Abstract: This present invention relates to a method for driving a circuit of a field emission backlight panel. A group of driving signals with phase shift is sent to a plurality of emitters of a field emission display panel to control the emitters to emit electrons alternately. Therefore, the lighting area of the field emission display panel is increased, and so are the brightness and the uniformity thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a backlight-source-luminance auto-adjusting system including a backlight source, a photosensitive element being mounted on the backlight source for converting a light signal into an electric signal; an amplification/conversion circuit for amplifying a received analog signal and converting the analog signal into a digital signal; a control circuit for receiving a signal sent by the amplification/conversion circuit and adjusting the backlight source; and a device operating board.

Abstract: A control unit controls brightness of a liquid crystal display unit such that the brightness becomes darker as a distance between an electronic view finder and an operator measured by a distance measuring sensor becomes shorter. With this structure, even if the operator takes his or her eye off from the electronic view finder, the liquid crystal display unit is not switched from an OFF state to an ON state. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the brightness of the liquid crystal display unit from becoming burdensome to an operator when the eye of the operator approaches the electronic view finder.

Abstract: An apparatus for contrast control and an associated method are provided. The apparatus can adjust the backlight brightness for a white or black frame to enhance the contrast of a display device, and keep the backlight brightness at a suitable level for other frames to avoid lowering the contrast of a single frame. The apparatus includes a frame detection unit and a backlight control unit. The frame detection unit detects whether an input frame is a white or black frame, and outputs a corresponding detection signal; the backlight control unit generates a backlight control signal according to the detection signal, thereby controlling the brightness of a backlight source of the display device.

Abstract: A backlight driving device for driving a backlight that illuminates a display panel is disclosed. The backlight driving device includes: a luminance data input device into which luminance data indicated by a video signal is entered; a drive signal-generating device configured to create a drive signal; a power supply device configured to supply electric power to the backlight according to the drive signal so as to drive the backlight; a video signal decision device configured to make a decision as to whether each value of the luminance data entered into the luminance data input device is smaller than a given value; and a thinning-out device configured to thin out components of the drive signal when the video signal decision device has determined that the value of the luminance data is smaller than the given value and supply the thinned drive signal to the power supply device.

Abstract: A display element for a display device includes a display mechanism and a resin layer. One or more busbars and one or more multiplexing resistors are disposed within the resin layer. The multiplexing resistors are communicatively connected to one or more address lines to permit the display element to be addressed by selective assertion of the address lines in a multiplexing manner.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display panel (1), comprises a plurality of picture elements (2); and drive means (100), for providing overreset pulses prior to application of grey scale pulses. The display panel comprises two or more interspersed groups of display elements. Each group is supplied with its own scheme (I, II) of overreset potential differences, the application schemes for overreset potential differences differs from group to group in such manner that the time at which an overreset condition is maintained differs between said groups for at least some transitions.

Abstract: A dual-sided electrophoretic display (700) having a first region (701) and a second region (702) is provided. Each of the first region (701) and the second region (702) includes selectively operable members (703,704) that function as pixels for presenting images on the electrophoretic display (700). Each of the selectively operable members (703,704) is driven by a driver circuit (710) by way of corresponding thin film transistors and capacitors (742,742), which are opaque. As the selectively operable members (704) of the second region (702) are bigger than are the selectively operable members (703) of the first region (701), the aperture ratio of the selectively operable members (704) of the second region (702) is greater than in the first region (701) when viewed from the rear side (730). Thus, a contrast ratio of the second region (602), when viewed from the rear side (730) is sufficiently high that text, icons, and characters presented in the second region (602) are legibly visible on the rear side (730).

Abstract: An electrophoretic medium has walls defining a microcavity containing an internal phase. This internal phase comprises electrophoretic particles suspended in a suspending fluid and capable of moving therethrough upon application of an electric field to the electrophoretic medium. The average height of the microcavity differs by not more than about 5 ?m from the saturated particle thickness of the electrophoretic particle divided by the volume fraction of the electrophoretic particles in the internal phase.

