Abstract: A pixel array structure for populating the display area of a display device includes a repeated first pixel group that consists of one or more first colored subpixels, three or more second colored subpixels and two or more third colored subpixels. The respective numbers of the first colored subpixels, the second colored subpixels, and the third colored subpixels that are provided within the first pixel group are in a respective ratio of 1:3:2. In one embodiment, an input RGB image is remapped to have luminance values corresponding to Cyan-Magenta-Yellow coordinates and the latter are used in combination with subpixel rendering (SPR) to drive the colored subpixels of the pixel array structure.

Abstract: A method and system for adjusting a display unit are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring first status information of the display unit; determining whether the first status information of the display unit is changed and obtaining a first determining result; switching on the ambient light information acquisition unit in a case that the first determining result indicates that the first status information of the display unit is changed; and adjusting a display parameter of the display unit according to ambient light information acquired by the ambient light information acquisition unit. According to the disclosed method and system, the power consumption of ambient light acquisition unit is reduced, and then the power consumption of the electronic device adopting Paper-looking technology is reduced.

Abstract: Several embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed that create iso-perceptible image data from input image data. Such iso-perceptible image data may be created from Just-Noticeable-Difference (JND) modeling that leverages models from the Human Visual System (HVS). From a set of iso-perceptible image data set, an output image data may be selected, such that the chosen output image data has a less power and/or energy requirement to render than the input image data. Further, the output image data may have a substantially lower power and/or energy requirement than the set of iso-perceptible image data.

Abstract: A display system includes a switchable display screen comprising a first transparent substrate, a first transparent conductive layer disposed upon the first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and a second transparent conductive layer disposed upon the second transparent substrate. The display screen further includes a polymer-stabilized cholesteric texture layer and spacer elements disposed between and in contact with the first transparent conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The display screen comprises a plurality of addressable regions, each region capable of being switched from a transparent state to a diffuse state.

Abstract: A poly-phase frame modulation system includes a phase matrix look-up table being configured for generating a reference phase matrix; a first phase modulator being configured for generating a first modulated output by taking in the data from a red channel and the sum of the reference phase matrix and a frame offset; a second phase modulator being configured for generating a second modulated output by taking in the data from a green channel and the sum of the reference phase matrix, the frame offset and a first channel offset; and a third phase modulator being configured for generating a third modulated output by taking in the data from a blue channel and the sum of the reference phase matrix, the frame offset and a second channel offset.

Abstract: A method of visualizing high-cardinally data is provided. A graph is presented on a display. The graph includes a first axis, a second axis, and a plurality of value markers. The first axis includes a minimum value and a maximum value and the second axis includes a plurality of category values. A selection indicator identifying selection of a first value marker of the plurality of value markers is received. The first value marker indicates a value for a category value of the plurality of category values. A second plurality of category values is determined based on the category value. The graph and a second graph are presented on the display. The second graph includes a third axis, a fourth axis, and a second plurality of value markers. The third axis includes a second minimum value and a second maximum value.

Abstract: A display device superimposes and displays guide information on an actual image captured by a camera. The display device includes a specifying unit and a display control unit. The specifying unit specifies an overlapping part between guide information and a building in the actual image based on an image-capturing position, position information of the building existing in an image-capturing range of the camera, building shape information of the building, and position information of a facility or a road corresponding to the guide information. The display control unit superimposes and displays the guide information except for a cut-off part on the actual image. The cut-off part herein indicates the overlapping part where the building is to be displayed on a front side of the guide information.

Abstract: A system that generates interactive intersection areas receives a graphic diagram that includes a plurality of intersecting shapes and intersection areas. The system then creates or receives a definition for each of the shapes and determines a number of possible intersection areas for the diagram. The system defines a clipping path for each possible intersection area and defines a mask for each possible intersection area.

