46th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120287094 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed is a thin film transistor that is provided with a gate insulating film that is inexpensive, and that is less likely to have a low-density microcrystalline silicon layer formed thereon due to plasma induced damage, while suppressing fluctuation of a threshold voltage. In a TFT ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287095 | Visual RFID Tags and Interactive Visual RFID Networks - RFID driven display system components such as wireless displays (visual RFID tags) and multi-antenna wireless RFID readers that monitor/control the RFID driven displays in order to provide visual real-time information to display viewers and/or provide useful information to a central processing station that monitors the status of and/or updates the RFID driven displays, networks including one or more of the components, and methods for using the RFID driven display system components to monitor assets in applications such as inventory control and manufacturing. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287096 | DRIVING METHOD OF AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT - A variation in threshold may be suppressed by structuring an analog switch by a MOS transistor and forming a signal synchronized to a clock by making the clock which is a common signal in continuity or discontinuity. An object of the present invention is to reduce the variation in the signal synchronized to the clock by the variation in threshold of the MOS transistor in a circuit which is synchronized to the clock. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287097 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LED DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - The semiconductor device is included in the LED driving circuit (current regulator) of driving the LED array (with series-connected number m×parallel-connected number n), and is formed of a plurality (n pieces) of LED driving devices of controlling a current (constant-current driving) flowing in each string. A vertical semiconductor device, for example, a vertical MOSFET is used as the LED driving device. Both of a main device functioning as a constant-current driving device and a subsidiary device functioning as a circuit-breaking switch during dimming are formed inside a chip of the device, which are formed of the vertical semiconductor devices. In a first surface of the device, each source region of the main device and the subsidiary device is formed so as to be insulated from each other through an isolation region. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287098 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optic device includes an electro-optical panel and a polarization axis conversion unit that emits transmission lights corresponding to a first image or a second image with the polarization axis of the first image intersecting the polarization axis of the second image, by converting the polarization axis of the lights emitted from the electro-optical panel. The electro-optic device further includes a scanning signal supply unit supplying scanning signals through the plurality of scanning lines and an image signal supply unit supplying a first image signal corresponding to a first image to the plurality of pixel sections during a first field period and supplying a second image signal corresponding to a second image to the plurality of pixel sections during a second field period through the plurality of data lines, the first field period and the second field period being divided into a plurality of subfield periods respectively. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287099 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of pulse output circuits each of which outputs signals to one of the two kinds of scan lines and a plurality of inverted pulse output circuits each of which outputs, to the other of the two kinds of scan lines, inverted or substantially inverted signals of the signals output from the pulse output circuits. Each of the plurality of inverted pulse output circuits operates with at least two kinds of signals used for the operation of the plurality of pulse output circuits. Thus, through current generated in the inverted pulse output circuits can be reduced. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287100 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Method for Driving the Same - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device increasing transmittance to improve brightness while employing ferroelectric liquid crystals in a half-V mode. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including ferroelectric liquid crystals of a half-V mode, and a driving circuit driving a liquid crystal panel so that a first frame period, which the positive data voltages are supplied to the liquid crystal panel, becomes longer than a second frame period, which the negative data voltages are supplied to the liquid crystal panel. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287101 | LATCH CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE LATCH CIRCUIT - A latch circuit includes an input transistor, a retention capacitor connected between an electrode of the input transistor and a first latch control line, a first transistor having an electrode connected to the first latch control line and a gate connected to the electrode of the input transistor, a second transistor having a gate connected to another electrode of the first transistor and an electrode is connected to the second latch control line, a third transistor having a gate connected to the another electrode of the first transistor and an electrode connected to another electrode of the second transistor and another electrode connected to an output terminal. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287102 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PIXEL CIRCUIT - A pixel circuit includes a display part, hold capacitance, a write transistor that writes a drive voltage corresponding to a video signal to the hold capacitance, and a drive transistor that drives the display part based on the drive voltage written to the hold capacitance. The pixel circuit is so configured as to be capable of controlling opening and closing of a current path of the display part in association with processing of writing the drive voltage corresponding to the video signal to the hold capacitance. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287103 | PIXEL UNIT CIRCUIT, PIXEL ARRAY, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - A pixel circuit array is disclosed and includes pixel unit circuits, and each of the pixel unit circuit includes a precharge circuit, a compensation circuit, a holding circuit, a driving circuit, a light emitting circuit, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a third power supply terminal, a scanning control terminal, a first control terminal and a second control terminal. With the pixel unit circuit, as long as the inputted direct-current reference voltage and the data voltage signal are not varied, the current delivered to the OLED remains constant, thus the uniformity of the OLED can be compensated for. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287104 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287105 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a method of driving a plasma display apparatus, which allows a high-luminance large-sized panel to have stable address discharge, with increase in power consumption suppressed. In the method, one field is divided into a plurality of subfields, each of which having an address period and a sustain period. A ramp voltage is applied to the scan electrodes in the end of the sustain period. The ramp voltage increases from a base potential toward a predetermined voltage, after reaching the predetermined voltage, the ramp voltage is maintained at the voltage for a predetermined period of time and decreases to the base potential. Besides, when the number of the sustain pulses is not greater than a predetermined threshold in a subfield, the predetermined period of time of an immediately after subfield is determined to be longer than the predetermined period of time of other subfields. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287106 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can electrically control the viewing angle. A liquid crystal display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first electrode group on the lower substrate and a first region of liquid crystals in image drive areas controllable according to an applied voltage, and a second electrode group on the lower substrate and a second region of liquid crystals in viewing angle control areas controllable according to an applied voltage, wherein the first region and the second region may be controlled separately. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287107 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - This invention discloses an LCD which includes an LCD panel and a pixel voltage adjuster. