Patents Issued in May 31, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070120993
    Abstract: In realizing an entire-screen simultaneous shutter function using a solid-state imaging device having a device structure as a CMOS solid-state imaging device, the restriction undergone by exposure time is relieved to secure a sufficient exposure time with swift operation. Separately from a transfer Tr for transferring a signal charge of a buried-type PD to an FD, a drain Tr is provided to exclude a signal charge of the buried PD. Both a channel potential on the drain transistor when turned on and a channel potential on the transfer transistor when turned on are set higher than a depleting potential for the PD. This makes it possible to completely transfer the signal charge of the PD by both the transfer Tr and the drain Tr. In the operation to sequentially read out a signal charge from the FD on a pixel-row basis, PD exposure operation is started in a course of reading out the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Keiji Mabuchi
  • Publication number: 20070120994
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device is provided. A horizontal transfer section in the solid-image device is divided into at least three blocks each including a horizontal transfer path transferring electric charge, which is transferred through vertical transfer paths, in a row direction perpendicular to the column direction. The at least three blocks includes an intermediate block other than the blocks at each end in the row direction of horizontal transfer section, an output portion corresponding to the intermediate block is connected to first end portion of the last stage of storage areas in the intermediate block, the first end portion being placed opposite to a second end portion facing to the vertical transfer paths in the column direction of the last stage of the storages areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20070120995
    Abstract: An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, the image reproduction on the LCD panel is prohibited by a command from a CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20070120996
    Abstract: A device (100) and a method (200) for operating a camera (130) based on touchless movements is provided. The device (100) includes a sensing unit (110) for detecting a touchless movement, and a controller (130) for handling one or more controls of the camera in accordance with the touchless movement. A virtual user interface is provided to allow a user to control a camera on a computer or a mobile device using touchless finger movements. Touchless controls are provided for zoom, pan, focus, aperture, balance, color, calibration, or tilt. A first touchless finger movement can select a control, and a second touchless finger movement can adjust the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: NAVISENSE, LLC
    Inventor: MARC BOILLOT
  • Publication number: 20070120997
    Abstract: A motion detecting part detects moving regions in a plurality of frame images captured by rolling shutter type exposure, and obtains a motion vector of the moving regions. A moving region correcting part corrects the moving region in a to-be-corrected frame image of the plurality of frame images on the basis of the motion vector, information on an image-capturing time interval between the plurality of frame images, information on an exposure starting time difference resulting from the difference in position in one frame image caused by the rolling shutter type exposure and information on an exposure start sequence depending on the position in one frame image captured by the rolling shutter type exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: MegaChips LSI Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Sasaki, Yusuke Nara
  • Publication number: 20070120998
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a decline of resolution of a still image while keeping a dynamic range of exposure control. The image pickup apparatus capable of photographing with changing over a moving image and a still image, includes an iris mechanism for changing an amount of light input to an image pickup element by changing an aperture diameter, a filter unit, having a single density or a plurality of densities, for changing the amount of the light input to the image pickup element by its advancing towards and withdrawing from the aperture diameter of the iris mechanism, a unit for driving the iris mechanism and the filter unit independently, and a control unit for setting the filter unit in one of two types of states such as fully covering the aperture diameter of the iris mechanism and fully withdrawing from the aperture diameter in the still image photography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: TAKESHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20070120999
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chamber having a chamber wall surface defining a liquid-tight sealed space; an electronic unit housed in a liquid-tight case, the case being disposed in the chamber to define an intermediate space between the case and the chamber wall surface; a biasing unit in the chamber that biases the case toward a predetermined neutral position in the intermediate space; a liquid disposed in the intermediate space; and an iris system formed in the chamber such that when the case moves toward a portion of the chamber wall surface, the iris system cooperates with the case to define a flow path through which the liquid in a portion of the intermediate space between the case and the portion of the chamber wall surface flows to another portion of the intermediate space, a cross-sectional area of the flow path decreasing as the case moves closer to the portion of the chamber wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20070121000
