Abstract: A page turning effect generating apparatus for video signals is provided with a memory for storing a video signal, an output switch for switching incoming video signal and a memory output video signal in accordance with a switching control signal, and a control signal generator including a circuit for generating the switching control signal and a circuit for generating a read address to be supplied to the memory, wherein the read address generating circuit includes a convertor for non-linearly converting a first vector which represents one of the vector components of a vector expressing a scanning point of a display image from an origin of a modification, and a generator for generating a final vector by synthesizing the non-linearly converted first vector and a second vector which represents another of the vector components of the vector, the final vector indicating the read address to be supplied to the memory.

Abstract: An optical display system (10) presents visual source information to an observer (18) The display system includes a vision unit (14) that has reflective surfaces (16) through which the observer can view an outside world scene and which reflect source information emanating from an information source (22) for display to the observer In a preferred embodiment, the optical display system constitutes a head-up display system for an automobile and the observer is the driver of the automobile. The vision unit constitutes an automobile windshield with or without a reflection enhancement material and whose inner and outer surfaces reflect source information carried by light propagating form the information source, such as a liquid crystal display (32). A projection lens system (24) positioned between the inner surface of the windshield and the information source has optical light-directing properties for compensating for optical aberrations introduced by the nonplanar windshield surface.

Abstract: The prism reflector installed immediately above an indicator's display surface consists of a prism and a flange portion that is flush with one surface of the prism and which extends from the periphery of that surface. The surface of the prism and the flange portion form a reflecting surface. A reflector plate is arranged to face the reflecting surface of the prism reflector and has a concave surface, whose light axis is inclined with respect to the reflecting surface of the prism reflector toward the thicker side of the prism. Light from the indicator's display enters the prism, is refracted as it leaves the reflecting surface, and travels toward the reflector plate's concave surface, which reflects the incident light back toward the reflecting surface of the prism reflector, which then reflects it toward the driver's viewing point.

Abstract: A window displayed on a user interface can be incrementally enlarged or reduced by selecting an appropriate sizing icon. There are provided an enlarge icon and a reduce icon in the window title bar. To resize the window, the user selects the appropriate icon with the cursor. The window will change its border size according to a predetermined incremental value. The data that is displayed inside of the newly sized window is determined and then displayed. By continuously selecting one of the sizing icons, the window will be continuously sized in an incremental manner until the user terminates the selection or until the maximum or minimum window limits are reached. As the window is resized, the cursor remains attached to the selected icon. During resizing of the window, one border corner is fixed in position on the interface while the opposite border corner is moved.

Abstract: A field sequential liquid crystal display has a backlight that provides different color fields and a liquid crystal display panel that has a matrix of cells. Data lines are coupled to the cells and provide gray level data to the cells. Select lines are coupled to the cells and enable the cells. The cells include integrated memories coupled to the data lines, these integrated memories storing gray level data received via the data lines. The integration of the memories on the display panel allows all of the cells on the panel to be charged approximately simultaneously so that the time any one color is backlighting the entire display approaches an optimum fraction of a frame.

Abstract: A color liquid crystal display device in which a color filter is provided over the entire surface of the glass substrate. In a first embodiment, display electrodes extend over a plurality of color filter sectors to form segment electrodes. In a second embodiment, the transmissivity of light passing through the liquid crystal layer can be varied in levels by making the display electrodes in two-layer, operating voltage on each of the electrodes independently, and varying in levels the amplitude of voltage applied on the liquid crystal layer by the display electrodes. In a third embodiment, the amount of light transmitted in the display area of a color filter sector is controlled by two or more display electrodes which divide up the display area.

Abstract: A membrane keyboard producing audible and tactile responses when individual character keys are depressed. To facilitate typing efficiency, the keyboard has membrane characters keys with different transverse heights and adjustable sensory responses.

Abstract: Character generator which provides the displayed characters, when displayed simultaneously with a video picture, with a shadow in a complimentary or programmable color so that the readability is optimum under all circumstances without any unnecessary blanking of the video picture. To this end the character generator (43) is adapted to alternately address both the pixel to be displayed and at least one adjacent pixel in a character memory (171). A blanking signal (FBL), which blanks the received video picture dependent on both the pixel to be displayed and the adjacent pixel, is generated in a blanking circuit (20). While the video picture is being blanked, the characters are displayed in a foreground color and the shadow is displayed in a background color. The invention is applicable in television receivers, camera recorders and the like, using a character generator for displaying locally generated operating information (On Screen Display) or information supplied by an external source (Teletext).

Abstract: A portable interactive electro-optic data input/output, processing, storage, and display device responsive to hand printed text and hand drawn graphics. The device preferably comprises a combined flat panel display and input pen sensing surface constructed from non-mechanical, non-emissive display elements, such as liquid crystal display elements. The device also comprises an input pen for manual entry of hand printed text and hand drawn graphics, as well as commands, directly onto the display surface for providing an electronic writing and drawing slate. The display elements themselves are preferably utilized as input pen sense locations. The flat panel display and input pen sensing surface is constructed so that there is no display distortion when the input pen is in contact with the surface. Rapid input pen sensing is provided for accommodating natural pen movement on a high resolution, large area display.

Abstract: A character graphic information display device is adapted to decode into the character graphic picture images with the standard density the high density of character graphic information which has been transmitted so as to display it on the display portion after passing through the memory and the processing circuit; the desired region may be displayed on the whole display portion as the high density picture images by the operation of the keypad. Also order to obtain other regions as the high density picture images, the other high density picture images are continuously displayed only by the movement of the cursor in the condition of the high density picture face.