Abstract: Some implementations may provide a method for generating a portrait of a subject for an identification document, the method including: receiving a photo image of the subject, the photo image including the subject's face in a foreground against an arbitrary background; determining the arbitrary background of the photo image based on the photo image alone and without user intervention; masking the determined background from the photo image; and subsequently generating the portrait of the subject for the identification document of the subject, the portrait based on the photo image with the determined background masked.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for systems and methods effective to output a composite image. In some examples, a processor may be configured to receive first and second display data that relate to a first and second image. The processor may identify an overlap region where the first display overlaps the second display and generate imaging instructions effective to cause the first and second image to be output on the first display and second display, respectively. The processor may further modify the first imaging instructions based on the overlap region to produce a modified first imaging instruction. The processor may send the modified first imaging instruction to the first display so that the first image is output on the first display at a first resolution. The processor may send the second imaging instruction to the second display so that the second image is output on the second display at a second resolution.

Abstract: Methods for generating and displaying images associated with one or more virtual objects within an augmented reality environment at a frame rate that is greater than a rendering frame rate are described. The rendering frame rate may correspond with the minimum time to render images associated with a pose of a head-mounted display device (HMD). In some embodiments, the HMD may determine a predicted pose associated with a future position and orientation of the HMD, generate a pre-rendered image based on the predicted pose, determine an updated pose associated with the HMD subsequent to generating the pre-rendered image, generate an updated image based on the updated pose and the pre-rendered image, and display the updated image on the HMD. The updated image may be generated via a homographic transformation and/or a pixel offset adjustment of the pre-rendered image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: calculate, based on figure of a reference object recognized from an input image, positional information indicating a positional relationship between the reference object and an imaging position of the input image; and select, based on the positional information, at least one display data from among a plurality of pieces of display data associated with the reference object.

Abstract: There is provided techniques for improved visualization of wireless devices in a communication network. The techniques include receiving, via an identification device, real-time display data, determining, via the identification device, a location of a network device and displaying, via a display of the identification device, the real-time display data and an indication of the location of the network device relative to the real-time display data.

Abstract: A functionally limited apparatus configured to enable, at a remote apparatus, an augmented reality, the apparatus comprising: a body; and computer visible features configured to control augmented reality output at the remote apparatus.

Abstract: Method and systems for dynamically configuring an image processing function into at least a first and second detection state on the basis of function parameters are described, wherein transitions between said detection states are determined by at least a first state transition condition and wherein said image processing function includes extracting features from an image frame, matching features with features associated with one or more target objects and estimating pose information on the basis of matched features and wherein method comprises: configuring said image processing function in a detection state on the basis of a first set of function parameter values; processing a first image frame in said first detection state; monitoring said image processing function for occurrence of said at least state transition condition; and, if said at least one state transition condition is met, configuring said image processing function in said second detection state.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method acquires an image, performs an image recognition process on the acquired image to recognize a physical object in that image, and then generates a virtual image based on the results of the image recognition process. The virtual image includes a virtual object positioned relative to the physical object that was recognized in the acquired image. A display then displays the virtual image, and a projector projects at least part of the virtual image. The apparatus and method also include modes in which the display displays the virtual image, but the projector does not project the virtual image, where the projector projects the virtual image but the display does not display the virtual image, and where the display displays the virtual image and the projector projects the virtual image.

Abstract: When an autorotation function is ON and an object is photographed by holding a main body in an inverse attitude, rotation units rotate a camera image by 360 degrees in total and a rotation unit rotates display OSD data by 180 degrees. A combine unit combines outputs of the rotation units and writes panel-output image data into a VRAM. A combine unit combines recording OSD data drawn by a touch drawing function to the camera image rotated by 180 degrees in the rotation unit and writes into a recording VRAM. The image data in the recording VRAM is encoded and recorded as a moving image file into a recording medium.

