Crt Provides Display Control Patents (Class 345/11)
  • Patent number: 11907462
    Abstract: Systems and methods of automatic screen mapping are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a controller device that is coupled to at least one of a set of display devices that are spatially arranged so that each display device is positioned adjacent to at least one other display device and wherein each display device includes a screen structure having a set of presence sensitive sensors. Each display device is operable, for each presence sensitive sensor of the corresponding screen structure, to detect a presence signal and to radiate a presence signal. The method includes receiving an indication that a second display device of the set of display devices has detected a presence signal radiated from a presence sensitive sensor of a first display device of the set of display devices so as to determine a spatial arrangement of the first and second display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Fu Tsai, Hawaii Xuan, Yi Hsin Huang, Ying Chi Chou
  • Patent number: 11822839
    Abstract: A storage medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute: a display step of displaying a first image and a second image on a page on a screen provided by a first application program in response to a predetermined user operation being performed on a screen provided by a second application program that is different from the first application program; and an instruction step of selecting a print apparatus that prints the page in response to a specific user operation being performed on the screen and instructing the print apparatus to print, in which setting sizes of the first image and second image displayed on the page on the screen provided by the first application program in the display step are respectively controlled to be a first size and a second size that are set in the second application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuri Sekine
  • Patent number: 11762620
    Abstract: In an exemplary process for accessing a function of an external device through a computer-generated reality interface, one or more external devices are detected. Image data of a physical environment captured by an image sensor is obtained. The process determines whether the image data includes a representation of a first external device of the one or more detected external devices. In accordance with determining that the image data includes a representation of the first external device, the process causing a display to concurrently display a representation of the physical environment according to the image data, and an affordance corresponding to a function of the first external device, wherein detecting user activation of the displayed affordance causes the first external device to perform an action corresponding to the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
  • Patent number: 11711569
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for adapting a video content decoded from elementary streams to the characteristics of a display from at least one type of metadata giving information regarding said elementary streams. Such a method comprises:—obtaining (102) an additional information (HDR DESCR.) indicating the presence of one particular type of metadata;—determining if said video content decoded from elementary streams is display-able on said display (11) from said additional information (HDR DESCR.) and the characteristics of the display (EDID); and—if said video content decoded from elementary streams is determined as being displayable, selecting (105) a process from said additional information and the characteristics of the display and adapting (106) the video content according to the selected process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Bordes, Pierre Andrivon, Edouard Francois
  • Patent number: 11477945
    Abstract: A lighting device is presented. The lighting device includes an LED light source; and a red/far-red emitting phosphor radiationally coupled to the LED light source, wherein the red/far-red emitting phosphor comprises a host material activated with an activator ion, and wherein the activator ion comprises at least one of Sm2+ and Mn2+. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: William Winder Beers, William Erwin Cohen, Alok Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11436965
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The display apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal of content; a display; and a processor configured to obtain a video photographing a surrounding of the display apparatus, identify a first color representing the obtained video and at least one second color related to the first color, and allocate the identified first color or second color to at least some area of the content or display the allocated first color or second color on the display. Thereby, it is possible to display content in a color fitting a space well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungjun Hwang, Donghun Shin, Junyong Park, Youngah Lee
  • Patent number: 11398584
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultraviolet light-emitting element which uses an electron emission operation. The ultraviolet light-emitting element is sealed to maintain a high degree of vacuum. A emission substrate is prepared for the electron emission and an electron emitted from the emission substrate passes through a control substrate. The electron, which has passed through the control substrate, collides with a light-emitting substrate, from which formation of a p-type semiconductor has been excluded, and thus forms ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: June Key Lee, Joon Mo Park, Han Sung Lee, Nae Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10547021
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an organic optoelectronic component provides with a first electrode, an organic functional layer structure above the first electrode, a second electrode above the organic functional layer structure, at least one contact section for electrically contacting the organic optoelectronic component, and an electrically conductive elastomer connector which is arranged above the contact section and is electrically connected to the contact section. The contact section is electrically connected to one of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Dieter Musa, Simon Schicktanz, Stefan Hartinger, Tobias Pohl-Zander
