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| 7339552 | Dot matrix type display device and information equipment employing the same The present invention is to provide a dot matrix type display device by self light emitting elements in which a display burning phenomenon can be prevented from occurring. With the dot matrix type display device according to the present invention, in the display dev... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7292252 | Projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method capable of avoiding obstacles in the projection area To provide a projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method which can project an image applicable to viewing environment of a changed projection position, a liquid crystal projector is provided with: ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7271828 | Display screen burn-in prevention device and burn-in prevention method A burn-in prevention image signal is generated by subjecting an input image signal to blurring and then to contrast inversion to invert the contrast of the signal luminance level. The burn-in prevention image signal is used when the input image is a still image that... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7184064 | Touch-screen image scrolling system and method Electronic image displays, of lists that extend beyond the vertical display dimension of the display screen, are displaced in the vertical direction by touching the screen with a finger and then moving the finger in the desired direction on the screen. In a natural ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7158169 | Method and system for displaying content while reducing burn-in of a display A method and system for reducing burn-in of a display is disclosed. A plurality of assets containing text, graphics, and video are stored and then gathered. These assets are then assembled into a template to form a video frame or “screen”, which is subsequently ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7095447 | OSD (on screen display) cursor display method and cursor image display apparatus An OSD cursor display method and an OSD image display apparatus are provided, wherein an information that has an own cursor display data is transmitted from a display apparatus to an OSD source, and when said OSD source wants to transmit an OSD cursor to said displa... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6970180 | Control apparatus having plurality of command means for smoothly moving a sub-screen on a main screen A video signal of a main screen is supplied from an input terminal (1) through a change-over switch (2) and an RGB drive circuit (3) to an image receiving tube (4). The video signal of a sub screen is also supplied to a sub screen signal ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6900819 | Systems and methods for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of th... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6833841 | Image forming method, computer program for forming image, and image forming apparatus There is provided an image forming method capable of displaying an object in a semitransparent state without combining the object with a background and further, capable of improving a quality of an image. In the object, the transparent area and the non-transparent a... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6825849 | Method and apparatus for presenting information in accordance with presentation attribute information to control presentation thereof In an information presentation apparatus, a documents parser reads out and analyzes desired document data from a documents storage unit to obtain attributes data of the document data, which is stored in a document attributes storage uni. A displaying attributes sett... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6755745 | Display control with fewer amounts of data in game system By using a unique display control technique, game images are provided, in which characters can be displayed in different poses with a limited-capacity memory area. Both image data corresponding to each of a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing a character to be ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757448 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and computer program There is provided an apparatus including a plurality of processors 20, which generates a plurality of candidate status variable values as a candidate of status variable value at which the status of object image is fixed and which selects a status variable val... | 06/29/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6690387 | Touch-screen image scrolling system and method Electronic image displays. of lists that extend beyond the vertical display dimension of the display screen, are displaced in the vertical direction by touching the screen with a finger and then moving the finger in the desired direction on the screen. In... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6667693 | Screen protection method for image display apparatus A technique for protecting a screen surface from being damaged due to a fixed display operation of an image display apparatus such as a projection TV. The method includes a first step for displaying an alarm message for informing no external signal input ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6587119 | Method and apparatus for defining a panning and zooming path across a still image during movie creation A method and apparatus for enabling a user to define a panning and zooming path across a still image in a digital imaging device during interactive movie creation. The method and apparatus include allowing the user to define the position of a plurality of... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6538653 | Graphic processing system for displaying characters and pictures at high speed A graphic processing system has a processor for managing a display area and a character font area both included within an address space. From coded information indicative of a character transferred through a data bus of the system, the processor generates... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6292203 | Method of enhancing the resolution of cursor movement on the display screen of a video display system A method is provided for use on an OSD-based (On-Screen Display) video display system, such as a VCD system, a super VCD system, or a DVD system, for the purpose of enhancing the resolution of cursor movement on the display screen of the video 5 display s... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6052109 | Processing image data Displayed picture points are re-locatable in response to manual operation of an interface device such as a stylus or a mouse etc. The interface device is activated, by being placed into pressure or by clicking, and an identified picture point is subsequen... | 04/18/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5949434 | Method and apparatus for scaling graphic images An innovative technique for minimizing the visual artifacts created by scaling an image is disclosed. More particularly, a factor that adds a degree of pseudo-randomness to the location of values generated as output during the scaling process is incorpora... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5859626 | Display circuit which automatically deciphers different video formats and optimizes the horizontal and vertical centering of the image on the display A display device that is automatically operable with various types of standards of video signals has a display panel, a controller, and a timing generator. The display panel includes pixels arranged in the form of a matrix to form an image. The display pa... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5745097 | Apparatus and method for automatic image display alignment The present invention is situated in the presence of an image source having an image and a display device having an image alignment register, a pixel address, and a pixel signal, the display device coupled to the image source. The apparatus of the present... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5706025 | Smooth vertical motion via color palette manipulation Smooth vertical movement of a graphics image on a raster display is performed via color palette manipulation at any speed. A color look-up table has a color palette position for each color within the graphics image plus unassigned color palette positions ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5684943 | Method and apparatus for creating virtual worlds A computer receives animated images together with a real world image. The computer then superimposes the animated images onto the real world image. The result is a combined animated/real image which forms the virtual world. The combined image is capable o... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5608496 | Print image position indication device In order to indicate more distinctly the results of transverse and longitudinal adjustments of a print image, in a printer image position indicating device, a standard print position indication mark showing a printing master being positioned at the standa... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5481653 | Digital image processing apparatus for synthesizing an image form at least two images An image processing apparatus includes a memory for storing data representing a digital mask pattern for extracting only a plurality of two-dimensional discrete images from a first image, a generator for generating data representing a synthesized image in... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5416899 | Memory based method and apparatus for computer graphics A memory based computer graphic animation system generates desired images and image sequences from 2-D views. The 2-D views provide sparse data from which intermediate views are generated based on a generalization and interpolation technique of the invent... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5357264 | Display controller for dot matrix display When display data having a smaller vertical number of pixels than a vertical number of pixels of a display is to be displayed, a display status can be switched during the execution of any application software. When a display selection switch receives a sw... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5253052 | Apparatus for detecting relative motion between contents of successive fields of a video signal In an apparatus for detecting amounts of relative motion of a picture expressed by a digital video signal, between successive fields of the signal, a fixed set of picture element positions are designated as respective representative points in each field o... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5187776 | Image editor zoom function An Image Editor includes a ZOOM function wherein other Image Editor actions are invokable and operable in whatever zoom level is currently in effect. The zoom mode is a state of the Image Editor in that invoked actions are performed in a normal 1X pel siz... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5172107 | Display system including an electrode matrix panel for scanning only scanning lines on which a moving display is written A display apparatus includes a display panel having a display picture area formed by scanning electrodes and data electrodes arranged in a matrix. A display data storage memory stores data supplied from a display data input device. A controller controls t... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5057826 | Digital TV raster scan waveform display device with images of selectable size and position A digital picture display device in which, due to a location-dependent, determined brightness drive of pixels in a picture formed line and field-sequentially, it is possible to obtain an oscilloscopic image in the form of a waveform profile on a display s... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4991022 | Apparatus and a method for automatically centering a video zoom and pan display A video processing system includes apparatus for panning and magnifying portions of a source image stored in memory. Viewer control circuitry generates center coordinates of the portion of the image to be displayed and also a magnification factor. Further... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4984075 | Contour detecting apparatus A countour detecting apparatus which comprises: a picture-data input device for the input of data on a picture including an object to be detected; a video-signal generator for scanning the data on the picture and generating video signals each correspondin... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4930074 | Multiple stamp motion objects in a video game system There is disclosed herein a system for rapid processing of the data records of many moving and nonmoving objects on a playfield only part of which is displayed and for determining collisions between objects. A search pipeline using a synchrounous state ma... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4897636 | Video display control system for moving display images A video display control system is capable of moving a part of a still image from a first display area to a second display area on a screen. The video display control system includes a memory composed of a plurality of memory locations for storing a plural... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4812836 | Picture processing apparatus A picture processing apparatus is provided which includes a first frame memory for storing digitalized picture information and includes SAMs (serial access memories) which are capable of reading and writing parallel data with respect to the frame memory, ... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4766429 | Graphic simulation system A video graphic simulation system which is capable of producing an image of a panorama as viewed from different positions. To save storage space lines of video signals may be repeated at the edges of the view so that for example the view from a rolling ve... | 08/23/1988 |
