1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a liquid crystal panel having substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween;
a unit pixel disposed on one of said substrates, wherein the unit pixel includes:
a plurality of sub-pixels; and
a driving device configured to receive a gradation voltage setting input and produce an output voltage that drives each of said plurality of sub-pixels to include a different gradation-brightness value characteristic and the unit pixel to include a linear gradation-brightness value characteristic.
2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of sub-pixels include a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is larger than the second area; and
said driving device drives sub-pixels having the first area to include a gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to a wider brightness value range than that of sub-pixels having the second area.
3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein said driving device drives the sub-pixels having the second area to include a gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to a narrower brightness value range than that of the sub-pixels having the first area, wherein said gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to narrower brightness value range complements each gradation of said gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said wider brightness value range.
4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein said gradation-brightness value characteristic of said wider brightness value range is determined by upper bits of a gradation voltage setting input which are input to said driving device, and
said gradation-brightness value characteristic of said narrower brightness value range is determined by lower bits of said gradation voltage setting input.
5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said sub-pixels have almost equal areas to each other;
said driving device gives one of said sub-pixels a dynamic range corresponding to an upper half of a voltage-brightness value characteristic based on a driving input, and
said driving device gives another one of said sub-pixels a dynamic range corresponding to a lower half of said voltage-brightness value characteristic based on said driving input.
6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5, wherein said voltage-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said upper half and said voltage-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said lower half are determined by gradation voltage setting inputs having a same number of bits.
7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 6, wherein said gradation voltage setting inputs are obtained by applying a frame rate control to original gradation voltage setting inputs.
8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said driving device includes a plurality of drivers which generate an output for driving sub-pixels in a substantially same positional relation with respect to pixels to which these sub-pixels belong respectively, so that these sub-pixels have a substantially same gradation-brightness value characteristic.
9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said driving device includes a single column driver generating a plurality of outputs for driving sub-pixels in a substantially same positional relation, so that said sub-pixels have a substantially same gradation-brightness value characteristic.
10. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein said liquid crystal display panel is for displaying a color image.
11. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a pair of substrates;
a liquid crystal layer disposed between said pair of substrates;
a plurality of gate lines disposed on one of said pair of substrates;
a plurality of drain lines disposed on one of said pair of substrates and intersecting said plurality of gate lines; and
a plurality of unit pixels disposed in a matrix shape defined by said plurality of gate lines and said plurality of drain lines;
wherein said unit pixels include a plurality of sub-pixels; and
wherein said driving device includes a plurality of drivers configured to receive a gradation voltage setting input and produce an output voltage that drives each of said plurality of sub-pixels connected to a same one of the plurality of gate lines and different, adjacent drain lines to include a different gradation-brightness value characteristic, and the plurality of unit pixels to include a linear gradation-brightness value characteristic.
12. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 11, wherein said plurality of sub-pixels include a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is larger than the second area; and
said driving device drives sub-pixels having the first area to include a gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to a wider brightness value range than that of sub-pixels having the first area.
13. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 12, wherein said driving device drives the sub-pixels having the second area to include a gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to a narrower brightness value range than that or the sub-pixels having the first area, wherein said gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said narrower brightness value range complements each gradation of said gradation-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said wider brightness value range.
14. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 13, wherein said gradation-brightness value characteristic of said wider brightness value range is determined by upper bits of a gradation voltage setting input which are input to said driving device, and
said gradation-brightness value characteristic of said narrower brightness value range is determined by lower bits of said gradation voltage setting input.
15. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 11, wherein said sub-pixels have almost equal areas to each other;
said driving device gives one of said sub-pixels a dynamic range corresponding to an upper half of a voltage-brightness value characteristic based on a driving input, and
said driving device gives another one of said sub-pixels a dynamic range corresponding to a lower half of said voltage-brightness value characteristic based on said driving input.
16. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 15, wherein said voltage-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said upper half and said voltage-brightness value characteristic corresponding to said lower half are determined by gradation voltage setting inputs having a same number of bits.
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 comprising:
receiving information via a touch-sensitive user interface;
analyzing at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference; and
controlling a graphical user interface based at least in part on the determined hand preference,
wherein the determined hand preference is left handed and wherein controlling the graphical user interface comprises rendering the graphical user interface to a display wherein the graphical user interface comprises a control graphic that changes one or more input mechanism settings of at least the touch-sensitive user interface.
2. (canceled)
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving information comprises receiving information for a period of operational time of the touch-sensitive user interface wherein the period of operational time exceeds one minute.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the analyzing at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference comprises performing a statistical analysis that determines a probability of the hand preference.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises an electronic digitizer interface that operates in conjunction with a stylus.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises a touchscreen that operates in conjunction with human touch.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the analyzing at least a portion of the information comprises determining at least one line.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises an axis and wherein the analyzing comprises comparing the at least one line to the axis.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the analyzing comprises determining a line associated with a first human digit and determining a line associated with a second human digit and comparing orientations of the lines to the axis of the touch-sensitive user interface.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the analyzing comprises identifying at least a portion of the information as being associated with a point and at least a portion of the information as being associated with a palm.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises an oriented two-dimensional space and wherein the hand preference is based at least in part on a spatial relationship between the point and the palm within the oriented two-dimensional space.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein at least a portion of the information associated with the point corresponds to intended user input and wherein the information associated with the palm corresponds to unintended user input that is at least in part analyzed to determine a hand preference prior to its rejection by a palm rejection algorithm.
13. The method of claim 1 comprising controlling the graphical user interface based at least in part on historical control information wherein the historical control information comprises an indicator that indicates a prior determination of a left hand preference.
14. The method of claim 1 comprising disabling the analyzing based at least in part on a determined right hand preference.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling a graphical user interface based at least in part on the determined hand preference comprises rendering to a display a graphical user interface that comprise graphical controls for controlling orientation of information rendered to the display.
16. A device comprising:
a processor;
memory operatively coupled to the processor;
a display operatively coupled to the processor;
a touch-sensitive user interface operatively coupled to the processor; and
circuitry that
receives information via the touch-sensitive user interface,
analyzes at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference, and
controls rendering of a graphical user interface to the display based at least in part on the determined hand preference,
wherein the determined hand preference is left handed and wherein the graphical user interface comprises a control graphic that changes one or more input mechanism settings of at least the touch-sensitive user interface.
17. The device of claim 16 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises electronic digitizer circuitry.
18. The device of claim 16 wherein the touch-sensitive user interface comprises capacitive touch circuitry.
19. One or more machine-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions that comprise instructions to instruct a device to perform operations comprising:
receiving information via the touch-sensitive user interface,
analyzing at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference, and
controlling rendering of a graphical user interface to a display based at least in part on the determined hand preference,
wherein the instructions comprise instructions to call for rendering of the graphical user interface to the display for a determined left hand preference and to terminate the analyzing, and
wherein the instruction comprise instructions to call for disabling rendering of the graphical user interface to the display for a determined right hand preference and to terminate the analyzing.
20. (canceled)
21. The method of claim 1 wherein the analyzing is based at least in part on a probability of an individual being left handed or a probability of an individual being right handed wherein the probability of an individual being left handed is less than the probability of an individual being right handed.
22. The system of claim 16, wherein the circuitry that analyzes, analyzes based at least in part on a probability of an individual being left handed or a probability of an individual being right handed wherein the probability of an individual being left handed is less than the probability of an individual being right handed.