Abstract: A method of displaying an image with a display device including a plurality of display pixels includes receiving image data for the image, the image data including individual pixels of the image; buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image, the frame of the image including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows of the pixels of the image; defining a first sub-frame and at least a second sub-frame for the frame of the image, image data of the second sub-frame being offset from image data of the first sub-frame by an offset distance of at least one pixel; and displaying the first sub-frame with a first plurality of the display pixels and displaying the second sub-frame with a second plurality of the display pixels offset from the first plurality of the display pixels by the offset distance.

Abstract: A method for driving an AC type surface-discharge display device which has cells arranged in a matrix. Each of the cells has at least three electrodes including a pair of main electrodes on every line of the matrix and an address electrode on every column of the matrix. The method includes providing an address preparation period applying a charge producing pulse and applying a charge adjusting pulse. The charge adjusting pulse has a waveform monotonously falling from a reference potential and a negative polarity and is applied to the second main electrode used as a scan electrode and generates feeble electric discharges between the first and second main electrodes. The feeble electric discharges are accompanied by a decrease of the wall voltage formed by the charge producing pulse.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image with a display device including a plurality of display pixels includes receiving image data for the image, the image data including individual pixels of the image; buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image, the frame of the image including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows of the pixels of the image; defining a first sub-frame and at least a second sub-frame for the frame of the image, image data of the second sub-frame being offset from image data of the first sub-frame by an offset distance of at least one pixel; and displaying the first sub-frame with a first plurality of the display pixels and displaying the second sub-frame with a second plurality of the display pixels offset from the first plurality of the display pixels by the offset distance.

Abstract: Power-efficient, pulsed driving of capacitive loads to controllable voltage levels, with particular applicability to LCDs. Energy stored in a portion of the capacitive load is recovered during a recovery phase. Time-varying signals are used to drive the load and to recover the stored energy, thus minimizing power losses, using processes named adiabatic charging and adiabatic discharging.

Abstract: Methods and techniques for use in the operation of a game apparatus or other system for determining an activity level of a user in relation to the game apparatus or other system. A machine-readable medium having embodied thereon instructions for performing such methods and techniques is also included, as well as an example system for implementation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for driving a display panel (DP) having pixels (P). The display panel (DP) is driven with a sequence of image frames. The image frames are converted to a drive signal (V2) comprising refresh frames with a refresh frame period (TR) shorter than the image frame period. A pixel (P) of the display panel (DP) is driven with an adapted drive signal having a first polarity during a first group of refresh frame periods, and having a reversed polarity during a subsequent second group of refresh frame periods. The first group and the second group each comprise at least two refresh frame periods.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus of the present invention has a first unit and a second unit coupled to the first unit through a coupling section which allows the second unit to be opened and closed relative to the first unit and the second unit has a display screen with a pen input function for detecting the contact of a pen or the close position of a pen. The first unit includes a bottom cover, a circuit substrate arranged above the bottom cover, and an upper cover arranged above the circuit substrate. The circuit substrate has a DC-DC converter that is disposed thereon and provided with one or more coils that generate power for operating the electronic apparatus, and at least one of the coils is disposed on the surface of the circuit substrate facing the bottom cover.

Abstract: A display driver for outputting gradation voltages corresponding to gradation data from an external device to pixels. The display driver includes a generator for generating a plurality of gradation voltages having a plurality of levels based on a reference voltage, and a selector for selecting at least one gradation voltage corresponding to the gradation data from the plurality of gradation voltages generated by the generator. The gradation data includes multi-bits for each color of red, green and blue, and the generator outputs or stops outputting each gradation voltage according to data for color reduction from the external device. The generator stops outputting at least one gradation voltage that is unnecessary for displaying as a result of the color reduction, when the color of the gradation data is reduced according to the data for color reduction.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to control the writing on electronic paper.

Abstract: An optical system, apparatus and method are capable of mutual occlusions. The core of the system is a spatial light modulator (SLM) which allows users to block or pass certain parts of a scene which is viewed through the head worn display. An objective lens images the scene onto the SLM and the modulated image is mapped back to the original scene via an eyepiece. The invention combines computer-generated imagery with the modulated version of the scene to form the final image a user would see. The invention is a breakthrough in display hardware from a mobility (i.e. compactness), resolution, and speed, and is specifically, related to virtual objects being able to occlude real objects and real objects being able to occlude virtual objects.

Abstract: In one embodiment a method for triggering input commands of a program run on a computing system is provided. The method initiates with monitoring a field of view in front of a capture device. Then, an input object is identified within the field of view. The detected input object is analyzed for changes in shape. Next, a change in the input object is detected. Then, an input command is triggered at the program run on the computing system. The triggering is a result of the detected change in the input object. An input detection program and a computing system are also provided.