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a shooting device, a housing and a switch ring rotatably engaged with and fixed onto said housing, wherein when said switch ring is rotated, a focal point for photography of said shooting device is manually switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunori Murayama, Takashi Suzuki, Tomoyuki Nagamine, Manabu Hongo, Haruyoshi Yada, Yoshiya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20070121001
    Abstract: A method for de-interlacing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) determining a plurality of target mode values for a target pixel being synthesized to convert a current field into a current frame, wherein at least two of the target mode values are based on both (i) a plurality of original pixels and (ii) a plurality of synthesized pixels in a plurality of synthesized frames, (B) generating a plurality of candidate values for the target pixel using a plurality of interpolation techniques that includes a motion estimation interpolation utilizing a particular one of the synthesized frames and (C) selecting a particular one of the candidate values for the target pixel in response to the target mode values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Nien-Tsu Wang, Shi-Chang Wang, Hsi-Chen Wang
  • Publication number: 20070121002
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for displaying pictures on a display. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for outputting pictures. The method comprises receiving the plurality of fields for display in a particular order, where the plurality of fields are associated with the stream; detecting that a first field and a field adjacent to the first field have the same polarities; selecting between leading or lagging the fields after the first field; detecting that a second field and a field adjacent to the second field have the same polarities; selecting between leading and lagging the fields after the second field, based at least in part on the selection after the first field; detecting that a third field and a field adjacent to the third field have the same polarities; and selecting between leading and lagging the fields based at least in part on the selection after the second field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Alexander MacInnis
  • Publication number: 20070121003
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) and method (40) is provided for detecting data within the vertical blanking interval (VBI) lines of a video or television signal. The VBI data detection (18) samples (42) at least one point from the VBI lines of a video signal and compares (44) at least one data characteristic, such as luminance, from the sample to a threshold to determine if the sample contains VBI data. If the sample contains VBI data, the VBI line from which the sample was taken is routed (46) to the processing unit of a video processing device. If no samples from a VBI line are found to contain VBI data, the VBI line is not processed further. The VBI data detection apparatus improves processing efficiency and resource allocation by allowing only those VBI lines containing VBI data to be processed by the video processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Leary
  • Publication number: 20070121004
    Abstract: A teletext memory arrangement is organized as three memory sections, a first memory section (sequential memory 6a), a second memory section (sub-page memory 6b), and a third memory section (pipeline memory 6c). The sub-page memory (6b) and the sequential memory (6a) are dynamically dependent in the sense that whenever it is determined that the number of sub-pages of a user requested page N is less than the number of memory storage positions that make up the sub-page memory (6b), the unused memory storage positions of the sub-page memory (6b) are used to store higher order pages of the requested page N, thereby serving as a dynamic extension of the sequential memory. The third memory section (pipeline memory 6c) is used to store the K most recently requested teletext pages (the viewing history). The viewing history is maintained in a non-volatile memory (9) which is communicatively coupled to the teletext memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Taras Telyuk
  • Publication number: 20070121005
    Abstract: A method for displaying close-captioned text (116) associated with video is provided. The method including: determining a position on a portion of the video for display of the close-captioned text; detecting one or more attributes of the video surrounding the position; and adjusting one or more attributes of the close-captioned text based on the detected one or more attributes of the video. The method can further include displaying the close-captioned text in the portion of the video with the adjusted one or more attributes. The one or more attributes of the video surrounding the position can be selected from a list consisting of a brightness, a contrast, a color, and a content. The one or more attributes of the close-captioned text can be selected from a group consisting of a brightness, a contrast, a color, and a degree of transparency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Srinivas Gutta, Petrus Meuleman, Wilhelmus Franciscus Verhaegh
  • Publication number: 20070121006
    Abstract: Control signal transmitting and receiving methods for video/audio processing integrate circuit (IC), the method applied to a video player, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The control signal transmitting method, in a video player having an integrated circuit (IC) for processing video/audio signals and a microprocessor generating control signals to control the IC, has the steps of mapping serial data corresponding to possible control states of the video/audio signal processing IC, and storing the mapped data in a lookup table, reading serial data corresponding to a control state of the video/audio signal processing IC requested by the microprocessor, from the lookup table; and transmitting the serial data to the video/audio signal processing IC, being synchronized to a clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Chul-min Kim
