Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a unit acquiring a multi-level image as a processing-object image, a unit acquiring a binary image which is created based on the multi-level image, a unit extracting a specific attribute region which is a region with a specific attribute from the multi-level image, a unit changing pixels other than the specific attribute region in the binary image to white pixels, a unit creating a multi-level image in which the pixels of the specific attribute region are changed by a background color, a unit determining a color of the specific attribute region, a unit creating an image of the specific attribute region having the color determined, an image coding unit carrying out compression coding of two or more images which are created respectively, and a unit creating an integrated file in which the coded images are integrated.

Abstract: A display device has a driver including a level converter formed of polysilicon MISTFTs. The level converter includes first, second and third N-channel MISTFTs (NMISTFTs) and first, second and third P-channel MISTFTs (PMISTFTs). Gate and first terminals of the first NMISTFT and PMISTFT, and a gate terminal of the third PMISTFT are coupled to an input terminal via a capacitance. Second terminals of the second NMISTFT and PMISTFT, and a gate terminal of third NMISTFT are coupled to the input terminal via a capacitance. A first terminal of the third PMISTFT, and second terminals of the first NMISTFT and PMISTFT are coupled to a high voltage. A second terminal of the third NMISTFT, gate and first terminals of the second NMISTFT and PMISTFT are coupled to a low voltage. A second terminal of the third PMISTFT and a first terminal of the third NMISTFT are connected to an output terminal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of video signal lines for supplying video signal voltages to the plurality of pixels and a drive circuit for selecting a voltage level of a gray scale voltage varying periodically, as one of the video signal voltages corresponding to display data to be supplied to one of the plurality of pixels. The drive circuit has a plurality of series combinations of plural processing circuits, each of the plurality of series combinations of plural processing circuits corresponding to one of the plurality of video signal lines, each of the plural processing circuits includes a switching element which is activated by the display data and a respective one of the plurality of series combinations of the plural processing circuits determines a time to select the voltage level.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of low power consumption which exhibits high image quality is realized. To each liquid-crystal-side pixel region of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, a first switching element and a second switching element which are operated in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line, a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied from the drain signal line through the first switching element, and a counter electrode to which a reference voltage signal is supplied from a reference voltage signal line through the second switching element, and the pixel electrode and the counter electrode are respectively formed of strip-like transparent conductive layers and are substantially alternately arranged in the inside of the pixel region.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region within a unit pixel, the present invention disposes an optical reflection layer having an almost rectangular planar shape as extended in the unit pixel elongate direction at substantially a central portion midway between two neighboring signal electrodes, defines almost rectangular regions between the optical reflection layer and two signal electrodes adjacent thereto as the transmissive display region in the unit pixel, and forms a pixel electrode at a level spaced from that of the optical reflection layer by a dielectric film so as to cover the entire surface of the unit pixel, so that power consumption of the liquid crystal display device is reduced while image quality thereof is improved.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of signal lines connected to the plurality of pixels and a drive circuit connected to the plurality of signal lines. The drive circuit includes a distribution port and a decoder, wherein the distribution port distributes supplied data to corresponding circuit portions in the decoder, and the decoder selects gray scale voltages based upon the data from the distribution port. The distribution port includes a first switching stage having two switching elements and a second switching stage having four switching elements and which is electrically connected to the first switching stage. The decoder is disposed between the second switching stage and the plurality of signal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix format, a Y-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel rows, an X-selecting signal generating unit for selecting one or more pixel columns, and a tone signal generating unit for generating a tone signal for applying the corresponding tone voltage to tone information of said display data onto each of the pixels.

Abstract: A circuit configuration is simplified to enable a color display of a high aperture ratio and multiple gradations to have no malfunction A first transistor pair composing a first inverter and a second transistor pair composing a second inverter, while bridging alternating power sources ?p and ?n, are caused to act as an output circuit to a pixel electrode. Diodes D1 and D2 having the same forward direction as the conduction direction of the first transistors are inserted into the series circuit of the first transistor pair, and the common node of the diodes is connected with the output of a switching transistor. A capacitor is connected between a common node of control electrodes of the second transistor pair and a series connection intermediate node of the second transistor pair so that the written state of data is controlled by making use of charges stored in the capacitor.

Abstract: An integral-type liquid crystal display module has a first display panel and a second display panel, and it can use a display panel of high resolution as the second display panel. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a first flexible printed circuit board which connects the first display panel and the second display panel. The first display panel includes a display drive unit. Video lines of the second display panel are connected with the display drive unit through connection lines for video lines of the first flexible printed circuit board. Further, the second display panel includes a scanning line drive unit which supplies drive voltages to scanning lines of the second display panel.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating codes includes a quantization unit which generates quantization coefficients by performing discrete wavelet transform with respect to each of tiles into which an image is divided, a block division unit which divides the quantization coefficients into blocks, a Hash conversion unit which performs Hash conversion based on the quantization coefficients of each of the blocks so as to produce a Hash value for each of the blocks, a digital watermark embedding unit which adjusts a parity of a quantization coefficient of interest equal to a parity of the Hash value of a block to which the quantization coefficient of interest belongs, and a coding unit which generates code sequence data by coding the quantization coefficients including the quantization coefficient whose parity is adjusted.

