Abstract: A pixel matrix having a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit has at least 12 sub-pixels arranged in matrix manner. The pixel unit has at least 4 first color sub-pixels, at least 4 second color sub-pixels, and at least 4 third color sub-pixels. Each two of the first color sub-pixels are arranged adjacent to each other to form at least 2 first color sub-pixel pairs, and the first color sub-pixel pairs are separately provided in different columns and different rows of the pixel unit. Each two of the second color sub-pixels are arranged adjacent to each other to form at least 2 second color sub-pixel pairs, and the second color sub-pixel pairs are separately provided in different columns and different rows of the pixel unit. Each first color sub-pixel pair and each second color sub-pixel pair are arranged adjacent to each other in a column direction.

Abstract: Appearance data including at least color information and gloss information of an object to be reproduced is inputted. Color mapping is performed to map the color information into a color reproducible range of an appearance reproduction apparatus, based on information indicating an appearance reproducible range of the appearance reproduction apparatus. A gloss reproducible range, in which the appearance reproduction apparatus can reproduce gloss while keeping the color information after the color mapping, is obtained based on the information indicating the appearance reproducible range. Gloss mapping is performed to map the gloss information into the gloss reproducible range. An output signal to be outputted to the appearance reproduction apparatus is generated based on mapped appearance data including the color information after the color mapping and the gloss information after the gloss mapping.

Abstract: A display driving method and device and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an image signal to be displayed; converting the image signal to be displayed into a virtual pixel array formed by virtual sub-pixels of three colors, and determining the gray scale of each virtual sub-pixel; dividing three successive sub-pixels in a row direction into a pixel unit, and arranging a sampling area at a corresponding position of each pixel unit in the virtual pixel array; and determining the gray scale of the sub-pixel of each color in the pixel unit according to the gray scale of the virtual sub-pixel of each color covered by the sampling area.

Abstract: A pedestal level for an image sensor can be dynamically adjusted based on one or more parameters. The parameters include one or more operating conditions associated with the image sensor, pre-determined image sensor characterization data, the number of unused digital codes, and/or the number of clipped pixel signals. The operating conditions can include the temperature of the image sensor, the gain of at least one amplifier included in processing circuitry operably connected to at least one pixel, and/or the length of the integration period for at least one pixel in the image sensor. Based on the one or more of the parameters, the pedestal level is adjusted to reduce a number of unused digital codes in a distribution of dark current. Additionally or alternatively, the variance of the pixel signals can be reduced to permit the use of a lower pedestal level.

Abstract: An electronic device for capturing an image by using a display is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a display controller configured to operate the display using a first lighting parameter and a second lighting parameter to generate an afterimage effect for objects included in images, a camera configured to capture an image to be displayed by the display, and a processor configured to determine a camera operation parameter corresponding to a final lighting parameter of the display for a capture operation of the camera. Therefore the electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure can capture a high quality image in a dark environment.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels and having display control circuitry that controls the operation of the display. The display control circuitry may operate the display in different modes. In a paper mode, display control circuitry may use stored spectral reflectance data to adjust display colors such that the colors appear as they would on a printed sheet of paper. In a low light mode when the ambient light level is below a threshold, the light emitted from the display may be adjusted to mimic the appearance of an incandescent light source. In a bright light mode when the ambient light level exceeds a threshold, the light emitted from the display may be adjusted to maximize readability in bright light. The target white point of the display may be adjusted based on which mode the display is operating in.

Abstract: An electrooptic device includes a scan line; data lines; a scan line driving circuit that selects the scan line; a data line driving circuit that supplies data signals to the data lines; a TFT that includes a gate electrode receiving gate signals for selecting the data line and has one end connected to the data line and the other end connected to the data line driving circuit; and a TFT that includes a gate electrode receiving gate signals for selecting the data line and has one end connected to the data line and the other end connected to the data line driving circuit. The gate electrode of the TFT overlaps the data line.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of interleaving two or more workloads are presented herein. The methods and apparatus may comprise a schedule controller and a coprocessor. The schedule controller is operative to utilize the first storage unit to manage context stored therein that allows for the coprocessor to interleave the two or more workloads that can be directly supported by the first storage unit. The coprocessor includes a dedicated first storage unit and an engine.

