Abstract: A display panel includes a display device, a first anti-reflection layer and a cover layer. The first anti-reflection layer is disposed over the display device, wherein the first anti-reflection layer comprises a first structural layer including a plurality of first protrusion structures opposite to the display device. The cover layer is disposed over the first anti-reflection layer.

Abstract: Architecture and designs of display devices are described, where the display devices possesses high spatial resolution as well as high intensity resolution and may be readily used in various display applications. According to one aspect of the present invention, a display device includes an array of image elements, each of the image elements further includes an array of sub-image elements. A portion of an image element area, namely some of the sub-image elements, is turned on, which has the same perceived brightness level of turning on an entire image element for a specific time. In addition, various designs of an image element or a sub-image element are described.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel; a backlight configured to irradiate visible ray to the display panel in a 2D mode, and configured to irradiate ultraviolet ray to the display panel in a 3D mode; and a 3D film disposed between the display panel and backlight, wherein the 3D film comprises: a pattern formed by a plurality of lines distanced from one another by a predetermined distance; and a coating layer that is formed on one side of the plurality of lines pattern and transmits or reflects light patterned by the plurality of lines pattern, per line. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent deterioration of resolution of a screen image, provide a simple structure and enable a change to and from a 2D mode and a 3D mode.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus comprises an illumination system (12) for illuminating a target structure with illuminating radiation and a collection system for collecting the illuminating radiation after it has been scattered by the target structure. A programmable spatial light modulator (713) comprises an array of movable mirror elements (742) in a conjugate pupil plane (P?) of the illumination system. Between the array of mirror elements and the target a common optical path is defined forming part of the illumination system and the collection system. Each mirror element is movable between a first position where it reflects illuminating radiation into the common optical path and a second position where it reflects radiation from the common optical path toward a detector (19, 23). Various combinations of illumination aperture and collection aperture can be defined without the light losses associated with beam splitters and transmissive spatial light modulators.

Abstract: A display device or optical switch, based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one fluid, e.g., oil, in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate, and in a second state another fluid at least partly adjoins the first support plate. Sub-picture elements are separated by areas having a hydrophilic surface.

Abstract: A display screen includes a filter layer, a fluorescent layer having parallel fluorescent stripes, and an attachment layer between an excitation side of the fluorescent layer and a first side of the filter layer to attach the excitation side of fluorescent layer to the filter layer while providing vertical separation therebetween. The attachment layer includes attachment regions that are separated from each other by lateral spacings such that excitation-side air gaps are formed between areas of the fluorescent layer and the filter layer that correspond to the lateral spacings. During display operation, excitation light received on a second side of the filter layer propagates through to the first side of the filter layer, and at least a portion of the excitation light that propagates from the second side of the filter layer travels through the excitation-side air gaps to excite the fluorescent stripes.

Abstract: A light control system is provided with a spatial light modulator of a liquid-crystal type, an input unit, and a controller. The input unit is configured to input a light to the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to cause the spatial light modulator to function as a diffraction grating by electrically controlling the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to change a path of a diffracted light from the spatial light modulator corresponding to the light input from the input unit by changing a shape of the diffraction grating.

Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor (M1), a storage capacitor (Cs) and a data writing unit. The data writing unit is configured to receive an nth-row scanning signal (Vscan (n)) and apply the data voltage (Vdata) to the gate electrode of the driving transistor (M1) in the case that the nth-row scanning signal (Vscan (n)) is valid. The pixel driving circuit further includes: a reverse control unit, receiving an (n?2)th-row scanning signal (Vscan (n?2)) and connected to the cathode of the OLED, and configured to control the cathode of the OLED to receive the (n?2)th-row scanning signal (Vscan (n?2)) in the case that the (n?2)th-row scanning signal (Vscan (n?2)) is valid. A voltage of the (n?2)th-row scanning signal (Vscan (n?2)) is greater than the driving voltage (Vdd), and n is an integer greater than 2.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, first color pixels, and second color pixels. A first color pixel arranged in an f-th column between an f-th data line and an (f+1)th data line is connected to one of the f-th data line and the (f+1)th data line. A first color pixel arranged in a g-th column between a g-th data line and a (g+1)th data line is connected to one of a (g?1)th data line and a (g+2)th data line. First color pixels in a first color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity. Second color pixels in a second color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for driving a split display with multiple display pipelines. Frames for driving a display are logically divided into portions, a first display pipeline drives a first portion of the display, and a second display pipeline drives a second portion of the display. Each display pipeline generates dither noise for each frame in its entirety but only utilizes dither noise for the portion of the frame which is being driven to its respective portion of the display. This approach prevents visual artifacts from appearing at the dividing line between the first and second portions of the display.

Abstract: A voltage control method and device for electrodes, wherein the method includes inputting a varying voltage signal to common electrodes on an array substrate. The solution of the present application may avoid the problem of greenish picture of products due to influence of data line voltage on common electrodes.

Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and manufacturing method are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device; a driving transistor to supply a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor through which the current is supplied by the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor provided to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal supplied to a corresponding one of the source signal lines; a third switch transistor provided between a gate terminal and a drain terminal of the driving transistor; and a capacitor connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor for holding the image signal. The third switch transistor has a multi-gate structure.

Abstract: Provided is an OLED display device that is in a black mode in which a threshold voltage of a driving TFT need not accurately be sensed. Further, a low voltage value of zero or less is constantly and continuously supplied to a data line during an initialization period, a sampling period, and a programming period in a pixel. As a result, when the pixel is driven in the black mode, a reference voltage and a data voltage having different values are not alternately supplied to the data line to minimize power consumption.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a driving method therefor that do not cause problems such as occurrence of flicker even when performing pause driving. When an off signal Soff instructing to turn off power is inputted, a polarity bias value W at the power-off is stored in a balance storage circuit. When the power is turned on again, the polarity bias value W is read from the balance storage circuit and provided to a balance control circuit. The balance control circuit starts insertion of a pause frame period to cancel out the polarity bias value W. By this, decrementing the polarity bias value W by “1” every insertion of a pause frame period is repeated. Then, at a point of time when the polarity bias value W becomes “0”, insertion of a pause frame period is ceased and normal pause driving is performed.

Abstract: A method for directing light beams includes generating a light beam along a light path. A voltage differential is created by generating a voltage in a first and second linear electrode contacts arranged such that the first and second linear electrical contacts alternate with each other. The light path is altered by passing the light beam through a liquid crystal device coupled to the first and second linear electrical contacts.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a handwritten type electronic paper display and a manufacture method thereof. The handwritten type electronic paper display comprises: a first electrode substrate (1) and a second electrode substrate (2) having a same pixel electrode matrix structure, an electronic paper thin film (3), a flexible printed circuit (4), a stylus (5) and an electrical source. The electronic paper thin film (3) is bonded onto an upper surface of the first electrode substrate (1), a common electrode of the electronic paper thin film is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the electrical source; the second electrode substrate (2) is fixed on the electronic paper thin film (3) in a thin film manner; the flexible printed circuit (4) is adapted for electrically connecting pixels of the first electrode substrate (1) to corresponding pixels of the second electrode substrate (2); and the stylus (5) is electrically connect to a positive electrode of the electrical source.

