Abstract: Determining a horizontal resolution and a phase of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of scan lines each formed of a number of pixels is described. A number of initialization values are set where at least one of the initialization values is a current horizontal resolution and then a difference value for each immediately adjacent ones of the pixels is determined. Next, an edge flag value based upon the difference value is stored in at least one of a number of accumulators such that when at least one of the accumulators has a stored edge flag value that is substantially greater than those stored edge flag values in the other accumulators, then the horizontal resolution is set to the current resolution.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention has an incorporated charge pump control circuit and a clock frequency of a switching element can be varied according to a display mode to reduce the power consumption. On the display device, a variable frequency-dividing circuit and a CPU to control the circuit are configured with thin film transistors. A clock frequency of a switching element is varied by controlling a dividing ratio of the variable frequency-dividing circuit on the basis of CPU data.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driver element that is supplied with a potential from a data line. The driver element controls a value of current passing through an electric light emitting element. Upon obtaining a threshold voltage, a conductive member connected to the electric light emitting element is made to be a floating state to cause the driver element to become on-state, variations in the potential of the conductive member caused by charges passing through the driver element to flow into the conductive member are detected by a threshold voltage detector to obtain the threshold voltage of the driver element.

Abstract: A touch system comprises overlapping coordinate input sub-regions defining a generally contiguous input surface. Each coordinate input sub-region generates pointer coordinate data in response to pointer contacts thereon. When a pointer contact is made on a region of a coordinate input sub-region that overlaps with an adjacent coordinate input sub-region, each overlapping coordinate input sub-region processes acquired images to derive pointer data and triangulates the position of the pointer using the derived pointer data. Thereafter, the triangulated positions generated by the overlapping coordinate input sub-regions are processed in accordance with defined logic thereby to determine the position of the pointer contact relative to the touch surface.

Abstract: In an apparatus and method of reproducing a subtitle recorded in a digital versatile disk player including a subtitle processing section for receiving, storing and reproducing multilingual subtitles, as well as video data and audio data of multiple titles which are recorded at initially manufacturing an optical disc, in which users can watch a movie in their specified language, the apparatus of reproducing a subtitle used in a DVD player includes a subtitle information processing section for receiving and storing a subtitle of a language wanted by a user, and reproducing the subtitle information of the language wanted by the user on a screen.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image with a display device having a set of defective display pixels includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data. The method includes selecting a first position and a second position spatially offset from the first position, the first and the second positions selected based on positions of the defective display pixels and characteristics of a human visual system. The method includes alternating between displaying the first sub-frame in the first position and displaying the second sub-frame in the second position.

Abstract: A display panel drive suppresses dither patterns in a displayed image. Each of the display lines of the panel is divided into M display line groups including a group of [M?(k?1)+1]th display lines (where M is a natural number, and k is a natural number of n/M or smaller), a group of [M?(k?1)+2]th display lines, . . . and a group of [M?(k?1)+M]th display lines. A different offset value is added to pixel data corresponding to each display line group to derive multi-grayscale pixel data. Then, a lighting or extinction mode setting is done based on the pixel data with respect to each pixel cell belonging to the display line groups, each different in at least M subsubfields among subfields constituting a video signal field. In one example, the luminance levels represented by the pixel cells vertically adjacent to one another in a screen are varied.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, which is designed to display a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen and to perform an input processing corresponding to the operation of one or more of the keys. The display control device is operable, based on an evaluation value representing the operational status of each of the keys, which is derived from the relative operation number of each of the keys in a given period of time, to vary the respective display colors of the display areas for the keys in a stepwise manner using a color gradation from a color with high visibility to a color with low visibility in the order of higher score of the evaluation value.

Abstract: An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combinations thereof to provide arranged data in response to the provided data. The display is configured to display the arranged data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of increasing a perceived resolution of a display includes directing light at a optical dithering element and repeatedly transitioning the optical dithering element from a first position to a second position and then back to the first position such that the mirror alternately reflects light to a first position on the display and then to a second position on the display. Each transition of the mirror includes controlling any overshoot or ringing in the position of the optical dithering element by providing a predetermined drive signal to the optical dithering element to smoothly accelerate and decelerate the element during the traverse between the first and second positions.

