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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7294589 | Laser irradiation apparatus An object is to obtain an even energy distribution of a laser beam in one direction, thereby conducting a uniform laser annealing on a film. A laser irradiation apparatus comprising: a lens for dividing a laser beam in one direction; and an optical system for... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294970 | LED driver device A light emitting diode (LED) driver drives a plurality of LEDs, and includes a plurality of LED drivers with inherent addresses thereof respectively driving the plurality of LEDs; a serial bus connected to the plurality of LED drivers; and a sequence controller seri... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294963 | Electro-luminescence display device and method of fabricating the same An electro-luminescence display device includes a connection film being connected to a driving circuit, a pad connected to the connection film in order to supply a driving signal from the driving circuit to a signal line formed on a substrate, a conductive film for ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295197 | Flat-panel display apparatus and its control method A display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of display elements, and a display controller for controlling the display panel in a normal display mode, a first power saving mode, a second power saving mode and a third power saving mode. A mode tran... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294891 | Semiconductor integrated circuit having transistors formed on an insulating substrate A layout capable of placing a circuit constituted by a plurality of transistors in a small-with region is automatically formed. A search section inputs data on a circuit and makes a search for a set of routes formed so that passage through any one of the transistors... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294958 | Display panel, electrode panel and electrode substrate thereof An electrode substrate of a flat panel display at least comprises a substrate, an electrode layer, a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer and a conductive layer. The electrode layer is disposed above the substrate. The first barrier layer is disposed above th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295175 | Device and method for driving for light-emitting display panel There is provided a device for driving a light-emitting display panel in which output limiter element is added to a DC-DC converter which associates a boosting operation. In the drive device, even though a forward voltage of a monitor element increases to operate th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292234 | Organic EL panel drive circuit and organic EL display device using the same drive circuit A resetting period of organic EL elements is divided to a discharge period for discharging residual charges of the organic EL elements and a precharge period for pre-charging the organic EL elements to predetermined potentials. First switch circuits provided for eac... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291973 | Organic El display having auxiliary electrodes formed adjacent light extraction layer An organic light-emitting display is provided which includes an organic electroluminescent (EL) substrate, a drive layer formed on the substrate, a first electrode formed on the drive layer; organic layers formed on the first electrode, a second electrode formed on ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292210 | Circuit for driving flat panel display The present invention provides a circuit for driving a flat panel display, including a storage capacitor, a transmission gate and a current-limiting transistor. A first terminal of the storage capacitor is coupled to a system voltage, and a second terminal of the st... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291965 | Vacuum vessel and electron emission display device using the same, provided with spacer supports in non-active area of the display A vacuum vessel that includes a first and a second substrate facing each other and extending across both an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area, a sealing member arranged at peripheries of the first and the second substrates and adapted to ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292209 | System and method of driving an array of optical elements A system and/or method for controlling a display array without the use of row and column drivers. The display elements within the system are configured to maintain an active address signal in response to a received signal containing serially encoded display settings... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292211 | Liquid crystal display and driving circuit thereof A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of light emitting elements and display cells. The display cells are respectively connected to a plurality of data electrodes and gate electrodes. A gate driver outp... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291971 | Organic electroluminescent display device comprising ultraviolet light stabilizer The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent display device comprising a UV stabilizer and provides an organic electroluminescent display device whose characteristics are not degraded by ultraviolet rays even after being exposed to sunlight by prov... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289101 | Multi-color electrophoretic image display A color electrophoretic display including a plurality of cells each containing electrophoretic particles. Each of the cells in the plurality is capable of displaying at least one of three selected primary colors, when the particles in the cell are moved from a first... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289089 | Light emitting unit A light emitting unit represented by an image display unit includes chips, each of which is formed by burying a light emitting device such as a GaN based semiconductor light emitting device in a resin, wherein external terminals connected to the light emitting devic... | 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 |
