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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446356 | Display device The display device including: a display panel; a backlight; a memory for converting frame rate of an input video signal and outputting a video signal; an interpolation frame generation unit for generating an interpolation frame based on the video signal output from ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8441429 | Clock generation circuit, light source control circuit, and display device A PLL as a clock generation circuit that generates a PWM clock based on a reference clock, which PWM clock is used for controlling, in a pulse width modulation method, a lamp on time and a lamp off time of a light source illuminating a liquid crystal panel by synchr... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441428 | Power supply for liquid crystal display The invention relates to a power supply for a liquid crystal display using a light emitting diode for a backlight unit, and more particularly, to a power supply combining a DC power supply outside the liquid crystal display with a driving power supply inside the liq... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441430 | Image display device An image display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel configured to selectively implement 2D images and 3D images, panel driving circuits configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel, a backlight configured to include a plurality of light sources ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441431 | Backlight unit and liquid crystal display using the same A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a first transistor generating a power voltage supplied through a power line as a driving current based on a driving voltage supplied to a gate electrod... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8436803 | Image display device and image display method An image display device adjusts display luminance in accordance with a surrounding illuminance. Since the display luminance considered to be appropriate differs depending on a user, the image display device includes a display unit operating according to a display lu... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436804 | Digital photo frame with power saving function and related power saving method A digital photo frame having power saving functions includes a display panel, a power generation unit for switching a system power according to a power control signal, a user detection unit installed on the display panel for detecting whether a user exists within a ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436802 | Liquid crystal display device having a lamp sequentially turned on along a scan direction of gate lines A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a gate line sequentially selected by a gate pulse and a plurality of light sources which are sequentially turned on along a scan direction of the gate line. The plurality of light sources... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8432353 | Information display device An information display device (10) includes a light source (11), a light guide plate (13) to which light from the light source (11) enters from a side surface and from which the light exits from one principal surface, and a liquid crystal... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432354 | Backlight control circuit with a pulse width modulated generator A backlight control circuit includes a logic unit, a drive unit, a decoder, a current setting unit, a current stabilizer, a pulse width modulated generator, a plurality of light sources, and a control unit. The control unit controls the brightness of each light sour... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432352 | Backlight driving circuit and driving method for driving the same A backlight driving circuit and a method for driving the same, which are capable of preventing a flicker phenomenon and delay of response, are disclosed. The backlight driving circuit includes a selective filtering unit for comparing dimming signals currently suppli... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432351 | Driving system for matrix type backlight module A driving system for a matrix type backlight module having a plurality of light spots is provided. The driving system includes a timing controller providing a timing signal to control a starting up sequence and a turning on time for each of the plurality of light sp... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8427419 | Local dimming driving method and device of liquid crystal display device Disclosed herein is a local dimming driving method and device of an LCD device, which is capable of minimizing luminance deviation at the same gray scale due to a dimming difference between blocks. The local dimming driving method of the LCD device includes analyzin... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8427418 | Liquid crystal display and local dimming control control method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources, the backlight unit providing light to a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, a backlight driving circuit that individually drives ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8421743 | Flat panel display and mobile device using the same A flat panel display for reducing damage to a panel assembly from a falling impact is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes: 1) a liquid crystal panel assembly configured to display an image and 2) a backlight assembly including i) a light source config... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421740 | Liquid crystal display device and image display method thereof A liquid crystal panel displays an image from image signals. A backlight device is disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal panel, and is divided into a plurality of regions. The backlight device comprises light sources in each of the regions. The light sourc... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421739 | Apparatus and method of driving discharge tube lamp and liquid crystal display using the same A burst mode inverter that drives a discharge tube lamp in a manner that produces more emissions. A DC power supplier produces DC power. An inverter converts that DC power to AC power having a Pulse Width Modulated frequency that is between 2 and 3 times the system'... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421742 | Apparatus and method to improve quality of moving image displayed on liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a panel having pixel electrodes arranged at intersections of a plurality of signal lines via switching elements for transmitting display data and a plurality of scanning lines for transmitting control signals, and a control c... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421741 | Method, system and apparatus for power saving backlight A method and system for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that may reduce power consumption. The method and system can include calculating a luminance for pixels in an image in a LCD based upon a light spread function and brightness values of lig... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8416181 | Back light apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus A back light apparatus includes an external light quantity detecting unit having a first and second light quantity detecting sections, both of which are provided at a predetermined position of the housing, a first polarizing plate provided on a light receiving surfa... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416182 | Apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display device for reducing ripple noise An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed. The apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for receiving a video signal and a clock signal, and displaying them... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416183 | Surface light source device and display device There is provided a surface light source device capable of making appearance of a boundary between partial lighting areas more natural than related art. In each of unit light-source sections 10 capable of mutually independent lighting, uneven light-emission i... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416179 | Methods and systems for color preservation with a color-modulated backlight Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for compensating an image for backlight color variation. Some embodiments comprise compensation for color variation in RGB backlights when backlight color channels use differing gain functions. ... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416180 | Backlight modulation circuit and method thereof A backlight modulation circuit includes an illumination controlling signal generating circuit, an illumination control signal separating circuit, and an illumination modulation circuit. The illumination controlling signal generating circuit is configured for receivi... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411020 | Hysteresis-type controlling method for backlight of portable electronic device A method for controlling backlight of portable electronic device in hysteresis manner pre-sets the portable electronic device in a default mode and senses a background brightness. The portable electronic device is operated at a daylight mode when the sensed backgrou... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411025 | Lighting apparauts Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes: a light source unit; a first optical exciter and a second optical exciter converting lights emitted from the light source unit into lights having differ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411026 | Methods and devices for lighting displays Various devices and methods of lighting a display are disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a display device includes a transmissive display configured to be illuminated through a back surface and a reflective display configured to be illuminated through a fron... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411023 | Image displaying apparatus having an image correcting section and luminance adjusting section An image displaying apparatus includes a displaying section capable of performing a luminance adjustment, an image correcting section performing a luminance correction on each of a plurality of images at a time of a dynamic display continuously displaying the plural... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411019 | Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source unit including a plurality of light sources that irradiate the display panel with light, a first control signal generating unit that inverts and forward rectifies a scan signal for scanning of the light so... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411021 | Display control apparatus and display control method for adjusting display luminance according to ambient brightness A display control apparatus includes an external light detection unit configured to detect ambient brightness of a display apparatus, a variation detection unit configured to detect a variation of orientation of the display apparatus, and a control unit configured t... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411022 | Multiprimary color display with dynamic gamut mapping The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411024 | Image display device An image display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel, panel driving circuits, a backlight configured to include a plurality of light source blocks, and a controller configured to modulate input data to generate image data synchronized with N multiple fra... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8400394 | Backlight unit assembly, liquid crystal display having the same, and dimming method thereof A backlight unit assembly, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a dimming method thereof are provided. The dimming method for a liquid crystal display includes setting a plurality of lookup tables, each lookup table having different data for adjusting lumin... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400395 | Method of local dimming of display light source and apparatus performing same In a machine-implemented method of local dimming a light source of a light source block for driving the light source block to provide a plurality of image regions with light, duty ratios of a first light source and a second light source adjacent to the first light s... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400392 | Apparatus and method for controlling backlight and liquid crystal display Disclosed is a backlight control apparatus for controlling a backlight used in a liquid crystal display, the backlight having a lighting area that includes a plurality of blocks in each of which a backlight luminance is individually allowed to change. The apparatus ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400393 | Method of controlling backlight module, backlight controller and display device using the same A method of controlling backlight module, a backlight controller and a display device using the same are provided herein. First, an image having a plurality of regions is received, wherein the image is displayed by a plurality of color backlights which are provided ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400391 | Method and system for improving dimming performance in a field sequential color display device Methods and systems for displaying an image on a display device having first and second light sources are provided. A video signal is provided to the display device. The video signal includes first and second video frames. Each video frame includes first and second ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400396 | Liquid crystal display with modulation for colored backlight A method of backlighting a liquid crystal display so as to improve the quality of the image displayed by the liquid crystal display. The method may vary the luminance of a light source illuminating a plurality of displayed pixels and vary the transmittance of a ligh... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400397 | Backlighting system and display device The invention relates to a backlighting system (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) and to a display device. The backlighting system comprises a plurality of segments (20, 21, 22, 23, 24) for selectively illuminating a predefined area of pixels of a display de... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8395577 | Liquid crystal display with illumination control A backlit display with improved dynamic range. The disclosed display illuminates a pixel of the display at respective non-zero illumination levels during each of a first frame and a second frame and decreases the illumination level of the pixel during the interval b... | 03/12/2013 |
