Patents Issued in August 12, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040155868
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of input keys for user interfacing
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Cheuk Fai Howard Hui
  • Publication number: 20040155869
    Abstract: There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to automatically correct inaccuracies in user keystroke entries on reduced keyboards such as those implemented on a touch-sensitive panel or display screen, or on mechanical keyboard systems. A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of the specific keyboard key regions associated with the actual characters of the word interpretations proposed or offered for selection, where the distance from each contact location to each corresponding intended character may in general increase with the expected frequency of the intended word in the language or in a particular context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: B. Alex Robinson, Michael R. Longe
  • Publication number: 20040155870
    Abstract: An input system for compact devices such as cell phones and watches which includes alphanumeric and pointer capability, provides input rates similar to those of optimized-stylus-keyboard and thumboard systems, and is one-hand operable and compatible with full-face displays. Input is by means of an “eyes-free” pointing device (which may be a touchpad with tactile markings, an isometric sensor or an array of discrete keys) which may be mounted on the back of the unit. An optionally-displayed menu of input options embodies a gestural code: the action needed to select a symbol on the menu is the required gesture—even when the menu is not shown. Cursor control is through an absolute positional function; this permits experienced users to type by touch, relying on kinesthetic cues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Bruce Peter Middleton
  • Publication number: 20040155871
    Abstract: A detector for detecting touches by fingers or like body parts on a sensor comprises at least one sensing conductor, typically a grid of such conductors, extending into the sensor, a source of oscillating electrical energy at a predetermined frequency, and detection circuitry for detecting a capacitive influence on the sensing conductor when said oscillating electrical energy is applied, the capacitive influence being interpreted as a touch. The detector is advantageous in that the same sensing conductors can be used both for touch sensing and for detection of an electromagnetic stylus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: N-trig Ltd.
    Inventors: Haim Perski, Meir Morag
  • Publication number: 20040155872
    Abstract: In order to generate a risk index of stress symptoms triggered by flashing lights on a scan type video display screen, a video signal processor is provided which operates such as to implement temporal filtering and spatial filtering on a video signal applied thereto every field and detect low temporal frequency components while excluding effects due to high spatial frequencies. A risk index generator receives the low frequency components from the video signal processor and determines the risk index based thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Kenichi Kamijo
  • Publication number: 20040155873
    Abstract: To an organize EL element 21 of a pixel circuit 20 provided in association with an intersection of a scanning line Yn and a date line Xm, a driving current in accordance with digital data VDm or an analog data current IAm is supplied via the data line Xm. When halftones are controlled by digital gray scale in order to reduce power consumption, digital data VDm having a value corresponding to either H level or L level supplied to the pixel circuit 20. When halftones are controlled by analog gray scale in order to improve display quality, an analog data current IAm is supplied to the pixel circuit 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20040155874
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a flat display panel includes a scan driving unit for controlling an upper voltage value and a lower voltage value which are applied to an IC (Integrated Circuit) for driving a scan electrode of a flat display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seong-Hak Moon
  • Publication number: 20040155875
    Abstract: As shown in FIG. 7, in a power saving mode that suffers less deterioration of image quality, power savings are achieved by changing If data, changing PWM clocks, changing ABL setups, drive voltage control, or the like. In a power saving mode that suffers some deterioration of image quality, power saving control is implemented by multiplying luminance control data, bit-shifting an image, reducing the screen size, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Abe, Tatsuro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20040155876
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for displaying an image directly on the retina (6) of the eye (5). The device comprises means (1) arranged to emit laser radiation and modulating means (2) arranged in the beam path between the laser-radiation-emitting means (1) and the eye (5) so as to modulate the laser radiation. The device is characterized in that the modulating means (2) are arranged so as to modulate the phase front of the laser beam so that, when it strikes the refracting elements of the eye, it is deflected in a direction distinct from the direction obtained with unmodulated radiation. The invention also includes a method of displaying a retinal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Hans Akerlund
  • Publication number: 20040155877
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus 2, images of a subject object 210 and data defining the positions and orientations at which the images were recorded are processed to generate a three-dimensional computer model of the subject object 210. As part of the processing, image data relating to the subject object 210 is segmented from other image data in each input image to define the silhouette of the subject object in each image, and the silhouettes are processed to generate the three-dimensional computer model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: CANON EUROPA N.V.