  • Patent number: 10524207
    Abstract: One communication apparatus may include a first wireless interface and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: changing the operating state of the first wireless interface from a first state to a second state when the controller is to start a predetermined process during a first period in which the controller is not performing a predetermined process; performing the predetermined process during a second period in which the operating state of the first wireless interface is the second state, the second period being a period after the operating state of the first wireless interface has been changed to the second state; and changing the operating state of the first wireless interface from the second state to the first state in response to the predetermined process being completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryosuke Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 9396702
    Abstract: A method is provided, comprising: sensing color intensity values of light emitted from a portion of a display screen for a predefined period of time, the display screen being configured to display a video stream that defines the light emitted from the portion of the display screen, the video stream being generated by an executing video game; during the period of time, triggering a controller device to communicate an input event to the video game, the video game being configured to process the input event and responsively update the video stream to change a color of the light, from a first color to a second color; analyzing the sensed color intensity values to identify a latency amount that is defined by a duration of time extending from the triggering of the controller device to the change in the color of the light emitted from the portion of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander
  • Patent number: 9141671
    Abstract: Various embodiments are presented which comprise an electronic catalog of products, wherein the catalog comprises a taxonomy of product categories and products within the categories, wherein various users input filter parameters and these are monitored, whereupon the information about which filter parameters have been selected is used to change which values of attributes relevant to the products are displayed for the user when they are making their selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel F. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8727540
    Abstract: An image projecting device for projecting an image on a screen is provided. The image projecting device includes a toppling detecting part that detects a toppling of the image projecting device; a toppling direction detecting part that detects a direction in which the image projecting device topples; and a controlling part that controls the image projecting device such that the image projecting device continues to project the image if the toppling detecting part detects the toppling of the image projecting device and the toppling direction detected by the toppling direction detecting part is directed toward the screen, while the image projecting device stops projecting the image if the toppling direction detected by the toppling direction detecting part is directed away from the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikinori Ehara
  • Patent number: 8395563
    Abstract: An image display device including an image input means to which image signals are input, an image display means for forming an optical image based on the image signals, and a device adjusting means for adjusting internal conditions of the device is provided with an adjusting operation support means for supporting an operation of the device adjusting means. Because the adjusting operation support means is provided, a user may easily adjust the image display device while confirming adjusting operation support information displayed by the adjusting operation support means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shoichi Akaiwa
  • Patent number: 7995851
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for image enhancement taking ambient illuminance into consideration. The image enhancement method includes calculating an original-luminance contrast which is a luminance contrast with respect to an original-luminance of pixels forming an original image, calculating a fade-luminance by reflecting the variation of perceived luminance based on an ambient illuminance into the original-luminance, calculating a defade-luminance by converting the fade-luminance to maintain the original-luminance contrast, and calculating a display-luminance by reflecting the variation of perceived luminance by the ambient illuminance into the defade-luminance. Improving luminance contrast through adjustment of luminance based on ambient illuminance, effectively reduces the fade phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-deok Lee, Chang-veong Kim, Dmitry Lebedev, Galina Rozhkova, Vladmir Bastakov, Young-Shin Kwak
  • Patent number: 7972206
    Abstract: A gaming machine capable of maintaining the interest of a player even when the gaming machine does not work normally. For, example, a slot machine (10) comprises a display device (30) for displaying an image, and an image state control unit for controlling the display device (30) to display an image relating to a game. The slot machine (10) may be characterized in that the image state control unit controls the display device into a predetermined state upon determination that an image signal relating to the image provided to the display device fails to satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada
  • Patent number: 7952748
    Abstract: A display device output adjustment system comprises an electronic device having a visual adjustment module configured to automatically adjust a size of visual content displayed on a display device coupled to the electronic device based on a comparison between at least one characteristic of the display device and a desired output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Voltz, John W. Frederick, Louis E. Leclerc, Clinton B. Yearwood
  • Patent number: 7843444
