Patents Issued in February 6, 2003
  • Publication number: 20030025678
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus with a touch screen including a touch pad. The apparatus includes a connecter for connecting the apparatus to an external display device; a sensor for generating a sensing signal upon detecting connection between the apparatus and the external display device; a touch screen display driver for displaying data input from the touch pad on the touch screen; an external display driver for displaying data input from the touch pad on the external display device when the touch pad operates in a mouse pad mode; and a controller for upon receiving the sensing signal, disabling the touch screen display driver, enabling the external display driver, recognizing a point on the touch pad selected by a user, generating a coordinate value corresponding to the point, performing calculation for mapping the coordinate value with a screen display coordinate of the external display device, and determining a position of a pointer to be displayed on a screen of the external display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Beam Lee, Sang-Jun Park
  • Publication number: 20030025679
    Abstract: A proximity-based mutually capacitance-sensitive touchpad that is disposed directly beneath a keypad keymat of a mobile telephone, wherein posts associated with each key pass through a mutually capacitance-sensitive sensor electrode grid of the touchpad such that the keypad posts do not interfere with touchpad detection and tracking of a pointing object that moves along the keypad surface, to thereby enable touchpad data entry, cursor control, and scroll bar control on a display of the mobile telephone, wherein the keypad posts actuate mechanical switches underneath the touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Cirque Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Taylor, Michael D. Layton, David Taylor
  • Publication number: 20030025680
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting alignment and linearity errors in devices using a finger or stylus input device with a display device interactively coupled to a digitizer is disclosed. Touching intersections in a calibration grid on the display device may be performed to create a linearity map. Subsequently, detected stylus input is mapped to a sector in the linearity map, and resultant screen coordinates are calculated using ratios within a reference rectangle corresponding to the detected stylus input and the mapped sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Michael H. Tsang
  • Publication number: 20030025681
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic whiteboard system in which a screen-changing operation works on changing screen of the whiteboard, at the same time, works on creating a new page on a personal computer (PC). In response to the screen-changing operation, the whiteboard changes the screen and transmits a screen-changing code to the PC. Received the screen-changing code, the PC automatically creates a new page. Similarly, in response to scanning operation, the whiteboard transmits a scanning code and a scanned image to the PC. Received the scanning code and the scanned image, the PC creates a new page and stores the scanned image at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Naozumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20030025682
    Abstract: An improved aural/visual checklist system is presented. One embodiment of the system comprises a processor which controls the operation of the checklist system and memory connected to the processor. The memory stores alphanumeric data arranged in a set of predetermined checklists, each of which has a set of predetermined tasks and audio files associated with each predetermined task within each set of predetermined tasks. The system further comprises a display connected to the memory which displays the alphanumeric data stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen G. Dame
  • Publication number: 20030025683
    Abstract: A display monitor has at least a stand-alone operational mode, and a further operational mode as a further peripheral to, e.g., a PC. The monitor has an input for connecting to a first peripheral device. The monitor also has circuitry for enabling data communication with the first peripheral device for user control of a functionality of the display monitor in the stand-alone mode, and for data communication between the first peripheral and the PC via the monitor when the monitor is in the further operational mode and connected to the PC and to the first peripheral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventor: Glenn Adler
  • Publication number: 20030025684
    Abstract: The invention is a driving method for a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) array, capable of saving power, using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip to control the different driving modes in graphic and non-graphic zones, thereby saving driving power. The driving method includes the following steps: implementing an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip; determining a predetermined mode; dividing a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) frame into a plurality of zones according to the predetermined mode; and determining the driving mode required by each zone through a control signal activated by the ASIC chip according to the plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tsung-Pei Chiang, Chun-Chin Tseng
  • Publication number: 20030025685
    Abstract: Discrimination means (53), receiving a DDC transmission request from an external computer through DDC control means (55), judges whether a video signal inputted from the computer is a signal of analog specification or digital specification from an analog channel input detection signal from an analog synchronizing signal detection means (52). On the basis of the judgment result, the discrimination means (53) controls the DDC control means (55), input channel switching means (56) and OSD switching means (57) to switch EDID data, an input channel and OSD into ones supporting the specification of the video signal, respectively. In a display monitor having a DDC function which includes a DVI-I connector, with the above constitution, a correct setting of the input channel, EDID data and the like is automatically made in accordance with the specification of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shirasaki, Kazuo Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20030025686
    Abstract: A method of automatically refreshing the display screen of a terminal and the computer program thereof is accomplished by incorporating a subroutine for periodically polling the connection status of a terminal into a main program running on host. A polling period is set in the main program, and a software interrupt is generated to invoke the execution of a corresponding interrupt service routine when the polling period is reached. The interrupt service routine contains a polling subroutine for polling the connection status of the terminal by sending a control string to the terminal and recording the polling result. The present polling result will be compared with the previous polling result to check whether the connection status of the terminal is changed. If the connection status of the terminal is changed from off-line to on-line, a display screen refresh subroutine is executed to refresh the display screen of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Kai Lee, Zuo-Jun Shih
  • Publication number: 20030025687
    Abstract: A scanning circuit and an image display device in which the influence of losses in a signal path to scanning wiring and a scanning signal output circuit can be reduced. By considering matrix drive in which one row is driven at a time and two or more of the rows are not simultaneously driven, the 480 rows are divided into six modules and one feedback circuit is provided in correspondence with each module to perform feedback control of the output buffers corresponding to 80 rows. An output from a switch is amplified by an operational amplifier and is input as a compensation signal to all the output buffers by an output voltage compensation circuit. Compensation for a voltage drop is made by using the compensation signal for an increase in voltage such that the apparent voltage drop due to the output current is limited to a small value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Kenji Shino, Tadashi Aoki, Aoji Isono, Kazuhiko Murayama
  • Publication number: 20030025688
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a flat panel, includes the steps of: providing a flat panel display having an overall and individual channel adjustment for both gain and offset and an adjustment to provide a white point for the display, the white point including color temperature, chromaticity and luminance level; displaying a first target using a low level code value for each channel of the display; sensing the luminance level of the displayed first target; adjusting the gain of the display so that the sensed luminance level matches a first predetermined aim value representing a luminance level at least 3 decades lower than a maximum luminance level; displaying a second target using intermediate code values for each channel of the display device; sensing the luminance level and chromaticities of the displayed second target; adjusting the individual channel offsets so that the luminance level matches a second predetermined aim value representing an intermediate luminance level and the chromaticities match a first set
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Patrick L. Cottone, Paula J. Alessi
  • Publication number: 20030025689
    Abstract: A power management system and method permit the total power consumption by a portable electronic device to be reduced so that the portable electronic device has a longer operating time on a limited power source, such as a battery. The system may also be used with devices that are powered by a more permanent source of power. The system may combine static power management techniques as well as dynamic power management techniques. The system may include a flexible clock generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Jason Seung-Min Kim
  • Publication number: 20030025690
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for electronic shelf label (ESL) battery replacement are described. A first embodiment includes an ESL having a single battery and two battery compartments. A replacement battery is placed within the empty battery compartment before the old battery is removed. In a second embodiment, an ESL includes a single battery situated in a single battery compartment, and a large value capacitor connected in parallel with the battery which maintains the contents of the ESL's volatile RAM while the single battery is changed. In a third embodiment, an ESL includes two battery compartments, a single battery and a large value capacitor connected in parallel with the battery. In another aspect, an ESL displays instructions for changing the ESL battery. The ESL includes a pushbutton for user input which allows the user to cycle through multiple battery change instructions. These instructions may be stored in locally in the ESL or may be transmitted to the ESL from a host system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: John Fredrick Crooks
  • Publication number: 20030025691
    Abstract: A inductorless method and apparatus for driving electroluminescent (EL) panels enables fabrication of an integrated circuit that provides a complete EL panel driver solution in one package. The high voltage required to drive the EL panel is generated by a plurality of charge pump circuits. A multi-stage charge pump may be used to provide a high voltage power supply that does not require an external capacitor to store energy for the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: James Michael Oliver Jenkins, Jimes Lei
  • Publication number: 20030025692
