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Class 345/649 - Rotation


Subclass of Class 345 - Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Definition: Subject matter wherein the image movement is an angular
No. of patents: 273
Last issue date: 04/17/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8159506User 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
8134577System 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
8094171Rotation 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
8044976Extended 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
8022969Rotatable 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
RE42616Method 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
7995077Portable 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
7990399Mobile 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
7956873Image 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
7884836Notifying 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
7800634Method 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
7773100Extended 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
7746361Method 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
7742063Efficient 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
7728853Systems 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
7705863Systems 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
7701472Display 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
7697016Image 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
7643038Virtual 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
7629987Accelerated 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
7609281Accelerated 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
7598967Accelerated 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
7593025Accelerated 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
7583277Accelerated 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
7580046Accelerated 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
7573490Accelerated 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
7570273Accelerated 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
7561170Methods 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
7551185Apparatus 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
7511722Method 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
7423657Image 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
7414627Maximize 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
7411593Image 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
7400783Segment based image registration method
An examined image is segmented, where a segment thereof may correspond to an area scan image or a line scan image of which the size is defined by considering the performance of the servo mechanism. In the segment, vectors between feature points of the examined image...
07/15/2008
7400782Image warping correction in forming 360 degree panoramic images
A method for creating a 360 degree panoramic image from multiple images includes (1) computing a gross rotation error ΔR between a first image and a calculated first image rotated to be stitched to a last image, and (2) spreading the gross rotation error ΔR to eac...
07/15/2008
7394465Displaying an image using memory control unit
A memory control unit controls the transfer of image data from a video buffer to a frame buffer, and from the frame buffer to a display, to be performed block by block. Image data is written from a video buffer to the frame buffer one block at a time. When image dat...
07/01/2008
7388510Display
A display comprises a base, a display module and a sensing device. The base has a sensing region and the display module has a control device. The sensing device is electrically connected with the control device and the display module is rotatably coupled to the base...
06/17/2008
7386191Decoding and error correction in 2-D arrays
A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window m...
06/10/2008
7379063Mapping application for rendering pixel imagery
A mapping application relies on a modified affine transformation algorithm to provide near real-time navigation of imagery, track-up capability and integration of segment and picture data. The affine transformation is modified to map a “world space” comprised of...
05/27/2008
7375729Animation display apparatus and method
An animation display device, which is a dedicated hardware circuit implemented in an integrated circuit, includes a control register for storing a plurality of control bits, an image memory for storing image data, and a processing unit coupled to the control registe...
05/20/2008
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