Patents Issued in March 31, 2011
  • Publication number: 20110074745
    Abstract: A data driving circuit for a display panel, the data driving circuit including a driving integrated circuit including a plurality of data driving units configured to supply image data through a plurality of data link lines to data lines of the display panel and including a driving control unit configured to generate a source output enable signal for determining output timings of the image data from the data driving units; and a package body including a mount region in which the driving integrated circuit is mounted. Further, the driving control unit is further configured to first supply the source output enable signal to a corresponding data driving unit connected to a corresponding data link line having a greatest length among the data link lines such that the corresponding data driving unit outputs the image data earlier than other data driving units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Kuk-Hui CHANG, Young-Nam Lee
  • Publication number: 20110074746
    Abstract: A driving circuit for a display device comprises a plurality of data driving units supplying image data to a display portion of a panel through data link lines formed at a non-display portion of the panel; and a driving controller sequentially generating a plurality of source output enable signals determining output timing of the image data from the data driving units, and directly supplying each of the source output enable signals to each of the data driving units to sequentially drive the data driving units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Kuk-Hui Chang, Young-Nam Lee
  • Publication number: 20110074747
    Abstract: The present invention realizes proper driving circuits in a driving-circuit integral type liquid crystal display device which has an increased screen size. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driving circuit which supplies video signals to video signal lines formed on the liquid crystal display panel. The driving circuit is comprised of a first driving circuit which is formed in a step similar to a step for forming pixels provided to the liquid crystal display panel and a second driving circuit which is connected to the liquid crystal display panel after formation of the liquid crystal display panel. The first driving circuit is constituted of a switching circuit which is capable of distributing an output of the second driving circuit to a plurality of video signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Shinji Yasukawa, Hidetoshi Kida, Yoshihisa Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20110074748
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a lower panel and an upper panel facing each other. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the lower panel and the upper panel. An attachment member attaches the lower panel and the upper panel and encloses the liquid crystal layer. A gate driver is integrated on the lower panel. The gate driver generates a gate signal and includes a plurality of stages. A plurality of control signal lines transmit a control signal to the gate driver. A passivation layer is disposed on the gate driver and the plurality of control signal lines. An alignment layer is disposed on the passivation layer and completely covers the gate driver and the plurality of control signal lines. The alignment layer includes a first region and a second region connected to the first region. The second region extends to an edge of the lower panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Yun-Jung Cho, Seon-Kyoon Mok, Eun Cho, Byoung-Sun Na, Sung-Jae Moon
  • Publication number: 20110074749
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes a substrate, thin film transistors formed on the substrate, wirings provided on the substrate. The wirings are subjected to an application of a voltage to drive circuits including the thin film transistors. At least part of the surface of each of the wirings is made of an anodic oxide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20110074750
    Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) device including an illumination area having one or more primary EL emitters; a reference area having a reference EL emitter; a reference driver circuit for causing the reference EL emitter to emit light while the EL device is active; a sensor for detecting light emitted by the reference EL emitter; and a measurement unit for detecting an aging-related electrical parameter of the reference EL emitter while it is emitting light. The device further includes a controller for receiving an input signal for each primary EL emitter in the illumination area, forming a corrected input signal from each input signal using the detected light and the aging-related electrical parameter, and applying the corrected input signals to the respective primary EL emitters in the illumination area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: FELIPE A. LEON, Christopher J. White
  • Publication number: 20110074751
    Abstract: A contrast ratio improving device includes a controller and a photo detector. A contrast ratio improving method for use with a display panel includes the following steps. Firstly, multiple voltage values are applied to the display panel. Then, the brightness values corresponding to the voltage values applied to the display panel are detected. Afterwards, a voltage value corresponding to a specified value of the brightness values is selected as a peak voltage of the display panel. An image display system is also provided. The image display system includes a display panel and a memory. The memory stores a peak voltage obtained by the contrast ratio improving method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: TPO DISPLAYS CORP.
