Author: claimsbot

1. A method of driving a light source including a light source part, the method comprising:
determining whether an image signal is a two-dimensional mode image signal or a three-dimensional mode image signal to generate a mode signal;
adjusting a level of a current to be applied to the light source part in response to the mode signal to generate an adjusted current; and
driving the light source part using the adjusted current.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the level of the current to be applied to the light source part comprises:
adjusting a first current to have a first level when the mode signal is a two-dimensional mode; and
adjusting a second current to have a second level, which is greater than the first level, when the mode signal is a three-dimensional mode.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the light source part comprises a light-emitting string including light-emitting diodes.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein
the light source part comprises light-emitting strings connected in electrical parallel with each other, and
each string includes light-emitting diodes connected in electrical series with each other.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising selectively opening and closing a first shutter and a second shutter of an eyeglasses part when the image signal is the three-dimensional mode image signal.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
temporally dividing the three-dimensional mode image signal into a left-eye image and a right-eye image; and
displaying temporally divided images using light provided from the light source part.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying the temporally divided images comprises:
opening the first shutter and closing the second shutter when the left-eye image is displayed; and
closing the first shutter and opening the second shutter when the right-eye image is displayed.
8. A display apparatus comprising:
a mode determining part which determines whether an image signal is a two-dimensional mode image signal or a three-dimensional mode image signal to generate a mode signal;
a light source part comprising a light-emitting string including light-emitting diodes; and
a light source driving part which adjusts a level of a current applied to the light source part in response to the mode signal to drive the light-emitting string using an adjusted current.
9. The display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the light source driving part comprises:
a current adjusting part which adjusts the level of the current in response to the mode signal; and
an integrated circuit electrically connected to a first terminal of the light-emitting string, wherein the integrated circuit supplies the adjusted current to the light-emitting string.
10. The display apparatus of claim 9, wherein
the integrated circuit comprises a current control terminal, and
the current adjusting part comprises:
a first resistor connected to the current control terminal;
a switch including a control electrode which receives the mode signal and
a first electrode connected to the first resistor; and

a second resistor connected to a second electrode of the switch.
11. The display apparatus of claim 10, wherein
the switch is turned off to supply a first current having a first level based on the first resistor to the current control terminal when the mode signal is a two-dimensional mode, and
the integrated circuit supplies the first current having the first level to the light-emitting string.
12. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein
the switch is turned on to supply a second current having a second level based on the first resistor and the second resistor, which is connected in electrical parallel with the first resistor, to the current control terminal when the mode signal is a three-dimensional mode, and
the integrated circuit supplies the second current having the second level to the light-emitting string.
13. The display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second level is greater than the first level.
14. The display apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a plurality of light emitting strings, wherein
the integrated circuit comprises:
a first channel terminal connected to a connection node which connects a first light-emitting string of the plurality of light emitting strings and a second light-emitting string of the plurality of light emitting strings; and
a second channel terminal disposed adjacent to the first channel terminal,

the current adjusting part comprises a switch including a first electrode and a second electrode,
the first electrode is connected to a control electrode which receives the mode signal and the connection node, and
the second electrode is connected to the second channel terminal.
15. The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein the switch is turned off to electrically connect the connection node and the first channel terminal when the mode signal is a two-dimensional mode, and
the integrated circuit supplies a first current having a first level to the first light-emitting string and the second light emitting string that are electrically connected to the connection node.
16. The display apparatus of claim 15 wherein the switch is turned on to connect to the first channel terminal and the second channel terminal in electrical parallel when the mode signal is a three-dimensional mode, and
the integrated circuit supplies a second current having a second level to the first light-emitting string and the second light emitting string.
17. The display apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:
a display panel which displays a two-dimensional image when the mode signal is a two-dimensional mode, and which displays a three-dimensional image when the mode signal is a three-dimensional mode;
an eyeglasses part comprising a left-eye lens part including a first shutter and a right-eye lens part including a second shutter; and
a shutter control part selectively opening and closing the first shutter and the second shutter when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the display panel.
18. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein
the display panel temporally divides the image signal into a left-eye image and a right-eye image to display temporally divided images when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the display panel,
the shutter control part opens the first shutter and closes the second shutter when the left-eye image is displayed on the display panel, and
the shutter control part closes the first shutter and opens the second shutter when the right-eye image is displayed on the 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 for setting a touch vibration function of a touchscreen, comprising:
receiving a function setting instruction input by a user by using an operation interface;
changing a value of a preset registration entry according to the function setting instruction;
receiving touch information generated when the touchscreen is touched; and either
performing the touch vibration according to the touch information and reporting the touch information to an operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that a touch vibration is to be performed; or
reporting the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that a touch vibration is not to be performed.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein changing the value of the registration entry according to the function setting instruction comprises:
changing the value of the registration entry to a first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration enabling instruction; and
changing the value of the registration entry to a second value that is different from the first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration disabling instruction.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein performing the touch vibration according to the touch information and reporting the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that the touch vibration is to be performed comprises:
sending an enabling instruction to a vibration motor corresponding to the touch information when the value of the registration entry is the first value, so as to enable the vibration motor to start a vibration; and
reporting the touch information to the operating system to enable the operating system to perform a touch operation related to the touch information.
4. The method according to claim 2, wherein reporting the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that the touch vibration is not to be performed comprises reporting the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry is the second value so as to enable the operating system to perform a touch operation related to the touch information.
5. A terminal containing a touchscreen, comprising:
a first receiving unit configured to receive a function setting instruction;
an entry value changing unit configured to change a value of a registration entry according to the function setting instruction;
a second receiving unit configured to receive touch information generated when the touchscreen is touched; and
an executing unit configured to:
perform the touch vibration according to the touch information and report the touch information to an operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that a touch vibration is to be performed; and
report the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that the touch vibration is not to be performed.
6. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein the entry value changing unit is configured to:
change the value of the registration entry to a first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration enabling instruction; and
change the value of the registration entry to a second value that is different from the first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration disabling instruction.
7. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the executing unit comprises:
a vibration enabling subunit configured to send an enabling instruction to a vibration motor corresponding to the touch information when the value of the registration entry is the first value so as to enable the vibration motor to start a vibration; and
a first executing subunit configured to report the touch information to the operating system when the vibration enabling subunit sends the enabling instruction to the vibration motor so as to enable the operating system to perform a touch operation related to the touch information.
8. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the executing unit further comprises a second executing subunit configured to report the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry is the second value so as to enable the operating system to perform the touch operation related to the touch information.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing programming for execution by one or more processors, the programming including instructions for:
receiving a function setting instruction input by a user by using an operation interface;
changing a value of a preset registration entry according to the function setting instruction;
receiving touch information generated when the touchscreen is touched; and either
performing the touch vibration according to the touch information and reporting the touch information to an operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that a touch vibration is to be performed; or
reporting the touch information to the operating system when the value of the registration entry determines that a touch vibration is not to be performed.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein changing the value of the registration entry according to the function setting instruction comprises:
changing the value of the registration entry to a first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration enabling instruction; and
changing the value of the registration entry to a second value that is different from the first value when the function setting instruction is a touch vibration disabling instruction.

1. An information analysis device comprising:
a related expression generation section that accepts an evaluation object expression as input, the evaluation object expression being an linguistic expression to be evaluated, and generates a linguistic expression related to the evaluation object expression as a related expression; and
a credibility calculation section that acquires the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information and calculates credibility concerning the meaning of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the number of times that the acquired related expression appears that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
2. The information analysis device according to claim 1, wherein
the credibility calculation section acquires the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information and make adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
3. The information analysis device according to claim 2, wherein:
when an upward trend of the evaluation object expression and a downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, the credibility calculation section raises the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the upward trend of the evaluation object expression and the downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time; and
when a downward trend of the evaluation object expression and an upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, the credibility calculation section decreases the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the downward trend of the evaluation object expression and the upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time.
