Abstract: A backlight unit, a method for driving the same, and a liquid crystal display device using the same are disclosed, in which a feedback voltage received in a controller to adjust a driving voltage to be supplied to a light-emitting diode string is smaller than a difference between the driving voltage and a string voltage, the backlight unit comprising a driving-voltage supplier; an LED string for receiving a driving voltage from the driving-voltage supplier, and generating a voltage drop corresponding to a string voltage; a feedback voltage generator for generating a first feedback voltage whose value is smaller than a difference between the driving voltage and the string voltage; and a controller for supplying a control signal to control the driving-voltage supplier based on the first feedback voltage.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for a touch sensitive display device providing editable handwriting capture are described. A display device with a detachable front panel is capable of interactive touch sensing and editable handwriting capture. An ultraviolet or near ultraviolet light source and camera can be configured to capture images of textual input made on the detachable front panel of the device with a pen having water soluble fluorescent ink that is transparent or nontransparent such that the notes are visible under ultraviolet or near ultraviolet light and transparent when little or no ultraviolet or near ultraviolet light is present. The detachable front panel may be removed from the display device for cleaning and ease of use.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display capable of improving data charging time, includes pixels at crossing regions between scan and data lines and configured to control an amount of current supplied from a first to a second power source, a charge unit adjacent to an adjacent pixel of the pixels and coupled to the same data line as the adjacent pixel, a scan driver for supplying scan signals to the scan lines, a data driver for supplying data signals to the data lines in synchronization with the scan signals, and a comparison unit in a channel of the data driver to compare a data signal supplied to a current line with a data signal supplied to a previous line and to control coupling between the charge unit and the data line according to a comparison result in a partial period of a period in which the scan signals are supplied.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a liquid crystal display device including a photosensor for sensing brightness of external light such that the photosensor can stably sense the external light without influence of temperature or external noise, and a method for automatically controlling the brightness, the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a display area and a non-display area defined therein and including first and second substrates facing each other and a liquid crystal layer filled between the first and second substrates, the first substrate having an outer portion protruding from the second substrate, a gate driver and a data driver formed in the non-display area of the first substrate, a photosensor formed in the outer portion of the first substrate, a dummy sensor formed in the non-display area of the first substrate covered by the second substrate, a backlight unit formed below the liquid crystal panel, and a control unit including a timing controller for controlling the gate driv

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which includes a plurality of OCB liquid crystal pixels arrayed substantially in a matrix, and a driver circuit which cyclically writes a non-video signal and a video signal as a pixel voltage in each of the liquid crystal pixels. The liquid crystal display device further includes a control circuit which sets a first period and a second period different in length from the first period such that a total time length of the first period and the second period does not exceed one frame period, and controls the driver circuit to execute write of the non-video signal for the liquid crystal pixels in the first period and to execute write of the video signal for the liquid crystal pixels PX in the second period.

Abstract: A detection circuit is provided with a differential capacitive sensor and with an interface circuit having a first sense input and a second sense input, electrically connected to the differential capacitive sensor. Provided in the interface circuit are: a sense amplifier connected at input to the first sense input and to the second sense input and supplying an output signal related to a capacitive unbalancing of the differential capacitive sensor; and a common-mode control circuit, connected to the first sense input and to the second sense input and configured to control a common-mode electrical quantity present on the first sense input and on the second sense input. The common-mode control circuit is of a totally passive type and is provided with a capacitive circuit, which is substantially identical to an equivalent electrical circuit of the differential capacitive sensor and is driven with a driving signal in phase opposition with respect to a read signal supplied to the differential capacitive sensor.

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described for operating an electronic system which includes a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a first layer and configured to detect input objects at an input surface of the input device, the first plurality of sensor electrodes including a first subset of transmitter electrodes; a second plurality of sensor electrodes configured to detect a force imparted to the input surface and configured for capacitive coupling with the first subset of transmitter electrodes; and a compressible dielectric configured to compress in response to force applied to the input surface. The capacitive coupling between the transmitter electrodes and the second plurality of sensor electrodes is configured to vary in response to the applied force.

Abstract: A drive method of a display device includes the steps of: performing threshold voltage cancel processing at least once, which changes a potential of a second node of a display device toward a potential obtained by subtracting a threshold voltage of a drive transistor from a potential of a first node by applying a given drive voltage to one source/drain region of the drive transistor from a feeding line while maintaining the potential of the first node; and then, performing writing processing which applies a video signal to the first node from a data line through a write transistor, wherein the sum of lengths of periods in which the threshold voltage cancel processing is performed is so set as to be shorter as a frame frequency becomes higher.

Abstract: A mobile communication device configured to operate in at least a first mode and a second mode is provided. The mobile communication device includes a housing, a light emitting unit configured to emit at least a first color when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to emit a second color when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode, and a filtering unit having at least a first pattern associated with the first mode and a second pattern associated with the second mode. The filtering unit is configured to display the first pattern with the first color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to display the second pattern with the second color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode.

