Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel structure and a preparation method thereof, a pixel display method and an array substrate. The pixel structure comprises: a thin film transistor TFT for controlling a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System MEMS switch; the Micro-Electro-Mechanical System MEMS switch being used for controlling transmission amount of outgoing light of a quantum dot light emitting diode QLED device; the quantum dot light emitting diode QLED device being a top emission type for emitting light constantly based on a constant light emitting driving signal.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, includes: a first storage unit configured to store first correction data reducing brightness unevenness corresponding to a first gradation value; a second storage unit configured to store second correction data reducing brightness unevenness corresponding to a second gradation value which is lower than the first gradation value; and a correction unit configured to correct gradation values, which are not less than the first gradation value, of the input image data, in use of at least the first correction data, and corrects gradation values, which are less than the first gradation value, of the input image data, in use of at least the second correction data.

Abstract: An OLED degradation compensation system includes a display system having an OLED display device. A computing device is coupled to the display system and includes an OLED display device adjustment database storing an OLED table that is associated with a usage time of the OLED display device and that includes OLED compensation information that is based upon the usage time. An OLED display device use tracking engine in the computing system determines usage data for the OLED display device. An OLED display device adjustment engine in the computing system retrieves the usage data determined by the OLED display device use tracking engine, uses the usage data to select the OLED table in response to the usage data corresponding to the usage time associated with the OLED table, and causes at least one OLED in the OLED display device to be powered using the OLED compensation information in the OLED table.

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel including a plurality of pixels and sensing lines respectively coupled to the pixels, a degradation compensator configured to detect a degradation of the pixels based on a current flowing through the pixels and to compensate a brightness and a color difference of a first region including at least one of the pixels coupled to a respective one of the sensing lines, through which the degradation is detected, based on a first sensing data of the first region and a second sensing data of a second region including pixels adjacent the pixels of the first region, a data driver configured to provide data signals to data lines, a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the pixels, and a timing controller configured to generate control signals which control the degradation compensator, the data driver, and the scan driver.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate comprising an active area; data lines extending in a first direction in the active area; scan lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction in the active area; a plurality of repair lines extending in the first direction or in the second direction in the active area; and a multipath power line comprising a plurality of first wires in the active area and crossing the repair lines, and at least one second wire electrically connected to the first wires and extending in the active area to cross the first wires.

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel, a data driver transmitting a data signal, a scan driver sequentially transmitting a scan signal, a frequency selector for selecting a driving frequency for image display, selecting a low frequency if the image displayed on the display panel is a first image and selecting a normal frequency if the image displayed on the display panel is not the first image, the normal frequency being higher than the low frequency. The display device also includes a timing controller for controlling the data driver and the scan driver based on the selected driving frequency. The timing controller may control the data driver and the scan driver such that luminance of the display panel on which the first image is displayed is periodically changed according to the low frequency if the image displayed on the display panel is the first image.

Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting display device includes performing a digital driving on a display panel supplied with a first power voltage through a first power supply line, generating a target voltage signal of the first power voltage by analyzing input image data provided to the display panel, measuring an output current that flows through the first power supply line, and changing the first power voltage based on a measured output current and the target voltage signal.

Abstract: A display device includes a timing controller which transmits a vertical clock signal having rising edges and falling edges to a gate driver and a gate driver which receives the vertical clock signal, to generate a first gate clock signal and a first inverted gate clock signal in accordance with one of the rising edges and the falling edges of the vertical clock signal, and to generate a second gate clock signal and a second inverted gate clock signal in accordance with a remaining one of the rising edges and the falling edges of the vertical clock signal.

