Number Of Pixels Per Row Or Column Conversion (i.e., Resolution Conversion) Patents (Class 345/3.3)
  • Patent number: 10990339
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device and a control method therefor. The electronic device may include a housing, a processor disposed in the housing, and at least one memory disposed in the housing, connected to the processor, and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect connection of a plurality of displays to the processor; determine connection types of the plurality of connected displays; display a first screen according to a first mode when all of the plurality of connected displays are internal displays that are exposed via at least a part of the housing; and display a second screen according to a second mode when some of the plurality of connected displays are internal displays and the remaining displays are external displays connected to the electronic device via an interface, a part of which is exposed via the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cha-Hoon Park, Sung-Geun Joo, Ga-Young Jung
  • Patent number: 10860273
    Abstract: A display device operation method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: outputting first content on a screen of the display device; receiving a screen link request for linking a first screen of the display device and a second screen of another display device connected to the display device; and controlling the display device and another display device such that the first content is output on a merged screen in which the first screen and the second screen are merged according to the received screen link request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonghee Han, Donghee Lee, Woojin Choi, Seunghyun Heo, Gahyun Chloe Sun, Sangrok Lee, Hyeongjin Park, Youngjae Jung, Kanghak Han, Jaeho Lee, Hojun Nam, Donguk Lee, Woojin Jeong, Seokho Jang, Changhoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10417832
    Abstract: A virtual reality system and a display device that can be used, for example, as part of the virtual reality system. The display device can have more than one data driver, such as an even row data driver and an odd row data driver. The display device can have a configurable resolution such that one region of the display device operates at full resolution while another region of the display device operates at a reduced resolution. The virtual reality system can also track an eye gaze and adjust the full resolution region of the display device to track the eye gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Nirav Rajendra Patel
  • Patent number: 10311776
    Abstract: A method of compensating for color deflection of a display device includes dividing a display region of a display panel into a plurality of partial regions, displaying a reference image in the display region, measuring optical characteristics of the partial regions based on the reference image, calculating a region compensation factor by the partial regions based on the optical characteristics, and storing the region compensation factor in a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hye Sang Park
  • Patent number: 10021271
    Abstract: A correction method for an image forming apparatus including a light source including a plurality of light emitting points, a photosensitive member configured to rotate in a first direction, and a deflection unit configured to deflect light beams emitted from the light source in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to form scanning lines, the correction method including: a storing step of storing information on positional deviation of the scanning lines in the first direction; a conversion step of converting positions of pixels of an input image by performing coordinate transformation based on the information so that an interval of the scanning lines becomes a predetermined interval; and a filtering step of determining pixel values of pixels of an output image by subjecting pixel values of the pixels of the input image after the coordinate transformation to a convolution operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Izuru Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 9953156
    Abstract: This document describes techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) for in-band peripheral authentication. These techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) may communicate via a non-media channel allowing host device (102) to authenticate peripheral (106), enable an enhanced operational mode of the host device (102), and/or provide content configured for the peripheral (106) without the use of out-of-band signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Francis P. Bourque
  • Patent number: 9767540
    Abstract: Patch partition and image processing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a system includes one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to perform operations including grouping a plurality of patches taken from a plurality of training samples of images into respective ones of a plurality of partitions, calculating an image processing operator for each of the partitions, determining distances between the plurality of partitions that describe image similarity of patches of the plurality of partitions, one to another, and configuring a database to provide the determined distance and the image processing operator to process an image in response to identification of a respective partition that corresponds to a patch taken from the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Jianchao Yang, Hailin Jin, Xin Lu
  • Patent number: 9589176
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to arrangements and techniques that provide for identifying objects within an image such as the face position of a user of a portable electronic device. An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is configured to locate objects within images. The ASIC includes an image node configured to process an image and a search node configured to search the image for an object in the image. The search node includes an integral image generation unit configured to generate an integral image of the image and a Haar feature evaluation unit configured to evaluate search windows of the integral image with respect to Haar-like features. The ASIC also includes an ensemble node configured to confirm the presence of the object in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Vaughn Todd Arnold
  • Patent number: 9569609
    Abstract: This document describes techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) for in-band peripheral authentication. These techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) may communicate via a non-media channel allowing host device (102) to authenticate peripheral (106), enable an enhanced operational mode of the host device (102), and/or provide content configured for the peripheral (106) without the use of out-of-band signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Francis P. Bourque
  • Patent number: 9407941
    Abstract: A method of distributing audio video content is described. The method includes: receiving configuration data for a plurality of devices; for each device in the plurality of devices, computing a set of bit rates based, at least in part, on the configuration data; encoding audio video content at each bit rate in each set of bit rates to produce a plurality of encoded audio video content streams; splitting each encoded audio video content stream in the plurality of encoded audio video content streams into chunks to produce a plurality of chunked encoded audio video content streams; for each device in the plurality of devices, creating a separate index file, each separate index file including references to at least one of the plurality of chunked encoded audio video content streams; publishing a locator for each separate index file in a catalogue; and transmitting the plurality of chunked encoded audio video content streams and each separate index file to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Epstein, Hillel Solow, Yaron Sella, Aviad Kipnis, Avraham Poupko
  • Patent number: 9208537
    Abstract: A super-resolution reconstructing method includes: providing an original image including multiple original image pixel points arranged in an array; performing edge detecting on the original image by Canny_H method and considering pixel edge information of 4*4 area image range; performing 2*2 times interpolation zooming to edge pixel points and determining a type of the 4*4 area image as pure color entity area or non-pure color entity area according to the pixel edge information; performing a conditional interpolation individually on pure color entity area and non-pure color entity area; and obtaining a pixel 2*2 times interpolation zoomed super-resolution image. In pure color entity area, interpolation is performed according to edge information of 4*4 area image range to maintain border sharpness of pure color entity area and reduce jaggies. In non-pure color entity area, BiCubic_H interpolation is performed to enhance smoothness and sharpness of image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Houliang Hu, Hao Li, Liwei Chu
  • 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: 8922712
    Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a video processing component comprising a compensation engine configured to generate pixels of a first video frame from a second video frame based at least in part on specified pixel motion; and an access buffer configured to store pixel data corresponding to pixels of the second video frame for reference by the compensation engine, wherein the pixel data is stored by the access buffer at different vertical resolutions depending on vertical distances of the pixels corresponding to the pixel data from a target pixel that is indicated by the compensation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Vipin Namboodiri
  • Patent number: 8866754
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: touch operation sections provided to be spaced from each other by a specified distance and detect a position touched by an operating part; a drag detection section to detect a drag moved in a state where the operating part touches the touch operation sections; a vibration detection section to detect a vibration amount of the touch operation sections; a vibration acquisition section to acquire the vibration amount in a period after the drag detection section detects that an arbitrary touch operation section is dragged among the touch operation sections and before the drag detection section detects that another touch operation section adjacent to the arbitrary touch operation section is dragged; and a drag determination section to determine, based on the vibration amount, whether the drag on the arbitrary touch operation section is continuous with the drag on the another touch operation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 8866828
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that drives an integrated display on a computer system from an electronic device. The system includes a circuit, a processor, and an application executing on the processor. The circuit may receive a display command sent from the electronic device to the computer system. The application may obtain the display command from a memory on the computer system and process the display command to control a capability of the integrated display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian E. Sun, Thomas A. LaPerre, Jr., Collin L. Pieper, Eugene I. Chen
  • Patent number: 8860633
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring multiple displays includes determining, in connection with an image or portion thereof to be displayed on the multiple displays at the same time, whether received display preferences can be fulfilled in observance of: configuration properties of the multiple displays and configuration properties of a computing system, such as the capabilities of display controllers. The method and apparatus also determine whether a current configuration of the multiple displays to the computing system can be reconfigured such that the display preferences of the multiple displays can be fulfilled at the same time while maintaining effective configuration of a current configuration when the display preferences cannot be fulfilled, and display the images of a portion thereof on the multiple displays at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Gordon Fraser Grigor, Vladimir F. Giemborek, John E. Haberfellner
  • Patent number: 8863223
    Abstract: A system is provided in which IP or media content residing on or being streamed to a mobile phone is forwarded to a display. The media content supports a native resolution of the mobile phone that is significantly smaller than a native resolution of said display. The system has media content processing circuitry, which up-scales the media content to the display native resolution. The system forwards the up-scaled media content to the display, whereby the display provides the up-scaled media content to a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: MV3 Partners LLC
    Inventor: Jared E. Abbruzzese
  • Patent number: 8823755
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting the pixel resolution of an input image is disclosed. According to the present invention, the pixel resolution of the input image is adjusted by oversampling an analog signal representative of the input image at a higher frequency than the pixel rate of the original image, then digitally downscaling to the desired horizontal resolution of an output image. The horizontally downscaled image is then stored in a buffer memory and subsequently scaled up to the desired vertical resolution of the output image. Preferably, oversampling of the analog signal is performed at a frequency that is an integer multiple of the input pixel rate, thus providing coherent sampling to help avoid aliasing artifacts in the sampled image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Sterling Smith, Jiunn-Kuang Chen
  • Patent number: 8810480
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for per display scale factors within a multiple display system are described. In one aspect of the invention, a machine implemented method includes setting a scale factor for each window buffer equal to an extreme scale factor among a plurality of displays. The method further includes transferring data from each window buffer into a corresponding frame buffer for one of the plurality of displays by setting a scale factor of each frame buffer equal to the scale factor of the corresponding display. In one example according to this aspect, the method further includes displaying on a high resolution display and a low resolution display an image, stored in the corresponding frame buffers, with substantially the same physical size even though the displays have different scale factors and pixel densities. Also, the extreme scale factor is one of the largest scale factor or the smallest scale factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Fullerton, Ralph T. Brunner, Ali Ozer
  • Patent number: 8638274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display (10) comprising a vertical stack of at least two different color absorbing layers (14) of pixels (18). The display is characterized in that the pixel resolution of at least two of the layers is different. The present invention also relates to a display system (50) comprising such a display and a method for controlling such a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sander Jurgen Roosendaal, Martinusj Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden
  • Patent number: 8547297
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, the color resolution of a first image display screen is increased by assembling the first display screen with a second image display screen in an overlaid manner. Transmissive color filter elements are provided associated with addressable sub-pixels of the display screens. A first set of sub-pixels of the first screen and a second set of sub-pixels of the second screen are cooperatively addressed to display an image pixel of the display assembly, where the first set of sub-pixels addressed is spatially offset from the second set of sub-pixels addressed along the planar surfaces of the display screens. The exemplary display assembly formed by the display screens thereby enables the use of more than three colors to define a broadened color space relative to that defined by the display screens separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: 3-D Virtual Lens Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Reuben Hoppenstein, Eric Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 8542258
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting the pixel resolution of an input image is disclosed. According to the present invention, the pixel resolution of the input image is adjusted by oversampling an analog signal representative of the input image at a higher frequency than the pixel rate of the original image, then digitally downscaling to the desired horizontal resolution of an output image. The horizontally downscaled image is then stored in a buffer memory and subsequently scaled up to the desired vertical resolution of the output image. Preferably, oversampling of the analog signal is performed at a frequency that is an integer multiple of the input pixel rate, thus providing coherent sampling to help avoid aliasing artifacts in the sampled image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Sterling Smith, Jiunn-Kuang Chen
  • Patent number: 8537073
    Abstract: Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: Scott C. Harris
  • Patent number: 8531350
    Abstract: When a first display device displays image data, a display control apparatus reserves a memory space having the first horizontal pixel number in the storage unit, and sets the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the display control unit to a first frequency. When a second display device displays image data, a display control apparatus reserves a space of the second horizontal pixel number, which is higher than the first horizontal pixel number, and sets the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the display control unit to a second frequency which is higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Zenya Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8520819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for the imaging representation of information, particularly for use with communication terminals. The arrangement comprises an image output device having at least one first partial region and at least one second partial region, wherein the first partial region is designed such that the representation of the information is optimized for high-quality imaging and the second partial region is designed such that it is optimized for lower-quality imaging. According to the method, the first partial region is activated when data is present for output using high-quality imaging, while the second partial region is always actively operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Brieskorn, Edmund Ernst, Karl Klug, Stephan Schaade
  • Patent number: 8511829
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes image data corresponding to a display image. The image processing apparatus includes M image processing sections which have a function of processing image data of M (where M is an integer equal to or greater than 2) images segmented from the image and an image processing control section which, when an image corresponding to input image data is an image which has a resolution being of size to be processable by N (where N is an integer equal to or smaller than M?1) image processing sections, causes L image processing sections from among the M image processing sections to process image data corresponding to L (where L is an integer equal to or greater than N+1 and equal to or smaller than M) partial images segmented from image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Taniguchi, Yuki Yamabe
