Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of reading and modifying identification data of a display, the method reads and modifies an identification data of a display to obtain a related identification data, the user interface displays the identification data or related identification data in a manner that the user can understand, and allows the user to modify the identification data and stores the modified identification data into the display.

Abstract: Embodiments of the subject invention relate to systems, methods, and devices providing a reduced number of selectable inputs that enable efficient communication. One aspect of what is disclosed are embodiments of a systematic code, which systematic code enables efficient communication. Another aspect of the invention is the implementation of embodiments of a systematic code on interactive devices, thereby enabling efficient communication using such interactive devices.

Abstract: Data processing apparatus comprises an array of user-operable controls, the controls being adjustable by movement of a user's hand while touching a control; a detector for detecting when a user's hand is touching a control; a display screen for displaying respective screen icons associated with the controls; and a display processor, responsive to a detection that a user's hand is touching one of the controls, for altering the screen icon associated with that control.

Abstract: The invention provides an electro-optical device in which a voltage drop due to the wiring resistance of a cathode is reduced and therefore steady image signals are transmitted such that erroneous image display, such as low contrast, is reduced or prevented. The invention also provides an electronic apparatus including such an electro-optical device. An electro-optical device includes red, green, and blue luminescent power-supply lines to apply currents to light-emitting elements arranged in an actual display region in a matrix; and a cathode line disposed between the light-emitting elements and a cathode. The cathode line has a width larger than a width of red, green, and blue luminescent power-supply lines.

Abstract: A driving apparatus of a touch panel includes a touch panel for generating a coordinate signal according to a position of a contact point, at least two interface integrated circuits connected to the touch panel, a computer system driving the touch panel and connected to any one of the at least two interface integrated circuits, a sensor for automatically detecting the interface integrated circuit connected to the computer system, and a controller for converting the coordinate signal in accordance with the interface integrated circuit detected at the sensor and transmitting the converted coordinate signal to the computer system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reversible image display medium which can be repeatedly used and can display high quality images, in which cells between the two substrates accommodate a dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developing particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities; images are displayed by forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed on one of the two substrates to drive the developing particles in an electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image; a developer-facing surface of one of the substrates has a surface resistivity of at least 1×1012 ohm/square; a developer-facing surface of the opposite substrate has a surface resistivity from 1×106 ohm/square to 1×1012 ohm/square; a developer-facing surface of one of the substrates has a surface average median roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.

Abstract: A source driver for LCD devices, used for driving at least one data line, comprises an input for receiving a predetermined voltage; an output electrically being connected to the data line and having an output voltage; a voltage clamping circuit for clamping the output voltage within a predetermined voltage range; a first differential amplifier for increasing the clamped output voltage toward the predetermined voltage; and a second differential amplifier for decreasing the clamped output voltage toward the predetermined voltage. The present invention also provides a source driving method for LCD devices.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying gray-scale images by writing display information to an image display area of a panel. The display information includes values of a plurality of sub-fields that constitute one field. The image display apparatus converts an input image signal into a piece of display information so that a difference between sub-fields in correspondence with each other in adjacent high gray-scale levels becomes less. The image display apparatus displays a gray-scale image in accordance with the piece of display information.

Abstract: An apparatus including an image sensor is disclosed. The apparatus includes a polarization filter, an image sensor, and a processor connected to the image sensor. The polarization filter is adapted to filter out light polarized in a first direction from a first scene. The image sensor is adapted to capture the filtered light, and the image sensor includes support circuits to convert the captured filtered light to image data. The processor is adapted to process the image data to detect features of the first scene. The polarization filter filters out noise component of the image, thus increasing contrast. In another embodiment, a mosaic polarization filter is used to capture a scene in a first image including light from the scene having first polarity and to capture the scene in a second image including light from the scene having first polarity. The two images can be analyzed to determine various characteristics of the scene.

Abstract: In an ECB LCD, in which a liquid crystal layer enclosed between a pair of substrates is driven based on R, G, B signals so that transmittance of R, G, B light components at the liquid crystal layer is controlled for color display, the voltage levels of the liquid crystal driving signals for R, G, B light are set such that the optimum transmittance, i.e., the maximum transmittance, can be achieved with respect to the R, G, B light components. With this arrangement, wavelength dependency, if any, of the liquid crystal with respect to the light coming into the light crystal layer can be modified so that color display is achieved with superior color reproducibility.

