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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8438475 | Systems and methods for producing user-configurable accented presentations Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the production of accented presentations using pre-defined templates and material, which presentations may be in a printed or scrap-booked format. A server system may be made available to clients over a network, that serv... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8379059 | Portable electronic device and method for adjusting display orientation of the portable electronic device A portable electronic device may adjust a display orientation of a display screen of the portable electronic device according to data from a gravity sensor, a video camera, and a display orientation adjusting unit. The display orientation adjusting unit may analyze ... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8319798 | System and method providing motion blur to rotating objects In graphics applications, objects including rotating objects having geometric detail or surface relief are rendered in render targets where pixels are assigned color and depth values by color and depth buffers. A pixel shader performs ray intersection calculations o... | 11/27/2012 |
| RE43810 | Method for controlling display mode in portable computer Disclosed are embodiments of a method and an apparatus for controlling a display mode in a portable computer. When a display mode of a liquid crystal display (LCD) is changed such as in response to a user's request, information of the changed display mode is stored ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8300065 | Rotatable display device and method of adjusting image on display screen of the same A rotatable display device and a method of adjusting an image on a display screen of the same include a command input unit which allows a user to input an image adjustment command, a display unit which displays images on a display screen, a first pivot processor whi... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8274532 | System for adaptively orienting a display image on a device A system adaptively orients a display image on a device for presenting data acquired via one or more cables connected to a particular side of the device. The system includes a sensor for detecting orientation of the device and providing a device orientation represen... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8259135 | Rotated rendering and locking support for tablet computers and portrait displays Apparatus, systems and methods for handling portrait mode oriented display surfaces without requiring expensive hardware in the display sub-system are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed such that the rendering of graphics data to the portrait mode dis... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8159506 | User interface device and image displaying method An operation displaying unit displays thereon a preview image of input information. A receiving unit receives a request for rotating displayed preview image. A processing unit rotates the displayed preview image in response to received request for rotating the displ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8134577 | System and method for changing orientation of an image in a display device A method for displaying an image in a display device initially includes storing a plurality masks in a memory. A mask of the plurality of masks is selected randomly from the plurality of masks, when control information is received for a source image and used to chan... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8094171 | Rotation driving method of liquid crystal display device A rotation driving method of a LCD device includes a first step of rotating the LCD device 180° such that source driving units are disposed at a lower portion of the liquid crystal panel, a second step of outputting scan signals from gate driving units in reverse o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8044976 | Extended rotation and sharpening of an object viewed from a finite number of angles A method of continuously rotating a subject object top over bottom over top on a display screen encompasses jumping to a view having a longitude that is 180 degrees from the previous and displaying the image in an up-side-down orientation. Upon pausing, or completin... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8022969 | Rotatable display with sub-pixel rendering In a system comprising a processor, an image storage and a display, said display capable of displaying an image, and said image being renderable in a plurality of rotation degrees upon said display upon receipt of a command, a method of rotating an image, said image... | 09/20/2011 |
| RE42616 | Method for controlling display mode in portable computer Disclosed are embodiments of a method and an apparatus for controlling a display mode in a portable computer. When a display mode of a liquid crystal display (LCD) is changed such as in response to a user's request, information of the changed display mode is stored ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995077 | Portable electronic device A portable electronic equipment includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990399 | Mobile communication terminal having wide display unit and method of controlling wide display unit A mobile communication terminal having a wide display unit and a method of controlling a wide display unit are provided. The method of controlling a wide display unit having a standard area and an extension area in a mobile communication terminal includes displaying... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7956873 | Image rotation with substantially no aliasing error A system, method and program product for rotating a first image in an image buffer such that the resulting, rotated image is substantially free of an aliasing error, i.e., broken lines, stair stepped edges, etc., is disclosed. An algorithm is applied to the first im... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7884836 | Notifying a graphics subsystem of a physical change at a display device When a physical change (e.g. a change in screen orientation) is detected at a display device that is attached to a graphics subsystem of a host device and on which images are currently being displayed, a hot plug detect signal may be provided to the graphics subsyst... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7800634 | Method of rotating image, computer, and recording media A method of rotating an image based on image data including a plurality of pixels per a line, the method including setting the number of pixel data forming the pixel; sequentially storing the pixel data in a first memory according to the order of the line and the pi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7773100 | Extended rotation and sharpening of an object viewed from a finite number of angles A method of continuously rotating a subject object top over bottom over top on a display screen encompasses jumping to a view having a longitude that is 180 degrees from the previous and displaying the image in an up-side-down orientation. Upon pausing, or completin... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7746361 | Method of realising a boundary of a rotated object A method is described for determining a discrete boundary for an object to be rendered into a raster pixel image having a plurality of scanlines. In the method, the object is rotated by an integer multiple of 90 degrees, and an outline of the rotated object is decom... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742063 | Efficient and high speed 2D data transpose engine for SOC application An apparatus comprising a buffer circuit, a rotation circuit and a memory. The buffer may be configured to store original image data in one or more sub-matrices. The rotation circuit may be configured to (i) produce rotated data and (ii) store the rotated data in a ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7728853 | Systems and methods for changing view perspective in 3-D graphical displays of buildings with stepped rotation A method and system of rendering buildings in three-dimensional space first renders a respective floor, then adds objects and finally walls to bound each of the floors. The result, a three-dimensional rendering of a building illustrates the position of objects withi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7705863 | Systems and methods for rendering building spaces A method and system of rendering buildings in three-dimensional space first renders a respective floor, then adds objects and finally walls to bound each of the floors. The result, a three-dimensional rendering of a building, has translucent walls and illustrates th... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701472 | Display controller, electronic device, and method of supplying image data A display controller comprising: an image data input interface; a first image processing section for a first processing operation including at least a turning operation to turn an orientation of an image of the image data with a first turning angle or a mirror image... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697016 | Image display device, image display method, image display program, and computer-readable storage medium An image display device (1) of the present invention is an image display device having a function of rotating a display image, the image display device including: a size comparison section (17) for making a comparison (i) between a vertical length of a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7643038 | Virtual device buffer for embedded device Apparatus are provided, including an embedded display processor on a given chip. The apparatus may be an embedded device, for example, a mobile wireless communications device. More specifically, the apparatus may be a mobile phone, a portable gaming device, a video ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7629987 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine within a graphics pipeline is configured to rotate, or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to a screen orientation. The transform engine obtains a texture from a pre-rotated polygon and applies the texture to the rotated polygon... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7609281 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture data obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to a rotated polygon from an image, a rotated version of the image i... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7598967 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture data obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to a rotated polygon from an image, a rotated version of the image i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7593025 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to a rotated polygon used to render such an image, a rotated version of ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7583277 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to a rotated polygon used to render such an image, a rotated version of ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580046 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to a rotated polygon used to render such an image, a rotated version of ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7573490 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image Method and apparatus for a graphics pipeline is described. More particularly, a transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is ap... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570273 | Accelerated rotation for displaying an image Method and apparatus for a graphics pipeline is described. More particularly, a transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is ap... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561170 | Methods and systems for producing a 3-D rotational image from a 2-D image Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention produce a three-dimensional rotational image from a two-dimensional image including a plurality of objects. Each object is assigned to one of a plurality of sequential layers that co... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551185 | Apparatus for re-ordering video data for displays using two transpose steps and storage of intermediate partially re-ordered video data A generic apparatus (14) re-orders video data for various types of displays, such as plasma discharge panels (PDPs), digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs), liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) devices, and transpose scan cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. In one embo... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7511722 | Method and system for fast 90 degree rotation of arrays A method and system to rotate a 2N by 2N array are described. Consistent with one embodiment of the present invention, the 2N elements of the 2N rows of a 2N by 2N array are loaded from memory into th... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7423657 | Image display apparatus, image display program, image display method, and recording medium for recording the image display program An operation input unit designates an image to be compared via a thumbnail image or the like. A photographing-information extracting unit extracts, from an image file of the image stored in an image memory, photographing information including the size and the number... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414627 | Maximize data visibility using slated viewer A slanted viewer is provided to maximize data visibility. In the context of computer graphics and a rendering technique, the slanted viewer's use of three-dimensional rendering provides an instant view of full data without compromising the visibility of other view a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411593 | Image rotation with substantially no aliasing error A system, method and program product for rotating a first image in an image buffer such that the resulting, rotated image is substantially free of an aliasing error, i.e., broken lines, stair stepped edges, etc., is disclosed. An algorithm is applied to the first im... | 08/12/2008 |
