Abstract: A control element for a motor vehicle is disclosed that includes at least one rotary actuator and one actuating element integrated in the rotary actuator, whereby the actuating element can be moved relative to the rotary actuator, and whereby a connecting member, which interacts with an optical system, is molded to the actuating element. A connecting member extends into the optical system such that the deflection of the actuating element can be evaluated as a signal by the optical system. The optical system includes at least one light-emitting and at least one light-absorbing light guide element, whereby one light guide element is arranged on one side of the connecting member and one light guide element is arranged outside the connecting member so that a deflection of the actuating element is analogous to the absorption of light.

Abstract: A trackball adapted to an input facility is comprised of a circuit board, a retainer and an optical holder; the retainer containing a trackball; light from a light emitting device on the circuit board being reflected through the optical holder to the trackball; range and orientation of the movement by the trackball being detected by an identification device also disposed on the circuit board to solve the data of the movement of the trackball and transmit the data to a host to control a cursor accordingly.

Abstract: A transparent key (100) of an electronic device includes a patterned portion (10) and a peripheral portion (11) surrounding the patterned portion. The patterned portion and the peripheral portion co-form a pressing portion (12), or one of the patterned portion and the peripheral portion forms the pressing portion. One of the patterned portion and the peripheral portion is made of silica gel, and the other one is made of plastic. The transparent key of an electronic device further includes a driving block protruded from the patterned portion or the peripheral portion, for electrically connecting the key and a printed circuit board (PCB). The transparent key of an electronic device made of silica gel has good feeling and long using life.

Abstract: There is disclosed an energy recovering circuit with boosting voltage-up and an energy efficient method using the same that are capable of boosting the voltage factor of an energy recovered from the panel to rapidly re-apply it to the panel, to thereby reduce the charging time of a panel capacitor and improve its energy recovery efficiency. An energy recovering circuit according to the present invention includes a voltage boosting circuit for boosting a voltage factor of an energy recovered from a panel and supplying the boosted energy to the panel. An energy efficient method according to the present invention includes steps of recovering an energy from a panel to a closed loop; and a controlling the closed loop in order to supplying the energy with its voltage factor boosted to the panel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for hardware input devices provides context sensitive labels which can change according to an application running on a computer and/or the function assigned to an input element. An illustrative implementation of the method and apparatus includes employing ink having two or more electroluminescent pattern layers with an input device. Based on the context of a computer associated with the input device, an illuminated pattern identifies the current functionality of one or more of the inputs of the input device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inputting a character using a software keyboard, and more particularly relates to a method of inputting a character using software keyboard used for inputting a character of mobile terminal (such as, PDA) using touch screen. The method for inputting a character using a software keyboard comprising a certain number of blocks, each of capital characters being assigned to the respective blocks, and peripheral character block being located at peripheral regions of each of the blocks and being activated when a corresponding capital character block is touched according to the invention comprise the step of inputting the capital character by touching a capital character block to which a character to input is assigned; and, inputting the character of peripheral character block by touching a capital character block to which a character to input belongs and by dragging to a corresponding peripheral character block.

Abstract: A display and control device for medical equipment, comprising several identically configured display/control units, which are located on a base unit. The base unit is equipped with a bus, to which the display/control units and components of the medical equipment are connected. The base unit comprises connection devices, which are used to connect the display/control units to the bus. Once a display/control unit has been connected, a configuration unit transmits configuration data to the display/control unit and only then defines which function the display/control unit is to fulfill. This permits defective display/control units to be simply replaced. The construction of the display/control units is likewise simple and not susceptible to malfunctions.

Abstract: A detection system. The detection system includes a substrate, a laser, and a sensor array. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface conceptually divided into multiple areas, and a third surface. The laser is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation into the substrate and incident subsequently onto second surface areas. The sensor array is configured to capture electromagnetic radiation reflected from the second surface. If a first dielectric, having first dielectric constant, is in contact with some areas, electromagnetic radiation incident thereon experiences total internal reflection and if a second dielectric having second dielectric constant is in contact with other areas, some of the electromagnetic radiation incident thereon is reflected back into the substrate by the second dielectric.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interpretation unit configured to interpret a command written on computerized document data, a creation unit configured to create a graphical user interface (GUI) component used to perform execution of the command interpreted by the interpretation unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display document data corresponding to target data that represents a target of the execution and to display the created GUI component at a position corresponding to the command written on the document data.

