Abstract: Provided are a display device and driving method thereof. A display device comprises a display panel configured to display an image, a data driver configured to supply a data signal to the display panel, a gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to the display panel, a power supply unit configured to output a power voltage to the display panel, and a power saving unit configured to control the power supply unit to vary a level of the power voltage according to a display mode of the display panel.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a lower substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein a plurality of pixels are formed in the display area. The OLED display also includes an embedded circuit formed in the configured to apply a plurality of signals to the pixels, and an initialization wiring formed in the non-display area and configured to apply an initialization voltage to each of the pixels. The initialization circuit is formed in a layer so as to at least partially overlap with the area of the embedded circuit.

Abstract: Provided are a gate driving circuit and a display device using the same, and the gate driving circuit includes a shift register which includes stages. The n-th stage (n is a positive integer) includes an auto reset circuit that receive a first clock and a carry signal received from an (n?1)-th stage, regulates a Q node to be at a low voltage when the first clock is at a high voltage and the carry signal is at a low voltage, and regulates the Q node to be at a high voltage when both of the first clock and the carry signal are at a high voltage.

Abstract: A multiple backlight display system includes a display device having a light guide device including a plurality of edges. An edge backlight device is located along one of the edges of the light guide device. An array backlight device includes a plurality of array backlight zones that are located between the edges of the light guide device. A computing device receives an image for display on the display device and determines a plurality of brightness zones in the image. The computing device then generates backlight driving information using the plurality of brightness zones and provides the backlight driving information to the display device. The backlight driving information is configured to drive the array backlight device such a first array backlight zone provides light having a first brightness that is different than a second brightness of light that is provided by at least one second array backlight zone.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for controlling dynamic backlight source of ELED, wherein the backlight source signal processing circuit is used for obtaining SOC picture signals, decoding the SOC picture signals into light and dark signals, and transmitting the light and dark signals to the optical processing board; the optical processing board is provided with a transparent substrate; the optical processing board receives the light and dark signals, and controls the on and off states of light valves on the transparent substrate in real time according to the light and dark signals; the backlight source driving board provides electric power for the backlight source signal processing circuit and the static plane backlight source; and the static plane backlight source is used for providing a dynamic light source for a liquid crystal display panel through the transparent substrate. Thus the disclosure realizes a dynamic picture display.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a color display device in which each pixel can display at least six high-quality color states, and an electrophoretic fluid for such an electrophoretic display. The different types of particles exhibit different levels of attraction force to display different color states.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel units, each including sub-pixel units of a plurality of colors, the sub-pixel units included in the liquid crystal panel includes a main pixel area and a secondary pixel area. The driving method includes: acquiring a grayscale value of a picture to be displayed of each of the partial sub-pixel units; searching for a main grayscale value and a secondary grayscale value corresponding to the grayscale value of the picture to be displayed of the each of the partial sub-pixel units from a corresponding relationship between grayscale values of a color of each of the partial sub-pixel units and the main grayscale values and the secondary grayscale values; and providing the searched main grayscale value and the secondary grayscale value to areas of the main pixel unit and the secondary pixel unit of the each of the partial sub-pixel units respectively.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller and a data driver. The display panel includes a data line and first and second pixels connected to the data line. The timing controller generates a data signal and a data kickback control signal in response to input image data. The data driver generates first and second data voltages in response to the data signal, generates a data kickback signal in response to the data kickback control signal, processes the data voltages and the data kickback signal, and outputs the first data voltage to the data line during a first duration, the second data voltage to the data line during a second duration, and a first kickback data voltage to the data line during a first data kickback duration. The first data kickback duration is between the first and second durations.

Abstract: A display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing the gate line. The display device further includes a first switching element and a second switching element each connected to the gate line and the data line. The display device further includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode connected to the first switching element and the second switching element, respectively. The display device further includes a reference voltage line for transmitting a reference voltage, a first portion of the first reference voltage line overlapping a first edge of the first sub-pixel electrode, a second portion of the first reference voltage line overlapping a second edge of the first sub-pixel electrode opposite the first edge of the first sub-pixel electrode. The display device further includes a third switching element connected to the gate line, the first sub-pixel electrode, and the reference voltage line.

