Plural Display Systems Patents (Class 345/1.1)
  • Patent number: 9100688
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a reception apparatus includes a discrimination data receiver configured to receive discrimination data that is transmitted from outside the reception apparatus and that has been associated with display information to be displayed; and an output controller configured to control output of the display information to two or more display screens according to the discrimination data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Chihoko Shigeta, Hiroyuki Aizu, Michihiro Fukushima, Noriya Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9094575
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a communication device, instruct the processor to perform processes that includes performing a first receiving that receives a start request from a partner communication device, the start request including identification information and first user information and requesting that a remote conference be started, acquiring, based on the identification information, second user information stored in a storage portion, performing a first determining that determines whether the first user information and the second user information differ from one another, performing a first outputting that outputs a first command in response to determining that the first user information and the second user information differ from one another, and performing a second outputting that outputs a second command in response to determining that the first user information and the second user information do not differ from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Banno
  • Patent number: 9082225
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method, apparatus and system for adjusting a stereoscopic image, a television set and stereoscopic glasses, wherein the method includes: receiving and displaying, by a display terminal, a three-dimensional stereoscopic image; transmitting, by a distance sensor, a sensing signal and obtaining a sighting distance between the display terminal and a user according to the sensing signal; and adjusting the size of the three-dimensional stereoscopic image according to the sighting distance. In the invention, stereoscopic geometrical distortion can be alleviated or even eliminated to thereby improve real experience feelings of watching the 3D stereoscopic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hisense Hiview Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ye Hong
  • Patent number: 9083690
    Abstract: A method of handling a plurality of session requests at an access manager may include assigning a rank to each of a plurality of agents. Each of the plurality of agents may forward requests for protected resources to the access manager for authentication and/or authorization, and the access manager may establish a plurality of sessions. The method may also include establishing a first session that is associated with a first agent in the plurality of agents that is assigned a first rank, a first user device, and/or a user credential. The method may additionally include receiving a request to establish a second session that is associated with a second agent in the plurality of agents that is assigned a second rank, a second user device, and/or the user credential. The method may further include determining whether the second session should be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ramya Kukkehali Subramanya, Stephen Mathew, Vipin Anaparakkal Koottayi
  • Patent number: 9082667
    Abstract: Discussed is a flexible display device to reduce a width of a bezel. The flexible display device includes a substrate being formed of a flexible material, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other, a plurality of pads formed in a pad area of a non-display area, a plurality of links formed in a link area of the non-display area, a plurality of insulation films formed over the entire surface of the substrate, and a first bending hole formed in a bending area of the non-display area, the first bending hole passing through at least one of the insulation films disposed under the link, wherein the bending area is bent such that the pads are disposed on the lower surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Cheon Youn, Hyoung-Suk Jin, Chang-Heon Kang, Se-Yeoul Kwon
  • Patent number: 9075558
    Abstract: Methods and devices for receiving input and presenting a user interface with two screens and an off screen gesture area. The device may have an off screen gesture area that accepts user input outside the display area. The interface inputs received in the off screen gesture are may have special handling and cause different display changes. Further, the device, having two screens, may receive user interface inputs that cross the seam between the two displays. To provide a display that acts like a single display area, the device can predict motions may cross the seam and then interrelate separate inputs on separate screens. The interrelated inputs can cause display changes as if the inputs were received as a single user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, John S. Visosky, Tong Chen
  • Patent number: 9064322
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for accessing display configuration information in a multi-graphics-processing-unit (multi-GPU) system, which includes the steps of asserting a select signal to steer the display configuration information of a display device, which is coupled to a discrete GPU (dGPU), to a motherboard GPU (mGPU) in the multi-GPU system if dGPU is unavailable, and validating the display configuration information prior to availing the dGPU or the display device as an option to be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Wyatt, Ludger Mimberg
  • Patent number: 9058480
    Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for matching input gestures on a touch interface to a security pattern to allow user access to an electronic device or account. The security pattern may correspond to a combination of linear and non-linear input gestures relating to directional changes of the input gestures. A determination of the security pattern may be based on the end motion and speed of each input gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Andrew Warr