Abstract: An input device having a touch pad that senses a touch of a finger for selectively providing plural types of instructions for a coupled apparatus includes a finger type recognition unit for recognizing a finger type of a finger that is sensed by the touch pad and an instruction output unit for outputting the instruction according to the finger type recognized by the finger type recognition unit.

Abstract: When it is determined on the basis of the output from a touch sensor of a touch screen 5 that a touch operation is started in the area of one on/off button displayed on a display screen of the touch screen 5, the on/off state of an on/off parameter assigned to the one on/off button is reversed. When it is determined that the touched position has moved to the area of another on/off button with the touch being maintained, an on/off parameter assigned to the another on/off button is set to the same on/off state as that of the on/off parameter assigned to the one on/off button in which the touch operation has been started. Users are allowed to simultaneously set respective on/off states of on/off parameters assigned to on/off buttons by a single touch operation on the touch screen 5.

Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes an operation unit. A coordinate input unit capable of detecting that an operating body is in contact with the operation unit and detecting a position coordinate on the operation unit of a position where the operating body contacted the operation unit. A data processing unit outputs an operation processing signal on the basis of a detection signal received from the coordinate input unit. The data processing unit outputs an operation confirmation processing signal for the input operation after an input operation is performed while the operating body is contacting the operation unit, when tapping is performed on the operation unit, with the operating body kept in contact with the operation unit.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal capable of scrolling through content data includes at least one acceleration key configured to generate an acceleration signal when the acceleration key is activated. A controller is configured to scroll through the content data at a higher speed than a predefined speed based on the acceleration signal.

Abstract: A method and system are provided to correct inaccuracies in touch location determination associated with mechanical distortion of the touch screen. Calibration parameters are provided for a touch screen characterizing an error in an expected touch signal associated with mechanical distortion of the touch screen. A force responsive touch signal having the error is detected and the touch location determined using the calibration parameters to correct the error in the touch signal. The calibration parameters are determined by applying mechanical distortion to the touch screen and characterizing the touch signal error associated with the mechanical distortion. The calibration parameters are produced using the characterization of the touch signal error.

Abstract: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as to generate one or more distinct second control signals. The control signals being used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.

Abstract: A position detection system. In representative embodiments, the position detection system comprises a support structure having a cavity, a first light source configured to emit light into at least part of the cavity, a second light source configured to emit light into at least part of the cavity, a first image sensor configured to capture at least part of the light emitted into the cavity by the first and second light sources, an article moveable relative to the support structure, a protuberance attached to the article, and a computation circuit configured to receive a signal from the first image sensor. Movement of the support structure moves the protuberance within the cavity. The computation circuit is configured to compute the location of the protuberance from shadows cast by the protuberance onto the first image sensor.

Abstract: A coordinate position detecting apparatus includes: a scanning unit that scans a predetermined scanning area in predetermined scanning precision along a horizontal direction and a vertical direction with respect to a display screen by employing detection beams respectively. A position of a light shielding article on the display screen is detected in correspondence with scanning positions of the detection beams which are light-shielded. The scanning unit includes: a drive control unit that switches a plurality of scanning modes having different scanning accuracies from each other; and a moving speed detecting unit that detects a moving speed of the light shielding article. The scanning unit selects a predetermined scanning mode from the plurality of scanning modes in response to the scanning speed detected by the moving speed detecting unit to perform a scanning operation.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for of measuring amplitude and phase variations in a spatially coherent beam of light. A beam of coherent light is made incident upon a spatial array of phase modulating elements displaying a pixellated first phase distribution. In a measuring region of said spatial array, the phase distribution is changed to a new value while retaining the first phase distribution outside the measuring region, for example by flashing a single pixel. The change in intensity resulting from the change in phase distribution is then determined.