    Abstract: An exemplary video graphics array interface tester includes a VGA connector being configured to couple to a VGA interface to be tested and having a plurality of signal pins to output different VGA signals; a load circuit connected to the signal pins of the VGA connector for impedance matching; a selection switch having a plurality of throws corresponding to the signal pins of the VGA connector connected to the signal pins of the VGA connector respectively, and a pole; and a test port connected to the pole of the selection switch for selectively testing one of the VGA signals via selection of the selection switch. Using this tester to detect the VGA interface can guarantee quality and improve efficiency of VGA test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fa-Sheng Huang, Shang-Yang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7839512
    Abstract: Printing apparatus including a layout setting screen. The layout setting screen includes a layout selection area for displaying choices of a layout corresponding to a selected print media, a list display area for displaying a list of printing previews of a plurality of pages in accordance with the selected layout, and a preview display area for displaying the printing preview of the page selected in the list display area, on a larger scale than that in the list display area. If the choice of the layout in the layout selection area is changed while the layout setting screen is being displayed, the apparatus changes the display in each of the list display area and the preview display area to a display corresponding to the layout of the changed choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Kotani, Kunihiro Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Kusama
  • Patent number: 7825932
    Abstract: A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom, store the read control data into the EDID memory and, when access is made to the EDID memory by the set-top box, transfer the control data stored in the EDID memory to the set-top box. In this case, the memory control unit outputs an inhibiting signal to a set-top box to inhibit it from making access to the EDID memory until the completion of an operation of storing the control data from the EDID memory in the set-top box into the EDID memory in the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Mawatari, Yutaka Kawada
  • Patent number: 7825931
    Abstract: A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom, store the read control data into the EDID memory and, when access is made to the EDID memory by the set-top box, transfer the control data stored in the EDID memory to the set-top box. In this case, the memory control unit outputs an inhibiting signal to a set-top box to inhibit it from making access to the EDID memory until the completion of an operation of storing the control data from the EDID memory in the set-top box into the EDID memory in the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Mawatari, Yutaka Kawada
  • Patent number: 7768518
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose a system for enabling emulation of a MIMD ISA extension which supports user-level sequencer management and control, and a set of privileged code executed by both operating system managed sequencers and application managed sequencers, including different sets of persistent per-CPU and per-thread data. In one embodiment, a lightweight code layer executes beneath the operating system. This code layer is invoked in response to particular monitored events, such as the need for communication between an operating system managed sequencer and an application managed sequencer. Control is transferred to this code layer, for execution of special operations, after which control returns back to originally executing code. The code layer is normally dormant and can be invoked at any time when either a user application or the operating system is executing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jamison Collins, Perry Wang, Bernard Lint, Koichi Yamada, Asit Mallick, Richard A. Hankins, Gautham Chinya
  • Patent number: 7679495
    Abstract: A display unit for representing a steering-wheel angle, to be modified, of a vehicle is provided, which has a multitude of adjacently arranged indicator elements. One or more of these indicator element(s) is/are illuminated to indicate a modification in the steering-wheel angle and possibly the steering direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Beutnagel-Buchner, Petko Faber
  • Patent number: 7667706
    Abstract: A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom, store the read control data into the EDID memory and, when access is made to the EDID memory by the set-top box, transfer the control data stored in the EDID memory to the set-top box. In this case, the memory control unit outputs an inhibiting signal to a set-top box to inhibit it from making access to the EDID memory until the completion of an operation of storing the control data from the EDID memory in the set-top box into the EDID memory in the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Mawatari, Yutaka Kawada
  • Patent number: 7589734
    Abstract: A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom, store the read control data into the EDID memory and, when access is made to the EDID memory by the set-top box, transfer the control data stored in the EDID memory to the set-top box. In this case, the memory control unit outputs an inhibiting signal to a set-top box to inhibit it from making access to the EDID memory until the completion of an operation of storing the control data from the EDID memory in the set-top box into the EDID memory in the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Mawatari, Yutaka Kawada
  • Publication number: 20090121972
    Abstract: There are provided CRT display systems. A CRT display system includes an electron gun assembly, a single plane sheath beam bender, and a digital processor. The electron gun assembly is configured to emit electron beams. The single plane sheath beam bender is configured to apply a deflection force to the electron beams. The digital processor is configured to receive and process an incoming video signal stream to provide signals there from to be delivered to individual cathodes of the electron gun assembly. The provided signals have a distortion applied thereto to effect a predetermined converged image. The applied distortion at least relates to a blue-bow convergence error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Richard Hugh Miller
  • Patent number: 7457041
