A control system for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises sensors arranged to determine device location, operating environment, document type, application type and further comprises a privacy policy for control of privacy images. High image visibility is provided for public mode operation while in privacy mode a high visual security level may be obtained by means of control of image luminance, contrast and white point in response to the privacy policy.

A display device has a display panel (70) and a color filter layer (72) spaced from the display panel, comprising an array of color filter portions. In a privacy mode (narrow viewing angle mode), the display panel produces output regions of different light output color, which regions are aligned with corresponding color portions of the color filter layer. In a public mode (wide viewing angle mode) the display panel produces light containing all of the output colors to all of the output regions. By providing a color filter layer spaced from the display panel, color filtering is used to control the range of angles over which an image is output. The color filter layer is in essence moved away from the display panel. The spacing between the two and the width of the color filter portions determines the extent by which the light output is angularly limited.

Devices or systems with display designs to include both a main display zone and a peripheral display zone that collectively form a seamless contiguous display area for displaying images, content or information over the two zones as a single display area and further allowing for operating the peripheral display zone independently from the main display zone to display certain images, information, or content only on the peripheral display zone even when the main display zone is turned off. In addition to providing display functions separate from or in combination with the display functions by the main display zone, the peripheral display zone based on the disclosed technology can be used to provide for certain sensing functions by including one or more sensors under the display area for the peripheral display zone.

Provided are a fingerprint controller for driving a fingerprint sensing array in a touchscreen divided by at least a touch sensing region and a fingerprint sensing region, a method of operating the fingerprint controller, and a driver integrated circuit for driving the touchscreen including the fingerprint sensing array. The method includes: receiving a reference timing signal from an external module; generating a fingerprint sensing timing signal for driving the fingerprint sensing array in synchronization with the reference timing signal; and driving the fingerprint sensing array based on the fingerprint sensing timing signal.

An information processing system includes one or more intermediary apparatuses communicable with one or more output apparatuses, and an information processing apparatus communicable with the one or more intermediary apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive, from a terminal, specific information and a process execution request input to the terminal, identify a specific intermediary apparatus associated with a specific output apparatus based on the specific information in accordance with the process execution request, and transmit the process execution request to the identified specific intermediary apparatus. The identified specific intermediary apparatus is configured to perform processing in accordance with the process execution request transmitted from the circuitry of the information processing apparatus to control the specific output apparatus.

A method of establishing a paid connection between multi-platforms, where a transmitting end application is installed in a transmitting end apparatus of a sharing source and a receiving end application is installed in a receiving end apparatus of a sharing target. When establishing a connection, the transmitting end application/receiving end application confirms whether a unique ID of the receiving end apparatus/transmitting end apparatus exists in an exception list, and confirms whether the receiving end application/transmitting end apparatus makes payment based on an operating system used by the transmitting end apparatus/receiving end application, in order to determine establishing a limited or an unlimited connection between the transmitting end apparatus and the receiving end apparatus. Thus, the method assures that either the transmitting end application or the receiving end application is a paid version, a user complies with an application license agreement by using the exception list and the right of application developers is protected.

A method for pairing authentication between a vehicle and a mobile device is proposed. After a host computer of the vehicle is operated to send out a vehicle identification code for pairing and the mobile device is operated to select the vehicle identification code, the host computer enables both of a host display of the vehicle and the mobile device to display a pairing code at the same time. After a pairing procedure is performed within a predetermined pairing operation period, the host computer completes pairing authentication between the host computer and the mobile device.

The invention provides a computer implemented method of displaying content on a screen of an electronic processing device. The method comprises a first step of receiving content to be displayed on said screen at a data processing application on said electronic processing device. The data processing application is a dedicated application for processing said received content data and is configured to perform various steps including processing the received content data into a format suitable for display on said screen. The data processing application is also configured to monitor at least one sensor of the electronic processing device such as the device's camera to receive at least one biometric data input during display of the content on the screen and to cause either a halting of the display of the content or a blurring of the screen in response to a determination of a predetermined change in said biometric data. The data processing application is also configured to not locally store said provided content on said electronic processing device and to disable any screen or video capture functionalities of the electronic processing device.

A directional display apparatus including a directional display device that is capable of directing a displayed image into a viewing window of variable width is provided with a privacy control function. A control system detects the presence of one or more secondary viewers in addition to a primary viewer, and decides whether the one or more secondary viewers is permitted to view the displayed image. The control system directs a displayed image into a viewing window which is adjusted, for example by decreasing the width, in dependence on that detection. In addition, the control system detects relative movement between the primary viewer and the display device, and the width of the viewing window is increased in response to detection of said relative movement.

A method of electronically displaying glyphs. The method includes receiving a glyph spacing, moving a first glyph toward a second glyph along an axis, identifying an intersection of a first axis coordinate of the first glyph with a second axis coordinate of the second glyph, and moving at least one of the glyphs along the axis to separate the first and second axis coordinates of the respective first and second glyphs by the glyph spacing.