Abstract:
A magnetic bubble memory device is provided with a plurality of memory modules each having at least one magnetic bubble chip. Each module generates a clock for determining the timing to drive the magnetic bubble chip and controls the operation of the magnetic bubble chip. The addresses of a main memory are cyclically allocated to the memory modules in a given unit, so that data transmission can be performed between the memory modules operated asynchronously with each other and the main memory allocated thereto.
Abstract:
An electro-optic device according an embodiment of the invention can increase the number of gray scales capable of being expressed. A liquid crystal panel is viewed via a blocking unit which blocks the field of view in a predetermined non-viewing period. A converting unit converts, based on a video signal, a gray-scale value input for each frame composed of a subfields into a subfield code indicating a combination of ON and OFF of b (2≦b≦a) subfields included in a viewing period other than the non-viewing period and c (1≦c≦b) subfields included in the non-viewing period. A driving unit drives a plurality of electro-optic elements each based on the converted subfield code.
Abstract:
An electrooptical device according to the invention includes a plurality of pixels and a driving section that drives the pixel in such a way that the pixel is brought into a bright state or a dark state in each of subfields, and, when a specific gray level is designated, the details of driving of at least one pixel and a pixel adjacent to the one pixel, the details of driving in one frame, are different from each other.
Abstract:
A light source control device and a light source control method each capable of preventing the scroll noise from occurring without being affected by the characteristics of a light modulation device, and a projector equipped with the light source control device are provided. The light source device includes a duty determination section adapted to determine a duty ratio, and a drive control section adapted to perform drive control of a plurality of solid-state light sources by generating a PWM signal having the duty ratio determined by the duty ratio determination section, and adapted to make a phase with which at least one of the solid-state light sources is driven different from a phase with which another of the solid-state light sources is driven.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display, applying to the first electrode, a voltage higher and a voltage lower at different timings, detecting a current flowing through the second electrode, designating, as a reference value, the current flowing through the second electrode when the voltage maintained in the liquid crystal element is reset, specifying a first current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related higher voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the higher voltage is applied to the first electrode, and a second current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related lower voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the lower voltage is applied to the first electrode, and comparing the first current with the second current, and controlling the first current and the second current based on the comparison result.
Abstract:
A projector can prevent a flicker from being caused by rotation of a rotating phosphor plate. The projector includes a solid-state light source that emits excitation light, a rotating phosphor plate that converts the excitation light into phosphor light, a liquid-crystal light modulating device that modulates the light from the rotating phosphor plate, a projection optical system that projects the modulated light onto a screen, and a control device that controls the solid-state light source and the rotating phosphor plate so as to satisfy any one of a conditional expression A=B, a conditional expression A=2B, and a conditional expression |A−B| is greater than or equal to 20 and |A−2B| is greater than or equal to 20, where A represents a pulse width modulation control frequency in hertz of the solid-state light source and B represents a rotation frequency in hertz of the rotating phosphor plate.
Abstract:
A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying a data signal alternate between a positive and a negative voltage to the pixel electrode. The positive voltage has a potential greater than a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode and the negative voltage is a potential lower than the counter electrode potential; setting the counter electrode potential to reduce a flicker; supplying a first voltage that is either the positive or negative voltage to the pixel electrode in a first period; the other voltage to the pixel electrode in a second period. A ratio of the first period to the second period is variable.
Abstract:
An electro-optic device including: a plurality of pixels disposed corresponding to a plurality of colors; and a drive circuit adapted to drive the pixels, wherein the drive circuit drives the pixels based on a drive voltage set for each of the colors in accordance with a mixture ratio between the colors, and a drive pattern provided in accordance with the drive voltage and adapted to designate one of switching ON and OFF of the pixels at each of sub-fields constituting a frame in accordance with a grayscale level, and the drive voltages are set so that a voltage range of the drive voltage is different between the pixel corresponding to at least one of the colors and the pixel corresponding to another of the colors, the colors having respective proportions of mixture different from each other.
Abstract:
An electrophoretic display apparatus, electronic device, and driving method for an electrophoretic display apparatus are capable of significantly increasing the number of tones that can be expressed in a single frame period. The electrophoretic display apparatus divides at least part of a frame period into multiple subfield periods and controls the light transmission of an electro-optical layer by selecting, on a subfield period-by-subfield period basis, an on or off voltage as the driving voltage to apply between a pixel electrode and an opposing electrode to display multiple tones. A driving circuit of the electrophoretic display apparatus determines, in accordance with the tone to be displayed, the ratio between the application periods of the on and off voltages during the frame period, and the arrangement of the on and off voltages. The absolute values of the positive-polarity and negative-polarity voltages are different from each other.
Abstract:
An image display method of splitting a frame into a plurality of sub frames by multiplying a frame frequency of an incoming image signal by an integer, and dividing an image that is originally for the frame into pieces for display on the sub frames. In the image display method, the luminance component included in the image is given a priority for display on a first sub frame that is at least one of the sub frames, and a color-difference component included in the image is given a priority for display on a second sub frame that is also one of the sub frames but not the first sub frame.