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixel units which are arranged in the way of a matrix. Each pixel unit is provided with a liquid crystal capacitor. The liquid crystal capacitor includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode oppositely arranged. The pixel voltage adjuster receives a feedback common voltage from the common electrode and adjusts the voltage of the pixel electrode in terms of the feedback common voltage. The LCD provided in this invention can reduce cross-noise and improve the display quality of the LCD. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287108 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image in an upward direction and a reflective panel on the display panel, the reflective panel configured to selectively transmit or reflect light with respect to an area corresponding to the image. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287109 | DATA DRIVER AND DISPLAY MODULE USING THE SAME - A data driver and a display module using the same are provided. The data driver includes a data line driving circuit and a power control circuit. The data line driving circuit drives data lines of the display module. The power control circuit controls an external power generating circuit connected to the data driver to generate a scan voltage for a scan driver of the display module. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287110 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device, an in-phase signal or a reversed phase signal of a signal supplied to a counter electrode is supplied to a source bus line during a video signal unwritten period, where (i) a video signal written period represents a period during which a voltage is applied to a pixel electrode in accordance with a video signal to be supplied to the source bus line and (ii) the video signal unwritten period represents a period between end of the data written period and start of a next data written period. This allows an electronic potential difference between the source bus line and the counter electrode to be kept constant. It is therefore possible to attain a liquid crystal display device excellent in its display quality by preventing flickers from being generated between a source bus line and a counter electrode. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287111 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - Image display quality of a plasma display apparatus is enhanced. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a number-of-sustain-pulses corrector for controlling the number of sustain pulses to be generated. The number-of-sustain-pulses corrector includes an all-cell light-emitting rate detection circuit ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287112 | Driving Circuit of Liquid Crystal Display - A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display includes: a timing controller to output a gate control signal and a data control signal to control driving of a gate driving unit and a data driving unit and to output digital video data; a pair of gate driving units to be alternately driven by using at least one frame as a period to supply gate signals to gate lines of a liquid crystal panel in response to the gate control signal; and a data driving unit to supply pixel signals to data lines of the liquid crystal panel in response to the data control signal. Degradation of characteristics of transistors constituting each gate driver can be prevented. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287113 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287114 | INTERFACE INCLUDING VIEWS POSITIONED IN ALONG MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS - A particular method includes generating an interface that includes a plurality of first views positioned along a first dimension. The interface also includes at least one second view positioned with respect to at least one of the first views along a second dimension. The method also includes transmitting the interface to a display device. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287115 | METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FRAMES - A method for generating image frames includes setting a 3D display mode of the image frames, configuring at least one parameter of the image frames, and displaying the image frames according to the 3D display mode and the at least one parameter of the image frames. When an input command is received while displaying the image frames, the input command is determined to correspond to parameters of the image frames or not. If the input command does not correspond to parameters of image frames, the parameters of image frames are reconfigured according to the input command. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287116 | Anchors For Displaying Image Sprites, Sub-Regions And 3D Images - Systems, methods and computer program products for displaying image sprites, sub-regions and three dimensional images includes (but is not limited to) receiving a composite image file containing multiple individual images and an index of the multiple individual images, parsing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the composite image file as a function of the index of the multiple individual images, extracting a desired individual image from the composite image file as a function of the index and displaying the extracted individual image. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287117 | FOUR-COLOR 3D LCD DEVICE - 3D stereoscopic viewing enabled by the use of an LCD panel, dynamic backlight, and glasses. The system utilizes an LCD panel with an LED backlight having a 4-color red-green-blue-yellow pixel array and wavelength selective glasses to isolate each channel by color. The system is based on alternating left and right image frames on an LCD panel. One of the frames is illuminated by the red-green-blue LEDs, and the other frame is shown in gray scale and illuminated by the yellow LEDs. The viewer wears glasses where the left lens or filter passes only the spectrum of light used for the left channel of data, and the right lens or filter passes only the spectrum of light used for the right channel of data. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - In a first information processing apparatus, data in a first format is stored. Further, the data in the first format is transformed into a code image by using a predetermined encoding mode. Moreover, code image data in a second format is generated by combining the code image with the data in the first format. In a second information processing apparatus, predetermined information processing is performed based on the data in the first format. In a third information processing apparatus, the code image is displayed, by a first display device, based on the code image data in the second format. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287119 | TIMING CONTROLLER WITH FREQUENCY MODULATION, CONVERTER WITH FREQUENCY MODULATION FOR SCANNING-BASED BACKLIGHT UNIT MODULE, AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR 3D DISPLAY - Timing controller with frequency modulation, converter with frequency modulation for scanning-based backlight unit module, and control system for 3D display. A timing controller with frequency modulation performs display frequency modulation of a first frame rate of a first display signal and outputs a second display signal at a second frame rate greater than or substantially equal to the first frame rate for presentation by a 3D display in a 3D mode or a 2D mode, selectively. A converter with frequency modulation performs scanning frequency modulation of a first scanning frequency of a first control signal generated from the converter and outputs a second control signal at a second scanning frequency greater than or substantially equal to the first scanning frequency, selectively, for controlling the scanning-based backlight unit module of the 3D display. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287120 | ADAPTIVE TIMING CONTROLLER AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An adaptive timing controller, including a receiver, a frame buffer, a data format check circuit and a data converting unit, is provided. The receiver is used for receiving image data of an image frame. The frame buffer is used for temporarily storing the image data. The data format check circuit is used for detecting display types of the image data and a 3D display panel. The data converting unit is sued for rearranging the image data into rearranged image data corresponding to the display type of the 3D display panel. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287121 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING A GEOMETRICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELED OBJECT - It is proposed a computer-implemented method for designing a three-dimensional modeled object, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