Abstract: A display device is used in conjunction with: (1) optical sensors to collect information about ambient conditions in the environment of a viewer of the display device; and/or (2) privacy element identification and detection mechanisms (PEDMs) to collect information about the presence, orientation, and/or type of privacy elements being used in conjunction with the display device. For one embodiment, a processor in communication with the display device may create a view model based, at least in part, on the predicted effects of the ambient environmental conditions and/or presence of privacy elements being used in conjunction with the display device on the user's viewing experience. The view model may be a function of gamma, black point, white point, privacy element orientation and/or type, backlighting, field of view, number of viewers, color offset, or a combination thereof. The view model is also referred to as an ambient/privacy model.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for controlling liquid crystal display brightness, and a liquid crystal display device. The method for controlling liquid crystal display brightness according to the present application determines a backlight adjustment rule according to a grayscale value distribution of an image signal and a first preset rule, adjusts a zoned backlight value corresponding to a zoned image data block according to the backlight adjustment rule, as well as drives and controls the backlight source brightness of the corresponding backlight zone by using the adjusted zoned backlight value, thereby adjusting the zoned backlight values for image signals of different grayscale value distributions by using different backlight adjustment rules, significantly improving the picture hierarchy of different image signals, and enhancing the displaying quality of the picture.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating and utilizing sub-pixel sampling patterns on a processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes at least multiple execution units and a memory. The processor generates sub-pixel sampling coordinates within each pixel of an image being rendered based on a rotated grid superimposed on the image. The processor also specifies an amount of rotation for the rotated grid. The processor utilizes the sub-pixel sampling coordinates for determining which locations to sample within the image being rendered. The sampling patterns generated based on these techniques enable using more complex and computationally efficient anti-aliasing resolve filters, resulting in higher quality images.

Abstract: Color signals to be displayed on a colored display surface and having a first gamut in a color space, are subjected to radiometric compensation. An embodiment includes displaying on the colored surface a set of control points of a known color, acquiring via a camera the control points as displayed on the colored surface and evaluating at least one second color gamut of the control points displayed on the colored surface. The second color gamut(s) is/are misaligned with respect to the first color gamut due to the display surface being a colored surface. The method may also include evaluating as an intersection gamut, the misalignment of the second color gamut(s) with respect to the first color gamut, calculating the color transformation operator(s) as a function of the misalignment evaluated, and applying the color transformation operator(s) to the color signals for display on the colored display surface.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of creating a skimming preview of a video includes electronically receiving a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, where analyzing includes determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot. The method also includes determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame, performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features, and generating a reconstruction reference tree based on the shot clustering. The reconstruction reference tree includes video shots categorized according to each concept pattern.

Abstract: According to the invention, a method for changing a display based on a gaze point of a user on the display is disclosed. The method may include determining a gaze point of a user on a display. The method may also include causing a first area of the display to be displayed in a first manner, the first area including the gaze point and a surrounding area. The method may further include causing a second area of the display to be displayed in a second manner, the second area being different than the first area, and the second manner being different than the first manner.

Abstract: A mobile device that enables a user friendly selection of a target wireless enabled device, a wireless enabled device being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices, includes an imaging unit that acquires images of the surrounding of the mobile device and a display that displays images acquired by the imaging unit. An object detection unit is provided to detect wireless enabled devices within images acquired by the imaging unit, the wireless enabled devices being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices. Further, a user interface and a wireless interface are provided to establish a wireless link to a selected wireless enabled device. The display is configured to indicate detected wireless enabled devices in images displayed on the display and the user inter-face is configured to enable a user to select a wireless enabled device indicated on the display.

Abstract: An information handling system touchscreen display interacts with totem devices by recognizing and tracking spectral signatures of the totem devices so that totem positions are reported as a single length, width and rotational orientation message to a host operating system. Ignore zones and hysteresis time periods are defined from the position message based upon totem context so that the host operating system processes touchscreen inputs with minimal latency and improved accuracy. Communication and battery charging are provided to the totem by the touchscreen display will illumination directed to the totem position.

Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for generating and publishing multi-media information associated with actions performed on a mobile communication device. A publishing application monitors actions performed on the mobile communication device and enables selection of at least one of the actions. Content associated with selected actions may be stored and data associated with at least one of the selected actions and the content associated with at least one selected action may be extracted. The multi-media information may be displayed on a graphical user interface in a pre-selected format, such as a chronologically arranged list. Users may preview and modify the multi-media information before publication through a pre-selected communication service. The multi-media information may be published by selecting an icon, including an image identifying the pre-selected communication service.

Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a method for pixel arrangement, which can improve picture quality. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the sub-pixels arranged in a first direction are arranged in one of following modes: a first mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which a first sub-pixel or a third sub-pixel is inserted between every two second sub-pixels; and a second mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel are inserted between every two second sub-pixels.

