Adjusting Display Pixel Size Or Pixels Per Given Area (i.e., Resolution) Patents (Class 345/698)
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Patent number: 8760573Abstract: A scaling engine, blending mechanism, memory controller, frame buffer and video driver are included within a semiconductor, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), to provide broadcasting of signals at a high resolution format by combining two or more low resolution video signals to create a high resolution signal in real-time High Definition format, such as 1080 p. The high resolution signals can be concurrently displayed as one or more image areas on a display device in any contemplated size, number and arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Inventors: Geno Valente, Mary Beth Valente
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Patent number: 8754913Abstract: A subpixel arrangement structure for a display device, including a plurality of unit pixels each having a red subpixel, a green subpixel and a blue subpixel which form a delta arrangement structure, wherein openings of the red and green subpixels of each unit pixel are substantially aligned along a direction of a column axis, wherein an opening of the blue subpixel of each until pixel are substantially aligned along the direction of the column axis or a direction of a row axis that is perpendicular to the column axis, and wherein two of the plurality of unit pixels of each pixel group, that are positioned adjacent to each other in the direction of the column axis or the direction of the row axis, share one blue subpixel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soonjae Hwang, Jongsik Shim, Homin Lim, Minkyu Chang, Kyoungsik Choi, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
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Patent number: 8749599Abstract: A 4-primary color display includes a display panel including a plurality of 4-primary color pixels each including red, green, blue, and white liquid crystal cells, and a pixel data rendering circuit for producing 4-primary color pixel data corresponding to a second horizontal resolution, which is equal to a physical horizontal resolution of the display panel, using 3 -primary color pixel data corresponding to a first horizontal resolution, which is two times higher than the physical horizontal resolution of the display panel. The pixel data rendering circuit determines a weighting factor based on a luminance ratio of two 3-primary color pixel data so as to increase a cognitive horizontal resolution of a luminance in the 4-primary color pixel data to the first horizontal resolution, and reflects the weighting factor to the calculation of a gray value of one 4-primary color pixel data.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minchul Byun, Heumeil Baek
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Patent number: 8724928Abstract: A method for producing an improved high resolution image is disclosed including capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image; combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image; reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image that could have been captured by the image capture device; interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image; combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image; and using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventor: Aaron T. Deever
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Patent number: 8718442Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data reproduction apparatus comprises a reproduction module configured to reproduce image data, a resolution selection module configured to select one of resolutions, an image quality mode selection module configured to select on or off state of an image quality mode, a selection disable module configured to disable the resolution selection module to select a prescribed resolution when the image quality mode selection module selects the on state of the image quality mode, and an image processor configured to improve a quality of the image data reproduced by the reproduction module in accordance with the resolution selected by the resolution selection module when the image quality mode selection module selects the on state of the image quality mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koji Maruyama, Mitsutaka Kuwabara, Satoshi Kataoka
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Systems and Methods for Configuring the Display Resolution of an Electronic Device Based on Distance
Publication number: 20140118240Abstract: Systems and methods dynamically configure a display (104) of an electronic device (102) to a desired display resolution without noticeable impact on the user viewing experience. According to certain aspects, the distance between a user (100) and the display is measured (1002), and the desired display resolution is determined (1008) based on the distance. A request indicating the desired display resolution is transmitted (1010) to a server that supplies images, such as pictures or videos. The image is received (1012) from the server and displayed (1014) on the display. If changes in the distance are detected (1016) above a certain threshold (1018), the distance is re-measured and the desired display resolution is re-determined. A focus area distance and/or a pupil orientation of the user may also influence the desired display resolution. Bandwidth, processing, and power savings may result through the use of these systems and methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Martin R. Pais -
Patent number: 8711165Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image quality improvement processing unit which is supplied with an image signal corresponding to an original image from an image supply device, executes image quality improvement processing to first image data based on the image signal and thus generates second image data; a resolution deciding unit which compares the first image data with the second image data and thus decides resolution of the original image; and a control unit which controls the image quality improvement processing unit according to the resolution of the original image decided by the resolution deciding unit and thus adjusts the image quality improvement processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Katsuya Ota
