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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7580007 | Apparatus and method for bi-directionally sweeping an image beam in the vertical dimension and related apparati and methods A scan assembly of an image generator sweeps an image beam in a first dimension at a first rate and bi-directionally in a second dimension at a slower rate. Sweeping the beam bi-directionally in the vertical dimension (generally the dimension of the lower sweep rate... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7223672 | Processes for forming backplanes for electro-optic displays A non-linear element is formed on a flexible substrate by securing the substrate to a rigid carrier, forming the non-linear element, and then separating the flexible substrate from the carrier. The process allows flexible substrates to be processed in a conventional... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7116467 | Structured fluid compositions for electrophoretically frustrated total internal reflection displays A structured fluid composition comprising: (a) a low refractive index liquid; (b) particles including light absorbing charged particles such as pigments, non-light absorbing uncharged particles such as teflon, sili... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7079304 | Structured fluid compositions for electrophoretically frustrated total internal reflection displays A structured fluid composition comprising: (a) a low refractive index liquid; (b) particles including light absorbing charged particles such as pigments, non-light absorbing uncharged particles such as teflon, sili... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7012600 | Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an ini... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009943 | Conferencing network resource management for call connectivity A system and method that provides reliable connectivity of conference calls by ensuring that sufficient network resources are available at the time of the requested conference calls. The system includes multiple endpoints for requesting conference calls, and a gatek... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6950220 | Electro-optic displays, and methods for driving same The invention relates to electro-optic displays and methods for driving such displays. The invention provides (i) electrochromic displays with solid charge transport layers; (ii) apparatus and methods for improving the contrast and reducing the cost of electrochromi... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6897868 | Visual representation of audio content Audio content on a compact disc is displayed as an image of a rotating vinyl record, thus enabling a disc jockey to obtain a visual indication of the nature of the content on the disc. The apparatus comprises a manually operable joystick which can be used to operate... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6795042 | Image display apparatus The present invention relates to an image display apparatus, e.g. a head-mounted image display apparatus, in which an image from a single image display device is led to two eyes without using a half-mirror, thereby allowing observation of a bright image. The image d... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6559609 | Raster center control circuit for CRT-type display device A raster center control circuit for a CRT-type display device that automatically determines a correct horizontal center position of a raster, regardless of a horizontal sync frequency input from a video card. The raster center control circuit includes a h... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6446116 | Method and apparatus for dynamic loading of a transport mechanism in a multipoint data delivery system A method and apparatus for dynamic loading of a transport mechanism is provided. A resource locator (RL) corresponding to a collaboration session is requested from a registry. A location indicator to the RL in the registry is received. In response to rece... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6441822 | Drawing with circular arcs A method of generation of smoothly shaped, non-circular, curves by formation of multiple circular arcs. In the method, one draws a first circular arc which passes through two points and is tangent to a first line extending from a first point in the indica... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6254217 | Apparatus and method for hue shift compensation in a bidirectional printer An printing apparatus and method for reducing hue shift due to differing deposition orders of different color ink drops. A differing deposition order occurs in bidirectional inkjet printers with printheads that deposit overlapping drops in a single scan i... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6119178 | Communication interface between remote transmission of both compressed video and other data and data exchange with local peripherals A multimedia communication arrangement communicating video and at least one other data type using a communication channel includes a first interface arrangement for communicating video and the at least one other data type using the communication channel. ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5926154 | Double-screen display device Each of right- and left-deflection holograms is provided for a picture element in a vertical scanning line on the screen of a display unit. For example, the right- and left-deflection hologram are alternately arranged in a single vertical scanning line. A... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5790100 | Broadcast pointer device with add-on sleeve A general-purpose computer has a compartment for storing a pointer, device such as a mouse or a trackball, such that the may be removed from the compartment and deployed for use. The device may be a mouse, a trackball, or other type, and may communicate w... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5664218 | Integrated multimedia input/output processor The present invention relates to an integrated multimedia board for a high speed local bus, and has an object to simultaneously process multimedia data at high speed in one integrated board by using a PCI local bus. To achieve the object, the present inve... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5619220 | Sound image display method and apparatus A sound image display apparatus displays a sound image waveform representing a sound image produced by a multi-channel surround audio signal in a readily visible form. The sound image display apparatus includes a scaling section which has a variable gain ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5128609 | Setting up of quadrature signals A device to assist in setting up the pitch, roll, yaw and standoff of a read head relative to a scale, so as to improve the quadrature relationship of its outputs. Two superimposed Lissajous figures are produced on an oscilloscope screen. One of these fig... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4314351 | Curve-generating device for visual display of symbols on a cathode-ray screen The curve-generating device serves in particular to produce signals relating to a circular line from simple algorithms. The device comprises means for computing a parameter ƊL defined by ##EQU1## where U is an elementary vector, θ is the angle at t... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4162492 | Method and apparatus for image signal generation and image display Method and apparatus for generating image-forming envelope and other wave forms for image display of an area or an object whose image is desired to be simulated. The image-forming envelope wave forms for complex objects and complex area silhouettes are fo... | 07/24/1979 |
