Abstract: An input device for alarming excessive striking force adopted for use on electronic instruments alerts users when the button keys are being depressed with excessive force, and preventing hand injury. The invention includes a button key structure, a first conductor membrane, a spacing membrane, a second conductor membrane and an alarm. When the button key structure is subject to an excessive external force, the button key structure connects electronically to a first conductor to output signals, and the first conductor also runs through an opening to connect electronically to a second conductor to output signals to the alarm to alert the presence of the excessive force.

Abstract: A computer input device, such as a mouse, is disclosed that includes one or more sensor systems for detecting translational displacement and angular displacement of the input device relative to a support surface. The input device transmits a signal to a computing device in response to detecting the translational displacement and angular displacement, and the computing device moves an image on a display screen in a linear manner in response to the signal. The sensor system within the input device may be an optical sensor system, for example.

Abstract: A light-emitting device including a plurality of emission layers, which has improved luminous efficiency and improved emission lifetime, is provided. In the light-emitting device, a first optical film thickness range L1 from a light-emitting position of a first emission layer to a light-emitting surface of the device, a second optical film thickness range L2 from a light-emitting position of a second emission layer to the device light-emitting surface, and film thicknesses of a plurality of layers between the light-emitting surface and the first emission layer, the first emission layer and the second emission layer are set so as to increase the luminous intensity of color of an emission produced by mixing an emission from the first emission layer with an emission from the second emission layer.

Abstract: A remote control having an improved user interface. A remote control for navigating a menu system provided on a digital video disc (DVD) is disclosed. The remote control comprises memory for storing a sequence of navigation keystrokes and programming for subsequently executing the sequence, whereby material on the DVD is navigated. Remote controls having a display screen are also used to enhance the user interface. More general systems and methods related to consumer electronics are also disclosed.

Abstract: A scan-driving circuit capable of increasing image quality and decreasing power consumption, a display device using the scan-driving circuit, an electro-optical device, and a scanning drive method. The scan-driving circuit includes a shift register, level shifter, and scan line drive circuit. The shift register sequentially shifts an enable input/output signal EIO. The enable input/output signal EIO shifted to a block set for a non-display area is bypassed by block select data set in units of blocks divided for a given number of scan lines. The scan lines in the block set for a display area are driven by the shifted enable input-output signal EIO. The scan lines in the block set for the non-display area are driven by a common electrode voltage polarization inversion signal VCOM and a write enable signal WEN.

Abstract: Data output from a DSP (2) is subjected to pixel number adjustment and temporarily stored in a memory (6). Here, two adjacent pieces of video data are weighted in accordance with a difference between the data input and the display sampling cycle, so as to create new data. Even when video data and a display (9) have a different number of pixels, it is possible to minimize deterioration of the video data image when displayed.

Abstract: Provided are a color display driving principle obtained while taking into account a difference in eye sensitivity to the flickering of differently colored lights, a TFT liquid crystal display module structure that is adequate for this method, and a double-panel projection type display device. The count of the G (green) color data that can be written is increased compared with the count for the other primary colors, or the display period for green can be extended. The repetitive unit is set to R, G, B and G, so that a satisfactory refresh rate can be set for the important color G. Therefore, the overall refresh frequency and the power consumed by the display device can be reduced without deterioration of the display quality, and requests for the time response speeds by the display device can be reduced.

Abstract: A quad type liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having gate and data lines which define sub-pixel regions. Gate driving integrated circuits for driving the gate lines are provided. A plurality of data drive integrated circuits are arranged on one side of the liquid crystal panel. Each of the data drive integrated circuits have “m” (m is a natural number) number of channels, wherein (3n-1)th (n is a natural number) channels for each data drive integrated circuit are floating.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix format, a Y-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel rows, an X-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel columns, and a tone signal generating unit for generating a tone signal for applying the corresponding tone voltage to tone information of said display data onto each of the pixels.

Abstract: The invention relates to the problem of the driving of the LCD electrooptic-switching element (1) with alternating, square-wave electric signals, the amplitude of witch can vary between different voltage levels in correspondence with the actual functioning state of the LCD electrooptic-switching element. The polarity changes of the electric driving signals is controlled by the integrator (9), integrating the difference of the electric potentials on the driving electrodes (2, 3) of the LCD electrooptic-switching element, in such a way that the value of time integral of the driving electric field is always kept within a selected interval. Besides this the time dependence of the electric driving signals can be optionally modified so that with every change of the polarity of the electric driving signals, the potentials on both driving electrodes get the same value for a time, which is significantly shorter than the switching time of the LCD electrooptic switching element.

Abstract: A CMOS output cell with multiple output modes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the cell drives a differential output signal on two output pads in one mode and two single-ended output signals on the two output pads in another mode. Differential and single-ended driver transistors are included for this purpose. A logic circuit disables unused driver transistors, and supplies appropriate drive signals to those transistors for each mode. When disabled, the driver transistors serve an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection function, at least partially alleviating the need for ESD-specific devices in the cell. The diminished need for ESD-specific devices allows the cell to offer a highly flexible chip interface, with little or no increase in circuit area over a conventional cell that offers only single-ended or differential output.

