Abstract: A flexible device, comprising a housing (10) and a flexible element (20), and further comprising a driving element (30) received in the housing (10). The driving element (30) may drive the flexible element (20) to be received in the housing (10) when working. By enabling the housing (10) to receive the driving element (30), the length of the flexible device can he effectively reduced, so that the flexible device is easy to carry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and a method of controlling therefor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a display device includes a memory configured to store at least one or more contents, at least one or more sensors, a network interface module configured to communicate with at least one or more lights, a display module configured to output the at least one or more contents stored in the memory, and a controller coupled with the memory, the sensor, the network interface module and the display module. In this case, the controller controls the display module to output specific content stored in the memory at specific timing and controls the network interface module to transmit a control signal to a specific light at the specific timing.

Abstract: Methods and systems for identification of objects using a laser. Data for an application including transactional data associated with a user is accessed from a computerized database in a system. Systems and methods operate to select objects from an electronic display. In an example, these systems and methods operate to select objects from an electronic display using a handheld laser identification device. In an example, an electronic display is in communication with a database that updates the display of objects displayed on the electronic display.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.

Abstract: Overhead communications with wireless wearable devices are disclosed. An example overhead wireless transmission interface apparatus includes a fixture to be mounted above a wearable device, where the wearable device includes a first antenna, and a base station associated with a second antenna, the second antenna coupled to the fixture and to wirelessly communicate with the first antenna, where at least one of the first antenna or the second antenna is circular polarized or diversity polarized.

Abstract: The invention discloses a hybrid compensation circuit and method for OLED pixel, by using a pixel internal driver circuit (100) of 4T1C structure to compensate threshold voltage of driving TFT using the source follow approach to achieve fast compensation; and in driving light-emitting phase, using an external compensation circuit (200) to detect the current flowing through the OLED (D1), comparing, computing and storing the difference between the current flowing through the OLED (D1) and a pre-defined current; when the corresponding row of pixel internal driver circuits (100) entering the threshold voltage programming design phase again, performing compensation on the data signal (Data), correcting compensation result so that the current flowing through the OLED (D1) is closer to the pre-defined current to achieve large compensation range.

Abstract: A connectible component is connected to a housing. A sensor of the housing is utilized to detect an identity element of the at connectible component. The connectible component is identified utilizing the at least one sensor. In some implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify whether or not a connectible component is connected to the housing. In other implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify the type of connectible component that is connected. In such implementations, the housing may house an electronic device and the electronic device may be configured based on the type of connectible component that is connected.

Abstract: An input mechanism, such as a crown, detects amounts of applied force. In various examples, an assembly including an input mechanism has an enclosure; a stem coupled to the enclosure such that the stem is rotatable, translatable, and transversely moveable with respect to the enclosure; a sensor, coupled between the stem and the housing, to which force is transferred when the stem moves with respect to the housing; and a processing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing unit is operable to determine a measurement of the force, based on a signal from the sensor.

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically mapping light elements in light structures arranged in an assembly includes: defining a sequence of test frames—each specifying activation of a unique subset of light elements in the assembly—executable by the set of light structures; serving the sequence of test frames to the assembly for execution; receiving photographic test images of the assembly, each photographic test image recorded during execution of one test frame by the assembly; for each photographic test image, identifying a location of a particular light element based on a local change in light level represented in the photographic test image, the particular light element activated by the set of light structures according to a test frame during recordation of the photographic test image; and aggregating locations of light elements identified in photographic test images into a virtual map representing positions of light elements within the assembly.

Abstract: An MPI-apparatus comprising a magnet system for generating a time-varying and position-dependent magnetic field and a detection system detecting signals from MPI contrast agents exposed to said magnetic field within a detection volume, said signals being suitable for reconstructing an image of the spatial and temporal distribution of said MPI contrast agents, is characterized in that the magnet system comprises an array with a plurality of permanent magnetic elements geometrically arranged in such a way that at least a part of the plurality of permanent magnetic elements are moved with sufficient speed in the vicinity of the detection volume to create the spatial and temporal magnetic field variations for inducing within the contrast agent the MPI signals recorded by the detection system. This avoids the high power requirements of current MPI scanners, while opening the way for higher spatial resolutions and variable scanning frequencies.

