to increase the amount of electric current passing through the microplasma current switch by adjusting the areas of electrodes exposed to plasmas. The present invention includes a plasma discharge space; a plasma generating means installed within the plasma discharge space; an exposed cathode electrode installed within the plasma discharge space; and an exposed anode electrode installed within the plasma discharge space apart from the exposed cathode electrode, wherein the exposed anode electrode is connected electrically to the exposed cathode electrode by generating a plasma, and the exposed area of the exposed anode electrode to the plasma is smaller than that of the exposed cathode electrode. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207924 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY UNIT, ELECTROPHORETIC APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY UNIT - An apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display unit includes: a current detector that detects a driving current supplied to or flowing out from the electrophoretic display unit and outputs a detection value corresponding to the driving current; a conversion unit that converts the detection value into a corresponding temperature equivalent value; and a driver that generates a driving control signal of the electrophoretic display unit based on the temperature equivalent value. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207931 | Vertically Aligned Nematic Mode Liquid Crystal Display Having Large Tilt Angles and High Contrast - A reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display comprises a transparent substrate, a reflective substrate, and liquid crystal fluid between the substrates. The LCOS display further comprises a matrix of pixels, arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, wherein an intersection of a row and a column defines a position of a pixel in the matrix. The LCOS display has tilt angles sufficient to overcome disclinations due to fringe fields, and, at the same time, achieves high contrast. The surface azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid is either substantially parallel or perpendicular to the direction of polarization of incoming incident linearly polarized light. Light leakage is minimal because the effective birefringence as seen by the incoming incident linearly polarized light is substantially zero and does not depend on the pretilt of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid. Between the transparent substrate and the reflective substrate, the twist of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid may vary from about 0 degrees to about 90 degrees when in the “OFF” state. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207932 | PLASMA DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A plasma display device and a method of driving the same according to the black load of a displayed image. The plasma display device includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes extending in parallel, a plurality of pixels each having a plurality of discharge cells defined by the first and the second electrodes, a driver adapted to apply a first reset waveform to the first electrodes and a second reset waveform to the second electrodes during a reset period, and a controller adapted to adjust at least one of a voltage of the first reset waveform or a voltage of the second reset waveform in accordance with a black load of an image signal corresponding to the plurality of pixels. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207933 | Surface light source device and display device - A surface light source device, which may perform surface light emission using a plurality of light guide members while suppressing formation of emission lines, and a display device using the surface light source device is provided. The surface light source device includes light sources, and a plurality of light guide members, each light guide member having a light incidence surface for light entering from each of the light sources, and making surface light emission based on incident light from the light incidence surface. The plurality of light guide members are arranged on the same plane, and each light guide member has tapered or curved surfaces adjacent to the light incidence surface, each tapered or curved surface having a predetermined angle against the light incidence surface. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207934 | Liquid crystal display apparatus - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape and a drive circuit for actively driving the plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels has a laminated structure including a pixel electrode, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a counter electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule having a vertical alignment property. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are inorganic alignment films formed by obliquely depositing an inorganic material. The drive circuit has a first calculation section for extracting a first positional information, a second calculation section for extracting a second positional information, a third calculation for calculating a third positional information, and a fourth calculation section for calculating a third video signal. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207939 | Image Adjusting Apparatus and Associated Method - An image adjusting method for extending vertical blanking intervals of an image signal is provided. Using the image adjusting method, an adjusted image signal is synchronized with an image signal before the adjustment to prevent image delay. The image adjusting method comprises providing a first image signal having a first data enable signal, wherein the first data enable signal has a first data enable duration; and generating a second data enable signal having a second data enable duration. The first and second data enable durations correspond to a same image frame of an image signal, and the second data enable duration substantially overlaps the first data enable duration. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207940 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a method of displaying an image including: rendering a predetermined pattern of which each coordinate is set to a different grayscale value by pasting the pattern to a three-dimensional model as a texture, setting a corresponding relationship between a coordinate of a rendered image, which is obtained in a bitmap image form by the rendering, and a coordinate of the predetermined pattern for storing the rendered image as image drawing information by analyzing the rendered image, and arranging a desired texture in the rendered image for display based on the stored image drawing information when the desired texture is supposed to be displayed as an image. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207941 | Adaptive 2N-ARY tree generating method, and method and apparatus for encoding and decoding 3D volume data using IT - A method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding depth image-based representation (DIBR) data are provided. The encoding method includes: converting 3-dimensional (3D) volume data into adjustable octree data with predetermined labels given to nodes; by referring to the labels, encoding nodes of the adjustable octree from the root node to leaf nodes by a modified breadth-first search (BFS) method allocating priorities among children nodes; and generating a bitstream with predetermined header information and encoded node data. The decoding method includes: extracting header information containing at least resolution information of an object, from a bitstream and decoding the header information; calculating the number of nodes by using the resolution information of the header, and by a modified BFS method allocating priorities among children nodes, decoding each node of a tree from the root node to leaf nodes; and restoring an adjustable tree by using decoded nodes. According to the method and apparatus, a huge amount of 3D volume data can be encoded with a high efficiency, and volume data with an arbitrary resolution as well as volume data with a fixed resolution can be encoded with a high efficiency. Accordingly, with a small amount of data, 3D volume data with a high picture quality can be restored. In addition, since a progressive bitstream is generated, 3D volume data can be shown progressively when decoding is performed. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207942 | APPARATUS FOR 3-D FREE HAND RECONSTRUCTION - One object of the present disclosure is to provide an interpolation method for reconstructing an imaged object with the image edge as sharp as possible and the image itself as smooth as possible. An The EM (Expectation Maximization) image reconstruction is provided that suitable for freehand ultrasound systems. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207945 | TEMPLATE FOR CREATING SEQUIN-BASED DESIGNS & METHODS OF USE THEREOF - Embodiments of the invention are directed to templates for creating sequin-based designs and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the template may be a first panel which includes a plurality of cylindrical protrusions uniformly spaced thereon. A second panel may be removably coupled to a backside of the first panel. Each cylindrical protrusion may include an opening capable of receiving a shaft of a pin. In one method, a plurality of sequins or paillettes may be removably attached to the plurality of cylindrical protrusion by insertion of each pin into an opening in the sequin followed by insertion of the pin shaft into the opening of the raised cylinder. A plurality of templates tiled together with a plurality of sequins attached thereto may result in a photographic sequin-based design. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207946 | FUNCTIONAL PRESENTATION LAYER IN A LIGHTWEIGHT CLIENT ARCHITECTURE - A device generates an immutable display graph with leaves of the display graph representing low-level graphical operations such as drawings lines or a bitmap and nodes of the display graph representing translation and clipping. Because the display graph is immutable, it can be cached, shared, and rendered quickly. The structure of the display remains fixed, but elements such as rectangle fill, text position, clipping area, translation, and image location, remain time varying and can change without affecting the structure of the display. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207949 | ANIMATION EVENTS - A method of detecting an occurrence of an event of an event type during an animation, in which the animation comprises, for each of a plurality of object parts of an object, data defining the respective movement of that object part at each of a sequence of time-points for the animation, the method comprising: indicating the event type, wherein the event type specifies: one or more of the object parts; and a sequence of two or more event phases that occur during an event of that event type such that, for each event phase, the respective movements of the one or more specified object parts during that event phase are each constrained according to a constraint type associated with that event phase; and detecting an occurrence of an event of the event type by detecting a section of the animation during which the respective movements defined by the animation for the specified one or more object parts are constrained in accordance with the sequence of two or more event phases. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207950 | DEFINING SIMPLE AND COMPLEX ANIMATIONS - A unified user interface (“UI”) is provided that includes functionality for defining both simple and complex animations for an object. The unified UI includes a UI for defining a single animation for an object and a UI for defining a more complex animation. The UI for defining a single animation for an object includes a style gallery and an effects options gallery. The UI for defining two or more animations for a single object includes a style gallery for selecting two or more animation classes to be applied to an object, one or more user interface controls for specifying the timing and order of the two or more animations, and an on-object user interface (“OOUI”) displayed adjacent to each object for providing a visual indication of the two or more animations and for providing an indication when an animation includes two or more build steps. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207951 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING OPERATION OF A SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEM - A novel method for monitoring the operation of a solar thermal system such as the healthy home system or the like. The present device includes a hardware housing with a processor device coupled to a bus and one or more memory devices. The processor device can be coupled to one or more input devices wherein the one or more input devices are coupled to at least the solar array. The input devices can be coupled to the electric panel, the space heater, the water heater, as well as other components of the healthy home. The method includes a variety of steps such as establishing connection to associated hardware in the healthy home system, running diagnostic checks to determine system health, validating acquired data, and displaying the data through text display and graphical illustrations. The method also includes updating the system information according to a schedule scheme such as a polling scheme, interrupt scheme, or others. These and possibly other steps can provide an easy and cost effective means of monitoring a healthy home's system operation. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207952 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DISPLAY DRIVER SYSTEM - In one embodiment there is provided, a display driver system, comprising, at least one display driver; a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) macro; and a display driver interface coupling the MRAM macro and the at least one display driver. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207955 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a display apparatus such as PDP, in order to obtain well-lighted video while suppressing an increase in power consumption, the luminance level of a specific region of a display panel is decreased in accordance with an average luminance level of the entire display panel. However, when a low-luminance region and a high-luminance region are mixed in display video, even the luminance of the low-luminance region is decreased and gray-scale crush is caused in some cases. An average luminance level for each region is detected, and a shading process is controlled for each region based on the detected region-specific average luminance level and the luminance level of input video. With this control, when the luminance level of the input video signal is higher than a predetermined threshold, the shading process is operated, and when the luminance level is lower than the predetermined threshold, the shading process is stopped. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207956 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of displaying image data is provided, which includes analyzing histograms by color signals of an input image frame; confirming grayscales by color signals in a predetermined frame unit with reference to the analyzed histograms; determining dimming factors in consideration of maximum grayscale values of the grayscales; determining image gains of the image data by color signals using the determined dimming factors; and outputting an image signal by applying the image gains to the input image and applying the dimming factors to a light source. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207959 | LCD TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DITHERING - A method and system for temporal dithering of pixels in a display. The dithering of the pixels may allow for simulation of 8-bit color from a 6-bit display. Moreover, the dithering of the pixels may be selected to follow a specific pattern to minimize display artifacts, which might otherwise result from interference generated by pixel inversion techniques performed during the pixel dithering. Through application of selective dithering techniques, including utilization of specific dithering patterns, the generation of display artifacts via interference from pixel inversion techniques during the display of an image may be minimized. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207960 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING ARTEFACTS IN DISPLAY DEVICES BY THE USE OF OVERDRIVE - The invention relates to a method for reducing imaging artefacts during a frame-changeover from a current frame to a following frame displayed by a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein the artefacts are reduced by overdriving at least one control signal for controlling the pixel intensity of the related pixel during the frame-changeover, wherein the overdrive is carried out in dependence of the magnitude of an intensity step between a designated start intensity value of the pixel within the current frame and a designated target intensity value of the pixel within the following frame. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207961 | MULTI VIEW DISPLAYS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for creating a distance dependent display that comprises providing an image separating mask having a plurality precision slits arranged in a pattern, generating an interlaced image from a plurality of images according to the pattern, and combining the interlaced image and the image separating mask to allow an observer to view substantially separately each the image from a respective of a plurality of different distances from the image separating mask. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207962 | Image data transmission from GPU to system memory - A method for transmitting image data sets is provided. At a first location of a computer system image difference data are determined by performing a differencing operation between corresponding pixels of a first image and second image. The first image and the second image are divided into sub regions. Sub region difference data are determined in dependence upon the sub regions and the image difference data. The sub region difference data are indicative of sub regions having same pixel values in the first and the second image and are indicative of sub regions having at least a different pixel value in the first and the second image. Image data in dependence upon the sub region difference data are transmitted to a second location of the computer system. The image data correspond to sub regions having at least a different pixel value in the first and the second image. At the second location the image data are replaced in the respective sub regions of the first image retrieved from storage at the second location. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207963 | GAMMA VOLATGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND GAMMA VOLTAGE GENERATOR THEREOF - A gamma voltage generator including an operation amplifier, a first reference impedance unit, a second reference impedance unit, a first variable impedance unit, a second variable impedance unit, and a select unit is provided. The operation amplifier generates an amplified output voltage. The first reference impedance unit receives a first gamma voltage, and the second reference impedance unit receives a second gamma voltage. The first variable impedance unit provides a first variable impedance, and the second variable impedance unit receives the first gamma voltage and provides a second variable impedance. The select unit selects the amplified output voltage or the first gamma voltage according to a control signal to generate an interpolated gamma output voltage. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207964 | DISPLAYS WITH INTEGRATED BACKLIGHTING - The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for designing and using display devices with integrated backlight layer structure utilizing separate color diffractive out-coupling (e.g., diffraction out-coupling). A lower substrate of the display can be used to integrate the backlight component (or the backlight layer structure), thus enabling a thin module with the integrated backlighting. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207973 | IMAGE-FORMING METHOD AND RECORD - An image-forming method includes a first image-forming step of forming an image on a fabric with a first ink composition and a second image-forming step of forming an image on the fabric with a second ink composition subsequently to the first image-forming step. The first ink composition contains a first colorant. The second ink composition contains a second colorant. The first colorant has an average particle size less than that of the second colorant. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207974 | Mitigation of Shorted Fluid Ejector Units - A fluid ejector includes a plurality of fluid ejector units, each fluid ejector unit characterized in part by a pumping actuator that includes an electrode. Whether one or more of the plurality of fluid ejector units is a shorted fluid ejector unit is determined, and the shorted fluid ejector unit is trimmed. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207975 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDED ARTICLE - An image is recorded by ejecting two or more ink compositions on a porous layer that contains inorganic microparticles and a water-soluble resin and has a porosity [%] of 50% or more with a maximum total ejection amount (mL/m | 2010-08-19 |
20100207976 | PRINT HEAD - A print head assembly includes a print head and a print head cover disposed around the print head. The print head cover includes a face and a print opening disposed in the face. The print opening disposed adjacent an ejection point of the print head. A perforated area is disposed on the face. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207977 | Printer Incorporating Multiple Synchronizing Printer Controllers - A printer includes a printhead having first and second elongate printhead modules; and first and second printer controllers receiving print data and processing the print data to output dot data to the printhead, the first printer controller outputting dot data to the first printhead module and the second printer controller outputting dot data to the second printhead module. The first elongate printhead module is informationally isolated from the second elongate printhead module, whereby no dot data passes therebetween. The first printer controller and the second printer controller communicate therebetween a synchronization signal to effect synchronization therebetween. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207978 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - The printing method includes the following steps of: preparing a printing apparatus that includes an element that is driven in order to form a dot, a first drive signal generation section that generates drive signals for driving the element, and a second drive signal generation section that generates drive signals for driving the element; at a certain timing, forming a dot of a predetermined size by generating a first drive signal with the first drive signal generation section and by generating a second drive signal that is different from the first drive signal with the second drive signal generation section; and at a separate timing, forming a dot of the predetermined size by generating the first drive signal with the second drive signal generation section. With this printing method, the first drive signal generation section and the second drive signal generation section can be made to generate an equal amount of heat. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207983 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image recording apparatus includes: a recording head having a plurality of recording elements; a conveyance device which conveys at least one of the recording head and a recording medium so as to cause relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium; a recording defect information acquisition device which acquires recording defect information indicating a recording element having a recording defect, of the plurality of recording elements; a recording defect correction device which corrects an image defect caused by the recording element having a recording defect, according to the recording defect information acquired by the recording defect information acquisition device; an image reading apparatus which reads in an image of a test chart for density measurement recorded by the recording head, the image of the test chart for density measurement having been corrected by the recording defect correction device; a recording density information acquisition device which acquires recording density information indicating recording density of the plurality of recording elements, according to the image of the test chart for density measurement read in by the image reading apparatus; a density correction information calculation device which calculates density correction information according to the recording density information acquired by the recording density information acquisition device; a density correction device which corrects density of image data according to the density correction information calculated by the density correction information calculation device; an uncorrected recording defect information acquisition device which acquires uncorrected recording defect information indicating a recording element having a new recording defect which has not been corrected by the recording defect correction device when the test chart for density measurement is output; and a recording density information amendment device which amends the density correction information according to the uncorrected recording defect information acquired by the uncorrected recording defect information acquisition device. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207984 | PRINT HEAD CHECK METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A printer has a print head check unit that performs an ink ejection check to confirm whether or not ink is being ejected normally from nozzles, based on induced voltage generated when charged ink droplets are ejected onto a check area. Upon receipt of a print instruction (S | 2010-08-19 |
20100207987 | RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS AND OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM - [Object] To provide a recording apparatus, a recording method, and an operation control program which are superior in color stability (gray balance), are capable of achieving an image quality in which dots are inconspicuous, and are capable of providing images in which phenomenon such that color varies from light source to light source is restrained. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207988 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus includes plural cartridge loading units respectively corresponding to plural ink cartridges and configured in such a manner that the respective ink cartridges are loaded therein in a reloadable manner, ink inflow ports provided to the respective plural cartridge loading units to introduce the inks accommodated in the ink cartridges to be supplied to the plural heads when connected to ink outflow ports provided to the ink cartridges, a detection unit configured to detect whether the ink cartridges are loaded in the cartridge loading units as predetermined before the ink outflow ports come into contact with the ink inflow ports when the ink cartridges are loaded in the cartridge loading units, and a notifying unit configured to notify a detection result of the detection unit in a form of a display or a sound. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207991 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head for ejecting a liquid includes a cap that abuts a nozzle forming surface, thereby surrounding a nozzle. A cap holder biases the cap toward the liquid ejecting head. The cap holder can move in a first direction toward and away from the liquid ejecting head. A carrier reciprocates in a second, orthogonal direction. The carrier reciprocates in the second direction to reciprocate the cap holder in the first direction with a cam mechanism between an abutting position in which the cap abuts the liquid ejecting head and a flushing position in which the cap is spaced apart from the liquid ejecting head. The cap moves to a first flushing position when the cap moves from the abutting position to the flushing position, whereas the cap moves to a second flushing position when the cap moves from a non-abutting position to the flushing position. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207992 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY WITH INK SUPPLY VIA EXTRUSION - A printhead assembly for an inkjet printer, which has a printhead with a plurality of inlets for receiving ink, an extrusion having a plurality of outlets in fluid communication with the plurality of inlets such that the extrusion supplies ink to the printhead, the extrusion having a plurality of ink channels in fluid communication with the plurality of outlets, a plugging device at one end of the extrusion configured to supply ink from the printer to each of the channels respectively, the plugging device having a first plate, a second plate, a series of plugs and a spine, the first and the second plate hingedly connected via the spine such that the series of plugs seal respective open ends of the plurality of channels and the first and second plates overlap and clamp around the exterior surface of the first end of the extrusion. The plugging device also having inlets for receiving ink from the printer, and directing the received ink into respective channels of the extrusion. The first plate has the plurality of inlets, and the extrusion has a plurality of apertures which align with the plurality of inlets. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207993 | Ink Collection For Printers - An exemplary printer system may include a print head for dispensing ink during a printing operation. A roller is positioned beneath a platen to collect excess ink from the print head. A scraper is positioned against the roller to remove ink from the roller. | 2010-08-19 |
20100207994 | FLUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A fluid ejection apparatus ejects a fluid from a nozzle and includes a nozzle opening surface in which the nozzle is formed. A fluid removal unit removes fluid adhering to the nozzle opening surface. The fluid removal unit includes a plate-shaped wiper member that is formed from an elastic material. The wiper member moves from one end of the nozzle opening surface to the other as the ejection head or the wiper member moves while in a state where the wiper member makes contact with the nozzle opening surface and elastically deforms. A splash catching member is erected in front of the wiper member when the wiper member moving relative along the nozzle opening surface separates from the nozzle opening surface and returns to its original shape. The splash catching member catches objects that had been adhering to the nozzle opening surface and are scattered by the wiper member. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208001 | PRESSURE-REGULATING VALVE AND LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A pressure-regulating valve in which the pressure of a functional liquid fed to a primary chamber from a functional liquid feeding means is regulated by opening and closing a valve body, the functional liquid is fed to a secondary chamber, and the functional liquid is fed from the secondary chamber to an inkjet-type functional droplet ejection head; wherein the valve body has a valve body main body that directly opens and closes with respect to a valve seat, the valve body main body being provided to the primary chamber; and a valve holder including a holding part that holds the valve body main body and an actuating shaft that comes in contact with a pressure-receiving membrane, the actuating shaft extending concentrically through the communication flow passage from the holding part; the actuating shaft is formed so as to taper to a point toward the pressure-receiving membrane; and the communication flow passage is formed to have a complementary shape with respect to the actuating shaft. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208002 | INKJET NOZZLE ARRANGEMENT INCORPORATING THERMAL DIFFERENTIAL ACTUATOR - A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead includes a wafer substrate defining an inlet channel; a nozzle chamber wall and a roof wall positioned on the wafer substrate to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the inlet channel, the roof wall defining an ink ejection port in fluid communication with the nozzle chamber; a paddle positioned in the nozzle chamber and reciprocally displaceable to eject ink from the ejection port; and an actuating arm extending through the nozzle chamber wall and connected to the paddle, the actuating arm comprising an actuating portion having a pair of actuating members, one of the actuating members including a heating circuit. On receipt of an electrical signal to the exclusion of the other actuating member, the actuating arm is displaced in a first direction. The actuating arm is comprised of a resiliently flexible material, whereby on cessation of the electrical signal, the actuating arm is displaced in a second direction opposite to the first direction. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208003 | PRINTHEAD WITH MULTIPLE HEATERS IN EACH CHAMBER - An inkjet printhead with an array of ink chambers, each chamber having a plurality of nozzles. Multiple heater elements are positioned in each of the ink chambers, and electrically connected to each other in series. Drive circuitry selectively provides the heaters with drive signals such that a single drive signal simultaneously actuates the all the heater elements. Each generates a separate vapour bubble to eject ink through each of the plurality of nozzles. By putting multiple actuators in a single chamber, and providing each actuator with a corresponding nozzle (or nozzles), each nozzle ejects drops of smaller volume, and having different misdirections. Smaller drops with differing misdirections are less likely to create any visible artefacts. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208004 | Ring Electrode for Fluid Ejection - Methods, systems, and apparatus for drive a pumping chamber of a fluid ejection system are disclosed. In one implementation, the actuator for drive the pumping chamber includes a continuous piezoelectric layer between a pair of drive electrodes and a continuous reference electrode. The pair of drive electrodes includes an inner electrode and an outer electrode surrounding the inner electrode. The actuator is further coupled to a controller which, during a fluid ejection cycle, applies a negative voltage pulse differential to the outer electrode to expand the pumping chamber for a first time period, then applies another negative voltage pulse differential to the inner electrode during a second time period after the first time period to contract the pumping chamber to eject a fluid drop. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208005 | FILM FORMATION METHOD, FILM FORMATION DEVICE, PIEZOELECTRIC FILM, PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE - When a film containing constituent elements of a target is formed on a substrate through a vapor deposition process using plasma with placing the substrate and the target to face to each other, the film is formed with surrounding the substrate with a wall surface having the constituent elements of the target adhering thereto, and applying a physical treatment to the wall surface to cause the components adhering to the wall surface to be released into the film formation atmosphere. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208006 | PRINTING BIO-REACTIVE MATERIALS - A method for printing one or more desired features on a polymeric substrate. In an example embodiment, the method includes receiving an ink that includes a bio-reactive indicator material, and employing a piezoelectric printhead to deposit the ink on a polymeric substrate. The polymer substrate with the ink deposited thereon represents a diagnostic testing device for performing a test on a material sample. The method further includes employing UltraViolet (UV) light to cure the ink. The ink may include an electrically conductive material. A UV light source may be coupled to a piezoelectric printhead and actuated in response to a control signal from a controller to facilitate curing materials deposited on the polymeric substrate. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208007 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE - A piezoelectric device of the present invention includes a piezoelectric material and lower and upper electrodes for applying an electric field to the piezoelectric material. The upper electrode is patterned, and an edge portion of the upper electrode is provided with a structure where an intensity of the electric field exerted on the piezoelectric material gradually decreases along a direction from a central portion toward an edge surface of the upper electrode when the electric field is applied to the piezoelectric material. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208008 | DROPLET DISCHARGING HEAD, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DROPLET DISCHARGING DEVICE - A droplet discharging head, includes: a discharging chamber; a plurality of nozzle orifices discharging droplets and each of the plurality of nozzle orifices is communicated with the discharging chamber; an actuator; a vibrating plate provided using a bottom wall of the discharging chamber and displaceably driven by the actuator; and a reservoir commonly communicated with each discharging chamber. The discharging chamber, the actuator, and the reservoir are each segmented on separate planes and stacked in this order in a manner that a projection plane in a direction perpendicular to a formation plane of the reservoir is contained in formation planes of the actuator and the discharging chamber. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208017 | IMAGING MODULE FOR HOT MELT WAX INK JET PRINTER - An imaging module includes an ink jet print head for printing human-readable or coded (e.g., bar code) information directly onto various porous and non-porous materials (e.g., a corrugated cardboard container), and a pair of reservoirs that hold the melted ink ultimately used in the printing process. The module also includes an ink feed hopper into which one or more solid sticks of hot melt wax ink are fed and an associated heater to melt the ink sticks in limited volume, together with associated vents, control pumps and valves, all integrated together within the imaging module to deliver the melted ink to the print head for printing on a container or other items. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208018 | Waste Phase Change Ink Recycling - A printhead for use in an imaging device includes a reservoir configured to receive ink from an ink source. An aperture plate includes a plurality of ink jet apertures at a first location in the aperture plate and a plurality of recycling apertures at a second location in the aperture plate. The printhead includes a plurality of ink jets, each ink jet being configured to receive ink from the reservoir and to reject ink through one of the ink jet apertures in the aperture plate, and a plurality of channels, each channel being configured to fluidly couple one of the recycling apertures in the aperture plate to the reservoir. A pressure source is coupled to the reservoir that is configured to generate a pressure in the reservoir. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208019 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A CLADDING PANEL - The invention relates to a method for the contactless printing of a visible surface ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208020 | INK JET PRINTER FOR PRINTING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE CURING INK - A printing device has a gas source, a printhead having a nozzle plate with nozzles in the nozzle plate, the nozzles are fluidly connected to corresponding pumping chamber and a gas outlet positioned adjacent to the nozzle plate. The gas outlet is in fluid communication with the gas source and the gas outlet is configured to provide gas to an exposed surface of the nozzle plate so that the gas flow is substantially parallel to the surface of the nozzle plate. Fluid that is ejected out of the nozzles has a UV curable component. After the fluid has been ejected out of the nozzle and onto a receiver, the fluid is irradiated and cured. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208025 | EXPOSURE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An exposure device includes a reference current generating unit generating a reference current for each image of respective colors, a photoelectric current generating unit generating a photoelectric current in response to a light amount of the light emitting element, a driving unit driving the light emitting element, a first controller, a drive voltage holding unit holding a drive voltage given to the driving unit, a second controller controlling the driving unit based on the drive voltage held, a comparison current generating unit generates a comparison current, a difference current generating unit generating a difference current, of each color, corresponding to a difference between the reference current of each color and the comparison current. The first controller compares a value obtained by adding the difference current of each color to the photoelectric current with the comparison current to control the driving unit so that the photoelectric current becomes the reference current. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208026 | Label Detection Method and Label Printer - Labels can be detected on various types of label paper. Two photodetectors are disposed side by side in the transportation direction of label paper either above or below the transportation path of the printer, and a light-emitting device is disposed at a position opposite the photodetectors with the transportation path therebetween. Alternatively, the light-emitting device is disposed at a position between the photodetectors. Each time the label paper is advanced a unit amount, the light that passes through or the light that is reflected by the parts of the label paper at the detection positions on the transportation path is detected, and whether the amplified difference of these two detector outputs is greater than or equal to a specific threshold value set according to the difference in the transmittance of the liner and the label is determined. Passage of an edge part of a label or black mark between the detection positions is detected based on the result of this decision. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208027 | Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a line head that performs exposure on a latent image carrier to form a latent image. The line head includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and an optical system that images light emitted from the first and second light-emitting elements. When a difference between the maximum and minimum values of a longitudinal aberration of the optical system is G, a distance in the first direction between centers of geometry of the first and second light-emitting elements is P | 2010-08-19 |
20100208028 | Method and System to Connect Consumers to Information - This invention provides for a method of (or apparatus for) facilitating the delivery of advice to consumers using a server unit which can store and display the names and characteristics of experts and then rapidly assist in connecting the expert and consumer for real-time communication. The server can also have the ability to receive keywords from the consumer, match those keywords to one or more experts, and tell the consumer how to contact an expert. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208029 | MOBILE IMMERSIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A mobile content delivery and display system enables a user to use a communication device, such as a cell phone or smart handset device, to view data, images, and video, make phone calls, and perform other functions, in an immersive environment while being mobile. The system, also referred to as a platform, includes a display component which may have one of numerous configurations, each providing extended field-of-views (FOVs). Display component shapes may include hemispherical, ellipsoidal, tubular, conical, pyramidal, or square/rectangular. The display component may have one or more vertical and/or horizontal cuts, each having various degrees of inclination, thereby providing the user with partial physical enclosure creating extended horizontal and/or vertical FOVs. The platform may also have one or more projectors for displaying data (e.g., text, images, or video) on the display component. Other sensors in the system may include 2-D and 3-D cameras, location sensors, speakers, microphones, communication devices, and interfaces. The platform may be worn or attached to the user as an accessory facilitating user mobility. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208030 | CHATTING SERVICE METHOD INTERWORKING VIDEO PHONE SERVICE - The present invention implements a chatting the chatting service interworking with a video phone service which can transmit and receive a text during a video phone conversation without terminating the video phone conversation, and furthermore, it improves service quality of a video phone by transmitting and receiving a text during a video phone conversation if a video phone conversation is made in poor an unsuitable environment. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208033 | Personal Media Landscapes in Mixed Reality - An exemplary method includes accessing geometrically located data that represent one or more virtual items with respect to a three-dimensional coordinate system; generating a three-dimensional map based at least in part on real image data of a three-dimensional space as acquired by a camera; rendering to a physical display a mixed reality scene that includes the one or more virtual items at respective three-dimensional positions in a real image of the three-dimensional space acquired by the camera; and re-rendering to the physical display the mixed reality scene upon a change in the field of view of the camera. Other methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DYNAMIC CALIBRATION OF STEREOVISION CAMERAS - The present invention generally provides a method of performing dynamic calibration of a stereo vision system using a specific stereo disparity algorithm adapted to provide for the determination of disparity in two dimensions, X and Y. In one embodiment of the present invention, an X/Y disparity map may be calculated using this algorithm without having to perform pre-warping or first finding the epipolar directions. Thus information related to camera misalignment and/or distortion can be preserved in the resulting X/Y disparity map and later extracted. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208039 | DIMENSIONING SYSTEM - The present invention determines the dimensions and volume of an object by using a novel 3-D camera that measures the distance to every reflective point in its field of view with a single pulse of light. The distance is computed by the time of flight of the pulse to each camera pixel. The accuracy of the measurement is augmented by capture of the laser pulse shape in each camera pixel. The camera can be used on an assembly line to develop quality control data for manufactured objects or on a moving or stationary system that weighs as well as dimensions the objects. The device can also ascertain the minimum size of a box required to enclose an object. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208040 | Preventing interference between primary and secondary content in a stereoscopic display - A method of positioning primary and secondary images on a stereoscopic display device involves ascertaining a perceived depth of the primary image and the secondary image; transforming the perceived depth of at least one of the primary and secondary image data by compressing the perceived depth of the at least one of the primary and secondary image data; and transforming at least one of the primary and secondary image data so as to position the perceived secondary image at a position that will be perceived by a viewer to be situated at a depth when viewed on the stereoscopic display such that the secondary image appears to be situated fully between the primary image and the viewer when viewed stereoscopically. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208047 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program - An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an in-vivo image being a captured image of an inside of a body cavity; a feature-data calculating unit that calculates feature data corresponding to a pixel or an area in the in-vivo image; a body-tissue extracting unit that extracts, as a body tissue, a pixel or an area whose feature data corresponds to a predetermined threshold; a criterion creating unit that creates a criterion for detecting a detecting object based on the feature data of the body tissue; and a detecting unit that detects a body tissue corresponding to the criterion as the detecting object. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208048 | DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE SYSTEM AND HUMAN BODY DATA COMPARISON METHOD FOR MEDICAL AND AESTHETIC APPLICATIONS - A human body data comparison method includes steps of a) picking up human body digital 3D image data from a person during the person's optimal lifetime of said person for use as reference human body digital 3D image data, b) storing the reference human body digital 3D image data in a databank, c) fetching the reference human body digital 3D image data from the databank during a medical/aesthetic treatment of the person, and d) comparing the fetched reference human body digital 3D image data and then performing the medical/aesthetic treatment subject to the comparison result. The invention also provides a digital image storage system for use with the human body data comparison method. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208049 | IMAGING CHAMBER WITH WINDOW AND MICRO-NEEDLE PLATFORM MAGNETICALLY BIASED TOWARD EACH OTHER - A device for imaging a tissue culture comprises a chamber for housing a tissue to be cultured and imaged. The chamber comprises a transparent window. The device also includes a platform facing the window. Micro-needles are mounted on the platform and are connected for fluid communication with a fluid source. The platform and the window are magnetically biased toward each other to press the micro-needles into a tissue sandwiched between the window and platform for injecting a fluid into the tissue. One or more spacers are placed between the platform and the window for preventing over-compression of the tissue by the platform and the window. During use, a fluid is supplied to the tissue through the needles from the fluid source and the tissue is imaged through the window of the chamber. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208050 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBSERVING THE SURFACE OF A SAMPLE - An apparatus for observing the optical appearance of a surface ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208053 | CULTURE MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - A culture microscope apparatus has an illumination unit to apply excitation light to the specimen, a specimen observing portion to observe light generated from the specimen due to the excitation light, and a dimmer unit to dim the excitation light that has penetrated the specimen. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208054 | DISPOSABLE MICROSCOPE AND PORTABLE DISPLAY - Various embodiments for providing removable, pluggable and disposable opto-electronic modules for illumination and microscopic imaging are provided, for use with portable display devices. Generally, various medical or industrial miniature microscopes can include one or more solid state or other compact electro-optic illuminating elements, electronic vision systems and means of scanning located thereon. Additionally, such opto-electronic modules may include illuminating optics, imaging optics, and/or image manipulation and processing elements. The illuminating elements may have different wavelengths and can be time-synchronized with an image sensor to illuminate an object for imaging or detecting purpose or other conditioning purpose. All control and power functions of such disposable microscope units can be made in the control unit that the disposable microscopes are plugged into. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208055 | Push-Cable for Pipe Inspection System - In accordance with the present invention a push-cable comprises a central core including a least one conductor, a plurality of non-metallic resilient flexible stiffness members surrounding the core, and a layer of sheathing surrounding the stiffness members. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208056 | Pipe Inspection System with Replaceable Cable Storage Drum - A pipe inspection system includes a cable storage drum and a housing configured to removably receive and rotatably support the cable storage drum. A push-cable with a plurality of conductors is stored in the cable storage drum. A camera head is connected to a distal end of the push-cable. A slip-ring assembly has first and second mating portions that when mated provide conductive paths between the plurality of conductors at a proximal end of the push-capable and a display device. The first portion of the slip-ring assembly is mounted on the housing and the second portion of the slip-ring assembly is mounted on the removable cable storage drum. The system connection cable joining the inspection system with a display unit is removable and may be replaced with cables compatible with various alternate image display systems. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208057 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE POSE OF A CAMERA WITH RESPECT TO AT LEAST ONE OBJECT OF A REAL ENVIRONMENT - Method for determining the pose of a camera with respect to at least one object of a real environment for use in authoring/augmented reality application that includes generating a first image by the camera capturing a real object of a real environment, generating first orientation data from at least one orientation sensor associated with the camera or from an algorithm which analyses the first image for finding and determining features which are indicative of an orientation of the camera, allocating a distance of the camera to the real object, generating distance data indicative of the allocated distance, determining the pose of the camera with respect to a coordinate system related to the real object of the real environment using the distance data and the first orientation data. May be performed with reduced processing requirements and/or higher processing speed, in mobile device such as mobile phones having display, camera and orientation sensor. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208058 | MONITORING THE COLOR IMPRESSION OF MULTICOLOR PATTERNED AREAS - A method and an arrangement for testing the quality of multicolor patterned surfaces with an n-channel imaging sensor such as a color camera or an imaging spectrometer. The method determines from the captured images the deviations of the color/spectral statistics and of the image sharpness with respect to references and, before an assessment, converts at least one of the deviations or threshold values using a transformation which emulates the genetically and/or culturally specific perception of the targeted customer groups. The method further allows a quality produced to be associated with a genetically and/or culturally specific group of customers who accept this quality in terms of their perception of multicolor patterned surfaces. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208059 | WINDOW COVERING SIZING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus of ordering a window covering comprises providing a measuring block that is mounted adjacent an architectural feature to be measured. A digital photograph is taken of the architectural feature with the measuring block. A display resolution of the photograph is determined. A scale of the photograph is determined using the measuring block. A dimension of the architectural feature is calculated based on the scale of the photograph. The window covering is cut to the calculated dimension. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208060 | LIQUID DROPLET RECOGNITION APPARATUS, RAINDROP RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND ON-VEHICLE MONITORING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a liquid droplet recognition apparatus for detecting liquid droplets attached to a front surface of a transparent member. The apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus that picks up a vertically polarized light image and a horizontally polarized light image at the front surface of the transparent member from a side of a rear surface of the transparent member; and a signal processing unit that determines whether the liquid droplets are attached to the front surface of the transparent member based on a polarized-light image ratio composed of the vertically polarized light image and the horizontally polarized light image picked up by the image pickup apparatus. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208067 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN OVERTRAVEL TIME OF A MACHINE - An apparatus for determining an overtravel time of a machine, which has a moveable machine part and an optoelectronic protection device, has a light source designed to produce a defined light spot. The protection device for the machine comprises a camera having an observation area in which at least one protection zone having a protection zone boundary is defined. The protection device produces a stop signal when an object enters the protection zone. The light spot simulates an object within the protection zone. The light source is supported by a support element designed to position the light source in the area of the protection zone boundary. An evaluation and control unit of the apparatus is designed to switch on the light source at a defined starting time, and to determine a time interval between the defined starting time and the reception of a stop signal. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208068 | SURVEILLANCE CAMERA APPARATUS, REMOTE RETRIEVAL AND MOUNTING BRACKET THEREFOR - A digital image recording surveillance camera apparatus and system for 24-hour home or business security, surveillance, or to monitor and detect animal movement. The apparatus has a camera, which when activated, photographs an object entering a heat-in-motion detection zone. The apparatus includes a passive IR sensor, multiple infrared emitting diodes, image storage, radio frequency transmission and reception, a remote control and image retrieving device and a tree mounting bracket therefor. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208069 | AUTOMATED UPLOAD OF CONTENT BASED ON CAPTURED EVENT - Systems and methods for automatically capturing, uploading, and publishing content. The system may include one or more monitoring modules for providing captured content to a remote site. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208070 | COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION COLLECTION AND TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208071 | VEHICLE DETECTION DEVICE, VEHICLE DETECTION METHOD, AND VEHICLE DETECTION PROGRAM - Attention is paid on the phenomenon that substantially no direct sun light or no reflected light from surrounding objects is applied, to a vehicle bottom side and tire travel surfaces and the vehicle bottom side and the tire travel surfaces have lower luminance values than all the other portions including the shades of trees or buildings along the road in an on-vehicle camera image. Luminance threshold specifying unit ( | 2010-08-19 |
20100208072 | ON-VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND ON-VEHICLE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An on-vehicle display device | 2010-08-19 |
20100208079 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING MEDIA SIGNALS - Various systems and methods for comparing media signals are disclosed. In some embodiments, media signals are compared by identifying characteristic features in the respective signals and then analyzing the characteristic features to determine if the signals contain corresponding content. In other embodiments, the characteristic features are analyzed to determine the extent to which the signals are synchronized in time. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208080 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND A CONTROL METHOD OF THE IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup device, a device that obtains an image from the image pickup device, a sensor that detects a roll angle of the sensor, wherein the sensor detects a reference roll angle of the sensor when the imaging apparatus is disposed at a predetermined roll angle, a device that calculates a reference roll angle of the image pickup device by using a reference image from the image pickup device when the imaging apparatus is disposed at the predetermined roll angle and a device that corrects a roll angle of the sensor by calculating a relative roll angle from the reference roll angle of the image pickup device and the reference roll angle of the sensor. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208087 | Image processing device, camera motion component calculation method, image processing program, and recording medium - An image processing device, comprising:
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20100208088 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND FOCUSING MECHANISM CONTROL METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging element for acquiring an image of a target object; a detector for detecting movement of the image pickup apparatus; and a controller for controlling focus of the imaging element on the target object while the movement of the image pickup apparatus detected by the detector is not more than a threshold degree. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208089 | ANTI-SHAKE CAMERA - An anti-shake camera includes a top plate having a through hole defined therein, a lens module, an auto-focus actuator fixedly mounted on the top plate, a bottom plate, an image sensor mounted on the bottom plate, a motion sensor disposed on the bottom plate, an elastic member connected between the top plate and the bottom plate, and a drive module. The motion sensor is configured for detecting a movement of the image sensor. The lens module is coupled to the auto-focus actuator in such a manner that an optical axis of the lens module aligns with the through hole of the top plate. The auto-focus actuator is for driving the lens module to achieve auto-focus. The drive module is for driving the lens module to move relative to the image sensor to compensate a movement of the image sensor based on a motion detection result of the motion sensor. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208090 | ANTI-SHAKE APPARATUS - An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller stops the anti-shake operation after an exposure time and moves the movable unit to a first position after the anti-shake operation. The first position is a position of the movable unit before the exposure time and before the anti-shake operation. The controller moves the movable unit at a decelerated, low rate of speed before finishing its movement to the first position. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208093 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA IN PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING CAMERA THEREOF - The present disclosure is related to a method for processing image data in the portable electronic device, the method including obtaining an image through an image obtaining unit of the electronic device having a plurality of shot modes; determining each good-to-fit score of the plurality of shot modes for the obtained image; and displaying the each good-to-fit score of the plurality of shot modes for the obtained image along with the obtained image. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208094 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR SETTING CONTINUOUS SHOOTING SPEED, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus, including: an imaging section for generating image data by performing continuous shooting, a first setting section for setting the number of images to be photographed, in each of the images a subject image is to be included; a dividing section for dividing a photographing region of the imaging section into divided regions of the number of images set by the first setting section; a second setting section for setting a continuous shooting speed based on a photographed position of the subject image in each of the divided regions divided by the dividing section; and a controller for controlling the imaging section to perform the continuous shooting at the continuous shooting speed set by the second setting section. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208095 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGES - An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image generated based on light passing through a lens unit, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information corresponding to a pupil distance of the lens unit when the first image is acquired, and a correction unit configured to generate a second image, which is generated by correcting optical characteristics of the lens unit based on a position of the lens unit at the time of acquisition of the first image, wherein the correction unit corrects the first image affected by the optical characteristics based on the lens position of the lens unit based on the information corresponding to the pupil distance acquired by the second acquisition unit. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208096 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to eliminate the influences of the leakage etc. of charges from a photodiode to a storage part during the electronic shutter operation. To achieve this object, the present invention includes: a photodiode which generates and accumulates a signal charge according to the amount of light from an object; an amplification part which amplifies a signal charge outputted from the photodiode and outputs the amplified signal to the outside; a storage part which temporarily stores the signal charge; and a transfer device which transfers the signal outputted from the photo-electric conversion device to the storage part via the amplification part. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208099 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device is configured to include an optical system which captures an image of a subject, an image sensor which converts the image captured by the optical system into an electric signal, a classifying unit which classifies the captured image into a plurality of areas according to brightness information and color information, a white balance correcting unit which set different white balance correction coefficients for the plurality of areas; and a white balance correction coefficient adjusting unit which adjusts a difference in the white balance correction coefficients for the plurality of areas to be within a first predetermined range. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208100 | Digital camera with multiple pipeline signal processors - There are many, many inventions described herein. In one aspect, what is disclosed is a digital camera including a plurality of arrays of photo detectors, including a first array of photo detectors to sample an intensity of light of a first wavelength and a second array of photo detectors to sample an intensity of light of a second wavelength. The digital camera further may also include a first lens disposed in an optical path of the first array of photo detectors, wherein the first lens includes a predetermined optical response to the light of the first wavelength, and a second lens disposed in with an optical path of the second array of photo detectors wherein the second lens includes a predetermined optical response to the light of the second wavelength. In addition, the digital camera may include signal processing circuitry, coupled to the first and second arrays of photo detectors, to generate a composite image using (i) data which is representative of the intensity of light sampled by the first array of photo detectors, and (ii) data which is representative of the intensity of light sampled by the second array of photo detectors; wherein the first array of photo detectors, the second array of photo detectors, and the signal processing circuitry are integrated on or in the same semiconductor substrate. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208101 | WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image capture system is presented where the dynamic range of photo imaging devices, such as a still or video camera, is increased by varying sensor exposure time on a pixel-by-pixel basis under digital camera processor control. The systems photo sensors are continuously illuminated without reset over the exposure interval. In addition to being interrogated at the end of the exposure interval, the pixels are also non-destructively interrogated at one or more intermediate times during the interval. At each interrogation, the image capture system determines individually whether the pixels have saturated and if not, the parameter value is recorded; if the pixel has saturated, the previously stored value from the preceding interval is maintained. To produce the final sensor value for the whole exposure interval, the data for pixels that reached the saturation level are adjusted to compensate for their shortened exposure. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208102 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING VIDEO DATA - A storage device generates low frame rate video data by frame thinning high frame rate video data input. The storage device performs image synthesis on the low frame rate video data and the high frame rate video data, for which video data input has been delayed, into two screens. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208107 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An imaging device and a control method for an imaging device of the present invention comprise an imaging section for photoelectrically converting a subject image and outputting image data, and a display section for performing live view display of the subject image based on the image data, wherein, with respect to whether or not a main body is being held, by determining if the main body is in a portrait orientation, and is being held by a touch surface area or with both hands, if this determination is that the main body is not being held a shooting command is received using only a release button, while if it is determined that the main body is being held a shooting command is received by touching the display section. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208108 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup device that images a photogenic subject, a drive part that drives the image pickup device in order to read out image signals from the image pickup device, a digital signal processing part in which image signals outputted from the image pickup device are inputted and processed, one image display part connected to the digital signal processing part and configured to display using one display format a processed image, another image display part connected to the digital signal processing part and configured to display using another display format the processed image and which requires more time for display processing than the time required for display processing by the one display format and an image switch-over part for switching over an image display device between the one image display part and the another image display part. The digital signal processing part includes an operation speed shift part for setting the speed of operation of the drive part in correspondence to the switch-over of an image display device from the one image display part to the another image display part and a smear detection part for detecting smears based on image data obtained from the image pickup device. When smears are not detected based on the detection result of the smear detection part, the digital signal processing part maintains the speed of operation when an image is displayed in the another image display part to the speed of operation when an image is displayed in the one image display part. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208111 | Driving module for imaging apparatus and driving method thereof - A driving method for an imaging apparatus is provided, wherein the driving method is applied to protect an electronic device that includes the imaging apparatus. The method includes the following steps: blanking a vertical pulse signal outputted by a timing generator unit when the electronic device is booting; and then removing the blanking function so that the timing generator unit may output the vertical pulse signal normally to the imaging apparatus when the electronic apparatus has finished booting. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208112 | Ramp generators and image sensors including the same - A ramp generator includes a row decoder, a column decoder, a current cell matrix and a current-voltage converter. The row decoder generates row selection signals, and the column decoder generates column selection signals. Each of current cells included in the current cell matrix is turned on to provide a unit current if a corresponding row selection signal and a corresponding column selection signal are activated. Each of the current cells is maintained to be turned on even if the corresponding row selection signal or the corresponding column selection signal is deactivated. The current cell matrix outputs an output current by summing unit currents provided from the current cells that are turned on. The current-voltage converter converts the output current of the current cell matrix into a ramp voltage. Therefore, the ramp generator may have a small size and prevent a glitch. | 2010-08-19 |
20100208115 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR - A pixel area with a two-dimensional array of pixels ( | 2010-08-19 |