1. An outsole for a footwear construction to provide added softness in the heel strike area of a foot while providing added stability to the outer edge of the outsole, comprising:
a top layer; and,
a lower layer having
a bottom most layer with a heel portion so constructed as to achieve different degrees of softness, the heel portion including a heel strike area, and,
a wedge-shaped piece positioned on the heel strike area, having
a central area being of a softer durometer value material, and
an outer edge of a harder durometer value material, thereby providing added stability to the footwear construction and avoiding lateral collapsing,
the wedge-shaped piece being apertutured vertically, the number and size of the apertures in the wedge-shaped piece being larger than those in the outer edge area;
the top layer and bottom layer being cemented together, encapsulating the wedge-shaped piece on the heel strike area of the footwear construction between the top layer and bottom most layer to form a stable walking platform for the footwear construction.
2. The sole of claim 1 wherein the apertures in the wedge-shaped piece outer edge are moon-shaped.
3. The outsole of claim 1 wherein the apertures descend vertically mostly, but not completely, through the wedge-shaped piece.
4. The outsole of claim 1 wherein the top layer is contoured to the shape of a foot, thereby providing cradle support to the foot.
5. The outsole of claim 4 wherein the top layer is configured to receive a shank.
6. The outsole of claim 4 wherein the top layer is configured to receive a sock.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An image display device comprising an electro-optic element, and a corresponding pair of an active element and a pixel capacitor, which are provided at an area sectored by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data signal lines intersecting with each other, said electro-optic element being driven to create a display in accordance with an electric charge that has been taken in the pixel capacitor by means of the active element during a scanning period of the scanning signal line, wherein
said image display device further includes charging section for charging the data signal line to a substantially intermediate potential of a data signal at a frame corresponding to a non-scanning period of the scanning signal line during the non-scanning period.
2. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a multi valued data signal line driving circuit for outputting a multi-gradation image signal and a binary data signal line driving circuit for outputting a two-gradation image signal, as a data signal line driving circuit for outputting an image signal to the data signal line, wherein
the binary data signal line driving circuit is used also as the charging section.
3. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein an image signal source for supplying an image signal to a driving circuit of the data signal line outputs a charging potential to an image signal line, that provides the image signal to a driving circuit of the data signal line, and charges the image signal line to the substantially intermediate potential during the non-scanning period of the scanning signal line.
4. The image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein a driving circuit of the data signal line performs line inversion drive or dot inversion drive, and the substantially intermediate potential is a potential of a counter electrode.
5. An image display device comprising an electro-optic element, and a corresponding pair of an active element and a pixel capacitor, which are provided at an area sectored by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data signal lines intersecting with each other, said electro-optic element being driven to create a display in accordance with an electric charge that has been taken in the pixel capacitor by means of the active element during a scanning period of the scanning signal line, wherein
said image display device includes potential varying section for varying a potential of the data signal line during a non-scanning period of the scanning signal line.
6. A display driving method of an image display device which includes an electro-optic element, and a corresponding pair of an active element and a pixel capacitor, which are provided at an area sectored by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data signal lines intersecting with each other, said electro-optic element being driven to create a display in accordance with an electric charge that has been taken in the pixel capacitor by means of the active element during a scanning period of the scanning signal line,
the method comprising the step of charging a data signal line to a substantially intermediate potential of a data signal at a frame corresponding to a non-scanning period of the scanning signal line during the non-scanning period.
7. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising the step of charging an image signal line, that outputs an image signal from an image signal source to a driving circuit of the data signal line, to the substantially intermediate potential.
8. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising the step of causing a driving circuit of the data signal line to perform line inversion drive or dot inversion drive, wherein said substantially intermediate potential is a potential of a counter electrode.
9. A display driving method of an image display device which includes an electro-optic element, and a corresponding pair of an active element and a pixel capacitor, which are provided at an area sectored by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data signal lines intersecting with each other, said electro-optic element being driven to create a display in accordance with an electric charge that has been taken in the pixel capacitor by means of the active element during a scanning period of the scanning signal line,
said image display device comprising the step of varying a potential of the data signal line during a non-scanning period of the scanning signal line.