  • Publication number: 20070121007
    Abstract: A video signal sampling system comprises an analog-to-digital converter that samples an analog video signal under the control of a sampling clock signal to provide a digital video signal. A processor processes the digital video signal by computing at least two derivatives of the digital video signal in order to provide a phase correction signal value. A delay locked loop receives the phase correction signal value and a clock signal, and adjusts the phase of the clock signal based upon the phase correction signal value to provide the sampling clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Markus Waldner
  • Publication number: 20070121008
    Abstract: A receiving system includes: FIFO memory 13 storing audio data AD contained in a transmission signal T; an extraction unit 14 configured to extract a clock parameter contained in the transmission signal T; a parameter change unit 152 configured to change the clock parameter in accordance with a result of a comparison between a data storage rate SR of the FIFO memory 13 and a predetermined value; a frequency setting unit 153 configured to set a read frequency fr using the changed clock parameter; and a data read unit 16 configured to read the audio data AD from the FIFO memory 13 in synchronization with a reception end audio clock signal AC of the read frequency fr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takashi Kanoh
  • Publication number: 20070121009
    Abstract: An operation for selecting a desired one of images can be simplified. Still image data sets are sequentially read from a recording medium according to order of file names and displayed on a TV. Upon display, the still image data sets are in a non-selection state. If an instruction is not input from a remote controller within a predetermined time since the display of one of the still image data sets, the still image data set being displayed is set to a selection state and the following still image data set having the file name that comes next is displayed. If an instruction is input from the remote controller for display of the following still image data set within the predetermined time, the still image data set being displayed is left in the non-selection state, and the following still image data set is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Katayama, Masamitsu Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Niwano
  • Publication number: 20070121010
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, format data are stored by a last memory function for each of at least external input, and when an input is re-selected next time or the power is reset, the priority is given to the previously stored data through the last memory function, rather than the detection results of the current input, to carry out the image output control. The image output control is processed in parallel with the detection of the format of the current input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takanobu Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20070121011
    Abstract: Spotlighting and other special effects are applied by processing circuitry in real time to received video streams. Effects tracking may be applied to fixed regions or moving regions or objects of interest. Viewers interact via conventional remote controls and other user interfaces to set effect parameters. Other special effects employed include zooming, masking, etc. and can be used to enhance one or more spotlight effects. Televisions, set top boxes and media players house the underlying circuitry. Effects are applied to layered and non-layered video streams to form layered and combined video stream output. Video outputs also deliver effect parameters such as region of interest location along with a video stream. Such effect parameters assist in the downstream application of dynamic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Sandeep Relan, Brajabandhu Mishra, Rajendra Khare
  • Publication number: 20070121012
    Abstract: There is provided an information display method and an information display apparatus which detect a motion of a video signal on a display screen on which OSD is displayed, or on a display position of OSD, and changes the state of the OSD or the display screen when there is a motion, whereby the user can view an image with a motion without missing it. A state change amount detector (103) obtains the state change amount in the image displayed on the display screen, and an OSD display state changing unit (107) controls the OSD or the display screen when a state change amount judgement unit (104 ) judges that the state change amount is larger than a predetermined value, whereby overlapping between the image with a motion and the OSD can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Yoichi Hida, Takami Uemura
  • Publication number: 20070121013
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising one or more delay circuits, a shimmer detector circuit, an averaging circuit, and a multiplexer. The delay circuits may be configured to have a delay of one or more frame periods based on the format of the input video signal. The shimmer detector circuit may be configured to (i) determine which pixel locations in the input video signal exhibit the YC-interference noise oscillation pattern based on the input signal and the output of the delay circuits and (ii) generate a control signal in response to the output of the delays circuits and the input signal. The averaging circuit may be configured to calculate an average of the input signal and the output of the first delay circuit. The multiplexer may be configured to present (i) the input signal when the control signal is in a first state and (ii) the average signal when the control signal is in a second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Mark Stanton
  • Publication number: 20070121014