    Inventors: Qi He Hong, Adam Michael Baumberg, Alexander Ralph Lyons
  • Publication number: 20040155878
    Abstract: Expansion and reduction of images, resolution conversion, and processing for forming only some portions of an image into a higher resolution are made easier, and processing speed is increased, and the size of circuit scale is reduced. An image processing device includes an image data input device to input and store an image, a square-area dividing device to divide the input image into one or more square areas, a recurrent triangular-area dividing device to recurrently divide each of the divided square areas into triangular areas, a triangular-area dividing control device to perform control of recurrent division into triangular areas, a coded data generation device to code the divided triangular areas, and a coded data output device to output the generated coded data. The number of pixels contained in one side of the square area generated by the square-area dividing device is made 2 raised to the N-th power+1 (where N is a natural number).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Inazumi
  • Publication number: 20040155879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to and a computer program product for lighting a computer graphics image to be rendered. It is assumed that a plurality of light sources illuminate one or more objects of the scene to be rendered thus causing a complex lighting situation. For reducing the complexity of the lighting situation and saving computing time the lighting condition is pre-calculated by approximating at least two and preferably all light sources by a single fictitious light source in a pre-calculating step. In the step of pre-calculating, there is computed an approximated light direction for at least two selected ones of the light sources and an approximated light color for the selected light sources by weighting color contributions thereof. The step of pre-calculating is performed for selected areas of a surface of objects present in the scene and results in coefficients that are stored, for these selected areas, in a lightmap or in vertices representing the object surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Martin Mittring
  • Publication number: 20040155880
    Abstract: A method for rendering participating media effects is disclosed. At least one object having a surface is defined and a lattice, aligned with a camera, is also defined that encompasses the at least one object. A volumetric line integral is computed from the camera to lattice points in a neighborhood of a particular point on the surface of the object to obtain a value. The obtained value is filtered to obtain a volumetric line integral value for the particular point on the surface. Additionally, the set of values may be cached in memory and may be used in computing additional volumetric line integrals when applicable. The set of values determined for lattice points is filtered to determine the volumetric line integral value for a particular point on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Pixar
    Inventors: Adam Woodbury, Rick Sayre, Tom Lokovic, Tom Duff
  • Publication number: 20040155881
    Abstract: An image filling method for reducing filling process in producing animation. The image filling method includes the steps of separating a reference line drawing and a line drawing into first and second closed regions; extracting at least one feature amount of the first and second closed regions; calculating variations of feature amounts between every combination of the first and second closed regions, sorting the first closed regions in ascending order by the variation of the feature amount for each of the second closed regions; generating color candidate lists for each of the second closed regions, wherein duplication of the color information is eliminated; filling each of the second closed regions with a color which is on the top of the color candidate list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Naoya Kotani, Masakatsu Aoki, Kyoko Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20040155882
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for representing sets of Chinese or Asian characters having complicated and basic ideographic symbols in collision free combinations of English letters to provide one-code-one-character ideographic character coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Ching-Shyan Wu
  • Publication number: 20040155883
    Abstract: A method of storing an array of digital data, for example, pixel data of a picture in a video bit stream, into a memory. In one embodiment, the memory includes a plurality of memory pages, and each memory page has a first memory section and a second memory section. The method includes a first step of dividing the array of digital data into a plurality of block units, while each of the block units has a plurality of odd rows and a plurality of even rows, and each of the odd rows and the even rows has at least one byte. The method further includes a second step of storing subsequent odd rows of at least one of the block units into consecutive storage locations in the first memory section, and storing subsequent even rows of at least one of the block units into consecutive storage locations in the second memory section. In this way, the memory bandwidth can be used more efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Media Tek Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Cheng Ju, Jeffrey Ju
  • Publication number: 20040155884