  • Patent number: 9052760
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for combining multiple displays on multiple portable electronic computer devices to form a larger display. For each device, a configuration module configures a first display to combine with one or more additional displays of one or more additional electronic computer devices to form the larger display. The first display may be configured to provide a portion of the larger display. A display orientation module determines an orientation of the first display with respect to the one or more additional displays to form the larger display. A detection module detects a presence of the one or more additional electronic computer devices and determines that the detected additional electronic computer devices are compatible with the first display to combine to form a larger display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Howard J. Locker, David William Critchley, III, Mika Majapuro
  • Patent number: 9047047
    Abstract: A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of selected desktops and applications on single and dual screens are disclosed. Desktops and applications can be shifted between screens by user gestures, and/or moved off of the screens and therefore hidden. Hidden desktops and screens can be re-displayed by other gestures. The desktops and applications are arranged in a window stack that represents a logical order of the desktops and applications providing a user with an intuitive ability to manage multiple applications/desktops running simultaneously. One embodiment provides the user with the ability to selectively change the orientation of one display and leaving the other display unaffected when the user has two applications or desktops displayed on respective screens. The user can therefore selectively change on a screen-by-screen basis the orientation of any desktops or applications displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventor: John Steven Visosky
  • Patent number: 9047039
    Abstract: A configurable imaging system and methods therefor are provided. For each respective display unit in an imaging system having an image source and display units, presence of adjacent display units is detected, each of the display units configured to generate respective portions of an image, the display units arranged in a geometrical configuration. A map of the one of the geometrical configurations is generated based on detection of the presence of the adjacent display units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Perkins, Robert Rushby, John Vieth
  • Patent number: 9047041
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically combining multiple displays on multiple portable electronic computer devices to form a larger display matrix. For each device, a first display configured to combine with additional displays of additional electronic devices to form a larger display from a matrix of the first display and the additional displays. A display orientation module automatically determines an orientation of the first display with respect to the one or more additional displays that form the larger display matrix. The display orientation module determines a location of the first display in the larger display matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Howard J. Locker, David William Critchley, III, Mika Majapuro
  • Patent number: 9035851
    Abstract: A portable terminal, a display apparatus, a luminance control method and a control program are provided. The portable terminal includes a plurality of display units, and a luminance control unit which, in response to an input operation performed for a first display unit of the plurality of display units at a state where images are visibly displayed on the respective display units, performs a luminance control of decreasing a display luminance of a second display unit of the plurality of display units to be lower than a current luminance thereof, the second display unit being different from the first display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Noma
  • Patent number: 9035912
    Abstract: A multi-display system that uses back lights and light guides of an electronically addressable display to provide position-unique signals that both uniquely identify positions on a given display, but also uniquely identify displays within a multi-display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gordon F. Taylor, Bernard O. Geaghan
  • Patent number: 9030374
    Abstract: The present invention provides composite display modules which have reduced visible dead space between display modules. This is of particular interest for the price rail, where it is desirable to achieve a long (about 3-4 ft) section of an active module. The present invention is directed to a composite display module comprising: (a) more than one single display module, wherein said single display modules are not edge-sealed and they are mounted on a single back support structure and are kept tightly close to each other right up to their edges; and (b) said composite display module is edge sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: E Ink California, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Sprague, Bryan Hans Chan
  • Patent number: 9030376
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method for driving the same. The display device includes: a plurality of display modules; a plurality of display module drivers for respectively driving the display modules; a data divider receiving data signals for displaying an image on the display device and separating the received data signals into output data signals corresponding to each respective display module driver; and a timing control signal generator for generating a timing control signal to be supplied commonly to the display module drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Gyun Kim, Hee Jung Hong, Nam Yong Gong
  • Patent number: 9030812