Abstract: A touch panel system (11) prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system (11) includes a touch invalidating section (9) which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel (1) is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic apparatus including the touch panel (1).

Abstract: For an image display apparatus, cost reduction is enabled to prevent display errors while ensuring operational margin to prevent display errors even when the delay time of gate line driving signals is large. A source driver of a liquid-crystal display apparatus includes a data latch circuit for supplying display data to a decode circuit. A gate line inactivation transition detecting circuit detects inactivation of each of a plurality of gate lines and activates a detect signal for a certain period with that timing. The data latch circuit updates the held display data in response to activation of the detect signal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a signal generating circuit configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal; and a differential amplifier. The differential amplifier includes: a first differential pair of transistors configured to receive a differential input signal; a first constant current source connected with said first differential pair of transistors; and a first switch connected in parallel with said first constant current source and configured to increase current which flows through said first differential pair of transistors, in response to said first control signal which is active for a first time period in a level transition of said differential input signal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a local dimming driving method and device of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device, which is capable of preventing color change due to gray scale saturation when data is compensated while enabling local dimming. The local dimming driving method of the LCD device includes detecting maximum values per pixel from input image data, analyzing the maximum values per pixel on a block-by-block basis, and determining local dimming values per block according to the analysis result, calculating a first gain value using the local dimming values per block, calculating a maximum gain value per pixel using the maximum value per pixel as a second gain value, selecting a smaller value of the first and second gain values as a final gain value, compensating the input image data using the final gain value, and controlling luminance of a backlight unit on the block-by-block basis using the local dimming value per block.

Abstract: A gate driving circuit for driving a display apparatus is disclosed. The gate driving circuit properly generates gate voltages despite inconsistent transistor characteristics due to processing and environment by maintaining certain nodes in reliably high impedance states.

Abstract: A system and method for driving a display region on the display are described. The method includes receiving a desired color for a pixel, determining a waveform to drive the pixel to desired color, updating frame buffer with an index to the determined waveform, updating waveform table with the determined waveform, and then driving the pixel on the display using the index and associated waveform. After the drive, the waveform is removed from the waveform table and the corresponding pixel in frame buffer is updated with an index corresponding to a null waveform.

Abstract: A method for determining the position of an actuation element, e.g. a finger of a user, in a motor vehicle when the element approaches a surface and to a position determination device, has the following steps: generating an HF signal; coupling the HF signal into the user; transmitting the HF signal via the body of the user; receiving the HF signal that has been transmitted via the body and the actuation element, using several sensors and determining the position of the actuation element using sensor signals of the sensors, the sensor signals forming a measurement for the received signal intensity of the HF signal and are used to first calculate the position of the centre of gravity of the approaching object, in particular the approaching body part comprising the actuation element, and the position of the actuation element is calculated, taking into consideration the position of the centre of gravity.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a touch drive electrode, a touch detection electrode provided opposed to or side by side with the touch drive electrode and forming an electrostatic capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the touch drive electrode, and a touch detection circuit detecting a contact or proximity position of an object on the basis of a detection signal obtained from the touch detection electrode by applying a touch sensor drive signal to the touch drive electrode. The touch drive electrode is split into plural stripe-like electrode patterns. Applying the touch sensor drive signal to part of the electrode patterns forms a drive line at that time. The touch detection circuit performs a detection on the basis of a first detection signal obtained from a first drive line formed in a first period, and a second detection signal obtained from a second drive line formed in a second period.

Abstract: Embodiments of reflecting light off surfaces are disclosed.

Abstract: A capacitive touch panel is provided capable of detecting multiple simultaneous touches. The touch panel delivers sets of capacitance signal values to a processor which computes the coordinates of single or multiple touch locations on the touch panel. The processing of each set is performed by (i) identifying the sensing element having the largest capacitance signal value; (ii) defining a region around that sensing element; and (iii) repeating the process iteratively, wherein each subsequent identifying step excludes signals that lie in previously defined regions. A multi-touch sensor is thus provided in which the signal processing is based on successive definition of regions or sub-blocks in the touch: panel. The touch location in each region can be determined more accurately by then applying interpolation between the adjacent signal values. This allows for position resolution at a finer scale than that defined by the touch panel's electrode patterning.

Abstract: A color-temperature-compensation (CTC) method and applications thereof are provided, and which includes determining intensities of weights of three colors in an inputted three-dimension color signal; if yes, performing a lookup table mechanism to find-out a first set of multi-primary-color (MPC) signal corresponding to the three colors with the same weights, and performing a digital-gamma-correction (DGC) to the first set of MPC signal for providing a first set of CTC signal accordingly; if no, performing the lookup table mechanism to find-out a second set of MPC signal corresponding to the three colors with different weights, and performing the DGC to the second set of MPC signal for providing a second set of CTC signal accordingly; and making at least one same color with the same intensity in the three colors with the same weights and in the three colors with different weights displaying on an MPC display have different brightness.