Patents Examined by Jeffrey Chow
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Patent number: 8619089Abstract: A data transfer circuit that transfers a first kind of data stored in an external memory circuit includes: an internal memory circuit that is capable of, by an external circuit, writing and/or rewriting a second kind of data including information for one region as a transfer source in the external memory circuit and another region as a transfer destination in the external memory circuit; a transfer circuit that transfer the first kind of data; and a control circuit that makes the transfer circuit transfer the first kind of data stored in the one region to the other region based on the second kind of data.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takeshi Makabe
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Patent number: 8619097Abstract: A remote instruction system comprising an annotation forming portion that: overlay-displays an image of a target taken by an image taking portion, in a display area of application software; displays an edited image in the display area by use of the application software; extracts the edited image displayed according to a difference between displayed images prior to and subsequent to a generation of the edited image; and forms an annotation image from the edited image extracted to project the annotation image onto an image-taken area of the image taking portion by a projecting portion according to an instruction given on the basis of a taken image.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Meng Shi
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Patent number: 8610742Abstract: This invention provides systems and methods that allow a user to change the size of a background used with a graphics-based user interface. This enables tailored background sizes based on user preference and allowable conditions, which are particularly useful with display devices having a large display area. By custom sizing a background to current conditions, a user may navigate an image among obstacles at a receiving surface and obstacles along a projection path between a projection lens and receiving surface. In addition, a user may customize the background size on a large LCD screen according to more suitable dimensions for an image used in the background or to a personal preference, thereby creating a personalized look and feel for the graphics-based user interface. One embodiment of the present invention defines a usable area for a graphics-based user interface according to the current size of the background.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Transpacific Image, LLCInventor: William Joseph Plut
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Patent number: 8593470Abstract: A power adjustment circuit includes memory controller logic that is couplable to system memory or other memory if desired. The memory control logic is operative to provide a variable memory clock signal to the system memory and to place the system memory in a self refresh mode wherein the self refresh mode does not require a memory clock signal. Thereafter, the memory clock control logic adjusts the frequency of the memory clock signal to a lower (or higher) frequency clock signal, and in response to the frequency of the memory clock signal becoming stable, the memory clock control logic restores the memory to a normal mode using the lower adjusted frequency memory clock signal. As such, a dynamic memory clock switching mechanism is employed for quickly varying the frequency of memory modules for discrete graphics processors, graphics processors integrated on a chip, or any other processors such that the memory clock can be reduced to a lower frequency in real time to save power.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: John Bruno, Erwin Pang
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Patent number: 8593461Abstract: A method for the graphical display of a plurality of series of numerical data is provided which includes: determining a smallest and a largest numerical value within each series of numerical data; calculating a relative change between said smallest and said largest numerical value within each series of numerical data; determining a largest relative change out of said relative changes; generating a plurality of graphical representations to be displayed on a display means, wherein each graphical representation is representing one series of numerical data out of the plurality of series of numerical data, the numerical data being represented by indicators in the graphical representation; wherein an interval between a minimum position and a maximum position in a first direction of each graphical representation corresponds to an individual range of numerical values between a minimum value and a maximum value; wherein the value of a numerical data is graphically represented by the position of the corresponding indicType: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Inventor: Nicolas Bissantz
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Patent number: 8593482Abstract: A projector including: an adjustment image generation section which generates an adjustment image which allows adjustments of brightness and color difference; an input section to which operation information is input; an adjustment information generation section which generates brightness adjustment information indicating an adjustment value of the brightness and color difference adjustment information indicating an adjustment value of the color difference based on the operation information; and an adjustment section which adjusts the brightness and color of an image based on the brightness adjustment information and the color difference adjustment information.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shiki Furui
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Patent number: 8593489Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a control method thereof which supports image data at differing frame rates, such as 60 Hz and 120 Hz, input from an image supply source. The display apparatus includes a first scaler which processes input image data; a second scaler which processes input image data; a display unit which displays thereon the image data processed by the first and second scalers; and a controller which selectively controls based on a frame rate of the image data to process the image data by the first scaler only, or to divide and process the image data by both the first and second scalers.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young-kyan Yun
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Patent number: 8587609Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and associated architecture of accuracy adaptive and scalable vector graphics rendering including rendering a graphic comprising a plurality of line segments by processing each of the plurality of line segments in a first pass, and processing each of a plurality of pixels through which the plurality of line segments pass in a second pass, automatically detecting one or more rendering errors of the graphic, and correcting the one or more rendering errors. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Haohong Wang, Yunsen Chin, Li Sha, Shuhua Xiang
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Patent number: 8581903Abstract: A system and method for converting data generated in an computer engineering design software component to an alternate format usable by a variety of alternate software components is provided. Engineering data from a project having a plurality of objects is provided. Objects are selected from the project for conversion and transportation to one of the alternate software components. The selected objects are converted to an alternate format, transported to the alternate software component and regenerated by the alternate software component in its own environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: HNTB Holdings LtdInventors: Brian W. Trotta, Christopher C. Wills, Juan A. Uribe
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Patent number: 8581935Abstract: A display device has a screen that can be positioned in arbitrary postures including a reference posture relative to a space having a reference horizontal orientation. The screen has an xyz orthogonal coordinate system, and the posture of the screen in the space is defined by z-x-z Euler angles ?, ?, and ? of the xyz orthogonal coordinate system. The screen displays an image to enable recognition of the reference horizontal orientation of the space. A control device derives a specific parameter ?+? as an angle by which the image is rotated so that the reference horizontal orientation recognized from the image follows the reference horizontal orientation of the space when the image is displayed on the screen at arbitrary postures.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Ibuki Handa