Abstract: Z-axis display navigation in the design automation process of physical design, development and manufacturing of integrated circuits includes pre-selecting, using a computer mouse connected to a computer workstation processor, viewable graphical layout layers desired by a design layout debugging operator to view during an integrated circuit (IC) design debugging process. After selecting the desired viewable graphic layout layers, the layout operator uses the mouse to traverse the pre-selected viewable graphical layout layers displayed, by changing the input scrolling pattern of the mouse to scroll forward, backward, diagonally and from side to side in a plurality of directions, where a curser on the layout screen will correspondingly move in the plurality of directions in the pre-selected viewable graphical layout layers on the layout screen corresponding to the movement of the mouse by the operator.

Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of computers, a first wireless input device adapted to control any of the computers via wireless communication, and selection logic coupled to the first wireless input device. The selection logic enables a user to select one of the computers to be controlled by the first input device.

Abstract: A method for providing coordinate information to an external device and a video apparatus thereof. The coordinate information providing method includes receiving coordinate information input by a user from an input device; and transmitting a coordinate information delivery message containing the coordinate information input through the input device, to an external device connected according to a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) specification. Accordingly, the video apparatus can control the external device by transferring the coordinate information to the external device.

Abstract: Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems.

Abstract: A method for use with a simulation includes running the simulation, receiving information from a control interface used by a user to interact with the simulation, analyzing the received information, forming at least an indication of the user's level of skill based on the analysis of the received information, and adjusting a difficulty level of the simulation based on the indication of the user's level of skill. A storage medium storing a computer program executable by a processor based system and an apparatus for use with a simulation are also disclosed.

Abstract: A cursor control device for an image display includes a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit and a switching device. The first sensing unit is for detecting a first displacement of the cursor control device with respect to a surface and calculating a first coordinate variation of a cursor on the image display according to the first displacement. The second sensing unit is for sensing an object, detecting a second displacement of the cursor control device with respect to the object and calculating a second coordinate variation of the cursor on the image display according to the second displacement. The switching device switches output between the first coordinate variation and the second coordinate variation. The present invention further provides an image system and a cursor control method for an image display.

Abstract: A system and method for correcting mispositioning of an aiming device including extracting features from an information stream which includes position information for an aiming device and comparing the features with feature profiles to determine modifications to remediate mispositioning actions. The information stream with the modifications is provided as a basis for actions of the aiming device.

Abstract: A system and method for tracking a laser spot on a projected computer screen image computes a projective transformation matrix using the projected computer screen image electronically captured in a frame of image data. The projective transformation matrix is computed by fitting a polygon to a contour of each graphical object in the frame of image data and determining whether the polygon for each graphical object satisfies a set of predefined parameters to find a candidate polygon that corresponds to an outline of the projected computer screen image in the frame of image data.

Abstract: A control system for operation of a remote vehicle comprises a twin-grip hand-held controller having a volume of less than 1 liter and a weight of less than 1 lb.

Abstract: One embodiment receives a single click from a user to switch an electronic device between a mouse mode and a touch mode.

Abstract: A wireless keyboard and mouse switch system includes a wireless keyboard/mouse set and a server side wireless receiver. The wireless keyboard/mouse set transmits a server selection signal and a user input data wirelessly. The server side wireless receiver is connected to a host server computer and receives the server selection signal. The server selection signal selects the server side wireless receiver to receive the user input data and to send the user input data to the host server computer.

Abstract: A mouse for an electronic device comprises a housing to receive component therein; a display attached on the housing for displaying, wherein the display includes image icon to perform pre-determined function; a user motion detecting device attached on the display for detection the motion of user finger; a controller received in the housing for generating a control signal in responsive to the user motion detection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mouse having a composite switch device. The composite switch device includes a push button, a multi-stage sliding switch unit and a tactile switch unit. By moving a single push button to different positions, the use modes of the mouse will be switched.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless mouse having a storing structure for storing a wireless signal receiver therein. The wireless mouse includes an upper housing, a wireless signal receiver, a lower housing and a torsion spring. The lower housing has a depression structure for receiving the wireless signal receiver therein. A perforation is disposed in a sidewall of the lower housing and communicated with the depression structure. Due to the torsional force resulting from said torsion spring, the wireless signal receiver is clasped and fixed in the depression structure.

Abstract: An apparatus having handwriting input and the mouse functions is an external input device of computer field. A handwriting screen is amounted inside a mouse body, and the handwriting screen is connected to a processor. An optical displacement sensor is connected to the processor or can also be located therein. USB interface unit is connected to the processor or can also be located therein. The optical displacement sensor is used to acquire relative coordinate information when the apparatus moves, and the handwriting screen is used to acquire handwriting trace information. The processor is directly connected to USB external interface of the computer through its connection or its embedded USB interface unit to establish a communication. The present invention relates to a structure of the apparatus divided into two parts, i.e. the mouse and the handwriting screen.