Abstract: An electronic shelf label that includes a casing, a display arranged in the casing, a printed circuit board, enclosed by the casing, a power source, and a thermal element arranged within the casing.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The panel has a driving portion including a plurality of chips and a plurality of electronic components. The chips comprise a source driver chip, a pulse width modulation chip, a programmable gamma correction buffer chip, and a timing control chip. The electronic components are disposed on the printed circuit board. The source driver chip, the pulse width modulation chip, and the programmable gamma correction buffer chip are disposed on the flexible connector.

Abstract: A GOA circuit and LCD are disclosed. The GOA circuit includes cascaded GOA units and a control module. Each of the GOA units is driven by a first level of transfer clock, a second level of transfer clock, a first control clock and a second control clock to charge horizontal signal lines corresponding to a display area. The control module masks the first level of transfer clock and the second level of transfer clock when all of the horizontal signal lines are charged completely by the GOA circuit, such that the gate driving signals on the horizontal signal lines are discharged until the level equals to the predetermined level. In this way, the horizontal signal lines are prevented from generating redundant pulse signals before the first gate driving signals are outputted, which ensures the normal operations of the GOA circuit.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n?3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a GOA circuit with forward-backward scan function. In the GOA unit circuit of every stage, the pull-up controlling module comprises two thin film transistors respectively controlling the forward, backward scans. With proper received signals, as the thin film transistor controlling the forward scan is on, the GOA circuit performs forward scan from the GOA unit circuit of the first stage to the GOA unit circuit of the last stage, and as the thin film transistor controlling the backward scan is on, the GOA circuit performs backward scan from the GOA unit circuit of the last stage to the GOA unit circuit of the first stage. Thurs, the GOA circuit possessing functions of forward scan and backward scan at the same time can be achieved to expand the application field of the GOA circuit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, a display device, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a plurality of data line pairs, a plurality of scanning lines, and a pixel unit array, wherein the first scanning line and the second scanning line turn on TFT switches of two rows of pixel units simultaneously according to a scanning driving signal, and the first data line and the second data line charge the pixel electrodes of two rows of pixel units through the TFT switches according to a data driving signal.

Abstract: An array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, whereby the technical problem that the uniformity of the image of the liquid crystal display panel is affected by the distortion of the source driving signal can be solved.

Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel cells comprising thin film transistors (TFTs), wherein W representing a width of a trench within the TFT, and L representing a length of the trench within the TFT. A plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines intersect with each other to limit locations of the pixel cells. A source driver connects to the data lines such that the data signals being provided to each of the data lines. A gate driver connects to the scanning lines such that scanning signals are provided to the scanning lines. Wherein a ratio (W/L) of the width (W) to the length (L) of the trench within the TFTs being configured such that the pixel cells connected by the same scanning line being fully charged at the same time.

Abstract: A display device comprises: a timing controller that is turned on to a floating state by a first logic voltage and, after a switching period, switches from the floating state to a normal operating state based on a reset signal to generate timing control signals; a level shifter configured to receive the first logic voltage and a second logic voltage and level-shift the timing control signals to the second logic voltage; and an output enable signal control part that outputs an output enable signal at enable level LOW or disable level HIGH, in synchronization with the reset signal, wherein, during the switching period, the level shifter receives the output enable signal at the disable level HIGH and does not level-shift the timing control signals.

Abstract: In a pulse output circuit in a shift register, a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a pulse output circuit at the next stage is set to a low-potential drive voltage, and a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a scan signal line is set to a variable potential drive voltage. The variable potential drive voltage is the low-potential drive voltage in a normal mode, and can be either a high-potential drive voltage or the low-potential drive voltage in a batch mode. In the batch mode, display scan signals can be output to a plurality of scan signal lines at the same timing in a batch.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units, wherein each pixel unit is composed of a first sub pixel unit with a first pixel voltage and a second sub pixel unit with a second pixel voltage which use a same data line while different scanning lines respectively; and wherein the second sub pixel unit is driven during a driving period of the first sub pixel unit. According to the present disclosure, the influence of a second coupling voltage on the LCD during alternating current driving process can be eliminated.

Abstract: An amplifier feeds a current corresponding to a difference between a gradation voltage corresponding to a luminance level in a video signal and an amplified gradation voltage obtained by amplifying such a gradation voltage through an output current line in a current mirror circuit, and provides a voltage on the output current line to an output part via a driving line. The output part generates the amplified gradation voltage on the output line by feeding a current according to a voltage on the driving line through the output line.

