Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184226 | Thin film transistor structure A thin film transistor (TFT) structure is provided. The TFT comprises a gate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a dielectric layer, and a channel layer. By overlapping the area between the first electrode and the gate, the TFT structure acquires a parasitic cap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184081 | Pixel unit, method for controlling the pixel unit, and display apparatus comprising the same A pixel unit, a method for controlling the pixel unit, and a display apparatus having the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a driving circuit and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel unit includes a switch circuit and an energy storage circu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182302 | Fabrication method for organic electroluminescent display with reflection-reducing properties An organic electroluminescent device and method for fabricating the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent device comprises an anode. An organic luminescent layer is formed over the anode. A partially light-transmitting layer is formed over the organic lu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182130 | Light guiding structure of a light guide plate A light guiding structure of a light guide plate is provided. The light guiding structure comprises a plurality of protrusion ridge portions extending along a longitudinal direction. The height or the vertex angle of each protrusion ridge portion periodically or ran... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179480 | Systems and methods for automated channel updating A method for automated channel updating is provided. In step (a), a frequency carrying channel data is detected. In step (b), it is determined whether a channel list comprises the frequency by retrieving a frequency table, where the frequency table stores informatio... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179426 | Pixel arrangement for an autostereoscopic display apparatus An autostereoscopic display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator comprising an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns in a pixel plane, and a spatially multiplexing parallax element capable of directing light from successive columns of pixels towards ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179425 | Alignment of elements of a display apparatus To align a display substrate comprising an array of pixels with a component substrate comprising an array of optical components, the display substrate is divided from a display motherglass formed with an array of panels each comprising an array of pixels sufficient ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179408 | Projective capacitive touch apparatus, and method for identifying distinctive positions A projective capacitive touch apparatus and a method for identifying multi-touched positions are provided. The multi-touched positions are touched on a projective capacitive touch panel. The method comprises the following steps: generating a first set of reference v... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178882 | Buffer layer for promoting electron mobility and thin film transistor having the same A buffer layer for promoting electron mobility. The buffer layer comprises amorphous silicon layer (a-Si) and an oxide-containing layer. The a-Si has high enough density that the particles in the substrate are prevented by the a-Si buffer layer from diffusing into t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174662 | Display circuits A display circuit for a display panel is disclosed. The display circuit comprises a circuit board, a flexible printed circuit board (FPC), and a driver. The circuit board has at least one test pad. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected and dis... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173498 | Method for manufacturing an array substrate A method for manufacturing an array substrate is provided, wherein a data line is composed of first and second segments connected by a contact pad. First and second insulation layers are disposed between the first segment of the data line and a shielding electrode. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164703 | Optical module and positioning frame thereof An optical module with an optical film and a positioning frame is disclosed. The positioning frame firmly fixes the optical film of the optical module so as to prevent the deviation of the optical film. The optical film has at least a first lug with a base portion a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164187 | Flip chip device and manufacturing method thereof A flip chip device made using LCD-COG (liquid crystal display-chip on glass) technique. The flip chip device comprises a substrate, at least one chip having active area with a plurality of compliant bumps thereon. The compliant bumps are centrally disposed in the ce... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159443 | Display panels A display panel comprising a plurality of first and second signal lines, first and second detecting lines, a plurality of ESD protection circuits, and first and second common electrode lines. The first and second detecting lines are respectively coupled to the first... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154506 | Device and method for adjusting backlight brightness A device and method for adjusting backlight brightness employed in a display. The device has a buffer, a counter, and a comparator. The buffer receives and stores an image data of a frame. The counter receives the image data and obtains an image-loading value of the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153495 | Semiconductor device and LTPS-TFT within and method of making the same A thin film transistor (TFT) formed on a substrate includes a polycrystalline film, a gate insulator, a hydrogen-supplying film and a gate electrode. The polycrystalline film is formed on the substrate. Two sides of the polycrystalline film serve as the source and t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153337 | Photomask and method for fabricating source/drain electrode of thin film transistor A photomask for fabricating a thin film transistor (TFT) is disclosed. The photomask includes a translucent layer disposed on a transparent substrate and covering U-shaped and rectangular channel-forming regions of the transparent substrate. First and second light-s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144139 | Display panel module In a display panel module, a first group and a second group of data driver chips are separately cascaded on a first side of a display panel. A scan driver chip is disposed on a second side of the display panel. A first flexible printed circuit (FPC) is connected bet... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139708 | Shift register An exemplary shift register includes a control circuit and an output circuit. The control circuit is electrically coupled to receive a start pulse signal, a first clock pulse signal and a power supply voltage and for generating an enable signal according to the star... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139017 | Connection repairing method for a plurality of drivers in a liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device, drive circuit, and repair method thereof are provided. The drive circuit includes a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of drivers connected with the signal lines. The drivers have an ordering sequence. Each of the drivers incl... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139010 | Gamma voltage generator and control method thereof and liquid crystal display device utilizing the same A gamma voltage generator can control brightness of a first color pixel unit and a second color pixel unit. A first potential divider is coupled between a first node and a second node for generating a first main gamma voltage. At least one second potential divider i... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136976 | Light guiding structure of a light guide plate A light guiding structure of a light guide plate is provided. The light guiding structure comprises a plurality of protrusion ridge portions extending along a longitudinal direction. The height or the vertex angle of each protrusion ridge portion periodically or ran... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134653 | Method for fabricating an LCD panel comprising applying first and second curing voltages simultaneously and respectively on second and third common electrodes An LCD panel includes a pixel unit having a first and a second pixel electrodes. The method includes: providing a first and a second curing voltages Vcuring1, Vcuring2 based on V1=[Cst1/(Cst1+Clc1)]×Vcuring... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125437 | Over-driving device An over-driving device is provided. In a first frame, a compression circuit compresses a first image signal to generate a first compression image signal, and a buffer temporarily stores the first compression image signal. In a following second frame, the compression... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115400 | Backlight module Backlight module is disclosed. The backlight module includes a first lamp, a first voltage source, a second lamp, a second voltage source, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. Both the first and the second voltage sources have a first termina... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115209 | Dual gate layout for thin film transistor A dual gate layout of a thin film transistor of liquid crystal display to alleviate dark current leakage is disclosed. The layout includes (1) a polysilicon on a substrate having a L-shaped or a snake shaped from top-view, which has a heavily doped source region, a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110452 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A lower substrate for a liquid crystal display device and the method of making the same are disclosed. The method includes steps of: (a) providing a substrate; (b) forming a patterned transparent layer having plural recess on the substrate; (c) forming a first barri... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8101951 | Conductor structure, pixel structure, and methods of forming the same A method for forming a conductor structure is provided. The method comprises: (1) providing a substrate; (2) forming a patterned dielectric layer with a first opening which exposes a portion of the substrate; forming a patterned organic material layer on the dielect... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094117 | Shift register array, and display apparatus A display apparatus comprises a shift register array. The shift register array comprises a plurality of shift registers. At least one shift register comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a driving circuit. The gate and the first ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093113 | Array substrate for LCD and method of fabrication thereof A liquid crystal display array substrate. A trench is in a substrate. A gate, a gate dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer and a doped semiconductor layer are disposed in the trench, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises a channel. A source electrode and a dra... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077129 | Pixel structure and method for generating drive voltages in the same A pixel structure and a method for generating drive voltages in the pixel structure are disclosed. The pixel structure comprises a first sub-pixel electrode, a first com-line, and second com-line. The first sub-pixel electrode is applied with a first drive voltage. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071407 | Active device array substrate and method for fabricating the same An active device array substrate and its fabricating method are provided. According to the subject invention, the elements of an array substrate such as the thin film transistors, gate lines, gate pads, data lines, data pads and storage electrodes, are provided by f... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070313 | Backlight structure including clipping connectors A backlight structure comprises a frame, a circuit board, and a connector. The frame has an opening. The circuit board is located below the frame and has a through hole, wherein the through hole aligns with the opening. The connector passes through the opening and t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067890 | Organic electroluminescence structure having a height difference between surfaces of a control device and an organic electroluminescence device An organic electroluminescence structure comprises a first substrate, an organic electroluminescence device, and a control device. Forming either a lifting layer under the control device or a recess under the organic electroluminescence device, or forming both of th... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059780 | Shift register circuit and gate driving circuit An exemplary shift register circuit includes a shift register, a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit. The shift register has a start pulse signal input terminal and a start pulse signal output terminal. The first switching circuit includes a first... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059234 | Color filter and black matrix thereof A color filter and a black matrix thereof are provided. The black matrix disposed on the substrate comprises a frame that defines a pixel area for accommodating color filter inks when performing the ink-jet process, and a spacer disposed in each of the pixels for pr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059213 | Systems and methods for automated channel installation consuming less time and thus increasing user convenience A method for automated channel installation comprises the following steps. In step (A), a frequency scanning operation is executed to lock on to a frequency. In step (B), it is determined whether the frequency scanning operation is complete, if so, the process proce... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059072 | Pixels, display devices utilizing same, and pixel driving methods A pixel including a light-emitting element, a driving transistor, a maintain capacitor, a switch device, and a control device. The driving transistor is serially coupled to the light-emitting element for driving the light-emitting element to emit light and has a thr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8048698 | Thin film transistor array substrate and method for manufacturing the same A thin film transistor array structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The thin film transistor array structure comprises a substrate, including a transition area and a pad area. A patterned first metal layer is formed on the substrate, wherein... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045067 | Method and apparatus of locating channels in a frequency band A method for searching a frequency band to locate a channel. The method includes the steps of setting an initial frequency and a first frequency step; determining a frequency point based on the initial frequency and the first frequency step; determining whether the ... | 10/25/2011 |