    Abstract: A method, computer system or computer program is provided for interactively constructing, editing, rendering and manipulating geoscience models, including aggregating the functionality of a geometry system and a graphics system, enforcing consistency between the geometry system and the graphics system, and interfacing the geometry system and the graphics system to an application through an integration layer. State machines are also provided that enable updating of only those graphics objects whose geometry or topology have been changed and that are specified as visible by the user, thus increasing performance. A scenegraph construction technique is also provided to reduce memory requirements and further enhance performance. A material property framework is provided, among other things, to communicate changes in the geometry or topology to aggregate objects which then determine which graphics objects are affected by the changes and which graphics objects are to be updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: HongQian Lu, David Mack Endres, Yann Cudennec, Eric Jonathan Schoen
  • Publication number: 20030025693
    Abstract: A system customizes and generates data representing an electronic form for storage on a target workstation ready for use prior to execution time of a procedure used to generate the form. An adaptive user interface generator generates code representing an executable procedure for use in providing a user interface display including a plurality of displayed user interface display elements. A source of presentation control information determines a user interface presentation format of a display image capable of being adaptively scaled to fit different display image sizes. The presentation control information specifies relative location and size of the interface display elements. A transformation processor transforms the presentation control information into executable procedure representative code for use in providing a user interface display image with a format suitable for a desired display size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Haley
  • Publication number: 20030025694
    Abstract: A method and computer program for viewing a two-dimensional digital image (82) within a three-dimensional environment (46) is disclosed. The inventive method and program enable a user to view relatively simple self-generated two-dimensional images such as photographs or the like in a computer-generated three-dimensional environment and manipulated as if it's a three-dimensional image thereby having the advantages of a three-dimensional digital image while eliminating the relatively complex, costly and time-consuming task of creating the three-dimensional digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: PUNCH! SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventor: Steve Davis
  • Publication number: 20030025695
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for generating 3-dimensional computer graphic images. The image is first sub-divided into a plurality of rectangular areas (2). A display list memory (4) is loaded with object data for each rectangular area. The image and shading data for each picture element of each rectangular area are derived from the object data in the image synthesis processor (6) and a texturing and shading processor (10). A depth range generator (12) derives a depth range for each rectangular area from the object data as the imaging and shading data is derived. This is compared with the depth of each new object to be provided to the image synthesis processor (6) and the object may be prevented from being provided to the image synthesis processor (6) independence on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen Morphet
  • Publication number: 20030025696
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of generating a graphical representation of two or more finite sets of elements, the method comprising the steps of calculating the number of elements in each set, the number of elements in the union of all sets, and the number of elements in each set intersection; displaying a plurality of closed curves, the closed curves representing respective sets, the are bounded by each closed curve being proportional to the ratio of the number of elements in the corresponding set to the number of elements in the union of all sets; and aligning each closed curve relative to each other closed curve, the area bounded by the overlap of each curve being proportional to the ratio of the number of elements in the corresponding set intersection to the number of elements in the union of all sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Nicholas John Mulgan
  • Publication number: 20030025697
    Abstract: A system generates a smoothed curve from a noisily drawn, multi-segmented curve by minimizing an energy function for a smoothed curve which fits between end-points of the drawn curve. The energy function has three components: a distortion component, a smoothing component and a shrink component. Numerical analysis methods are applied to evaluate the energy function and to identify the smoothed curve with the lowest energy. The transposed curve with the lowest energy value is selected as the smoothed curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation
    Inventor: Naresh Chand Gupta
  • Publication number: 20030025698
    Abstract: A processor executes image processing under control of a clock facility, such that a sequence of C effective clock cycles will effect a processing operation of a predetermined amount of image information. In particular, the processor has programming means for implementing programmable stall clock cycles interspersed between the effective clock cycles for implementing a programmable slowdown factor S, such that a modified number of C*S overall clock cycles will effect processing of the predetermined amount of image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Abraham Karel Riemens, Nathan Woods
  • Publication number: 20030025699
