Abstract: When performing a read or write operation on an optical disc with information storage layers, this compatible optical head with a two-focus lens can reduce interference caused by an unnecessary diffracted light reflected from a non-target layer and not contributing to reading or writing. The head reads and/or writes information from/on storage media, including first and second media with different protective substrate thicknesses, by irradiating a given one with a laser beam and includes: a diffraction element that diffracts the beam to produce diffracted light of multiple orders; an objective lens for converging nth and mth order ones of the light on the respective storage layers of the first and second media; a photodetector that receives the beam reflected from the medium and condensed; and a light shielding portion for preventing a portion of the beam reflected from the storage layer of the second medium and including its optical axis from reaching the photodetector.

Abstract: A receiver includes: an adjustment circuit that adjusts an electric potential of a midpoint provided on a side of the receiver such that the electric potential of the midpoint provided between a pair of signal lines and on the side of the receiver is identical with an electric potential of a midpoint provided between the pair of signal lines and on a side of the transmitter, the transmitter transmitting a plurality of image signals, a vertical synchronizing signal, and a horizontal synchronizing signal, and transmitting and receiving differential signals on the pair of signal lines; a control circuit that controls the velocity of rise and decay of the differential signals which flow on the pair of signal lines; and a cancel circuit that cancels crosstalk by the vertical synchronizing signal generated on the horizontal synchronizing signal by inputting the vertical synchronizing signal.

Abstract: An application executing method is provided. The application executing method is applied to a handheld electronic device having a body and a touch element. The touch element is disposed at the body. The application executing method comprises the following steps. Firstly, a communication mode is entered. Next, whether the touch element is moved is detected. If the touch element is moved, then an application is activated.

Abstract: An in-cell capacitive touch panel is disclosed. The present invention utilizes a sensing unit that comprises a sensing liquid crystal capacitor and three transistors to detect touch events. A first transistor is connected to a first gate line and the sensing liquid crystal capacitor and controlled by the first gate line to charge the sensing liquid crystal capacitor. A second transistor together with a third transistor functions as a capacitance-current converter. The second transistor generates an output current according to the voltage of a first electrode of the sensing liquid crystal capacitor. A second gate line controls the third transistor to transfer the output current through a readout line to a readout unit that determines the touch positions. Thus, the in-cell capacitive touch panel of the present invention can use a simple-structure readout circuit to achieve superior readout accuracy and is adaptive to various sizes of touch panels.

Abstract: An exemplary capacitive touch detection system includes a capacitive touch panel and a detection control circuit. The capacitive touch panel includes a plurality of input terminals and output terminals. The detection control circuit includes a scanning signal transmitting module electrically coupled to the input terminals and a detection signal receiving and waveform shaping module including a receiver and an impedance-matching network. The detection signal receiving and waveform shaping module is electrically coupled to the output terminals for receiving and processing a plurality of detection signals outputted from the respective output terminals and thereby producing a plurality of processed detection signals. The receiver is used for receiving the detection signals.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, gate lines, data lines, data signal links, and contact vias. The substrate includes a display region, and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The gate lines, data lines, data signal links, and contact vias are disposed within the display region of the substrate. The gate lines cross the data lines. Each of the data signal links is disposed between adjacent gate lines. Each of the contact vias is disposed between each of the data signal links and a corresponding data line, such that each of the data signal links is electrically connected with the corresponding data line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a recording apparatus for recording data on a recording medium. The recording apparatus includes an assigning section for assigning a region that is part of a block utilized for a recording unit of the recording medium as a file system information region utilized as a region for file system information for managing the data on the recording medium. The recording apparatus further includes a recording section operable to record file system information for data that has been recorded in all blocks in the file system information region of each block until the file system information region in a block is filled and to record file system information for data in all blocks subsequent to the block having the filled file system information region in the file system information region of each subsequent block after the file system information region in a block has been filled.

Abstract: MEMS storage devices and associated systems and structures are generally described. In one example, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) storage device includes a substrate, a lateral actuation structure coupled with the substrate, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) probe coupled with the lateral actuation structure, the MEMS probe having a first end, a second end having a probe tip, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end, wherein the second end can be actuated in a direction substantially normal to a surface of the substrate, and one or more stop beam structures coupled with the lateral actuation structure to restrict motion of the MEMS probe in the direction substantially normal to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display medium. The display medium is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has a pixel array. The second substrate includes first sensing electrodes arranged in a first direction and second sensing electrodes arranged in a second direction. Each of the first sensing electrodes is formed by alternately arranging first upper sensing electrode patterns and first lower shading electrode patterns. Each of the first upper sensing electrode patterns is electrically connected to the adjacent first lower shading electrode patterns. Each of the second sensing electrodes is formed by alternately arranging second upper sensing electrode patterns and second lower shading electrode patterns. Each of the second upper sensing electrode patterns is electrically connected to the adjacent second lower shading electrode patterns.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk drive. In one embodiment, the optical disk drive comprises a feeding device, a power driver, and a controller. The feeding device comprises a spherical aberration (SA) lens and a stepping motor, wherein the SA lens corrects spherical aberration of a light beam emitted by a pickup head, and the stepping motor moves the SA lens according to a plurality of control signals. The power driver generates the control signals to drive the stepping motor to move the SA lens. The controller directs the power driver to drive the stepping motor to move the SA lens with only stable steps when the SA lens is required to move, so that the stepping motor is in a stable state without inducing step errors after the stepping motor rotates with the stable steps.

