Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179336 | Tiled electronic display A tiled display comprising: a plurality of display tiles aligned so that they provide the emissive image area; each display tile including: a plurality of light-emitting pixels arranged in groups of pixels; a plurality of sequentially arranged pixel drive circuits a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169380 | System and method for driving and receiving data from multiple touch screen devices In one embodiment, multiple touch screen devices are driven from a graphics signal. A general-purpose computer provides a graphics signal of a particular display resolution. A display segmentor is configured to divide each graphics frame of the graphics signal into ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8111208 | Front and rear removable panel for electronic displays Display apparatus and methods of making them are disclosed. The display apparatus includes frame members assembled to form a frame for the display apparatus and display modules configured for displaying at least a portion of an adaptable image. Each display module i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102333 | Display device securing mechanism and display system that rotates display devices around a rotational axis A display device securing mechanism to which a plurality of display devices that are linearly disposed are mountable includes a plurality of housings to which the plurality of display devices are mounted, first rotating members which rotate the corresponding housing... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8018715 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a display screen and a slide mechanism. The display screen includes first and second display panels, and a housing for receiving the second display panel. The slide mechanism includes two slide rails connected to the housing, and a slid... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004475 | Auxiliary display unit for a computer system A host computer is provided with a main display unit and an auxiliary display unit. The host computer can free up screen space on the main display screen by routing certain types of display information to the auxiliary display unit for display. Display information c... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995003 | System and method for rendering and displaying high-resolution images One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for displaying high-resolution images using multiple graphics processing units (GPUs). The graphics driver is configured to present one virtual display device, simulating a high-resolution mosaic display... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995002 | Tiled passive matrix electro-luminescent display A tiled, passive-matrix, EL display, including two or more EL tiles, each EL tile including an array of rows and columns of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element being formed from a light-emitting layer that is sandwiched between an orthogonal array o... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990338 | Electronic devices having complementary dual displays Electronic devices having complementary dual displays are presented, the electronic devices including: a first display, wherein the first display is a refresh-based, high frame rate display; a first display controller for outputting an internal video signal to the f... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986282 | Dynamic message sign display panel error detection, correction, and notification In accordance with the invention, the present disclosure is related to a sign display panel for displaying a sign display panel message. The sign display panel includes at least one set of display units. Each display unit of the at least one set of display units inc... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7973738 | Electronic devices having complementary dual displays Methods for controlling complementary dual displays for use with an electronic device are presented including: sending a video signal to a first display, wherein the first display is a refresh-based, high frame rate display; displaying the video signal on the first ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973739 | Electronic book with built-in card scanner An electronic book includes a housing defining a card slot on a first face thereof, the housing including first and second housing portions; a spine member pivotally coupling the first and second housing portions, the spine defining a cavity therein; a screen displa... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965258 | Slide-out information display Slide-out and roll-up information displays and methods supply enlarged viewing areas. A slide-out information display device includes stacked display segments wherein each of the display segments except one is at least partially covered by the others. Separable beze... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965257 | Configurable imaging system An imaging system, comprising an image source and a plurality of microtile units for generating respective portions of an image, each microtile unit including a plurality of coupling mechanisms for connection to a plurality of other microtile units such that the mic... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961157 | Configurable imaging system An imaging system, comprising an image source and a plurality of microtile units for generating respective portions of an image, each microtile unit including a plurality of coupling mechanisms for connection to a plurality of other microtile units such that the mic... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948450 | Apparatus and method for allowing display modules to communicate information about themselves to other display modules in the same display panel An apparatus for allowing display modules to communicate information about themselves to other display modules in the same display panel, comprising a module-based display panel wherein each face of the panel comprises a plurality of display modules, wherein the tra... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7932872 | Picture displaying method, system and unit A picture displaying method is for displaying a picture by means of a plurality of picture displaying units. A picture signal representing the picture is supplied to each of the picture displaying units. A first picture displaying unit displays a first part of the p... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932873 | Image transfer apparatus An apparatus includes a light source configured to provide a path of light and a spatial light modulator located in the path of light and configured to modulate the light source. Relay optics are configured to receive the modulated light from the spatial light modul... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920773 | Video reproducing device The present invention provides a video reproducing device which provides a function of reproducing a still image file and a moving image file recorded onto a recording medium in plural formats so that a user can easily identify a matched statuses of the files in the... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898501 | Mobile terminal including folder type liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A mobile terminal having a flat panel display device includes: a body unit having an input device; a display unit connected to the body unit; an extended display unit connected to the display unit using a hinge such that the display unit and the extended display uni... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7880688 | Foldable electronic book An electronic book comprising a first housing portion; a second housing portion; a cylindrical spine interposed between the first and second housing portions and pivotally connecting the first housing portion to the second housing portion; a flexible display screen ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876286 | Multi-display apparatus and method thereof In a multi-display device, first and second panels, each of which has a display device, are stuck fast to each other to embody a screen. The first panel has an interface surface formed of a hard material, and the second panel has an interface surface formed of a sof... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7864136 | Tiled electronic display structure A tiled display device is formed from display tiles having picture element (pixel) positions defined up to the edge of the tiles. Each tile includes a memory which stores display data, and pixel driving circuitry which controls the scanning and illumination of the p... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864516 | Display unit and multi-display device having the same A display unit includes; a display panel, and a receptacle including of a plurality of sidewalls configured to receive the display panel, the receptacle including at least one joining projection disposed on at least one of the sidewalls, at least one joining groove ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852285 | Display device comprising a holding member A display device for presenting optic content, comprises a holder device and a plurality of rod-shaped display elements, said display elements comprising a plurality of illuminants. The display elements are held by the holder device and a display area for presenting... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843400 | Apparatus for driving a plurality of display units using common driving circuits In an apparatus for driving a plurality of display units in a mobile electronic apparatus, each including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan line and a plurality of pixels each provided at one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, at least one of ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830333 | Slide-out information display Slide-out and roll-up information displays and methods supply enlarged viewing areas. A slide-out information display device includes stacked display segments wherein each of the display segments except one is at least partially covered by the others. Separable beze... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7812785 | Display device and method of driving the same A display device includes a first display panel, a first gate driver, a second display panel and a second gate driver. The first display panel includes a first display region, in which first gate lines are formed, and a first peripheral region surrounding the first ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808447 | System and method for driving a plurality of displays A system, method, and computer program product are provided. In use, a unique monoscopic output is received from a graphics processor. The unique monoscopic output includes a first frame for display utilizing a first display, and a second frame for display utilizing... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808448 | Raster engine with hardware cursor An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmat... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7791560 | Image transfer apparatus An apparatus includes a light source configured to provide a path of light and a spatial light modulator located in the path of light and configured to modulate the light source. Relay optics are configured to receive the modulated light from the spatial light modul... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786952 | Auxiliary display unit for a computer system A host computer is provided with a main display unit and an auxiliary display unit. The host computer can free up screen space on the main display screen by routing certain types of display information to the auxiliary display unit for display. Display information c... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782274 | Folding multimedia display device Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. I... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777691 | System and method for driving multiple tiled displays from a single digital video source Techniques and systems for driving multiple tiled displays from a single digital video source can include a plurality of displays arranged in tiled fashion to form a tiled display, a plurality of display drivers corresponding to the plurality of displays, and a vide... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755567 | Image display apparatus, image signal processing method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program An image display apparatus which is capable of optimizing the image quality of a plurality of display devices having different optical characteristics when carrying out processing of an image signal supplied to the display devices, without providing a dedicated disp... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742011 | Image display system A projection system for displaying an arbitrary combination of superimposed and tiled images using a plurality of projectors. A sub-frame generator generates a plurality of sub-frames corresponding to an image frame for simultaneous display by the projectors in at l... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742012 | Electronic devices having complementary dual displays Methods for controlling complementary dual displays for use with an electronic device are presented including: sending a video signal to a first display, wherein the first display is a low resolution, high frame rate display; displaying the video signal on the first... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7728788 | Segmented redundant display cell interface system and method A segmented redundant display cell driver interface system and method wherein each of the drivers are totally independent from each other. The system and method provide segmented redundant display cell drive interfaces that drive the display normally in a failure fr... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724205 | Image display control method, apparatus for controlling image display, and program for controlling image display When a whole image having a large area or high resolution is displayed, the boundary lines are made less noticeable with a small amount of calculation by displaying partial images by a plurality of image projection units. An apparatus has a division position creatio... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724206 | Position adjustment method for projection images A position adjustment method for adjusting positions of two projection images projected from multiple projectors contained in a multi-projection display onto a projection surface such that the images overlap. A first step involves setting pixel values of colors such... | 05/25/2010 |