Abstract: A method of correcting a display device, including pixels that are arranged in a matrix and have light-emitting elements that emit light according to a luminance signal, is provided. The method includes obtaining in advance first correction data, which includes correction data components each corresponding to a different one of the pixels and is for correcting the luminance signal. The method also includes transforming the first correction data into second correction data, by (i) reconfiguring the correction data components by propagating an error component of each of the correction data components to surrounding pixels of a corresponding one of the pixels, and (ii) performing bit reduction on the correction data components that have been reconfigured. The method further includes correcting the luminance signal using the second correction data.

Abstract: A large system of networked sensors requires the management and distribution of sensor data via an intelligent server (SmartServer). In this network of sensors, one or more SmartServers use the underlying processes of source detection to optimize network data flow.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides LED array systems with a control system for arrays of LED array luminaires that allows for display of images or light patterns across and array of luminaires over a low bandwidth control protocol.

Abstract: An application development component of a development computing system runs a software application developed with the application development component in a pre-build preview state. A broadcast feature editing component of the development computing system changes a state of a pre-production preview version of a broadcast feature associated with a broadcasting service configured to broadcast graphical content output by a post-build version of the software application. An event synchronization component of the development computing system detects the changed state of the broadcast feature and, based on the changed state, alters the running of the software application in the pre-build preview state.

Abstract: A rollable display device is provided. The rollable display device includes first and second bodies, a display, a roller supported in the first body to be rotatable, to which one end portion of the display in a length direction of the display is fixed and around an outer circumference of which the display is wound, and a support member a plurality of segmented links connected to pivot around a hinge shaft perpendicular to an image display surface, the support member being accommodated in an accommodation unit provided in the first body. As the first body is separated from the second body, the display is unwound from the roller and is unrolled outward from the first body to expand in the length direction, and the support member is unrolled outward from the first body in the length direction to support a rear surface of the display.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a lamp is provided. The lamp may include two mutually opposite end sections, which each form an electrical contact of the lamp. In each case at least one semiconductor light source is arranged in the region of the end sections. The lamp has an operating apparatus for the semiconductor light sources. The operating apparatus has electrical components, which are arranged in the region of a first section of the lamp, and the operating apparatus has at least one further electrical component, which is arranged in the region of the second end section of the lamp.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.

Abstract: A dashboard display of a vehicle includes a display panel having a speed display area that outputs a speed range of the vehicle at a first speed interval and an event display area that outputs an event information, a needle for indicating a current speed of the vehicle by rotating to thereby point to a corresponding position along the displayed speed range, and a controller that is configured to, when one or more preset conditions of the vehicle being satisfied, change a boundary of the speed display area from a first speed display area within the display panel to a second speed display area within the display panel that is different from the first speed display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and the array substrate thereof are disclosed. The array substrate includes a switch controller respectively connects with the first scanning line and the second scanning line. In the 2D displaying mode, the switch controller turns on the first scanning line and the second scanning line in turn. In the 3D displaying mode, the switch controller turns on the first scanning line, and turns off the second scanning line. With such configuration, the flicker issues in the 3D displaying mode may be improved and the manufacturing cost is prevented from getting higher.

Abstract: An OLED device and a method of manufacturing the same, the OLED device including a substrate having a pixel area and a transmission area; a pixel circuit on the pixel area; a first electrode on the pixel area and being electrically connected to the pixel circuit; a first organic layer extending continuously on the pixel area and the transmission area and covering the first electrode; an emitting layer selectively on a portion of the first organic layer on the pixel area; a second organic layer extending continuously on the pixel and transmission areas and covering the emitting layer; and a third organic layer selectively on the transmission area, the third organic layer including a non-emitting material that has a different transmittance from that of the emitting layer; and a second electrode extending continuously on the pixel area and the transmission area and covering the second and third organic layers.

Abstract: A touch display panel is provided. The touch display panel includes a plurality of touch driving electrodes and a plurality of touch sensing electrodes intersecting with and electrically insulated from the plurality of the touch driving electrodes. An individual touch driving electrode of the plurality of touch driving electrodes has an outer contour and an inner contour, the inner contour at least partially defining an area allowing a common electrode to be disposed therein, and an area of the individual touch driving electrode is substantially less than that defined by the outer contour.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate comprising a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel arranged in a matrix; a scan line on the substrate and extending in a row direction; a red data line, a green data line, and a blue data line between adjacent pixel columns to cross the scan line; a driving voltage line alternating with the red data line, the green data line, and the blue data line; and a horizontal driving voltage line extending parallel with the scan line and electrically connected to the driving voltage line.