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Patent number: 8581928Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, a retrieving unit, a process display unit, a process receiving unit, a process storing unit, a thumbnail display unit, and a thumbnail designating unit. The retrieving unit retrieves image data. The process display unit displays on the display a plurality of candidate image processes to be performed on the image data. The process receiving unit receives an instruction indicating a selected image process selected from among the plurality of candidate image processes. The process storing unit stores the selected image process. The thumbnail display unit displays a thumbnail image corresponding to the image data on the display. The thumbnail designating unit designates a thumbnail image. The thumbnail display unit displays a processed thumbnail image that represents a result of the selected process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail image.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiko Watari, Tatsuya Sato
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Patent number: 8558835Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for focusing computing power to a region of interest that can be changed interactively and arbitrarily during the process of image synthesis. In operation, a problem domain is partitioned utilizing a first selected technique. Additionally, a number of samples to be drawn per partition are assigned utilizing a second selected technique. Furthermore, the assigned number of samples are drawn for each partition, where the samples are generated by only one deterministic sample sequence. Still yet, the partitioning, assigning, and drawing are capable of being repeated such that existing partitions and assignments are capable of remaining unchanged during sampling and a convergence speed is adapted without compromising convergence in at least one of a sequential computing environment or a parallel computing environment. In this way, the convergence of image synthesis is not compromised.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: NVIDA CorporationInventors: Alexander Keller, Carsten A. Wächter, Michael R. Kaplan
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Patent number: 8553034Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a data communication subsystem to receive a data stream, and a data processing subsystem responsive to the data communication subsystem to generate a visualization output based on a group of data vectors corresponding to a first portion of the data stream. The processing subsystem is further responsive to a change in rate of receipt of the data to modify the visualization output with one or more other data vectors corresponding to a second portion of the data stream as a function of eigenspace defined with the group of data vectors. The system further includes a display device responsive to the visualization output to provide a corresponding visualization.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Pak Chung Wong, Harlan P. Foote, Daniel R. Adams, Wendy E. Cowley, James J. Thomas
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Patent number: 8547380Abstract: Avatar data is stored in a management application. The management application sends an immersion request to the application. The management application identifies the avatar data fields used by the application, and any appropriate scaling and avatar transformation. The management application scales the data appropriately, transforms the avatar if necessary, and transmits the (scaled and transformed) avatar data to the application. When the avatar is to be removed from the application, the application transmits the avatar data back to the management application, which integrates any changes to the avatar data into the original avatar data.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Elite Avatars, LLCInventor: Richard Lynn Tobias
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Patent number: 8547384Abstract: Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving data in parallel but in different orders. In one implementation, data for pixels is stored according to a checkerboard pattern, alternately between two memory devices, forming a checkerboard buffer. In one implementation, a checkerboard buffer includes: a data source, providing data in a first order; a data destination, receiving data in a second order; at least two memory devices, each memory device having a plurality of memory locations, where data is stored in parallel to the memory devices and retrieved in parallel from the memory devices; a first data switch connected to the data source and each of the memory devices, where the first data switch controls which data is stored to which memory device; and a second data switch connected to the data destination and each of the memory devices, where the second data switch controls providing data to the data destination according to the second order.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Mark Champion, Brian Dockter
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Patent number: 8547401Abstract: A portable device configured to provide an augmented reality experience is provided. The portable device has a display screen configured to display a real world scene. The device includes an image capture device associated with the display screen. The image capture device is configured to capture image data representing the real world scene. The device includes image recognition logic configured to analyze the image data representing the real world scene. Image generation logic responsive to the image recognition logic is included. The image generation logic is configured to incorporate an additional image into the real world scene. A computer readable medium and a system providing an augmented reality environment are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Dominic S. Mallinson, Richard L. Marks
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Patent number: 8537178Abstract: There are provided a waveform observing apparatus and waveform observing system that solve a problem of displacement of a handwritten comment which occurs with enlargement/reduction in display in such a manner that, when a determination is NO in a process step, namely when a current compression ratio differs from a compression ratio at the time of writing a handwritten comment in displaying the handwritten comment to such a degree as to cause occurrence of non-allowable displacement, a process proceeds to a next process step, and a simple indication indicating the presence of the handwritten comment is displayed in a position associated with a portion of a waveform corresponding to a measured data number.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Keyence CorporationInventors: Naoki Goto, Yohei Okawa
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Patent number: 8537073Abstract: Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Inventor: Scott C. Harris
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Patent number: 8537161Abstract: A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a continuous non-linear scale. The graphical interface also displays the data series in relation to the plurality of axis regions, and the data series is plotted in relation to each axis region based on a scale resolution corresponding to each respective axis region.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.Inventor: Brian J. Buck
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Patent number: 8525838Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to update a filleted curve in a computer graphics application. A drawing having a first input curve and a second input curve is displayed. The first and second input curves are selected. A fillet curve is calculated, created, and displayed between the two input curves. A property of the first input curve is modified. Automatically, without additional user input, the fillet curve is recalculated based on the modified property. The recalculated fillet curve is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Jiri Kripac, John G. Ford, III