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing multi-pass rendering of three-dimensional objects. A rendering pipeline that includes (N) physical texture units and one or more associated buffers emulates a rendering pipeline containing more texture units (M) than are physically present (N). Multiple rendering passes are performed for each pixel. During each texture pass only N sets of texture coordinates are passed to the texture units. The number of passes required through the pipeline to emulate M texture units is M/N, rounded up to the next integer. The N texture units of the rendering pipeline perform look-ups on a given pass for the corresponding N texture maps. The texture values obtained during the texture passes are blended by texture blenders to provide composite texture values. In successive passes, the buffers are used for temporary data and the most current composite texture values. The process is repeated until all desired texture maps are applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Baker, Jeffrey A. Andrews, Mei-Chi M. Liu
  • Publication number: 20040155885
    Abstract: A cache for a graphics system storing both an address tag and an identification number for each block of data stored in the data cache. An address and identification number of a requested block of data is provided to the cache, and is checked against all of the address and identification number entries present. A block of data is provided if both the address and the identification number of the requested data matches an entry in the cache. However, if the address of the requested data is not present, or if the address matches an entry but the associated identification number does not match, a cache miss occurs, and the requested graphics data must be retrieved from a system memory. The address and identification number are updated, and the requested data replaces the former graphics data in the data cache. As a result, a block of data stored in the cache having the same address as the requested data, but having data that is invalid, can be invalidated without invalidating the entire cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Aaftab Munshi, James R. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20040155886
    Abstract: The invention establishes a target face to which a texture will be mapped and determines the start point for drawing the texture and the number of drawing iterations. In accordance with the drawing start point and the number of drawing iterations, the texture is mapped to the target face and, further, a wireframe dividing the mapped texture is drawn. When movement of the wireframe is requested, the drawing start point is changed in accordance with the amount of movement of a drag operation. When the number of lines of the wireframe is requested, the number of drawing iterations is changed in accordance with the amount of movement of a drag operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Satoshi Kasai, Teruo Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20040155887
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an image generating system and program which can generate such an image as in the real world with reduced processing load. The alpha-value for each pixel in the original image is set to a value corresponding to its Z-value. The set alpha-value is used to perform alpha-blending between the original image and a defocused image. As the difference between the Z-value of the focus and the depth value increases, the synthesis ratio of the defocused image is increased. The range of depth of field and defocusing effect are controlled by varying the corresponding relationship between the Z-value and the alpha-value. The alpha-value is set such that the alpha-value for an pixel located in an area AR1 between Z1 and Z2 will be set to &agr;1, the alpha-value for an pixel located in an area AR2 between Z2 and Z3 will be set to &agr;2 and so forth. The alpha-value is set by updating the alpha-value of a pixel located farther from an object when the object is drawn in a frame buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Namco Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Kitsutaka
  • Publication number: 20040155888
    Abstract: A method for displaying the contents of a collection of media objects having one or more associated identifying parameters. Visual images are associated with each media object and the visual images are displayed in an arrangement that is determined at least in part by the one or more parameters associated with the media object with which the visual image is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: David Gary Padgitt, Kevin B. Lacey, Niels Clausen-Stuck
  • Publication number: 20040155889
    Abstract: A system for displaying textual information includes a receiver (300) for receiving textual information that includes a plurality of words. A text segmenter (302), operatively associated with the receiver (300), segments the plurality of words into a plurality of word segments, each word segment having one or more words. A user interface device (304) receives a signal initiated by an action of a user to indicate a display rate. A display device (306) including a processor and a memory, is coupled to the text segmenter and the user interface device. The display device (306) displays the word segments in a temporal sequence by displaying a first word segment for a first display duration, that is based on the display rate, at a first position on the display device (306) and automatically proceeding to display a second word segment for a second display duration, that is based on the display rate, at a second position on the display device (306).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Reber, Bruce E. Stuckman
  • Publication number: 20040155890
    Abstract: The present invention relates to at least one image section which is represented according to a zoom factor selected from a number of different zoom factors. Either the represented image section is changed when the zoom factor is lower than a zoom threshold value, or a marker representation superimposing the image section is displaced when the zoom factor is higher than a zoom threshold value, via input elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Markus Andert, Christine Kocourek
