Abstract: A method of controlling operation of an appliance, comprising: presenting at a user interface, an option to change an operating program of the appliance; operating the appliance according a selected change of the operating program; displaying, on the user interface, an indicator representing the change in the operating program; and displaying, on the user interface, separately from the displayed indicator representing the change in the operating program, a degree of ecological impact caused by the selected change of the operating program, wherein the degree of ecological impact indicates a level of resource consumption used by the appliance to operate according to the selected operating program. Also provided are appliances, such as dishwasher or refrigerators, configured to perform the method.

Abstract: Provided herein are a method of controlling operation of a washing appliance and a washing appliance being controlled by the method. The method may include displaying, on a user interface of the washing appliance, an estimated duration of a selected washing program for the washing appliance; displaying, on the user interface, a degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program; allowing a user to operate the user interface to change the duration of the selected washing program, wherein the washing appliance adapts the selected cleaning program to comply with the changed duration; and displaying on the user interface the degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program when complying with the changed duration.

Abstract: Provided herein are a method of controlling operation of a washing appliance and a washing appliance being controlled by the method. The method may include displaying, on a user interface of the washing appliance, an estimated duration of a selected washing program for the washing appliance; displaying, on the user interface, a degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program; allowing a user to operate the user interface to change the duration of the selected washing program, wherein the washing appliance adapts the selected cleaning program to comply with the changed duration; and displaying on the user interface the degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program when complying with the changed duration.

Abstract: A moving image reproduction device includes a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to display a moving image in the display unit by displaying frames included in moving image data in the display unit while changing the frames from one to the next sequentially, set item areas while changing from one to the next as the frames are changed from one to the next sequentially, the item areas being set in advance to the frames, and when one of the item areas that is set in a corresponding one of the frames that is being displayed in the display unit is selected using the input unit, display item information associated with the item area in the display unit.

Abstract: A projection-type display system has: a light-emitting wheel that, by rotating, sequentially supplies light excited by light emitted from a light source and transmitted or reflected light of light that is emitted by the light source; a color separation wheel that, by rotating, sequentially color-separates and supplies light output of the light-emitting wheel; an image-forming element that, in accordance with a picture signal, performs light modulation of the light supplied by the color separation wheel; a light detection unit that detects the light that has undergone light modulation; and control units that adjust the light modulation and rotation timing of the light-emitting wheel after adjusting the light modulation and rotation timing of the color separation wheel.

Abstract: A moving image reproduction device includes a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The control unit displays a moving image in the display unit by displaying frames included in moving image data while changing the frames from one to the next sequentially, sets item areas while changing from one to the next as the frames are changed from one to the next sequentially, when one of the item areas that is set in a corresponding one of the frames that is being displayed is selected using the input unit, displays item information associated with the item area, and when an area other than the item areas is selected using the input unit, extracts time code information for the frame at selecting timing and a coordinate of selected area from the moving image data, and transmits extracted data including the time code information and the coordinate.

Abstract: A projection-type display system has: a light-emitting wheel that, by rotating, sequentially supplies light excited by light emitted from a light source and transmitted or reflected light of light that is emitted by the light source; a color separation wheel that, by rotating, sequentially color-separates and supplies light output of the light-emitting wheel; an image-forming element that, in accordance with a picture signal, performs light modulation of the light supplied by the color separation wheel; a light detection unit that detects the light that has undergone light modulation; and control units that adjust the light modulation and rotation timing of the light-emitting wheel after adjusting the light modulation and rotation timing of the color separation wheel.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a display element that displays an image; a lamp that illuminates the display element to cause the display element to emit an image light; a variable light intensity element that allows the light emitted from the lamp to pass therethrough, the intensity of light passing through the variable light intensity element being variable; and a light intensity controller that determines whether the display element is at an image mute state in which a full-black image is displayed, or at a normal lighting state other than the image mute state, and when the display element is at the image mute state, reduces the amount of power supplied to the lamp to a level that is lower than that of the normal lighting state to decrease the intensity of light emitted from the lamp, and also decreases the intensity of light that passes through the variable light intensity element.

Abstract: In an electronic device including a discharge lamp, and a lamp power supply section that supplies power to the discharge lamp, a control section makes the lamp power supply section execute a lamp refresh process of supplying power necessary for generation of a halogen cycle to the discharge lamp at predetermined time intervals during low power operation in which the discharge lamp is lighted with power less than the rated power. Further, the control section records, in a recording section (non-volatile memory), a control instruction which is issued to the lamp power supply section during low power operation.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus comprises a lamp; a display element that modulates light emitted from the lamp according to an amplitude of the image signal, and emits the light as the image light; a light intensity controller that changes a lamp power according to a power changing operation, and, if the changed lamp power is lower than a rated power of the lamp and supplied to the lamp for a certain period of time, increases the lamp power and then reduces the lamp power to an original power, identifies an amplitude of the image signal where an intensity of the image light is constant before and after the change of the lamp power; and an image signal controller that controls the amplitude of the image signal to the identified amplitude, and supplies the display element with the image signal.