    Abstract: A joining structure of superposed first to fourth segment housing of an electronic device each having a display screen equipped with two shafts arranged between first and second housing segments and third and fourth housing segments, a first hinge which joins end faces of the second and third housing segments to be able to rotate and a second hinge which joins opposite side end faces of the first and fourth housing segments, two shafts make the second and third housing segments slide with respect to the first and fourth housing segments, then make one rotate 180 degrees with respect to the other in the finished slid state, by using the first and second hinges to make the second and third housing segments and the first and fourth housing segments rotate about the shafts, and superposed first to fourth segment housing are opened to form a single flat display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yutaka Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9030375
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for substantially eliminating the appearance of seams between tiled panels of a display. Non-imaging magnification may be used to substantially eliminate the appearance of seams. Additionally, the appearance of seams between the tiled panels of a display may be substantially eliminated by employing propagation based elimination. The methods disclosed can be used to generate substantially seamless 2D and 3D displays. Additionally, a method and apparatus for achieving substantially uniform panel brightness and color correction may be addressed. The substantially seamless tiled displays may employ specific data formats for use in displaying images on the individual displays which may be tiled together to form a larger, substantially seamless tiled display and may employ other techniques not utilized in known video wall applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: RealD Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Curtis, Wilhelm Taylor
  • Patent number: 9026924
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are provided for moving electronic windows between multiple electronic displays. In one exemplary embodiment, a plurality of displays can each be configured to display a portion of a desktop. A duplicate can be created of a window displayed on a first one of the displays. In response to an instruction to move the window from the first one of the displays to a second one of the displays, the duplicate can be programmatically moved on the second one of the displays in unison with movement of the window on the first one of the displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Derek Linville Maynard, Hidetoshi Mori
  • Patent number: 9024975
    Abstract: A system, method, and program product is provided that automatically allocates a display screen into two areas when the display screen is pivoted from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation. A hypervisor receives a pivot request (e.g., from a user) to pivot the display screen from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation. When the display screen is oriented in the landscape orientation, a primary operating system displays its data on the display screen. Upon reception of the pivot request, the hypervisor allocates the display screen into a primary display area and a secondary display area. The hypervisor then displays data originating from the primary operating system in the primary display area and displays data originating from a second operating system in the secondary display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Justin Tyler Dubs, Harriss Christopher Neil Ganey, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki
  • Patent number: 9024841
    Abstract: A display control device includes a position specifying unit, an image specifying unit and a controller. The position specifying unit specifies a position of a second apparatus on a display screen of a first apparatus. The image specifying unit specifies one of an image displayed on a display screen of the second apparatus and an image that is designated from among two or more images displayed on the display screen of the second apparatus. The controller controls such that a certain image according to the image specified by the image specifying unit is displayed at a certain position on the display screen of the first apparatus according to the position of the second apparatus specified by the position specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kimitake Hasuike
  • Publication number: 20150116217
    Abstract: A peripheral device control system is provided and includes a wearable electronic device configured to generate a control command based on a bezel rotation of a display portion and a peripheral device operable to perform at least one function that is controlled in response to the control command generated by the wearable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Jongchul CHOI, Byounguk Yoon
  • Patent number: 9019315
    Abstract: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first display controller configured to display selectively on a display a first image and a second image including the first image in a reduced size; and a second display controller configured, while the second display is displayed on the display, to display an indicator image on the display, the indicator image indicating a position of an image to be displayed when display of the second image is changed to display of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Ryoma Aoki, Yasuto Kakimoto
  • Patent number: 9019170
    Abstract: A display device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which some area of a curved area is used as an additional display area of the other display area in accordance with a location of a user if a area where image data are displayed includes the curved area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jihwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20150109184
    Abstract: A terminal device can make an external display device show an enlarged website screen for every object to improve user convenience. The terminal device may be a mobile terminal device that can be connected with an external display device. The terminal device is provided with an information acquisition unit that acquires information which is used for displaying a website screen and includes an object including a parameter for specifying a screen size of the website screen, a parameter change unit that changes the parameter so as to increase the screen size, a data processing unit that carries out decoding process of the object, thereby generating screen information of the screen size specified by the changed parameter, and a communication unit that outputs the generated screen information to the external display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Daisaku KOMIYA, Kenichi FUJITA, Hidenori ISHII
