Sony Corporation

Riken Corporation

Toyomi Fujita

Masanori Idesawa

Eiji Miyazaki

Yasushige Yano

This invention is relative to an image information display apparatus in which a large-sized image can readily be recognized even with use of a small-sized display unit such as is provided in a portable telephone set or in a mobile computer. It is assumed that an observer (user)is about to recognize an image of a larger sizeusing an image information display apparatushaving a displayof a smaller size. When the observermoves his or her hand, a partial areaof an image demonstrated in the displayis actively changed. This permits the image of a larger sizeto be comprehended readily in its entirety. The image of a larger sizecan readily be recognized by having the hand movement matched to the movement of the display image (partial areaof the image), based on perceptual characteristics of the human being.

Image information displaying apparatus

Image information displaying device

In order to reduce errors in sensing an image position derived from noise light such as background noise, a semiconductor image position sensing device is provided with a photoelectric layer generating a photoelectric current in a portion onto which light was input in response to intensity of the light input to the photoelectric layer, a resistance layer laminated on the photoelectric layer in which the photoelectric current generated in the photoelectric layer flows into a portion corresponding to that onto which the light was input, and signal current output terminals wherein the photoelectric current generated in the photoelectric layer is distributed in a ratio in response to a resistance value between the signal current output terminals and the resistance layer defined at a position where the photoelectric current flowed into the resistance layer and from which the photoelectric current is output as an electric current obtained by summing currents over the whole sensing sections altogether, comprising further a resistance subtracting a photoelectric current having a predetermined distribution of electric current density from photoelectric currents generated in respective portions of the photoelectric layer over the whole sensing sections, and the photoelectric current subtracted by means of the resistance being adapted to flow into the resistance layer.

Semiconductor image position sensitive device

A semiconductor dark image position sensing device comprises a photoelectric layer generating a photoelectric current in a portion where light is input in response to intensity of the light input, a resistive element layer into which the photoelectric current generated in the photoelectric layer flows from a portion corresponding to the position of light input, a second resistive element disposed in association with the photoelectric layer for replenishing an insufficient amount of electric current with respect to the photoelectric current so as to flow the same into the resistive element layer in such that a distribution of electric current flowing into the resistive element layer corresponding to the position of light input becomes substantially uniform over a whole sensing region, and signal electric current output terminals disposed at the opposite ends of the second resistive element.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toyomi Fujita