Abstract: A display device includes a number of picture segments (2, 3) which are selectively activated (made visible) or non-activated (made non-visible). The picture segments (2, 3) are arranged to form a number of equal picture segment units (1) positioned side-by-side and each comprising a square with an inscribed geometrical figure (2), which by straight or arcuate parts define four identical corner segments (3) of the square, which picture segments are each comprised of the geometrical figure (2) and the four corner segments (3). The geometrical figure may be, for example, a circle, a square or an octagon.

Abstract: A touch controlled display device has, in one embodiment, two displaying segments disposed on the inside of a front cover window in an LCD unit. Further to causing the segments to display different sign information by providing them with different feeds, they are both utilized as sensing means included in a capacitative sensing circuit which is activable by the finger of an operator.