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Display device having improved drive circuit and method of driving same

In a display device, a first drive circuit supplies one and another first signals to plural adjacent scanning signal lines during first and second time intervals in a frame period, respectively. During the first time interval, a second drive circuit generates a second voltage corresponding to video data and supplies the second voltage to pixels associated with the adjacent scanning signal lines supplied with the first signal, and during the second time interval, the second drive circuit generates and supplies a second voltage to ones of the pixels associated with the adjacent scanning signal lines supplied with the first signal such that the pixels associated with the adjacent scanning signal lines supplied with the first signal produce luminance lower than that produced during the first time interval.
Owner:PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO LTD +1

Display Device

The deterioration (darkness) of image quality due to a reduction in the brightness of a single color as a result of the conversion from RGB pixels to RGBW pixels is prevented and a reduction in the power is achieved. A processing portion for conversion from RGB to RGBW 106 is formed of a W generating circuit 201, which is the same as in the prior art, a sub-pixel rendering circuit 202, a W intensity calculating portion 203 which transmits a W intensity setting value 205 to a W generating circuit 201, and a low power backlight control circuit 204 which expands data on the basis of the RGBW pixels generated by the sub-pixel rendering portion 202 and lowers the backlight in accordance with the amount by which the data is expanded. The inputted RGB data is used as the RGBW data with the W intensity calculated by the W intensity calculating portion 203. A backlight control signal is generated in accordance with the amount of data expansion in the sub-pixel rendering portion 202.
Owner:PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO LTD +1

Optical element and display device using the same

An optical element is arranged in such a manner that a screen thereof can be hardly observed from a predetermined direction, and a deterioration of an image quality caused by moire does not occur. The optical element is constituted by a first polarizing layer, a second polarizing layer, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between these two polarizing layers. In the optical element, absorption axes of the first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer are located parallel to each other; the liquid crystal layer is made of hybrid-aligned discotic liquid crystal; and an alignment axis of the liquid crystal layer is located parallel to, or perpendicular to both absorption axes of the first polarizing layer and of the second polarizing layer.
Owner:PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO LTD +1

Organic light-emitting display device

InactiveUS6864638B2Variations in brightness due to the resistance of wiring connected to an electrodeVariation in brightnessDischarge tube luminescnet screensStatic indicating devicesDisplay deviceOrganic layer
A scanning line, signal line, first current supply line, and second current supply line are formed on a glass substrate. A first electrode is formed thereon; and, an organic layer, including a hole transport layer, light-emitting layer, electron transport layer, and electron injection layer is formed on the first electrode. A second electrode is formed as a cathode on the electron injection layer. The first electrode, serving as an anode, is connected to a plus terminal of a power source through driving devices and first current supply line, whereas the second electrode is connected to a minus terminal of the power source and is connected to the second current supply line in the display region of each pixel, with a contact hole serving as a feeding point, whereby the wiring resistance of the second electrode is reduced, and variations in the brightness of the panel is reduced.
Owner:SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD +1

Imaging device, signal processing method on solid-state imaging element, digital camera and controlling method therefor and color image data generating method

An imaging device for imaging an object to generate a color image data, comprising: a solid-state imaging element comprising: a photoelectric conversion layer laminated above a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion elements comprising at least two kinds of photoelectric conversion elements aligned on the semiconductor substrate for detecting colors different from that to be detected by the photoelectric conversion layer; and a signal reading circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate for reading out color signals according to signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer; and a color signal generating unit for generating a color signal constituting one-pixel data in the color image data on the basis of signal charge accumulated in a first photoelectric conversion element corresponding the one-pixel data among the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge accumulated in at least one second photoelectric conversion element, adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion element, for detecting the same color as that of the first photoelectric conversion element.
Owner:FUJIFILM CORP +1

Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, and display device

A multi-gate structure is used and a width (d1) of a high concentration impurity region sandwiched by two channel forming regions in a channel length direction is set to be shorter than a width (d2) of low concentration impurity regions in the channel length direction. Thus, a resistance of the entire semiconductor layer of a TFT which is in an on state is reduced to increase an on current. In addition, a carrier life time due to photoexcitation produced in the high concentration impurity region can be shortened to reduce light sensitivity.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD

Reflection type display apparatus

A reflection type display apparatus has a front light unit (FLU), and includes a display panel, a light guide disposed on the upper surface of the display panel, a light transparent adhesive layer attaching the lower surface of the light guide to the upper surface of the display panel, and a light source located at a side of the light guide for emitting light to the light guide. A protection window covers the light guide and the light source. By covering the display panel installed on the lower surface of the protection window and the light guide with a moisture-proof and light-shield film, moisture-proofing and light-shielding effects are obtained simultaneously. Further, by forming a light absorption layer at the edge of the light guide adjacent to the light source, generation of a hot spot at the edge of the light guide may be inhibited.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Display device, terminal device, display panel, and optical member

A reflective liquid crystal display panel is a display panel for three-dimensional display in which pixel pairs as display elements composed of one left-eye pixel L and one right-eye pixel R each are provided in a matrix. The lenticular lens is an optical member for image separation that is provided to separate the light from the left and right pixels, and numerous lenticular lenses form a lens array that is arranged in one dimension. An anisotropic scattering sheet as an anisotropic scattering element is provided between the lenticular lens and the reflective liquid crystal display panel. According to this configuration, a reduction in the quality of the reflective display can be minimized, and improved image quality can be achieved without changing the concavo-convex structure of the reflecting panel and the lens shape of the lenticular lens in display device that is capable of displaying different images to a plurality of viewpoints.
Owner:NEC LCD TECH CORP

Imaging apparatus

An imaging apparatus suppresses deterioration in an image quality caused by an electronic zoom. A digital camera equipped with a plurality of optical systems includes a fixed focal distance lens and a zoom lens. When a user sets a zoom position between discrete optical zoom positions within an overlapping range of the electronic zoom range of the fixed focal distance lens and the optical zoom range of the zoom lens, a control processor and timing generator sets the electronic zoom at the user's setting zoom position. Subsequently, when the zoom position of the zoom lens passes the user's setting zoom position, a photograph is taken, and an optical zoom image is stored in a memory card.
Owner:APPLE INC

Image display apparatus

An image display apparatus includes a dimming value determination circuit for determining a dimming value of a backlight based on an input image signal, an image signal compensation circuit for compensating the input image signal supplied to a liquid crystal panel in accordance with the dimming value, and a backlight drive circuit for driving and controlling the backlight in accordance with the dimming value. When the light emitting luminance of the present frame of the backlight increases relative to the light emitting luminance of the previous frame, the backlight drive circuit delays the timing for applying the dimming value of the present frame. This makes it possible to reduce power consumption of the backlight by suppressing deterioration in the image quality in spite of the sharp change in the display image luminance.
Owner:MAXELL HLDG LTD

Pixel circuit and display device

A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain is connected to a power source potential, a capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
Owner:SONY CORP

Method of Manufacturing Electromagnetic-Wave Shielding Plate, Electromagnetic-Wave Shielding Plate Manufactured Thereby, and Filter Display Using the Same

To provide an electromagnetic-wave shielding plate superior in an electromagnetic-wave shielding property, a light-transmitting property and non-visibility of a mesh pattern at low cost. A pattern of a resin layer is printed on a metal layer of a transparent substrate by a printing method. After that, the metal layer is over-etched with the resin layer used as an etching mask, and a part of the resin layer protruding from the remaining metal layer in a plate-surface direction is removed. As a result, an electromagnetic-wave shielding plate superior in an electromagnetic-wave shielding property and non-visibility and having, for example, a pattern line width of 3 μm or more and 25 μm or less.
Owner:TORAY IND INC

Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the same, and electronic system including the device

A solid-state imaging device includes: a unit pixel including a photoelectric conversion section, an impurity-diffusion region capable of temporarily accumulating or holding electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section, and a reset transistor resetting the impurity-diffusion region by a voltage of a voltage-supply line, and having an impurity concentration such that at least the reset transistor side of the impurity-diffusion region becomes a depletion state; and a drive circuit changing the voltage of the voltage-supply line from a first voltage lower than a depletion potential of the reset transistor side of the impurity-diffusion region to a second voltage higher than the depletion potential while the reset transistor is on.
Owner:SONY CORP