Abstract: Among data voltages applied to a plurality of pixels on a display panel, a first data voltage is shifted from a first original data voltage by a first value, a second data voltage is shifted from a second original data voltage by a second value, and a third data voltage is shifted from a third original data voltage by a third value to compensate for AC and DC afterimages. A common voltage generator provides an optimal common voltage for the third data voltage when the temperature of the liquid crystal panel assembly is lower than a reference temperature and provides an optimal common voltage for the first data voltage or the second data voltage when the temperature of the liquid crystal panel assembly is higher than or equal to the reference temperature. The first, second, and third values correspond to respective kickback voltages of the respective gray level data voltages.

Abstract: A method of driving a display panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in odd and even rows and a plurality of odd and even gate lines respectively connected to the pixels of the corresponding odd and even rows. The method includes outputting odd gate signals to the odd numbered gate lines during two consecutive subframes and outputting even gate signals to the even numbered gate lines during two consecutive subframes. A frame is divided into two subframes.

Abstract: A voltage generator includes: a transforming unit to transform an input voltage into an output voltage in response to a switching signal; a feedback voltage controller to compare the output voltage with a reference voltage when a start signal is activated, and to output a feedback voltage corresponding to the comparison of the output voltage with the reference voltage; and a power controller to compare the feedback voltage with the reference voltage, and to output the switching signal corresponding to the comparison of the feedback voltage with the reference voltage.

Abstract: A projection system includes a display device, a wireless presentation gateway, a computer terminal, and a portable device. The display device is used for displaying an image. The wireless presentation gateway is linked to the display device for transmitting image data to the display device. The computer terminal is linked to the wireless presentation gateway for transmitting the image data to the wireless presentation gateway. The portable device is connected to the computer terminal through a communication port for driving the computer terminal, the wireless presentation gateway, and the display device for performing an image display process automatically.

Abstract: A vehicular apparatus transitions from a system sleep state that causes a first controller and a second controller to be each under sleep state into a waiting state that waits to receive a specified kind of data when the first controller is activated. When receiving the specified kind of data before a waiting time elapses under the waiting state, the waiting state transitions into a preparing state that waits to receive an activation manipulation on condition that reading out a program and developing the program into a memory have been completed by the second controller being activated. When receiving the activation manipulation before a manipulation waiting time elapses under the preparing state, the preparing state transitions into an executing state that executes the program developed in the memory with the second controller.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for electronic device communication. A method includes translating monitor control commands to an internet protocol (IP) format to produce IP formatted monitor control commands, and communicating the IP formatted monitor control commands to an IP port dedicated for communicating IP formatted monitor control commands.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first processor that monitors whether screen updating is delayed based on a reference time associated with screen updating and generates a control signal that controls a screen updating time based on whether the screen updating is delayed, and a clock managing unit that controls a clock that is supplied to the electronic device in response to the control signal.

Abstract: There are disclosed a display method and a display apparatus. The display method comprises: determining whether the images to be displayed are special images (S101); transmitting instructions corresponding to the images to be displayed when it is determined that the images to be displayed are special images (S102); receiving the instructions, generating image data of the images to be displayed according to the instructions, and transmitting the image data (S103); receiving the image data, and displaying the images to be displayed according to the image data (S104); and transmitting the image data of the images to be displayed when it is determined that the display image is not a special image (S105). The display method can further comprise classifying the images to be displayed (S100).

Abstract: A flexible display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The flexible display panel includes a pixel region and a gate driving circuit region located outside the pixel region. The flexible display panel further includes a curvature adjusting unit located on two sides of the pixel region, the curvature adjusting unit includes a plurality of isosceles trapezoid units which are sequentially connected with each other through lower surfaces thereof, each isosceles trapezoid unit includes an upper surface, the lower surface, and a third waist surface and a fourth waist surface oppositely arranged between the upper surface and the lower surface, and a length of the upper surface between the third waist surface and the fourth waist surface is less than a length of the lower surface between the third waist surface and the fourth waist surface.

Abstract: A display panel and its driving method and driving device are provided for selectively reducing display resolution of a display panel, thereby decreasing display power consumption.

Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for image display. The method includes: obtaining display definition information of an image to be displayed; determining a target image compression ratio corresponding to the display definition information of the image to be displayed based on a prestored correspondence between display definition information and image compression ratios; and compressing display data of the image to be displayed based on the target image compression ratio, and transmitting the compressed display data to a display device for display.