Abstract: A pixel array includes multiple first signal lines, multiple second signal lines, multiple third signal lines and multiple pixel structures. The first signal lines are arranged in parallel. The second signal lines are arranged in parallel and intersecting with the first signal lines to demarcate a plurality of first unit regions and a plurality of second unit regions. Each of the second signal lines electrically connects to one of the first signal lines, the second signal lines are arranged in different pitches, and an area of each of the second unit regions is smaller than an area of each of the first unit regions, and the first unit regions and the second unit regions are alternately arranged. An orthographic projection of each of the pixel electrodes on the substrate is non-overlapped with or incompletely overlapped with an orthographic projection of the corresponding second signal lines on the substrate.

Abstract: To provide a technology capable of having another object related to one object easily recognized after detection of the one object, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a predetermined detection object, a data obtaining unit configured to obtain instruction information ordering that a predetermined imaging object according to the detection object fall within an imaging range of an imaging unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the instruction information.

Abstract: The invention provides a luminance adjustment method and apparatus for RGBW LCD, which uses first and second EOTFs to generate a grayscale luminance lookup table for RGBW LCD, and makes the grayscale-luminance relation in lookup table corresponding to the first EOTF within the grayscale interval between 0 and grayscale threshold; the grayscale-luminance relation in lookup table corresponding to the second EOTF within the grayscale interval between grayscale threshold and 255; the curve slope of the second EOTF greater than the curve slope of the first EOTF within the interval between second luminance threshold and maximum luminance value. By adopting different EOTFs for low and high grayscale intervals, the method considers the poor dark state characteristics of LCD and characteristics of RGBW LCD having higher maximum luminance, and improves the display capability of RGBW LCD in details of high grayscale images.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a display panel. In one example, the display panel includes an array of subpixels in a first, a second, and a third colors. Subpixels in the first, second, and third colors are alternatively arranged in every three adjacent rows of the array of subpixels. Every two adjacent rows of the array of subpixels are staggered with each other. A first subpixel in one of the first, second, and third colors and a second subpixel in a same color as the first subpixel are offset by 3 units in the horizontal axis and 4 units in the vertical axis. The first and second subpixels have a minimum distance among subpixels in the same color.

Abstract: Color values may be compressed using a palette based encoder. Clusters of color values may be identified and encoded color values within the cluster with respect to a color value having a predefined characteristic. Clusters that have pixels or samples with constant color value may also be encoded.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with at least one of a plurality of display apparatuses and a processor configured to generate an image signal by converting correction data regarding each pixel of the plurality of display apparatuses into a data format according to an image signal standard, and control the communicator to transmit the image signal to any one of the plurality of display apparatuses through an interface corresponding to the image signal standard.

Abstract: A video wall control device is provided in which a data processor is configured to determine a backlight control signal controlling an intensity of light supplied by at least one backlight unit among a plurality of backlight units based on image data obtained by capturing an image of a video wall device including a plurality of display panels and the plurality of backlight units supplying the light to each of the plurality of display panels, and signal transmission and reception circuitry configured to transmit the backlight control signal to the video wall device.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems of object recognition are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter generates map-altered image data according to an object-specific metric map, derives a metric-based descriptor set by executing an image analysis algorithm on the map-altered image data, and retrieves digital content associated with a target object as a function of the metric-based descriptor set.

Abstract: A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.

Abstract: A display substrate, a driving method and a display device are described. The display substrate includes pixel groups that are repeatedly arranged. Each pixel group includes two first sub-pixels, two second sub-pixels, and two third sub-pixels. A first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel are sequentially arranged in a first pixel row of each pixel group. Another third sub-pixel, another first sub-pixel, and another second sub-pixel are sequentially arranged in a second pixel row of each pixel group. A center line of any sub-pixel of the first pixel row and a center line of any sub-pixel of the second pixel row extend in a column direction and do not coincide with each other. The display substrate enables the display device to achieve a higher display resolution with a lower physical resolution.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of primary color pixels and a plurality of white pixels. The white pixels include a first white pixel to receive a first white pixel signal generated based on a first gamma curve and a second white pixel to receive a second white pixel signal generated based on a second gamma curve.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes an application unit, a conveyance unit, a stacking member, a pressing member, and a control unit. The application unit applies a recording agent to a recording medium, which then is conveyed by the conveyance unit. The stacking member stacks sequentially conveyed recording media with a surface of the recording media to which the recording agent is applied facing up. The pressing member presses the sequentially stacked recording media. The control unit controls timing at which the pressing member contacts the recording media. The pressing member presses an upper surface of the stacked recording medium. The control unit controls the timing at which the pressing member contacts a recording medium when the recording medium has been stacked on the uppermost recording medium, based on data for applying the recording agent to a predetermined area, on the recording medium, including an area which the pressing member can contact.