    Inventors: Jian-xun JIANG, Square WANG
  • Publication number: 20110074752
    Abstract: A display-mode control device comprises a display-mode controller which acquires picked-up image data representing a picked-up image ahead of a display face of a display unit, specifies, using the acquired picked-up image data and an illumination position specifying a position of illumination in an image set beforehand, brightness of a position corresponding to the illumination position in the picked-up image as brightness of illumination, and controls a display mode based on the specified brightness of the illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Masaaki KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110074753
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel array that has pixel units arranged in a matrix on the basis of a predetermined array pattern, each pixel unit having a light emitting element formed therein and having a structure configured to emit light generated from the light emitting element. In the structure of the pixel unit, a photodetection element which allows a current to flow in response to received light is provided to correspond to an inner area of a light emitting layer which forms the light emitting element. The pixel unit has a light incidence structure configured to allow the light, which is generated from the light emitting element, to be incident to the photodetection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20110074754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for generating RGB gamma voltage and a display driving apparatus using the same. The device for generating RGB gamma voltage includes: an RGB gamma compensation voltage output unit that outputs a plurality of R, G, B gamma compensation voltage corresponding to gamma compensation data with respect to R, G, and B signals; a multiplexer that receives the R, G, and B gamma compensation voltages among the outputted gamma compensation voltages one by one and selects and outputs any one gamma compensation voltage among the R, G, and B gamma compensation voltages in accordance with an RGB selection control signal; and a multiplexer controller that generates an RGB selection control signal corresponding to an output order of the R, G, and B signals and transmits the generated signal to the multiplexer and controls the signal outputted from the multiplexer in accordance with the RGB selection control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn Joong LEE, Kyoung Soo KWON, Byoung Won HWANG
  • Publication number: 20110074755
    Abstract: A buffer circuit drives a capacitive load based on a voltage Vin. In a setup period, switches are in an ON state, and in a drive period, a switch is in an ON state. A voltage comparison unit compares the voltage Vin in the setup period and a voltage Vout in a drive period to output a comparison result voltage. A push-pull output unit includes a TFT for charge and a TFT for discharge. A drive control unit controls the TFTs to be in an OFF state in the setup period, and in the drive period, selectively controls the TFTs to be in an ON state in accordance with the comparison result voltage. If Vout<Vin, the comparison result voltage rises, the TFT becomes in an ON state, a voltage at a node falls, the TFT becomes in the ON state, and the voltage Vout rises. Thus, there is a provided a small-sized capacitive load drive circuit with low power consumption and robust against process variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher Brown, Yasuyuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20110074756
    Abstract: A method of controlling an electronic display having a plurality of pixels settable in a first operating level, a second operating level and an intermediate operating level, the method comprising the step of setting the pixels in a preparatory intermediate operating level immediately prior to setting the pixels in a desired intermediate operating state. At an end of a frame i?1, for example, it is possible to drive a pixel from a level P0 further towards white to reach reflection level Pn or to stop driving it, or to switch a control voltage to an apposite polarity and arrive at a lower level. Levels P1 and P2 present embodiments of preparatory intermediate levels used to drive pixels in accordance with the invention. For example, levels 2, 4, and 6 may be obtained from the preparatory level P1. Levels 3, 5, and 7 may be obtained from the preparatory level P2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: POLYMER VISION LIMITED
    Inventors: Wieger Markvoort, Erik Van Veenendaal
  • Publication number: 20110074757
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an organic light emitting display includes: a fourth NMOS transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line, and a first electrode coupled to a first node; a storage capacitor coupled between the first node and a second node; a third NMOS transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a second scan line, and a first electrode coupled to a data line; a second NMOS transistor including a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the third NMOS transistor, and a gate electrode and a second electrode coupled to the first node; a fifth NMOS transistor including a gate electrode coupled to an emission control line, and a first electrode coupled to a first power source; an organic light emitting diode (OLED) comprising an anode coupled to the second node; and a first NMOS transistor for providing a driving current to the OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20110074758
    Abstract: The present innovation provides a system for driving an OLED pixel that includes an arrangement for driving the OLED pixel in a voltage mode and an arrangement for driving the OLED pixel in a current mode. The system includes an arrangement for switching between the voltage mode and the current mode. When a selected luminance for the OLED pixel is high, the voltage mode may be selected by the switching arrangement, and when the selected luminance for the OLED pixel is low, the current mode may be selected by the switching arrangement. A driver circuit for an OLED pixel is provided. A method of driving an OLED pixel is provided that includes driving the OLED pixel in a voltage mode when a selected luminance for the OLED pixel is high. A computer-readable medium is provided having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that cause a processor to perform a method when executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: EMAGIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: IHOR WACYK, Olivier Prache
