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Patent No. 5823572

Self Defense Weapon With Memo

A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.

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Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation


Location: Not specified.
No. of applications: 180

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01/05/2012
20110292327Light reflecting structure in a liquid crystal display panel
A method for producing a light reflecting structure in a transflective or reflective liquid crystal display uses one or two masks for masking a photoresist layer in a back-side exposing process. The pattern on the masks is designed to produce rod-like structures or crev...
12/01/2011
20110205461LCD display visual enhancement driving circuit and method
A pixel in a liquid crystal display panel comprises a first sub-pixel area having a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel area having a second sub-pixel electrode. Each sub-pixel electrode is associated with a capacitor. When a gate-line signal and a data vol...
08/25/2011
20110192657Capacitive touch panel with multiple zones
In a capacitive touch panel having touch cells arranged in a two-dimensional array and defined by two coordinates, the present invention provides a third coordinate. In particular, the touch cells in a row are electrically connected a first sensing element and the touch...
08/11/2011
20110115998Liquid crystal display panel with charge sharing scheme
A LCD panel in which a pixel has a first sub-pixel area and a second sub-pixel area, each area having a storage capacitor. Each pixel has a first gate line for providing a first gate-line signal for charging the first and second storage capacitors, and a second gate lin...
05/19/2011
20110115996Transflective liquid crystal display with gamma harmonization
In a transflective liquid crystal display having a transmission area and the reflection area, the transmissive electrode is connected to a switching element to control the liquid crystal layer in the transmission area, and the reflective electrode is connected to the sw...
05/19/2011
20110050550Pixel driving circuit for light emitting display panel
A display panel has a plurality of OLED pixels arranged in rows and columns. The pixel driving circuit has two or more current paths through a plurality of switching elements for providing the necessary current to the OLEDs in a pixel. The control end of each switching ...
03/03/2011
20100327263OLED panel with broadended color spectral components
A method and device in which the light emitted from a color sub-pixel in an organic light emitted display panel can be the sum of two or more light beams of slightly different colors in the same wavelength range. The difference in color is the result of difference in th...
12/30/2010
20100277418Patterned resistive touch panel
A touch panel having a first panel and a second panel, wherein the first panel has a voltage providing area connected to a power source and the second panel has a patterned resistive element facing the voltage providing area so that when a touch event on the touch panel...
11/04/2010
20100207889Active pixel sensor and method for making same
A touch panel includes a plurality of active pixel sensors arranged in an array to sense a touch event. Each sensor element includes a photo-sensing element coupled to a single amplifier. The sensor element is arranged to provide a sensing voltage indicative of a light ...
08/19/2010
20100176860Clocked D-type Flip Flop circuit
A clocked D-type Flip-Flop circuit has a transmission gate to admit an input data and to provide an intermediate output to a clock-controlled inverter based on the clock signals. The clock-controlled inverter is used as a latch for latching the output signal from the tr...
07/15/2010
20100150302SHIFT REGISTER
A shift register comprises a plurality of stages, {Sn}, n=1, 2, . . . , N, N being a positive integer. In one embodiment, each stage Sn includes a pull-up circuit having an input for receiving one of a first clock signal, CK1, and a second c...
06/17/2010
20100141858Transflective liquid crystal display with gamma harmonization
In a transflective liquid crystal display having a transmission area and the reflection area, the transmissive electrode is connected to a switching element to control the liquid crystal layer in the transmission area, and the reflective electrode is connected to the sw...
06/10/2010
20100109738Gate driver and method for making same
A gate driver for use in a liquid crystal display has a plurality of shift registers connected in series. Each of the shift registers is used to provide a gate-line pulse to a row of pixels in the liquid crystal display. The gate-line pulse has a front pulse and a rear ...
05/06/2010
20100091162ACTIVE PIXEL SENOR CIRCUIT
The present invention relates to an active pixel sensor circuit and a method of operating same. In one embodiment, the active pixel sensor circuit includes a reset transistor having a gate, a source and a drain, a silicon rich oxide (SRO) photosensor having an anode and...
04/15/2010
20100039587Color liquid crystal display with backlight
A color liquid-crystal display panel has a red filter segment in each red sub-pixel and a blue filter segment in each blue sub-pixel, but no green filter segment in green sub-pixels. The liquid-crystal display panel has a backlight source for illuminating, and the backl...
02/18/2010
20100007594Multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display
In a multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display wherein a pixel that has two sub-pixels, an additional switching element is used to achieve a voltage differential between the electrode voltage potential in one sub-pixel and the other during and after the cha...
01/14/2010
20090262292Electrical connectors between electronic devices
A display panel has a plurality of drivers ICs electrically connected to the pixel area. The electrical conductors that are used to electrically connect the driver ICs to the pixel area are arranged in one or more fan-out patterns. The fan-out pattern of at least one of...
10/22/2009
20090209054METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, the method includes steps of depositing a transparent conductive layer, forming a pixel electrode, and four bottom layers, depositing a semiconductor insulation layer on the pixel electrode and the four bottom layers,...
08/20/2009
20090195713Shared light source in an electronic device
An optical module is used in an electronic device to share a light source. The light source can be shared concurrently with an image projection device and a different component, such as a liquid crystal display device. Alternatively, the light source is used for providi...
08/06/2009
20090149015MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CONTACT STRUCTURE
