Abstract: A video image displaying apparatus and video image displaying method, applicable to the supplying, by arranging a plurality of picture displaying devices for instance on the inner walls of a tunnel, of consecutive articulated images by the plurality of picture displaying devices to occupants of a train to provide consecutive articulated images using these still pictures without, for instance, causing trouble to the performance by the driver of the mobile object. Blinking of still pictures at terminal displaying apparatuses is started and ended after waiting for the passage of a prescribed part of the mobile object.

Abstract: In an operation of an address period for addressing cells of a display device, such as a plasma display panel, comprising a plurality of cells of three kinds, red (R), green (G), blue (B), which are arranged on a plane for forming a display surface thereof, in which each of said cells comprising: a pair of transparent electrodes provided in parallel to each other; an address electrode being positioned opposing the pair of transparent electrodes; luminescence medium provided on the address electrode; and a discharge space being defined between the pair of transparent electrodes and said fluorescence medium on the address electrode, wherein the address discharge is conducted by applying an address voltage to the address electrode, and the address voltage applied is determined depending upon the each kind of the cells, R, G and B.

Abstract: Data, including letters, numerals and marks, are sequentially scrolled on a display. When a switch is pushed, the scroll is interrupted, and then the data being displayed is fixed. An arrangement may be made such that the scroll occurs at a high speed first and then occurs at a low speec in response to the operation of the switch. Further, the data being displayed may be caused to blink for a confirmation purpose.

Abstract: An LED display apparatus includes an LED display module, an inner frame member, and a supporting unit. The LED display module has an array of light emitting diodes mounted thereon, and a longitudinal axis. The inner frame member is disposed to confine the LED display module therein, and has a size sufficient to permit movement of the LED display module in opposite directions of the longitudinal axis. The supporting unit mounts the LED display module in the inner frame member such that the LED display module is movable back and forth in the inner frame member along the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A portable communication apparatus (1) has a movable cover (16) with a liquid crystal display (19, 20) mounted thereon. The liquid crystal display (19, 20) is double-sided in at least one part (20), hence showing the information both from a front side and from a back side (21). This part of the display (20) is transmissive, and the rest of the display (19) is either reflective or transflective. The information is viewable through a window (22) in the cover (16) when the cover (16) is closed. As soon as the cover (16) changes positions from closed to opened, or from opened to closed, the information will be rotated 180°, so that the information will appear correctly. The portable communication apparatus has means (30, 31) and steps for the rotation of information, which automatically will be initiated, when the position of the cover (16) is detected by a controller (30).

Abstract: A display of the type in which a mobile unit moves one or more arrays of light sources repeatedly through a sequence of positions in a display zone to create the illusion of a floating image. According to a first aspect of the invention, each array is provided with a mechanism for sensing when it arrives at each position in the display zone, and each array then is provided with data to display at that position. According to a second aspect of the present invention, the display is provided with a data storage medium that is geometrically congruent with the path along which the arrays move, and the data to be displayed are read from the data storage medium as the mobile unit moves past the data storage medium. In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the path of motion of the arrays is circular; and, within the second aspect of the invention, the data storage medium is a cylindrical medium, for example, a floppy disk or a compact disk.

Abstract: A handy information display system is disclosed. The system has three main components: a light emitting diodes (LED) array display board, an information server and a portable unit. The LED array display board includes a plurality of light emitting diodes and photodetectors. It can be used to display alphabets, numbers and simple graphics. While it visually gives an effectively stationary message display, the LED can also be modulated to transmit high frequency signals. The modulating frequency should be high enough to be imperceptible by humans. Both message display and signal transmission are controlled by an information server. The system further comprises at least one portable unit. The portable unit is equipped with an optical transceiver and a visual display unit. The optical transceiver can detect the signals transmitted from the LED array display board. The visual display unit then shows the information corresponding to the received signals.

Abstract: A matrix display sign and system where the displayed image or message can readily be changed. There is an array of pixel units arranged in rows and columns, and each of these pixel units can be selectively activated to display various selected colors. In a preferred embodiment, each pixel unit is capable of displaying any of a blue, green, red, white or black color. Each pixel unit has an elongate strip member having pixel sections, each having a different color characteristic. The pixel strip is moved in increments so that various pixel sections can be moved into a display region where either reflective light or transflective light illuminates the pixel section. A solenoid driver is activated to move in stepped increments to move the pixel strip to selected positions at the display region.

Abstract: An advanced floor mat is disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, the floor mat includes a cleanable portion. The floor mat may also include a water dissipation component, a water absorbing component, a cushioning component, customized graphics, a transparent cleanable portion, a tacky surface on the cleanable portion, an antibacterial composition, an antifungal composition, and a fragrance. Additionally, the cleanable portion may be erodible and may include a plurality of cleanable reusable layers.

