35th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130222383 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In order to provide a medical image display device and a medical image display method capable of displaying a three-dimensional image at high-speed, a medical image display device including a display unit that displays a three-dimensional image created on the basis of cross-sectional images of an object includes a sliding unit that uses an angle of a projection surface and a projection method set for the three-dimensional image and a projected image creation unit that creates a projected image using voxel data after sliding and displays the projected image on the display unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222384 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, BASED ON TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING OF HOLOGRAM TILES - The invention relates to a display device, in particular a head-mounted display or hocular, having a spatial light modulator and a controllable light-deflecting device for generating a multiple image of the spatial light modulator, which consists of segments, the multiple image being produced at least with a predefinable number of segments which determines the size of a visible area within which a 3D-scene holographically encoded in the spatial light modulator can be reconstructed for observation by an eye of an observer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222385 | Systems And Methods For Sketching And Imaging - A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating a three-dimensional representation of a scene within a three-dimensional space are disclosed. A plurality of two-dimensional planes to be positioned within the three-dimensional space are generated. The plurality of two dimensional planes include two-dimensional content that is capable of being modified. The generated two-dimensional planes are positioned within the three-dimensional space. The positioning of the planes is capable of being modified. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222386 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR PROJECTION ON A PROJECTION SCREEN - A method of processing an original image for projection on a projection screen by a projector, comprising performing pixel interpolation between pixels of a first image associated with the original image and pixels of a second image associated with a pixel grid of the projector, wherein at least one of the first image and the second image has a pixel resolution greater than the resolution of, respectively, the original image and the pixel grid. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222387 | Event Data Visualization Tool - A method for visually depicting complex events. Software agents are preferably employed to assist the human operator by collecting, enriching, selecting, aggregating, and analyzing data so that patterns of interest can be visually flagged or otherwise emphasized in the visual display. Events are depicted as an “event flow” from a source surface to a destination surface. Intervening surfaces may also be defined. The point of origin on the source surface reveals some information about the event flow, as does the point of impact on the destination surface. The event flow may be mapped to one or more intervening surfaces in order to visually depict other characteristics of the event. The entire depiction is rendered in a simulated three-dimensional view. The user is preferably given the ability to pan, zoom, and reorient the vantage point from which the user “views” the depiction on the computer display. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222388 | METHOD OF GRAPH PROCESSING - A method of compressing a graph representation, and method of solving a problem represented by a graph using graph compression enable improved data searching techniques. The graph representation includes a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. A first clustered graph is generated by clustering the plurality of vertices of the graph representation. Each cluster of vertices is then replaced by a clustered vertex, wherein the clustered vertex inherits edges from the vertices of the cluster. Superfluous edges of the first clustered graph are then removed. A traversal probability for each of the removed edges is determined, and one or more of the edges that have been removed is selected for embedding in the first clustered graph, based upon a traversal probability for each of the edges. Information relating to the one or more edges is then embedded into the first clustered graph. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222389 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device includes: a data schema storing means for storing data schemas representing data structures of graph data generated by the respective analysis engines; and an analysis data integrating means for integrating the graph data generated by the respective analysis engines. In each of the data schemas, path information for referring to the respective nodes in the graph data and node identification information for identifying the respective nodes are associated with each other. The analysis data integrating means is configured to receive the graph data that are analysis results from the respective analysis engines, and couple and integrate the graph data at the nodes whose node identification information are identical to each other based on the data schemas corresponding to the respective analysis engines. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CORRELATING A MEASURED LOG TO A PREDICTED LOG - Correlating a measured and predicted log. At least some illustrative embodiments are methods including: plotting values of the measured log with respect to an ordinate axis and an abscissa axis, and the plotting in a first pane; plotting values of the predicted log with respect to the ordinate axis and the abscissa axis; selecting an inflection point of the predicted log; shifting horizontal position of the inflection point relative to the measured log respnsive to the pointing device; changing dip of at least one modeled surface in a structural model based the relative location of the inflection point; recalculating the predicted log based on the change in dip, the recalculating creates a modified predicted log; and then plotting the modified predicted log. In some cases, the method may also include adding a fixed X, Y, Z point in the at least one modeled surface based on location of the inflection point. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222391 | WAVEFORM DISPLAY DEVICE WITH DATA MANAGEMENT FUNCTION - A waveform display device with a data management function acquires drive-axis data of a machine tool from a numerical controller for controlling the machine tool and acquires parameters of the numerical controller from the numerical controller. The waveform display device manages the drive-axis data and the parameters in association with each other, based on a time at which the drive-axis data is acquired and a time at which the parameter is acquired. These times of acquisition of the drive-axis data and the parameters are set by a timer of the waveform display device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222392 | MULTIVALUE BAR GRAPH DISPLAYS AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTING SAME - A display for showing indicia in the form of a bar graph is provided. The display is configured so that each bar of the bar graph depicts a numerical or other quantitative value of a parameter. Each bar is provided with one or more additional indicia representative of numerical values that are related to the numerical values represented by the bar(s) shown in the bar graph. Each of the one or more additional indicia is positioned to as to be superimposed over the respective bar to which the additional indicia correspond, and depict the relationship(s) between the value represented by the bar and the value represented by the one or more additional indicia. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222393 | Method and System for Interactive Layout - In an embodiment of the present invention, an interactive system employs sets of interior design guidelines. In an embodiment, the user begins by specifying the shape of a room and the set of furniture that must be arranged within it. The user then interactively moves furniture pieces. In response, the system suggests a set of furniture layouts that follow the interior design guidelines. The user can interactively select a suggestion and move any piece of furniture to modify the layout. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222394 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SELECTING OBJECTS IN IMAGES - Methods and devices for selecting objects in images are described. In one example aspect, a method includes: receiving stereoscopic image data, the stereoscopic image data includes a first image obtained from a first camera and a second image obtained from a second camera; identifying an object in the first image by analyzing the first image and the second image; displaying the first image, the identified object in the first image being selectable. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222395 | Dynamic Splitting of Content - Methods and systems for dynamically splitting content are disclosed. In some embodiments, content may be received that includes one or more elements to be animated. It may be determined that a size of at least one element of the one or more elements to be animated exceeds a threshold. The at least one element having the size that exceeds the threshold may be split into a plurality of sub-elements. A transform of at least one of the sub-elements may be modified. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND DISPLAYING AN ANIMATED FLOW OF TEXT AND OTHER MEDIA FROM AN INPUT OF CONVENTIONAL TEXT - A system and method for generating and displaying text on a screen as an animated flow from a digital input of conventional text. The Invention divides text into short-scan lines of coherent semantic value that progressively animate from invisible to visible and back to invisible. Multiple line displays are frequent. The effect is aesthetically engaging, perceptually focusing, and cognitively immersive. The reader watches the text like watching a movie. The Invention may exist in whole or in part as a standalone application on a specific screen device. The Invention includes a manual authoring tool that allows the insertion of non-text media such as sound, image, and advertisements. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222397 | Media Action Script Acceleration Method - Exemplary apparatus, method, and system embodiments provide for accelerated hardware processing of an action script for a graphical image for visual display. An exemplary method comprises: converting a plurality of descriptive elements into a plurality of operational codes which at least partially control at least one processor circuit; and using at least one processor circuit, performing one or more operations corresponding to an operational code to generate pixel data for the graphical image. Another exemplary method for processing a data file which has not been fully compiled to a machine code and comprising interpretable descriptions of the graphical image in a non-pixel-bitmap form, comprises: separating the data file from other data; parsing and converting the data file to a plurality of hardware-level operational codes and corresponding data; and performing a plurality of operations in response to at least some hardware-level operational codes to generate pixel data for the graphical image. Exemplary embodiments also may be performed automatically by a system comprising one or more computing devices. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222398 | GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT AND GRAPHIC DATA ACCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A graphic processing unit and a graphic data accessing method are provided. The graphic processing unit receives a graphic processing request instruction which comprises a first coordinate bits and a second coordinate bits of a under processing texel image, from the server processing unit. The graphic processing unit retrieves at least one first bit of the first coordination bits, retrieves at least one second bit of the second coordination bits, and derives a cache index from the at least one first bits and the at least one second bits via an arithmetic logic operation. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222399 | EXECUTION MODEL FOR HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING - The techniques are generally related to implementing a pipeline topology of a data processing algorithm on a graphics processing unit (GPU). A developer may define the pipeline topology in a platform-independent manner. A processor may receive an indication of the pipeline topology and generate instructions that define the platform-dependent manner in which the pipeline topology is to be implemented on the GPU. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222400 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, UPGRADE APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus, upgrade apparatus, display system and control method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a signal input unit; a first image processing unit which processes an input signal input by the signal input unit to output a first output signal; an upgrade apparatus connection unit connected to an upgrade apparatus which includes a second image processing unit; and a first controller which controls at least one of the input signal processed by the first image processing unit and the first output signal to be transmitted to the upgrade apparatus and processed by the second image processing unit if the upgrade apparatus is connected to the upgrade apparatus connection unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222401 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES - According to the embodiments, a semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a power feeder. The semiconductor chip is provided on a substrate, is sealed with a resin, and contains a transmission/reception circuit. The first conductive layer is grounded and covers a first region on a surface of the resin. The second conductive layer is not grounded and covers a second region on the surface of the resin other than the first region. A power feeder electrically connects the semiconductor chip to the second conductive layer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222402 | Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture - In some aspects, systems and methods provide for forming groupings of a plurality of independently-specified computation workloads, such as graphics processing workloads, and in a specific example, ray tracing workloads. The workloads include a scheduling key, which is one basis on which the groupings can be formed. Workloads grouped together can all execute from the same source of instructions, one or more different private data elements. Such workloads can recursively instantiate other workloads that reference the same private data elements. In some examples, the scheduling key can be used to identify a data element to be used by all the workloads of a grouping. Memory conflicts to private data elements are handled through scheduling of non-conflicted workloads or specific instructions an deferring conflicted workloads instead of locking memory locations. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222403 | SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION METHOD FOR IMAGE DISPLAY - A method of controlling micromirrors of reset groups of a spatial light modulator (SLM) digital micromirror array is disclosed. In a first reset operation, the positions of a first subgroup of micromirrors of a reset group are set based on a first portion of a first bitplane and the positions of a second subgroup of micromirrors of the same reset group are set based on a first portion of a second bitplane. Then, in a second reset operation, the positions of the first subgroup are set based on a second portion of the second bitplane and the positions of the second subgroup are set based on a second portion of a first bitplane. In one example, subsets of alternating rows of micromirrors of the same reset group are successively set according to alternating data corresponding to different ones of first and second bitplanes. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222404 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER SYSTEM - A display controller system with a memory controller and buffers is described. The system enables transferring data from the main memory of the CPU to the image memory without interfering the image updating. As a result, the present invention may allow continuously updating the display image and continuously writing new image data from CPU to the image memory which improves overall system performance. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERCONNECTED DEVICES - A computer implemented method comprises, at an electronic device having an input interface and a display, obtaining a status of a characteristic associated with a communication or connection of said electronic device or associated with another electronic device in communication with said electronic device, and generating on the display a visual representation of particles, wherein said particles are representative of said characteristic and wherein one or more attributes of said particles is representative of the status of said characteristic. The electronic device provides a user with an intuitive and rich visual representation of the characteristic and its current status, and the user can interact with the displayed representation of particles via the input interface to change the status of the associated characteristic, and the visual representation of the particles is updated to reflect the change. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FLAVOR ADVISEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT - A method and apparatus for generating a visual representation of a flavor or texture profile based on flavor or texture preferences of a user with respect to each of a plurality of flavor or texture categories or based on flavor or texture characteristic information representing flavor or texture characteristics of a product or recipe for each of a plurality of flavor or texture categories. The flavor or texture preferences of a user and the flavor or texture characteristics of a product or recipe with respect to each of a plurality of flavor or texture categories is determined by way of a method and apparatus for determining a flavor or texture profile for a user and a method and apparatus for determining a flavor or texture profile for a food element, respectively. Also described is a method and apparatus for providing food element recommendations based on flavor or texture. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222407 | GLYPH RENDERING - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering a glyph. Rendering data for the glyph can be received, such as size, shape, color, etc., along with first sub-pixel position for initially rendering the glyph on a display. A first rendering quality can be identified for the first sub-pixel position and second rendering quality can be identified for a second sub-pixel position, which may comprise an alternate rendering position. A sub-pixel position shift can be selected for the glyph based at least upon a comparison of the first and second rendering qualities. The sub-pixel position shift can comprise a difference between the first sub-pixel position and the second sub-pixel position, where the second rendering quality is selected/preferable over the first rendering quality. The glyph can be rendered by applying the selected sub-pixel position shift. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222408 | COLOR MAPPING INTERPOLATION BASED ON LIGHTING CONDITIONS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing color mapping in a display device. The display device can include a plurality of stored color mappings that are used to convert input digital color images into the display device's color space. Each of the stored color mappings can correspond to a distinct lighting environment. The display device can detect its lighting environment and then combine two or more of the stored color mappings based on the detected lighting environment. For example, the display device may calculate an interpolated color mapping from two or more of the stored color mappings using interpolation weights that are based on the detected lighting conditions. The display device can then convert the input image using the composite color mapping, and display the image. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222409 | PROJECTOR, PROJECTION DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method includes sending image related working status information representing image-related working status of a projector that projects images, to a client over a network in response to a request to provide the image-related working status of the projector. The image-related working status is related to display characteristic of the projected image. The method includes controlling the image-related working status of the projector based on the control information received from the client over the network in response to the sent image-related working status information. The image-related working status information is sent to the client with screen information from which the client can display a user interface that includes the image-related working status information. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222410 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a data output unit, a first display device and a second display device. The data output unit is configured to output first data and second data. The first display device includes a first display unit. The second display device includes a second display unit. The data output unit is configured to implement at least one selected from a first output operation and a second output operation. The first output operation includes a first operation and a second operation. The first operation is configured to output the first data. The second operation is configured to output the second data after the first operation. The second output operation includes a third operation and a fourth operation. The third operation is configured to output the second data. The fourth operation is configured to output the first data after the third operation. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222411 | EXTENDED RANGE COLOR SPACE - Techniques are disclosed relating to additive color systems. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a device configured to operate on pixel data having color component values falling within an extended range outside of 0.0 to 1.0 corresponding to an extended range color space. In one embodiment, a gamma correction function is disclosed that can be applied to the pixel data, where the gamma correction function is applicable to both negative and positive values. Various embodiments of formats for arranging pixel data are also disclosed. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222412 | Individualized Visual Color Matching System and Methods - Methods and systems for individualized color matching are described. The described methods and systems are particularly applied by selecting a point or a parameter on a color matching function (CMF) graph and setting a new value for this point or parameter in order to obtain a desired color preference in a displayed image. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222413 | BUFFER-FREE CHROMA DOWNSAMPLING - Methods and graphics processing pipelines for performing inline chroma downsampling of pixel data. The graphics processing pipeline includes a chroma downsampling unit for performing buffer-free downsampling of chroma pixel components. A vertical column of chroma pixel components is received in each clock cycle by the chroma downsampling unit, and downsampled chroma pixel components are generated on every clock cycle or every other clock cycle. Vertical, horizontal, and vertical and horizontal downsampling can be performed without buffers by the chroma downsampling unit. A programmable configuration register in the chroma downsampling unit determines the type of downsampling that is implemented. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222414 | COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A color signal processing device for generating image data to be displayed on a display device which represents a color by using at least four primary colors, includes an obtainer that obtains a color signal regarding three primary colors for image data composed of a plurality of pixels, a changer that changes a value of the obtained color signal regarding the three primary colors, and a converter that converts the changed color signal regarding the three primary colors into a color signal regarding four primary colors. When a predetermined region contains a color saturated pixel, the changer makes the value of the color signal of at least one color of the three primary colors smaller, for pixels contained in the predetermined region. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222415 | CALCULATION OF A MEDICAL IMAGE USING TEMPLATES - A data processing method for calculating a medical display image to be displayed on a display device, comprising the steps of acquiring at least one image dataset representing a medical image of a patient, acquiring a patient-specific information dataset representing patient-specific information and calculating the display image from the at least one image dataset on the basis of a template, the template being selected from a plurality of templates in accordance with the acquired patient-specific information. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222416 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE USING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - A method for controlling a terminal with a processor includes detecting a first bend on a flexible display unit; determining, using the processor, whether the first bend comprises a curvature greater than or equal to a first curvature; and displaying a plurality of virtual layers in a hierarchical order according to the first bend. A terminal includes a flexible display unit to display an image provided on a virtual layer corresponding to a reference hierarchy; a bending determination unit to determine whether a first bend of the flexible display unit includes a curvature greater or equal to a first curvature; and an interface unit to display a plurality of virtual layers in a hierarchical order according to the first bend. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222417 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING A SCREEN - A terminal includes a display unit to display a plurality of layers associated with an application program, an analysis unit to determine a hierarchy of the layers, a determination unit to determine whether a specific layer is included in the layers, and a changing unit to change a tier of the specific layer in the hierarchy of layers from a first tier to a second tier. A method for selectively displaying a screen on a terminal includes displaying an application program screen including a plurality of layers, determining a hierarchy of the layers, determining whether a specific layer is included in the layers, and changing a tier of the specific layer in the hierarchy of layers from a first tier to a second tier. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222418 | Providing a Graphic for Video Production - Included are embodiments for providing a graphic for a video production. Some embodiments include capturing video data of an event, identifying a participant that is participating in the event, and receiving participant data from a performance social networking page of the participant. Additionally, some embodiments may include determining an act of interest in the event that involves the participant, retrieving from the multi-tiered performance social network, participant data about the participant, and creating a graphic within the video data that includes at least a portion of the participant data. Some embodiments include broadcasting the video data with the graphic to a plurality of viewers. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222419 | Video Calling - In a method and system for performing a video call between a first terminal and a second terminal, video data for the video call is captured with a camera of the first terminal. The captured video data is transmitted in real-time to the second terminal for use in the video call. The captured video data is output in real-time at a display of the second terminal in the video call. A video hold input is received from a user at the first terminal to initiate a video hold state. Holding video data is determined for output at the display of the second terminal in the video hold state. In the video hold state, the determined holding video data is output at the display of the second terminal, instead of outputting video data captured by said camera of the first terminal in real-time at the display of the second terminal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONOUS ZOOMING - A system for displaying a plurality of plots is provided. The system includes a presentation interface configured to display the plurality of plots, a user input interface configured to create a zoom window on a selected plot of the plurality of plots, and a processing device configured to automatically determine, based on the created zoom window, a corresponding zoom window for each remaining plot of the plurality of plots, and display simultaneously, on the presentation interface, a zoomed-in area of the selected plot based on the created zoom window and a zoomed-in area of each of the remaining plots based on the corresponding zoom window for each of the remaining plots. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222421 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control apparatus configured to perform display control in a manner that a first frame indicating a region to be digitally zoomed in an input image and a second frame indicating a region to be enlarged in the input image are superimposed on the input image. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222422 | DATA BUFFERING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ALTERNATELY TRANSMITTING STORED PARTIAL DATA OF INPUT IMAGES MERGED IN ONE MERGED IMAGE TO IMAGE/VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND RELATED DATA BUFFERING METHOD - A data buffering apparatus includes a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller. Each of the storage devices is arranged for only storing a partial data of one of a plurality of input images merged in a merged image when data of the merged image is received at a data input port of the data buffering apparatus. The storage controller is coupled to the storage devices, and arranged for alternately controlling stored partial data of the input images to be transmitted to an image/video processing device when the data of the merged image is received at the data input port. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222423 | System and Method for Displaying and Manipulating a Floor Layout Display on a Computer - A graphic display on a computer system with a floor layout having a canvas layer and an overlay layer. The canvas layer has tile graphics laid out in a grid, the tile graphics representing portions of the floor. The overlay layer has overlay containers corresponding to the tile graphics, the overlay layer having overlay zones and overlay graphics. Overlay functions associated with overlay zones in an overlay container manipulate the tile graphic associated with the overlay container. The overlay graphics of each overlay container are transparent until a hover event occurs over the associated overlay container. A tile pallet illustrates the tile graphics in the canvas layer of the floor layout. A tool layout display includes indicia associated with various functions that can manipulate the tile graphics in the flooring layout. A perspective flooring layout is displayed in a transparent window of an environmental mask with a perspective room design. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222424 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE AND OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD - In an object display device, a pattern extraction unit extracts a region where an object is easily visually recognized when the object is overlaid and displayed in an image in real space, from the image in real space, based on information about the size and color of the object and information about the color of the image in real space that are acquired by an image analysis unit, and a display position correction unit corrects the display position of the object to this region. This facilitates visual recognition of the object and enhances various effects, such as informativeness, brought about by the displaying of the object in the image in real space. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222425 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A first image processing apparatus displays markers on a monitor to thereby make a second image processing apparatus perform a display control of a second object on an imaged image of an LCD while the second image processing apparatus transmits a marker recognizing signal when the display control is performed based on the markers to thereby make the first image processing apparatus perform a display control of a first object on the monitor. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222426 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY OUTPUT - Methods and devices for generating an augmented reality output are described. In one aspect, the method includes: obtaining camera data from a camera associated with an electronic device, the camera data defining an image representing a card having a graphic disposed thereon; obtaining sensor data from a sensor associated with the electronic device; and generating an augmented reality output on an output interface based on the sensor data and the graphic. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING INTERACTIVE AUGMENTED REALITY - An augmented reality implementing system is disclosed. The augmented reality implementing system includes an image outputting device and an augmented reality implementing device. The augmented reality implementing device derives an object from a captured image of a specific space and extracts a predetermined virtual object corresponding to the derived object; when an image of a user tool for interaction with the virtual object is included in the captured image, reflects a motion command corresponding to a motion pattern of the user tool on the virtual object; and generates a new image by reflecting the virtual object on the captured image, and outputs the new image to the image outputting device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222428 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN AUGMENTED REALITY USER INTERFACE - An approach is provided for an augmented reality user interface. An image representing a physical environment is received. Data relating to a horizon within the physical environment is retrieved. A section of the image to overlay location information based on the horizon data is determined. Presenting of the location information within the determined section to a user equipment is initiated. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222429 | LOCATION-BASED DISPLAY OF PIXEL HISTORY - A pixel history machine may receive a location for a portion of a screen. The pixel history machine may present a first screen with a first portion and store the first portion. The pixel history machine is configured to present a second screen with a second portion of the second screen. The pixel history machine is configured to receive a request that the first portion of the first screen be presented within the second screen. This request may take the form of a gesture being detected by the pixel history machine. In response to this request, the pixel history machine presents the first portion of the first screen within the second screen. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222430 | IMAGE ARTIFACT IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION - A method includes displaying at least one of projection data or reconstructed image data having visually observable artifacts, wherein the at least one of the projection data or the reconstructed image data corresponds to an imaging examination of an object or subject and displaying, concurrently with the at least one of the projection data or the reconstructed image data, sample images with known artifacts. The method further includes identifying one or more of the sample images having artifacts similar to the visually observable artifacts in the at least one of the projection data or the reconstructed image data. The method further includes displaying information about the identified one or more of the sample images, wherein the information includes information related to mitigating the visually observable artifacts. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT VIEW DISPLAY IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A content view display method and apparatus allow a user to intuitively use contents regardless of any change of a display mode between a landscape mode and a portrait mode by maintaining an arrangement of the contents even though the display mode is changed. The method for displaying a content view includes simultaneously displaying at least two pages of the content view in the landscape mode, and displaying at least one of the pages of the content view when the display mode of the mobile device is changed from the landscape mode to the portrait mode. Each page of the content view includes a plurality of panels. Content is located in each of the panels. An arrangement of the panels is maintained regardless of a change of the display mode. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222432 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - A method, apparatus and computer program comprises: displaying, first content on a display; detecting a user input wherein the user input comprises deforming at least a portion of a housing of an apparatus; and in response to detecting the user input, performing a geometric transformation on the content such that after the geometric transformation second content, different to the first content is displayed on the display; wherein the location of the deforming within the housing of the apparatus determines a location within the content for performing the geometric transformation. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222433 | ANIMATION PROCESSING - The invention relates to a method and system of forming an animation of a virtual object within a virtual environment, and a storage medium storing a computer program for carrying out such a method. The virtual object comprises a plurality of object parts, and one or more predetermined object part groups each being a sequence of linked object parts. The method includes generating a target configuration for the parts of the object part group, using a scale factor to scale the target configuration. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222434 | ADAPTIVE VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SCALING VIDEO BASED ON SCREEN SIZE OF DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are an apparatus for processing adaptive video and a method of scaling video, which generate a graphical user interface (GUI) so that a GUI suitable for the screen size of a display device can be displayed according to the screen size of the display device. The apparatus can realize a GUI most suitable for the screen size of an external display device connected to the apparatus by enlarging or reducing the size of the GUI according to the screen size of the external display device, or by changing the arrangement of items arranged on the GUI. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222435 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device includes a memory to store multiple items of a first list; a touch screen to display the first list including the multiple items, to display a second list including at least one of a selection data, and to receive an input to scroll the first list; and a control unit to set a selection condition of at least one of the items of the first list, to detect whether the at least one of the items of the first list is located in a shift region, and to shift the at least one of the items of the first list located in the shift region to a second list if the at least one of the items of the first is determined to correspond to the selection condition. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222436 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display that includes a plurality of pixels configured to display four colors, and a color gamut mapping unit configured to convert three color input image signals into four color image signals, wherein when the three color input image signals include yellow, the color gamut mapping unit converts the three color input image signals based on a hue shift of the yellow. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222437 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting display includes first scan lines, data lines, and first emission control lines at an active region for displaying an image, second scan lines and second emission control lines at a blank region where no image is displayed, pixels coupled to the first scan lines, the data lines, and the first emission control lines in the active region, a dimming controller for controlling brightness of the pixels, and an emission control line driver for supplying emission control signals to the first and second emission control lines corresponding to control of the dimming controller so that a light-emitting area including ones of the pixels is uniform in the active region. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222438 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE OF THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, an inverse image processor configured to receive a first image data signal input from an external source and to generate a gray-inverted second image data signal, a controller configured to mix the first image data signal and the second image data signal alternately for each frame to generate a third image data signal, and to generate a driving control signal opening and closing a pair of shutter spectacles for each image frame displayed in the display unit, and a data driver configured to receive the third image data signal from the controller and to apply a corresponding data voltage to each of the plurality of data lines. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222439 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAYSCALE CONVERSION PROGRAM, AND GRAYSCALE CONVERSION APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: a grayscale conversion device configured to perform grayscale conversion processing on input data to output data; and a display device configured to operate in accordance with the output data to display an image by pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix state, wherein the grayscale conversion device is configured to perform first error diffusion processing for converting N | 2013-08-29 |
20130222440 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A pixel circuit with a source follower type connection is provided that corrects variation in threshold voltage of a driving transistor, reduces power consumption and realizes high resolution. The pixel circuit includes: a data line for supplying a data voltage; a power source line for supplying a power source voltage; a reference voltage line for supplying a reference voltage lower than the power source voltage; a plurality of control signal lines for supplying control signals; a light emitting element; a driving transistor; a capacitor; and a plurality of switching transistors. The circuit writes the data voltage through one end of the capacitor and subsequently connects the one end of the capacitor to the anode electrode of the light emitting element. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222441 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVING CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes L number of display panels where L is a positive integer greater than 1; a driving circuit having L number of controllers for driving the respective display panels; and a central control unit configured to control the driving circuit. The controllers are configured to be synchronized with one another based on a clock signal from the central control unit, and each of the controllers is configured to sequentially and continuously select each one of K number of lines (where K is a positive integer greater than 1) arranged in a row in the corresponding display panel, and allow the selected line to emit light. Further, a direction for sequentially and continuously selecting each one of the lines is set to be the same in all the display panels. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222442 | SUBPIXEL ARRANGEMENTS OF DISPLAYS AND METHOD FOR RENDERING THE SAME - An apparatus including a display and control logic is provided. In one example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a subpixel repeating group tiled across the display in a regular pattern. The subpixel repeating group comprises n rows of subpixels and n columns of subpixels. Each row of the subpixel repeating group comprises n types of subpixels. Each column of the subpixel repeating group comprises the n types of subpixels. Subpixels along each diagonal direction of the subpixel repeating group comprise at least two types of the n types of subpixels. The control logic is operatively coupled to the display and is configured to receive display data and render the display data into control signals for driving the array of subpixels of the display. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222443 | Optically Addressed Gray Scale Electric Charge-Accumulating Spatial Light Modulator - A technique for modulating light by an optically addressed, electric charge accumulating spatial light modulator achieves substantially monotonic gray scale response. Embodiments digitally modulate the voltage across a photoreceptive material included in the spatial light modulator. The digital modulation scheme entails illuminating the photoreceptor with a series of light pulses propagating from an LCoS, in which the durations of the light pulses and their positions in time combine to produce binary-weighted equivalent rms voltages on the photoreceptor. The light pulses originate from a light-emitting diode or other switchable light source, and the timing of the light pulses is controlled such that they are emitted only when the associated LCoS is in a stable state. Emitting light pulses while the LCoS is in a stable state avoids non-monotonic behavior. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222444 | COLOR PRINTER SYSTEM FOR HISTOLOGICAL SPECIMEN SLIDES AND CASSETTES - A color printer for histological specimen containers such as slides and cassettes includes a specimen container receiving structure to receive histological specimen containers having a print zone, an ink receiving structure to receive a multi-colored ink source, a printhead, a drive mechanism to drive specimen containers received by the container receiving structure with respect to the print head, and a control system. The control system is responsive to specimen data representative of histological specimens and controls the drive mechanism and the printhead, including causing the print head to transfer multiple colors of ink from the ink source and print specimen information in color on the print zones of specimen containers. In one embodiment of the invention the specimen data includes color data representative of a color that identifies specimen information, and the control system causes the printhead to print the specimen information in color as a function of the color data. In another embodiment the control system causes the printhead to print specimen information in the form of a color bar as a function of the color data, and to print specimen information in the form of text and a bar code in black. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222445 | LIQUID CONSUMPTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A liquid consumption device includes a liquid container, a prism, a light emitting unit, a light receiving unit and a control unit. The prism is provided to the liquid container, and configured to receive light that is made incident from outside and to emit the incident light toward the outside according to a liquid residual state inside the liquid container. The control unit is configured to determine a threshold value of the liquid container for determining a light radiation volume by the light emitting part and/or the liquid residual state, based on a light volume of reflected light reflected by an outer surface of the prism and received by the light receiving unit upon radiation of the light by the light emitting unit. The control unit is configured to determine the liquid residual state based on a light volume of the light received by the light receiving unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222446 | DETECTING POTENTIAL COLLISION DAMAGE TO PRINTHEAD - A method of printing on a recording medium using a printhead having a printhead face that includes an array of marking elements, the method includes advancing the recording medium along a medium advance direction toward a printing region; detecting with a sensor whether a portion of the recording medium is positioned such that it would be in a collision path with the printhead face if the recording medium is advanced into the printing region; and advancing the recording medium into the printing region for printing if it is detected that the recording medium would not be in a collision path with the printhead face. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222447 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing head prints an image on a printing medium located at a printing position facing the printing head, by a printing operation in which the printing head ejects ink onto the printing medium, and the printing head is capable of resuming the printing operation after suspension of the printing operation. A supporting unit supports the printing medium on which the image is printed by the printing head, and an adjusting unit is capable of adjusting a facing distance between the printing head and the supporting unit. A control unit controls the adjusting unit so that the facing distance is greater than that during the printing of a printed image, in case the printing operation is resumed and the printed image moves relative to the printing position. The control unit controls the adjusting unit based on the time elapsed between the suspension of the printing operation and the resumption of the printing operation, so that the facing distance is greater as the elapsed time is longer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222448 | SENSOR FOR AVERTING POTENTIAL PRINTHEAD DAMAGE - A carriage printer includes a printhead having a printhead face that includes an array of marking elements; a carriage for moving the printhead back and forth across a printing region; a media advance system for advancing recording medium into the printing region; and a sensor for detecting whether a portion of the recording medium is positioned such that it will cause a collision with the printhead face if the portion of the recording medium is advanced into the printing region. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222449 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, PRINT METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - Banding has been prone to take place as regards black ink. Nozzle columns for color inks are arranged side by side in a direction in which a medium is conveyed, and are allocated to each color, and an amount of the medium equivalent to the length of the nozzle columns of each of the colors among the nozzle columns for the color inks is fed, to print on a forward path and return path from the nozzle columns for the color inks. As such, by repeatedly printing 100% of the total number of dots on every single scan for the color inks, the corresponding print region is covered. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222450 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a first dot and a second dot having a diameter smaller than that of the first dot on a recording medium, and a scanning unit configured to move the recording unit in a scanning direction. A recording resolution of the second dot in the scanning direction is lower than a recording resolution of the first dot in the scanning direction. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222451 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD - An element substrate includes a plurality of terminals, a first receiving circuit and a second receiving circuit each receiving a differential signal via one of the terminals included in the plurality of terminals, a driving circuit including a first input unit for inputting a first signal and a second input unit for inputting a second signal and driving a driving element based on the first signal and the second signal, and a setting circuit for setting a first connection state of connecting an output from the first receiving circuit to the first input unit and connecting an output from the second receiving circuit to the second input unit, and a second connection state of connecting an output from the first receiving circuit to the second input unit and connecting an output from the second receiving circuit to the first input unit based on an externally input signal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE DIGITAL CREATION OF A PRINT MASTER BY MEANS OF A LIQUID DROPLET DEPOSITION APPARATUS - A relief print master is created by a printhead that moves in a slow scan direction. The nozzles of the printhead jet droplets of a polymerisable liquid on a rotating drum. The different nozzles jet droplets simultaneously on different layers that have different diameters. As a result, the droplets jetted by different nozzles travel over different distances before landing. The effect of this is that the droplets undergo different position lag as they land on the different layers. By rotating the printhead in a plane that includes the central axis of the rotating drum and a nozzle row this effect can be compensated for. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222453 | DROP GENERATOR AND POLING WAVEFORM APPLIED THERETO - A drop emitting apparatus may include a drop generator having a piezoelectric element and configured to receive a drop firing waveform having a drop firing voltage pulse during a drop ejection period. A poling waveform may be applied to the drop generator during a poling period that occurs before the drop ejection period, the poling waveform having a poling voltage pulse that has a longer duration than that of the drop firing voltage pulse. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222454 | LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid droplet discharge apparatus includes a liquid droplet discharge head and a control unit. The liquid droplet discharge head includes: a plurality of main nozzles arranged in a first direction and discharging liquid droplets of main dots; and a plurality of sub nozzles arranged at end portion sides of arrays of the main nozzles and discharging liquid droplets of sub dots. The control unit is configured to control the liquid droplet discharge head to discharge the liquid droplets from the main and sub nozzles and to form sub dot arrays by the liquid droplets discharged from the sub nozzles in two arrays with being staggered at a predetermined interval in the second direction between main dot arrays by the liquid droplets discharged from the main nozzles, so as to form the dot arrays. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND COMPENSATION OF INOPERABLE INKJETS IN AN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - In an inkjet printer, a method for of compensating for defects in printed images identifies a cross-process direction location of a defect in a printed image and a candidate inkjet corresponding to the location of the defect. The method modifies the operation of the candidate inkjet to form a second ink image. The method identifies a second inkjet that actually formed the first image defect in response to identifying a second defect in the second ink image located proximate to the first defect. The method enables identification and compensation of inoperable inkjets when image data do not correspond perfectly to inkjets in the printer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222456 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH CONVEYANCE BELT MOVEMENT CORRECTION - An image forming apparatus is provided with a conveyance belt, image forming portion, belt moving mechanism, optical sensor, current generation portion, position detection portion, belt movement control unit, reference value storage portion, base current measurement portion, initial value storage portion, and correction value determination portion. The current value measurement portion monitors the decrease in the value of a light receiving signal while decreasing an electric current generated in the current generation portion, and, in the case where the value of the light receiving signal reaches a reference value stored in the reference value storage portion, measures the value of a base current that is generated by the current generation portion. The correction value determination portion determines a correction value of a light emitting current, so that the value of the light emitting current increases depending on the amount by which the base current increases relative to an initial value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222457 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a medium that is a long roll wound around a core member; a feeding unit configured to feed the medium; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the medium; a fixed roll end detecting unit configured to detect an end of the medium whose end is fixed to the core member; a determining unit configured to determine whether to stop, for a time period, the medium on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit, when the fixed roll end detecting unit detects the end of the medium; and a control unit configured to stop an operation of the feeding unit when the determining unit determines to stop the medium for the time period, and to cause the feeding unit to perform an operation of winding back the medium when the time period has elapsed. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222458 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MEDIUM EDGE POSITION IN LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - To provide a liquid ejecting apparatus and a method for detecting a medium edge position in a liquid ejecting apparatus, whereby the position of an edge of a medium can be detected while also avoiding an event where a protrusion present in a region targeted for detection by an optical sensor is erroneously detected as being the medium, a carriage is moved so as to traverse a sheet of paper in the width direction, and a determination is made as to whether or not an output voltage of a sheet width sensor provided to the carriage has crossed over a first threshold value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222459 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS AND THE PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a data processing method of a printing apparatus for printing a multi-color image on a printing medium by each of printing heads for at least two colors while transporting the printing medium relative to the printing heads in a paper-feed direction. The method includes a skew detecting step of detecting a degree of skew of the printing medium; a correction printing-data generating step of shifting print data from a printing unit for performing printing in a direction orthogonal to the paper-feed direction in accordance with the degree of skew to generate correction printing-data, the printing unit having a first printing head disposed upstream in the paper-feed direction and a second printing head spaced away from the first printing head downstream in the paper-feed direction; and a printing step of performing printing on the printing medium with the printing unit in accordance with the correction printing-data. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222460 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD AND HEAD TANK - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head tank, a main tank, a liquid feed device, and a controller. When the main tank is in an ink end state, the controller causes the feed device to feed the liquid in reverse from the head tank to the main tank. When air is unlikely to be mixed with the liquid or the liquid is unlikely to be bubbled in the head tank before installation of a new main tank, the controller causes the feed device to feed the liquid from the main tank to the head tank with an air release unit opened after the installation. When air is likely to be mixed with the liquid or the liquid is likely to be bubbled in the head tank before the installation, the controller causes the feed device to feed the liquid with the release unit closed after the installation. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222461 | INKJET PRINT CALIBRATION USING TEST PATCHES AND DENSITOMETER - An inkjet printing system including a media source supplying sheets of transparent film. An image processing module receives and converts input image data to output image data comprising a plurality of output pixels configured to select an ink profile. Predetermined ink profiles are selected representative of a series of test patches each having an expected density. A printhead is configured to eject droplets of available colors of ink onto a sheet of transparent film based on the selected ink profiles to produce the output pixels and an output image thereon, including the series of test patches. A transmissive densitometer measures the actual density value of each of the test patches, wherein the image processing module adjusts the output pixel values based on a deviations between the expected and actual density values of the series of test patches. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222462 | INK JET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink jet image forming method for forming an image including applying ink to a printing paper sheet using a recording head of an ink jet system. The ink contains a self-dispersion pigment, a polymer particle having a glass transition temperature of 25° C. or lower, and water and has a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less. When recording a line image having a recording density of 600 dpi or more and 4,800 dpi or less and a width of adjacent four pixels or more by conducting one scanning of the recording head, an amount of an ink droplet applied from the recording head is 0.6 pL or more and 6.0 pL or less, and an average ink application amount per unit area in the line image is 0.3 μL/cm | 2013-08-29 |
20130222463 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head including a substrate configured to discharge ink including a supporting surface formed of a resin material and configured to support the substrate, the supporting substrate including a portion continuing to a surface intersecting the supporting surface and forming a corner portion, the portion forming the corner portion including a non surface treated area which is not surface treated, the supporting surface including a portion adjacent to the non surface treated area being surface treated areas which is surface treated, wherein the substrate and the supporting surface are bonded via an adhesive agent disposed in the non surface treated area and the surface treated area. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222464 | INK FOR INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUSES AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink for ink-jet recording apparatuses, includes water, a pigment dispersion, and a super-penetrating agent and a high SP organic solvent respectively having a predetermined solubility parameter (SP value). All of differences (ΔSPs) between SP values of the neighboring organic solvents are from 0.5 to 5.0 in order of SP values thereof, and the difference of SP | 2013-08-29 |
20130222465 | Ink For Inkjet Textile Printing And An Inkjet Textile Printing Method Using The Same - The present invention has an object to provide an ink for inkjet textile printing which has excellent fastnesses and causes less bleeding on a textile and to provide a low cost method for inkjet textile printing by using said ink; and relates to an ink for inkjet textile printing wherein the ink contains at least one kind disperse dye, a dispersing agent, water and at least one kind (referred to as A compound) of the compounds represented by the following formula (1): | 2013-08-29 |
20130222466 | Printer Having Drum Maintenance Unit Architecture For Controlled Application of a Release Agent - An inkjet offset printer includes at least one printhead to eject ink on a release agent applied to an image receiving member for subsequent transfer of the ink to the surface of a recording media. The release agent is applied to the image receiving member by at least two release agent applicators. The release agent can be selectively applied to process sheets of recording media of different sizes to improve print quality. Selective application of release agent to the image receiving member prevents release agent from migrating to a transfix roll, and subsequently to the back side of the media which affects the image quality. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222467 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method including applying a treatment liquid; and applying a first ink containing a pigment, water, and polymer particles of with the content is 1.0 mass % to 3.0 mass %, and applying a second ink having a different hue to the first ink onto the applied first ink at an ink droplet speed of 6 m/sec to 10 m/sec to form a multi-color image, in which an interval from a landing time point of the first ink to a landing time point of the second ink is 200 msec or less, and a dot diameter φ2 of the second ink, and a dot diameter φ1 of the second ink in an ink droplet amount equal to an ink droplet amount in the forming of the multi-color image satisfy a relationship of 0.90≦φ2/φ1≦1.10. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222468 | LIQUID COMPOSITION, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDED ARTICLE - A liquid composition including: a radical polymerization inhibitor; a solvent; and a surfactant, wherein the content of the radical polymerization inhibitor is 0.1 to 50% by weight. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222469 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A capping mechanism selectively takes a capped state in which an ejection space opposing an ejection surface is covered or an uncapped state in which the ejection space is not covered. A controller is configured to: determine whether a first change of the capping mechanism from the capped state to the uncapped state occurred while air moisturized by a moisturization mechanism is being moved to the ejection space by a ventilator or not; and when a second change of the capping mechanism from the uncapped state to the capped state occurred after the first change occurred, control the ventilator to move the air moisturized by the moisturization mechanism to the ejection space when a first uncapped time is shorter than a first predetermined time, and control a discharger to discharge the liquid through ejection openings when the first uncapped time is not shorter than the first predetermined time. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222470 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A controller is configured to regularly select one of (i) a moisturization operation with which air moisturized by a moisturization mechanism is moved to an ejection space by a ventilator while a capping mechanism is maintained to be in a capped state and (ii) a liquid discharge operation with which liquid is discharged through ejection openings by a discharger and conduct the selected operation while a recording command is not received. The controller is configured to conduct the liquid discharge operation after the moisturization operation while the recording command is not received. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222471 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CARRIAGE MOUNTING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image apparatus includes a carriage, a first recording head, a second recording head, and a maintenance assembly. The carriage is movable in a main scanning direction. The second recording head is displaced from the first recording head on the carriage in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The maintenance assembly includes a frame member, a first maintenance device, and a second maintenance device. The frame member has a guide portion, a first contact portion, and a second contact portion. The second maintenance device is reciprocally movable along the guide portion in the sub scanning direction between a first position to oppose the first recording head and a second position to oppose the second recording head. The second maintenance device stops at the first position in contact with the first contact portion and at the second position in contact with the second contact portion. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222472 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A printer includes a recording head having a nozzle forming surface formed with nozzles adapted to eject liquid; a wiper having an outer surface of a cylindrical surface shape capable of absorbing the ink attached to the nozzle forming surface; a motor that is driven, when moving the wiper in a direction in which the outer surface reaches the nozzle forming surface and in a direction in which the outer surface is separated from the nozzle forming surface, and is also driven when rotating the wiper; and a contact member coming into contact with the outer surface of the wiper rotated along with driving of the motor. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222473 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting head that has a nozzle for ejecting liquid onto a medium, a carriage that holds the ejecting head and can be moved in a predetermined direction, a maintenance member that can be moved up and down with respect to a nozzle formation surface where the nozzle is formed in the ejecting head, and performs maintenance on the nozzle formation surface, a lock member that can be moved up and down with respect to the carriage and fixes a position of the carriage, and a movement member that moves the lock member and the maintenance member such that a lifting amount of the lock member is different from a lifting amount of the maintenance member. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222474 | VARIABLE FORCE WIPER FOR MAINTENANCE STATION OF IMAGING DEVICE - A wiper for a maintenance station of an imaging device includes a foundational body and a flexible blade. The body rigidly attaches to the maintenance station. The blade attaches to the body. The blade scrapes fluid and debris from a printhead during use. The blade comprises a flexible material having terminal sections intervened by a central section. Each terminal section connects to the body with a thicker expanse of flexible material, whereas the central section connects to the body with a thinner expanse. The connection provides the terminal sections with a higher wiping force and a shorter effective beam length for wiping an encapsulant of the printhead and gives while the central section a lower wiping force and a longer effective beam length for wiping a nozzle plate of the printhead. The embodiments note curved surfaces with variable radiuses where the expanses of flexible material connect to the body. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222475 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, CLEANING APPARATUS FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a long wiping member configured to come in contact with and wipe a liquid ejection face of the head; a wiping member conveyance device configured to drive the wiping member to be conveyed in a lengthwise direction of the wiping member; a pressing member configured to cause the wiping member to come in contact and pressed against the liquid ejection face when the pressing member is placed at a first position; and a slack elimination mechanism configured to push down the pressing member to a second position lower than the first position before the wiping member is brought into contact with the liquid ejection face, and to stop pushing the pressing member so as to move the pressing member along with the wiping member to the first position to bring the wiping member into contact with the liquid ejection face. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222476 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, CLEANING APPARATUS FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a long wiping member configured to come in contact with and wipe a liquid ejection face of the head; a wiping member conveyance device configured to convey the wiping member in a lengthwise direction of the wiping member; an elastic member configured to elastically deform and apply a force to cause the wiping member to be pressed against the liquid ejection face through a pressing member when the wiping member comes in contact and pressed against the liquid ejection face; and a slack eliminating member arranged in a front side of the head in a direction of travel of the head with respect to the wiping member, the slack eliminating member being configured to eliminate slack in the wiping member caused by elastic deformation of the elastic member when the wiping member comes in contact with the slack eliminating member. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222477 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus including: first cleaning which performs non-recording ejection of ink for ink jet recording to an ink receiving medium and cleans a nozzle and a nozzle surface of a print head; second cleaning which moves the print head to the ink receiving medium, performs non-recording ejection of the ink for ink jet recording from the print head to the ink receiving medium under a condition that the amount of the ink for ink jet recording is smaller than an amount of the ink ejected in the non-recording ejection by the first cleaning and an execution frequency is higher than that in the first cleaning, and cleans the nozzle of the print head; and a wiping mechanism which wipes the nozzle surface by using a wiping member. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222478 | HEAD MAINTENANCE DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDER - A head maintenance device includes a wiping section which wipes a nozzle plane, on which a plurality of nozzles to eject ink are provided, of an inkjet head. The wiping section includes a wiping member including a cloth, an elastic body and a support, in the order named from a side where the wiping section comes into contact with the inkjet head. The cloth is moved parallel to the nozzle plane at a relative moving velocity of not less than RMV×0.2 and not more than RMV×0.9 with respect to the nozzle plane so as to wipe the nozzle plane. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222479 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an inkjet recording apparatus including: plural jetting heads that jet respectively different types of photocurable color inks onto a conveyed recording medium and which, when layer-jetting the different types of photocurable color inks onto the recording medium, first jet the photocurable color ink having the largest light blocking effect among the plural photocurable color inks that the plural jetting heads layer-jet; and an irradiation device that applies light to the photocurable color inks that have been jetted onto the recording medium. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222480 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes a first process in which a coloring ink is recorded on a recording medium using an ink jet head so as to form a first image, a second process in which a background ink is recorded using the ink jet head so as to form a background image that covers the first image, and a third process in which a coloring ink is recorded using the ink jet head so as to form a second image, and a drying process is included between the first process and the third process. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222481 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An inkjet head includes a nozzle plate in which a nozzle having an ejection hole for ink is formed, an ink pressure chamber for supplying the ink to the nozzle, a first oscillating plate formed to surround the ejection hole of the nozzle of the nozzle plate, a first electrode formed to surround the nozzle of the nozzle plate and that is in contact with the first oscillating plate, a piezoelectric film configured to surround the nozzle of the nozzle plate and that is in contact with the first electrode, a second electrode formed to surround the nozzle of the nozzle plate and that is in contact with the piezoelectric film or the first oscillating plate, and a second oscillating plate formed to surround the nozzle of the nozzle plate and that is in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, or the first oscillating plate. | 2013-08-29 |
20130222482 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - The piezoelectric element includes, on a substrate: a piezoelectric film; and a pair of electrodes provided in contact with the piezoelectric film; in which the piezoelectric film contains a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by the general formula (1) as a main component: | 2013-08-29 |