Abstract: An input device and a driving device able to be made thin and secure sufficiently large vibration amplitude are provided. The input device comprises an input panel, a current conducting element for conducting a driving current, and a magnetic field application unit for applying a magnetic field on the current conducting element. Both of the current conducting element and the magnetic field application unit are arranged in the peripheral region of the input panel. The magnetic field applied by the magnetic field application unit is parallel to the input panel and intersects the current conducting element. When the input panel is touched, a driving current is fed into the current conducting element, and a force is imposed on the current conducting element and the magnetic field application unit, making them move. This movement further drives the input panel to vibrate. Consequently, input operations can be recognized by feeling the vibration of the input panel.

Abstract: A handheld or pocketsized electronic apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, having a display unit and a touch surface that is position-sensitive in a first and second direction for control of the electronic apparatus; the display unit having a display area taking up most of the front side of the apparatus and the touch surface being sufficiently narrow to fit on the side edge of the apparatus and curved in the first direction to convex shape, thus making it simple for a user to control the apparatus with one hand, without the display being hidden, and in an ergonomically correct manner, whereby control of the apparatus is attained without the use of a keyboard or similar input device.

Abstract: An integrated display system includes multiple displays and a transmissive/reflective mirror with a mirror face. Images from display areas of one or more displays are passed through the mirror face and provided to a viewer. Images from display areas of one or more displays are reflected by the mirror face and provided to the viewer. The displays are arrayed to generate a seamless composite image from the images provided by the displays.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image display device to secure uniformity of a screen without luminance unevenness by reducing the number of signal lines and enhancing accuracy in voltages to be applied to respective pixels. In an interval after a scan line Gn+2 is set to selection potential until the scan line Gn+2 is set to non-selection potential, a first display signal having first electric potential to be given to a pixel electrode A is supplied to a signal line, whereby the pixel electrode A and a pixel electrode B are provided with the first electric potential. In addition, after the scan line Gn+2 is set to the non-selection potential, a second display signal having second electric potential to be given to the pixel electrode B is supplied to the signal line, whereby the pixel electrode B is provided with the second electric potential.

Abstract: The present invention is a computerized image-viewing device that allows the user to sequentially advance or reverse stored images by voice recognition and/or other sounds wherein the voice recognition means is electronically coupled with different colored buttons located on the viewer wherein the buttons electronically illuminate by vocal, sound or computer switch input.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an LCD panel, a source driver outputting image signals to the LCD panel, a gate driver sequentially outputting scanning signals to the LCD panel. At the same time of power on, high-level bias voltages are applied to a common electrode line of the LCD panel, and simultaneously, driving of the source driver and the gate driver are stopped. After a specific time has passed, common electrode voltages are applied to the common electrode lines of the liquid crystal display instead of the high-level bias voltages to drive the source driver and the gate driver.

Abstract: An image display system includes at least one display device connected to a host device. An image is displayed on the at least one display device in accordance with an image signal which is output from the host device. The at least one display device monitors a state of coupling with the host device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels including switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, liquid crystal capacitors and storage capacitors connected to the switching elements; a gate driver for supplying gate voltages for driving the switching elements to the gate lines; a data driver for supplying gray voltages corresponding to applied data signals to the data lines; and a driving voltage generator for boosting a voltage according to a booster clock signal and for generating the gate voltages and a common voltage based on the boosted voltage, and the booster clock signal is synchronized with the common voltage.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying data categories each having a plurality of data subcategories. The apparatus comprises a display having a current luminous output capacity that is configured to produce a first visual presentation of first data subcategories and a second visual presentation of second data subcategories and a processor that is configured to control the display. The first data subcategories include one category displayed at ninety percent of the current luminous output capacity and other subcategories having a luminance difference of at least thirty percent of the current luminous output capacity. Second data subcategories have a common luminance that is thirty percent to sixty percent of the luminous output capacity of said display, a color saturation that is greater than seventy-five percent, and a transparency of at least forty percent.

Abstract: A computer system includes a system unit and a peripheral device connected by an electrical connection. The peripheral device includes a main power switch that turns power off within both the peripheral device and the system unit, together with a drive indicator light that is turned on to indicate when data is being written or read at a hard disk drive within the system unit. Preferably, the peripheral device is a display device including a screen and receiving a video signal from the system unit, with a power indicator light indicating whether power is on and whether the system unit is running in an operational state or in a suspended state. The peripheral device can also be used with a system unit not having these capabilities.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for use with a discrete bit display system such as a DLP® display system for increasing brightness by using secondary light bits (such as spoke bits that are otherwise wasted). The light available from the secondary bits is distributed over the entire input/output dynamic range by determining the maximum possible output and then defining the dynamic output range from zero to that maximum range in response to the full range of the input signals.

