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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7629989 | Reducing processing latency in optical character recognition for portable reading machine A portable reading device includes a computing device and a computer readable medium storing a computer program product to receive an image and select a section of the image to process. The product processes the section of the image with a first process and when the... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7532225 | Three-dimensional image display device A three-dimensional image display device includes a display unit having pixels arranged in a form of a matrix, the pixels forming pixel groups configured to display element images, and a mask having windows corresponding to the pixel groups. Preferably, relative pos... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7518623 | Device-specific color intensity settings and sub-pixel geometry A method for determining device-specific information for pixels to obtain an optimal display of fine structure monochrome images on an output display device, the method comprising determining a set of device-specific pixel input values that will cause the display sy... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7489326 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display panel A method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display panel that is capable of driving a liquid crystal display panel having five color dots within one pixel. In the method, adjacent first color sub-pixels spaced at a desired distance, of a plurality of first ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7417601 | Projector systems A projector system is disclosed comprising a sceen and at least one light source to produce a plurality of color planes. The color planes comprise at least a first color plane, a second color plane and a third color plane. The plurality of color planes being project... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7397485 | Color OLED display system having improved performance An OLED display system includes a) an OLED display including an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having a plurality of OLEDs for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut wherein one of the OLEDs has a power efficiency or lifetime different fro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7304656 | Device for digital display of a video image The present invention relates to a device for digital display of a video image using time-division modulation. This device is intended to display a video image during a video frame comprising a plurality of consecutive subfields distributed within at least two separ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283117 | Shift register and display device A shift register includes unit circuits cascade-connected to form a plurality of shift stages. Each of the unit circuits has a time-shifter including a NAND circuit to receive an input pulse as one input, and a holder having a PMOS transistor and a NMOS transistor, ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280126 | Methods and apparatus for converting an orthogonal pixel format to a diamond pixel format Apparatus for converting orthogonal data to a format suitable for displaying the image on a diamond-shaped pixel array. A stream of digital data formatted for being displayed on an orthogonal pixel array is received at an IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) filter. The ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7206005 | Image display device and method for displaying multi-gray scale display An image display device for multi-gray scale display includes a first pixel for transmitting an achromatic color light therethrough with a first transmittance and a second pixel for transmitting the achromatic color light therethrough with a second transmittance dif... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205970 | Liquid crystal display for wide viewing angle, and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a timing controller, a gate driver, a data driver and a liquid crystal panel. The timing controller stores a plurality of sets of gray level correction values, each set of gra... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199808 | Liquid crystal display The present invention aims at providing a liquid crystal display which can reproduce images in a uniform manner. In a liquid crystal display which adopts an area ratio gray scale and includes pixels each having a plurality of sub-pixels, the sub-pixel includes a sub... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184067 | Color OLED display system An OLED display system includes a display device having an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having a plurality of OLEDs for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional OLED for emitting a color of light within the gamu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7088316 | Color adjustment device and method for plasma display panel A color adjustment device and method for the plasma display panel. The color adjustment device comprises a look up table and an error diffusion circuit. Wherein, the look up table is used to store a plurality of gray scale data, select one corresponding data from th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085412 | Filtering image data to obtain samples mapped to pixel sub-components of a display device Image data processing and image rendering methods and systems whereby images are displayed on display devices having pixels with separately controllable pixel sub-components. Image data, such as data encoded in a three-channel signal, is passed through a low-pass fi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085593 | Semiconductor chip and a mobile telephone including said semiconductor chip A mobile telephone 1 including a display screen 3 and a semiconductor chip 5. The semiconductor chip 5 includes control means 7, a receiver 9 and a memory 11. The receiver 9 receives one or more first, second a... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079164 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display panel A method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display panel that is capable of driving a liquid crystal display panel having five color dots within one pixel. In the method, adjacent first color sub-pixels spaced at a desired distance, of a plurality of first ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7027013 | Shared pixel electroluminescent display driver system An electroluminescent display and driving method is provided wherein the rows of pixels are divided into sub-pixel sets and several different sets of sub-pixels are then addressed from within a larger superset of adjacent sub-pixels. The image data for the addressed... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7002302 | Flat panel display The present invention discloses an organic light emitting diode capable of obtaining proper luminance and long life cycle by controlling an amount of current flowing through an organic electroluminescent device per unit pixel. The organic light emitting diode includ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6975312 | Computer system having network connector and method of checking connection state of network cable therefor A computer system having a network connector to which a network cable is connected, including a displaying part displaying a connection state of the network cable; a signal processing part processing a signal inputted through the network connector; and a control par... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6911784 | Display apparatus A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels; and a control unit which makes a control such that each of the plurality of sub-pixels is subjected to represent gradation with a plurality of levels. When ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912326 | Method for displaying an electronic document on a digital handheld device A method of displaying an electronic document on a digital handheld device first calculates a reduction ratio equal to a ratio of an original document width to the digital handheld device screen width. The method then calculates color values of pixels in a reduced d... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912067 | Dither volume with multiple thresholds for each cell While a general large layer dither volume provides great flexibility in dither cell design, by decoupling different intensity levels, they are inefficient to access since each color component requires the retrieval of a different bit from the volume. Therefore in a ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909414 | Driver circuit and liquid crystal display device Disclosed is a driver circuit, as well as a LCD device having the driver circuit, in which changeover between first and second buffer circuits the operating ranges of which extend to high- and low-potential power supply voltages can be performed reliably within the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906690 | Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof A system and method for driving a plasma display panel generates an address discharge by applying voltage signals to scan and address electrodes during one or more periods of operation. In accordance with one embodiment, a lowest level of a voltage signal applied to... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6894702 | Dropout control in subpixel rendering The present invention relates to dropout control in which one or more samples are added to adjacent samples that fall within an image outline. The samples are used in sub-pixel rendering to compensate for unnaturally thin or faint object stems. Horizontal dropout co... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6888516 | Display panel and scanning method An object of the present invention is to provide a high definition PDP screen without lowering the PDP luminescence efficiency. The display panel is provided with a plurality of cells that are arranged in a matrix, each of the plurality of cells emitting a different... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6870552 | Adjustment of input-output characteristics of image display apparatus A former stage signal adjustment module included in a signal adjustment device has a signal conversion sub-module, a first lookup table, and an interpolation sub-module. The signal conversion sub-module outputs an upper q-bit color video signal, where q is an intege... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6850251 | Control circuit and control method for display device A control circuit for use in a display device capable of displaying gray scale including a plurality of column electrodes and a plurality of row electrodes intersecting each other and pixels provided around the intersections thereof, includes a display data converti... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6714212 | Display apparatus A display apparatus has a plurality unit pixels each divided into a least three sub-pixels for displaying a halftone. The at least three sub-pixels have mutually different areas, so that one sub-pixel among the at least three sub-pixels has a maximum area which does... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6633306 | Active matrix liquid crystal display In an active matrix liquid crystal display, pixels are arranged in rows and columns of a matrix and are controllable via row electrodes and column electrodes. To improve and to expand the possibilities of image rendering without increasing the number of r... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6603454 | Display panel having pixels arranged in matrix A matrix-display panel such as a liquid crystal display panel is composed of row and column electrodes and liquid crystal interposed between both row and column electrodes. Pixels formed at each intersection of the electrodes are driven by imposing compos... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6529213 | Display device Luminescent portions correspondent to each gradation are arranged point-symmetrically with one another around a prescribed position provided at the center, thereby forming a unit pixel element including a plurality of luminescent elements. Such a structur... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6466225 | Method of halftoning an image on a video display having limited characteristics A method of halftoning input image data intended for reproduction on a display (114) having a plurality of pixels (23-27) and a limited pixel response time (see FIG. 1) is disclosed. In a first halftone cycle (K=n), the method comprises (first) halftoning... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6437767 | Active matrix devices An active matrix device includes a data line driver circuit for sampling the input signal to produce data signals for each of the rows of control elements in a corresponding line period, and a scan line driver circuit for addressing the scan lines sequent... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6384816 | Image display apparatus In an image display apparatus including a delta-array display device and pixel position transition means for repeatedly shifting the respective pixel positions of the display device to each of positions at four points, the pixel shifted positions at the f... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6034663 | Method for providing grey scale images to the visible limit on liquid crystal displays A method for displaying grey-scale images at a desired grey scale resolution on a display having a matrix of pixels, comprises the steps of: defining a control matrix having a size smaller than the entire display and equal to the desired grey scale resolu... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5986640 | Display device using time division modulation to display grey scale A display device includes a deformable mirror device wherein grey scales are displayed using a time division modulation process in which the times or sub-frame periods for which each mirror within the deformable mirror array is switched on. The device inc... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5774101 | Multiple line simultaneous selection method for a simple matrix LCD which uses temporal and spatial modulation to produce gray scale with reduced crosstalk and flicker A method of driving an image display device including the steps of: dividing row electrodes of an image display device having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes into a plurality of subgroups; selecting summarizingly one of ... | 06/30/1998 |