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes two imaging apparatuses and at least one optical compensator. The imaging apparatuses can form two virtual images respectively in front of two eyes of a user. The optical compensator can modulate wavefront of the image beams of the virtual images so as to adjust the positions of the virtual images. In this manner, the positions of the two virtual images can be adjusted to substantially coincide with each other. The present invention also provides an image adjustment method for a head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Shu Mei Tsan, Kuo Yuin Li
  • Patent number: 7432671
    Abstract: A level-shifting inverting circuit provides a blanking signal to Grid 1 of a CRT. The circuit provides the blanking signal from a blanking logic signal according to a voltage transfer characteristic that is substantially similar to the voltage transfer characteristic of a standard CMOS inverter. Also, the level-shifting inverting circuit includes a switch circuit that includes a differential pair. The differential pair has the blanking logic signal at one input, and a bias signal at the other input. The switch circuit is coupled to a voltage divider that provides an output voltage that is pre-determined by a resistor ratio when the switch circuit is open. If the blanking logic signal is low, the switch circuit is open. Conversely, if the blanking logic signal is high, the switch circuit is closed, and sinks current from the voltage divider, causing the output voltage to correspond to a second pre-determined voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Hon Kin Chiu
  • Publication number: 20080122737
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, a method, and a medium for displaying contents according to motions by identifying the direction of a sensed motion and moving the content region in a direction opposite to the identified direction or moving the background region in the identified direction. The apparatus including a motion sensing unit to sense a motion; a display control unit to adjust a position of an image region with reference to a direction of the sensed motion; and a display unit to display a content and a background according to the adjusted position, wherein the image region comprises a content region having the content and a background region having the background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-ho Lea, Hee-seob Ryu, Yong-beom Lee
  • Patent number: 7248233
    Abstract: A control circuit of a power supply delivering a supply current to an inductor connected in series with the horizontal deflection yoke of a cathode ray tube display, the inductor being the primary coil of a transformer operatively connected for delivering a rectified low-pass filtered biasing voltage to the anode of the display, the low-pass filtering having a first time constant corresponding to the duration of a plurality of pictures, the control circuit having feedback circuitry for generating a monitoring voltage substantially proportional to the biasing voltage and for controlling the supply current to keep the monitoring voltage equal to a reference voltage; and feedforward circuitry for measuring the cathode current and for adding to the monitoring voltage a compensation voltage corresponding to the cathode current, low-pass filtered with a second time constant corresponding to the duration of a small number of lines and high-pass filtered with the first time constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Moreau
  • Patent number: 7236145
    Abstract: A CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) display device, and method, having a FBT (Fly Back Transformer) with a conductive coil, and a step-up circuit supplying a predetermined power to the FBT The CRT includes a high voltage sensor sensing a voltage applied to the step-up circuit and a controller receiving the voltage outputted from the FBT and controlling an input voltage of the step-up circuit to be dropped when the received voltage from the FBT is higher than a predetermined dangerous voltage. With this configuration, the present invention provides the CRT display device that decreases an input voltage of a step-up circuit to operate normally and to prevent elements of the step-up circuit from being destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung-suk Park
  • Patent number: 7233807
    Abstract: A device and method for displaying image data and user interface (UI) data in a mobile terminal. A camera outputs captured image data to be displayed and a synchronous signal. The mobile terminal generates UI data. In response to the synchronous signal from the camera, a selector divides a frame data time into a first time and a second time. The selector selects and outputs the image data in the first time. The selector selects and outputs the UI data in the second time. A display unit displays the image data and UI data output from the selector on corresponding display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chae-Whan Lim
  • Patent number: 7158127
    Abstract: An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmatic support for multiple disparate display types, multi-mode programmable hardware blinking, programmable multiple color depth digital display interface, and programmable matrix controlled grayscale generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Dan Dotson
  • Patent number: 7109957
    Abstract: A digital display driving circuit is provided for driving a light emitting diode (LED) display to generate video images. The digital display driving circuit comprises a digital gamma-correction circuit for performing a digital gamma-correction process on the digitized video data to produce the desired video signals. An LED timing control circuit is applied for converting a plurality of timing signals into an LED timing control signal. And a PWM and shutdown circuit is applied for supplying power to the LED display and shutting down the LED display when the LED display has been idle for a preset period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Sheng Yang
  • Patent number: 7102654