Abstract: An image controlling system in which an image to be displayed is controlled by a control device is to be improved in its operating performance. A control device 3 and a projector 2 are interconnected over a USB cable 5 and an RGB cable 6 to make bi-directional data transmission/reception to display a picture by the projector 2 on a display screen S. The projector 2 includes a projection display unit 18 fed with display data from the control device 3 to project light to display a picture represented by the display data, a hub 11 connected to the control device 3 and to a USB device to make data input/output based on the supplementary information and a display controller 19 for controlling a picture demonstrated by the projection display unit 18 based on a display control signal generated by the control device 3. The control device includes a connector 32, connected to the projector 2, and a controller 33 for outputting the control signal and the display data to have a picture displayed by the projector 2.

Abstract: A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as ITU-R 601 compliant images such as NTSC SDTV images, having oblong pixels and displayed at a 13.5 MHz display sample rate. A sample rate converter including a multi-phase-multi-tap filter is used to generate square pixels. The multi-phase-multi-tap filter provides a good balance of sharpness, smoothness, anti-aliasing and reduced ringing. The multi-phase-multi-tap filter can also be used to convert images having 320×480 pixels to images having 704×480 pixels. The multi-tap filter can be used for scan rate conversion of graphics or video images for HDTV or SDTV applications.

Abstract: A method of driving a gas discharge tube is provided. Each field of images is divided into three periods for luminescence-rest, luminescence-preparing, and luminescence steps. During the luminescence-rest step, two voltages whose amplitudes are the same and constant are applied to two sustaining electrodes composing each pair, so that the sustaining electrodes rest the discharge. During the luminescence-preparing step, two voltage pulses whose phases are the same are applied to the two sustaining electrodes composing each pair and a voltage to cause a preparatory discharge is applied to an auxiliary electrode. And during the luminescence step, two voltage pulses whose phases are mutually shifted are applied to the two sustaining electrodes composing each pair, so that the sustaining electrodes cause discharges for the luminescence.

Abstract: The invention uses a recognition system of gestures that maps sequences of gestures to keys strings. In the practice of this invention, a user produces gestures without keyboards. Many experienced typists can type without looking at keyboards, and typists can make gestures, in the absence of a keyboard, that are similar to gestures that would be made if there were a keyboard. The gesture recognition system captures gestures for example, (via cameras) and interprets them as pressing an invisible keyboards, as if a keyboard were actually placed in a certain location under the typists hands. To coordinate the invisible keyboard in the correct place under the hands, the user may be provided with feedback. He or she can either view the results of the gestures via a display or hear sounds, via speakers, indicating the results of the gestures.

Abstract: A display panel driving device that can obviate the need for constant current driving circuits in an anode driver circuit, in which a light emission column electrode lines is opened in a light emission period during scanning of each line of a display panel, and parasitic capacitors of light emitting elements are used to allow leak current from the combined parasitic capacitors of the non-scanned elements to the scanned elements to serve as the light emission current of the scanned elements.

Abstract: An electrode driving apparatus includes first and second substrates 11 and 12, first and second electrode patterns 21 and 22 arranged in a quadrilateral region 20, first and second wiring patterns 31 and 32, a first electronic component 40 that is electrically connected to the first wiring pattern 31, and a second electronic component 50 that is electrically connected to the second wiring pattern 32. The first and second electronic components 40 and 50 are disposed outside and on the side of a first side 24 of the quadrilateral region 20.

Abstract: In a period T1 (positive polarity) in which a voltage level of a counter electrode VCOM becomes VC1, a data line is driven using P-type operational amplifier OP1 having P-type driving transistor, while in a period T2 (negative polarity) in which VCOM becomes VC2, the data line is driven using N-type operational amplifier OP2 having N-type driving transistor. An output of a selection circuit for the operational amplifiers OP1, OP2 is set to the high impedance state when VCOM is changed over. At the time of driving the operational amplifier OP1, a current which flows in current sources of the operational amplifier OP2 is cut off, while at the time of driving the operational amplifier OP2, a current which flows in current sources of the operational amplifier OP1 is cut off. In the period before the operational amplifiers OP1, OP2 are driven, the driving transistors of the operational amplifiers OP1, OP2 are turned off.

Abstract: The invention provides a shift register that reliably operates even when the driving ability of a clock signal is low. A data-line driving circuit includes a shift-register section, which has serially-connected shift-register unit circuits Ua1 to Uan+2, and a clock-signal control section, which has serially-connected control unit circuits Uc1 to Ucn+2. Each control unit circuit Uc1 to Ucn+2 supplies an X clock-signal XCK and an inverted X clock-signal XCKB to the corresponding shift-register unit circuit Ua1 to Uan+2 in a period of time when either one of signal voltages at nodes A1, A2, . . . at the prior and subsequent stages is active.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a driving circuit and driving method for a LCD having high performance of moving image displaying within few amount of memory and downscaled circuit. In the present invention, a voltage applied to a pixel to drive liquid crystal material in the pixel is determined as a voltage with which the transparency of the pixel at the end of the current field becomes the designated transparency. To determine the voltage, a data table for quick response in which output data is stored in correspondence with some of the possible value of a preceding field image data and some of the possible value of the current field image data is employed, and the output data corresponding to the preceding field image data and the current field image data is determined by the data table through linear interpolation. The voltage corresponding to the output data is applied to the pixel.