Abstract: A refresh control method and apparatus of a display device are disclosed, where the method includes: (201) periodically generating, a first refresh signal, and outputting an image frame for display that is stored in a frame buffer to a display panel; and (202) generating, a second refresh signal when determining that the image frame for display that is stored in the frame buffer changes, and outputting the image frame for display that is stored in the frame buffer to the display panel. A generation frequency of the second refresh signal is far less than a frequency required to ensure timely display of an image frame. In addition, an operation of refreshing an image frame is triggered by using an event, which may ensure timely display of the image frame, and avoid an unnecessary refresh operation, so as to reduce system resource consumption and memory consumption.

Abstract: The Invention is designed so that it is comfortable to hold, and easy to play for long periods of time without becoming fatigued. There are two different designs that the invention can utilize. Both designs provide for an instrument that is compact, making it comfortable for the musician to reach various parts of the fingerboard while still providing a normal scale fretboard. The first design features one neck, shaped to look like the letter Z. The neck is actually composed of three sections: The first section contains the lower notes of the fretboard, while the second section contains the higher notes. Between these two sections sits a connecting strut that connects the strings via an additional string saddle. This design thus produces uses two separate fretboard areas that are easy to reach, providing comfortable access to a full scale of notes. The second design includes two wholly separate necks, similar to a double neck guitar.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to automatically identifying structures of a music stream. A segment structure may be generated that visually indicates repeating segments of a music stream. To generate a segment structure, a feature that corresponds to a music attribute from a waveform corresponding to the music stream is extracted from a waveform, such as an input signal. Utilizing a signal segmentation algorithm, such as a Variable Markov Oracle (VMO) algorithm, a symbolized signal, such as a VMO structure, is generated. From the symbolized signal, a matrix is generated. The matrix may be, for instance, a VMO-SSM. A segment structure is then generated from the matrix. The segment structure illustrates a segmentation of the music stream and the segments that are repetitive.

Abstract: An adaptive music playback system is disclosed. The system includes a composition system that receives information corresponding to user activity levels. The composition system modifies the composition of a song in response to changes in user activity.

Abstract: A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a calibration system to improve the quality of the sound produced by the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, an exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, a coupling interface for coupling the mechanical vibrations into a second musical instrument, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sound insulator which includes: a flexible material (A) having a peak of loss tangent (tan ?), which is determined by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, in a temperature range of ?60° C. to lower than 0° C.; and a resin (B) having a peak of loss tangent (tan ?), which is determined by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, in a temperature range of 0° C. to 60° C., the sound insulator including the resin (B) at a ratio of 1 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the flexible material (A). The sound insulator of the present invention is a material which realizes excellent sound insulation properties without relying on a complex shape and an increase in weight.

Abstract: The headset includes an active noise control with an internal microphone (28) and an external microphone (32). A processor (42) comprises a feedback branch (46), adjusted so as to attenuate the low frequencies corresponding to a component of a voice signal transmitted by bone conduction, and a feedforward branch (58) adjusted so as to compensate for the attenuation introduced by the feedback filtering and the passive acoustic attenuation introduced between the outside and the inside of the headset. A voice activity detector (60) operates a dynamic switching between two couples (HFB, HFF) of different transfer functions applied to the feedback (46) and feedforward (58) functions. This allows rendering in the most natural way possible to the user all the external sounds, including his own voice.

Abstract: A keyword detector includes a processor configured to calculate a feature vector for each frame from a speech signal, input the feature vector for each frame to a DNN to calculate a first output probability for each triphone according to a sequence of phonemes contained in a predetermined keyword and a second output probability for each monophone, for each of at least one state of an HMM, calculate a first likelihood representing the probability that the predetermined keyword is uttered in the speech signal by applying the first output probability to the HMM, calculate a second likelihood for the most probable phoneme string in the speech signal by applying the second output probability to the HMM, and determine whether the keyword is to be detected on the basis of the first likelihood and the second likelihood.

Abstract: A method and a device for recognition, and a method and a device for constructing a recognition model are disclosed. A device for constructing a recognition model includes a training data inputter configured to receive additional training data, a model learner configured to train a first recognition model constructed based on basic training data to learn the additional training data, and a model constructor configured to construct a final recognition model by integrating the first recognition model with a second recognition model generated by the training of the first recognition model.