  • Publication number: 20040155891
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a grayscale of a plasma display panel are provided. In the method, an externally input image signal is divided into frames and each frame is divided into a plurality of subfields allocated a predetermined brightness value. The method includes detecting a frequency of each grayscale, which indicates the number of cells to be displayed for each grayscale in a frame, comparing the frequency of each grayscale with a predetermined reference value, and adjusting at least one among the number of grayscales in the frame and the number of subfields in the frame according to the result of the comparison to set subfields in the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoung-Ho Kang
  • Publication number: 20040155892
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driving circuit for driving a capacitive load promptly to a target voltage. The driving circuit is to have a broad dynamic range and is to achieve a high accuracy output and saving in the surface area with low power dissipation. A first period and a second period are provided in one data driving period. During the first period, a transistor amplifier for driving the load for charging, with a setting drive voltage (V1), and a transistor amplifier for driving the load for discharging, with a setting drive voltage (V2), with V1<V2, are both enabled for actuation and, during the second period, the transistor amplifier performing either the driving for charging or the driving for discharging, and a constant current source, performing the reverse of the operation of the transistor amplifier, are actuated, for driving the load to the target voltage. This achieves a broad dynamic range, high-speed driving, high accuracy output and saving in the surface area with low power dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuchi
  • Publication number: 20040155893
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus of a liquid crystal display device in accordance with the present invention is provided with a signal section for supplying a signal to a liquid crystal panel to be evaluated; a display detection section for sensing a display state on the liquid crystal panel; an analysis section for analyzing a detection result of the display detection section. The signal section supplies to the liquid crystal panel a signal corresponding to an original tone and then, in accordance with tone transition from the original tone to an attainment tone, either (i) an overshoot test signal or (ii) both an overshoot test signal and an undershoot test signal in test driving, while sweeping either a level of the signal (i) or levels of both the signals (ii).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Tomoo Furukawa, Makoto Shiomi, Mitsuhiro Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20040155894
    Abstract: The image processing unit (603) for processing pixels of an image to be displayed on a display panel (702) in a plurality of sub-fields is designed to perform motion compensation. The motion compensation is executed in two parts which can be divided in a number of steps. In a pre-compensation part (816) optimal sub-field combinations are determined for the pixels of the image, i.e. which sub-field pixels should be on and which should be off. Motion vectors are used for this. The pre-compensation part is essential to compensate for errors which are inherent with the second part (818): shifting sub-field pixels with a discrete number of pixel positions (322) although the actual translation (308) is unequal to the extent of that discrete number of pixel positions (322).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Roy Van Dijk
  • Publication number: 20040155895
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing the resolution of a display unit by adding any one of the two-channels of the three primitive color (r1, g1, b1, r2, g2, and b2) signals output from the column driving unit and dividing the sum by 2, and generating a new channel between the two channels. Such channel outputs a new three primitive color (R1, G1, B1) signal. These three primitive colors are also located between the two pixels of the primitive image data matrix to improve the display resolution and image smoothness and to enhance the display quality by less channel of the column driving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Chih-Chang Lai
  • Publication number: 20040155896
    Abstract: In an operating system, a resource handler accepts resource requests from application modules. A resource request identifies a module from which the requested resource is to be obtained. Rather than providing the resource from the identified module, however, the resource handler provides the requested resource from an associated resource module. An association between an executable module and resource modules of different languages is created by a defined file naming convention, optionally using different directories for resource modules of different languages. Some executable modules contain a shared resource reference which can be used to create an association between multiple executable modules and a single set of shared resource modules. A language fallback mechanism allows alternative languages to be used where resource modules of the appropriate language are not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Edward S. Miller, Bjorn C. Rettig, Gregory Wilson, Shan Xu, Arul A. Menezes, Michael J. Thomson, Sharad Mathur, Roberto Cazzaro, Michael Ginsberg
  • Publication number: 20040155897
    Abstract: A user interface for a device such as a presentation player includes a sensor capable of sensing printed material. Commands for the device can thus be printed and sensed using the sensor, and the device does not require user interface hardware that is difficult to miniaturize. For a presentation player, the printed material can be a companion book or other printed material containing images or other printed sections that correspond to specific recorded audio or video sections. Sensing a symbol in or the content of a printed section indicates a data section that the player can select and play while the user views the corresponding printed section. The printed material can further include control signals to which the user applies the sensor to show authorization to use the system or to change the volume, tone, balance, time scale, brightness, contrast, color, or other operating parameter of the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Paul D. Schwartz, Shin Saikyo
  • Publication number: 20040155898
    Abstract: An interface screen used for the correlation between video data and reference picture data includes: a screen 70 for displaying the video data reproduced by a video player; and a screen 73 for displaying a reference picture to be correlated with. When an operator enters an instruction to the operation portion 74 while reproduction video, the data for a reference picture displayed on the screen is correlated with a corresponding reproduction time position of the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Taguchi, Shunsuke Nagatani, Masakazu Ogawa, Eisuke Kanno, Michitoshi Suzuki, Yutaka Egawa, Nobuyuki Yamazoe
  • Publication number: 20040155899
    Abstract: A method and system are described for presenting an arrangement of management devices operable in a managed network. According to exemplary embodiments, a number of management devices arranged in the managed network are identified. Identities of the management devices are presented in a graphical user interface (GUI). Visual cues are added to the GUI to identify a communication status between a first of the management devices and each of the remaining management devices arranged in the managed network. A software link can be provided between each presented identity and the respective management device to provide automated access to management information maintained at the respective management device. A graphical representation and an operational status of a portion of the managed network can be presented based on the management information maintained at the respective management device in the GUI via the software link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Jeffrey Richard Conrad
  • Publication number: 20040155900
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for network development, management, and monitoring includes a GUI front end that provides a graphical representation of a telecommunication network comprised of communication devices represented by GUI network elements. A network proxy provides a communication layer between the GUI and a network server and allows the GUI to connect to multiple instances of a network server without having to hard code the connections to the network servers. The network proxy transmits commands and messages between the network server and the GUI. The network server determines how to handle traffic in the network model, such as how to provide call setup, call routine, and call tear down. The network server transmits call routing commands and messages to the network proxy which dispatches them to the GUI. An external systems interface provides the mechanism for which the network server communicates with communication devices in an external system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ye Huang, William Lawton Crowe, Royal Dean Howell
  • Publication number: 20040155901
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer system realizes a user's preferences for launching applications for corresponding kinds of files. The method launches a first application to service a file unless a second application is available to service the same kind of file. If such is the case, the method presents a consent user interface to allow the user to indicate a preference between the first application and the second application. Changes to the preference are inhibited unless made via the consent user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy P. McKee, Zeke B. Odins-Lucas, J. Craig Hally
  • Publication number: 20040155902
    Abstract: This invention is a method for manipulating virtual objects displayed on a video conference broadcast by generating a computerized three dimensional image of an object to be superimposed on a first video broadcast signal from a local video camera for display on a remote video monitor, and superimposing the same object on a second video broadcast signal from a remote video camera for display on a local video monitor, grabbing a portion of the three dimensional image by placing a hand in close proximity to the portion of the image moving the hand while maintaining the hand in close proximity to the image and regenerating the three dimensional image to a new perspective view corresponding to the movement of the image with the hand to create the appearance that the hand is manipulating a virtual object displayed over the video broadcast signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Kelly L. Dempski, Mitu Singh
  • Publication number: 20040155903
    Abstract: Categorized information is presented in a compelling, distilled, pictorial/thematic fashion. Information categories, importance weightings, and status-determining criteria may be defined by a user. A user's custom-defined behaviors are used along with a category's current status, time, and location to present such visual themes. Systems provided by the invention accommodate the interplay between what a given user has defined as important to other trusted users, vendors, and services, both in location and time-sensitive environments. Systems provide a customized look and feel (theme) based on user preferences. Users may, through simple drag-and-drop ‘meta-commands’, affect/make changes to such preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Brian D. Schneeberg
  • Publication number: 20040155904
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having uniform transparency while it is being drawn. Only the new ink segment that has most recently been added to the stroke may be drawn, and areas of the new ink segment that overlap older segments of the ink stroke may be frozen, or excluded from being repainted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bodin Dresevic, Michael Kallay
  • Publication number: 20040155905
    Abstract: A list display device in which a current item frame being selectively intended at present, is arranged at a horizontally center position of a circular arc set on a liquid crystal display screen. On the left and right sides of the circular arc, which are symmetrical to each other, the item frames being precedent item frames of the current item frame and the item frames being subsequent item frames of the current item frame are arranged in a staircase pattern in a cross direction of the display screen by overlapping each other with the item frames, those immediately before and after the current item frame, being arranged in the foregrounds. These item frames are moved on the circular arc in response to a rotation input operation into a jog encoder switch by rotating the current item frame and those item frames overlapped in the stair case pattern on the right and left sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Masatoshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20040155906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a method for displaying appropriately on the display area for each processing unit such as an application according to the applied equipment. The CPU 12 processes display area acquisition requests from a plurality of processing units R1-Rn according to a display management program. The display management program decides whether use of the display area is allowed to each processing unit, considering the relationship of the plurality of display areas requested from each processing unit R1-Rn. Each processing unit R1-Rn executes display processing for the display area for which use is allowed. In this way, whether use is allowed is notified from the display management program to each processing unit R1-Rn after each processing unit R1-Rn sends the display area acquisition request. As a consequence, display in a plurality of areas by each processing unit R1-Rn can be controlled appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Takuya Sekiguchi, Taketo Yoshii, Kouichi Yasutake, Kazuo Okamura
  • Publication number: 20040155907
    Abstract: An icon display system is provided in which a train of icons (icon train) selectable on an icon menu screen are managed by a display icon management table (28) and non-display icon management table (29) to visualize a part of the entire icon train by disposing it on an orbit (50) while holding the other part of the icon train as invisible icons on the screen and displaying the invisible icons by moving the icon train on the orbit. Also, some icons are made to visually disappear at a discontinuity (52) of the orbit (50) by moving the icon train on the orbit (50) and the new icons can be made to appear at the discontinuity (52) to the screen. By representing the disappearance of icons and appearance of the new icons with a visual effect such as a variation, with time elapse, of shape, color, size or the like of the icons, the user can intuitively recognize the disappearance and appearance of the icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Kosuke Yamaguchi, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20040155908
    Abstract: A system and method of navigating a mobile device display includes highlighting a first icon in a main portion of the mobile device display. The main portion is traversed to a tertiary tray. The tertiary tray includes a second icon. The second icon is highlighted. A single navigation key is used to traverse the main portion and to highlight the second icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Annette M. Wagner
  • Publication number: 20040155909
    Abstract: A system and method of navigating a mobile device display includes highlighting a first icon in a main portion of the mobile device display. The main portion is traversed to a tertiary tray. The tertiary tray includes at least one scroll button and a second icon. The second icon is selected. A single navigation key is used to traverse the main portion and to highlight the second icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Annette M. Wagner
  • Publication number: 20040155910
    Abstract: A real-time screen recording system is disclosed. Under the design of the real-time screen recording system of this invention, the Event Inspector records updated regions of the screen when a windows update event is generated, the Periodical Extractor records the screen updates periodically. This mechanism ensures that all updates will be recorded. The Event Filter inspects the update events to identify events relating to updates of screen to ensure correct recording of the updated regions. The Sporadic Controller adjusts the working frequency of the Periodical Extractor, so that the Periodical Extractor operates in an efficient manner. The Update Region Filter filters out unnecessary updated regions to avoid heavy workload of the computer system. As a result, an efficient and correct screen recording system may be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: ACADEMIA SINICA