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for parallel processing of pixel information within a video graphics circuit is accomplished when the video graphics circuit includes a set-up engine, an edgewalker circuit, a span processing circuit, and a plurality of pixel processing circuits. In such an embodiment, the set-up engine receives vertex information and produces object-element information therefrom. The object-element information is provided to the edgewalker circuit, which in turn produces span definition information. The span definition information identifies the starting pixel of a span and the starting pixel parameters. The span information is received by the processing circuit and converted into a plurality of pixel parameters. The plurality of pixel parameters are provided to the plurality of pixel processing circuits wherein each of the plurality of pixel processing circuits processes corresponding pixel parameters to produce pixel information in accordance with the information provided by the processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Tien En Wei, Jason J. Hou, Richard J. Fuller, Douglas Wade Duncan
  • Publication number: 20030025700
    Abstract: A modeling section and geometry processing section collectively generate draw data used for a series of draw processing, and a control section transfers the generated draw data to a multi-path buffer. The draw processing is executed, under control of the control section, when a multi-path controller serially reads out the draw data stored in the multi-path buffer and outputs them to a rendering engine. This successfully saves the band width necessary for transfer of the draw data from a main processor to a graphic processor, and relieve the main processor from the process load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Nobuo Sasaki, Shinya Wada
  • Publication number: 20030025701
    Abstract: A system and method for packing pixels together to provide a increased fill rate in a frame buffer hardware in the graphics system. The graphics system may be configured to receive and rasterize graphics data at a faster cycle rate than the system's frame buffer memory fill rate. The output from the rasterization hardware may be stored in a FIFO memory that is configured to selectively shift pixels in order to improve fill rate performance. The FIFO memory may be configured to ensure that the pixels meet certain criteria in order to prevent page faults and interleave conflicts that could reduce the fill rate. The FIFO memory may also be configured to remove empty cycles that occur as a result of the pixel packing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: David Kehlet, Nandini Ramani, Yan Yan Tang, Roger W. Swanson
  • Publication number: 20030025702
    Abstract: An architecture for storing, addressing and retrieving graphics data from one of multiple memory controllers. In a first embodiment of the invention, one of the memory controllers having an accelerated graphics port (AGP) includes a set of registers defining a range of addresses handled by the memory controller that are preferably to be used for all AGP transactions. The AGP uses a graphics address remapping table (GART) for mapping memory. The GART includes page table entries having translation information to remap virtual addresses falling within the GART range to their corresponding physical addresses. In a second embodiment of the invention, a plurality of the memory controllers have an AGP, wherein each of the plurality of the memory controllers supplies a set of registers defining a range of addresses that is preferably used for AGP transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph Jeddeloh
  • Publication number: 20030025703
    Abstract: A system is disclosed providing accurate compression, storage, transmission and reconstruction of both simulated and empirical data representing terrain and other physical or hypothetical signals or surfaces, in one or multiple dimensions. In one embodiment, a gradient of an original surface is generated, and the data representing that gradient is compressed, then stored and/or transmitted. Reconstruction of the gradient yields an accurate representation of the original gradient. An alternative embodiment includes taking a second gradient of the original surface before compression, in which case reconstruction yields the second gradient, from which the first gradient can also be recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Stanley Joel Osher, Hong-Kai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20030025704
    Abstract: A display of code power levels and relationships of multiple spreading factor orthogonal codes in a code division multiple access (CDMA) signal has a first code graph of code domain power (CDP) for all the codes at the largest code spreading factor that includes all codes at all spreading factors plotted in a linear code indexing order and a second graph of CDP where the codes are plotted in bit-reversed order to group together the sub-codes of each code of lower spreading factor. Markers on each graph are tied together such that movement of one marker on one graph to a particular code value causes the other marker on the other graph to move to the corresponding code value. The sub-codes related to a particular code bar in the graphs indicated by the markers may be differentiated by using grey scale or color variations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Craig D. Bryant, Thomas L. Kuntz, Kathryn A. Engholm
  • Publication number: 20030025705
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to method for assigning coefficients to a texel of a parametric texture map (PTM) texture. The method may comprise the steps of: generating a random PTM matrix of a desired size, the random PTM matrix comprising texels possessing random valued coefficients; selecting a texel from the random PTM matrix; determining a first neighborhood of the texel from the random PTM matrix; comparing the first neighborhood to neighborhoods of a sample PTM texture to determine an optimal texel of the sample PTM texture; and assigning PTM coefficients of the optimal texel to the texel from the random PTM matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Bradford A. Ritter
  • Publication number: 20030025706