Abstract: Embodiments of end-to-end deep learning systems and methods are disclosed to recognize speech of vastly different languages, such as English or Mandarin Chinese. In embodiments, the entire pipelines of hand-engineered components are replaced with neural networks, and the end-to-end learning allows handling a diverse variety of speech including noisy environments, accents, and different languages. Using a trained embodiment and an embodiment of a batch dispatch technique with GPUs in a data center, an end-to-end deep learning system can be inexpensively deployed in an online setting, delivering low latency when serving users at scale.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for compensating for dialects and accents comprising an automatic speech recognition system comprising an automatic speech recognition device that is operative to receive an utterance in an acoustic format from a user with a user interface; a speech to text conversion engine that is operative to receive the utterance from the automatic speech recognition device and to prepare a textual statement of the utterance; and a correction database that is operative to store textual statements of all utterances; where the correction database is operative to secure a corrected transcript of the textual statement of the utterance from the speech to text conversion engine and adds it to the corrections database if the corrected transcript of the textual statement of the utterance is not available.

Abstract: Embodiments of end-to-end deep learning systems and methods are disclosed to recognize speech of vastly different languages, such as English or Mandarin Chinese. In embodiments, the entire pipelines of hand-engineered components are replaced with neural networks, and the end-to-end learning allows handling a diverse variety of speech including noisy environments, accents, and different languages. Using a trained embodiment and an embodiment of a batch dispatch technique with GPUs in a data center, an end-to-end deep learning system can be inexpensively deployed in an online setting, delivering low latency when serving users at scale.

Abstract: A method of performing dialogue between a humanoid robot and user comprises: i) acquiring input signals from respective sensors, at least one being a sound sensor and another being a motion or image sensor; ii) interpreting the signals to recognize events generated by the user, including: the utterance of a word or sentence, an intonation of voice, a gesture, a body posture, a facial expression; iii) determining a response of the humanoid robot, comprising an event such as: the utterance of a word or sentence, an intonation of voice, a gesture, a body posture, a facial expression; iv) generating, an event by the humanoid robot; wherein step iii) comprises determining the response from events jointly generated by the user and recognized at step ii), of which at least one is not words uttered by the user. A computer program product and humanoid robot for carrying out the method is provided.

Abstract: A device which operates as an intelligent hands free voice activated Reminder device on its own or as part of any device, or when connected to any network in the home or work, which incorporates a reminder and control system that announces and/or displays personalized scheduled messages and/or voice reminders of any length, either pre-recorded in a personal voice or a voice of a pre-recorded person, or a computer generated voice based on reminders and/or tasks at specific time or date or a combination of time, day, date or year. These reminders can be confirmed by the end users and therefore acknowledged by a second person, whether they are in the same premises of the end user, or anywhere else in the world. The user can ask the device to repeat a reminder for any time, day, date or year.

Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide an easy-to-use speech processing system attaining higher accuracy of speech recognition. [Solution] Receiving a speech utterance, the speech processing system performs speech recognition and displays a text 158 of the recognition result. Further, the speech processing system translates the recognition result in accordance with settings to a text 176 of another language and displays and synthesizes speech of the translated result. Further, the speech processing system selects utterance candidates having high possibility to be uttered as the next utterance and having high translation and speech recognitions scores, using outputs of various sensors at the time of utterance, a pre-trained utterance sequence model and translation and speech recognition scores of utterance candidates, and recommends utterance candidates in the form of an utterance candidate recommendation list 192.

Abstract: An implantable system for control of and communication with an implant in a body, comprising a command input device and a processing device coupled thereto, the processing device being adapted to generate input to a command generator which is comprised in the system coupled to the processing device and which is adapted to generate and communicate commands to the medical implant in response to input received from the processing device, the system further comprising a memory unit connected to at least one of said devices in the system for storing a memory bank of commands. The command input device is adapted to receive commands from a user as voice commands, and the processing device comprises a filter adapted to filter voice commands against high frequency losses and frequency distortion caused by the mammal body.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide input and output mode control for audio processing on a user device. Audio processing may be configured by monitoring audio activity on a device having at least one microphone and a digital audio processing unit, collecting information from the monitoring of the activity, including an identification of at least one application utilizing audio processing, and determining a context for the audio processing, the context including at least one context resource having associated metadata. An audio configuration is determined based on the application and determined context, and an action is performed to control the audio processing mode. User controls providing addition mode control may be displayed automatically based on a current application and determined context.

Abstract: A method for receiving processed information at a remote device is described. The method includes transmitting from the remote device a verbal request to a first information provider and receiving a digital message from the first information provider in response to the transmitted verbal request. The digital message includes a symbolic representation indicator associated with a symbolic representation of the verbal request and data used to control an application. The method also includes transmitting, using the application, the symbolic representation indicator to a second information provider for generating results to be displayed on the remote device.