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically mapping light elements in light structures arranged in an assembly includes: defining a sequence of test frames—each specifying activation of a unique subset of light elements in the assembly—executable by the set of light structures; serving the sequence of test frames to the assembly for execution; receiving photographic test images of the assembly, each photographic test image recorded during execution of one test frame by the assembly; for each photographic test image, identifying a location of a particular light element based on a local change in light level represented in the photographic test image, the particular light element activated by the set of light structures according to a test frame during recordation of the photographic test image; and aggregating locations of light elements identified in photographic test images into a virtual map representing positions of light elements within the assembly.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral area located outside the pixel area; pixels located in the pixel area; power supply lines configured to provide an operating power to the pixels; and a plurality of data fanout wires configured to provide data signals to the pixels, wherein, in at least a portion of the peripheral area, the power supply lines and the plurality of data fanout wires are arranged on a same layer.

Abstract: A blind control system for a vehicle includes a touch screen configured to detect an input operation of a user and a position of the input, output a corresponding signal, and display an operated menu item, an accelerator pedal sensor configured to detect an operation of an accelerator pedal and output a corresponding signal, a storage configured to store a non-driving mode including a plurality of set menu items, and a driving mode including a plurality of set menu items; and a controller configured to selectively execute the non-driving mode or the driving mode stored in the storage according to an input signal of the accelerator pedal sensor, execute a corresponding menu item according to an input operation of the touch screen, and a position of the input when a currently executed mode is the non-driving mode or the driving mode.

Abstract: A mobile computing device dock is described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a support structure and first and second connection portions disposed on opposing sides of the support. Each of the first and second connection portions includes a respective connection device configured to form a communicative coupling to a mobile computing device. The first and second connection portions are configured such that movement of one of the first or second connection portions causes corresponding movement of the other one of the first or second connection portions to engage to or disengage from the mobile computing device.

Abstract: An information processor includes a first housing including a display, a second housing including an input device, a connection terminal combined with the first housing so as to be detachable, and a hinge which couples the connection terminal to the second housing, and transforms a mode into an open state, a closed state, a standing state, or a tablet state. The display and the input device are operable in the open state. The display and the input device are inoperable in the closed state. The display and the input device are operable in the standing state. The display is operable, and the input device is inoperable in the tablet state.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.

Abstract: There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.

Abstract: A touch screen, a method of manufacturing the same, and a mobile terminal having the same for minimizing a border area of the mobile terminal are provided. The touch screen includes a flexible display panel including an active area in which an image is displayed and a wiring area including signal lines for transmitting data corresponding to the image, and a flexible touch panel attached to a front surface of the display panel and including a touch detection area at which touch sensors for detecting a touch are positioned and a wiring area at which signal lines for transmitting a touch signal are positioned, wherein the wiring area of the display panel and the wiring area of the touch panel are bent so as not to be parallel to the active area and the touch detection area.

Abstract: One or more embodiments set forth techniques for identifying and locating wireless light emitting elements within a lighting system. An identification and location module executing on calibration system transmits a message to instruct a first light emitting element included in a plurality of light emitting elements within the lighting system to emit light having a first characteristic. The identification and location module detects, via a photosensitive device, a first location of the first light emitting element within the lighting system based on the first characteristic. The identification and location module stores a data entry in a memory that associates the first location with the first light emitting element. At least one advantage of the approach described herein is that wireless light emitting elements are automatically identified and located during post assembly testing, thereby reducing labor costs associated with manually presorting or recording IDs of the light emitting elements.

Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays that are bent to form displays on multiple surfaces of the devices. Bent flexible displays may be bent to form front side displays and edge displays. Edge displays may be separated from front side displays or from other edge displays using patterned housing members, printed or painted masks, or by selectively activating and inactivating display pixels associated with the flexible display. Edge displays may alternately function as virtual buttons, virtual switches, or informational displays that are supplemental to front side displays. Virtual buttons may include transparent button members, lenses, haptic feedback components, audio feedback components, or other components for providing feedback to a user when virtual buttons are activated.