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Patent number: 8711188Abstract: A reading device includes a computing device and an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing low resolution images and high resolution images. The reading machine also includes a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium. The medium is in communication with the computing device and includes instructions to operate in a plurality of modes to optimize performance for specific uses of the reading device and process low and high resolution images during operation of at least one of the plurality of modes.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.Inventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, James Gashel, Lucy Gibson
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Patent number: 8704843Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention, comprises: a motion detection unit that detects a motion vector from an input image; a determination unit that determines whether an image is moving in each pixel in use of the detected motion vector, and determines whether a motion pixel, about which determination has been made that the image is moving therein, exists in a predetermined range from a still pixel about which determination has been made that the image is not moving therein; and a correction unit that performs correction processing to decrease at least one of high frequency components, contrast, and luminance for the still pixel about which determination has been made that a motion pixel exists in the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsuji Saito
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Patent number: 8698847Abstract: According to the image display method, apparatus, and program of the present invention, when a user moves a display location to partially display text that is described in an image over a wide area, the burden of the user in performing return operations with respect to the screen display can be reduced by freely selecting and storing a return destination of the screen from among displayed partial regions in accordance with a user instruction, and thereafter returning to the display of the stored partial region in accordance with an instruction of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Otani
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Patent number: 8701049Abstract: A mobile communication terminal, an electronic device, a computer program product, and a method of controlling including receiving a control signal for controlling a predetermined area; and controlling a size and an operating mode of a screen by the control signal. Therefore, various operation modes can be easily selected, and a plurality of touch signals can be recognized and processed.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Taehun Kim
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Patent number: 8698859Abstract: A display device including: a display screen having first region and second region, the first region having a first pixel density and the second region having a second pixel density, the second pixel density being higher than the first pixel density, an input for receiving image data, a power source; and wherein the display screen is operable in a full screen mode in which an image is displayed in both the first region and the second region and a reduced screen mode in which power to the first region is turned off and the image is displayed in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Michael Joseph DeLuca
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Publication number: 20140092151Abstract: There is provided a projection device including a projecting unit that projects an image onto a screen, an acquiring unit that acquires image data of the image to be projected onto the screen, a generating unit that generates first pixel data representing pixels of first spot beams to be projected onto the screen without overlapping with each other among a plurality of spot beams to be projected at different timings based on the image data, and a driving control unit that controls driving of the projecting unit based on the first pixel data in a manner that the first spot beams are projected onto the screen as pixels of the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsunori Seno, Naotaka Osawa, Tomotaka Miyashiro
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Publication number: 20140092150Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for modifying a pixel value as a function of a display duration estimate. In use, a value of a pixel of an image frame to be displayed on a display screen of a display device is identified, wherein the display device is capable of handling updates at unpredictable times. Additionally, the value of the pixel is modified as a function of an estimated duration of time until a next update including the pixel is to be displayed on the display screen. Further, the modified value of the pixel is transmitted to the display screen for display thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Gerrit A. Slavenburg, Tom Verbeure, Robert Jan Schutten
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Patent number: 8687027Abstract: A display panel driver includes a color reducing circuit and a driving section. The driving section is configured to drive a first pixel and a second pixel. If a second input image data and a third input image data corresponding to the second pixel are supplied as an image data of a second image display format, then the color reducing circuit generates a third color reduction image data and a fourth color reduction image data. If the first input image data is supplied as the image data of the first image display format, then the first selector selects the third error value, and if the second input image data and the third input image data are supplied as the image data of the second image display format, then the first selector selects the second error value.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Yoshihiko Hori, Hiroshi Tsuchi
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Patent number: 8687114Abstract: Operating on video frames includes determining a frame set backdrop of a set of video frames that is a characterization of the relative difference in content of the set of video frames. Decreasing video quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively higher indicating relatively greater content difference among video frames of the set of video frames and increasing/leaving quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively lower indicating relatively lesser content difference among video frames of the set of video frames. Alteration of video quality of the set of video frames includes altering a frame rate, altering a pixel resolution, and/or altering color resolution of the set of video frames and/or altering a ratio of independent frames to predictive frames of the set of frames.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: James D. Bennett
