Abstract: A remote control, upon determining that a power-saving flag is on, or in other words, upon determining that the remote control is conducting power-saving operating behavior, decides on a monochrome image stored in a reduced image memory as image information to be read by a renderer. The monochrome image has ? the amount of information compared to a color image stored in a normal image memory. Consequently, in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control, the renderer is able to read a monochrome image stored in the reduced image memory with less power compared to the case of reading a color image stored in the normal image memory. Consequently, power consumed in the remote control may be restricted in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control.

Abstract: A decode engine is configured to perform a rotation operation with a macroblock in conjunction with performing a deblocking operation that involves the macroblock. The decode engine decodes the macroblock and performs the deblocking operation to generate a deblocked macroblock, then rotates the deblocked macroblock and writes the rotated, deblocked macroblock to memory. With this approach, multiple, redundant reads of the macroblock, as required with conventional rotation techniques, may be avoided.

Abstract: Techniques related to coding data including techniques for coding data using a universal codec are generally described.

Abstract: A data processing method that includes: detecting a maximum data cell having a maximum value and a minimum data cell having a minimum value in a compression unit cell; converting the maximum data cell and the minimum data cell into a non-compressed data format; converting remaining data cells of the compression unit cell except for the maximum and minimum data cells into a compressed data format; and generating stream data in which the converted data cells are arranged, wherein the non-compressed data format and the compressed data format include a header field with different values and the non-compressed data format includes a data field corresponding to the value of the converted maximum or minimum data cell.

Abstract: A display system comprises a mapping memory comprising a plurality of memory banks configured to store a plurality of image tiles corresponding to an image, and an image mapping component configured to assign each of the plurality of tiles to one of the plurality of memory banks according to a first mapping or a second mapping, wherein the image mapping component determines whether to use the first or second mapping based on a bank interleaving metric of the first and second mappings.

Abstract: A viewing window of a map surface is determined, at a certain zoom level corresponding to the magnification of the map surface. A first set of style parameters for applying to a feature of the map surface, where the feature is described in a vector format using several interconnected vertices, is determined. The first set of style parameters corresponds to a first zoom level of the viewing window, and the first zoom level corresponds to a first magnification. A second set of style parameters for the feature is also determined, where the second set of style parameters corresponds to a second zoom level of the viewing window, and where the second zoom level corresponds to a second magnification. A third set of style parameters for displaying the feature is determined by interpolating between the first set of style parameters and the second set of style parameters.

Abstract: An image signal modifying method is disclosed. In one aspect, the image signal modifying method includes inputting a gray level interval of a first dynamic capacitance compensation (DCC) lookup table to a current gray level which is a target in a previous image signal when it is overdriven (DTG) and 0 to a gray level of the previous image signal (PIG). The method also includes searching for a data value in an adaptive color correction (ACC) lookup table corresponding to a gray level equal to a numerical value of the DTG (ALT) and performing an algorithm based on the DTG, the ALT, and the gray level interval of the first DCC lookup table. The method further includes generating a second DCC lookup table based on the algorithm, and performing second DCC processing on the input image signal based on the second DCC lookup table.

Abstract: Techniques related to graphics rendering including lossy color merge for multi-sampling anti-aliasing compression are discussed.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.

Abstract: An approach is provided in which a system retrieves a street view image that depicts a geographical area viewed from a street view perspective. The system identifies a video device depicted in the street view image that provides a live video stream of a real-time viewable area corresponding to at least a portion of the depicted geographical area. In turn, the system generates a composite image that combines the street view image with a viewing area overlay corresponding to the real-time viewable area.

Abstract: A user interface and method for identifying related information displayed in an ultrasound system are provided. A medical image display of the ultrasound system includes a first region configured to display a medical image having color coded portions and a second region configured to display non-image data related to the medical image displayed in the first region. The non-image data is color coded to associate the non-image data with the color coded portions of the medical image.

