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20100089520 | BLADDER, AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR SHAPING AND CURING A TIRE - A method, a bladder and an apparatus for shaping and curing a tire, wherein the bladder has two weakened regions corresponding to the shoulder regions of the tire when the bladder is expanded in the cavity of the tire. Upon inflation of the bladder and its expansion in the tire, the bladder contacts first the inner surface of the cavity at the bead regions and progressively the sidewalls, the shoulders and then the center of the tire. The weakened regions are designed to stretch more under a given tension than the remaining regions in order to allow a progressive contact movement of the lateral regions of the bladder with the sidewalls with very little tension and relative movement between the lateral regions of the bladder and the sidewalls of the tire. | 04-15-2010 |
20100116388 | TRUCK RACING TIRE - The invention is directed to a pneumatic radial ply truck tire having a tread with a tread depth D, at least two circumferential grooves dividing the tread into at least a first shoulder circumferential rib, an intermediary circumferential rib, and a second shoulder circumferential rib, the tire being characterized by the tread having a base region disposed at depth D and a cap region over the base region, the base region and the cap region adjoining along a boundary, the cap region comprising a cap rubber composition having properties measured at 23° C. of: elongation of 400 to 500%, true tensile of 77 to 83 MPa, 300% modulus of 9 to 11 MPa, tensile strength of 14 to 15 MPa, shore A hardness of 63 to 68, rebound of 20 to 25%; and the base region comprising a base rubber composition having properties measured at 23° C. of: elongation of 470 to 520%, true tensile of 135 to 150 MPa, 300% modulus of 13 to 15.5 MPa, tensile strength of 22 to 25 MPa, shore A hardness of 63 to 67, rebound 50 to 55%. | 05-13-2010 |
20110001273 | BLADDER, AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR SHAPING AND CURING A TIRE - A method, a bladder and an apparatus for shaping and curing a tire, wherein the bladder has two weakened regions corresponding to the shoulder regions of the tire when the bladder is expanded in the cavity of the tire. Upon inflation of the bladder and its expansion in the tire, the bladder contacts first the inner surface of the cavity at the bead regions and progressively the sidewalls, the shoulders and then the center of the tire. The weakened regions are designed to stretch more under a given tension than the remaining regions in order to allow a progressive contact movement of the lateral regions of the bladder with the sidewalls with very little tension and relative movement between the lateral regions of the bladder and the sidewalls of the tire. | 01-06-2011 |
20110034619 | METHOD OF PROCESSING RUBBER COMPOSITION, RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention is directed to a method of processing a rubber composition, comprising the steps of
| 02-10-2011 |
20130153101 | TRUCK TIRE WITH RUBBER TREAD - This invention relates to a tire with a circumferential rubber tread comprised of a rubber composition for promotion of reduced internal heat build-up. The invention particularly relates to truck tires. | 06-20-2013 |
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20130194651 | Full Color Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator for Holographic Video Display System - Full-color phase-only spatial light modulators (SLM) are proposed for modulating phase of the light. Proposed SLMs are low-power electrically actuated surface micromachined MEMS device with high reflectivity, high switching speed, high diffraction efficiency, high fill-factor and low surface adhesion to the substrate. | 08-01-2013 |
20140118384 | DISPLAY APPARATUS EMPLOYING COMPOSITE CONTRIBUTING COLORS GATED BY POWER MANAGEMENT LOGIC - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting display primary colors based on comparative energy consumption analysis. According to one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to an image frame. The image data includes pixel data associated with at least three input contributing colors (ICCs). Subfield derivation logic is configured to derive for the received image frame a first set of color subfields corresponding to the ICCs and a second set of color subfields including a composite contributing color (CCC) subfield and a set of replacement ICC subfields derived based on the CCC subfield. Power management logic is configured to calculate an energy consumption comparison between the presentation sets of color subfields and to selectively cause the presentation of one of the sets of color subfields based on the calculated energy consumption comparison. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118385 | DISPLAY APPARATUS EMPLOYING MULTIPLE COMPOSITE CONTRIBUTING COLORS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying images using at least five contributing colors (CCs). The at least five CCs include three input contributing colors (ICCs) and at least two composite contributing colors (CCCs). Each CCC is formed from the combination of at least two of the ICCs. According to one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to an image frame, where the image data includes pixel intensity values for each of three ICCs. Subfield derivation logic is configured to process the received image data for the image frame to derive color subfields for the three ICCs and the at least two CCCs, and output logic is configured to output the color subfields for the at least five CCs to a plurality of display elements for display of the image frame. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118388 | DISPLAY APPARATUS EMPLOYING FRAME SPECIFIC COMPOSITE CONTRIBUTING COLORS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying images using a frame-specific contributing color (FSCC). In one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to a current image frame. Contributing color selection logic is configured, based on received image data, to obtain a FSCC for use in conjunction with a set of frame-independent contributing colors (FICCs) to generate the current image frame on a display. In addition, subframe generation logic is configured to process the received image data for the current image frame to generate at least two subframes for each of the FICCs and the obtained FSCC such that an output by the display of the generated subframes results in the display of the current image frame. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118427 | DISPLAY APPARATUS EMPLOYING FRAME SPECIFIC COMPOSITE CONTRIBUTING COLORS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying images using multiple frame-specific contributing color (FSCC). In one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to a current image frame. Contributing color selection logic is configured, based on received image data, to obtain multiple FSCCs for use in conjunction with a set of frame-independent contributing colors (FICCs) to generate the current image frame on a display. In addition, subframe generation logic is configured to process the received image data for the current image frame to generate at least two subframes for each of the FICCs and the obtained multiple FSCCs such that an output by the display of the generated subframes results in the display of the current image frame. | 05-01-2014 |
