1. A method in a color display system for displaying first and second color component image fields, wherein the second color component image field is subsequent to the first color component image field in time, the method comprising:
establishing a first color component image on a multiple pixel display, each pixel of the display being set to at least one of first and second transmission states, wherein the setting of the pixels is to present the first color component image field on the display;
examining a second color component image field to be presented on the display;
determining which pixels of the display in presenting the second color component image field are to have transmission states that are relatively close, the relatively close pixels having a relative transmissivity substantially equal to or within 20 percent of their respective transmission states in the first color component image field; and
establishing a second color image on the multiple pixel display by resetting the transmission states of a plurality of the pixels of the multiple pixel display without resetting the transmission state of at least some of the pixels that are to have the relatively close transmission states relative to their states in displaying the first color component image field.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the possible transmission states of the pixels are an on-transmission state and an off-transmission state.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the possible transmission states are a plurality of values representing the relative transmission levels for the pixels.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the color display system is a buffered panel color display system including one or more buffers, and wherein the one or more buffers are operable to store values representing the transmission states of the pixels for the first and second color component image fields.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the color display system includes at least two panels, wherein
a first panel is a fixed color panel; and
a second panel is a sequential color panel configured to sequentially alternate between two or more colors.
6. A method according to claim 1, wherein
the color display system includes a multiple panel color display; and
the first and the second color component image fields are displayed on at least one panel of the multiple panel color display system.
7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying an inter-field image between the display of the first color component image field and the second color component image field, wherein the inter-field image is configured to relatively maintain the transmission state of the at least some pixels that are to have the relatively close transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the pixels in the inter-field image that are to be relatively maintained are given transmission states in the inter-field image of approximately between their transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
9. A method according to claim 1, further comprising changing the transmission state of the plurality of pixels that are being reset concurrently with the transition of the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field is performed together with the color transitions of a light source imposed by a color wheel.
11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field is performed together with the color transitions of a light source imposed by a color switch.
12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the color switch is selected from the group consisting of a one-bit color switch and a crossed \u03c0-cell color switch.
13. A color display system comprising:
a display having a plurality of pixels;
one or more buffers, at least a first of the one or more buffers being coupled to the display, the one or more buffers operable to store values representing the transmission states of the pixels for one or more display fields corresponding to the pixels;
a control circuit coupled to the one or more buffers, the control circuit operable to:
establish pixel data for a first color component image field in a first of the one or more buffers;
establish the pixel data for the first color component image field on the display, each pixel of the display being set to at least one of first and second transmission states, thereby setting the pixels of the display to correspond to the pixel data for the first color component image field;
establish pixel data for a second color component image field in a second of the one or more buffers;
compare the pixel data for the second color component image field to the pixel data for the first color component image field; and
establish the second color component image field on the display without resetting the transmission state of at least some of the pixels that have transmission states that have a relative transmissivity substantially equal to or within 20 percent of their respective transmission states in the first color component image field.
14. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the possible transmission states of the pixels are an on-transmission state and an off-transmission state.
15. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the possible transmission states are a plurality of values representing the relative transmission levels for the pixels.
16. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is a sequential color display system.
17. A color display system according to claim 16, wherein the color display system includes at least two panels, wherein
a first panel is a fixed color panel; and
a second panel is a sequential color panel configured to sequentially alternate between two or more colors.
18. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein
the color display system is a multiple panel color display system; and
the color display system is further configured to display the first and the second color component image fields on at least one panel of the multiple panels.
19. A color display system according to claim 18, wherein the color display system is further configured to establish the second color component image field without transitioning the transmission state of the at least some of the pixels of the second color component image field that have transmission states that are relatively close to those pixels’ transmission states in the first color component image field.
20. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is further configured to display an inter-field image during transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field, wherein the inter-field image is configured to relatively maintain the transmission state of the at least some pixels that are to have relatively close transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
21. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is further configured to change the transmission state of those pixels that are not to have the same transmission state in the second color component image field as in the first color component image field concurrently with the transition of the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
22. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display operates by modulating a light source, and further comprising a color wheel coupled to the display, wherein the color wheel is configured to perform the transition of the light source for the display from the a first color component to a second color component in a synchronized manner with the display transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
23. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display operates by modulating a light source, and further comprising a color switch coupled to the display, wherein the color switch is configured to perform the transition of the light source for the display from a first color component to a second color component in a synchronized manner with the display transition from the first color component image field to the second component color image field.
24. A color display system according to claim 23, wherein the color switch is a one-bit color switch.
25. A color display system according to claim 23, wherein the color switch is a crossed \u03c0-cell color switch.
26. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display is an active-matrix display panel.
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. A method of accessing an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page from a sequential multimodal device that lacks the ability to directly render said Web page;
segmenting said Web page into a plurality of fragments, each fragment consisting of a single interface category, wherein said interface category is selected from the group consisting of a graphical user interface category and a voice category; and
conveying at least one of said fragments to provide the requesting sequential multimodal device with information from said Web page.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said conveyed fragment belongs to the graphical user interface category, the method further comprising
converting an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language markup specified in said Web page into a markup language that said requesting sequential multimodal device is capable of rendering.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said conveyed fragment belongs to the graphical user interface category, said conveying step further comprising the step of conveying the fragment to the requesting sequential multimodal device across a data connection.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the conveyed fragment belongs to the voice category, said conveying step further comprising the step of said conveying said fragment to a voice server.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of:
conveying content derived from the voice fragment from said voice server to said requesting sequential multimodal device across a voice connection.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of determining a capability of the requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said segmenting step segments the Web page according to said capability so that no fragment exceeds said capability.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:
receiving a specification for a particular interface category, wherein the fragment conveyed in said conveying step belongs to the specified interface category.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
determining an order in which said fragments are to be conveyed to said requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said conveying step conveys said fragments in accordance with said order.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
recording at least one link that correlates at least one fragment belonging to said graphical user interface category to at least one fragment belonging to said voice category; and
determining a plurality of fragments to convey to said requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said fragments belong to different interface categories, and wherein said determination is based at least in part upon said recorded links.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one fragment of said conveying step includes a fragment belonging to said graphical user interface category and a corresponding fragment belonging to said voice category.
11. A method for accessing content of multimodal Web pages comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for a multimodal markup Web page from a sequential multimodal device incapable of directly rendering said multimodal markup page;
generating a voice-only markup page from said multimodal markup Web page;
generating a graphical user interface markup page from said multimodal markup Web page, wherein said graphical user interface markup page does not include voice-enabled markup;
segmenting said voice-only markup page into a plurality of voice fragments;
segmenting said graphical user interface markup page into a plurality of graphical user interface fragments;
correlating said voice fragments to graphical user interface fragments based upon content of the fragments; and
providing content of said Web page to said sequential multimodal device using said fragments, wherein said sequential multimodal device is configured to selectively switch between a voice mode that renders at least one voice fragment and a graphical user interface mode that renders at least one graphical user interface fragment.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein said multimodal markup is an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice markup.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein said voice fragment is written in a Voice Extensible Markup Language.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein said graphical user interface fragment is written in a Wireless Markup Language.