Abstract: Often when a user rotates a mobile computing device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer or other multifunction computing device, the orientation of the information displayed on the screen of the device is also rotated. In the technique described herein, the user can reverse the orientation of screen content with a simple action, such as a gesture. In one embodiment, once rotation of the screen of a mobile computing device is detected a hint can be displayed to a user using the mobile device to revert screen content rotation using some type of an action. The user then performs the action/gesture and the user's action or gesture is detected. The screen content rotation is then reversed based on the detected user action. Once the rotation is reversed the orientation of the content can be locked.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for displaying representative images within a collection viewer is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a notification indicating a new orientation for the collection viewer, computing a current animation state for a current animation sequence associated with the collection viewer, identifying representative images to render in an animation frame, and generating an animation frame by rendering one or more rendered representative images in place, according to the animation state.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wrist-wearable display apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The disclosed wrist-wearable display apparatus includes a hidden display part connected to a wearable part coupled with a wrist; a main display part positioned over the hidden display part; and a rotation part configured to rotate the main display part, where the hidden display part is not exposed if the main display part is in a default initial position, and an area on at least a portion of the hidden display part is exposed if the main display part is rotated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display, a first calculator and an output module. The first calculator is configured to calculate a parameter value for synchronizing a first display size of an object on the first display with a second display size of the object on a second display of a second electronic apparatus based on a first screen size of the first display, first resolution of the first display and a first setting value associated with the first display size of the object on the first display. The output module is configured to output the parameter value.

Abstract: A scrollable display is provided with an adjustable screen size and an associated image scaling method. The display includes a case or housing, with an exit slot. The display also includes a flexible electronic screen having an input to accept electronic image signals, and a surface to display images. A screen extension mechanism is embedded in the case and connected to the flexible electronic screen interior edge. The screen extension mechanism is configured to permit the extension of the flexible electronic screen, through an exit slot, into a plurality of exposed widths. An image scaler has an input to accept a screen width measurement corresponding to an exposed width of the flexible electronic screen. The image scaler has an output to supply electronic image signals scaled to the screen width measurement, to form an image on an exposed section of the flexible electronic screen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for estimating size of an object of known position on an image, especially on infrared imaging systems. The method comprises the steps of; receiving the pixel image including target object and a coordinate of a pixel on it, calculating pixel standard deviations within a rectangular window centred around that pixel, by successively enlarging the window by a step-size, and obtaining at least one window size versus standard deviation graph, checking whether the graph is monotonically decreasing or not, finding and making a record of the window size at the point where the standard deviation first starts to decrease, checking if a previously recorded window size is existent, estimating the window size, checking if the maximum iteration limit is exceeded, increasing the step-size and initial window size and estimating the window size as the predetermined minimum window size.

Abstract: A method for displaying a virtual momentum or inertia of an object includes detecting a slide operation applied to the object and obtaining information of the slide operation. An initial speed, a first slide direction, and a sliding distance of the object are calculated according to the obtained information after a user ceases applying a slide operation to the object. A slide path of the object is determined according to the calculated initial speed, the calculated first slide direction, and the calculated sliding distance. The object is controlled to continue sliding, subject to an apparent friction and apparent collisions with edges of a display screen, along the determined slide path after the user ceases to apply an actual sliding operation.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a self-luminous display panel; a processor configured to designate a pixel of the self-luminous display panel which corresponds to image data and configured to process the image data to be displayed as an image by discharging the self-luminous display panel so that the designated pixel emits light; and a controller configured to convert a control instruction to control an operation of an external device into a waveform according to a protocol that the external device is able to receive in response to the control instruction being received, and configured to control the external device to operate through electromagnetic interference (EMI) radiated from the self-luminous display panel by additionally discharging the self-luminous display panel with the converted waveform during a period in which the self-luminous display panel is discharged.

Abstract: A method of operating a display driver IC (DDI) includes comparing previous line data with current line data and the R, G, and B components of a color data signals, and controlling whether to activate part of an intermediate processing circuit to process the current line data or more than a single component of the color data signal according to a comparison result.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light source unit which emits fluorescence light to a display element which displays an image by using the fluorescence light including an excitation light source which emits excitation light, a fluorescent plate including a fluorescence emission region on a surface of a circular substrate which emits the fluorescence light by the fluorescence emission region being irradiated with the excitation light from the excitation light source, a drive unit which rotates the fluorescent plate in a circumferential direction and a control unit which controls the excitation light source and the drive unit.

