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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6549187 | Liquid crystal display An active matrix liquid crystal display of (2×1) dot inversion driving system, wherein in a case where the active matrix display is driven, voltage is applied to the pixels in such a manner that polarity is changed every source line in the horizontal dir... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549196 | D/A conversion circuit and liquid crystal display device A D/A conversion circuit which can perform D/A conversion at high speed and with high precision is disclosed. The D/A conversion circuit comprises an analog reference power supply, an output buffer, a multiplexer, a pre-buffer, and a current changeover sw... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6538631 | Circuit for driving source of liquid crystal display There is provided a source driving circuit in a liquid crystal display, which applies negative and positive video signals to source lines of the liquid crystal display including a first and second plates and a liquid crystal being inserted therebetween, i... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6531997 | Methods for addressing electrophoretic displays Novel addressing schemes for controlling bistable electronically addressable displays include the use of addressing signals with additional signals having opposite polarity and equal integrated signal strength, and addressing schemes that minimize the num... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529180 | Liquid crystal display device having high speed driver A liquid crystal display device constituted by a liquid crystal display element and at least a single piece of semiconductor integrated circuit device and having image signal line driving means for supplying grayscale voltages in correspondence with displ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6522315 | Display apparatus A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and impro... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6504524 | Addressing methods for displays having zero time-average field Novel addressing schemes for controlling electronically addressable displays include the use of addressing signals with additional signals having opposite polarity and equal integrated signal strength and addressing schemes that minimize the number of sta... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6501467 | Liquid-crystal display panel drive power supply circuit In a liquid-crystal display panel drive power supply circuit that has a first power supply of a high potential, a second powers supply of a potential that is lower than that of the first power supply, a plurality of resistors that are provided in series b... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6456266 | Liquid crystal display apparatus The motion picture quality of liquid crystal display apparatus is improved by placing a non-display period depending on the responsiveness of the liquid crystal and a backlight source. For this purpose, a sub-period is set, within one frame period, for di... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456267 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display has pixels in domains surrounded by data signal lines and scanning signal lines. Each of the pixels has a voltage holding device for a positive polarity and a voltage holding device for a negative polarity, two lines of voltage ho... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456268 | Active matrix type liquid crystal display drive control apparatus By setting a gate voltage for each of the horizontal sync frequency bands, the flicker is reduced in a display mode of a low horizontal sync frequency. A drive control apparatus 10 includes: a frequency detection circuit 12 for detecting a horizontal sync... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6426594 | Electro-optical device and method for driving the same Disclosed is a method of driving an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal display device, including a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes which are formed such that the plurality of scanning electrodes intersec... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6417827 | Liquid crystal display device having a wide dynamic range driver A MOS transistor (M1) which is arranged in the highest order of a low Vth MOS transistor grayscale group of a decoder circuit of a drain driver is formed of a CMOS transistor, to prevent a current from flowing from an output side into the low Vth MOS tran... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6380917 | Driving circuit of electro-optical device, driving method for electro-optical device, and electro-optical device and electronic equipment employing the electro-optical device A driving circuit of an electro-optical device such as a liquid crystal device is compatible with digital image signals and implements a DA converting function and a γ correcting function by a relatively simple and small-scale circuit configuration. The ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6377232 | Method of compensating for the differences in persistence of the phosphors in an image display screen The present invention relates to a method of compensating for the differences in persistence of the phosphors in an image display screen consisting of cells arranged in lines and in columns, several adjacent cells being covered with different phosphors in... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6373478 | Liquid crystal display driver supporting a large number of gray-scale values A column driver circuit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) system provides a large number of gray-scale values without significant cost, power requirements, and size requirements. The column driver circuit avoids the use of conventional multiplexer based ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6369808 | Drive circuit and display unit for driving a display device and portable equipment A drive circuit for driving a display device includes a voltage level shift circuit which receives a control signal and a data signal and which shifts a voltage level of the control signal and the data signal to output a voltage level shifted control sign... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6342881 | Display device, electronic equipment, and driving method A display device, an electronic apparatus, and a drive method are provided achieving an improved display characteristic, most suitable for a charge-discharge drive method and arranged to perform grayshade display by pulse width modulation. In a charging m... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6329971 | Display system having electrode modulation to alter a state of an electro-optic layer Methods and systems for operating a display system. An example of the display system includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes, an electro-optic layer operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6323829 | Driving apparatus for plasma display panel In a plasma display having a charge recovery type of pulse generator for generating a driving pulse, the charge recovery type of pulse generator is prevented from short-circuiting due to a malfunction of a switch controller in a driving apparatus. A prote... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6323850 | Driving method for liquid crystal device A liquid crystal device of the active matrix-type having two-dimensionally arranged pixels along rows and columns is driven frame by frame. In each frame operation, a scanning selection period (TG) for each selected row is divided into a first ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6320571 | Bistable liquid crystal display device A bistable liquid crystal display device having a plurality of display cells which include a pair of substrates arranged substantially in parallel, each substrate having a confronting surface bearing transparent electrodes, and a layer of chiral-nematic l... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6320561 | Drive circuit for display panel In a display panel drive circuit, discharge is caused by applying a positive display pulse to a common electrode. The discharge is inhibited by applying a positive control voltage to the individual electrodes. Applying an opposite polarity pulse to the co... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6307533 | Liquid crystal display device with matrix electrode structure The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a matrix electrode structure in which an image elimination period for rewriting a display is shortened without sacrificing the display brightness, while suppressing flicker, a ghost ima... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6278429 | Bistable reflective cholesteric liquid crystal displays utilizing super twisted nematic driver chips A driving circuit for a reflective bistable cholesteric liquid crystal display which includes one substrate having a plurality of column or segment electrodes opposed by another substrate having a plurality of row or common electrodes. The intersecting co... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6275209 | LCD driver An LCD driver does not require an extra step for contrast adjustment of an LCD in the assembly process of an appliance such as a portable phone that is fitted with an LCD; nor does it require the microcomputer to which it is connected to perform extra ope... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6275221 | Low consumption power circuit using an electronic switch in a display monitor A low consumption power circuit using an electronic switch in a display monitor is provided, which includes an electronic switch circuit for selecting a power saving mode as the power mode of the display monitor, a microcomputer for generating power off s... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6271819 | Method for driving electro-optical display device A matrix of display elements is driven on a time sharing basis to switch between two optically distinct states in response to a pulse train applied to the selected display elements. The pulse train includes display control pulses having a duration and ele... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6271812 | Electroluminescent display device An Electroluminescent display device is designed not to display residual images due to electric charges stored in electroluminescent pixels or to make them invisible, when the device is turned on again. The stored charges are eliminated at the time a norm... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6268840 | Unipolar waveform drive method and apparatus for a bistable liquid crystal display A flat-panel liquid crystal display having unipolar drive circuitry. The display includes a flat sheet of bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal material activated by a drive circuit that individually controls the display state of multiple picture element... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6256025 | Driving voltage generating circuit for matrix-type display device A driving voltage generating circuit of a matrix-type display device includes a voltage dividing resistor group composed of a plurality of voltage dividing resistors connected in series, for dividing a potential a difference of a reference voltage. It als... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6252571 | Liquid crystal display device and its drive method and the drive circuit and power supply circuit device used therein Liquid crystal display device and its drive method that applies the voltage of the difference of a scanning signal and a data signal having at least a reset period, a selection period and a non-selection period in one frame on a chiral nematic liquid crys... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6243084 | Method for driving plasma display Before applying a pulse (Vp) of the first voltage for uniforming charges between each of the first electrodes X and each of the second electrode Y1 to Yn which are adjacent to each other, a pulse (Vpp) of the fifth voltage which has a reverse polarity to ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243061 | Active matrix display devices and methods of driving such An active matrix display device of the kind having two terminal non-linear switching devices (15) such as thin film diodes connected in series with the electro-optic, e.g. LC, display elements (12) between associated row and column address conductors (16,... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6232941 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is capable of generating gradation voltages for multilevel gradation, such as 256-level gradation, without increasing the chip size of video signal line driving means. The video signal line driving means for applying video ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6222517 | Liquid crystal apparatus A liquid crystal device having a matrix of pixels formed at intersections of scanning electrodes and data electrodes with e.g., a chiral smectic liquid crystal having at least two stable states, is driven at a high speed by simultaneously selecting M scan... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219018 | Active matrix type display device There is disclosed an improvement of an active matrix type display device which includes a switching element every pixel. In a scanning pulse which contains a first voltage for turning on the switching elements in a first voltage period, a second voltage ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6211866 | Grayscale voltage generating circuit A halftone-level reference voltage is generated by a resistance-type potential divider circuit from a potential between a high-potential grayscale voltage and a low-potential grayscale voltage on the side of positive polarity, and a halftone-level graysca... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6191779 | Liquid crystal display device, device for controlling drive of liquid crystal display device and D/A converting semiconductor device A liquid crystal display device significantly reduces power consumption and causes no signal delay when a liquid crystal panel performs an inversion-type drive. The liquid crystal display device comprises a digital controller, a level shift circuit, a dig... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6191766 | Multiple-tone display system A dot matrix display system for multiple-tone displays, including a display device in which pixels are arrayed in a matrix shape, an LC (liquid-crystal) drive signal generator which converts color display data into LC display data, an 8-level data driver ... | 02/20/2001 |
