Abstract: An integrated haptic feedback simulating device using a kinesthesia providing module including a magnetorheological fluid and a thin-film-type tactile sensation providing module. The integrated haptic feedback simulating device includes a motion controlling section providing kinesthetic feedback and tactile feedback to a hand of a user, a system controlling section detecting motions of the hand and providing an integrated haptic feedback control signal to the motion controlling section, and a display section visually rendering a graphic object according to the detected motions of the hand. The integrated haptic feedback simulating device can provide synesthetic haptic feedback to the user in cooperation with a graphic interface displayed on the display section, thereby increasing the virtuality of the graphic object simulated on the display section.

Abstract: An input device having a touch sensor installed on a push switch includes a first detection unit for detecting a first predetermined operation on the push switch, a second detection unit for detecting a second predetermined operation on the touch sensor, and a control unit for invalidating the second predetermined operation when the second predetermined operation is detected by the second detection unit within a predetermined time after detection of the first predetermined operation by the first detection unit. For example, the device is disposed on a spoke unit that is operable by a driver's thumb while the driver grips a steering wheel.

Abstract: A control circuit conducts a drive control of a RGBW display panel to operate white pixels to light up together with red, green and blue pixels, where the drive control includes a luminance control of a backlight to reduce luminance of the backlight according to an amount of an increase in luminance of the display panel due to a lighting operation of the white pixels. The control circuit includes: a first circuit section configured to generate control signals for controlling the display panel; and a second circuit section configured to generate control signals for controlling the backlight. The first circuit section includes a redistributing circuit section configured to distribute a luminance component of each white pixel to corresponding the red, green and blue pixels and reduce luminance of the each white pixel when the display panel has a white chromaticity dependence on gradation values.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there are provided an AMOLED driving circuit, an AMOLED driving method and an AMOLED display device. The AMOLED driving circuit includes a light emitting device, a first switching transistor, a voltage regulator, a driving transistor and a capacitor. The driving transistor in the AMOLED driving circuit drives the light emitting device to emit light under the control of the voltage regulator, a driving current provided by the driving transistor is independent of Vth of the driving transistor, so that the driving current flowing through the light emitting device is prevented from being affected by the poor uniformity and drift of Vth, the uniformity in the driving currents flowing through the light emitting devices is enhanced, and thus the uniformity in the brightness of the AMOLED is improved.

Abstract: A mutual capacitance touch panel device includes a substrate, and an array of electrode elements formed on the substrate. Each electrode element includes a drive electrode, a sense electrode and a reference electrode, the reference electrode arranged between the drive electrode and the sense electrode. A first mutual coupling capacitance is formed between the drive electrode and the reference electrode of each electrode element, wherein the drive electrode and reference electrode are configured such that the first mutual coupling capacitance is substantially insensitive to an object touching the surface of the touch panel.

Abstract: A method of controlling polarity of a data voltage and a liquid crystal display using the same, the method including calculating a direct current DC value of the data from each group which data to be output through I-channels adjacent to each other in a source drive IC belong; accumulating the DC value; comparing an absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group obtained by adding the accumulation DC value of the n?1-th group accumulated up to the n?1-th group to the DC value of the n-th group (n is positive integer) with a predetermined threshold value; and changing a group polarity data when the absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group exceeds the threshold value.

Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen includes a panel divided into a display area and a non-display area and including m (m is a natural number) driving electrodes, m signal lines and dummy electrodes; a display driver IC applying a common voltage or a touch scan signal to the m driving electrodes through the m signal lines; and a touch IC generating the touch scan signal and providing the touch scan signal to the display driver IC, wherein the m driving electrodes are disposed in the display area and the dummy electrodes are disposed in the non-display area, and wherein the dummy electrodes are adjacent to the driving electrodes in a peripheral region of the display area.

Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor having a gate electrode coupled to a first node, a first electrode coupled to a first power supply, and a second electrode coupled to the OLED, a first capacitor for storing a data signal, and a second capacitor coupled between the first node and the second electrode of the first transistor to charge a voltage corresponding to the data signal and a threshold voltage of the first transistor, wherein, in a period where a voltage stored in the first capacitor is supplied to the first node, the second capacitor is electrically blocked from the first node.

Abstract: A gesture input system with a two-dimension (2D) image sensor and a processing module is provided. The 2D image sensor obtains a plurality of images of a user. The processing module determines positions of an object and a face of the user in a first image of the plurality of images, and determines an operation area for the user according to the positions of the object and the face. Also, the processing module generates a control command according to the subsequent images to the first image of the user within the operation area.

