http://www.freshpatents.com/Computer-graphics-processing-operator-interface-processing-and-selective-visual-display-systems-dtnewntc345.php USPTO Class 345 - Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120222.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Concurrent display of graphic content on multiple displays is described. A frame of graphic content to be displayed on multiple displays can be written to a single memory location. Previously written graphic content can be read to multiple displays having misaligned synchronization signals and new graphic content can be written... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120223.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method and apparatus provide for removal of a display screen from a wireless device, or, in a different embodiment, provide for a display screen as a separate and additional device that functions in real time in the same way as if the screen were incorporated in the wireless device.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120224.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The technology provides embodiments for recalibration of outward facing cameras supported by a see-through, head mounted, mixed reality display system having a flexible portion between see-through displays for the eyes. Each outward facing camera has a fixed spatial relationship with a respective or corresponding see-through display positioned to be seen... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120225.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An image forming apparatus that displays an image, includes: a scanning section that scans light from a light source in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, as drawing sine waves; a detecting part that detects a change in a position of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120227.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display includes: a drive substrate having a display region and a bonding region around the display region; a display layer provided on the display region; a surface film disposed to face a display surface of the display layer; and a moisture proof film interposed between the display layer and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120226.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides systems and apparatuses having pixels with various display element arrangements. In one aspect, a passive matrix display apparatus includes a plurality of red display elements extending along a direction parallel to a first row, the plurality of red display elements addressed by a single first common line,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120228.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An organic light emitting diode display device comprises: a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels comprising: a driving TFT including a gate electrode coupled to a first node, a source electrode coupled to a second node, and a drain electrode coupled to a high-potential voltage source; an organic... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120229.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 To prevent malfunctions from occurring. A shift register, a selection circuit having a function of determining which a first pulse signal or a second pulse signal is output at the same potential level as a pulse signal input from the shift register, and a plurality of driving signal output circuits... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120230.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A flat display panel and a method of repairing the same are proposed. The flat display panel includes a plurality of repairing lines parallel to data lines. The plurality of repairing lines are disposed at one side of a plurality of pixel electrodes one on one. When one of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120231.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes first and second substrates, a plurality of gate lines and data lines, a connection line, a signal line, and a first bridge. The first and second substrates face each other. The gate lines and data lines are formed on the first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120232.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The driving apparatus includes a plurality of data driving ICs and a control board. The data driving ICs are used for receiving and transmitting a clock signal, a plurality of data signals and a first reference voltage from the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120233.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A liquid crystal display includes a pixel, a memory configured to store a plurality of look-up tables, an image signal modification unit configured to obtain a modified look-up table based on a first look-up table and a second look-up table among the plurality of look-up tables and modify an input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120234.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An HDR display is a combination of technologies including, for example, a dual modulation architecture incorporating algorithms for artifact reduction, selection of individual components, and a design process for the display and/or pipeline for preserving the visual dynamic range from capture to display of an image or images. In one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120236.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a displaying unit including a display panel, a drive circuit for driving a white pixel, an illumination unit, and an inverter supplying a boosted driving power to the illumination unit, a power supply which supplies the inverter the driving power corresponding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120235.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Provided is a liquid crystal display device wherein it is possible to specifically prevent the pseudo contouring of an area in which an image having a large motion vector is displayed, such as a telop area. A telop area (R1) (an example of a component image area) in which the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120240.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method for controlling image display based on movement of a terminal is provided. The method includes displaying any one image in an image list, when an image view feature runs; detecting movement of the terminal; and sequentially replacing and outputting images in the image list based on at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120241.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A control device for providing a reconfigurable operator interface for a medical apparatus is provided. The control device comprises a control surface comprising at least one control actuator arranged on the control surface. The control device further comprises a plurality of modules arranged side-by-side and attached to each other via... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120243.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: an image acquirer which acquires an image of a plurality of users; a display which displays the image acquired by the image acquirer; and a controller which selects a user making a predetermined gesture among the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120244.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A tracking system having a depth camera tracks a user's body in a physical space and derives a model of the body, including an initial estimate of a hand position. Temporal smoothing is performed in which some latency is imposed when the initial estimate moves by less than a threshold... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120239.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 There is provided an information processing device including a display screen having flexibility; a deflection detection unit configured to detect deflection of the display screen; and a control unit configured to recognize a change in the deflection detected by the deflection detection unit as an on operation input and output... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120238.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 There is herein described a light output control method for a controlling a lighting device by a motion of an object near an environment, the lighting device comprising a video sensor and a light-emitting unit, the light output control method comprising steps of emitting an infrared light onto at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120246.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A biosignal-computer-interface apparatus and method. The apparatus includes one or more devices for generating biosignals based on at least one physiological parameter of an individual, and a computer-interface device capable of performing multiple tasks, including converting the biosignals into at least one input signal, establishing a scale encompassing different levels... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120242.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An optical pointing device is configured so that: an optical unit and a lens unit are integrally molded and form a portion of an optical cover; each of a light transmitting resin layer and the optical cover is made of a resin containing thermosetting resin as a main component; and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120237.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for synthesizing paintbrush strokes may use high fidelity pose data of reference strokes to supplement lower dimension stroke data. For example, 6DOF data representing reference strokes created by skilled artists may be captured and stored in a library of reference strokes. A query stroke made by a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120247.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Provided is a three dimensional display device that includes: three dimensional image display unit (1) having display surface (11) for spatially separating and displaying parallax images corresponding to at least two viewpoints; and force sense generation unit (2) configured to generate a sound wave toward display surface (11) of three... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120245.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method and apparatus of user interface (“UI”) having multiple motion dots capable of detecting user inputs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a digital processing system includes a first motion dot, a second motion dot, and a device. The first motion dot can be attached to a first location of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120249.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Provided are an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one sensing unit recognizing a plurality of pointing means, a display unit displaying a pointer following a movement of a pointing means having the authority to control the electronic device among the plurality of pointing means, and a controller... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120250.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention provides a gesture recognition system and method which utilizes an open gesture and a close gesture made by a user's hand in simulating a releasing operation and a pressing operation of a mouse. In the present invention, the coordinate of the user's hand is unlikely to shift... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120252.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An interactive input system comprises at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest from different vantages, each imaging assembly comprising an image sensor and signal processing circuitry implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), image data acquired by the image sensor being pre-processed by... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120248.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods are presented for applying visual effects while in a mode that restricts cursor movement to track an existing path. While in cursor path restriction mode, spatial inputs may be received from a pointing device configured to control a cursor on a display, with the spatial inputs signaling... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120253.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A pointer is guided by a user of a processing machine in succession to a number of locations of a working space of the processing machine. The pointer has first location determining devices which are arranged at predetermined pointer locations relative to a pointer coordinate system in fixed relationship to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120251.