Abstract: An LCD device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality gate lines, a pixel matrix, and a source driver. The pixel matrix includes an mth pixel column and an (m+1)th pixel column. The odd-numbered pixels of the mth pixel column are coupled to an mth data line and corresponding odd-numbered gate lines. The even-numbered pixels of the mth pixel column is coupled to an (m+1)th data line and corresponding even-numbered gate lines. The odd-numbered pixels of the (m+1)th pixel column is coupled to the (m+1)th data line and corresponding odd-numbered gate lines. The even-numbered pixels of the (m+1)th pixel column is coupled to an (m+2)th data line and corresponding even-numbered gate lines. The gate driver outputs the data driving signals having a first polarity to the odd-numbered data lines, and outputs the data driving signals having a second polarity to the even-numbered data lines.

Abstract: An optical disc apparatus can make the focus of an information light beam converged by an objective lens agree with a target track of a target mark layer of an optical disc by appropriately predefining the distance between the focus of a servo light beam and that of the information light beam with regard to the direction of the thickness and a radial direction of the optical disc by means of the optical pickup of the apparatus and then operating for focus control and tracking control of the objective lens so as to make focus of the servo light beam converged by the objective lens agree with a reference track of a reference mark layer.

Abstract: A stereo image display device includes an image display unit for displaying a parallactic image having a right-eye image and a left-eye image on a display plane, a parallactic image selecting unit for making only the right-eye image of the parallactic image reach the right eye of a viewer and making only the left-eye image of the parallactic image reach the left eye of the viewer to thereby make the viewer view a stereo image, an eye fatigue degree detecting unit for detecting the eye fatigue degree of the viewer, and an eye fatigue relaxation processing unit for carrying out eye fatigue relaxation processing for relaxing the eye fatigue of the viewer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data storage device comprising: a polymer layer for storing data in the form of topographic features; a substrate comprising a conductor, a first surface of the polymer layer being provided on the substrate; and at least one probe which, when the device is in use, interacts with a second surface of the polymer layer, wherein, when in use, the data storage device is operable to apply a first electrical potential to the at least one probe relative to the substrate, thereby to cause a protrusion to be formed on the second surface of the polymer layer.

Abstract: A method for tuning a write strategy parameter of an optical storage device, includes: writing a segment of data according to a plurality of write strategies; reading the data back and detecting a plurality of lengths, each length corresponding to a pit or a land on an optical storage medium accessed by the optical storage device; performing calculations according to the lengths and a plurality of data types to generate a plurality of calculation results, each of the data types corresponding to at least a specific target pit length or at least a specific target land length; and utilizing the calculation results to determine a proper write strategy.

Abstract: An optical recording medium and an optical information device that improve the quality of a servo signal and a reproduction signal. In the optical recording medium, when shape-wise thicknesses tr1, tr2, tr3, and tr4 of a cover layer (42), a first intermediate layer (43), a second intermediate layer (44), and a third intermediate layer (45) are respectively converted into thicknesses t1, t2, t3, and t4 of the respective corresponding layers each having a predetermined refractive index “no”, a defocus amount with respect to a layer having a refractive index nr? and a thickness tr? (satisfying: 1???n (where ? is a positive integer and n is an integer of 4 or more)), and a defocus amount with respect to a layer having the refractive index “no” and a thickness t? (satisfying: 1???n (where ? is a positive integer and n is an integer of 4 or more)) are equal to each other.

Abstract: A disc apparatus is disclosed that includes a jitter-value detection unit configured to detect a jitter value based on a signal to be read from a medium. A detrack-value setting unit is configured to set a detrack value for focusing an objective lens in the medium based on the jitter value. A detrack-value adjusting unit is configured to detect the jitter value every time the detrack value is changed stepwise within a predetermined range of the detrack value including a reference value of the detrack value, to obtain an optimum detrack value to be set in the detrack-value setting unit, based on a maximum jitter value and a minimum jitter value of the detected jitter values.

Abstract: An apparatus for converging voltages of an optical recording medium may include a first converging unit, a second converging unit, and/or a switching unit. The first converging unit may be configured to converge a voltage level of a first input signal to a reference voltage. The second converging unit may be configured to converge a voltage level of a second input signal to the reference voltage. The switching unit may be configured to determine whether to short-circuit output terminals of the first and second converging units during a period when the voltage levels of the first and second input signals are being converged to the reference voltage.

Abstract: The invention relates to the recording of soundtracks onto analogue cinema film, in particular the recording of digital created and/or digital/electronically stored representations of soundtracks onto film. The method according to the invention for comprises converting sound data from the digital soundtracks to sound image data, modulating light based on the sound image data, and imaging the modulated light onto a photosensitive film. The device according to the invention comprises at least one light source, processing electronics for converting sound data from the digital soundtracks to sound image data, at least one full frame device connected to the processing electronics, adapted for modulating light from the light source according to the sound image data, imaging optics for imaging the modulated light onto a photosensitive film.