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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188994 | Power consumption detection apparatus, power consumption control apparatus, image processing apparatus, self-luminous display apparatus, electronic device, power consumption detection method, power consumption control method, and computer program Disclosed herein is a power consumption detection apparatus including: a line current calculation section configured to calculate, based on an image signal, a value of a line current consumed by each of horizontal lines; and a power consumption calculation section c... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184113 | Method for adjusting common voltage of liquid crystal display device A method for adjusting a common voltage of an LCD device includes providing an LCD device and a photodetector, obtaining variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc, the variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc respectively denoting flicker intensity of the LCD device when the commo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179391 | Mobile display device driving apparatus and method that can reduce power consumption A mobile display device driving apparatus and method which can reduce power consumption are disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells each formed in sub-pixel areas of four colors, a battery charged w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179392 | Pre-charge system for on glass LCD driving circuit A driving circuit and a method of driving a liquid crystal display having an array of liquid crystal cells connected to a common line, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of signal lines, each gate line being arranged to selectively enable a respective set of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174517 | Integrated circuit device and electronic equipment An integrated circuit device includes: a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data voltage supply lines; a comparator that compares a data voltage corresponding to a data line driving circuit to be corrected among the plurality of data l... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169430 | Display system with low drop-out voltage regulator A display system is disclosed in the present invention, which includes a low drop-out voltage regulator (LDO) for receiving an input voltage and providing a stable output voltage. The low drop-out voltage regulator includes a regulating circuit, a first switch, a cu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159488 | Voltage stabilizing circuit and display apparatus having the same A display apparatus includes a display panel, a printed circuit board, a data driver and a gate driver. The data driver includes a digital processor and an analog processor, and receives image data and a data control signal to provide the display panel with a data s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154542 | Plasma display device and plasma-display-panel driving method In a plasma-display-panel driving method, a field period is divided into a plurality of sub fields, each of which has an address period for allowing discharge cells to selectively generate an address discharge and a sustain period for allowing the discharge cells ha... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149232 | Systems and methods for generating reference voltages Systems and methods for generating reference voltages are provided. A representative system comprises a resistor circuit; a first switch coupled between a first end of the resistor circuit and a first power source; a second switch coupled between the first end of th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144144 | Display device A display device according to the present invention includes a switching regulator control circuit formed of TFTs. A digital switching regulator control circuit is composed of an AD converter circuit, a CPU, a pulse generation circuit or the like. An analog switchin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139057 | Supply voltage removal detecting circuit, display device and method for removing latent image A supply voltage removal detecting circuit, a display device and method for removing a latent image when a supply voltage is disconnected, in which the supply voltage removal detecting circuit includes a voltage controller, a detection signal generator, and an outpu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125479 | Self light emitting type display device Treating light emitting elements 2 in all the display pixels in a light emitting display panel as objects, a maximum value of the forward voltages is drawn by a multi-input comparator 3a and a peak hold circuit 3b. Based on the max... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125478 | Liquid crystal display and switching voltage controlling circuit thereof for reducing occurrence of color errors A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a switching voltage controlling circuit thereof are provided. The LCD includes a display panel and a number of gate drivers. The switching voltage controlling circuit includes a current-controlled switch, a transmission line, and a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115758 | Light emitting device Power consumption required for charging and discharging a source signal line is reduced in an active matrix EL display device. A bipolar transistor (Bi1) has a base terminal B connected to an output terminal c1 of an operational amplifier (OP1),... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106902 | Display device A display device including independent power sources for a display use and a detection use, display elements, switches (21, 22 and 23) for independently connecting the power sources and the individual elements, a circuit (10) for controlling the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102388 | Method of driving organic electroluminescence display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving circuit disposed in each of the plurality of light emitting elements, scanning lines, emission control lines, and data lines. Here, each driving circuit includes a driving transistor supp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098242 | Arrangement comprising a first electronic device and a power supply unit and method for operating an electronic device An arrangement includes a first electronic device and a power supply unit adapted to provide the first electronic device with electric operating energy from a mains voltage. The first electronic device includes an evaluation unit adapted to switch the first electron... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094145 | Driving method for organic electroluminescence light emitting section A driving method for an organic EL light emitting section is provided which achieves optimization of a mobility correction process for a transistor of a driving circuit in response to luminance. In a driving method for an organic EL light emitting section wherein a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094146 | Driving method for pixel circuit and display apparatus Disclosed here is a driving method for a pixel circuit which includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor for applying current in response to a signal value applied between a gate and a source thereof to the light emitting element when a driving voltage i... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089477 | Display device and method for controlling the same A display device is provided which includes a luminescence element, a data line, and a switch connected between an electrode of the luminescence element and the data line. A voltage generation circuit supplies a pre-charge voltage to the data line. A current generat... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085261 | LCD with the function of eliminating the power-off residual images An LCD includes a PWB, a FPC, and a display panel. The PWB includes a level shift circuit and a power-off discharge circuit. The display panel includes a gate driving circuit and a TFT array. The power-off discharge circuit can electrically connects a gate high volt... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077171 | Signal regulator module and related display device A signal regulator module includes a floating current regulator, a signal sensor, and a feedback controller. The floating current regulator is electrically coupled to a driving circuit and the light sources of a display panel for regulating the driving signals based... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072446 | Display with power saving function A display and a driving control method for the display are provided. The display includes a display panel, a driving control module and a power-saving control module. The display panel is configured to display a plurality of frames. The driving control module is cou... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072447 | Display drive device A display drive device includes a low-voltage circuit section driven by a first power supply potential and a high-voltage circuit section driven by a second power supply potential higher than the first power supply potential. The display drive device further include... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059114 | Organic light emitting diode driver Pulse width modulation (PWM) of a drive current to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is performed by a circuit subjected to corresponding signaling. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059115 | Source driving circuit of LCD apparatus A source driver circuit of an LCD apparatus with a small occupied area and low power consumption is disclosed. The source driver circuit comprises a reference voltage circuit, a negative voltage driving DAC, a positive voltage driving DAC, an invert amplifier, a non... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8040341 | Brightness control system In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method to control the brightness of a display. One exemplary method includes generating a signal indicative of a display brightness level, and controlling the brightness of the display, based at least in part on t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035634 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of capacitor lines, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a capacitor line driving circuit, a first capacitive signal output circuit, and a data line driving circuit.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026909 | Electro-luminescence display device and driving apparatus thereof An electro-luminescence display device includes: pixels provided between data lines and scan lines, each of the pixels including a light-emitting cell driven with a current; and a current controller for temporarily increasing the current for driving the light-emitti... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8013850 | Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device A driving circuit of an electrooptic device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels; a scanning-line driving circuit; a capacitor-line driving circuit; and a data-line driving c... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004514 | Method and system for updating of displays showing deterministic content A method and apparatus for displaying image data is disclosed. The method includes receiving one of a plurality of sets of stored image update data to be displayed on a display device, wherein each set corresponds to one image in a sequence of images and wherein the... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999804 | Monitor A monitor includes a display device, a signal interface, a power interface, and a power controller. The display device is configured for displaying information to users. The signal interface is configured for receiving display signals, and providing the display sign... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995052 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit and electronic apparatus A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of common electrodes, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a common electrode driving circuit, and a data line driving circuit. When a predetermined number of scanni... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986317 | Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof, including compensating to display images of desired luminance An display and a driving method thereof are capable of displaying images of desired luminance. The display includes a scan driver connected to scan lines, a data driver connected to data lines, pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels being ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986316 | Method and apparatus for power level control in a display device The invention relates to a method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, a power level mode defining a subfield organization to be used for subfield coding is selected as a function of the average power... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982730 | Method and apparatus for power control in a display device The invention relates to a new method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, the contrast/brightness control and the power management (based on an average power level control) are made independently. Th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973784 | Electro-optical device, drive circuit, and electronic apparatus A drive circuit of an electro-optical device includes: plural rows of scanning lines; plural columns of data lines; a plurality of common electrodes; pixel switching elements, pixel capacitors; and pixels. Here, the drive circuit includes a scanning line drive circu... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7936349 | Power supply apparatus and flat-screen television set A safety circuit 16 for monitoring the waveform of a start signal outputted from a microcomputer 40a is provided in a power supply circuit. If a start signal inputted to the safety circuit 16 is not a pulse wave, a power supply cutoff sec... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916133 | Buffer amplifier, driver IC and display apparatus using that driver IC A buffer circuit is driven with a low voltage and operates at a high speed has first and second comparators constituted by P channel and N channel MOS transistors provided between an input terminal and an output terminal of a buffer amplifier. A predetermined offset... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916134 | Power supply method and power supply circuit A power supply method of supplying a high-potential drive power voltage to a data line driver circuit which drives a plurality of data lines in a display panel which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of scanning lines in addition to the data lines. An output... | 03/29/2011 |