Abstract: A system for displaying an image using a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame is provided. The system comprises an image shifter configured to cause the first sub-frame to be displayed at a first position on a display surface and the second sub-frame to be displayed at a second position on the display surface, a sensor configured to detect a movement of the image shifter, and a controller configured to receive movement information associated with the movement of the image shifter from the sensor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a body, a processor provided within the body, a control device provided within the body and configured to control an operation of the body in conjunction with the processor, and a storing unit configured to store an image adjusting parameter. The control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an image processing controller is included in the body. The image processing controller performs, based on the image adjusting parameter, predetermined image processing with respect to image data to be displayed on a display apparatus. The control device also includes a setting unit configured to set, when the determination unit determines that the image processing controller is included in the body, the image adjusting parameter stored in the storing unit to the image processing controller.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for detecting a body (801) in a zone (802) located proximate an interface (803). The body is illuminated by an electromagnetic radiation (804) comprising at least two different wavelengths, located in ranges corresponding to near infrared and to green-blue. The method comprises the following steps: selecting two wavelengths; providing, for each of said wavelengths, an image (805) of the interface and of the zone; extracting from said data of each image two sets of data (807) respectively representing at least one part of the body in the near infrared range and in the green-blue range; comparing said data sets (807). It is thus possible to detect the presence of a body by discriminating between a body entirely located beneath the interface and a body located at least partly above the interface.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is an apparatus for determining a gaze from a motion picture of a face taken by a monocular camera, and is configured to define a 3D structure of a center of a pupil on the facial picture by a static parameter and a dynamic parameter, and to determine the gaze by estimating the static parameter and the dynamic parameter. Another image processing apparatus is an apparatus for determining a motion of a 3D object from a motion picture thereof taken by a monocular camera, and is configured to define a 3D structure of the 3D object on the picture by a rigid parameter and a non-rigid parameter, and to determine the motion of the 3D object by estimating the rigid parameter and the non-rigid parameter.

Abstract: A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle has a display panel with a plurality of separately addressable pixels for displaying said image. The pixels are grouped such that different pixels in a group correspond to different views of the image. The pixels are configured in colour clusters for each physical location within the image, a cluster comprising three pixel groups each corresponding to a different primary colour. A display driver controls a transmission characteristic of each pixel to generate an image according to received image data. The drive signals applied to each pixel in the display panel are adjusted using colour correction values that vary the optical transmission of each pixel within a group and each group within a cluster so as to produce an image colour for each cluster that is independent of viewing direction.

Abstract: A technique is provided for performing a computer aided detection (CAD) analysis of a three-dimensional volume using a computer assisted detection and/or diagnosis (CAD) algorithms. The technique includes selecting one or more three-dimensional points of interest in a three-dimensional volume, forward projecting the one or more three-dimensional points of interest to determine a corresponding set of projection points within one or more two-dimensional projection images, and computing output values at the one or more three-dimensional points of interest based on one or more feature values or a CAD output at the corresponding set of projection points.

Abstract: A system and method for receiving and displaying simulated movement data on a graphical display in real-time is provided. Simulated movement data from a simulation is received. The type and location of each object to be displayed on a graphical display for a time step is extracted from the simulated movement data. The extracted data is transferred to an application for determining an appropriate three-dimensional representation to associate with each type of object in the first point in time. Each three-dimensional representation is displayed according the location of each object for the first point in time of the simulation.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting and modeling simulated movement data on a graphical display is provided. Simulated movement data from a simulation is accessed from a database. The simulated movement data comprises each location of a object on a graphical display for multiple points in time of the simulation. A three-dimensional representation is associated with the object and the three-dimensional representation is displayed at each location on the graphical display for each point in time of the simulation.