  • Patent number: 8482482
    Abstract: An exemplary electronic device is capable of communicating with one other electronic device including a slave display unit. The electronic device includes a master display unit, sensors, and a processor. The master display unit and the at least one slave display unit cooperatively form a united display unit. The master display unit has sub-display areas. The sensors are arranged on the master display unit. The processor determines the position of the slave display unit relative to the master display unit according to the sensors, establish a minimum virtual display area M×N, and determine maximum actual rectangle display area m×n that the united display unit has. The processor further divides an image to m×n sub-images, transmit the sub-images displayed by the slave display unit to the another electronic device, and further control the master display unit to display the determined sub-images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting-Ting Chu
  • Patent number: 8471860
    Abstract: Graphics display adapters for driving multiple display monitors have become very popular. Graphics display adapters that drive multiple monitors can be used to provide terminal services to multiple independent terminals or be used to provide multiple displays to a single user. Generating video signals for multiple display systems puts a heavy burden on the video memory system since multiple different video signal generators may read from associated frame buffers in a shared video memory system. In one disclosed embodiment, a plurality of video memory read triggers are provided wherein at least two of which are staggered to reduce the load on the video memory system. In response to each read trigger, display data is read from a frame buffer to an associated video signal generation circuit. Each video signal generation circuit then provides a display signal to an associated display screen in a multi-screen environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: nComputing Inc.
    Inventor: Subir Ghosh
  • Patent number: 8467775
    Abstract: Video clips are stored and converted on a website into different formats which are compatible with different cellular phones. The source for the video can be sources such as DVDs, other cellular phones, or broadcast television. The system can automatically store profiles from multiple different phones and automatically carry out a conversion based on information stored in the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 8379066
    Abstract: According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, and apparatus for scaling an image to produce a scaled image is described, the image comprising an array of image pixels, and the scaled image comprising an array of scaled pixels. In a first step a map is created between the array of scaled pixels and the array of image pixels. In a second step, an energy parameter of each image pixel in the array of image pixels is determined. In a third step, a fraction of a given image pixel which overlaps a given scaled pixel in the array of scaled pixels is determined for each image pixel, in the array of image pixels. In a final step the energy parameter of the given image pixel is distributed between scaled pixels which overlap the given image pixel, the distributing based on the fraction, such that the energy parameter is conserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Goerzen
  • Patent number: 8379065
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for displaying a high resolution picture in a mobile communication terminal having a low resolution display means, the mobile communication terminal and a system for converting a picture file format therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: SK Planet Co., Ltd., Digital Aria Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gi-Seon Nam, Choong-Hwan Lee, Hwang-Seok Oh, Kyeong-Ryeol Park, Jea-Woo Ahn
  • Patent number: 8378923
    Abstract: A locating and displaying method upon a specific video region of a computer screen comprises the steps of: capturing a plurality of computer screens during a predetermined time period; comparing one computer screen with the following computer screen to locate a plurality of screen differences, in which every single screen difference includes at least one different region; judging a respective position of every individual different region of each screen difference so as to locate an object window containing the different region; determine one object window as a video region by comparing a size or an appearance time of the object window; capturing a film of the video region; forwarding the film to a distant displayer; and then the displayer broadcasting the film on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Awind Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Chang, Hsing-Yung Wang
  • Patent number: 8373616
    Abstract: A locating and displaying method upon a specific video region of a computer screen comprises the steps of: capturing a plurality of computer screens during a predetermined time period; comparing one computer screen with the following computer screen to locate a plurality of screen differences, in which every single screen difference includes at least one different region; judging a respective position of every individual different region of each screen difference so as to locate an object window containing the different region; determine one object window as a video region by comparing a size or an appearance time of the object window; capturing a film of the video region; forwarding the film to a distant displayer; and then the displayer broadcasting the film on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Awind Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Chang, Hsing-Yung Wang
  • Patent number: 8368616
    Abstract: Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Inventor: Scott C. Harris
  • Patent number: 8362971