Abstract: Each modulator of an image projector includes multiple pixels arranged in rows and columns, switchable independently of each other into a first state, in which light incident on them is used to generate an image, and into a second state, in which light incident on them is not used to generate an image. At least one first pixel is assigned to each second pixel such that the imaging optical system a) strikes the second pixel with light from the respective assigned first pixel when the assigned first pixel is switched into the first state, in order to illuminate the second pixel actively, and b) does not strike the second pixel it with light from the respective assigned first pixel when the assigned first pixel is switched into the second state, in order not to illuminate the second pixel actively. A control unit that controls the modulators is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display drive method for driving a 3D display device. The method comprises: dividing a first view and a second view to be displayed into a plurality of theoretical pixel units, respectively, and determining a respective gray value corresponding to a color of each type of subpixels in original display information corresponding to each theoretical pixel unit; and for each subpixel of each view, determining brightness of the subpixel based on respective gray values corresponding to the color of the subpixel in the original display information corresponding to respective theoretical pixel units which are covered by a rectangular sampling region of the subpixel and belong to the view. The present disclosure further provides a display drive apparatus and a method and apparatus for generating a sampling region.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.

Abstract: Techniques and optically excited light-emitting devices based on phosphors are provided to use phosphor materials which absorb excitation light to emit visible light and include a composite phosphor material including two or more different transition metal compounds that, under optical excitation of the excitation light, emit visible light at spectrally close but different spectral wavelengths or bands that spectrally overlap to produce a desired color.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes an electrowetting pixel cell and a driving circuit. The electrowetting pixel cell including a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid disposed between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode configured to receive a fixed voltage and the common electrode configured to receive a variable voltage that varies according to an image signal. The driving circuit configured to control an operation of the electrowetting pixel cell by, providing an image signal to the electrowetting pixel cell at a display interval where the electrowetting pixel cell displays an image, and providing a reset voltage to the electrowetting pixel cell at a reset interval. An absolute value of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the reset voltage is greater than that of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the voltage applied to the common electrode.

Abstract: A gamma correction method adapted for a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The gamma correction method includes the following steps. A reference gamma curve is provided. The LCD panel is lighted up with at least one of primary-color frames. Gamma voltages of the primary-color frame are set for the LCD panel based on the reference gamma curve to obtain at least one primary-color gamma curve. The gamma correction is performed on the LCD panel based on the at least one primary-color gamma curve or a linear combination curve of the at least one primary-color gamma curve. By using the gamma correction method, the LCD panel could be allowed to provide good image quality.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided, which includes: a first component which includes a first portion and a second portion opposite to the first portion, with the thickness of the first component is gradually decreased from the first portion to the second portion; a display unit arranged on a first surface of the first component; and a projection component arranged on the first portion.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a base substrate, a hydrophobic layer disposed on the base substrate and including at least about 49 atomic percent (at %) of fluorine atoms in a surface thereof, a wall disposed on the base substrate which partitions a pixel area, and an electrowetting layer that includes a first fluid and a second fluid, which are disposed in the pixel area and are immiscible with each other. The second fluid has an electrical conductivity or a polarity. The electrowetting display device further includes an electronic device is configured to apply an electric field to the electrowetting layer to control the electrowetting layer.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a driving circuit for AMOLED consisting essentially of a scanning line for providing a scanning voltage; a reverse scanning line for providing a reverse scanning voltage reverse to the scanning voltage; a data line for providing a data voltage; a storage capacitor; and a CMOS transmission gate having two control terminals, an input terminal and an output terminal. The two control terminals are respectively electrically coupled to the scanning line and the reverse scanning line. The input terminal is electrically coupled to the data line. The output terminal is electrically coupled to the storage capacitor. The CMOS transmission gate is configured to couple the data voltage to the storage capacitor via control of the scanning voltage and the reverse scanning voltage.

