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This concerns my RTD invention disclosed in co pending applications, particularly but not necessarily for use in the “center stack” region of vehicle instrument panels. Disclosed are novel prism devices to shrink the size of the unit, while increasing resistance to vibration and condensation and providing easier assembly into the vehicle. Also disclosed are methods to improve the efficiency of such projector based systems for delivering display light to the driver of the vehicle, as well as to reduce noise caused by backscatter from the screen and control surface, or sunlight coming through the windshield. RTD versions for home or office use are also disclosed, including a ““cushion computer”-like device meant primarily for use on one's lap and optionally having a reconfigurable keyboard. The device can also serve as a TV remote and perform other useful functions in the home, workplace, or car, and may serve as a useful interface accessory to expand the usability and enjoyment of mobile devices.

An image processing circuit includes: a detecting unit detecting pixel regions where luminance levels of image signals exceed a given luminance threshold; and a correcting unit applying basic gamma correction to image signals in regions other than the pixel regions detected, and applying luminance increasing gamma correction to image signals in the pixel regions detected. The luminance increasing gamma correction allows the luminance levels to be increased.

To improve image quality of a full-color organic EL display panel. A partition has a stacked structure formed using different materials. A lower partition has a curved shape, and an upper partition has a flat top surface. An angle formed between a plane surface connecting a lower end of a side surface with an upper end of the side surface of the upper partition and the top surface of the upper partition is less than or equal to 90°. The height of the partition is controlled to be greater than or equal to 0.5 μm and less than or equal to 1.3 μm. With such a structure, a large color organic EL display panel achieves high-definition display.

In one embodiment, a system for imaging an acquisition target or an overlay or alignment semiconductor target is disclosed. The system includes a beam generator for directing at least one incident beam having a wavelength λ towards a periodic target having structures with a specific pitch p. A plurality of output beams are scattered from the periodic target in response to the at least one incident beam. The system further includes an imaging lens system for passing only a first and a second output beam from the target. The imaging system is adapted such that the angular separation between the captured beams, λ, and the pitch are selected to cause the first and second output beams to form a sinusoidal image. The system also includes a sensor for imaging the sinusoidal image or images, and a controller for causing the beam generator to direct the at least one incident beam towards the periodic target or targets, and for analyzing the sinusoidal image or images. In one application the detector detects a sinusoidal image of an acquisition target with the same pitch as the designed target and the controller analyzes the pitch of the sinusoidal image compared to design data to determine whether the target has been successfully acquired. In a second application a first and second periodic target that each have a specific pitch p are imaged so that the detector detects a first sinusoidal image of the first target and a second sinusoidal image of the second target and the controller analyzes the first and second sinusoidal image to determine whether the first and second targets have an overlay or alignment error.

A reflex-type screen for reflecting a light projected obliquely from a projector to a front of the reflex-type screen, including a base material made of material which absorbs light, a white resin layer which is formed on a projector side inclined plane on the base material and reflects light and a transparent diffusing layer which includes transparent binder resin and diffusing agent, and is formed to cover the white resin layer, and the base material includes the projector side inclined plane that is provided at an angle so that light from the projection enters the projector side inclined plane and a non-projector side inclined plane that is provided at an angle so that the light from the projection does not enter the non-projector side inclined plane, and the projector side inclined plane and the non-projector side inclined plane are located alternatively, so that the base material is formed to be saw-toothed shape. The white resin layer reflects the light from the projector to the front of the reflex-type screen, and the non-projector side inclined plane absorbs almost of incident light, and the transparent diffusing layer diffuses light which is reflected by the white resin layer.

A colored resin composition is provided which is capable of providing blue pixels of a color filter that have excellent light resistance and which satisfies heat resistance required in color display production steps. A color filter having blue pixels with excellent color purity and transmittance and an organic EL display and a liquid-crystal display device both having satisfactory blue purity are also provided by using the colored resin composition. The colored resin composition for color filter includes (a) a binder resin, (b) a solvent, and a triarylmethane type coloring matter of a specific structure represented by general formula (I). The color filter, organic EL display, and liquid-crystal display device are produced using the colored resin composition.

A liquid crystal display panel includes switching elements, transparent pixel electrodes, and a transparent common electrode having a predetermined area overlapped with an upper layer of the transparent pixel electrode through an insulating film and driving liquid crystal with the transparent pixel electrode. In plane view, a shading layer covers at least one part of a conductive pattern where a light leakage occurs in front view by an alignment defect of the liquid crystal near a non-permeable conductive pattern disposed in the display region at the time of black display, and has eaves more protruding than the conductive pattern. The transparent common electrode is provided to overlap with the conductive pattern arranged to overlap with the light-shielding layer having the eaves in a side of the liquid crystal and to protrude compared with the light-shielding layer having the eaves in a planar view.