Abstract: A display device has an indicator and a control unit. The indicator has a display element for displaying image information. The control unit controls the indicator to perform a three-dimensional visual display such that an image is visualized three-dimensionally and a two-dimensional visual display such that an image is visualized two-dimensionally. Further, the control unit controls the indicator to perform the two-dimensional visual display with respect to specific information of the image information. Also, the control unit controls the indicator to display an informing image as a three-dimensional and moving image, at a predetermined informing time.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus operable to form a graphics image is disclosed.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a computer operable to represent a physical system with a graphical data structure corresponding to a matroid. The graphical data structure corresponds to a number of vertices and a number of edges that each correspond to two of the vertices. The computer is further operable to define a closed pathway arrangement with the graphical data structure and identify each different one of a number of fundamental cycles by evaluating a different respective one of the edges with a spanning tree representation. The fundamental cycles each include three or more of the vertices.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method to process a model of an object includes mapping a mesh representation of the model onto a plane to form a planarized mesh; generating a shape image by associating a shape descriptor with each vertex of the planarized mesh; forming a color image of the planarized mesh by using the shape descriptor to encode a color of each mesh vertex; creating a region map of the color image corresponding to areas of small shape variation; fitting a coarse two dimensional mesh to the region map and computing a target representation from the coarse two dimensional mesh. In the presently preferred embodiment the target representation is expressed as a multiresolution subdivision surface representation. The shape descriptors can include surface normals obtained from the mesh representation and, more generally, can be descriptive of one of surface normal, Gaussian curvature, mean curvature, shape index and curvedness.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object from a three-dimensional image of the object. In an expansion mode a region expansion process is carried out, the results of said process simply being completely or partly undone again in a contraction mode. A quasi-continuous similarity measure can be used to determine whether or not a voxel belongs to the structure to be segmented. The expansion taking place in the region expansion process always involves the voxels having the largest similarity measure each time.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for displaying the result of the image simulation predicting color tone, contrast and brightness of image shown as a viewing angle of observer. The invention includes steps that perform transformation of coordinates on the basis of a viewing angle of observer and projection of image generating new image in perspective. As a result, the result of the image simulation can be shown and analyzable with reality. Moreover, the invention affords convenience in the analysis of the result of image simulation.

Abstract: A display system utilizing a graphics box as a primary component is disclosed. The graphics box greatly increases the flexibility and aesthetic appeal of displayed graphics cards. The ability to mass produce the graphics box, use multiple graphics boxes to deliver displays of different size and information content and, especially, the ability to reuse the graphics boxes, means that costs of the disclosed display system are relatively low and are achievable without a decrease in the aesthetic appeal of the entire display. Structures for supporting the graphics box to further increase the flexibility of the display system are also disclosed.

Abstract: A virtual mounter system is disclosed. The system can implement a mounter through an animation model or a simulation model before users substantially access a real mounter. The system can allow users to learn a necessary technology related to drive and maintenance of a mounter thorough animation or simulation for the mounter. The system can support driving environment of a real mounter to users as examples of setup and motions are displayed. The system can show contents (an assembly structure of a mounter, functions of each assembly, an operation sequence and an operation method) which is described in a user's manual for a mounter, in real time, through an animation model or a simulation model of the mounter.

Abstract: Motion capturing markers coupled to at least one motion capture object, comprising: generating a plurality of Configurations, each Configuration including partitioning parameters; partitioning a motion capture beat into beat partitions using the plurality of Configurations; reconstructing the beat partitions, wherein each beat partition is reconstructed using each Configuration and corresponding motion capture camera calibration information to generate point data representing a marker; and merging the point data to form at least one master point file.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and on the first LCD, a two-dimensional game screen including objects positioned in a two-dimensional coordinate is displayed. When a two-dimensional coordinate of a specific object out of the objects positioned in the two-dimensional coordinate satisfies a predetermined condition, a three-dimensional coordinate of each of the objects is calculated on the basis of the two-dimensional coordinate of each of the objects. The object is modeled in the calculated three-dimensional coordinate, moved by a predetermined animation, and then shot by a virtual camera. Accordingly, a game screen of an image (animation) of the three-dimensional virtual space shot by the virtual camera is displayed on the second LCD.

Abstract: In systems and methods for graphic reproduction of an image including textural information, multiple rows or blocks of texture data can be retrieved from system memory in response to the single read command. In this manner, efficient use of system bus is achieved, and an increase in the texture cache hit ratio is realized, leading to more efficient system operation, and reduced system bus usage for texture data retrieval.

Abstract: The present invention provides a video processing system including a plurality of buses, a plurality of codecs and a plurality of memories. The buses provide different access routes. The processed video data and the original video data are stored in different memories through different access routes. The video data of same pictures may be divided into a plurality of parts for processing by different codecs respectively.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of graphics processing. For example, a device in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a virtual machine monitor to replace a first memory address reference of a graphics instruction intended for execution by a graphics device of a computing platform with a second memory address reference corresponding to a physical memory address of said graphics device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing visual consistency for a dataset of images by using observed and formulated display attributes. The formulated display attributes are derived from an analysis of a first set of images from the image repository. The formulated display attributes from the first set are combined with observer's display attributes to determine scaling factors. The optimized display attributes are then derived from the calculated scaling factors for a second set of images. In another aspect, a system and method is described where a digital image is processed in order to enhance viewing of the image on a display device in accordance to the optimized attributes associated with the observer.