Abstract: A display device includes a timing control circuit, a driving circuit, a display panel, and a DC voltage converter. The timing control circuit generates a data signal based on an image signal. The driving circuit generates a first conversion control signal and a second conversion control signal representing a status of the first conversion control signal. The driving circuit generates a driven signal based on the data signal and is powered by a first DC voltage. The display panel is powered by a second DC voltage. The DC voltage converter includes first and second DC voltage conversion circuits. The first DC voltage conversion circuit generates the first DC voltage based on an external voltage. The second DC voltage conversion circuit generates the second DC voltage based on the external voltage. The DC voltage converter executes time-shared control of the first and second DC voltage conversion circuits based on the first and second conversion control signals.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device which divides each frame into a plurality of sub-frames and represents gray levels based on the sum of the lengths of one or more sub-frames during which light is emitted, the organic light-emitting display device comprising a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the display unit during each sub-frame period and a precharge voltage unit configured to provide a precharge voltage to the pixels, wherein the pixels are divided into a first pixel column block including a pixel receiving the scan signal before the other pixels and a second pixel column block next to the first pixel column block in a direction of the application of the scan signal and the precharge voltage is selectively provided to pixels included in the first pixel column block.

Abstract: A pixel structure includes a plurality of red sub-pixels, white sub-pixels, blue sub-pixels and green sub-pixels, which are arranged to form a plurality of first sub-pixel cells and second sub-pixel cells. The first and second sub-pixel cells may be arranged to form a plurality of pixel cells. The pixel cells may be arranged in the vertical direction repeatedly to form a plurality of pixel array cells. The pixel array cells may be arranged in the horizontal direction repeatedly to form a plurality of pixel arrays. The pixel structure further includes a supplement pixel array disposed in the pixel arrays according to a preset mode and configured to supplement polarity inversion in the pixel structure. The sub-pixels with a same color in a same row in a same signal frame may not have a same polarity, thereby reducing flicker and horizontal crosstalk of images and improving the image display quality.

Abstract: A call switching method and a mobile device are provided that rapidly and conveniently switch calls. The method includes establishing, by the mobile device, a first call with a first device; receiving, by the mobile device, a request for a second call from a second device, during the first call; informing a user of the mobile device of the call request; determining, by the mobile device, whether the user moves the mobile device from a first ear to a second ear; and accepting, by the mobile device, the second call with the second device, when the mobile device is moved from the first ear to the second ear.

Abstract: A method and device for eye gaze tracking has coincident display and imaging channel with shared field of view; a pupil forming/collimating subsystem that is part of the imaging channel; and a microdisplay that is part of the imaging channel. The method and device enable simultaneous display and eye tracking by using a pond of mirrors in a micromirror array.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method of operating a laser comprising the steps of; defining an intensity value (KVIDEO red, KVIDEO green, KVIDEO blue) for a light beam which is to be output from the laser; determining if the defined intensity value is greater than, or less than, a threshold intensity (KTH red, KTH green, KTH blue) for the laser, wherein the threshold intensity is the intensity of the light which is output from the laser when the input current to the laser is equal to the threshold current (ITH red, ITH green, ITH blue) of the laser, wherein the threshold current (ITH red, ITH green, ITH blue) of the laser is an input current value below which the laser would operate in its light emitting region and equal to, or above which, the laser will operate in its laser region; operating the laser using current from at least a DAC current source if the defined intensity value (KVIDEO red, KVIDEO green, KVIDEO blue) is greater than the threshold intensity (KTH red, KTH green, KTH

Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to improving a contact diameter of an adhesive/sealing material on surfaces of substrates by altering rheological properties of the adhesive/sealing material. An electrowetting display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, a first fluid and a second fluid disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first fluid is immiscible with the second fluid. An adhesive/sealing material comprising UV curable epoxy glue is in contact with the second fluid and couples the second substrate to the first substrate. The adhesive/sealing material further comprises silica particles in a range of 1-6% mass fraction of silica that alter rheological properties of the UV curable epoxy glue.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, an electrowetting layer that includes a first fluid and an electrically conducting second fluid that are immiscible with each other, black partition walls disposed on the first base substrate to partition a display area into pixel areas, and an electronic device that applies a voltage to the electrowetting layer to control the electrowetting layer. The partition walls restrict a flow of at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device has at least one display element. The method of driving the display device comprises receiving data representing a display effect for display by the element. A driving scheme is selected for the display element in dependence on a characteristic of the data. The driving scheme is selected from at least an analog driving scheme and a pulse width modulation driving scheme.

