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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369044 | Display apparatus for vehicle A display apparatus for a vehicle includes display screen having a plurality of display areas such as a tachometer display area, a speedometer display area, and an auxiliary display area. The display apparatus for a vehicle further includes a CPU for controlling ima... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7324068 | Chained image display apparatus having mutual examining function A chained image display apparatus having a mutual examining function where a plurality of image display apparatuses, controlled by a central control unit and connected in series, recognize interruption of power to an image display apparatus and correspondingly notif... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7202407 | Tone material editing apparatus and tone material editing program There are provided tone material editing apparatus and program. The tone material editing apparatus is connected to a tone material providing apparatus that provides tone material data. Video data stored in the tone material editing apparatus is reproduced. The tone... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184032 | Tactile overlays for screens An overlay for use with a display screen, comprising at least one first tactilely readable area, wherein the display screen includes a first feature thereon, wherein the tactilely readable area includes information in a tactilely readable format, and wherein the inf... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7134876 | Sound system with dedicated vocal channel A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives the mixed signal from the mixer to provide amplification or gain boost... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7054878 | Context-based display technique with hierarchical display format A system that includes a graphical user interface that may be used to access information contained in a database is provided. The graphical user interface includes a matrix of icons that correspond to elements in the database. Also hierarchical relationships are use... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050981 | Data health monitor for financial information communications networks A financial communications network incorporating a data health monitor is provided that includes a plurality of data sources, a plurality of data collection systems, a client site terminal and a network connecting these components. Each data collection system includ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7029095 | Ink jet printing apparatus and preliminary ejecting method The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus and a preliminary ejecting method. In both a full-line and a serial printer, the amount of ink passing through nozzles of print heads is sometimes decreased below a normal value before and during actual pr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6975349 | Two-dimensional video timing display A two-dimensional video timing display with numeric readouts allows a user to quickly, easily and precisely measure the timing difference between video signals. A graphic display area within a raster display region provides a two-dimensional display of vertical timi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6945625 | Determining humidity of fluid-ejection mechanism based at least on spitting recovery level of mechanism A method of an embodiment of the invention is disclosed in which a spitting recovery level of a fluid-ejection mechanism is determined. A humidity of the fluid-ejection mechanism is then determined, based on at least the spitting recovery level. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6912015 | Video display apparatus with vertical scan velocity modulation and video display method thereof A parallel scanning circuit outputs a parallel scanning signal for making forward and backward scanning lines parallel. A vertical correlation detection circuit detects a portion where the change in luminance in the vertical direction exceeds a predetermined value o... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6864878 | Tactile overlays for screens An overlay for use with a video screen having a display thereon, comprising at least one first tactilely readable area corresponding to a feature of a first graphical display on the screen. ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864922 | Method and system for periodically displaying a clock on a viewing screen A periodic clock display method and system for a viewing device, such as a television set. A clock is displayed on a viewing device according to a first time interval and a second time interval. The first time interval determines how long the viewing device displays... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6529176 | Image display and horizontal speed modulator A video signal processing circuit synthesizes a video signal and a graphic signal on the basis of a display switching control signal, inverts a synthesized signal on the time axis for each of a forward scanning period and a backward scanning period, and o... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6230296 | Method and apparatus for providing error correction The invention is directed to an error correction scheme used in a computer system where data is provided from a service to a terminal. The data is dynamically changing, and the user is interested more in a final or current state of the data than in interm... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6133900 | OSD device capable of maintaining the size of displayed OSD data at a constant in a multisync monitor regardless of a frequency of a horizontal synchronous signal An OSD clock generating circuit includes a PPL circuit controlled to oscillate to generate an OSD clock signal phase-locked with a level transition point of a horizontal synchronous signal. When an OSD device is used in a multisync monitor capable of chan... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6115024 | Image display device There is provided an image display device which is capable of clearly displaying the use of each fixed format for forming an image and the image formed according to the fixed format on a small-sized display screen with small memory capacity. A display dev... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6008790 | Image processing apparatus There is provided an image processing apparatus which comprises an input unit for inputting image data at a first frame rate, and a processing unit for providing a residual image effect to the image data input by the input unit using adjacent image data a... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5995067 | Ink jet recording apparatus which controls recovery operation in accordance with environmental conditions An ink jet recording apparatus detects the temperature and humidity of the environment in which the ink jet recording apparatus is used when the power-supply is turned on, and checks the detected levels. If the detected levels are lower than the predeterm... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5956260 | Electronic level displaying inclination having digital and analog displays An electronic level includes both a numeric scale and a graphic scale having a "fan-like" configuration of a number of elongated wedge-shaped segments. The inclination of the device is shown numerically using a digital display and, at cardinal angles, gra... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5861864 | Video interface system and method A video interface system and method produce an interlaced video signal from a noninterlaced graphics signal produced by a computer. The video interface system receives a digitized noninterlaced graphics signal directly from the graphics system of the comp... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5854619 | Karaoke apparatus displaying image synchronously with orchestra accompaniment A Karaoke apparatus reproduces an instrumental accompaniment of a song requested by a singer during the course of a vocal performance of the song by the singer. A memory is provided for registering a composite text data of a song containing accompaniment ... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5790797 | Load distribution system for monitoring device In order to lighten the processing load on each monitoring device and enable each monitoring device to recognize the operating condition of a network as a whole, each monitoring device monitors operating conditions of transmission devices in a subnetwork ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5742271 | Matrix type display device, electronic system including the same and method of driving such a display device The present invention provides a matrix type display device which simplifies the process in a display signal generating circuit while relieving the load on an external CPU, which arranges freely character and icon display areas while preventing the qualit... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5666030 | Multiple window generation in computer display The invention concerns storage of data within a computer, from which a composite image may be generated on the computer's display. The data may include different types, which are normally incompatible, such as particular types of RGB data, and particular ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5559530 | Image data processing apparatus An image data processing apparatus for generating a font with contour lines expressed with gradations comprises a font ROM for storing a binary font data. An output port is provided for reading a target pixel with ambient pixels arranged in 3×3 matrix of... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5315310 | Cathode ray tube display apparatus Cathode ray tube display apparatus comprises a cathode ray tube display screen for displaying successive frames of a non-interlaced video image in response to excitation by at least one raster-scanned electron beam. A line timebase circuit sequentially ad... | 05/24/1994 |
| 4899139 | Display control device for superimposing data with a broad case signal on a television screen A cathode-ray tube control device displays data obtained from a personal computer on the screen of a television receiver in superimposing relation to the picture of a broadcast. Clock pulses are generated, and these are counted in synchronism with the hor... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4782270 | CRT raster reversal board A system for reversing directions of character displays in a CRT which includes apparatus for generating font signals, disconnecting the supply voltage, reversing the horizontal deflection coil polarity, and reconnecting the supply voltage.... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4766427 | Display apparatus with display screen splitting function A display apparatus for displaying any data on split blocks on a display screen of a CRT. The apparatus comprises a circuit for producing a horizontal address and a vertical address of a display position on the display screen; a block address generator co... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4761818 | Image processing apparatus There is disclosed an image processing apparatus for displaying characters and images, in which images stored in a memory can be displayed by identification codes in the same manner as in character display. Also disclosed is an image reading apparatus in ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4724431 | Computer display system for producing color text and graphics The invention pertains to a method and apparatus to provide for the display of characters and graphics in color. The invention includes three bit map memories which store graphics information for different colors, one character generator driven from a tex... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4706075 | Circuit arrangement and method for moving characters superimposed on an image represented by a video signal A composite video signal is processed for superimposing characters on an image represented by the video signal, where a memory (33) and a character generator (31) used for superimposing the characters at an appropriate position are both controlled by a co... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4686521 | Display apparatus with mixed alphanumeric and graphic image A graphics display apparatus employing a raster scanned cathode ray tube uses a refresh buffer constituted by a coded alphanumeric buffer and an associated character generator for displaying alphanumeric characters and other symbols and an all-points-addr... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4685073 | Intelligent display system for indicating successively occuring numerical values A display system is disclosed which is constructed and operates so that over an essentially unlimited range of variations of successive numerical values to be displayed the display of the values is performed with the highest possible resolution and also w... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4684935 | Combined graphic and textual display system A display system comprises a first image memory storing first image data, a second image memory storing second image data operable independently from the first image memory, a display selection and combination circuit, and two display units. The display s... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4601010 | Converter device for a computer terminal A converter device which enables a computer terminal having text display capability only to be used for displaying either graphics or text and graphics simultaneously in addition to text is disclosed. The device connects in series between the video output... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4591845 | Character and graphic signal generating apparatus A character and graphic signal generating apparatus of the type suitable for use with a personal computer for displaying characters and graphic patterns in a superposed relation according to a raster scan method comprises a frame buffer for storing coded ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4577188 | Level display device for audio signal A level display device for audio signal comprises a plurality of bandpass filters having filtering bands of respectively different center frequencies, for band-dividing and filtering an input signal supplied thereto through an input terminal, a pulse widt... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4573925 | Electronic flight instrument design and evaluation tool A design and evaluation system is disclosed which enables the computer generation of graphic displays and symbology used in the design of electronic instrument displays. The graphics and symbology may be positioned, rearranged, altered, and replaced with ... | 03/04/1986 |