    Abstract: A driving circuit of this invention has a comparator that compares an input signal with a sampling signal to perform a pulse width modulation to the input signal, a driving transistor circuit that switches according to an output signal of the comparator, and a filter that reduces a switching frequency component of the driving transistor circuit. The switching frequency of the driving transistor circuit is a product of multiplication of a horizontal frequency. Also, a PLL circuit that locks the frequency of the sampling signal to the frequency acquired from multiplication of the horizontal frequency is provided. Therefore, when the driving circuit with the PWM method is built in a television set, beat interference can be prevented, avoiding an unpleasant view caused by the raster interference on the television screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Itoi
  • Patent number: 6950097
    Abstract: A video display interface controller for a host video display unit in which control signals multiplexed with component video signals are extracted and routed according to included address information. Control data associated with one or more local addresses is used for initial processing of the component video signals while control data associated with one or more remote addresses is used for subsequent signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Peyman Hojabri
  • Patent number: 6934734
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for presenting changes to data are provided. User input is received through a first program in a first instance of a browser. The user input is placed in a variable. The user input is retrieved from the variable through a second program. The user input is processed by the second program to form a result. The result is presented in a second instance of the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mansoor Abdulali Lakhdhir
  • Patent number: 6906688
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling the horizontal size of a monitor screen are provided. The provided system for controlling the horizontal size of a monitor screen includes a processor, a driving circuit, and a microcomputer. Here, the processor generates a calibration signal to control the horizontal size of a monitor screen, in response to predetermined control signals. The driving circuit receives the calibration signal and controls the driving capacity of the calibration signal according to an external load to output the calibration signal. The microcomputer generates the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-hoon Lee, Jae-hun Lee
  • Patent number: 6879303
    Abstract: An aperture grill type display device is provided that displays a picture including two areas whose luminance values are different from each other without vertical stripes. The aperture grill type display device includes an aperture grill to which plural wires are attached. When displaying a picture including a window whose luminance value is higher than that of a desktop, the luminance value of the window is decreased if the energy that electron beams emitted from an electron gun of the display device give to the wires for displaying the window exceeds the energy that the electron beams give to all the wires by a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Isamu Kaneyasu
  • Patent number: 6862029
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling color displayed on a color monitor. The method includes, in one embodiment, the steps of: activating a first color scheme on the monitor; responsive to the activating of the first color scheme, measuring a first color point of the monitor; storing the first color point within a memory associated with the monitor; activating a second color scheme on the monitor; responsive to the activating of the second color scheme, measuring a second color point of the monitor; storing the second color point within the memory associated with the monitor; activating a third color scheme on the monitor; responsive to the activating of the third color scheme, measuring a third color point of the monitor; and storing the third color point within the memory associated with the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Henry M. D'Souza, William H. Nott, Gokalp Bayramoglu
  • Patent number: 6850211
    Abstract: A method of compensating for distortion errors within a head-up display by mapping default pixel locations within a control environment, storing the default pixel locations to a storing means, recalling the stored default pixel locations while the head-up display is operational, and adjusting the head-up display unit to achieve the default pixel locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Inventor: James Deppe
  • Patent number: 6847337
    Abstract: With the present invention, there is provided a driving method that favorably drives an electron source, which is driven in a passive matrix manner, without being affected by a disturbance. There is also provided an image-forming apparatus that uses this electron source. An anode electrode having a constant potential is arranged over a plurality of electron-emitting devices including gate electrodes and cathode electrodes. During passive matrix driving of the electron source where the amount of electrons to be emitted is adjusted by modulating potentials between the cathode electrodes and the gate electrodes, a predetermined time difference is maintained between the driving of signal lines in a group and the driving of signal lines in another group during the driving of signal lines divided into N groups after selection of scanning lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 6819306
    Abstract: A light-emitting color display system is provided having an optical sensor system in which a plurality of photosensors are directed towards the light source of the light-emitting color display system to provide outputs proportional to the light energy associated with each color. A processing system responds to the outputs over time with the initial outputs and provides a mechanism to correct color changes in the display system. The color light-emitting display system has a second plurality of photosensors directed away from said light-emitting color display system for providing outputs related to the different illuminants and allowing compensation of the light-emitting color display system for the illuminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ted J. Cooper
  • Publication number: 20040222978
