Abstract: An automatic exposure control apparatus employed by an image sensor module including a lens unit, an image sensing unit having a shutter, and an image signal processing unit, the apparatus including: a brightness calculator extracting average brightness of a image signal; a brightness adjustment determiner determining whether to fix or adjust a speed of the shutter based on the average brightness; an adjustment path controller controlling the speed of the shutter by using the brightness error; a digital filter filtering the brightness error; a shutter speed adjuster adjusting a present shutter speed value by using one of the brightness error and the filtered brightness; and a shutter speed controller controlling a speed of the shutter by using the adjusted shutter speed value

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving part, a gate driving part and a gate selecting part. The display panel has source lines and gate lines intersecting the source lines. The driving part converts original data signals received through an interlaced scan method into analog-type data voltages and outputs the data voltages to the source lines. The gate driving part sequentially outputs gate signals. The gate selecting part selectively outputs the gate signals to odd-numbered gate lines and even-numbered gate lines corresponding to the data voltages output to the source lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus and method for automatically sensing and compensating a delay time of a gate signal fed to the LCD display panel. The LCD panel includes a signal converter for generating a power clock signal, a delay controller for generating a delay control signal corresponding to the delay value of the gate signal by comparing the power clock signal with a signal derived from the data lines, and a pixel voltage signal generator for supplying a pixel voltage signal to the data lines of the LCD panel in response to the delay control signal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixels and blocks of shift registers that are connected to one another for temporarily storing data signals and from which the data signal outputs are sequentially applied to drive the pixels. Each of the shift registers receives a shift start signal and at least one of first and second clock signals, of which phases are opposite to each other, and a high period of the shift start signal corresponds to two cycles of the respective clock signals so that each pixel is pre-charged from the data signal from previous block of registers before receiving the data signal for the current block thereby preventing a boundary between blocks from being visually recognized.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for processing image data of an optical mouse. In the method for processing image data of an optical mouse, direction and size values of motion vectors which are image data consecutively inputted from an image pixel array are filtered with respect to X and Y axes by a filter. A predetermined number of motion vectors converted by and outputted from the filter are accumulated, and the accumulated values are mapped to conversion values to attenuate noise components and amplify directionality of the motion vectors depending on a speed of the optical mouse by a mapper. The values mapped by the mapper in a plurality of pipes are stored, and a value obtained by adding the plural stored values to each other and dividing the added result value by a conversion factor is transmitted to a personal computer (PC) interface such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or PS/2.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes an LCD panel and a driving module. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixel parts, each including a transmitting portion and a reflecting portion. The transmitting portion has a first switching element electrically connected to a first gate line, and a first liquid crystal capacitor electrically connected to the first switching element. The reflecting portion has a second switching element electrically connected to a second gate line, and a second liquid crystal capacitor electrically connected to the second switching element. The driving module applies a first common voltage to the first liquid crystal capacitor during turning-on of the first switching element, and applies a second common voltage to the second liquid crystal capacitor during turning-on of the second switching element. Therefore, an image display quality is improved.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a signal controller synthesizing first and second signals, respectively, having first and second signal levels to output a synthesized signal having third to fifth signal levels, a signal extracting unit extracting the first and second control signals from the synthesized signal, a gate driver generating gate signals based on the first control signal, and a data driver generating data signals based on the second control signal.

Abstract: An optical navigation sensor device and an image processing method using a 2-dimensional sequential image process are disclosed. A pre-processor stores digital voltage values of respective pixels of an image received from a pre-processor in a memory, performs a pre-process for the digital voltage values of respective pixels sequentially received from the memory, thereby producing a pre-processed current image, and extracts a pre-processed current central image from the pre-processed current image. A motion coordinate calculator stores the pre-processed current central image as X/Y-axis reference image candidates, determines replacement of X/Y-axis reference images for calculation of motion coordinate values of a next pre-processed image in accordance with X/Y-axis motions of the pre-processed current image, and compares the pre-processed current image with the X/Y-axis reference images, thereby calculating X/Y-axis motion coordinate values of the pre-processed current image.

Abstract: There are provided a TFT, a TFT substrate using the TFT, a method of fabricating the TFT substrate, and an LCD. The TFT includes a source region, a drain region, and a gate electrode having an opening. The opening of the gate electrode is to enhance the light sensing ability of the TFT when it is used as a light sensor, since light is incident into a region where the opening is formed. The TFT including the gate having the opening can be used in a substrate of a flat display or an LCD using such a substrate. The above TFT can sense light incident from outside the display to adjust the brightness of the screen according to the external illumination.

Abstract: A display apparatus is implemented using an SOG or SOP technology that can integrate a plurality of circuit elements on a single substrate. The display apparatus does not include a separate frame memory. Instead of the separate frame memory, the display apparatus uses a predetermined region of a memory provided in a host by allocating it as a frame memory region. Since an image signal transmitted/received between the display apparatus and the host has a coded format, a chip size of the display apparatus and an information processing system with the same is reduced and an amount of transmission data is also reduced.

