Abstract: To provide a display device that gives a viewer a strong stereoscopic effect or sense of depth or a natural stereoscopic effect or sense of depth in a two-dimensional image, a display device including a display portion having a curved surface is provided. The display portion may be bent in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction. Alternatively, the display portion may have a convex surface or a concave surface on a display surface side. The display device may include a frame portion. A display device including a frame portion and a display portion which has a display surface on a frame portion side, is located so as to be apart from the frame portion with a distance therebetween, and has a curved surface, in which the display portion overlaps with an opening of the frame portion, and an end portion of the display portion overlaps with the frame portion, is provided.

Abstract: A flexible display device includes a substrate, a plurality of first pixels, and a plurality of second pixels. The substrate includes a foldable bending region and a non-foldable non-bending region. Each first pixel is disposed on the bending region. Each first pixel is spaced apart from an adjacent first pixel by a first distance. Each second pixel is disposed on the non-bending region. Each second pixel is spaced apart from an adjacent second pixel by a second distance. The first distance is greater than the second distance.

Abstract: A portable terminal that is capable of enlarging and displaying an image with sufficient image quality. An obtaining unit obtains an image having resolution. An instruction unit instructs to enlarge and display the image obtained by the obtaining unit. A display unit enlarges and displays the image obtained by the obtaining unit when the instruction unit instructs to enlarge and display an image having first resolution, and enlarges and displays an image corresponding to the image obtained by the obtaining unit that is received from a server when the instruction unit instructs to enlarge and display an image having second resolution that is lower than the first resolution.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of unit cells each including at least one light receiving unit and an amplifying transistor which outputs an amplified signal corresponding to an amount of the signal charge photoelectrically converted by the light receiving unit; a plurality of vertical signal lines each for receiving an output signal from the amplifying transistor; a pixel power supply line for supplying a power supply voltage to the amplifying transistor; a plurality of constant current source transistors each connected to a different one of the vertical signal lines; and a bias circuit which controls an amount of current to be supplied to each of the constant current source transistors, based on a variation in the power supply voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor; a pixel electrode; a roof layer; a liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of partitions. The thin film transistor is disposed on the substrate. The pixel electrode is connected to the thin film transistor. The roof layer is disposed to face the pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer is formed by a plurality of microcavities between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, wherein the microcavities include a liquid crystal material. The partitions are between the microcavities adjacent to each other, wherein the partitions may include an organic material and are arranged side by side to one another.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The illumination apparatus comprises at least on fabric portion comprising a first photoluminescent portion having a first luminescent absorption range. The illumination apparatus further comprises a second photoluminescent portion having a second luminescent absorption range. A light source is configured to emit a first emission at a first wavelength directed toward the fabric portion, wherein the first wavelength is within the first absorption range and significantly outside the second absorption range.

Abstract: A mobile personsize display system and method of use; in general, a platform, a support frame, a module display frame, an LED panel display formed of a plurality of LED display modules having a plurality of pixels, four or more casters, a battery powered supply, a media player (electrically communicating with the plurality of display modules for controlling the display of an image(s) on the LED panel display, and a removable content storage device and; thus, functions as a rugged person size mobile, light weight, battery powered display to inform customers and passers-by about product and service offerings via a rugged person size mobile light weight battery powered display.

Abstract: In the technical field of display, a color filter substrate and a curved display device, which can solve the technical problem of low aperture ratio of the existing curved display device, are provided. The color substrate comprises a plurality of sub pixel regions arranged as an array, and black matrixes for separating the sub pixel regions from each other. Measured along a transverse direction, the transverse width of each of all or some of the black matrixes located in the regions at both sides of the color filter substrate is smaller than that of each of the black matrixes located in the region at the center of the color filter substrate. The present disclosure can be applied to curved display device, such as liquid crystal television and curved liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a test method and a test apparatus for a transparent display device. The test apparatus for the transparent display device comprises: an optical measuring device disposed on one side of the transparent display device to be tested, and a reference object disposed on the other side of the transparent display device to be tested. A brightness of the transparent display device to be tested is adjustable, and the optical measuring device measures a display effect of the reference object through the transparent display device to be tested which is set to different brightness.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a display device switchable between a 2D display mode and a 3D display mode, wherein a parallax barrier is disposed between a first polarizer and a backlight to implement glassless-type 3D display. A first transparent electrode, an electroluminescent layer, and a second transparent electrode are sequentially disposed between the first polarizer and the parallax barrier, the first transparent electrode and/or the second transparent electrode at least having a pattern corresponding to opaque stripes of a slit light source. Switchover between the 2D display mode and the 3D display mode may be implemented by controlling whether or not to apply a voltage to the electroluminescent layer. The switchover between a 2D display mode and a 3D display mode may be implemented only by adding an electroluminescent layer, and the thickness of the display device is not increased.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source part and a directional light projecting element. The display panel displays a first image during a first subframe and a different second image during a second subframe. The light source part provides light to the display panel. The directional light projecting element is disposed between the display panel and the light source part. The directional light projecting element includes a barrier part and a lens part disposed above the barrier part. The barrier part has a plurality of barriers defined as a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes crossing the first electrodes. The lens part has a plurality of lenses disposed in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the lenses corresponds to a subset of plural lenses among the plurality of the barriers.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for preventing an accidental touch operation. The method includes determining, when detecting a touch point in a display area on a touch screen, whether the touch point is within an invalid touch area based on the detected touch point in the display area; and making a response to the touch point only if it is determined that the touch point is not within the invalid touch area. If it is determined that the touch point is within the invalid touch area, no response to the touch point is made.