    Abstract: A device and a method for adjusting video luminance of at least a color in a display wherein the color is appointed by the user. The device comprises: a color flag generating module for transforming a plurality of color signals into a plurality of color flags; a luminance adjustment value calculating module for calculating a luminance adjustment output value according to a plurality of luminance adjustment input values of different colors and the plurality of color flags; and a luminance output module for applying the luminance adjustment output value to a luminance input signal so as to generate a luminance output signal. Using the device and the method according to the present invention, the user can respectively adjust the luminance of different colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Wei-Kuo Lee, Yi-Fan Chen
  • Publication number: 20070121015
    Abstract: A method for emendation of attention trajectory in video content analysis is disclosed. The method includes steps of extracting attention area for each frame in a video sequence, each attention area of a frame selectively being a reference for the other frames, projecting the attention area of the reference to a current frame, and determining an enhanced attention area of the current frame by collecting and merging all the projected attention areas together with the original attention area of the current frame to emend the attention trajectory of the video sequence so as to make the attention trajectory smooth. Advantageously, short-life attention or noise is omitted, and the attention area is also enriched, therefore, the smooth of the attention trajectory improves subjective viewing experience of human being.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Xiao Gu, Zhi Chen
  • Publication number: 20070121016
    Abstract: An audio/video switch circuit using the I2C bus includes a video decoder, an audio integrated circuit, an audio/video switch-unit and an MCU, in which the MCU is electrically connected to the audio/video switch unit through an I2C bus, allowing the control signals outputted by the MCU to be sent out to the audio/video switch unit through the I2C bus for controlling the switch of the audio/video switch unit, such that one of the input audio/video signals is outputted to the video decoder and the audio integrated circuit respectively through the switch of the audio/video switch unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Tatung Company
    Inventors: Kuo-Ting Chiu, Yu-Huei Cheng, Tzu-Huei Lee
  • Publication number: 20070121017
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus for processing a plurality of video signals, includes: a display; an information storage which stores combination information relating to a combination of two or more video signals, among the plurality of video signals, that can be displayed concurrently on the display; and a controller which controls to display the visual representation of the combination information stored in the information storage on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-hoon Hwang, Yeon-sun Kang
  • Publication number: 20070121018
    Abstract: A digital television with transfer function, which includes a digital television tuner, a digital television controller, a command input device and an input/output connector. The digital television tuner receives a digital television signal and demodulates the signal received to thus produce a transport stream. The digital television controller having a decoder and an encoder receives the transport stream and uses the decoder to decode and convert the transport stream received into a decoded video data stream. The command input device receives an instruction. The input/output connector outputs or receives a video data stream. When the instruction received by the command input device is a video store output instruction, the encoder encodes the decoded video data stream, and the output connector outputs an encoded video data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Tatung Company
    Inventors: Ching-Jou Chen, Mao-Huan Huang, Yen-Chih Su
  • Publication number: 20070121019
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus, comprises a signal receiving part receiving a video signal through one of a plurality of channels, a user inputting part in which the channel is selected and inputted by a user, a video processing part processing the video signal received by the signal receiving part, and a controller controlling the signal receiving part to start receiving a video signal through a first channel upon the first channel selection among the plurality of channels by the user, and to start receiving a video signal through a second channel upon the second channel selection among the plurality of channels by the user, wherein the second channel selection is made during the receiving process of the first channel. Thus, the present invention provides a video processing apparatus and a video processing method capable of performing a channel change rapidly to solve the above-described problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Kum-yon Han, Mi-young Yoo, Min-gu Kang
  • Publication number: 20070121020
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a display panel, a viewing angle control filter configured to control a viewing angle, a connector to which an external display is connectable, and an inhibit unit configured to inhibit to output a video signal via the connector when the viewing angle control filter is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Tetsunari Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20070121021
