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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174546 | Apparatus and methods for rapid image rendering on dual-modulator displays Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8022972 | Automatic coarseness setting method in video display apparatus An automatic coarseness setting method in a video display apparatus is provided. According to the automatic coarseness setting method, when an automatic adjustment command is input or when a new mode video signal is received to the video display apparatus, a pixel c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009182 | Display device with function of converting resolution There is provided a display device that enables to present an image on its screen at a desired resolution, in response to an operation by a user and on the basis of an image signal, even when the image signal is obtained from image data from which a resolution is no... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7990404 | Method for automatically detecting and switching video signals on a monitor A method for automatically detecting and switching video signals on a monitor has steps of storing multiple menu groups in the monitor and executing a resolution identifying mode. Each menu group has multiple similarly public resolutions. The resolution identifying ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7889217 | Display control apparatus and method, recording medium, and program A display control apparatus for controlling display in a first display device that displays a predetermined display range of an entire supplied image is provided. The display control apparatus includes an image scaledown unit adapted to scale down a first image base... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7830401 | Information processing apparatus According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an internal display device that displays image information; an output terminal connectable with at least one external display device or more; and a display adjustment section that changes reso... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7791622 | Display output device There are included a communication unit, a resolution adjustment unit, a storage unit, a video signal output unit, and a resolution information correction unit. The communication unit requests an image display device that displays an image to transmit first r... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7755653 | Image display system and receiver device An image display system includes a transmitter device that can transmit video data and audio data, and a receiver device that is connected via an HDMI cable to the transmitter device and that includes a display device that displays video based on video data from the... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738004 | Display apparatus to display a picture according to an input video signal and control method thereof A display apparatus displaying a picture based on an input video signal includes an auto-adjustment button to select an implement of an auto-adjustment function, and a controller to implement a quick auto-adjustment function when the input video signal is determined... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7683920 | Image sending/receiving device An image sending/receiving device of the present invention includes: an image receiving section for receiving image data from an external image reproducing device connected to the image sending/receiving device; an image sending section for sending the image data to... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7612789 | Image display device and timing controller It is an object to provide a timing controller and an image display device which are capable of recognizing the resolution of a display panel with a simple structure. Image signal line driving devices include integrated plural driving circuits which are connected to... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7511726 | Display and control method thereof The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of determining a display mode from a plurality of display modes for a display device that displays an image, each display mode relates to an inputted signal from a signal source that includes an analog signa... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7439965 | Method for driving display device A method is provided for reducing power consumption in a digital display including an array of pixels. The method includes reducing a switching frequency for driving the array of pixels and dividing the array of pixels into groups of a predefined size. A representat... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417649 | Method and apparatus for nonlinear anamorphic scaling of video images Methods and apparatuses for nonlinear scaling of video images. To match the aspect ratios of a video image and the target display area, at least one embodiment of the present invention scales the video image according to one or more nonlinear functions along the hor... | 08/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7346230 | Transform table for ink sizing and compression Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data struct... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346229 | Transform table for ink sizing and compression Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data struct... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343053 | Transform table for ink sizing and compression Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data struct... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7307632 | Font emulation A method and apparatus for Font Emulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises stripping a first portion from a first font to emulate a second font upon request for such a second font. In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus comprises a process... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7283178 | System and method for multimode information handling system TV out cable connection An information handling system outputs plural types of TV out signal formats from a common TV out port by configuring graphics card digital-to-analog converters to generate a selected TV out signal and communicating the TV out signal through an appropriate adapter c... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7271817 | Aspect ratio conversion for imagers having random row access A method (400) of aspect ratio conversion for an imager (16) having random row access includes the steps of periodically receiving (402) a predetermined number of input video lines, vertical format converting (404) the predetermined numbe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266771 | Video stream representation and navigation using inherent data An MPEG compressed bit stream representing video information is associated with supplemental information such as motion, audio, scene cut, and editorial information. The motion information is identified and processed to determine characteristics of the video informa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262784 | LCD controller to hold a fixed image aspect ratio A circuit and a method for maintaining the aspect ratio of images when there is a difference in format between image sources and display panels is provided. Lines are added in the vertical direction both at the top and at the bottom of the display panel in order to ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259757 | Image signal processing device An object is to provide an image signal processing device capable of converting digital image signals into analog image signals using a circuit of small scale. Addition high-order bit pixel data is generated by adding, to high-order bit pixel data comprising an high... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248899 | Portable terminal apparatus having an improved display drive controller A problem of this invention is to satisfy both of securement of visibility of a display unit and suppression of noises at the time of a telephone call etc. using a receiver and a microphone. In a portable terminal apparatus which relates to the invention, a control ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236651 | Image evaluation method and microscope Image evaluation method capable of objectively evaluating the image resolution of a microscope image. An image resolution method is characterized in that resolution in partial regions of an image is obtained over an entire area of the image or a portion of the image... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231588 | Video display apparatuses and display methods thereof Video display apparatuses and display methods thereof. The apparatus includes a first buffer, a second buffer, a third buffer, a blending engine and a display engine. The first buffer stores a video source. The second buffer stores on screen display (OSD) source dat... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218328 | Image display apparatus Image display apparatus (2) which combines low and high resolution image data in a common data format prior to display. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212220 | Auto screen centering and expansion of VGA display modes on larger size of LCD display device The invention in one embodiment is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a lookup table having a set of entries, each entry capable of maintaining a value. The apparatus also includes a DDA (Differential Digital Analyzer) table having a set of entries, each entry cap... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7183961 | System for converting analog video signals to digital video signals A system for converting analog video signals to digital video signals receives an analog video signal that generates a reference horizontal synchronization signal. A phase-locked loop receives the reference horizontal synchronization signal and generates a pixel clo... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180531 | Method and apparatus for enabling application program compatibility with display devices having improved pixel density A method and apparatus are provided for enabling application program compatibility with display devices having an increased pixel density. According to one method, a call including one or more parameters is directed toward an application programming interface for pe... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7136037 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device that improves a picture quality. More specifically, in the method and apparatus, reference modulated data selected in accordance with a detected driving frequency are ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7091996 | Method and apparatus for automatic clock synchronization of an analog signal to a digital display A method and apparatus for estimating a true horizontal resolution by determining a temporal spacing of a cumulated sum pattern of a detected rising feature edge. If the temporal spacing is approximately equal to n (which is a positive, non-zero integer, and is equa... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091944 | Display controller Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling a display device having a display scan line rate by storing incoming data in a buffer, the buffer having a usage level measure; comparing the usage level to the display scan line rate; and adjusting a width of a disp... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086879 | Dual connector assembly with sliding keep-out member A connector assembly includes first and second sockets disposed on opposite sides of a housing and defining first and second insertion paths, respectively, for receiving a plug. A sliding keep-out member has first and second blocking surfaces. The keep-out member ca... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084837 | Digital image output apparatus, digital image decoding device, and digital image encoding device The digital image output apparatus comprises a digital image decoder (1a) for decoding encoded digital image data and outputting image data update information (V2); an image data transfer area control unit (7) for determining a portion of... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079128 | Method of and system for automatically setting display mode of monitor, and recording medium performing the same A display mode auto-setting method for a monitor displaying a video signal received from a video card includes reading a display information provided in the monitor, reading a plurality of display modes from the video card, selecting one of the display modes equal t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079163 | Method and system of color-real adjustment for adjusting a display device A method of color-real adjustment and system for adjusting a display device is disclosed, the system includes a server for outputting an image triggering signal and inputting an image extraction signal, performing a color-real process on the image extraction signal ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068293 | Method of automatic monitor display adjustments A method of automatic monitor display adjustments is disclosed. After the monitor is connected to the power and receives a display signal from a computer host, NTAA (No Touch Auto Adjustment) is initiated to automatically adjust the display range and other display s... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062107 | Techniques for generating a distributed low-resolution digital image capable of viewing in any resolution In one embodiment, in a peer-to-peer connected environment, a method of sharing a multi-media object between a first node and a second node is disclosed. At the first node, a digital negative of the multi-media object is stored, wherein the digital negative represen... | 06/13/2006 |