Abstract: An array substrate and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The array substrate (11) comprises a first substrate (110) and a switch element (112) disposed on an inner side of the first substrate (110), and further comprises a polarizing light-emitting layer (111), the polarizing light-emitting layer (111) has an EL mode. In the liquid crystal display device (1), the polarizing light-emitting layer (111) with an EL mode is disposed in the array substrate (11), therefore, no backlight is required and the power consumption of the liquid crystal display device (1) is further reduced.

Abstract: A method for aligning optical layers of a multi-layer display includes displaying a dark screen image on each of a plurality of transmissive pixel arrays separated from each other by spacing regions. The transmissive pixel arrays are disposed on a display layer of the multi-layer display. The display layer is illuminated with a plurality of illumination sources of an illumination layer disposed behind the display layer. Each of the illumination sources corresponds to one of the transmissive pixel arrays to illuminate the corresponding one of the transmissive pixel arrays. An illumination pattern is cast onto a screen layer disposed in front of the display layer. The illumination pattern includes bright regions due to overlapping illumination cast from adjacent ones of the transmissive pixel arrays. The bright regions of the illumination pattern cast onto the screen layer are analyzed to identify misalignments between the display layer and the illumination layer.

Abstract: A data driver supplies a data signal to a display panel to control luminance of a plurality of pixels. The data signal comprises a plurality of frames, and each of the frames comprises a plurality of sub-frames. Each of the sub-frames comprises an addressing time, followed by an emission time, followed by an erase time. Subpixels each include a first scan line switch controlled by the first scan line signal to turn on during the addressing time of each sub-frame and to turn off during the emission time and the erase time of each sub-frame. A second scan line switch is controlled by a second scan line signal to provide a discharge path to discharge the storage capacitor during the erase time of each sub-frame.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of controlling the positioning of an object displayed on an interactive display surface, in which interactive display surface the display resolution is greater than the detection resolution, the method comprising: determining selection of a displayed object on the interactive display surface; detecting movement of an input at the interactive display surface associated with the selected displayed object; and in an object transformation mode, moving at least one displayed pixel of the selected displayed object by a distance which is less than the distance of the detected movement of the detected input.

Abstract: A display device 100 includes a plurality of pixel circuits 10 arranged two-dimensionally; a plurality of power lines VPi provided for respective rows of the pixel circuits 10; p common power lines 9, each connected to two or more power lines VPi; and a power control circuit 4. Each pixel circuit 10 includes an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor and receives an initialization potential from a corresponding power line VPi. The power control circuit 4applies a power supply potential and the initialization potential to the p common power lines 9 in a switching manner. Accordingly, a display device is provided that has a configuration in which an initialization potential is provided to pixel circuits from power lines and that has a power control circuit small in circuit size.