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a plurality of displays for an electronic device including a display layer (102, 104), a light guide layer (108), and a damping material layer (110) coupled between the light guide layer and the display layer. The display layer in one embodiment is a liquid crystal display layer, but other types of display layers may be used. The light guide layer may serve as a back light for the display layer, and may be between approximately 0.05 mm and 2 mm in thickness. Devices described herein include at least one interposed layer of acoustic and/or mechanical energy absorbing material, also referred to herein as damping material, between the display layer susceptible to vibration, and a hard layer near the display layer. The damping material as described herein may reduce the audio noise. The energy absorbing layer may take the form of an audio energy absorbing sheet interposed between layers of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: John Kaehler, Sen Yang, Zhiming Zhuang, Shaohai Chen
  • Publication number: 20070121022
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, gate and data lines formed on the substrate to define pixel areas, or collectively a display area. Gate signal interconnection wires are formed at a corner portion of the substrate outside the display area to transmit gate electrical signals, and provided with gate signal interconnection lines and first and second gate signal interconnection pads connected to both ends of the gate signal interconnection lines. A gate insulating layer, and a protective layer are further formed on the substrate, and provided with first and second contact holes exposing the first and second gate signal interconnection pads. Gate and data signal transmission films are attached to the substrate, and provided with first and second gate signal leads and first and second gate signal wires. The first and second gate signal leads are connected to the first and second gate signal interconnection pads through the first and second contact holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Sang-Soo Kim, Sang-Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20070121023
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight unit under the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight unit includes at least one light emitting diode. The liquid crystal display module further comprises a bottom frame surrounding the backlight unit. The bottom frame comprises a printed circuit board and the at least one light emitting diode is disposed on the printed circuit board. The liquid crystal display module also includes a main frame surrounding the liquid crystal display panel and a top frame surrounding a front edge of the liquid crystal display panel and combined with the bottom frame through the main frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Seung-Hoon Yang
  • Publication number: 20070121024
    Abstract: A backlight assembly having improved luminance uniformity of emitted light, and a display device having the backlight assembly, includes first and second lamps, a receiving container and a reflection plate. The first and second lamps are arranged on a bottom plate of the receiving container substantially parallel to each other and emit ultraviolet light rays. The reflection plate is fixed on the bottom plate under the first lamp and extends to a space above the second lamp. A fluorescent layer is formed on the reflection plate. The fluorescent layer converts the ultraviolet light rays emitted from the first and second lamps into visible light rays. Luminance uniformity of light emitted from the backlight assembly is improved and a display quality of the display device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pil-Nam LIM, Dong-Lyoul SHIN, Tae-Seok JANG
  • Publication number: 20070121025
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a sheet feeder including; an air blowing unit floating and separating an upper portion of sheet of paper laid on a tray; and a transfer belt adsorbing and transferring uppermost sheet of paper laid on the tray; an optical analog sensor sensing an upper face of the uppermost sheet of paper and comprising a sensing face including a light receiving surface; a shield plate movable with the sheet, the shield plate detecting a position of upper face of the sheet of paper so as to keep a position of the uppermost sheet at a constant position and comprising; an elastic shield member having a C-character shape, a surface of the elastic shield member where the elastic shield member is contact with the light receiving surface of the optical analog sensor being in the same plane of a surface of the elastic shield member where the elastic shield member is contact with the shield-plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: RICOH PRINTING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Kawamoto, Shingo Takai
  • Publication number: 20070121026
    Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (3) includes an elastic gasket (37), a liquid crystal panel (34), a frame (36), and a housing (32). The liquid crystal panel is surrounded by the elastic gasket, and the elastic gasket and the liquid crystal panel are all received in a frame (32). A top of the elastic gasket is higher than a top of the frame. The housing receives the frame, the elastic gasket, and the liquid crystal panel. An underside of a top wall of the housing abuts the top of the elastic gasket and be spaced from the top of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Hsueh-Tien Chang, Cheng-Fan Chang
  • Publication number: 20070121027
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a backlight assembly emitting light, a liquid crystal panel, disposed on the backlight assembly, displaying an image using the light emitted from the backlight assembly and having at least one alignment film, optical sheets, interposed between the backlight assembly and the liquid crystal panel, having a surface which has a prismatic pattern, the prismatic pattern including prisms focusing the light emitted from the backlight assembly, wherein a long edge direction of the prismatic pattern is substantially the same as a rubbing direction of the at least one alignment film, and upper and lower housing units receiving the backlight assembly, the optical sheets, and the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jun-woo Lee, Hee-seop Kim, Chang-hun Lee, Eun-hee Han
