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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7057586 | Flat panel display and operation method thereof In a flat panel display and an operation method thereof capable of lowering a capacitance of a pixel cell, an operation method of a flat panel display includes supplying a data pulse to first data lines of the panel, supplying a data pulse to second data lines of th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057609 | Electromagnetic interference prevention apparatus for flat panel display An electromagnetic interference (EMI) prevention apparatus for a flat panel display which is capable of modulating the frequency of an input clock signal using a spread spectrum clocking method to increase the frequency of the clock signal and reduce the amplitude t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057610 | Display unit, information processing unit, display method, program, and recording medium A display unit 200 equipped with a panel 230 in which pixels are arranged in a matrix, includes: a mode setting section 240 for setting the display unit 200 to one of a plurality of display modes; a voltage supply section 250 for c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057622 | Graphics display system with line buffer control scheme A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip includes a display engine that process... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053864 | Hot-plugging method of display apparatus A hot-plugging method for a display apparatus is disclosed which includes the steps of reading information pertaining to a display apparatus by a predetermined data communication upon recognizing that a display apparatus has been newly connected while a controller p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053889 | Circuit for detecting active video area for display device, method for detecting active video area for display device and coordinate mapping method using detected active video area A circuit for detecting an active video area for a display device, a method for detecting an active video area for a display device, and a coordinate mapping method using the detected active video area are provided. The circuit for detecting an active video area for... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053877 | Liquid crystal display control device There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processin... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053888 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus include a plurality of scan wirings and a plurality of modulation wirings forming a matrix, display elements to be driven in matrix according to a scan signal applied by the scan wirings and a modulation signal applied by the modulation wi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053918 | Color image display device, method of driving the same, and electronic equipment A gray-scale power supply line supplied to a source signal line driving circuit is made only one system, and each of D/A conversion circuits drives source signal lines in which three source signal lines corresponding to RGB are made a unit and the number of which is... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053959 | Digital video encoder A mask circuit masks a digital video signal so that a video signal of an analog video signal is not outputted for a predetermined period after the start of output of a horizontal synchronizing signal of the analog video signal. A period of masking the digital video ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049756 | Capacitive load driving circuit, capacitive load driving method, and apparatus using the same A capacitive load driving circuit (1) for charging and discharging a capacitive load (11) is provided with a voltage divider (5) for dividing a power supply voltage (VH) into a plurality of different voltages (V1–V9), a plurality... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050036 | Shift register with a built in level shifter A shift register employs only a thin film transistor of the same type channel and has a level shifter built-in. A shift register with a built in level shifter includes a plurality of stages and a plurality of level shifters. The stages are connected in cascade to sh... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050111 | Process and device for synchronizing a reference signal with respect to a video signal A synchronization process may include detecting successive horizontal synchronization pulses of a video signal, and a phase comparison between the successive detected pulses and the successive transitions of the reference signal for controlling the oscillator of the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046308 | Method and apparatus for transmitting digital television data A digital television/local bus interface logic supports handling of digital television (DTV) data with non-tearing. The interface logic provides a dual frame buffer DTV architecture in which a pair of DTV/local bus frame buffers alternate functions: one frame buffer... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046227 | System and method for continuously tracing transfer rectangles for image data transfers A system and method for continuously tracing transfer rectangles for performing image data transfers includes a display controller with control logic, a rectangle module, and a coordinates module. The rectangle module detects write operations to on-screen data in a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042431 | Image display device and driving method of the same In a vertical retrace interval, a pre-charge potential or a signal potential is applied to each polarity for AC driving liquid crystal at least once each, so as to maintain fluctuations in pixel potential between the positive polarity side and the negative polarity ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038669 | System and method for providing a reference video signal A method is taught for providing a reference video signal to a video display through a video interface from a video display adapter for a host computer. The method includes the step of providing a horizontal sync line to carry a horizontal sync signal that occupies ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038649 | Liquid crystal display driving method/driving circuit capable of being driven with equal voltages A display apparatus comprising a plurality of pixel portions arranged in a matrix, a signal driver circuit which generates apply voltages corresponding to display data, and applies the apply voltages to the pixel portions, a scan driver circuit which applies a selec... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038689 | Sparse refresh double-buffering A spatial light modulator having a double-buffering pixel value storage mechanism. A double-buffering mechanism enabling sparse refresh. A double-buffering value storage mechanism suitable for use with a serial or raster value producer and a value consumer, especial... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038696 | Method and apparatus for implementing color graphics on a remote computer A method and apparatus captures the color palettes of a video graphics controller of a managed computer to a remote computer to transmit correct color information to a remote computer. A remote management controller may perform this technique independent from the op... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038673 | LCD, and driving device and method thereof Disclosed are an LCD capable of realizing a pre-charging method even in the random data-enable mode, and an apparatus and method for driving the same. In the LCD driving apparatus, a timing controller outputs a vertical sync start signal based on a data-enable signa... | 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 |
| 7034796 | Display control circuit for liquid crystal display When count values CNT of a counter 11 are values other than 1, a selection signal SEL of a decode section 18 becomes “H”, so that a clock signal CLK is selected by a selection section 17 and it is inputted into the counter 11 and a sh... | 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 |
| 7034815 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing an analog video signal to an LCD monitor A method, system and apparatus for synchronizing an analog video signal to an LCD monitor is described. For each of a succession of associated video frames are surveyed for a number of displayed features based upon a pseudo-random selection of regions into which the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034817 | Method and device of alignment of a video image with an edge of a display screen The aligning a video image with an edge of a display screen, the video image being displayed by a scanning of lines of the display screen by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal, including, for each scanned line of the screen, storing successi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7030871 | Active matrix display device This invention is directed to the active matrix display device with an imaging speed rapid enough for the moving image display and the small power consumption. The selector makes the switch between the moving image mode, where the image signal consecutively inputted... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030870 | On screen display (OSD) The invention relates to the generation of an on-screen display and a control system for the same which allows the known problems in display which can occur to be avoided. Upon change of at least part of an OSD, the system continues until a request to redraw the dis... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027018 | Display device and driving method thereof A hold-type display device for eliminating blurring without damaging the display brightness of moving images. The display device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a first dr... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023442 | Transferring a digital video stream through a series of hardware modules A video routing system including a plurality of video routers VR(0), VR(1), . . . , VR(NR−1) coupled in a linear series. Each video router in the linear series may successively operate on a digital video stream. Each video router provides ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023410 | Liquid crystal display device A driver circuit drives display device and LCD device has a driver circuit that includes driving stages and dummy stage. The driving stage includes output and control terminals. The output terminal of the present stage is connected to the control terminal of the pre... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019792 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus responding to diverse video signals having different display conditions includes: a frequency characteristic adjustment module that adjusts a frequency component of an analog video signal included in a supplied video signal; an A/D convers... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019764 | Method and apparatus for auto-generation of horizontal synchronization of an analog signal to digital display A method, apparatus, and system for determining a horizontal resolution and a phase of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of scan lines each formed of a number of pixels is described. A number of initialization values are set where at least one of t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7017065 | System and method for processing information, and recording medium To provide an integrated information processing unit that is capable of producing images and sounds of high quality. It includes a control unit, information processing units, and a merge unit. Each of the information processing units includes a counter for synchroni... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7009602 | Method of driving plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of mutually parallel first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes separated from and perpendicular to the first electrodes, the intersection points of neighboring pairs of the first electrode... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009628 | Method and apparatus for auto-generation of horizontal synchronization of an analog signal to a digital display A method, apparatus, and system for determining a true horizontal resolution of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of features having associated feature edges on a display each of which were created with a true pixel clock is described. For a test h... | 03/07/2006 |
