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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8086612 | Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images by correlating with the im... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7460135 | Two dimensional rotation of sub-sampled color space images In a method and system for controlling rotation of a color image stored as sub-sampled image data in a memory, a controller includes a finite state machine (FSM) operable to fetch the sub-sampled image data and provide the sub-sampled data as a plurality of pixels t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7375729 | Animation 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 |
| 7353069 | Electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof An electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a sensing unit, a processing unit, and a display unit. The sensing unit is for outputting a sensing signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348998 | Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device The method of capturing a digital image for viewing from a stream of digital images on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing a stream of digital images comprised of a plurality of individual digital images, selecting an individual image from... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339600 | Apparatus and method for displaying a picture in a wireless terminal A display apparatus and method for use in a wireless terminal are provided. A direction signal is sensed according to a position in which the wireless terminal is placed. A case when no direction signal is sensed is determined as a first direction signal, and displa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327375 | Control program for display apparatus As characters move, building are rotated and deformed, then, a powerful expression as if the characters moved lively and freely in three-dimensional space. The game machine stores a first image plane for displaying a ground, a second plane for displaying imag... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7289129 | Special effect device, address signal generating device, address signal generating method and address signal generating program A special effect device by which an entirely new special picture effect is to be implemented in accordance with a read address control system. The device includes an address signal generating unit 3 which generates a readout address signal for picture signals... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274371 | Display controller and associated method A data-playing controller includes a register for storing a plurality of control parameters, a first-in-first-out buffer (FIFO) for storing data, and a control circuit capable of accessing a memory dynamically. The register can be electrically connected to a data-pl... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268772 | Information processing apparatus operating in touch panel mode and pointing device mode An information processing apparatus comprises a display device and a touch panel disposed in front of the display device. The apparatus further comprises: a unit for switching between a touch panel mode of operation and a pointing device mode of operation in accorda... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7093311 | Patient examination support system A patient examination support system includes a positioning display that displays the patient position required for an examination and/or treatment. Characteristic parameters for the examination and/or treatment of a patient via an X-ray or radiological system are m... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7046259 | Method and system for presenting different views to passengers in a moving vehicle Systems and methods for presenting images in a vehicle as the vehicle rotates about a rotation axis are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a signal receiving portion that receives a first signal corresponding to an image of a first view from a positio... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038668 | Picture displaying apparatus, which does not require a calculating circuit, when the screen saver function is attained, and a method of driving the same A picture displaying apparatus that includes scanning lines to which scanning signals are inputted, data lines to which data signals are inputted, and a light emission element present at every intersection of scanning lines and data lines. The designated picture dis... | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7027061 | Raster engine with multiple color depth digital display interface An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024500 | Data converting apparatus and method, printing apparatus and method, printing controlling apparatus and method, printing system and method, and data transmitting method for converting print data In a printing system in which with a plurality of different types of controllers connected to one serial bus, different types of print data can be inputted to and printed by a printing unit. When a set top box and desktop and portable personal computers, different i... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006713 | Image-processing apparatus and image-displaying apparatus The image-processing apparatus includes n image processing sections which receive n consecutive pixel data items that are respectively input with the same timing and which respectively process the respective input pixel data items with the same timing, and a control... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999124 | Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device A method of orienting a digital image for viewing on a display of a digital imaging device. The method comprises the steps of: accessing the digital image, the digital image being defined by a plurality of sides, each of the plurality of sides being substantially li... | 02/14/2006 |
| RE38896 | Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image The apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises an image sensor, an orientation sensor, a memory and a processing unit. The image sensor is used for generating captured image data. The orientation sensor is coupled to the image sensor, and is used for ge... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6950564 | Image processing apparatus and method and program of the same An image processing apparatus capable of flexibly changing edge enhancement, blurring, and other image effect processing, wherein, in accordance with the execution of a program by a CPU, the CPU produces control signals to control an image processing circuit, read c... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6943808 | System and method of reducing aliasing in printed images The system and method reduces aliasing which is formed by the patterns that are introduced by the halftone screens used in the printer. The system and method provides halftone-specific anti-alias filters for obtaining optimal effective resolution in printed images. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941443 | Method of using memory, two dimensional data access memory and operation processing apparatus To provide a method of using a memory that can contribute to an efficient SIMD operation. The method of using the memory includes the steps of: supposing a predefined two dimensional memory space consisting of predefined virtual minimum two dimensional memory spaces... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6822662 | User selected display of two-dimensional window in three dimensions on a computer screen A computer display system, method and article of manufacture are presented allowing a user to interactively arrange two-dimensional windows for display in three dimensions on a two-dimensional display screen of the computer system. A window manager associated with t... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6760035 | Back-end image transformation A method to perform image transformations that are simplistic, conducive to miniaturization, and inexpensive to implement is provided. Transformations of an image stored in system memory are carried out by copying the image data, transforming the image data to a sel... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6750876 | Programmable display controller A programmable display controller for use in a digital imaging system has a video control register, a data access controller and a programmable modulator. The programmable display control is designed to be used with a digital imaging systems, such as digital cameras... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6727911 | Method and apparatus for observing specimen image on scanning charged-particle beam instrument Method and apparatus for observing a specimen image on a scanning charged-particle beam instrument in such a way that the original observational position can be automatically resumed after movement of a specimen or its image. When an image is observed at the origina... | 04/27/2004 |
| RE38471 | Method and apparatus for display image rotation A method and an apparatus for rotating images on a computer system is disclosed. The system includes a processor for accessing an image frame buffer using a set of CPU addresses, a memory for storing the frame buffer, a controller for directing the pixel data of the... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6686909 | Touch panel input coordinate transform device and method of transforming a touch panel input coordinate A touch panel input coordinate transform device is provided which detects coordinate data supplied to a touch panel and transforms the coordinate data according to a rotation angle by which images on the display unit are rotated. Further, decision is made... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6680738 | Single-block virtual frame buffer translated to multiple physical blocks for multi-block display refresh generator A graphics controller for a System-On-a-Chip (SOC) used with a battery-powered device allows for reduced-power display modes. The microprocessor writes to a frame buffer that is a single, contiguous address block in virtual memory. A memory management uni... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6639603 | Hardware portrait mode support A display subsystem supports both normal mode and portrait mode displays. In normal mode, the scan starts at the upper left comer of the display. In portrait mode, the scan starts at the lower left comer of the display. The display subsystem includes a du... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6608626 | Hardware rotation of an image on a computer display An address generator (FIG. 6) of a display controller (16) includes an adder (62) that repetitively adds an image-row-offset value to the address generator's address output so that data sequentially fetched from a refresh memory (18) to refresh a display ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6563507 | Storage circuit control device and graphic computation device Texture data containing pixel data indicating the color of a plurality of pixels arrayed in matrix fashion are stored in a texture buffer of a DRAM, and the multiple pixel data stored in the texture buffer is simultaneously accessed using a two-dimensiona... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6476818 | Storage circuit control device and graphic computation device Texture data which is two-dimensional image data indicating color data of multiple pixels positioned in a matrix form is stored in a texture buffer of a DRAM, a texture engine circuit combines the bit data making up the U address of a two-dimensional addr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6457121 | Method and apparatus for reordering data in X86 ordering A device to change the ordering of datums in a packet from a storage device to a pre-determined ordering according to their addresses. The device has a first circuit to receive and process address information to determine a data ordering of data associate... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6208325 | Image rotation for video displays An image displayed on a digital display such as a flat panel display is rotated while the same image is displayed on a cathode ray tube display in unrotated form. When image rotation is selected, the read address sequence into a frame buffer may be revers... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6104843 | Image data storing method and image data rotational processing device Image data representing a two-dimensional image is stored in N data storage devices driven in parallel. The two-dimensional image is divided into small divisional areas arranged in rectilinearly oriented lines and rows such that the number of areas in eac... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6044181 | Focal length estimation method and apparatus for construction of panoramic mosaic images The focal length estimation method and apparatus claimed in this application aligns plural overlapping images with one another for constructing an image mosaic. This is accomplished by computing a planar perspective transformation between each overlapping... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6031546 | Image processing apparatus and method In continuously writing image data transferred from an image plane spreading two-dimensionally in a memory plane spreading two-dimensionally, or continuously reading out image data from the memory plane, a first address for accessing image data of a prede... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6011585 | Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image The apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises an image sensor, an orientation sensor, a memory and a processing unit. The image sensor is used for generating captured image data. The orientation sensor is coupled to the image sensor, and is ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5970173 | Image compression and affine transformation for image motion compensation A transformation method provides a multi-dimensional affine transformation for representing motion between corresponding image components of successive video image frames. The multi-dimensional affine transformations can represent complex motion that incl... | 10/19/1999 |
