Abstract: Addressing and sustaining of a surface discharge AC plasma display panel by applying addressing voltages to at least one section of the panel while at least one other section of the panel is being simultaneously sustained.

Abstract: There is provided a method of driving a cholesteric liquid crystal display (LCD) panel by sequentially applying a selection line voltage to individual scan electrode lines and simultaneously applying data signals to all data electrode lines in order to select a state of each cholesteric liquid crystal cell according to a given gray scale level. Each selection time, during which the selection line voltage is applied to a certain scan electrode line and simultaneously the data signals are applied to all of the data electrode lines, is constant. Each selection time is divided into a first part time and a second part time. A low selection line voltage is applied to a relevant scan electrode line during the first part time. A high selection line voltage having a level different from that of the low selection line voltage is applied to the relevant scan electrode line during the second part time.

Abstract: A level shifter includes first and second P-type TFTs for latching a level of first and second output nodes, first and second N-type TFTs for setting the level of the first and second output nodes, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes third to eighth N-type TFTs providing, in response to rising and falling edges of an input signal, a voltage higher than a threshold voltage of the first and second N-type TFTs, between the gate and source of the first and second N-type TFTs, and includes first and second capacitors and a resistor element. Accordingly, even if an amplitude voltage of an input signal is smaller than the threshold voltage of the first and second N-type TFTs, the level shifter operates normally.

Abstract: A back light is provided with light sources, lighting control circuits for lighting the light sources, respectively, and a brightness control circuit for outputting light volume adjusting signals to the lighting control circuits, respectively. The brightness control circuit receives a luminance adjusting signal, adjusts only a part of the light volume adjusting signals, and fixes output of the rest of the light volume adjusting signals. The lighting control circuits apply voltages corresponding to the light volume adjusting signals to the light sources, thereby adjusting the light sources in luminance. The light volume adjusting signals can be adjusted one by one, which facilitates luminance adjustment. Thus, by lighting only one light source at the minimum luminance, the screen brightness of the liquid crystal display having this back light can be lowered to an appropriate level when it is used in dark places.

Abstract: A ballistics subsystem is coupled to a force sensor of an isometric input device. The ballistics subsystem augments control by applying a dual gain transfer function that smoothly transitions from separate gain factors for low and high force inputs. When applied in a cursor device, such as a joystick or force pad, pointer movement is coupled to input force, not input displacement. Traditionally, an array of miniature strain gauges is used to measure the input force. A more recent method optimized for very low cost uses an array of capacitive sensors. Regardless of what physical mechanism is used to measure input force, customized algorithms are generally used to establish the feel and usability of an isometric joystick. The invention comprises several new methods for optimizing the use of an isometric joystick as a cursor-positioning device, altering the transfer function gain to take advantage of asymmetry, detecting selection and deselection, and combined selection and deselection.

Abstract: An image display device, a scan line drive circuit and a driver circuit for the display device capable of driving the display device having a multiplex pixel structure by simple control and utilizing a simplified gate driver. The image display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of scan lines G for supplying scan signals to turn on and off these pixel electrodes, a pulse generator for generating a shift pulse, buffers B provided corresponding to the respective scan lines G, and a shift register unit in which first and second shift registers SR1 and SR2 are alternately cascade-connected. The shift pulse is propagated through the first and the second shift registers SR1 and SR2 by outputting the shift pulse from the pulse generator to the shift register unit. In this way, the shift pulse is controlled to be propagated between a buffer B to an adjacent buffer B in one horizontal scanning cycle.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to image projection methods and apparatus for creating color or gray scale images using spatial light modulators (SLMs) without color or gray capability. The basic concept is to divide the pixels on a single SLM into multiple groups and then illuminate each group with a different primary color. The content of the single SLM panel can then be programmed as if there are multiple sub-panels illuminated with different primary colors. The combined image on the single panel therefore displays images of many colors. Illumination can be achieved by projection of a pattern of color or gray scale distribution to the surface of the SLM panel and registering the pattern to corresponding pixel groups; or can be implemented by applying a proximity pattern close to the SLM surface. This technique can be applied to volumetric 3D displays, 2D displays, and optical correlators.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device 60A includes a main display 1A and a sub-display 2A. Signals are supplied from a drive circuit 7 to first electrodes 15a and second electrodes 15b included in the main display 1A and third electrodes 15c and fourth electrodes 15d included in the sub-display 2A. Some of the first electrodes 15a of the main display 1A are electrically connected to the third electrodes 15c of the sub-display 2A.

Abstract: A background image generator 51 renders a first 3D model representing a landscape to generate a background image, an image generator 52 generates a second 3D model to be located between a camera viewpoint and the first 3D model, an image adhering unit 53 selects a specified range of the background image and adheres the background image within the selected range as a texture to the second 3D model, and a combined image generator 54 renders the second 3D model having the background image within the specified range adhered thereto and combines the rendered model with the background image to generate a combined image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for inputting and displaying data for a refrigerator, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for inputting and displaying data for a refrigerator wherein various data can be inputted and displayed in the form of images using a touchscreen. To this end, in the present invention the input and display of the characters are not made in a manner that the characters for forming the data are inputted but made in the form of the images corresponding to the characters. Thus, the input and display of the data can be performed regardless of the languages, and the regions and countries where the refrigerators are used. Accordingly, the present invention has an advantage in that the information on various data can be conveniently obtained without limitations on the function, used time and language for inputting the characters.