20140253562 | DISPLAY APPARATUS UTILIZING INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF LIGHT SOURCES FOR UNIFORM BACKLIGHT OUTPUT - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for improving light output resolution of a backlight by individually controlling light sources in the backlight. Illumination intensity levels of light sources are individually controlled such that an overall illumination intensity level of all the light sources is substantially equal to a desired whole backlight illumination intensity value. The individual illumination levels of the light sources or a group of the light sources is controlled such that the backlight is uniformly illuminated. In some implementations, the illumination intensity levels are varied over different portions of an illumination period to provide uniform illumination of the backlight. | 09-11-2014 |
20140267445 | Display Apparatus Configured For Selective Illumination of Image Subframes - Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed herein for displaying images. One such apparatus includes an input, subfield derivation logic, subframe generation logic, dark subframe detection logic, and output logic. The input is configured to receive image data associated with an image frame. The subfield derivation logic is configured to derive at least one color subfield for the received image frame. The subframe generation logic is configured to generate a plurality of subframes for each of the at least one derived color subfields. The dark subframe detection logic is configured to identify dark subframes. The output logic is configured to, in response to identification of a dark subframe, suppress the outputting of the dark subframe and to modify a display parameter associated with at least one other subframe based on a timing value associated with the identified dark subframe. | 09-18-2014 |
20150015599 | DISPLAY APPARATUS CONFIGURED FOR SELECTIVE ILLUMINATION OF LOW-ILLUMINATION INTENSITY IMAGE SUBFRAMES - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for improving power efficiency of display devices. Control logic of a display device can use content adaptive backlight control (CABC) for displaying certain image frames with reduced illumination intensity. CABC can be used to determine a scaling factor for scaling up pixel values in an image frame and for scaling down the illumination intensity of a backlight used for illuminating the image frames. The control logic can determine a number of image subframes that have been rendered imperceptible to the human visual system (HVS) due to the reduced illumination intensity of the backlight, and refrain from displaying the determined number of image subframes. The control logic can utilize the additional time made available as a result of not displaying the determined number of subframes to further improve the power efficiency of the display device and/or improve image quality. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015616 | DIGITAL LIGHT MODULATOR CONFIGURED FOR ANALOG CONTROL - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for providing analog control for operating the states of a light modulator in a pixel. In one aspect, a pixel circuit can be coupled to the light modulator, and can control the duration for which the light modulator is operated in an open or closed state based on an analog data voltage. In some implementations, the pixel circuit includes a voltage controlled current source (VCCS), which draws a current of a magnitude that is based on the magnitude of the data voltage. The current drawn by the VCCS can be used to control a charge and a voltage on an actuation capacitor coupled to the light modulator. The rate of change of the voltage on the actuation capacitor, and the duration for which the light modulator is maintained in a particular state, is a function of the data voltage applied to the VCCS. | 01-15-2015 |
20150049122 | Display Apparatus Configured For Image Formation With Variable Subframes - This disclosure provides systems, methods, non-transitory computer readable media and apparatus for improving power efficiency of display devices. Control logic of a display device can reduce a number of subframes used to display a series of image frames. In some implementations, the control logic can detect a scene change in the series of image frames and reduce the number of subframes utilized for displaying a following image frame. Subsequently, the control logic can monotonically increase the number of subframes utilized for displaying a first set of successive image frames. In some implementations, the control logic may monotonically increase the number of subframes for a first set of image frames and then monotonically decrease the number of subframes for a second set of image frames. | 02-19-2015 |
20150154920 | HUE SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - This disclosure provides systems, methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and apparatus for displaying images using hue-based frame-specific contributing colors (FSCCs). In one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to a current image frame. Contributing color selection logic is configured, based on received image data, to obtain a set of FSCCs for use in conjunction with a set of frame-independent contributing colors (FICCs) to generate the current or a subsequent image frame on a display. The set of FSCCs are obtained from determining the dominant hues in the image frame. The image frame is displayed such that subframes associated with displaying the FSCCs have weights that are greater than the subframes associated with displaying the FICCs. | 06-04-2015 |
20150194101 | ARTIFACT MITIGATION FOR COMPOSITE PRIMARY COLOR TRANSITION - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying image frames. A smoothing process can be utilized for mitigating image artifacts similar to dynamic false contouring (DFC). In some implementations, were a display to transition from an field specific contributing color (FSCC) having only two component colors to a target FSCC with meaningful intensities of all three component colors, or vice versa, and that target FSCC remained constant over a series of image frames, DFC-like artifacts would be mitigated at the transition by gradually, over a first number of image frames in a series of image frames, reducing the intensities of all component colors of the FSCC to values at or near zero, before gradually increasing the intensities of the component colors included in the target FSCC to their final target values over a remainder of image frames in the series of image frames. | 07-09-2015 |
20150364115 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE LIGHT MODULATOR TRANSITION DELAY COMPENSATION - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for compensating for slow light modulator transitions in a display device due to opposing motion events. In an opposing motion event, portions of respective pairs of neighboring light modulators are to be driven in opposite directions simultaneously. In one aspect, a controller associated with the display device can be configured to determine light modulator transitions associated with displaying an image frame based on at least two subframes associated with the image frame. The controller can identify one or more opposing motion events based on the determined light modulator transitions. The controller can obtain an output sequence parameter for displaying the image frame based on the identified one or more motion events, and cause the image frame to be displayed according to the obtained output sequence. | 12-17-2015 |