  • Publication number: 20110074759
    Abstract: A plasma display device having a plasma display panel (PDP) including: a plurality of electrodes; a printed circuit board assembly (PBA) to drive the plasma display panel (PDP); and a chassis base including a first surface supporting the plasma display panel (PDP) and a second surface mounted with the printed circuit board assembly (PBA), wherein the PDP includes signal lines and a power line continuously formed on an edge of the PDP, electrode terminals connected to the electrodes the signal lines and the power lines, signal line terminals disposed on one side of the electrode terminals and connected to the signal lines, an alignment mark formed on at least at one side of the signal line terminals, and a power terminal disposed on a side of the alignment mark connected to the power line and supplying power to the PDP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Chae, Jae-Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20110074760
    Abstract: A data driving circuit for a display panel. The data driving circuit includes a driving integrated circuit including a plurality of data driving units configured to supply image data to data lines of the display panel; and a package body including: a mount region in which the driving integrated circuit is mounted, logic power input patterns configured to transmit logic power to the plurality of data driving units, and at least two external auxiliary transmission lines formed in the mount region and connected to at least one logic power input pattern. Further, the at least two external auxiliary transmission lines are configured to transmit power received from the at least one connected logic power input pattern to data driving units located farthest from said at least one logic power input pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Kuk-Hui CHANG, Young-Nam Lee
  • Publication number: 20110074761
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display driving apparatus comprises a gate driving unit, a source driving unit, and a gate line and a data line intersected with each other to define a pixel region. The source driving unit comprises: a pixel voltage driving circuit for providing a unidirectional voltage signal applied on a pixel electrode in the pixel region; a common voltage driving circuit for providing a common voltage signal which is applied on a common electrode and corresponds to the unidirectional voltage signal, and providing a periodical pulse high-voltage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangchun Xiao, Lujiang Huangfu, Haiyu Zhao, Hongming Zhan
  • Publication number: 20110074762
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes a light-emitting panel provided with at least one pixel and a data line connected to the pixel, and a drive circuit connected to the light-emitting panel. The pixel includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor, and a switching element. The drive transistor includes a current path having a first end side connected to the light-emitting element and a second end side to be supplied with a power supply voltage. The switching element is provided between the first end side of the current path and the data line. The drive circuit includes a measurement circuit, which connects the data line and light-emitting element through the switching element after no current is set to run through the current path, to acquire an electric characteristic of the light-emitting element through the data line and first switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SHIRASAKI, Shunji Kashiyama, Satoru Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20110074763
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) power supplying circuit includes a motherboard switch circuit, an LCD power circuit, a power switch circuit, and a first power supplying unit. An input terminal of the motherboard switch circuit is coupled to a power output terminal of a motherboard. An input terminal of the power switch circuit is coupled to the LCD power circuit. The first power supplying unit is coupled to an output terminal of the motherboard switch circuit, an output terminal of the power switch circuit and a microprocessor, and the first power supplying unit supplies power from the motherboard or power from the LCD power circuit to the microprocessor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicants: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: He-Kang ZHOU, Ching-Chung LIN, Em-Ily YANG, Jin-Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20110074764
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal driving method includes: setting a reset line, a writing line, and a non-select line in a direction parallel to a plurality of common electrodes, the plurality of the common electrodes and a plurality of segment electrodes being arranged in a matrix form; dividing a driving period into a reset period and a write period; applying a first voltage during the reset period spanning n lines before writing data into the writing line by one of the plurality segment electrodes during the write period, where n is a positive integer; applying a second voltage during the reset period spanning m lines and the write period, where m is a positive integer; and driving a liquid-crystal pixel provided at each intersection of the common electrodes and the segment electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohisa SHINGAI, Masaki NOSE
  • Publication number: 20110074765
    Abstract: A transaction elimination hardware unit 5 controls the writing to a frame buffer in a memory 2 of tiles generated by a tile-based graphics processor. The transaction elimination hardware unit 5 has a signature generator 20 that generates a signature representative of the content of the tile for each tile. A signature comparator 23 then compares the signature of a new tile received from the graphics processor with the signatures of one or more tiles already stored in the frame buffer to see if the signatures match. If the signatures do not match, then the signature comparator 23 controls a write controller 24 to write the new tile to the frame buffer. On the other hand, if the signatures match, then no data is written to the frame buffer and the existing tile is allowed to remain in the frame buffer. In this way, a tile is only written to the frame buffer if it is found by the signature comparison to differ from the tile or tiles that are already stored in the frame buffer that it is compared with.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: ARM LIMITED
