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Class 345/690 - Intensity or color driving control (e.g., gray scale)


Subclass of Class 345 - Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Definition: Subject matter wherein the selective electrical control
No. of applications: 2142
Last issue date: 05/24/2012


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Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20120127210Random PWM Dimming Control for LED Backlight
In one aspect of the invention, a driver for driving a backlight module having a plurality of LED strings includes a random frequency multiplexer for receiving one or more PWM signals and responsively outputting a plurality of random frequency signals, a PWM dimming con...
05/24/2012
20120127218METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN TERMINAL USING SELF-EMITTING TYPE DISPLAY
A method for reducing power consumption in a terminal having a self-emitting display is provided. In the method, a readable region is displayed on a screen, and a brightness of the rest is made darker than that of the readable region. The readable region is moved....
05/24/2012
20120127216IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
An image processing unit includes a filter unit which performs high frequency emphasis processing on a image signal of a first sub-frame among a plurality of sub-frames, and performs high frequency suppression processing on a image signal of a second sub-frame different...
05/24/2012
20120127214LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME
A light-emitting-diode (LED) driving circuit and a display device include a current driving circuit, a level detector, a comparing circuit, a digital control circuit, and a power supply circuit. The level detector detects a minimum detection voltage signal having a mini...
05/24/2012
20120127215DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME
A display device where a memory circuit is installed into each pixel without generating flicker, including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, wherein each pixel has a light-transmissive element controlling the amount of transmissive light in response to a volta...
05/24/2012
20120127211Graphic Medic Display Device and Method for Using Same
According to one exemplary embodiment, an apparatus and method for displaying graphic media are disclosed. The apparatus and method can contain and secure graphic media and provide illumination. The apparatus and method may also contain electronic communication devices....
05/24/2012
20120127212BACKLIGHT MODULE DRIVING SYSTEM AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF
A backlight module driving system and a driving method thereof are applied to a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). In the LCD, a timing controller obtains a three-dimensional (3D) image signal provided by a graphics processor, generates a Liquid Crystal (LC) driving control ...
05/24/2012
20120127217DIMMING METHOD OF ORGANIC EL DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAYING APPARATUS
A dimming method of an organic EL displaying apparatus having a displaying unit constructed by combining pixels each having a substrate, an organic EL element formed over the substrate, a power supply line for supplying a power source to the organic EL element, and at l...
05/24/2012
20120127213Power converter, display device including power converter, system including display device, and method of driving display device
A power converter includes a voltage conversion unit that provides a first driving voltage at a first output electrode by converting a power supply voltage in response to a first control signal, the voltage conversion unit being configured to provide a second driving vo...
05/24/2012
20120127219IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE
Disclosed is an image display device which includes a light mixer configured to mix first and second lights generated from first and second light sources, respectively; and a wave guide configured to guide lights emitted from the light mixer and to emit the guided light...
05/24/2012
20120127220ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE
The present invention provides an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate suppressing reduction in the response time of the current-driven light-emitting element; a display device; and an organic EL display device. The active matrix substrate of the present inv...
05/24/2012
20120105503ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide plate and a plurality of light sources. The light guide plate includes a light emitting surface. The plurality of light sources whose light emission luminance can be controlled individually, the ...
05/03/2012
20120105505ADJUSTING A BRIGHTNESS LEVEL OF A SIDE EMITTING BACKLIGHT DISPLAY DEVICE
Embodiments of methods, systems, or apparatuses relating to adjusting a brightness level of at least one luminescent body disposed, at least in part, on a side emitting backlight display device are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, for example, one or more values r...
05/03/2012
20120105605Stereoscopic display device and driving method thereof
A stereoscopic display device includes a scan driver, a data driver, a light emission driver, a display unit including a first region and a second region with pixel lines, and a controller. The light emission driver is configured to transmit a plurality of first light e...
05/03/2012
20120105492BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DRIVING CIRCUIT
A backlight module and a driving circuit are provided. The driving circuit includes a plurality of current sources and a current switching unit. The current sources provide a plurality of driving currents. The current switching unit is coupled between a plurality of lig...
05/03/2012
20120105506METHOD FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY
A method for driving a display is provided. According to the driving method, a display panel is divided into a plurality of bright regions and a plurality of dark regions, wherein the dark regions and the bright regions are alternately arranged so that the bright region...
05/03/2012
20120105498LUMINESCENCE DRIVING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF
A switching-type luminescence driving apparatus, a display apparatus, and a driving method thereof are provided. The luminescence driving apparatus includes: a plurality of driving circuits which are connected to a plurality of LEDs having a common anode terminal and wh...
05/03/2012
20120105500PIXEL-DRIVING CIRCUIT
A pixel driving circuit includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a data driving circuit. Each pixel includes a main region and a sub region. The main region stores a gray level voltage and the sub region stores a gray level voltage corresponding to the gray level vol...
05/03/2012
20120105490SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY OF A MOBILE DEVICE
A method and system are provided for controlling the display of an mobile device by: capturing an image using a camera device of the mobile device, the camera device being directed in a same direction as a display of the mobile device, the image comprising one or more s...
