Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080231564 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a display function and a light-receiving/imaging function; a first image processing section configured to generate a detection signal that indicates whether a to-be-detected object has been detected based on a result of first image processing performed on an image taken by the light-receiving/imaging function; a second image processing section configured to perform second image processing on the image processed by the first image processing section, the second image processing having a heavier processing load than the first image processing; and a control section configured to control an operation of the second image processing section in accordance with the detection signal generated by the first image processing section, and, when it is determined that the processing by the second image processing section is not necessary, control the second image processing section to enter a sleep state. | 09-25-2008 |
20080246722 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes an input/output unit adapted to display an image and sense light incident thereon from the outside. The input/output unit is capable of accepting simultaneous inputting to a plurality of points on a display screen of the input/output unit. The display screen is covered with a transparent or translucent protective sheet. | 10-09-2008 |
20090033638 | Image display unit and method of detecting object - An image display unit and a method of detecting an object which are capable of reliably detecting an object with a simple structure irrespective of use conditions are provided. Invisible light is emitted from a screen of a display portion. The invisible light reflected from a target object which comes in contact with or close to the screen is received on the screen. On the basis of the received invisible light, the target object is detected. Thus, the target object can be reliably detected without influence of the display state of the display portion, and influence of use conditions such as surrounding circumstances (the case where it is bright or dark). Moreover, for example, it is not necessary to separately arrange a component such as a touch panel, so the image display unit can be achieved with a simple structure. | 02-05-2009 |
20090122007 | INPUT DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INPUT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an input device including, a target creating section a performing section, and a height information generating section wherein the target creating section generates the information on the target to which information the height information is added, and the performing section performs predetermined processing on a basis of the height information added to the information on the target. | 05-14-2009 |
20090123029 | Display-and-image-pickup apparatus, object detection program and method of detecting an object - A display-and-image-pickup apparatus includes: a display-and-image-pickup panel having an image display function and an image pickup function; an image producing means for producing a predetermined processed image on the basis of a picked-up image of a proximity object obtained through the use of the display-and-image-pickup panel; an image processing means for obtaining information about the proximity object through selectively using one of two obtaining modes on the basis of at least one of the picked-up image and the processed image; and a switching means for switching processes so that, in the case where the parameter is increasing, one of the two obtaining modes is switched to the other obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a threshold value, and in the case where the parameter is decreasing, the other obtaining mode is switched to the one obtaining mode when the parameter reaches a smaller threshold value. | 05-14-2009 |
20090134328 | IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image-taking apparatus includes an image-taking device configured to take an image of an object, at least one illumination light source configured to be able to illuminate the object, an illumination region controller configured to be able to partially emit an illumination light ray originating from the illumination light source towards a plurality of different regions of the object, and to sequentially change the location of an illuminated area of the illumination light ray, and a controller configured to cause the image-taking device to take an image of the object under a plurality of illumination conditions produced in accordance with control of the illumination region controller. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135318 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid-crystal display apparatus is provided. The liquid-crystal display apparatus including: a light source for generating visible-domain light and invisible-domain light; a plurality of liquid-crystal devices laid out in a display face region of the liquid-crystal display apparatus for modulating visible-domain light and transmitting invisible domain light generated by the light source; a plurality of light receiving devices laid out in the display face region as devices each used for receiving invisible-domain light; a display driving section configured to drive the liquid-crystal devices so as to radiate visible-domain light from the display face as display light; a light-reception driving section configured to drive the light receiving devices to detect invisible-domain light radiated from the display face and reflected by a detection-subject object as detected light; and a detection section configured to detect the detection-subject object on the basis of a received-light signal obtained from the light receiving devices. | 05-28-2009 |
20090158125 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD - A recording/reproducing apparatus includes an encoding section, a decoding section, and a first judging section. The encoding section is configured to encode data that is to be recorded onto a recording medium into an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code. The decoding section is configured to decode the LDPC code read out from the recording medium. The judging section is configured to judge a block with a recording error based on one of a block error flag and an iterative decoding count output from the decoding section. | 06-18-2009 |
20090207145 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An HPF eliminates an image of an object which is not to be detected from a captured image, thereby obtaining an HPF image. A binarizing unit performs a binarizing process on the HPF image, thereby generating a binary image. A peak detector extracts, using the binary image as a mask, an image of a region corresponding to an opening of the mask from the captured image. From the image, a peak value and the position of a peak pixel are detected. A determining unit determines whether an object to be detected is in contact with the display surface or not on the basis of the relation between the difference and the threshold. Using the detection result and the determination result in the determining unit, a position deriving unit derives the position on the display surface, of the object to be detected which is in contact with the display surface. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213095 | DISPLAY AND IMAGING APPARATUS AND OBJECT DETECTING METHOD - A displaying and imaging apparatus includes a displaying and imaging panel, a generating unit for generating a difference image between a reflection light using image and a shadow image obtained from the displaying and imaging panel, and an image processing unit for obtaining information of at least one of position, shape, and size of the adjacent object on the basis of the difference image. The generating unit generates, on the basis of a plurality of images obtained at timings different from each other, which are one of the reflection light using image or the shadow image, one interpolation image corresponding to the one of images obtained at a timing different from those of the plurality of images, and generates the difference image by the difference between the interpolation image and the other one of the reflection light using image and the shadow image. | 08-27-2009 |
