Abstract: Energy recovery for an AC gas discharge PDP wherein the PDP has a multi phase sustain and energy is transferred between sections of the PDP instead of to an external capacitor.

Abstract: To provide a display device capable of displaying a good quality image. According to the present invention, there is provided a display device comprising: a display panel composed of a pixel portion in which a plurality of TFTs are arranged in matrix, a source driver, and a gate driver; an image signal processing circuit for processing an image signal input from an external; and a control circuit for controlling the display panel and the image signal processing circuit, characterized in that the image signal processing circuit corrects the image signal on the basis of a correction table and feeds the display panel with the corrected image signal.

Abstract: An electronic device, for example a handheld telephone, having an integrated joystick with a conductive contact surface disposed toward a printed circuit board (PCB). The joystick is aligned with a neutral position contact portion of the PCB when the joystick is in a neutral position. A joystick contact region of the PCB has a plurality of directional contacts disposed circumferentially around the neutral position portion, corresponding to different joystick input directions. The conductive portion of the joystick electrically interconnects a ground contact with a corresponding one of the directional switch contacts when the joystick is pivoted in a corresponding input direction.

Abstract: The object is to realize format conversion in inputting an image signal corresponding to conventional low resolution (hereafter referred to as a video signal) to an active matrix semiconductor display device or to a passive matrix semiconductor display device corresponding to recent high resolution, and at the same time to provide a novel method of driving capable of improving the resolution in an outline portion of an image. With the driving method of the present invention, conversion of a screen size which is not capable of being completely performed by only lowering a clock frequency, can be completely performed by artificially reducing the number of scans of gate signal lines in accordance with outputting a gate selection pulse at a timing for simultaneously selecting a plurality of gate signal lines using a modulated clock signal in which a clock signal has been modulated at a constant period.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data driver on which an operation test can be easily and reliably conducted at the stage of manufacture and for which the testing time can be reduced and a display utilizing the same. A select switch portion 60 is provided for electrically connecting and disconnecting a ladder resistor portion 56 and selector portions 58. At the ends of wiring of grayscale voltage lines l1 through l64 opposite to the ladder resistor portion 56, there is provided a state setting circuit 62 which sets each of the grayscale lines l1 through l64 at a “High” level or a “Low” level or which sets the ends of the grayscale voltage lines l1 through l64 in a high impedance state. The state setting circuit 62 is further connected to a testing control portion 64 incorporating a shift register which operates in synchronism with a test clock TST-CLK.

Abstract: A parallax panoramagram has increased depth and sharpness when a sharpness filter is applied after interdigitation of multiple image portions. An optical path of wave train (204) (on-axis) and wave train (205) (off-axis) intersect a single lenticle (201). The lenticle has a focal length (208) and the on-axis (204) and off-axis (205) wave trains correspond to different stripes. These wave trains (204 and 205) comme to focus at points (206 and 207) respectively. The surface (202) has a cylindrical curvature, and bracket (203) denotes the width of the lenticle (201). Each eye of the observer sees its own perspective view when looking at a lenticular stereogram.

Abstract: In the touch panel of an analog resistance film form having independent connection electrodes to be connected via a conductive adhesive (5) to lead electrodes (13,14) set to an opposing panel, the conductive adhesive is made up of a main conductive filler (51) of flakes or spheres of a particle size of 1-20 ?m or short fibers of a length of 1-20 ?m and a spherical auxiliary conductive filler (52) having an insulating core material (52a) coated with a conductive layer (52b) and a larger particle size by 10-100 ?m than a minimum distance of contact faces of the electrodes, both fillers dispersed in a binder, whereby the auxiliary conductive filler is always kept in touch with the lead electrodes and connection electrodes.

Abstract: A frequency monitoring circuit supplies a signal for selecting a sequence data set to a sequence data storage circuit when a frequency of a vertical synchronization signal which is input through an input terminal is higher than a predetermined frequency, in order to generate a shortened sub field sequence by a sequence generator circuit. The sequence generator circuit reads the sequence data set, which is allowed to be read by the sequence generator circuit based on the signal supplied, from the frequency monitoring circuit from the sequence data storage circuit. The sequence generator circuit generates a drive sequence based on the read sequence data set. The sequence generator circuit supplies the generated drive sequence to a data selector circuit and a drive circuit to drive a plasma display panel properly.

Abstract: An active matrix type display includes a pair of substrates, main surfaces thereof facing each other, a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix shape on the substrates, scanning lines arranged corresponding to the rows of pixels, signal lines arranged corresponding to the columns of pixels, a row line driving circuit connected to the scanning lines for selecting pixels row by row, a column line driving circuit connected to the signal lines for writing a picture signal to the selected pixels, and a signal processing circuit supplied with a block segmented picture signal having M pixel signals in the column direction and N pixel signals in the row direction and for processing the block segmented picture signal (M and N are positive integers greater than 1) according to a block of m rows by n columns (m and n are positive integers greater than 1).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to reduce the number of inputs to LCD driver chips, and to suppress the occurrence of variances between the chips. A ten bit wide binary counter 202 is self activated in synchronization with a system clock. Each of multiple five-step shift registers 200 having ten bit widths stores gamma compensation data received from a PC. Each of multiple comparators 204 compares a binary counter value (X) with a value (Y) stored in a ten bit wide five-step shift register 200, and converts the gamma compensation data into a pulse width. The output of each comparator 204 is latched by each of multiple D-FFs 206 in synchronization with the system clock, and each of multiple time/voltage converters 208 passes the output of a D-FF 206 through an LPF and generates a reference gamma compensation voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of chiral nematic liquid crystal display layers stacked on each other. To compensate temperature dependency, a control unit, in accordance with a temperature detected by a temperature detection unit, adjusts at least one of a voltage level and a pulse width of a pulse signal be applied to at least one of the liquid crystal display. In one embodiment, the control unit retrieves the detected temperature before driving the liquid crystal display successively, and commonly uses the detected temperature for the successive drives. In another embodiment, the control unit does not adjust a voltage level nor a pulse width of a first reset pulse signal that is for setting the liquid crystal material to a homeotropic phase regardless of the detected temperature.