    Inventors: Jon Erik Oterhals, Jorn Nystad, Lars Ericsson, Eivind Liland, Daren Croxford
  • Publication number: 20110074766
    Abstract: A system and method for drawing in a three-dimensional space. The drawings may include dots, line segments, arrows, polylines (open and closed), polygons, surfaces and 3D volumes. The method may include receiving user input that specifies a drawing in a displayed window and mapping the drawing into the 3D space. The mapping process may involve mapping the drawing onto a surface of an existing graphical object in the 3D space, or, mapping the drawing onto a user-specified plane in the 3D space. The drawing may represent a user's interpretation of a geological feature present on the graphical object surface. The graphical object may represent an object of significance in hydrocarbon exploration and production, e.g., an interpreted section or horizon in the earth's subsurface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander G. Page, William B. Simons, William C. Ross
  • Publication number: 20110074767
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a composite spatial representation are presented. For example, a method includes obtaining a plurality of source spatial representations from a plurality of source applications, and forming the composite spatial representation by combining the plurality of source spatial representations. The composite spatial representation is operative to interact with at least one behavioral element that is separate from the composite spatial representation. The obtaining of the plurality of source spatial representations and the forming of the composite spatial representation are executed on a computing system comprising a processor and a memory. One or more computer program instructions for implementing the obtaining of the plurality of source spatial representations and the forming of the composite spatial representation are obtained from the memory and executed by the processor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michel Bézy, Alan George Cole, Jonathan Paul Munson, Stella J. Mitchell, David Alvra Wood
  • Publication number: 20110074768
    Abstract: Movement means moves, in accordance with a user performing an operation, a moving object including a vehicle object, and a rider object riding the vehicle object, and the vehicle object and the rider object are positioned in the virtual world. Contact determination region defining means defines at least one contact determination region for the moving object. Contact determination means determines a contact in the virtual world by using the at least one contact determination region. Contact action control means selects a foot, of the rider object, which is to contact a contact object positioned in the virtual world, in accordance with a determination result of the contact determination means, and performs control such that the selected foot contacts the contact object. Display control means displays the moving object by using the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110074769
    Abstract: In a virtual three-dimensional space, an overhead image of a region in the virtual three-dimensional space is shot by a virtual camera provided in the virtual three-dimensional space. Next, it is determined whether or not the information about a color included in the shot overhead image satisfies a predetermined condition. Image data of the overhead image which it is determined in the result of the determination does not satisfy the predetermined condition is accumulated in a predetermined storage medium, thereby generating resource data. The above processing is repeated until all overhead images corresponding to a predetermined region in the virtual three-dimensional space are shot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110074770
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing optimal correction to depth mapping between captured and displayed stereoscopic content. The solution is derived in a continuous form that can be implemented through CGI scaling techniques compatible with image rendering techniques. Similar correction can be implemented with variable depth-dependent camera separation and disparity re-mapping. The latter is applicable to correcting existing stereoscopic content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: RealD Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Charlie J. Ozinga
  • Publication number: 20110074771
    Abstract: There is provided an image signal processing apparatus including a receiving unit that receives a display signal including an image signal containing both two-dimensional and three-dimensional images and a region information in each predetermined unit in the image signal and separates the image signal and the region information from the display signal, a display control unit that generates a first display control information for controlling rendering positions of the first and second regions in the image signal according to the region information and a second display control information for selectively displaying a three-dimensional image in a region corresponding to the rendering position of the second region based on the region information, and a processing unit that generates a display image signal indicating an image where the first and second region are arranged according to the first display control information based on the image signal and the first display control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20110074772
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional object processing device which is configured to: project a three-dimensional object that is disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space onto each of a plurality of projection planes that are set in the virtual three-dimensional space to obtain projected objects; deform each of the projected objects in a corresponding one of the plurality of projection planes; and deform the three-dimensional object in the virtual three-dimensional space based on each of the projected objects, which have been deformed in the corresponding one of the plurality of projection planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Wada, Masaaki Oka
  • Publication number: 20110074773
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel which is controlled so that image frame data are stored for frame intervals and are displayed for blank intervals, each of the blank interval being between the frame intervals; a polarization control panel which positioned on the display panel and converts a polarization state of light passing through the display panel; and polarization glasses which creates stereoscopic images by restricting the light converted by the polarization control panel and reaching each eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Sungmin JUNG
  • Publication number: 20110074774
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) path are provided. The apparatus includes: a polygon generation unit to generate a left polygon and a right polygon on the left and the right of path data, respectively, based on a linear interpolation point of the path data; and a polygon conversion unit to apply a height value to the linear interpolation point based on the left polygon and the right polygon and to thereby generate the 3D path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Thinkware Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Jung Kak Seo
  • Publication number: 20110074775
    Abstract: An image signal processing device is a stereoscopic image display device displaying a stereoscopic image on a screen with right- and left-eye image signals including parallax therebetween, the device including a parallax detecting unit for detecting information about parallax between right- and left-eye image signals; a non-parallax signal generating unit generating a signal produced by eliminating parallax between right- and left-eye image signals according to the parallax information; a right-left level difference detecting unit generating information about a level difference between non-parallax, right- and left-eye image signals free from parallax therebetween; and a level difference correcting unit correcting right- and left-eye image signals for each given level according to the level difference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Ryuichi Shibutani, Hideki Morino, Haruko Terai, Nobutoshi Fujinami
  • Publication number: 20110074776
    Abstract: A method of interfacing a person with a computer, the method comprising: providing the person with a device having: a shaft having an axis; a tsuba connected to the shaft and having a first side that extends away from the axis and faces the shaft; and a handgrip on a second side of the tsuba opposite the first side; acquiring an image of the device; determining an orientation of the device responsive to the image; and generating an action by the computer responsive to the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS B.V.
    Inventors: Sagi Katz, Mattias Marder
  • Publication number: 20110074777
    Abstract: A method is provided for displaying intersections and expansions of three dimensional volumes comprising the steps of representing a volume in a binary-enumerated three dimensional array format wherein data points outside the volume are set to a first value and data points inside the at least one volume are set to a second value. Surface data points of the volume are determined by comparing each data point with neighboring data points and selecting data points which have neighboring data points which differ in value as the surface data points. The surface data points are classified wherein the classifications comprise at least one of corners bent in three dimensions, edges bent in two directions, flat surfaces, arcs, and rounded surfaces with the classifications stored and the surface points displayed. The method can further comprise processing an intersection between two volumes wherein each volume is represented in the binary-enumerated three-dimensional array format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Lima, Gregory M. Neilson, Todd P. Drury, Gary L. Graf
  • Publication number: 20110074778
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve methods and systems for creating depth and volume in a 2-D image by utilizing a plurality of layers of the 2-D image, where each layer comprises one or more portions of the 2-D image. Each layer may be reproduced into a corresponding left eye and right eye layers that include a depth pixel offset corresponding to a perceived depth. Further, a volume effect may also be applied to one or more objects of the 2-D image by associating a volume pixel offset to one or more pixels of the image. Thus, any pixel of the 2-D image may have a depth pixel offset to provide a perceived depth as well as a volume pixel offset to provide a stereoscopic 3-D volume effect. In this manner, the 2-D image may be converted to a corresponding stereoscopic 3-D image with perceived depth and volume effects applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Tara Handy Turner, Evan M. Goldberg, Matthew F. Schnittker, Joseph W. Longson, Robert M. Neuman, Lewis N. Siegel
  • Publication number: 20110074779
    Abstract: A method of repairing a three dimensional surface mesh model to be watertight and manifold generally includes identifying a plurality of hole edges in the surface mesh model, selecting one of the hole edges, creating a cycle of hole edges that defines a hole in the surface mesh model, converting the cycle of hole edges into two or more cycles of exactly three edges each, and adding a triangular facet to the surface mesh model for each of the cycles of exactly three edges. The process may be repeated until the model is substantially watertight. Non-manifold vertices may be repaired by selecting a vertex of the model, identifying a number of independent cycles of triangular facets sharing the selected vertex, and redefining the selected vertex for at least all but one of the number of independent cycles. This process may be repeated until the model is manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Eric J. VOTH
  • Publication number: 20110074780
    Abstract: A method for segmenting a volume dataset is provided. During initialization a level set field within a volume dataset is initialized and an initial set of active voxels is determined in dependence upon the initialized level set field. In an iteration process the level set field for the set of active voxels is updated followed by updating of the set of active voxels. The iteration is continued until the number of active voxels is less than a predetermined threshold. Level set segmentation data are then determined in dependence upon the level set field and provided for, for example, graphical display or storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Calgary Scientific Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Roberts, Mario Costa Sousa, Joseph Ross Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20110074781
