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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7271699 | Changing an electrical resistance of a resistor A resistor and a structure for changing an electrical resistance of a resistor. Initially, the resistor is provided, wherein the resistor has a length L and an electrical resistance R1. A portion of the resistor is exposed to a laser radiation, wherein th... | 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 |
| 7271783 | Display device A back substrate has a plurality of electron emission elements. A display substrate comprises an optically transparent substrate disposed opposite to the back substrate; an accelerating electrode formed on the inner face of the optically transparent substrate for ac... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7268499 | Self light emitting device and method of driving thereof A self light emitting device having a function of correcting drops in brightness in self light emitting elements in a pixel portion, and capable of displaying a uniform image without brightness irregularities, is provided. A specific test pattern is displayed when a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268498 | Display device The inventors found out that in the case of performing a low gray scale display in which a very small amount of current is supplied to a light emitting element, variations in threshold voltages of driving transistors become notable since the gate-source voltage is l... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7268361 | Electron emission device The invention provides an electron beam device 1 comprising at least one field emission cathode 3 and at least one extracting electrode 5, whereby the field emission cathode 5 comprises a p-type semiconductor region 7 connected to ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268337 | Optical sensor, output processing method of optical sensor, display device, and electronic apparatus An optical sensor includes a light receiving element in which a current corresponding to the amount of received light flows between one end and the other end thereof, a comparator which compares a voltage at the one end of the light receiving element with a predeter... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265581 | Level shifter The level shifter comprises a coupling block, a PMOS switch, a first PMOS transistor and a second PMOS transistor. The coupling block receives a first signal and a second signal to generate a first control signal and a first reference voltage. The first signal and t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264979 | Method of manufacturing light emitting device A high-quality light emitting device is provided which has a long-lasting light emitting element free from the problems of conventional ones because of a structure that allows less degradation, and a method of manufacturing the light emitting device is provided. Aft... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265737 | Flat panel display with thin film transistor (TFT) A flat panel display which can adjust a white balance to a proper level without changing the sizes of driving TFT active layers, even when an identical driving voltage is applied. The flat panel display also can obtain an appropriate luminance and prevent a reductio... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265738 | Method and apparatus for driving electro-luminescence display panel designed to perform efficient booting Provided are a method and apparatus for driving an electro-luminescence (EL) display panel having data electrode lines and scanning electrode lines intersecting each other at a predetermined distance and EL cells, formed at the intersections thereof. In the method a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265495 | Display driver A display driver comprises second and third MOSFETs for supplying reference currents equal to each other, a first current-input MOSET connected to the second MOSFET, a second current-input MOSFET connected to the third MOSFET, a plurality of mirroring devices which ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264978 | Field emission type cold cathode and method of manufacturing the cold cathode A field emission type cold cathode, comprising a substrate having a conductivity at least on the surface thereof, an insulation layer formed on the substate and having a first opening part, a gate electrode layer formed on the insulation layer, having a center gener... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265743 | Image display apparatus and image display method An image display apparatus and method are provided for visually improving a sense of contrast by adjusting contrast and a light source to have a correlation. A characteristics detection part detects MAX, MIN, and APL (average) of an input signal. A control data gene... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264530 | Method of driving electron-emitting device, electron source, and image-forming apparatus Provided is a manufacturing method capable of manufacturing an electron-emitting device in which a variation in device current at the time of manufacturing is suppressed and thus uniformity thereof is high. The electron-emitting device includes a substrate, a first ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262555 | Method and system for discretely controllable plasma processing A method and system for plasma generation and processing includes a plurality of beam generators each locally controllable and configured for operation upon a single substrate. A control circuit couples to each of the plurality of beam generators with the control ci... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262561 | Method for controlling power supply through multiple modulation modes A method for controlling power supply through multiple modulation modes aims to control an inverter of a selective characteristic through a cycle control signal of varying modulation modes to ensure that the inverter and the load on the rear end function in a reliab... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262556 | Light-emitting device A light-emitting device which realizes a high aperture ratio and in which the quality of image is little affected by the variation in the characteristics of TFTs. A large holding capacitor Cs is not provided in the pixel portion but, instead, the channel length and ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262652 | Current driver, data driver, and display device In a current driver, a gate of a first generating transistor, gates of K driving transistors, and a gate of a second generating transistor are connected to a gate line in this order. A first differential amplifier outputs a voltage determined according to the differ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262749 | Display device and method of driving the same In a conventional EL display device, a general video signal (analog signal voltage) is sampled to be outputted to a source signal line and then inputted to a gate electrode of a driving TFT provided in each pixel. The drain current of the TFT is controlled to contro... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262750 | Current-driven OLED panel and related pixel structure A display apparatus includes a light-emitting device, a first scan line for transferring a first signal to select the light-emitting device, a data line for transferring a data current signal to drive the light-emitting device, a first transistor having a gate coupl... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262751 | Digital driving method of organic electroluminescent display device An organic electroluminescent display device includes a scan line, a data line, a voltage supply line, a switching transistor connected to the scan and data lines, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor and the voltage supply line, a storage capa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262753 | Method and system for measuring and controlling an OLED display element for improved lifetime and light output A method of optimizing lifetime of an OLED display element and an OLED display element with optimized lifetime for possible use in a tiled display, while maintaining light output are described. It compensates an OLED operating parameter such as supply voltage and/or... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262748 | Driving method for a plasma display panel A driving method for a plasma display panel (PDP). The odd pixels units are selected by the odd fields, and are discharged. The even pixels units are selected by the even fields, and are discharged. The pixel units are disposed in a triangular arrangement, so that t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258590 | Electron emitting device using carbon fiber; electron source; image display device; method of manufacturing the electron emitting device; method of manufacturing electron source using the electron emitting device; and method of manufacturing image display device There is provided an electron emitting device utilizing a plurality of carbon fibers, in which a mean diameter value of the plurality of carbon fibers is in a range from a minimum of 10 nm to a maximum of 10 nm, and a standard deviation of diameter distribution of t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259110 | Manufacturing method of display device and semiconductor device It is an object of the present invention to improve the surface planarity of a film by uniforming the thickness of an insulating layer. Further, it is another object of the invention to provide a technology for manufacturing an electronic device typified by a high-d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259391 | Vertical interconnect for organic electronic devices A device includes a plurality of organic electronic devices disposed on a substrate, wherein each of the organic electronic devices comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. Furthermore, the device includes an organic layer disposed between the first and s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259405 | Organic photoelectric device with improved electron transport efficiency An opto-electronic device, such as an OLED or organic solar cell, having an electrode structure for use as a cathode. The electrode structure includes an electrically conductive layer and an inorganic layer, wherein the inorganic layer is made of at least one oxide-... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258589 | Organic electroluminescent device and method of fabricating the same An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates attached by a seal pattern, array elements having a plurality of switching devices on the first substrate; a color changing medium on a rear surface of the second substrate, wherein the color ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259736 | Electro-optical device, active-matrix substrate, and electronic apparatus To provide an electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus which reduce directional viewing variation that occurs between the column and row directions and to provide an active matrix substrate suitable for the electro-optical device. In each pixel circuit arr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259733 | Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel PDP that prevents a scan driving circuit from being damaged includes a plurality of address electrodes and scan electrodes and sustain electrodes arranged in a zig-zag pattern so as to make pairs with each other. The a... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259737 | Image display apparatus controlling brightness of current-controlled light emitting element An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes a data line that supplies a voltage determined based on emission brightness, a first switching unit that controls writing of the voltage supplied from the data line, a driver element that control... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259521 | Video driver architecture for AMOLED displays An AMOLED display system, including an AMOLED display panel receiving a video signal, includes a video driver receiving the video signal and generating a video drive signal indicative of the video signal and referenced to a positive power supply voltage of the displ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260248 | Image processing using measures of similarity The invention provides methods of relating a plurality of images based on measures of similarity. The methods of the invention are useful in the segmentation of a sequence of colposcopic images of tissue, for example. The methods may be applied in the determination ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259511 | Flat panel display device with surfaces of cathodes and control electrodes lying in the same flat plane A structure is provided which facilitates manufacturing of a flat type image display element which includes electrodes capable of enhancing the display efficiency with an extremely small control electrode current using a cathode material which can obtain a sufficien... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259593 | Unit circuit, method of controlling unit circuit, electronic device, and electronic apparatus A unit circuit includes: a capacitive element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer interposed between the first and second electrodes; a transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first electrode; a first switching element th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259520 | Electron emission device, electron source, and image display having dipole layer An electron emission device is provided which has sufficient on/off characteristics and is capable of efficiently emitting electrons with a low voltage. An electron emission device includes a substrate, a cathode electrode, a gate electrode, which are arranged on th... | 08/21/2007 |
