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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169553 | Assembling structure for flat-panel display unit, and flat-panel television An assembling structure for a flat-panel display unit, comprising: a housing body comprised of a front cabinet and a rear cabinet is assembled to house a flat display panel; at both side faces of rear cabinet, several base portions that are extended by predetermined... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154489 | Liquid crystal module A source circuit for generating, based on image data composed of RGB signals, drive voltages for a row of pixels arranged in a horizontal direction which is a main scanning direction on a liquid crystal panel 12a and applying the drive voltages to sign... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144265 | Liquid crystal television receiver and liquid crystal display device The liquid crystal television receiver comprises an inverter circuit 28, transistors Q14, Q13, and a microcomputer 22. The inverter circuit 28 includes resistors R5, R6, R7, R8 determining the value of a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139169 | Liquid crystal TV set and liquid crystal display unit Disclosed are a liquid crystal display unit and a liquid crystal TV set, each of which has a sequence circuit 13 that includes first, second, and third voltage output units. The sequence circuit 13, upon the turning-on of the power to the liquid crysta... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126416 | Broadcast receiving apparatus With a power supply provided for a smart antenna, whether the antenna is connected is determined according to whether the power supply is connected. When it is determined that the smart antenna is not connected, power supply to units related only to controlling of t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125575 | Liquid crystal television and backlight unit A liquid crystal television 100 displays an image on a liquid crystal display by transmitting a light source from a backlight unit 10. The backlight unit 10 drives two cold-cathode tubes 13a, 13b as the backlight 1... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125568 | Muting device and muting method A muting device includes an external sound input unit that receives an external sound and an internal sound input unit that only receives an internal sound. The external sound received by the external sound input unit has a component, which corresponds to the intern... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120705 | Television having a connecting terminal for connecting a player device The present invention discloses a television that includes a speaker; a display; a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and generates first sound signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting signals; a connecting terminal for c... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8098338 | Liquid crystal television including a left speaker and a right speaker for outputting audio based on an audio signal An audio signal is transmitted to a sensor substrate D through a cable 60c connecting the lower end of an analog substrate A arranged on the rear face of the liquid crystal panel and the sensor substrate arranged below the liquid crystal panel of a cab... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094243 | LCD television with integrated stand and wall mount The present invention is intended to enable a body of an LCD television to stand upright even when a rear cabinet is removed, to enable the body alone to be used as a wall -hanging television without removing the rear cabinet, and to eliminate or reduce the screws f... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085198 | Smart antenna system and failure detection method for smart antenna system Disclosed herein is a smart antenna system including an antenna body with changeable directivity, and a control device that optimizes receiving conditions of the antenna body by changing the directivity of the antenna body with a control signal based on a selected c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077879 | Audio output apparatus and television broadcast receiver When an abnormality occurs in a supply circuit and its output is decreased, a protect circuit detects the abnormality and outputs a protect signal to an audio circuit. The audio circuit upon detection of the protect signal stops outputting audio so that outputting o... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072545 | Television and image display device in which color saturation can be adjusted The present invention discloses an image display device, comprising: a lookup table specifying a corresponding relationship between color saturation represented by gradation and set values associated with part including the minimum value of the color saturation; a f... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059214 | Direct-type backlight device and liquid crystal television apparatus Fluorescent tubes are arranged such that their arrangement spaces gradually become wider in central area than in edge areas, fluorescent tubes located in the vicinity of the central area of an arrangement direction are bent into chevron-shapes such that the central ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059212 | Television receiver and television receiving method A television receiver includes at least two tuner units that respectively connect to multidirectional antennas respectively capable of electrically switching a directivity of a receiving radio wave and that select a television broadcast signal corresponding to a cha... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054285 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal television, which can improve contrast The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display apparatus and a liquid crystal television which are provided with a backlight to be lighted up by a separately-excited inverter circuit and realize improvement of contrast in low brightness. A microcomputer | 11/08/2011 |
| 8035755 | TV broadcast receiver In the course of the channel presetting process, the central frequency is set by a step of 1 MHz within the range from the minimum frequency in the VHF band channel plan to the maximum frequency of the VHF band adopted in the place of destination for the scheduled s... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030857 | Backlight LED drive circuit A backlight LED drive circuit 20 includes a step-up DC/DC converter 22 for stepping up a DC power voltage based on a PWM signal and supplying the voltage to the anode of an LED device 12c, a voltage detector 24 for detecting a feed... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009182 | Display device with function of converting resolution There is provided a display device that enables to present an image on its screen at a desired resolution, in response to an operation by a user and on the basis of an image signal, even when the image signal is obtained from image data from which a resolution is no... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004615 | Television The present invention discloses a television includes a power circuit; a power circuit; a speaker; a display; a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and for generating first audio signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting si... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992164 | Digital broadcasting receiving device A microcomputer 18 obtains a variable RRT from a broadcast signal and stores, in a recording medium, the variable RRT in association with a physical channel; sets a viewing restriction flag for an item in the variable RRT based on an operation input from a us... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986373 | Plasma television and panel type television An upper left protruding section 63a, an upper right protruding section 63b, a lower left protruding section 64a, and a lower right protruding section 64b are provided at vertically extending bridge frames 6... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982810 | Panel-type image display device and liquid crystal television A panel-type television whose colors and image qualities of OSD portions are kept intact and the qualities of images other than the OSD portions are adjusted is provided. The panel-type television includes an image quality adjustment circuit 30a that p... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965343 | Remote controller A remote controller allowing a user to change settings is provided. The remote controller includes a touch panel, a control circuit, a screen display memory, a setting data memory, a control data memory, an infrared transmission unit, and a battery. The control circ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7944154 | Fluorescent tube power supply and backlight A fluorescent tube power supply including an inverter power supply which outputs a DC voltage, and an inverter which converts an output of the inverter power supply to an AC; wherein a power stabilizing unit for stabilizing a power input to the inverter is arranged ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940339 | Television and structure for fixing earphone plug socket The formation of the retaining member 42 at the forming of the main board 40 so as to be able to be cut off and the cutting-off from the main board 40 after the board forming of the main board 40 causes the retaining member 42 to b... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936349 | Power supply apparatus and flat-screen television set A safety circuit 16 for monitoring the waveform of a start signal outputted from a microcomputer 40a is provided in a power supply circuit. If a start signal inputted to the safety circuit 16 is not a pulse wave, a power supply cutoff sec... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936317 | Television receiving apparatus A television receiving apparatus 100 includes a television receiver 20, and a smart antenna 10 having directivity capable of being electrically changed so as to match radio waves to be received. A handle 50 is provided with a mechanism ho... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936316 | Smart antenna The present invention discloses a smart antenna that includes: a switch unit that switches a direction for receiving radio waves; and an outer covering unit that covers the smart antenna and is made of an insulating material. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7923634 | Method for producing a panel storage frame and panel storage frame The manufacturing method of the panel installation portion 12a allows the portions of the upper block and the lower block for forming the panel installation portion to be exchanged as the nesting blocks upon press working so as to change the protruding... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7903506 | Optical pickup device The present invention provides an optical pickup device capable of properly suppressing coma aberration which occurs due to a relative tilt error between objective lenses. The optical pickup device includes: first and second objective lenses having different optical... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898926 | Optical pickup The liquid crystal element includes a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal arranged between the substrates, a diffraction pattern including concentric diffraction electrodes formed on one substrate, and a phase shift pattern including concentric phase sh... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889235 | Liquid crystal television adjustment system, liquid crystal display unit adjustment system, and liquid crystal display unit A PC 40 outputs a picture signal for a white color to a TV 100, and generates chromaticity information by measuring luminance values of respective RGB color components from a picture displayed on the TV 100, thereby determining whether the chrom... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848187 | Information reproducing/recording apparatus The present invention provides an information reproducing/recording apparatus capable of executing tracking servo normally in short time at the time of loading an information recording medium. At the time of executing a tracking servo process on a BD (Blu-ray Disc)-... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847818 | Television with disc loader, disc presence display device The present invention is directed to eliminate mistaken recognition of the presence of the disc even when displaying the presence of the disc with one light emitting element. In a television incorporating a slot-in type disc loader in which an LED emits light with a... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7872703 | Display module supporting structure A display module supporting structure including a display module having a circuit board carried on a rear surface thereof, a intermediate support members being interposed between a rear surface of the display module and an external support member for supporting the ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868951 | Panel type television and LCD television Since size and mounting method of display panels of a large-sized panel type television differ by manufacturers, different parts are needed for display panels of different manufacturers. The display panel fixing plate is separated into a panel top fixing plate, a pa... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7854520 | Projector device The present invention discloses a projector device comprising: a housing body having a first insertion slot formed in a wall portion thereof; a control substrate; a metal-made shield frame arranged and fixed within the housing body and fixed to the housing body for ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7831128 | Video and audio recording apparatus A video and audio recording apparatus including: a plurality of tuner units each of which receives commercial broadcasting to output video and audio signals; a distributor that distributes high-frequency signals input to an input terminal from the outside of an appa... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7817090 | Apparatus for transmitting positioning signal, positioning system including the apparatus, and system for transmitting positioning signal An apparatus that can transmit a signal enabling higher accuracy of calculating positional information is provided. A transmitting apparatus transmitting a positioning signal includes an oven controller crystal oscillator (OCXO) having a thermostatic oven that keeps... | 10/19/2010 |