    Abstract: A control and communications panel that provides users with an easy way to perform computing tasks. The panel may be located in any convenient location, such as in a location that the user can easily see and reach. The control and communications panel provides various controls such as buttons corresponding to computing tasks, including program-related and communications-related tasks. When operated, each control notifies the operating system (or other program) of a state change, and control handling logic processes the state data to take an appropriate action. Indicators such as LEDs related to the controls convey state information to users. USB ports and/or media drives or storage media may be included in the control and communications panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Eric Gould Bear, Chad Magendanz, Aditha May Adams, Carl Ledbetter, Steve Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20040222977
    Abstract: Notifications to computer users are provided via indicators such as lights. The indicators are controlled according to rules, to convey computer-related state information to users in a consistent manner. Locations of visible indicators are chosen to facilitate easy viewing. The rules dictate colors and/or illumination pattern components that together provide users with important computer-related information. For example, colors are assigned to types of information, and illumination patterns generally to behavior-related information. Colors may be combined in various illumination patterns. In one implementation, many or all of the visible indicators may be grouped together on a single control panel from rapid viewing. Alternatively, the visible indicators may be grouped by function or other logical arrangement, such as on the keyboard and/or frame of a monitor. Alternative light sources that illuminate the system (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Eric Gould Bear, Chad Magendanz, Aditha May Adams, Carl Ledbetter, Steve Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6795043
    Abstract: A first PLL circuit (100) receives a flyback pulse (VFB) as a reference signal and outputs a clock signal (CLK1), and a delay circuit (200) outputs a flyback delay signal (VFBD) having a predetermined delay time corresponding to the amount of horizontal movement on a screen. A second PLL circuit (300) receives a horizontal synchronizing signal (VHSYNC) and the flyback delay signal (VFBD) as a reference signal and a compared signal, respectively, and generates a horizontal drive pulse (VHD). A deflection yoke (12) receives the horizontal drive pulse (VHD) and generates a flyback pulse, and a step-down transformer circuit (16) outputs the flyback pulse (VFB) whose voltage is lowered. With this constitution, it becomes possible to generate a stable horizontal drive pulse which causes no jitter on the screen when a PIN balance correction, a KEY balance correction and a horizontal position adjustment of a CRT are performed by digital processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuo Shibata
  • Patent number: 6690339
    Abstract: A method and a circuit arrangement for controlling the operating point of a cathode ray tube (3) for use in image technology applications. A video signal (1) is supplied to both the tube (3) and to a cathode ray tube model (2), which the model (2) uses to emulate a beam current. From the emulated beam current and a measured beam current, a characteristic quantity for adjusting the operating point is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Burkhardt, Uwe Nagel, Erich Schaefer, Hartmut Schulz
  • Patent number: 6657623
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for transmitting a video signal, parallel digital video signals output from a graphic controller of a computer are transmitted to a driver of a cathode ray tube monitor by converting the parallel digital video signals to serial digital video signals, transmitting the converted serial digital video signals to the cathode ray tube monitor via a cable, converting the transmitted serial digital video signals to serial analog video signals, and inputting the converted serial analog video signals to the driver of the cathode ray tube monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-kuk Shin
  • Patent number: 6625666
    Abstract: An operation-recording type system for controlling a display data channel (DDC) monitor utilizes a control method wherein information of externally inputted signals is recorded in a storage device upon receipt of externally inputted signals; an operation corresponding to the externally inputted signals is carried out by a microcomputer; the operation corresponding to the externally inputted signals is recorded in the storage device; and the externally inputted signals and the corresponding microcomputer operations are recorded in the storage device. Therefore, the user of the monitor can easily identify the cause of abnormal operation, thereby making it easy to correct errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong-Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 6577285
    Abstract: A gamma corrector inputs a primary color signal as an image signal to each of the differential amplifiers which are connected in parallel to each other and mixes a plurality of output signals which are outputted from the four differential amplifiers to output an image signal to which a plurality of gamma correction is applied. Each of the differential amplifiers amplifies and outputs the inputted primary color signal with a different gain characteristic so that the gain characteristic of the signal obtained by mixing the output signals varies at two inflection points. The two-point gamma correction is applied to the inputted primary color signal so that a signal level at the side of a black level is turned down and the signal level at the side of a white level is turned up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Motonakano, Shozo Mitarai
  • Patent number: 6570546
    Abstract: Monitors for use in a tiled monitor system include adjacent monitor detectors arranged to detect the presence of corresponding adjacent monitor detectors on adjacent monitors so that the physical arrangements of the tiled monitors can be determined without user intervention. Similarly, orientation sensors are provided in each monitor so that their orientation—landscape vs. portrait—can be determined by the monitor without user intervention and reported to the video controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Mark W. Welker, David W. Engler