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20120287122 | VIRTUAL APPAREL FITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The various embodiments herein provide a virtual apparel fitting system and a method for displaying the plurality of apparels virtually on the user. The virtual apparel fitting system includes an image capturing device and a digital screen. The image capturing device captures an image of a user and the digital screen recognizes one or more physical statistics of the user from the captured image. Further the user selects a plurality of apparels from the apparel library and the plurality of apparels are displayed virtually on the captured image of the user in the digital screen with a prediction on the accurate size and fit of the plurality of apparels on the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287123 | Point-of-View Object Selection - Example methods and systems may be implemented by a wearable computer to utilize optical-flow analysis to recognize a predetermined user-action, such as selecting an object. An example method may involve a wearable computing device: (a) receiving video data from a video camera of a wearable computing device: (b) determining optical flow for the video data; (c) determining that an optical-flow differential exists at an area within the optical flow for the video data; and (d) responsive to determining that the optical-flow differential exists at the area: (i) identifying an object that is located at the area where the optical-flow differential exists; (ii) performing a search on the object; and (iii) causing a graphical display to display information that corresponds to results from the search. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287124 | GRAPHICAL SIMULATION OF OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - A method for simulating a graphical object. The method comprises monitoring approximate distance between a first graphical object and a second graphical object, the first graphical object having at least a first particle and the second graphical object having at least a second particle; detecting a collision (P | 2012-11-15 |
20120287125 | Three-dimensional stereoscopic imaging method, system and imaging device - A three-dimensional stereoscopic imaging method includes: longitudinally slicing a three-dimensional scene according to a physical depth of field to produce several two-dimensional layers; respectively displaying each two-dimensional layer on each different two-dimensional display window to form several two-dimensional pictures; polarizing light emitted from the two-dimensional display windows to transmit the light into human eyes, in such a manner that the human eyes are able to perceive the images of all the pictures, and splicing the images of all the two-dimensional pictures into an image of the original three-dimensional scene. The method realizes a three-dimensional stereoscopic imaging by simulating a real physical depth of field generated by human eyes perceiving a real three-dimensional stereoscopic image. Viewers are able to see a three-dimensional scene without wearing glasses. A three-dimensional stereoscopic imaging system and an imaging device thereof are further provided. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287126 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes a liquid crystal panel with video display lines, a display controller operable to have display data rendered on the liquid crystal panel, the display data including first field data of a video signal input, and second field data of the video signal as field data subsequent in temporal order and different in content from the first field data, a backlight unit disposed behind the liquid crystal panel and provided with light sources adapted to emit light for irradiation to respective regions on the liquid crystal panel sectioned in accordance with a scan direction, and a backlight controller operable to have the light sources transitioned between a light-out state and a light emitting state with a transition time shorter than a scan time of first field data and a scan time of second field data by the display controller. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287127 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A base-view video stream and a dependent-view video stream are recorded on a BD-ROM. The base-view video stream includes picture data constituting a base view of a stereoscopic image. The dependent-view video stream includes offset metadata and picture data constituting a dependent view of the stereoscopic image. The offset metadata includes an offset sequence that defines an offset control of a plane memory when a graphics to be overlaid with the picture data is played back in a one-plane offset mode. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287128 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MESHING CURVED SURFACE - In a method for creating a mesh over a curved surface of an electronic model of an object using an electronic device, sampled points of a boundary line of the electronic model of the object are obtained. The method stores the sampled points of the boundary line in a linked list, obtains sampled points of the curved surface of the electronic model of the object, stores the sampled points of the curved surface in a first queue, and inserts each point stored in the linked list into the first queue. The method further divides a parameter plane of the curved surface into small boxes, determines intersection points of the vertical lines of the parameter plane and the boundary line, and generates triangles by connecting the intersection points, the sampled points of the boundary line, and the curved surface in each small box. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287129 | FUNCTION-BASED REPRESENTATION OF N-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES - A method for modeling an object, particularly suited to complex objects such as anatomical objects, and manipulating the modeled object in a CAD environment includes obtaining volumetric scan data of a region and segmenting the scan data to identify a first object to produce a first set of signed distance values on a grid. Wavelet analysis of the first set of signed distance values provides a function-based representation of the object. A signed distance value model of a second object is obtained, and one or both sets of signed distance values are manipulated to perform a CAD operation. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287130 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REALISTICALLY EXPRESSING TEETH - A method and apparatus for realistically expressing teeth performs rendering on a shape model of the teeth using a hybrid normal map based on materials and characteristics of the teeth in order to more realistically express the teeth. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287131 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD - In the process of a registration between first and second images captured by different image pickup apparatuses, even if corresponding parts have different pixel values, different shapes and different field of view, the registration can be carried out with high speed and high degree of precision. In order to perform the registration between the first and second images, either of the first and second images is divided into segmented regions, and given physical property values are set to the segmented regions. Further, an image (pseudo image) having similar pixel values, shapes and field of view to the other image is created, and the pseudo image and the second image that have the same features are positioned, thereby performing the registration between the first and second images. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287132 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING GEOMETRY MAPPING - A method for reconstructing geometry mapping of a rasterized area is provided. The method includes: finding a testing pixel within the rasterized area; finding an occluding point corresponding to the testing pixel in a geometry shadow map of the rasterized area; determining weight values of the occluding point according to the (x, y) coordinate values of the testing pixel and vertices of a triangle occluding the testing pixel in the rasterized area; determining depth value of the occluding point according to the weight value and z coordinate of the vertices of the occluding triangle; and comparing the depth value of the occluding point with the depth value of the testing pixel so as to determine whether the testing pixel is drawn in light or in shadow. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287133 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first timing generator, a second timing generator and an image adjusting unit. The first timing generator is utilized for generating a plurality of first driving signals, where the first driving signals are utilized to define a position of a first window. The second timing generator utilizes its own hardware to generate a plurality of second driving signals without utilizing software, where the second driving signals are utilized to define a position of a second window, and the second window is within the first window. The image adjusting unit is utilized for adjusting image data to generate adjusted image data according to the first driving signals and the second driving signals. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287134 | GRAPH TO ANALYZE DRILLING PARAMETERS - A method for presenting drilling information includes presenting a display including a graph having a first axis and a second axis. The first axis represents a rate of penetration (ROP) of a drill bit into a borehole and the second axis representing a mechanical specific energy (MSE) of a drilling system that includes the drill bit. The method also includes plotting time based or foot based data with a computing device for one or more drilling runs on the graph and overlaying the graph with lines of constant power. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287135 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RENDERING AREAS BOUNDED BY CURVES USING A GPU - A method is provided for rendering pixels based on a certain type of Bézier curve, called a simple Bézier arch. The method uses an implicit function to determine whether each pixel in a domain triangle containing the arch is on the arch, on one side of the arch, or on the other side. The function's parameters can be linearly interpolated to allow efficient rendering of the triangle by a GPU. A method is also provided for applying the aforementioned method to render pixels, based on a non-linear Bézier curve having at most four control points, by subdividing the curve into simple Bézier arches as necessary. A computing device for performing these methods is also provided. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287136 | TEXT DISPLAY METHOD AND TEXT INPUT METHOD - The present invention relates to a text display method and a text input method. The text display method creates a syllable by combining one or more consonants and vowels based on a combination rule of initial, medial and final phonemes, wherein the initial phonemes are assigned with respective consonants based upon the length and direction of the hour hand, the medial phonemes are assigned with respective vowels based upon the length and direction of the minute hand, and the final phonemes are shaped by the length of the second hand and assigned with consonants similar to the initial phonemes but with a shorter length. As such, not only can people quickly learn how to read and write, they can also input text easily. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287137 | Management of Presentation Time in a Digital Media Presentation System with Variable Rate Presentation Capability - Techniques are provided for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In one embodiment, Presentation Time is converted to Data Time, and Data Time is reported instead of Presentation Time when only one time can be reported. In another embodiment, a predetermined one of Presentation Time and Data Time is returned in response to a request for a Current Time. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287138 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE CONFIGURED TO MINIMIZE STRESS-RELATED DEFORMATION AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING SAME - Embodiments of MEMS devices include a movable layer supported by overlying support structures, and may also include underlying support structures. In one embodiment, the residual stresses within the overlying support structures and the movable layer are substantially equal. In another embodiment, the residual stresses within the overlying support structures and the underlying support structures are substantially equal. In certain embodiments, substantially equal residual stresses are be obtained through the use of layers made from the same materials having the same thicknesses. In further embodiments, substantially equal residual stresses are obtained through the use of support structures and/or movable layers which are mirror images of one another. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGES USING A COLOR FIELD SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating and transmitting video frame data from a graphics processing unit (GPU) to a color field sequential display device. A frame buffer image comprising per-pixel packed color channels is transformed to a frame buffer image comprising regions corresponding to the color channels with vertical blanking regions inserted between color sub-field regions. Each region of the transformed frame buffer image is sequentially transmitted to the color field sequential display device for display of the corresponding color channel. Backlight illumination for each color channel is controlled by the GPU for temporal alignment with display of each color channel during a vertical blanking interval. The GPU may compensate an individual pixel's color channel value based on a corresponding previous color channel value in order to minimize crosstalk between neighboring color fields. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287140 | Display Interface Circuit - A display interface circuit includes a physical layer circuit for receiving and modulating an original data signal and an original clock signal, a frame buffer for storing and outputting the data signal according to the clock signal and a command signal, a display serial interface for transmitting the data signal and the clock signal through packetization, a configuration register for generating the command signal according to an asynchronous clock signal and the data signal, and an asynchronous delay circuit for adjusting a clock latency that the clock signal takes to be sent to the configuration register to generate the asynchronous clock signal. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287141 | PIECEWISE NON-CAUSAL COMPRESSION AND SUBSEQUENT DECOMPRESSION OF QUANTIZED DATA FOR PROCESSING OF DECOMPRESSED DATA IN HIGHER PRECISION PROCESSING SPACE - Nonlinear compression of high precision image data (e.g., 12-bits per subpixel) conventionally calls for a large sized lookup table (LUT). A smaller sized and tunable circuit that performs compression with piecewise linear compressing segments is disclosed. The piecewise linear data compressing process is organized so that lumping together of plural ‘used’ high precision value points into one corresponding low precision data value point is avoided or at least minimized. In one embodiment, the compressed data is image defining data being processed for display on a nonconventional display screen where the piecewise linearly compressed data can be stored adjacent to other image data in a frame buffer where a composite image is assembled. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287142 | POWER SAVING FIELD SEQUENTIAL COLOR - In embodiments of power saving field sequential color (FSC), an illumination source illuminates pixels of a displayable image by sequentially generating RGB (red, green, blue) components of a pixel in a timed sequence of field sequential color. The pixels of a displayable image may also include a white component derived from the RGB components. An illumination reduction algorithm is implemented to determine the highest RGB (or RGBW) components from any of the pixels of the displayable image. The highest RGB (or RGBW) components can be determined from any combination of the same or different pixels of the displayable image. The illumination reduction algorithm then divides each of the highest RGB (or RGBW) components by a maximum brightness value to generate respective RGB (or RGBW) component factors. A display controller then processes each pixel of the displayable image for display according to the RGB (or RGBW) component factors. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287143 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY REDUCING COLOR VALUES - A method of displaying an image that includes, in a display having a pixel comprising red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, receiving data for an image, the image data comprising a first red value corresponding to a brightness of the red sub-pixel, a first green value corresponding to a brightness of the green sub-pixel, a first blue value corresponding to a brightness of the blue sub-pixel, and a first white value corresponding to a brightness of the white sub-pixel. A maximum value is determined from among the first red value, the first green value, and the first blue value, and brightnesses are set corresponding to the values other than the maximum value at quantities generally inversely proportional to the maximum value. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287144 | DISPLAY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMAGES THEREON - A display includes pixels and a controller. The controller can cause the pixels to generate colors corresponding to an image frame. The controller can cause the display to display the image frame using sets of subframe images corresponding to contributing colors according to a field sequential color (FSC) image formation process. The contributing colors include component colors and at least one composite color, which is substantially a combination of at least two component colors. A greater number of subframe images corresponding to a first component color can be displayed relative to a number of subframe images corresponding to another component color. The display can be configured to output a given luminance of a contributing color for a first pixel by generating a first set of pixel states and output the same luminance of the contributing color for a second pixel by generating a second, different set of pixel states. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287145 | COLOR CORRECTOR, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COLOR CORRECTION METHOD - Color correction according to the present disclosure performs correction by adding a predetermined correction value to an input value of a component to be corrected, which is one of a plurality of components for representing a color with a predetermined color space, and outputs a corrected value. The color correction includes calculating an unadjusted correction value based on the input value; and adjusting the unadjusted correction value calculated in the calculating the unadjusted correction value so that the corrected value does not decrease with an increase in the input value, and outputting the adjusted value as the predetermined correction value. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287146 | METHOD FOR SELECTING BACKLIGHT COLOR VALUES - A method of facilitating the display of an image. The method includes, in a display system comprising a display panel having pixels and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the pixels of the display panel, receiving image data corresponding to an image for display upon the display panel, the pixels each having a color to be displayed, so as to collectively display the image. The method also includes, for each pixel, evaluating whether the corresponding color to be displayed is out-of-gamut to the each pixel, so as to form a set of out-of-gamut pixels. A set of virtual primaries is determined so as to define intensities of light emitted by the colored light emitters of the backlight during display of the image, the virtual primaries determined according to the colors of the set of out-of-gamut pixels. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287147 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLENDING DISPLAY MODES - A method of blending image data that includes displaying a first portion of an image from a first set of pixels according to a first mode in which color values of sub-pixels of the first set of the pixels are determined according to time-averaged colors of the corresponding backlight emitters. The method also includes displaying a second portion of the image from a second set of the pixels according to a second mode in which color values of sub-pixels of a second set of the pixels are determined independently for each of the colors of the corresponding backlight emitters. At an interface between the first portion and the second portion, the first portion and the second portion are generally linearly blended so as to form a blended portion of the image, and the blended portion is displayed. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED SUBPIXEL RENDERING - A display system with a subpixel renderer configured to subpixel render input image data having a first set of primary colors, the subpixel rendering performed according to an area resample filter, a color sharpening filter, and a metamer sharpening filter, so as to generate subpixel rendered output image data having a second set of primary colors. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287149 | System and Method for Processing Graphics Operations with Graphics Processing Unit - Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for accumulating changes to the data structures. A separate buffer is then created from at least a portion of the data structures of the accumulation buffer. The disclosed techniques read the data structures from the separate buffer with the graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit operates on the data structures read from the separate buffer with the operation. Then, the disclosed techniques write the results of the operation onto the portion of the accumulation buffer corresponding to the separate buffer. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOCUSING ICONS OF HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display screen of a hand-held electronic device displays a plurality of icons corresponding to application programs of the hand-held electronic device. The hand-held electronic device includes an up/down-arrow key and a left/right-arrow key. If the up/down-arrow key has been operated, the hand-held electronic device focuses an icon according to an operation direction of the up/down-arrow key and a frequency of use relating to each icon. If the left/right-arrow key has been operated, the hand-held electronic device focuses an icon according to an operation direction of the left/right-arrow key and a use time of each icon. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287151 | PARTITIONING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES INTO SUB-IMAGES FOR DISPLAY - Various embodiments provide techniques for partitioning high resolution images into sub-images for display. In at least some embodiments, the techniques can enable a device to display an image in its native resolution (e.g., the image capture resolution) even when the image exceeds a threshold image size for the device. In example implementations, techniques determine that a size of an image exceeds a threshold image size for a system. Further to some embodiments, the techniques can determine that the image is to be partitioned into multiple sub-images that can each be processed and reassembled to display the image. The sub-images can each be rendered by a graphics processing functionality (e.g., a graphics processing unit) and displayed on a display device to present a version of the image in its native resolution. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287152 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A displayed image generation unit enlarges, reduces, or scrolls a displayed image in accordance with a command for change from a user. When a clip command receiving unit receives a clip command, a clipping area identification unit identifies an area to be clipped according to the clip command. A thumbnail image generation unit generates a thumbnail image corresponding to the identified area. A positional information acquisition unit acquires positional information identifying a position of the identified area in an image as a whole. A content ID acquisition unit acquires identification information identifying an image when the clipping command is received. A hard disk drive maps the identification information, the thumbnail image, and the positional information and stores the mapped information. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287153 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to generate an image that is obtained by photographing a subject from a different viewpoint or an image equivalent to the image obtained by photographing the subject from the different viewpoint, in conjunction with a changing amount of an attention part of the subject, as a subject image, and a display control unit configured to allow a display screen to display the subject image that is generated by the image generation unit. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF ITEM - Provided is a method of controlling display of an item. In the method, a plurality of individual items is displayed. A touch input is detected from at least two of the displayed individual items. An outline of a folder item to be generated is displayed around a plurality of the at least two touched individual items. Upon receiving a touch release input, the folder item is generated and displayed within the outline to arrange the individual items that receive touch inputs therein. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287155 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes an image generation unit and a display unit. The image generation unit generates an image in which subject shape images shaped along the outer shapes of subjects are superimposed on a parallel image includes an array of multiple images to hide the borders or spaces between the multiple images. The display unit scrolls the image generated by the image generation unit in a direction in which the multiple images are arrayed and continuously and sequentially scroll-displays the multiple images. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287156 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In order to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasonic image display method for appropriately displaying a three-dimensional elastic image, a three-dimensional blood flow image, and a three-dimensional tomographic image such that the images can be separately recognized, the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes projected image creation units that create a plurality of projected images from the plurality of types of volume data and a projected image combination unit that creates a composite projected image by combining the plurality of projected images on the basis of a predetermined combination rate, and the display unit displays the composite projected image. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287157 | CURRENCY PROCESSING DEVICE - A money handling apparatus that handles money includes an inlet for taking in money; a money storing unit that stores therein the money; an outlet for dispensing the money; a money transport unit that transports the money between the inlet and the outlet, and the money storing unit; a money recognition unit that is provided to the transport unit and recognizes the money; a check receiving port for receiving a check; a scanner that scans the check to acquire a check image; a check transport unit that transports the check between the check receiving port and the scanner; a check recognition unit that recognizes check information that includes at least a check amount from the check image acquired by the scanner; and a control unit that dispenses money equivalent to an amount of difference between a transaction amount acquired from outside the money handling apparatus and a sum of the check amount and an amount of the deposited money. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287158 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To display a captured image, a display apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from an external apparatus, additional information that is to be displayed in association with an object in the captured image. The display unit displays the additional information acquired by the acquisition unit in association with the object. The setting unit allows a user to set a set number of objects in association with which the additional information is to be displayed by the display unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from the external apparatus, the additional information according to the set number of objects. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287159 | VIEWING OF REAL-TIME, COMPUTER-GENERATED ENVIRONMENTS - A method of generating a view of a computer-generated environment using a location in a real-world environment, comprising receiving real-time data regarding the location of a device in the real-world environment; mapping the real-time data regarding the device into a virtual camera within a directly-correlating volume of space in the computer-generated environment; updating the virtual camera location using the real-time data, such that the virtual camera is assigned a location in the computer-generated environment which corresponds to the location of the device in the real-world environment; and using the virtual camera to generate a view of the computer-generated environment from the assigned location in the computer-generated environment. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287160 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ROTATION METHOD OF SAME - A display device includes a display screen, an image capturing device for capturing real-time images of a user, a direction unit, an angle calculation unit, and a control unit. The direction unit determines a first desired rotation direction around a first axis and a second desired rotation direction around a second axis based on the movement of the head image of the user in the real-time images. The angle calculation unit calculates a first desired rotation angle around the first axis and a second desired rotation angle around the second axis based on the movement of the head image of the user in the real-time images. The control unit controls the display screen to rotate in the first desired rotation direction by the first desired rotation angle and controls the display screen to rotate in the second desired rotation direction by the second desired rotation angle. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287161 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - At the first scale size, a predetermined first arrangement position is determined as the arrangement position of an image to be arranged on a map. At the second scale size larger than the first scale size, the second arrangement position closer to the shooting location of the image than at a position corresponding to the first arrangement position on the map at the second scale size is determined as the arrangement position. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287162 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING LOCATION RELATED INFORMATION - A method for displaying location related information on display ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287163 | Scaling of Visual Content Based Upon User Proximity - A mechanism is disclosed for automatically scaling the size of a set of visual content based upon how close a user's face is to a display. In one implementation, the mechanism initially causes a set of visual content on a display to be sized according to a first scaling factor when the user's face is at a first distance from the display. The mechanism then determines that the user's face has moved relative to the display such that the user's face is no longer at the first distance from the display. In response, the mechanism causes the set of visual content on the display to be sized according to a second and different scaling factor. By doing so, the mechanism effectively causes the display size of the visual content to automatically change as the distance between the user's face and the display changes. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287164 | IMAGE RESIZING METHOD, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An image resizing method is provided comprising obtaining an original image including a peripheral region and a core region including a target image, obtaining a resized image including the entire core region and part of the peripheral region, and displaying the resized image. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287165 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display apparatus includes: a display device that displays a plurality of images in a first row, an operation of an application program being assigned to each of the images; a rearrangement device that rearranges the plurality of images, when a portion of the first row is specified, such that the specified portion is at an opened facing page section; an execution device that executes the operation of the application program corresponding to an image located at the opened facing page section when the opened facing page section is specified; and a display control device that controls the display device, when the operation is executed by the execution device, to perform a display according to the operation executed. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287166 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGES USING A COLOR FIELD SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating and transmitting video frame data from a graphics processing unit (GPU) to a color field sequential display device capable of displaying an auto-stereoscopic image. A frame buffer image comprising per-pixel packed color channels is transformed to a frame buffer image comprising regions corresponding to the color channels with vertical blanking regions inserted between color sub-field regions. Each region of the transformed frame buffer image is sequentially transmitted to the color field sequential display device for display of the corresponding color channel. Backlight illumination for each color channel is controlled by the GPU for temporal alignment with display of each color channel during the vertical blanking interval. The technique is compatible with lenticular and parallax barrier displays. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287167 | LOCAL DIMMING DISPLAY ARCHITECTURE WHICH ACCOMMODATES IRREGULAR BACKLIGHTS - A display system and method for displaying an image on the display system are provided. The display system includes a display panel and a backlight for illuminating the display panel, the backlight including one or more light emitting zones that each emit light in response to a backlight drive value. The display system further includes a backlight selection module for selecting the backlight drive value for each light emitting zone from image data, an effective backlight module that generates effective backlight signals using light spread information for the backlight and the backlight drive values, and a module for modulating the image data according to the effective backlight signal and providing the modulated image data to the display panel. The light spread information includes information representing the contribution of light from each light emitting zone over the display panel. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287168 | APPARATUS FOR SELECTING BACKLIGHT COLOR VALUES - One embodiment may employ one or more non-transitory computer-readable memories, the memories collectively storing instructions for executing a method of facilitating the display of an image. This method may comprise, in a display system comprising a display panel having pixels and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the pixels of the display panel, receiving image data corresponding to an image for display upon the display panel, the pixels each having a color to be displayed, so as to collectively display the image. The method also includes, for each pixel, evaluating whether the corresponding color to be displayed is out-of-gamut to the each pixel, so as to form a set of out-of-gamut pixels. A set of virtual primaries is determined, defining intensities of light emitted by the colored light emitters of the backlight during display of the image, the virtual primaries determined according to the colors of the set of out-of-gamut pixels. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287169 | LED DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An LED displaying device includes a first transparent substrate, LEDs and a second transparent substrate. The first transparent substrate includes a circuit structure formed thereon. The LEDs are mounted on the first transparent substrate and electrically connected to the circuit structure. The second transparent substrate is covered on the LEDs. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287170 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display having adaptive driving mechanism includes plural pixel array areas and a driving module. Each pixel array area has a plurality of pixels. The driving module includes a signal generation unit for generating grey-level signals corresponding to the pixels based on input image data, a weighting conversion unit for converting the grey-level signals corresponding to the pixels into a plurality of weightings, a weighting processing unit for generating a weighting sum by summing up the weightings corresponding to the pixel array area, an inversion-mode setting unit for setting a polarity inversion mode according to the weighting sum, and a data signal output unit. The data signal output unit is utilized for providing a plurality of data signals to be written into the pixel array area based on the polarity inversion mode. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287171 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To alleviate an afterimage phenomenon caused by a hysteresis characteristic of a drive transistor. Current driven type light emitting elements | 2012-11-15 |
