50th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080303748 | REMOTE VIEWING AND MULTI-USER PARTICIPATION FOR PROJECTIONS - Members of a presentation audience can make changes to digital visual aids from remote locations. This can take place through rendering images of the digital visual aids at a projection site. A participant device can send a signal to a host device to modify the digital visual aid. Furthermore, an audience member can take notes on an interactive local copy of the digital visual aids. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303749 | Active Matrix Array Device - An active matrix array device includes integrated driver circuitry which comprises a multiplexer circuit ( | 2008-12-11 |
20080303750 | VIDEO DISPLAY DRIVER WITH DATA ENABLE LEARNING - Data enable learning is provided for a video display driver in which a data enable signal and pixel clock exclusive of their associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals for a digital video signal are used to facilitate generating of signals corresponding to the associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303751 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - An image displaying apparatus for displaying images and additional information is provided. The image displaying apparatus includes a display unit; an image data obtaining unit for obtaining image data of an image from a storage; an additional information obtaining unit for obtaining additional information; a display controller for displaying the image and additional information on the display unit in two display modes. In a first display mode, the additional information is semi-transparent or outlined as it overlaps the image, and in a second display mode, the additional information is highlighted and overlaps the image. The image displaying apparatus further includes a mode switching unit for signaling the display controller to switch between the first display mode and the second display mode. A related method is also provided. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303752 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The driving method supplies a data signal whose on-time is longer than off-time. The plasma display apparatus includes a data driver including a data integrated circuit (IC) and an energy recovery unit. The data IC allows one of a plurality of output terminals to be in an on-state and allows at least one of the other output terminals to be in an off-state during off-time shorter than on-time of the on-state. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303753 | Display apparatus - Provided is a display apparatus that includes a panel assembly which has a plurality of substrates and displays images, and a filter assembly which is formed in front of the panel assembly, has a base film, a refraction control film layer that is attached to at least a surface of the base film and has a refractive index different from that of the base film, and an optical absorption layer that is formed on an outer surface of the base film or the refraction control film layer to absorb refracted incident external light. The display apparatus can increase bright room contrast by absorbing incident external light by employing a film coated with a black group color on a front surface of a panel. Also, a direct attachable filter assembly is used to remove an interface between the substrate and the filter assembly. Thus, a double image problem caused by refraction of light at the interface is prevented. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303754 | ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In performing a display in accordance with a video signal, a display signal for inspection is supplied to a pixel within a predetermined inspected row to operate an EL element therein and to thereby detect a current that flows through the EL element. The current detection data is stored in a volatile primary memory. In accordance with data obtained in this manner, a variation correcting section sequentially corrects data signals to be supplied to the respective pixel. At the time of turning on power, the variation correcting section performs the correction using the current detection data saved in a secondary memory. With this arrangement, it is possible to execute display variation correction from immediately after turning on power, and it is also possible to execute real-time correction. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303755 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOTHER SUBSTRATE THEREOF - An organic light emitting display device capable of being inspected in a mother substrate unit, and a mother substrate of an organic light emitting display device including a plurality of organic light emitting display devices including data lines and scan lines; and scribing lines arranged between the organic light emitting display devices in a row direction or a column direction and partitioning regions of the organic light emitting display devices, wherein the data lines of the organic light emitting display device formed inside a region defined by first to fourth scribing lines are electrically coupled with a first pin-contact unit formed outside the first scribing line, and the scan lines of the organic light emitting display device formed inside a region defined by the first to fourth scribing lines are electrically coupled with a second pin-contact unit formed outside the second or third scribing lines, which are orthogonal to the first scribing line and parallel with each other. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303756 | Passive Matrix Display Drivers - This invention generally relates to methods and apparatus for driving passive matrix displays, in particular OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303757 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AREA LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a light emitting device, including: a light emitting diode; an sealing resin member having an arrangement face and configured to seal the light emitting diode; and a lens disposed on the arrangement face of the sealing resin member and formed so as to have a circular shape as viewed in the direction of an optical axis of light emitted from the light emitting diode, the lens having a concave portion formed at a central portion in such a manner as to be concave toward the sealing resin member. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303758 | Display Device - High-order bits to be utilized for current-frame display data and previous-frame display data, and low-order bits to be utilized for the current-frame display data alone are stored in independently controllable memory areas. For reading the current-frame display data from a frame memory, data of the high-order bits and data of the low-order bits are read. For reading the previous-frame data, the high-order bits alone are read. Thus, since a period during which the data of the low-order bits that is not utilized for the previous-frame display data is stored in the memory is shortened, a required memory capacity can be reduced. The data transfer time can be reduced by the time required for memory read for the data of the low-order bits that is not utilized for the previous-frame display data. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303759 | Contrast Ratio Enhancement System Using Black Detector - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method of enhancing a contrast ratio of a display device. An exemplary method comprises determining a quantity of pixels in a frame of video data having a predetermined level of blackness, comparing the quantity of pixels to a reference value, and modulating an illumination signal based on a quantity of pixels exceeding the reference value. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303760 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY PANEL HAVING THE SAME - An array substrate of an LCD having: a gate line formed along a first direction; a data line formed along a second direction crossing the first direction; first and second pixel electrodes spaced apart from each other; a thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to the gate line; a source electrode connected to the data line and partially overlapping the second pixel electrode; and a drain electrode connected to the first pixel electrode spaced apart from the second pixel electrode along the second direction. The source electrode or the gate electrode overlaps the second pixel electrode but the drain electrode does not overlap the second pixel electrode. Electrical coupling between the first and second pixel electrodes are avoided with such configuration. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303761 | Data Output Circuit - A data output circuit includes: a data generating circuit configured to generate output data; and a serial output circuit configured to receive an address corresponding to the data generating circuit, hold a parallel data input during a time period over which the address is being received, and serially output the output data generated by the data generating circuit and the held parallel data in accordance with an output direction signal for directing output of the data. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303762 | Display device - A display device which arranges a memory part for every display pixel is configured to prevent a charge from remaining in liquid crystal when a power source is turned off. Each display pixel includes a memory part for storing video data, a pixel electrode, and a switch part for selectively applying a first video voltage or a second video voltage different from the first video voltage to the pixel electrode corresponding to the video data stored in the memory part. The display device further includes a reset circuit for allowing the first video voltage and the second video voltage to have the same voltage when a power source of the display device is turned off. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303763 | Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same - A liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same is described for reducing a compensating deviation of a common voltage. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a data driver for driving data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; a gate driver for driving gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel; and a common voltage compensating unit for generating a plurality of compensating signals for compensating respective distortions of common voltages at a plurality of common regions of a common electrode of the liquid crystal display panel by using common voltages fed back from the common regions, and supplying compensating signals corresponding to each of the plurality of common regions. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303764 | Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same, which has a gate high voltage generating circuit for preventing flickering of a gate high voltage. The liquid crystal display device includes a gate high voltage generating circuit for generating a gate high voltage by using n (where n is a natural number greater than unity) pumping units and supplying the gate high voltage through an output line, and a voltage stabilizing unit for generating a gate high voltage within a range of a highest preset value by using an output voltage of the (n−1)th pumping unit in a case the gate high voltage generated at the gate high voltage generating circuit exceeds the highest preset value. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303765 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof - In a liquid crystal display device, the TFT(i,j) is switched by a gate signal supplied from the gate driver 13 to supply the data signal to the pixels P(i,j). The gate driver | 2008-12-11 |
20080303766 | METHODS OF MEASURING IMAGE-STICKING OF A DISPLAY - A method of measuring image-sticking of a display is described. A display having N gray levels is provided. Next, an image-stick test frame having at least a first pattern having a low gray level and at least a second pattern having a high gray level is displayed on the display. After the image-stick test frame is displayed for a while, an image-stick region and a non-image-stick region are formed on the display. A measuring frame is then displayed on the display, wherein the non-image-stick region in the measuring frame has a standard gray level M. A plurality of middle gray levels is sequentially displayed on the image-stick region in the measuring frame. When the boundary between the non-image-stick region and the image-stick region in measuring frame is the lightest, the middle gray level is converted into an image-sticking level. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303767 | VIDEO DISPLAY DRIVER WITH GAMMA CONTROL - Voltage generator circuitry for providing a plurality of voltages for use in gamma compensation of a video signal. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303768 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level of the second pixel voltage using a previous pixel voltage charged in a previous frame in response to a next gate signal and a level-up part to receive the lowered second pixel voltage in response to the next gate signal to boost up a voltage level of the first pixel voltage. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303769 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE CIRCUIT - The present invention aims to provide an image display device capable of reducing power consumption, and a drive circuit used in the same. The present invention relates to an image display device including signal lines, scanning lines, lines, transistors, capacitances, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit of the image display device has configuring active elements of a same conductivity type and has the active elements simultaneously formed on a same substrate as said transistor; and includes switching circuits for generating a first switching signal and a second switching signal for switching a voltage level of a drive signal based on a predetermined signal, and outputting the signals, an output level holding circuit for holding the voltage levels of the first switching signal and the second switching signal for a predetermined period based on a repeating signal, and an output circuit for generating the drive signal based on the first switching signal and the second switching signal, and outputting the drive signal to the line. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303770 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A counter voltage supply circuit has an inverting amplifier that inversely amplified a voltage detected from a specified part of a counter electrode of a liquid crystal display panel and supplies the amplified voltage to a counter voltage supply end of the counter electrode. The inverting amplifier includes an operational amplifier having a feedback resistor connected between an inverting input terminal and an output terminal. The feedback resistor includes a first resistor, and n resistors each of which is connected parallel to the first resistor via a switching element. As the n switching elements are selectively turned on and off by a switching element control circuit in accordance with a scanning position, the resistance value of the feedback resistor is varied and the gain of the operational amplifier is changed. Cross-talk due to coupling noise to the counter electrode generated by AC driving of a video voltage and deterioration in display quantity of a display image on the liquid crystal display panel can be prevented. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303771 | DISPLAY AND TWO STEP DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display and a two step driving method thereof are provided. The method includes: converting an image signal to a corresponding data driving voltage by using a driver; providing a pre-driving voltage by using a voltage generator; and finally, driving the display panel by using the pre-driving voltage and data driving voltage orderly during a horizontal synchronizing period. A display includes a display panel, a voltage generator, and a driver. The display panel also includes at least one data line. The voltage generator outputs a pre-driving voltage to the data line of the display. The driver outputs a data driving voltage to the data line according to an image signal, in which the data line receives the pre-driving voltage and the data driving voltage orderly during the horizontal synchronizing period. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303772 | Method and device to optimize power consumption in liquid crystal display - Power consumption in liquid crystal displays is analyzed by including frequent polarity reversals and duty cycle control. A multi-step voltage profile is proposed to reduce the power consumption in multiplexed and non-multiplexed displays. The present invention relates to a method to optimize power consumption in Liquid Crystal Display, wherein said method comprises steps of: applying multi-step waveform for selecting pre-determined address lines, maintaining ratio of step-width (T | 2008-12-11 |
20080303773 | POWER CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POLARITY INVERSION IN LCD PANELS - A power control method for polarity inversion in an LCD panel comprises the step of providing a storage capacitor on a circuit board. Thereafter, the storage capacitor is charged to a first middle voltage. Next, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled up by a common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first upper voltage during a positive polarity period. Also, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled down by the common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first lower voltage during a negative polarity period. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303774 | Display Apparatus - A display apparatus includes a substrate having a metal layer, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of data signal lines which intersect with each other and are disposed on the substrate, a display device which has a display element located at an intersecting position of the scanning and data signal lines and is driven by a voltage signal supplied to the scanning and data signal lines, a plurality of coils disposed in parallel with each other on the substrate, and a circuit for detecting currents passing through the plurality of coils by the action of electromagnetic induction of an electromagnetic wave locally generated at a surface of the display device to determine a generation position of the electromagnetic wave by a position of the coils through which the currents pass. The metal layer as a substrate material is a thin electroconductive metal plate which is flexible and not readily broken. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303775 | Liquid crystal display having logic converter for controlling pixel units to discharge - An exemplary liquid crystal display ( | 2008-12-11 |