Abstract: A display connector includes a body having a mounting portion on one surface, a detachably installed display member, a pair of rotation pins in the mounting portion, a pair of rotating fixing brackets for the rotation pins, a locking feature, an unlocking feature, and a rotating light emitter coupled to either of rotation pin with a laser diode array. Each diode in the array independently radiates light according to a driving signal. A light receiving module in the display faces the light emitting module when the display is mounted on the body, and has a photo diode array for receiving the output of the laser diode array. The picture signal is transmitted from the body to the rotatably-connected display using the light.

Abstract: A device is miniaturized by efficiently using an area on a substrate in a liquid-crystal device, and the like, of a type in which a driving circuit is contained and plural data lines are driven simultaneously. On a substrate of a liquid-crystal device, a sampling circuit for sampling an image signal, and a data line driving circuit for supplying a sampling control signal simultaneously to each group of sampling switches connected to plural adjacent data lines are provided. The data line driving circuit includes a buffer circuit including inverters having thin-film transistors for shaping the waveform of a transfer signal which is input from a shift register circuit and for outputting it as a sampling control signal in such a manner as to correspond to each latch circuit. This thin-film transistor, whose direction of its channel width is in the horizontal direction, includes a channel portion having a channel width equal to the width of plural data lines.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display system which includes a processor and a display device is described. The processor parses a left eye image of a stereoscopic image into a plurality of vertical left eye strips and parses a right eye image of the stereoscopic image into a plurality of vertical right eye strips. The processor then combines the left eye strips and the right eye strips into a display image by interleaving the left eye strips with the right eye strips. The display image is provided to the display device, which includes a lenticular layer which acts as a light guide to steer light from each of the left eye strips and the right eye strips to no more than one corresponding eye of a left eye and a right eye of a viewer, such that the viewer can perceive the display image as having three-dimensions without using special goggles, glasses, or the like.

Abstract: Surface acoustic waves are excited in two diagonal directions from each of IDTs (excitation elements) disposed on the upper side and the lower side of a non-piezoelectric substrate, and the surface acoustic waves propagated on a detection region are received by IDTs (receiving elements) disposed on the left side and right side of the non-piezoelectric substrate so that a position of an object touching the non-piezoelectric substrate is detected based on the reception results. In each IDT, comb-like electrode fingers are joined to two facing electrode bases (signal electrode and ground electrode) in such a manner that the comb-like electrode fingers are inclined from a facing direction of the electrode bases.

Abstract: An improved head-up display enables a user to view a light emitting display and an ambient environment simultaneously. The improved display comprises a light-transmissive block allowing the transmission of light from the ambient environment to the user's eye through the block from a first surface to a second surface opposing the first surface. A light emitting display is located on a third surface of the block, the third surface being substantially perpendicular to the first and second surfaces. A beam splitter has a plane surface arranged at substantially 45 degrees to the first and second surfaces, so as to reflect light from the light emitting display through the second surface. A shutter is located on the first surface and is adapted to block the transmission of light from the ambient environment to the user's eye. This provides a dark background for the light emitting display.

Abstract: An improved touch screen controller including a comparator and an analog-to-digital converter. The comparator of the touch screen controller detects a touch of the touch screen while the analog-to-digital converter is powered down. The Data Out (DOUT) line of the touch screen controller is used to signal the microprocessor that a touch has occurred. The unique structure of the improved touch screen controller and the fast switching edges of the comparator output signal provide for a faster touch screen controller that consumes little power without requiring a dedicated pin for the touch signal.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data among various memory units of one or more position measuring devices, specific data pertaining to the position measuring device being stored in the memory units. Data are transmitted via a data transmission line, from a first memory unit into a second memory unit, so that once the data are transmitted, the identical, specific data are at least partially contained in both memory units.

Abstract: An improved coordinates input apparatus for designating a particular set of coordinates in three-dimensional space comprises a first magnet and a second magnet disposed so that respective, identical magnetic poles thereof are opposite each other with a gap therebetween. The second magnet is disposed so as to be tiltable in response to forces acting thereupon. The forces include a repulsive force arising between the first magnet and the second magnet and a pressing force exerted on the second magnet. A plurality of magnetoelectric transducers are disposed opposite the second magnet and surrounding the gap, and produce output voltages having values that vary according to a change in the gap between the magnetoelectric transducers and the second magnet, such that the differential voltage values of the transducer outputs indicate a set of X,Y coordinates in two-dimensional space.

Abstract: A storage capacitance Cs0 (=Cs+Csadd) added to a pixel capacitance is set such that a transmittance T1 at a voltage V1 of a pixel electrode becomes substantially equal to a transmittance T2 at a voltage V2 of the pixel electrode when a holding period is terminated. In the case of a normally black type liquid crystal display device, for example, when it is assumed that a white data voltage is VdW, a liquid crystal capacitance in white display is ClcW, and a liquid crystal capacitance in black display is ClcB, a capacitance value of the storage capacitance Cs0 is set such that difference between the transmittance obtained at the pixel voltage, that is changed by an amount of variation &Dgr;Vs of a pixel voltage expressed by &Dgr;Vs=VdW((ClcW−ClcB)/(ClcW+Cs0)), and the transmittance obtained at the white data voltage VdW can be reduced smaller than 13% of the transmittance obtained at the white data voltage VdW.