Abstract: An imager architecture that utilizes column sampling circuitry that can support pixel-wise automatic gain selection (AGS). The column sampling circuitry samples the pixel output signals directly (e.g., with unity gain) or after amplification in a column level amplifier while supporting correlated double sampling (CDS) in both situations.

Abstract: A synthetic acceleration shape bound primitives composing a 3-D scene, and is defined using a group of fundamental shapes arranged to bound the primitives, and for which intersection results for group members yield an ultimate intersection testing result for the synthetic shape, using a logical operator. For example, two or more spheres are used to bound an object so that each of the spheres is larger than a minimum necessary to bound the object, and a volume defined by an intersection between the shapes defines a smaller volume in which the object is bounded. A ray is found to potentially intersect the object only if it intersects both spheres. In another example, an element may be defined by a volumetric union of component elements. Indicators can determine how groups of shapes should be interpreted. Synthetic shapes can be treated as a single element in a graph or hierarchical arrangement of acceleration elements.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of catheter and radiating coil location in a human body and in particular to the determination over time of the location of the tip of a catheter as it is inserted and during its use in the body. In particular when a radiating coil is used in conjunction with a catheter, a coil locating device can be used to determine the distance the coil is from the device and hence its depth in the body of a patient. To assist a clinician using the coil-locating device, a display is provided that shows both a reference image of a part or portion of a body (non-subject body) and an image of the coil located on the display with reference to the reference image. This is achieved by locating the coil-locating device on or over a predetermined landmark on the patient's body. The coil and its associated signal wires can be incorporated into a stylet, guide wire or a catheter.

Abstract: Dynamic three-dimensional image electrical capacitance tomography sensor system is disclosed. The technique generates, from the measured capacitance, a whole volume image of the region enclosed by the a geometrically three-dimensional capacitance sensor. A real time, three-dimensional imaging of a moving object or a real time volume imaging (i.e., four-dimensional (4D)) allows for a total interrogation scheme of the whole volume within the domain of an arbitrary shape of geometry to be implemented. The system comprises a 3D capacitance sensor, data acquisition electronics and the image reconstruction algorithm which enables the volume-image reconstruction. The electrode shape of the capacitance sensor can be rectangular, triangular, trapezium, or any shape to enclose a 3D section of the measuring domain and to distribute the electrical field intensity in three directions with equal sensitivity strength.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) model display device and a 3D model display system in which even a beginner can easily edit a 3D model, and edit and watch a moving image using a 3D model while maintaining harmony of a model, a texture, and a motion. When a user clicks a selection button 508b of “trying-on”, performed is a preview display about how an avatar possessed by the user is displayed when the avatar wears a cloth, a hairstyle, an item, and an accessory desired to be tried on. A head size, a body portion size, and a bust portion size of the avatar possessed by the user are managed in a user management table. Display data related to the preview display displayed on the display screen 114 of the 3D model display device is dynamically generated by a 3D model display server based on the head size, the body portion size, and the bust portion size.

Abstract: A design support apparatus includes: a section that sets, as a reference plane in a virtual space, the plane of a mesh which is selected as a first mesh, from among meshes forming the shape of an object model displayed in the virtual space; a section that sets a vertex of the first mesh as a reference point; a section that sets a side of the first mesh that includes the reference point as a first axis and sets a axis other than the first axis that is included in the reference plane and passes the reference point as a second axis to set the first and second axes as coordinate axes; a section that sets the dimension of each coordinate axis; and a section that displays, in addition to the object model, the coordinate axes and the dimensions as a coordinate system of the reference plane.

Abstract: A first representation of a group of vertices may be received and a second representation of said group of vertices may be determined based on said first representation. A first set of instructions may be executed on said second representation of the group of vertices for providing a third representation of said group of vertices. The first set of instructions is associated with vertex position determination. The third representation of the group of vertices is subjected to a culling process.

Abstract: In a device and associated method for reconstruction and visualization of projection data, projection data are stored per slice and are subjected to an image reconstruction procedure in parallel within arbitrary slice planes in a processor-controlled filtering process that is executed n times, wherein volume data that are created can already be made available (loaded) for a direct visualization.

