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White point adjusting method, color image processing method, white point adjusting apparatus and liquid crystal display device

A white point adjusting apparatus is provided to adjust an achromatic color level for an input video signal including a plurality of color signals, and display an adjusted image on a liquid crystal module. This adjusting apparatus comprises: a first table for setting a white point by deciding an offset quantity of at least one color signal from a highest gray level for each color temperature; a second table for setting an offset quantity of the color signal to converge a halftone white point for each color temperature set by the first table; and a white point adjusting unit for adding the offset quantities set by the first and second tables and to the input video signal.
Owner:AU OPTRONICS CORP

Semiconductor light emitting device and method for producing the same

A semiconductor light emitting device can be configured to maintain high luminance and to suppress the possibility of the occurrence of wire breakage with high quality and reliability. A method for producing such a semiconductor light emitting device with a high process yield is also disclosed. The semiconductor light emitting device can include a sealing member into which a reflective filler can be mixed in such an amount (concentration) range that luminous flux with a predetermined amount can be maintained and the possibility of the occurrence of wire breakage can be lowered. Various sealing members containing a reflective filler with a plurality of concentrations within this range can be prepared in advance. By taking advantage of the phenomenon where chromaticity shifts depending on the concentration of the reflective filler, a semiconductor light emitting device with less chromaticity variation can be produced utilizing a sealing member with a particular concentration in accordance with the chromaticity of a particular semiconductor light emitting element that is used and which may be varied during fabrication.
Owner:STANLEY ELECTRIC CO LTD

Illumination control system

An illumination control system includes lighting apparatuses connected to a communications line and a number of functional units of plural kinds functioning to detect information from ambient environments of the lighting apparatuses. Each lighting apparatus includes a lamp, an illumination circuit, a communication unit, a control unit, and a unit attaching part to which the functional unit is detachably attached. Each lighting apparatus belongs to one or more of plural groups corresponding to the functional units, the groups being operated based on information detected by the respective functional units. A functional unit having a detecting function corresponding to an operation of each group is attached to each unit attaching part of at least one lighting apparatus of each group, and each communication unit of the at least one lighting apparatus sends the control signal including information detected by the corresponding functional unit to another lighting apparatus in the same group.
Owner:MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS LTD

Light source device, projector device, monitor device, and lighting device

The controller 170 controls the output power of the semiconductor laser device 100a depending on the temperature of the semiconductor laser device 100a acquired by the temperature sensor 130. The controller 170 references the correspondence table 510 when the sensor temperature Ts is obtained, obtains the output power PWs corresponding to the sensor temperature Ts, and controls the power supply driving circuit 150a so that the output power per unit time of the semiconductor laser device 100a will be the output power PWs. Thus increase in temperature of the semiconductor laser device is able to be prevented through reducing the output power by controlling the amount of power supplied to the semiconductor laser device. As a result, it is possible to prevent reductions in the service life of the semiconductor laser device, even when there is a failure in a cooling device that cools the semiconductor laser device, and even when the device is used in a high temperature environment not envisioned at the time of manufacturing.
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Sectional light emitting diode backlight unit

A sectional light emitting diode backlight unit comprising a circuit board, a frame disposed on the circuit board, a plurality of light emitting diode dies disposed on the circuit board inside the frame, each light emitting diode die being electrically connected to a circuit on the circuit board, a plurality of connecting pads disposed on a first side of the circuit board outside the frame, the connecting pads being electrically connected to a circuit on the circuit board, and an encapsulating material positioned on the circuit board inside the frame to cover the light emitting diode dies; wherein at least one second side of the circuit board has a connection means for connecting to another sectional light emitting diode backlight unit.
Owner:LIGHTHOUSE TECH

Continuous control of LED light beam position and focus based on selection and intensity control

A lighting system comprising a plurality of light units, wherein said light units are arranged in an array, wherein the light beams of substantially each pair of adjacent light units overlap each other, and wherein the light system comprises a light control means which is arranged to adjust the intensity of each one of said plurality of light units individually, wherein said light control means is further arranged to maintain the total combined luminous flux incident of said plurality of light units on a predefined imaginary flat surface substantially equal when adapting the intensity of the individual light units.
Owner:LITE ON TECH CORP

Display device and method of controlling the same

A display device, including a content receiving unit configured to receive a high dynamic range image, an image processing unit configured to detect a first region whose luminance value is equal to or greater than a reference luminance value within the high dynamic range image and perform tone mapping on an image of the first region based on feature information of the image of the first region, and a display unit configured to display a low dynamic range image on which the tone mapping is performed.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Transmitter, receiver for visible light communication and method using the same