Abstract: A bracelet comprises at least one electronic display unit. The or each display unit has a display (9) having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of the display. The bracelet has control circuit (15) to control the display elements so that the characters displayed by the display elements appear to move along the sequence of display elements with time.

Abstract: Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a sign system for creating extremely lightweight, reconfigurable, and changeable signs suitable for outdoor use adjacent to roadways. The system provides adjustable message screen size, electronically changeable messages and alphanumeric adjustable character size of at least 6 inches in height. The system comprises a sign controller and a plurality of interchangeable modules each sealed to be weather resistant. Each module having a display side with a rectangular screen portion, the screen portion having transparent portions with pixel elements positioned behind the transparent portions and within the module. Each module has the pixels arranged in a first matrix pattern and sufficient in number to provide alphanumeric characters and portions of characters of adjustable size of at least 6 inches. Each module having a bit map memory and being individually addressable with respect to other modules.

Abstract: A method of enhancing the readability of rapidly displayed text and with rapid apprehension, at a rate which is greater than the maximum unaided reading capability of that subject using the method. The method comprises a rapid and sequential moving of the words of text through a window on a screen of a computer monitor. In accordance with the method, the words are allowed to pass through or be displayed in the display window, one word at a time, and at a rate in which the time for display which is based on the number of characters in a word is related to and a function of the total amount of time required for all of the words in a segment of the text to be displayed. A time for display of each word of average character length is the same, and that certain words in a segment will be displayed for a longer period of time than other of the words. Usually, the words which contain more characters will have a longer display period.

Abstract: An image display system displays images on a plurality of masked monitors, overhead monitors, or both. Images from a plurality of image sources are selected by a controller for display on the monitors. The controller can split up the image so that one image can be displayed on a plurality of monitors, or can be spread over a plurality of monitors. A plurality of sub-computers provide another source of data to the overhead monitors. The sub-computers receive data from a game information source and a host computer which they can output for display on the over-head monitors.

Abstract: A system and method for time slicing multiple received data streams utilizing multiple processors in such a manner as to ensure that all processors are running at full capability and are efficiently timesharing a global memory storage area. The received data streams are each divided into fixed portions called spans. The invention is operable for sequencing the movement of the time-sliced spans between the processors, adjusting the scheduling of particular ones of the time-sliced spans as a function of either processor availability or maintenance of real-time transmission of the received real-time time-sliced data streams.

Abstract: A definite multiple color image of a large size is scrolling displayed with a small number of light emitting cells. A physical screen which includes sixteen (16) dots in one column and thirty (30) dots in one row is formed from ten (10) light emitting cell column sets Si (RCi, GCi, BCi) connected to each other like a belt. The physical screen is regarded as an imaginary screen which includes sixteen (16) dots in one column and fifty seven (57) (=30+3.times.9) dots in one row. When the red light emitting cell column RCi in a certain light emitting cell column set Si is controlled and driven with red data for a certain column (k) selected at intervals, the green light emitting cell column GCi is controlled and driven with green data for an adjacent column (k+1) to the selected column (k), and the blue light emitting cell column BCi is controlled and driven with blue data for a further adjacent column (k+2).

Abstract: When a large number of bar-shaped display elements are installed at a site in any of various situations, even if the distances between the bar-shaped display elements are not necessarily fixed, an image of an aspect ratio which is correct over an entire screen can be displayed without distorting the displayed image. Data distribution means includes means for storing a standard value set corresponding to a standard arrangement distance of the bar-shaped display elements Bi as an interval control variable, and means for storing a correction value set for a particular bar-shaped display element B8 arranged in a displaced condition from the standard arrangement distance, and selectively extracts image data for one column to be distributed to each of the bar-shaped display elements B1 to B10 based on the standard value and the correction value.

Abstract: A method is used in a selective call receiver (SCR) (100) for displaying information messages received by the SCR on a multiline display (124) of the SCR. According to the method, a plurality of information messages is received (405), wherein each of the plurality of information messages has an identifiable source. An operator selection (415) of a paramount source is determined. An information message associated with the paramount source is automatically displayed (430) on a line of the multiline display in a horizontal scrolling manner when the information message having the paramount source is determined to have a value different than a previously displayed value of an information message from the paramount source. Information messages that are not associated with any paramount source are displayed in a full screen manner (440) when such information messages are displayed in response to manipulation of controls.

Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, a flat display panel for forming an image in units of picture elements by using an incident light generated from the light source, and at least one double refraction plate for dividing the picture elements of the image formed by the flat display panel into duplication picture elements and shifting them to other positions independent of the original picture elements. The double refraction plate uses an amplitude division method to divide and shift the picture elements to a distance of 3/2P.sub.x, wherein P.sub.x is pitch between adjacent picture elements as displayed. An arrangement of two double refraction plates in sequence and an arrangement of three double refraction plates in sequence may be used to increase the picture elements four and eight times in number, respectively.