Abstract: An electronic device and method of correcting keystroke errors in which a sequence of characters entered by actuating text character keys on a keyboard is checked against at least one database to determine if there is at least one word in the at least one database that begins with the sequence of words. Where no such words are found in the at least one database, a table of text character key locations is accessed to locate text character keys adjacent to each of the text character keys actuated to enter the sequence of characters, and one at a time, each character of the sequence of characters is substituted with a character corresponding to a text character key found to be adjacent to the text character key corresponding to the substituted characters, thereby creating one or more alternate sequences of characters.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for using a dedicated shared emoticon and symbol key on a keypad of a mobile electronic device. The shared key is adapted to access a menu of multiple symbols and emoticons using a toggle input and can be accessed with minimal user input and minimal user manipulation and displayed to a user or message recipient.

Abstract: A method of character recognition for a personal computing device comprising a user interface capable of receiving inputs that are to be recognised through data input means which are receptive to keyed, tapped or a stylus input, said device being adapted to facilitate a reduction in the number of physical keying actions, tapping actions or gestures required to create a data string to less than the number of characters within said data string: storing a set of data strings each with a priority indicator associated therewith, wherein the indicator is a measure of a plurality of derivatives associated with the data string; recognising an event; looking up the most likely subsequent data string to follow the event from the set of data strings based on one or more of the plurality of derivatives; ordering the data strings for display based on the priority indicator of that data string; if the required subsequent data string is included in the list selecting the required subsequent data string; if the required subs

Abstract: An electronic device (1) comprises preferably at least a keyboard (4), which comprises at least one key (15a, 15b) for controlling the functions of a mobile station (1). This keyboard (4) is arranged as a keyboard plate (16). Said keyboard (4) is implemented so that it also comprises a touch sensitive element (19), over which said keyboard plate (16) is arranged so that the depression of a key is arranged to be transmitted to a touch sensitive element (19) essentially at the point of a key (15a, 15b). In addition, the electronic device (1) comprises means (21, 22b) for determining the point of depression from the touch sensitive element (19), whereby on the basis of the determined point of depression it is determined which key (15a, 15b) has been depressed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a moveable touch pad that opens out of a center console armrest and is operable to control a navigation unit or other vehicle functions. Advantageously, locating a control touch pad unit in the center console armrest provides an ergonomically desirable solution for the vehicle's driver. The touch pad can be stored in the vehicle's center console armrest, and the touch pad is configured to move fore and aft for comfortable driver access. Additionally, the control touch pad unit can be utilized to control other vehicle functions, such as audio, climate settings, odometer settings, lighting, mobile phones, and the like.

Abstract: A touchscreen system comprises a touch area. At least one transmitter is positioned proximate to outer edges of the touch area for transmitting first beams in a first direction. At least one beam splitter is positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for splitting the first beams into at least second and third beams that travel through the touch area in at least second and third directions, respectively. The at least one beam splitter comprises a plurality of deflecting elements. Receivers are positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for receiving the at least second and third beams.

Abstract: A pen for the touch pad of a laptop includes a conductive penholder, wherein a conductive pen head is installed on one end of the conductive penholder, and a smooth layer is located on the surface of the conductive pen head. The conductive pen can deliver the static electricity from a human's body through the conductive pen to the touch pad of a laptop computer. It replaces the original operation in which a user uses their finger to touch the touch pad of the laptop. It is convenient for the user and the user can operate it for a long time. The problems caused by the user's sweat re avoided. The opposite end of the conductive penholder can be installed with a PDA pen, a ball-point pen, a laser, or a pencil. The function of the present invention is therefore versatile.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a base, a touchpad and a touchpad cover apparatus for covering an operating surface of the touchpad. The touchpad is fastened to a bottom plate of the base. An opening is defined in the shell for revealing the operating surface of the touchpad. The touchpad cover apparatus includes a rail guide extending from a bottom surface of the shell and a touchpad cover. A pair of parallel guiding channels is defined in the rail guide. The touchpad cover is slidably inserted between the pair of parallel guiding channels, being slidable between a first position such that the operating surface of the touchpad is revealed through the opening of the shell, and a second position such that an operating surface of the touchpad is covered by the touchpad cover.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable touch-type keyboard in which touch type electrodes are included in a printed circuit board (PCB) and keys each having a pad shape are formed on a flat plate in correspondence with the touch type electrodes so as to transmit/receive a signal to/from an external device via wired/wireless communication such that key data indicating a character or a function can be input. The portable keyboard includes a pad key touch panel including a plurality of pad type touch electrodes contained in predetermined containing spaces of a printed circuit board (PCB) and pad keys formed on an upper plane in correspondence with the touch electrodes, and a signal operation module which processes signals received from the plurality of pad keys, generates a key signal, and transmits the key input signal to an external device via wired/wireless communication.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrostatic pad apparatus comprising: a pad portion that includes a touch detecting area having a ringed shape, the touch detecting area being partitioned into a plurality of areas including a first area and a second area, the areas being arranged along a circumferential direction of the touch detecting area; and a controller that outputs a first command when a touch operation is input to the first area and outputs a second command when a touch operation is input to the second area.