Abstract: A laser beam (L50) generated by a laser light source (50) is reflected by a light beam scanning device (60) and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium. (45). On the hologram, recording medium (45), an image (35) of a scatter plate is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin (B). The light beam scanning device (60) bends the laser beam (L50) at the scanning origin (B) and irradiates the laser beam onto the hologram recording medium (45). At this time, scanning is carried out by changing a bending mode of the laser beam with time so that an irradiation position of the bent laser beam (L60) on the hologram recording medium (45) changes with time. Regardless of an irradiation position of the beam, diffracted light (L45) from the hologram recording medium (45) produces a reproduction image (35) of the scatter plate.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display comprises: a display panel with a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and sensing lines, each pixel comprising an OLED and a driving TFT for controlling the amount of light emission of the OLED; and a data driver IC comprising a plurality of sensing units for sensing current data of the pixels through a plurality of sensing channels connected to the sensing lines, each sensing unit comprising: a first current integrator connected to an odd sensing channel; a second current integrator connected to an even sensing channel neighboring the odd sensing channel; and a sample & hold unit that removes common noise components from a first sampled value input from the first current integrator and a second sampled value input from the second current integrator while storing and holding the first and second sampled values.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a charge pump circuit, and a display device. The system includes the charge pump circuit configured to output a driving voltage to a gate driver circuit; and a controlling device in communication with the charge pump circuit and a timer and configured to, when a working time of the gate driver circuit is equal to a predefined working time threshold, reset the working time of the gate driver circuit to an initial value, acquire a compensating voltage corresponding to the working time of the gate driver circuit in accordance with a correspondence between the working time and the compensating voltage, output a compensating voltage signal and increase the driving voltage outputted by the charge pump circuit by the compensating voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises an array of individually controllable image pixels arranged in a plurality of reset groups. Each of the image pixels in the array of individually controllable image pixels has a one-to-one correspondence with at least one memory cell in an array of memory cells. The semiconductor device further comprises a plurality of sub-pixel sets, wherein each sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixel sets is a micromirror, and wherein each of the image pixels comprises a sub-pixel set.

Abstract: A driving method of a field sequential display apparatus is provided. First, a plurality of scan lines of the field sequential display apparatus are sequentially driven according to a scanning sequence in a first period of a first field, wherein the first field is in a first frame. Next, the scan lines are sequentially driven according to an opposite sequence in a second period of the first field, wherein the opposite sequence is in the reverse order of the scanning sequence. Finally, the scan lines are simultaneously driven or not driven in a third period of the first field. Consequently, the disclosed driving method can promote the uniformity of the image brightness.

Abstract: A system for distributing display content to multiple heterogeneous mobile display devices is presented. The system includes several independently operated mobile display devices and a host server. The host server is communicatively coupled with the independent mobile display devices and is configured to divide the display content into several pixels. The host server is also configured to assign single pixels from the several pixels individually to distinct display devices selected from the several mobile display devices. The host server is also configured to instruct the display devices having assigned pixels to display their assigned single pixels. In some embodiments, the host server is configured to assign the single pixels to the display devices according to the attributes of the display devices.

Abstract: A method of controlling an electrowetting display device with display elements arranged in a matrix with n rows. In examples each display element is addressable with a voltage pulse having a pulse duration longer than Tf/n, where Tf is a pre-determined frame period for addressing the n rows. In examples the pulse duration may be longer than ReCe, with Re being an electrical resistance of an electrically conductive fluid of a display element and Ce being an electrical capacitance of a capacitor of the display element.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided to map a video range of image data to the video range of a display. Embodiments apply a weighted combination of values in input image data streams to generate image data having a range which matches the display capabilities. The weighted combination may be determined based on relative capabilities of the display and input image data. The video range of the image data and display may be a range of colors (gamut) and/or luminance (dynamic range).

Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels disposed on a first panel substrate of first and second panel substrates that face each other and cooperate to display an image. The second panel substrate includes a base substrate, a read-out line, a first insulating layer, a scan line, a switching device, and a light sensor. The read-out line is disposed on the base substrate and extended in a direction. The first insulating layer is disposed on the read-out line. The scan line is extended to cross the read-out line and disposed on the first insulating layer. The switching device includes a first electrode connected to the scan line, a second electrode connected to a read-out line, and a third electrode spaced apart from the second electrode. The light sensor is structured to selectively detect lights of predetermined wavelengths and connected to the third electrode of the switching device.

Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to arrangements and techniques that provide for improving resolution of black and white images displayed by a display of an image display apparatus, for example an EWD. An electrowetting display device comprising a plurality of sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel comprises a substrate, an electrode layer on the substrate, and a hydrophobic layer on the electrode layer. A first fluid is disposed on the hydrophobic layer and a second fluid is disposed on the first fluid. The second fluid is immiscible with the first fluid. The plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in an angled relationship with respect to horizontal and vertical borders of the electrowetting display device.