Abstract: A method of displaying a digital image. The method comprises the steps of: accessing a digital file comprising the digital image, the digital file including at least a first and second format, each of the at least first and second formats having digital data representing the digital image; providing at least one criterion; displaying the digital image employing the digital data of the first format if the first format fulfills the at least one criterion; and displaying the digital image employing the digital data of another format if the first format does not fulfill the at least one criterion.

Abstract: A CPU 36 of a light emitting unit 30 fetches ith bit of transmission information TX stored in a transmission data memory 33 in synchronization with a clock signal CK from a timing generator 35. The CUP 36 determines the bit value and fetches a first pattern sequence SA from a pattern data memory 44 when the bit is logic signal 1, and fetches a second pattern sequence SB from a pattern data memory 34 when the bit is logic signal 0, and outputs the first pattern sequence SA and second pattern sequence SB to a light emitting section 37. While, a CPU 39 of a light receiving unit 40 extracts a pixel area with a time sequence luminance variation pattern from a frame image captured into a capture image buffer 46, and binarizes the luminance variation pattern, and performs logic determination. A liquid crystal display 44 displays information of a light emitting area to be overlapped with a subject image.

Abstract: Provide is an input device that can be incorporated into a notebook computer that exhibits improved operability even in the case of including both a stick-type and a pad-type pointing devices. A Pad face of a pad-type pointing device is configured to incline against the horizon when a computer is used or against the operation face of a keyboard while lowering the keyboard side. A first button for stick-type pointing device, a guide member for fixing the pad face, and the pad face are configured to be adjacent to one another to make the height of the top surface of the guide member being almost as high as the top surface of the pressed first button. A button with a long stroke is used for a first button to improve usability.

Abstract: In order to provide an image display system, a projector, a program, an information storage medium, and an image processing method that make it possible to perform calibration without interrupting the display of an image for a presentation or the like, an image processing section of a projector is provided with an area identification section that identifies a display area and a non-display area, based on environmental information measured by a CCD sensor; a brightness change derivation section that derives any change in the brightness of the non-display area; a grayscale correction parameter derivation section that derives a grayscale correction parameter corresponding to the change in brightness; and a 1D-LUT generation section that generates a 1D-LUT used in the correction of brightness in accordance with the grayscale correction parameter.

Abstract: In the present invention, an input terminal of a flip-flop circuit in master slave form which is formed by connecting two inverters in a loop shape is connected to a first terminal via a first switch circuit, an output terminal of the flip-flop circuit is connected to a second terminal via a second switch circuit, a third switch circuit is provided between the path from the first switch circuit to the input terminal and the second terminal, a fourth switch circuit is provided between the path from the output terminal to the second switch circuit and the first terminal, and through turning ON the first and second switch circuits and turning OFF the third and fourth switch circuits the first terminal is rendered operable as an input terminal and the second terminal is rendered operable as an output terminal, and through turning OFF the first and second switch circuits and turning ON the third and fourth switch circuits the second terminal is rendered operable as an input terminal and the first terminal is rende

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to compensate or avoid the influence of offset in an easy and efficient manner, to correctly match the voltage of the output signal with the voltage of the input signal, that is, the target value, and to significantly reduce the current consumption. When voltage follower 32L supplies bias voltage VBn to each of constant current source circuits 58L, 60L, it acts as a source-type voltage follower. However, when the bias voltage applied to each of constant current source circuits 58L, 60L is changed from VBn to Vss of the power supply voltage level, each of constant current source circuits 58L, 60L is turned off, and no current flows through them. When the constant current source circuit 58 is turned off in differential input part 44L, the potential at the output terminal (node) NL rises almost to the level of the power supply voltage Vdd. In this way, the driving transistor 62L is also turned off in output part 46L.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention has a drain driver mounted to a display substrate and having a gate driver and a controller therein, and also has a power source mounted to a flexible printed board and supplying a power voltage to the gate driver. The wiring of a common control signal outputted from the controller and commonly used in control of the gate driver and the power source is formed on the display substrate so that the number of pads for connecting the display substrate and the flexible printed board is reduced. Thus, the construction of the flexible printed board is simplified, and the entire display device can be made compact.

Abstract: 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 mounted on a housing, includes the portable housing having an image display section provided thereon, the lid mounted for opening and closing motion on the housing for covering the display section, a lid opening/closing detection section for detecting opening or closing of the lid with respect to the housing, a display control section for displaying display data on the image display section, an audio playback section for playing back audio data relating to the display data, and a control section for controlling the audio playback section so as to play back, when opening or closing of the lid is detected by the opening/closing detection section, the audio data relating to the display data displayed when the opening or closing of the lid is detected by the lid opening/closing det

Abstract: An auto-control display device for incorporating with a lavatory system in a service area such as a lavatory, includes a sensor for sensing a use of the lavatory system, a display unit which is interacted with the sensor and is placed at an eye viewing location within the service area, and an information center, which is connected between a power source and the display unit, for storing at least an electronic information, wherein when the sensor detects the use of the lavatory system, the information center automatically activates the display unit to display the electronic information, and when the sensor detects that the use of the lavatory system is completed, the display unit is automatically deactivated by the information center.

Abstract: A Window keyboard comprises a keyboard body having a single-chip microprocessor or ASIC therein and three function key blocks thereon. The three function key blocks include a File & Clipboard block, an Office block and an Application-setting block. Those blocks are electrically connected to the single-chip microprocessor and each has a plurality function key, wherein each function key generates a composite-key code for user to execute specific functions.