Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Satoru Kotani

Masaki Yamamoto

Yoshihiko Asai

Takashi Kuwabara

Susumu Ibaraki

Keisuke Tanaka

Toshiaki Mori

Tomoo Hori

Kazunori Mano

Morio Iwasaki

Toshiyuki Itabashi

Toshikazu Hattori

Tadashi Sumino

Toshihiko Maruoka

Kazutoshi Ishii

Masayuki Yoshii

Kenichi Itho

In a display system, a projector is mounted inside a vehicle, and emits a light beam, which is generated based on an image signal, toward an opening formed at a portion near a rear end of the vehicle. An exterior screen is extendable toward the opening and is made of a material having low stiffness. While being extended toward the opening, the exterior screen displays an image by allowing the light beam emitted by the projector to pass therethrough. A screen housing unit is mounted on or near one of a rear hatch and a back door of the vehicle for accommodating the exterior screen.

Display system

An on-screen display device that can effectively utilize a video RAM area. This on-screen display device includes a video RAM that holds character data of desired characters that are to be displayed; a display character setting unit for locating the number of bits as many as the remainder that is obtained by dividing character data corresponding to one character by the number of bits that can be read at one-time access from the video RAM, collectively by one line in the video RAM; buffers for storing a part of character data of the respective characters; a character generator ROM for outputting font data corresponding to the character codes; and a display control unit for reading character data from the video RAM via the buffers at the display of the characters, and reading the font data that are created by the character generator ROM, thereby outputting an on-screen output signal.

On-screen display device

Ultrasonic diagnostic unit

Combined radio and television receiver

Growing community of inventors

Yokohama, Japan

Satoru Kotani