A manufacturing method of a contact structure includes first providing a substrate on which a contact pad has already been formed. Afterwards, a polymer bump is formed on the contact pad. Next, a conductive layer is formed on the polymer bump. The conductive layer cover...
06/11/2009
20090135342WIDE VIEWING ANGLE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device. In one embodiment, the LCD device includes a first substrate and a second substrate positioned apart from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality ...
05/28/2009
20090101903Thin film transistor and method for manufaturing thereof
A thin-film transistor (TFT) includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer, source/drain electrodes, a passivation layer and a protection layer. The gate electrode is disposed on a substrate. The gate dielectric layer covers the gate electrod...
04/23/2009
20090096760CAPACITANCE TYPE TOUCH PANEL
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a plurality of display units formed with a first substrate, a color matrix formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the color matrix, a second substrate spaced from ...
04/16/2009
20090051639Method and device for reducing voltage stress at bootstrap point in electronic circuits
A discharging device is used to reduce the voltage level at a bootstrap point in an electronic circuit such as a shift register circuit. In such a circuit, a first transistor in a conducting state receives an input pulse and conveys it to the gate terminal of a second t...
02/26/2009
20090039779Phosphorescent light-emitting device with doped iridium-complex
A phosphorescent OLED uses a phosphorescent dopant in the emissive layer, the dopant includes a metal complex containing a plurality of moieties linking to a transition metal ion. One or more of the moieties contain a ligand with a C-SP3 carbon center. The tr...
02/12/2009
20080311724TFD LCD PANEL
Active devices in a thin film diode (TFD) liquid crystal display (LCD) panel used to control liquid crystal are formed by a metal layer, a transparent conductive layer, and an insulating layer sequentially on a substrate, wherein the metal layer is used as transmitting ...
12/18/2008
20080297711Liquid crystal display device and its manufacturing method
In a conventional manufacturing process where the number of manufacturing processes is reduced to form a semiconductor layer of a channel etch-type insulating gate-type transistor and source-drain wires in one photographic etching processing using half-tone exposure tec...
12/04/2008
20080239183Stacked storage capacitor structure for a thin film transistor liquid crystal display
A stacked storage capacitor structure for use in each pixel of a TFT-LCD, wherein a first storage capacitor is formed by a first metal layer, a gate insulator layer and a second metal layer. The second capacitor is formed by the second metal layer, a passivation insulat...
10/02/2008
20080227357Organic light-emitting device with improved layer conductivity distribution
An OLED comprises an anode, a hole source, an emissive region, an electron source and a cathode, wherein the materials for the electron source and the hole source are chosen such that the electrical conductivity of these charge carrier sources is greater than the electr...
09/18/2008
20080199638Method for producing reflective layers in LCD display
A method for producing a light reflecting structure in a transflective or reflective liquid crystal display uses one or two masks for masking a photoresist layer in a back-side exposing process. The pattern on the masks is designed to produce rod-like structures or crev...
08/21/2008
20080122831Timing controller and method of generating timing signals
A timer controller and method of generating timing signals uses a synchronization signal and a clock signal to generate a timing signal by counting the clock signal only after the synchronization signal has changed states. In a display requiring a dot or line counter ha...
05/29/2008
20080118994Residue isolation process in TFT LCD fabrication
A method is used to prevent unwanted electrical contacts between various electrically conducting surfaces and lines in a display panel due to an n+ a-Si residue and/or ITO debris. The method provides a clearing pattern including at least a cleared area in the passivatio...
05/22/2008
20080094833Light emitting device and panel
A back-light source comprises a plurality of light-emitting devices, each light-emitting device having a light-emitting package and a lens surface. In at least some of the light emitting devices, the radius of curvature in one direction of the lens surface is different ...
04/24/2008
20080057609Organic light-emitting device with improved layer structure
An organic light emitting device having a cathode, an anode and an organic layer structure disposed between the cathode and the anode, the organic layer structure comprising a hole injection layer doped with a p-type dopant, a hole transport layer, an emissive layer and...
03/06/2008
20080020501Liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method of the same
A four-mask process and a three-mask process proposal are constructed for a TN-type liquid crystal display device and an IPS-type liquid crystal device in which the formation of a passivation insulating layer is not required by streamlining the formation of a scan line ...
01/24/2008
20080018819Liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method of the same
A four-mask process and a three-mask process proposal are constructed for a TN-type liquid crystal display device and an IPS-type liquid crystal device in which the formation of a passivation insulating layer is not required by streamlining the formation of a scan line ...
01/24/2008
20080018820Liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method of the same
A four-mask process and a three-mask process proposal are constructed for a TN-type liquid crystal display device and an IPS-type liquid crystal device in which the formation of a passivation insulating layer is not required by streamlining the formation of a scan line ...
01/24/2008
20070296710Position encoded sensing device and a method thereof
A position encoded sensing device having a display panel, and a reflective plate having encoded information thereon. The reflective plate is disposed within the display panel. In addition, the position encoded sensing device includes a transceiver for emitting and recei...
12/27/2007
20070285608Placement of spacers in a liquid crystal display panel
A plurality of spacers are used to control the gap in a liquid crystal display panel. When a spacer is associated with an electrode in the lower substrate where the switching elements and data lines are disposed, it is located substantially at the center of the electrod...
12/13/2007
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