Sony Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Hideki Sugimoto

Katsuhide Uchino

Tetsuro Yamamoto

Junichi Yamashita

Seiichiro Jinta

Naobumi Toyomura

Masayuki Ito

Tomoaki Handa

Akihiro Matsuoka

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Shimpei Sonoda

A system for outputting a work instruction, in which an image processing device that takes a picture of a photographic subject is connected to an output device is disclosed. The system includes an imaging unit that generates image data showing the picture of the photographic subject; an obtaining unit that obtains determination data used for determining whether a work process performed on the photographic subject is completed; an input unit that inputs reference material data indicating reference materials used for reference in the work process; a determination unit that determines whether the work process performed on the photographic subject is completed, the determination being made depending on whether the photographic subject in the image data is in a state indicated by the determination data; and an output unit that outputs, to the output device, reference material data for a work process specified in accordance with the determination.

Work instruction system and image processing apparatus

According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a plurality of cores, a shared resource that can be shared by the plurality of cores, and local registers that store configuration information peculiar to the respective cores. The shared resource is provided independently from the plurality of cores. The local registers are provided to the respective cores. This makes it possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can suppress increase in hardware resources even when the number of cores composing a multi-core system increases.

Information processing apparatus

A position information obtaining device and a position information obtaining method are provided. Each of the position information obtaining device and the position information obtaining method captures images to which a light pointer is directed and on which a light spot is formed, in chronological order, and estimates position information of a specified position on the images specified by the light pointer using a plurality of pieces of image information obtained from the captured image.

Position information obtaining device and method, and image display system

An accelerator circuit for an image processing apparatus includes a buffer circuit that temporarily stores image data obtained from N (N&#x3e;1) data sources and an arithmetic circuit that performs a predetermined arithmetic operation on pixel data. The buffer circuit includes N buffer memories and N 2D registers associated with the respective N data sources, a control circuit, and a selector. Each buffer memory temporarily stores image data obtained from a corresponding one of the N data sources. Each 2D register temporarily stores pixel data, which is a part of image data stored in a corresponding one of the N buffer memories, of an area of a predetermined size. The selector is controlled by the control circuit so as to select, when pixel data is stored in one of the N 2D registers, the pixel data and send the pixel data to the arithmetic circuit.

Accelerator circuit and image processing apparatus

A display unit with which gradation control is facilitated, a method of driving the same, and an electronics device are provided. The display unit includes: a pixel circuit array section including a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, and a plurality of light emitting devices and a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix state correspondingly to an intersection of each scanning line and each signal line; a signal line drive circuit sequentially applying a signal voltage corresponding to a video signal to each signal line, and applying an erasing pulse to a specific signal line at given timing so that a duty ratio determined based on the video signal is obtained; and a scanning line drive circuit applying a given selection pulse to the scanning line while the erasing pulse is applied to the specific signal line.

Display unit with gradation control, method of driving the same, and electronics device

Disclosed herein is a method for driving a display element including a current-driven light emitting part and a drive circuit, the drive circuit including a write transistor, a drive transistor, and a capacitive part, the method including the steps of: executing threshold voltage cancel processing of changing potential of the second node toward potential obtained by subtracting threshold voltage of the drive transistor from potential of the first node in a state in which the potential of the first node is kept; and executing write processing of applying a video signal from the data line to the first node via the write transistor turned to an on-state by a scan signal from the scan line.

Method for driving display element and method for driving display device

A sampling transistor in embodiments of the present invention is kept at the on-state with a time width shorter than one horizontal cycle, during the period from the rising of a control pulse supplied from a scanner to the falling of the control pulse, and samples a video signal Vsig from a signal line SL to write the video signal Vsig to a hold capacitor. A sampling transistor Thas a double gate structure in which a pair of transistor elements are connected in common. This suppresses change in the threshold voltage of the sampling transistor.

Display device and electronic apparatus

A liquid crystal display includes: a transmissive liquid crystal display device having a display region made up of pixels arrayed in a matrix fashion. The liquid crystal display device includes a planar light source unit formed of planar light source units corresponding to respective display region units on an assumption that the display region is divided into the display region units and configured in such a manner that each planar light source unit irradiates a corresponding display region unit with light, and a drive circuit driving the liquid crystal display device and the planar light source device. The liquid crystal display device is scanned line-sequentially and the pixels making up each display region unit are scanned line-sequentially. A planar light source unit corresponding to a display region unit is held in a luminous state over a predetermined period since a line-sequential scan on the display region unit has been completed.

Liquid crystal display and driving method of liquid crystal display

A display unit with which the internal structure is able to be simplified, a method of driving the same, and an electronics device are provided. The display unit includes a video signal processing circuit, a signal line drive circuit, a power source line drive circuit and a scanning line drive circuit. The power source line drive circuit concurrently applies a control pulse to the all power source lines, and concurrently controls light emission and light extinction of the all light emitting devices. The scanning line drive circuit applies a first selection pulse to the all scanning lines during time period when the fixed voltage is applied, and subsequently and sequentially applies a second selection pulse to the plurality of scanning lines during time period when the erasing pulse is applied.

Display unit, method of driving the same, and electronics device

A display apparatus includes: a pixel array in which pixel circuits each having a light emitting device, a drive transistor, a sampling transistor, and a retention capacity; a signal selector that supplies threshold correction reference voltages and a video signal voltages as to signal lines arranged in columns on the pixel array; a drive control scanner that provides power supply pulses to power supply control lines arranged in rows on the pixel array and applies drive voltages to the drive transistors; and a write scanner that provides scan pulses to write control lines arranged in rows on the pixel array to control the sampling transistors and executes input of the threshold correction reference voltages and the video signal voltages to the pixel circuits, and brings the sampling transistors into conduction by the scan pulses at plural times when the signal line voltages are the threshold correction reference voltages in order to execute plural threshold corrections in non-emission periods of one light emission cycles of the pixels circuits.

Display apparatus and display driving method

A method of driving a display apparatus formed by arranging display devices each having a driving circuit and a current-driven type light emitting portion, the method comprising the steps of: performing a threshold voltage cancelling process in units of a display device row in which a predetermined reference voltage is applied to a gate electrode of a driving transistor of Q&#xd7;N display devices configuring groups of display device rows and a predetermined driving voltage is applied to one source/drain region of the Q&#xd7;N display devices so as to change the electric potential of the other source/drain region toward an electric potential calculated by subtracting a threshold voltage of the driving transistor from the reference voltage during a period T; and sequentially performing a writing process, in which video signals are applied to the gate electrodes of the driving transistor of N display devices configuring the display device row, Q times.

Display apparatus and method for driving the same

Disclosed herein is a driving method of a display device. The display device includes display elements arranged in a form of a two-dimensional matrix and each have a driving circuit and a light emitting section. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode and source/drain regions and a capacitance section, and a current flowing through the light emitting section via the source/drain regions of the driving transistor. The driving method includes the step of performing a first writing process, a second writing process, and then setting the gate electrode of the driving transistor in a floating state. A current corresponding to a value of a voltage retained in the capacitance section for retaining a voltage of the gate electrode of the driving transistor with respect to a source region of the driving transistor flows through the light emitting section, so that the light emitting section emits light.

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Hideki Sugimoto