40th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120249492 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal display panel comprising data lines formed in a line direction, gate lines formed in a column direction intersecting the line direction, and a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix form in a cell area defined by the data lines and the gate lines; a data driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the data lines; and a gate driving circuit for sequentially supplying gate pulses to the gate lines, wherein each of the pixels comprises subpixels, and a length of a column direction of each of the subpixels is longer than that of a line direction of each of the subpixels, at least two subpixels of the subpixels share one gate line, and the at least two subpixels simultaneously charge a data voltage in response to a gate pulse from the one gate line. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249493 | GATE DRIVER OF DUAL-GATE DISPLAY AND FRAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gate driver of a dual-gate display is provided. The gate driver includes a shift register and an odd/even (O/E) switching unit. The shift register receives a clock signal and a start pulse (STV). The shift register outputs a plurality of gate line driving signals after being activated by the STV. Every adjacent two of the gate line driving signals form a pair of gate signals indicated as a first signal and a second signal. The O/E switching unit receives the gate line driving signals and a switching control signal. The switching control signal has a first state and a second state. The first state activates the pair of gate signals in a first sequence from the first signal to the second signal, and the second state activates the pair of gate signals in a second sequence from the second signal to the first signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249494 | FLUORESCENT DISPLAY, AND DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a Q-tuple anode matrix vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), a plurality of selected pixels are turned on one by one to sequentially emit lights in accordance with a display signal. Each selected pixel is selected from Q anode segments to be turned on to emit lights by turning on a first and a second grid electrode positioned adjacent to each other. Each selected pixel is formed of Q/2 anode segments in total including R anode segments sequentially disposed from a position closest to the first grid electrode and facing the second grid electrode and (Q/2−R) anode segments sequentially disposed from a position closest to the second grid electrode and facing the first grid electrode, R being an integer ranging from 1 to (Q/2−1). | 2012-10-04 |
20120249495 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249496 | PIXEL ARRAY OF FRINGE FIELD SWITCHING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A pixel array of a fringe field switching (FFS) liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data line, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common lines, and a plurality of pixel units aligned in an array configuration. The gate lines are disposed parallel to each other along a first direction. The data lines are disposed parallel to each other along a second direction. Each of the pixel units includes at least one sub-pixel region. The common lines are disposed along the first direction and electrically isolated from each other. Each of the common lines includes a plurality of common electrodes extending along the second direction. The two adjacent common electrodes of each common line are respectively disposed in the two adjacent pixel units which are located in different rows. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249497 | Display Device - At least two TFTs which are connected with a light emitting element are provided, crystallinities of semiconductor regions composing active layers of the respective TFTs are made different from each other. As the semiconductor region, a region obtained by crystallizing an amorphous semiconductor film by laser annealing is applied. In order to change the crystallinity, a method of changing a scan direction of a continuous oscillating laser beam so that crystal growth directions are made different from each other is applied. Alternatively, a method of changing a channel length direction of TFT between the respective semiconductor regions without changing the scan direction of the continuous oscillating laser beam so that a crystal growth direction and a current flowing direction are different from each other is applied. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249498 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - In a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) apparatus, a Region Of Interest (ROI) setting unit included in a control unit sets an ROI on each of a T | 2012-10-04 |
20120249499 | DISPLAY PANEL AND INSPECTION METHOD THEREOF - A one-input and three-output demultiplexer that includes sampling switches for sampling a video signal is provided at one end side of source bus lines, and a one-input and three-output demultiplexer that includes test switches provided corresponding to sampling switches and that uses a test video signal as an input signal is provided at the other end side of the source bus lines. When an any control signal out of three control signals for controlling states of a sampling switch and a test switch is defined as a target control signal, a source bus line connected to the sampling switch which is set to an on state by the target control signal and a source bus line connected to the test switch which is set to an on state by the target control signal are different. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249500 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - An address period is shortened while degradation of image display quality of a plasma display apparatus is suppressed. For this purpose, in a driving method for a plasma display apparatus including a plasma display panel with a plurality of discharge cells having a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a data electrode, and a driver circuit, the following operation is performed. The driver circuit forms one field period by a subfield that displays an interlace signal as an image signal thinned out every one line and a subfield that displays oblique line interpolated data generated by interpolating oblique lines detected by an image signal. In the subfield displaying an image signal, the driver circuit performs two-line simultaneous address operation with application of a scan pulse simultaneously to two adjacent scan electrodes so as to generate an address discharge in a discharge cell. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249501 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an image projection apparatus comprising: a measuring unit that measures a distance from the image projection apparatus to a projection surface; a generating unit that generates a first operation image if the measured distance is less than a threshold value and generates a second operation image if the measured distance is not less than the threshold value, wherein the first operation image is an image with respect to which an operation can be input by pointing on the first operation image that is being projected with a body part of a user, and the second operation image is an image with respect to which an operation can be input by operating a cursor displayed in the second operation image that is being projected using a predetermined operating unit; and a projecting unit that projects an operation image generated by the generating unit onto the projection surface. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249502 | SCANNING SIGNAL LINE DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - It is an object to realize a gate driver that can cause a scanning signal to quickly fall after a charge period in each row ends. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249503 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display capable of reducing an electric effect of a color filter on a pixel circuit, and thereby suppressing degradation in display quality is provided. The display includes a pixel drive substrate having a color filter, a display function layer provided on the pixel drive substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode to supply a drive voltage to the display function layer, and a third electrode disposed to face the color filter. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249504 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING REDUCED REFLECTION OF VISIBLE LIGHT - A display device includes a display panel, a polarization film, and a wave plate. Below the wave plate and the polarization film there is provided a plurality of optical sensors disposed within the display panel. The display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other and a plurality of pixels configured to display an image. The optical sensors are configured to sense light in one or more predetermined light bands. The wave plate is configured to rotate polarization of first light that has passed upwardly through the polarization film such that the combination of upward and downward (reflected) passage of the light is rotated by about 90 degrees. The so-rotated light is blocked from passing down through the polarization film; advantageously, the so-rotated light is prevented from interfering with the optical sensors. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING AN ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - Method, apparatus and systems for driving electroluminescent segments in electroluminescent displays are disclosed. Each segment in the display receives a series of first pulses alternating in polarity at a first electrode and a series of second pulses at a second electrode. Each of the second pulses corresponds to one of the first pulses and is opposite in polarity. The width of the second pulses corresponds to the parasitic resistance of the segment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249506 | METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS, LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS MODULE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS MODULE - A method of driving liquid crystal lens includes identifying a driving mode and driving unit lenses of the liquid crystal lens. The driving mode includes a two-dimensional (“2D”) mode and a three-dimensional (“3D”) mode. Driving timings of the unit lenses are different from each other in the 3D mode. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249507 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A driving apparatus and a driving method of a liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may remove or reduce flicker caused by a kickback voltage according to an inversion driving mode of the liquid crystal display even though the inversion driving mode is changed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249508 | BISTABLE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING A PANEL THEREOF - A bistable display and a method of driving a panel thereof are provided. The bistable display includes a bistable display panel and a driving device. The bistable display panel at least has a first pixel and a second pixel, and these two pixels share a data line. The driving device is coupled to the bistable display panel, and used for providing different source driving waveforms to the first pixel and the second pixel respectively. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249509 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - According to an example embodiment, a pixel circuit for driving a display unit includes a plurality of capacitive devices, a first switching device and a second switching device. The plurality of capacitive devices are configured to apply a driving voltage to the display unit. The first switching device is configured to selectively supply a data signal to a first capacitive device of the plurality of capacitive devices based on a first scan signal. The second switching device is configured to selectively supply the data signal to a second capacitive device of the plurality of capacitive devices based on a second scan signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249510 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR COMPENSATING PIXEL DRIFT IN ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAYS - An apparatus includes a circuit branch electrically connected to a voltage rail and including a light emitting device connected in series with a drain of a dual gate transistor, a switching transistor configured to apply a data voltage to a first gate of the dual gate transistor in response to a scan signal, a capacitor connected between the first gate of the dual gate transistor and the drain of the dual gate transistor, and a conductor for supplying a control voltage to a second gate of the dual gate transistor. A method of operating the circuit is also described. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249511 | SOURCE DRIVER FOR AN LCD PANEL - A source driver for an LCD panel includes two gm stages and two output buffers. In a normal operation mode, the first gm stage and the first output buffer establish a unity gain buffer to amplify a positive polarity analog voltage to be a positive polarity output voltage, and the second gm stage and the second output buffer establish a unity gain buffer to amplify a negative polarity analog voltage to be a negative polarity output voltage. In a polarity inversion mode, the second gm stage and the first output buffer establish a unity gain buffer to amplify a positive polarity analog voltage to be a positive polarity output voltage, and the first gm stage and the second output buffer establish a unity gain buffer to amplify a negative polarity analog voltage to be a negative polarity output voltage. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249512 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a pixel circuit which includes a plurality of subpixel circuits and which makes it possible to suppress overshooting of electric potentials of the subpixel circuits to a small level. A pixel circuit (PIX | 2012-10-04 |
20120249513 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device of the present invention includes: pixels, each of which is provided with first to fourth transistors (Tr), and a light-emitting element, each pixel being configured so that a control terminal of the first Tr is connected to a first control line, a control terminal of the fourth Tr is connected to a scanning line, (iii) a first electrically-conductive terminal of the fourth Tr is connected to a data line, a first electrically-conductive terminal of the second Tr is connected to a first power supply line via the first Tr, a control terminal of the second Tr is connected to the data line via the fourth Tr and to a terminal of the light-emitting element via a capacitor, the terminal of the light-emitting element, a second electrically-conductive terminal of the second Tr, a first electrically-conductive terminal of the third Tr, and a control terminal of the third Tr are connected to each other; and a second control line (AZC) shared commonly by at least two pixels among the pixels, the at least two pixels being such that the fourth transistors Tr of the at least two pixels are connected to different scanning lines, and second electrically-conductive terminals of the third transistors Tr of the at least two pixels are connected to the second control line, the at least two pixels being such that the third transistors of the at least two pixels are concurrently turned ON, after the first transistors of the at least two pixels are sequentially turned OFF. This makes it possible that the number of control lines of an organic EL display is decreased. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249514 | Organic light emitting display device, data driving apparatus for organic light emitting display device, and driving method thereof - An organic light emitting display device comprises: a display unit; a power supply unit including a power source which generates a power supply voltage to drive the display unit; a data compensator that adapts a voltage drop, caused by a resistance of power lines supplying the power supply voltage from the power source to a pixel included in the display unit, to a data voltage of the pixel and generates a compensated data voltage of the pixel; and a data driver that applies the compensated data voltage to the display unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249515 | DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A display panel includes, for each pixel, a self light emitting device and a pixel circuit driving the self light emitting device. The pixel circuit has a retention capacitor, a first transistor writing a voltage corresponding to a video signal in the retention capacitor, and a second transistor driving the self light emitting device based on the voltage of the retention capacitor, and the display panel has a light exit face discharging a light emitted from the self light emitting device to outside and also has a light blocking layer blocking an external light introduced from the light exit face to the first transistor. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249516 | Amoled microdisplay device with active temperature control - An active-matrix organic light-emitting diode microdisplay device having a temperature control system including a temperature sensor and a control means for regulating the temperature of the OLED. The temperature is regulated by a bias transistor within the circuit, operating as a function of the temperature of the panel, such that low panel temperatures cause an increase in voltage of the bias transistor which draws a higher current through the top voltage drive transistor for self-heating the area surrounding the OLED. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249517 | METHOD OF DRIVING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE EMISSION PORTION - A pixel circuit and driving method are disclosed, wherein the pixel circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The first transistor is connected between a power source and a light emission portion, and the second transistor is connected to a data line. The capacitor is initialized according to a potential, and a video signal is applied from the data line to the capacitor through the second transistor. For driving, an initialization voltage is applied to the data line and the video signal is supplied to the data line, with the second transistor being turned ON prior to applying the initialization voltage to the data line. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249518 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a gate driver connected to the plurality of gate lines. The gate driver receives a first scan start signal, a second scan start signal and clock signals and outputs a gate-on voltage to each of the plurality of gate lines. The gate driver outputs the gate-on voltage to the plurality of gate lines such that the gate-on voltages do not overlap with each other when the gate driver receives the first scan start signal. The gate driver outputs the gate-on voltage to at least two of the gate lines at substantially the same time when the gate driver receives the second scan start signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249519 | DUMMY PIXELS MADE INACTIVE - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for preventing the edge subpixels of a display from actuating. Some implementations provide a small conductive via inside edge subpixels of a passively-addressed display, such as a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based display. The vias may be configured to make an electrical connection between a movable conductive layer and another conductive layer of the edge subpixel. Electricity may be provided to the active subpixel array by way of these vias in the edge subpixels. The concepts provided herein apply to other types of passively-addressed displays, such as organic light-emitting diode (“OLED”) displays and field emission displays. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249520 | COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a receiving unit, a tetrahedralizing unit, a first generating unit, and a correcting unit. The receiving unit receives pieces of coordinate information indicating points in a color space. The tetrahedralizing unit performs a tetrahedralization process. The first generating unit generates boundary information, which is a set of outermost triangular faces among triangular faces obtained through the tetrahedralization process. The correcting unit selects a target face from among the triangular faces included in the boundary information, regards a tetrahedron including the target face as a target tetrahedron, determines whether or not the target tetrahedron satisfies a condition, and, if the target tetrahedron does not satisfy the condition, selects the triangular faces included in the target tetrahedron except the target face, eliminates the target face from the boundary information, and adds the selected triangular faces to the boundary information, thereby correcting the boundary information. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249521 | COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a mapping unit, a triangulating unit, and a generating unit. The mapping unit maps boundary points existing at plural coordinates in a color space that is independent of an output device to corresponding points in a two-dimensional region while maintaining respective phases of the boundary points. The triangulating unit performs triangulation on the inside of a convex hull including plural points in the two-dimensional region obtained by the mapping unit, thereby generating triangulation information, which is a result of the triangulation. The generating unit generates color gamut boundary information on the basis of the triangulation information generated by the triangulating unit. The color gamut boundary information is information that specifies a three-dimensional shape in the color space, the three-dimensional shape having a boundary including the boundary points. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249522 | METHOD OF PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA AND A DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of processing three-dimensional image data includes demodulating a first transmission signal into image data which is image data for a left-eye or image data for a right-eye, wherein the first transmission signal is received during an enable period of a frame; demodulating a second transmission signal into identification data, where the second transmission signal is received during a blanking period of the frame, and the identification data identifies the image data of a subsequent frame; identifying whether the image data of the subsequent frame is the image data for the left-eye or the image data for the right-eye based on the identification data; and processing the image data based on an identified result from the identifying whether the image data of the subsequent frame is the image data for the left-eye or the image data for the right-eye. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249523 | METHOD OF DRIVING SHUTTER GLASSES AND DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving shutter glasses of a display system includes generating a display panel driving signal which drives a display panel of the display system, where the display panel displays a left image and a right image, generating a second three-dimensional (“3D”) synchronizing signal based on a first 3D synchronizing signal and the display panel driving signal, generating a third 3D synchronizing signal by adjusting an intensity of the second 3D synchronizing signal, generating a shutter control signal, which controls a left shutter and a right shutter of the shutter glasses, based on the third 3D synchronizing signal, and outputting the shutter control signal to the shutter glasses. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249524 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image pickup element, a face recognizing section configured to recognize a face of a person on the basis of image data obtained through image pickup by the image pickup element, and a display controlling section configured to perform display control so as to perform 3D display based on 3D picture data generated from 2D picture data even if a viewing position of a person cannot be identified by face recognition by the face recognizing section, when an instruction for 3D display is given. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249525 | DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display system includes a display panel, a panel driving part, an image processing part, a timing control part and a light source part. The display panel displays an image. The image processing part includes a synchronization part that synchronizes a plurality of image signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of contents with each other, a scaling part that respectively scales the image signals into a plurality of image frames having a resolution of the display panel and that sequentially outputs the image frames, and an additional generating part that outputs the image frames respectively corresponding to each of the image frames received from the scaling part. The timing control part provides the image frames respectively corresponding to the contents to the panel driving part. The light source part generates a light and provides the light to the display panel. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method of processing a 3D image data includes calculating shift values of gray-scales for a reference view using a 3D effect selection signal having a selection depth value of the 3D image inputted by a user. Shift values of the gray-scales respectively corresponding to a plurality of views are calculated using the shift values of the gray-scales for the reference view. The shift values of the gray-scales respectively corresponding to the plurality of views are applied to a source image signal to generate a plurality of image frames. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249527 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes, a calculation unit which calculates difference information which denotes a deviation between a predetermined first direction and a second direction from which a user views a stereoscopic image, a transformation unit which transforms the stereoscopic image on the basis of the difference information; and a display control unit which displays the transformed stereoscopic image on a display unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT - Provided are an apparatus and method for tracking augmented reality content using a mobile sensor. The method includes recognizing an augmented reality marker from an input image and calculating a position and posture of the recognized augmented reality marker, calculating a position and posture of augmented reality content corresponding to the augmented reality marker using the calculated position and posture of the augmented reality marker, synthesizing the augmented reality content with the input image using the calculated position and posture of the augmented reality content, and displaying the synthesized image, updating the position and posture of the augmented reality content using a 6-axis sensor when the augmented reality marker is not recognized in the input image; and synthesizing the augmented reality content with the input image using the updated position and posture of the augmented reality content, and displaying the synthesized image. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249529 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, 3D IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM - A 3D image displaying apparatus includes a 3D image displaying device for displaying a plurality of 2D images sharing at least part of shot subjects with one another so as to display a 3D image in which at least a portion of the 2D images is perceived by a viewer as a stereo image with a specified depth and a display controlling device for making a depth of the 3D image vary so as to provide a plurality of 3D images with different depths, and causing the 3D images with different depths to be displayed in list form on the 3D image displaying device. A 3D image displaying method displays the 2D images and carries out the control. A 3D image displaying program causes a computer to perform the steps of the method. A computer readable storage medium stores the program. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249530 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In an image display apparatus, the sub-pixel areas which are correspondingly assigned to the optical apertures are defined according to an observation position of a viewer, and the sub-pixel areas includes sub-pixel segments into which the sub-pixel positioned at a boundary between adjacent sub-pixel areas is separated. The sub-pixel segments correspond to the adjacent sub-pixel areas and are observed via adjacent optical openings. The sub-pixel display information obtained by mixing parallax information belonging to the adjacent sub-pixel areas is displayed in the sub-pixel including the adjacent sub-pixel segment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249531 | VIRTUAL POINTER - An electronic device for enabling display of a virtual object representing a real object on a remote display may be placed in a first position and first orientation. The virtual object is displayed on the remote display. The electronic device generates a virtual beam, which is displayed on the remote display, and directs the virtual beam towards the virtual object by moving the electronic device from the first position/first orientation to a second position and second orientation. The electronic device determines the second position/second orientation in relation to the virtual beam. The electronic device selects the virtual object to which the virtual beam is directed based on the determined orientation and position. The electronic device transfers information about the selected virtual object to the remote display. The information enables display of the selected virtual object or a representation of the selected virtual object on the remote display. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249532 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to a first exemplary embodiment, the disclosure is directed to an information processing apparatus that includes an interface that acquires information indicating a distance between a right eye and a left eye of a person, and a processor that determines a recommended viewing condition for a display based on the information indicating the distance between the right eye and the left eye of the person. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249533 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic display apparatus that can perform a stereoscopic display using a right-eye image and a left-eye image acquired through radiography, includes an image display unit that can display a planar image of at least one of the right-eye image and the left-eye image as a planar display along with the stereoscopic display, a display selecting unit that selects any one of the stereoscopic display and the planar display, and a position pointing unit that can be operated in the selected stereoscopic display or planar display and that can be operated to interlock in the stereoscopic display and the planar display, wherein the position pointing unit includes a depth changing unit that changes the depth thereof in the stereoscopic display. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249534 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic display apparatus that performs a stereoscopic display using a right-eye image and a left-eye image acquired by radiographing a subject plural times while changing an incidence angle of radiation on the subject, includes a display unit that stereoscopically displays the right-eye image and the left-eye image, and a changing unit that shifts at least one of the right-eye image and the left-eye image displayed on the display unit to change an inter-image distance being a distance between the right-eye image and the left-eye image in a direction parallel to a straight line connecting the right eye and the left eye of an observer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249535 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION AND ANIMATION OF IMAGES - A computer based system for generating images includes a computing device having a processor operable with software and an input device in communications with the processor. The processor executing software to provide an image processing section, an image transformation section and an applications interface section. The image processing section is operable by the processor to control processing of two dimensional images. The image transformation section is operable by the processor to control transformation of the two dimensional images into transformed images having three dimensional appearances. The applications interface section is operable by the processor to enable use of said transformed images in a plurality of forms. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249536 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a horizontal parallax detecting unit that compares a standard pixel constituting a standard image with a first reference pixel located at the same height position as the standard pixel and a second reference pixel located at a height position different from the first reference pixel out of pixels constituting the reference image in the standard image and the reference image in which the same subject is drawn at horizontal positions different from each other and that detects a horizontal parallax of the standard pixel on the basis of the comparison result. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249537 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for displaying three dimensional (3D) images are provided. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit which emits light, an image panel which includes plurality of pixels for modulating the light from the backlight unit to form a gray scaled image, an electrowetting lens unit which includes first electrowetting lenses arranged to correspond to the plurality of pixels in the image panel and second electrowetting lenses arranged opposite to the first electrowetting lenses, wherein at least two of the first electrowetting lenses and at least one of the second electrowetting lenses may be arranged opposite each other; and a controller which controls the electrowetting lens unit to separate beams exiting from the image panel into at least two viewing zones in a 3D image display mode. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249538 | DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD - An apparatus includes a determination unit to determine a shape of a ridge line that is provided in a plane surface included in a three-dimensional model of a verification target and forms an entrance of a hole or a base of a projection in the plane surface, an extraction unit to extract a graphic that includes a ridge line coinciding with at least a portion of the shape of the ridge line determined by the shape determination unit, a creation unit to create a comparison-use vector to be compared with the direction of a normal vector of the plane surface, in response to the type of the extracted graphic, and a determination unit to determine whether the graphic extracted by the extraction unit is a graphic forming a hole or a graphic forming a projection, in response to an angle between the normal vector and the comparison-use vector. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING BUILDINGS AND BUILDING PRODUCTS - In one embodiment, a method includes causing a building model for a modeled building to be presented on a client computer. The building model includes a three-dimensional scene. The three-dimensional scene includes an individual rendering of at least selected building components for the modeled building. The method further includes permitting a user of the client computer to perform a virtual walkthrough of the three-dimensional scene. In addition, the method includes receiving a user change to the three-dimensional scene via a graphical user interface (GUI) component. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically changing the building model in accordance with the user change. The dynamically changing includes individually modifying an appearance of at least one building component of the at least selected building components in the three-dimensional scene. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249540 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A display system comprises a display device for accomplishing 3D displays by displaying images for the left eye and images for the right eye, and a display assistance device for separating them for viewing, and the display assistance device detects the wearing status and inclination of the viewer and sends status information to the display device. The display device determines whether or not the posture of the viewer is within a normal viewing range on the basis of the status information, and if this is within the range, can recognize a 3D display even in a posture other than the horizontal direction by controlling the parallax direction of the display of images in accordance with the inclination direction. When the posture is outside the range, the display device prompts correction of the posture or weakens the effect of the 3D display. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249541 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A cellular telephone device with a control unit sets a display mode of a display unit to any one of a first display mode for performing two-dimensional display, and a second display mode for performing three-dimensional display; the cellular telephone device displays both of first information and second information, which is subordinate information to the first information, on the display unit, in a case of being set to the second display mode; and the cellular telephone device displays any one of the first information and the second information on the display unit, in a case of being set to the first display mode. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249542 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS TO DISPLAY A GUIDE WITH 3D VIEW AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus includes a storage unit which stores therein a guide program regarding the electronic apparatus, a display unit which displays a three dimensional (3D) view of the electronic apparatus and a tag regarding a hardware component appearing on the 3D view when the guide program is executed, an input unit which receives a user command directing to rotate the 3D view, and a control unit which rotates the 3D view according to the user command, and controls the display unit to display the tag regarding the hardware component appearing on the rotated 3D view. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249543 | Display Control Apparatus and Method, and Program - In an image display apparatus for displaying plural-viewpoint images, a position specifying unit specifies a position of a user viewing an image, an image determination unit determines an image at a viewpoint recognized by the user from the plural-viewpoint images based on the position of the user specified by the position specifying unit, and a display control unit controls the display of the image determined by the image determination unit on a display. The present disclosure, for example, is applied to a display for implementing naked-eye stereoscopic vision. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249544 | CLOUD STORAGE OF GEOTAGGED MAPS - A head mounted device provides an immersive virtual or augmented reality experience for viewing data and enabling collaboration among multiple users. Rendering images in a virtual or augmented reality system may include generating data regarding locations of surfaces and objects in a scene based on images and spatial data gathered from a first body mounted sensor device, generating a three dimensional map of the scene based on the generated data, adding geographical identification metadata to the three dimensional map of the scene, storing the geographical identification metadata and three dimensional map in a memory, and transmitting at least a portion of the geographical identification metadata and three dimensional map to a second body mounted sensor device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249545 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REPRESENTATION OF 3D THEME FOR COVER PAGE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A user interface apparatus and a method of operating the user interface apparatus are provided. The user interface apparatus includes a storage unit including a cover page storage unit. A library storage unit includes a 3D graphics library for supporting 2D/3D graphics. An input unit is integrated with a display unit. A kernel unit controls hardware devices and processes pieces of data. A user interface unit determines whether a page to be displayed is a cover page, and if it is determined that the page to be displayed is the cover page, renders the cover page theme data using the 3D graphics library, and displays rendered results. An OS processing unit controls the user interface unit so that the user interface unit accesses and uses the library storage unit, and so that the user interface unit inputs/outputs data to/from the hardware devices. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249546 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF SUBLOBAR REGIONS OF THE LUNG - Methods and systems for displaying a volumetric model of a patient's lung including sublobar regions. The system may include a processor and software operable on the processor to receive data from multi-dimensional images of the patient's lungs, such as CT images, and produce data for creation of a volumetric model of the patient's lungs, including sublobar regions, on a graphical user interface. The system may also display the multi-dimensional images on the graphical user interface. A user may select an airway location in the airways on the volumetric model or a multi-dimensional image on the graphical user interface and the portion of the lung distal to the selected location, which may be a sublobe, may be highlighted and/or characterized by the system. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249547 | Arrangement for the display of images perceivable in three dimensions - The invention relates to an arrangement for the display of images perceivable in three dimensions, comprising an image generator provided with a great number of picture elements (pixels) (α | 2012-10-04 |
20120249548 | FLOATING POINT COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH PER-FRAGMENT OPERATIONS - A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used to optimize the range and precision afforded by the 16 available bits of information. In other embodiments, the floating point format can be defined in the manner preferred in order to achieve a desired range and precision of the data stored in the frame buffer. The final floating point values corresponding to pixel attributes are stored in a frame buffer and eventually read and drawn for display. The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249549 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display cross-sectional images based on planes passing through positions designated for a plurality of items of three-dimensional image data; and a change unit configured to cooperatively rotate the planes around the designated positions and to change the cross-sectional images to be displayed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249550 | Selective Transmission of Image Data Based on Device Attributes - A system and method are provided for storing, manipulating, and/or transmitting image data, such as light field photographs and the like, in a manner that efficiently delivers different capabilities and features based on device attributes, user requirements and preferences, context, and/or other factors. Acceleration structures are provided, which enable selective use of certain types of data (also referred to as “assets”) based on device attributes such as image size, desired functionality, user preference, and/or the like. In this manner, the system and method of the present invention takes into account specific attributes and parameters in determining which data should be included, so as to optimize transmission, storage, and/or rendering of image data, including light field data, to improve efficiency and avoid waste of resources. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249551 | ALIGNMENT OF SHAPES OF BODY PARTS FROM IMAGES - A method of manipulation of a representation of a 2-D shape for improving a General Procrustes Alignment process, comprising taking a starting 2-D shape defined by a set of landmarks derived from data representing a 2-D projection image of a body part such as a vertebra, in a suitably programmed computing device deriving for each landmark of the 2-D shape a probable relative depth by the application thereto of a statistical model based on a multiplicity of 3-D shapes defined by landmarks derived from 3-D images of similar said body parts, said landmarks having one depth and two spatial coordinates, said model relating the probable relative depth of each landmark in a 3-D-shape of a said body part to the spatial coordinates of the set of landmarks constituting a said shape, and based on the inferred relative depth of the landmarks of the starting 2-D shape deforming the starting 2-D shape to correct for apparent distortion caused by rotation about an axis parallel to the projection plane of the imaged body part, so producing a corrected 2-D shape. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249552 | PRODUCT MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A product modeling system and method are provided. On one embodiment, the product modeling system is used to model a piece of apparel, such as a shirt, with a design wherein the model with the design is used to display the piece of apparel with the design to a consumer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249553 | ARCHITECTURES FOR CONCURRENT GRAPHICS PROCESSING OPERATIONS - Ray tracing, and more generally, graphics operations taking place in a 3-D scene, involve a plurality of constituent graphics operations. Scheduling of graphics operations for concurrent execution on a computer may increase throughput. In aspects herein, constituent graphics operations are scheduled in groups, having members selected according to disclosed aspects. Processing for specific graphics operations in a group can be deferred if all the operations in the group cannot be further tested concurrently. Graphics operations that have been deferred are recombined into two or more different groups and ultimately complete processing, through a required number of iterations of such process. In one application, the performance of the graphics operations perform a search in which respective 1:1 matches between different types of geometric shapes involved in the 3-D scene are identified. For example, closest intersections between rays and scene geometry can be identified by processing scheduled according to disclosed aspects. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249554 | Methods and Systems for Mobile Document Acquisition and Enhancement - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for correcting artifacts in a camera-captured image of a document or image of an object exhibiting document-like content. A mobile device may capture an image and send the image to a cloud computing system for processing. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the mobile device may provide real-time feedback cues to assist in the capture of an image. The mobile device may detect a region-of-interest in the captured image, and a user may refine or confirm the detected region-of-interest. The captured image, information identifying the region-of-interest and a metadata tag, referred to as a region-of-interest modification tag, indicating whether, or not, the region-of-interest was refined by a user may be sent to the cloud. The cloud may process the image giving priority to the region-of-interest received from the handset when the region-of-interest modification tag indicates that the region-of-interest was refined by a user over a cloud determined region-of-interest. The cloud may transmit, to the handset, the processing results. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249555 | VISUAL CONNECTIVITY OF WIDGETS USING EVENT PROPAGATION - A method, system and computer program product receive a set of objects for connection, create a moving object within the set of objects, display visual connection cues on objects in the set of objects, adjust the visual connection cues of the moving object and a target object in the set of objects, identify event propagation precedence, and connect the moving object with the target object. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249556 | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for fast geometric sound propagation using visibility computations - Methods, systems, and computer program products for simulating sound propagation can be operable to define a sound source position within a modeled scene having a given geometry and construct a visibility tree for modeling sound propagation paths within the scene. Using from-region visibility techniques to model sound diffraction and from-point visibility technique to model specular sound reflections within the scene, the size of the visibility tree can be reduced. Using the visibility tree, an impulse response can be generated for the scene, and the impulse response can be used to simulate sound propagation in the scene. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249557 | SYSTEM FOR PARTICLE EDITING - A computer animation system including polygon mesh editing tools configured to edit a particle simulation by first converting a particle cash of the simulation into a polygon mesh, editing the polygon mesh and then converting the edited polygon mesh back into an edited particle cash. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249558 | PIXEL VIA AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for pixel vias. In one aspect, a method of forming an electromechanical device having a plurality of pixels includes depositing an electrically conductive black mask on a substrate at each of four corners and along at least one edge region of each pixel, depositing a dielectric layer over the black mask, depositing an optical stack including a stationary electrode over the dielectric layer, and depositing a mechanical layer over the optical stack. The method further includes providing a conductive via in a first pixel of the plurality of pixels, the via disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connecting the stationary electrode to the black mask, the via disposed in a position along an edge of the first pixel, spaced offset from the edge of the first pixel in a direction towards the center of the first pixel. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249559 | Controlling the Power State of an Idle Processing Device - A method of operating a processing device is provided. The method includes, responsive to an idle state of the processing device, transitioning the processing device to a substantially disabled state. The processing device, for example, may be a graphics processing unit (GPU). Transitioning the processing device to a substantially disabled state upon detection of an idle state may result in power savings. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249560 | PARALLEL COMPUTATION OF MATRIX PROBLEMS - In order to perform computation concerning a large sparse matrix of values, a computer stores in its memory the nonzero values of each row and as many null or preferably zero values as are required to make up a predetermined number of stored values for each row. Associated column indices are also stored. Storage in this format can be carried out by massively parallel processing using a graphics processing unit. The format is acceptable input for programs written to expect input in conventional compressed sparse row format yet avoids the constraints which enforce serial processing in order to store in that conventional format. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249561 | FLOATING POINT COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH S_E_M FORMATTING - A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used to optimize the range and precision afforded by the 16 available bits of information. In other embodiments, the floating point format can be defined in the manner preferred in order to achieve a desired range and precision of the data stored in the frame buffer. The final floating point values corresponding to pixel attributes are stored in a frame buffer and eventually read and drawn for display. The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249562 | FLOATING POINT COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH FOG - A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used to optimize the range and precision afforded by the 16 available bits of information. In other embodiments, the floating point format can be defined in the manner preferred in order to achieve a desired range and precision of the data stored in the frame buffer. The final floating point values corresponding to pixel attributes are stored in a frame buffer and eventually read and drawn for display. The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249563 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT A SELF-REFRESHING DISPLAY DEVICE COUPLED TO A GRAPHICS CONTROLLER - A method and apparatus for supporting a self-refreshing display device coupled to a graphics controller are disclosed. A technique for setting the operating state of the graphics controller during initialization from a deep sleep state is described. The graphics controller may set the operating state based on a signal that controls whether the graphics controller executes a warm-boot initialization procedure or a cold-boot initialization procedure. In the warm-boot initialization procedure, instructions and values stored in a non-volatile memory connected to the graphics controller may be used to set the operating state of the graphics controller. In one embodiment, the graphics controller may determine whether any changes have been made to the physical configuration of the computer system and, if the physical configuration has changed, the graphics controller may set the operating state based on values received from a software driver. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249564 | Graphics Pipeline Scheduling Architecture Utilizing Performance Counters - A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes determining a current computing-memory ratio. Then the method compares the current computing-memory ratio to a lower ratio threshold value. Then the method configures a next draw command to be performed using a graphics memory efficiency operational mode when the current computing-memory ratio is below the lower ratio threshold value. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249565 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit includes: a memory storing an image signal; a write control unit generating a write control signal in synchronization with the input image signal and frame identification information, and storing the input image signal in the memory so that the input image signal corresponds to the frame identification information on the basis of the write control signal; and a read control unit generating a read control signal through obtaining a vertical synchronization signal supplied from outside based on a timing signal of an output horizontal frequency, and reading an image signal that corresponds to the frame identification information from the memory on the basis of the read control signal and the frame identification information supplied from outside. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249566 | FLOATING POINT COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH FRAME BUFFER FOR STORING COLOR VALUES DURING OR AFTER RASTERIZATION - A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used to optimize the range and precision afforded by the 16 available bits of information. In other embodiments, the floating point format can be defined in the manner preferred in order to achieve a desired range and precision of the data stored in the frame buffer. The final floating point values corresponding to pixel attributes are stored in a frame buffer and eventually read and drawn for display. The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249567 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING ADAPTIVE RENDERING QUALITY DEGRADATION - An apparatus is provided for adaptively adjusting the rendering quality of one or more images. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to adjust a rendering quality associated with display of one or more images to degrade the images based in part on a determined distance corresponding to a predetermined threshold. The processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to enable rendering and display of the degraded images in response to receipt of the degraded images from a device or retrieval of the degraded images from a locally stored memory. The degraded images include images having a size that is smaller than a size of corresponding original images. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249568 | DISTRIBUTED VISUALIZATION PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing data. In one aspect, a mixer server receives a request for a visualization of television reporting data, translates the request for the visualization of the television reporting data into sharded requests, and provides each sharded request to a respective shard server. Each shard server processes a respective proper subset of the television reporting data to generate data representing the visualization, and provides the data representing the visualization to the mixer server. The mixer server aggregates the data representing the visualizations received from each of the shard servers, and provides the aggregated data representing the visualization as a response to the request for the visualization of the television reporting data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249569 | DRAWING APPARATUS, DRAWING METHOD, AND DRAWING PROGRAM - A drawing apparatus includes a segment setter configured to analyze outline data and to set a straight line segment for drawing a straight line portion and a curved line segment for drawing a curved line portion, in the outline data; a first stencil generator configured to generate stencil data of the straight line segment; a second stencil generator configured to obtain a basic texture in which transparency is allocated for each of a plurality of regions in an image, pasting a portion of the basic texture to the curved line segment in accordance with a shape of the curved line segment, and thereafter to generate stencil data of the curved line segment; and a drawer configured to draw a character image corresponding to the outline data, based on the stencil data of the straight line segment and the stencil data of the curved line segment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249570 | Highlighting in response to determining device transfer - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining that a computing device that was presenting an item has been transferred from a first user to a second user; and presenting, via the computing device, one or more highlighted portions of the item, the one or more highlighted portions being highlighted in response, at least in part, to said determining. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249571 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display method comprises uploading images from a terminal of users to a server via a network, storing the images uploaded by the users in the server, calculating a value of the stored images, displaying a predetermined number of images among the stored images at the terminal in a manner in accordance with the value of the images. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249572 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, a display controller is provided. The display controller includes a control section for controlling a display to display a sequence of images, first character information corresponding to a first displayed image of the sequence of images, and other character information corresponding to an image in the sequence of images which is prior to the first displayed image, wherein the control section controls display of the first character information and the other character information in response to a user operation. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249573 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, a screen-information receiving unit, a pixel-block extraction unit, a halftone-dot extraction unit, and a halftone-dot adding unit. The image receiving unit receives an image. The screen-information receiving unit receives screen information concerning screening which has been performed on the received image. The pixel-block extraction unit extracts pixel blocks which are possibly halftone dots included in the received image. The halftone-dot extraction unit extracts, on the basis of the screen information, a pixel block which is a halftone dot among the pixel blocks extracted by the pixel-block extraction unit. The halftone-dot adding unit adds, on the basis of the screen information, a halftone dot at a position at which no pixel block has been extracted by the pixel-block extraction unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCED GATE COUNT GAMMA CORRECTION - A cubic, or other polynomial, approximation to a panel's gamma function. Embodiments contemplate a display system configured to apply a panel gamma function that is a third-order polynomial function, as well as its substantial inverse. This third order function is often easier to implement, and yields lower gate count than current power law gamma functions. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249575 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING RELATED DIGITAL IMAGES - A digital image display device for displaying a sequence of digital media assets, the digital media assets including both individual digital still images and groups of related digital still images, comprising a display screen; a processor; and a processor-accessible program memory. The processor-accessible program memory stores executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of: designating a sequence of digital media assets; and sequentially displaying each digital media asset in the sequence of digital media assets on the display screen, wherein if a displayed digital media asset is an individual digital still image it is displayed for a specified display time duration, and if a displayed digital media asset is a group of related digital still images the display time duration is subdivided and each of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images is displayed for a corresponding display time duration fraction. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING PHOTO ON SCREEN HAVING ANY SHAPE - Provided are a method and an apparatus for displaying a photo on a screen having any shape. The method includes: extracting photographing information about a photo having a first shape; adjusting the photo for display with a shape optimized for a screen having a second shape, based on the extracted photographing information; and displaying the adjusted photo on the screen. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249577 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A display apparatus includes: an image storage section that stores plural images; an image conversion section that selects an image from among the plural images and obtains a conversion image by converting the selected image; a schedule setting section that sets a schedule indicating an order and timings of displaying the plural images stored in the image storage section and the conversion image obtained by the image conversion section; a display section that sequentially displays the plural images and the conversion image in the order and the timings according to the schedule set by the schedule setting section; and a controller that controls the image conversion section to complete the conversion of the selected image before a display start timing of the conversion image, the display start timing set by the schedule setting section. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249578 | DISPLAY UNIT, DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display unit, including a display part displaying content in a display screen, a detection part detecting an operation performed on the display screen of the display part, and an information display part displaying, on the basis of a detection result obtained by the detection part, damage information corresponding to simulated damage formed in the content due to the operation. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249579 | WINDOW MINIMIZATION TRIGGER - A method and computer-storage media for minimizing application windows based on a triggering event are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include determining that a triggering event has occurred with respect to a target window, automatically minimizing all of the minimizable application windows except the target application window, and generating an undo record that may be used to restore the minimized windows upon the determination that a second triggering event has occurred with respect to the target window. In one embodiment, the triggering event is shaking the target application window. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249580 | Computer systems for annotation of single molecule fragments - There are provided computer systems for visualizing and annotating single molecule images. Annotation systems in accordance with this disclosure allow a user to mark and annotate single molecules of interest and their restriction enzyme cut sites thereby determining the restriction fragments of single nucleic acid molecules. The markings and annotations may be automatically generated by the system in certain embodiments and they may be overlaid translucently onto the single molecule images. An image caching system may be implemented in the computer annotation systems to reduce image processing time. The annotation systems include one or more connectors connecting to one or more databases capable of storing single molecule data as well as other biomedical data. Such diverse array of data can be retrieved and used to validate the markings and annotations. The annotation systems may be implemented and deployed over a computer network. They may be ergonomically optimized to facilitate user interactions. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249581 | NON-HOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS MAGNIFICATION AND REDUCTION - Is provided herein a method of non-homogeneously magnifying objects comprising providing an information element adapted to be displayed on a display and surrounded by a margin thereof; displaying the information element and its margin on a display; defining a standardized object adapted to respectively include therein the information element and at least a portion of the margin; magnifying the standardized object; defining a size of the magnified information element by removing an unmagnified size of the at least a potion of the margin to the size of the magnified standardized object; and displaying the magnified information element with its surrounding margin. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249582 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes: a changing unit changing a two-dimensional location representing locations in a horizontal direction and an orthogonal direction of each of a plurality of objects having different depths for a display screen of a display unit according to a direction in which a user views the display unit; a transparency adjusting unit for adjusting transparency for each of the plurality of objects; and a display control unit for displaying the plurality of objects in which the two-dimensional location is changed and the transparency is adjusted on the display unit, so as to overlap each other. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249583 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays plural images corresponding to plural image data, respectively, the plural image data being associated with plural pieces of position information which are different from one another; a display position converter that converts the position information associated with each image into display position information that reflects a positional relationship relative to the position information of another image on a display screen of the display unit; and a display controller that causes the display unit to display the plural images based upon the display position information of each image converted by the display position converter. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249584 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a first image; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second image obtained by performing predetermined image processing for the first image; a compositing unit to generate a composite image composed of the first and second images that are combined to be superimposed on each other; a specifying unit to specify, based on a user's predetermined operation of an operation input unit, a change region in the composite image whose composition ratio is to be changed; and a controller to change transparency of the upper one of the first and second images to change the composition ratio at which the compositing unit combines the first and second images in the change region specified by the specifying unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - When an indicating situation recognizer recognizes an indicating situation on a display surface of a display unit indicated by a finger, a drawing processor superimposes a drawn image corresponding to the indicating situation onto a map displayed on the display surface. When recognizing an image masking request signal indicating that the map is hidden, an image masking processor provides a display state where the map is hidden and only the drawn image is displayed. When recognizing the indicating situation by the indicating situation recognizer while the map is masked, an image exposure processor performs an image exposure process to display the hidden map in an area corresponding to the indicating situation. Accordingly, it can be prevented that the meaning of the drawn image becomes difficult to grasp because an area irrelevant to the drawn image is displayed on the displayed map M. The meaning and the tendency of the drawn image is easily checkable on the displayed map. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249586 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATION BETWEEN REMOTE AND ON-SITE USERS OF INDIRECT AUGMENTED REALITY - An apparatus for enabling provision of collaboration of remote and on-site users of indirect augmented reality may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least selecting a stored image including a virtual representation of a real world location based on position information and orientation information of a mobile terminal, causing provision of first visual content to be displayed at the mobile terminal based on the virtual representation, causing provision of second visual content to be displayed at a remote device based on the virtual representation, and enabling collaborative interaction between a user of the mobile terminal and a user of the remote device with respect to the first visual content and the second visual content. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249587 | KEYBOARD AVATAR FOR HEADS UP DISPLAY (HUD) - In some embodiments, the invention involves using a heads up display (HUD) or head mounted display (HMD) to view a representation of a user's fingers with an input device communicatively connected to a computing device. The keyboard/finger representation is displayed along with the application display received from a computing device. In an embodiment, the input device has an accelerometer to detect tilting movement in the input device, and send this information to the computing device. An embodiment provides visual feedback of key or control actuation in the HUD/HMD display. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249588 | Augmented Reality Data Center Visualization - Datacenter datasets and other information are visually displayed in an augmented reality view using a portable device. The visual display of this information is presented along with a visual display of the actual datacenter environment. The combination of these two displays allows installers and technicians to view instructions or other data that are visually correlated to the environment in which they are working. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249589 | Method for the Output of Graphic Driving Indications - The method outputs graphic driving indications for assisting a motor vehicle driver in a driving maneuver. The graphic driving indications are displayed by a head-up display. A first graphic driving indication is in the form of a traffic lane change indication pointing out to the driver the direction from a traffic lane traveled at the beginning of the maneuver to a desired traffic lane. A second graphic driving indication is output in the form of a contact-analog traffic lane marking graphically emphasizing the desired traffic lane relative to other traffic lanes. A third graphic driving indication is in the form of a contact-analog maneuvering impulse including a driving funnel originating from the desired traffic lane and corresponding to the driving maneuver. A fourth graphic driving indication is a symbolic maneuvering display indication which symbolically displays the beginning driving maneuver after the vehicle enters into the driving funnel. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249590 | SELECTIVE HAND OCCLUSION OVER VIRTUAL PROJECTIONS ONTO PHYSICAL SURFACES USING SKELETAL TRACKING - A head mounted device provides an immersive virtual or augmented reality experience for viewing data and enabling collaboration among multiple users. Rendering images in a virtual or augmented reality system may include performing operations for capturing an image of a scene in which a virtual object is to be displayed, recognizing a body part present in the captured image, and adjusting a display of the virtual object based upon the recognized body part. The rendering operations may also include capturing an image with a body mounted camera, capturing spatial data with a body mounted sensor array, recognizing objects within the captured image, determining distances to the recognized objects within the captured image, and displaying the virtual object on a head mounted display. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249591 | SYSTEM FOR THE RENDERING OF SHARED DIGITAL INTERFACES RELATIVE TO EACH USER'S POINT OF VIEW - A head mounted device provides an immersive virtual or augmented reality experience for viewing data and enabling collaboration among multiple users. Rendering images in a virtual or augmented reality system may include capturing an image and spatial data with a body mounted camera and sensor array, receiving input indicating a first anchor surface, calculating parameters with respect to the body mounted camera and displaying a virtual object such that the virtual object appears anchored to the selected first anchor surface. Further rendering operations may include receiving a second input indicating a second anchor surface within the captured image that is different from the first anchor surface, calculating parameters with respect to the second anchor surface and displaying the virtual object such that the virtual object appears anchored to the selected second anchor surface and moved from the first anchor surface. | 2012-10-04 |