Input device and display device having the same

An electrostatic capacitive coupling-type touch panel is provided which interacts not only with a finger-based input but also with a touch using non-conductive input means. The touch panel includes coordinate detection electrodes for detecting XY position coordinates and transparent Z electrodes. The Z electrodes are arranged over the coordinate detection electrodes at certain intervals with spacers disposed therebetween. An elastic layer that is deformed along the shape of the spacers by compressive force resulting from touch pressing presses the Z electrodes.
Owner:JAPAN DISPLAY INC +1

Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, and display device

A multi-gate structure is used and a width (d1) of a high concentration impurity region sandwiched by two channel forming regions in a channel length direction is set to be shorter than a width (d2) of low concentration impurity regions in the channel length direction. Thus, a resistance of the entire semiconductor layer of a TFT which is in an on state is reduced to increase an on current. In addition, a carrier life time due to photoexcitation produced in the high concentration impurity region can be shortened to reduce light sensitivity.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD

Optical diffusing sheet, optical deflecting sheet, and transmission type screen

An optical diffusing sheet is provided, which prevents deterioration in image quality which might result from warping of the sheets due to environmental changes, and is capable of, even if a substrate is broken by an accident, preventing scattering of pieces of the broken substrate. An optical diffusing sheet is used in a transmission type screen that emits imaging light projected from an incident side to an emergent side. The optical diffusing sheet includes a highly rigid substrate layer with a light-transmissibility and a high rigidity, and a plurality of layers laminated on the highly rigid substrate layer. The plurality of layers includes at least a pair of anti-scattering layers disposed on opposite sides of the highly rigid substrate layer for preventing scattering of the highly rigid substrate layer. At least one layer of the two or more layers includes an optical diffusing element that diffuses imaging light.
Owner:DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO LTD

Video endoscopic device

A video endoscopic device has a camera head and two parallel optical arrangements, each with optical components, arranged coaxially with one another along a common first optical axis of the optical components of a respective optical arrangement and in the interior of an endoscope shaft. The optical components transmit an optical image from a distal end of the respective optical arrangement to a proximal end of the respective optical arrangement. The camera head contains at least one image sensor comprising a recording plane and at least two projection objectives, each having a second optical axis and arranged to project an image onto the image sensor. The optical arrangements comprise a collimating optical unit for generating an at least approximately parallel beam path at the outlet of the respective optical arrangement. The respective collimating optical unit has a third optical axis arranged coaxially with the optical components of the optical arrangements.
Owner:XION

Method and system for compressing motion image information

A method and system for compressing motion image information, which can compress data that can be subjected to predictive encoding. An image within a frame is divided into blocks before an inter-frame compression procedure begins, and each block is approximated with a single plane represented by at least three components for pixels within each block. Pixels between the original image and the image expanded after compressed can be compared, and when a pixel that causes greater difference than a given parameter to occur exists, intra-frame compression is performed using a smaller block size. Furthermore, when the respective I blocks, which are spatially divided, are dispersed between each frame along the temporal axis, no I block is inserted into any block within the frame that has been updated due to difference between frames being greater than parameter P during a designated period of time.
Owner:OFFICE NOA

Image displaying device and method,and image processing device and method

The quality of moving picture image with a large moving amount is prevented from deterioration due to moving compensation type frame rate conversion (FRC) processing. The image display device is comprised of an FRC unit (10) that interpolates an image signal subjected to moving compensation processing between frames so as to convert the number of frames of the input image signal, a moving amount judging unit (14) that judges whether a moving amount of the input image signal between the frames is larger than a predetermined value or not, and a control unit (15). The FRC unit (10) is provided with a moving vector detecting unit (11e) that detects a moving vector between the frames of the input image signal, an interpolation vector evaluating unit (11f) that allocates an interpolation vector between the frames on the basis of the moving vector information and an interpolation frame generating unit (12d) that generates an interpolation frame from the interpolation vector. In the case where the moving amount between the frames of the input image signal is larger than the predetermined value, the control unit (15) sets the moving vector detected by the moving vector detecting unit (11e) to be zero-vector, and it invalidates the moving compensation processing of the FRC unit (10).
Owner:SHARP KK

Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor

An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit; an image capture control unit configured to control the image capturing unit to repeat image capture of frame images under different exposures; a development unit configured to apply development processing to each of the captured frame images; and a composition unit configured to generate a composite image by compositing temporally consecutive images that have been developed by the development unit, wherein the development unit generates, from one of the captured frame images, a first image and a second image that are associated with different development parameters, and the composition unit composites images generated using the same development parameter among images generated from the captured frame images that are temporally consecutive.
Owner:CANON KK

Print media processing apparatus and control method for the same

A print media processing apparatus having scanner feed rollers for holding and transporting print media against an image scanner appropriately controls the scanner feed roller position. The scanner feed rollers are opposite the image scanner, which is disposed along a vertical segment of a transportation path along which a check or form is transported. A roller retraction mechanism moves the scanner feed rollers between a closed position in which the rollers press against the scanning surface, and an open position in which the rollers are retracted therefrom. The scanner feed rollers retract to the open position a specific time after scanning ends. By delaying retraction of the rollers in this manner, the present invention solves the problem of a check or other print media, after having been processed and transported to the exit side of the rollers, from slipping down between the rollers and the image scanner into the vertical transportation path because the rollers opened as soon as scanning ends.
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including in the following order: a support; a charge-generating layer; and a charge-transporting layer, in which: the charge-generating layer includes a gallium phthalocyanine crystal in which an organic compound is contained; the organic compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of dimethyl sulfoxide, N,N-dimethylformamide, N-methylformamide, N-propylformamide, N-vinylformamide, and N-methylpyrrolidone; a content of the organic compound is 0.1% by mass or more and 1.5% by mass or less with respect to a mass of gallium phthalocyanine in the gallium phthalocyanine crystal; and the charge-transporting layer comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula (1), a compound represented by the formula (2), a compound represented by the formula (3), and a compound represented by the formula (4).
Owner:CANON KK

Illumination optics and image projecting apparatus having thereof

An illumination optics includes a plurality of light source sections for emiting light beams and a time sharing color separation device having a plurality of color filters. The color filters are rotationally moved so as to cross optical paths of the emitted light beams from the light source sections, thereby separate the emitted light beams to enter there into different color light beams in a time-sharing state. The reference axes of the emitted light beams to enter the time sharing color separation device are separated from each other, and the color filters are formed so that border lines of the adjacent color filters cross the reference axes approximately simultaneously at the time of rotation.
Owner:KONICA MINOLTA OPTO

Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, a pixel electrode in a reflection region and a transmission region over the first substrate, a film for adjusting a cell gap in the reflection region over the first substrate, and an opposite electrode in the reflection region and the transmission region over the second substrate. The pixel electrode in the reflection region is provided over the film and reflects light. The pixel electrode in the transmission region transmits light. The pixel electrode in the reflection region and the transmission region includes a slit. The slit is overlapped with at least a part of a step portion which is provided by the film between the reflection region and the transmission region.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD

Solid-state image capturing Device, method for the same, and electronic information device

InactiveUS20080251874A1Excellent light focusing effectDeterioration of image quality characteristicTelevision system detailsSolid-state devicesElectronic informationWaveguide
A solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention is provided, in which a plurality of conductive films is formed via respective insulation films, and an optical waveguide is formed above a light receiving section, a plurality of light receiving sections is provided in a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate, and the plurality of conductive films is formed on a region other than a region right above the light receiving section, wherein a plural-layered optical waveguide tube is formed as the optical waveguide, with the same material as at least one of the plural-layered conductive films.
Owner:SHARP KK

Image display apparatus and control method thereof

An image display apparatus has a correction unit that performs a correction process on image signals so as to suppress luminance fluctuation caused by capacitive coupling between adjacent column wirings. The correction unit includes: a correction value generation unit that determines a correction value for a pixel to be corrected on the basis of a combination of a signal value of the pixel to be corrected and signal values of adjacent pixels which are on a column wiring next to a column wiring on which the pixel to be corrected is, and on the basis of a position of the pixel to be corrected in a column direction; and a correction operation unit that corrects a signal of the pixel to be corrected using the correction value generated by the correction value generation unit.
Owner:CANON KK
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