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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293907 | Backlight for display device, light source for display device, and light emitting diode used therefor A light source for a display device includes a board and light emitting diodes mounted on the board. The light emitting diodes include a white light emitting diode which emits white light and a red light emitting diode which emits red light. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294517 | Light emitting device and method of fabricating the same It is characteristic of an organic material suited to an interlayer insulating film to transmit vapor therethrough and to be liable to absorb moisture, and the material has a disadvantage that it is extremely susceptible to oxygen and moisture to be readily deterior... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292236 | Display driving method and display apparatus utilizing the same In order to obtain a satisfactory image by making a peak luminance of an image to be displayed large and suppressing an occurrence of unnecessary period, there is provided a display driving method for driving a display with a plurality of scanning wirings and a plur... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289594 | Shift registrer and driving method thereof A shift register having a plurality of stages for shifting a start pulse and outputting a shifted start pulse to a next stage, each of the plurality of stages includes a pull-up transistor controlled by a first node to apply a first clock signal to an output line, a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289116 | Electric power unit for driving a display and a display utilizing such power unit An electric power unit for driving a matrix-type display unit in alternating cycle mode has a multiplicity of buffer circuits for generating a multiplicity of high output voltages (high output voltage group) and a multiplicity of buffer circuits for generating a mul... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288420 | Method for manufacturing an electro-optical device An object of the present invention is to provide an EL display device having high operation performance and reliability. A third passivation film 45 is disposed under the EL element 203 comprising a pixel electrode (anode) 46, an EL layer... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288881 | Electron emitter and light emission element Primary electrons impinge upon an emitter section of an electron emitter for causing emission of the secondary electrons. The secondary electrons are outputted from the electron emitter. The secondary electrons emitted from the emitter section are accelerated in an ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288012 | Method of manufacturing plasma display panel A plasma display panel is provided that includes scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes. A first pulse voltage for the address electrodes or a second pulse voltage for the address electrodes is applied to the address electrodes in an aging step ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285917 | Connection member and driving device of plasma display panel A connection member for a flat-panel display is coupled to an electrode terminal part on one side of the panel and an integrated driving circuit on an opposing side of the panel. The connection member provides driving signals to at least one scan electrode and at le... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286102 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that can be driven at a low voltage and prevent undesired discharge from being generated under high temperature environment. A method and apparatus for driving a plasma... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286120 | Large area display and method of manufacturing same An embodiment of a large area display according to the present invention may include a pixel layer including display elements, a connection layer, drivers in communication with the pixel layer and the connection layer, the drivers configured for driving pixels in th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286259 | Self-scanned light-emitting device array, its driving method, and driving circuit A method for driving a self-scanning light-emitting element array is provided in which two light-emitting elements may be illuminated simultaneously in one chip. In a self-scanning light-emitting element array including a transfer element array and light-emitting el... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283109 | Method of driving a display device A driving method that does not allow a change in temperature of the surroundings to change the luminance of a light emitting element of a pixel is provided for a display device with less uneven display, higher gradation, and reduced power consumption. A time ratio g... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283111 | Display device and method of driving thereof False contouring during display by time division gray scales can be prevented with high efficiency. The order of appearance of subframe periods, and the times at which the subframe periods begin, are changed between pixels driven by odd number gate signal lines and ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283131 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus having a plurality of image forming devices. In an output circuit provided between constant voltage supplies and wiring for driving each of the image forming devices, MOSFETs are successively turned on from the one having a higher ON resis... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282852 | Electron-emitting device and image forming apparatus Sandwiched and coupled between the rear and face plates and constituting a vacuum container together with the rear and face plates; a high voltage introducing member for introducing a high voltage from a voltage source; and an independent wire which is electrically ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283687 | Imaging for virtual cameras Imaging for virtual cameras implemented through a Web site sometimes referred to as an “electronic photo shop.” Embodiments include receiving in an electronic photo shop, from a virtual camera coupled for data communications through a network to the electronic p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280088 | Method and device for controlling a matrix electron source, with regulation by the emitted charge Process and device for control of an electron source with matrix structure, regulated by the emitted charge. The invention is applicable to an electron source comprising addressing rows and columns which intersect to define emission areas, the electrons being... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279846 | Image display apparatus Provided is an image display apparatus including: a vacuum container having an electron source enclosed therein for displaying an image; an ion pump communicating with the vacuum container for discharging air therefrom and decreasing pressure therein; and a resistor... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279837 | Plasma display panel comprising discharge electrodes disposed within opaque upper barrier ribs The present invention provides a plasma display panel (PDP) with a structure that can reduce an outer reflection of an external light source and increase the reflection of visible rays emitted from the phosphor, remarkably increase the aperture ratio of the front pa... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280089 | Apparatus and method for driving field emission display device An apparatus and method for driving a field emission display (FED) device are disclosed. By applying a voltage to a specific electrode (data electrode or mesh electrode) of the FED device during a blanking time of a display frame of an FED, electric charges unnecess... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276843 | Electron-emitting device with electron blocking layer, electron source, and image-forming apparatus An object of the present invention is to enhance a converging property of an electron beam in an electron-emitting device in which a cathode electrode, an insulating layer, and a gate electrode are laminated and a through hole is formed by partially removing the gat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276842 | Electron-emitting device, electron source and image-forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing electron emitting device To provide an electron-emitting device, an electron source, an image-forming apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the electron-emitting device whereby it is possible to reduce a device capacity and a driving voltage, to improve the efficiency of emitting electr... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276961 | Constant voltage outputting circuit A constant voltage outputting circuit has a differential amplification circuit having two inputs and an output that is connected to a gate of an output transistor. The output transistor is connected between a power supply voltage and an output terminal and controls ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277071 | Luminescent display, and driving method and pixel circuit thereof, and display device In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a pixel circuit for a luminescent display, in which plural pixel circuits are formed in a plurality of pixels defined by a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. The pixel circuit... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277067 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel with an improved sustain electrode structure and capable of enhancing optical efficiency includes: a rear substrate; address electrodes arranged in a predetermined pattern on the rear substrate; a lower dielectric layer arranged to cover the a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274136 | Hybrid active matrix thin-film transistor display A cold-cathode flat panel display using thin-film-transistor (TFT) anode circuit is disclosed. Associated with each pixel element is a TFT circuit comprising first and second transistors electrically cascaded and a capacitor in communication with an output of the fi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274343 | Plasma display panel and apparatus and method for driving the same A PDP address driver circuit includes: an inductor coupled to a conductive pattern. A first current applier applyies a current of a first direction to the inductor and the conductive pattern while sustaining a panel capacitor at an address voltage. A discharger gene... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274559 | Cover for reducing contamination in a plasma display device and plasma display device employing the cover A cover for reducing contamination in a plasma display apparatus including a frame with a printed circuit board, signal transmission cables and buffer substrates arranged on one side thereof and including a guiding portion for guiding the cables is provided. The cov... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274151 | Drive device and drive method of light emitting elements The anode sides of respective EL elements E1-E4 constituting icons are connected to a first potential V1, the cathode sides of the EL elements E1-E4 are connected to current absorption sides of constant current sources I1-I | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274344 | Method for driving a plasma display by matrix triggering of the sustain discharges A method for driving a plasma display having discharge regions each crossed by a pair of sustain electrodes (YS, YAS) and at least one trigger electrode (XA) is disclosed. The method includes a succession of image frames or subframes... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274349 | Electronic device and electronic apparatus An EL display having high operating performance and reliability is provided. LDD regions 15a through 15d of a switching TFT 201 formed in a pixel are formed such that they do not overlap gate electrodes 19a and 19 | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271017 | Organic electroluminescent display device and fabricating method thereof An electroluminescent display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, data and gate lines crossing each other on the first substrate to define a plurality of pixel regions, a switching transistor connected to the gate and data lines, a driving... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271527 | Method and structure of converging electron-emission source of field-emission display In a converging-type electron-emission source of a field-emission display, a substrate is provided and a silver paste is used to form a first electrode layer on the substrate by the process such as thick-film photolithography or screen-printing. A carbon nanotube is... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270585 | Plasma display panel and its aging method In an aging process in which a voltage having an alternate voltage component is applied to at least between a scan electrode and a sustain electrode so as to form a discharge dent (sputter dent) on a protecting layer, the aging discharge dent is formed so as to sati... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271785 | Organic electroluminescence display panel and display apparatus using thereof The organic EL display panel according to the present invention includes; a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, switching elements of which second ends are connected to the scan lines to turn currents on and off and pixel electrodes provided in speci... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271529 | Electron emitting devices having metal-based film formed over an electro-conductive film element An image display apparatus including a rear plate and a face plate disposed opposite to each other, the rear plate being equipped with a plurality of electron-emitting devices, each provided with a pair of electrodes and an electroconductive film including an electr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271782 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel using selective writing and erasing A plasma display driving method and apparatus for stabilizing an initialization upon selective erasing in a case of simultaneously performing a selective writing and a selective erasing is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, at least one selective writing sub-fi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268750 | Method of controlling image display This invention discloses an arrangement for suppressing an erroneous display and suppressing damage to an image display apparatus when a power source is turned on, the power source is turned off, an outlet is removed, or power fails. Particularly, this invention dis... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268760 | Emissive display using organic electroluminescent devices An emissive display having pixels delimited by a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines intersecting with each other. Each pixel includes a memory circuit having at least a first inverter circuit including an electroluminescent device and including ... | 09/11/2007 |