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system and a method for an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to each other to control at least one other electronic device among the plurality of electronic devices are provided. The method includes detecting whether a first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120256.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A control unit changes a display orientation of a display screen according to a tilt direction of a display unit when a display orientation detection unit detects the display orientation of the display screen coincides with, among orientations in which the display screen is allowed to be displayed, an orientation... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120255.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An image processing apparatus provided with a display unit for displaying an operation picture, showing control indicia (e.g., icons) corresponding to multiple image processing functions, is operated to display the operation picture on an external display device. The operator selects one of the indicia shown on the external display device... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120257.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 There is disclosed a movement sensing device configured to detect movement of an object on a touch region three or more proximity sensors arranged on one surface adjacent to the touch region independently and two-dimensionally, to measure electrical scalars corresponding to distances with the object on the touch region, respectively;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120254.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the recognition of user air swipe gestures are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products provide a two-stage gesture recognition approach that combines desirable aspects of object manipulation gestures and symbolic gestures in order to create an interaction that is both... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120258.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An interface is provided for a device having a touch screen such as a smart phone or tablet computer that extends the touch screen input to areas outside the touch screen area. The interface has a housing which attaches to the device. One or more input controls are mounted on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120260.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A touch sensor system includes a touch controller having a first connector and a second connector and multiple sensor zones. The touch sensor system also includes a plurality of drive lines connected to the first connector of the touch controller and to the multiple sensor zones and a plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120259.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An input device includes a housing for supporting a user's hand and a displacement sensor, mounted in the housing, for providing a displacement signal. The input device also includes a first portion of the housing operable to receive a first digit of the user and a first solid-state touch sensor... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120262.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method includes placing an input device in a passive mode of operation and periodically monitoring a displacement sensor of the input device, receiving an indication of displacement from the displacement sensor, and placing the input device in an active mode of operation characterized by a power consumption level. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120261.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method of operating an input device in conjunction with a host device includes determining that the input device is in a stationary state and receiving a first signal from a first sense zone of the input device. The method also includes determining an input command based on determining that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120263.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A wireless mouse includes a base having a top surface defining a button region and a non-button region, and a top cover including a cover body and a groove defining member. The cover body separably covers the top surface of the base, and has a pressing portion corresponding to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120264.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A control device includes a supporting surface, a sensing member, a displacement generation member, and a movable member. The supporting surface is extended along a first longitudinal direction. The displacement generation member faces the sensing member. The movable member is extended along a second longitudinal direction, and linearly translatable along... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120273.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An input apparatus and method are provided. The input apparatus includes an input unit that includes at least one key. The input unit may receive at least one input coordinate corresponding to the at least one key. The apparatus also includes a control unit to update a key area of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120271.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A data input method and apparatus for a mobile terminal having a touchscreen includes: sensing a touch gesture of a user on the touchscreen; checking whether the sensed touch gesture is a split keypad request; and displaying, when the sensed touch gesture is a split keypad request, at least two... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120269.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A desktop to be used in combination with a computer comprising a keyboard is disclosed, the desktop comprising an horizontal display comprising an interface for connecting the horizontal display to the computer and a display signal generating unit for generating a display signal to be provided to the horizontal display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120272.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention includes a device, method, and user interface for providing optimized entry of alphanumeric text. In one form, a method for providing selectable characters within a user interface includes determining an operating mode of a communication device and receiving an input associated with a selected input key. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120276.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present application relates to a display mode switching device and method for a portable electronic device. In particular, the present application relates to a portable electronic device that can switch display modes of an integrated display and input device to facilitate composition of a text message by switching between... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120270.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention discloses an electronic device having a first control section that outputs a predetermined signal to one of plurality of first lines according to the instructions input from operation keys, an output signal setting section that is connected to the first control section via the first lines to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120266.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location associated with a key of the virtual keyboard of the display which corresponds to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120265.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An apparatus including a keypad, pressure sensors and electrotactile feedback electrodes. The keypad includes a plurality of keys. Each of the keys has a top surface. The pressure sensors are located under the top surfaces of the keys. The electrotactile feedback electrodes are located at the top surfaces of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120267.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and electronic devices are provided for processing prediction candidates in connection with virtual keyboards and touch-sensitive displays. A display area of the touch-sensitive displays a virtual keyboard. Within the virtual keyboard is a plurality of keys, each of at least some of the keys corresponding to one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120275.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The invention provides an optical touch device, including a main body, a keyboard and a light emitting member. The keyboard, placed on the main body and having a first end portion and a second end portion, includes a supporting frame, a keycap and a stopping member. The keycap is connected... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120274.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method and an apparatus input test in a touch screen terminal. The method comprises designating a certain region on a keyboard interface picture, not permitting text input through a keyboard when touch drag started from the designated region is sensed and acquiring a path of the touch drag, acquiring... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120268.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location that is associated with the virtual keyboard and that is on the display. An... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120277.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120294.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An apparatus for a touch screen is provided. The apparatus includes a touch screen having a first window in which a first application is run and a second window in which a second application is run, a storage element for storing a plurality of applications including the first and second... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120278.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 In some embodiments, a touchscreen may display a graphical user interface with one or more input options and may detect which input options are selected by a user by detecting a user's contact on the touchscreen. The system may determine a new graphical user interface configuration to increase the size... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120300.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120304.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 When an application displays image straddling display units (110-1 and 110-2), a coordinate conversion unit (120) uses a predetermined operation to transform the physical coordinates indicating the position at which a display unit (110-1 or 110-2) senses contact to virtual coordinates and supplies the virtual coordinates. A coordinate notification unit... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120302.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display device and a data displaying method thereof are disclosed. The device includes at least one sensor including a touch sensor to generate touch events according to touch events, a flexible sensor to generate a bend signal to detect bend events, and a pressure sensor to generate a pressure... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120299.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120301.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120290.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The user is allowed to simulatively experience a tactile sensation that would be felt when actually touching on the object being displayed on a screen. An electronic device 100 includes a display device 160 for displaying displayed information, a touch panel 130 to be touched by the user, a displayed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120284.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention discloses an energy saving type touch-controlled liquid crystal display device. The energy saving type touch-controlled liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal panel with a touch-sensing function and a piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film senses the pressure applied to the liquid crystal panel and generates electric... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120289.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An information processing apparatus having a display unit equipped with a touch panel is provided. A movement detection unit detects the amount of movement of a body contacting the touch panel, and a number detection unit detects the number of bodies. An identification identifies an object being displayed on the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120306.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 While detecting a contact as well as a pressure load to a touch sensor, to deal with a problem of the pressure load detection, an input apparatus 1 includes a touch sensor 11, a load detection unit 12 for detecting the pressure load on the touch sensor 11, a problem... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120297.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method of performing measurements on medical images with a bedside controller includes receiving, through a touch-sensitive display on the bedside controller, a user measurement input on an image displayed on the display, the user measurement input including a start point defined by a point of initial contact with the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120296.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A bedside controller includes an integrally formed housing and self-contained mounting structure disposed on the housing. The mounting structure includes a mounting channel defined in the housing and a retaining clamp disposed above the mounting channel and configured to releasably secure a mounting platform within the mounting channel such that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120292.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A portable device is configured to perform a touch input method. The method includes determining whether an input for selecting a specific divided area is detected in a divided touch area on a screen divided into a plurality of areas. The method also includes, if the input for selecting the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120281.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for providing a natural media painting application may receive user inputs through tablet stylus gestures, including gestures that are proximity-based and/or context sensitive. The system may also receive user inputs through the touch of a stylus and/or a user touch on a tablet device. Various digital painting... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120295.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A mobile device for executing multiple applications is provided. The mobile device includes a touch screen for displaying a first window where a first application is executed, a second window where a second application different from the first application is executed, and a controller for displaying an execution keys for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120291.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A mobile touch-generating device includes logic; a touch-generating system, including one or more touch-generating elements, operatively coupled to the logic and configured to generate touch events detectable by a touchscreen, via the elements; a network connectivity device operatively coupled to the logic to establish a secure connection with a server... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120285.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method and apparatus are provided for displaying data on a touch sensitive display (2) a detector (4) and CPU (6) detect contact with the touch sensitive display (2) and control the display of data. The system is responsive to a predetermined swiping duration of a finger on the display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120279.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Various embodiments of a system and methods for touch gesture recognition are described. A software developer may create a set of custom touch gestures by training a gesture development tool. A new touch gesture may be input to the tool by repeatedly executing the gesture on a touch-enabled device or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120282.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Various embodiments of a system for evaluating gesture usability are described. A gesture evaluator may perform a geometric analysis of the physical characteristics of a gesture to determine a geometry rating for the touch gesture. The gesture evaluator may determine a similarity rating for the gesture by analyzing the similarity... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120280.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Various embodiments of a system for evaluating the usability and interoperability of touch gestures are described. A gesture test system may perform a geometric analysis of a touch gesture to determine a usability level for the gesture. A touch gesture may be represented in a gesture definition language. A touch... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120286.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method for controlling a touch control device includes defining a first area and a second area on a touchpad, detecting whether a touched position on the touchpad that is touched by an operating object falls in the first area or the second area, and calculating the corresponding on-screen coordinates... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120287.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed herein is a touch panel including: a transparent substrate; a first electrode pattern formed in a mesh pattern on one surface of the transparent substrate; a second electrode pattern formed in a mesh pattern on the other surface of the transparent; a conductive film formed in a planar shape... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120303.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A touch sensor panel including a plurality of drive lines crossing a plurality of sense lines, forming an array. The plurality of drive lines and the plurality of sense lines are formed by interconnecting sections of at least one conductive material having a truncated diamond shape or formed of interconnected... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120283.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Touch sensor panels typically include a plurality of layers that can be stacked on top of each other. When the touch sensor panel is used in a bright environment, incident light can hit the interfaces between those layers of the stackup having mismatched refractive indices and can reflect off those... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120288.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention relates to a touch-sensing panel including an electrode-integrated window, and a manufacturing method thereof. The disclosed touch-sensing panel includes a transparent window and a wiring unit. A sensing electrode is formed in a certain pattern on one surface of the transparent window, and the transparent window allows... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120293.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A touchscreen-enabled terminal and application control method thereof is provided for facilitating control of the currently running application by presenting function keys mapped to the touch regions on the screen in response of multi-touch detected on the touchscreen. The application control apparatus of the present invention includes a touchscreen including... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120305.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Embodiments of the present invention disclose a user interface for facilitating touch input. According to one example, a single desired character is determined upon a touch input being received within at least one area of the user interface. The desired character is appended to an input word string. Furthermore, the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120298.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A user touch operation mode adaptive method and device are provided, so as to solve the problem of incorrect identification of a user touch operation mode due to different user habits. The technical solution includes: receiving a touch action, and obtaining a touch range value of the touch action according... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120311.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display control apparatus comprises a proximity detection unit which detects that an object has come close to the apparatus, a touch detection unit which detects that an object has come close to a display unit, and a control unit which, when the proximity detection unit detects approach of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120310.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 In one embodiment, a method comprises generating, by a control unit, a first drive signal and a second drive signal. The method further includes emitting, by a touch sensor, a first electric field that extends in a plurality of directions in response to reception of the first drive signal. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120307.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A handheld device includes a touch panel, a speaker, and a processor. The touch panel is operable to detect the touched area generated by an object touching the touch panel. The speaker is operable to provide sounds. The processor is connected to the touch panel and the speaker and controls... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120313.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Provided is an information processing apparatus including a contact detection unit that detects coordinates of a position of a touch manipulation with respect to a touch panel, a storage unit that stores a table that is a command table relating to an editing process with respect to a material that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120314.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An input display device includes a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules that are homogeneously aligned in an absence of an electric field, a first polarizer disposed on a viewing side of the liquid crystal layer, a capacitive sensor disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal layer,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120309.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A touch detection method for capacitive touch screens, includes: generating a waveform signal and transmitting the waveform signal to a capacitor under detection, by a transmitting end; converting the waveform signal transmitted by the transmitting end into charges, and transferring the charges to a detection circuit, by the capacitor under... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120312.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention suppresses, without increasing manufacturing costs, diffusion of a conductive member forming wires and migration caused thereby. A touch panel includes a plurality of X electrode wires respectively connected to a plurality of X electrodes formed on a substrate, a plurality of Y electrode wires respectively connected to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120308.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention provides a touch panel, a method for detecting touch positions thereof and a touch display apparatus. The touch panel comprises first sensing pads arranged along a first direction, second sensing pads arranged along a second direction and third sensing pads arranged along a third direction. The method... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120317.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A control device of a multi-functional system for motor vehicles is provided. The control device may include a movable and touch-sensitive control element, an input unit electrically insulated from the control element, the input unit including a set of optical sensors adapted to detect at least one of motion of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120321.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A photosensor-equipped display device is provided having a combination of visible and non-visible light sources where a voltage drop is minimized when the non-visible light source is turned on. The display device includes: an active matrix substrate; photosensors (9) provided in a pixel region (4) of the active matrix substrate;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120316.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An apparatus for detecting a pointer includes a waveguide and a touch surface over the waveguide on which pointer contacts are to be made. At least one reflecting device extends along a first side of the waveguide and touch surface. The reflecting device defines an optical path between the interior... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120318.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Enhanced multi-touch detection, in which a graphical user interface for an application is projected onto a surface, and electromagnetic radiation is emitted. The electromagnetic radiation is collectively emitted by an array defining a layer aligned parallel with the surface and overlapping at least a region of the surface onto which... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120319.