Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel and a control chip. The touch panel includes a detection electrode configured to form a self-capacitor. The control chip includes an emulation circuit and a subtraction circuit. The emulation circuit is configured to output a reference signal. The subtraction circuit is coupled to the emulation circuit and the detection electrode, subtracts the reference signal outputted by the emulation circuit from a detected signal outputted by the detection electrode to output a differential detected signal, and identifies a touch event according to an amplified differential detected signal so as to improve the touch sensitivity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and device for dimming the backlight of an LCD. A number of pixels at each grayscale level of an input image is determined. The determined number of pixels at each grayscale level is accumulated to generate an accumulated distribution of the number of pixel and the accumulated distribution is filtered. A threshold grayscale level at which the filtered accumulated distribution exceeds a threshold value is determined. A scaling factor is determined based on the threshold grayscale level. The grayscale level of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level lower than or equal to the threshold grayscale level are up-scaled based on the scaling factor, the grayscale value of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level greater than the threshold grayscale level are set to have a predetermined clipping grayscale level, and the LCD backlight is dimmed based on the scaling factor.

Abstract: There is provided a method of displaying an image on a display device, the method including moving an image displayed at an image display region of the display device, and reducing a first region and enlarging a second region, the first and second regions included in the image, wherein the image has a smaller size than the image display region.

Abstract: A virtual touch knob assembly is provided that translates sensed movement of a user's fingers around a knob into control signals for operation of an appliance. A knob is provided on a user control panel of an appliance. The knob is fixed, i.e., does not turn or rotate. A system is provided that can sense the user's fingers moving around the fixed knob and translate the sensed input to control signals for setting the operation of the appliance or device.

Abstract: There are provided a shift register unit and a driving method thereof. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, whose first terminal receives an input signal of the shift register unit, and second terminal is connected to a pull-up node, the input circuit being configured to output the input signal to the pull-up node; an output circuit, whose first terminal is connected to a clock signal terminal, second terminal is connected to the pull-up node, third terminal is connected to an output terminal of the shift register unit, the output circuit being configured to output a signal of the clock signal terminal to the output terminal under the control of the pull-up node; a pull-up node control circuit, and the pull-up node control circuit being configured to discharge the pull-up node through third power supply voltage terminal under the control of a first power supply voltage terminal.

Abstract: Provided are a multi zone backlight controlling method and a device thereof. The method includes: obtaining original grayscale values of pixels of the image; obtain a backlight control coefficient correction factor according to the original grayscale value; obtaining a first backlight control coefficient and a second backlight control coefficient based on the backlight control coefficient correction factor and the original grayscale values, and adjusting backlight brightness according to the first backlight control coefficient and the second backlight control coefficient, thereby reducing difference between the display image and the real image.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a conductive pattern arranged on a base substrate, a plurality of pressure sensing units arranged on the base substrate, and a first pressure sensing line and a second pressure sensing line connected to the plurality of pressure sensing units and each configured to output a pressure sensing signal. At least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line is within a same layer and made of a same material as the conductive pattern, or the conductive pattern is multiplexed as at least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a display section; and control unit functioning as a display control section, gesture receiving section, and setting candidate receiving section. When the gesture receiving section receives a selection gesture performed on a shortcut button, the display control section causes the display section to: (i) display, in the setting screen, a pop-up image showing a setting item and the setting candidate associated with the selected shortcut button; (ii) scroll-display the setting item list displayed on scrolling display area until the setting item associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed in the setting screen; and (iii) move the pop-up image to where the setting item which is in the setting item list and associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed, and display, as the information representing the setting candidate currently set in the setting item list, the setting candidate associated with the shortcut button.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first odd source electrode and a first odd drain electrode on a first odd semiconductor layer have the same shapes as a first even drain electrode and a first even source electrode on a first even semiconductor layer, and when viewed in a plan view, a shape of a even pixel, except for a first even transistor, has substantially inversion symmetry with a shape of a odd pixel about a point on a virtual line parallel to a second direction.

Abstract: A display panel, a method for driving the same and a display device are provided. Each pixel element includes an infrared detector, a light-emitting element and a first control unit, the infrared detector includes a first electrode, an infrared-sensitive layer and a second electrode, and the light-emitting element includes a pixel circuit, a third electrode, a light-emitting function layer and a fourth electrode. The second electrode is electrically connected with the third electrode, the first electrode is connected with the fourth electrode through the first control unit, and the first control unit is configured to connect the first electrode with the fourth electrode in an infrared detection mode, and to disconnect the first electrode from the fourth electrode in a display mode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a decrease in the yield by electrostatic destruction can be prevented is provided. A scan line driver circuit for supplying a signal for selecting a plurality of pixels to a scan line includes a shift register for generating the signal. One conductive film functioning as respective gate electrodes of a plurality of transistors in the shift register is divided into a plurality of conductive films. The divided conductive films are electrically connected to each other by a conductive film which is formed in a layer different from the divided conductive films are formed. The plurality of transistors includes a transistor on an output side of the shift register.