Abstract: A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portion of the memory system. The contents of a plurality of storage locations determine a configuration of the memory system depending on which of a plurality of different game programs is to be executed by the video game program processing system.

Abstract: An orientation sensor measures the orientation of the orientation sensor itself on a sensor coordinate system, and outputs an orientation measurement value. A first alignment data setting unit reads out first alignment data, which is recorded in an external storage device and represents the gravitational direction on a reference coordinate system, and sets that data in an orientation calculation unit. A second alignment data setting unit sets second alignment data, which represents a difference angle in the azimuth direction between the sensor coordinate system and reference coordinate system in the orientation calculation unit in accordance with a command input by an operator from a command input unit. The orientation calculation unit calculates the orientation of an object on the reference coordinate system using the first and second alignment data on the basis of the orientation measurement value input from the orientation sensor, and outputs it.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel in which the capability to represent the gray scale can be improved, and method thereof. The apparatus includes an inverse gamma control block for performing an inverse gamma correction process on input data received from the outside by using two or more gamma values, and a select unit for outputting one of two or more output data on which the inverse gamma correction operation is performed, which is outputted from the inverse gamma control block. Therefore, the capability to represent the gray scale can be improved. Furthermore, an error diffusion pattern and pseudo noise can be reduced and the picture quality can be thus improved.

Abstract: An instantly controllable LED light apparatus provides an LED array (34) formed of red, green and blue LEDs in a regular arrangement. The apparatus also provides a unitary power supply/controller (4) disposed within a unitary housing (20) that is coupled only to the LED array (34) and a power source (56) in one embodiment. The power supply/controller (4) includes a memory device (64) such that, when a button (62) is pressed on the control panel (18) of the power supply/controller (4), a desired illumination color is instantly produced by the combination of the red, green and blue LEDs of the LED array (34).

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: An apparatus for testing a display device includes a display device to display test patterns, a graphic process unit to supply analog mode signals and digital mode signals to the display device, and a control unit to allow test patterns of an analog testing mode and test patterns of a digital testing mode to be sequentially displayed on the display device upon receiving a control signal from the graphic process unit, and to output a control signal to the display device to sequentially change display characteristics of an image according to an on-screen-display mode testing menus.

Abstract: A bi-directional switch comprising first and second semiconductor switching devices, a current sensor connected in series with the switching devices, thereby forming a series circuit, a driver circuit controlling the on/off operation of the first and second switching devices such that the first and second switching devices are substantially simultaneously turned on and off, the driver circuit turning the first and second switching devices on in response to a control input and turning the first and second switching devices off when current in the current sensor substantially drops to near a zero current. A discharge sustain driver circuit employing the bi-directional switches for a plasma display panel (PDP) is also described.

Abstract: A method of dynamically modifying web page displays used in various mobile devices. The method uses a motion detection mechanism to detect whether the mobile device is moving or in motion and then modifies web page displays sent to the device based upon the sensor readings. As such, the method, system, and apparatus are capable of automatically modifying a display provided to a mobile device based upon a determination that the user and/or device are moving and/or in motion. In another aspect, the method, system, and apparatus are also capable of modifying the complexity of a display provided to a mobile device based upon the degree of movement and/or motion by the user and/or device.

Abstract: Signal management control units 471-47n of respective scan drivers LSI in an LCD module are cascade-connected and each have the same construction. A detected signal of the signal management control unit 47J is a data signal latch clock LP applied to a terminal CKB1. A detected signal of the signal management control unit 472 is a frame start signal SP applied to a terminal CKB2. A detected signal of the signal management control unit 47n is an AC-transforming clock FR applied to a terminal CKBn. The signal management control unit 471 includes a signal stop detection circuit 48 serving as a signal detection means for detecting a stop of the detected signal delay circuit 49 processing circuit 51 consisting of a signal delay circuit 49 and a logic circuit 50. When stopping oscillations of, e.g., the frame start signal SP, outputs T1-Tn of the circuit 51 change to an L level. Hence, a display-off signal DF of the LCD module assumes the L level. A liquid crystal panel is forcibly set in a display-off mode.