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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7042436 | Method to dynamically optimize the power efficiency of a display backlighting system based on the output load A computer system that dynamically optimizes the power efficiency of a display backlighting system based on the current load is described. Specifically, the computer system may be optimized to operate in a battery mode or an AC line driven mode. ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042427 | Light emitting device A light emitting device with a simple and easy structure without waste is provided, in which a change of luminance of an OLED is suppressed and a desired color display can be stably performed even if an organic light emitting layer is somewhat deteriorated or an env... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042423 | Driving apparatus for a display panel A driving apparatus for a display panel generates a cell data comprising a bit series per each column electrode of a display panel. The cell data indicates light emitting or non-light emitting in each cell on a column electrode in accordance with a picture signal. T... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042164 | Self light emitting display device In order to realize, at a low cost, the function of an indicator which is brought to a light emitting state during a wait state, a panel 1 as a display section is constituted by self light emitting elements E11–Enm for example by organic EL elements,... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038675 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof In a liquid crystal display device formed of a plurality of a liquid crystal display elements in which a liquid crystal material is supported between first and second substrates, plural semiconductor chips for operating the liquid crystal display elements, and a pow... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038644 | Apparatus for applying OFF-state stress to P-MOS device An apparatus for applying an OFF-state stress to a P-MOS device of one of an array substrate for an LCD device and an LCD panel having attached substrates includes: a power supply unit supplies a source power; a panel loading unit including a plurality of panel jigs... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038641 | Color/black-and-white switchable portable terminal and display unit A display unit has a brightness equal to that in a conventional black-and-white reflection type and the power consumption is small at a standby time, and bright color display of high quality can be produced and power consumption is small at the time of use. An infor... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034800 | Driving circuit and driving method for piezoelectric transformer, backlight apparatus, liquid crystal display apparatus, liquid crystal monitor, and liquid crystal TV A driving circuit for a piezoelectric transformer is provided, which is capable of driving a piezoelectric transformer at a high efficiency and with low distortion, and being miniaturized. At the commencement of lighting a cold-cathode fluorescent tube, a digital co... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7036032 | System for reduced power consumption by phase locked loop and method thereof A system and method are provided for reducing power consumption within a video processing portion of a system. Activity associated within a video-processing portion of a personal digital assistant is analyzed. As reduced activity is identified, power conservation mo... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034816 | System and method for driving a display device The present invention provides a system and method for driving a display device where out of a display screen, only pixels at intersections of particular scanning lines and particular data lines are used as a display area. In order to save power, the particular scan... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034814 | Methods and apparatuses using control indicators for data processing systems A control indication assembly. A first control mounted on a surface of a computer is coupled to a first sensor, to a first sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to the first control when a user-touch occurs to the first sensor, and to a first indicator to ind... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032120 | Method and apparatus for minimizing power requirements in a computer peripheral device while in suspend state and returning to full operation state without loss of data The invention is a method and apparatus for minimizing power consumption in a computer peripheral device during suspend state and waking up from suspend state without losing pre-suspend configuration information. The power supply to the peripheral device is split in... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030883 | System and method for filtering a synchronization signal from a remote computer The invention provides a system and method for filtering a video synchronization signal sent from a remote computer. The method can include the operation of receiving a stream of at least n sync signals from the remote computer and storing the most recently received... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027042 | Display apparatus and error detection method thereof A display apparatus includes a first video signal processing part which processes a video signal output from a video card provided in a computer main body and displays a picture thereof, a picture data storing part, and an error detecting part which captures the vid... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019738 | Display device and its control method There is provided a display device which enables both a full color moving image display (analog mode) and a shallow depth still image display (digital mode), and which achieves a significant reduction in the energy consumption of the display device system including ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019737 | Liquid crystal display device, portable electronic device and driving method thereof A display device which is provided with a liquid crystal display which uses reflective type liquid crystal with a memory effect. This display device is used, for example, as a sub display of a personal computer. The liquid crystal display keeps displaying an image a... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017057 | Proximity based method and apparatus for reducing electrical energy consumed by a personal computer with a sleep mode A personal computer that enters sleep mode to conserve electrical energy is responsive to a proximity detector and a proximity timer. As long as a user is near the computer, as determined by the proximity detector, the computer is controlled by an activity timer, an... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7017053 | System for reduced power consumption by monitoring video content and method thereof A system and method are provided for reducing power consumption within a video processing portion of a system based on display content. Display content is monitored to determine whether the display content is changing. New display content is compared to old display ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015905 | Capacitive load driving circuit driving capacitive loads such as pixels in plasma display panels and plasma display apparatus having the capacitive load driving circuit A capacitive load driving circuit has an input terminal, a front-edge delay circuit, a back-edge delay circuit, an amplifying circuit, and an output switch device driven by the amplifying circuit. The front-edge delay circuit delays a front edge of an input signal i... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015904 | Power sequence apparatus for device driving circuit and its method A power sequence apparatus and a driving method that renders the control of a power sequence easy and prevents malfunction in a driver IC. The power sequence apparatus includes a power supply for simultaneously generating a gate high voltage and a gate low voltage, ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015903 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof wherein a change in a charge rate of a thin film transistor compensates for an externally applied frequency variation upon driving of the liquid crystal display device so as to improve the picture quality.... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012626 | Driving method of display device The present invention provides a driving method for a display device which includes a display part having pixels of M columns×N rows and a memory, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting element. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010412 | Method for calculating parameters in road design of S-type clothoid, complex clothoid and egg type clothoid The present invention relates to a method for calculating parameters in a road design of a S type, a complex type and an egg type clothoid, and in particular to a method for calculating a parameter value capable of determining the size of a clothoid that is inserted... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006113 | Display apparatus with pixels arranged in matrix A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in matrix; a pixel electrode disposed inside each of the pixels; a display device disposed inside each of the pixels, for executing display in accordance with a voltage of the pixel electrode; a scanning line driving circ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002814 | Power supply controlling device of an electronic equipment A system connecting a printer and a host computer includes a signal processing unit, a printing unit, a DC/DC converter converting a power supply voltage into a lower voltage required by the signal processing unit and outputting the converted voltage to the signal p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002563 | Driving method for flat-panel display device A driving method is used for a flat-panel display device which includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of gate lines substantially perpendicular to the signal lines, a plurality of switching elements provided near intersections of the signal lines and the ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000127 | Power saving circuit for display system An information handling system comprises a data processing unit providing at least one control signal and a constant voltage signal, a monitor coupled with the data processing unit, wherein the monitor comprises a power saving circuitry receiving the at least one co... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999058 | Power supply circuit for driving liquid crystal display device A power supply circuit having a data driver power circuit, which has a temperature compensation function and a voltage regulation function, and a scan driver power circuit that has a function of controlling the brightness of the liquid crystal display device as a us... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999050 | Apparatus for recycling energy in a liquid crystal display An apparatus for recycling energy in a liquid crystal display (LCD) so as to reduce energy loss when the LCD is driven by a driving circuit. The LCD includes two pixels, each of which has a corresponding capacitor and has a corresponding voltage applied to. The pola... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996727 | Power supply for universal serial bus interface with programmable bus pullup resistor An apparatus comprising a power supply device configured to generate a voltage. The voltage may comprise either (i) a standard voltage level or (ii) a power down voltage level. The power down voltage level may be configured to reduce current consumption. ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6987510 | Display panel driver It is an object of the present invention to provide a display panel driver with which power consumption can be reduced. The display panel driver includes a pixel data pulse generation circuit which generates pixel data pulses by connecting the column electrodes and ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6982704 | Contrast adjusting circuitry and video display apparatus using same With the aim of offering a video display technique by which stable and high contrast video images are reproduced, contrast adjusting circuitry is constructed. The contrast adjusting circuitry detects a maximum picture level (MPL) and an average picture level (APL) o... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6982527 | Method for driving light emitting diode A method for driving a light emitting diode coupled to an output of a current mirror is provided. The method includes providing a control terminal voltage of the current mirror as a reference voltage, increasing a voltage of an input of the current mirror and provid... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980192 | Liquid crystal display, integrated circuit for use therein, and driving method and driver of liquid crystal display An integrated circuit including a liquid crystal display has a multi-port data output section from which output signals are arranged with respect to a data input signal. Points of changing the signals with respect to a time base are set with time delays that lag beh... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980189 | Liquid crystal display In a liquid crystal display device which inputs analogue video signals after phase development, the deterioration of display quality due to the irregularities of circuit can be reduced. To correct the irregularities due to a plurality of analogue circuits, the liqui... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975314 | Power circuit for display driver, display device, and camera There is provided a power circuit for a display-device-driving circuit for supplying a plurality of voltages to a driving circuit for time-division-driving a display device, wherein each of the plurality of voltages are output via a constant-voltage circuit constitu... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975311 | Apparatus for driving display panel A drive apparatus for applying first and second drive pulses to row electrodes to drive a display panel having the row electrodes, column electrodes arranged to intersect the row electrodes, and capacitive light-emitting elements each disposed at each point of inter... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975312 | Computer system having network connector and method of checking connection state of network cable therefor A computer system having a network connector to which a network cable is connected, including a displaying part displaying a connection state of the network cable; a signal processing part processing a signal inputted through the network connector; and a control par... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975313 | Power supply circuit for display unit, method for controlling same, display unit, and electronic apparatus The invention prevents or substantially prevents the brightness from changing according to the number of pixels that are turned on in a display. A power supply circuit calculates the total number of pixels that are turned on using ON/OFF data RD that stipulates the ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972526 | Organic EL display device and driving circuits A drive current of every terminal pin is regulated according to data stored in a rewritable non-volatile memory by ON/OFF switching the data by a switch circuit. By writing data necessary for luminance regulation for correcting luminance variation or luminance uneve... | 12/06/2005 |