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention includes methods, systems, apparatuses, circuits and associated computer executable code for detecting motion, position and/or orientation of objects within a defined spatial region. According to some embodiments, a defined spatial region (hereinafter also referred to as the: “Active Space”) may be monitored, by any type of appropriate... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120315.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Several systems for tracking one or more radiation blocking objects on a surface are disclosed. A pair of radiation sensors are provided adjacent the surface and a plurality of radiation sources are provided adjacent the surface. Radiation from at least some of the radiation sources travels across the surface to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120320.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A touch screen and a multi-channel sampling method thereof are disclosed. The touch screen comprises infrared-emitting diodes, infrared-receiving diodes, a touch detection region, first-stage processing circuits, and a second-stage processing circuit. At least two infrared-receiving diodes receive infrared light emitted from the same infrared light-emitting diode simultaneously, and the at... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120323.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Surface acoustic waves in a radial pattern are used to detect touch. Different radial transducer arrangements may allow for locating multiple simultaneous touches without ambiguity. Instead of transmitting along a line to be reflected at multiple points, the surface acoustic waves are transmitted radially. The surface acoustic waves are transmitted... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120322.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Radial transducers are provided for acoustic touch sensors. Different radial transducer arrangements may allow for locating multiple simultaneous touches without ambiguity, in some embodiments without a bezel. Instead of transmitting acoustic waves along a line to be reflected at multiple points, surface acoustic waves are transmitted in a radial wave... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120324.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for simulating bristle brush behavior in an image editing application may use stiffness-height parameterization to determine the height of a brush tool above a canvas during a brush stroke. The determination may be dependent on the pressure applied during the stroke (e.g., using... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120326.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A scan driving device includes scan driving blocks, each including: a first node receiving a signal that is input to a first driving signal input terminal according to a clock signal input to a first clock signal input terminal; a second node receiving a second power source voltage according to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120325.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A source driver includes a detector, a plurality of buffers and a plurality of output channels. The detector switches a disable signal to an enable signal according to a start pulse, wherein the source driver prepares to output display data according to the start pulse. The buffers are electrically connected... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120327.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for storage capacitors. In one aspect, a device includes an array having at least a first display element and a second display element, at least one switch configured to control a flow of charge between a source and the first display element, and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120328.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, an active device array, a gate driver on array (GOA), at least one signal transmission connection pad, a second substrate, an opposite electrode layer, conduction devices, and a display medium is provided. The active device array includes scan lines, data lines,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120329.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display panel includes a display area, a non-display area, a plurality of signal pads and a passive covering layer. The non-display area is adjacent to the display area. The signal pads are disposed within the non-display area. The passive covering layer is disposed on the display area and extends... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120331.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Vsig and retains the charges. Under control by a driving circuit (7), during one of a detection period while a light source (3) for sensors is in an ON state and a detection period while the light source (3) for sensors is in an OFF state, charges corresponding to an... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120332.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display device including optical sensors in a pixel region, in which the number of bus lines for supplying driving signals to the optical sensors is reduced, is provided. The display device includes a display pixel circuit (8) and a sensor pixel circuit (9) that are provided in a pixel... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120330.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A visibility optimization system and method is provided. The visibility optimizing system includes a display mobile device; and a measurement device. The display mobile device displays an image and adjusts a brightness level of the displayed image according to a control from the measurement device. The measurement device photographs the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120334.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display driving device a driving unit, an output unit, and an output control unit. The driving unit includes a first buffer and a second buffer generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage, respectively. The output unit includes a first output pad and a second output pad... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120333.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method of establishing a look-up table for an electrophoretic display is disclosed. The method is for establishing a plurality of driving waveforms of the electrophoretic display to the look-up table. The method includes dividing the plurality of driving waveforms to a plurality of time intervals according to a plurality... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120339.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A buffer circuit includes a first transistor circuit having a first conductivity type transistor, a second transistor circuit having a second conductivity type transistors, in which the first and second transistor circuits are serially connected between a first fixed power supply and a second fixed power supply, and input terminals... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120336.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel on which a plurality of X-Y electrode pairs are sequentially arranged, the display panel including a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes; a driving unit which applies a driving voltage to the X electrodes... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120337.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display device includes pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a driving transistor, a switch transistor, a reset transistor, a light-emitting element, and a control unit. The driving transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal coupled to a first operation voltage source and a second terminal The reset transistor... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120335.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A LCD driving method is described. The driving method includes the steps of: (a) applying first scan voltage to first scan line for switching on first TFT, wherein data voltage of data line is transmitted to first pixel electrode via first drain electrode and first source electrode; (b) discharging first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120338.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An electro-optical device comprises a substrate, a scanning line, a data line, a pixel circuit, and a first storage capacitor holding a first voltage corresponding to a data signal. The first storage capacitor includes a first portion and a second portion connected in parallel. The first portion and the second... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120341.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120343.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed herein are a flat panel display which is capable of reducing consumption of standby power, and a method for driving the same. The flat panel display includes a display unit for displaying an image, a driving circuit for controlling driving of the display unit, a receiver for receiving a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120342.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit is provided by the invention. If a circuit configuration (5T2C) thereof collocates with suitable operation waveforms, a current flowing through an OLED in the OLED pixel circuit may not be changed with a power supply voltage (Vdd) influenced by an IR drop,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120340.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell, a gate driver, a source driver and a controller. The liquid crystal cell has a plurality of source lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels. The pixels define a pixel region with a set of pixels.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120352.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A data driver includes two data processing circuits for respectively providing positive and negative pixel voltages according to first and second pixel data, and a multiplexer circuit including multiplexer units. Each multiplexer unit has first and second input terminals respectively receiving the positive and negative pixel voltages, and an output... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120349.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The disclosed display device includes a display panel for displaying an image corresponding to a plurality of data signals transferred via a plurality of data lines, a data driver for driving the plurality of data lines, a timing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120348.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A driving method for an organic EL light emitting section is provided which achieves optimization of a mobility correction process for a transistor of a driving circuit in response to luminance. The light emitting section may include a driving circuit with a driving transistor, an image signal writing transistor and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120350.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The electrooptical display apparatus includes pixels, and scan lines and data lines arranged in a matrix. The apparatus further includes pixel switching elements each enabling, in response to application of a selection voltage to one scan line, application of a pixel voltage to one pixel in a pixel row corresponding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120347.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A level shifter circuit, wherein a first and a second transistor circuit are connected serially, a third and a fourth transistor circuit are connected serially; a first input voltage is applied to the second transistor circuit and a second input voltage is applied to the fourth transistor circuit; an input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120344.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An output compensation circuit and an output compensation method for an LCD data drive IC as well as an LCD comprising the same are disclosed. The output compensation circuit comprises a data drive IC, a plurality of first switch units and a plurality of delay control units. A plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120345.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 In a plasma display, a first transistor is coupled between a low voltage terminal of a scan circuit and a power source configured to supply a scan voltage, and a second transistor is coupled between the low voltage terminal and the first transistor. A third transistor is coupled to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120346.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A scan driving device including scan driving blocks including a first node receiving a second-voltage according to a signal input to a first-input terminal, a second node receiving a first-voltage according to a signal input to the first-input terminal, and receiving an input signal according to a clock signal input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120351.