A display screen is disclosed. The display screen comprises a light source layer, configured to be in an “on” state for providing a display light source corresponding to a first display mode, when the display screen is in the first display mode, and to be in an “off” state when the display screen is in a second display mode different from the first display mode; a liquid crystal layer, disposed in front of the light source layer; a polarizer, disposed in front of the liquid crystal layer; and a control unit, in connection with the liquid crystal layer and configured to control the liquid crystal layer. An electronic device is also disclosed, including the above described display screen and a method for processing information of the electronic device.

A hard-coated antiglare film, comprising a transparent plastic film substrate and a hard-coating antiglare layer containing fine particles on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film substrate, wherein an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra (μm) that is defined in JIS B 0601 (1994 version) is in the range of 0.05 to 0.15 μm in an uneven shape of a surface of the hard-coating antiglare layer, and the hard-coated antiglare film includes at least 80 convexities that exceed a roughness mean line of a surface roughness profile in a 4-mm long portion at an arbitrary location of the surface of the hard-coating antiglare layer.

The invention discloses a method and a device for preparing a colloid probe, and relates to the probe technology. The colloid probe is prepared by adopting a three-dimensional translation stage to bi-directionally move and adjust the relative positions of a micro cantilever probe and colloid grains or optical adhesive droplets, carrying the micro cantilever probe through a rotary stage and a crossrod rack, adjusting the inclination angle of the micro cantilever probe and sticking the colloid grains to the back of the tip of a probe micro cantilever by using optical adhesive. The method and the device is suitable for preparing the colloid grain probe which uses an atomic force microscope to detect an interaction process of the grains and the surface (grains) so as to acquire a grain-surface (grain) acting force curve. The method and the device are characterized by simple and quick probe preparation operation, and strong practicability, and are suitable for batch manufacturing in a laboratory.

A display apparatus (30) has an LC device (14) exhibiting its maximum contrast with incident light at an oblique angle φ from normal, wherein oblique angle φ is greater than about + / −10 degrees from normal. A backlight unit (32) provides substantially collimated illumination with a central ray at an incident angle θ2 with respect to the LC device (14), wherein incident angle θ2 within about + / −5 degrees of oblique angle φ. The full-width half-maximum intensity of the illumination is within about + / −10 degrees of the central ray at incident angle θ2.

Provided are several apparatus and methods to attenuate illumination light in a projector. Illumination light may be attenuated by directing polarized light toward a liquid crystal (LC) attenuation panel. The panel selectively modulates some, all, or none of the polarized light passing through. The light from the panel is then directed toward a polarization device. The polarization device analyzes the polarized light, and allows or denies the light to pass therethrough based on the polarization of the light.

The invention belongs to the field of biomedical engineering and medical imaging, and relates to a fourier-wavelet regularization-based coaxial phase contrast image restoration method. The method comprises the steps: collecting a plurality of images of a tool edge instrument, and acquiring tool edge section curves of each image at different positions to obtain an integrated line spread function h(x) of a coaxial phase contrast imaging system; placing an imaging object, and collecting images to obtain an imaging result y(x); calculating fourier transformation of the y(x) and the h(x) to obtain Y(omega) and H(omega); obtaining fourier regularization evaluation of an ideal phase contrast imaging result through fourier inverse transformation, and effectively evaluating the wavelet coefficient signal wj(x) of the ideal phase contrast f(x); and conducting Db6 orthogonal wavelet transform on the fourier regularization evaluation, and carrying out regularization to obtain wavelet inverse transformation and obtain an evaluation result. According to the fourier-wavelet regularization-based coaxial phase contrast image restoration method, the contrast of the phase contrast image under deterioration effect can be effectively improved, the fidelity of the restoration image can be ensured, and the image restoration constrast and signal to to noise ratio can be improved.

The invention discloses an image enhancement method in a low-illumination environment. The grayscale values of pixel points in an original low-illumination image concentrated in a relatively narrow low-brightness range are adjusted to be balanced according to a histogram balance principle of the grayscale values of the pixel points in the low-illumination image by adopting an improved image enhancement algorithm based on grayscale-level movement and pixel point grayscale value correction, and the low-illumination image is moved to a relatively high-brightness range. According to a Retinex theory, an irradiation light component of the image subjected to the grayscale value adjustment is filtered out, and a reflected light component is reserved; a real light and shade relationship between the pixel points in the image is found according to a relative light and shade relationship of the grayscale values in the reflected light component; and linear stretching is performed to obtain final adjusted grayscale values of the pixel points of the image. According to the method, the brightness and contrast of the low-illumination image are improved to a certain extent, color enhancement can be realized to a certain extent, local details in the low-illumination image are highlighted, and the intuitive visual quality of the low-illumination image is remarkably improved.