4. The information analysis device according to claim 1, wherein
the related expression generation section generates, as an related expression, an expression whose meaning is in conflict with the evaluation object expression.
5. The information analysis device according to claim 1, wherein
the related expression generation section generates, as a related expression, an expression that is in co-occurrence with the evaluation object expression by referring to the plurality of electronic documents.
6. The information analysis device according to claim 5, wherein
the credibility calculation section makes adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at each point in time in accordance with the ratio of the number of times that the evaluation object expression appears to the number of times that the related expression appears at each point in time.
7. The information analysis device according to claim 1, wherein
the credibility calculation section calculates the rate to which an author of the evaluation object expression is identical with authors of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, and makes adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated authors are identical.
8. The information analysis device according to claim 1, wherein
the credibility calculation section calculates the rate to which a source of the evaluation object expression is identical with sources of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, and makes adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated sources are identical.
9. A search system comprising:
the information analysis device claimed in claim 1;
a document search section that uses, as a search condition, a highly reliable expression output from the information analysis device to search a document containing the expression from a plurality of search object documents for; and
a document output section that outputs the document found by the document search section.
10. An information analysis method comprising:
accepting an evaluation object expression as input, the evaluation object expression being an linguistic expression to be evaluated, and generating a linguistic expression related to the evaluation object expression as a related expression; and
acquiring the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information and calculating credibility concerning the meaning of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the number of times that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
11. The information analysis method according to claim 10, wherein
the calculating of the credibility involves acquiring the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information, and making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
12. The information analysis method according to claim 11, wherein:
the calculating of the credibility involves, when an upward trend of the evaluation object expression and a downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, raising the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the upward trend of the evaluation object expression and the downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time; and
the calculating of the credibility involves, when a downward trend of the evaluation object expression and an upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, decreasing the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the downward trend of the evaluation object expression and the upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time.
13. The information analysis method according to claim 10, wherein
the generating of the related expression involves generating, as a related expression, an expression whose meaning is in conflict with the evaluation object expression.
14. The information analysis method according to claim 10, wherein
the generating of the related expression involves generating, as a related expression, an expression that is in co-occurrence with the evaluation object expression by referring to the plurality of electronic documents.
15. The information analysis method according to claim 14, wherein
the calculating of the credibility involves making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at each point in time in accordance with the ratio of the number of times that the evaluation object expression appears to the number of times that the related expression appears at each point in time.
16. The information analysis method according to claim 10, wherein
the calculating of the credibility involves calculating the rate to which an author of the evaluation object expression is identical with authors of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, amd making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated authors are identical.
17. The information analysis method according to claim 10, wherein
the calculating of the credibility involves calculating the rate to which a source of the evaluation object expression is identical with sources of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, and making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated sources are identical.
18. An information analysis program for causing a computer to execute:
a related expression generation process of accepting an evaluation object expression as input, the evaluation object expression being an linguistic expression to be evaluated, and generating a linguistic expression related to the evaluation object expression as a related expression; and
a credibility calculation process of acquiring the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information and calculating credibility concerning the meaning of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the number of times that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
19. The information analysis program according to claim 18 for causing a computer to execute, in the credibility calculation process,
a process of acquiring the evaluation object expression and the related expression from a plurality of electronic documents along with time information and make adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at a specific point in time by comparing the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired evaluation object expression appears and the trend of change in the number of times that the acquired related expression appears at the same time point.
20. The information analysis program according to claim 19 for causing a computer to execute, in the credibility calculation process:
a process of raising, when an upward trend of the evaluation object expression and a downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the upward trend of the evaluation object expression and the downward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time; and
a process of decreasing, when a downward trend of the evaluation object expression and an upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point, the credibility of the evaluation object expression for a time when the downward trend of the evaluation object expression and the upward trend of the related expression are observed at the same time point or for a time point after the observed time.
21. The information analysis program according to claim 18 for causing a computer to execute, in the related expression generation process,
a process of generating, as a related expression, an expression whose meaning is in conflict with the evaluation object expression.