20090284505 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided and includes display cells each having a display circuit, light receiving cells each having a photosensor configured to receive light from an outside, and display signal lines. The display cells and the light receiving cells are arranged in a row direction perpendicular to the display signal lines and in a column direction parallel with the display signal lines. Also, the light receiving cells in each row are displaced in the row direction between every two adjacent rows in a column direction. | 11-19-2009 |
20090297408 | Method for Formation of Alumina Coating Film, Alumina Fiber, and Gas Treatment System Comprising the Alumina Fiber - In the formation of an oxide film on an aluminum fiber, it has been difficult to form a thick alumina coating film on the aluminum fiber which already has a natural oxide film formed thereon. To overcome this problem, there is provided a method for forming an alumina coating film which enables the deep penetration of oxygen into an aluminum fiber by employing a three-stage heating treatment and an alumina fiber formed by the method. Also provided is a system for producing water by photocatalytic reaction, in which a photocatalyst comprising the alumina fiber coated with titania is irradiated with light from a light source to generate an active oxygen species, diffusing the active oxygen species in water to impart the function of the active oxygen species to water. The system can perform washing by utilizing an oxidation reaction with the resulting water. Further, provided is a gas treatment system which comprises the alumina fiber coated with titania to impart a photocatalytic function to the aluminum fiber. | 12-03-2009 |
20100002008 | IMAGE INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CORRECTING PHOTO-RECEPTION LEVEL IN IMAGE INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE, AND METHOD OF INPUTTING IMAGE - The present invention provides an image input/output device including an input/output panel, a correction section and an image processing section. The input/output panel includes display elements and photo-reception elements to receive lights emitted from the display plane and then reflected from an external adjacent object. The correction section corrects photo-reception signals from the photo-reception elements based on an in-plane correction table where correction coefficients are associated with positions on the display plane, respectively. A value distribution profile in the display plane of the correction coefficients is defined based on both of a light intensity distribution profile of the light emitted from the display plane and a photo-reception sensitivity distribution profile of the photo-reception elements. The image processing section obtains information concerning one or more of position, shape and size of the external adjacent object based on the photo-reception signals corrected by the correction section. | 01-07-2010 |
20100045811 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus capable of easily improving the detection accuracy of a touching or proximity object is provided. An offset noise (a reset image R) is obtained by an image pickup process in a state (a reset state) in which an image pickup device is initialized. Moreover, a fingertip extraction process is performed in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image (a shadow image A or a display light-using image B) which is obtained by picking up an image of a proximity object to obtain object information about the proximity object. While an offset noise in the apparatus is easily reduced, object information about the proximity object can be obtained. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053107 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, INFORMATION INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION INPUT PROGRAM - An information input device is provided, which may perform highly-convenient processing in response to input of information with an external proximity object. The information input device includes: an input panel having a detection function of detecting an external proximity object, to be used in a state of being placed on a display panel; a position detection section detecting position and area value of the external proximity object based on a detection signal of the external proximity object obtained by the input panel; and an image generation section generating display data to be utilized to display an image including a display object, in such a manner that size of the display object displayed on the display panel at the detected position of the external proximity object is allowed to vary in accordance with the detected area value of the external proximity object. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053227 | Image recognition method, image recognition apparatus and image input/output apparatus - An image recognition method includes: a first step of acquiring n-th received light data at light receiving elements arranged in a matrix form on a light receiving surface; a second step of acquiring (n+1)-th received light data at the light receiving elements; a third step of calculating differential data resulting from subtraction of the n-th received light data acquired from the (n+1)-th received light data acquired; and a fourth step of carrying out image recognition based on the differential data. | 03-04-2010 |
20100103151 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - The present invention includes a display device for displaying an image and receiving light simultaneously or alternately. The display device includes: a plurality of display elements for displaying the image on a display surface of the display device by emitting light; a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light incident on the display surface formed by the display elements; a storing unit for storing, as an initial value, a difference between two amounts of light received by the light receiving elements; and a detecting unit for detecting a state of contact with or proximity to the display surface and subtracting the initial value stored by the storing unit from a difference between the two detected amounts of received light. | 04-29-2010 |
20100128004 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING AN OBJECT - An image pickup device capable of stably detecting an object irrespective of use conditions while reducing manufacturing costs is provided. When illumination light from a backlight | 05-27-2010 |
20100220269 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND FABRICATION METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided which can detect light of a predetermined wavelength with a high degree of accuracy from within light incident from a screen by a simple configuration. The display apparatus includes a CF substrate ( | 09-02-2010 |
20100253642 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE - An image processing apparatus which is allowed to achieve a higher speed of a labeling process than ever before is provided. Sequential scanning is performed on pixels in a picked-up image represented by binarized data Din. Moreover, during the sequential scanning, while label information representing an identification number for each connected region in the picked-up image is, as occasion arises, allocated to a target pixel based on values of pixel data of the target pixel and neighboring pixels thereof, additional information (position information and area information) for each connected region corresponding to each label information is updated as occasion arises. Thereby the label information, the position information and the area information about the whole picked-up image are obtained by one sequential scanning process. | 10-07-2010 |