Abstract: A display module including a substrate having a plurality of pixels, a data line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line, and a gate driving circuit thereon. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device, a first thin film transistor connected to the data line that supplies the data signal, a second thin film transistor connected to the current supply line, and a capacitor. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer connected to the second thin film transistor, an organic layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer.

Abstract: A method of compensating a Mura defect of a display apparatus, which includes a display area divided into an upper area and a lower area, includes calculating a sharp grayscale correction value of a predetermined sample grayscale displayed on the display apparatus, where the sharp grayscale correction value is configured to compensate a sharp horizontal Mura between the upper and lower areas, displaying a corrected sample grayscale on the display apparatus based on the predetermined sample grayscale and the sharp grayscale correction value, sensing the corrected sample grayscale displayed on each of a plurality of sample areas defined on the display area based on a Mura type, calculating an intensity profile of the sample grayscale and a target intensity profile configured to compensate the intensity profile of the sample grayscale, calculating a grayscale correction value of the sample area using the intensity profile and the target intensity profile.

Abstract: A display device for showing 3D images includes a backlight module and a display section. The backlight module includes n light source units. The display unit section includes n display sections. Upon conditions that a first through kth display section are scanned to receive an image in an current frame, a (k+1)th through an nth display section receives an image in a previous frame, a first through a kth light source unit generate light, and a (k+1)th through nth light source unit do not generate light, the first through the kth display sections display according to the image in the current frame and the light from the first through the kth light source unit, while the (k+1)th display section through the nth display section do not display the image in the previous frame due to the (k+1)th light source unit through the nth light source unit not generating light.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; an n-channel drive transistor T1 that has a source connected with an anode of the light emitting element, a gate connected with a pixel node, and controls a light emission current flowing in the light emitting element in accordance with a light emission control voltage between the gate and the source; a transfer transistor T2 which is interposed between a data signal line and the pixel node, and has a gate connected with a scan signal line; a control transistor T3 which is interposed between the source and a drain of the drive transistor T1, has a gate connected with the scan signal line, and comes into an ON state simultaneously with the transfer transistor T2; and a capacitance element which is interposed between the gate and the source of the drive transistor T1, and holds the light emission control voltage.

Abstract: Electrowetting elements of a display device include a support plate, a bottom electrode, electrowetting oil and an electrolyte on the bottom electrode. The electrowetting oil is immiscible with the electrolyte, a top electrode is in electrical contact with the electrolyte, and the bottom electrode, the top electrode and the electrolyte form a portion of a circuit. The electrowetting elements each further include a first thin film transistor (TFT) that is switched on to select each of the electrowetting elements using active matrix addressing, and a second TFT that is switched on to provide a reset pulse to the portion of the circuit. The reset pulse can be used to reduce or eliminate backflow of the electrowetting oil.

Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a cover window having a receiving recess, the receiving recess having a bottom surface and a side surface inclined with respect to the bottom surface; a display panel assembly in the receiving recess; an adhesive layer between the bottom surface and the display panel assembly and coupling the bottom surface to the display panel assembly; and a sealing part between the side surface and the display panel assembly to couple the side surface and the display panel assembly.

Abstract: A device disposed on a display surface side of an apparatus having pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having sub-pixels arranged in a first axis direction includes: a light-blocking unit disposed on the surface, the light-blocking unit including M×N apertures for each pixel; a first lens disposed on the side, of the light-blocking unit, opposite to the surface, the first lens including first lens part(s) arranged in a stripe pattern within a width of each pixel in the second axis direction; and a second lens disposed on the side, of the first lens, opposite to the light-blocking unit or between the light-blocking unit and the first lens, the second lens including second lens parts arranged in a stripe pattern within the width of each pixel in the first axis direction at a pitch by dividing a pitch of the first lens part in the second axis direction.