Abstract: A X-Y plane is divided into a plurality of tile rows. Each tile row covered by a triangle to be processed includes one or more tiles. The tiles in the same tile row are rastered in a specified order.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to generate automatically a mip-map chain of texture images from a portion of texture image data such that it may be used in texturing a computer graphic image. A portion of the texture image data is stored temporarily and is filtered to generate at least one lower level of mip-map data from the texture data. This lower level of mip-map texture image data is then stored for use in texturing. Preferably these are stored on a tile-by-tile basis where a tile is a rectangular area of the image being displayed.

Abstract: An improvement to sigmoidal gaussian cusp knee (SGCK) gamut mapping algorithm useful for gamut boundary descriptors (GBDS) that are defined with multiple shells rather than a single hull. The gamut mapping algorithm involves a lightness-rescaling step and a chroma compression step, in which points on each of the shells of the source GBD are mapped to corresponding points on the respective shells of the destination GBD. In situations where there is a mismatch between the number of shells in the source GBD and the destination GBD, such as a case where one of the GBDs is defined by a singly-shelled GBD whereas the other is defined by a two-shelled GBD, an induced hue slice may be constructed so as to simulate the missing shell. In addition, an induced hue slice may be constructed in a situation where lightness rescaling results in a mapping that is too steep between source and destination.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods for tetrahedral color conversion for image processing are disclosed. In one implementation a system includes memory at least capable of storing and/or holding one or more color conversion look-up tables. The system also may include an image processor at least capable of determining address values in response to input color component values, accessing a selected first look-up table of two or more first look-up tables in response to the address values, and of generating output color component values in response to accessing the selected first look-up table. The system may also include an image output device responsive to the output color component values.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed to render image data over time. In one embodiment, a mapping from image data values to first and second sets of subpixels in a plurality of output frames uses brightness versus viewing angle performance measures to reduce color error when the image is viewed on the display panel at an off-normal viewing angle. In another embodiment, temporal subpixel rendering is used to improve the viewing angle in LCD displays or to improve subpixel rendering in other display technologies.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to applying effects to a target via compositing rendering layers. In aspects, an intent is determined and a area of a target copied to a surface based on the intent. Then, rendering may continue to the target without changing to another target. Later, the surface is composited back to the target to apply an effect to the target.

Abstract: A system that provides graphics commands that represent graphics or an image, to a consuming process. The graphics commands are represented by a visual tree which includes objects and resources describing the objects. The objects and resources are communicated to a composition engine that creates an analogous composition tree that is analogous to the visual tree. The composition tree is used to render the graphics or image.

Abstract: A method of navigating along a biological object with a lumen represented by a three-dimensional volume data set comprises generating a plurality of navigation segments connectable in a sequence, each segment having a start point within the lumen, a direction and a length. The navigation may be used for a camera in a virtual endoscopic examination, for example. The direction of each segment is determined by casting groups of rays outwards from the start point of the segment to the object wall, and calculating an average ray length for each group. The group having the largest average ray length is selected, and the axial direction of this group is used as the direction for the segment. The average ray lengths of the groups may be weighted using the direction of the previous segments to bias the navigation generally forward, or may be weighted using a view direction of the camera to allow a user to turn the camera into a chosen branch in the object.

Abstract: A method and system for displaying a menu to a user via a user interface. The processor with instructions identifies an image type corresponding to a displayed image. Upon this determination, the processor selects a mask corresponding to the image type. Thereafter, the processor modifies the displayed image using the selected mask. As a result, a user can access other applications via an overlay menu while experiencing a current page or current application. Furthermore, a user select menu items and navigate through a menu while viewing an image in the background via a semi-transparent mask.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for the efficient and accurate facial likeness reconstruction or composite generation from a witnesses' recollection as performed in conjunction with cognitive interview techniques employing a selection menu of facial features or other facial accessories from pre-selected groupings of such features and accessories.