05/03/2012
20120105441DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING BACKLIGHT APPLIED TO THE SAME
A display apparatus and a backlight driving method applied to the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus controls to drive light sources of a backlight unit according to an image scanning scheme of a display panel and controls the luminance of each light ...
05/03/2012
20120105501IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE
An image display device includes: a light-emitting element that emits light corresponding to an amount of current in an emission period; a storage capacitor to which a display potential is supplied to one end thereof before the emission period and which stores a voltage...
05/03/2012
20120105468Display Device And Display Device Driving Method
A display device and a driving method of a display device are each capable of sufficiently removing an image ghost caused in a background during a low gray scale display. In an embodiment, each of the display device and the driving method includes at least one correctio...
05/03/2012
20120105497AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF
An auto-stereoscopic 3D display and a display method thereof are provided. The auto-stereoscopic 3D display includes a display module and a scanning barrier. The display module displays a 2D image. The scanning barrier is attached on the display module. The scanning bar...
05/03/2012
20120105494LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is disclosed. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, a first sub gate-line coupled to first row-pixels that are adjacent to a lower side of the first sub gate-line, a second sub gate-line coupled t...
05/03/2012
20120105496Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same
A method of driving an OLED, including a plurality of first sub pixels and a plurality of second sub pixels alternating each other. The method includes setting a plurality of first sub pixels to be in a non-emission state in ith (i is 1, 3, 5, . . . ) frames, selecting ...
05/03/2012
20120105510LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND POTENTIAL SETTING METHOD FOR THE SAME
A liquid crystal display device includes source bus lines, gate bus lines intersecting with the source bus lines, pixels arranged in a matrix to correspond to intersections between the gate bus lines and the source bus lines, each of the pixels including a TFT, a pixel ...
05/03/2012
20120105508BACKLIGHT DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD
A backlight device according to the present invention includes a lamination of two light guide layers, namely, a first light guide layer (1) and a second light guide layer (3). The first light guide layer (1) includes a plurality of first light guid...
05/03/2012
20120105493SHADING SIGNAL GENERATING CIRCUIT
A shading signal generating circuit includes an output port, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first control unit, a second control unit, and a resistor. The output port is electrically connected to the first switch, the second switch, and the third swi...
05/03/2012
20120105504LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM FOR A COLOR FLAT PANEL DISPLAY
A system for operating a color flat panel display (FPD) is provided that includes a color FPD, a light source, and a display processing device. The color FPD has an adjustable color depth and is configured to reflect ambient light. The light source transmits light throu...
05/03/2012
20120105495ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY
An organic light emitting display capable of displaying an image with uniform brightness is provided. The display includes a scan driver, a data driver, pixels, an initial power source line coupled to an initial power source, a bias power source line coupled to a bias p...
05/03/2012
20120105491STRUCTURE FOR ADJUSTING BACKLIGHT bRIGHTNESS OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
A structure for adjusting backlight brightness of an electronic apparatus includes an indicator cover with an optical window and a light detecting circuit board. The indicator cover with an optical window has a window disposed thereon. The light detecting circuit board ...
05/03/2012
20120105499LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT DISPLAY DEVICE
A light-emitting element display device includes: a gray level value luminance calculation unit that calculates the luminance to a gray level value from the setting values stored in a setting value storage unit; a voltage luminance storage unit that stores the measureme...
05/03/2012
20120105502IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
Provided is an image display device capable of dynamically controlling the D-V characteristics of a display panel while suppressing fluctuation in characteristic for each display panel. The display panel has a panel display portion including a red pixel, a green pixel, ...
05/03/2012
20120105507LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR SAME
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device in which the light sources of a backlight unit are independently driven as a plurality of separate regions, and to a drive method for the same. In situations where there is a substantial variation in the b...
05/03/2012
20120105509IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE FOR SAME, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
Disclosed is an image display device having improved image qualities, while reducing power consumption. A backlight unit (20) includes a plurality of light sources disposed so as to form a plurality of light emission regions. A liquid crystal panel (10) di...
05/03/2012
20120081408Mini-Color Image Projector
The present invention includes a light color controller, multiple mono-light sources are coupled to the light color controller to control the emission of the light sources. A display is located in accordance with the multiple mono-light sources to display a gray scale i...
04/05/2012
20120081409DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
The present invention relates to a driver and a display device including the same, wherein the driver includes: a first driving circuit generating a first output signal; a second driving circuit generating a second output signal; and at least one buffer circuit generati...
04/05/2012
20120081410METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME
Rather than using complex zigzag patterns or the like for counter-compensating for the different lengths of fanout lines used to transmit data line drive voltages from more concentrated source points of the drive voltages to more spread apart data lines of a given displ...
04/05/2012
20120081387Image Display Based on Multiple Brightness Indicators
Methods for controlling light sources in displays in response to image data determine both a central tendency for brightness and an upper extreme for brightness of an area of an image. Brightness of a light source is controlled based upon both the central tendency and t...
04/05/2012
20120081381DISPLAY DRIVE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
display drive device includes a correction data memory circuit, a data reading control circuit, and an image data correction circuit. The correction data memory circuit stores a plurality of pieces of correction data according to characteristics of pixels in association...
04/05/2012
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