  • Publication number: 20070121028
    Abstract: This Patent Application describes invention in form of a design of three-dimensional (3D) autostereoscopic displays and other similar electro-optical devices, and also describes a method for reducing crosstalk in said 3D displays and in other similar electro-optical devices, such as in the electro-optical devices that perform optical switching, optical processors, optical data storage, etc. The improvement of the image quality as a result of the decrease of the size of the samples of Holographic/Diffractive Optical Element without increased crosstalk and/or superposition of extraneous images in the image reconstruction is also achieved by the use of the invention described in this Patent Application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Zoran Mihajlovic
  • Publication number: 20070121029
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with a back-side prism type backlight in order to prevent a stain in an image displayed and attain high brightness. A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged on the viewer side compared with the first substrate; a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light guide plate arranged on the back surface of the first substrate; a polarization plate arranged between the first substrate and the light guide plate; a prism sheet arranged between the light guide plate and the polarization plate and having prisms provided on the light guide plate side; a diffusion layer arranged between the prism sheet and the polarization plate; and a light control sheet arranged between the diffusion layer and the polarization plate. The light control sheet rotates the polarization of the light emitted from the diffusion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20070121030
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display device, a surface light source for emitting illumination light toward the liquid crystal display device, and a prism sheet which is arranged between the surface light source and the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes an observation-side substrate and a surface-light-source-side substrate. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the substrates. First and second electrodes are provided on at least one of inner surfaces of the substrates and apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer. Observation-side and surface-light-source-side polarizing plates are arranged to sandwich the substrates therebetween. First and second diffusion layers having different haze values are respectively provided on opposite surface sides of the surface-light-source-side polarizing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Sato
  • Publication number: 20070121031
    Abstract: A pin 6 provided at a horn 5 for ultrasonic welding is press-fitted to the depth reaching the light guide plate 1 breaking through the various kind of sheets 2 and 3 from surface side thereof. Another embodiment of the invention is that pins 25 constructed so as to break through various kind of sheets 22 and 23 on the surface of the plate are provided on the light guide plate 21, and the various kind of sheets 22 and 23 are fixed on the light guide plate 1 by distorting by caulking using ultrasonic vibration of the tip end of the pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitamura, Yasukazu Kondo
  • Publication number: 20070121032
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a light source and a liquid crystal display panel. The light source includes a blue-emitting phosphor configured to emit blue light, a green-emitting phosphor configured to emit green light, and a red-emitting phosphor configured to emit red light. The liquid crystal display panel includes color filters configured to control the transmittance of light from the light source and transmit one of blue, green, and red light on a pixel basis. The green-emitting phosphor is represented by a compositional formula of (La1?x?y,Tbx,Cey)PO4, wherein “x” and “y” are compositional ratios satisfying both the following conditions: 0.500<(x+y)<0.700 and 1.20<(y/x)<2.00. The compositional ratios “x” and “y” preferably satisfy the following conditions: 0.50<(x+y)<0.65 and 1.50<(y/x)<1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Kenji Okishiro, Masatoshi Shiiki
  • Publication number: 20070121033
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device of which a contrast ratio is enhanced. By providing stacked polarizing plates so as to be in a cross nicol state, a contrast ratio of a display device can be enhanced. The stacked polarizing plates are stacked outside a light-transmissive insulating substrate in a parallel nicol state. When the number of polarizing plates is four or five in total, a contrast ratio becomes the highest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji ISHITANI, Yuji EGI, Takeshi NISHI, Koji MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20070121034
    Abstract: A display includes a liquid crystal display panel, an optical cavity producing substantially collimated light and a birefringent reflective polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Ouderkirk, Michael Weber, Olester Benson
  • Publication number: 20070121035
    Abstract: The display apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate is divided into a first region and a second region, and a reflection layer pattern is formed in the second region of the first substrate. The second substrate faces the first substrate. Pixel regions are defined on the second substrate, and a pixel electrode is formed on each of the pixel regions. A transmission type image is displayed on a first region of the first substrate and, on a second region of the second substrate, a reflection type image is displayed, so that a two-sided image is displayed using only two substrates thereby reducing the overall thickness of the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Ho-Jung Lee, Se-Kang Hur, Jin-Tak Kim, Ho-Seok Han, Jae-Young Lee