Abstract: A circuit applied to a playback device includes an image format determining circuit, a control circuit, an image processing module and a blending circuit. The image format determining circuit receives an image signal and determines whether the format of the image signal is a standard dynamic range (SDR) or a high dynamic range (HDR) to generate a determination result. The control circuit generates a control signal according to the determination result. The image processing module selects an image processing setting corresponding to one of the SDR format and the HDR format, and processes the image signal according to the image processing setting to generate a processed image signal. The blending circuit superimposes an interface image onto the processed image signal to generate an output image signal to a display.

Abstract: A processing device includes generation circuitry, storage circuitry, and interpolation circuitry. The generation circuitry generates a first index based on a numerical value of a high-order predetermined number of digits. The converted value of the reference input value corresponding to each index obtained in the generation circuitry is beforehand stored as a look-up table in the storage circuitry. The interpolation circuitry acquires the first converted value corresponding to the first index using the look-up table. And the interpolation circuitry computes the second index that adjoins the first index by carrying out increment or decrement of the first index. Furthermore, the interpolation circuitry acquires the second converted value corresponding to the second index using the look-up table of the storage circuitry. And the interpolation circuitry computes the converted value of the input value by linearity interpolation based on the shift amount from the reference input value of the first index.

Abstract: A display apparatus (1) includes a display section (14), a gesture acceptance section (102), and a display control section (101). In providing a second scrolling display of a list, the display control section (101) identifies, among a plurality of items enumerated in the list, an item likely to have been missed by a user in a previous scrolling display and allows the display section to provide the scrolling display of the identified item at a speed different from a speed specified by a scroll gesture accepted by the gesture acceptance section (102) or in a display manner different from that of the other items.

Abstract: QP control information valid for a block of samples is parsed. A QP to use for the block of samples is derived according to a first QP derivation process independent on the QP control information if residual data of the block of samples is not color transformed and according to a second QP derivation process dependent on the QP control information if the residual data of the block of samples is color transformed. The embodiments thereby decouple QP parameters for blocks of samples that are coded with color transform and those that are coded without color transform. This decoupling achieves better flexibility during encoding and results in better visual quality.

Abstract: An online content system, such as a digital magazine, includes an image scaling engine for increasing the resolution of images. The image scaling engine comprises a convolutional neural network. An input image is preprocessed for use as inputs to a convolutional neural network (CNN). The preprocessed input image pixel values are used as inputs to the CNN. The CNN comprises convolutional layers and dense layers for determining image features and increasing image resolution. The CNN is trained using backpropagation to adjust model weights and biases. Each convolutional layer of a CNN detects features in an image by comparing image subregions to a set of known kernels and determining similarities between subregions and kernels using a convolution operation. The dense layers of the CNN have full connections to all of the outputs of a previous layer to determine the specific target output result such as output image pixel values.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate, a first sidelight light source, and a second sidelight light source; and a control unit. The control unit sets first luminance determination blocks in a first display surface of the image display panel and identifies a first luminance determination block to be a target of luminance correction by referring to luminance information on the light sources. The control unit sets second luminance determination blocks in a second display surface of the image display panel and identifies a second luminance determination block to be a target of luminance correction by referring to the luminance information on the light sources. The control unit controls light source lighting amounts of the respective light sources to satisfy luminance of the identified first luminance determination block and the identified second luminance determination block.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a data line, a gate line crossing the data line and a sub pixel connected to the data line and the gate line, a moving vector extractor configured to extract a moving vector of an input image using input data, a data generator configured to generate data of a high gamma curve called “high data” and data of a low gamma curve called “low data” corresponding to the input data using a spatiotemporal sequential pattern based on moving direction and moving speed of the moving vector, and a data driver circuit configured to covert the high data and the low data of the input data into a data voltage and provide the data line with the data voltage.

Abstract: An optical film and a digital pen system using the same are provided. The optical film includes a film layer including a fine structure, a coating layer coated on the fine structure and having an infrared ray scattering property, and a matching layer laminated above or below the film layer and having a refractive index matching a refractive index of the fine structure within a predetermined error range.