Abstract: A medical image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit, a display unit, and an image data processing unit. The input unit inputs designation of a region of interest on a first medical image obtained by imaging an object. The display unit displays, adjacently to the region of interest together with the first medical image, an enlarged medical image obtained by enlarging an image in the region of interest. The image data processing unit decides a position at which the enlarged medical image is displayed, based on a position of the region of interest on the first medical image and a position of the first medical image.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to placing virtual objects in an augmented reality environment. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising receiving sensor data comprising one or more of motion data, location data, and orientation data from one or more sensors located on a head-mounted display device, and based upon the motion data, determining a body-locking direction vector that is based upon an estimated direction in which a body of a user is facing. The method further comprises positioning a displayed virtual object based on the body-locking direction vector.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual objects in a mixed reality environment in a way that is optimal and most comfortable for a user to interact with the virtual objects. When a user is moving through the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may remain world-locked, so that the user can move around and explore the virtual objects from different perspectives. When the user is motionless in the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may rotate to face the user so that the user can easily view and interact with the virtual objects.

Abstract: A server to perform a selected therapy on a user. The server may include a processor which may obtain activity information (AI) including information related to one or more of augmented-reality (AR) activity information, AR anatomical feature information, and range-of-motion (ROM) information; obtain user information including information related to one or more of the anatomy and physiology of the user; determine expected range-of-motion (EROM) information in accordance with the AI and the user information; track selected body parts (SBPs) of the user corresponding with the AR anatomical feature information; and/or render one or more augmented-reality limbs (ARLs) in relation with one or more corresponding SBPs of the user on a display of the system.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a processor, configured to acquire object specifying information for specifying an object in a reality space captured by a first portable terminal, to acquire condition information including an external condition of the first portable terminal, and to acquire content information associated with the object specifying information and the condition information by referring to a database. The database stores, in association with one another, content information representing a content displayed by being superimposed on an object in a reality space captured by a second portable terminal, object information for identifying the object captured by the second portable terminal, and condition information representing a condition for displaying, in the first portable terminal, the content represented by the content information. The processor of the server apparatus is also configured to transmit the content information to the first portable terminal.

Abstract: A fixture can include a housing, a member for positioning the housing on or proximate to a surface in a room, an augmented reality (AR) target coupled to the housing and having a unique identifier for detection by an AR software application, and a light source disposed at least partially within the housing and configured to (i) illuminate the AR target for easier detection and (ii) at least partially illuminate the room. A method can include positioning the self-illuminated AR target in a possible position for an interior decoration in the room, initiating the AR software application on a mobile computing device, capturing image data including the self-illuminated AR target with the mobile computing device, and viewing an AR view of the room on a display of the mobile computing device, the AR view including an AR view of the interior decoration at the possible position.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides augmented reality methods and systems where two or more component optical images are optically overlaid via one or more beam splitters to form composite optical images. In some embodiments a second component optical image is an electronic optical image (an image from an electronically controlled emission source) while the first component optical image is one of a physical optical image (an image of a physical object from which diffuse reflection occurs), an electronic optical image, an emission optical image (an image from a non-electronic source that emits radiation), or a hybrid optical image (composed, of at least two of a physical optical image, and electronic optical image, or an emission optical image). In some embodiments the first and second component optical images are used to provide feedback concerning the quality of the overlaying and appropriate correction factors to improve the overlay quality.

Abstract: Geo-referenced and/or time-referenced electronic drawings may be generated based on electronic vehicle information to facilitate documentation of a vehicle-related event. A symbols library, a collection of geo-referenced images, and any data acquired from one or more vehicles may be stored in memory for use in connection with generation of such drawings, and a drawing tool graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided for electronically processing vehicle data and geo-referenced images. Processed geo-referenced images may be saved as event-specific images, which may be integrated into, for example, an electronic vehicle accident report for accurately depicting a vehicle accident.

Abstract: A method and system for adjusting a screen orientation of a mobile device is provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes obtaining a face image of a user. The method includes extracting location information of two eyes from the face image. The method includes determining a direction vector of a face in the face image according to the location information of the two eyes in the face image. The method includes determining a location relationship between the direction vector and the mobile device in a plane in which a screen of the mobile device is located. Finally, the method includes adjusting the screen orientation of the mobile device according to the location relationship. The embodiments of the present invention provide a technique for making the screen orientation of the mobile device suitable for the user to watch.