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 3D filter driving voltages can be stably supplied to the 3D filter via flexible printed circuit for distributing first to third voltages of the 3D filter driving voltage, even if electrodes of the 3D filter are shorted, by supplying the 3D filter driving voltages to the 3D filter in a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120353.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 There is a need for decreasing a variation in times for writing to TFT elements for pixels in a direction along the extension of a gate line in a liquid crystal display apparatus. A display apparatus includes a display panel having multiple gate lines and drain lines arranged in a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120364.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for substantially contemporaneously presenting a distributed simulation at multiple computing devices. A first computing device controls an object in the simulation. A second computing device generates a visual representation of the object associated with a visual status. The second computing device generates a predicted status and receives... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120372.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing mixed reality for a virtual experience service, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for providing mixed reality contents for learning a virtual experience based on a story that provides a service in which a user in a real world... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120368.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system for collaborative three-dimensional (3D) modeling in a browser application is stored as instructions on a computer-readable medium. The instructions include a browser interface module that executes on the one or more processors to receive user commands from the browser application for modifying a 3D model and cause a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120358.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Chart animation control may be provided. Upon receiving a change to a displayed visualization comprising a plurality of data elements, a determination may be made as to whether to animate an update of the visualization according to the change to the displayed visualization. In response to determining to animate the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120362.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A collimated stereo display system is provided. The system comprises: an image generator enabled to provide a stream of stereoscopic images comprising left eye images and right eye images; at least one image modulator enabled to receive the stream of stereoscopic images from the image generator and form light into... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120365.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed herein is a content playback apparatus and method for providing an interactive augmented space. The content playback apparatus includes an augmented space recognition unit and an interaction processing unit. The augmented space recognition unit reconfigures a real space into a virtual space based on one depth image extracted from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120369.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A first user having a certain set of privileges with respect to an initial three-dimensional (3D) model associates a watermark with the initial 3D model, so that the watermark is displayed whenever the initial 3D model is viewed or edited. A second user having a smaller set of privileges with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120366.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display apparatus having a display panel and a lenticular plate is configured for displaying 3D images. The display panel includes a plurality of light output-controlling portions and a light blocking portion surrounding them. The light output-controlling portions each has a non-rectangular shape, for example a parallelogram shape. A width... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120374.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A parallax amount between the plurality of images for each subject on the images is calculated, a subject is identified as a subject targeted for display position adjustment, in a case where the subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a predetermined amount is successively pictured in more than... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120371.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An improved computer graphical interface for presenting a virtual room or space to a group of users and permitting each of the users to occupy a position in that virtual space, which is displayed to the other users as a virtual object that moves around in the virtual space based... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120370.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 when a subject inputs information indicating whether the subject is able to recognize the 3D images displayed on a display unit, obtaining the corresponding alternation frequency. alternately displaying 3D images with different parallaxes according to the instructed alternation frequency; and changing an alternation frequency for alternating 3D images with different parallaxes and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120359.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method for controlling synchronization of a 3D shutter glasses adapted to a system for controlling synchronization of the 3D shutter glasses is provided. The method includes the following steps. A plurality of synchronous images of a 3D image projected on a screen are sensed by an image sensor of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120360.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting parallax for a 3D object appearing on a display. One such method includes selecting a target 3D object, calculating an adjusted parallax position, calculating a z-axis offset based at least in part on the adjusted parallax position, adjusting a first z-axis position of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120355.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for generating curved extrusions. A user interface may be provided via which the value of one or more extrusion parameters and/or a reference point may be changed. The extrusion parameters may include a depth parameter that controls the amount of extrusion, an X angle parameter that controls... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120357.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for sweep-based freeform deformation of 3-D models may employ a set of intuitive parameters to bend, twist and scale a 3-D model along any direction. The parameters may include a first bend angle, a second bend angle, a twist angle, a scale factor, and a length. Sweep... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120356.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for rendering focused plenoptic camera data. A depth-based rendering technique is described that estimates depth at each microimage and then applies that depth to determine a position in the input flat from which to read a value to be assigned to a given point... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120373.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An object management device includes a distribution range setting unit that sets a range where an object is visible as a distribution range of object information related to the object for each of the object information based on a located position of the object and map information. Consequently, when the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120363.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present invention relates to an operation method of shutter glasses based 3D display device, which alternatively supplies left-eye and right-eye frame signals to a liquid crystal panel to drive the liquid crystal panel to respectively form left-eye and right-eye images, which cooperate with illumination of a scanning back light... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120367.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 When multiple users simultaneously view and/or collaboratively develop a three-dimensional (3D) model using respective independent computing devices, one of the participating users may locally modify a viewpoint of the 3D model, and the viewpoint changes are automatically propagated in real-time to the other users. A viewpoint may correspond to a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120361.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for determining three-dimensional (3D) absolute coordinates of objects are disclosed. The system may include at least one light source providing illumination, a path altering unit to manipulate the path of the light from the light source, a plurality of sensors to sense the light reflected and diffused... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120354.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for using a two dimensional image adjustment operations to modify a three dimensional object. A first representation of a three dimensional model may be rendered using three dimensional rendering effects. A second representation of the model may be rendered without using the three... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120377.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A computing device meshes a curved surface into a plurality of triangles, records symbols and coordinate data of three vertexes of each triangle into a data structure of the triangle, and processes the data structures of the triangles by representing vertexes having the same coordinate data with the same symbol.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120376.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for generating an n-sided patch by sketching on a three-dimensional reference surface. A user draws a closed curve on a 3D surface; the drawn outline is taken as a boundary for an N-sided patch. If the user does not close the curve, the system may automatically close... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120378.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Software components are provided for a browser-based 3D modeling system. The software components provide 3D modeling functionality for a user at a client device running a web browser application. At least two software components are provided. An introductory software component allows at least the rendering and interactive viewing of 3D... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120375.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Techniques for selectively displaying surfaces of an object model to a user are described. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method may include, for a given one of a plurality of surfaces included in an object model that is representative of a physical object, determining a normal vector of the given... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120379.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system and method for summarizing data corresponding to properties of interest on an unstructured grid that includes active cells and inactive cells on an output surface. An exemplary method comprises identifying an aggregation direction through a region of interest of the unstructured grid and identifying at least one active... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120380.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The disclosed techniques includes generating an input visibility stream for each tile of a frame, the input visibility stream indicating whether or not an input primitive is visible in each tile when rendered, and generating an output visibility stream for each tile of the frame, the output visibility stream indicating... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120381.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for rendering knockout groups using a graphics processing unit (GPU). Input comprising at least one knockout group may be received at the GPU. The knockout group may comprise a plurality of objects that are ordered by paint order. Each object may... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120383.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for deactivating internal constraint curves when inflating an N-Sided patch. Given a patch representation, the methods simplify the construction of 3D models from 2D sketches. At least some interior constraint curves may be deactivated when inflating an N-sided patch generated from a 2D sketch, or when performing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120382.