Abstract: A scan driver includes stages dependently connected to each other, where each of the stages outputs a gate signal, where a first scanning start signal is input to a first stage of the stages, where a second scanning start signal is input to a last stage of the stages, where each of the first scanning start signal and the second scanning start signal has one pulse per frame, where the stages sequentially output a gate-on voltage between a time when a pulse of the first scanning start signal for a frame is input to the first stage and a time when a pulse of the second scanning start signal for the frame is input to the last stage, and where the stages output a first low voltage lower than the gate-on voltage after the pulse of the second scanning start signal for the frame is input to the last stage.

Abstract: An active matrix organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes an array of pixels, each pixel including an OLED, a driving transistor (DT) coupled to drive current through the OLED, a storage capacitor, and a scanning transistor (ST) coupled to control charge on the storage capacitor corresponding to a data voltage for said pixel. The display device also includes a timing controller configured to control the ST of each pixel to update the charge stored on the storage capacitor of each pixel at a frame rate including at least one frequency within a range of 1-10 Hertz (Hz).

Abstract: The invention provides an autostereoscopic display device in which a light blocking arrangement is provided for selectively blocking light which has or would pass between lenses. Elements are provided between adjacent lens locations, and the display can be configured so that light reaching these elements is either allowed to reach the viewer or is blocked from reaching the viewer. This means that a public (multiple cone) viewing mode can be chosen or a private (single narrow viewing cone) viewing mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color display device in which each pixel or sub-pixel can display four high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture. The fluid may further comprise substantially uncharged neutral buoyancy particles.

Abstract: In at least one operation control TFT (27N, 27P) in a control circuit (27), an impurity of a type that generates an impurity level of a channel region (33c) is included in the channel region (33c) as a threshold adjustment impurity, and the concentration of the threshold adjustment impurity is made higher than the concentration of the threshold adjustment impurity in channel regions (33c) of other TFTs (21, 25, 28) of the same type, thus causing the absolute value of the threshold voltage to be greater than that of the other TFTs (21, 25, 28) of the same type.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the thin film transistor; a roof layer facing the pixel electrode; a plurality of microcavities formed between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, each microcavity including liquid crystal materials; a trench formed between the microcavities; and a buffer region formed at an end portion of the trench.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device with reduced power consumption employing a CS drive method. A CS driver (500) consists of a CS shift register (510) and a CS output portion (520). The CS shift register (510) outputs control signals (COUT(1) to COUT(m)) in accordance with a CS clock signal CCK. The CS output portion (520) outputs auxiliary capacitance signals (CSS(1) to CSS(m)) in accordance with the control signals (COUT(1) to COUT(m)), respectively. An idle period (T2) is set following a scanning period (T1). During the idle period (T2), the CS driver (500) is driven in accordance with the CS clock signal (CCK) at an idle-period CS frequency (fcck2). The idle-period CS frequency (fcck2) is lower than a scanning-period CS frequency (fcck1).

Abstract: A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery, a driving chip disposed out of the active display area for driving the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the active display area. The width of at least one wire at a portion adjacent to the driving chip is smaller than the width of the at least one wire at the other portion adjacent to the active display area.

Abstract: A display device may include a substrate and a first roof layer portion that is formed of a roof layer material and overlaps the substrate in a direction, the direction is perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. A lateral surface of the first roof layer portion is disposed in a plane. The display device may further a second roof layer portion formed of the roof layer material and separated from the first roof layer portion. The display device may further a common electrode portion disposed between the first roof layer portion and the substrate in the direction. A lateral surface of the common electrode portion is disposed in the plane or is spaced from the lateral surface of the first roof layer portion in a second direction parallel to the surface of the substrate. The display device may further a pixel electrode disposed between the first common electrode portion and the substrate.

Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate producing one or more reference or non-reference metrics related to media content in a large scale content server, analyzing the metrics in view of one or more evaluation criteria, and generating results indicative of the quality of the media based upon the analysis.

Abstract: An electro-optic device according an embodiment of the invention can increase the number of gray scales capable of being expressed. A liquid crystal panel is viewed via a blocking unit which blocks the field of view in a predetermined non-viewing period. A converting unit converts, based on a video signal, a gray-scale value input for each frame composed of a subfields into a subfield code indicating a combination of ON and OFF of b (2?b?a) subfields included in a viewing period other than the non-viewing period and c (1?c?b) subfields included in the non-viewing period. A driving unit drives a plurality of electro-optic elements each based on the converted subfield code.