Abstract: To provide a display device and an electronic apparatus including a radio communication device, an embodiment of the radio communication device being an IC tag, which do not need a special space to attach the IC tag and is capable of reducing the amount of time and effort required for attaching the IC tag, a display device including a radio communication device having at least one substrate provided with a display unit and display-unit-driving wiring lines 9 and 10, a communication integrated-circuit unit, and an antenna is provided. At least a part of the antenna is formed on the substrate and formed of a conductor formed in the same layer as a conductor that constitute the display unit or conductors that constitute the display-unit-driving wiring lines.

Abstract: A non-linear editing (NLE) system for editing and/or modifying 3D animation information comprises elements represented by clip objects which can be positioned and/or manipulated relative to a time line. The elements can comprise conventional 1D (audio) or 2D (video) information or can comprise 3D animation information which can include animation objects and animation parameters associated with them, as well as 2D renderings of those objects. Positioning and/or manipulation of clip objects representing 3D animation elements can result in alteration of the 2D rendering and or re-rendering of the 3D information, as appropriate.

Abstract: An image display system includes a screen comprising a pair of substrates with transparent electrodes provided thereon, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a cured resin and being capable of exhibiting a light transmissive state and a light scattering state; and an image-projecting unit for projecting an image on the screen; wherein a frame comprising a combination of the light transmissive state and the light scattering state as a minimum repetitive satisfies a certain relationship.

Abstract: A mobile electronic device has a thumbwheel subassembly having measurable rotatable and depressible input movements, for example, rolling the thumbwheel up, rolling the thumbwheel down and pushing the thumbwheel inwards. Pushing the thumbwheel with a measurable component of downward force may result in inadvertent rolling of the thumbwheel down. Software or hardware may be used to cancel the inadvertent rolling of the thumbwheel down when the timing of the push and the roll are too close. The thumbwheel assembly may be oriented in the device so that the direction of depressible input movement of the thumbwheel is substantially aligned with the direction of the push by a user's thumb or finger that includes a measurable component of downward force.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided.

Abstract: A chained image display apparatus having a mutual examining function where a plurality of image display apparatuses, controlled by a central control unit and connected in series, recognize interruption of power to an image display apparatus and correspondingly notify the central control unit. The chained image display apparatus may include a control signal driving unit converting a control signal inputted to the image display apparatuses into a control signal having a predetermined level and buffering the control signal having the predetermined level, and an examining unit transmitting an alert signal, in response to a power supply to an image display apparatus among the plurality of image display apparatuses being interrupted, to next and previous image display apparatuses which are connected to the image display apparatus to which the power supply was interrupted, indicating that the power supply to the image display apparatus is interrupted.

Abstract: A method of spatial visualization in which several views are decomposed into bits of partial information, which are made optically visible by image rendering elements. Neighboring image rendering elements emit light of different wavelengths or wavelength ranges. Propagation directions for the light are given by wavelength filters such that an observer will see predominantly bits of partial information of a first selection of views with one eye and predominantly bits of partial information of a second selection with the other eye. At least one image rendering element is simultaneously allocated bits of partial information from at least two different views. The allocation is made in such a way that the wavelength of the partial information is always equal to the wavelength, or lies in the wavelength range, of the light emitted by the allocated image rendering element.

Abstract: A detectable flat panel display and a recognition system therefor. The detectable flat panel display includes a substrate including a circuit region and a display region, a circuit device disposed on the circuit region of the substrate, a display device disposed in the display region of the substrate, and a metal pattern. The metal pattern can be formed in the circuit or display region and can reflect light such that the reflected light is detectable by recognition equipment.

Abstract: Digital signals are converted between a first and second format by a conversion process including generating coefficients representing the digital signals. The coefficients may be discrete cosine transform coefficient generated during encoding/transcoding of MPEG signals. The coefficients are subject to quantization by generating a dither signal that is added to the coefficients before quantization to generate a quantized signal. Preferably, each coefficient is first subject to a first quantization in the absence of any dither signal added to generate an undithered quantized coefficient. If the undithered quantized signal is equal to zero the undithered quantized coefficient is taken as the output quantized signal. If the undithered quantized coefficient is different from zero, the dither signal is added and the dithered coefficient thus obtained is subject to quantization to generate the output quantized signal.