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for decomposing an N-sided patch into multiple patches. A single patch may be decomposed into multiple, disjoint, and possibly abutting patches. An internal constraint curve may be selected, and a new patch with the constraint curve as the boundary may be generated. If the constraint curve is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120387.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 ocation-mapped environments that provide panoramic and immersive views of street scenes are augmented with modern data visualization displays, to communicate additional information of interest. Specifically, illumination statistics information is mapped onto building facades in the location-mapped environments. The illumination statistics information can include variations of illumination as a function of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120384.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An analytical method to efficiently convert a function that is stored in spherical harmonics into a function that is stored in a wavelet or mip map representation enables a variety of computer graphics functions to be efficiently performed. A function may be stored as a spherical harmonic representation and rotated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120385.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for diffuse indirect illumination computation using progressive interleaved irradiance sampling. Embodiments may implement a method that amortizes the cost of computing the irradiance integral for diffuse indirect illumination both temporally and spatially in screen space. For each pixel, only one secondary ray is fired. By carefully arranging... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120386.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for simulating liquid-on-lens effects may provide an interface through which users can add and/or manipulate fluids on a virtual camera lens. A physically based fluid simulation may simulate the behavior of the fluid as it is deposited on and/or manipulated on the virtual lens, and determine the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120389.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An accessing computer accessing an image specified by a web page to be rendered at a resolution that is smaller than the resolution of the full image downloaded from the server does not store the full image. Instead, the accessing computer immediately decompresses the full image to the specified smaller... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120390.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system and method is provided for rendering on a display of an electronic device a pre-corrected image of an original image to compensate for a visual impairment of a user of the device, such that the pre-corrected image when displayed on the display would be perceived by the user... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120388.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for time-based degradation of images. In one embodiment, the rendering of a first frame of a digital video using a GPU may be initiated. In one embodiment, it may be determined that a time elapsed in rendering the first frame exceeds... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120395.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A graphical display station of arbitrary shape such as channel letters or other shaped structures is populated with pixels which are components of flexible pixel strings which can be arranged to fit the arbitrary shape(s). The flexible pixel strings provide for straightforward and cost effective fabrication of channel letter or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120393.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for marker-based stylistic rendering may be used to automatically synthesize the stylistic range of various stylistic rendering techniques. An image processing pipeline may automatically generate stylistic images, such as Hedcut stipple images. Using virtual markers to determine locations in the image to which physical markers are to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120392.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for procedural modeling are described for generating procedural models and exploring procedural model space. Common procedural components (models, modules, and methods) and a hierarchical framework are described that may be used to construct hierarchical procedural models. A model may comprise a hierarchy of one or more modules.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120394.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) may provide an automatic brush cleaning feature and an automatic brush filling feature, which may be separately selectable by a user. When enabled, these features may cause the digital painting application (or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120391.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for generating a multi-resolution triangulation of a stroked path. In one embodiment, one or more core triangles in a triangulation of a stroked path may be generated. A plurality of refinement triangles in the triangulation of the stroked path may be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120396.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Various embodiments of methods and systems for incrementally building a font data structure in persistent storage on a client device are described. In some embodiments, glyphs may be obtained for the display of content files. The obtained glyphs may be used to populate at least a portion of a font... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120397.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display device includes an operation portion, a display portion, a character designating portion, and a display control portion. The display control portion displays the at least one character on the display portion. The display control portion displays, in a case where the at least one character displayed on the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120400.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120403.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120401.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Animation of computer-generated display components of user interfaces and content items is provided. An animation application or engine creates images of individual display components (e.g., bitmap images) and places those images on animation layers. Animation behaviors may be specified for the layers to indicate how the layers and associated display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120402.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Memory storage and processing for idle computer-generated graphical display components are discarded for conserving memory capacity, processing resources and power consumption. If a computer-generated display frame goes idle for a prescribed duration, for example, 30 seconds, wherein no user action or processor action is performed on the idle display frame,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120398.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The present specification teaches an input device and method for electronic apparatus. The input device can be based on one or more force sensitive input devices, such as force sensitive resistors. The electronic apparatus includes an output device such as a display. A processor is configured to receive input from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120399.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, apparatus, computer program and user interface wherein the method comprises displaying a still image on a display; detecting user selection of a portion of the still image; and in response to the detection of the user selection, replacing the selected portion of the image with a moving image... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120405.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120404.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An animation-authoring environment includes a graphical user interface usable by a user to define an initial key frame, including one or more scene entities with one or more respective physics properties. The authoring environment generates a sequence of extrapolated frames from the initial key frame by using a physics simulation... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120406.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An embodiment of the present invention includes a device for real-time graphics processing. The device includes an interface coupled to exterior for receiving external data. The device includes a data converter coupled to the interface for converting the external data received from the interface. The device includes a graphics processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120408.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) module, a system containing the general-purpose GPU module, and a method for driving the system are provided in accordance with various embodiments of the invention. In an embodiment, a general-purpose GPU module comprises a GPU, a data transfer input/output (I/O) port, a power supply... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120409.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An information processing apparatus includes a first graphics chip having a first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a first image signal; a second graphics chip having a second drawing processing capacity higher than the first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a second image signal;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120407.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for resizing images using seam carving techniques may include generation of a partial solution matrix by at least partially isolating dependencies between sub-problems of a dynamic programming problem corresponding to its solution within different regions of an input image. The number and/or shape of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120411.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 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... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120410.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A multi-pass method of generating an image frame of a 3D scene, using a parallel graphics processing system having a plurality of graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs), including a primary GPPL. In the system, each GPPL includes a color frame buffer and Z depth buffer, and the GPPLs support an object-division... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120412.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for executing an operation once work associated with a version of a state object has been completed. The method includes receiving the version of the state object at a first stage in a processing pipeline, where the version of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120413.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for receiving versions of state objects at one or more stages in a processing pipeline. The method includes receiving a first version of a state object at a first stage in the processing pipeline, determining that the first version of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120415.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides implementations of electromechanical systems combined resonator and passive circuit component structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related processes. In one aspect, the device includes a piezoelectric resonator structure formed over an insulating substrate. A portion of the piezoelectric resonator structure is spaced apart from the substrate by a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120417.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display controlling apparatus that is capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus that sends image data to the display controlling apparatus in response to a notification from the display controlling apparatus, includes the following elements: a sending unit configured to send the notification to the image processing apparatus;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120414.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A laser absorption layer is first selectively formed in a seal pattern region surrounding an array of electromechanical systems elements, followed by depositing an antistiction layer as a blanket layer over the substrate and the laser absorption layer. The antistiction layer is then selectively removed from the seal pattern using... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120416.