    Inventors: Shin-Hung Chang, Shao-Ting Lee, Jan-Ming Ho
  • Publication number: 20040155911
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method of managing animation data and related control data for recording on an enhanced navigation medium is provided. The method comprises constructing animation data comprising first image data into a first graphic MNG file in chunk data format, wherein the first graphic file comprises a first header portion, a second end portion, first control data and a frame containing additional data; and recording the first graphic file on an enhanced navigation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Seong Yoon, Jea Yong Yoon, Limoniv Alexandre, Byung Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20040155912
    Abstract: An inkjet manufacturing device 2 includes a discharger 10 for discharging a liquid material onto anything onto which the liquid material is to be discharged, a communication section 22 for transmitting and receiving data through a communication line, and a monitoring section 21 for monitoring the state of the discharger 10 and outputting data obtained by the monitoring through the communication section 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Hisashi Aruga
  • Publication number: 20040155913
    Abstract: A cartridge 100 utilizes a carrier wave of a signal transmitted from a printer PT to generate driving electric powers required for driving respective circuits elements including a sensor SS of a piezoelectric element. The generated electric power is supplied to a sensor driving voltage generator 220 and is then to the sensor SS. The sensor driving voltage generator 220 supplies the electric power to the sensor SS via a supply circuit having a higher impedance. The sensor SS is discharged via a discharge circuit having a lower impedance. Even when there is a limited electric power supply, the structure enables the sensor SS to release a large energy in a unit time and ensures a sufficient displacement of vibration in the sensor SS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kosugi, Noboru Asauchi, Yuichi Nishihara
  • Publication number: 20040155914
    Abstract: A system for adjusting the angular orientation in a first plane of a plurality of print head cartridges or groups of cartridges arranged adjacent to each other on a carriage which can be reciprocated in a Y-direction, wherein each of said cartridges or group of cartridges is mounted on said carriage to be tiltable in said first vertical plane, wherein for each of said cartridges or groups of cartridges said carriage is provided with first adjustors for adjusting the angular orientation of the respective cartridge or group of cartridges, said system being provided with second adjustors arranged remote from said carriage for adjusting said angular orientation of said cartridge or group of cartridges, said second adjustors selectively, operatively communicating with said first adjustors of a selected one of said cartridges or group of cartridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Wilhelmus H.J. Nellen, Leonardus R.A. Willems, Dirk Brouns
  • Publication number: 20040155915
    Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus provided with: a drive signal generator for generating drive signals including a plurality of drive pulses; a drive pulse selector for selecting drive pulses in accordance with a print datum of each pixel; and a head for ejecting a droplet from a nozzle provided corresponding to a channel, by changing a volume of the channel according to the drive pulses selected, wherein, the drive signal includes a micro-vibration pulse as one of the drive pulses to generate a micro-vibration of meniscus in the nozzle in such a degree that the droplet is not ejected, said micro-vibration pulse being formed of rectangular waves which include at least one micro-vibration pulse having a pulse width of (2n) AL, where AL is ½ of the acoustic resonance period of the channel, and n is an integer not smaller than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Akiko Kitami, Kazuo Asano
  • Publication number: 20040155916
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to eliminate graininess caused by superposition of noise on an image reproduced as a hard copy. To achieve this object, this invention provides an image forming apparatus which forms an image corresponding to bitmap image data, including a determination unit which determines from the bitmap image data an image data area where a noise component is superposed, and an image processing unit which performs halftone processing for the bitmap image data so as to decrease the resolution in at least a predetermined direction for the image data area where the noise component is superposed, in comparison with an image data area where no noise component is superposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Satoshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20040155917
    Abstract: An apparatus for a thermal actuator for a micromechanical device, especially a liquid drop emitter such as an ink jet printhead, is disclosed. The disclosed thermal actuator comprises a base element and a cantilevered element extending from the base element and normally residing at a first position before activation. The cantilevered element includes a first layer constructed of an electrically resistive material, such as titanium aluminide, patterned to have a first resistor segment and a second resistor segment each extending from the base element; a coupling device that conducts electrical current serially between the first and second resistor segments; and a second layer constructed of a dielectric material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion and attached to the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David P. Trauernicht, Edward P. Furlani, John A. Lebens