Abstract: A multiple channel signal acquisition device wherein each channel performs a respective rasterization process to provide respective waveform imagery, the respective waveform imagery having a display parameter reduced at a decay rate, the respective waveform imagery being propagated towards an adjacent input channel for combination, the combined image being propagated towards each remaining channel for combination into a final waveform image for display.

Abstract: The invention enhances, at low cost, the display performance of an electro-optical device to reflect the light emitted from a light-emitting layer to an electrode opposite to a substrate. Within a circuit part, a silicon layer and a condenser electrode formed from a first metal layer thereon, with a gate-insulating layer sandwiched therebetween, is provided under a pixel display part. Further, a second metal layer forms a power source line parallel to a signal line with a width covering the pixel display part and with a thickness having reflexibility. The light emitted and transmitted through an anode from an organic EL layer, is reflected upwardly by the power source line and is emitted from the pixel display part. A storage capacitor is formed in a layer below the power source line by the silicon layer, the condenser electrode, and the power source line. As a result, the space of the circuit part is efficiently used.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display with optical disk drive control functions is described. The liquid crystal display is utilized in a notebook/tablet dual-purpose computer. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of control buttons, and an option determining device. The control buttons can directly control the optical disk drive to play an optical disk content on the liquid crystal display panel after the control functions of the control buttons are set by the option determining device. The option determining device is capable of switching within predetermined working functions of the liquid crystal display. The computer is capable of playing the optical disk content as a central processing unit thereof shuts down. The option determining device further includes an option controller and an option inductor to switch the liquid crystal display to a handwriting input panel and set the functions of the control buttons.

Abstract: Each pixel of a display device has a current supply circuit, a switch portion, and a light emitting element. The light emitting element, the current supply circuit, and the switch portion are connected in series between a power supply reference line and a power supply line. The switch portion is switched between ON and OFF using a digital video signal. The amount of constant current flowing in the current supply circuit is determined by a control signal inputted from the outside of the pixel. When the switch portion is ON, a constant current determined by the current supply circuit flows in the light emitting element and light is emitted.

Abstract: The invention provides an information processing apparatus wherein playback of display data and playback of audio data relating to the display data are changed over in an associated relationship with each other in response to an open or closed state of a lid with respect to a housing.

Abstract: A flat display device includes pixels, thin-film transistors, gate electrodes, source electrodes, storage capacitance elements, first storage capacitance electrodes, and second storage capacitance electrodes. A first compensation voltage that is applied to each of the first storage capacitance electrodes and a second compensation voltage that is applied to each of the second storage capacitance electrodes have mutually different voltage polarities. A polarity of a video signal voltage, which is applied via the source electrode to a source terminal of the thin-film transistor, which is included in the thin-film transistors connected to the same gate electrode and is connected to the first storage capacitance electrode, is set to be opposite to a polarity of a video signal voltage, which is applied via the source electrode to a source terminal of the thin-film transistor that is connected to the second storage capacitance electrode.

Abstract: It is intended to solve the problem that, when an operator performs an operation using two-dimensional input means while seeing a picture frame seen from a viewpoint of the operator, an input operation is difficult to perform when the direction of the line of sight of the operator is unstable, since a designated direction greatly deviates in a world coordinate system. For that purpose, viewpoint information is detected, and an instruction of the operator for operating a position of a pointer image is input. A designated direction in a pointer coordinate system is obtained in accordance with the operator's instruction, and the pointer image is generated based on the designated direction. The pointer coordinate system is changed from the detected viewpoint information in accordance with a specific instruction of the operator.

Abstract: When time division gradation display is carried out by setting a display state of an electro-optic element capable of R-gradation display A times in one frame period, the present invention determines the weights of the bit data to be such as 20:21:22:23?1: . . . , in which a conventional ratio regulation of 20:21:22:23: . . . i.e., 1:2:4:8: . . . is changed by at least one part at or later the third bit so as to satisfy the relation of B<RA where B expresses the number of display gradations. With this arrangement, it is possible to realize the time division gradation display with a desirable number of scanning lines and the desirable bit weight ratio, without significantly changing the actually-recognized image. On this account, the range of the electro-optic device, capable of setting each stage of outputs in the frame period to be a desirable value, can be enlarged with respect to a matrix display device using the time division gradation display.

Abstract: It has a gradation voltage generation circuit 1 for generating a plurality of voltage values suited to gamma characteristics of a liquid crystal and so on, a digital image data storage circuit 3 for storing digital image data displayed on a display device, a gradation voltage selection circuit 2 for selecting one value according to digital data stored by the digital image data storage circuit 3 from the plurality of voltage values generated by the gradation voltage generation circuit 1, an amplifier 4 for receiving a voltage selected according to the digital image data and driving a data line of the liquid crystal and so on at a predetermined voltage, a voltage detection circuit 7 for detecting voltage variations of the amplifier 4, a correction data storage circuit 6 for storing a state of the voltage variations of the amplifier 4, and a voltage correction circuit 5 for correcting output voltage variations of the amplifier 4.