20100271336 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is an image pickup device with which object detection can be performed with a good stability no matter in what use conditions. A display area | 10-28-2010 |
20110175853 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A display device having at least a display circuit for displaying an image, and a light receiving sensor for detecting a light disposed is provided. When a light receiving circuit region including the light receiving sensor is made a dark portion, and a region other than the light receiving circuit region is made a light portion, the display circuit and the light receiving sensor are disposed so that a spatial frequency of a repetitive pattern of the light portions and the dark portions becomes equal to or higher than 10 cpd. | 07-21-2011 |
20120133668 | Image display device, driving method of image display device, image display program, and gradation conversion device - There is provided an image display device including a display unit that displays an image by pixels that are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern; and a gradation conversion unit that performs gradation conversion using a dither matrix of diffusion type, wherein the gradation conversion unit applies a dither matrix that is randomly shifted in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and performs gradation conversion of an image that is displayed on a display unit to each region of pixels that corresponds to the dither matrix. | 05-31-2012 |
20120154416 | Display device, control method of display device and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a display unit in which pixels including memories are arranged; a memory unit holding data; and a control unit rewriting the contents held by memories concerning pixels belonging to a partial area of the display unit based on data held by the memory unit in accordance with instructions given from the outside. | 06-21-2012 |
20120194480 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND POSITION DETECTING METHOD - An image generating unit of a display apparatus generates a determination image based on first and second light reception images obtained from light reception cells in a light-emission period and in a non-light-emission period, respectively. An image determining unit determines whether or not an image of an object to be detected is included in the determination image, stores data corresponding to the determination image as initial data into a storage when the object image is not included in the determination image, and stores the data corresponding to the determination image as detection data into the storage when the object image is included in the determination image. A position determining unit determines at least an object position based on an image represented by the detection data in the storage and an image represented by the initial data in the storage. | 08-02-2012 |
20130063499 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device having a memory function within pixels, includes: a drive unit that divides image generation for one frame into plural sub-frames and performs display drive by time-division drive in units of sub-frames, wherein the drive unit performs drive of bringing centers of pixels of gray scale representation into coincidence with centers of display images among the plural sub-frames. | 03-14-2013 |
20130222439 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAYSCALE CONVERSION PROGRAM, AND GRAYSCALE CONVERSION APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: a grayscale conversion device configured to perform grayscale conversion processing on input data to output data; and a display device configured to operate in accordance with the output data to display an image by pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix state, wherein the grayscale conversion device is configured to perform first error diffusion processing for converting N | 08-29-2013 |
20130249779 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: an update area detecting unit that detects a rewritten area on the basis of first image data previously transmitted and second image data newly transmitted and that sends out only a part of the second image data in the rewritten area to a display panel which includes a memory that stores image data or a cell having a memory effect in each pixel. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251285 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an image processor including: a random number sequence generation section adapted to generate a random number sequence; a random number-superimposed luminance variable generation section adapted to generate a random number-superimposed luminance variable by superimposing the random number sequence on a luminance variable; and a random number-superimposed image signal generation section adapted to generate a random number-superimposed image signal by superimposing the random number-superimposed luminance variable on an image signal. | 09-26-2013 |
20140015742 | INPUTTING/OUTPUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An inputting/outputting apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the position of an object which is in contact with or in the proximity of the apparatus can be detected with a high degree of accuracy with a simple structure without deteriorating the picture quality while the convenience in use is assured. Each pixel of a display section includes a display cell and a light reception cell. Emission of light of the display cell is controlled so that it blinks by a number of times per unit time corresponding to the number of frames per unit time. Reception of light by the light reception cells is controlled such that the amount of light incoming to all light reception cells is acquired within one light emission period and also within one no-light emission period. The invention can be applied to an image display apparatus. | 01-16-2014 |
20140022426 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup unit includes: a signal generating section generating a pulse signal that makes transitions between a first voltage and a low-noise second voltage; a voltage holding section holding a difference between a voltage of the pulse signal and a voltage of an output node; a voltage setting section that generates a pixel selection signal through setting the voltage of the output node to a third voltage in correspondence to a transition of the pulse signal from the second voltage to the first voltage, and outputs the pixel selection signal from the output node; and an image pickup section driven by the pixel selection signal. | 01-23-2014 |
20140061484 | RADIATION IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A radiation image pickup device includes: an image pickup section having a plurality of pixels and generating an electric signal according to incident radiation, the plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and one or a plurality of transistors of a predetermined amplifier circuit; and a correction section subjecting signal data of the electric signal obtained in the image pickup section to predetermined correction process. The correction section makes a comparison between measurement data obtained by measuring an input-output characteristic of the amplifier circuit in each of the plurality of pixels and initial data on the input-output characteristic, and performs the correction process by the pixel individually, by using a result of the comparison. | 03-06-2014 |