Abstract: A user input system (40) in which an output from a cross-capacitance object sensing system (30) (also known as an electric field object sensing s system) is combined with an output from a touchscreen device (15). An output from the user input system (40) may comprise position information derived from the cross-capacitance object sensing system (30) and indications of touch events derived from the touchscreen device (15). Another possibility is for sensing signals (S1, S2, S3,S4) derived from the cross-capacitance object to sensing system (30) to be processed in combination with position information derived from the touchscreen device (15) to provide updated parameters (P1, P2, P3, P4) for an algorithm used to determine position information from further sensing signals (S1, S2, S3, S4) derived from the cross-capacitance object sensing system (30).

Abstract: A luminous touch sensor includes a major surface on the touch sensor, a thin plastic sheet overlying at least a portion of the major surface, and at least one light emitting diode optically coupled to the plastic sheet. The light emitting diode emits light from an edge into an edge of the plastic sheet, which acts as a light guide and redirects the light away from the major surface. The touch sensor can be opaque or transparent, with the plastic sheet positioned accordingly.

Abstract: An interactive display system including a touch sensor overlay having at least one sheet with integrated patterned transparent conductors configured to signal touch data. The interactive display system further including a display assembly and an optical layer interposed the touch sensor overlay and the display assembly.

Abstract: A method for driving a display panel is provided. First, a first gate line is enabled and a first data is provided to a sub-pixel coupled to the first gate line at a first time duration in a frame period. Next, the first gate line is enabled and a second data is provided to the sub-pixel coupled to the first gate line at a second time duration in the frame period. Herein, the first time duration precedes the second time duration. Further, the second data is a display data of the sub-pixel coupled to the first gate line, and the first data is a display data of a sub-pixel coupled to a second gate line.

Abstract: A shift register is for generating scan signals. Each stage of the shift register comprises a first level lifting unit and at least a second level lifting unit, a first level lowering unit and at least a second level lowering unit, first and second driving units. The first level lowering and lifting units are for controlling the levels of signals at the first output terminal to output a first scan signal. The second level lowering unit and second level lifting unit are for controlling the levels of signals at the second output terminal to output at least a second scan signal. The first and second driving units are for turning on and off the first and the second level lifting units and the first and the second level lowering unit to control the first and second scan signals.

Abstract: A display apparatus including a display driver. The data driver includes a converter to receive and convert image data in digital form into data voltages in analog form, and to provide the data voltages to output buffers. The output buffers receive and buffer the data voltages based on bias voltages generated as part of a feedback path between a bias voltage control circuit and the output buffers. The data voltages are provided to a display part. Before the data voltages output from the output buffers are provided to the display part, the bias voltage control part receives data voltage from the output buffers to count a slew rate of the data voltage, and varies the voltage level of the bias voltage based on the counted result of the slew rate, thereby providing feedback to the output buffers. Accordingly, differences of the slew rate between the data voltages output from the output buffers may be decreased.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device of driving a display panel, which is capable of suppressing complexity and increase of circuit scale of the driving device, and performing a control to prevent a cathode reset method or a scanning operation from being performed when all anode data are black and thus prevent unnecessary parasitic capacitance from being pre-charged, which may result in alleviation of pseudo emission and reduction of power consumption. The driving device of the display panel includes an anode driver and a cathode driver connected to a display panel including EL elements arranged at intersections of a plurality of anode lines and a plurality of cathode lines.