Abstract: Display apparatus, multi display system, and control method are provided. The display apparatus which comprises a display unit displaying an image, the display apparatus include: a storing unit in which information about a maximum resolution of the display unit is stored; a signal processing unit which captures an area of an input image signal of a high resolution, and processes the captured image signal to enable the display unit to display the input image signal if the input image signal has a resolution higher than the maximum resolution of the display unit stored in the storing unit; and an output unit which outputs the image signal input to the signal processing unit to an outside. With this, display apparatus, a multi media system and a control method thereof are capable of displaying an input image signal having resolution higher than a maximum resolution of a display unit.

Abstract: A method of sampling one or more respiratory profile characteristics and monitoring a variety of respiratory profile parameters. The sampled respiratory characteristics include respiratory flow rate, respiratory pressure, and partial pressure of at least one constituent of a patient's respiration. The method detects patient breaths, determines whether each breath is a spontaneous breath or a ventilator-induced breath and calculates various respiratory profile parameters based on the sampled measurements. The method displays the respiratory profile parameters in graphic and numeric forms. Preferably, the method allows a user to select the displayed respiratory profile parameters.

Abstract: A method generates frame segments of an image frame depending on values of data elements included in a set of data elements. The method includes the acts of: (a) partitioning a plurality of tuples of values of data elements included in the set of data elements into a plurality of clusters of tuples; (b) classifying a reference tuple into a cluster of the plurality of clusters of tuples depending on a similarity metric; and (c) generating a new data value depending on classification data related to the classification of the reference tuple into a cluster of the plurality of clusters of tuples. The value of a reference data element is updated with the new data value. A frame segment can be generated depending on the new data value and then displayed in a display segment of a display.

Abstract: When rendering a stroked curve for display in a graphics processing system, an input stroked curve 1 defined in user space 2 is received by the system. The portion of a canonical space 5 that corresponds to the received stroked curve 1 is determined by determining the portion of a canonical curve 12 defined in the canonical space 5 that corresponds to the received stroked curve 1. Then, for each of a plurality of sampling points within one or more primitives 4 that are generated to cover the received stroked curve 1? following its projection into surface space 3, it is determined whether a corresponding location in canonical space 5 (to the sampling point in surface space 3) is within the portion of the canonical space that corresponds to the received stroked curve, e.g. by looking up suitable information that has been stored (in advance) in one or more graphics textures. Data for rendering the received stroked curve 1 (e.g.

Abstract: An input stroked curve 1 that is received by a graphics processing system can be rendering using at least two, and preferably more, rendering processes that are available for use by the system. The process or processes that are used for rendering the received stroked curve 1 are selected based on whether the input stroked curve comprises one or more regions having a particular characteristic or characteristics, e.g. whether the input stroked curve 1 comprises one or more self-overlapping regions. Preferably, the at least two rendering processes are each capable of correctly rendering different sets of stroked curves. Furthermore, the least two rendering process preferably differ in the processing burden that they place on the graphics processing system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a PDMA animation production method including the steps of storing animation materials constituting an animation and information separately when a PDMA is produced, the animation materials including texts, graphics, movies, and audios; partitioning frame information as desired, the frame information being construction units of the animation; separating the partitioned frame information into respective information; storing animation information together with information regarding texts, graphics, movies, and audios constituting the animation while interworking with a DB program, the animation information including the frame information; interpreting information stored in the DB program by the PDMA; and retrieving animation sources matching with the interpreted information and combining corresponding data by the PDMA to play the animation.

Abstract: A display apparatus capable of adjusting the time for detecting input signals from an external input source is provided. The display apparatus includes a signal detector which checks a plurality of input sources in sequence for a predetermined basic time and detects signals input from the plurality of input sources, and a controller which controls the signal detector to adjust the basic time and recheck the plurality of input sources if no signal is detected within the basic time. Accordingly, it is possible to recognize an input source from which input signals are detected late.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for operating multiple Operating Systems (OSs) in a multi-modem mobile communication terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of modems and a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DEMUX) module. The modems support an access to different wireless networks. The MUX/DEMUX module receives data of the corresponding wireless network from the modems, searches for OSs corresponding respectively to the modems with reference to a modem-OS mapping table, and provides data of the corresponding modems to the searched OSs.

Abstract: A rendering method is provided. The rendering method forms a pixel structure in which a plurality of red, green, blue, and white (RGBW) sub pixels is arranged in a predetermined pattern, and renders a plurality of pixels which configure an image using the plurality of RGBW sub pixels on a display.

Abstract: A smooth curve is represented in a graphics texture by setting the texels that are inside the curve 1 to a value greater than a predetermined threshold value and the texels that are outside the curve 1 to a value less than the threshold value (or vice-versa). The texture value returned for a sampled position can thus be used to determine whether the sampled position should be treated as being inside the curve 1 or not. The texture is optimised for sampling using bi-linear filtering.

Abstract: An image processing method which determines and depth-unfolds a depth folding region in an input depth image. A depth folding region of an input depth image may be determined based on a variance of the input depth image, a gradient image, and the like. A predetermined first depth value may be added to a depth value of each pixel of the determined depth folding region and depth information of the input depth image may be updated.

Abstract: A raster image process method and device, for solving an issue existed in the current technique that it is unable to distinguish between the white color filled in a raster image when constructing the raster image and the white color in an image object of a page description filled in the raster image afterwards. The method includes: the raster image is constructed and the white color is filled in the raster image; a process of changing a color for the white color in an image object described in a page is carried out, and the image object is filled into the raster image. Thereby the white color filled in the raster image when constructing the raster image and the white color in an image object of a page description filled in the raster image afterwards can be distinguished.

Abstract: A touch screen display apparatus includes a panel including a light emitting device for displaying a display image and an optical sensor for generating a touch image object; a touch sensing unit on the panel for sensing a touch of a touch object; and a light emission controller for controlling the light emitting device to emit light when a touch of the touch object is sensed by the touch sensing unit.

Abstract: An image display device includes an image extracting unit that extracts one or more representative images satisfying a predetermined condition from a series of images captured in time-series; and a display unit that displays the one or more representative images extracted by the image extracting unit in a list and displays information of an image not extracted by the image extracting unit.

Abstract: A display apparatus adapted to generate image data for controlling a first light modulation section adapted to project a first window, and image data for controlling a second light modulation section adapted to project a second window smaller than the first window and projected so as to overlap with the first window, includes: a first image conversion section adapted to convert a resolution of input image data in accordance a resolution of the first light modulation section to form the image data for controlling the first light modulation section; and a second image conversion section adapted to extract data included in a range corresponding to a resolution of the second light modulation section among the input image data to form the image data for controlling the second light modulation section.

Abstract: A method for clearing blur images of a monitor is disclosed. An original image data is provided. The original image data is transformed from an RGB encoded format to a YUV encoded format. The transformation is compressed as the original image data with the YUV encoded format. The compressed original image data is written in a random access memory (RAM) using a predefined method. The compressed original image data is decompressed. The original image data is transformed from the YUV encoded format to the RGB encoded format. The original image data is outputted to a display device using a driving unit.

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile, present a user an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, detect a change in a developmental growth of the user, adapt a portion of the characteristics of the avatar responsive to the detected change, and present the user the adapted avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a first receiving unit which receives a first image data and an auxiliary information for receiving a second image data forming an improved image in cooperation with the first image data; a second receiving unit which receives the second image data; an image processing unit which generates an image; and a controller which controls the second receiving unit to receive the second image data based on the auxiliary information and controls the image processing unit to generate the improved image based on the first image data and the second image data.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for merging photos to obtain a merged photo using an electronic device captures at least one portrait photo using a camera module of the electronic device and edits the at least one portrait photo to obtain at least one cropped photo. The electronic device and the method for merges the selected cropped photo with the captured scenic photo to obtain a merged photo.