Abstract: A display device includes: an organic electroluminescent element; a capacitor; a drive transistor; a data line; a test transistor which switches between conduction and non-conduction between the data line and an anode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element; a voltage generation unit which supplies the data line with a test voltage for measuring an anode voltage of the organic electroluminescent element; a current detection unit which detects a current through the test transistor when a test transistor is in a conducting state, while the voltage generation unit is applying the test voltage to the data line; a control unit which updates the voltage value of the test voltage, based on a direction of the current detected by the current detection unit, and causes the voltage generation unit to output the updated test voltage.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a pixel unit and a driving unit. The pixel unit includes at least one pixel and the driving unit is configured to drive the pixel unit. The at least one pixel includes a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a third switching transistor, a fourth switching transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an organic light emitting diode, a third capacitor, and a driving transistor.

Abstract: A method for driving a display device that includes a display unit and is driven by a sequence of row-by-row sequential scanning that includes a vertical blanking period, the display unit having pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel including an anode formed on a drive circuit layer, an organic light emitting layer formed above the anode and including a light emitting substance, and a transparent cathode formed above the organic light emitting layer, the method includes initializing a circuit element, writing a signal voltage to a capacitive element, inserting a black display to display the black display during a period determined based on a resistance value of the transparent cathode, and causing the organic EL element to emit light.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, on a display device, visual information represented via electronic ink, wherein the electronic ink comprises a plurality of particles; modifying, using a processor, the display device to increase visibility of the electronic ink; wherein said modifying is performed using at least one of the plurality of particles. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the lighted display of a mobile device are disclosed. The backlight of or active power supplied to a display is reduced or deactivated after a certain period based on the application running on the mobile device, rather than being a uniform deactivation time. The system and method can be used on a variety of mobile devices having a display screen.

Abstract: Various approaches discussed herein provide for changing the behavior and/or display properties of various interface elements associated with an application executing on a computing device, such as a device having an electrophoretic ink (e-ink) display screen. According to various embodiments, one or more libraries having E-ink specific parameters are provided that are used to modify the various interface elements based upon such information as a type and/or style of interface element.

Abstract: A pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, first and second common lines, first and second sub-pixels, and a color filter layer. The scan line is disposed between the first and second common lines. The first sub-pixel and the second pixel respectively include an active device and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode of the first sub-pixel is disposed between the scan line and the first common line. The pixel electrode of the second sub-pixel is disposed between the scan line and the second common line. The pixel electrode is connected to the active device through a contact hole. The pixel electrode includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other, wherein the first side of the pixel electrode is adjacent to the scan line, and the contact hole is disposed at an edge of the pixel electrode adjacent to the second side. The color filter layer has an opening exposing the active devices of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel.

Abstract: A direct view display provides a light modulating panel and a backlight including first and second sets of spectral emitters. Several modes of operation may be provided including an advanced 2D mode, and an enhanced color gamut mode employing simultaneous illumination of the first and second set of spectral emitters. Another embodiment may be an optical structure for a multi-functional LCD display with wide color gamut and high stereo contrast. The optical structure may also be used to produce more saturated colors for a wider display color gamut and also may be used to produce a brighter backlight structure through light recycling of the wider bandwidth light back into the optical structure.

Abstract: A display device includes gate lines, data lines, pixels connected to the gate lines and data lines, a data driver, a gate driver, and a signal controller for controlling the data driver and gate driver. A method for driving the display device includes: compressing, by the signal controller, vertical resolution of input image data of each frame by k or receiving by the signal controller the compressed input image data; processing by the signal controller the compressed input image data to generate output image data; generating, by the data driver, data voltages based on the output image data and applying the data voltages to the data lines; and applying, by the gate driver, gate-on voltage pulses concurrently to k neighboring gate lines corresponding to the applied data voltages. Starting times of the gate-on voltage pulses of at least two of the k neighboring gate lines are different from each other.

Abstract: A disclosed display device includes a display panel with a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines respectively connected to the pixels, and a panel driving circuit to drive the signal lines. The display device further includes a timing controller to receive a first panel self-refresh (PSR) signal and an input image data from a host system, to sense whether the input image data has a preset video format based on the first PSR signal and, if the input image data is sensed to have the preset video format, to control the panel driving circuit to perform normal driving of the signal lines at a first frame frequency in a first group of frames and interlaced low-speed driving of the signal lines at a second frame frequency lower than the first frame frequency in a second group of frames to display the input image data.