A visible light wireless communication receiver includes: a source code recognizing unit that receives a source bit stream and recognizes the source bit stream as source codes of a unit of a first number of bits; and a line coding unit that encodes each of the source codes into an encoding code of a unit of a second number of bits, the second number being larger than the first number. In particular, in the encoding code, the number of bits corresponding to 1 is the same as the number of bits corresponding to 0. Therefore, the change in brightness of lighting may be minimized in the visible light wireless communication.
Owner:ELECTRONICS & TELECOMM RES INST

Method and apparatus for driving light emitting elements for projection of images

A light source sequentially emits lights generated by at least three light emitting elements each emitting a different primary color to generate an image. Each light emitting element has a duty cycle in a lighting period, which may be an image frame period. A sequence scheme is provided for alternatingly driving different ones of the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements are driven in accordance with the sequence scheme at least two times in the lighting period, while maintaining the duty cycle for each light emitting element. In the sequence scheme, at least one light emitting element having the highest temperature sensitivity of all light emitting elements is driven more times than another one.
Owner:SIGNIFY HLDG BV

Gate driver circuit, display panel, and display device

A gate driver circuit, a display panel, and a display device. A number of emission start signals, with at least one a delay time, a pulse width, or a combination thereof, are supplied in a frame period in which display driving is performed at a low driving frequency. This decreases a degree by which luminance appearing in the frame period is reduced, or changes characteristics of frequency components of luminance, thereby preventing flicker from being observed. The display driving is performed at the low driving frequency reduces power consumption, and is performed at a lower driving frequency to improve the efficiency of the display device.
Owner:LG DISPLAY CO LTD

Display apparatus and method for controlling the same

A display apparatus includes a display panel including pixels arranged at an intersection of data lines and gate lines, a source driver IC configured to be disposed on one side surface of the display panel to apply a data voltage to the data lines, a gate driver IC configured to be disposed on any one of two side surfaces which are adjacent to the one side surface of the display panel to apply a gate driving voltage to the gate lines, and a controller configured to receive feedback on a gate driving voltage applied to at least one pixel, detect a distortion of the gate driving voltage applied to the pixel based on the feedback, adjust a level of the gate driving voltage applied to the gate lines to compensate for the distortion of the gate driving voltage, and apply the adjusted gate driving voltage to the gate lines.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Projection screen and projection system comprising the same

The present invention provides a projection screen capable of sharply displaying an image by minimizing the influence of phase differences that are produced when light is slantingly incident on a polarized-light selective reflection layer having a cholesteric liquid crystalline structure, and of providing high image visibility. A projection screen includes: a polarized-light selective reflection layer having a cholesteric liquid crystalline structure, capable of selectively reflecting a specific polarized-light component; and a substrate that supports the polarized-light selective reflection layer. The cholesteric liquid crystalline structure of the polarized-light selective reflection layer contains a plurality of helical-structure parts that are different in direction of helical axis, and, owing to structural non-uniformity in the cholesteric liquid crystalline structure, the polarized-light selective reflection layer diffuses light (imaging light) that is selectively reflected. In the cholesteric liquid crystalline structure of the polarized-light selective reflection layer, the helical pitch on the side farther from the imaging-light-incident side is longer than that on the side closer to the imaging-light-incident side.
Owner:DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO LTD

High luminance multicolor illumination devices and related methods and projection system using the same

An illumination device and a projection system using the same. The illumination device includes two or more color channels each including one or more light sources for generating a color light. At least one of the color channels includes light sources of a first type for generating a first (narrow band) light and light sources of a second type for generating a second light. The dominant wavelengths of the first and second lights are within 50 nm of each other, and the width of the combined spectrum (sum of normalized spectra of the first and second lights) is greater than the width of the spectrum of the first light by at least 10 nm. A wavelength-based light combiner is used to combine the color lights from the color channels into a combined light
Owner:APPOTRONICS CORP LTD

Processing device and processing method of high dynamic contrast for liquid crystal display apparatus

This invention relates to a processing device and processing method of high dynamic contrast for liquid crystal display apparatus, the processing device comprises a receiver, an inverter, and a source driving IC connected with a central processing module. The processing method includes: performing a histogram statistical process on received low voltage Differential Signaling data; obtaining a backlight source dimming coefficient and a Gamma reference voltage parameter of the same frame of picture according to the result of the histogram statistical process. controlling the brightness of the backlight source according to said backlight source dimming coefficient; controlling the voltage of the pixel capacitor on the liquid crystal panel according to said Gamma reference voltage parameter. This invention respectively adjusts the brightness of the backlight source and the voltage of the pixel capacitor of the liquid crystal panel simultaneously, and hence the dynamic contrast of the picture is increased, the problems of lower contrast and flicker of TFT liquid crystal display apparatus are ameliorated, and the power consumption of the backlight source is saved.
Owner:BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONCIS TECH CO LTD