  • Patent number: 9013366
    Abstract: A display environment for a plurality of display devices is described. In one or more implementations, a display environment of an operating system of a computing device is configured to display a plurality of shells that support user interaction with the operating system by launching a first shell for display on a first display device of the computing device and launching a second shell for display on a second display device of the computing device such that the first and second shells are displayable simultaneously by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Qixing Zheng, Mark Yalovsky, Thomas Scott Coon, Christopher E. Swan, Alex Snitkovskiy, Gabriel S. DeBacker
  • Patent number: 9013291
    Abstract: An automobile instrument panel includes display means with a display area. First and second symbols may be displayed in the display area to convey safety information. The duration of display of a symbol may be different depending upon whether it is an acute safety symbol or a normal safety symbol. An audible alarm may also be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventor: Christophe Dolle
  • Patent number: 9013318
    Abstract: An electronic shelf label system is provided. There is provided a method in which an electronic shelf label periodically transmits its remaining battery capacity to a server in a electronic shelf label system according to the present invention, and the server converts the battery level into a remaining battery life (time) and provides the same, so that a manager can check the remaining battery life in a management mode of the server and a terminal, and easily manage an electronic shelf label using a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hye Kim, Yong Taek Oh
  • Patent number: 9013368
    Abstract: A foldable mobile device and a method for controlling a display of the same are disclosed herein. Herein, the foldable mobile device includes a first display unit configured to display a first image or a first zoomed-in first image while the foldable mobile device is in a folded state, a second display unit configured to display a second image corresponding to a predetermined display mode or a second image including a second zoomed-in first image when the foldable mobile device is unfolded, and a controller configured to control a display of the first display unit and the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yongsin Kim
  • Patent number: 9013369
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a first display module is provided, the first display module associated with a client device in communication with a server enabled to generate data for display on a second display module having a screen size larger than a screen size of the first display module, the data having an active area. Data is received at the client device. The first display module is controlled to generate a representation of a first portion of the data including the active area, the representation of the first portion representative of a peephole superimposed on the second display module, the peephole less than or equal to a size of a screen of the first display module. Input indicative that the peephole is to be shifted to an edge of the active area is received. The first display module is controlled to generate a representation of a second portion of the data including the edge, such that the peephole is shifted to the edge of the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Neil Adams, Herbert Little
  • Patent number: 9007278
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a brightness controller includes a plurality of display modules, a specifying module, and a controller. The display modules each include a display screen the brightness of which is adjustable. The specifying module specifies at least one of the display modules to display an application. The controller individually controls the brightness of the display screen of the display module specified by the specifying module based on features of the application displayed on the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Michio Seki, Kazuaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9007298
    Abstract: A method updates an image displayed on an electronic display. The image can include a first region having multiple lines and a second region also having multiple lines. The method includes driving the pixels of the first and second regions according to one or more frames. In a first frame, driving the pixels of the first and second regions is done by scanning the lines of the regions from a first end of the first region to a second end of the second region, the second end opposite the first end along a scanning direction. In a second frame, driving the pixels of the first and second regions is done by scanning the lines of the regions from the first end to the second end, and the scanning begins before the scanning according to the first frame reaches the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventor: Philip Moyse
  • Patent number: 9007277
    Abstract: In embodiments of a transparent display assembly, a display device includes a display panel system that is located between a first display surface and a second display surface, and the display panel system displays an image. The image is viewable through the first display surface and through the second display surface, where the second display surface and the first display surface are viewable from opposite sides of the display device. The display device also includes a multi-mode panel located between the first display surface and the second display surface. The multi-mode panel is operable to permit the image being viewable through the first and second display surfaces, and further operable to prevent the image from being viewable through the first display surface or the second display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Rod G. Fleck
  • Patent number: 9002947
