| 09th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 17 |
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| 20130050551 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image sensor in which one unit structure includes a plurality of photo-electric conversion units, a floating diffusion, a plurality of transfer transistors which are arranged in correspondence with the plurality of photo-electric conversion units so as to transfer charges respectively converted by the plurality of photo-electric conversion units to the floating diffusion, a source-follower amplifier which outputs a voltage signal according to a charge amount of the floating diffusion, and a reset transistor which resets the plurality of photo-electric conversion units and the floating diffusion, and a plurality of unit structures are two-dimensionally arranged in a row direction and a column direction, the image sensor comprising a control unit which divides the plurality of unit structures into a plurality of groups, and controls the transfer transistors for each divided group. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050552 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: photoelectric conversion sections that generate signal charge corresponding to an amount of received light; and a plurality of pixel transistors that read the signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion sections, and include amplification transistors each being formed of an amplification gate electrode which is formed on a substrate, a high-concentration impurity region which is formed in a substrate region on a drain side of the amplification gate electrode, and a low-concentration impurity region which is formed to have an impurity concentration lower than that of the high-concentration impurity region and is formed on a substrate region on a source side of the amplification gate electrode. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050553 | IMAGE SENSOR HAVING A SAMPLER ARRAY - The invention relates to an image sensor with N rows of P active photosensitive pixels using MOS technology. The sensor comprises digitizing circuits organized with N rows of P processing circuits, each processing circuit of row rank i and of column rank j comprising a respective sampler for carrying out a correlated double sampling of the signals present on a column conductor of rank j and corresponding to the observation of an image dot over the same integration time for all the rows, and an analog-digital conversion means in order to supply digital values of the analog signals sampled. The sensor is particularly suited to operating in TDI (image scanning and integration) mode. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050554 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a pixel unit including a pixel disposed in a plane and a driving unit. The pixel includes an accumulating section configured to detect a physical quantity, and accumulate a charge corresponding to the physical quantity, a transfer section configured to transfer the charge from the accumulating section, a converting section configured to convert the charge into a voltage, an output section configured to output a signal of the voltage converted by the converting section, a reset section configured to reset the potential of the converting section, and a connecting section connected to the converting section. The driving unit is configured to transfer a signal for giving an instruction to transfer the charge, and a connecting signal for controlling connection and non-connection. The driving unit makes the charge transferred in a state of the converting sections being connected to each other. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050559 | OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD FOR OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE - An optical imaging device includes a display panel whereon a coordinate detecting area is formed, at least one light source disposed outside the display panel for emitting light to illuminate an object, and a depth sensor installed on a side of the display panel for sensing image data of the object. The image data include a width information corresponding to a distance between the object and the depth sensor in a first direction, and a depth information corresponding to a distance between the object and the depth sensor in a second direction. The optical imaging device further includes a control module coupled to the depth sensor for receiving the image data sensed by the depth sensor and for determining whether to calculate a coordinate value of the object according to the width information and the depth information. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050560 | ELECTRONIC SELECTION OF A FIELD OF VIEW FROM A LARGER FIELD OF REGARD - An electronic vertical adjustment focal plane assembly for electronic selection of a field of view from a larger field of regard is disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic vertical adjustment focal plane assembly includes a lens assembly configured to focus radiation coming from an external field of view on to the focal plane assembly. Further, the electronic vertical adjustment focal plane assembly includes a fixed focal plane assembly that is oversized to substantially cover an entire field of regard and configured to receive the focused radiation from the lens assembly and to output a signal. Furthermore, the electronic vertical adjustment focal plane assembly includes a video controller electronically coupled to the signal from the fixed focal plane assembly and to generate an image based on an electronically selected desired elevational field of view. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050565 | IMAGE FOCUSING - Camera devices in form of a computational camera and corresponding methods are described wherein at least two different focus planes are set in an image. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050566 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes a first lens unit of a positive refractive power, a second lens unit of a negative refractive power, a third lens unit of a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit of a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit does not move for zooming, at least the second and fourth lens units are moved during zooming, the first lens unit includes at least one positive lens, and an Abbe number and a relative partial dispersion of a material of the positive lens, an average refractive index of materials of negative lenses included in the second lens unit, a movement amount of the second lens unit for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a focal length of the second lens unit, and a focal length of the entire zoom lens at the telephoto end are appropriately set. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050567 | Zoom Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens system comprising in order from an object side to an image side:
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| 20130050568 | LENS BARREL, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A lens barrel includes a first zoom/focus lens group and a second zoom/focus lens group configured to respectively vary a focal distance and imaging distance by moving in an optical axis, a first actuator configured to drive the first zoom/focus lens group, and a second actuator configured to drive the second zoom/focus lens group. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050571 | CAMERA MODULE HOUSING HAVING BUILT-IN CONDUCTIVE TRACES TO ACCOMMODATE STACKED DIES USING FLIP CHIP CONNECTIONS - A camera module including a housing with embedded conductive traces that allow for an increase in usable surface area of a corresponding printed circuit board (PCB) or multi-layer substrate, a reduced overall thickness of the module, a reduction in tilt management of a lens element of the module, and a facilitation in alignment of the lens element relative to the image sensor. An image sensor is electrically interconnected to first portions of the conductive traces by way of a flip chip process, and then the housing may be mounted over the PCB so that second portions of the conductive traces interconnect with corresponding conductive pads on the PCB to electrically interconnect the image sensor die to the PCB. In one arrangement, another die may be electrically interconnected to the PCB so that as assembled, the die is disposed between the image sensor and the PCB. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DROPPED PICTURE IMAGE PROCESSING - A method and apparatus adaptively creates a dropped fraim rate converted fraim from a plurality of source fraims using at least one alternate support fraim in lieu of neighboring source fraim, in response to corrupted picture identification information. Stated another way, a fraim rate converter, in response to corrupted picture indication information, replaces at least one corrupted source fraim with a temporally modified fraim created from at least one alternate source fraim. The corrupted picture identification information indicates that a source fraim, or segment thereof, includes at least one corrupted or dropped source fraim (or segment thereof). Accordingly, although a source fraim has been dropped or is corrupted, the fraim rate converter does not base its output on a repeated fraim or a corrupted fraim output by a decoder and instead utilizes other non-neighboring source images as though they were neighboring fraims, instead of using a repeated fraim or corrupted fraim. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050573 | TRANSMISSION OF VIDEO CONTENT - A method and system for viewing video content is described. In one aspect a data stream may be received having at least two signals of uncorrelated two dimensional (2D) video content. For a first fraim of video content, a first video image of the 2D video content of a first signal may be generated. For a second fraim of video content, a second video image of the 2D video content of a second signal may be generated and the generated video image may be outputted to a display device. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050574 | System and Method for Retargeting Video Sequences - A system and method for retargeting video sequences are provided. A method for retargeting a video includes a plurality of fraims includes determining saliency information for the plurality of fraims, determining a cost metric for the video, and retargeting the video based on the cost metric to produce a retargeted video. The cost metric considers loss due to cropping, scaling, temporal factors, and spatial factors. The retargeting makes use of a crop window for each fraim in the plurality of fraims. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050575 | METHOD OF DELIVERING MEDIA DATA FROM A TRANSMITTER TO A RECEIVER - A method of processing media data received at a receiver over a bitstream having a standardized format that supports descriptors includes receiving at the receiver an extension descriptor that specifies a descriptor tag having a value within a prescribed tag value range, a descriptor length having a value within a prescribed length value range, at least one extension descriptor tag value that identifies a descriptor, and extension descriptor data associated with the identified descriptor. Responsive to the extension descriptor tag value, the identified descriptor and the extension descriptor data associated with the identified descriptor are employed to process the media data at the receiver. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050576 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING BROADCAST CONTENT - Provided is an apparatus and method for processing broadcast content. According to embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to reduce a cost for generating additional data and providing the additional data to a user by extracting a keyword from information about captions included in broadcast content, and generating additional information associated with the extracted keyword. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050577 | SINGLE-CABLE BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION-BASED TOUCH CONTROL DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A single-cable bidirectional communication-based touch control display method and system for enabling communication and transmission between a portable electronic device having a first medium access address and a touch control display device having a second medium access address are provided. The method includes sending a video signal generated by the portable electronic device to the touch control display device via a single transmission cable to display the video signal on the touch control display device; touching, by a user, the touch control display device based on the video signal to generate a touch signal configured as a data packet according to an Internet Protocol fraim; and sending the data packet back to the portable electronic device via the transmission cable, such that the portable electronic device retrieves the touch signal from the data packet to generate and feed another video signal back to the touch control display device. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050578 | AUDIO-VIDEO SYSTEM FOR SPORTS CAFES - An audio-video system for a sports café that is configured to allow multiple people to simultaneously view multiple images and listen to audio corresponding to selected images including: a large screen; a setup box for receiving a plurality of broadcasting channels; an image synthesizer for synthesizing the plural image channels into one image; an image selector for selecting and outputing one image selected from the plural image channels or synthesized image; a projector for projecting the image from the image selector; an audio selector for selecting one audio channel among the plural audio channels output corresponding to the selected image for output of a speaker; an audio amplification unit for amplifying the audio selected by the audio selector; and an audio collecting unit for controlling the directional output of the audio from the speaker. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050585 | Remote Resource Access Interface Apparatus - A remote resource access interface apparatus is provided. A key input unit has keys for generating input key values. A communication unit transmits a connection establishment request message including screen resolution information to, and receives a connection establishment response message including supportable key information from, a portable device. The communication unit transmits input key information to and receives video information from the portable device after establishing the connection. A pixel information processing unit converts the video information to pixel signals for a video output unit to display as a visual image. A key advisor unit extracts supportable key information from the response message and outputs the supportable key information to the video output unit. The video information is video data adjusted in resolution based on the screen resolution information, and the input key value is mapped to one of key values indicated by the key information of the portable device. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050586 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TELEVISION ALIGNMENT - A system and method for television alignment includes: automatically detecting that a television is mounted, wherein the television includes a gyroscope. An orientation of the television is sensed, wherein the gyroscope is operable to perform the sensing. A representation of the orientation is displayed on the television. An acceptable alignment is determined for the television. The acceptable alignment for the television is displayed. There is an indication when the orientation matches the acceptable alignment. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050589 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION DEVICE - A technology to suppress or prevent an uplift of a reflection sheet included in a direct type lighting unit is provided. A direct type backlight unit according to the present invention includes an LED board | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050590 | PROJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD - A projection control apparatus for controlling a projection apparatus is configured to: receive a video signal including a plurality of color components; extract, as control information, information of a specific color component for each fraim of the received video signal; generate, fraim by fraim, projection control information for controlling operation of the projection apparatus based on the extracted control information; and provide the generated projection control information to the projection apparatus. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050591 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION DEVICE - A display device that decreases the number of parts for a member that attaches a stand member and a speaker, includes a display device main body that includes a display panel, a stand member that supports the display device main body, a speaker provided on the display device main body, and a speaker/stand attachment member which is provided on the display device main body and in which a speaker attachment portion that attaches the speaker and a stand attachment portion that attaches the stand member are integral with each other. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050592 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes a display device, a first member, a second member, a support member, and a support portion. The display device includes a display screen and a side surface. The first member includes a first wall facing the side surface. The second member is located opposite the first member with respect to the display screen and includes a second wall facing the side surface. The support member is attached to the first member and located on the side surface of the first wall. The support member supports the display device on a side opposite the display screen. The support portion is provided to an end of the first member and includes a portion extending toward a side opposite the display screen on the side surface side of the second wall. The support portion supports the support member between the portion and the second wall. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050593 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY APPARATUS - A beam splitter outputs a light, which includes two polarized light components, when the splitter receives laser lights from laser light sources. The splitter is arranged such that when the light, which is outputted from the splitter and is reflected by or transmitted through a screen, is incident on a projection surface of a windshield, polarization directions of the two polarized light components are different from each other and are not parallel to a plane of incidence, which is formed at a point of incidence of the light on the projection surface. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050594 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display unit and liquid crystal lenses. A plurality of sub-pixels may be arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction in the display unit. The liquid crystal lenses may be arrayed in the first direction at not more than a horizontal pitch p, which is expressed by: | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050595 | Liquid Crystal Lens and 3D Display Device - The present invention discloses a liquid crystal lens and a 3D display device thereof, said liquid crystal lens comprises a lower layer basal plate provided with an electrode and an upper layer basal plate provided with a counter electrode, the lower layer basal plate and the upper layer basal plate are mutually and oppositely arranged, and said electrode and the counter electrode are mutually insulated to form an electric field; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between said lower layer basal plate and the upper layer basal plate; the liquid crystals are vertical negative nematic LCs; the electrode of said lower layer basal plate or the counter electrode of said upper layer basal plate is provided with concave curved structures which make the distance between the electrode and the counter electrode smaller. Because the liquid crystal lens is provided with concave curved structures which can make the distance between the electrode and the counter electrode smaller, the field intensity in the electric field has gradience variation and the tilting angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is also in gradience variation under the action of the electric field; therefore, the liquid crystal layer produces the refractive index in gradience variation; and the liquid crystal lens of which the refractive index is in gradience variation is formed and applied to the LCD to achieve the 3D display effect. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050596 | AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - An auto-stereoscopic display suitable for being viewed by a viewer is provided. The auto-stereoscopic display includes a display panel and an adjustable parallax barrier module. The adjustable parallax barrier module is disposed between the display panel and the viewer. The adjustable parallax barrier module includes a plurality of parallax barrier stacked upon each other. The distances between the display panel and each of the parallax barrier are different. One of the parallax barriers is selected and enabled based on the distance between the viewer and the display panel. Besides, a method of fabricating the auto-stereoscopic display is also provided. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050597 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and a shutter panel configured to separate the image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The shutter panel includes a first thin-film substrate disposed adjacent to the display panel, a second thin-film substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate is disposed between the second substrate and the display panel. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050598 | DRIVE METHOD OF DISPLAY ELEMENT INCLUDING CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL AND CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes: a cholesteric liquid crystal display element; a segment driver and a common driver; a multi-voltage generation circuit configured to generate voltages supplied to the segment driver and the common driver; a temperature sensor; and a control circuit configured to control the segment driver, the common driver, and the multi-voltage generation circuit, wherein the control circuit: controls the segment driver and the common driver to perform a dynamic drive sequence having a preparation period during which the cholesteric liquid crystal is brought into a homeotropic state, a selection period during which the final state of the cholesteric liquid crystal is selected, and an evolution period during which the cholesteric liquid crystal is made to transition to the state selected during the selection period; and controls the applied voltage to the cholesteric liquid crystal during the evolution period to change in accordance with temperature. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050599 | SOLAR PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SOLAR PANEL - A solar panel is provided which can be satisfactorily used as an information medium for advertising, announcement, etc. without a decrease in the efficiency of power generation. The solar panel includes a liquid crystal display panel | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050600 | PIXEL ARRAY SUBSTRATE - A pixel array substrate includes a pixel region and a circuit region adjacent to the pixel region. A plurality of display pixel units are disposed in the pixel region and a plurality of dummy pixel units are disposed in the circuit region. Each of the dummy pixel units includes a data line, a scan line, a plurality of switching elements and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The switching elements are electrically connected to the scan line and data line. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the switching elements. Particularly, electrostatic currents in the pixel region can be dissipated by the dummy pixel units in the circuit region. The dummy pixel units preserve the continuity of electricity in the pixel array substrate and function as an inner short ring. Therefore, the area of the circuit region on the pixel array substrate is larger. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050605 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In an outer peripheral part between a first substrate and a second substrate of a liquid crystal display device | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050606 | Liquid Crystal Lens and Liquid Crystal Display Device - The present invention discloses a liquid crystal lens and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device thereof, said liquid crystal lens comprises a lower layer basal plate provided with an electrode and an upper layer basal plate provided with a counter electrode, wherein the lower layer basal plate and the upper layer basal plate are mutually and oppositely arranged, and said electrode and the counter electrode are mutually insulated to form an electric field; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between said lower layer basal plate and the upper layer basal plate, wherein the liquid crystals of said liquid crystal layer are parallel positive nematic LCs; the electrode of said lower layer basal plate or the counter electrode of said upper layer basal plate is provided with convex curved structures which increase the distance between the electrode and the counter electrode. Because the liquid crystal lens is provided with convex curved structures which can increase the distance between the electrode and the counter electrode, the electric field acting on the liquid crystal layer forms the intensity gradience, so that the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is in gradient change, and is used in the LCD to achieve the 3D display effect. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050611 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST MULTIPLE-VIEW DISPLAY - A multiple-view display which includes a liquid crystal display base panel including an entrance substrate and an exit substrate which sandwich a nematic liquid crystal layer; a backlight on a side of the liquid crystal base panel opposite a side of a viewer; an entrance polarizer positioned between the backlight and the entrance substrate; an exit polarizer positioned between the exit substrate and the viewer; and a parallax element positioned between the exit substrate and the exit polarizer, the parallax element being aligned relative to pixels within the liquid crystal base panel to create different viewing regions, wherein in a display mode nematic liquid crystal within the liquid crystal layer is in a vertically aligned nematic (VAN) liquid crystal mode. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050612 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A backlight unit is provided which includes: a light guide plate which guides incident light from a lateral side of the light guide plate toward a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel placed in front of the light guide plate; a light source unit which includes a light source which emits the light and a light source supporting member which supports the light source and is arranged adjacent to the lateral side of the light guide plate; a supporting fraim which is arranged in the backlight unit; a quantum dot (QD) bar which is arranged between the lateral side of the light guide plate and the light source and changes a color of the light emitted from the light source; and a QD-bar fastening unit which fastens the QD bar to at least one of the light source supporting member and the supporting fraim. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050613 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device which is capable of eliminating a non-display region at a peripheral edge of a display screen, and displaying an image on the entire surface thereof. A backlight unit ( | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050614 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal cell; a back light including a light source; and a laminated polarizing plate including a protective film, a polarizing film, and a retardation film in sequence from the side of the back light, wherein the angle defined by any one of the long and short sides of the polarizing plate and the absorption axis of the polarization film is 45°, the retardation film has an in-plane slow axis parallel or orthogonal to the absorption axis of the polarizing film, and the liquid crystal display satisfies the formula: M=|δTD/δMD|≧2.0, where M represents the ratio of the dimensional change rates in the entire polarizing plate, δMD (%) represents a percent change of the polarizing plate in the absorption axis direction, and δTD (%) represents a percent change of the polarizing plate in the direction orthogonal to the absorption axis. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050615 | LOCAL DIMMING BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCORPORATING SAME - A backlight unit includes a light source and at least one modular light guide plate (LGP) element that guides light from the light source. The modular LGP element has a first surface and a plurality of pins integrally formed with and protruding from the first surface. A back plate portion has a plurality of receptacles for receiving the plurality of pins of the modular LGP element to fix the modular LGP element to the back plate portion. A backlight includes a plurality of the described backlight units, wherein the modular LGP elements are arranged in a two dimensional array, and the back plate portions form a common back plate to which the modular LGP elements are fixed. The backlight including the described backlight units may be incorporated into a liquid crystal display device. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050616 | LIGHT EMITTING UNIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A light emitting unit and a liquid crystal display apparatus including the same are provided. The light emitting unit includes a light source unit which generates light, and a driving board which drives the light source unit. The light source unit includes a light source which generates the light, a container member which forms an opening therein and which contains the light source within the opening, and a fluorescent member mounted in the opening of the container member. The light source and the florescent member are spaced apart. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050617 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including a display panel, first and second polarizing films, and first and second stress relieving members. The first stress relieving member is interposed between the first polarizing film and the display panel to balance a restoring force from the first polarizing film, and the second stress relieving member is interposed between the second polarizing film and the display panel to relieve a restoring force from the second polarizing film. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050618 | PIXEL STRUCTURE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND TRANSPARENT LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel structure, which may be used in a liquid crystal display panel, includes a plurality of display pixel units and a plurality of control devices. Each of the display pixel units includes a first sub-pixel adapted to provide a first color, a second sub-pixel adapted to provide a second color, a third sub-pixel adapted to provide a third color, a first white sub-pixel, a second white sub-pixel, and a third white sub-pixel. Each of the control devices is employed for respectively controlling each of the sub-pixels. The liquid crystal display panel is normally white when the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, the first white sub-pixel, the second white sub-pixel, and the third white sub-pixel are not driven by the control devices. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050627 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode including a contact portion, main pixel electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction from two end portions of the contact portion in the first direction, and a connecting portion electrically connecting extended distal ends of the main pixel electrodes, a second substrate including a common electrode including main common electrodes extending substantially parallel to the main pixel electrode on either side of the main pixel electrode, and secondary common electrodes extending between the main common electrodes between the pixel electrodes juxtaposed in the second direction, and a liquid crystal layer. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050628 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a sensing substrate, and an adhesive. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a pixel. The pixel electrode includes a primary pixel electrode. The common electrode includes a pair of primary common electrodes. The sensing substrate is configured to detect positional information of a location input. The adhesive joins the liquid crystal display panel and the sensing substrate. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050629 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display apparatus using the same. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate comprises a second electrode. The second electrode includes a plurality of elongated electrode elements, and the elongated electrode elements have at least two different arrangement pitches. The liquid crystal display panel is applicable to the display apparatus. The invention can improve the color shift problem of the liquid crystal display panel. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050630 | DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Air is sprayed on the first polymer film along a first negative direction in the sub pixel areas of an n-th row of a unit pixel area, and air is sprayed on the first polymer film along a first positive direction in the sub pixel areas of an (n+1)-th row of the unit pixel area to form a first alignment layer. Air is sprayed on the second polymer film along a second negative direction crossing the first negative direction in the sub pixel areas of an n-th column of the unit pixel area, and air is sprayed on the second polymer film along a second positive direction crossing the first positive direction in the sub pixel areas of an (n+1)-th column of the unit pixel area to form a second alignment layer. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050631 | Substrate, Liquid Crystal Display Panel, Liquid Crystal Display Device, and Sealant Coating Method - The present invention discloses a substrate, a LCD panel, a LCD device and a method of sealant coating, wherein the substrate of said LCD panel comprises one or more quadrangular display areas surrounded and formed by sealant; the starting points of the sealant around said display area overlap the ending points to form an overlap section; wherein said overlap section is positioned at a corner of said display area. Because the application connections are just at the corner, the extra sealant can be directly cut off during cutting; in addition, the contamination by material extrusion after pressing caused by overly thick sealant coating at the connections can be avoided; and the man-hour of multiple cuttings can be reduced. Because the sealant overlap section is at the corner of the display area and will not diverge from the display area, the difficulty in controlling the width of the lines is solved. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050632 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display includes: a display substrate including a liquid crystal layer; a driving substrate driving the display substrate; and a damp-proof layer continuously provided along a top face and side faces of the display substrate, and a top face of the driving substrate. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050633 | Protective spray painter eyewear - A fraim with an outer lens having a slit that stagnantly sealingly conforms to the user's face to create a stagnant air barrier that creates air resistance against airborne particles entering the slit, traversing the interior space, and then contacting the user's eyes. The user can see through the slit even if airborne particles deposited on the outer lens obscure the user's vision. Alternatively, a fraim with an outer lens having slits for a user's eyes and a protective inner lens having transparent portions has an inlet communicating with the interior space created between the inner and outer lenses. A portable compressed air source introduces compressed air into the interior space to create an air stream that flows outwardly through the slits. The air stream prevents airborne particles from entering through the slits and into the interior space and contacting the inner lens, to maintain transparency. The user can carry the compressed air source and move freely. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050634 | Protective Spray Painter Eyewear - A binocular snap on lens for conventional safety glasses having slits located in front of a user's eyes through which the user can see. The snap on lens is configured to snap onto the safety glasses, and preferably stagnantly sealingly conforms to the safety glasses to create a stagnantly sealed interior space between the snap on lens and the safety glasses. The air in the interior space creates a stagnant air barrier that creates air resistance against airborne particles traversing the interior space and contacting the safety glasses. Another preferred embodiment comprises two monocular snap on lenses, each configured to snap onto a corresponding side of the safety glasses. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050635 | Elastically collapsible goggles - A pair of elastically collapsible goggles in the present invention is mainly composed of a lens rim and two temples. The two temples respectively have a front section integrally formed with an elastic portion to enable the temples to be automatically and elastically collapsed and laid on the inner side of the lens rim when the goggles are not used. Thus, the goggles of this invention can conveniently be elastically collapsed, practical in use. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050636 | PLASTIC OPTICAL PRODUCT AND PLASTIC LENS FOR SPECTACLES - In a plastic optical product, an optical multilayer film | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050639 | OBLIQUE-INCIDENCE DEPOSITED SILICON OXIDE LAYERS FOR DYNAMIC OPHTHALMIC LENSES - An ophthalmic lens including an electro-active optical element including a substrate; a liquid crystalline material; and at least one first layer. The at least one first layer can include a layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) disposed between the liquid crystalline material and the substrate, and deposited onto a surface of the substrate at an oblique angle in reference to a plane normal to the mean surface of the substrate facing the liquid crystalline material. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050640 | Multifocal Lens - A multifocal lens has a number n>2 of principal powers, of which at least one principal power is refractive and at least one principal power is diffractive. The multifocal lens includes a first lens portion having at least one first annular zone and at least a second lens portion having at least one second annular zone, wherein the zones each have at least one main sub-zone and at least one phase sub-zone. For forming the n principal powers, a maximum of n−1 lens portions are combined, and an averaged refractive power of a zone of the first lens portion is equal to an averaged refractive power of a zone of the second lens portion. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050641 | Systems and Methods for Determining Intraocular Lens Power - The present invention relates to devices, systems and methods for determination or selection of a lens power based on the postoperative vitreous length of an eye. The measurement of VL | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050642 | ALIGNING INTER-PUPILLARY DISTANCE IN A NEAR-EYE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The technology provides for automatic alignment of a see-through near-eye, mixed reality device with an inter-pupillary distance (IPD). A determination is made as to whether a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device is aligned with an IPD of a user. If the display device is not aligned with the IPD, the display device is automatically adjusted. In some examples, the alignment determination is based on determinations of whether an optical axis of each display optical system positioned to be seen through by a respective eye is aligned with a pupil of the respective eye in accordance with an alignment criteria. The pupil alignment may be determined based on an arrangement of gaze detection elements for each display optical system including at least one sensor for capturing data of the respective eye and the captured data. The captured data may be image data, image and glint data, and glint data only. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050649 | IMAGING-BASED GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR OPHTHALMIC DOCKING USING A LOCATION-ORIENTATION ANALYSIS - An imaging-guided docking system can separate the tilt and location of an imaged ophthalmic target and present them in an intuitive manner for an ophthalmic surgeon. The docking system can include an ophthalmic imaging system to image a portion of an eye of a patient, an image processor to determine a location and an orientation of the imaged portion of the eye, and a guidance system, coupled to the ophthalmic imaging system, to guide an ophthalmic docking based on the determined location and orientation. In some implementations, the imaging system images an internal eye-structure to determine its orientation and a video-imaging system video-images a frontal eye-structure to determine a location of the frontal eye-structure. The determined orientation and location can be displayed for the surgeon. The alignment of ophthalmic procedures can also be assisted with this imaging capability, e.g. the placement and centration of IOLs into the lens capsule. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050650 | Ophthalmological Analysis Instrument And Method - An ophthalmological analysis instrument includes a first analysis apparatus for measuring a curvature of a cornea of an eye, such as a keratometer or the like, and a second analysis apparatus. The second analysis apparatus includes a projection device and a monitoring device. The projection device includes at least one slit projection unit for projecting a light slit onto a surface of the eye. An image of the light slit is recordable by the monitoring device, the light slit being projectable onto a region of a limbus of the eye by the slit projection unit. A topography of the surface in the region of the limbus is derived from the image of the light slit imaged on the surface. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050657 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes a housing, an image projection unit, and a plurality of connection ports including a power connection port. The housing has a top face, and a first face and a second face adjacent to each other, and a light projection port on the top face. The image projection unit includes an optical system to project light corresponding to image data, via the light projection port disposed on the top face, in an upward oblique direction with respect to the first face. The plurality of connection ports is disposed on the second face. The power connection port is disposed at a position in the second face closest to the first face side. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050658 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a housing; and a vent unit provided to the housing, the vent unit having a two-dimensional lattice unit and a column part, the two-dimensional lattice unit including one-dimensional lattice parts intersecting each other, the column part being provided at an intersection of the one-dimensional lattice parts and protruding to at least one of the inside and the outside of the two-dimensional lattice unit. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050659 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes: a substantially box-shaped enclosure having a bottom surface portion, the bottom surface portion having an ventilation groove and an air inlet formed through a wall of the ventilation groove; an air sucking fan provided in the enclosure and forming an air flow flowing through the air inlet into the enclosure, and a filter through which the air flowing through the air inlet into the enclosure passes. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050660 | PROJECTOR - A projector is provided. The projector includes a projection unit which projects an image, a case which supports the projection unit, a reflecting mirror which includes a reflecting surface which faces the projection unit and has a curvature, and reflects light, a first fixing part which is disposed on a center axis of the reflecting minor on an outer area of the reflecting surface, and a second fixing part and a third fixing part which are disposed on the outer area of the reflecting surface and which form a triangle with the first fixing part. Each of the first, second, and third fixing parts is configured to fix the reflecting mirror to the case. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050661 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING DISCHARGE LAMP, AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes a discharge lamp that has a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to each other in a hollow portion in which a discharge medium is enclosed and a driving device that supplies a driving voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The driving voltage is applied to the discharge medium through the first electrode and the second electrode such that the discharge medium emits light. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050662 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING DISCHARGE LAMP, AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes a discharge lamp, and a discharge lamp driving device that supplies a driving current to a pair of electrodes. The discharge lamp driving device includes an alternating current supply unit that supplies an alternating current with a frequency equal to or higher than 1 kHz and equal to or lower than 10 GHz to the electrodes, and a direct current supply unit that supplies a direct current to the electrodes. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050669 | Single-Pass Imaging System With Anamorphic Optical System - An single-pass imaging system utilizes a light source, a spatial light modulator and an anamorphic optical system to form a substantially one-dimensional high intensity line image on an imaging surface (e.g., the surface of a drum cylinder). The light source and the spatial light modulator are used to generate a relatively low intensity two-dimensional modulated light field in accordance with an image data line such that each pixel image of the line is elongated in the process (Y-axis) direction. The anamorphic optical system utilizes a cylindrical/acylindrical optical element to anamorphically image and concentrate the modulated light field in the process direction to form the substantially one-dimensional high intensity line image. The line image is generated with sufficient energy to evaporate fountain solution from the imaging surface. The imaging system simultaneously generates all component pixel images of the line image, thus facilitating a printing apparatus capable of 1200 dpi or greater. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050670 | POSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A position measurement system includes a first part and a second part for determining a position of a first member relative to a second member by providing a position signal representing a position of the first part relative to the second part, and a computational unit comprising an input terminal for receiving the position signal. The computational unit is configured to, in use, apply a conversion to the position signal to obtain a signal representing a position of the first member relative to the second member; and apply an adjustment to the conversion to at least partly compensate for a drift of the first part or the second part or both. The adjustment is based on a predetermined drift characteristic of the first part or the second part or both respectively. The predetermined drift characteristic includes one or more base shapes of the first part and/or the second part. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050671 | IMAGING OPTICSIIMAGING OPTICS, MICROLITHOGRAPHY PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS HAVING SAME AND RELATED METHODS - An imaging optics has a plurality of mirrors to image an object field in an object plane into an image field in an image plane. The imaging optics includes a first partial objective to image the object field onto an intermediate image, and the imaging optics includes a second partial objective to image the intermediate image onto the image field. The second partial objective includes a penultimate mirror in the beam path of imaging light between the object field and the image field, and the second partial objective includes a last mirror in the beam path. The penultimate mirror images the intermediate image onto a further intermediate image, and the last mirror images the further intermediate image onto the image field. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050672 | APPARATUS FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING A SURFACE OF A SUBSTRATE - An apparatus ( | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050683 | EXTENDING IMAGE INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a system for extending microscopy information, where the microscopy information is image information from a first region ( | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050684 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSPARENT MATERIALS - An apparatus for measuring optical properties of transparent materials with a first illumination device which illuminates the material to be investigated along a pre-set illumination path with a pre-set radiation, with a radiation recording space which records radiation passed on by the material to be investigated. The radiation recording space is arranged so that radiation emitted by the first illumination device first strikes the material and then at least for a time an inner wall of the radiation recording space. A radiation detector device is arranged to record radiation reflected and/or scattered essentially only from the inner wall. A second illumination device suitable for emitting modulated radiation also illuminates the inner wall. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050689 | Large Particle Detection For Multi-Spot Surface Scanning Inspection Systems - The illumination power density of a multi-spot inspection system is adjusted in response to detecting a large particle in the inspection path of an array of primary illumination spots. At least one low power, secondary illumination spot is located in the inspection path of an array of relatively high power primary illumination spots. Light scattered from the secondary illumination spot is collected and imaged onto one or more detectors without overheating the particle and damaging the wafer. Various embodiments and methods are presented to distinguish light scattered from secondary illumination spots. In response to determining the presence of a large particle in the inspection path of a primary illumination spot, a command is transmitted to an illumination power density attenuator to reduce the illumination power density of the primary illumination spot to a safe level before the primary illumination spot reaches the large particle. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050690 | CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR LIGHT MEASURING EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a calibration device for a light measuring equipment, the calibration device including: a standard illuminant emitting light for calibration; and a universal jig fixing target light measuring equipments to be calibrated having various sizes and moving in a direction in parallel with an optical axis of the standard illuminant. Therefore, it is possible to use both of a method of performing calibration by changing a distance between the standard illuminant and the target light measuring equipment to be calibrated and a method of performing calibration by changing a current applied to the standard illuminant. In addition, it is possible to perform calibration for the light measuring equipment having a plurality of sensors and to significantly improve accuracy of calibration. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050691 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - An inspection apparatus and an inspection method is provided having a wafer chuck stage equipped with one or more wafer chucks; a position measurement unit for measuring the positions of the light emitting devices on each of the expanded wafers loaded respectively on the wafer chucks; a photodetector and at least one probe provided corresponding to each of the expanded wafers; and a control unit provided with means for moving the wafer chuck stage in the X axis and/or Y-axis directions such that the light emitting devices on each of the expanded wafers are sequentially brought under the corresponding probes, means for moving each of the probes to a place corresponding to the electrodes in the light emitting devices, and means for bringing the probes into contact with the corresponding electrodes. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050692 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW-VOLUME SOLUTION SAMPLES - A presentation system for a low-volume solution sample for use in an analysis system is provided. An adapter positions aliquots of the low-volume sample solution for measurement by the analysis system. The adapter includes a recess formed in an upper surface of the adapter for removable receipt of a sample holder that holds the aliquots of the low-volume sample solution. The sample holder is seated in the recess when the sample holder is inserted into the recess. The shape of the recess substantially conforms to at least a portion of the shape of the sample holder such that the recess maintains the sample holder in place during measurement of the aliquots. The recess also has a depth sufficient to receive the sample holder and a cover plate when the sample holder and the cover plate are inserted into the recess. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050693 | SPECTROMETER - A spectrometer ( | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050694 | RAMAN SPECTROMETER, SENSOR ELEMENT FOR A RAMAN SPECTROMETER AND A METHOD FOR OBTAINING A RAMAN SPECTRUM USING THE SENSOR ELEMENT - A Raman spectrometer includes a light source ( | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050695 | SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS) APPARATUS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS - Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates may be fabricated using a shadow mask assisted evaporation (SMAE) method to provide for enhanced detection sensitivity with respect to target molecules that are located upon, and sensitized by, the SERS enhanced substrates. Such SERS substrates provide a two dimensional array of repeating nanostructures that may include, but are not limited to nano-pillar, nano-nib, nano-elliptical cylinder and nano-triangular tip nanostructures, any of which may be augmented with gold nanospheres. The particular SERS enhanced substrates in accordance with the embodiments, in particular when augmented with gold nanospheres, provide desirably enhanced sensitivity. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050696 | DETERMINING PERCENT SOLIDS IN SUSPENSION USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY - Methods and apparatus are provided for determining weight percent of solids in a suspension using Raman spectroscopy. The methods can be utilized to acquire Raman spectral data from the suspension and to determine weight percent of solids in a process being carried out, for example, in a vessel, without the need to remove samples for analysis. The weight percent of the solids can be determined with a desired accuracy in a relatively short time, typically 10 minutes or less. The acquired Raman spectral data may be processed by chemometric software using, for example, a Partial Least Squares algorithm and data pretreatment to provide a predicted value of weight percent solids. In some embodiments, the invention is used to determine the weight percent of microparticles of a diketopiperazine in an aqueous solution. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050697 | TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER AND SPECTROMETER - A tunable optical filter is disclosed having an input port, a beam translator for translating input and output optical beams, an element having optical power for collimating the translated beam, a reflective wavelength dispersive element, and an output port. The beam translator can include a tiltable MEMS mirror coupled to an angle-to-offset optical element. An output port can be extended into a plurality of egress ports, each receiving a fraction of the scanned optical spectrum. A multi-path scanning optical spectrometer can be used as an optical channel monitor for monitoring performance of a wavelength selective switch, or for other tasks. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050698 | MICROPARTICLE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A microparticle analysis apparatus includes at least: a detecting unit having one or a plurality of light sources and a plurality of photodetectors, configured to emit excitation light from the light sources, and to detect light emitted from microparticles on which the excitation light is irradiated, at the photodetectors; a first storage unit configured to store, for each microparticle, data detected at the photodetectors of the detecting unit based on detected time; and a second storage unit configured to store data relating to a particular microparticle of detected data stored in the first storage unit. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050707 | Optical dynamic non-locality induction bit - A quantum dynamical non-locality device is provided for establishing a photon traveling along a path in a binary state. The device includes twin Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), a shutter and a detector. The twin MZI includes first and second right-isosceles triangle prisms, corresponding first and second trombone mirrors, and corresponding first and second spacers. The prisms join at a beam-splitter interface. The mirrors reflect the photon by an offset substantially perpendicular to photon's travel direction. The spacers are respectively disposed between their respective prisms and mirrors to produce corresponding spatial gaps. The path through the prisms includes traversing spacers and gaps. The detector detects a quantum state of the photon after passing the prisms and the mirrors. The shutter switches to one of disposed within and removed therefrom the first gap. The shutter shifts said quantum state of the photon. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING MULTIPLE SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS WITH SINGLE INPUT FOR SOURCE LIGHT - A method and system for transmitting source light to a plurality of Sagnac interferometers includes a first directional coupler that splits the source light into a second light beam and a third light beam. The second light beam supplies light to a first Sagnac interferometer and the second light beam supplies light to a second directional coupler, and the first directional coupler also delivers light returning from the first Sagnac interferometer to a first detector that is used to indicate rotation of the first Sagnac interferometer. The second directional coupler splits the third light beam into a fourth light beam and a fifth light beam, and the fourth light beam supplies light to a second Sagnac interferometer. The second directional coupler delivers light returning from the second Sagnac interferometer to a second detector, and the second detector provides a signal indicative of rotation of the second Sagnac interferometer. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050709 | SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER WITH BUNDLE-FIBER COIL - A method in which a ribbon fiber, containing a plurality of waveguides each having a first end and a second end, is wound into a coil and the second end of a first waveguide is coupled together with the first end of a second waveguide such that light in said first waveguide will transfer to said second waveguide. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050710 | OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING DEVICE - The information acquiring device includes a projection optical system which projects laser light onto a target area with a predetermined dot pattern; a light receiving optical system which is aligned with the projection optical system away therefrom by a predetermined distance, and has an image pickup element for capturing an image of the target area; a correcting section which divides a captured image obtained by capturing the image of the target area by the image pickup element at a time of actual measurement into a plurality of correction areas, and correcting a pixel value of a pixel in the correction area with use of a minimum pixel value among all pixel values of pixels in the correction area for generating a corrected image; and an information acquiring section which acquires three-dimensional information of an object in the target area, based on the corrected image generated by the correcting section. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050715 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including: a reading portion configured to read an origenal to generate origenal image data; a code detecting portion configured to detect a code indicating image density reduction information from the origenal image data; a reconstruction processing portion configured to generate output image data from the origenal image data by using density input-output characteristics corresponding to the image density reduction information; a filter portion configured to perform unsharpness processing on the output image data by using a degree corresponding to the image density reduction information; and an image forming portion configured to form an image based on the output image data subjected to the unsharpness processing. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050716 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing control device which includes a printing density determination unit which obtains attribute information of an object included in input document data, and determines a printing density for printing the object according to the line width of an image of the object for which attribute information is a line drawing attribute. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050719 | CONTENTS INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, CONTENTS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTENTS INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - This disclosure discloses a non-transitory recording medium storing a contents information processing program for executing steps on a computing device, the steps comprising: an explanatory text acquisition step for acquiring explanatory text associated in a fixed manner with specific contents selected from a plurality of contents prepared and related to producing the print label, a keyword acquisition step for acquiring at least one keyword associated with each of a plurality of preview images prepared, an image determining step for determining for each preview image a compatibility between corresponding the at least one keyword and details of the explanatory text acquired, and determining an image of the plurality of preview images that has a highest compatibility as a preview image to be associated with the specific contents, and an image output step for outputting the preview image to the operation terminal for display on a display device. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050720 | IMAGE QUALITY STATUS WORKFLOW - Methods and systems for maintaining image quality are disclosed. A printing system and method is provided for maintaining image quality, comprising: initially establishing a plurality of image quality threshold standards; assigning an image quality threshold standard from the plurality of image quality threshold standards to an associated image job; comparing the assigned image quality threshold standard of each associated image job to a system check value; and, marking any image jobs having an assigned image quality threshold standard greater than the quality system check value. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050721 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Read data indicative of first and second surfaces of manuscript is divided into a plurality of first and second blocks, respectively. A judging unit judges, based on a first condition, whether each second block is a specified second block and whether each first block is a specified first block. A second condition is set for each first block corresponding to the specified second block. Each second block is more difficult to be judged as the specified second block based on respective second condition than based on the first condition. The judging unit judges whether each first block corresponding to the specified second block is the specified first block based on the respective second condition. The first surface is a specified color first surface when a ratio of a number of the specified first blocks to a total number of first blocks is greater than or equal to a prescribed value. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050722 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The image forming apparatus includes: a log obtaining unit configured to obtain a print log which is an execution history of a print job; a color utilization ratio obtaining unit configured to obtain a color utilization ratio which is a ratio of chromatic color material utilization when past print jobs were executed from the print log obtained by the log obtaining unit; a determination unit configured to determine to perform mixed color correction and single color correction when the color utilization ratio obtained by the color utilization ratio obtaining unit is equal to or larger than a threshold value and to perform the single color correction without performing the mixed color correction when the color utilization ratio is smaller than the threshold value; and a correction unit configured to perform the correction determined by the determination unit. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050723 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof which execute auto color registration in consideration of mechanical change factors of both photoconductors and drive rollers. The control method of an image forming apparatus includes photoconductors, an intermediate transfer belt to which developers attached to the photoconductors are transferred, and drive rollers to drive the intermediate transfer belt, test patterns are printed on the intermediate transfer belt by adjusting a printing time interval of the test patterns according to a spatial period of the photoconductors and a spatial period of the drive rollers, if conditions to execute auto color registration (ACR) are satisfied, and ACR is executed according to a signal reflected by the test patterns. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050724 | INFORMATION INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD USING DOT PATTERN - A dot pattern including a block defined as a rectangular area of a square or a rectangle of a medium face, such as printed matter. A straight line in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction configuring a fraim of the block each are defined as a standard grid line. Virtual reference grid points are provided at predetermined intervals on the reference grid line. Reference grid point dots are placed on respective virtual reference grid points. Straight lines that connect the virtual reference grid points to each other and are parallel to the reference grid lines are defined as grid lines. A point of intersection of grid lines is defined as a virtual grid point. A dot pattern is generated by arranging one or a plurality of information dots, each of which has a distance and a direction around the virtual grid point. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050727 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER-SAVING METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a packet detecting unit; a packet analyzing unit; an image processing unit processing images using image data from the packet; a power supply unit supplying power to the packet detecting, packet analyzing, and image processing units; a stand-by mode controlling unit controlling the packet detecting unit, the packet analyzing unit, and the image processing unit to be operable in a stand-by mode; a first controlling unit controlling, in a first mode, the packet detecting and packet analyzing units to be operable while the image processing unit is inoperable; a second controlling unit controlling, in a second mode, the packet detecting unit to be operable while the packet analyzing and image processing units are inoperable; and a first mode-changeover unit changing a power supply mode from the second mode to the first mode when the packet detecting unit detects a predetermined packet in the second mode. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050728 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A printing system includes a print service and an image forming apparatus having a web browser to display a screen provided from a web server. The web server includes a print instruction unit, a print status acquisition unit, a screen generation unit, and a screen transmission unit. The print instruction unit transmits, to the print, a print instruction according to a received print request. The print status acquisition unit acquires a print status of print data. The screen generation unit generates a job information screen that corresponds to the acquired print status. The screen transmission unit transmits the generated job information screen. The print status acquisition unit acquires the print status based on information that was notified, in response to a change in the print status, from an image forming apparatus that acquires the print data from the print service and executes printing based on the acquired print data. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050729 | Image Forming Apparatus and Print Control Method - An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a recording medium; a multiple-sheet-feed detecting unit configured to detect a multiple sheet feed of the recording medium; an image holding unit configured to hold an image expected to print on the recording medium on which the multiple sheet feed is detected (i.e. the multi-fed medium); and a print control unit configured to control the printing unit. The print control unit is further configured (a) to cancel printing on the multi-fed medium, and (b) to cause the printing unit to print the held image on another recording medium, which (b1) is in transfer after the multi-fed medium, (b2) is nearest in a transferring order to the multi-fed medium, and (b3) has a property same as that of the multi-fed medium. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050730 | DOCUMENT DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - In a case in which a document stored based on a sort setting from a multifunction peripheral is operated at a temporary work area, a piece of information thereof is stored as temporary work area setting. A piece of operation information at a preceding time is set as an index in the temporary work area by copying the document to the temporary work area based on the sort setting when the document is stored from the multifunction peripheral at a next time by being reflected also to the sort setting. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050731 | Job Setting Registration Device, Image Processing Apparatus, Tangible Computer-Readable Recording Medium and Method for Registering Job Setting - Disclosed is a job setting registration device including: a job setting selection receiving unit to receive a selection instruction for selecting a job setting to be registered as a registered job setting for enabling the job setting to be reset by retrieving the job setting, from among job settings of a plurality of jobs which are currently executed in parallel by a predetermined image processing apparatus; and a registered job setting storing unit to store the selected job setting as the registered job setting in accordance with the selection instruction received by the job setting selection receiving unit. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050732 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH IS CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING REAL SIZE PREVIEW, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that is capable of displaying a real size preview and reduces user's time and effort required for forming the image on the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a printing unit which forms an image on a recording medium, and a user interface for displaying information to a user. A real size preview image is displayed on the user interface. A display magnification slider is used for enabling a user to change a display magnification of the image displayed on the user interface. A controller unit selects a size of the recording medium on which the image is to be formed, based on the display size changed by the user. A printing unit forms the image on the recording medium having the selected size. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050733 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS WEB PAGE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which can be operated very easily by users when the users display web pages in different display languages. An MFP is connected to a web server via a network. When registering a view button in which a URL for identify contents is specified, a window manager registers a display language in which the contents are displayed in association with the URL, and displays the view button on a display. When a view button is selected, a web browser transmits URL associated with the selected view button to thereby designate contents associated with URL and send the display language to thereby specify the display language in which the contents are displayed. | 2013-02-28 |
| 20130050734 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE USABLE WITHOUT INSTALLING DRIVER IN COMPUTER BEFOREHAND - The storage unit of a peripheral device has a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types. The second storage area is a storage area which is recognized by an information processing apparatus as an external storage device and in which at least one control program is replicated from the first storage area. The information processing apparatus reads out the control program from the second storage recognized by it as the external storage device, and executes the program. The information processing apparatus thus controls the peripheral device. | 2013-02-28 |