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system for rendering a pixel of a digital image. The system may comprise a texture map data structure representing a texture map of a plurality of texels; the texture map structure comprising a plurality of coefficients for each texel of the texture map; the plurality of coefficients defining lighting characteristics of the respective texel in response to illumination in a plane. The system may further comprise a modulation data structure; the modulation data structure defining a range of values associated with an illumination vector. Additionally, the system may comprise a rendering algorithm; the rendering algorithm operable to calculate a texel display value using the texture map data structure; the rendering algorithm operable to determine an illumination modulation value from the modulation data structure; and the rendering algorithm being operable to multiply the texel display value by the illumination modulation value to render a pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Bradford A. Ritter
  • Publication number: 20030025707
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The image is provided from data describing at least one object. The display includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels has a size and a plurality of display elements. Each of the plurality of display elements has a color. The data includes a plurality of fragments for the at least one object. The plurality of fragments intersects a portion of the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of fragments includes a texture and at least one color. The method and system include ensuring that a texture area corresponds to the size of the pixel for the plurality of fragments and taking a plurality of samples of the at least one color for each of the plurality of fragments. The plurality of samples corresponds to the plurality of display elements. The method and system also include processing the texture for each of the plurality of fragments using the texture area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Michael C. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20030025708
    Abstract: A method for displaying a color image is provided in which a predetermined display quality is secured regardless of a type of an input image, and display quality of an image having a linear edge is improved. The method comprises the steps of using a display device having a cell arrangement structure in which cells of each cell column in a display screen have the same light color, a light color of a cell column is different from that of the neighboring cell column, and a cell position in the column direction of a cell column is shifted from that of the neighboring cell column among a set of the cell columns each having the same light color, and lighting two neighboring cells in at least one cell column out of a set of cell columns each having the same light color when displaying a display line perpendicular to the column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsuya Irie, Kenji Awamoto
  • Publication number: 20030025709
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit for driving a self light-emitting display device which itself emits light when an electric or other energy is inputted thereto and a method thereof. According to the circuit and method, the self light-emitting display device can be driven more stably and with a higher efficiency by adjusting the number of used bits and luminance of respective color components in accordance with a luminance change of an external light and keeping a constant contrast ratio irrespective of the adjustment of the bit numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Su Kim, Yoon Heung Tak, Minho Lee
  • Publication number: 20030025710
    Abstract: A first texture is used for determining color and design of a polygon structuring an object rendered upon a two-dimensional screen. A second texture has a pattern of dense distribution of color with a predetermined slant relative to the two-dimensional screen. An rendering processing device first applies a first texture to a polygon structuring an object, and thereafter performs translucent synthesis of a second texture on an object applied with the first texture, thereby making it possible to easily render an image in a hand-drawn illustration style in, for example, home video games and computer graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Takashi Fukushima, Kentaro Motomura
  • Publication number: 20030025711
    Abstract: A method for allowing a layman user to visually calibrate a user display is provided. First, a standard display model is predefined with (i) a standard display colorimetric transformation matrix, (ii) a standard display luminance response function, and (iii) three standard display human perception response (HPR) curves in dim, average, and bright environments, respectively. Second, a user display model is created, also including (i) a user display colorimetric transformation matrix, which is not fully defined, (ii) a user display luminance response function, which is also not fully defined, and (iii) a user display human perception response (HPR) curve in dim, average, or bright surrounding environment, as specified by the user. Third, the user display luminance response function is estimated. Fourth, the user display colorimetric transformation matrix is estimated. Finally, based on the above estimation, a lookup-table (LUT) is created for converting standard display signals to user display signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: DynaLab Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Kuo, Kuo-Young Cheng, Hui-Jan Chien
  • Publication number: 20030025712
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing a set of data points into a subset of best fit data points. According to one aspect, a method of adjusting a series of N data points into best fit data points for a set of sample data points that form a data source is provided. According to this method, M segments are identified, wherein M equals N−1. Each segment has endpoints defined by adjacent subset data points. An iterative process is performed that includes determining a linear interpolation error for each of the M segments, selecting a target segment (STARGET) from the segments, and reducing the interpolation error for STARGET by moving one endpoint of STARGET by an increment corresponding to at least one sample data point in the series of sample data points to shorten STARGET. Other methods and systems are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: William E. Corr