Abstract: A light-emitting element display device includes a light-emitting element display panel that displays an image by light emission of light-emitting regions of a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first R sub-pixel, a second R sub-pixel, a first G sub-pixel, a second G sub-pixel, a first B sub-pixel and a second B sub-pixel. The second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel include a W electrode as a common electrode that causes the second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel to simultaneously emit lights in response to the application of a potential. The driver circuit includes a sub-pixel control unit that calculates a peak luminance in a screen based on the video signal and controls the plurality of sub-pixels based on the peak luminance.

Abstract: A display driver drives a display (101) having a backlight (105) and a transmittance panel (107) comprising transmittance elements modulating the light from the backlight (105). The driver receives time sequential frames to be displayed. A controller (115) generates backlight intensity values for the backlight and transmittance drive values for the transmittance elements for the time sequential frames in response to image data for the time sequential frames and a global relationship between image data values and backlight intensity values and transmittance drive values. The transmittance drive values comprise a desired transmittance component and an overdrive component.

Abstract: A TV set including a liquid crystal panel, a processor-readable storage medium storing instruction units for providing the TV set functions to control backlight of the liquid crystal panel; and one or more processors in communication with the storage medium to execute the instruction units, wherein the instruction units include: an image information amount determining unit (102); the backlight gain retrieving unit (104); a backlight value extracting unit (106); the backlight value processing unit (108); and a backlight value transmitting unit (110). Correspondingly a method of controlling backlight of a liquid crystal panel is further disclosed. In the technical solution of the disclosure, a backlight modulation coefficient can be modulated dynamically according to the amount of image information to perform backlight enhancement on an image with a large amount of information.

Abstract: A device includes pixel circuits arranged in columns and rows, n data lines (n being an integer of 2 or more) for each column, gate lines supplied with scan signals, and light-emitting control lines supplied with light-emitting control signals. The pixel circuits are divided into n groups of rows, each group of rows being exclusively connected to a corresponding data line. Each pixel circuit includes a write control transistor to control writing a data voltage in response to a scan signal, a driving transistor to control the amount of current to be supplied to a current light-emitting element, a light-emitting control transistor to control supply of a current to the light-emitting element in response to a light-emitting control signal, a capacitor to retain a voltage corresponding to a write data voltage, and a reset transistor to set the gate electrode of the driving transistor with the initial voltage.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (“OLED) display comprises a plurality of pixels which receives a first data signal, which is a data signal of a frame, through a plurality of data lines connected thereto, and stores the first data signal during a frame period of the frame, where the pixels simultaneously emit light based on a driving current corresponding to a second data signal, which is a data signal of a previous frame, where the frame period includes a scan period, during which the first data signal is stored, and a light emission period, during which the light is emitted based on the second data signal, the scan period and the light emission period overlap each other in the frame period.

Abstract: A data interpolation method is utilized for obtaining an interpolation data of an interpolation point in a destination data, and a data number of the destination data has a horizontal magnification factor and a vertical magnification factor compared to a data number of a source data. The data interpolation method includes obtaining an input data from the source data according to an interpolation position of the interpolation point corresponding to the destination data, the horizontal magnification factor, and the vertical magnification factor, wherein the input data includes a plurality of input pixel values corresponding to a plurality of pixels; performing at least one reordering and interpolation calculating process on the plurality of input pixel values to obtain a plurality of output pixel values; and selecting an output pixel value from the plurality of output pixel values and outputting the output pixel value as the interpolation data of the interpolation point.

Abstract: A water-based ink of the present invention comprises water, a plurality of different water-soluble organic solvents, and a water-insoluble coloring material, wherein the above water-soluble organic solvents consist of a good solvent to the above water-insoluble coloring material and a poor solvent to the above water-insoluble coloring material, and the total amount (% by mass) of the good solvents in the ink is represented by A and the total amount (% by mass) of the poor solvent in the ink is represented by B, the ratio of A to B ranges from 10:5 to 10:30 both inclusive, and when the respective Ka values of the above water-soluble organic solvents are determined by the Bristow method and compared with each other, a water-soluble organic solvent having the largest Ka value is the poor solvent. The pigment ink has a sufficiently large area factor even with a small amount of ink and provides an image of high OD.

