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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7782341 | In place rotation of images for low memory systems Rotation in the storage domain is a one-one function with the domain equal to the range. This permits an image to be rotated in place. Each image size implies at least one garland of closed chains of pixels. Each image includes a spanning set of these garlands. Rota... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7576758 | Using super-pixels for efficient in-place rotation of images Rotation in the storage domain is a one-one function with the domain equal to the range. This permits an image to be rotated in place. Each image size implies at least one garland of closed chains of tiles. Each image includes a spanning set of these garlands. Rotat... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7376287 | Method for intelligent auto-orientation of digital images A method for re-orientating digital images in an image-editing environment where images are loaded in landscape mode by default, with the aim of unburdening users from the inconvenience of manual correction of image orientation. Intelligent re-orientation of digital... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372445 | Driving device of display device, display device, and driving method of display device A driving device of a display device includes: a data signal line driving circuit, provided with a shift register having a level shifter for boosting a source clock signal so as to apply the source clock signal to a flip-flop, which causes a sampling circuit to dire... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359083 | Excluding unwanted pages in a printing system job A method operative to automatically exclude unwanted or wasteful portions of a printing system job includes steps for, describing an unwanted portion of the job, and locating instances of the described portion within the job. For example, blank pages are located wit... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7336268 | Point-to-point display system having configurable connections An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7315261 | Method for converting data from pixel format to bitplane format This invention efficiently converts normal pixel data into bit plane data. A sequence of pack, bitwise shuffle, masking, rotate and merging operations transform tile from pixel form to bit plane form. This enables downstream algorithms to read only the data for the ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7307635 | Display rotation using a small line buffer and optimized memory access A frame buffer stores X pixels per line and Y lines and is read using a burst of B pixels. The un-rotated image is rotated by 90 degrees for display by writing and reading pixels from a line buffer. The line buffer stores a block of B*Y pixels. The frame buffer is l... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7268912 | Rendering processing apparatus, rendering processing method, computer-readable memory medium, and program Band rendering processing time in the case where the raster scanning direction of inputted output information and that of a print mechanism are different can be remarkably reduced, and rendering processing efficiency of each page is improved. To expect the further i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259772 | Apparatus, method, and medium for controlling image orientation An apparatus, method, and medium for controlling image orientation are disclosed. An orientation mode detector measures multi-directional rotational angles of a display panel and determines an orientation mode for original image data based on the measured rotational... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7161609 | Multiple-bit storage element for binary optical display element An optical display element of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that comprises a binary optical display element and a multiple-bit storage element to store a number of bits of a color intensity value to be displayed by the binary optical display element d... | 01/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7103837 | Information processing system and display method Disclosed is an information processing system having a print preview function for displaying a preview of the printed state of a document before the document is printed. If a double-sided printing function has been set by a user interface for setting various print f... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7096050 | Portable telephone The present invention provides a portable telephone comprising an openable/closable casing having a display 13a, a magnetic sensor 18b for detecting whether the casing is opened or closed, and a control circuit 10. When a message i... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089040 | Portable radio communication apparatus An object is to provide a portable radio communication apparatus which allows a user to easily view displayed contents when the apparatus is folded even in the nighttime or in a dark place, and which can extend the battery life. A second case 4 is connected t... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7061638 | Image encoding apparatus When an input image and a sender information image independent from each other are combined into one transmission image in which the sender information image which has a lower line count (smaller area) is laid out in the upper portion while the input image having a ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057617 | Font memory and font data reading method Font data for each resolution level is stored in a font memory (10). Character specifying addresses A0 to Ax and font resolution levels L0 to Lz are input to output the optimum font data that match the resolution of... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7035665 | Portable terminal device and wireless communication terminal device A portable terminal device of the invention has a first casing that has a first display part and a second casing that has a key operation part. The first casing and the second casing are constructed in such a form as to be rotatable around a hinge portion, which has... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6980701 | Image processing method and apparatus capable of rotating and reversing an input image An image processing apparatus provides numerical signal generator for sequentially generating and outputting regular binary numerical signals synchronous with clock signal, bit exchanger for generating and outputting, from the output signal of the numerical signal g... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6958757 | Systems and methods for efficiently displaying graphics on a display device regardless of physical orientation The method of one embodiment for the invention is for the CPU to read a subset of consecutive pixels from RAM and cache each such pixel in the WC Cache (and load corresponding blocks into the L2 Cache). These reads and loads continue until the capacity of the L2 Cac... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6944481 | Folding communication terminal having two displays A folding-type communication terminal includes a first display unit which is positioned so as to be visible when a main body of the communication terminal is in a folded state; a second display unit which is positioned so as to be concealed when the main body is in ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6914614 | Color display method and semiconductor integrated circuit using the same The data bits of a first image data unit representing a first range of 0-255 continuous color tones are mapped to a second image data unit having an expanded bit count capable of representing a second range of continuous color tones greater the first range. Of the a... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6774902 | Memory control apparatus and method In this invention, an effective pixel count (N) in a horizontal direction of original image data is calculated, and whether this calculated effective pixel count (N) is a natural number multiple of the number (B) of banks is checked. If it is determined that the eff... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6757447 | Image manipulation for a digital copier which operates on a block basis A digital copier and method of processing images in which the images are manipulated and processed utilizing smaller blocks of the image. By working with smaller blocks, the image processing may begin before an entire image is scanned or before the entire image is l... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6720978 | Method for storing and retrieving data that conserves memory bandwidth A method for storing a block of data consisting of N rows and M columns, which includes the step of transposing the block of data by 90° to thereby produce a transposed block of data consisting of M rows and N columns, and, the step of storing the transposed block ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6697083 | Apparatus and method for displaying information in folder type communication terminal An apparatus for and a method of displaying information in a folder type communication terminal provided with a folder in such a fashion that the user can view the displayed information even in a closed status of the folder. A transparent LCD is fixedly m... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6664986 | Computer user interface for orthodontic use In a computer system that includes a Central Processing Unit and an associated input device, storage device and display device, a method for displaying on the display device a virtual three-dimensional (3D) dental model at desired preset views, for orthod... | 12/16/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6621940 | Image rotation in opponent color space An image is rotated in opponent color space, such as L*a*b* or Y CB CR color space, by inputting the opponent color space image data, subsampling the opponent color space image data, and addressing the subsampled opponent color space... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6496199 | Method for storing and retrieving data that conserves memory bandwidth A method for storing a block of data consisting of N rows and M columns, which includes the step of transposing the block of data by 90° to thereby produce a transposed block of data consisting of M rows and N columns, and, the step of storing the transp... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6396506 | Display operation method to change the number of images to be displayed and to independently change image direction and rotation of each image A display device and operation method thereof for displaying images processed on an image processing apparatus on a horizontally installed, upward facing display screen with the operation method for said display device comprising; a step for specifying th... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6281872 | Rotation of an image implementing an independent mirror attribute A rotation interface for an image is implemented. In response to a rotation control selecting a current angle of rotation, an image is rotated to the current angle of rotation. In response to a mirroring attribute control being selected, the image is mirr... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6226016 | Display apparatus and method capable of rotating an image by 180 degrees A central processing unit (310) in a display system carries pixel-value signals and software-address signals representing the locations of the pixels whose values the pixel-value signals represent. An address-translation circuit (420) converts those softw... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6208767 | Hardware rotation of images with line sorting in L*A*B* color space A method for rotating an input image matrix having pixel grouping data to form an output image matrix in a computer is provided. The pixel grouping data is accessed and readdressed to rotate the input image matrix. The pixel grouping data is desampled int... | 03/27/2001 |