Abstract: Color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and driving methods thereof are provided. A color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a color cholesteric liquid crystal display panel with a plurality of sub-pixels. A driving module exerts a first voltage on a portion of sub-pixels of the color cholesteric liquid crystal display panel to hold displaying states of the biased sub-pixels. An input element exerts pressure on the color cholesteric liquid crystal display panel to change displaying states of the unbiased sub-pixels.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a data driver that supplies a data signal to a plasma display panel and an energy supply/recovery unit. The energy supply/recovery unit includes an energy supply unit including a first coil connected to the data driver and supplying an energy to the plasma display panel, an energy recovery unit including a second coil connected to the data driver and recovering an energy from the plasma display panel, and an energy storing unit connected to the energy supply unit and the energy recovery unit. The energy storing unit stores the supplied energy or the recovered energy.

Abstract: A plasma display and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display includes a scan electrode, a scan integrated circuit, and a voltage supply unit. The scan integrated circuit applies a scan voltage and a non-scan voltage to the scan electrode during an address period. The voltage supply unit gradually decreases a voltage at the scan electrode to a first voltage during a reset period and supplies the scan voltage to the first terminal during the address period. The voltage supply unit includes a voltage generator that is connected to the first terminal to generate a second voltage by using the scan voltage during the reset period, and a first capacitor that is connected to the voltage generator, the first terminal, and a power source input terminal of the scan integrated circuit, and uses the second voltage supplied from the voltage generator to drive the scan integrated circuit.

Abstract: An exemplary gamma voltage output circuit (2) for a liquid crystal display device, which includes a resistor string, and a constant current source (21) providing a current to the resistor string. The resistor string has a plurality of resistor units R21˜R2(n+3), each of nodes between two corresponding adjacent resistors being defined as an output terminal for outputting a gamma voltage.

Abstract: A light emitting display includes a substrate, a pixel area, a first power source line to supply a first power signal to each pixel on a first side of the pixel area, a second power source line to supply the first power signal to each pixel on a second side of the pixel area, and an impedance compensator for compensating a difference in a voltage drop between the first power source line and the second power source line. A voltage drop caused by line resistance that depends on the length of the first and second power source line that supply the first power signal to a lower and upper side of a pixel area, respectively, is equalized, thereby minimizing the voltage drop of the first power signal supplied to all pixels, and minimizing non-uniformity of brightness due to the voltage drop differences at each pixel.

Abstract: An LED driving circuit that can improve characteristics is provided. An LED driving circuit 10 has first and second peaking current generating circuits 10e (second current source) and 10f (third current source), and a timing generating circuit 10b provides driving signals T2 and T3 to transistors 10c so that first and second peaking currents are supplied from the first and second peaking current generating circuits 10e and 10f to an LED 11. In this case, a driving current is made sharp in rise and rounding of the LED emission output that accompanies the driving current can be corrected. Also, although when there is only one peaking current, a depression tends to be formed when the peaking current is added to a main current, when two or more peaking currents are added in accordance with the main current, the depression can be reduced significantly, and stable optical communications can thereby be performed.

Abstract: A method for driving an LCD panel having a plurality of pixels corresponding to a matrix includes receiving an image data, setting polarities of the plurality of pixels according to an LCD panel driving procedure, dividing the plurality of pixels into a plurality of groups by lines of the matrix according to polarities of pixels corresponding to a column of the matrix, and sequentially scanning the pixels of the groups, so as to show the image data.

Abstract: A plasma display device including: a display panel for displaying an image according to a driving signal converted from an external image signal; a logic controller for measuring a temperature of the display panel for comparison with a temperature section information having at least two temperature sections, generating a driving control signal for changing the driving signal when the temperature of the display panel changes to a temperature of a different temperature section, and calculating a changing condition included in the driving control signal for determining a changing time of the driving signal; and a driver for supplying the driving signal that is changed according to the temperature section at the changing time determined by the changing condition of the driving control signal.

Abstract: A geometry shader of a graphics processor is configured to generate at least a portion of a particle system. The geometry shader receives vertex data including a reference set of vertices. The geometry shader also receives control data including information on how to create additional vertices for the particle system using the vertex data. The geometry shader processes the vertex data and control data to generate the additional vertices for the particle system. In some embodiments, the control data also includes information on other attributes of the generated vertices.