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for storage capacitors. In one aspect, an electromechanical systems (EMS) device includes a substrate, an optical stack disposed over the substrate, a mechanical layer positioned over the optical stack, and a storage capacitor. The optical stack includes a stationary electrode and at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120418.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that renders graphics in a computing system that includes a plugin associated with a web browser in the computing system and a web application configured to execute in the web browser. During operation, the web application specifies a graphics model and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120419.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120420.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method and system for efficiently organizing data in memory is provided. Exemplary aspects of the invention may include storing linear data and block data in more than one DRAM device and accessing the data with one read/write access cycle. Common control signals may be used to control the DRAM... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120422.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A file format that includes a constant section and a varying section. The constant section provides a referencing scheme that references the various components that comprise the scene, as well as a listing of attributes of the scene that are modifiable. Within the same file format, the varying section provides... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120421.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Various embodiments of a method and system for modifying and rendering scenes via display lists are described. Various embodiments may include a graphical application for generating a display list including display list nodes each corresponding to a respective scene element. To generate a given display list node, the graphical application... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120425.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A character generating system (10) includes a pickup image information acquiring unit (14), a face part texture generating unit (15), a shape model generating unit (16), and a texture pasting unit (17). The face part texture generating unit (15) has the function of generating part textures that correspond to face... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120424.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and devices for displaying content with improved speed, performance, and/or improved power efficiency are disclosed. In accordance with many embodiments, content is received that includes a plurality of objects including an image object, and the image object is decoded to obtain a bitmap representation of an image. A pattern... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120423.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120430.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A text reading guide method for an electronic device including a display screen and a storage unit is provided. The storage unit stores a database recording a number of feature values of images and a plurality of coordinates. Each set of coordinates corresponds to a display region and is associated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120429.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method of representing an emotion in a text message. The method includes providing a mobile system that has a display and operating system with a short message service. The operating system receives a text message and reviews the text message with a text application that is integrated into the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120428.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A projection apparatus memorizes settings as a function of location, orientation, elevation, or any combination. The projection apparatus recalls the settings when the location, orientation, elevation, or combination of the projection apparatus matches memorized values. Memorized settings may include projector settings, image source settings, audio output settings, audio source settings,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120426.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for simulating bristle brush behavior and generating vector output from such simulations. User input may represent a stroke made by a paint brush comprising multiple bristles sweeping across a canvas. A vector representation of the brush stroke's effects may be generated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120427.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) using a two-layer model of a virtual paint brush may more accurately simulate real world painting techniques than conventional painting simulations. A two-layer brush model may include a reservoir buffer and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120431.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A transformation rule of color transformation in an appropriate color space is set even without advanced knowledge and know-how. A three-dimensional lookup table unit transforms color information on an input image signal on the basis of a transformation rule. A correction range calculation unit calculates a correction range in a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120432.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The subject matter disclosed herein relates to enhancing the visual distinction between color managed image elements and non-color managed image elements.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120433.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for performing brush behavior simulation in an image editing application may facilitate realistic paint simulation by the addition of a fill channel to a color space representation that includes a set of color channels and an alpha channel representing opacity of the paint. The fill channel value... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120434.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for digital image editing using multitouch gestures in which two or more digits may be used to select a region of an image via a multitouch device. The number of digits used may indicate the shape of the region being selected. The selected region may be applied... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120436.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) may provide user interface elements and methods that allow a user to load a brush with non-uniform paint colors by directly sampling the digital canvas. For example, a user may hover the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120435.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) may more accurately simulate real world painting techniques than conventional painting simulation applications. The digital painting application (or simulation module) may provide a small set of physically meaningful parameters (e.g., canvas wetness,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120437.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display controlling unit comprises an input connectable to receive input image data representing an input image comprising a first set and a second set of image elements. The second set of image elements comprises a safety relevant information. The display controlling unit also comprises an output connectable to provide... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120438.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for generating context-sensitive, co-salient thumbnails are described. Co-salient thumbnails may effectively convey more useful information than conventional thumbnails while using the same or similar display space. As such, co-salient thumbnails may make it easier for a user to locate a particular image in a large collection of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120441.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A computer system and method removes or changes graphic content not discernable from the rendering tree stored in memory. The content modified depends on its redraw area in a physical monitor or a pane, which is contained within a layout in a frame. One or more frames are defined as... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120439.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing a visual rewind operation in an image editing application may include capturing, compressing, and storing image data and interaction logs and correlations between them. The stored information may be used in a visual rewind operation, during which a sequence of frames (e.g.,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120440.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system and method uses an image manipulating application to define in an object image a plurality of discrete cells. Predefined image information is substituted for image information in selected ones of the plurality of discrete cells to form a translated version of the object image. The translated version of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120444.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Animations may cross different windows. These cross window animations may include interwindow animations and/or window transition animations. Interwindow animations are used to animate elements across windows. Window transitions are used to animate moving/resizing/showing/hiding windows simultaneously. To perform these animations, an overlay window covers the animation area that includes at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120446.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A graphical user interface for interactively displaying large amounts of related data using a geometrical pattern is provided. The geometrical user interface permits users to view, navigate and interact with large amounts of related data in a single display window without going through multiple clicks, menus, drop-downs and scrolling events.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120445.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes exercise of a person reflected in an input image, and a display control unit that superimposes on the input image a virtual object varying according to effectiveness of the exercise recognized by the recognition unit. The image... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120447.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A mobile device for executing multiple applications and a method thereof are provided, in which a touch screen is included, a multi-application panel is displayed in a portion of the touch screen, including a plurality of multi-application sets, each multi-application set having a plurality of applications, and when at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120448.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. One such system includes at least one graphical pipeline and a graphical engine. The at least one graphical pipeline is coupled to a bus and operable to generate a plurality of graphical layers. The graphical engine is coupled... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120442.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for creating and editing seam carving masks may allow a user to combine masks, and/or to modify automatically generated suggested masks, manually created masks, combination masks, or previously stored masks using tools of a graphical user interface in a graphics application (e.g., a mask brush or mask... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120443.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method for automatically displaying an organ of interest includes accessing a series of medical images acquired from a first imaging modality, receiving an input that indicates an organ of interest, automatically detecting the organ of interest within at least one image in the series of medical images, automatically placing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120451.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 When combining a virtual subject with a background image, there may be a case where the hue is different between both and a feeling of difference arises. Moreover, conventionally, it is necessary to manually adjust rendering parameters etc. from the rendering result, which takes time and effort. An image processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120449.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A failure analysis apparatus obtains information associated with an operational status of a data center, determines information regarding fault repair work for the data center, based on the information associated with the operational status, and transmits the information regarding the fault repair work to an HMD. The HMD synthesizes and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120450.