    Abstract: Systems and techniques to display an electronic document to multiple display devices simultaneously. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: identifying, by a software application in a computing system, display characteristics of multiple display devices, and generating, by the software application in the computing system, simultaneous independent views of an electronic document on the display devices by separately rendering the electronic document to each of the display devices based on the identified display characteristics of the device. A system can include one or more peripheral display devices, and a data processing system including a primary display device and a software application that generates simultaneous independent views of an electronic document on the display devices based on display characteristics of the display device as identified by the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Viraj Chatterjee, Susanta Sarkar, Naresh C. Gupta
  • Patent number: 8344389
    Abstract: An optoelectonice device array includes a plurality of packages, each enclosing an optoelectronic device, and positioned in at least one row. Each package overlaps at least one adjacent package, and may be hermetically sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald Seton Farquhar, Michael Scott Herzog
  • Patent number: 8310408
    Abstract: A first presenting display device of a first aspect ratio includes a predefined pixel region for a display area, such as displaying video image content from one or more video input devices, and a graphical user control interface within a predefined pixel area representing the pixel area difference between the first display device and the predefined pixel region for the display area. A second display device has an aspect ratio matching the pixel region for the display area of the first device. Content from the display area of the first device is simultaneously displayed on the full display of the second device without the graphical user control interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Waveguide Consulting, Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Walker, Harry Allison, Kenn Trezek, Barry Millsapp, Peter Knapp, Shane Long, Eric Bernhardt
  • Patent number: 8279139
    Abstract: When a first display device displays image data, a display control apparatus reserves a memory space having the first horizontal pixel number in the storage unit, and sets the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the display control unit to a first frequency. When a second display device displays image data, a display control apparatus reserves a space of the second horizontal pixel number, which is higher than the first horizontal pixel number, and sets the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the display control unit to a second frequency which is higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabuashiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Zenya Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8267531
    Abstract: A method for correcting a projection from a plurality of digital projectors is provided. The method includes receiving as an input a matrix which maps each pixel to be projected to a captured pixel that includes a row value and a column value and detecting a shift with respect row or column values in the matrix. The method further includes determining attributes of the shift, wherein the attributes include a type for the shift and an overlap length for the shift. A gradient length is determined from the overlap length. A gradient of pixel weightings is generated for each gradient length. The pixel weightings are uniformly sloping and are associated with pixels in the gradient length and neighboring pixels. Intersecting gradients re merged and a list that includes common points and diagonal points is created from the merging process. The method operations may be embodied as code on a computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Nelson, Victor Ivashin
  • Patent number: 8264586
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that can output images with a plurality of resolutions is provided. The imaging apparatus comprises an imaging section (101) for imaging a subject using an imaging device (103) to generate an image signal and a resolution conversion section (110) for converting a resolution of the image signal captured by the imaging section (101) and outputting it. The resolution conversion section (110) reduces the image inputted from the imaging section (101) to a plurality of images of different sizes and outputs an embedded image in which the size-reduced images of different sizes are embedded in the input image size from the imaging section (101). Thereby, images of a plurality of image sizes can be outputted at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8259034
    Abstract: An original monochrome image recorded with an FPD (flat panel detector) which comprises an array, m rows and n columns, of pixels is reduced and converted into a display image which comprises an array, q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns, of pixels before the display image is transferred to a monochrome liquid crystal display equipped with a monochrome LCD which comprises an array, q rows and P columns, of pixels, where m, n, q, and P are natural numbers and m?n, q<P, n/m<P/q, and m>q are given. The monochrome liquid crystal display drives the three sub pixels of each pixel independently aligned along the row of the monochrome LCD to display the display image of the pixels in q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Totoku Electric Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Katuhiro Ichikawa, Yoshie Kodera, Shigeo Hayashi, Tatumi Naganuma
  • Patent number: 8248425
    Abstract: Graphics display adapters for driving multiple display monitors have become very popular. Graphics display adapters that drive multiple monitors can be used to provide terminal services to multiple independent terminals or be used to provide multiple displays to a single user. Generating video signals for multiple display systems puts a heavy burden on the video memory system since multiple different video signal generators may read from associated frame buffers in a shared video memory system. In one disclosed embodiment, a plurality of video memory read triggers are provided wherein at least two of which are staggered to reduce the load on the video memory system. In response to each read trigger, display data is read from a frame buffer to an associated video signal generation circuit. Each video signal generation circuit then provides a display signal to an associated display screen in a multi-screen environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: nComputing Inc.