20080303776 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE - A flat panel display device is capable of reducing a resistance difference according to the lengths of signal lines and has a stably designed resistance value of the signal lines arranged in edges of wire groups diverging from a driving circuit unit. The flat panel display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in intersecting regions of signal lines; a driving circuit unit to supply drive signals to the signal lines; and a divergence region having the signal lines diverge into at least two wire groups to connect the driving circuit unit to the pixels, wherein a resistance difference per unit length between the signal lines arranged in a boundary of two wire groups is set to a value that is intermediate of average resistance differences between the adjacent signal lines in the two wire groups. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303777 | OPTICAL ADJUSTING MEMBER, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical adjusting member according to the invention includes a base member, a plurality of lenses, and a light diffusion layer. The base member has optical transparency. The plurality of lenses are formed on the base member. The light diffusion layer is formed on the plurality of lenses, and at least top edge parts of the lenses are buried in the light diffusion layer. In the optical adjusting member according to the invention, at least the top edge parts of the plurality of lenses are buried in the light diffusion layer and therefore the lenses are less susceptible to damages. The optical adjusting member according to the invention has a light collecting function by the lenses and a diffusion function by the light diffusion layer. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303778 | IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided an image display medium that includes: a pair of substrates at least one of that is light-transmissive; a liquid enclosed between the substrates; and three or more types of colored particles dispersed in the liquid that move in accordance with electric fields applied between the substrates and have different colors and charge characteristics, wherein at least one type of the colored particles has an opposite polarity from at least one other type of colored particles. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303779 | IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display medium including a pair of substrates, a transparent dispersion medium, one or more kind of colored particles and larger sized colored particles. The pair of substrates is disposed with a separation therebetween and at least one of the pair of substrates is transparent. The dispersion medium is transparent and enclosed between the pair of substrates. Each kind of the colored particles is colored a predetermined color, is dispersed in the dispersion medium, has predetermined charge characteristics or predetermined magnetic properties, and is able to migrate between the pair of substrates. The larger sized colored particles have a different color and a larger particle size than the colored particles, are disposed so that the colored particles are able to pass through the separation, have charge characteristics or magnetic properties which are different from those of the colored particles, and are able to move. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303780 | DRIVING METHODS AND CIRCUIT FOR BI-STABLE DISPLAYS - The disclosure is directed toward driving methods and a driving circuit which are particularly suitable for bi-stable displays. In certain embodiments, methods provide the fastest and most pleasing appearance to the desired image while maintaining the optimal image quality over the life expectancy of an electrophoretic display device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303781 | Shutter Device For Pixel Element and Pixel Arrangement - A micro electromechanical shutter device and a pixel arrangement in which respective shutter elements are configured to controllably take a first geometrical state open and a second geometrical state closed by different degrees of actuation, and wherein the first geometrical state of the shutter element is configured to correspond to a non-actuated rest state of the shutter element. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HAPTIC ENABLED FLEXIBLE TOUCH SENSITIVE SURFACE - A method and apparatus for an electronic interactive device having a haptic enabled flexible touch sensitive surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic interactive device includes a flexible touch sensitive surface, a flexible screen (or display), and an actuator. The flexible touch sensitive surface is deposited over the flexible screen and is capable of receiving an input, such as, for example, from a user. The flexible screen displays an image via a displaying window. The actuator is coupled to the flexible screen and provides haptic feedback in response to the input. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303783 | Touchless detection display - A touchless detection display includes a transparent display, a display face, a light detector and light control material. The transparent display displays information to a viewer. The viewer views the information through the display face. The light detector detects incoming light that travels into the touchless detection display through the display face. The light control material receives incoming light that travels into the touchless detection display through the display face before the incoming light reaches the light detector. The light control material prevents portions of the incoming light that are not traveling substantially perpendicular to the display face from reaching the light detector. Locations of objects close to but not touching the display face are detected by the touchless detection display based on the incoming light detected by the light detector. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303784 | Information processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium - An information processing apparatus includes a control portion and an IF portion. Haptic sense presentation devices are connected to the IF portion. The control portion calculates an area of an image object based on features of the image object and determines the calculated area of the image object as a virtual mass of the image object. The control portion calculates an acceleration of the image object based on the current and previous features of the image object. The control portion calculates a force to be presented to the haptic sense presentation device connected to IF portion based on the virtual mass and the acceleration of the image object and outputs a signal indicative of the calculated force to the haptic sense presentation device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303785 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING USER OF STATE OF EXTERNAL DEVICE - A display apparatus for displaying the state of an external device and a method thereof are provided. According to the present invention, messages indicating the connection state, the power state and the sleep mode of the external device are displayed on a screen of the display apparatus to which a USB is applied. Therefore, the state of an external device which inputs a video signal to the display apparatus, may be shown on the screen, and thus a user can easily know the state of the external device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303786 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to achieve an advanced input operation without complicating image processing. A display device of the present invention includes a display unit, an optical input unit, and an image processor. The display unit displays an image on a display screen. The optical input unit captures an image of an object approaching the display screen. The image processor detects that the object comes into contact with the display screen on the basis of a captured image captured by the optical input unit, and then performs image processing to obtain the position coordinates of the object. In the display device, the image processor divides the captured image into a plurality of regions, and performs the image processing on each of the divided regions. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303787 | Touch Screen Apparatus And Methods - A touch screen computing apparatus, methods, and software product are provided. In one embodiment, an the computing apparatus provides a plurality of regions on a touch screen that are mapped to functions. In some embodiments, the regions include a keyboard region, a game control region, a mouse region and a stylus region. In some embodiments, the regions are configurable by the processor and mapped with different functionality. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303788 | Input system and input apparatus - An input system executes an input to an information processing apparatus depending on the hand motion. Plural myoelectric sensors are provided on an area between a wrist of the person and bases of a second finger to a fifth finger, and detect myoelectric signals depending on the hand motion. A setting portion outputs at least one command to make the person execute at least one particular motion in a state where the myoelectric sensors are worn on the hand, and associates the detected myoelectric signals after the output of the command with the particular motion corresponding to the command. An input portion identifies the hand motion from myoelectric signals detected based on the hand motion after the termination of the association and the association result of the setting portion, and executes the input to the information processing apparatus depending on the identified hand motion. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303789 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating for Position Slip in Interface Devices - Method and apparatus for compensating for position slip in interface devices that may occur between a manipulandum and a sensor of the device due to a mechanical transmission. A device position delta is determined from a sensed position of a manipulandum of an interface device. It is determined if position slip has occurred caused by a change in position of the manipulandum that was not sensed by a sensor of the interface device, typically caused by a mechanical transmission between sensor and manipulandum. If position slip has occurred, an error in the sensed position caused by the position slip is corrected by adjusting the sensed position to take into account the position slip. The adjusted position delta is used as the position of the manipulandum and the display of objects controlled by the interface device are accordingly compensated. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303790 | PROGRAM FOR GAME APPARATUS, GAME APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR GAME APPARATUS - An object is to provide a program for a game apparatus for making a plurality of moving objects including a moving object operated by a player to compete in virtual space against each other, in which players are capable of fully using the stage effects specific to a virtual game to enjoy a heated racing game even when they vary in skill. In a program for a game apparatus comprising moving-object operating means, image-information generating means, and image-information outputting means, the program causes a computer to perform a step of producing land-configuration information, a step of monitoring movement information regarding a plurality of moving objects, a step of producing a special area object when results of monitoring meet predetermined requirements, a step of displaying the special area object in such a manner as to be viewable for the player, and a step of allowing another moving object to ride therein. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303791 | CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CURSOR - A controller for controlling a cursor includes an identifying module for identifying at least one of a first period when a cursor is in motion and a second period when the cursor is not in motion, and a calibrating module for calibrating an input parameter signal using a first hands-off test during the first period and a second hands-off test, different than the first hands-off test, during the second period. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303792 | Mouse structure - An improved mouse structure, in which one side of a main body is provided with a depression corresponding to position of the fingers, and a micro joystick is disposed in the depression. Upward, downward, leftward and rightward directional contact portions are located on the micro joystick, and a control circuit of the mouse is electrically connected to the micro joystick. Accordingly, when the mouse is connected to a computer, contact with the upward/downward or leftward/rightward directional contact portions causes the micro joystick to produce signals which the control circuit converts into keyboard directional key signals that are output to the computer. Hence, the mouse is provided with mouse and keyboard functionality, thereby eliminating the need for the user to use both hands to simultaneously operate the mouse and the keyboard, but single handedly operate the mouse and the micro joystick to simultaneously control the mouse and the keyboard. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303793 | On-screen keyboard - Embodiments of an on-screen keyboard are described. In embodiment(s), a display of an on-screen keyboard can include letters arranged for user selection based on a frequency of the letters that are used most often. The letters can be of an alphabet for a language where the letters are arranged in the on-screen keyboard based on the frequency of the letters that appear most often in words of the language. User inputs can be received via an input device to navigate the on-screen keyboard and position a focus to select the letters for on-screen text entry. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA DATA IN A PRESENTATION SYSTEM - A media integration device associated with a touch system including a touch screen, comprises a media control module operative to receive media information from a plurality of devices and generate media data associated with each of the plurality of devices. The media control module selects one device from the plurality of devices for displaying media data associated with the one device on the touch screen. A program module is operatively coupled to the media control device and adapted to generate a graphical user interface including a first display on the touch screen for operationally controlling the selected one device from the touch screen. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303795 | HAPTIC DISPLAY FOR A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A handheld wireless communication device features a haptic, touch-sensitive display screen. The handheld wireless communication device is constructed such that it has a hand cradleable body and a display screen disposed on the body. The display screen is configured to display images of buttons, icons and/or other graphical user interface items. Additionally, a touch-sensing assembly with components disposed on or adjacent to the display screen is provided in the handheld device. Furthermore, a haptic assembly is disposed on an upper surface of the display screen. The haptic assembly provides tactile stimulation to the user when the user touches the display screen at a location corresponding to the image of a button, icon, or other graphical user interface item. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303796 | SHAPE-CHANGING DISPLAY FOR A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method is disclosed that provides for a shape changing upper surface of an adaptive display screen on a wireless handheld communication device. The system and method include visually displaying visibly different key arrangement to an operator of the device in dependence upon the mode of operation of the incorporating device. The shape changing upper surface is presented to the operator for selective digital press-engagement. The shape changing upper surface also changes shape in dependence upon the presented key arrangement. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303797 | STIMULI SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREEN WITH MULTIPLE DETECT MODES - According to an example embodiment a display screen includes a first sensor array that is operable to detect a first external stimulus that meets a first detection criteria, and a second sensor array that is operable to detect a second external stimulus that meets a second detection criteria, the second detection criteria quantitatively different from the first detection criteria. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303798 | Display Device with Touch Panel - Suggested is a display device with a touch panel which adopts a novel detection structure. The display device with the touch panel includes: a touch panel including a pair of substrates provided with electrodes on opposing surfaces thereof, and a spacer for retaining a gap between the pair of substrates; and a display panel located on a back surface of the touch panel, in which one of the pair of substrates is provided with a metal wiring formed on a resin. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303799 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Computer Program - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including an operation input unit including an operation surface having virtual buttons variably set thereto, a position detection unit detecting whether a user touches or almost touches the operation surface of the operation input unit, and a position at which the user touches or almost touches the operation surface thereof, and a pressure detection unit detecting pressure applied by the user touching the operation surface thereof. The processing apparatus further includes a virtual button control unit interpreting, when the position detection unit has detected the position at which the user touches or almost touches the operation surface thereof, a virtual button corresponding to the detected position as a selected virtual button, and correcting, when the pressure detected is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, a layout of the virtual buttons such that a size of the selected virtual button is enlarged according to intensity of the detected pressure. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303800 | Touch-based input device providing a reconfigurable user interface - A touch-based input device is disclosed providing a reconfigurable user interface. Said touch-based input device comprises an input receiving element having a touch sensitive contacting surface as part of a first configured user interface adapted to receive an applied force, a sensing element operable to detect and to determine at least a location of said applied force, and at least one static component removably disposed at a first location about said input receiving element, and adapted to at least partially define said first configured user interface. Said static component is movable to a second location about said input receiving element to reconfigure said user interface and to at least partially define a second configured user interface. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303801 | Display apparatus and display method - A display apparatus includes a display section, a touch panel on the display surface of the section to allow the user to specify a desired position on the displayed image being displayed on the section by pressing a pointer against it, a display control section causes a plurality of indicators to be displayed on the section for allowing the user to select one of them via the panel and a notifier section notifies the user of the indicator selected from them. The notifier section notifying the user of the selection of a indicator when the indicator of them being displayed on the section is selected by pressing the pointer against the panel, and the control section is adapted to finalize the selection by the user of a indicator when the pointer selecting the indicator is moved away from the panel after selecting it by being pressed against the panel. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303802 | Method and Device for User Interaction - The invention relates to a user interaction device ( | 2008-12-11 |
20080303803 | USER INTERFACE FOR MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE - A system implements a circular navigation paradigm that matches a physical input device to a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may be displayed on a personal navigation device, music player, or any other electronic device that employs a GUI. The match between the physical input device and the GUI facilitates ready understanding and intuitive interaction with the GUI by the device operator. The circular navigation paradigm may also extend over multiple screens within an application, and across multiple applications, to provide consistency of operation throughout the entire feature set of this device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303804 | HYBRID DRIVER FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS - Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for controlling the luminance of a display. One apparatus includes a pre-charge circuit configured to supply a pre-charge voltage to a column of LED pixels, a programming circuit configured to supply current to the column, and a switch configured to selectively couple the pre-charge circuit or the programming circuit to the column. A system includes an array of LED pixels arranged in a plurality of columns. A plurality of pre-charge circuits, each configured to selectively supply a pre-charge voltage to at least one column of pixels, and a plurality of current sources, each configured to selectively supply current to at least one column of pixels are also included. One method includes determining a pre-charge voltage for each of a plurality of columns based on a target luminance level selected from the plurality of luminance levels and supplying the determined pre-charge voltages to the columns. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303805 | Digital picture frame and method of displaying digital image data on a display unit of the digital picture frame - A digital picture frame includes a display unit connected movably to a base unit, and a driving unit operable so as to drive the display unit to move relative to the base unit between a lengthwise position and a widthwise position. A controller determines whether digital image data acquired from a memory unit is that of a portrait or a landscape, determines whether the display unit is currently at the lengthwise position or the widthwise position, controls the driving unit such that the display unit is moved to the lengthwise position when the digital image data is that of a portrait and to the widthwise position when the digital image data is that of a landscape, and subsequently controls the display unit to display the digital image data thereon. A method of displaying the image data on the display unit is also disclosed. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303806 | Automatic Illuminance Compensation in Displays - A sensor for continuously measuring the illuminance of ambient light ( | 2008-12-11 |
20080303807 | DETERMINING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a method for controlling a determining apparatus including: a first pixel for displaying a first image; a second pixel for displaying a second image; a light shielding member that allows the first image to be viewed from a first direction and blocks the first image from a second direction, and allows the second image to be viewed from the second direction and blocks the second image from the first direction; a first sensor provided for the first pixel and detecting the quantity of light coming from the first direction; and a second sensor provided for the second pixel and detecting the quantity of light coming from the second direction. The method includes: storing at least one frame of the results of detection of the first and second sensors; and after obtaining the present results of detection of the first and second sensors, determining whether an object approaches from the first direction or the second direction from the result of comparison between the stored detection results of one frame and the results of detection of present one frame. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303808 | Liquid crystal display with flicker reducing circuit and driving method thereof - An exemplary liquid crystal display includes an image signal analyzing circuit, a frame rate controlling circuit, an image signal processing circuit, and an output circuit. The image signal analyzing circuit is configured for judging whether images corresponding to input signals have flicker by analyzing pixel intensities and pixel voltage polarities of the input signals of each frame, and outputting controlling signals. The frame rate controlling circuit is configured for controlling a frame rate of output signals according to the controlling signals received from the image signal analyzing circuit. The image signal processing circuit is configured for inserting black image signals into input signals if the images corresponding to input signals have flicker. The output circuit is configured for outputting image signals according to signals transmitted from the frame rate controlling circuit and the image signal processing circuit. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303809 | Display and method of driving the same - Disclosed are a display and a method of driving the display. The display includes a display panel on which a plurality of data lines are formed, a data driver for supplying data voltages generated by modulating input image data to the respective data lines. The data driver includes a precharging unit for selecting a specific precharge voltage from a plurality of precharge voltages applied to the data driver depending on grayscale sections of the input image data, and for precharging the selected precharge voltages to the respective data lines. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING LOFT SURFACES USING 3D SCAN DATA - A mechanism for automatically calculating loft surfaces from raw 3D scan data represented as a mesh or point cloud model is discussed. Users enter parameters related to the loft surface calculation via a provided user interface. User input and/or programmatically calculated parameters may include U-V direction, guide curve identification, and the amount of allowable deviation error between the calculated loft surface and the 3D scan data. Profile curves meeting the given parameters are then generated and a loft surface is calculated using the generated profile curves for a selected region. The user may select geometrically separated regions in order to create a single loft surface that connects the separate regions. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303811 | Virtual Professional - A virtual environment including a plurality of virtual professionals capable or providing goods and services to players in the virtual environment is described. The goods and services may be relevant to the real world, the virtual world, or both. Single-use avatars whose availability is limited and which are configured to protect the anonymity of the player controlling the single-use avatar may be used when anonymity is desired. Queues may be used to schedule appointments with virtual professionals. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303812 | Storage medium storing image processing program and image processing apparatus - A game apparatus generates an image of a three-dimensional virtual space as viewed from a predetermined viewpoint, an object being provided in the three-dimensional virtual space. Next, the game apparatus obtains a depth value (Z value) indicating a depth from the viewpoint in a line-of-sight direction in the three-dimensional virtual space for each pixel of the image. Further, the game apparatus detects a pixel corresponding to a contour of the object based on the depth value. Specifically, a plurality of pixels are specified as reference pixels. It is determined whether or not a pixel of interest corresponds to a contour, based on a change level of differences in depth value between the pixel of interest and the reference pixels. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303813 | METHOD FOR RECORDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DATA AND MEDIUM RECORDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of storing scene comprising a three-dimensional image, which has been generated by converting an image input an apparatus supporting photographing of the three-dimensional image, into a recording medium. The method includes: loading, in a predetermined file type field, image type information indicating one of a single stereoscopic image and a synthetic image including a monoscopic image and a stereoscopic image; loading, in a configurative information container field, scene descriptor information indicating temporal and spatial relations between a plurality of media objects included in the three-dimensional image, object configurative information indicating object attributes of each media object of said plurality of media objects and a configurative relation between encoded streams of each of the media objects of said plurality, configurative information of the encoded streams, first metadata between the plurality of media objects, and second metadata between each media object of the plurality and the encoded stream thereof, and loading, in a media data container field, a bit stream of each media object included in the three-dimensional image, a bit stream for the first metadata, and a bit stream for the second metadata. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303814 | Three-dimensional data processing system - A three-dimensional data processing system performs a collating operation precisely and can reduce the quantity of data necessary for presenting candidate data. A storage device stores the three dimensional data of each reference body in a set of the primary compressed data, which has been prepared by compressing three-dimensional data in an irreversible compression method, and the secondary compressed data for compensating difference between the three-dimensional data restored from the primary compressed data and the original three-dimensional data. A server device collates, when it receives the collation object data, the three-dimensional data decompressed from the primary compressed data and the secondary compressed data of each reference object with the collation object data, and transmits the primary compressed data of the several reference objects of higher similarities to the client device. This client device decompresses and displays the primary compressed data on a display device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303815 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING BETWEEN VIRTUAL OBJECTS - A collision target map and a collision target LUT are generated for each pixel to be subjected to rendering as collision target information with recorded identification information for CG data rendering on the pixel, while carrying out rendering of colliding object group CG data. Then, collision target information corresponding to a rendering pixel is referenced while carrying out rendering of collided object group CG data. In a case in which the colliding object group CG data is contained in the collision target information, it is determined that collision detection should be carried out for a virtual object being rendered, and collision detection information is generated. Such collision detection information allows collision between virtual objects to be detected at high speed. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303816 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for storing object files containing triangle strips and displaying the triangle strips in the order in which they were created and stored in the object files. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303817 | Analyzing mesh generating apparatus - An analyzing mesh generating apparatus has a model read unit for reading data, a required quality and shape data of an input hexahedral mesh model, a display unit for displaying said hexahedral mesh model, and a mesh element number reduction unit for reducing the number of mesh elements in the data. The analyzing mesh generating apparatus has also a mesh quality evaluation unit for evaluating a mesh quality regarding whether mesh element reduction is performed while maintaining the required quality data, and a mesh fine division unit for performing mesh fine division to change meshes to coarse/dense meshes, relative to the hexahedral mesh model with the reduced number of mesh elements in the data. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303818 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - With the present invention, using the schematic depiction of the tubular tissue in which the run path of the tubular tissue is adjusted so that the tubular tissues may not overlap, the information of the tubular tissue acquired from the volume image (three-dimensional image) is mapped onto this schematic depiction and displayed on the display device, whereby it is possible for the user to confirm all the information of the tubular tissue at a glance without need of performing an operation of rotating the displayed image in grasping the overall image of the tubular image. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303819 | Method and apparatus for comparing program graphs - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that highlights differences between two graphs that represent programs in a graphical programming language. During operation, the system identifies unique nodes in the two graphs which are not identical to any other node in the other graph. Note that each of the two graphs comprises a set of interconnected nodes which represent functions in the graphical programming language. The system then displays the two graphs within the same editor window, and while doing so highlights nodes which do not have identical counterparts in the other graph. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303820 | Common Phase Error vs. Time Display - A method and apparatus for displaying information on a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of displaying a graph of an acquired signal, displaying a graph of Common Phase Error versus time data generated from the acquired signal, and aligning the graph of the acquired signal and the graph of the Common Phase Error in time. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303821 | Graphic processing method and apparatus for supporting line acceleration function - Provided are a graphic processing method and apparatus supporting a line acceleration function. The graphic processing method includes: transforming at least one line represented by graphic data, to a polygon; and rendering the polygon and at least one polygon represented by the graphic data. Therefore, a graphics chip set which normally supports only a polygon acceleration function can also support a line acceleration function. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303822 | Font metadata - A method and an apparatus for deriving one or more selection criteria to select one or more fonts to present character data in an electronic document are described. The selection criteria may be applied on font metadata to select the fonts. An available font may be determined in place of a selected but unavailable font based on font metadata. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303823 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - When a list of file names is to be displayed on a display device, a comparison is made between a necessary display width of each of the file names and a width of a display area of the display device. For each of the file names having a necessary display width greater than the width of the display area, it is checked whether the file name contains a particular character string portion of a predetermined type, and, if so, the file name is displayed in the list in a partly-omitted display style where a leading end portion, particular character string portion and extension of the file name are left in the list with the other part of the character string omitted. The particular character string portion can function as an important element for identifying the data item in question. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303824 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CHARACTER DISPLAY METHOD FOR THE SAME - A portable electronic device including a display unit uses a still character font and a scroll character font. The display unit can scroll through one or more images on a screen. The still character font is used for characters on a still screen. The scroll character font is used for characters on a scroll screen, and has the same characters as those of the still character font, the characters of the scroll character font having at least one different visual characteristic when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303825 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DILATION FOR GLYPH RENDERING - A system and method for dilating a glyph for glyph rendering is described. The method includes receiving information including at least one of an element value of a rendering matrix, a glyph characteristic, a display background characteristic, an application characteristic, a display characteristic, and a graphics engine characteristic. The method further includes determining a dilation factor value from the received information. The method also includes dilating the outline of the glyph using the determined dilation factor. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303826 | Methods and Systems for Animating Displayed Representations of Data Items - Methods and systems for animating visual components representing data items. One embodiment comprises a method for producing an application using declarative language code to specify animation behavior for data item representations. A programming application may be used to create the declarative language code using a display design area for placing and adjusting objects such as data item containers and/or an editor for entering and editing code. One embodiment comprises a method that allows an application, such as a rich Internet application, to create representations of displayed objects and virtually displayed objects to facilitate animation. One embodiment involves facilitating animation using initial and changed layouts, such layouts including representing of a limited number of data items both inside and outside the content display area. In certain embodiments, a computer-readable medium (such as, for example random access memory or a computer disk) comprises code for carrying out these and other methods. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303827 | Methods and Systems for Animating Displayed Representations of Data Items - Methods and systems for animating visual components representing data items. One embodiment comprises a method for producing an application using declarative language code to specify animation behavior for data item representations. A programming application may be used to create the declarative language code using a display design area for placing and adjusting objects such as data item containers and/or an editor for entering and editing code. One embodiment comprises a method that allows an application, such as a rich Internet application, to create representations of displayed objects and virtually displayed objects to facilitate animation. One embodiment involves facilitating animation using initial and changed layouts, such layouts including representing of a limited number of data items both inside and outside the content display area. In certain embodiments, a computer-readable medium (such as, for example random access memory or a computer disk) comprises code for carrying out these and other methods. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303828 | Web-based animation - Approaches providing web-based animations using tools and techniques that take into account the limited capabilities and resources available in the web environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, such web-based animations are implemented in JavaScript. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303829 | Sex selection in inheritance based avatar generation - The generation of characters within computer animations is currently a labor intensive and expensive activity for a wide range of businesses. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they provide limited variations. According to the invention a user is provided with a simple and intuitive mechanism to affect the weightings applied in establishing the physical characteristics of an avatar generated using an inheritance based avatar generator. The inheritance based generator allowing, for example, the user to select a first generation of four grandparents, affect the weightings in generating the second generation parents, and affect the weightings in generating the third generation off-spring avatar from these parents. Accordingly the invention provides animators with a means of rapidly generating and refining the off-spring avatar to provide the character for their animated audio-visual content. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303830 | Automatic feature mapping in inheritance based avatar generation - The generation of characters within computer animations is currently a labor intensive and expensive activity for a wide range of businesses. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they provide limited variations. According to the invention a user is provided with a simple and intuitive mechanism to affect the weightings applied in establishing the physical characteristics of an avatar generated using an inheritance based avatar generator. The inheritance based generator allowing, for example, the user to select a first generation of four grandparents, affect the weightings in generating the second generation parents, and affect the weightings in generating the third generation off-spring avatar from these parents. Accordingly the invention provides animators with a means of rapidly generating and refining the off-spring avatar to provide the character for their animated audio-visual content. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303831 | Transfer of motion between animated characters - Motion may be transferred between portions of two characters if those portions have a minimum topological similarity. The elements of the topology that are similar are referred to as basic elements. To transfer motion between the source and target characters, the motion associated with the basic elements of the source character is determined. This motion is retargetted to the basic elements of the target character. The retargetted motion is then attached to the basic elements of the target character. As a result, the animation of the basic elements in the topology of the target character effectively animates the target character with motion that is similar to that of the source character. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303832 | METHOD OF GENERATING TWO-DIMENSIONAL/THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVERTIBLE STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE BITSTREAM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE SAME - Provided is a method of generating a two-dimensional ( | 2008-12-11 |
20080303833 | Asnchronous notifications for concurrent graphics operations - A method and an apparatus for notifying a display driver to update a display with a graphics frame including multiple graphics data rendered separately by multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) substantially concurrently are described. Graphics commands may be received to dispatch to each GPU for rendering corresponding graphics data. The display driver may be notified when each graphics data has been completely rendered respectively by the corresponding GPU. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303834 | Deferred deletion and cleanup for graphics resources - A method and an apparatus for maintaining separate information for graphics commands that have been sent to a graphics processing unit (GPU) and for graphics commands that have been processed by the GPU are described. The graphics commands may be associated with graphics resources. A manner to respond to a request for updating the graphics resources may be determined based on examining the separate information maintained for the graphics commands. The request may be received from a graphics API (application programming interface). Responding to the request may include at least one of notifying the graphics API regarding a status of the graphics resources and updating the graphics resources identified by the request. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303835 | Serializing command streams for graphics processors - A method and an apparatus for determining a dependency relationship between graphics commands based on availability of graphics hardware resources to perform graphics processing operations according to the dependency relationship are described. The graphics commands may be received from graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) for rendering a graphics object. A graphics driver may transmit a portion or all of the received graphics commands to a graphics processing unit (GPU) or a media processor based on the determined dependency relationship between the graphics commands. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303836 | VIDEO DISPLAY DRIVER WITH PARTIAL MEMORY CONTROL - Partial memory control for a video display driver in which data storage is provided for storing and providing a plurality of video pixel data having selectable ones of a plurality of pixel color depths to be displayed by a plurality of video displays having a plurality of mutually distinct dimensions. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303837 | Batching graphics operations with time stamp tracking - A method and an apparatus for updating graphics resource usage according to a stream of graphics commands atomically submitted to a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The stream of graphics commands may be received from a plurality of graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) by a graphics driver. Availability of graphics resources of the GPU may be monitored by the graphics driver for submitting the stream of graphics commands. A single notification from the GPU may indicate that all graphics commands submitted to the GPU have been executed for updating a usage of graphics resources associated with the executed graphics commands. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303838 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus processes compression encoded data of a moving picture and outputs image data divided into a plurality of frames for displaying of the moving picture on a display device. A host CPU outputs a decoding command and a drawing command separately from each other. The decoding process on the compression encoded data can be performed in an independent manner from the drawing process of reflecting the image data, which are the decoding results, on the display object. At this time, a display control section executes the drawing process based on the image data stored in a ring buffer in accordance with the drawing command. Therefore, the host CPU can freely control timings at which the moving pictures are displayed on the display device. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303839 | Facilitating caching in an image-processing system - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for performing caching in an image-processing system. The system starts by receiving a filtering query for resources in a cache. The system then returning a subcache in response to the filtering query. Upon receiving a resource query for resources in the subcache, the system performs the filtering query on the cache, populates the subcache with addresses of resources returned by the filtering query until the resource query is satisfied, and returns available resources from the subcache in response to the resource query. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303840 | Mesh Quilting for Geometric Texture Synthesis - Mesh quilting for geometric texture synthesis involves synthesizing a geometric texture by quilting a mesh texture swatch. In an example embodiment, geometry is matched between a mesh texture swatch and a portion of a synthesized geometric texture. Correspondences are ascertained between elements of the mesh texture swatch and the portion of the synthesized geometric texture. The ascertained corresponding elements of the mesh texture swatch and the portion of the synthesized geometric texture are aligned via local deformation to create a new patch. The new patch is merged into an output texture space to grow the synthesized geometric texture. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303841 | EXTRAPOLATION OF NONRESIDENT MIPMAP DATA USING RESIDENT MIPMAP DATA - A multi-threaded graphics processor is configured to use to extrapolate low resolution mipmaps stored in physical memory to produce extrapolated texture values while high resolution nonresident mipmaps are retrieved from a high latency storage resource and converted into resident mipmaps. The extrapolated texture values provide an improved image that appears sharper compared with using the low resolution mipmap level texture data in place of the temporarily unavailable high resolution mipmap level texture data. An extrapolation threshold LOD is used to determine when extrapolated magnification or minification texture filtering is used. The extrapolation threshold LOD may be used to smoothly transition from using extrapolated filtering to using interpolated filtering when a nonresident mipmap is converted to a resident mipmap. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303842 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a display apparatus capable of multiple-view display, a restriction is imposed on an image to be displayed depending on the viewing area set with reference to a screen, thereby enhancing security and preventing leakage of confidential information. When an image processing apparatus outputs an image to the display apparatus, the image processing apparatus confirms the display conditions for a specified viewing area. After confirmation, the image processing apparatus reads an image of a document according to the display conditions. The image to be outputted is restricted and differs from the original image. The image processing apparatus transmits the restricted image to the display apparatus. The display apparatus displays the restricted image, which is different from the original image, to the specified viewing area. The display apparatus displays the original image to the other viewing areas. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303843 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING GRAPHIC IMAGES - A method generates an image from a set of image zones each delimited by a contour of polygonal shape defined by a set of vertexes, and comprising pixels having an attribute value which can be deduced from the value of a corresponding attribute of each of the vertexes of the image zone. The method includes determining to within a pixel the pixels that belong to each image zone according to the dimensions in number of pixels of the image to be generated; associating the pixels of each image zone in blocks of pixels; and determining an attribute value for each block of pixels of each image zone as a function of the value of the corresponding attribute of each vertex of the image zone. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303844 | Methods and apparatuses for placing a flexible drop in a CAD drawing - The present invention is directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for automatically placing flexible drops in a computer automated design application, and more particularly to automatically placing and drawing flexible connections between sprinkler heads and sprinkler system pipes within a CAD drawing. The present invention allows a user to automatically place and draw flexible drops from numerous sprinkler heads to sprinkler system piping simultaneously based upon a set of user-chosen flex drop parameters. The present invention may also be utilized in other applications, such as automatically placing and drawing flexible electrical connections or flexible piping connections in non-sprinkler applications. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303845 | System and Method for Display Stand Height Adjustment - Information handling system flat panel displays, such as liquid crystal and plasma displays, are supported on an adjustable stand having a rotation limiter that restricts adjustments of display positions to prevent damage to the display. A display bracket allows rotation of a display between landscape and portrait orientations and a support member allows adjustment of the vertical height of the display bracket relative to a base. The rotation limiter is disposed between the display bracket and support member to restrict rotation of the display bracket from the landscape to the portrait orientation when the support member adjusts the display bracket below a predetermined height at which the display extends beyond the support member. The rotation limiter allows rotation of the display bracket above the predetermined height but restricts height adjustment below the predetermined height unless the display bracket is in the landscape orientation. | 2008-12-11 |
20080303846 | Assymetric two-pass graphics scaling - A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale factor and the down scale factor may be precisely stored in the GPU based on a fixed number of bits. An actual scale factor which can be precisely stored in the GPU corresponding to the scale factor may differ from the scale factor with a difference. Graphics commands may be sent to the GPU to scale the graphics data according to the up scale factor and the down scale factor separately. A combined scale factor corresponding to a combination of the up scale factor and the down scale factor may differ from the scale factor less then the difference between the actual scale factor and the scale factor | 2008-12-11 |
20080303847 | Display panel driving method, display apparatus, display panel driving apparatus and electronic apparatus - In the present invention, there is provided a display panel driving method of the type wherein the total light emitting period length within a one-field period is controlled to variably control the peak luminance level of a display panel, including the step of: variably controlling, where the one-field period has N light emitting periods, N being equal to or greater than 2, the end timing of the ith light emitting period and the start timing of the i+1th light emitting period so as to satisfy the total light emitting period length within the one-field period, i being an odd number which satisfies 1≦i≦N−1 while i+1 satisfies 2≦i+1≦N. | 2008-12-11 |