  • Publication number: 20070121036
    Abstract: A portable display device includes a liquid crystal layer, a back light assembly comprising a light source for supplying light to the liquid crystal layer, a reflecting plate included in the back light assembly to supply light from the light source to the liquid crystal layer, and at least one adhesive member attached to at least three edges of a rear surface of the reflecting plate. The at least one adhesive member may also be attached to the reflecting plate and a bottom chassis of the back light assembly, a printed circuit board, or a display panel so as to form an air hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Chan Moon, Tae Kim, Tae Kim, Jung Kim, Jai Jung
  • Publication number: 20070121037
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates disposed at an observer side and at the opposite side to the observer side, a plurality of pixel electrodes and an opposing electrode which are formed on the internal surfaces of the pair of substrates, a reflective layer, and liquid crystal sealed between these substrates. Each pixel electrode has a reflective display region corresponding to the reflective layer for reflecting light that enters from the observer side to the observer side, and a transmissive display region for allowing light that enters from the opposite side to pass therethrough to the observer side. A liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer is formed on the internal surface of the substrate at the observer side, for setting the liquid crystal layer thickness in the reflective display region to be smaller than the liquid crystal layer thickness in the transmissive display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiro Arai, Toshiharu Nishino, Kunpei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070121038
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has: a substrate; a switching element disposed at a side of the upper surface of the substrate and including a lower electrode and an upper electrode having a stacked structure of a plurality of metallic layers; a transparent pixel electrode disposed at the side of the upper surface of the substrate and connected to the upper electrode of the switching element; and a reflective plate formed on the upper surface of the pixel electrode so as to expose a part of the pixel electrode and having the same stacked structure as the upper electrode, including layers each made of the same material as the corresponding metallic layer in the upper electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ishii, Shigeru Morikawa, Yayoi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070121039
    Abstract: In order to make a boundary inconspicuous, which is located between an image area which displays an image by translucent pixels and a dummy area which always displays a white color by reflection pixels, a size ratio of transparent areas in color filters of the reflection pixels with respect to reflection areas therein is made larger than a size ratio of transparent areas in color filters of the translucent pixels with respect to reflection areas therein. In such a way, brightness of the display is balanced by adjusting quantities of transmission light through the transparent areas of the reflection pixels with respect to quantities of reflection light generated unexpectedly on transmission areas of the translucent pixels. Then, degrees of whiteness in the translucent pixels and the reflection pixels are approximated to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Tago, Hiroshi Tabatake, Hiroyuki Kimura, Tetsuya Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20070121040
    Abstract: A display device has a pixel including a transmitting region to transmit light and a reflecting region to reflect external light. The display device includes: a transparent conductive film containing a first transparent conductive film forming a pixel electrode in the transmitting region, a second transparent conductive film provided as an upper layer of a reflecting electrode forming the reflecting region, and a connecting portion integrally formed with and connecting the first transparent conductive film and the second transparent conductive film; and a opaque conductive film provided as a lower layer of the transparent conductive film, and located below an area of the transparent conductive film including the connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuaki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20070121041
    Abstract: A color filter substrate is provided that includes a base plate, a resin layer disposed on the base plate, a reflective layer disposed on the resin layer and including a reflective portion and an transmissive portion, and a colored layer disposed on the reflective layer. An area of the resin layer corresponding to at least a portion of the transmissive portion is colored with the same color as the colored layer disposed in correspondence with the transmissive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Keiji TAKIZAWA, Toshihiro OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20070121042
    Abstract: This optical filter is constituted such that at least one optically anisotropic crystal plate and at least one substrate are stuck together in a state in which a principal face of the optically anisotropic crystal plate and a principal face of the substrate are perpendicular to the direction of transmission of the ray. Also, a substrate is used as the end face on the ray incident side, and another optically anisotropic crystal plate or another substrate that is thinner than the substrate that is the end face on the ray incident side is stuck onto the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shogaki, Hiroaki Matsui