Abstract: A rollable display device is provided. The rollable display device includes first and second bodies, a display, a roller supported in the first body to be rotatable, to which one end portion of the display in a length direction of the display is fixed and around an outer circumference of which the display is wound, and a support member a plurality of segmented links connected to pivot around a hinge shaft perpendicular to an image display surface, the support member being accommodated in an accommodation unit provided in the first body. As the first body is separated from the second body, the display is unwound from the roller and is unrolled outward from the first body to expand in the length direction, and the support member is unrolled outward from the first body in the length direction to support a rear surface of the display.

Abstract: A rollable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the rollable display includes a flexible display panel, a housing having an internal space defined therein, and a rolling member positioned in the housing and configured to have the flexible display panel rolled therearound. The rollable display also includes a guide member positioned in the housing and having a coil shape. The guide member is configured to separate portions of the flexible display panel from each other.

Abstract: An adaptive, automatically-reconfigurable, vehicle instrument display method and system are described that continuously looks for a specified physical action of a driver operating the vehicle and, upon determining that the specified physical action of the driver has occurred, automatically effects a change to at least one widget in the instrument panel display of the vehicle.

Abstract: A display driver includes a memory, a receiver, an image output unit, a controller, and an image mode selection unit. The memory stores a video signal. The receiver receives the video signal and a first control signal from a host processor, where the first control signal corresponds to the video signal. The image output unit processes the video signal stored in the memory and outputs the processed video signal to a display unit. The controller controls the image output unit based on an image mode to display an image corresponding to the video signal. The image mode selection unit detects the first control signal and a second control signal from the controller, and changes the image mode based on the first control signal and second control signal.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a first pivot structure, a second pivot structure, and a locking structure not in contact with the second pivot structure. The second pivot structure is pivoted to the first body along a first axis through the first pivot structure. The second body is pivoted to the first pivot structure along a second axis through the second pivot structure. When the second body is unfolded to an open position along the first axis, the first pivot structure drives the locking structure to go to an unlocked state, and the second body is adapted to rotate along the second axis. When the second body is folded or unfolded to other positions along the first axis, the first pivot structure drives the locking structure to go to a locked state, and the locking structure stops the second body rotating along the second axis.

Abstract: The present invention is an in-train information display apparatus that displays, to a passenger, advertisement content delivered from an advertisement-content delivering apparatus, and includes a display unit configured to display the advertisement content, a display monitoring unit configured to photograph a video screen displayed on the display unit, and a display-result determining unit configured to calculate color-related information, which is information concerning a color of the video screen, based on an image photographed by the display monitoring unit, determine, based on the calculated color-related information and reference information for display result determination, which is information concerning a color of the advertisement content normally displayed on the display unit, whether the display of the advertisement content is normally performed, and transmit, as information for display achievement calculation, a result of the determination to the advertisement-content delivering apparatus having

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate including a bending area and a non-bending area and a plurality of thin-film transistors (TFTs) formed in the non-bending area. The display also includes a plurality of first pixel electrodes and a plurality of second pixel electrodes formed over the TFTs and electrically connected to the TFTs, the first pixel electrodes formed in the bending area and the second pixel electrodes formed in the non-bending area.

Abstract: Embodiments herein include systems, methods and articles of manufacture for calibrating a camera. In one embodiment, a computing system may be coupled to a calibration apparatus and the camera to programmatically identify the intrinsic properties of the camera. The calibration apparatus includes a plurality of light sources which are controlled by the computer system. By selectively activating one or more of the light sources, the computer system identifies correspondences that relate the 3D position of the light sources to the 2D image captured by the camera. The computer system then calculates the intrinsics of the camera using the 3D to 2D correspondences. After the intrinsics are measured, cameras may be further calibrated to in order to identify 3D locations of objects within their field of view in a presentation area. Using passive markers in a presentation area, computing system may use an iterative process that estimates the actual pose of the camera.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for capturing and displaying stereoscopic images are described in a manner that allows a user to obtain a 3d virtual reality experience simulating that of being in a seat at a football game or other event. Rear images are modified, e.g., in luminance intensity, to make them consistent with the luminance intensity of the forward images to avoid or reduce edges or differences in luminance intensity as a users turns his head from viewing a main image area to a side or rear image area. A seamless 3D presentation is made possible through the use of fisheye lenses at capture time and combining of images corresponding to forward and rear image areas as a user turns his or her head requiring a change in the captured image area which is displayed to the user.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which has a minimized bezel by a reduction in the size of a guide panel. The liquid crystal display device can include a liquid crystal display panel; a light source; a light guide plate for guiding light from the light source to the liquid crystal display panel; a reflective plate below the light guide plate to reflect the light from the light guide plate; a guide panel having an upper surface on which the liquid crystal display panel is disposed; a double-sided tape for fixing the reflective plate to the guide panel; a bottom cover for receiving the light guide plate and the guide panel; and a top cover for coupling the bottom cover and the guide panel, wherein a part of the double-sided tape is extended to the light guide plate to be in contact with the light guide plate.

