| 43rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
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| 20100271335 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING OPTICAL SENSORS - A liquid crystal panel | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271336 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is an image pickup device with which object detection can be performed with a good stability no matter in what use conditions. A display area | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271337 | Touch panel and touch display apparatus having the same - Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a touch display apparatus having the same. As disclosed, a touch panel may include a window unit, reflection units, and detection units. As disclosed, the reflection units may be on the window unit and may be configured to reflect scattered light when the window unit is touched. As disclosed, the detection units may be on the window unit and the detection units may be configured to detect the reflected scattered light. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271338 | INPUT APPARATUS WITH FLEXIBLE INPUT PANEL - An exemplary input apparatus, includes a flexible input panel, a reel, a stylus and an image capturing apparatus. The reel includes a casing and a rotatable spindle, the casing defining an inner space and an opening communicating the inner space, the rotatable spindle being received in the inner space and configured for winding the input panel into the inner space of the casing and unwinding the input panel out of the casing through the opening. The stylus is configured for input information to the input panel. The image capturing apparatus is mounted on the casing and configured for obtaining the information inputted to the input panel by the stylus. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271339 | DEVICE FOR FACILITATING ACTIVE DATA ENTRY - A device for facilitating communication with a data input device which includes an elongated body member with a concave closed end portion and a tubular portion including an open end defining a hollowed out finger receiving cavity therein and an elongated projecting member resistant to axial deformation and supported by the body member, the projecting member including a proximal end connected with the concave closed end portion of the body member and a distal portion, the distal portion having a planar contact surface defined thereon, wherein the proximal end of the projecting member is at a location that is radially offset from the apex of the concave end portion. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271340 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device including: a rotary operation device; a detection section; a display control section; a rotation driving section to apply a rotary force to the rotary operation device; a first force sense presenting section to present a first force sense by a combination of at least any two of applying a rotary force in a normal rotation direction, applying a rotary force in a reverse rotation direction, and stopping applying when the detected rotation angle reaches a predetermined switching angle corresponding to the displayed predetermined display information; a second force sense presenting section to present a second force sense different from the first force sense by applying the rotary force in the normal rotation direction when the rotation angle detected by the detection section is within a first range, and in the reverse rotation direction when the angle is within a second range. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271341 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device, including: a rotary operation device; a rotation detecting section; a rotation driving section; a judging section to judge whether the detected rotation angle of the rotary operation device is a predetermined angle corresponding to a displayed selection item or not; a generating section to generate a switching signal when it is judged the rotation angle is the predetermined angle; and a rotation controlling section to control of a rotation drive to give the operator a force sense by a combination of at least any two of applying the rotary force in a normal rotation direction, applying the rotary force in a reverse rotation direction, and stopping applying the rotary force, when the judging section judges that the rotation angle of the rotary operation device is the predetermined angle. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271342 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device, including: a rotary operation device; a rotation detecting section; a rotation driving section; a display control section to scroll an image under display by rotation of the rotary operation device; a judging section to judge whether the detected rotation angle reaches a critical angle corresponding to an end part of a range of the displayed image or not; and a rotation controlling section to reversely rotate the rotary operation device to an initial position or a reference position when it is judged that the rotation angle reaches the critical angle and the rotary operation is released, wherein the display control section displays the image displayed on the display section at a display position corresponding to the initial position or the reference position when the rotary operation device is reversely rotated to the initial position or the reference position. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271343 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device, including: a rotary operation device; a storage section to store screen information correlated to a display order; a display control section for displaying the screen and selection items; an item switch instructing section to switch the selection item; and a screen switch instructing section to switch the displayed screen, wherein the selection item is switched in a predetermined selection order when the rotary operation device rotates in one direction and switched in a reverse order when the rotary operation device rotates in the other direction, and the first screen is switched to the second screen when the rotary operation device rotates in the one direction in a state in which a last first selection item is selected and switched to the first screen when the device rotates in the other direction in the state in which a top second selection item is selected. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271344 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device, including: a rotary operation device rotatable around an axis by receiving a rotation operation of an operator; a rotation driving section to apply a rotary force to the rotary operation device; a pressure detecting section to detect a pressure in an axial direction to the rotary operation device; and a force sense presenting section to present a force sense to the operator operating the rotary operation device by applying a rotary force to the rotary operation device by the rotation driving section when the pressure detecting section detects a predetermined pressure in the axial direction to the rotary operation device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271345 | Electronic White Board Capable of Printing Partial Data Thereon - The present invention relates to an electronic white board capable of printing partial data thereon, and particularly relates to a non-interactive white board capable of printing partial data thereon. The electronic white board comprises a writing area for inputting the data to the electronic white board by writing, a selecting device for selecting the part of the data on the writing area to be printed, and a defining device for defining which part on the writing area is selected by the selecting device. In the present invention, the defining device defines a rectangle zone, a circle zone, an elliptical zone or a polygonal zone on the writing area for printing by inputting one or more points or lines with the selecting device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271346 | Electronic imaging device and driving method thereof - An electronic imaging device includes a display unit having a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, and a barrier layer disposed in front of the display unit and divided into a plurality of areas along a scan direction. The barrier layer includes a plurality of first barrier electrodes and a plurality of second barrier electrode. The plurality of first barrier electrodes includes a plurality of first and second sub-electrodes in a zigzag pattern along the scan direction, the plurality of second barrier electrodes includes a plurality of third and fourth sub-electrodes in a zigzag pattern along the scan direction, and the third and fourth sub-electrodes being offset with respect to the first and second sub-electrodes along the scan direction. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271347 | Display unit - A display unit with which diffraction reflection is able to be decreased is provided. The display unit includes a display section having an organic EL device and a pixel circuit for every pixel. The pixel circuit has a first transistor for writing a video signal and a second transistor for driving the organic EL device based on the video signal written by the first transistor. The second transistor has a gate, a source and a drain. The organic EL device has an anode, an organic layer, and a cathode. An upper face of the source or the drain is formed at least in a region opposed to the anode or the cathode. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271348 | Semiconductor device and data driver of display apparatus using the same - There is provided a decoder in which a matrix of transistors, a plurality of reference voltage signal lines arranged on a first interconnect layer and extended in a row direction, being separated to one another over the matrix, and a plurality of reference voltage signal lines arranged on a second interconnect layer and extended in the row direction, being separated to one another over the matrix. The reference voltage signal lines on the mutually different layers are respectively connected to impurity diffusion layers of the transistors that are adjacent in the row direction. The reference voltage signal lines on the mutually different layers are respectively connected to the impurity diffusion layers of the transistors that are adjacent in a column direction | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271349 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICES FOR OLED DISPLAYS AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A system for displaying images. The system includes a thin film transistor (TFT) device including a first gate layer disposed on a first region of a substrate and covered by a first insulating layer. A first polysilicon active layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and a second polysilicon layer is disposed on a second region of the substrate. A second insulating layer covers both of the first and second polysilicon gate layers. Second and third gate layers are respectively disposed on the second insulating layer above the first and second polysilicon active layers. A method for fabricating a system for displaying images including the TFT device is also disclosed. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271350 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display including a panel and a chip driving the panel is provided. The panel has a first and a second input terminal and a segment of liquid crystal materials. The orientation of the liquid crystal materials is dependent on a voltage difference between the first and second input terminals. The chip has a plurality of output pins outputting rail-to-rail signals. The output pins are coupled to a connection node and the connection node is coupled to the first or second input terminal of the panel. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271351 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel and a driver unit driving the plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a first plate on which a sustain electrode and a scan electrode, a dielectric layer, an address electrode extending in a direction intersecting with the sustain electrode, and a protective layer are sequentially stacked and a second plate disposed to face the first plate via a discharge space. On the second plate, a barrier rib extending in the direction intersecting with the sustain electrode is formed. One edge part of the address electrode lies on the barrier rib and the other edge part of the address electrode lies on the discharge space. During an address period, the driver unit applies a scan pulse operating as an anode to the scan electrode and applies an address pulse operating as a cathode to the address electrode. This makes it possible to prevent erroneous discharge. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271352 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device ( | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271353 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A semiconductor device includes first layer wiring including a gate electrode mounted on a substrate; a gate insulating film having an opening that exposes part of the first layer wiring and covering the entire surface of the substrate including the gate electrode; second layer wiring including a source electrode and a drain electrode mounted on the gate insulating film; an insulating partition layer having a first opening that exposes an edge between the source electrode and the drain electrode and a part of the gate insulating film between the source electrode and the drain electrode and a second opening that is aligned with the opening formed in the gate insulating film; and an organic semiconductor layer disposed across the source electrode and the drain electrode at the bottom surface of the first opening formed in the partition layer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271354 | Display apparatus, driving method thereof, and electronic system - A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on the pixels. The pixel includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a video signal in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor changes the device to a luminous state, the switching transistor becomes ON in advance of the sampling of the video signal to change the light emitting device to a non-luminous state, and the sampling transistor takes in the OFF voltage from the signal line to the driving transistor, thereby preventing a penetration current from flowing from the power source toward the fixed potential. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271355 | INTELLIGENT DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A digital photo frame (DPF) includes a power management unit connected to a power source, configured for distributing power from the power source to the DPF; a display panel configured for displaying displayable media; a receiver configured for detecting whether there is a remote signal within a predetermined area generated by a remote controller and producing a trigger signal when having detected the remote signal; a light detector configured for detecting current ambient light level and producing a light signal corresponding to the detected ambient light level; and a processing unit configured for adjusting brightness of the display panel according to the trigger signal and the light signal. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271356 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display device includes a display unit, a display control unit, and a control unit. The display unit includes a first and second glass plates, each formed with an electrode connected to a power supply and configured to transmit a light, and a light dispersing element sealed between the first and the second glass plates. The light dispersing element transmits the light when a voltage from the power supply is turned on, and disperses the light when the voltage is turned off. The display control unit controls a timing of turning the voltage on or off, or switching the voltage between positive and negative when the voltage is turned on. The control unit instructs the display control unit to set a display frame rate to a predetermined value during a standby mode, and set it higher than the predetermined value during an information display mode. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271357 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A scan-pulse generating circuit has a shift resister section that has 2N (i.e. twice the number of the driving-voltage waveforms) resisters and shifts the data of the resisters; an N-bit latching section that retains output from every other resister of 2N resisters of the shift resister section and generates N control pulses for generating scan pulses; and switching section that generates scan pulses according to N control pulses. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271358 | LCD BACKLIGHT DRIVING DEVICE WITH AN ISOLATING TRANSFORMER - An LCD backlight driving device with an isolating transformer comprises a DC power supply, a square wave generator, a square wave controller, said isolating transformer and a driver transformer; wherein said isolating transformer has a primary side connected to said square wave generator and a secondary side connected to said driver transformer, since said isolating transformer is placed between said square wave generator and said driver transformer, it helps to effectively shorten a safety distance required for setting up said driver transformer; the present invention uses said isolating transformer to shorten the safety distance required than that of using said driver transformer directly and to decrease an area in implementing a circuit board and to cut cost of said device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271359 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a pixel array including a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, a plurality of liquid crystal elements arranged in a matrix corresponding to an intersection of each scanning line and each signal line, and a plurality of common connection lines arranged one by one corresponding to the liquid crystal elements of each line; a scanning line drive circuit; a signal line drive circuit; and a common connection line drive circuit electrically separating, from each other, one or a plurality of common connection lines (first common connection lines), and a plurality of common connection lines (second common connection lines), and electrically connecting the plurality of second common connection lines to each other to independently drive the first common connection line and the second connection lines from each other. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271360 | Bi-Stable Display, Frame Updating Method and Timing Control Method thereof - A bi-stable display, frame updating method and timing sequence controlling method thereof are disclosed. The frame updating method of the bi-stable display includes the steps of comparing a difference of source driver output voltages of adjacent frames of image updating period with a preset threshold, and determining parameter value of each transitional state of the adjacent frames when the difference equal or greater than the preset threshold for controlling level of source driver output voltage. Accordingly, the effects such as signal interference, reduction of image quality resulted from switching between high voltage levels directly and rapidly and excessive power consumption may be eliminated. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271361 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided which includes a display panel, a signal board for processing an image signal used in an image display, and a power source board for supplying power from a power source to the signal board and the display panel. The signal board and the power source board are disposed in a horizontal direction relative to the display panel, and a projection portion, being disposed higher above a surface of the power source board than a circuit element of the power source board and not being connected with a member opposing to a mounting side of the circuit element, is provided on the surface of the power source board where the circuit element is mounted. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HIGH SPEED, LOW EMI SWITCHING CIRCUITS - Methods and apparatus are provided for generating low EMI display driver power supply. The methods and apparatus include switching circuits that utilize two groups of parallel circuit traces, each of which is coupled to one end of a switching device. The two groups of traces are configured to be interleaved with each other such that no two traces from either group are next to any other traces from the same group. When the switching device is activated, current flows through the circuit and charges an energy storage element. When the switching device is deactivated, the energy storage element discharges a portion of its energy to a second energy storage element and to the driver circuits. In another embodiment, an additional circuit trace is provided which is only connected on one end and is free floating on the other end to capture the majority of EMI remaining that was generated by the switching circuit. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271363 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display includes a scan driver for sequentially supplying a scan signal to scan lines; a data driver for supplying data signals to data lines when the scan signal is supplied; a timing controller for controlling the scan driver and the data driver and for supplying one of at least two clock signals to clock supply lines arranged parallel to the scan lines; and pixels positioned at crossing regions of the scan lines, the data lines and the clock supply lines. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode; a pixel circuit for controlling an amount of current supplied along a current path from a first power source to a second power source via the organic light emitting diode; and a control transistor on the current path and controlled by a corresponding clock signal of the at least two clock signals. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271364 | Display panel driver - A display panel driver is provided with: first and second amplifiers; first to n-th even output nodes, n being an integer of two or more; first to n-th odd output nodes; first and second output pads connected to data lines of a display panel, respectively; first to n-th switch blocks; first to n-th even electrostatic protection resistors; and first to n-th odd electrostatic protection resistors. The i-th switch block out of the first to n-th switch blocks is configured to switch connections between the first and second amplifiers and i-th even and odd electrostatic protection resistors out of the first to n-th even and odd electrostatic protection resistors. The first to n-th even electrostatic protection resistors are connected between the first to n-th even output nodes and the first output pad, respectively. The first to n-th odd electrostatic protection resistors are connected between the first to n-th odd output nodes and the second output pad, respectively. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271365 | Image Transformation Systems and Methods - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable medium are provided that cause a two dimensional image to appear three dimensional and also create a dynamic or animated illustrated images. The systems, methods, apparatuses and computer readable mediums implement displacement maps in a number of novel ways in conjunction with among other software, facial feature recognition software to recognize the areas of the face and allow the users to then customize those areas that are recognized. Furthermore, the created displacement maps are used to create all of the dynamic effects of an image in motion. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271366 | Method and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional image message in mobile terminals - A method and an apparatus for producing a 3-Dimensional (3-D) image message in a mobile terminal are provided. In the method, one of a plurality of stored images is determined. A 3-D image is set and displayed at a predetermined position of the determined image. Further disclosed is setting one of motion, sound, props and text on the selected the 3-D image. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING A REAL WORLD EVENT AND A COMPUTER SIMULATION - A method for use in a computer simulation includes receiving data obtained from a real-world event that takes place over a period of time and that includes a plurality of moving bodies, wherein the data includes position data and at least one other attribute for each moving body in the plurality of moving bodies with the data being measured at a plurality of points in the period of time, generating a representation of the real-world event using the data, wherein the representation of the real-world event comprises representations of the plurality of moving bodies, and rendering the representation of the real-world event on a display. Another method includes obtaining data for each of a plurality of moving bodies in a real-world event, and providing the data to an apparatus that is configured to use the data to generate a representation of the real-world event and render the representation of the real-world event on a display. A computer readable storage medium stores a computer program adapted to cause a processor based system to execute one or more of the above or similar steps. An apparatus is configured to generate and render a representation of the real-world event using data obtained from the real-world event. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING A 3D SCAN OF A PHYSICAL TARGET OBJECT TO A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Described herein are systems and methods for systems and methods for applying a 3D scan of a physical target object to a virtual environment. Embodiments described herein focus particularly on examples where a 3D scan of a person's head (or part thereof) are to be applied to a virtual body in the virtual environment. In some implementations, this is used to provide realistic faces and facial expressions to virtual characters in a video game environment. In overview, some embodiments make use of a hybrid approach including surface analysis for the generation of a 3D scan, and relatively traditional motion capture (mocap) technology for providing spatial context for association with the 3D scan. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271369 | CURVED SURFACE RENDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A curved surface rendering method grids a curved surface to a plurality of triangles, and further divides the plurality of triangles to sub-triangles. Furthermore, the method determines surface triangles and inner triangles from all triangles of the curved surface, and displays the surface triangles on a display device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271370 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED CLIPPING OUTSIDE OF VIEW VOLUME - A distributed clipping scheme is provided, view frustum culling is distributed in several places in a graphics processing pipeline to simplify hardware implementation and improve performance. In general, many 3D objects are outside viewing frustum. In one embodiment, clipping is performed on these objects with a simple algorithm in the PA module, such as near Z clipping, trivial rejection and trivial acceptance. In one embodiment, the SE and RA modules perform the rest of clipping, such as X, Y and far Z clipping. In one embodiment, the SE module performs clipping by way of computing a initial point of rasterization. In one embodiment, the RA module performs clipping by way of conducting the rendering step of the rasterization process. This approach distributes the complexity in the graphics processing pipeline and makes the design simpler and faster, therefore design complexity, cost and performance may all be improved in hardware implementation. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271371 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING COORDINATES OF A CURVED SURFACE - A method for converting coordinates of a curved surface is provided. Parameters of the curved surface to be converted are received, and basic data is computed using a B-spline basis function according to the parameters to formulate a data structure. Basic points are determined according to the parameters and the data structure, and coordinates of the curved surface are converted from three-dimensional coordinates to two-dimensional coordinates using the basic points. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271372 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processor includes an image accepting unit, an image moving amount accepting unit, an initial estimated image generating unit, an estimated image moving and reducing unit, a unit extracting a difference between an image processed by the moving and reducing unit and the images accepted by the image accepting unit, a unit moving and enlarging, in the opposite direction of the moving and reducing unit, an image processed by the difference extracting unit, a unit adding and accumulating an image processed by the moving and enlarging unit, a unit multiplying a given coefficient by an image processed by the accumulative adding unit, and an iterating unit iterating processing by the moving and reducing unit, the difference extracting unit, the moving and enlarging unit, the accumulative adding unit and the coefficient multiplying unit according to a given condition. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271373 | FITTING SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT VISUAL TOOLS - A fitting system with intelligent visual tools may included calculating a response curve of a hearing assistance device, wherein the response curve indicating sound level pressure level compared to frequency. Additionally it may include, displaying, on a display device, the response curve and displaying concurrently with the response curve, a visual cue, wherein the visual cue represents data including at least one of: gain of the response curve, a comparison between a target response curve and the response curve, and a comparison between binaural response curve. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271374 | CONVERSION OF SWF SHAPE DEFINITIONS FOR VECTOR GRAPHICS RENDERING - A method and device are provided for converting or transforming a shape definition specified in a SWF file into a vector graphics shape definition. The vector graphics shape definition includes one or more vector graphics path definitions that can be used by a vector graphics API to properly render the contents of the SWF shape definition. Each vector graphics path definition is based on directed edges in the SWF shape definition having a path style, such as a line style or a fill style, in common. A vector graphics path is created by traversing undirected edges of a graph represented by a graph representation, and by removing an undirected edge, after the undirected edge has been traversed, from each edge set to which the traversed edge belongs. Such an approach can leverage a vector graphics API that can be hardware accelerated to efficiently render the shape data. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271375 | ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING IN A MULTI PROCESSOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for balancing a load among multiple graphics processors that perform different portions of a rendering task. A rendering task is partitioned into portions for each of two (or more) graphics processors. The graphics processors perform their respective portions of the rendering task and return feedback data indicating completion of the assigned portion. Based on the feedback data, an imbalance can be detected between respective loads of two of the graphics processors. In the event that an imbalance exists, the rendering task is re-partitioned to increase the portion assigned to the less heavily loaded processor and to decrease the portion assigned to the more heavily loaded processor. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271376 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - In an active matrix type display device including two source line side drivers for driving a plurality of pixel TFTs, one gate line side driver, two line memories respectively including at least first and second memories, and a controller for controlling the first and second line memories, storing and transmitting of picture data of the two line memories are switched to transmit the data to the two source line side drivers at the same time. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271377 | Electrophoretic Display Controller Providing PIP And Cursor Support - Data pixels defining first and second images are stored in first and second image buffers, respectively. A second image coordinate location within a display matrix of a display device having display pixels that have multiple stable states is stored in a memory. Data pixels of the first image are read from the first image buffer. If a data pixel read from the first image buffer is within the second image coordinate location, a data pixel from the second image buffer corresponding with the data pixel read from the first image buffer is read, and the data pixel read from the second image buffer is combined with the corresponding data pixel read from the first image buffer to generate a derived data pixel. Synthesized pixels corresponding with at least each of the data pixels of the second image are generated. The synthesized pixels respectively include the derived data pixels. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271378 | Rapid Activation Of A Device Having An Electrophoretic Display - A method for booting up a system includes detecting a reset condition, and in response to detecting the reset condition, driving a display device having display pixels that have multiple stable states with a reset drive scheme. The reset drive scheme is used to drive the display pixels to a known display state. The driving of the display device may be performed by a display controller. In addition, initialization instructions are executed to place at least one component of the system in an active state. The executing of initialization instructions may be performed by a host. The driving of the display device with the reset drive scheme and the executing of the initialization instructions are performed in parallel. The method may include driving the display device with a first drive scheme to display an initial start-up screen in parallel with the executing of the initialization instructions. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271379 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COPYING A FRAMEBUFFER FOR TRANSMISSION TO A REMOTE DISPLAY - Remote desktop servers include a display encoder that maintains a secondary framebuffer that contains display data to be encoded and transmitted to a remote client display. The display encoder submits requests to update the display data in the secondary framebuffer to a video adapter driver that has access to a primary framebuffer whose display data is updated according to drawing commands received from applications running on the remote desktop servers. The video adapter driver utilizes a spatial data structure to track changes made to the display data located in regions of the primary framebuffer and copies the display data in those regions of the primary framebuffer to corresponding regions in the secondary framebuffer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271380 | Allocation And Efficient Use Of Display Memory Bandwidth - A method includes fetching first synthesized pixels from an update buffer of a memory and fetching data pixels from an image buffer of the memory during the first drive frame period. Respective data pixels are fetched synchronously with the fetching of corresponding first synthesized pixels. Respective data pixels fetched from the image buffer are synthesized with corresponding first synthesized pixels to generate second synthesized pixels. The second synthesized pixels are stored in the update buffer during the first drive frame period. The storing of second synthesized pixels may be paused based on a prediction that the fetching of first synthesized pixels will not complete within the first drive frame period. The fetching of data pixels from the image buffer of the memory may also be paused based on the prediction that the fetching of first synthesized pixels will not complete within the first drive frame period. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING DRAWING PRIMITIVES FOR SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION TO A REMOTE DISPLAY - Remote desktop servers include a display encoder that maintains a secondary framebuffer that contains display data to be encoded and transmitted to a remote client display and a list of display primitives effectuating updated display data in the secondary framebuffer. The display encoder submits requests to receive the list of drawing primitives to a video adapter driver that receives and tracks drawing primitives that, when executed, update a primary framebuffer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271382 | GRAPHIC DRAWING DEVICE AND GRAPHIC DRAWING METHOD - A distance information generating unit | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271383 | SHADING USING TEXTURE SPACE LIGHTING AND NON-LINEARLY OPTIMIZED MIP-MAPS - In a technique for rendering non-linear BRDFs that are stable in both the temporal and spatial domains, without serious interruption to the content creation pipeline used in most games, non-linear content is linearized by rendering in texture space at a fixed resolution. A MIP-map chain is calculated from this texture. The complete MIP-map chain is used for rendering on a display device. Low resolution reflectance parameters are used to approximate the highest resolution reflectance parameters as the object becomes smaller on the display device. The low resolution reflectance parameters are calculated using non linear fitting techniques. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271384 | INTELLIGENT DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A digital photo frame (DPF) includes a power management unit connected to a power source, configured for distributing power from the power source to the DPF; a display panel configured for displaying displayable media; a shaking sensor configured for detecting whether the DPF is being shaken and producing a trigger signal when the DPF is being shaken; a light detector configured for detecting current ambient light level and producing a light signal corresponding to the detected ambient light level; and a processing unit configured for adjusting brightness of the display panel according to the trigger signal and the light signal. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271385 | INTELLIGENT DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A digital photo frame (DPF) includes a power management unit connected to a power source, configured for distributing power from the power source to the DPF; a display panel configured for displaying displayable media; a touch sensor configured for detecting whether the DPF is touched and producing a trigger signal when the DPF is; a light detector configured for detecting current ambient light level and producing a light signal corresponding to the detected ambient light level; and a processing unit configured for adjusting brightness of the display panel according to the trigger signal and the light signal. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271386 | METHOD FOR SETTING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A display apparatus and a setting method thereof are provided. The method for setting a display apparatus includes displaying at least one item corresponding to a characteristic of an input image, a value for each of the at least one setting item, and at least one element which denotes a command to apply each of the value, and applying the value for an item corresponding to the selected element if one of the at least one element is selected. Therefore, a user may easily apply to a display a value appropriate for a characteristic of an input image. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271387 | METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CHARACTERS - A method is used to control a liquid crystal panel to display a character having a tilted or curved stroke. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of original physical pixels arranged in a matrix array. The method includes dividing each original physical pixel into three color dots of red, green and blue, and forming a plurality of display units. Each display unit includes three horizontally consecutive color dots, and at least one of the plurality of display units includes color dots from two of the original physical pixels. The method includes constructing a clear lattice diagram including the plurality of display units for displaying the tilted or bended stroke, and driving the liquid crystal panel to display the character based on the clear lattice diagram. As such, in the clear lattice diagram, at least two of the display units are vertically adjacent to each other and are horizontally offset by one or two color dots with respect to each other. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271388 | Bios Graphical Engine Providing Uniform Look And Feel - A computer system comprises a Basic Input/Output System (“BIOS”) graphical engine and a BIOS graphics look and feel module. The BIOS graphics look and feel module is separate from the BIOS graphical engine, and comprises a look and feel definition that defines the appearance and behavior of BIOS graphical user interface displays presented to a user before an operating system acquires control of the system. The BIOS graphical engine transforms information to be displayed for a user in accordance with the look and feel definition to provide a uniform appearance and behaviour to graphical displays provided to the user. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271389 | Information Handling System And Method For Using Main Link Data Channels - A method of providing information for display includes receiving primary, secondary, and tertiary information for display at an information handling system. The tertiary information is communicated to a display interface after the primary and secondary information during a time period otherwise assigned to the communication of dummy information. This allows more information to be communicated via a communication channel. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271390 | VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT PICTURE QUALITY ADJUSTMENT - A system and method for dynamically changing the display parameters of a display device. The system includes a server that obtains information about display content, environmental factors and user preferences affecting the display device. This information is used to generate initial display parameters which can be downloaded to the display device. The display device can use the initial display parameters to select final display parameters based upon sensed real-time information about the display device, the user preferences and environmental factors affecting the display device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271391 | Presenting Textual and Graphic Information to Annotate Objects Displayed by 3D Visualization Software - The present invention relates to a method of displaying a dynamic 2D annotation associated with an object displayed in a 3D scene. The method includes providing a computer system that includes a display device; establishing a view location and direction; orienting the dynamic 2D annotation substantially perpendicular to the view direction; orienting the dynamic 2D annotation substantially horizontal relative to the 3D scene; positioning the dynamic 2D annotation relative to an attachment point on or near the object; extending an attachment handle between the dynamic 2D annotation and the attachment point; and displaying the dynamic 2D annotation and the attachment handle in the 3D scene on the display device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSIBILITY AND CONTROL OF PARAMETERS IN SCENEGRAPHS - A method and system for providing access to and control of parameters within a scenegraph includes redefining components or nodes' semantic within a scenegraph. The set of components or nodes (depending on the scenegraph structure) are required to enable access from the Application User Interface to selected scenegraph information. In one embodiment, a user interface is generated for controlling the scenegraph parameters. In addition, constraints can be implemented that allow or disallow access to certain scenegraph parameters and restrict their range of values. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271393 | IMAGE SELECTION AND COMBINATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A method is disclosed that includes receiving multiple sequential images captured by an image capture device. The method includes selecting a subset of the multiple sequential images that are aligned to each other. The method further includes averaging pixel values from each image in the subset of the multiple sequential images to produce a combined image. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MERGING VIRTUAL REALITY AND REALITY TO PROVIDE AN ENHANCED SENSORY EXPERIENCE - A system and method of merging virtual reality sensory detail from a remote site into a room environment at a local site. The system preferably includes at least one image server; a plurality of image collection devices; a display system, comprising display devices, a control unit, digital processor and a viewer position detector. The control unit preferably receives the viewer position information and transmits instructions to the digital processor. The digital processor preferably processes source data representing an aggregated field of view from the image capturing devices in accordance with the instructions received from the control unit and outputs refined data representing a desired display view to be displayed on the one or more display devices wherein the viewer position detector dynamically determines the position of the viewer in the room environment and changes the desired display view corresponding to position changes of the viewer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271395 | REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE SELECTION METHOD - A person cluster selection part selects one or more person clusters as representative person clusters in order of largest number of facial images included therein. A unit selection part selects, from each representative person cluster, (i) a unit having the highest likelihood as a first representative unit, and (ii) units in order of lowest likelihood as a second representative unit onward. A representative facial image selection part selects, from each representative unit, (i) a facial image having the highest likelihood as a first representative facial image, and (ii) facial images in order of lowest likelihood as a second representative facial image onward. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271396 | System and method for selective viewing of a hidden presentation within a displayed presentation - There is provided a system and method for selective viewing of a hidden image within a displayed image. There is provided a method for providing a composite presentation, comprising displaying a plurality of elemental presentations including a first presentation and a second presentation to provide the composite presentation, wherein the displaying of the second presentation makes at least a first portion of the first presentation become unrecognizable to a human eye viewing the composite presentation without a use of a visual aid. This rendering of the first presentation as unrecognizable to the human eye may be accomplished through filtering techniques such as one or more of optical polarization, shuttering, depth of field alteration, light intensity alteration, light angle alteration, anaglyph filters, and other filtering techniques. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271397 | CONVERSION OF SWF MORPH SHAPE DEFINITIONS FOR VECTOR GRAPHICS RENDERING - A method and device are provided for converting or transforming a morph shape definition specified in a SWF file into a vector graphics shape definition including one or more vector graphics path definitions that can then be used by a vector graphics API to render the contents of the SWF morph shape definition. The method creates an intermediate path style, and path style graph information including intermediate path style information. A vector graphics path definition includes the intermediate path style information, and a vector graphics path created by traversing components of a graph represented by a path style graph representation. Embodiments described herein can leverage a vector graphics API that can be hardware accelerated to efficiently render the morph shape data, such as in a mobile device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING DIGITAL IMAGES ON A COMPUTER DISPLAY - The present invention provides a user interface for manipulating digital images. The interface includes a display arranged to display at least one digital image. The at least one image has a front side and at least one opposing side displayable to a user, the front and each one of the opposing sides having at least one detection portion. The detection portion is arranged to detect a manipulation request by the user and, on detection of the request, initiate a routine whereby a displayed side is rotated from view and at least one opposing side is displayed. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271399 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING OF AN IMAGE IN THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method for positioning of an image in the electronic device are provided. The electronic device can compute RGB values of each pixel of the image, and cluster the image to a foreground cluster and a background cluster based on the RGB values. The foreground cluster is segmented into at least one foreground figure. If a selected foreground figure is magnified, the image is magnified, a center coordinate of the selected foreground figure is mapped to the center of a display screen of the electronic device, so as to position the magnified image. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271400 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit which designates an object, a sensing unit which senses a change which exceeds a threshold value in at least a part of the object when a user zooms in on the object, and a zoom unit which zooms in on the object at the zoom rate which is just less than that when there is a change that exceeds the threshold value in at least a part of the object if there is a change that exceeds the threshold value in at least a part of the object when the user zooms in on the object at the designated zoom rate, and which zooms in on the object if there is no change that exceeds the threshold value in at least a part of the object even when the user zooms in on the object at the designated zoom rate. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271401 | Touch Wheel Zoom And Pan - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling zooming and panning on a handheld computing device (e.g., personal digital assistant (PDA)) are described. A PDA may include a touch sensor that can generate both rotational and flick signals. A PDA may display images at different zoom levels. When “zoomed in”, less than an entire image may be displayed. Therefore a PDA may pan to different viewable image portions. An example system includes a receive logic to receive a rotational signal from the touch sensor. The rotational signal has a direction that indicates a desired zoom level change. The example system includes a control logic to change the zoom level in response to the rotational signal and to control the PDA to display the image in accordance with the updated zoom level. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271402 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment - Disclosed is a rotary input device including: a rotary operation device; a rotation driving section; a detection section; a force sense presenting section to present a force sense by a combination of at least two of applying the rotary force in a clockwise direction, applying the rotary force in a counterclockwise direction, and stopping applying the rotary force; a display control section; a magnification ratio change instructing section; and a scroll instructing section, wherein the magnification ratio change instructing section instructs enlargement when rotating in one side, and instructs reduction when rotating in the other side; the scroll instructing section instructs on the basis of the depressed position; and the force sense presenting section changes a way of presenting the force sense in order that the operator can perceive a display state pertaining to a display position or a display magnification ratio of the image under display distinguishably. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271403 | Digital image drop zones and transformation interaction - A portion of a digital image is displayed where the portion that is displayed depends upon a mask. After the portion of the digital image is displayed, a change to the mask is received. It is determined, based at least in part on the received change to the mask, a transformation to be applied to the digital image. A new portion of the digital image is displayed based at least in part on the changed mask and the determined transformation, where the new portion that is displayed has the same center point as the previously displayed portion. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271404 | SCALABLE PIXEL COVERAGE FUNCTION-MAP - Disclosed is a method ( | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271405 | Method and System for Transforming a CAD Model of an Object Between Engineering States - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for transforming a CAD model of an object between engineering states includes generating a first reference geometry to represent a first engineering state. A parametric CAD model of the object may be generated to represent the object in the first engineering state by constructing the parametric CAD model as having dependence on the first reference geometry. A second reference geometry may be generated to represent a second engineering state. The parametric CAD model may be regenerated to represent the object in the second engineering state by replacing the first reference geometry with the second reference geometry. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271406 | Display driver and method of testing the same - A display driver includes a gradation data register that stores gradation data having a bit width, and a gradation voltage signal generator that generates a gradation voltage signal that has voltage according to the gradation data stored in the gradation data register and outputs the generated gradation voltage signal, the display driver further including a test circuit that is provided between the gradation data register and the gradation voltage signal generator, the test circuit connecting at least a plurality of bit lines among bit lines provided between both of the circuits through a common node in a test mode, so as to perform failure detection based on a value of current that flows in the common node. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271407 | REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES WITH LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT FILM - The present invention is directed to reflective display devices with a luminance enhancement structure on its viewing side and at least an auxiliary layer and/or edge sealing. The structure increases the overall reflectance by reducing the total internal reflection, and as a result, the brightness of a display device is increased. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271408 | PARTIAL UPDATE DRIVING METHODS FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - This application is directed to driving methods for electrophoretic displays. More specifically, the methods are suitable where there is a requirement for a partial update of the images in the display, where a partial update means that less than 10% of the pixels require updating. An essential element of the method is a floating common electrode. This method for partial updating may be used with the prior art driving techniques in order to provide the optimum updating method for different applications. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271409 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, COLOR SIGNAL CORRECTION APPARATUS, AND COLOR SIGNAL CORRECTION METHOD - Upon displaying an image using the subfield driving method, a luminance discrepancy or a chromaticity discrepancy is reduced while effects of horizontal crosstalk are reduced. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271410 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS RESPONDING TO REQUEST DURING USE OF ERASABLE INK - An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit configured to form an image with erasable first ink; a second image forming unit configured to share a conveying path with the first image forming unit and form an image with not erasable second ink; a recording unit configured to record a level of use of a recording medium on the recording medium; a detecting unit configured to detect the level of use; and a control unit configured to control the first image forming unit or the second image forming unit according to a detection result of the detecting unit. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271411 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING SYSTEM - An apparatus is configured to perform recording with at least three types of inks that are similar in color and different in pigment density. The apparatus is capable of operating in a first mode for performing recording on a first recording medium using at least one of a second ink having a pigment density that is lower than that of a first ink and a third ink having a pigment density that is lower than that of the second ink, and in a second mode for performing recording on a second recording medium, which has a lower glossiness than the first recording medium, using at least the first ink. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271412 | INKJET PRINTER - A inkjet printer including a plurality of heads installed in a staggered arrangement, and a relay board for receiving image data, a control signal conforming to each head, and a timing signal for determining timed intervals to emit ink particles from the control unit of the inkjet printer, and for sending the received image data, control signal and timing signal to the aforementioned plurality of respective drive signal generating circuits. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271413 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an ink-jet head configured to eject ink to form an image on a sheet; and a controller configured to control an amount of the ink ejected from the ink-jet head and reduce an ejection amount of the ink ejected to a damaged sheet to be smaller than an ejection amount of the ink ejected to an undamaged sheet. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271414 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a print head provided with a plurality of discharge ports, a scanning unit configured to cause the print head to scan the same printing region on a recording medium a number of times, a generation unit configured to generate image forming data for each of scans, based on image information that has been input, and an image forming unit configured to perform image forming by discharging inks from the discharge ports on the recording medium according to the image forming data generated by the generation unit. The generation unit includes a division unit configured to divide the image information, while controlling division coefficients, using each of the discharge ports as the reference based on the division coefficients, and a quantization unit configured to quantize each of image information divided by the division unit. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271415 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer that performs printing by discharging ink droplets from nozzles of an ink jet head onto a print medium includes: a moisture adjusting unit that is provided at a downstream side of the ink jet head in a print medium transport direction and adjusts moisture of the print medium by moving moisture of a printing surface of the print medium, onto which the ink droplets are discharged from the ink jet head, to a surface opposite the printing surface; and a moisture adjustment control unit that controls moisture adjustment of the print medium performed by the moisture adjusting unit in accordance with a ratio of the number of nozzles, from which the ink droplets from the ink jet head are discharged, to the total number of nozzles. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271416 | MEDIA ADVANCE CALIBRATION - A method of calibrating a media advance in a printer includes providing a mask to specify a printing configuration of a calibration target; forming a media feed calibration target on the print media by: i. printing the calibration target on a print media using an array of the marking elements, ii. advancing the print media by a media advance amount, iii. printing the calibration target on the print media using the array of the marking elements; iv. advancing the print media by the previous media advance amount plus an offset amount, and v. repeating steps iii. and iv. until the media feed calibration target is complete; measuring the optical reflectance of the media feed calibration target as a function of position along the media feed calibration target; identifying a position along the media feed calibration target corresponding to the location at which a maximum in the optical reflectance occurs; and comparing the location at which a maximum in the optical reflectance occurs to a predetermined location of the media feed calibration target to calibrate media advance in the printer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271417 | IMAGE QUALITY MATCHING IN A MIXED PRINT ENGINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEM - A method and system for improved image quality using an image quality matching method is used to match the optical density of single prints produced on multiple print engines by first sensing the optical density of a first image produced on a first print engine and then sensing the optical density of a second image produced on a second print engine before comparing the optical densities and determining if they are substantially equal. If they are not equal set points and exposures are adjusted on one or both print engines until the differences between the optical densities is less than 0.05, preferably 0.03. The density is changed by adjusting the initial voltage on the primary imaging member of at least one print engine and/or by adjusting the exposure of the primary imaging member of at least one print engine. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271418 | SELF-DISPERSION PIGMENT, PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SELF-DISPERSION PIGMENT, INK SET AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - The invention provides a self-dispersion pigment including a pigment, an ionic group directly bonded to the pigment and a nonionic molecular chain bonded to the pigment through an amide bond. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271419 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS, A DROPLET ADHERENCE PREVENTING METHOD AND A CLEANING METHOD FOR CLEANING A RECORDING MEDIUM CARRIER ROLLER - Droplet ejecting apparatus has a recording medium carrier portion provided with recording medium carrier rollers conveying a recording medium, a droplet ejecting portion discharging droplets to the recording medium, and a droplet adherence preventing liquid applying portion applying droplet adherence preventing liquid preventing adherence of the droplets to at least one of the recording medium carrier rollers. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271420 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND RECOVERING METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus comprises: a temperature sensor configured to detect an environmental temperature of the printing apparatus; a suction unit configured to suck ink from a printhead according to a target suction amount indicating amount of ink that the suction unit should suck per unit time at a predetermined environmental temperature; and a controller configured to cause the suction unit to suck ink such that the target suction amount in a case where the environmental temperature is higher than a predetermined temperature is greater than the target suction amount in a case where the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271421 | MAINTENANCE ASSEMBLY FOR PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD - A maintenance assembly for a pagewidth printer mounted between posts of a main body of the printer and positioned adjacent a printhead assembly of the printer includes a maintenance chassis defining tongue portions and having ends shaped to fit over the posts of the main body to secure the maintenance assembly in position; a retainer element operatively engaging the chassis; and a lower molding and an upper molding operatively fast with each other to sandwich an absorbent insert between them, the moldings in turn sandwiched between the chassis and retainer element, the maintenance assembly for wiping the printhead of the printer. The lower maintenance molding is made from a plastic material and forms a body having closed ends and an open top, the ends of the lower maintenance molding defining air vents to facilitate ventilation of the maintenance assembly. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271422 | PRINTER HAVING MECHANISM FOR ARCUATE CAPPER MOVEMENT - A printer is provided having printheads for printing on opposite faces of print media, cappers for capping the printheads, and a transport mechanism for moving the cappers from respective non-capping positions to respective capping positions in an arcuate direction that is approximately normal to the printheads as the capping positions are approached. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271423 | External Particle Mitigation without Exceeding Drooling Limitations - A method of performing maintenance on a printhead of an imaging device includes the application of a purge pressure to ink in an on-board reservoir of the printhead to cause ink to be burped through a plurality of apertures in an aperture plate of the printhead. A wiper blade is then dabbed on the aperture plate at least once after the application of the purge pressure. After the dabbing, the wiper blade is drawn across the aperture plate. The wiper blade is then dabbed against the dabbing position at least once after wiping the aperture plate. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271424 | Selective Purging of Ink Jets to Limit Purge Mass - A method of performing maintenance on a printhead of an imaging device includes the detection of at least one contaminated ink jet in a printhead. A first pressure is applied to ink in the printhead in response to the detection of the at least one contaminated ink jet. The first pressure is configured to prevent ink from entering a plurality of apertures in an aperture plate of the printhead and to prevent ink from drooling from the plurality of apertures unless the apertures are wiped by a wiper blade. A first portion of apertures in the plurality of apertures in the aperture plate is wiped with a wiper blade while leaving a second portion of the apertures untouched by the wiper blade while the first pressure is applied to the ink in the printhead. The wiping of the first portion of apertures enables ink to drool from the first portion of apertures. The first portion of apertures includes the at least one detected contaminated ink jet. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271425 | PNEUMATIC HOLE CLEANER FOR VACUUM BELT - A print system including a vacuum blower configured to create both a vacuum pressure and exhaust, a vacuum chamber configured to distribute the vacuum pressure created by the vacuum blower, a transport belt configured to pass in close proximity to the vacuum chamber, the transport belt having a plurality of holes, and a pneumatic cleaning device configured to direct the exhaust created by the vacuum blower through one or more holes of the transport belt in close proximity to the pneumatic cleaning device. The pneumatic cleaning device includes an upper cleaning head comprising a one or more vents configured to direct air through holes in a transport belt; and a lower cleaning body. The lower cleaning body includes a muffler, a removable collection area configured to collect debris in the exhaust, and a filter configured to collect in the exhaust. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271426 | LAMINATED INK SUPPLY STRUCTURE MOUNTED IN INK DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENT OF AN INKJET PRINTER - A laminated structure mounted in an ink distribution structure of an inkjet printer includes a first layer having a plurality of discrete ink holes defined therethrough, the plurality of discrete ink holes being arranged in rows, the first layer further defining a pair of recesses for communicating ink from the two centremost rows of ink holes towards a centre of the laminated structure; a second layer defining a pair of slots each communicating ink from the pair of recesses vertically through the second layer, the second layer further defining a plurality of ink holes aligned with the ink holes of rows other than those of the two centremost rows; a third layer defining a plurality of ink holes aligned with the two outermost rows of ink holes, the third layer further defining channels for communicating ink from the plurality of ink holes in the third layer towards a centre of the laminated structure; and a fourth layer having an array of integrated circuit slots each for receiving a printhead integrated circuit. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271427 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY WITH CAPILLARY CHANNELS IN FLUID CHAMBERS - A printhead assembly is provided. The cartridge includes a body assembly defining fluid chambers that each comprise a stack of polymer layers with a micro-capillary array of channels formed therein to form an absorbent assembly. The printhead assembly includes a plurality of printhead integrated circuits (IC) each having a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements for ejecting printing fluid onto a printing medium, in use. The printhead assembly also includes a fluid distribution member operatively arranging each chamber in fluid communication with each IC. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271428 | POLYFUNCTIONAL EPOXY COMPOUND, EPOXY RESIN, CATIONIC PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, MICRO STRUCTURED MEMBER, PRODUCING METHOD THEREFOR AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A polyfunctional epoxy compound, represented by a formula (I), comprising a nucleophilic organic group A having a nucleophilic group other than an epoxy group, and an epoxy-containing group B having an epoxy group: | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271429 | INK EJECTION NOZZLE WITH OSCILLATOR AND SHUTTER ARRANGEMENT - An ink ejection nozzle includes an ink reservoir with an oscillator configured to oscillate ink pressure in the reservoir; a wafer assembly defining an ink supply channel in fluid communication with the ink reservoir; a nozzle chamber structure on the wafer assembly and defining a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink supply channel, and an ink ejection port in fluid communication with the nozzle chamber; and a shutter positioned in the nozzle chamber and configured to shut the ink ejection port to the ejection of ink from the nozzle chamber. The shutter is moved by a thermoelastic actuator having a coiled serpentine heater. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271430 | PRINTHEAD PROVIDED WITH INDIVIDUAL NOZZLE ENCLOSURES - A unit cell, a plurality of which make up a printhead, includes a substrate including an ink inlet passage; a chamber defined by chamber sidewalls and a nozzle plate defining an aperture for ejection of ink from the chamber, the chamber being in fluid communication with the inlet passage; and a nozzle enclosure comprising enclosure sidewalls and a roof defining an opening for ejection of ink, the nozzle enclosure surrounding the aperture such that ink ejected from the aperture is directed to the opening of the nozzle enclosure, thereby isolating the aperture from an adjacent aperture of an adjacent unit cell. The opening has a greater diameter than the aperture. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271431 | LIQUID INJECTION RECORDING HEAD - An electric wiring board | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271432 | Nanoparticles, conductive ink and circuit line forming device - A circuit line forming device, including an inkjet head to eject a conductive ink onto one side of a substrate, the conductive ink containing nanoparticles including a ferromagnetic core and a conductive layer surrounding the ferromagnetic core; and a magnetic field generator part, positioned on the other side of the substrate in correspondence with the inkjet head, wherein the magnetic field generator part applies a magnetic field on the conductive ink, when the conductive ink is ejected to form circuit lines. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271433 | INKJET INKSET AND METHODS - There is disclosed an ink set and method for printing an inkjet ink image on a nonporous substrate. The inkset and method comprise one or more inkjet inks comprising at least one first pigment-based inkjet ink having a first colorant load of a pigment and a polymeric latex binder; and at least one second pigment-based inkjet ink having a second colorant load of the pigment and a polymeric latex binder, the second colorant load being less than the first colorant load, and the second pigment-based inkjet ink applied to a substrate in an amount to provide a total ink loading of from about 10 g/m | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100271434 | PRINTHEAD WITH MOVABLE EJECTION ORIFICE - An inkjet printhead that has a first layer with an opening, a second layer with a hole and a flexible element supported by the second layer. The flexible element has an orifice through which ink is ejected. An actuator deflects the flexible element to force the ink through the orifice. The hole and the opening are in fluid communication to supply ink to the flexible element. | 2010-10-28 |