Abstract: A timing controller includes: a compensator to receive an image signal and to output a compensation image signal; a dimming range adjustor to receive a backlight dimming signal and to output a dimming range signal to adjust an active section of the backlight dimming signal; a smoothing processor to output a smoothing image signal to smooth the compensation image signal in response to the dimming range signal; and a data output part to output an image data signal by adding the smoothing image signal to the image signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods of separating a digital image using a specified colour palette into a sequence of separation plates is disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for driving an electrowetting display device including a plurality of sub-pixels are presented. A reflectance level of a first sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixels is set to a minimum reflectance level or a threshold reflectance level. A reflectance quantization error is determined and a second reflectance level of a second sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixels is set to a second target reflectance level of the second sub-pixel plus a first fraction of the reflectance quantization error. A third reflectance level of a third sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixels is set to a third target reflectance level of the third sub-pixel plus a second fraction of the reflectance quantization error, and a fourth reflectance level of a fourth sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixels is set to a fourth target reflectance level of the fourth sub-pixel plus a third fraction of the reflectance quantization error.

Abstract: A method for evaluating color differences of pixels is provided. The method comprises obtaining color information of a first pixel in a color opponent space obtaining color information of a second pixel in the color opponent space, defining a half-line in the color opponent space based on the color information of the first pixel, and determining distance between color information of the second pixel and half-line in the color opponent space.

Abstract: A system and method for determining a mood for a crowd is disclosed. In example embodiments, a method includes identifying an event that includes two or more attendees, receiving at least one indicator representing emotions of attendees, determining a numerical value for each of the indicators, and aggregating the numerical values to determine an aggregate mood of the attendees of the event.

Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display panel; a light emitting unit having a plurality of light sources; an acquiring unit acquiring feature values of an input image for divided regions respectively corresponding to the light sources; and a control unit configured to control, wherein in a case where the input image is a second image not including the predetermined object image, the control unit does not implement control operation of controlling the brightness of the light sources corresponding to the dark divided regions lower than the brightness of the light sources corresponding to the other divided regions.

Abstract: A terminal uses a web application to control a printer on a network. The web application includes an API that permits the terminal to send instruction and inquiries to the printer over the network. The terminal submits, to the API, the printer's IP address and instructions for defining a print document or printer commands. The API then sends the print document or printer commands to the printer in accordance with the IP address. In this manner, the terminal can request status updates without sending a print job to the printer. The terminal sets the printer's ID address, identifies a type of status event inquiry, and submits the inquiry to receive the printer's current status related to the identified status event. To submit a print job, the terminal creates a print document using the API, sets the printer's ID address, and sends the print document as a print job to be printed.

Abstract: A display unit is controlled to increase luminance of a white pixel of a display apparatus in a case where an image capturing apparatus is in an image capturing mode as compared with a case where the image capturing apparatus is in a reproduction mode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus provide automatic stage scene detection. A first image of a scene can be captured using a luminance for automatic exposure control. A brightness contrast between a center region of the first image and areas surrounding the center region of the first image can be calculated. A brightness value can be ascertained for the entire first image. Whether the luminance of the first image should be adjusted can be determined based on the brightness contrast being greater than a contrast threshold and the brightness value for the entire first image being less than a brightness value threshold. The luminance for the automatic exposure control can be adjusted for correct exposure of the center region of the first image in response to determining the luminance of the first image should be adjusted. A second image of the scene can be captured based on automatic exposure control using the adjusted luminance.

Abstract: A media effects engine on a computer device applies one or more effects to an input media stream. A performance monitor monitors a performance metric associated with playing the input media stream and reduces a quality parameter associated with the effect upon detecting a drop in the performance metric below a target metric. The quality parameter manages a tradeoff between a quality of effect and an amount of hardware resources consumed to produce the effect. Thus, the effect can be adjusted to meet the capabilities of the computer device.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a pentile pattern, the plurality of pixels having at least a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel, and the display panel being configured to display colors corresponding to respective output color data of the first and second pixels, and a color data converter configured to convert input color data to generate the output color data, the color data converter including a determiner configured to receive the input color data, to determine whether the first pixel displays a white color and the second pixel displays a black color, and to generate a first determination signal based on a result of the determination, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the output color data of the first or second pixel based on the first determination signal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual screen in a touch screen device are provided. The method includes detecting a touch screen input on a screen view, the screen view displaying a partial area of the virtual screen on a display unit of the electronic device, determining whether the touch screen input is a stylus input or a touch input, the stylus input being executed by a user controlling a stylus and the touch input being executed by the user using a body part of the user, processing the stylus input as a manipulation input corresponding to the virtual screen when the touch screen input is the stylus input, and moving the screen view on the virtual screen in response to a touch movement of the touch input when the touch screen input is the touch input.