20120287172 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A BACKLIGHT OF A DISPLAY DEVICE AND DEVICE THEREOF - Adjust a backlight of a display device according to image loading and edge statistics of an input image. When the input image is a dark scene and includes relatively more edges, a luminance of the backlight would be controlled according to the image loading of the input image and compensated the backlight for showing details of the input image clearly. When the input image is a dark scene with negligible edges, the luminance of the backlight would be controlled by image loading with no or few compensation for lowering the power consumption. When the input image is a bright scene, or when the input image includes no edge or only negligible edges, minimum compensation is applied to the backlight for lowering the power consumption. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287173 | ALLOCATION REGISTERS ON A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR - The present invention provides a digital backplane and various methods, systems and devices for controlling a digital backplane and light modulating elements. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control a digital backplane and/or light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287174 | CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, CONTROLLER OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A control method of an electro-optical device includes: performing a first supply process for supplying an electric potential corresponding to the changed gray level to a pixel electrode of a first pixel; performing a second supply process for supplying the same electric potential as an electric potential of a counter electrode to a pixel electrode of a second pixel; extracting a contour image from a difference between an image before the image rewriting and an image after the image rewriting; determining whether or not the first supply process is being performed, in units of a pixel, for contour display pixels that display the contour image; and performing a contour elimination process for supplying an electric potential for eliminating the contour image to the pixel electrode of a pixel, for which it is determined that the first supply process is not being performed, among the contour display pixels. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287175 | CONTROLLER OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - When changing a pixel to white in the middle of a writing operation for writing the pixel in black, a new writing operation for writing the pixel in white is started. When changing a pixel to black in the middle of a writing operation for writing the pixel in white, a new writing operation for writing the pixel in black is started. In addition, when a difference between the number of times of application of a first voltage applied to change the pixel to white and the number of times of application of a second voltage applied to change the pixel to black is not a predetermined value at a predetermined timing, the first voltage or the second voltage is applied to the pixel until the difference becomes a predetermined value. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287176 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image display system is constituted by a server and a client apparatus. The server includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of illumination spectrum data after associating the data with values of adjustment parameters, an acquisition unit that acquires the present set value of an adjustment parameter of the client apparatus, a selection unit that selects, from among a plurality of illumination spectrum data stored in the storage unit, illumination spectrum data with a smallest difference between a value of the corresponding adjustment parameter and a value of the adjustment parameter acquired by the acquisition unit, a generation unit that generates image data representing appearance of an image pick-up object under illumination corresponding to the illumination spectrum data selected by the selection unit, and a delivery unit that delivers image data generated by the generation unit to the client apparatus. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287177 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A method for driving a light-emitting device comprises steps of: supplying a first potential to a drain of a transistor and a second potential being lower than the first potential to a cathode of a light-emitting element; supplying a third potential which is lower than a potential obtained by adding the threshold voltage of the transistor, the threshold voltage of the light-emitting element, and the second potential to a gate electrode of the transistor, and a fourth potential being lower than a potential obtained by subtracting the threshold voltage of the transistor from the third potential to the source of the transistor; stopping supply of the fourth potential to the source of the transistor; and supplying a potential of an image signal to the gate electrode of the transistor. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287178 | DISPLAY DRIVE WITH PERMUTATION AND SUPERPOSITION GRAY-LEVEL CONTROL - A display driver circuitry with permutation and superposition gray-level control comprises a gray-level controller. The controller may comprise a permutation and superposition adder configured to divide N-bit gray-level data G into M most significant bits, serving as a superposition reference G | 2012-11-15 |
20120287179 | Method for Writing an Image in a Liquid Crystal Display - A method of display on a color sequential liquid crystal screen, notably an LCOS technology screen (integrated circuit screen), is provided. The liquid crystal between a pixel electrode and counter-electrode common to all pixels, and provision is made to alternate the potential of the counter-electrode at each frame. Writing an image comprises successive addressing of various rows and simultaneous application of a voltage level to column conductors. The writing phase is followed, before the end of a frame, by a phase of switching counter-electrode potential wherein the transistors of the various rows are successively turned on for durations which overlap mutually such that all transistors are simultaneously on at a given moment of this switching phase, and the potential of the counter-electrode is switched at this moment. Overvoltages are thus avoided on the control transistors at the level of the pixel at the moment of the switching of counter-electrode potential. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287180 | POSITIVELY CHARGED INK COMPOSITION - Positively charged ink compositions, its use and method of making the same are disclosed. A disclosed example of the positively charged ink compositions includes a combination of a carrier liquid, basic pigment-loaded resin particles, a charge director and an acidic charge adjuvant. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287181 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - The image display quality of the plasma display apparatus is improved. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus corrects the number of generated sustain pulses in each subfield using a first correction coefficient that is read from look-up table ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120287182 | OPTIMIZATION OF LIGHT SOURCE DRIVE VALUES IN BACKLIGHT SYSTEMS - A method of optimizing the luminance level of a backlight system is presented. The method entails dividing the backlight system into zones, each of the zones having a light source; determining a target illumination level for each of the zones based on data values of a display panel that is to be illuminated by the backlight system; and setting a backlight drive value of the light source in a particular zone based on target illumination level of the particular zone and a backlight drive value assigned to its neighboring zone. The invention makes high-quality image display achievable with reduced power consumption by taking advantage of the “communal” aspect of the zones in a local dimming backlight system. In determining the backlight drive value of a zone, the invention takes into account the illumination contributions from neighboring zones. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287183 | NAIL PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A nail printing device includes a printing unit including a printing head which applies ink on a print target surface, and a control unit which controls the printing unit and sets a printing mode to a nail printing mode or a printing medium printing mode. In the nail printing mode, the control unit sets a surface of a nail portion as the print target surface and creates a nail printing image data for printing the surface of the nail portion corresponding to a curve-shape of the nail portion. In the printing medium printing mode, the control unit sets a planar surface of a printing medium as the print target surface and performs thinning correction to a nail printing image data formed corresponding to the curve-shape of the nail portion. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287184 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming device which includes a first nozzle group, a second nozzle group, and are arranged by being deviated from the first nozzle group to one side in a predetermined direction, a light irradiation unit which is extended at least in the predetermined direction, a control unit which repeats an ejection operation in which the photo-curable ink is ejected from the nozzle while moving the nozzle group and the light irradiation unit in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and a transport operation of the medium in a state where a non-ejection region where the ink is not ejected is provided between the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group in a predetermined direction, and overlappingly forms a main image using the first photo-curable ink, and a background image using the second photo-curable ink. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287185 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming device includes, the first head which ejects the first ink, the second head which ejects the second ink, a movement mechanism which moves a relative position of the first head and the second head in a predetermined direction, and a control unit which causes an ejection operation in which ink is ejected from nozzles while relatively moving the head and a medium in the movement direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and a transport operation in which the head and the medium are relatively moved in a predetermined direction to be repeated, and adjusts a head interval as an interval of the first head and the second head in a predetermined direction. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287186 | FLUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, NOZZLE INSPECTION METHOD, AND MEDIUM ON WHICH NOZZLE INSPECTION PROGRAM IS RECORDED - To reduce the number of nozzles in an unstable state after a nozzle inspection, a fluid discharge device includes a discharge head capable of discharging a fluid from nozzle, a nozzle inspection process for inspecting a state of discharging of the fluid from the nozzle, and a controller for subjecting the nozzle to a pre-process for discharging the fluid under a discharge condition that a nozzle in an unstable state be put into a dot omission state, subsequently discharging the fluid for the sake of inspection, and executing an inspection process by the nozzle inspection part. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287187 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTION PRINTER - A liquid ejection device includes: a drive waveform generator generating a drive waveform signal; a modulator performing pulse modulation on a signal from the drive waveform generator to provide a modulated signal; a digital power amplifier performing power amplification on the modulated signal to provide an amplified digital signal; a Lowpass Filter smoothing the amplified digital signal to provide a drive signal of an actuator; a compensator advancing the phase of the drive signal to provide a negative feedback signal; and a subtractor providing a differential signal between the drive waveform signal and the negative feedback signal as an input signal to the modulator. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287188 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus provided with a first mode in which one nozzle row group is positioned so as to be shifted to the downstream side of the medium transport direction with respect to another nozzle row group, ink forming a main image is filled into the first nozzle row in the one nozzle row group, ink forming a background image is filled into the second nozzle row in the other nozzle row group, and the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row group are used to form the background image before the main image, and a second mode, in which ink forming a background image is filled into the first nozzle row, ink forming the main image is filled into the second nozzle row, and the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row group are used to form the main image before the background image. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287189 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming device in which one nozzle row group is positioned out of line to one side in a medium transport direction with respect to other nozzle row groups, including a first mode in which a main image that is formed using either nozzle row group out of the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row groups and a background image that is formed using the other nozzle row group out of the one nozzle group and the other nozzle row groups are formed on a medium to be overlapping, and a second mode in which the main image is formed on the medium without forming the background image using either nozzle row group out of the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row groups. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287190 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a first nozzle group forming a main image; a second nozzle group ejecting auxiliary ink and lined up with the first nozzle group in a moving direction of the nozzle group; and a third nozzle group ejecting the auxiliary ink and positioned on a downstream side of a medium transport direction relative to the first nozzle group, in which ink is ejected from the first nozzle group on a region where the main image is formed in the image forming region on the medium in a first ejection operation, and auxiliary ink is ejected from the second nozzle group on a region where the main image is not formed in the image forming region, and, in an ejection operation after the first ejection operation, the auxiliary ink is ejected from the third nozzle group over the entire image forming region. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287191 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method that can, regardless of an ejection frequency of a print head, stabilize density of an image expressed on a print medium. For this purpose, an ink concentration integrated value is obtained according to the ejection history of each nozzle so as to be increased by data indicating non-ejection of the nozzle or decreased by data indicating ejection. Then, image data on the target pixel is corrected such that density of the target pixel is further reduced as the pixel is subjected to printing by a nozzle having a higher ink concentration integrated value. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287192 | NAIL PRINTING DEVICE INCLUDING PRINTING HEAD THAT PERFORMS PRINTING ON FINGERNAIL, AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A nail printing device includes: a printing head which implements printing for a nail of a finger; a fingernail image obtaining unit which picks up a region containing the nail, and obtains a nail region image from a picked-up image; a nail tip region extraction unit which extracts a nail tip region of the nail, the nail tip region not overlapping a nail bed of the finger, from the nail region image; and a shape adjustment-required region extraction unit which positionally aligns a model nail image with the nail region image, and extracts, as a shape adjustment-required region, a region located outward of an outline of the model nail image in the nail tip region. | 2012-11-15 |
20120287193 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device using a print head ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles to print ink dots of a plurality of dot diameters, includes a print-characteristic acquisition unit obtaining print characteristic information on dot diameters of ink dots to be printed per each predetermined portion of the plurality of nozzles, a distribution ratio determination unit determining a distribution ratio for distributing image data to the predetermined portions of the plurality of nozzles based on the information, a dot print position determination unit quantizing the image data to determine a dot print position based on the image data and sizes and an array of thresholds; and a plurality of masks based on dot distribution order determined according to the distribution ratio, distributing printing of each of the ink dots of the plurality of dot diameters to the dot print position determined by the dot print position determination unit. | 2012-11-15 |