Abstract: An image correcting unit including: a data converting unit which receives image data, and generates display data by converting respective grayscale values which are included in the image data to high pixel data and low pixel data; and a white pixel detecting unit which detects image data lines which include not less than a first number of white grayscale values from the image data, and outputs a conversion signal when not less than a second number of the detected image data lines are successively arranged, wherein upon receiving the conversion signal from the white pixel detecting unit, the data converting unit converts the white grayscale values which are included in the successively arranged image data lines to first high pixel data and first low pixel data, wherein the first high pixel data and the first low pixel data have a different value from each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active matrix display device includes a non-rectangular display portion in which a part of an outer edge is curved or bent, display pixels arrayed in a matrix in the display portion, gate lines connected for each row of the display pixels, signal lines connected for each column of the display pixels, a gate line driving circuit, a signal line driving circuit, and bus lines extending along a part of an edge of the display portion outside the display portion. A part of the signal lines extends from an edge opposite to the bus lines of the display portion to the bus lines through the display portion, is connected to the bus lines, and further, extends from the bus lines to the edge opposite to the bus lines through the display portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of sets of external drive terminals in a marginal region along one long side of a rectangular semiconductor substrate, a plurality of sets of ESD protection circuits arranged in the marginal region and coupled to corresponding sets of the drive terminals, and a plurality of output circuits coupled to corresponding sets of the drive terminals. Each set of drive terminals in a plurality of n columns along a Y direction is laid out in a staggered arrangement with drive terminals in adjacent columns shifted relative to each other. Each output circuit includes n output units associated with n drive terminals of each set and arranged in one column in an X direction. By the arrangement, the drive terminals can be arranged at a narrower pitch, and the total width for n output units can be compacted into that of one output circuit.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a plurality of scan lines formed on a substrate in parallel, a plurality of data lines, which are formed on the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the respective scan lines, but disposed in a different layer from the scan lines, a plurality of pixel units respectively disposed in areas formed by the scan lines and the data lines, each pixel unit including at least one pixel electrode and at least two TFT switches. A first TFT switch pre-charges the pixel electrode, and a second TFT switch pre-charges the pixel electrode with gray scale voltage. A scan signal of at least one scan line enables the first TFT switches of the pixel units on in a line, and at the same time enables the second TFT switches of the pixel units on in another line. A method for driving the array substrate is also described.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a driving circuit, and a display device, which pertains to the field of pixel driving technology. The pixel circuit includes a capacitor, a capacitor charging transistor, a first and second capacitor discharging transistor. The capacitor is charged to a first voltage greater than the pixel voltage when the capacitor charging transistor is turned on. The capacitor is connected in series with the first and second capacitor discharging transistor to form a discharge circuit, and the capacitor is discharged when the first and second capacitor discharging transistor are turned on so that the voltage across the capacitor drops from the first voltage to the pixel voltage. There is no need to arrange a Gamma resistor for the driving circuit for the pixel circuit array provided by the disclosure, which makes the structure simple and the power consumption in driving low.