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display-side communication section adapted to receive image configuration alteration request information related to a configuration of a first image and image information of at least one second image constituting the first image from at least one terminal device; a display-side image generation section adapted to generate the first image based on the image configuration alteration request information and the image information; and a display-side display section adapted to display the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeaki Arizumi, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Issei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8994671
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for displaying indications of notifications received by a multi-screen device. The notifications may relate to a number of different categories including, without limitation, phone calls, SMS messages, email, notifications from applications, battery level, and signal strength. The multi-screen device includes a unified desktop that displays indications of the notifications regardless of the state of the multi-screen device, which in embodiments includes an undocked state and a docked state, in which a peripheral screen is used to display the indications. The indications may be displayed differently depending on the state of the multi-screen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
  • Patent number: 8995000
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus of an image forming system, a judging section judges, based on identification information included in print job data, whether a display apparatus corresponding to the print job data is a specific display apparatus. Based on a judgment result of the judging section, an image formation control section controls image forming operation of an image forming section. When it is judged by the judging section as being the specific display apparatus, this image formation control section suspends the image forming operation by the image forming section once. Further, when it is judged by the judging section as not being the specific display apparatus, the image formation control section causes the image forming operation by the image forming section to be executed promptly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kodama
  • Patent number: 8996386
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling a mobile device from a head unit using voice control is disclosed. The head unit receives a graphical representation of a current user interface screen of the mobile device. The head unit than scans the graphical representation of the current user interface screen to determine the locations of potential input mechanisms. The potential input mechanisms are scanned using optical character recognition and voice commands are determined for the input mechanisms. The determined voice commands and their respective locations on the user interface screens are stored in a voice recognition database, which is queried with uttered voice commands during voice recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Bilal Alasry, Doua Vang, Bryan Thomas
  • Patent number: 8994988
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image forming apparatus, a host apparatus, and a print method thereof. A method includes receiving a one touch print command from a print button provided in the image forming apparatus to print an image of at least one monitor among a plurality of monitors of a host apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. With this configuration, high quality output products may be provided without any image distortion due to a difference in resolution upon receiving a one touch print command in the multi monitor environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-ki Min, Do-hyung Kim, Tae-joon Chung
  • Patent number: 8988312
    Abstract: To overcome issues generated due to the light-shield part in a display device which displays different images towards a plurality of viewpoints, and to provide a device for easily synthesizing images to be displayed on a display part. A display controller includes: an image memory which stores viewpoint image data for a plurality of viewpoints; a writing control device which writes the viewpoint image data inputted from outside to the image memory; a parameter storage device which stores parameters showing a positional relation between a lenticular lens and the display part; and a readout control device which reads out the viewpoint image data from the image memory according to a readout order obtained by applying the parameters to a repeating regulation that is determined based on layout of the sub-pixels, number of colors, and layout of the colors, and outputs it to the display module as synthesized image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Satou, Kazunori Masumura, Koji Shigemura, Shinichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 8988311
    Abstract: A video output apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about display states of a plurality of display devices, a video output unit configured to output video data to the display devices, and a control unit configured to, when a display device to which the video data is output by the video output unit is in a display state of OFF, control the video output unit to output the video data to a display device whose display state is ON based on the information about the display state acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8988244
    Abstract: An article transfer system that allows the operator to easily notice that abnormality occurs in an abnormality detecting sensor for detecting abnormality and perform remedial work is provided. The article transfer system is adapted to display information indicating that the abnormality occurs on a display device as abnormality occurrence information, receive input of a result of determination by the operator on whether or not the abnormality indicated by the abnormality occurrence information occurs, and display information indicating that the detecting information received from the abnormality detecting sensor is incorrect on the display device when the operator inputs the result of determination that the abnormality indicated by the abnormality occurrence information does not occur with the abnormality detecting sensor detecting the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Yagawa