  • Publication number: 20030025713
    Abstract: A method and system for compressing and displaying a digital ink trace. Raw ink data is smoothed, and sharp points of the smoothed line are found. Curve-fitting is then used to generate a mathematical expression that defines the line segments between adjacent sharp points. The ink trace then is represented by a backbone spline that includes the sharp points and the mathematical expressions for the line segments. Thickness information, such as pressure or acceleration information, is combined with the backbone spline to provide a compressed ink file that represents a contour curve of the original ink trace. A display module uses an algorithm to separate the contour curve into a sequence of straight lines. A set of pixels is then generated for the display of each straight line using a novel antialiasing method. The pixels at the ends of adjacent straight lines are aligned using a weighting algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Wang, LiYong Chen, Yu Zou, Siwei Lyu
  • Publication number: 20030025714
    Abstract: The invention is a method for displaying otherwise unseen atmospheric phenomenon using augmented reality (the mixing of real media with computer generated media). The method uses computer generated images to represent existing weather conditions and presents this data to the user by combining the computer generated images with the user's real environment. Computer generated images are used to represent such weather phenomenon as wake vortices, wind shear, and microbursts. These images are represented in such a way as to intuitively display relevant properties of the phenomenon to the system user, which increases the user's situational awareness and safety. The primary intended applications are for air traffic controllers and pilots to view these disturbances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: John Franklin Ebersole, Mark Stanley Bastian, John Franklin Walker, Richard Wade Madison, John Franklin Ebersole
  • Publication number: 20030025715
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating an input event that allows a user to easily and correctly select a small object on a display screen is provided for. An input event generating method and apparatus, according to the present invention, includes a method of generating an input event in an image display system having a display device and a pointing device for pointing an image displayed on the display screen of the display device with a pointer. There are included therein the steps of: displaying a zoom window for zooming a given area in a display screen in response to a process-initiating action in displaying the screen; and, when a manipulation of the pointing device is detected at first coordinates in the zoom window, generating an input event corresponding to the pointing device manipulation at second coordinates associated with the first coordinates in the given area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jon E. Graham, Hidetoshi Mori, Arimasa Naitoh, David Sawin
  • Publication number: 20030025716
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for buffering 2-dimensional graphical image data to be supplied to a scrolling display controller. A 2-dimensional, circularly addressed data buffer is used to store a portion of an entire image. The data buffer is larger than the amount of data displayed at one time. A user enters scrolling commands and the display scrolls around the data initially in the buffer. New data is loaded into the buffer as the displayed data approaches the edge of the buffered data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Osvaldo M. Colavin
  • Publication number: 20030025717
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including a display unit having a display panel, and a display controller for outputting an image signal to the display unit to thereby display an image on the display unit. If an indication to perform an adjustment of image quality enters from a wireless controller and the indicated adjustment is adjustment of brightness, contrast or color temperature, it is judged that the adjustment is to be performed by the display unit, the indication of the image quality adjustment is converted to a command and the command is transmitted to the display unit. In response, the display unit analyzes the received command and executes the image quality adjustment indicated by the command. If the indicated adjustment of image quality is other than the above, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Masaki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20030025718
    Abstract: In a drive control device 30 for controlling the driving of a display apparatus 20 that displays a video image the basis of an inputted video image signal S1 (or S2), there is provided a brightness control means (33, 21, 7) for controlling a display brightness in the display apparatus 20 in accordance with brightness information S6 corresponding to the mean brightness of the video image, and the brightness control means (33, 21, 7) controls so that the display brightness of the video image display intermittently changes by a plurality of number of times within a one-frame scanning period of the video image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20030025719
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying, monitoring and controlling information relating to an avionics radio which includes use of a multi-functional display in front of the pilot incorporating a graphical user interface so as to result in a virtual radio tuning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: GEORGE W. PALMER, CLAUDE EYSSAUTIER, MATTHEW T. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20030025720