22. The information analysis program according to claim 18 for causing a computer to execute, in the related expression generation process,
a process of generating, as a related expression, an expression that is in co-occurrence with the evaluation object expression by referring to the plurality of electronic documents.
23. The information analysis program according to claim 22 for causing a computer to execute, in the credibility calculation process,
a process of making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression at each point in time in accordance with the ratio of the number of times that the evaluation object expression appears to the number of times that the related expression appears at each point in time.
24. The information analysis program according to claim 18 for causing a computer to execute, in the credibility calculation process,
a process of calculating the rate to which an author of the evaluation object expression is identical with authors of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, and making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated authors are identical.
25. The information analysis program according to claim 18 for causing a computer to execute, in the credibility calculation process,
a process of calculating the rate to which a source of the evaluation object expression is identical with sources of the related expressions, for the evaluation object expression and related expressions acquired from the plurality of electronic documents, and making adjustments to the credibility of the evaluation object expression depending on the rate of how many calculated sources are identical.

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 display system, comprising:
a standardized display driver to provide address voltages;
an array of interferometric elements; and
a voltage adjuster to adjust address voltages to provide adjusted row address voltages to the array of interferometric elements,
wherein the voltage adjuster further comprises a resistor divider network configured to lower the address voltage amplitudes that are provided by the standardized display driver.
2. The display system of claim 1, the standardized display driver further comprising a driver for a liquid crystal display.
3. The display system of claim 1, the may of interferometric elements further comprising an array of iMoD\u2122 elements.
4. The display system of claim 1, the voltage adjuster to adjust row address voltages.
5. The display system of claim 1, the voltage adjuster to adjust column address voltages.
6. A method of manufacturing an array of modulator elements and an adjuster circuit, comprising:
depositing a first metal layer on a transparent substrate;
patterning and etching the first metal layer to form electrodes;
depositing an optical stack layer;
depositing a first sacrificial layer upon the optical stack layer;
depositing a second metal layer on the sacrificial layer;
patterning and forming the second metal layer to form modulator elements;
forming a resistor divider network configured to lower address voltage amplitude that are provided from a standardized display driver; and
forming resistors from one metal layer and connecting the resistors with a subsequent metal layer.
7. The method of claim 6, forming the resistors from one metal layer further comprising forming the resistors from the first metal layer and connecting the resistors with the second metal layer.
8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:
depositing a second sacrificial layer;
depositing a third metal layer on the second sacrificial layer; and
patterning and etching the third metal layer to form posts and supports.
9. The method of manufacturing of claim 6, wherein the resistor divider network is formed on the first metal layer.
10. The method of claim 6 forming the resistors further comprising forming the resistors from the second metal layer and connecting the resistors using the third metal layer.
11. The method of claim 6, further comprising:
depositing a third sacrificial layer;
depositing a fourth metal layer on the third sacrificial layer;
patterning and etching the fourth metal layer to form a bus layer.
12. The method of claim 6, forming the resistors from one metal layer further comprising forming the resistors from the first metal layer and connecting the resistors using the fourth metal layer.
13. The method of claim 6, forming the resistors from one metal layer further comprising forming the resistors from the second metal layer and connecting the resistors using the fourth metal layer.
14. The method of claim 6, forming the resistors from one metal layer further comprising forming the resistors from the third metal layer and connecting the resistors using the fourth metal layer.
15. A resistor network, comprising:
an incoming address line;
a first resistor connected between the address line and a conductive bus; and
a second resistor connected between the address line and an adjusted address line,
wherein the resistor network lowers address voltage amplitudes provided by a
standardized display driver.
16. The resistor network of claim 15 the address line further comprising a row address line.
17. The resistor network of claim 15, the address line further comprising a column address line.
18. The method of manufacturing of claim 6, wherein the resistor divider network is formed on the same substrate of the array.
19. The method of claim 6, forming the resistors further comprising forming the resistors from the first metal layer and connecting the resistors using the third metal layer.
20. The method of manufacturing of claim 6, wherein the resistor divider network is formed on the second metal layer.