Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a pupil tracking system and method, and digital display device and digital image rendering system and method using same. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for improving a perceptive experience of light field content projected via a light field display within a light field viewing zone comprises sequentially acquiring a user feature location, and comparing a velocity computed therefrom with a designated threshold velocity. Upon the velocity corresponding with a transition from a relatively dynamic to a relatively static state, a rendering geometry of the light field content is adjusted to project the light field content within an adjusted light field viewing zone in accordance with a newly acquired user feature location.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program are described to determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device, identify potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around a user device based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, and compensate for the potentially problematic sources of reflection.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an input device and corresponding method which digitizes and transforms minute hand movements and gestures into user interface commands without interfering with the normal use of one's hands. The device and method may, for example, determine user actions based on detected user action characteristics from a plurality of sensors, where the sensors are preferably of different types.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display having a display area, a size of the display area visually exposed in a first state is reduced and a size of the display area visually exposed in a second state is enlarged, and a processor, the processor configured to acquire state information of the electronic device, successively display a first and a second preview images on the display, based on the state information of the electronic device, the first preview image includes a first area of a specified image and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the first state, the second preview image comprises a second area including the first area and a further area extending from the first area, and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the second state, and specify the image as a background screen, based on a first user input.

Abstract: A system includes an electronic contact lens that can detect eye gestures for initiating various actions. The electronic contact lens includes integrated sensors for obtaining sensor measurements characterizing eye motion. The sensor measurements are processed to detect gestures mapped to specific actions such as changing a power state of the electronic contact lens, activating or deactivating a user interface or other feature, or selecting an item from a virtual menu. The eye gestures may involve the user sequentially stabilizing at a starting pitch, executing a first motion that crosses a first pitch threshold, executing a second motion that crosses a second pitch threshold in an opposite direction from the starting pitch, and stabilizing at an ending pitch.

Abstract: An electronic device capable of efficiently recognizing a handwritten character is provided. The electronic device includes a first circuit, a display portion, and a touch sensor. The first circuit includes a neural network. The display portion includes a flexible display. The touch sensor has the function of outputting an input handwritten character as image information to the first circuit. The first circuit has the function of analyzing the image information and converting the image information into character information, and a function of displaying an image including the character information on the display portion. The analysis is performed by inference through the use of the neural network.

Abstract: A computing device configured for screen-to-screen (STS) communication, the computing device comprising an interface, memory and a processing module coupled to the memory and the interface. The processing module is configured to determine, for an interaction between a user computing device and an interactive computing device, an interaction type associated with the interaction and determine one or more data types for supporting the interaction. The processing module is further configured to determine available communication types for supporting the interaction and determine data type communication restrictions for the one or more data types, where a first data type is restricted to an STS communication via a transmission medium that includes one of a body as a network, a close proximity and a physical surface. The processing module is further configured to determine whether the available communication types allow for the interaction and when allowed, set up communications for executing the interaction.

Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a light modulator, and a control apparatus, the light modulator includes a digital micromirror array including micromirrors and is arranged on a light path of light emitted by the light source and configured to modulate the light emitted by the light source based on a target image and luminance of the light source to obtain a grayscale image. The control apparatus is configured to control a driving current of the light source to adjust the luminance of the light source in different periods within a frame image, and to cause a driving current overdrive pulse of the light source during at least one of the periods, so that a display bit depth of the grayscale image increases from n to n+i and the periods correspond to bitplanes of the grayscale image in one-to-one correspondence, i?1 and i is an integer.

Abstract: A display device includes a display driving controller receiving input image data, a synchronization signal, and a voltage control signal, and generating image data based on the input image data and the synchronization signal, a display panel including pixels disposed on a display area and displaying an image on the display area based on the image data, and a touch sensor including sensing electrodes on a sensing area, and detecting a touch input generated in the sensing area by driving the sensing electrodes. The display driving controller generates a second level of the synchronization signal by changing a voltage level of the synchronization signal having a first level based on the voltage control signal, and provides the synchronization signal having the second level to the touch sensor. The touch sensor deactivates at least a partial area of the sensing area in response to the synchronization signal having the second level.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for generating an image by way of acquiring information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of a camera operated by a user. The image is generated for display on a display unit viewed by the user. A rate at which the image is generated is at a first frequency, which is lower than a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the display unit.