Abstract: To allow a viewer to easily understand the details of a moving image shot by an image capturing apparatus in the case where the moving image is browsed. A camerawork detecting unit 120 detects the amount of movement of an image capturing apparatus at the time of shooting a moving image input from a moving-image input unit 110, and, on the basis of the amount of movement of the image capturing apparatus, calculates affine transformation parameters for transforming an image on a frame-by-frame basis. An image transforming unit 160 performs an affine transformation of at least one of the captured image and a history image held in an image memory 170, on the basis of the calculated affine transformation parameters. An image combining unit 180 combines, on a frame-by-frame basis, the captured image and the history image, at least one of which has been transformed, and causes the image memory 170 to hold a composite image.

Abstract: A method for rendering static labels in a mobile device in applications such as map applications. Panning increments are received for panning a previously rendered frame to a panned frame and a rendering region is defined based on the panning increments. Ones of the labels that overlap the region and that overlap with the panned frame by a threshold amount are determined. Geometry that overlaps the rendering region is rendered and a portion of the previously rendered frame is copied. The ones of the labels are rendered to provide the panned frame.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a page display manner, a mobile electronic device, and a storage medium thereof are provided. In the present method, a scaling signal is first received. Then, a display ratio of a page in a touch screen is adjusted according to a variation of the scaling signal. If the display ratio is smaller than or equal to a specific ratio, the page is adjusted according to the display ratio and other open pages are displayed along with the page on the screen. Thereby, a user can resize the page, inspect all the open pages, and switch between all the open pages simply through the touch screen. As a result, it is made very convenient to browse multiple pages by using the mobile electronic device.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image input section receiving the input of an image, an image converter generating a converted image by magnifying or reducing the image, the input of which is received by the image input section, based on a predetermined conversion magnification, a small moving object probe specifying a small moving object area, which is an image area including a small moving object, in the image, the input of which is received by the image input section, a small moving object area converter generating a magnified image of the small moving object by magnifying the small moving object area, which is specified by the small moving object probe, and an image generator generating a synthetic image by synthesizing the magnified image of the small moving object generated by the small moving object area converter with the converted image generated by the image converter.

Abstract: A map data comparison device by which a plurality of map data is presented including: a first retrieval member which retrieves a first map data; a second retrieval member which retrieves a second map data; a display member which displays the first map data and the second map data in the vicinity of each other; an operation member by which a first display status of either of the first map data or the second map data is operated; and a follow-processing member which changes a second display status of the other one of the first map data or the second map data so as to follow the operation of the operation member.

Abstract: A method of inputting an electronic address into an address field on a communications device, the electronic address including a plurality of text characters and non-text symbol characters. The method includes: receiving a plurality of inputs for the address field through a user input interface of the device; adding text characters to the address field corresponding to the inputs; and detecting among the inputs repetitive successive inputs of a predetermined delimiter, selecting a non-text symbol character from a set of non-text symbol characters in dependence on a number of times the delimiter has been repetitively input without any intervening inputs, and adding the selected non-text symbol character to the address field.

Abstract: There is provided a display control method capable of reducing unnecessary processing and unnecessary power consumption caused by is. The display control method uses an update judgment unit (33) for judging whether a display content has been updated, a characteristic amount extraction unit (36) for obtaining the characteristic amount of the display content, a control unit (20) for the characteristic amount extraction unit (36) to reference the obtained characteristic amount and decide a correction parameter, and a display content correction unit (35) for correcting the display content according to the correction parameter and outputting the corrected display content to a display device (40). When the update judgment unit (33) has judged that the display content is not updated, the control unit (20) cuts off power supply to the characteristic amount extraction unit (36).

Abstract: A color gamut mapping method for multimedia equipment is disclosed. This method performs color gamut mapping on a video signal received by the multimedia equipment and gives an output, wherein the video signal is in a first color color gamut while display light of the multimedia equipment is in a second color gamut.

Abstract: A system for generating a colored light comprises a set of illuminant types and a processor. The set of illuminant types is associated with a chromaticity gamut, and the set of illuminant types comprises at least five illuminant types that are each associated an illuminant type hue angle. The processor is configured to determine, based at least in part on a mapping, an output level set for a received color coordinate. The mapping comprises associating each color coordinate with an output level set that uses a set of hue-adjacent illuminant types. Hue-adjacent illuminant types comprise a group of illuminant types that are determined to be adjacent in a circular ordered list of illuminant types that is circularly ordered according to the illuminant type hue angle.

Abstract: A system for generating a colored light comprises a set of illuminant types and a processor. The set of illuminant types is associated with a chromaticity gamut, and the set of illuminant types comprises at least five illuminant types that are each associated with an illuminant type hue angle. The processor is configured to determine, based at least in part on a mapping, a sequence of one or more output level sets that are associated with changing a first generated colored light associated with a first color coordinate to a second generated colored light associated with a second color coordinate. The mapping comprises associating each color coordinate with an output level set that uses a set of hue-adjacent illuminant types. Hue-adjacent illuminant types comprise a group of illuminant types that are determined to be adjacent in a circular ordered list of illuminant types which is circularly ordered according to the illuminant type hue angle.

Abstract: This invention relates to an ambient lighting system for a display device including an image display region. Controllable light sources that are substantial point-like and disposed in an array are provided, each being adapted to emit a light beam of at least one wavelength onto an region visually appearing to the viewer peripherally surrounding the display. An image analyzer determines the color information from video data of the displayed image, the color information being used as a control parameter for controlling the emission color of the emitted light beams. Due to the substantial point-like property of the light sources along with their arrangement within the array the emitted light beams onto the region forms a pixelated image so as to provide at least a partial extension of the image display region.

Abstract: A display device is provided with a display section; a drive section driving the display section; and a light shutter control section controlling a light shutter. The display section is configured to display first and second images on the display section during a specific period. The drive section is configured to allow perceiving an image only from a direction in a specific viewing angle range at least during the specific period. The light shutter control section controls the light shutter so that the light shutter is placed into a transmitting state allowing transmitting light during a period during which the first image is displayed in the specific period and placed into a shielding state shielding light during a remaining period in the specific period. The first and second images are generated so that an image generated by adding brightnesses of respective pixels of the first and second images has no correlation to the first image.

Abstract: A display device having a scanning line, a data line, a power supply line, and a pixel. The pixel having a first transistor supplied with a selecting pulse of a scanning signal, a holding capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode that holds an image signal from the data line and the first thin film transistor. The pixel also having a second transistor controlled by the image signal, a gate of the second transistor being electrically connected to the second electrode, and a luminescent element provided between a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode opposed to the pixel electrode driven by current that flows between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. A potential of the gate electrode of the second transistor being able to be shifted by supplying to the first electrode of the holding capacitor with a predetermined signal after the selecting pulse becomes non-selective.

Abstract: A display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device includes an organic layer on an auxiliary wiring is removed with high precision by one operation and, thereby, the yield and the productivity are improved. A lower electrode is formed by patterning in each pixel on a substrate. An auxiliary wiring including a light absorption layer is formed between individual pixels. An organic layer is formed on the substrate while covering the lower electrodes. Laser irradiation is conducted from the organic layer side, the laser light is converted to heat in the light absorption layer exposed at a portion under the organic layer, and the organic layer portion above the light absorption layer is removed selectively. An upper electrode is formed on the organic layer and is connected to the light absorption layer portion of the auxiliary wiring.

Abstract: A light source device, performing partial lighting operation and having a function of detection of illuminated light with improved precision is provided. The light source device including: a light source section having a plurality of partial lighting sections each controlled separately; a drive means for time-divisionally driving the light source section with a pulse signal so that a whole lighting time period and a partial lighting time period are mixed along time base; a photoreception device receiving light from the light source section; and a sampling means for sampling, at a timing in the partial lighting time period, a photoreception signal from the photoreception device. The drive means controls a width of the pulse signal immediately before a transition from the whole lighting time period to the partial lighting time period so that the width is equal to or less than a given threshold value.

Abstract: [Problem] A plasma display device is provided which is capable of reducing an afterimage (burning) in a short time. [Means to solve the problem] At start time of first afterimage reduction driving mode, the number of times of discharge corresponds to first driving power, then gradually to second driving power and, at its termination time, the number of times of discharge corresponds to the second driving power, then gradually, to the first driving power. At start time of third afterimage reduction driving mode, power to be supplied to each region changes from the first driving power gradually to the fourth driving power and, at its termination time, the driving power changes from the first driving power to the fourth driving power and, at its termination, the driving power changes from the fourth driving power gradually to the first driving power.

Abstract: An inkjet printer with a frame and a printhead module further includes an adjusting piece and a pair of adjusting units, for adjusting a distance between the printhead module and a printing medium. An indicating portion and a scale portion are further disposed on the adjusting unit to indicate up-and-down moving amplitude of the adjusting piece. Thereby, the up-and-down moving amplitude of the printhead module is quantized, and the adjustment of the distance between the printhead module and the printing medium is precisely controlled.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the creation, particularly also for the deflection of ink droplets of different sizes, particularly in a print image of a continuously operating ink jet printer, a continuous cohesive ink jet being projected by a nozzle of a pressure chamber, in which a sequence of sequence of sound pulses (140, 142) impinges upon the cohesive ink jet (9) transversely of the distribution direction (100), and with each sound pulse (140, 142) a section (12) of the ink jet (9), which acts upon the sound pulse, is removed from the cohesive ink jet (9) and deflected from its original distribution direction (100), thus interrupting the original ink jet (9) and forming an ink jet in the original distribution direction (100) from the remaining sections (Sa, Sb), the respective lengths of which can be selected from the chronological interval between two consecutive sound pulses (140, 142).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an organic dry jet printing head and a printing device and method using the same, in which a pattern (thin film) can be formed through the repetitive injection of a high-speed jet by regularly and repeatedly opening and closing an on-off valve in a pattern (thin film) forming region using the on-off valve and a control unit. The organic dry jet printing head and the printing device and method using the same are advantageous in that processes can be performed at atmospheric pressure, a large-area organic electronic device can be manufactured and high-resolution patterns can be printed, thereby improving productivity and economic efficiency.

Abstract: A continuous ink jet printer comprising an ink gun for forming an ink jet; an arrangement of electrodes for trapping electric charges on ink drops of the ink jet and for creating an electrostatic field for deflecting drops carrying trapped electric charges; and a gutter having an ink-receiving orifice for receiving ink drops of the ink jet which are not used for printing; a gutter flow path for flow of ink from the ink-receiving orifice of the gutter, through and away from the gutter; an air recirculation line for conveying at least some of any air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as to re-enter the gutter flow path either through the ink-receiving orifice or through a connection into the gutter flow path downstream of the ink-receiving orifice; and a vent for venting at least some of the air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as not to re-enter the gutter flow path.

Abstract: A recording head having a plurality of recording elements that are grouped into a plurality of blocks and ejecting ink by driving the recording elements in a time-divisional manner includes driving units configured to drive the recording elements, an input unit configured to receive an enable signal that defines a period during which the driving of the recording elements is enabled at one ink ejection, and a control unit configured to control the time-divisional driving by the driving units on the basis of pulses detected during the period defined by the enable signal received by the input unit.

Abstract: A liquid jetting device includes a plurality of nozzles. A driving signal generated by a driving signal generating section is applied to a charge-discharge actuator in correspondence with each nozzle to jet liquid from the nozzle. A charging source potential preliminary adjusted wave-form signal is pulse modulated and electrically amplified using a charging source potential transistor pair connected in a push-pull configuration, and output by a ripple filter to a collector of a charge-use transistor of the driving signal generating section to make a preliminary adjustment to the charging source potential for the driving signal generating section.

Abstract: When the number of sheets that have been printed has reached the number of sheets guaranteed for printing, a number representing a upper limit of the number of sheets that can be printed, an ink jet printer declines to perform printing with an ink cartridge for which the number of sheets guaranteed for printing has been set, but when the number of sheets printed has not reached the number of sheets guaranteed for printing, performs printing of an image onto a recording sheet S by using the ink cartridge, the ink jet printer determining the number of sheets remaining N on the basis of the number of sheets printed that have been printed, and displaying on a display unit 82 the number of sheets remaining information display screen 80 incorporating a number of sheets remaining display unit 80b that causes visual recognition of a relation between the number of sheets guaranteed for printing and the number of sheets remaining.