Abstract: A display device includes source drivers, at least one gate driver, a first substrate, a second substrate, gate lines, source lines, lead-out lines and connection parts, wherein the gate signals are emitted from the gate driver to the gate lines via the lead-out lines and the connection parts, the source drivers include a first source driver and a second source driver, the second source driver being spaced apart from the first source driver in a first direction, and the gate driver is located between the first source driver and second source driver in the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gate drive circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The gate drive circuit includes multiple stages of gate drive units connected in series. An N-th stage gate drive unit includes a pull-up control module, a pull-up module, a first pull-down module, a pull-down control module, and a second pull-down module. The second pull-down module includes a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving part and a gate driving part. The display panel includes data lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and gate lines including a portion extending in the first direction and a portion extending in the second direction. The data driving part is configured to output data signals to the data lines to drive the data lines. The gate driving part is configured to delay original gate signals according to a decrease of a load of the gate line, and output gate signals generated by the delay of the original gate signals to the gate lines to drive the gate lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is a demultiplex type display driving circuit, applied in a RGBW four colors pixel structure display device, comprising a plurality of driving units, and each driving unit comprises eight demultiplex modules, and each demultiplex module comprises three thin film transistors, and gates of the three thin film transistors are electrically coupled to a first branch control signal (Demux1), a second branch control signal (Demux2), and a third branch control signal (Demux3) respectively, and source are electrically coupled to the same data signal, and drains are electrically coupled to one data line in a jump manner, respectively. Thus, the pulse duration of each branch control signal is equal to ? of a pulse duration of the scan signal to increase the charging time of the data signal and promote the charging rate of the sub pixel under circumstance that the pulse duration of the scan signal is not changed.

Abstract: A Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit includes a plurality of cascaded GOA units, where each of the GOA units comprises a forward-rearward control module, a signal-latch module, a signal-process module, and a signal-buffer module. A waveform of a scan-line driving signal outputted has two falling edges, to prevent un-uniformity of a liquid crystal panel display by decreasing high-shift voltage value of the pixel electrodes caused by the voltage coupling while charging pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and a control method thereof are provided. Contents displayed in a mobile terminal may be optimized for and displayed on a different mobile terminal in communication therewith. The method for controlling a mobile terminal includes: outputting previously stored contents to a first mobile terminal; and controlling a transmission of the contents being outputted based on characteristic information of a second mobile terminal that is to receive at least a portion of the contents being outputted, wherein there is a difference between the contents being outputted to the first mobile terminal and the contents the second mobile terminal is to receive and output.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, comprising a plurality of transmission lines in one-to-one correspondence to a plurality of gate driving circuits and configured to transmit a control signal to the corresponding gate driving circuit; and a compensating resistor coupled to the corresponding transmission line so as to compensate for a resistance difference among the plurality of transmission lines.

Abstract: An example apparatus includes a processor to send a plurality of image frames to a display device via a digital display interface. At least two frames of the plurality of frames are to be displayed at a refresh rate that varies in response to an adjustment of a duration of a vertical blanking interval associated with the two frames.

Abstract: The present application discloses an image processing apparatus for correcting color-shift in a displayed image due to brightness change of blue sub-pixels of a display panel with an added a blue-light filter configured to filter blue light. The image processing apparatus includes a cache memory configured to store a cache image comprising initial grayscale levels corresponding to respective brightness of a plurality of subpixels in a pixel at a current time; a grayscale level corrector configured to generate a set of N corrected grayscale levels of brightness of a blue sub-pixel for a correction scheme; and an image processor coupled respectively to the cache memory and the grayscale level corrector, and configured to reset an initial grayscale level of at least one sub-pixel in the pixel to a reset grayscale level, and to output a grayscale voltage based on the reset grayscale level for driving the at least one sub-pixel of the pixel in the display panel for displaying a corrected image.

Abstract: A system and method provides for modifying an output display on a display device based on at least one ambient condition. The method and system includes receiving a plurality of images representing visual artworks from a networked data storage location and storing the plurality of images in a local memory device. In a stationary picture frame, the method and system detects at least one ambient condition using an environmental sensor affixed to the stationary picture frame. The method and system analyzes the ambient condition to determine ambient condition factors and selects at least one of the plurality of images from the local memory device. Therein, the method and system displays the at least one of the plurality of images on the output display within the stationary picture frame, modifying the display of the images based on the ambient condition factors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device (10) and method for controlling a display that reliably and efficiently enhances a person's compliance, e.g., a patient's compliance with his care plan. The control device comprises a presentation style selector (14) for selecting a presentation style to be used for visually presenting the received information on the display in text form, wherein the presentation style is selected based on an importance indicator indicating the importance of the information with respect to a task or plan of the person and obtained boundary conditions for the presentation style to be selected for presenting the information in text form such that more important information is displayed using a presentation style that is more difficult to read than a presentation style used for displaying less important information. A controller (15) controls the display (20) to visually present the received information on the display in text form using the selected presentation style.