    Inventor: Subir Ghosh
  • Patent number: 8243109
    Abstract: A two-dimensional panel, particularly a liquid crystal display device, has a maximum display area with a width of (T×M) addressable channels. The addressable channels are addressed through a plurality of T source channel integrated circuits (ICs), with each source channel IC having M source channels. The number of addressable channels exceeds the number of channels of data in an image display data array having a width of W pixels, each pixel comprising P subpixels in the width dimension. The excess addressable channels are distributed symmetrically across the width dimension of the displayed image. In other embodiments the number of addressable channels is less than the number of channels of data and excess channels of data are excluded symmetrically across the width dimension of the displayed image. Further embodiments distribute excess addressable channels symmetrically across the height dimension or exclude excess channels of data symmetrically across the height dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: American Panel Corporation
    Inventors: Hanwook Baek, William Dunn
  • Patent number: 8184137
    Abstract: Various aspects of processing video information in a display controller may comprise calculating a decision value for a current field based on a video format of the current field and an output video format. The decision value may be compared to a threshold value. In instances where the decision value is greater than said threshold value, scaling may be performed prior to performing capturing. In instances where the decision value is less than said threshold value, capturing may be performed before performing scaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Darren Neuman
  • Patent number: 8144075
    Abstract: There are provided a display apparatus, a display system and a display method. The display apparatus includes: a first input unit through which a first image signal having a first type is inputted; an image processing unit which processes the first image signal for display; a converting unit which converts the type of the first image signal into a second type different from the first type; and an output unit which outputs the first image signal converted into the second type to a next connected display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-sul Kim, Young-chan Kim
  • Patent number: 8096665
    Abstract: A high-resolution image is generated using multiple spatially offset lower-resolution digital micro-mirror device (DMD) panels. Multiple lower-resolution subframe signals for controlling the spatial light modulators are generated from a high-resolution image signal using a resolution reduction and interpolation algorithm. The spatial light modulators under control of the subframe signals are illuminated by a light source and light beams reflected from the spatial light modulators are combined and directed onto a screen for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Miradia, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew William Bellis, Dongmin Chen, Gregory Allen Miller
  • Patent number: 8089423
    Abstract: Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventor: Scott C. Harris
  • Patent number: 7941004
    Abstract: A computer implemented technique for producing super resolution images from ordinary images or videos containing a number of images wherein a number of non-smooth low resolution patches comprising an image are found using edge detection methodologies. The low resolution patches are then transformed using selected basis of a Radial Basis Function (RBF) and Gaussian process regression is used to generate high resolution patches using a trained model. The high resolution patches are then combined into a high resolution image or video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shenghuo Zhu, Mei Han, Yihong Gong
  • Patent number: RE42656
    Abstract: An input video image having an arbitrary resolution is converted to another video image having a predetermined resolution of a display device to display the video image with the converted resolution. The frequencies of the synchronizing signals of the input video signal are measured, and then a resolution of an input video signal is determined from the measured frequencies of the synchronizing signals. The video image represented by the input video signal is expanded or contracted, so as to make the resolution of the input video signal coincident with a resolution of the display device. A resulting video image with the converted resolution is displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takeuchi Kesatoshi
  • Patent number: RE43641
    Abstract: An input video image having an arbitrary resolution is converted to another video image having a predetermined resolution of a display device to display the video image with the converted resolution. The frequencies of the synchronizing signals of the input video signal are measured, and then a resolution of an input video signal is determined from the measured frequencies of the synchronizing signals. The video image represented by the input video signal is expanded or contracted, so as to make the resolution of the input video signal coincident with a resolution of the display device. A resulting video image with the converted resolution is displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takeuchi Kesatoshi