| 7288014 | Design, fabrication, testing, and conditioning of micro-components for use in a light-emitting panel A method of forming micro-components is disclosed. The method includes pretesting and conditioning of the micro-components. The micro-components that fail testing or conditioning are discarded, and those remaining are assembled into a panel. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288321 | Carbon nanotube array and method for forming same A method for forming a carbon nanotube array on a metal substrate includes the following steps: providing a metal substrate (11); depositing a silicon layer (21) on a surface of the metal substrate; depositing a catalyst layer (31) on the silico... | 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 |
| 7289096 | Shift register and a display device using the same A shift register in which multiple stages are connected one after another to each other, the multiple stages having a first stage in which a start signal is coupled to an input terminal, the shift register sequentially outputting output signals of respective stages.... | 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 |
| 7288896 | Device for measuring and correcting the luminance of a display A device for measuring and correcting the luminance of a flat screen display, which can be illuminated from the rear by the light of a backlight, having a backlight control, which adjusts a luminance measured by a sensor to a selectable setpoint value representing t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288891 | Display panel electrode structure A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes; wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes cross at a discharge space; wherein prominent electrodes are formed at... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288753 | OLED display with composite photosensor An OLED display and photo-sensor is described, comprising: a substrate; a composite light sensor made up of a plurality of individual thin-film light sensitive elements located over the substrate and connected in parallel to provide a common signal; a first transpar... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286106 | Image display device, display panel and driving method thereof A display panel of an image display device including data lines for transmitting data voltages representing image signals, scan lines for transmitting select signals, and pixel circuits coupled to the data and scan lines. The pixel circuit includes a driver for outp... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7285918 | Organic light emitting diode display and fabrication method thereof Organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The OLED display comprises a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area. An array of pixels is disposed in the display area. Column and row control circuits are dis... | 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 |
| 7285908 | Electroluminescent light emitting element having a metal electrode layer, a light emitting layer and an outermost transparent electrode layer An electroluminescent light emitting element is equipped with a metal electrode layer, a light emitting layer capable of emitting light by electroluminescence, and a transparent electrode layer provided in that order on a substrate, wherein the light emitted by said... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285911 | Light emitting device having a conductive polymer and coloring layers It is considered that in the fabricating steps of a TFT substrate, a color filter layer is prepared at the same alignment accuracy. However, since the heat resistance temperature is about 200° C., it could not withstand the process temperature of about 450° C. in ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286109 | Active matrix type display apparatus Buffer circuits are provided between outputs of a scanning line driver circuit and scanning lines. The buffer circuits each are configured to make rise or fall time of scanning signals at output sides of the buffer circuits substantially the same as or longer than t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285435 | Active matrix organic electroluminescence display device and method for manufacturing the same An active matrix organic electroluminescence display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The active matrix organic electroluminescence display device includes a scan line in one direction, a data line substantially perpendicular to the scan... | 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 |
| 7286123 | LED driver circuit having temperature compensation A LED driver circuit is provided for controlling the brightness of a LED. A control circuit is used for generating a LED current in accordance with a resistor. The control circuit is further coupled to detect a LED voltage for adjusting the LED current in reference ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286122 | Electronic device, element substrate, electro-optical device, method of producing the electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus To provide an electronic circuit, an element substrate, an electronic device, an electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus, which make it possible to perform a precise controlling operation even if manufacturing variations occur, a circuit formation area i... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287212 | Methods and systems for Viterbi decoding An execution unit and method for performing Viterbi decoding is provided. The instruction may be built into an execution unit which executes other instructions, or in its own execution unit. In an example implementation, the instruction is used in implementing the c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285902 | Flat panel display with improved white balance Disclosed is a flat panel display capable of enhancing a white balance by making a doping concentration or shape and size of drain offset regions of driving transistors different, in R, G and B unit pixels of each pixel. A flat panel display, comprises a plurality o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7283114 | Systems and method for displaying images with reduced power consumption A method and a system for displaying images are provided. In the method, a pixel is provided that includes a layer of ferroelectric material and a layer of liquid crystal material. A first electric field is momentarily applied to the pixel to electrically polarize t... | 10/16/2007 |