Abstract: An image detecting method comprises the steps of: a) searching for a pattern satisfying a predetermined commencement requirement by scanning an input image; b) using the pattern as a starting point, with referring to a dictionary storing therein distances between the center line and an edge of a detection target semicircle, determining for each of a predetermined number of main scan lines along a sub-scan direction whether or not a predetermined edge pattern occurs within a respective range of the distance of the dictionary; and c) determining a detection of the semicircle when the number of error lines on which the predetermined edge pattern does not occur within the respective range of the distance of the dictionary is less than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus hierarchically compresses and codes image data by subjecting pixel values of the image data to a discrete wavelet transform, quantization and coding for each of one or a plurality of rectangular regions into which the image data is divided. The image processing apparatus includes a hierarchical coding unit to compress and code the image data in a state where the image data is divided for each hierarchical layer, to obtain compressed codes, and a distributively storing unit to distributively store the compressed codes that are divided for each hierarchical layer by the hierarchical coding unit.

Abstract: An image display apparatus having a display unit composed of a plurality of pixels and a control unit for controlling the display unit. The image display apparatus further includes a DA converter for converting digital display data into an analog image signal, wherein the DA converter is composed of a first DA converter and a second DA converter, the power consumption when the first DA converter is operated being smaller than that when the second DA converter is operated. Either of the first DA converter or the second DA converter are operated according to an instruction from the control unit, and the converted analog image signal is outputted to the display unit. The display unit changes the number of the independent display pixels of said display unit according to the instruction from the control unit and displays an image according to the analog image signal.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image reading apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a computer-readable recording-medium for storing an image processing program are disclosed. The image processing apparatus can synthesize coded data encoded in accordance with JPEG 2000 standard from source and target images at a higher speed with less use of a memory. The image processing apparatus includes a search part and an objective block synthesis part. The search part searches coded data of the source image per predetermined independently processable block for an objective block corresponding to a designated synthesis area. The objective block synthesis part synthesizes detected coded data of the objective block of the source image and coded data of the objective block of the target image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of video signal lines for supplying video signal voltages to the plurality of pixels, and a drive circuit which selects a voltage level of a gray scale voltage varying periodically as one of the video signal voltages corresponding to display data to be supplied to one of the plurality of pixels. The drive circuit has a plurality of series combinations of plural processing circuits, wherein each of the plurality of series combinations of plural processing circuits corresponds to one of the plurality of video signal lines, and each of the plural processing circuits comprises a parallel combination of a first switching element and a second switching element. The first and second switching elements are made operative or inoperative as a switch in accordance with different conditions.

Abstract: A display device has pixels, signal lines coupled to the pixels, and a video signal drive circuit for supplying signals to the signal lines in parallel, based upon data transferred serially from an external system. The video signal drive circuit includes plural stages each formed by a column of switching elements. The switching elements of each stage double successively in number as a final stage is approached. Each of the switching elements of each stage excluding the final stage is connected to a pair of switching elements in a succeeding stage. Each of the pair of switching elements is repeatedly and alternately switched ON with the other of the pair of switching elements being switched OFF, and a frequency of the ON-OFF switching of the pair of switching elements of each stage is successively halved as the final stage is approached.

Abstract: An apparatus for coding an image while scrambling the image by randomizing pixel values includes a scrambling unit which scrambles an image by utilizing an encryption function to compute a displacement of a pixel value to be randomized in response to a displacement of a previously randomized pixel value.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided with a converting unit to subject an image data to a hierarchical two-dimensional wavelet transform, a coding unit to code each of a plurality of sub-bands which are hierarchically generated from the image data by the converting unit, and a code quantity control unit to control, based on a code quantity of a predetermined sub-band, code quantities of other sub-bands.

Abstract: A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of p-Si on a substrate surface, a node which becomes the floating state is connected to a fixed potential through a capacitance element.

Abstract: A display apparatus having a display pixel unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a first driving circuit for outputting a control signal to the pixels to turn the pixels ON, the control signal depending on gray-scale information of display data, and a second driving circuit outputting a ramp waveform signal for turning the pixels on a line ON in accordance with a time-period of a scanning time-period and a scanning signal of turning the pixels on the line OFF. The ramp waveform signal includes a first ramp waveform signal and a second ramp waveform signal, and the second driving circuit outputs alternately the first and second ramp waveform signals to the pixels in accordance with the time-period of the scanning time-period.