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Patent number: 8682109Abstract: A method and system of generating a super-resolution image is provided. fusing The method includes inputting an image; and generating an estimated high-resolution image of a current time by fusing an input image and an estimated high-resolution image of a previous time corresponding to the input image.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignees: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd., Korea University Research and Business FoundationInventors: Bong-hyup Kang, Han-seok Ko, Tae-yup Song, Bon-hwa Ku, Young-hyun Lee, Min-jae Kim, Dae-sung Chung, Hyun-hak Shin
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Patent number: 8675031Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a pixel including a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels include a red sub pixel (R), a green sub pixel (G), a blue sub pixel (B), a yellow sub pixel (Ye) and a cyan sub pixel (C). The aperture area size of one of the cyan sub pixel (C) and the blue sub pixel (B) is larger than the aperture area size of any of the other of the cyan (C) and blue (B) sub pixels, the green sub pixel (G) and the yellow sub pixel (Ye); and the aperture area size of the red sub pixel (R) is larger than the aperture area size of any of the other of the cyan (C) and blue (B) sub pixels, the green sub pixel (G), and the yellow sub pixel (Ye).Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohzoh Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Yuichi Yoshida
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Patent number: 8669983Abstract: A method with acts for representing a buffer about a feature represented on an ellipsoid or round-object model. The method includes accessing a definition of a buffer stored on one or more computer readable medium in a format readable by a computer application. The definition of the buffer includes a number of arcs around a feature on an ellipsoid or round-object model. Each of the arcs is defined using three points defined using geodetic coordinates. The three points includes two endpoints of a given arc and a point on the arc between the two endpoints. The method further includes rendering the buffer by rendering the plurality of arcs. The method further includes displaying the rendered buffer to a user at a computing system display.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael Kallay, Danica M. Porobic
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Patent number: 8670004Abstract: In an embodiment, a pixel driving circuit comprises: one or more source drivers for enabling a first subpixel of a subpixel pair to receive first data and a second subpixel of the subpixel pair to receive second data; one or more source drivers for driving the first data to the first subpixel and the second data to the second subpixel, wherein the first data is different than the second data.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Pixel Qi CorporationInventors: Carlin J. Vieri, Michael Bolotski
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Patent number: 8665367Abstract: A method for increasing the resolution of a frame of a video includes receiving at least three frames of the video and compensating for the motion of a portion of at least two of the frames with respect to another one of the frames. After the motion compensation, spatially processing each of the frames of the video to increase the resolution of each of the at least three frames of the video. After the spatial processing, temporally processing at least three frames to determine the increased resolution of the frame of the video, wherein the frame is one of the at least three frames of the video.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Hao Pan, Yeping Su
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Patent number: 8665195Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes provided in a matrix of a plurality of rows by a plurality columns; a counter substrate including a counter electrode; a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; and axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions each for forming a liquid crystal domain in which liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in axis symmetry, the axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions each being located at the center of the respective liquid crystal domain. The plurality of pixel electrodes each define a pixel area. The axis-symmetrical liquid crystal domain formation portions ; are each provided in correspondence with an area between two pixel areas defined by two pixel electrodes adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasutoshi Tasaka, Kaori Saitoh
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Patent number: 8659709Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
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Patent number: 8659508Abstract: A projector which displays an image by projecting a projection image onto a projection surface, includes: a fixed pixel display device for displaying the projection image in a predetermined vertical period; and an image processing device for generating the projection image in the vertical period, wherein the image processing device includes: a resolution converter which, by converting a resolution of an input image in the vertical period, generates and transmits a display image having a desired resolution; a projection distortion corrector which receives the display image, and generates the projection image by correcting the display image in the vertical period in such a way as to correct a projection distortion occurring due to a projection angle with respect to the projection surface when projecting the projection image; and a display image input/output controller which controls the reception of the display image from the resolution converter and the transmission thereof to the projection distortion correctType: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akinari Todoroki
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Patent number: 8648873Abstract: A system including a processor for adjusting the dynamic range of an image including a plurality of pixels. The processor segments the pixels into blocks, and computes statistical values for each block based on intensity values of the pixels. The processor also adjusts the dynamic range of the image by controlling the intensity values of the pixels based on the statistical values.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Exelis, Inc.Inventors: Theodore Anthony Tantalo, Kenneth Michael Brodeur