Abstract: A shift register is disclosed which includes, at respective stages, unit circuits (11) each including (i) a flip-flop (11a) including first and second CMOS circuits and (ii) a signal generation circuit (11b) for generating an output signal (SROUTk) for the current stage with use of an output (Q, QB) of the flip-flop (11a), the shift register including a floating control circuit (11c) between a gate terminal of an output transistor (Tr7) of the signal generation circuit (11b) and a Q terminal. This makes it possible to reduce a circuit scale of a display driving circuit without causing a shift register to malfunction.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to receive information on an event that occurred in an external terminal; a display unit configured to display a notification image notifying the occurrence of the event; and a controller configured to receive a touch input applied to the notification image, and display a control screen on the display unit for controlling the event that occurred on the external terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display device and a method for driving the same. The device includes a display panel having a plurality of sub-pixels wherein the sub-pixels formed on each horizontal line are connected to a gate line on the same horizontal line and are further connected to a gate line on a next horizontal line to further receive a gate on signal from the gate line on the next horizontal line so as to display an image, a power supply supplying first and second power signals to power lines of the display panel and supplying a compensation voltage to a compensation power line, and a timing controller for arranging external input video data suitably for driving of the display panel and controlling gate and data drivers such that the image is displayed based on a data voltage compensated for by the compensation voltage.

Abstract: A capacitive position sensor system is provided for determining the position of an object, wherein the object is positioned within a sensitive area of the capacitive position sensor system and changes the capacitance of capacitors being arranged underneath the object.

Abstract: Dual chips exchange a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation such that application processing based on the load is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting the load on the sensor for providing the tactile sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a touch face of the sensor, a tactile sensation provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling performing an operation corresponding to the load. The main control unit transmits, to the provision control unit, a load detection instruction in activation of the application and a load stop instruction in closing the application. The provision control unit starts detecting the load upon receiving the detection instruction and stops detecting the load upon receiving the stop instruction.

Abstract: A haptic feedback device includes: a plurality of actuators for vibrating a panel; a touch information obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of touch positions on the panel; a haptic feedback determining unit for determining a first touch position at which to provide haptic feedback from among the plurality of touch positions; and a driving signal obtaining unit for obtaining first driving signals for driving the actuators to vibrate the panel at the first touch position according to a first haptic signal and vibrate the panel at a second touch position more weakly than at the first touch position, the first driving signals being generated using transfer functions from the actuators to the first touch position or a vicinity thereof and transfer functions from the actuators to the second touch position or a vicinity thereof.

Abstract: A pixel luminance compensating unit is disclosed. In one aspect, the disclosed pixel luminance compensating unit includes an uncompensated gray-level region processing unit configured to generate first output-data by processing first input-data corresponding to a first portion of an input luminance curve corresponding to an uncompensated gray-level region. The disclosed unit further includes a compensated gray-level region processing unit configured to generate second output-data by processing second input-data corresponding to a second portion of the input luminance curve corresponding to a compensated gray-level region.

Abstract: A display device includes a data driver having i data output terminals (i being a natural number greater than 1) and outputting data voltages to the i data output terminals in accordance with a source output enable signal provided from a timing controller, an output controller connected between the i data output terminals and i data lines, and i garbage switches respectively connected to the i data lines and connecting the i data lines to a ground terminal at a power input timing when a power supply voltage is applied to the display device, and interrupting the connection between the i data lines and the ground terminal at a timing later than an output timing of a first source output enable signal provided from the timing controller after the power input timing.

Abstract: A force sensing input device (such as a force sensing mouse) includes at least one force sensor and at least one top portion movably connected to at least one bottom portion. When a force is applied to the top portion, the top portion exerts pressure on the force sensor. The force sensor obtains force data based upon the pressure. The amount of force applied to the top portion, within a range of force amounts, is determined from at least the force data. In this way, a broader range of inputs may be receivable from the force sensing input device as compared to input devices that merely detect whether or not a button or similar element has been pushed.

Abstract: A system may utilize a projector, a camera, and a depth sensor to produce images within the environment of a user and to detect and respond to user actions. Depth data from the depth sensor may be analyzed to detect and identify items within the environment. A coordinate transformation may then be used to identify corresponding color values from camera data, which can in turn be analyzed to determine the colors of detected items. A similar coordinate transformation may be used to identify color values of a projected image that correspond to the detected items. In some cases, camera color values corresponding to an item may be corrected based on the corresponding color values of a projected image. In other cases, projected color values corresponding to an item may be corrected based on the corresponding camera color values.

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel circuits; a first gate signal wire arranged for every two rows of the pixel circuits; a second gate signal wire arranged for every row of the pixel circuits, a source signal wire arranged for every column of the pixel circuits; a switch arranged at each intersection of the second gate signal wire and the source signal wire; and a secondary source signal wire arranged to correspond to each of the switches, each of the pixel circuits including a switch and a storage capacitance, the switch switching between conduction and non-conduction between the source signal wire and the secondary source signal wire in accordance with the voltage of the second gate signal wire, and the switch switching between conduction and non-conduction between the secondary source signal wire and the storage capacitance in accordance with the voltage of the first gate signal wire.