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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7449787 | Liquid crystal display A display device includes a substrate having plural signal lines connected to switching elements which are formed in an image display region, and plural terminals connected to respective ones of the signal lines. The terminals include a first group arranged at an im... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7417614 | Liquid crystal display device with influences of offset voltages reduced A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display element having a plurality of pixels. The video signal line driver circuit includes a plurality of amplifiers each of which has a pair of a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and a plural... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7397472 | Active matrix display device A display device includes a dynamic ratio less shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratio less shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7385343 | Display device Rupture of distance holding members, aback substrate or a front substrate attributed to atmospheric pressure is suppressed in a display device in which, between the back substrate having cathode lines and plate-member control electrodes and the front substrate, a la... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366015 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, production and operation method thereof A semiconductor integrated device having a plurality of memory cells, each including a floating gate, a control gate and an auxiliary gate formed over a side surface of the floating gate through an insulator film. Auxiliary gates coupled to selected memory cells fun... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359244 | Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and semiconductor disk device A non-volatile memory device is provided which includes a flash memory having a plurality of banks and a bank selection register which can take on states at least equal in number to the number of banks. The bank selection register outputs a signal to point to one of... | 04/15/2008 |
| RE40130 | Liquid crystal display device video having signal driving circuit mounted on one side Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and b... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7319286 | Display device A display device includes a front substrate having an anode and fluorescent materials on an inner surface, and a back substrate having a plurality of cathode lines and include electron sources, and a plurality of control electrodes allow electrons from the electron ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7304710 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device has a narrowed peripheral area; more particularly, the liquid crystal display device is characterized in that disconnection or short-circuiting of connecting lines disposed in the narrowed peripheral area is restrained. The liquid cry... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292212 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of video signal lines formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of thin film transistors formed pro... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283400 | Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device A nonvolatile memory device of the present invention performs a programming operation by accumulating a charge in certain capacitance which is provided for each programming memory cell and injecting hot electrons generated when the charge is discharged via the memor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274362 | Active matrix display device A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262822 | Structure of liquid crystal display device for easy assembly and disassembly A liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display panel, a metal shield casing covering a periphery of the liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of fluorescent lamps arranged below the liquid crystal panel, a back light support supporting t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7238582 | Semiconductor device and process of producing the same The present invention provides a polycrystalline silicon conducting structure (e.g., a resistor) whose resistance value is controlled, and can be less variable and less dependent on temperature with respect to any resistant value, and a process of producing the same... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209103 | Liquid crystal projector A projector includes a liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel and a display control device coupled to the liquid crystal display panel. The display control device is composed of a first section for receiving an externally supplied video sig... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199648 | Semiconductor integrated circuit including first and second switching transistors having operation states corresponding to operation states of first and second logic circuits A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided having first and second logic circuits coupled to first and second sub-power supply lines, respectively. First and second switching transistors are also provided to connect the first and second sub-power supply lines to... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190361 | Image display device Even in a liquid crystal display device that has been completed as a product, EMI countermeasures and power saving can be realized according to the use environment of an electronic apparatus in which the liquid crystal display device is to be mounted. A timing conve... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7167154 | Display device The present invention provides a display device including a scanning driving circuit which exhibits the high degree of freedom in designing of waveforms of scanning signals while ensuring the reduction of power consumption. A shift register served for a scanning dri... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167141 | Liquid crystal display device A display device used in a miniaturized portable equipment is capable of driving two display panels, consisting of main and sub-display panels. The display device includes a main display panel, a sub-display panel and a drive circuit. The drive circuit can simultane... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164403 | Liquid crystal display device having a gray-scale voltage selector circuit A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of video signal lines for supplying video signal voltages to the plurality of pixels, and a drive circuit which selects a voltage level of a gray scale voltage varying per... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154571 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element, a frame member having a frame-shaped part which is arranged at a displaying surface side of the liquid crystal display element and having a display window exposing a displaying surface of the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142266 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element, a frame member arranged at a displaying surface side of the liquid crystal display element and having a display window, a light source arranged at an opposite surface of the liquid crystal di... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116298 | Active matrix display device A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116586 | Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and semiconductor disk device A non-volatile memory device is provided which includes a flash memory having a plurality of banks and a bank selection register which can take on states at least equal in number to the number of banks. The bank selection register outputs a signal to point to one of... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116950 | Direct-conversion transmitting circuit and integrated transmitting/receiving circuit A transmitter is provided which includes a transmitting circuit that does not require a high-performance low noise VCO restricting cost reduction thereof and that can reduce the number of parts without requiring an RF filter. A direct conversion that does not requir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7088332 | Display device The present invention provides a display device including a scanning driving circuit which exhibits the high degree of freedom in designing of waveforms of scanning signals while ensuring the reduction of power consumption. A shift register served for a scanning dri... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068340 | Liquid crystal display A display device includes a substrate having plural signal lines extending in one direction and arranged in parallel in a direction intersecting the one direction, terminals connected to respective ones of the signal lines, and a semiconductor chip mounted on the su... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068261 | Liquid crystal display device with a touch panel A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel having a first surface for displaying an image and a second surface different from the first surface, and a position information input device provided on a first-surface side of the liquid crys... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7042430 | Liquid crystal display device having stabilized drive circuit A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel and a drive circuit for supplying gray scale voltages to pixels in the liquid crystal display panel. The drive circuit selects desired gray scale voltage levels from a gray scale voltage varying with... | 05/09/2006 |
| RE39082 | Half reflection type liquid crystal display device having matched phase of transmitted and reflected light A liquid crystal display device is constructed such that a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between an upper substrate, which is provided with upper transparent electrodes for forming pixels, and a lower substrate, which is provided with lower transparent electrod... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027111 | Liquid crystal display device having nut member fixed on housing A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element, a frame member having a frame-shaped part which is arranged at a displaying surface side of the liquid crystal display element and having a display window exposing a displaying surface of the... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027018 | Display device and driving method thereof A hold-type display device for eliminating blurring without damaging the display brightness of moving images. The display device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a first dr... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027115 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a first transparent substrate having a plurality of electrodes, a second transparent substrate, a liquid crystal interposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, an illumination light s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006069 | Display device and driving method thereof In a display device having a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged two-dimensionally along a first direction and a second direction, each of the pixels includes a pair of electrodes applying a voltage to liquid crystals, respective groups of the pi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002645 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element, a frame member arranged at a displaying surface side of the liquid crystal display element and having a display window, a light source arranged at an opposite surface of the liquid crystal di... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998878 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and semiconductor logic circuit used in the integrated circuit To speed up the operation of a decoder circuit, reduce the power consumption of the decoder circuit and increase the cycle, each circuit such as a buffer, a predecoder and a main decoder in the decoder circuit includes a semiconductor logic circuit in which the numb... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6974977 | Heterojunction bipolar transistor A bipolar transistor is provided which is of high reliability and high gain, and which is particularly suitable to high speed operation. The bipolar transistor operates with high accuracy and with no substantial change of collector current even upon change of collec... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961041 | Liquid crystal display device having a low-voltage driving circuit A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between a pair of substrates, and a plurality of pixels disposed on one of the first substrates. Each of the pixels is supplied with a video signal via a switching element connected to a fir... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958570 | Display device Inside an outer frame, which is interposed at between opposedly facing peripheries between a back substrate and a front substrate, there is an inner frame which fixes both end portions of plate member control electrodes, which are constituted of a large number of pa... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956255 | Semiconductor device and drive circuit using the semiconductor devices A high-speed bipolar transistor is provided which is improved in the effect of heat radiation without increasing the substrate capacitance. The heat radiation connection between a base region and a silicon substrate includes a p+ extrinsic base polysilico... | 10/18/2005 |