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Publication number: 20140035974Abstract: A display unit that drives pixels field sequentially includes pixel circuits disposed in a matrix form of rows and columns and a drive control section that causes the pixel circuits to display image frames of input image data such that a single frame of the image frames is displayed in two parts as a first sub-frame and as a second sub-frame. The first and second sub-frames are displayed field sequentially by different portions of the pixel circuits. The first sub-frame is displayed by a first portion of the pixel circuits that are located in a checked pattern, while the second sub-frame is displayed by the remaining pixel circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Akira Yumoto, Takahiro Seki
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Patent number: 8638274Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Sander Jurgen Roosendaal, Martinusj Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden
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Publication number: 20140015874Abstract: An optical unit includes a light source that emits light to be projected onto a screen, one or a plurality of optical elements that controls a spread of a beam of light from the light source to the screen, a combining element that combines the light emitted from the light source, and a scanning element. The light source outputs an optical beam that will generate an elliptically shaped beam spot on the screen, the beam spot having a major axis substantially perpendicular to a scanning direction, and the light source is driven with pulse width modulation (PWM) so that one driven pulse corresponds to one beam spot on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mayumi Nagayoshi, Satoshi Ouchi, Tadayoshi Kosaka, Tomoki Kobori, Yoshiho Seo
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Publication number: 20140015873Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a second block that is connectable via an interface cable to a first block serving as a signal source, and supplies a high-resolution display with image data of a high resolution. The second block has an information transmitter for transmitting particular resolution information different from the high resolution when the resolution information of the high-resolution display is transmitted to the first block. The second block also has an image decoder for decoding, into image data of the high resolution, the image data processed based on the particular resolution information and sent from the first block. The decoded high-resolution image data is output to the high-resolution display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Taiki KASAI, Ichiro AKIYAMA, Keiichi INOUE, Takeshi DOI, Koki KIMURA, Katsuaki KUWASHIRO, Masaaki TAKUMA
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Patent number: 8624806Abstract: A pixel circuit and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes: an OLED; a third N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled to a data line and a first scan line and configured to apply a data signal to a first node; a storage capacitor having one terminal coupled to the first node and the other terminal coupled to a second node; a fourth NMOS transistor coupled between a first power and the second node and configured to apply a voltage of the first power to the second node; a first NMOS transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode coupled to the second node; and a second NMOS transistor coupled between the second node and the first electrode of the first NMOS transistor and configured to diode-connect the first NMOS transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co, Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
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LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
Publication number: 20140002516Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels to which image signals are supplied; a driver circuit including a signal line driver circuit which selectively controls a signal line and a gate line driver circuit which selectively controls a gate line; a memory circuit which stores the image signals; a comparison circuit which compares the image signals stored in the memory circuit in the pixels and detects a difference; and a display control circuit which controls the driver circuit and reads the image signal in accordance with the difference. The display control circuit supplies the image signal only to the pixel where the difference is detected. The pixel includes a thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun KOYAMA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI -
Publication number: 20130328952Abstract: Devices and methods for reducing a variation in voltage perturbation between common voltage layers (VCOMs) of a display in response to voltage interference are provided. In one example, a resistive element may be coupled to one of several VCOMs to increase the resistance value of the VCOM. The resistive element may cause a variation in voltage perturbations between the several VCOMs to become generally more uniform, thereby reducing or eliminating certain image artifacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventor: Hopil Bae
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Publication number: 20130321500Abstract: An image display system includes a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit and a controller chip. The data driving circuit outputs a plurality of data driving signals to provide a display image signal to a plurality of pixels on a pixel array. The gate driving circuit outputs a plurality of gate driving signals to drive the pixels on the pixel array. The controller chip receives an input image signal which includes a plurality of sub-frame data, recombines the plurality of sub-frame data so that more than one of the plurality of sub-frame data of the input image signal are merged as one single frame data, and generates and outputs the display image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yung-Yu Tsai, Chien-Chou Cheng
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Publication number: 20130321499Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in an display area, and a pixel driver connected to at least two of the pixels, wherein the pixel driver drives the at least two pixels, where a portion of the pixel driver is disposed in the display area, and the display device includes the display area, on which an image is displayed, and a non-display area, on which no image is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kee-Bum PARK, Hyuk-Jin KIM, Byoung Sun NA