Abstract: An LCD device includes an LCD panel, a source driving part, an operating part, a mean voltage generating part, and a pre-charging part. The LCD panel includes a switching element and a liquid crystal capacitor. The switching element is formed in a region defined by gate and source lines adjacent to each other. The liquid crystal capacitor is electrically connected to the switching element. The source driving part converts data signals into data voltages of analog type. The operating part determines a mean data signal of the data signals. The mean voltage generating part converts the mean data signal into a mean data voltage of analog type. The pre-charging part selectively applies the data voltages and the mean data voltage to the source lines, thereby improving an image display quality of the LCD device.

Abstract: Provided are a circuit board and a display device having the circuit board. The circuit board includes a first surface opposite to a second surface and a first and a second wire disposed on the first surface. The circuit board is attached substantially to one side of the display panel unit.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display, including a signal line transmitting a gate voltage, a gate voltage generator generating the gate voltage, a switching unit disposed between the gate voltage generator and a gate voltage line, and a signal controller generating a control signal for control of the switching unit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of processing data of an optical mouse. The method includes the steps of calculating a motion vector of the optical mouse through processing of digitally converted image pixel data in an Image Signal Processor (ISP) by sequentially overlapping a reference image of an n?1 th frame to a present image of an nth frame and determining a moving direction of the optical mouse using approximately equal parts in the reference and present images; and transmitting the calculated motion vector to a personal computer through an interface; wherein the ISP includes an X axis navigation engine for processing data on a reference image for the motion of an X axis direction among the processed image pixel data and a Y axis navigation engine for processing data on a reference image for the motion of a Y axis direction among the processed image pixel data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single integrated circuit for an optical mouse. The circuit includes an image pixel array for recognizing light and shadow of a surface under the optical mouse, an analog-to-digital converter for receiving analog signal from the image pixel array and converting analog data into digital data, a motion vector calculation unit for converting the digital data into one-bit data and calculating a motion vector, a motion vector process unit for accumulating motion vectors, correcting errors of the motion vectors, and accumulating moving distances of the optical mouse, a timing signal generator for generating control signals to control an overall operation of the circuit and operation signals pursuant to operation states of the circuit, an interface designed to transmit values processed by the process unit into a personal computer, and a transceiver for enabling one of a universal serial bus or an IBM personal system/2 in the interface.

Abstract: An optical sensing apparatus and method includes calculating an accurate motion vector coordinate value of a current preprocessed image by partial-searching a particular coordinate axis corresponding to a predetermined direction determining coefficient, a predetermined speed determining coefficient, and/or a predetermined direction and/or speed determining coefficient according to a history of a motion vector coordinate values with respect to a past preprocessed image, calculating the motion vector coordinate value of a future according to a history of a motion vector coordinate value of the current preprocessed image, and performing a position navigation with respect to current or future preprocessed image.

Abstract: An optical navigation sensor device and an image processing method using a 2-dimensional sequential image process are disclosed. A pre-processor stores digital voltage values of respective pixels of an image received from a pre-processor in a memory, performs a pre-process for the digital voltage values of respective pixels sequentially received from the memory, thereby producing a pre-processed current image, and extracts a pre-processed current central image from the pre-processed current image. A motion coordinate calculator stores the pre-processed current central image as X/Y-axis reference image candidates, determines replacement of X/Y-axis reference images for calculation of motion coordinate values of a next pre-processed image in accordance with X/Y-axis motions of the pre-processed current image, and compares the pre-processed current image with the X/Y-axis reference images, thereby calculating X/Y-axis motion coordinate values of the pre-processed current image.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of processing data of an optical mouse. The method includes the steps of calculating a motion vector of the optical mouse through processing of digitally converted image pixel data in an Image Signal Processor (ISP) by sequentially overlapping a reference image of an n-1 th frame to a present image of an nth frame and determining a moving direction of the optical mouse using approximately equal parts in the reference and present images; and transmitting the calculated motion vector to a personal computer through an interface; wherein the ISP includes an X axis navigation engine for processing data on a reference image for the motion of an X axis direction among the processed image pixel data and a Y axis navigation engine for processing data on a reference image for the motion of a Y axis direction among the processed image pixel data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for processing image data of an optical mouse. In the method for processing image data of an optical mouse, direction and size values of motion vectors which are image data consecutively inputted from an image pixel array are filtered with respect to X and Y axes by a filter. A predetermined number of motion vectors converted by and outputted from the filter are accumulated, and the accumulated values are mapped to conversion values to attenuate noise components and amplify directionality of the motion vectors depending on a speed of the optical mouse by a mapper. The values mapped by the mapper in a plurality of pipes are stored, and a value obtained by adding the plural stored values to each other and dividing the added result value by a conversion factor is transmitted to a personal computer (PC) interface such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or PS/2.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single integrated circuit for an optical mouse. The circuit includes an image pixel array for recognizing light and shadow of a surface under the optical mouse, an analog-to-digital converter for receiving analog signal from the image pixel array and converting analog data into digital data, a motion vector calculation unit for converting the digital data into one-bit data and calculating a motion vector, a motion vector process unit for accumulating motion vectors, correcting errors of the motion vectors, and accumulating moving distances of the optical mouse, a timing signal generator for generating control signals to control an overall operation of the circuit and operation signals pursuant to operation states of the circuit, an interface designed to transmit values processed by the process unit into a personal computer, and a transceiver for enabling one of a universal serial bus or an IBM personal system/2 in the interface.