    Abstract: When generating an intermediate image which is an image in the middle of changing from one to the other of two pseudo three-dimensional images generated by ray casting a three-dimensional image from an arbitrary viewpoint under two different opacity level setting conditions, determining an opacity level setting condition by determining an opacity level to be allocated according to each pixel value such that a variation in the opacity level for a change in a changing phase of the intermediate image become smaller as the changing phase approaches closer to a pseudo three-dimensional image generated under either one of the two different opacity level setting conditions in which a smaller value is allocated as the opacity level to be allocated according to each pixel value, and generating an intermediate image by ray casting the three-dimensional image from an arbitrary viewpoint under the determined opacity level setting condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20110074782
    Abstract: An image capturing unit 22 of an apparatus captures an image of a viewer 11 viewing a display image displayed in a display unit 21. The apparatus detects a face of the viewer 11 from the captured image. The apparatus determines a position of the face thus detected and a position of a light source 12, respectively. The apparatus detects a reflection area 61 from the display image (including a clock object 31) based on the positions of the face and the light source. Subsequently, the apparatus executes, on data of the display image, the image processing of adding a reflection effect to the reflection area. Then, the apparatus causes the display unit 21 to display the display image based on the data on which the image processing has been executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki HIROTANI, Keiichi Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20110074783
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel apparatus and method for mapping of urban regions. An apparatus includes the remote sensing equipment that is connected to a computer processor. The remote sensing equipment gathers imaging data about an urban region. The computer processor interprets the imaging data to generate a map of the urban region comprising representations that identify a first set of indicia representing physiographic characteristics, a second set of indicia representing different types of built forms, and a third set of indicia representing patterns of human activity associated with both the physiographic characteristics and the built forms. The map can also include a fourth set of indicia representing an intensity level that at least one of the other types of indicia occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: 1626628 ONTARIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Anthony C. Coombes, Marcy L. Burchfield, Wolfhard Geile
  • Publication number: 20110074784
    Abstract: Implementations of the present invention involve methods and systems for creating depth and volume in a 2-D planar image to create an associated 3-D image by utilizing a plurality of layers of the 2-D image, where each layer comprises one or more portions of the 2-D image. Each layer may be reproduced into a corresponding left eye and right eye layers, with one or both layers including a pixel offset corresponding to a perceived depth. Further, a depth model may be created for one or more objects of the 2-D image to provide a template upon which the pixel offset for one or more pixels of the 2-D image may be adjusted to provide the 2-D image with a more nuanced 3-D effect. In this manner, the 2-D image may be converted to a corresponding 3-D image with a perceived depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc
    Inventors: Tara Handy Turner, Evan M. Goldberg, Matthew F. Schnittker, Joseph W. Longson, Robert M. Neuman
  • Publication number: 20110074785
    Abstract: A method for generating a projection image from three-dimensional image data, including the steps of determining first three-dimensional image data to be projected from the three-dimensional image data, generating a first projection image by projecting the first three-dimensional image data in a first projection direction by maximum intensity projection or minimum intensity projection, specifying a first coordinate position in the first projection image, determining second three-dimensional image data to be projected from the three-dimensional image data, generating a second projection image by projecting the second three-dimensional image data in a second projection direction different from the first projection direction, and displaying a second coordinate position, in the second projection image, obtained by projecting a first voxel in the three-dimensional image data, which corresponds to the pixel at the first coordinate position in the first projection image, onto the second projection image from the sec
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20110074786
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for transforming an original graph data set into a representative form having a smaller number of dimensions that the original graph data set. The mechanisms generate a graph transformation basis structure based on an input graph data structure. The mechanisms further transform an original graph data set based on an intersection of the graph transformation basis structure and the input graph data structure to thereby generate a transformed graph data set data structure. The transformed graph data set data structure has a reduced dimensionality from that of the input graph data structure but represents characteristics of the original graph data set. Moreover, the mechanisms perform an application specific operation on the transformed graph data set data structure to generate an output of a closest similarity record in the transformed graph data set to a target component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Charu C. Aggarwal
  • Publication number: 20110074787