Abstract: A pixel capable of being driven at a low driving frequency that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor for controlling an amount of current supplied from a first power supply coupled to a first electrode thereof to the OLED to correspond to a voltage applied to a first node, a second transistor coupled between a data line and a second node and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a third transistor coupled between the first node and the second node and turned on when a second control signal is supplied to a second control line, a first capacitor coupled between the second node and a fixed voltage source, and a second capacitor and a third capacitor serially coupled between the first node and the first power supply.

Abstract: To improve the reliability of a transistor as well as to inhibit fluctuation in electric characteristics. A display device includes a pixel portion and a driver circuit portion outside the pixel portion; the pixel portion includes a pixel transistor, a first insulating film covering the pixel transistor and including an inorganic material, a second insulating film including an organic material over the first insulating film, and a third insulating film including an inorganic material over the second insulating film; and the driver circuit portion includes a driving transistor to supply a signal to the pixel transistor, the first insulating film covering the driving transistor, and the second insulating film over the first insulating film, and further includes a region in which the third insulating film is not formed over the second insulating film or a region in which the second insulating film is not covered with the third insulating film.

Abstract: A plastic display panel and a flat panel displaying having the plastic display panel are discussed. The plastic display panel according to an embodiment a display area configured to display an image and including a plurality of panel electrodes, and a non-display area in which a plurality of link lines connected to the panel electrodes and a driving element are provided. The display area and the non-display area are provided in a plastic base substrate. A plurality of link pads, electrically connected to the respective link lines, are provided in a bonding part adhered to the driving element in the non-display area, and at least one via hole is provided in the bonding part for exposing a portion of the plastic base substrate.

Abstract: An improved LED display panel system (1) is provided, comprising a flexible curtain (2) having an array of surface mounted LED's (3) with a pixel density of approximately 2500 pixels per square meter. The panels (1) attach to one another in a vertical orientation employing upper or lower rigging bars (21, 22) which are flush with the last row of LED pixels (3) on each end. All data processing is accomplished inside the panels (1), and a single Ethercon cable connection (14A) is used for data input, and a single Ethercon cable connection (14B) is used for data output.

Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide devices and methods that facilitate improved input device performance. Specifically, the devices and methods provide improved resistance to the effect of interference on input devices, and in particular, to the effect of unison noise on proximity sensors that use capacitive techniques to generate images of sensor values. The devices and methods provide improved resistance to the effects of interface by using images of sensor values and one or more profiles of sensor values. An image of sensor values is combined with one or more profiles of sensor values to produce a modified image of sensor values, the modified image having reduced errors due to noise. This reduction in errors due to noise can improve the accuracy and performance of the input device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for providing relatively thinner and less stiff compliant beams for a shutter assembly. A protective coating is deposited and patterned over the shutter assembly before it is released from a sacrificial mold over which the shutter assembly is formed. Because some primary surfaces of the compliant beams are in contact with the sacrificial mold, these primary surfaces are not coated with the protective coating. Therefore, when the shutter assembly is finally released, the resulting compliant beams are relatively thinner and less stiff providing a reduction in an actuation voltage used to operate the shutter assembly. In some instances, the protective coating is patterned into discontinuous segments before release.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a mechanical shutter. The display device electrically controls the position of the mechanical shutter to provide image display. Each of the pixels includes a pixel circuit for electrically controlling the position of the mechanical shutter. The pixel circuit includes a first control electrode and a second control electrode provided as a pair with respect to the mechanical shutter; a first mean for applying a prescribed control voltage to the first control electrode and the second control electrode to put the mechanical shutter and the first control electrode or the second control electrode into contact with each other; and a second mean for, in a state where the mechanical shutter is at a stop, decreasing a potential difference between the mechanical shutter and the first control electrode or the second control electrode which is in contact with the mechanical shutter.

Abstract: A display panel includes a transmit-control portion and a light blocking portion. The pixel-transmit portion may include a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides and transmitting light, the pair of the first sides being inclined with respect to a horizontal-axis direction and substantially parallel with each other, the pair of the second sides being inclined with respect to a vertical-axis direction and substantially parallel with each other. The blocking portion may surround the pixel-transmit portion and block the light.