Abstract: A driver IC is described by which disconnection can be readily prevented from being falsely determined even on condition that an input voltage fed back as a result of output of a detecting voltage by a driver IC is affected by noise on a driven device. The driver IC is arranged so that the latch timing of latching a result of the comparison between an input voltage fed back as a result of a detecting voltage output by the driver IC and the detecting voltage is shift-controlled in each predetermined cycle of synchronizing signals with a predetermined shift and even if noise is generated in a driven device at any time in each cycle of the synchronizing signals, determination signals affected by the noise are never latched in each cycle of the synchronizing signals.

Abstract: A pixel structure including a data transistor, a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a compensation transistor, an illumination transistor, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and a first capacitor is provided. The data transistor transmits a data signal to a node according to a scan signal. The switching transistor provides a first reference signal to the node according to a first illumination signal. The driving transistor includes a gate, a source receiving a first operation voltage and a drain. The compensation transistor is coupled between the gate and the drain and receives a control signal. The illumination transistor receives a second illumination signal and is coupled to the drain. The OLED includes an anode coupled to the illumination transistor and a cathode receiving a second operation voltage. The first capacitor is coupled between the node and the gate.

Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display which includes a driving circuit and pixels arranged on pixel rows. In a (j?1)-th horizontal period, the driving circuit samples a threshold voltage of a driving Transistor (DT) of each pixel arranged on the (j?1)-th pixel row, and initializes a voltage of a gate electrode of a driving TFT of each pixel arranged on the j-th pixel row. In addition, in a j-th horizontal period, the driving circuit samples a threshold voltage of the driving TFT of each pixel arranged on the j-th pixel row.

Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes compensating first pixel data corresponding to a first pixel of a plurality of pixels in the display panel based on at least one of a first decision, a second decision, or a third decision and generating a first data voltage corresponding to the compensated first pixel data. The first data voltage is applied to the first pixel through a data line. The first decision includes determining, based on a position of the first pixel, whether compensation for the first pixel data is required. The second decision includes determining, based on previous subpixel data and present subpixel data for the first pixel, whether the compensation for the first pixel data is required. The third decision includes determining whether the first pixel data complies with a compensation avoidance condition.

Abstract: A handheld communication device includes first and second screen assemblies, each including a screen having an active display area and housing having a rear surface, and a side surface extending between a periphery of the screen and the rear surface of the housing and a hinge connected to the first and second screen assemblies, whereby the hinge has a range of motion of more than 180 degrees.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch sensing circuit which includes: a compensating module configured to provide a compensating voltage at a first node in response to control signals from a plurality of control signal lines; a read control module configured to transfer a voltage sensed by a touch sensing electrode to the first node in response to a read control signal from a read control signal line, so that the first node has a voltage which is a sum of the compensating voltage and the sensed voltage; and a driving module configured to provide an output signal associated with the sensed voltage to an output signal line in response to the voltage of the first node. Also disclosed are a touch panel and a display device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for an electronic interface device capable of providing a fixed relief touch screen with locating features using deformable haptic surfaces are disclosed. The device, in one embodiment, includes a haptic mechanism and a touch-sensitive surface. The haptic mechanism provides haptic feedback in response to an activating command. The touch-sensitive surface is capable of changing its surface texture from a first surface characteristic to a second surface characteristic in response to the haptic feedback. For example, the first surface characteristic may be coarse texture while the second surface characteristic may be smooth texture.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for employing proximity sensing mechanisms in augmented reality (AR) systems. Sensors strategically placed on AR eyeglasses in locations such as right and/or left arms, bridge, or flip-up feature of the eyeglasses may be used to detect AR eyeglass usage for power management and/or to provide user interface elements like volume control, display controls, user input, and comparable ones. According to some examples, the sensors may be mechanical sensors, capacitive sensors, optical sensors, inductive sensors, magnetic sensors, and/or similar components.

Abstract: A touch window according to one embodiment comprises: a substrate having an effective area and an ineffective area; a sensing electrode arranged in the effective area and sensing a position; and a wiring arranged in the effective area and the ineffective area and electrically connecting to the sensing electrode, wherein the wiring comprises a first wiring and a second wiring such that the first wiring and the second wiring are vertically arranged.