Abstract: An adaptive, automatically-reconfigurable, vehicle instrument display method and system are described that continuously looks for a specified physical action of a driver operating the vehicle and, upon determining that the specified physical action of the driver has occurred, automatically effects a change to at least one widget in the instrument panel display of the vehicle.

Abstract: A projection system includes at least one projector and a holographic projection film. The projector projects a first image to a projection surface. The holographic projection film mirrors the first image on the projection surface to form a second image on an imaging surface. The projection surface and a standard surface define a first angle therebetween. The first angle is Y degrees. The holographic projection film and the standard surface define a second angle therebetween. The second angle is 45+X degrees. Y and X substantially satisfy: Y=2X.

Abstract: A system and method for driving a multi-layer transparent display, the multi-transparent display including a first transparent display layer and a second transparent display layer is provided. The system includes an input module to receive a stimulus to present content via the multi-transparent display; a display module to determine whether the content is presented via the first transparent display layer or the second transparent display layer; and a layer driver to determine, in response to a condition, whether the content is displayed via the first transparent display layer or the second transparent display layer.

Abstract: A display unit that drives pixels field sequentially includes pixel circuits disposed in a matrix form of rows and columns and a drive control section that causes the pixel circuits to display image frames of input image data such that a single frame of the image frames is displayed in two parts as a first sub-frame and as a second sub-frame. The first and second sub-frames are displayed field sequentially by different portions of the pixel circuits. The first sub-frame is displayed by a first portion of the pixel circuits that are located in a checked pattern, while the second sub-frame is displayed by the remaining pixel circuits.

Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays that are bent to form displays on multiple surfaces of the devices. Bent flexible displays may be bent to form front side displays and edge displays. Edge displays may be separated from front side displays or from other edge displays using patterned housing members, printed or painted masks, or by selectively activating and inactivating display pixels associated with the flexible display. Edge displays may alternately function as virtual buttons, virtual switches, or informational displays that are supplemental to front side displays. Virtual buttons may include transparent button members, lenses, haptic feedback components, audio feedback components, or other components for providing feedback to a user when virtual buttons are activated.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and system for performing normalization of an image using a cumulative histogram and a common color map for the R, G and B channels. On receiving an instruction from a user to normalize an image, the histogram for individual channels of the image is computed. The cumulative histogram from the histogram for individual channels is computed. The linear histogram cut off percentage is tripled. The min and max positions using the histogram stretch after the percentage cutoff is adjusted. The colormap is computed using the cumulative histogram and the linear histogram cut off percentage. The colormap is applied to the image data.

Abstract: A touch screen, a method of manufacturing the same, and a mobile terminal having the same for minimizing a border area of the mobile terminal are provided. The touch screen includes a flexible display panel including an active area in which an image is displayed and a wiring area including signal lines for transmitting data corresponding to the image, and a flexible touch panel attached to a front surface of the display panel and including a touch detection area at which touch sensors for detecting a touch are positioned and a wiring area at which signal lines for transmitting a touch signal are positioned, wherein the wiring area of the display panel and the wiring area of the touch panel are bent so as not to be parallel to the active area and the touch detection area.

Abstract: A method for integrating a mobile communication device and a portable electronic device is disclosed. A protection cover and an electronic-device body of the portable electronic device are pivotally connected for containing the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device is removably and rotatably connected to the electronic-device body.