Abstract: An output circuit whose outputting signals having large voltage swing by using switches with low voltage tolerance is provided. The output circuit includes: operation amplifiers, receiving positive input voltage and negative input voltages, respectively; transmission gates, passing output signals from the operation amplifiers, respectively; switch transistors, passing output signals from the transmission gates as an output signal of the output circuit, pulling up the output signal from one of the transmission gates, and pulling down the output signal from the other of the transmission gates.

Abstract: A keypad backlighting apparatus includes an electroluminescence layer for lighting an input device of an electronic apparatus. The input device may be a keypad and the electronic apparatus may be a mobile communications terminal. The terminal includes an upper case having a plurality of button holes formed in a predetermined pattern, electroluminescence (EL) keypad on a lower surface of the upper case and having buttons exposed through the button holes. A printed circuit board (PCB) installed adjacent the EL keypad includes a backlight driving circuit for supplying power to the EL keypad. A lower case of the terminal is coupled to the upper case and supports the EL keypad and the PCB.

Abstract: Driving schemes are described in which rows (1 to m) are selected one at a time and column data voltages are inverted to provide inversion schemes for display devices comprising pixels (12) arranged in rows (1 to m) and columns (1 to n). The order in which rows are selected is such that a first group of first polarity rows is selected in a first order, a first group of second polarity rows is selected in a second order, a second group of first polarity rows is selected in the second order, and a second group of second polarity rows is selected in the first order, the first order being one of ascending or descending row number order, and the second order being the other of ascending or descending row number order.

Abstract: A roller device including a roller wheel configured to control scrolling of a graphical object along a first axis if the roller wheel is rotated by a user; a first sensor adjacent to a first side of the roller wheel; and a second sensor adjacent to a second side of the roller wheel; wherein the first and second sensors are configured to control a scrolling rate of the graphical object along a second axis.

Abstract: A display drive device applied to a display device which drives a display panel (110) comprising a plurality of display pixels (Px) which comprises a gradation voltage setting circuit (40a, 40c) which sets a plurality of gradation voltages and voltage ranges according to each luminosity gradation of the display data, which reverses the gradation voltages for each luminosity gradation of the display data in a predetermined period while providing a change characteristic of the center voltage in reversal of the gradation voltages for each luminosity gradation corresponding to the change inclination of the field through voltage produced when the display signal voltage of each luminosity gradation is applied, and which maintains this change characteristic constant for changing the voltage range value; and a gradation conversion circuit (30a, 30d) which produces display signal voltages based on gradation voltages corresponding to the luminosity gradations of the display data.

Abstract: An enhanced messaging capability which enables the recipient of the message to respond to a query by pressing a single button or multiple buttons to issue the response. Code for enabling a receiving device to display the message and provide simplified response options is carried by a messaging format such as SMS, MMS, etc., in which a web browser application is not required nor invoked to permit active response functionality. A mechanism is provide to allow delivery of response in a variety of formats. The system may automatically take a selected action if a response is not received within a present time period. A message and response system greatly simplified from the senders and recipients perspective is provided.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image with variable perceived depth using a display (1) including one or more at least partially transparent, substantially parallel imaging screens (3) located in front of, and overlapping with, a rear imaging screen (4), characterized in that a physical image is formed on two or more imaging screens (3,4), each image being of substantially identical configuration and being sized and aligned such that like portions of each image are coterminous to a viewer observing the display, wherein at least two of said coterminous images are displayed with different luminance.

Abstract: A driving device and driving method for a light emitting device, and a display panel and display having the driving device are provided. In a display device having a light emitting diode, first and second driving parts are connected to the light emitting diode. A first switching part applies a first data voltage having a first direction and a second data voltage having a second direction opposite the first direction to the first and second driving parts, respectively, during a first frame. A second switching part applies the second data voltage and the first data voltage to the first and second driving parts, respectively, during a second frame.

Abstract: A source driving circuit includes a shift register, a data latch circuit, a D/A converter, and a sample-and-hold circuit. The shift register generates an n-bit first signal in response to a clock signal and an input/output control signal, wherein n is a positive integer. The data latch circuit samples video data using the first signal to latch the sampled video data, and outputs 3×n digital signals. The D/A converter generates a plurality of analog voltage signals corresponding to the 3×n digital signals using a plurality of gray scale voltages. The sample-and-hold circuit generates 6×n sample-and-hold signals using the analog voltage signals in response to a plurality of switching control signals.