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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090097752 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REALIZING FUNCTIONS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THE COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON An image processing apparatus determines whether a reference image and an image of interest are different or the same. A determination unit determines whether a comparative image formed by a part or entirety of the image of interest and an image corresponding to the com... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090096939 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD IN IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS An image transmission apparatus includes a display device, a display image data generator, a storage device, a storage controller, a transmitter, and a display controller. The image transmission apparatus is connectable to a plurality of image projection apparatuses and... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090089814 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONFIGURING A SPECIFIC-USE COMPUTING SYSTEM Systems and methods for configuring a specific-use computing system are disclosed. A computing system may comprise a first set of predetermined application programs and a processor limited to executing the first set of predetermined application programs and pre-approved... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089781 | System for and Method of Migrating One or More Virtual Machines A logical container may be created to facilitate the quick and efficient migration of one or more virtual machines from a source server to a destination server. The logical container may contain all of the files and state information related to the one or more virtual m... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089290 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND UPDATING APPROVED-FILE AND TRUSTED-DOMAIN DATABASES Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating or updating approved-file and trusted-domain databases and verifying the legitimacy of files are disclosed. A method for creating or updating an approved-file database may comprise intercepting a first file, identify... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086172 | Optical Device and Projector An optical device that includes a light modulation device, a projection optical device, and a retention member that holds the light modulation device and the projection optical device. The retention member includes: a projection optical device attachment section for att... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086168 | IMAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND IMAGE TRANSFER METHOD An image transfer apparatus includes a display configured to display multiple sets of content. A display image data generator is configured to generate display image data for each of the content, at least part of the content being displayed on the display. A storage con... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090073111 | Method of Driving Electrophoresis Display Device, Electrophoresis Device, and Electronic Apparatus A method of driving an electrophoresis display device having a displaying portion which includes an lectrophoresis element containing electrophoresis particles and disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode opposing to one another and which consists of a ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090067045 | SCREEN A screen onto which an image light may be projected includes a flexible screen body, a first and a second storage member, and a retention member. The first storage member includes a screen wind-up section that winds up the screen body and supports either one of opposing... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090065783 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electro-optical device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and a gate electrode. The first insulating film is formed in an island shape so as to cover a first junction region of the semiconductor layer. The second insula... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090065780 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electro-optical device includes a contact hole with a channel-region adjacent portion next to the channel region of the semiconductor film and a first extending portion that extends from the channel-region adjacent portion along the first partial region of the semico... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090065665 | SCREEN A screen includes an image projection section onto which an image light is projected, and a support leg that supports the image projection section. The support leg includes, a support leg body shaped substantially like a pillar, a plurality of leg sections that support ... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090058798 | METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTROPHORESIS DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS There is provided a method for driving an electrophoresis display device equipped with a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrode being provided for every pixel, a common electrode provided to oppose the plurality of pixel electrodes, and an electropho... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090058797 | Electrophoresis Display Device, Electrophoresis Display Device Driving Method, and Electronic Apparatus The invention provides, as an aspect thereof, a method for driving an electrophoresis display device that has a pair of substrates that sandwich an electrophoresis element that contains, without any limitation thereto, a plurality of electrophoresis particles and furthe... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090057669 | Electro-Optical Device and Electronic Apparatus An electro-optical device includes a switching element with a gate electrode provided opposite to the channel region. The gate electrode has a ring-shaped structure that surrounds a junction region between the channel region and a source/drain region.... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090052800 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROJECTOR, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT The disclosure refers to an image processing system, projector, method and computer program product. In one example, an image processing system includes an interpolation unit that performs interpolation using an input image and a reference pixel in an input background p... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090051886 | Illumination Device and Projector An illumination device includes a light source device including an ellipsoidal reflector with a reflecting concave surface and a light emitting tube having an emission center in the vicinity of a first focal position of the ellipsoidal reflector, and defining a first fo... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090051880 | PROJECTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE A projector includes a transmissive heat exchange element having a transparent thermoelectric conversion layer consisting mainly of an oxide and an electrode for supplying the transparent thermoelectric conversion layer with a current, and an optical element, and coolin... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090051840 | Electro-optical Device and Electronic Apparatus An electro-optical device includes a plurality of storage capacitors each in a corresponding pixel. Each storage capacitor includes a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode with a dielectric film therebetween. The first capacitor electrode is made of... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090051816 | Image Processing Apparatus, Projector, Image Processing Method, and Method For Controlling Image Processing Apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image signal input unit that receives an input of an image signal representing an image to be displayed, a noise reduction unit that performs noise reduction for reducing the noise contained in the image signal, and an image qua... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090050279 | Screen A screen includes: a screen body having flexibility, and onto which an image light is projected; a first support member including a screen wind-up section that supports either one of end portions orthogonal to the vertical direction of the screen body and winds up the s... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090046255 | Projector A projector includes a cooling device for performing cooling of a target object housed inside a housing, a first temperature sensor disposed in an anterior stage of the target object on a cooling path formed by the cooling device inside the housing, and for measuring a ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090040475 | Control System, Projector, Program, and Information Storage Medium A control system includes a principal light source for outputting light to a light path used for image projection, an auxiliary light source for outputting light to the light path, and a control section for controlling light intensity of the auxiliary light source, and ... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090040474 | Image Display Device An image display device includes a lighting section including a light source, a light modulation section that modulates light emitted from the lighting section in accordance with an image signal to form an image, and a scintillation reduction section that reduces the sc... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090040464 | Compensation Element Adjustment Mechanism and Projector A compensation element adjustment mechanism used with a light modulation device and a polarization plate includes: an optical compensation element disposed between the light modulation device and a polarization plate; a frame for supporting the optical compensation elem... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090040447 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electro-optical device includes a light-shielding portion that covers a semiconductor layer of a transistor. A first conductive film and a second conductive film are connected through a contact hole through an interlayer insulating film. The light-shielding portion h... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090040396 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROJECTOR, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An image processing system includes a determination unit that determines a distortion state of a projected image, and a correction unit that performs distortion correction of the image according to the distortion state, wherein the correction unit performs distortion co... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090033819 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electro-optical device includes: a light-shielding film provided below a transistor in a peripheral area surrounding a pixel area of the display. The light-shielding film includes a rectangular opening formed in a channel length direction of the transistor.... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090027765 | WAVELENGTH CONVERTING ELEMENT, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE, MONITORING DEVICE, AND PROJECTOR The disclosure refers to a wavelength converting element, light source device, lighting device, monitoring device, and projector. In one example, a wavelength converting element comprises a polarization-inverted crystal including polarization-inverted layers having an i... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090015515 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD A display system displays a received image on a display device based on image information transmitted from at least one image supply device via a network. An image generating unit generates a segmented image segmented into plural individual areas, the segmented image co... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090015733 | Retardation Film and Projection Display Apparatus A retardation film includes a substrate, concave-and-convex regions formed on the substrate and arranged at a pitch smaller than a wavelength of visible light, each of the concave-and-convex regions having a concave portion and a convex portion, and an inorganic film fo... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090015792 | PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME A projector, includes: a projector body that includes an optical modulator that modulates light emitted from a light source according to an inputted image data to form an optical image and a projection optical device that projects the formed optical image in an enlarged... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090015794 | Polarization Conversion Unit, Polarization Conversion Device, and Projector A polarization conversion unit includes a polarization splitting element array including a plurality of polarization splitting films for splitting the incident light beam into two types of linearly-polarized light beams, a plurality of reflecting films for reflecting ei... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090015795 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPENSATION ELEMENT AND PROJECTOR A projector with a specially manufactured optical compensation element is disclosed. One method of manufacturing the optical compensation element temporarily attaches an inorganic substrate made of a birefringent inorganic material to a base member with a temporary bond... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090015803 | Projector A projector includes a projector main body for enlargedly projecting the optical image, an image output device for outputting the image information to the projector main body, and a connection mechanism interposing between the projector main body and the image output de... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090018616 | Systems and Methods for Determining a Threshold Current Level Required to Evoke a Stapedial Muscle Reflex Exemplary cochlear implant systems include an implantable cochlear stimulator configured to be implanted within a patient and generate a stimulation current having an adjustable current level, one or more electrodes communicatively coupled to the stimulator and configur... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090009832 | Scan-type image display device A scan-type image display device which displays an image by scan of laser beam emitted from a light source in one direction and another direction of a light receiving surface includes: a first scan unit which performs scan of the laser beam in the one direction by defle... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090009724 | Projector A projector includes a first image formation unit including a first color separation system having a first dichroic mirror that separates the light containing first to third color light components from an illuminator into a light beam containing one of the three color l... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090009702 | Liquid Crystal Device and Electronic Apparatus A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal, a first optical compensation element, and a second optical compensation element. The liquid crystal is pretilted by the alignment layers. The first optical compensation element has a positive uniax... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090009729 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME The disclosure refers to an electronic device and methods for cooling an object within the electronic device. In one example, an electronic device includes a cooling fan for cooling an object. An air-quantity measuring device measures a quantity of cooling air sent by t... | 01/08/2009 |
