Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE40422 | Device and methods for repeatedly updating the function of a LCD monitor A monitor control system capable of reprogramming the function of a LCD monitor. The monitor control system utilizes VGA signal lines for video signal transmission during normal mode of operation and the same VGA signal lines for transmitting erase/record commands a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7358974 | Method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video image... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356406 | Land software tool Disclosed is a network accessible tool that is capable of providing map and satellite image data, as well as other photographic image data to locate, identify, measure, view, and communicate information about land over the Internet-to-Internet users. The network acc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349956 | System and method for accessing and operating personal computers remotely A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333717 | Method of using AV devices and AV device system A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7292774 | System and method for creating and displaying a preference based menu for a viewing session A video system has an input port to receive display contents including a plurality of broadcast display contents and has an output port to couple to a video display. Further, the system includes a preference engine, a storage device and a management module. The pref... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7224886 | Method of using AV devices and AV device system A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7197704 | Document management method, system, and storage medium thereof with priority assignment indicative of processing order There are provided a provide a document management method, a document management system, and a storage medium storing a program for executing the method, which enable a plurality of documents provided with identifiers having respective priorities to be collectively ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7171389 | Identification, storage and display of land data on a website Disclosed is a land website that provides a personalized database on which data can be stored, retrieved, customized and communicated (e.g., by e-mail) relating to a particular piece of property. The database can be accessible via a password and a security code over... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167201 | Device incorporating eye-start capability Disclosed is an eye-start system that includes a light source adapted to be housed within a viewfinder of a device, and a light sensor also adapted to be housed within the device viewfinder, the light sensor being configured to sense light from the light source that... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7145695 | Picked-up image managing device capable of managing picked-up images by grouping the same, method of determining group name, and computer usable medium storing group name determining program A picked-up image managing device comprises a picked-up image memory which stores items of picked-up image data and items of image picking-up position data associated with the items of picked-up image data, a grouping circuit which classifies the items of picked-up ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7119811 | Image display system An image display system is disclosed that enables users to navigate very large digital images quickly and seamlessly. The system is optimized to transmit image data from a disk drive at high data rates. The image data is stored on the disk drive in a file format opt... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119762 | Method and apparatus for selectively viewing captioning Alphanumeric images are displayed in common view in one color on a background of a different color using a liquid crystal projection device. The two colors are sufficiently similar so they are not distinguished by the unaided eye of the viewer. A color selective mat... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120317 | Method and system for a programmable image transformation A method and system for a programmable image transformation is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transforming an image comprises rotating an image by a predetermined angle. The image is copied from a first memory location associated... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106275 | Rendering translucent layers in a display system A system and method of rendering overlapping layers in a computer display, such as a windowing system, employs front-to-back assembly of the displayed image. An arbitrary number of overlapping elements, such as windows, can be presented, without requiring temporary ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096118 | Ergonomic map information system A system for the ergonomic communication of a map portion is presented. The map portion may include map information, map background, and additional information. The system includes an interface control unit that may include a graphics control unit, a processor and a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7054741 | Land software tool Disclosed is a network accessible tool that is capable of providing map and satellite image data, as well as other photographic image data to locate, identify, measure, view, and communicate information about land over the Internet-to-Internet users. The network acc... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050835 | Intelligent multi-media display communication system Interactive, low power, collapsible, intelligent, multi-media display systems for use as hand-held, portable communications devices are disclosed. A display communications device according to the invention can include a housing that contains a processor, radio trans... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042460 | Method and apparatus for rasterizing in a hierarchical tile order A method and apparatus for efficiently rasterizing graphics is provided. The method is intended to be used in combination with a frame buffer that provides fast tile-based addressing. Within this environment, frame buffer memory locations are organized into a tile h... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030868 | Controlling displays for processor-based systems A processor-based system may include a display and a sensor which detects the orientation of the display with respect to the rest of the system. As the system is displaced, the sensor detects the orientation of the system. The system may automatically alter a charac... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027072 | Method and system for spatially compositing digital video images with a tile pattern library A method and system for spatially compositing digital video images with a tile pattern library. Spatial compositing uses a graphics pipeline to render a portion (tile) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that each processor... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6950092 | Input device with multiple controls having interchangeable functionality A data processing system input device is described. The input device includes a first control device, a second control device, and a device driver. The first control device is capable of moving a cursor in accordance with a direction and magnitude of forces applied ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6938060 | Apparatus and method for graphically displaying a vector simultaneously along with the numerical values of its vector components A handheld computing device (40) comprises a software application adapted to provide instructions to graphically display a vector on a display screen (48) simultaneously along with the numerical values for components of the vector. The software applica... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920077 | Graphics controller integrated circuit without memory interface A CMOS integrated circuit which has a graphics controller system that has a graphics engine and video memory together with some interface blocks, a PCMCIA host adapter, an infrared interface for generating video images on a LCD or CRT display unit, and a video strea... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6862029 | Color display system Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling color displayed on a color monitor. The method includes, in one embodiment, the steps of: activating a first color scheme on the monitor; responsive to the activating of the first color scheme, measuring a first co... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6731221 | Electrically modifiable product labeling An electrically modifiable label. In some embodiments, an electrically modifiable label may be applied to or form a part of products that have configurable or otherwise dynamic characteristics. That is, characteristics or desirability that vary over time or characte... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6697058 | Device and method for repeatedly updating the function of a LCD monitor A monitor control system capable of reprogramming the function of a LCD monitor. The monitor control system utilizes VGA signal lines for video signal transmission during normal mode of operation and the same VGA signal lines for transmitting erase/record... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6496160 | Stroke to raster converter system An apparatus for converting analog stroke display signals representing electron beam generated stroke traces into raster display information for producing a raster-scan image display. The apparatus includes a sampling circuit for sampling the analog strok... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6448963 | Device for and method of coding error generated in processing sync signals A device for coding an error generated in processing sync signals is adapted to code an error caused the incompatibility between a video card and a display monitor so that the user can analyze the cause of the error in the sync signals more effectively fr... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6146278 | Shooting video game machine A shooting video game machine includes a monitor screen, a light source near the monitor screen, and a mock gun having an image sensor with a pixel array for capturing an image including the monitor screen and the light source. A light source position det... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6008782 | Mapping apparatus for use with a cathode-ray tube controller for generating special screen effects A mapping apparatus is disclosed for showing special effects on screen images. It contains: (a) a line address generator for generating a scanning line position data for every scanning line being processed; (b) a pointer array memory for storing a plurali... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5887147 | Display apparatus In the computer 1, the control information for screen display incorporated in the keyboard and software is processed by CPU2 and sent to the display device 6 via the communication controller 5. The microcomputer 7 in the display device 6 fetches the contr... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5835160 | Sampling rate conversion using digital differential analyzers Magnification/reduction is achieved by a single FIR filter under the control of a Digital Differential Analyzer (DDA) as would be used to simulate a perfectly straight line on a two-dimensional raster. The single FIR filter combines the processes of inter... | 11/10/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5777630 | Method and apparatus for displaying image and facsimile data on a non-programmable-terminal attached to a host computer by a work station controller A method and apparatus are provided for displaying image and facsimile data on a host-based application display. A host computer generates control and download command data for displaying the image or facsimile data. The image and facsimile data is proces... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5666135 | Electronic equipment having display device in which a shared memory is accessed by both the system and display controllers via a data bus A piece of electronic equipment having a display device, the display control is allowed to read out the display data stored in the data storing means when detecting that the central processing unit (CPU) sets the data bus to a high-impedance state. Theref... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5652845 | Display apparatus In the computer 1, the control information for screen display incorporated in the keyboard and software is processed by CPU2 and sent to the display device 6 via the communication controller 5. The microcomputer 7 in the display device 6 fetches the contr... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5598526 | Method and system for displaying images using a dynamically reconfigurable display memory architecture A method and apparatus for dynamically regrouping display memory chips to efficiently implement 8-bit, 16-bit, and 24-bit per pixel display solutions is provided. The invention permits the implementation of 24-bit per pixel solutions in which 24-bit pixel... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5229758 | Display device controller and method A display device controller with improved read performance comprises video memory, a video display control unit, video processing logic, a write buffer and a read buffer. The write buffer and read buffer are coupled between a CPU and the video memory for ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5218274 | Flat panel display controller using dual-port memory CRT display data output by a CRT controller is written in a frame memory at display timings of a CRT, and is read out of the frame memory at display timings of a flat panel display. The frame memory is comprised of by a dual-port memory. A flat panel disp... | 06/08/1993 |