The rear projection screen of the present invention has a lenticular lens sheet 1. In the input surface of the lenticular lens sheet 1, a first lens array 12 is formed on a first lens layer 14. In the boundary between the first lens layer 14 and a second lens layer 15, a second lens array 13 substantially orthogonal to the first lens array 12 is formed. The second lens layer 15 has a different refractive index from the first lens layer 14. A lattice-shaped or stripe-shaped self-aligned ambient light absorbing layer 17 is formed in a light non-passing position on the second lens layer 15.

An X-ray imaging apparatus for imaging a subject includes a diffraction grating configured to form an interference pattern by diffracting X-ray radiation from an X-ray source, a shielding grating configured to shield part of the interference pattern, a detector configured to detect the X-ray radiation passing through the shielding grating, and a moving unit configured to change an angle between each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector and an optical axis, wherein the detector is configured to detect the X-ray according to a change in the angle between each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector and the optical axis.

The invention relates to a dual-frequency identification sonar image sequence splicing method which comprises the steps of removing noise of sonar images and increasing the contrast ratio of the sonar images by preprocessing the sonar images; improving accuracy in detection on feature points of the sonar images by means of double detection on the feature points; improving matching accuracy of feature point pairs by means of double check on the feature point pairs; splicing a sonar image sequence by means of solving of a sequence image homography matrix; image fusion: regulating brightness of the images to be spliced by means of a histogram normalized algorithm and performing seamless splicing on the sonar images by means of a boundary-retained weighting smoothing algorithm. The dual-frequency identification sonar image sequence splicing method can solve the problem of low resolution ratio of the sonar image and small visual angle of a detection range during water monitoring of DIDSON. By means of sonar image sequence splicing, a series of sonar images are spliced to the sonar image high in resolution ratio and large in range, and the DIDSON can monitor a large range of water environment.

The invention discloses a visual sensor system used for dry cell slurry layer paper winding defect detection and a method thereof. The system comprises a visual sensor, a ring light source, a support,a rotating disk, and three synchronous triggering sensors, a to-be-detected dry cell is placed at center of a rotating disk, the rotating disk keeps rotation at a uniform speed by winding central axis, three synchronous triggering sensors are uniformly distributed at a side surface of the rotating disk at intervals according to 120 DEG, the ring light source is placed at a front end of the visualsensor, the visual sensor is arranged at the support, axis at end of the support and a vertical direction form a fixed included angle, and its extending line and the axis of the dry cell are intersected at the top of the dry cell, and the visual sensor is connected with the synchronous triggering sensors and the ring light source, so that high speed synchronization problem of dry cell positioning, light source control and image acquisition can be solved. The visual sensor system solves the problem that whether visual inspection of the dry cell by eyes has slurry layer paper winding defect ornot, and has the advantages of full automation, fast detection speed, and high system reliability.

We have invented a method of sensing a surface by driving a resonator with two or more frequencies and exploiting the nonlinear phenomenon of intermodulation. When a resonator (for example an oscillating cantilever) with a sharp tip is brought close to a surface, the non-linear tip-surface interaction generates intermodulation response of the resonator. The measured frequency spectrum of intermodulation response contains much information about the material composition of the surface. When the resonator is scanned over the surface, the intermodulation spectrum can be used to make an image of the surface with enhanced contrast for different materials on the surface, or it can be used to extract the tip-surface interaction at every point on the surface.

Embodiments of methods and laser-computer graphics systems for producing images such as portraits and 3-D sculptures formed from laser light created etch points inside an optically transparent material are disclosed. The produced image has a high resolution like a computer graphic image from which it is derived, little fluctuation in gray shades, and has no discernable point structure. In an embodiment, the image is comprised of auxiliary images of multiple layers of etch points, the points of each auxiliary layer and the respective layers spaced to prevent failure of the material. In a method and system, images are produced in multiple articles simultaneously using separate beams. An embodiment of the invention comprises a method and system for using two beams for generating etch points with improved optical characteristics, such etch points useful in generating a one layer image with high resolution. Another embodiment of the method comprises a method for creating iridescent etch points in material.

Exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium that can include at least one radiation arrangement that can generate a first radiation and a second radiation, and a microscope that can receive a first excited fluorescence based on the first radiation and a second excited fluorescence based, at least in part, on the second radiation. A computer hardware arrangement can generate an image based on the first excited fluorescence and the second excited fluorescence.