Abstract: A laser projection device includes at least one first reflector element, which is linearly movable. A period of the at least one first reflector element corresponds to a period of time for reproducing a single. The laser projection device includes at least one second reflector element, which is movable in a sinusoidal manner, a semiperiod of a sine corresponding to one line. The at least one first reflector element and the at least one second reflector element are movable about two axes at least substantially perpendicular to each other. The laser projection device includes at least one control and/or regulating unit, which is configured to control and/or regulate the at least one first reflector element.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first partial panel region and a second partial panel region, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines a first driving frequency for the first partial panel region and a second driving frequency for the second partial panel region. In a case where the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency are different from each other, the panel driver sets a boundary portion including a boundary between the first partial panel region and the second partial panel region, and determines a third driving frequency for the boundary portion to be between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.

Abstract: A display panel includes a second display region and a first display region arranged side by side in a direction in which data signal lines extend, and a source driver provided in a picture-frame region close to the second display region. The display panel further includes a switching signal line disposed between the second display region and the first display region, and a plurality of switches provided at intersecting portions of the data signal lines and the switching signal line. Each of the plurality of switches is connected at a control terminal thereof to the switching signal line, connected at a first conductive terminal thereof to a data signal line disposed in the first display region, and connected at a second conductive terminal thereof to a data signal line disposed in the second display region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel, a shift device and a display control circuit. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of panel pixels. The shift device shifts projection positions of the plurality of panel pixels. The display control circuit controls the liquid crystal panel to cause one of the panel pixels to represent k (k is an integer equal to or more than 3) display pixels that are in a non-adjacent relationship in k unit periods in a frame period, and the display control circuit controls the shift device to vary the projection position for each of the k unit periods.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a module layer and a protective layer, a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a non-display area of the display panel is greater than a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a display area, and the display panel is further provided with a reinforcing layer in the non-display area at a same time. The present disclosure can effectively support the protective layer in the non-display area and prevent dents of the display panel by the reinforcing layer, thereby improving reliability and quality of the display panel.

Abstract: Devices, methods and systems for controlling an electronic device using force-based gestures are described. Force data from one or more force sensors, representing a force input to the electronic device, is monitored to determine any force data exceeding a defined first magnitude threshold. In response to determining force data from at least one force sensor exceeding the first magnitude threshold, an edge location or a corner location of the force input is determined. The force input is processed as a force gesture in accordance with the determined edge location or the determined corner location. Haptic feedback is generated concurrently with processing the force gesture.

Abstract: A display device includes a sensor pixel set having a maximal sensor pixel brightness value SV, a display pixel set having a display pixel brightness value DV, and a blurring pixel set disposed between the sensor pixel set and the display pixel set and having a blurring pixel brightness value BV. A minimal distance between the blurring pixel set and the sensor pixel set is Z and a minimal distance between the blurring pixel set and the display pixel set is (1?Z) to satisfy: BV=(1?Z)*SV+Z*DV.

Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a movement amount acquirer, a movement amount corrector, and an input processor is provided. The display apparatus acquires a first movement amount of a user's finger in a vertical direction with respect to a virtual operation surface and a second movement amount thereof in a horizontal direction. The display apparatus corrects the first movement amount or the second movement amount when it determines that the input operation is a predetermined operation, and inputs an input operation based on the first movement amount and the second movement amount. When it is determined that the input operation is to move the user's finger in the vertical direction with respect to the virtual operation surface, the display apparatus corrects the second movement amount.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first chassis, a second chassis rotatably connected to the first chassis through a hinge, a display having an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel stored in the first chassis, and a control board stored in the second chassis and mounted with a control unit that controls driving of the OLED panel and a first connector. The display includes a Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) that electrically connects the OLED panel and the control board, and a non-volatile memory that stores first correction data based on an initial state of each pixel of the OLED panel and second correction data based on a usage status of each of the pixels of the OLED panel. The display also includes a second connector connected to the first connector.

Abstract: A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on a touchscreen of the electronic device, detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation from a user, taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation, displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot, detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image, updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation, and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen.