52nd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110316782 | OPTICAL MOUSE WITH LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHT SOURCE SWITCHING METHOD THEREOF - An optical mouse includes an optical sensor, a number of different light sources, a light source switching module, and a controller. The controller determines the intensity of the reflected light sensed by the optical sensor when any of the light sources is turned on. If the determined intensity is less than a predetermined value, the controller directs the light source switching module to turn off a currently turned on light source and turn on another one of the light sources in sequence. A related light source switching method is also provided. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316783 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes, a screen switching input unit to input an instruction for switching between a screen displayed on a first display unit and a screen displayed on a second display unit, and a display control unit to display, in response to input of the switching instruction, the screen displayed on the first display unit on the second display unit and disabling displaying of the screen displayed on the second display unit before input of the switching instruction on the first display unit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316784 | INPUT TO AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic device, comprising a processing system; a sensor for detecting vibrations caused by a user striking the device and outputting a signal indicative of a parameter of those vibrations; wherein the processing system is configured to analyse the signal output from the sensor and determine a parameter related to the location of the strike. Other methods and systems for making inputs to electronic devices are also described. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316785 | KEYPAD FOR HAND-HELD DEVICES WITH TOUCH SCREENS - An accessory device for providing a tactile response for users of hand-held devices with touch screens is provided. The accessory device includes a plurality of domes, each dome having an input member. When force is applied to a dome, the dome provides a tactile stimulus to the user and causes the input member to actuate a corresponding input of the touch screen. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316786 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR OPERATION PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A signal line used in a key matrix is shared between a signal line used in a first display unit and a signal line used in a second display unit. Two types of periodical pulse signals are superimposed on a level signal which indicates data displayed on the second display unit. One type is a pulse signal for detecting key input and another type is a pulse signal which indicates data displayed on the first display unit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316787 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD PROVIDING DISAMBIGUATION OF AN AMBIGUOUS OBJECT DURING EDITING AND SELECTIVELY PROVIDING PREDICTION OF FUTURE CHARACTERS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software and prediction software. During editing of an object, the object can be ambiguous, and the system provides one or more disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous object. In some circumstances, the system can additionally provide one or more completions, i.e., predictions of future characters. However, in other circumstances the outputting of completions of an ambiguous object can be suppressed in order to avoid distracting the user and to provide more meaningful results to the user. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316788 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND TEXT INPUT EMPLOYING DIFFERENT GROUPINGS OF DATA SOURCES TO DISAMBIGUATE DIFFERENT PARTS OF INPUT - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to generate compound language solutions by employing different groupings of data sources to generate different portions of the compound language solutions. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316789 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREFERRING A DIACRITICAL VERSION OF A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON LINGUISTIC SOURCE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316790 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROXIMITY BASED INPUT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for transferring information items between communications devices. A source device detects a selection input by an input object. Direction of movement of the input object is detected after the selection input. A target device is identified on the basis of the direction of movement of the input object. The target device is connected for transferring an information item associated with the selection input. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316791 | TOUCH PAD CHARACTER ENTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A touch pad character entering system and method are disclosed. The system comprises a touch pad configured to detect contacts by an object thereon, a coordinate extraction module configured to extract coordinates of the contact locations detected by the touch pad, and a processing unit configured to obtain an initial contact coordinate and a subsequent movement by the object in contact with the touch pad from the extracted contact coordinates, select a predetermined group of characters based on the initial contact coordinate, and select a predetermined character from the predetermined group of characters based on the subsequent movement. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316792 | Driving Method, Driving Device and Touch Sensitive Display Device Using the Same - A driving method for driving a touch sensitive display device is disclosed. The touch sensitive display device includes a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of touch sensors both arranged in matrixes. The driving method includes generating a plurality of source driving signals according to an image signal to indicate color intensities of the plurality of pixel units, generating a plurality of scanning impulses according to a synchronization signal to indicate an updating sequence of the plurality of pixel units, and shrinking duty cycles of the plurality of scanning impulses to generate a plurality of sensor scanning impulses for triggering the plurality of touch sensors. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316793 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VIRTUAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A system and computer program for virtual musical instruments includes a touch-sensitive screen; a selection interface that presents a list of virtual instruments on the screen for the user to select a virtual instrument; and a performance interface that presents a plurality of virtual instrument input elements on the screen for the user to play the virtual instrument by touching the screen. The system utilizes the location and speed of the user's touches to produce the sound, which may be a note produced with a sound effects library. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316794 | TOUCH SENSING METHOD AND TOUCH SENSING SYSTEM - A touch sensing system including a touch interface and a processing unit is provided. The touch interface has multiple independent touch blocks. The processing unit is coupled to the touch interface. The processing unit includes an interpolating unit. The interpolating unit interpolates multiple spacing points between two adjacent touch blocks along a first direction to generate multiple first coordinate values. The processing unit determines a central block according to a threshold value and sensing values corresponding to the touch blocks, selects at least one touch block adjacent to the central block as a peripheral block, and determines a touch position on the touch interface according to the number of the spacing points, the sensing value corresponding to the peripheral block, a position of the peripheral block, the sensing value corresponding to the central block, and a position of the central block. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316795 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING AND RECORDING INITIAL TOUCH POINTS ON TOUCH PANEL - While correcting and recording initial touch points on a touch panel, a plurality of sensors on the touch panel are classified into a plurality of first sensing groups assigned with serial numbers, and a plurality of sensors of each the first sensing group are equally divided into a plurality of second sensing groups assigned with serial numbers. After detecting initial touch points on the touch panel, a plurality of headers are generated for the plurality of first sensing groups, and a data structure is generated for each of the sensors having detected initial touch points according to whether first sensing groups corresponding to the headers have the sensors having the detected initial touch points or not. At last, the initial touch points are filtered off from a plurality of detected touch points on the touch panel, according to initial touch point information recorded in loaded data structures. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316796 | Information Search Apparatus and Information Search Method - According to one embodiment, an information search apparatus comprises a touch panel, an extraction module, a storage, an operation module, and a conversion unit. The extraction module is configured to extract keywords from screen information displayed on the touch panel. The storage is configured to store one of the keywords extracted by the extraction module as a search condition element when the one of the keywords is selected by a first touch operation performed on the touch panel. The operation module is configured to edit the search condition element stored in the storage according to a second touch operation performed on the touch panel in order to generate a desired search condition. The conversion unit is configured to convert the desired search condition generated by the operation module to a search formula according to an output destination of the desired search condition. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316797 | METHOD FOR APPLICATION LAUNCH AND SYSTEM FUNCTION - The system comprises the ability to detect certain gestures made by sliding a finger or stylus on a touch sensitive screen on a handheld device, even when a so called “screen lock” is active where the gesture is used to unlock the device and trigger the desired function associates with the gesture. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316798 | Tactile Display for Providing Touch Feedback - A tactile display has a contact surface that has multiple addressable pixels. Each pixel has a vibration element that is energizable to vibrate at a selected frequency and amplitude. The vibration of selected pixels of the tactile display provides tactile feedback to a user's finger touching the contact surface. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316799 | COMPOSITE SENSING APPARATUS, SENSING METHOD USING COMPOSITE SENSOR AND TOUCH PAD APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A composite sensing apparatus, a sensing method using a composite sensor, and a touch pad apparatus using the same are provided. The composite sensing apparatus includes a pad unit including a first sensing area which senses a fingerprint, and a second sensing area which senses a touch state, and a control unit which generates control signals according to results sensed by the first and the second sensing areas. As a result, the sensing apparatus can simultaneously have a fingerprint recognition sensor and a touch pad sensor. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316800 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING VIRTUAL KEYBOARD WITH PREDICTIVE KEY AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic device may include a housing, a touch screen display carried by the housing, and a processor being carried by the housing and cooperating with the touch screen display. The processor may be for operating a virtual keyboard on the touch screen display for receiving textual input from a user. The virtual keyboard may include keys with at least one remappable key with a set position in the virtual keyboard. The processor may selectively assign a predicted key value to the at least one remappable key based upon prior textual input. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316801 | CONTENTS DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD - A contents display device includes a display section, a touch detection section, and a control section. The control section includes: a bookmarking determination section for determining, if multiple contacts have been simultaneously detected by the touch detection section, at least one contact among the multiple contacts to be a bookmark; a bookmark-position configuration section for configuring a bookmark position, based on a contact determined by the bookmarking determination section to be a bookmark; and a return-to-bookmark-position determination section for determining, after a bookmark position has been configured by the bookmark-position configuration section, to return the content displayed on the display section to the bookmark position, based on a contact detected by the touch detection section. When the return-to-bookmark-position determination section determines to return to the bookmark position, the content displayed on the display section is returned to the bookmark position. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316802 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN TOUCH PANEL - An OLED display device has a built-in touch panel and includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other, a thin film transistor array formed on the lower substrate, an organic light emitting array formed on the thin film transistor array, a touch sensor array formed on the upper substrate opposite to the lower substrate for sensing external touch by a capacitive type, an upper touch pad formed on the upper substrate to be connected to the touch sensor array, a lower touch pad formed on the lower substrate opposite to the plurality of upper touch pads, a conductive spacer connected between the upper touch pad and the lower touch pad, and a signal transmission film electrically connected to a main pad formed on the lower substrate and the lower touch pad for supplying signals for controlling the thin film transistor array and the touch sensor array. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316803 | TOUCH PANEL - The present invention relates to a touch panel which can detect touch securely without being affected by drive of an underlying display panel and shield external static electricity, securely, the touch panel includes a substrate having an active region and a peripheral region surrounding the active region; a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes formed on the active region in a row direction and a column direction, respectively; a plurality of pad electrodes on one side of the peripheral region; routing lines for connecting ends of the first electrodes and the second electrodes to the pad electrodes, respectively; and a transparent conductive layer formed at the peripheral region to cover the routing lines. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316804 | TOUCH POSITION DETECTOR AND MOBILE CELL PHONE - A system and method for detecting a plurality of touch points on a touch panel is disclosed. A touch position detector comprises a touch panel, a detection module and an identification module. The touch panel comprises n+1 groups of mutually-parallel electrodes, and at least two of the n+1 groups are arranged at a predefined angle, where n is an integer. The detection module detects position information for each of the n+1 groups, and the position information corresponds to n touched positions on the touch panel. The identification module identifies the n touched positions based on the position information and the predefined angle. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316805 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device is disclosed. A displacement detection module comprises a detection surface that is disposed in a housing and operable to detect a displacement of a substance that is brought into contact with the detection surface. A detection module is operable to detect an instantaneous value of the displacement, and detect an integrated value of the displacement. A signal generation module is operable to generate a control signal based on the instantaneous value and the integrated value, and a control module is operable to perform a predefined function in response to the control signal. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316806 | METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH PRINTED CONTENT VIA HANDHELD DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of interacting with printed content using a handheld display device. The method includes the steps of: imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an image sensor; determining interaction data using the image data, retrieving display data using an identified page description, the display data corresponding to the printed content; displaying, on an opaque touch-sensitive display screen of the handheld display device, display information based on the display data; and interacting with the display information via the opaque touch-sensitive display screen. The opaque touch-sensitive display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user's perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316807 | DYNAMIC BEZEL FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - An article, device and method may detect a touch of a human hand on an interactive area of a user interface display of a mobile device. A non-interactive area may be displayed on the user interface display in at least a location of the touch of the human hand. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316808 | SINGLE PIECE TYPE CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A single piece type capacitive touch panel uses an etching process to form a frame on periphery of a transparent substrate. An icon layer is disposed in the frame by printing or sputtering. The icon layer completely fills the frame. In addition, one side face of the icon layer has an optical film. Accordingly, the structure of utilizing the frame to combine the icon layer can greatly increase the visible area, enhance the flatness, and avoid thicker thickness caused by climbing effect on curved corner of the conventional icon layer, or Mura phenomenon caused by the stacked structure at the side of the conventional icon layer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316809 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SENSOR EMBEDDED THEREIN, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device having a touch sensor embedded therein is disclosed. The present invention includes a liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates, a pixel on the second substrate to apply a horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a touch sensor on the second substrate, the touch sensor detecting a touch by forming a touch capacitor with a touch object for touching the first substrate, and a readout line outputting a sensing signal from the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a sensing electrode on the second substrate to form the sensing capacitor with the touch object, first and second sensor gate lines, a first sensor thin film transistor supplying a sensing driving voltage to the sensing electrode in response to a control of the first sensor gate line, and a second sensor thin film transistor supplying electric charges of the sensing electrode as the sensing signal in response to a control of the second sensor gate line. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316810 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL - A liquid crystal display device | 2011-12-29 |
20110316811 | INPUT DEVICE OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INPUT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An input device for a portable electronic apparatus comprises: a display unit that displays a plurality of input keys; a touch panel unit including at least one touch panel provided on the display unit; and a control unit that controls and causes the display unit to display a second input key substantially at a same location as a first input key already displayed on the display unit in response to a predetermined input detected by the touch panel unit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316812 | IMAGE SENSOR CONTROL OVER A VARIABLE FUNCTION OR OPERATION - A device has a variable function or operation. An image sensor system is provided for the device. The image sensor system is responsive to light rays indicative of whether an object is present on an imaging window. For example, the image sensor system may be of the frustrated total internal reflection type, the light rays detected by the image sensor system comprising reflected light from the window at locations where the object is not present. The image sensor system outputs image information indicative of the detection of the light rays. A processing circuit processes the image information to detect the presence of the object on the imaging window. A control signal is generated by the processing circuit in response to that detected presence, the control signal causing the variable function or operation of the device to vary in response to the detected presence and/or movement of the object. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316813 | OPTICAL TOUCH DISPLAY - When an object touches a touch panel, a projection light source projects a predetermined image including image information and forms an object image having the image information on a surface of the object. An image sensor captures a reflection image including the object image. Then, an angle is calculated according to an image location of the object in the reflection image and a relative position of predetermined axis, and a distance between the object and the image sensor is calculated by comparing the predetermined image with the location, size and/or phase of the image information of the reflection image so as to determine a coordinate of the object on the touch panel according to the angle and the distance. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316814 | OPTICAL DISTANCE DETERMINATION DEVICE, OPTICAL TOUCH MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE OF A TOUCH POINT ON AN OPTICAL TOUCH PANEL - An optical distance determination device includes a first image sensor, an auxiliary image sensor, and a distance measuring module. The first image sensor is for capturing a first image comprising image information of an object. The auxiliary image sensor is for capturing an auxiliary image comprising image information of the object, and a physical distance between the first image sensor and the auxiliary image sensor. The distance measuring module is for calculating pixel distance of an image formation position of the object in the first image and the auxiliary image for calculating an approximate distance between the object and the first image sensor according to the pixel distance, the physical distance, and focal lengths of the first image sensor and the auxiliary image sensor. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316815 | TOUCH SCREEN PEN FOR CAPACITIVE TYPE TOUCH SCREEN - The screen touch pen used for inputting commands to a capacitive type touch screen, comprising a pen-tip having a first portion and a second portion along an axial direction, the first portion of the pen-tip being exposed for inputting commands to the capacitive type touch screen, wherein a portion of the pen-tip contacting with the capacitive type touch screen is made of an electrically-conductive fabric. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316816 | Drive circuit of display device and its driving method - A drive circuit | 2011-12-29 |
20110316817 | SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a server apparatus including a storing unit that stores a correspondence between terminal information of one or more information processing terminals connected via a network and one or more pieces of display control information associated with display screens of the information processing terminals; an adding unit that adds a new correspondence between the terminal information of the information processing terminal and the display control information to the storing unit in response to a user operation of at least one information processing terminal; an image data generating unit that generates image data to be displayed on the display screen of the information processing terminal based on the correspondence stored in the storing unit when an access from at least one information processing terminal is made; and a transmitting unit that transmits the image data generated by the image generating unit to the information processing terminal that has made the access. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316818 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - Included are a display panel including first to third pixel regions and a driver circuit; a backlight portion divided into a first light source region where light is emitted in response to input of a video signal to the first pixel region, a second light source region where light is emitted in response to input of a video signal to the second pixel region, and a third light source region where light is emitted in response to input of a video signal to the third pixel region; a video signal selection circuit used to supply the video signals from plural memory circuits to the driver circuit; a control circuit that supplies a control signal for controlling the driver circuit; a sequence determination circuit that supplies a backlight control signal and a selection signal; and a random number generation circuit used for selection from colors in the sequence determination circuit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316819 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device including: for each pixel, a first switching element provided in common for a plurality of subpixels making up a pixel, the first switching element having its one end connected to a signal line; for each pixel, a plurality of second switching elements one provided for each subpixel, each of the plurality of second switching elements being connected between the pixel electrode of one of the plurality of subpixels and the other end of the first switching element; and a drive section adapted to turn ON and OFF the plurality of second switching elements in sequence during the ON period of the first switching element and turn OFF the second switching element that turns ON last in sequence first, and then turn OFF the first switching element. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316820 | Display Device - A method for reducing afterimages in a device for displaying images by application of an electric field to a charged substance is provided. A plurality of pixels each include a display element including a pixel electrode, a charged layer, and a counter electrode. The display device has a function of applying different potentials to pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in a period during which the pixels are initialized. Thus, electric fields are generated not only in a direction perpendicular to the pixel electrodes but also in a direction parallel to the pixel electrodes (the end-face direction of the pixel electrodes), so that charged substances in the charged layer stir. Accordingly, aggregation can be prevented. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316821 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE - A driving circuit according to the present invention for driving a display apparatus based on display data and a control signal includes: a delay circuit for delaying the input control signal; and a data load section for loading the input display data to the display apparatus at a timing generated by the delayed control signal, where the delay circuit delays the control signal in such a manner that load timing at which the display data is loaded to the display apparatus varies according to fixed timing determined by a constant cycle. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316822 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device, which displays image data on a display section, includes a vibration section which vibrates a housing constituting the device, analyzes video data displayed on the display section to detect a changing state of an image of the video data, and controls the driving of the vibration section based on the detected changing state of the image. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316823 | DISPLAY APPARATUS DRIVING CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus driving circuit capable of reducing the amount of heat generated at a driving unit while suppressing degradation in image quality is provided. A display apparatus driving circuit according to the present invention includes: a source driver for driving a display unit; a heat detecting circuit for detecting amount of heat generated at the source driver, and outputting a heat detection signal when the detected amount of generated heat is equal to or larger than a predetermined reference value; and a heat reduction circuit for changing, when the heat detection signal is received, a driving method of the display unit to reduce the amount of heat generated at said source driver. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316824 | USB IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND DEVICE - A USB image transmission system is provided. The USB image transmission system may include a content source configured to be operatively coupled to a USB-enabled display device. Image data may be transmitted over the USB connection from the content source for display by the display device. In some embodiments, a USB collaboration hub may enable multiple content sources to be operatively linked through a USB connection to one or more USB-enabled display devices. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316825 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY - Disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescence display. The organic electroluminescence display includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format on a display panel and configured of first to N+K-th rows; a plurality of first data lines connected to pixels each in the same column of pixels in the first to N-th rows; a plurality of second data lines connected to pixels each in the same column of pixels in the k+1-th to N+K-th rows; and a plurality of pixel driving buffers sensing time constants of the second data lines and compensating for data currents according to the number of sensed time constants to drive the respective corresponding first data lines with the compensated data currents. The organic electroluminescence display can reduce operation deviation between the pixels according to parasitic components of the data lines. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316826 | Display Module - A display module includes a substrate, wherein the substrate has a plurality of pixels, a signal line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, and a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line thereon. The plurality of pixels delimit a display area of the substrate and the pixel includes an emitting device, and a first thin transistor connected to the signal line that supplies the data signal. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316827 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING IMAGE-DISPLAYING AND VIEWING ANGLE-ADJUSTING SUB PIXELS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other, each of the first and second substrates having an image-displaying sub pixel and a viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel; a thin film transistor corresponding to each of the image-displaying sub pixel and the viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel; a liquid crystal display layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy; a first field distortion means in the image-displaying sub pixel; and a second field distortion means in the viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316828 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING GLARE AND/OR INCREASING PRIVACY OF A SELF-SERVICE DEVICE - A method for minimizing glare and/or increasing privacy for a user of a self-service device is provided. The method may include mechanical means such as a fixed visor and/or hood or a user operated hinged glare reducing overlay screen. The method may further include as using sensors that detect the user's eyes and other sensors to detect a source of light that produces glare. Information from these sensors may be sent to a computer controlled system that operates system of actuators. The actuators are operated by the computer in response to sensor inputs to adjust the screen angle relative the user to minimize glare for that user and/or increase privacy from surreptitiously observing eyes or cameras. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316829 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight of a liquid crystal display device is divided into a plurality of regions. A backlight area dimmer sets a dimming value for each of the regions of the backlight according to a characteristic amount of the input image. A backlight dimming limiter sets an upper limit and lower limit of the dimming value set by the backlight area dimmer. In this case, the backlight dimming limiter may set the upper and lower limits of the dimming value according to a combination of at least two pieces of information among illuminance information on the external light, category information on the input image and image mode information set by the user. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316830 | PHOTO DETECTOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A photo detector is disclosed. The photo detector includes a substrate, a first patterned semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer, a patterned conductive layer, an inter-layer dielectric, a second patterned semiconductor layer, two first electrodes disposed on the inter-layer dielectric and two second electrodes disposed on portions of the second semiconductor layer. The first patterned semiconductor layer having a first doping region and a second doping region is disposed on a transistor region. The dielectric layer is disposed to cover the substrate and the first semiconductor layer, the patterned conductive layer is disposed on the dielectric layer, and the inter-layer dielectric having at least two openings adapted to expose the first doping region and the second doping region is disposed to cover the dielectric layer. The second patterned semiconductor layer is disposed on a photosensitive region and the first electrodes are electrically connected to the first patterned semiconductor layer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316831 | BIDIRECTIONAL SHIFT REGISTER AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A plurality of cascaded unit register circuits which comprises a bidirectional shift register include main stages and dummy stages at the top before the main stages and dummy stages at the bottom after the main stages. A k-th stage outputs a pulse P | 2011-12-29 |