Provided is a plasma display panel (PDP), which minimizes an elevation in reflection brightness caused by reflection of external light and improves in contrast and discharge efficiency. The PDP includes a front substrate transmitting visible rays; a rear substrate disposed substantially parallel to the front substrate; barrier ribs interposed between the front and rear substrates and defining a plurality of discharge cells along with the front and rear substrates, the barrier ribs formed of a dielectric material; two or more kinds of discharge electrodes disposed on at least one of the front substrate, the rear substrate, and the barrier ribs; a dielectric layer disposed on a rear surface of the front substrate; phosphor layers disposed in the discharge cells; and a discharge gas filled in the discharge cells. Herein, any two members of the front substrate, the dielectric layer, and the barrier ribs are colored, and when colors that are put in to the two members are mixed using subtractive mixture of colors, the mixed color lowers in both brightness and chroma.

A retardation compensation element (56) is composed of a C-plate (85) and an O-plate (86). The O-plate (86) is a biaxial birefringent medium made of an obliquely deposited organic material. A fast axis (L6) of the O-plate (86) is parallel to the orthographic projection of a deposition direction (96) onto the surface of the O-plate (86). Between a liquid crystal display device (51) and a polarization beam splitter (48), the O-plate (86) is arranged such that the fast axis (L6) and a tilt direction (L8) of liquid crystal molecules (75) are parallel to each other, and that the deposition direction (96) and the tilt direction (L8) face the opposite direction with respect to a Z2 axis. The C-plate (86) is disposed together with the O-plate (85) between the liquid crystal display device (51) and the polarization beam splitter (48).

This invention relates to a medical X-ray device arrangement for producing three-dimensional information of an object in a medical X-ray imaging, the medical X-ray device arrangement comprising an X-ray source for X-radiating the object from at least two different directions and a detector for detecting the X-radiation to form projection data of the object. The medical X-ray device (5) arrangement comprises means (15) for utilizing said projection data in a regularized reconstruction method based on solving the non-linear evolution equation ∂tφ(x, t)=−h(x, t)A*(A(f(φ(x, t)))−m)+αPφ(x, t) to produce three-dimensional information of the object, x representing the coordinates inside the object under imaging, t representing time, φ representing a level set function indicating the boundary of the object, h representing a positive-valued function, m representing projection data, the operator A representing the X-radiation attenuation model, A* representing the backprojection operator of A, α representing a positive number, P representing high pass filtering, and f representing a cut-off function returning zero for non-positive arguments and positive values for positive arguments.

A method for registration of medical images comprises: receiving a 2D X-ray image (20) acquired with a medical 2D imaging device (14) under a first view direction; filtering the 2D X-ray image (20), such that high frequency components of the 2D X-ray image are emphasized with respect to low frequency components of the 2D X-ray image; receiving a 3D image (16) acquired with a medical 3D imaging device (12); generating a 2D projection image (26) from the 3D image, wherein the 2D projection image is generated with a second view direction; overlaying the filtered 2D X-ray image and the 2D projection image; providing functionality for changing the second view direction, such that the 2D projection image is registered with the filtered 2D X-ray image.

A display apparatus and a display drive circuit are disclosed. The display drive circuit comprises a gate line drive circuit and a register. The gate line drive circuit outputs to the pixels a select voltage for selecting the pixels and a non-select voltage for prohibiting the selection of the pixels during one horizontal period. The register sets a non-overlap period for outputting a non-select voltage to at least two lines of pixels on the display panel during one horizontal period.

A technique for a display device using a display panel with Lambert light distribution, such as a plasma display panel, which displays a bright image with less contrast deterioration. This device has a front sheet which is integrally or separately located in front of the display panel. The front sheet includes light guides which extend in the horizontal direction and have a virtually convex cross section in the vertical direction with their apexes on the light exit side. A light reflection layer and a light-absorbing layer are sequentially stacked on the lateral sides of the light guides.

Provided is a phase difference compensation element that can improve a contrast of a liquid crystal display device and has durability while suppressing an increase in cost and prolongation of lead time. The phase difference compensation element is formed so that, when an optical anisotropic layer is formed on a substrate, the optical anisotropic layer includes a plurality of birefringent films, and a direction of a combined vector obtained by combining respective vectors of the birefringent films when determining a vector with a direction of a line segment obtained by projecting a film formation direction of each birefringent film on a surface of a transparent substrate and a thickness, is substantially the same as a direction of a line segment obtained by projecting a liquid crystal molecule constituting a liquid crystal cell on the surface of the transparent substrate.

A polarizer to improve contrast for LCD from down view angle is produced by laminating a triacetate cellulose (TAC) sheet on each side of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) sheet and further on the toppest triacetate cellulose (TAC) sheet applying a surface-treatment layer that is a protective film formed by black dye mixture to inhibit dark-state light leakage and improve the contrast for LCD from down view angle.