Abstract: An image reducing unit performs a reduction process for each reduction target area in one of a primary scanning direction and a secondary scanning direction, and subsequently performs a reduction process for each reduction target area in the other of the primary scanning direction and the secondary scanning direction. A binarizing unit binarizes pixel values of pixels in the reduction target area. A characteristic value identifying unit identifies a characteristic value on the basis of a pattern of the binarized pixel values and integrates the characteristic value. When the integrated value of the characteristic value exceeds a threshold value before the image reduction unit finishes the reduction processes, a control unit terminates the reduction process, changes the reduction ratio so as to increase a size of a reduced image, and causes the image reducing unit to perform the reduction process with the changed reduction ratio again.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for image scaling including low resolution text areas. The method may include: determining one or more areas of text in an image to be scaled; scaling the one or more areas of text using two or more scaling algorithms to a required resolution to acquire two or more scaled versions of the text area; selecting the clearest text in a text area from two or more scaled versions of the text area; scaling the overall image to the required resolution; and merging the scaled overall image with the selected scaled version of each text area.

Abstract: A display system, having an emissive body, varying light emitted from the surface in a way that each area becomes a pixel. The emissive body can be a FIPEL type device. Light can be both color varied and also color temperature controlled. The light color is changed by changing a frequency used to drive the body. Multiplexers can be used to reduce the number of generators needed.

Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a driver which generates a driving current according to an input image data signal and a light emission portion formed of an organic light-emitting diode which emits light according to the driving current and at least one dummy pixel connected to a repair line that is connected to a light emission portion of at least one first pixel among the plurality of pixels. The dummy pixel includes a dummy pixel driver having the same structure as the drivers of each of the plurality of pixels, a dummy pixel light emission portion formed of an organic light-emitting diode, and a repair driver which transmits a driving current generated in the dummy pixel driver through the repair line when a driver of the first pixel fails.

Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including pixels, each of which emits light according to data voltages, respectively; and a timing controller which divides an area of the display unit into an upper, center and bottom portions, divides one frame time into light emission sub-frames of a light emission period and a blank sub-frame of a blank period in which is supplied a black data signal, divides the upper, center and the bottom portions into groups, differentiates a scan start time of a light emission sub-frame and a scan start time of the blank sub-frame of each group, and increases the light emission period and decreases the blank period in proportional to an increase ratio of the light emission period as a group is closer to a middle of the center portion.

Abstract: A display device and an image compensation method are disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a controller and a data driver. The controller processes image data signal based on at least one of pixel information, a reference brightness condition, a present brightness of the display device and a target luminance and generate final compensated data. The pixel information is measured under the reference brightness condition. The data driver transmits the final compensated data to an activated driving pixel.

Abstract: A controller for a display panel includes a detector, a timing controller, and a voltage generator. The detector detects a predetermined pattern in an image signal. The timing controller generates a control signal based on detection of the pattern. The voltage generator changes at least one driving voltage for a display panel from a first level to a second level based on the control signal. The predetermined pattern may correspond to at least one region having a predetermined arrangement of at least first and second gray scale values of pixels in an image corresponding to the image signal.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a data storage capacitor to store a voltage for controlling a gray scale value based on an input data signal, a plurality of switch transistors connected in series between a data signal line and the data storage capacitor, and a plurality of connection transistors coupled to the pixels. The switch transistors have a gate electrode connected to a first gate control signal line. At least one connection transistor is connected between at least one node between the switch transistors of a first pixel and at least one node between the switch transistors of a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel. The at least one connection transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a second gate control signal line.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row of the pixels; a second scanning section configured to drive the switching transistors in synchronism with scanning by the first scanning section; and a third scanning section configured to control the second switching transistors to a non-conducting state within a period after the image signal is written by the writing transistor until the signal writing period of the same row of the pixels ends but to a conducting state within any other period.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solution for a highlight or multicolor display device, in which each display cell can display high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises three types of pigment particles, having different levels of size, threshold voltage or charge intensity.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for measuring and correcting electronic visual displays. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology includes generating a series of patterns for illuminating proper subsets of the light emitting elements of the display, such as regular grids of nonadjacent activated light emitting elements with the elements in between deactivated. For each generated pattern, an imaging device captures information about the activated light emitting elements. A computing device analyzes the captured information, comparing the output of the activated light emitting elements to target output values, and determines correction factors to calibrate the display to better achieve the target output values. In some embodiments, the correction factors may be uploaded to firmware controlling the display or used to process images to be shown on the display.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a 3D display method and a display device.