    Abstract: A system and method for visualizing a plural dimensional data. One of a plurality of potential visualization formats is selected in a processor for each dimension of a plural dimensional data set. The selected visualization format is used to display the associated dimension on an electronic display. User interface elements are provided to navigate between elements of the plural dimensional data set within the displayed visualization format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventor: Winfried Schwarzmann
  • Publication number: 20110074788
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating visualization and analysis of medical data. A method may include accessing a first set of data points. The method may further include plotting a plurality of data points from the first set of data points on a first graph. The method may additionally include causing the first graph to be displayed. The method may also include accessing a second set of data points. The method may further include plotting a plurality of data points from the second set of data points on a second graph. The method may also include causing the second graph to be displayed overlaying the first graph. At least a portion of the second graph may be semi-transparent such that at least a portion of the first graph is viewable concurrently with the second graph. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Robyn Regan, Matthew Walton
  • Publication number: 20110074789
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing and presenting, e.g., displaying, a set of data. Analyzing the data can include grouping or clustering data that are similar in some way, e.g., similar ranges of quantities, similar categories, etc. and providing an interactive dendrogram representing the clustered data. More specifically, a method for providing an interactive representation of data of a data set can comprise clustering the data into a hierarchical set of clustered data. A dendrogram can be generated based on the clustered data and representing a hierarchy of the clustered data and displayed on a page of a user interface. A selection of a depth of the dendrogram can be received via the user interface and the page can be updated based on the selection of the depth of the dendrogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Helfman, Joseph H. Goldberg
  • Publication number: 20110074790
    Abstract: A method of controlling a portable electronic device includes receiving a selection of a character of a string at the portable electronic device, rendering the character at a first font size on a display of the portable electronic device, and re-rendering the character at a second font size when a subsequent selection of a subsequent character of a new string is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: John Barry FENN
  • Publication number: 20110074791
    Abstract: Graphics processing units (GPUs) deployed in general purpose GPU (GPGPU) units are combined into a GPGPU cluster. Access to the GPGPU cluster is then offered as a service to users who can use their own computers to communicate with the GPGPU cluster. The users develop applications to be run on the cluster and a profiling module tracks the applications' resource utilization and can report it to the user and to a subscription server. The user can examine the report to thereby optimize the application or the cluster's configuration. The subscription server can interpret the report to thereby invoice the user or otherwise govern the users' access to the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Greg Scantlen, Gary Scantlen
  • Publication number: 20110074792
    Abstract: An exemplary ultrasonic image processing system includes an ultrasonic transmitting apparatus, an ultrasonic receiving apparatus, a front-end processing circuit and a computer. The front-end processing circuit is electrically coupled to an ultrasonic probe through the ultrasonic transmitting apparatus and the ultrasonic receiving apparatus respectively. The computer is electrically coupled to the front-end processing circuit. The computer includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The system employs the CPU to control the operations of the ultrasonic transmitting apparatus and the ultrasonic receiving apparatus through the front-end processing circuit, so as to acquire ultrasound scanning data. The system further employs the GPU to perform an image reconstruction process on the acquired ultrasound scanning data by way of multi-thread process, so as to generate an image display data. Moreover, a corresponding ultrasonic image processing method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Pai-Chi LI
  • Publication number: 20110074793
    Abstract: An electrical device supporting switchable graphics function, electrically connected with a display unit, includes a first graphic chip, a second graphic chip, a peripheral, an Embedded Controller (EC) and a processing unit. Information of a present graphic chip is stored in an EC RAM of the EC, wherein the present graphic chip is one of the first graphic chip and the second graphic chip. A control unit of the EC obtains the information of the present graphic chip from the EC RAM and controls operation status of the peripheral according to the obtained information of the present graphic chip. The processing unit obtains the information of the present graphic chip from the EC RAM. The processing unit drives the present graphic chip to process an image signal and transmit the processed image signal to the display unit for display according to the obtained information of the present graphic chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Yung-Yen CHANG, Yuan-Heng WU
  • Publication number: 20110074794
    Abstract: Exemplary multi-screen casting systems and methods are disclosed. For example, systems and methods for casting a graphical user interface display of a mobile device to a display screen associated with a set-top-box device are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a multi-screen casting system establishing a multi-screen display relationship between a mobile device and a set-top-box device, identifying data associated with a graphical user interface display of the mobile device, and transmitting the identified data associated with the graphical user interface display of the mobile device to the set-top-box device for display by a display device associated with the set-top-box device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Michelle Felt, Nader Gharachorloo, Donald H. Relyea, Manishi Sharma