Display device and driving method thereof

A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines to which a plurality of compensation data signals are transmitted, a plurality of light emitting signal lines, and a plurality of pixels respectively connected to the plurality of scan lines, the plurality of data lines, and the plurality of light emitting signal lines, and a data driver generating a data voltage corresponding to a image data signal, and converting the data voltage to the compensation data signal. The data driver includes a compensator generating the compensation data signal in accordance with a feedback voltage. The feedback voltage is determined by a degree of deterioration associated with each pixel, and increases with an increasing deterioration degree of the pixel.
Owner:SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD

LED display apparatus and LED pixel error detection method thereof

A light emitting diode (LED) display apparatus, including: a plurality of LED lines including a plurality of LEDs; a plurality of switches connected to respective LED lines among the plurality of LED lines; a controller configured to sequentially supply power to the plurality of LED lines by sequentially turning on and off the plurality of switches; and an LED driver configured to detect an error state of an LED from the plurality of LEDs by estimating current flowing through the plurality of LED lines, and to provide the controller with a result of the detection.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Electrooptical device and electronic apparatus

InactiveUS20080055500A1Keep brightnessSize front region with a mixed display is reduced or eliminatedStatic indicating devicesSteroscopic systemsComputer graphics (images)Electron
An electrooptical device which simultaneously displays a first and second image in different directions. The electrooptical device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows. Each pixel row includes first pixels for displaying the first image, first light-shielding portions, second pixels for displaying the second image, and second light-shielding portions which are wider than the first light-shielding portions. The electrooptical device also includes a light-transmissive substrate provided parallel to the display panel, and a light-shielding barrier layer provided on the substrate which includes apertures that align with the second light-shielding portions when viewed from a direction that is normal to the display panel.
Owner:JAPAN DISPLAY WEST

Electronic endoscope apparatus

An electronic endoscope apparatus has a light source, a pixel luminance detector, a division setter, an average block luminance calculator, a peak-luminance determiner, a representative luminance calculator, and a brightness adjuster. The division setter divides the subject image into a plurality of blocks composed of given pixels. The average block luminance calculator calculates a plurality of average block-luminance-levels. The peak-luminance determiner compares the average block-luminance-levels with each other in order to determine a substantially maximum average block-luminance-level from the plurality of average block-luminance-levels as a peak luminance level. The representative luminance calculator calculates a representative luminance level indicating a brightness of the subject image. The brightness adjuster adjusts the brightness of the subject image in accordance with the representative luminance level.
Owner:ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KK

Lens array and image display device incorporating the same

ActiveUS20150277115A1Reduce visible interfering noiseKeep brightnessLensLight sourceLight beam
An image display device includes a light source, an imaging element to form an image with a light beam from the light source, and a lens array illuminated with the light beam forming the image for image display, in which lenses are arranged closely to each other. In which in the lens array a curvature radius of a surface of a border of neighboring lenses is set to be smaller than a wavelength of the light beam.
Owner:RICOH KK

Display device

An EL display device free of a dispersion in the brightness caused by deterioration in the EL elements. The display device uses pixels of the current-controlled type to suppress a change in the current flowing through the EL elements caused by the deterioration in the EL elements. The display device further uses elements capable of short-circuiting or opening three nodes simultaneously. No bank is used for dividing the EL layers into separate colors. EL elements of the mixed junction type are used. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the EL elements at regular intervals. The display device suppresses dispersion in the brightness caused by the deterioration in the EL elements.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD

Lighting Device

To provide a lighting device in which the luminance of an EL element is maintained even when the EL element deteriorates so that degradation of the lighting device is reduced, the lighting device includes a surface light source portion including an organic EL element, and a control circuit portion provided in a base portion. The control circuit portion counts a lighting time of the organic EL element and controls the luminance of the organic EL element in accordance with the lighting time. Accordingly, the lighting device in which the luminance of an EL element is maintained regardless of degradation of the EL element so that degradation of the lighting device is reduced can be provided.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD

Method of exposure control and image pickup apparatus

A method of exposure control in an image pickup apparatus includes determining whether a zoom lens has been moved, determining whether an F value obtained from information about focal position of a focus lens linked to movement of the zoom lens has changed, estimating a variation in the focus luminance before and after a change in the F value from the F values before and after the change when the F value has been changed, changing the shutter speed determined according to a focus luminance before the change to a shutter speed determined according to the focus luminance after the change, based on the estimated variation in the focus luminance, and changing a frame rate determined according to the focus luminance before the change to a frame rate determined according to a focus luminance after the change according to the changed shutter speed.
Owner:ELMO CO LTD

Image display apparatus

An image display apparatus is provided that enables the chromaticity of a display screen of a display apparatus to be adjusted to the chromaticity desired by a user. The image display apparatus is formed by a backlight unit that is provided with a plurality of light sources and by an image display panel that is placed at a front surface of the backlight unit. The image display apparatus performs a monochrome display. In the image display apparatus, the light sources have at least three different types of luminescent colors that surround a target color on a chromaticity diagram.
Owner:MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP +1
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