Abstract: In an arrangement wherein an inquiry and a choice of respones thereto are displayed on a CRT screen, a selection is made by holding a touch-screen device against the area of the screen corresponding to the desired response. Such a touch-screen device is designed to have an inductive coil in its tip. When an electron beam which scans the CRT screen sweeps across the tip of the touch-screen device, an electrical signal is induced on the coil. The touch-position or the selection is determined based on a knowledge of the position of the electron beam on the screen at the time of the electrical signal induction.

Abstract: In a suspended display apparatus suspended from a predetermined position, a display panel is supported substantially vertically by a front face of a case. A hook arrangement is mounted to an upper face of the case such that the hook arrangement is movable toward and away from the front face of the case. An elongated suspending arrangement has one end thereof fixedly mounted to the predetermined position. The other end of the elongated suspending arrangement is engaged with the hook arrangement.

Abstract: A display apparatus disposes a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a group of scanning electrodes and a group of data electrodes constituting an electrode matrix, and provides a driver that applies a scanning signal to the scanning electrodes and applies data signals to the data electrodes in synchronism with the scanning signal. The driver is controlled as to divide the scanning electrodes into a plurality of blocks each comprising a plurality of scanning electrodes and select the scanning electrodes with skipping of at least one scanning electrode apart so that starting scanning electrodes in neighboring blocks from which the skipping-selection of scanning electrodes is started in each block of the scanning electrodes have mutually different positional ranks respectively in the neighboring blocks, whereby flickering caused by either scanning drive or by repetition of black and white signals is effectively suppressed while the observability of a motion picture is retained.

Abstract: An improved column electrode driving circuit can drive a matrix type display apparatus without necessitating that digital signals be transmitted between partial column electrode driving circuits. Each of the partial column electrode driving circuits is allocated with a number. In each of the partial column electrode driving circuits, a shift register shifts a sample signal to sequentially output it from a plurality of outputs. At each time when a predetermined number of clock pulses have been counted, a count signal is produced. When the shift direction is set to the right direction, a signal indicating the allocated number is produced. When the shift direction is set to the left direction, a signal indicating a number, which is obtained by subtracting the allocated number from a specified number, is produced. When this number and the clock pulse count number satisfy a predetermined relationship, the sample signal is output.

Abstract: A color display device comprises a blue color emitting light source consisting of a blue color emitting fluorescent lamp or a white color emitting fluorescent lamp attached with a blue color filter, and a liquid crystal panel for controlling the transmission of the blue color light for every pixel, wherein one end of every optical fiber provided for every pixel is fixed to a position on a fiber board where every blue color signal for every pixel passing through said liquid crystal panel can be incident, and the other end thereof is fixed to a corresponding position on a printed board on which a red color emitting LED and a green color emitting LED are mounted for every pixel, to have a full-color display by controlling the drive of said red color emitting LED, green color emitting LED and liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An ergonomic keyboard which allows the user's hands to be placed in an anatomically neutral position with the palms facing each other. The main keys are arranged in vertical rows on opposite sides of a base, with the keys to be engaged by the index fingers being uppermost, and the keys to be engaged by the little fingers being lowermost. Space bars are arranged on side edges of the base such that they may be activated by pressure applied from different directions. Secondary keys, such as function keys, are arranged on inclined surfaces for improved visibility. The keyboard may be a discrete unit, or may be fixed to or integral with a data display monitor.

Abstract: A pen-type computer input device is used to move a cursor on the display of a computer system or enter data such as of figures, letters, numerals, or the like into a computer system. The pen-type computer input device includes a shank, a pen nib disposed on the tip end of the shank, and a sensor disposed in the shank, for detecting the directions in which and the distances by which the pen nib moves in two perpendicular directions in a plane, in response to movement of the pen nib, and for producing an output signal representative of the directions and distances. Since the sensor can detect the distance by which the pen nib moves without any mechanical motion transmitting mechanism incorporated in the pen nib, the pen-type computer input device may be small in size and can be handled with ease.

Abstract: Mapping an image comprised of a plurality of pixels from color to black-and-white includes determining, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the amount of a plurality of color components in a color image. Each color component is applied to its own halftone screen, each screen being comprised of a plurality of cells. Certain cells areas of each screen having been allocated to a single color component to yield texture patterns. The halftone screens of the color components are combined to yield a black-and-white textured image.

Abstract: A video display system including an energizable video display control element, a power source for generating power and a control portion. The control portion, in turn, comprises a laddic-shaped addressing element, an input wire, and enabling wire and an input addressing wire. The laddic-shaped addressing element has a pair of sidebars and plurality of rungs including an input rung, at least one addressing rung, and an enabling rung, with the sidebars having a lower magnetic reluctance than the rungs. The input wire is magnetically coupled to the input rung for generating an input flux signal in the addressing element, with the input flux signal having a direction representative of the energization state of the video display control element.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and methods for a multi-dimensional user interface for use in audio visual production. A display system including a central processing unit (CPU) is coupled through appropriate input/output (I/O) circuitry to input devices, such as a keyboard, digital pad and/or track ball as well as a display device. The CPU is further coupled to a hard disk drive for the storage of programs and data, and is also coupled to a network through which the CPU may communicate with a variety of system resource devices such as editors, music synthesizers, graphics generators, scheduling resources, audio enhancement resources, etc. A user viewing the interface on the display may utilize one of the input devices, such as by way of example, the keyboard, to select, incorporate or otherwise integrate the various system resources to develop a unified multi-media production.