Abstract: Colorant transfer, involving a colorant supply, and impeding colorant from exiting the colorant supply, a motion device, and providing a passage out of the colorant supply.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes: an ink container having an outlet port and a return port; a printhead having a first ink port and a second ink port; a first ink line interconnecting the outlet port and the first ink port; a second ink line interconnecting the return port and the second ink port; a bypass line interconnecting the first and second ink lines; a valve system for controlling fluid flow through the first ink line and the bypass line; and a controller for controlling the valve system. During printing, the controller is configured to open the first ink line and the bypass line.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus may include a carriage, a recording head mounted on the carriage and including a nozzle surface, a maintenance mechanism, and a controller. The maintenance mechanism may include a cap which covers, in a covering position, the nozzle surface of the recording head, a pump including an inlet and an outlet, a tube extending from the outlet, and a waste ink storage detachably attached to the tube. The controller drives the pump to execute purging with the inlet of the pump in communication with the cap in the covering position, receives an input indicating replacement of the waste ink storage, and drives the pump to execute an idle suction with the inlet of the pump in communication with atmosphere when a time elapsed after the execution of the purging until the reception of the input is shorter than a threshold time.

Abstract: A printing element substrate, comprising a printing unit including a printing element and a transistor, a logic circuit unit configured to be supplied with a first power supply voltage and receive print data, a unit configured to be supplied with a second power supply voltage and output a signal from the logic circuit unit to a control terminal of the transistor, a voltage generation unit configured to be supplied with a third power supply voltage and generate the second power supply voltage using the third power supply voltage, and a controlling unit configured to control supply of the third power supply voltage to the voltage generation unit, wherein when the first power supply voltage is not supplied to the logic circuit unit, the controlling unit does not supply the third power supply voltage to the voltage generation unit.

Abstract: A printing element substrate, comprising a printing element, a MOS transistor having a drain terminal, a source terminal and a back gate terminal, the drain terminal being connected to a first power supply node for receiving a first voltage, and a source terminal and a back gate terminal being connected to the printing element, and a unit including a second power supply node different from the first power supply node, and configured to supply a second voltage to a gate terminal of the MOS transistor, wherein, when the first voltage is not supplied to the first power supply node, the unit controls a potential of at least one of the gate terminal and the drain terminal so that a potential difference between the gate terminal and the drain terminal becomes lower than the second voltage.

Abstract: A method of generating print data for an inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: receiving image data for a print job in a printer controller; retrieving keep-wet pattern data for each ink plane of the printhead, the retrieved keep-wet pattern data being determined using one or more input parameters; generating first print data for each ink plane in the printer controller based on the received image data; merging the first print data with the keep-wet pattern data to provide second print data for each ink plane; and sending the second print data from the printer controller to the printhead, thereby causing the printhead to print an image together with a keep-wet pattern. The keep-wet pattern is defined by a plurality of dots printed at a frequency sufficient to maintain hydration of each nozzle in the printhead.

Abstract: A method of printing from a fixed inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink planes. The method includes the steps of: feeding a print medium past the printhead in a media feed direction, the media feed direction defining relative upstream and downstream sides of the printhead; printing an image onto the print medium, the image being defined by image data; and printing a keep-wet pattern onto the print medium from each ink plane of the printhead, the keep-wet pattern being defined by a plurality of dots printed at a frequency sufficient to maintain hydration of each nozzle in the printhead. A first keep-wet pattern from a first ink plane is printed at a higher frequency than a second keep-wet pattern from a second ink plane, the first ink plane being furthest upstream in the printhead.