  • Patent number: 8982081
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a displacement sensing touch panel and a touch screen using the touch panel. The touch panel includes a first panel, a second panel, and a displacement sensor sandwiched between the first panel and the second panel. The displacement sensor deforms when a pressure is applied to the first panel. The touch screen includes the touch panel, a controller where the touch positions and forces applied are deduced from the readings of the displacement sensor, and a display coupled to the controller and adjacent to the touch panel. Displacement information is collected through the displacement sensor to deduce the positions and magnitudes of the forces applied to the first panel of the touch panel or touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen New Degree Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hao Li
  • Patent number: 8982070
    Abstract: A display section (2000) that has a plurality of display screens includes: a touch panel type input section (3000) that senses touches on the display screens; and a control section (1000) that causes any one of the two display screens to display a predetermined portion that lies on two display screens of the plurality of display screens based on a touch operation on the display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tomimori
  • Patent number: 8982012
    Abstract: Disclosed is a management apparatus, which makes it possible to use an information viewing apparatus without considering the residual amount of the battery, provided therein. The apparatus includes: a plurality of slots to support a plurality of information viewing apparatuses, each of which is activated by an electric power fed from a battery provided therein and is to be inserted into each of the slots in a detachable manner; and a controlling section to control the plurality of information viewing apparatuses, respectively inserted into the slots. When a predetermined information viewing apparatus is inserted into one of the plurality of slots, the controlling section moves data stored in the predetermined information viewing apparatus to another information viewing apparatus, which is currently inserted into another one of the plurality of slots, depending on a residual amount of the battery provided in the predetermined information viewing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takamura, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Tatsuya Eguchi, Tsutomu Suka, Keiichiro Hyodo, Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150070247
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include an image receiving unit configured to receive a first image displayed on a display monitor; a display control unit configured to display a second image on a display unit, wherein the second image comprises at least a portion of the first image; and a switching control unit configured to select one of: a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode. In the synchronous mode, the first image may be synchronized with the second image such that an alteration made to the second image is included in the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8972887
    Abstract: A device and methods for controlling a display for a mobile terminal device are presented. A first input to a first display module is detected, and a second input to the second display module is detected. The first input is for moving an image displayed on the first display module. The image is moved to a second location of the second input to the second display module, if the second input is detected after the first input when the image is displayed on the first display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8970449
    Abstract: Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and computing devices. Two or more of the display devices may be coupled in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory P. Manning
  • Patent number: 8970450
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transparent user interface integration between remote (“published”) applications and their local counterparts are described, providing a seamless, unified user experience, and allowing integration of a start menu, dock, taskbar, desktop shortcuts, windows, window and application switching, system tray elements, client-to-host and host-to-client file type association, URL redirection, browser cookie redirection, token redirection, status message interception and redirection, and other elements. These methods and systems further enhance theme-integration between a client and remote desktop or virtual machine by remoting all UI elements to a recipient for generation, including text controls, buttons, progress bars, radio buttons, list boxes, or other elements; presenting them with the receiver's product and OS-specific UI; and returning status back to the sender. This may achieve a more unified and transparent UI integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Georgy Momchilov
  • Patent number: 8970478
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor configured to detect the position and orientation of a user viewpoint with respect to an auto-stereoscopic display; a processor configured to determine a surface viewable from the user viewpoint of at least one three dimensional object; and an image generator configured to generate a left and right eye image for display on the auto-stereoscopic display dependent on the surface viewable from the user viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Panu Marten Jesper Johansson
  • Patent number: 8963796
    Abstract: A method of launching a selected application in a multi-monitor computer system (20) comprising a plurality of displays (22 to 26) operatively associated with at least one computing device (28) comprises in response to an application launch event, determining if the launch event was initiated from a registered display of the multi-monitor computer system; and if so, launching the application associated with the launch event on the registered display and if not, launching the application associated with the launch event on a default display of the multi-monitor computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Samia Siddiqui, Julie Iannelli