Abstract: A display driving apparatus for outputting control signals to a number of driver integrated circuits (ICs). The plurality of driver ICs are connected in a cascade manner such that, when a first control signal is input to a first driver IC, a transmission signal corresponding to the first control signal is transmitted to a subsequent driver IC using a cascade method. The display driving apparatus includes a restoration signal generation unit for generating restoration signals with respect to the first control signal and transmission signals of the number of driver ICs; an error detection unit for detecting an abnormal driver IC that does not operate normally from among the plurality of driver ICs; and a restoration signal output unit for outputting a restoration signal to the abnormal driver IC.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes gate lines, data lines, and thin film transistors (TFTs) connected to the gate lines and the data lines. At least one of the data lines is divided into a first branch and a second branch at a predetermined region where an intersection of the at least one of the data lines and at least one of the gate lines is located. The first branch overlaps the at least one of the gate lines, and has a width less than a width of a non-overlapping portion of the at least one of the data lines which does not overlap the at least one of the gate lines. The second branch overlaps a gate electrode of a corresponding one of the TFTs, and serves as, or is connected to, a source electrode of the corresponding TFT.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image on a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged as rows and columns includes calculating a row correction value corresponding to a pixel position of a received data based on an average luminance of pixels in a pixel row of a sample-grayscale image, calculating a column correction value corresponding to the pixel position of the received data based on an average luminance of pixels in a pixel column of the sample-grayscale image, generating correction data for the received data using a row correction value and a column correction value corresponding to a pixel position of the received data, and converting the correction data to a data voltage to provide a data line of the display panel with the data voltage.

Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device are provided. Moisture may be prevented from penetrating into the display device. The display device includes a substrate including a pixel area. A thin film transistor is formed on the substrate. A pixel electrode is connected to the thin film transistor and formed in the pixel area. A roof layer is formed on the pixel electrode. The roof layer is separated from the pixel electrode via a microcavity. A liquid crystal layer fills the microcavity. A liquid crystal injection hole is formed in the roof layer and exposes a portion of the microcavity. An encapsulation layer is formed on the roof layer. The encapsulation layer covers the liquid crystal injection hole and seals the microcavity for the pixel area. The encapsulation layer includes a multilayer structure.

Abstract: A module processes image data to provide gray level signals to be used for displaying an image. The module may include a scale value control member for determining a first scale value. The module may further include a brightness control member for determining a controlled brightness value using a requested brightness value, a brightness control parameter, and a baseline brightness value. The module may further include a modification member for determining a modified scale value using the first scale value and the controlled brightness value. The module may further include a scaler for generating the gray level signals using the image data and at least one of the modified scale value and a damped scale value, the damped scale value being determined using the modified scale value. The module may further include hardware circuitry for implementing at least one of the aforementioned components.

Abstract: An apparatus including a glass window, a front cover, a back cover, and an elastic frame. The elastic frame is configured to form at least a first neutral plane and a second neutral plane.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color display device in which each pixel can display four high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture. The fluid may further comprise substantially uncharged neutral buoyancy particles.

Abstract: A display device capable of displaying both a 3D image and a 2D image is provided. The display device includes a plurality of optical filter regions where light-blocking panels for producing binocular disparity are arranged in matrix. The light-blocking panel can select whether to transmit light emitted from a display panel in each of the plurality of optical filter regions. Thus, in the display device, some regions where binocular disparity is produced can be provided. Consequently, the display device can display both a 3D image and a 2D image.

Abstract: A display driving apparatus for outputting control signals to a number of driver integrated circuits (ICs). The plurality of driver ICs are connected in a cascade manner such that, when a first control signal is input to a first driver IC, a transmission signal corresponding to the first control signal is transmitted to a subsequent driver IC using a cascade method. The display driving apparatus includes a restoration signal generation unit for generating restoration signals with respect to the first control signal and transmission signals of the number of driver ICs; an error detection unit for detecting an abnormal driver IC that does not operate normally from among the plurality of driver ICs; and a restoration signal output unit for outputting a restoration signal to the abnormal driver IC.

Abstract: An encoder comprising an encoding module and an adaptation module. The encoding module is configured to encode video in at least one region-of-interest and outside the region-of-interest. The encoding comprises quantization, and the encoding module is operable to apply a difference in quantization granularity between the encoding inside and outside the region-of-interest. The adaptation module is configured to determine at least one metric representative of a difference in benefit of the quantization inside and outside the region-of-interest, and to adapt the difference in quantization granularity in dependence on this metric.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and display control method thereof. Each sub-pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes multiple display regions and multiple control switches for controlling the display regions to receive corresponding data voltages, wherein, the multiple control switches includes a first control switch set and a second control switch set, and the first control switch set and the second control switch set are connected in parallel with the same data line. Through the above way, the present invention can increase the pixel aperture ratio of the wide-viewing-angle liquid crystal display device and decrease the power consumption.