Abstract: An image display device includes an image display panel configured of pixels made up of first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels being arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, and a signal processing unit into which an input signal is input and from which an output signal based on an extension coefficient is output, and causes the signal processing unit to obtain a maximum value of luminosity with saturation S in the HSV color space enlarged by adding a fourth color, as a variable, and to obtain a reference extension coefficient based on the maximum value, and further to determine an extension coefficient at each pixel from the reference extension coefficient, an input signal correction coefficient based on the sub-pixel input signal values at each pixel, and an external light intensity correction coefficient based on external light intensity.

Abstract: There is provided a driving method for a display, which includes a display unit and a phase modulation unit. The display unit includes a plurality of pixel rows and generates image signals having a polarization direction. The phase modulation unit includes two oppositely disposed electrodes and an LC layer sandwiched between the two electrodes. The driving method changes a potential difference provided on the two electrodes of the phase modulation unit to control the twist of the LC layer thereby changing the polarization direction of the image signals generated by the display unit and passing through the phase modulation unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus capable of continuously printing images on a recording medium, each of the images including a variable image of which an aspect is variable for each of the images to be continuously printed and a fixed image of which an aspect is the same for each of the images to be continuously printed, the printing apparatus includes a storage unit that associates and stores therein image data of the fixed image and a template having at least information about a position of printing an image, and a printing control unit that, when a control command which includes information for designating the template and instructs a printing of the variable image is input, superimposes the variable image and the fixed image associated with the designated template, on the basis of the template and print the superimposed image.

Abstract: The time recorder comprises a casing comprising gears (428) rotatably supported by the casing and a motor rotating the gears (428); a printing unit provided within the casing and comprising a carriage (210) provided slidably in the X-direction and comprising a print head (213) and longitudinal racks (420) extending in the Y-direction and intermeshing with the gears (428); and a controller controlling the motor. As the motor runs according to the control of the controller, the gears (428) rotate and the printing unit (20) moves in the Y-direction.

Abstract: An image recording device includes a support member, a print head, a tension adjustment unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured: to move the print head to the retracted position; to control the tension adjustment unit to adjust the tension of the print medium to a print tension while the print head is positioned at the retracted position; to move the print head to the print position; to control the print head to execute printing; to move the print head to the retracted position, and to control the tension adjustment unit to release the tension of the print medium while the print head is positioned at the retracted position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row that are adjacent to each other in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording medium, a plurality of nozzles being arrayed in the conveying direction in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, each of the nozzles ejecting one of p types of droplets including a predetermined specific type of droplets, the p being an integer equal to or greater than three; a moving unit that relatively reciprocates the recording medium and the recording head in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; and a control unit that controls ejection of the p types of droplets from the nozzles, wherein the nozzles in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are divided into (p?1) nozzle groups in the conveying direction, first nozzles of the nozzles in a k-th nozzle group (1?k?p?1) in the conveying direction and in one of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row

Abstract: A technique is described for determining pixel dropout in a printhead that has a plurality of print elements arrayed along an axis. In the technique, a dataset of integrated intensity values, in the printing direction on a substrate, of a captured image is generated and used to determine if pixel dropout has or may have occurred.

Abstract: Multiple test pattern printing using each of multiple printing element arrays are read, and in a case where a streak is present in predetermined test patterns of the multiple test patterns at the same position in the direction of the array of the printing elements, determination is made that the streak is not due to failure of a printing element.