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating user profiles of interest by identifying sets of user profiles according to common interests and notifying other user profiles of a set when one common interest profile has an update to the common interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Clement Lau, Richter A. Rafey, Ravi Gauba, Annie Wang, Klaus Hofrichter
  • Publication number: 20030025721
    Abstract: A system for determining and indicating the position of a finger removes the requirement for a conventional keyboard when providing information to a processor. Various embodiments of the present invention include combinations of ultrasonic, electromagnetic, and optical transducers and devices mounted on various locations of a user's hands and fingers. A character grid, or template, is also included to allow a user to select characters on the grid. The location of a particular finger is used to determine which keyboard character and/or control character on the character grid is being selected. A pair of glove like devices mounted on a user's hands have transducers mounted on the fingers. These transducers include piezoelectric film ultrasonic transducers. The transducers may be mounted on the fingertips of the user, on around the finger like a ring. Because the position of each finger is determined by the system, the character grid is not required to supply this information to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Joshua Clapper, Minoru Toda, Kyung-Tae Park
  • Publication number: 20030025722
    Abstract: A method of creating an interactive broadcast, comprising allowing a plurality of participants to vote on an aspect of a scenario in a virtual space, the broadcast being a computer-generated animated scenario comprising graphics and audio, the participants voting by means of user interface devices which are linked over a communications network to a server, the server being operative to process the received votes and determine how the broadcast should be collectively influenced in view of the votes received, and then generate the broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: David Trevor Cliff, Colin Andrew Low, Rycharde Jeffrey Hawkes
  • Publication number: 20030025723
    Abstract: A computer interface for use with a computer simulation system. The interface includes a first grip portion and a second grip portion pivotably coupled to the first grip portion. An actuator is coupled to at least one of the two grip portions and is configured to provide feedback to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Neil T. Olien, Pedro Gregorio, David W. Bailey, Steven P. Vassallo
  • Publication number: 20030025724
    Abstract: A system for directing users of varying and particularly limited reading skills through a reading of a received Web page which helps such users to ignore Web page clutter and focus on the page content direction. The Web page is transmitted in a plurality of selectable readable modes; at least one of which modes includes a movable indicator directing the user to read along the Web page in a predetermined orthogonal progressive pattern. The movable indicator is preferably an element highlighting a sequential block of data. For example, the highlighted block of data may be brighter than the other data on the Web page or have a color different from the color of the other data on the Web page. The Web page is transmitted over the Web in a markup language comprising control tags enabling the Web page to be selectively read in said moving indicator mode and there is a Web browser at said receiving Web station for selectively reading said received Web page in said moving indicator mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann, Lorin Evan Ullmann
  • Publication number: 20030025725
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for compressing and/or transmitting and/or receiving data representing different views of an object. In one method according to the present invention, the method stores a plurality of frames of an object wherein each of these frames represents a view of the object. The method then assigns a reference number to each of these frames, arranges these frames in a preferred layout, divides the preferred layout into a plurality of blocks having frames sharing spatial similarities, and compresses each of these blocks separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Xiaochun Nie, Christopher L. Flick
  • Publication number: 20030025726
    Abstract: Within a housing 33, a display unit 31b to display a screen and so forth by which a user selects a video stream that the user desires, a cash thrown-in slot 31d, a microphone 31e that captures voice of the user, a keyboard 31f that acquires the name and so forth of the user, a scanner 32 that captures a picture of the face and clothes of the user, and a pickup outlet 31h that ejects a CD on which original video is recorded, and so forth are provided. Based on control and authoring processing by a computer device set up within a base unit 31a, the picture and the voice of the user captured by the scanner 32, the microphone 31e and so forth, are integrated into a predetermined scene in the video stream of a movie and so forth held in advance, are recorded on a CD, and the CD is ejected to a pick up outlet 31h.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Eiji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20030025727
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing data from separate servers between browser frames. A first server opens a client browser frame set and loads data to a first frame. A second server is called from the first frame to open a window. Responsive to post command issued from the window, environment variables are passed from the second server to the first server and loaded data from the environment variables by the first server to a second frame of the frame set. Thereafter, data obtained from a second server, which is loaded in the second frame of the frame set, is available to the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas William Rath, Russell Thomas White,