Abstract: In order to minimize a change in the luminance of a projected image caused by a lamp refreshing process, projector 10 according to the present invention includes lamp refreshing controller 13 which, upon detecting that the lighting power of lamp 15 is lower than rated power thereof for a given period of time, increases the lighting power of lamp 15 to the rated power and, after elapse of a predetermined period of time, reduces the lighting power to an original level thereof, and aperture data generator 16 which controls the aperture of optical diaphragm 18 depending on a change in the lighting power to keep constant the amount of light passing through optical diaphragm 18.

Abstract: A method of improving an image quality of a video signal, which is supplied on a frame-by-frame basis, includes extracting low frequency components from a video signal of an n-th frame, where n is a natural number excluding zero, subtracting the extracted low frequency components from a video signal of an (n+m)th frame to produce high frequency components, where no is a natural number excluding zero, and adding the produced high frequency components to the video signal of the (n+m)th frame. The extracted low frequency components include a horizontal component and a vertical component.

Abstract: To provide a video display apparatus and an afterimage correcting method for solving the problem of image quality degradation. Removing unit 2 removes DC components from the video signal received by input terminal 1. Integrating unit 3 integrates the video signal with DC components removed by removing unit 2 to generate an integration signal. Subtracting unit 4 subtracts the integration signal generated by integrating unit 3, from the video signal received by input terminal 1.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the power consumption of a lamp that maintains lighting state after a power OFF operation is performed. The display device includes a lamp driver that supplies drive power to a lamp employing a halogen cycle; and a controller that controls the lamp driver to supply power that is lower than rated power of the lamp and that is lower than power satisfying the halogen cycle to the lamp for a predetermined lamp and then cause the lamp to extinguish, when the controller receives a light off signal that causes the lamp to extinguish.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus comprises a lamp; a display element that modulates light emitted from the lamp according to an amplitude of the image signal, and emits the light as the image light; a light intensity controller that changes a lamp power according to a power changing operation, and, if the changed lamp power is lower than a rated power of the lamp and supplied to the lamp for a certain period of time, increases the lamp power and then reduces the lamp power to an original power, identifies an amplitude of the image signal where an intensity of the image light is constant before and after the change of the lamp power; and an image signal controller that controls the amplitude of the image signal to the identified amplitude, and supplies the display element with the image signal.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a display element that displays an image; a lamp that illuminates the display element to cause the display element to emit an image light; a variable light intensity element that allows the light emitted from the lamp to pass therethrough, the intensity of light passing through the variable light intensity element being variable; and a light intensity controller that determines whether the display element is at an image mute state in which a full-black image is displayed, or at a normal lighting state other than the image mute state, and when the display element is at the image mute state, reduces the amount of power supplied to the lamp to a level that is lower than that of the normal lighting state to decrease the intensity of light emitted from the lamp, and also decreases the intensity of light that passes through the variable light intensity element.

Abstract: In order to minimize a change in the luminance of a projected image caused by a lamp refreshing process, projector 10 according to the present invention includes lamp refreshing controller 13 which, upon detecting that the lighting power of lamp 15 is lower than rated power thereof for a given period of time, increases the lighting power of lamp 15 to the rated power and, after elapse of a predetermined period of time, reduces the lighting power to an original level thereof, and aperture data generator 16 which controls the aperture of optical diaphragm 18 depending on a change in the lighting power to keep constant the amount of light passing through optical diaphragm 18.

Abstract: A method of improving an image quality of a video signal, which is supplied on a frame-by-frame basis, includes extracting low frequency components from a video signal of an n-th frame, where n is a natural number excluding zero, subtracting the extracted low frequency components from a video signal of an (n+m)th frame to produce high frequency components, where no is a natural number excluding zero, and adding the produced high frequency components to the video signal of the (n+m)th frame. The extracted low frequency components include a horizontal component and a vertical component.

Abstract: To provide a video display apparatus and an afterimage correcting method for solving the problem of image quality degradation. Removing unit 2 removes DC components from the video signal received by input terminal 1. Integrating unit 3 integrates the video signal with DC components removed by removing unit 2 to generate an integration signal. Subtracting unit 4 subtracts the integration signal generated by integrating unit 3, from the video signal received by input terminal 1.

Abstract: A characteristic automatic compensating apparatus of an oscillator includes oscillating means, temperature detecting means, characteristic determining means for measuring a drift value of an oscillating frequency while changing the temperature and for determining a coefficient of an approximated equation representing temperature and the drift value, storing means for storing the coefficient, drift value predicting means, and characteristic updating means for updating the coefficient by the measured drift value of the oscillating frequency and the temperature, wherein the characteristic determining means represents the approximated equation representing the characteristic of the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means and the drift value of the oscillating frequency of the oscillating means by a polynomial.