Abstract: A printing system includes a first imaging unit configured to print a first image and a single registration mark associated with the first image on a substrate contemporaneously during a production run, and a sensor configured to detect the registration mark at a point where the registration mark is within a second imaging unit. The printing system further includes a controller configured to calculate an offset along a width direction of the substrate based on the single registration mark and to instruct the second imaging unit to print the second image on the substrate. The second image is shifted in its entirety in accordance with the calculated offset and is printed on the same side of the substrate as the first image.

Abstract: An image forming system and methods are disclosed. The methods include detecting an ambient temperature of an image forming system by a first thermal sense resistor disposed in a first printhead to obtain a first detected ambient temperature, detecting the ambient temperature of the image forming system by a second thermal sense resistor disposed in a second printhead to obtain a second detected ambient temperature, and determining a temperature difference between the first detected ambient temperature and the second detected ambient temperature of the image forming system by a temperature variation module.

Abstract: Light redirected by liquid droplets ejected from nozzles (30) of a plurality of columns (26, 226, 227) of nozzles (30) is sensed to detect a vertical trajectory of the liquid droplets for each of the nozzles (30).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides ways to more appropriately perform high-quality printing with gradation inks. The disclosure provides a printing apparatus for printing using an inkjet scheme. The apparatus includes a plurality of inkjet heads that eject ink droplets of a first-color ink of at least one color selected from a plurality of colors. The plurality of inkjet heads respectively eject ink droplets of different concentrations of the first-color ink (magenta or cyan). At least one of the plurality of inkjet heads ejects ink droplets of a resin dispersed ink, and the resin dispersed ink is a ink in which dispersing particles of a colored binder resin as a dispersoid is dispersed in a dispersion medium.

Abstract: A system for ink-base digital printing includes an imaging member; an inkjet system for applying a base marking material to the imaging member to for a pattern according to digital image data; a dampening fluid metering system configured for applying dampening fluid to the imaging member after the applying base marking material; and an inking system configured for applying ink to the imaging member, the ink adhering to the base marking material pattern. Methods include jetting base marking material onto the imaging member according to image data, applying dampening fluid, inking the imaging member, and optionally pre-curing the resulting ink image, which enables 99% or greater transfer of the applied ink from the imaging member to a substrate.

Abstract: To appropriately perform textile printing by an ink jet method on a media of fabric. A printing apparatus for performing printing of a design represented by a preset target color on a medium of fabric by an ink jet method includes a plurality of the ink jet heads, each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. The printing apparatus performs printing of a design represented by a plurality of the target colors that are different from each other on the medium. Each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus records an image on a recording material by ejecting a first ink composition through at least one first liquid ejecting nozzle having an open end. The ink jet recording apparatus also includes a platen having a surface on which the recording medium is placed. The surface is away from the open end at a distance PG satisfying the relationship 0.5 mm<PG<2.5 mm. The first ink composition that has been ejected through the first liquid ejecting nozzle is split into a main droplet having a flying velocity Vm and at least one satellite droplet including a satellite droplet having a flying velocity Vs. The flying velocities Vm and Vs satisfy the relationship Vm?Vs<3 m/s.

Abstract: The present invention provides a droplet generator (10) of the velocity modulation type, the generator (10) being configured so that substantially all the modulation energy generated by piezo-electric cwstals (60) is transformed into vibration of the nozzle (34). The generator preferably also includes an internal closure mechanism (70) which blocks off the nozzle (34) when the generator is not in operation, but which is de-coupled from the modulation process when the generator is operating.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a substrate; and flow path forming members that form a plurality of liquid flow paths on or above the substrate, wherein grooves are formed between the plurality of liquid flow paths that adjoin in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the flow path forming members are formed on or above the substrate via an intermediate layer.

Abstract: There is provided an ultraviolet-curable aqueous ink containing: an ultraviolet polymerizable compound; a water-insoluble thioxanthone compound having an absorption at a wavelength range of 375 nm or more and 450 nm or less, a water-insoluble tertiary amine compound, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent at least including a solvent (A) that dissolves the thioxanthone compound and the tertiary amine compound.