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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184254 | Liquid crystal display and fabrication method thereof A liquid crystal display and a method of fabricating the same is capable of strengthening adhesion between a sealant and a lower plate in a panel with a high aperture ratio to which an organic protective film is applied. The organic protective film and a gate insula... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184248 | Apparatus for fabricating liquid crystal display panels A method for forming an alignment layer for a liquid crystal display includes preparing a substrate, applying an alignment material for initial alignment of a liquid crystal, and applying a field flux (e.g., an electric or magnetic field) to the alignment material t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183567 | Array substrate for liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same An array substrate for an LCD device includes a first TFT including a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, wherein the first gate electrode is directly over the first semiconductor layer; a first protrusion extending from the first gate electrode along... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179510 | Liquid crystal display device and fabricating method thereof A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates; a gate line on the first substrate; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel area, the gate line and the data line having a gate insulating film there between; a thin film transistor inc... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179507 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate including a transmission part and a reflection part; a common electrode disposed on the transmission part and the reflection part; a plurality of first pixel electrodes disposed on the transmission part and... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179499 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device capable of reducing a time delay in lighting of the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, at least one fluorescent lamps disposed below the liquid crystal panel, formed as a cylindrical shape having a central ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179351 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. A timing controller of the liquid crystal display controls a polarity control signal to have a different phase in each frame and allows liquid crystal cells to be divided into a first liquid cr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179347 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display An apparatus and a method of driving a liquid crystal display device include receiving gamma-treated data, performing a reverse gamma correction of the data, the reverse-gamma-corrected data having a first linear characteristic, performing a signal processing of the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178883 | Array substrate for liquid crystal display device and fabricating method of the same A method of manufacturing an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes forming a gate line, a gate pad, a gate electrode, and a data pad on a substrate through a first mask process, forming a gate insulating layer on a substantial part of an entir... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178879 | Array substrate for display device and method of fabricating the same An array substrate for a display device includes a gate electrode on a substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode and having the same plane area and the same plane shape as the gate electrode; an active layer on the gate insulating layer and exposing a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178367 | Process condition evaluation method for liquid crystal display module A process condition evaluation method for a liquid crystal display module (LCM) includes: a first step of obtaining a threshold power measuring pattern, an analysis sample for a cell bonding status in an LCD fabrication process, and obtaining a lower substrate sampl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174665 | Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method for manufacturing the same, capable of maintaining a cell gap and preventing press defects caused by application of a predetermined external pressure via the use of ball spacers. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174657 | Liquid crystal display device An LCD include a gate line, a first data line and a second data line arranged to cross each other, thereby defining a unit pixel region, a TFT disposed at a region where the gate line, the first data line and the second data line cross, and having a passivation laye... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174485 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof The method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes calculating a brightness average value of pixel data of at least one frame period supplied to a liquid crystal display panel, and storing the average to a memory unit; generating a brightness control sig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174477 | Gate driver and repairing method thereof A gate driver and a repairing method are disclosed, wherein the gate driver is provided with one or more plurality of auxiliary stages that can substitute for a disabled stage, the gate driver including a shift register provided with a plurality of first output line... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173930 | Apparatus for cutting substrate An apparatus for cutting a substrate includes a laser oscillator generating a femtosecond laser beam, a first beam splitter splitting the femtosecond laser beam into first and second femtosecond laser beams, a first condenser lens receiving the first femtosecond las... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169605 | Apparatus and method for inspecting liquid crystal display A method of inspecting a liquid crystal display panel includes providing a liquid crystal display panel to be inspected, turning on a backlight unit that is disposed under the liquid crystal display panel to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel, driving the li... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169395 | Apparatus and method of driving liquid crystal display device An apparatus and method of driving an LCD device is disclosed, which has a simplified structure by decreasing the number of signal transmission lines included in a shift register, the apparatus comprising a display panel to display images; a gate driver to drive gat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164604 | Flat panel display device and method of controlling picture quality of flat panel display device A flat panel display device includes a display panel having at least one link pixel which has a non-defect area and a panel defect area and where adjacent pixels are linked to each other; a memory which stores a first compensation data for compensating the data whic... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159642 | In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having auxiliary pixel electrodes An in-plane switching (IPS) liquid crystal mode liquid crystal display device that prevents signal interference of a data line and disclination is disclosed. The in-plane switching (IPS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes first and second substrates; ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159421 | Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of pairs of gate lines each comprising a first gate lines to which a first scan pulse is supplied and a second gate lines to which a s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158971 | Highly efficient organic light-emitting device using substrate or electrode having nanosized half-spherical convex and method for preparing the same The present invention provides a transparent substance formed with a plurality of continuous half-spherical convexes having a diameter of 25˜1,000 nm on its first main surface; an organic light-emitting device comprising a substrate, a first electrode, an organic m... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154504 | Liquid crystal display device capable of automatically switching to a mode and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate divided into a display region and a non-display region including a first regio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154490 | Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display A apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display that minimizes the generation of electro-magnetic interference (EMI) in a cost effective manner includes a gate control signal generator that generates a gate control signal using a externally inputted sync... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154479 | Electro-luminescence pixel, panel with the pixel, and device and method for driving the panel An electro-luminescence display having a plurality of pixels is disclosed. One of the pixels of the electro-luminescence display includes an electro-luminescence diode electrically connected between first and second voltage sources; first and second thin film transi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152431 | Stocking system The present invention relates generally to a stocking system and its operating method. The stocking system comprises a shelf assembly, a first crane, and a second crane. The shelf assembly stores a plurality of cassettes. The first crane is installed at one side of ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149368 | In-plane switching LCD panel The present invention discloses an array substrate for an IPS-LCD device. The IPS-LCD device according to the present invention implements a multi-domain for a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal molecules are aligned in various directions with respect to each ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149195 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes extracting brightness components of a portion of the first data for a current frame, arranging the brightness components for the current frame into a brightness histogram, retrieving brightness histograms ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148181 | Method for manufacturing flat display device A flat display device is provided. The flat display device a substrate divided into an active region for displaying an image and a peripheral region that does not display the image, and includes: a gate line that crosses a data line to define a pixel region in the a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144296 | Method of fabricating array substrate for in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having double-layered metal patterns An array substrate of an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device includes, among other features, a gate electrode and a gate line having a first double-layered structure consisting of a first barrier layer and a first low resistance metallic layer; a data l... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144200 | Testing apparatus of liquid crystal display module Disclosed is a technique for testing liquid crystal display modules which are driven in various image formats or drive frequencies by using one scanning converter, a testing apparatus of a liquid crystal display module, including: a scan box controller configured to... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142111 | Support platform of non-contact transfer apparatus Provided is a support platform of a non-contact transfer apparatus. The support platform is arranged horizontally and includes first and second members adding a lift force to a first force for lifting peripheral portions of a transferred object, wherein the first fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139172 | 3-dimensional display device using light controlling film A 3-dimensional display device includes a display panel for displaying image; a backlight for supplying light to the display panel; a light scattering control unit between the display panel and the backlight to scatter or transmit the light from the backlight; and a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134580 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes multiplying a frame frequency of an inputted current frame to generate a multiplied odd-numbered frame and a multiplied even-numbered frame; determining whether said current frame is a still image frame or... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130353 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region on a substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and including a first pixel portion w... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130337 | Liquid crystal display module having a hole of a support main and a protrusion of a light guide plate A liquid crystal display module for preventing noise caused by friction between a support main and a light guide plate is provided. In the module, a hole is formed by removing a portion of a side frame of the support main, the hole having a quadrangle shape. A light... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127692 | Rack for supporting liquid crystal display devices A structure for racking substrates includes first to fourth main legs isolated from one another at intervals wider than widths of both long sides and both short sides of a substrate, first to fourth protrusions respectively protruded from the first to fourth main le... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125473 | Electro-luminescence display device An electro-luminescence display device and a method of driving the same for controlling a full white brightness depending upon a brightness of the external environment and thus controlling a brightness mode is disclosed. An electro-luminescence display device accord... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121244 | Dual shift register Disclosed is a dual shift register that includes a first shift register configured to include a plurality of stages which sequentially output scan pulses using at least two clock signals with sequential and circular phases, and a second shift register configured to ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120647 | 3-dimensional display device having divided regions 3-dimensional display device includes a display panel for displaying image; a backlight for supplying light to the display panel; and a switching liquid crystal panel between the display panel and the backlight to display 2-dimensional image and 3-dimensional image ... | 02/21/2012 |
