Display device

• US 20020059613A1
• Filed: 08/27/2001
• Published: 05/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer System Technologies Corp (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION AND PIONEER SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
• Inventors: Mori, Shuichi, Suenaga, Shoji, Nagahata, Ikuo, Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro, Toyoda, Kunio
• Application Number:
  US09/938,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20020059613A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/75
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/18 Use of a frame buffer in a display terminal, inclusive of the display panel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]

Abstract

A display apparatus configured to add variations to displayed contents to prevent the user from getting bored and sufficiently utilize the characteristics of a display panel such as an organic EL display panel which excels in displaying a moving image. The display apparatus is suitable for use in an electronic equipment, and comprises a display panel for displaying images, a storage unit contained in the electronic equipment for storing display data representative of display images for display on the display panel, and a writing unit for writing display data into the storage device from the outside. In one embodiment, a device body is provided with a rewritable memory such as a flash memory to provide an environment in which previously provided data can be captured through the Internet, or images created by the user can be uniquely captured.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for use in an electronic equipment, having a display panel for displaying images, comprising:

a storage part contained in said electronic equipment for storing display data representing display images to be displayed on said display panel; and

a writing part for receiving display data from the outside of said electronic equipment to write into said storage unit as said display data.

2. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electronic equipment comprises a device body portion, and a display panel portion including a display panel and said storage part.

3. A display apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said storage part is configured to be removable from said electronic equipment.

4. A display apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said storage part comprises a flash memory.

5. A display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said storage part comprises a flash memory.

6. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data writing part writes display data accumulated in a predetermined site into said storage part through a communication network.

7. A display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said communication network is the Internet through which said display data accumulated in said site being downloaded into said storage part.

8. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data writing unit writes arbitrary display data into said storage part.

9. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data writing part captures externally existing arbitrary display data and writes the same into said display part.

10. A display apparatus according to claim 8 or claim 9, wherein said arbitrary display data is an image taken by a user using an image shooting device.

11. A display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein:

software for capturing said arbitrary display data and writing the same into said storage part is stored in a predetermined site; and

said data writing part downloads said software through the Internet.

12. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display data represents a moving image.

13. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display data represents a still image.

14. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electronic equipment is a vehicle-mounted electronic equipment.