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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446405 | Method and apparatus for DC level redistribution A DC level redistribution method includes the steps of: receiving all positive signals and one negative signal of a plurality of pairs of differential signals; fixing a DC level of a positive signal of a designated pair of differential signals among a plurality of p... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8436849 | Circuit driving for liquid crystal display device The present invention relates to a circuit for driving a liquid crystal display device in which no multi-flicker preventive signal FLK, but only single flicker preventive signal FLK, is used for reducing numbers of pins of a timing controller and a level shifter. Th... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436848 | Gate output control method An exemplary gate output control method includes the following steps: providing a gate control signal; using an angling control signal to angling modulate the gate control signal so as to generate a modulated gate control signal; and supplying the modulated gate con... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8416233 | Display driver with charge pumping signals synchronized to different clocks for multiple modes A display driver generates a respective charge pumping signal and respective driving signals synchronized to a respective same clock signal for each of the CPU and video interface modes. Because such respective signals are synchronized to a respective same clock sig... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416232 | Liquid crystal display capable of reducing number of output channels of data driving circuit and preventing degradation of picture quality A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a data driving circuit for converting digital video data into positive/negative data voltages to be supplied to the data lines and adjusting the horizontal pola... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8405650 | Light emitting device and method for driving thereof An object of the present invention is to provide a display device consuming lower amounts of power. The display device determines whether or not video signals corresponding to all of pixels in one row of a plurality of pixels are equal to one another. In a case wher... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8400443 | Plasma display device A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device can prevent the generation of complementary bright spots or the occurrence of voltage peaking by adjusting the time to apply a bias voltage during a reset period. Thus, it is possible to improve the disc... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8390613 | Display driver integrated circuits, and systems and methods using display driver integrated circuits Example embodiments include display driver systems having a host with an external image signal receiving unit configured to receive an external image signal and a graphic control unit configured to transmit input control signals. The systems further include a displa... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8390614 | Timing controller and clock signal detection circuit thereof The clock signal detection circuit includes a lock detection circuit, a duty cycle detection circuit, a first logic circuit, and a counter. The lock detection circuit detects whether an input clock signal and a feedback clock signal of a delay locked loop are in pha... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8390612 | Source driver and operation method thereof and flat panel display A source driver, an operation method thereof, and a flat panel display using the same are provided. The source driver includes a data channel, a switch and a switch controller. The data channel latches a pixel data according to timing of a line letch signal, and con... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8384707 | Method for synchronizing display of images in a multi-display computer system An image display system synchronizes the display of images on a plurality of display devices. The method entails generating at a first computer system a first signal representing first image data to be displayed on a first display device, generating at a second comp... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8355017 | Plasma display device and plasma display panel drive method The wall charge is appropriately adjusted in the initializing period, and occurrence of an abnormal discharge and an unlit cell is suppressed in the address period. Therefore, a plasma display device has a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells i... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8345037 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method thereof are provided. The LCD device includes a display panel including pixel units, a data driving circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit provides a first gate off voltage to one pixe... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8345036 | Display method, display system, mobile communication terminal, and display controller When there is a circuit that has to wait for one frame cycle to switch LCD resolution, a user feels uncomfortable because the resolution is switched while the screen is temporarily turned off and blackened or while the screen does keep display but causes flickers. W... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8339389 | Electro-optical device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus with adjustable ratio between positive and negative field using black display voltage A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8339390 | Power supply circuit of display device and display device using the same Provided are a power supply circuit and a display device which are capable of enhancing power efficiency even when applied to a display panel whose current consumption varies. The power supply circuit boosts and outputs an input voltage using a booster chopper circu... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8319769 | LCD panel driver with self masking function using power on reset signal and driving method thereof In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel driver with a self-masking function using a power-on reset signal, and in a method of driving the same, the LCD panel driver includes a power-on reset signal generation unit that generates a power-on reset signal in response t... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8310479 | Display panel drive apparatus and display panel drive method A display panel drive apparatus includes a source driver that drives each unit dot in accordance with a time-divisional clock, and a booster circuit that generates a supply voltage to be supplied to the source driver based on a clock having a rising edge and a falli... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8300041 | LCD display and backlight apparatus and driving method thereof The backlight apparatus includes a light source module having a plurality of light sources connected in series, and a power supply module which generates a driving signal for driving the light source module according a synchronous control signal. A first switch is d... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8289311 | Display and driving method thereof with black data alignment The display device may include a data aligning part that analyzes a gray level of input data and inserts black data into frame data having less than a designated reference gray level; and a driver that displays the data from the data aligning part in a display panel... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8289312 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device performing alternating-current driving, at least one of a gate voltage amplitude Vgp−p(p) upon application of a positive polarity voltage and a gate voltage amplitude Vgp−p(n) upon application of a negative polarity voltage is ... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8279216 | Apparatus and method for data interface of flat panel display device An apparatus and method for data interface of a flat panel display device, which is capable of transferring clocks in a state, in which the clocks are embedded in digital data, thereby reducing the number of transfer lines, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a tra... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8279215 | Display apparatus and method of driving the same A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a column driver, a row driver and a display unit. The timing controller outputs a first column clock embedded into image data during an active period, and outputs a second column clock embedded into blank data during... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8274502 | Video switch and method of sampling simultaneous video sources A video switch for allowing at least two users to view video data from respective ones of at least two video sources. The video switch comprises a switch for selecting one of the at least two video sources and at least one sampler connected to the switch. The sample... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8269761 | Display device and method of controlling the same A liquid crystal display panel (LCD) including a plurality of pixels. A plurality of drivers are provided and switched between a driving state and a non-driving state in response to an ON/OFF signal that is fed. The plurality of drivers drive the plurality of pixels... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8264482 | Interleaving drive circuit and electro-luminescent display system utilizing a multiplexer A drive circuit for rapidly interleaving image data displayed on an EL device is disclosed. The drive circuit includes a signal source that provides a image data signals. Each image data signal is provided for a specified load period. A multiplexer receives the imag... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8243058 | Gate driving circuit and display device having the gate driving circuit A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages connected to each other. An m-th stage (‘m’ is a natural number) of the stages includes a pull-up part, a pull-down part, a first holding part and a second holding part. The pull-up part outputs a high voltag... | 08/14/2012 |
| RE43573 | Method and system for displaying an analog image by a digital display device A clock recovery circuit in a digital display unit for recovering a time reference signal associated with analog display data. The clock recovery circuit includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) implemented in digital domain and an analog filter to eliminate any undesirab... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8243057 | Display and driving method thereof An organic electroluminescent display and driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent display includes a demultiplexer for outputting signals provided by a data driver to a plurality of data lines according to on/off operation of analog switches. The driv... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8237699 | Apparatus and method for data interface of flat panel display device An apparatus and method for data interface of a flat panel display device, which is capable of transferring clocks in a state, in which the clocks are embedded in digital data, thereby reducing the number of transfer lines, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a tra... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8237700 | Synchronized phase-shifted pulse width modulation signal generation A pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator generates multiple output PWM signals from an input PWM signal. The output PWM signals are synchronized to synchronization events. Each output PWM signal has a duty ratio substantially equal to the duty ratio of the in... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8232986 | Light emitting display and method for driving the same Disclosed herein are a light emitting display which can compensate for a threshold voltage of a driving switching element, and a method for driving the same. A light emitting display includes a pixel circuit that outputs a driving current corresponding to a data vol... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8223142 | Display panel drive apparatus A display panel drive apparatus which can keep display brightness constant, thus preventing the occurrence of unevenness in brightness. The drive apparatus includes a current controlling voltage generating circuit to generate a current control voltage. The drive app... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8217929 | Electro-optical device, driving method, and electronic apparatus with user adjustable ratio between positive and negative field A method of driving the electro-optical device includes selecting a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order in each of first and second fields of one frame; when one of the plurality of scanning lines is selected in the first field, for each pixel locat... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8212803 | Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a first source drive IC group outputting a first feedback lock signal in response to one of a power voltage input through a first lock signal input terminal a... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8212802 | Driving apparatus of display device and display device including the same A display device includes driving apparatus having first, second, third, and fourth gate drivers. The first and second gate drivers are connected to gate lines and are positioned on one side of the display device side by side. The third and fourth gate drivers are c... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8199143 | Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus The present invention provides a display apparatus, includes: a pixel array section; and a driving section; the pixel array section including a plurality of scanning lines extending along the direction of a row, a plurality of signal lines extending along the direct... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8194065 | Hardware system and method for changing a display refresh rate A system and method are provided for changing a display refresh rate. A first register is provided for storing at least one first refresh parameter in association with a first refresh rate. Additionally, a second register is provided for storing at least one second ... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8184114 | Multi-panel display device and method of driving the same A multi-panel display device and a method of driving the same, which can simplify a driving circuit for driving multiple flat panel display devices, thereby decreasing the fabrication cost, are disclosed. In the device configured of an alignment of multiple flat pan... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8149233 | Controller for generating video signal, simulation system comprising the same, and method of generating video signal A system and method is provided for generating a video signal including a signal generator to generate the video signal, a user setting part to allow a user to set information for generating the video signal, and a controller to control the signal generator to gener... | 04/03/2012 |