Abstract: A method for switching, including initializing an instantiation of an application and performing graphics rendering to generate a plurality of rendered frames through execution of the application in order to generate a first video stream comprising the plurality of rendered frames. The method includes sequentially loading the plurality of rendered frames into one or more frame buffers, and determining when a first bitmap of a frame that is loaded into a corresponding frame buffer matches an application signature comprising a derivative of a master bitmap associated with a keyframe of the first video stream.

Abstract: A stringed instrument includes a body; an elongated neck; and a headstock, wherein the neck has a fingerboard on a top side with spaced-apart frets disposed perpendicularly along its length and extending from a first to a second side of the fingerboard. A top surface of the frets forms a fret plane having a first and second convex radiused surface, the first surface extending from an upper edge of the plane towards a center thereof and the second surface extending from a lower edge of the plane to a center thereof. In one embodiment, the first surface forms a smaller radius and the second surface forms a larger radius.

Abstract: A musical string, in particular a musical string for a string instrument, includes at least one load-bearing string core having a first plastic fiber with a first cross-sectional shape and a first cross-sectional surface area. The string core further has a second plastic fiber with a second cross-sectional shape and a second cross-sectional surface area. The first cross-sectional shape is different from the second cross-sectional shape, and/or the first cross-sectional surface area is different from the second cross-sectional surface area.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bowed string instrument that allows a player to hold it in a stable manner and to handle a bow and strings without much effect. A bowed string instrument 1 has a body 102, a shoulder pad 103 connected to the body 102, a body receiver 106 disposed below the body 102 so as to receive a load of the body, and an operative joint portion 107 coupling the body 102 and the body receiver 106 to each other while allowing the body 102 to be slidable on a spherical surface. The body 102 includes a fingerboard 105, a plurality of strings 104 extending above the fingerboard 105, and a pair of bridges for supporting and tensioning the plurality of strings 104 above the fingerboard 105.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a number of embodiments related to devices, systems, and methods locating a an object using ultra-wide band (UWB) radio transceivers embedded in carpet or other flexible material that may be rolled up and moved to various locations. Once in a location, the carpet may be unrolled and the multiple embedded radio transceivers may receive a signal from a tag attached to the object sending UWB radio signals. Based on the signals received by the UWB radio transceivers, various processes including time-difference on arrival, time-of-flight, and phase shift may be used to determine the location or the movement of the object.

Abstract: In an electronic piano including plural keys and a sound source device (sound emission section) that emits a sound by pressing of the key, an intermediary resonance state of a resonance sound can be reproduced by including a resonance circuit that inputs a sound source from the sound source device corresponding to the each key and outputs a resonance sound, a position detection sensor (multi-stage switch section) in which plural switches close sequentially according to a key pressing state of the key, and a resonance sound control device that controls the resonance sound by an open/close state of plural switches by the position detection sensor.

Abstract: Multi-function apparatuses and methods associated with augmenting an analog audio signal are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-function apparatus for performing a plurality of functions may include a microphone to receive a propagated analog audio signal and ambient noise; a receiver to receive a digitally streamed version of the analog audio signal; a harmonizer, that includes a plurality of processors, to generate a digital adjusted version of the analog signal including noise canceling signal to cancel some or all of the ambient noise, based on the propagated analog audio signal, the ambient noise, and the digitally streamed version of the analog audio signal; and a digital-to-analog converter to convert the digital adjusted version of the analog signal to an analog adjusted version of the analog signal. The analog adjusted version of the analog signal may then be outputted to augment the propagated analog audio signal. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Abstract: A system including an automatic noise canceling (ANC) headphone and a processor. The ANC headphone has a microphone configured to generate a microphone signal and at least two non-zero ANC gain levels. The processor is configured to receive the microphone signal, determine a characteristic of the microphone signal, identify a revised ANC level from the ANC gain levels based on a comparison of the characteristic to at least one threshold, and output a signal corresponding to the revised ANC level. Methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for accelerometer-based external sound monitoring. A vehicle includes accelerometers, speakers, and an infotainment head unit. The accelerometers are affixed to windows of the vehicle. The speakers are located inside the vehicle in the vicinity of the accelerometers. Each of the speakers is uniquely associated with one of the accelerometers. The infotainment head unit, when the vehicle is not in motion and when a signal is received from one of the accelerometers, plays the signal only on the associated one of the speakers.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the method includes receiving a voice input from a user device; generating a recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the recognition output; receiving a user input of one or more letters replacing the user selected one or more terms; determining suggested correction candidates based in part on the user input and the voice input; and providing one or more suggested correction candidates to the user device as suggested corrected recognition outputs.

Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating predictive personal natural language processing models based on user-specific profile information. The predictive personal models can provide broader coverage of the various terms, named entities, and/or intents of an utterance by the user than a personal model, while providing better accuracy than a general model. Profile information may be obtained from various data sources. Predictions regarding the content or subject of future user utterances may be made from the profile information. Predictive personal models may be generated based on the predictions. Future user utterances may be processed using the predictive personal models.

Abstract: Phoneme boundaries may be determined from a signal corresponding to recorded audio by extracting auditory attention features from the signal and extracting phoneme posteriors from the signal. The auditory attention features and phoneme posteriors may then be combined to detect boundaries in the signal.

Abstract: A system and method for speech recognition is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, at a first computing device, a far-talk signal from a far-talk computing device, the far-talk signal transmitted using a first channel and corresponding to an audible sound. Embodiments may further include receiving, at the first computing device, a near-talk signal from a near-talk computing device, the near-talk signal transmitted using a second channel and corresponding to the audible sound, wherein the far-talk signal and the near-talk signal are received during an enrollment phase of a far-talk speech recognition system. Embodiments may also include updating, at the first computing device, one or more models associated with a far-talk speech recognition system based upon, at least in part, one or more characteristics of the far-talk signal and one or more characteristics of the near-talk signal.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method and system for providing visual interactive voice response (IVR) to an enhanced visual call (EVC) client device. The method comprises of receiving, by an EVC server, a request from the EVC client device for providing the visual IVR content, mapping a current webpage URL and an EVC user input with a subsequent webpage URL and an input value stored in a EVC XDM server, receiving, by the EVC client device, a webpage URL associated with the visual IVR content stored on a content server, retrieving the visual IVR content associated with the subsequent webpage URL, providing the EVC user input received from the EVC server to the IVR system, synchronizing the retrieved visual IVR content with a corresponding audio from the IVR system and presenting the synchronized visual IVR content and the corresponding audio from the IVR system, simultaneously on the EVC client device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for personifying communications. According to at least one embodiment, the computer-implemented method for personifying a natural-language communication includes observing a linguistic pattern of a user. The method may also include analyzing the linguistic pattern of the user and adapting the natural-language communication based at least in part on the analyzed linguistic pattern of the user. In some embodiments, observing the linguistic pattern of the user may include receiving data indicative of the linguistic pattern of the user. The data may be one of verbal data or written data. Written data may include at least one of a text message, email, social media post, or computer-readable note. Verbal data may include at least one of a recorded telephone conversation, voice command, or voice message.

Abstract: A facility and method for analyzing and classifying calls without transcription via keyword spotting is disclosed. The facility uses a group of calls having known outcomes to generate one or more domain- or entity-specific grammars containing keywords and related information that are indicative of particular outcome. The facility monitors telephone calls by determining the domain or entity associated with the call, loading the appropriate grammar or grammars associated with the determined domain or entity, and tracking keywords contained in the loaded grammar or grammars that are spoken during the monitored call, along with additional information. The facility performs a statistical analysis on the tracked keywords and additional information to determine a classification for the monitored telephone call.