20110316832 | PIXEL DRIVE SCHEME HAVING IMPROVED RELEASE CHARACTERISTICS - Electromechanical devices such as MEMS can be controlled by “drive schemes” comprising electrical signals applied to the display to cause selective actuation or release of the electromechanical devices. In some drive schemes, all pixels on a line are released during a phase when a release voltage is applied along the common line. In some invention embodiments, the release phase sets the common line voltage to the maximum segment drive voltage for a portion of the release phase and the minimum segment drive voltage for the remainder of the release phase. This ensures that all electromechanical devices have a resulting voltage of zero during a portion of the release phase sufficient to release the devices without regard to the segment line voltages. This scheme eliminates slow and no release problems and also eliminates the need for additional voltage transitions on the segment lines. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316833 | Shift Register and Architecture of Same on a Display Panel - The present invention relates to a shift register and GOA architecture of the same in a display panel comprising a substrate and a plurality of pixels spatially formed on the substrate defining a number of pixel rows, each pixel row having a height of H. The shift register has the plurality of shift register stages disposed spatially and sequentially on the substrate in such a way that the layout of each shift register stage has a height of (j*H), j being an integer greater than one. Each shift register stages is configured to generate j scanning signals for driving j neighboring pixel rows, respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316834 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - A driving circuit includes a plurality of stages driven in response to a start signal. Each normal stage outputs a gate signal and a carry signal, increases an electric potential of a node in response to a previous carry signal of a previous stage, and decreases the gate signal to a first voltage in response to a carry signal from a next stage. Each stage applies a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the node in response to receipt of a carry signal from a second next stage. A first dummy stage outputs a first dummy carry signal to the last two normal stages in response to a last carry signal from the last normal stage and the start signal, and a second dummy stage outputs a second dummy carry signal to the last normal stage in response to the first dummy carry signal and the start signal. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316835 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including: a pair of substrates; a display medium dispersed between the pair of substrates, and including plural kinds of particle groups that move in accordance with an electric field formed between the substrates and have different colors and different absolute values of movement voltages required to move; a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between the substrates; a first acquisition unit which acquires area information indicating an area corresponding to plural pixels of an image displayed on the display medium; and a control unit that controls the voltage applying unit to apply voltages, which have the same polarity between pixel areas and are equal to or higher than a maximum value among the absolute values of the movement voltages of the kinds of particle groups, to the respective pixel areas when the first acquisition unit acquires the area information. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316836 | Display device and display driving method therefor - Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a pixel array in which pixel circuits each having a light emitting element, a driving transistor for applying a current corresponding to a gate-to-source voltage to the light emitting element connected to a source side by applying a drive voltage across a drain and a source, a sampling transistor for inputting a signal line voltage to a gate of the driving transistor by being caused to conduct, and a sustaining capacitor connected between the gate and the source of the driving transistor for sustaining a video signal voltage inputted thereto are disposed in a matrix; a signal selector; a drive control scanner; and a write scanner. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316837 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The pixels of the LCD each have storage capacitors, and the capacitances of the storage capacitors of pixels of different colors are different. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316838 | APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING POWER, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for supplying a power source voltage, a display device having the same, and a driving method thereof, includes: a DC-DC converter for generating a power source voltage corresponding to an input voltage and a feedback voltage, and for supplying the power source voltage to a display region comprising a plurality of light emitting elements; and a power source voltage controller for detecting an input current flowing to the DC-DC converter and the power source voltage outputted from the DC-DC converter, for generating the feedback voltage corresponding to the input current and the power source voltage, and for supplying the feedback voltage to the DC-DC converter. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316839 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - An amplification-type solid-state imaging device supplies a voltage of VRESL | 2011-12-29 |
20110316840 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND MEMORY PRODUCT - In the multi-monitor environment in which a plurality of monitors are connected to a PC, a human sensor is mounted on at least one monitor, and the PC controls the switching of the operation states of the plurality of monitors according to the detection result of the human sensor. When all the human sensors have detected the absence of the user, the monitors are operated in a sleep mode or a power OFF mode; and when at least one human sensor has detected the presence of the user, the monitors are operated in an ordinary operation mode. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316841 | Power supplying apparatus for organic light emitting display - There is provided a power supplying apparatus for an organic light emitting display in which a control circuit is provided between the input end of the power supplying apparatus and DC-DC converters for generating power sources in order to prevent a power sequence from being changed by the unintentional formation of a current path. The power supplying apparatus for an organic light emitting display includes a first switching element having a gate electrode coupled to a first node and coupled between an input end and an output end of the control circuit, a second switching element, to whose gate electrode a control signal is applied and which is coupled between the input end of the control circuit and the first node, and a third switching element, to whose gate electrode the control signal is applied and which is coupled between the first node and a ground. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316842 | METHOD OF DRIVING INFORMATION DISPLAY PANEL - Provided is a method of driving an information display panel in which at least two types of display media comprised of particle groups containing chargeable particles are sealed between two opposed substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and a voltage is applied across a pair of opposed pixel electrodes formed by providing conductive films to the respective substrates to move the display media, thereby displaying an information image, wherein, in a series of alternating voltage pulses applied at the time of deleting the information image displayed on the information display panel, there is provided an OFF time, which is a period during which application voltage of 0 volt is maintained during change of polarity of each pulse voltage. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a method of driving an information display panel capable of achieving the longer lifetime of a battery at the time when the panel is driven by the battery and of preventing drop of the voltage from a power supply, by reducing a peak value of the electric current occurring at the time of deleting with the alternating voltage. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316843 | LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WITH LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - A liquid crystal display element, a liquid crystal display device, and a method for displaying with a liquid crystal display element, wherein picture element electrodes ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110316844 | Devices and Methods of User Interfaces to Generate a High Current Drain Impact User Notification Relating to a Wallpaper Image - Disclosed are methods of user interfaces of electronic devices having a displays configured to annunciate wallpaper images wherein a wallpaper image includes image data. Image data can be characterized, for example, by the luminance levels of pixels of the image and/or the power needed to display the image. An image characteristic threshold is related to current drain impact, for example, in terms of luminance and/or power needed to display an image. A disclosed method can include receiving the image data of the wallpaper image and determining whether the image characteristic of the image data (such as luminance level at a given percentile) exceeds the image characteristic threshold. A disclosed method can further provide generating a user interface notification relating to the image characteristic exceeding the image characteristic threshold and relating to the current drain impact of displaying the image as wallpaper. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316845 | SPATIAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates interaction between two entities located away from each other. The system includes a virtual reality system, an augmented reality system, and an object-state-maintaining mechanism. During operation, the virtual reality system displays an object associated with a real-world object. The augmented reality system displays the object based on a change to the state of the object. The object-state-maintaining mechanism determines the state of the object and communicates a state change to the virtual reality system, the augmented reality system, or both. A respective state change of the object can be based on one or more of: a state change of the real-world object; a user input to the virtual reality system or the augmented reality system; and an analysis of an image of the real-world object. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316846 | TOUCH PANEL FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - A touch panel for displaying stereoscopic image includes a substrate, a plurality of first sensing strings, second sensing strings and third sensing strings. Each of the first sensing strings includes a plurality of sensing pads respectively having a first retarder region. The second sensing strings are parallel with the first sensing strings, and each of the second sensing strings includes a plurality of second sensing pads respectively having a second retarder region. The third sensing strings are perpendicular to the first sensing strings and the second sensing strings, and each of the third sensing strings includes a plurality of third sensing pads and fourth sensing pads arranged alternately. Each of the third sensing pads includes the first retarder region and each of the fourth sensing pads includes the second retarder region. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316847 | Display Apparatus and Associated Glasses - A display apparatus associated with a pair of glasses displays three-dimensional (3D) content. The pair of glass includes a transmitting circuit for establishing bi-directional communication with the display apparatus; and a proximity sensor, which is for sensing whether the pair of glasses is worn, controlling the pair of glasses, and for controlling whether to perform 3D display on the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes an image capturing apparatus, which is for capturing an image, determining whether the pair of glasses is worn, and for controlling the display apparatus and the pair of glasses according to a determination result. The display apparatus includes an image processing module for extracting two-dimensional (2D) content from the 3D content. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316848 | CONTROLLING OF DISPLAY PARAMETER SETTINGS - A system of controlling displaying of image data has a source device ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110316849 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE ON DISPLAY UNIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A frequency of each gradation in an image for the left eye histogram is compared with a frequency of each gradation in an image for the right eye histogram. An integration histogram is generated using at least a larger one of the frequency of each gradation in the image for the left eye histogram and the frequency of each gradation in the image for the right eye histogram. A gradation correction parameter is set based on the generated integration histogram. The gradations of the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are corrected using the gradation correction parameter. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316850 | Three-Dimensional Display System, Display and Method of Controlling Backlight of Three-Dimensional Display - A three-dimensional display system including a display and a pair of three-dimensional glasses having a light sensor is provided. The display includes a backlight driving module and a backlight module, wherein the backlight driving module modulates an original synchronization signal to generate a modulated backlight driving signal for driving the backlight module to generate a backlight. The display alternatively generates a left eye image and a right eye image according to a three-dimensional image signal. The three-dimensional glasses then determines whether the image output from the display is the let-eye image or the right-eye image based on the variation in brightness of the backlight generated by the backlight module of the display. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316851 | 3D HISTOGRAM FOR COLOR IMAGES - The disclosed implementations relate generally to 3D histograms and other user interface elements for color correcting digital images. A color correction method includes: generating a user interface for display on a display device, the user interface including a display area; generating a three-dimensional cube representing a color space for display in the display area; and generating a plurality of spheres for display within the cube, where the spheres are sized to represent pixel densities in a digital image. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316852 | MULTI-USER ANIMATION COUPLED TO BULLETIN BOARD - A multi-user animation process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a modeled 3-D environment. Each user is represented by an avatar. The 3-D environment and avatar position/location data is provided to client workstations, which display a simulated environment visible to all participants. A text or speech-based bulletin board application is coupled to the animation process. The bulletin board application receives text or speech input from the multiple remote users and publishes the input in a public forum. The bulletin board application maintains multiple forums organized by topic. Access or participation to particular forums is coordinated with the animation process, such that each user may be permitted access to a forum only when the user's avatar is located within a designated room or region of the modeled 3-D environment. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316853 | TELEPRESENCE SYSTEMS WITH VIEWER PERSPECTIVE ADJUSTMENT - Described herein is a telepresence system where a real-time a virtual hologram of a user is displayed at a remote display screen and is rendered from a vantage point that is different than the vantage point from which images of the user are captured via a video camera. The virtual hologram is based at least in part upon data acquired from a sensor unit at the location of the user. The sensor unit includes a color video camera that captures 2-D images of the user including surface features of the user. The sensor unit also includes a depth sensor that captures 3-D geometry data indicative of the relative position of surfaces on the user in 3-D space. The virtual hologram is rendered to orientate the gaze of the eyes of the virtual hologram towards the eyes of a second user viewing the remote display screen. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316854 | Global Visualization Process Terrain Database Builder - A process for optimizing a tile mesh for a surface in a level-of-detail hierarchy includes obtaining a plurality of elevation values for an elevation grid of the surface, downsampling the elevation grid to a resolution based on a minimum edge size for triangles of the tile mesh as determined by a level-of-detail parameter, encoding the elevation grid into a linearized quadtree of virtual nodes, iteratively optimizing the quadtree according to an adaptive sampling pattern based on one or more prioritized split tests; and converting the optimized linearized quadtree into a tile mesh. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316855 | Parallelized Streaming Accelerated Data Structure Generation - A method includes receiving at a master processing element primitive data that includes properties of a primitive. The method includes partially traversing a spatial data structure that represents a three-dimensional image to identify an internal node of the spatial data structure. The internal node represents a portion of the three-dimensional image. The method also includes selecting a slave processing element from a plurality of slave processing elements. The selected processing element is associated with the internal node. The method further includes sending the primitive data to the selected slave processing element to traverse a portion of the spatial data structure to identify a leaf node of the spatial data structure. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316856 | Spotlight Graphs - In a computer-displayed graph, indications of multiple attributes or states of an object represented by a node of the graph are displayed using a spotlight, in which attributes of the spotlight correspond to attributes of the object represented by the node. The attributes of the spotlight each correspond to an attribute of the object and may include the color, brightness, and size of the spotlight. The spotlight may be positioned with the node, including overlaying the spotlight on the node and positioning the spotlight relative to the node. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316857 | CROSSING TRAFFIC DEPICTION IN AN ITP DISPLAY - Provided are methods and systems for the disambiguation of an in trail procedure (ITP) vertical display by calculating and rendering symbology on a plan view traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) display. The symbology represents an intersection point between the ground track of an ITP aircraft and the ground track of a blocking aircraft and further represents an association between the intersection point and the respective ITP blocking aircraft. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316858 | Apparatuses and Methods for Real Time Widget Interactions - An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a touch screen and a processing unit. The processing unit executes a first widget and a second widget, wherein the first widget generates an animation on the touch screen and modifies the animation in response to an operating status change of the second widget. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316859 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - Apparatus and method for displaying images are provided. The apparatus is configured to cause a display of an image; detect one or more inputs by one or more input objects; determine coordinates of the one or more inputs in respect to the image; determine one or more property of the input; cause production of an animation with the image, the animation relating to the determined coordinates and being configured on the basis of one or more detected properties of the one or more inputs. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316860 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - [Problems] An appropriate motion expression in which a processing load on image processing for a motion of a character is reduced and a predetermined site of the character is in contact with a contact allowed object appropriately is carried out. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316861 | OPTICAL FILMS FOR DIRECTING LIGHT TOWARDS ACTIVE AREAS OF DISPLAYS - In various embodiments, an interferometric display device includes a plurality of structures that redirect light from an inactive area of the display to an active area of the display. Light incident on the structures that would normally continue towards an inactive area of the display is either reflected, refracted, or scattered towards an active area of the display including moveable and static reflective surfaces that form an optical cavity. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316862 | Multi-Processor - A multi-processor according to an example of the invention comprises a first control unit which stores first compressed data acquired externally in a first memory, a hardware decoding unit which decodes the first compressed data stored in the first memory and storing the decoded data in a second memory, an encoding processor element which includes at least one of a plurality of processor elements, encodes the decoded data stored in the second memory in accordance with encoding software stored in a third memory, and stores second compressed data obtained by encoding the decoded data in a fourth memory, and a second control unit which outputs the second compressed data stored in the fourth memory to the outside. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316863 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A memory section provides an input buffer capable of holding image data being a processing target of each processing by an image processing unit, and an output buffer capable of holding image data being a processing result. Through an input section, a user selects a plurality of kinds of processing to be executed by the image processing unit, and an execution sequence of the plurality of kinds of processing. A controller section reserves, based on information selected by a user through the input section, an input buffer and an output buffer for each processing in the memory section, sets an input-output connection relation between the buffers, and notifies, based on the set connection relation, the image processing unit of address information of the input buffer in the memory section and the output buffer for each processing sequentially executed by the image processing unit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316864 | MULTITHREADED SOFTWARE RENDERING PIPELINE WITH DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE-BASED REALLOCATION OF RASTER THREADS - A multithreaded rendering software pipeline architecture dynamically reallocates regions of an image space to raster threads based upon performance data collected by the raster threads. The reallocation of the regions typically includes resizing the regions assigned to particular raster threads and/or reassigning regions to different raster threads to better balance the relative workloads of the raster threads. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316865 | RECHARGEABLE UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS EXTERNAL GRAPHICS DEVICE AND METHOD - A graphics processing device that is portable, reconfigurable and provides graphics processing for a computer system is provided. The graphics processing device includes a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface coupled with the graphics processor and configured to be coupled with computer system. The graphics processing device further includes the USB interface configured to transfer a graphics instruction, originated by the computer system, to the graphics processor. The graphics processing device may further include a battery coupled with the graphics processor to partially power the graphics processor. The battery may be rechargeable. The graphics processor may be configured to process graphics instruction on behalf of the computer system. A portable processing system to provide processing for a computer system is also disclosed. The portable processing system may include a processor. The portable processing system may include a USB module coupled with processor and configured to be coupled with computer system. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316866 | CODEC CONTROL - A method and system for a software driver of a graphics controller to work with a display codec. The software driver may be configured to work with different display codecs at different periods of time while using a default configuration. Other embodiments are also described. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316867 | APPARATUS AND METHODS TO ACHIEVE A VARIABLE COLOR PIXEL BORDER ON A NEGATIVE MODE SCREEN WITH A PASSIVE MATRIX DRIVE - A display unit is constituted by a passive matrix of independently controllable pixels characterized by an active area of n rows and m columns of discrete pixels and a pixel border. The pixel border has a predetermined width, in one embodiment two pixels. The border pixel color state is controlled herein by the frame buffer memory. The pixel border color state is controlled to correspond to information contained in a frame buffer memory locus. This locus may be, in various embodiments herein, a single pixel, a row of pixels, or a number of rows of pixels of frame buffer memory. Each row of pixels may be equal to m and/or n. In one embodiment, the frame buffer controls the border pixels directly via a liquid crystal display controller and drivers, without a timing generation mechanism, such as a timing ASIC. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316868 | SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM AND RENDERING EXECUTION METHOD - Disclosed is a service provision system including a server which includes application service programs, selects a program corresponding to profile data according to a service start request, and transmits rendering information selected by a data request; an in-vehicle information terminal which includes first profile data representing a terminal specification and performs a rendering process using a texture in the terminal by a rendering command; and a portable information device which includes second profile data representing a device specification, identifies a connection status with the terminal, and transmits the data request using the first or second profile data. The portable information device includes a data request transmission unit to transmit the data request using the first profile data, and a rendering command transmission unit to generate the rendering command based on the rendering information and transmit the rendering command to the terminal, when the connection with the terminal is identified. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An inspection apparatus specifies a region for displaying an advertisement from an image of a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an image mapping unit that maps an image, which uses a color that is not used in the virtual space and where the display status of the advertisement varies in accordance with a viewpoint of a user, on a region where the advertisement is to be displayed in the virtual space; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires a virtual space that is actually displayed on a screen on a frame-by-frame basis; and an advertisement region extracting unit operative to extract, by color-filtering the acquired image of the virtual space, a region that is rendered with a color that is not used in the virtual space, as a region for displaying the advertisement perceived by a user. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316870 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH A FAST CONTROL USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for providing a user with a fast control user interface includes: providing the user with a plurality of keys/buttons for selecting one of a plurality of display regions on a screen, where each display region corresponds to at least one associated key/button of the keys/buttons; and when a specific key/button of the keys/buttons is pressed, selecting/highlighting a specific display region corresponding to the specific key/button for further operations. An associated electronic device is further provided, where the electronic device includes: an interface circuit arranged to receive signals directly/indirectly from the plurality of keys/buttons, where the electronic device or at least one accessory thereof provides the user with the plurality of keys/buttons for selecting one of the plurality of display regions on the screen; and a control circuit arranged to provide the user with the fast control user interface. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316871 | FAST RECONFIGURATION OF GRAPHICS PIPELINE STATE - Techniques and technologies are provided for binding resources to particular slots associated with shaders in a graphics pipeline. Resource dependencies between resources being utilized by respective shaders can be determined, and, based on these resource dependencies, common resource/slot associations can be computed. Respective common resource/slot associations identify a particular one of the resources to be associated with a particular one of the slots. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316872 | IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, DEVICE, AND RELATED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - An image displaying method is provided. The image displaying method is utilized for displaying an image on a display region. The image has a first pixel and a second pixel respectively displayed on a first position and a second position in the display region. The image displaying method includes: deciding the first pixel according to a response time analysis, illuminating the first position and the second position according to a first brightness value of the first pixel; and adjusting brightness of the second position to a second brightness value of the second pixel. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIEWING MEDICAL IMAGES - For certain medical images, it is important and/or required that a user view all of a medical image at full resolution so that minute, but important, indicia in the medical image are not missed. A computing systems monitor the portions of the medical image that are displayed on the display device, notates those portions that have been displayed at full resolution (or other user-defined display parameters), and provides the user with information indicating portions that have not been viewed at full resolution and/or provides information indicating for which images of a multiple image examination full pixel display has been accomplished. The process reduces the possibility of missing an abnormality in a medical image due to the viewer not viewing a portion of the image at full resolution or using other user-defined display parameters. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316874 | METHOD OF REVEALING HIDDEN CONTENT VIA HANDHELD DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of revealing hidden content associated with printed content using a handheld display device. The method includes the steps of: imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an image sensor; determining interaction data using the image data; retrieving display data using an identified page description, the display data including the hidden content associated with the printed content; displaying, on an opaque touch-sensitive display screen of the handheld display device, display information based on the display data and including the hidden content. The opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user's perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content. The opaque display screen additionally displays the hidden content in real-time as if it were printed on the printed substrate. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316875 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING VECTOR GRAPHICS - A method and a device for reducing the waste of the central process unit (CPU) resource during the filling process of a vector graphic, and the method includes: parsing the vector graphic to obtain a series of polygons; mapping the polygons into a new drawing coordinate whose unit is 1/2 | 2011-12-29 |
20110316876 | PROCESSING IMAGES OF A DISPLAY - An apparatus for processing images of a display includes an image sequence receiving module adapted to receive a first sequence of images of the display. The first sequence of images includes at least one image corrupted due to partial refreshing of the display. The apparatus also includes an image processing module operable to process the first sequence of images on an image by image basis to eliminate the at least one corrupted image from at least one of the first sequence of images and a second sequence of images captured subsequent to the first sequence of images. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316877 | DISPLAY AREA CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY AREA CONTROL METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The present invention provides a display area control apparatus which makes a user feel less uncomfortable when displaying a screen component takes much time. A display area control apparatus ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110316878 | Computer Implemented Process for Interactive Appreciation of Fine Art - A computer-implemented process for interactive appreciation of fine art in which a user experiencing an image of fine art may virtually interact with the art image using an input device coupled to a computing system. The input device allows the user to provide a plurality of inputs while virtually interacting with the image of fine art. The plurality of inputs typically include a progression of points or dots which are used by the process to generate and graphically overlay a trace upon the image of fine art. The generated trace reflecting a visual course of observation of the user as the user virtually interacts with the image of fine art. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316879 | Display apparatus for vehicle - A vehicular display apparatus is disclosed. A display screen has first and second display areas for displaying first and second images generated by first and second drawing units, respectively. The apparatus displays a pointer image on an active area, which is one of the first and second display areas. In response to an input of user movement request for moving the pointer image into an inner edge portion of the active area, the apparatus switches the active area from the one of the first and second to the other, and switches the one into an inactive area, and the second drawing unit starts superimposing the pointer image on the other, and the first drawing unit stops superimposing the pointer image on the one. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316880 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING FOR ADAPTATION OF AN AUGMENTATIVE CONTENT FOR OUTPUT AT A LOCATION BASED ON A CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTIC - An apparatus may include a contextual characteristic determiner configured to determine a contextual characteristic of a location. A sensory device may collect sensed data and location information which is used to determine the contextual characteristic of the location. The sensed data, contextual characteristic and/or location information may be compiled into a database by a database compiler. Further, an ambient content package sharer may request and/or provide sensed data and/or determined contextual characteristics to other devices or the database compiler for inclusion in the database. An augmentative content adaptor may thereby provide for adaptation of an augmentative content for output at the location based on the contextual characteristic. Contextual characteristics may include audible contextual characteristics and visual contextual characteristics. | 2011-12-29 |
20110316881 | Display device - There is provided a display including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of view images, an acquisition unit which acquires information on a position of an observer, a calculation unit which sets a target viewing zone based on the information on the position of the observer, and a control unit which selects an arrangement of the view images that gives a viewing zone similar to the target viewing zone. | 2011-12-29 |