Abstract: A control method for a liquid ejecting system provided with a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting portion for ejecting a liquid and an inputting apparatus including a data inputting portion through which data can be inputted includes a specific data detecting process that detects whether or not input data inputted to the data inputting portion is specific data which is other than liquid ejection data for causing a liquid corresponding to an image to be formed on an ejection target medium to be ejected from the liquid ejecting portion and which is determined in advance as data for prompting an ejection inspection; and a nozzle inspecting process that, in the case where the specific data is detected in the specific data detecting process, causes a nozzle inspecting portion to perform the ejection inspection.

Abstract: Determining an issue in an inkjet nozzle may include activating a drive bubble formation mechanism in an ink chamber to eject an ink droplet through the inkjet nozzle and measuring the drive bubble in the ink chamber after the drive bubble formation mechanism is activated.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes: a modulator adapted to pulse-modulate a drive waveform signal forming a basis of a drive signal of an actuator to obtain a modulated signal; a digital power amplifier circuit adapted to power-amplify the modulated signal to obtain a power-amplified modulated signal; a low pass filter adapted to smooth the power-amplified modulated signal to obtain the drive signal; and a power amplification stopping section operating when holding a voltage of the actuator constant.

Abstract: A method for determining an issue in an inkjet nozzle with impedance measurements, includes taking a first impedance measurement to detect a drive bubble with an impedance sensor, and taking a second impedance measurement to detect said drive bubble with said impedance sensor after said first impedance measurement.

Abstract: According to one example of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating data to control the ejection of ink drops from a plurality of arrays of printhead nozzles of a printing system. In the printing system one of the arrays of nozzles is configured to eject a first ink of a first colour having a first colourant density. Another one of the arrays of nozzles is configured to eject a second ink of the first colour having a second colourant density. Each array of nozzles is capable of making ink marks having a plurality of different ink mark volumes on a media. The method comprises obtaining image data for a single colour channel and generating, from the image data, multi-level screen data describing, for each of the first and second inks, the ink mark volume to be made by the array of printhead nozzles at each screen location.

Abstract: An inkjet printer having a conveyer, a recording head, a carriage, a corrugation mechanism, and a controller is provided. The controller executes an operation including a conveying step to convey a sheet and a recording step to discharge ink through the recording head toward the sheet. The recording step includes a discharging step, in which the recording head is manipulated to discharge the ink toward the sheet in response to the carriage being placed in a discharging position when the sheet is in a nipped condition, in which the sheet is nipped by the conveyer roller unit; and a corrected discharging step, in which the recording head is manipulated to discharge the ink toward the sheet in response to the carriage being placed in a corrected discharging position, when the sheet is in a non-nipped condition, in which the sheet is not nipped by the conveyer roller unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ink jet recording apparatus that prints an image onto a recording medium using an ink which is composed of an aqueous ink vehicle containing latex as a binder resin. The ink jet recording apparatus includes a carriage on which a recording head for discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium is mounted and that moves relative to the recording medium, in which an infrared heater that is disposed opposite to the recording medium and heats the recording medium is mounted on the carriage, and the infrared heater is disposed to be distant from the recording head in a moving direction (X direction) of the recording medium.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus configured to perform printing by discharging ink droplets onto a print medium. The apparatus includes a printing head having a plurality of inkjet heads and configured to perform printing by discharging the ink droplets from the plurality of inkjet heads onto the print medium; a chart printing device configured to print a step-shift correcting chart with the printing head; a reading device configured to read the step-shift correcting chart printed on the print medium; a print medium-processed portion detecting device configured to detect a processed portion of the print medium; an uninfluenced step-shift correcting-chart generating device configured to generate an uninfluenced step-shift correcting chart; and a shift-amount calculating device configured to calculate a shift amount for correcting the step shift in accordance with the uninfluenced step-shift correcting chart.

Abstract: A sheet attribution detection sensor device includes a light emission element configured to emit incident light to a paper sheet, a light receiving element configured to receive a specular reflection component of reflection light from the paper sheet of the incident light in order to specify a thickness of the paper sheet, and light receiving elements configured to receive a diffuse reflection component of the reflection light in order to specify one of surface roughness and color of the paper sheet.