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method of providing an augmented reality tour platform service for the inside of a building by using a wireless communication device. The method includes: acquiring an image of the building from the wireless communication device; collecting information associated with the acquired image; extracting a candidate building group from a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120452.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The system of the present invention is a highly integrated radio communication system with a multimedia co-processor which allows true two-way multimedia (video, audio, data) access as well as real-time biomedical monitoring in a pager-sized portable access unit. The system is integrated in a network structure including one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120453.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A method includes fusing at least three images together into a single fused image, wherein at least one of the three images includes a binary-pattern representation image. A system includes an image processing system (100) that combines an anatomical image, a functional image and a binary-pattern representation image into a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120454.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatuses for generating thumbnail summaries for image collections are described. Thumbnails summaries may be representative of the image collection while being disjoint from each other. In some embodiments, a method may sample crops from some or all images in an image collection. From these candidate crops, the method... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120455.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed in an example embodiment herein is an apparatus that comprises an interface for receiving image data from a hosted virtual desktop and sending a desktop image to a client device and graphical processing logic coupled with the interface. The graphical processing logic receives the image data via the interface... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120456.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A computer method and apparatus for selecting and manipulating curvilinear shapes entered by a user is shown. The curvilinear shapes are represented within the computer using parameterized equations. The representation is reduced to maximal elements. The maximal elements are extended. Registration points of the extended maximal elements are then identified.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120457.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Methods and apparatus for manipulating digital images. A warping module is described that enables the manipulation of a surface by selectively deforming portions of the surface while maintaining local rigidity. The user may position multiple control points on a surface to constrain deformation. The user may specify multiple properties (e.g.,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120458.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Techniques and tools are described for detecting screen orientation using proximity sensors. A display mode of an electronic display of a mobile device can be changed based on input from one or more proximity sensors. The display mode can be changed to a portrait, a landscape mode, or other display... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120459.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display system includes a display and a control circuit operable with the display. The display is configured to provide visual output having a presentation orientation. When user input is received, the control circuit can alter the presentation orientation from an initial orientation in response to user input. When non-user... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120460.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Smooth animation effects during zooming are provided by retaining content displayed at a previous zoom level. If the zoom operation is a zoom out operation, new content is stretched to a current zoom level, aligned with the retained content, and placed underneath it. If the zoom operation is a zoom... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120461.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes: generating reduced information obtained by reducing input image information with a reduction ratio; calculating a moving amount in a unit of a first display area based on the reduced information and reduced previous information obtained by reducing image information input prior... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120462.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A system for scaling visualizations may include a human machine interface (HMI) configured to display a visualization on a screen, a secondary display device configured to display a scaled visualization such that the scaled visualization is determined based at least in part on the visualization, and a controller. The controller... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120463.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Systems and methods for providing a natural media painting application may receive user inputs through tablet stylus gestures. Various digital painting and image editing tasks may be invoked and/or controlled using such gesture-based inputs. The application may detect stylus gestures that mimic real-world actions of artists, and may perform appropriate... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120464.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An embodiment of the invention provides a method for changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal. The method comprises: outputting the sensing signal via a sensor according to an interactive operation of a user; displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120472.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A 4-primary color display includes a display panel including a plurality of 4-primary color pixels each including red, green, blue, and white liquid crystal cells, and a pixel data rendering circuit for producing 4-primary color pixel data corresponding to a second horizontal resolution, which is equal to a physical horizontal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120467.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 The color sequential LCD device comprises an LCD panel, a data drive circuit, a gate drive circuit and backlight units. The LCD panel comprises data lines disposed along a major-axis direction of a substrate of the LCD panel, gate lines orthogonally intersecting the data lines, and a plurality of color... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120473.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 For a target pixel to be processed among plural pixels, when a comparison result between the gray level value stored in the first memory and the gray level value stored in the second memory, and the remainder frequency stored in the third memory meet a predetermined condition, the control device... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120477.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A light emission control method controls a display that includes a display portion, a scanning portion, and a driving portion. The display portion includes light emitting elements in a matrix form. The scanning portion is connected to common lines. Each common line is connected to the anode terminals of corresponding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120475.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed herein is a display device including: a liquid crystal display section adapted to display an image based on a video signal; a backlight; and a processing section adapted to correct the video signal and set the luminance of the backlight based on two pieces of information, a peak level... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120480.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 In a display driver, a first backlight control unit using a histogram and a second backlight control unit using an optical sensor can be used in combination. The display driver includes a PWM generating unit setting a control signal value consisting of a product of a luminance rate of X... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120466.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A driving method of a display panel is described. A display panel including a pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes N scan lines, M data lines, and a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units electrically connected to the scan lines and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120478.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 In a display signal generator for use in a display device, in order to display the image corresponding to the input image signals, a combination of desired display time aperture ratios are obtained for each pixel in N number of sub-frame phases, a combination of display time aperture ratios in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120468.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A four-primary color display device and a method for calculating relative brightness of a fourth primary color are provided. The display device includes plural pixels and a relative brightness computation module of the fourth primary color for calculating relative brightness of that color. The pixel has at least four sub-pixels... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120471.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A display control apparatus applied for an image display apparatus having a plurality of display regions is provided. The display regions are respectively corresponding to a plurality of backlight modules and the luminance of the backlight modules are independently controlled. The display control apparatus includes a backlight control unit. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120481.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An image display apparatus comprising: a driver apparatus; and a total of N device groups of a first group to an N-th group (2≦N) each of which includes one or a plurality of light emitting devices, the image display apparatus uses the driver apparatus to make each of the device... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120474.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 Disclosed is a display device including a display section configured to display an image and a light source device for emitting light for displaying the image to the display section. The light source device includes a first light source for applying first illumination light, and a light guide plate having... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120479.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A monitor retraining device includes a handheld housing, a controller disposed within the housing, and a connector connected to the controller and connectable directly to a monitor having a screen. The controller has a first state wherein the controller provides an output signal to the connector to cause the monitor... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120469.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 A pixel array includes a first color pixel unit, a second color pixel unit and a third pixel unit, and the first, second and third pixel units respectively include a scan line, a data line, an active device electrically connected to the scan line and the data line and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120470.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides systems and apparatuses having pixels connected to various drive lines. In one implementation, a passive matrix display apparatus comprises a plurality of display elements, arranged in rows and columns, each common line driving display elements of a single color, wherein at least one common line of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120465.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for driving a pixel of a display. In one aspect, a segment driver and a common driver may be used to substantially concurrently address all display elements in the pixel. This addressing may reduce write... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130120476.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:41 -0700 An apparatus for displaying data includes a first array of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns, a second array display of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns, and a third array of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns. In some implementations,...