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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130808 | SELECTION COMPRESSION A method of generating a compressed video stream, comprising: providing a plurality of display commands which represents a display; generating a plurality of quantized transform coefficients from said display commands, wherein said quantization is different for differen... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120081354 | EXTENDED GRAPHICS CONTEXT WITH DIVIDED COMPOSITING A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081353 | APPLICATION MIRRORING USING MULTIPLE GRAPHICS CONTEXTS Cross-environment rendering and user interaction support provide a seamless computing experience in a multi-operating system computing environment. Cross-environment rendering provides real-time display of applications running in a mobile operating system to be displaye... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050254 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DEMONSTRATING A LIGHTING SOLUTION BY IMAGE RENDERING A user interface is provided whereby a user may generate a virtual target area representative of an actual target area, regardless of whether the actual target area has been constructed. Having a generated virtual target area, the user—via the user interface—may gen... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120032945 | PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION OF SAME A managed services platform and method of operation of same are described herein. The platform can include a device management service (DMS) server in which the DMS server can act as a gateway for communications with one or more computing devices, and the computing devi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029738 | AIRCRAFT CAPABLE OF HOVERING, AIRCRAFT MANEUVERING ASSIST METHOD, AND INTERFACE An aircraft capable of hovering, and characterized by having at least one sensor, which has a plane sweep region and is designed to acquire, when the aircraft is manoeuvring, values of respective distances between first points on an obstacle within the plane sweep regio... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120007878 | Switching between dedicated function hardware and use of a software routine to generate result data An apparatus for processing data 2 is provided including processing circuitry 24 controlled by an instruction decoder 20 in response to a stream of program instructions. There is also provided dedicated function hardware 12 configured to rece... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001897 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN OBJECT DISPLAY MODE TO DISPLAY OBJECTS A method, computer program product and system for automatically determining an object display mode to provide a display for objects. Information about the objects to be displayed and information about a display area is received. An object display mode is selected accord... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE INCLUDING POSITION INFORMATION A method and an apparatus are provided, which can display a map that includes a position corresponding to position information in the form of a bird's eye view having perspective views and display an image on an upper portion of the map that is displayed in the form of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110304645 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING HOLISTIC VIEWS OF PERSONAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION Techniques for providing holistic views of energy consumption. Energy consumption of one or more energy consuming devices corresponding to a user is monitored. The energy consumption for the one or more energy consuming devices is aggregated. A graphical representation ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292030 | Map Display Device A map display device 11 according to the present invention includes: a display monitor 16 at which a display screen displaying a map is divided into a plurality of split areas and a set of weather information is displayed over each of the split areas; a sa... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273436 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS In one or more embodiments described herein, there is provided an apparatus comprising a processor and a memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to be able to determine a graphic... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONVERTING EDGE RECORD BASED GRAPHICS TO POLYGON BASED GRAPHICS A method and graphics converter for converting edge record based graphics to polygon based graphics is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method for converting graphic object data that defines a graphic object for delivery to wireless devic... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110254832 | Compact Interactive Tabletop with Projection-Vision The subject application relates to a system(s) and/or methodology that facilitate vision-based projection of any image (still or moving) onto any surface. In particular, a front-projected computer vision-based interactive surface system is provided which uses a new comm... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248986 | INTELLIGENT MEDIA DECODING A request to decode media data is received from an application running on a computing device. A decoder decision module in media processing software also running on the computing device receives the request and intelligently determines which of a plurality of media deco... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243408 | FUNDUS IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER PROGRAM One aspect of embodiments of the present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which specifies one of boundary positions of retina layers in a fundus image showing a retina tomosynthesis, sets a distance transfer function for converting the distance from th... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a reproduction control unit inputting single viewpoint images and multi viewpoint images and generating output data to be output to a display unit. In a case where the display unit performs display in a multi viewpoint image displa... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234580 | OPTICAL SUBSTRATES HAVING LIGHT COLLIMATING AND DIFFUSION STRUCTURES An optical substrate having a structured prismatic surface and an opposing structured lenticular surface. The structured lenticular surface includes shallow-curved lens structures. Adjacent shallow-curved lens structure may be continuous or contiguous, or separated by a... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216069 | Method And System For Compressing Tile Lists Used For 3D Rendering A graphics processing device may generate coordinates for vertices of graphics primitives in a view-space. Tiles are defined within the view-space and are associated with tile lists. Primitives and/or vertices which overlap a tile are determined. Tile lists comprise dif... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110215221 | PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR AND METHOD FOR AIDING OPERATIONAL CHECKING OF PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR A photoelectric sensor comprises a control unit which is configured to store in a memory data on the amount of received light input from a light-receiving unit or measurement data obtained by a measuring process, and to perform a sampling process in which the data store... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110210959 | ADJUNCT DEVICE FOR USE WITH A HANDHELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AS A SCREEN POINTER An adjunct device includes a case for enclosing at least a portion of a handheld wireless communication device. A plug coupled to a communication port of the handheld wireless communication device. A plurality of infrared emitters emits a corresponding plurality of infr... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110187725 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided a communication control device including: a data storage unit storing feature data representing features of appearances of one or more communication devices; an environment map building unit for building an environment map representing positions of com... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191057 | GRAPHIC ANIMATION OF GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING A graphical representation of a feature and associated tolerance includes a graphical representation of a nominal definition of the feature; and a graphical representation of the tolerance zones, derived from the nominal definition of the feature.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110177845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZING MAP PRESENTATIONS BASED ON MODE OF TRANSPORT An approach is provided for customizing map presentations based on mode of transport. A map customizing platform determines a mode of transport with respect to a mapping service. The map customizing platform then selects one or more characteristics for rendering a map d... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110172973 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING EQUIPMENT FAILURES AND MAINTENANCE SCHEDULES A computer implemented method may be used for analyzing equipment failures and maintenance schedules. An equipment maintenance system generates a model of equipment and components of each piece of equipment. In one embodiment, the model is a tree representation. The equ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164027 | METHOD OF DETECTING CHANGE IN DISPLAY DATA An apparatus and method for updating a display are disclosed. Identifying values are determined for units of display data. Identifying values for units of display data received during an update are compared to identifying values for previously received units of display ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110157153 | PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH AN IMAGE PICKUP FUNCTION A projection unit projects a predetermined image onto a projection plane through a lens. An image generating unit generates the predetermined image which is to be projected from the projection unit. A code generator generates a notifying image that contains information ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING IMAGES The present invention relates to a method for browsing images and an Image browser. The browsing is performed on a display of an electronic device having an image cache and includes the acts of determining an image, from accessible images not already stored in the image... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151927 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SERIAL TRANSMISSION INTERFACE OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF The present invention provides a serial transmission interface of a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a control module, a display module and an image sensing module. The serial transmission interface includes a first line group coupled ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110149173 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME An image display apparatus and method for operating the image display apparatus are disclosed. The method of one embodiment includes displaying a content item or content image representing content, and displaying content sharing information about the content. The conten... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110109634 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF INFORMATION RENDERING ON PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A portable electronic device-implemented method includes rendering information on a display of the portable electronic device, detecting receipt of an initiating input, and rendering a band, including at least one field, along an edge of the display.... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096907 | METHOD FOR OPERATING C-ARM SYSTEMS DURING REPEATED ANGIOGRAPHIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES A method (100) for positioning and operating components (18, 22) of an X-ray C-arm system (10) during repeated angiographic medical procedures.... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110080398 | WRITING SYSTEM In a writing device, a controller controls an authentication communication unit so as to transmit authentication data to a display device, prior to writing main data into the display device, in order to specify the display device into which the main data is to be writte... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110074765 | Graphics processing system A transaction elimination hardware unit 5 controls the writing to a frame buffer in a memory 2 of tiles generated by a tile-based graphics processor. The transaction elimination hardware unit 5 has a signature generator 20 that generates a si... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069062 | VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CONTACT LOCATION A method for visually representing information on a display of a portable electronic device includes receiving location coordinates from at least one other portable electronic device, plotting a visual identifier on a map and displaying the map on the display of the por... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110063284 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, REPRODUCING DEVICE, REPRODUCING METHOD, REPRODUCING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An error message displayed instead of an image which has been determined as being unable to be displayed is displayed for a time ΔT′ which is set independently of a time ΔT during which each image which has been determined as being able to be displayed is displayed.... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110032250 | Information Processing Apparatus A storage stores content information for a trial version of an application program assigned identification information and content information for a product version; a license information acquisition unit acquires license information for the application program by refer... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025683 | Map Display Device A map display device includes: a map display control unit that displays a map at a display monitor; a weather information reception unit that receives weather information; and a weather information display control unit that displays the received weather information by s... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025682 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONSISTENT IMAGE SYNTHESIS A system, method, and computer program product are provided for focusing computing power to a region of interest that can be changed interactively and arbitrarily during the process of image synthesis. In operation, a problem domain is partitioned utilizing a first sele... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100328346 | NETWORKED COMPUTER GRAPHICS RENDERING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE DISPLAYS FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE VIEWING FRUSTUMS To render graphics on multiple display devices, multiple computing platforms are networked and each computing platform separately executes an application rendering the graphics for a subset of the multiple display devices. A server including a first display device and a... | 12/30/2010 |