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Patent number: 8582922Abstract: To obtain a high resolution image from two or more low resolution images, positional offsets among the low resolution images are determined and the low resolution images are mapped onto a common plane according to the positional offsets. Pixel values in the high resolution image are calculated by weighted interpolation from the pixel values of the low resolution images, using interpolation coefficients that increases with increasing correlation with the pixel of interest. Correlation is determined by taking horizontal and vertical first and second derivatives of the pixel values in one low resolution image to find a direction of strong correlation. Appropriate interpolation is thereby obtained even near edges and other abrupt changes in the image.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shotaro Moriya, Satoshi Yamanaka, Hidetsugu Suginohara
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Publication number: 20130286059Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of panels arranged in a matrix form, each panel having, on its display surface, a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; a first junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction; a second junction portion provided between the panels adjacent to each other in a vertical direction; a first optical member covering the first junction portion, and magnifying or diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the first junction portion with an anisotropy in a first direction; and a second optical member covering the second junction portion, and magnifying and diffusing the pixels of the panels in the vicinity of the second junction portion with an anisotropy in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventor: Tatsuo SAISHU
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Patent number: 8570315Abstract: A method for fully-automatically aligning the quality of an image is provided. The method processes the video signals provided by the Video Graphic Array (VGA) display card in the computer system through the multi-sync display itself, and further interprets whether a computer host ID stored in the VGA display card or the computer host matches with a computer host ID stored in the multi-sync display, so as to avoid repetitious aligning to the same computer system, and achieve full automatic aligning to the quality of the image displayed on the multi-sync display. Therefore, even if the multi-sync display is situated under different computer hosts or VGA display cards and placed where an user cannot touch, the inconvenience of pressing a button on the multi-sync display to align the quality of the image displayed on the multi-sync display in conventional techniques can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Tatung CompanyInventor: Shih-Hua Tseng
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Patent number: 8570441Abstract: A video composition model that provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to set device contexts, and determine capabilities of graphics hardware from a device driver. After the model determines a configuration, the model determines input video stream states applicable to frame rates, color-spaces and alpha indexing of input video streams, interactive graphics, and background images. The model prepares the input video frames and reference frames, as well as a frame format and input/output frame index information. The input video streams, interactive graphics and background images are processed individually and mixed to generate an output video stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Kazuyuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 8565556Abstract: An image interpolation method obtains an image line pixel value between two adjacent image lines. The method acquires a luminance change of pixels of two image lines and decides a region of two image lines where only one portion similar to a part of the luminance change of one of the image lines exists in the luminance change of the other image line in the vicinity of the image to be interpolated. Then, among pixel sets located at the symmetric positions about the object image to be interpolated with respect to the pixel within the region, the set having the highest similarity is selected. By using the pixel value of the selected set, the pixel value of the pixel to be interpolated is decided.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Masato Toda
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Patent number: 8564630Abstract: Displaying a web page on a display device is accomplished by receiving resolution information corresponding to a resolution of the display device, receiving a resolution threshold for displaying a widget element on the web page, and determining whether the resolution of the display device is less than the resolution threshold for displaying the widget element. If the resolution of the display device is not less than the resolution threshold for displaying the widget element, the widget element is displayed on the web page, wherein the web page is displayed on the display device. If the resolution of the display device is smaller than the resolution threshold for displaying the widget element, the widget element is not displayed on the web page.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jun Tao Cui, Gu Yi He, Wei Huang, Xiao Wen Zhu
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Patent number: 8564501Abstract: An image display system that includes an image supply device, a projector, and a network for connecting the image supply device and the projector. When images are supplied to the projector via the network from the image supply device, the images are projected by the projector. When projecting and displaying a second image having a second image size based on a first image having a first image size in a projection screen of the projector, the image supply device generates supplied image data including first image data for representing the first image, position data for indicating the display position of the second image in the projection screen, and second image size data for indicating the second image size, and also supplies this to the projector via the network. By doing this, increases in network traffic for the image display system are suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toru Karasawa
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Patent number: 8558876Abstract: A method for generating, in a video signal receiver, an output signal for a display unit, comprising the steps of determining the display mode of the display unit, detecting the type of a video input signal received by the video signal receiver, converting the received video signal into an adapted output signal compatible with the display mode of the display unit, providing the adapted output signal to the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.Inventors: Wojciech Lazarski, Piotr Kobzda, Tomasz Szajna