Abstract: An improved display system which is able to display both static and moving graphics on a reduced number of pixels. The display system relies upon the beta apparent movement effect to "fill in" the blank spaces between active pixels to give the appearance of supporting an image which does not in fact exist. The display system can display moving graphics at high resolution and static graphics at low resolution.

Abstract: The general problem of conveying a particular meaning in a message so that the meaning is most understandable when an abridged version of the message is displayed is solved by supplying as the message a "tagged" string in which all characters in the unabridged version of the sting are tagged with respective priority indicator each having a value indicating a particular priority level. In a station set an abridged version of the string for a particular priority level is determined by selecting all characters from the received, unabridged version having a priority indicator value equal to or greater than that particular priority level. A priority level is elected such that the corresponding abridged string fits within the available display length.

Abstract: A method for driving an optical modulation device having a group of scanning electrodes and a group of signal electrodes arranged so that picture elements are defined at the intersections therebetween and a bistable optical modulation material assuming one of two stable states applied between the groups of electrodes, by in a first phase orienting the bistable material at the picture elements on an N-th scanning electrode to one stable state, and applying a writing signal to the signal electrodes in synchronism with a scanning signal to the N-th scanning electrode while orienting the bistable modulation material at the picture elements on an N+1-th scanning electrode to the one stable state.

Abstract: A single-line 16 character display is driven using a display driver designed to drive two independent 8 character single-line displays. Conceptually, the 16 character display is treated as the two independent 8 character displays placed side by side. The message for display is placed in a first area of driver memory corresponding to the first 8 character display. A truncated version of the same message for display, with an offset at the beginning equal to the number of characters in the first display line, is stored in a second area of driver memory corresponding to the second 8 character display line. When the message and the truncated version thereof are simultaneously displayed, an observer views a single, coherent 16 character single line display. If the message is greater than 16 characters, the driver scrolls both the message for display and the truncated version thereof, creating a single scrolled message from the point of view of the observer.

Abstract: A visually displayed message is repeated by reinitiation of an electronically progressively displayed message prior to the completion of the initial message while the initial message continues to move along the traveling path of observing persons moving in a common direction. The reinitiation of the message allows following observing persons moving in the common direction to see the beginning and remainder of the visually displayed message even though they could not see the message when forwardly located observing persons saw the message. The reinitiation of the visually displayed message occurs after a predetermined amount of time occurs from the initiation of the visually displayed message but before completion of the visually displayed message.

Abstract: A method for driving an optical modulation device having a group of scanning electrodes and a group of signal electrodes arranged so that picture elements are defined at the intersections therebetween and a bistable optical modulation material assuming one of two stable states between the groups of electrodes, by in a first phase orienting the bistable material at the picture elements on an N-th scanning electrode to one stable state, and applying a writing signal to the signal electrodes in synchronism with a scanning signal to the N-th scanning electrode while orienting the bistable material at the picture elements on an N+1-th scanning electrode to the one stable state.

Abstract: A method in a communications receiver (20) for handling a selective call message comprises the steps of measuring a parameter of the selective call message (104, 116) and selecting whether to provide the selective call message to a display (118) or a communications port (106) in response to measuring the parameter of the selective call message (104, 116). The communications receiver (20) can function as either a pager or a radio frequency (RF) modem. A controller (66) determines the parameters of the message and operates the communications receiver (20) as a pager or as an RF modem in response to the parameters measured.

Abstract: The general problem of conveying a particular meaning in a message so that the meaning is most understandable when an abridged version of the message is displayed is solved by supplying as the message a "tagged" string in which all characters in the unabridged version of the string are tagged with respective priority indicators each having a value indicating a particular priority level. In a station set, an abridged version of the string for a particular priority level is determined by selecting all characters from the received, unabridged version having a priority indicator value equal to or greater than that particular priority level. A priority level is selected such that the corresponding abridged string fits within the available display length.

Abstract: A scrollable spatial light modulator--or SLM--provides non-destructively transfer and display of an analog signal, which may include multiple levels of gray scale information, for high speed analog optical processing. Each pixel in the scrollable SLM consists of a metal-oxide-semiconductor--or MOS--transistor and four MOS capacitors in a four-phase charge-coupled device--or CCD--array. Two of the MOS capacitors in each pixel are used for charge storage while the other two are used to implement charge transfer. An MOS transistor used to control the gate of one of the charge storage MOS capacitors is clocked to float only when the charge signal is being stored therein and then drives a pixel of the liquid crystal display, such as a ferroelectric liquid crystal display to encode a frame of data onto a light beam as an image.