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Patent number: 8556431Abstract: An apparatus and method of reducing speckle in projection of images is provided that includes the elements or features of producing a first image and displacing the first image to produce a second image that will reduce speckle relating to the first image when the first image and the second image are displayed on a display medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Terry Alan Bartlett, John David Jackson
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Publication number: 20130265349Abstract: A content-preserving screen saver (CPSS) method for controlling a display apparatus is disclosed. When a CPSS method is implemented, the screen content may be displayed at a relatively lower resolution, such as half resolution or some other fraction of full resolution, by deactivating some of the display pixels or subpixels. The CPSS may be activated, for example, if no user input is received (and/or if another event does not occur) for a predetermined period of time. In one half-resolution example, every other pixel of the display is turned off when the CPSS is activated. After another predetermined period of time, all pixels are “flipped”: pixels that were on are turned off, and pixels that were off are turned on. In alternative implementations, more or fewer than half of the pixels may be switched off to achieve other partial resolution states, such as 75% resolution, ? resolution, ? resolution, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Leslie Chiming Chan
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Patent number: 8553050Abstract: Disclosed is a video signal processing apparatus applicable to various LCD panels. This video signal processing apparatus includes a format converting unit which converts first-format image data into second-format image data, a point sequential converting unit which converts the second-format image data into point sequenced data, a resizing unit which resizes the point sequenced data, a line memory which stores the resized point sequenced data, and an output control unit which controls to continuously read out the point sequenced data from the line memory.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zenya Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro Honma, Shin Takagi
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Patent number: 8555194Abstract: A method for creating and accessing a graphical user interface in the overscan area outside the area of the display normally utilized by the common operating systems. This normal display area is generally known as the “desktop”. The desktop serves as a graphical user interface to the operating system. The desktop displays images representing files, documents and applications available to the user. The desktop is restricted in the common environments to a predetermined set of resolutions (e.g., 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768) as defined by VGA and SVGA standards. Displayable borders outside this area are the overscan area.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Inventors: D. David Nason, Thomas C. O'Rourke, J. Scott Campbell
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Patent number: 8553293Abstract: An image interpolation apparatus includes an extracting unit, temporal interpolation calculators, pattern matching units, and an output unit. The extracting unit extracts pixels around the missing pixels in order to form a basic frame and comparative frames. Each temporal interpolation calculator corresponds to each comparative frame, and calculates a temporal interpolated pixel for each comparative frame based on signal levels and variation of the signal levels. Each pattern matching unit corresponds to each comparative frame, inserts the temporal interpolated pixel of each comparative frame to the missing pixel, calculates difference of between each of the pixels in the basic frame and each of the corresponding pixels in the comparative frame, and sums up the differences for all pixels in absolute value to obtain sums for all comparative frames respectively. The output unit outputs the temporal interpolated pixel having a minimum sum among the sums as a final interpolated pixel.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Toshiba Design & Manufacturing Service CorporationInventor: Michio Tabata
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Patent number: 8554018Abstract: [PROBLEMS] In a system for converting a low resolution image to a high resolution image, it is difficult to carry out processing to generate a high resolution image for each frame in real time using temporally continuous frame images. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] An image processing system includes a conversion parameter calculation unit 101, an initial image generation unit 102, a high resolution image generation unit 103, and an input image and conversion parameter storage unit 110, and converts the high resolution image generated at the previous frame in accordance with a current frame based on the conversion parameter for the current frame with respect to the previous frame so as to perform high resolution image generation processing of the current frame with the converted image as an initial value.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Akihiko Iketani, Tomokazu Satou, Sei Ikeda, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya
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Patent number: 8547297Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: 3-D Virtual Lens Technologies, LLCInventors: Reuben Hoppenstein, Eric Rosenthal
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Patent number: 8547378Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for time-based degradation of images. In one embodiment, the rendering of a first frame of a digital video using a GPU may be initiated. In one embodiment, it may be determined that a time elapsed in rendering the first frame exceeds a threshold. In one embodiment, a downsampling factor may be determined in response to determining that the time elapsed exceeds the threshold. In one embodiment, a second frame of the digital video comprising a second set of one or more images may be rendered based on the downsampling factor using the GPU. Rendering the second frame based on the downsampling factor may comprise sending each of the second set of images to the GPU at a reduced resolution comprising a respective original resolution for each image divided by the downsampling factor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Daniel O'Donnell, John G. Carscadden