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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184115 | Plasma display device and method for driving the same Disclosed here is a method for driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display device capable of providing image display with a high contrast ratio and excellent quality by stabilizing an address discharge. According to the method, which is the method for drivin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174519 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixel row groups, each pixel row group including at least one pixel row that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements; a plurality of gate lines connecte... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174520 | Driving circuit of an LCD panel and data transmission method thereof A driving circuit includes a receiving module, a data mapping module, a shift register module, a plurality of output channels, and a switching module. The receiving module receives data from a first number of parallel inputs. The data mapping module is coupled to th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174518 | Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same An organic light emitting display including pixels, each including an organic light emitting diode and a pixel circuit for controlling a supply of an electric current to the organic light emitting diode; and a sensing unit for converting a voltage applied to the org... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169432 | Display device and electronic apparatus A sampling transistor in embodiments of the present invention is kept at the on-state with a time width shorter than one horizontal cycle, during the period from the rising of a control pulse supplied from a scanner to the falling of the control pulse, and samples a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169431 | Methods and systems for image tonescale design Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for generating, a modified process for compensating for a reduced source light illumination level as well as a post-compensation process. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164588 | System and method for MEMS array actuation including a charge integration circuit to modulate the charge on a variable gap capacitor during an actuation cycle An actuator and method for MEMS array actuation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the actuator having a pixel coupled to a charge integration circuit, the pixel comprising a voltage bias, a variable gap capacitor, and a switch, all in series, the charge integration c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8144146 | Display device and electronic device The display device of the invention includes a light emitting element, a monitoring light emitting element, a constant current source which supplies a constant current to the monitoring light emitting element, a time-based measurement circuit which measures time to ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8120603 | Driver apparatus for display A driver apparatus applied on a display is disclosed. The driver apparatus includes a voltage converter, an input level shift circuit, at least one input logic circuit, and at least one output level shifter. The voltage converter receives a first voltage, a ground v... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115759 | Plasma display device and method for driving the same Disclosed here is a method for driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display device capable of providing image display with a high contrast ratio and excellent quality by stabilizing an address discharge. According to the method, which is the method for drivin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094147 | Display device and method for transmitting clock signal during blank period A display device includes a data line, a timing controller configured to apply a transmission signal corresponding to data bits to a data line during an active period in which the data bits are transmitted and apply a transmission clock signal to the data line durin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077173 | Driving device for driving display panel, driving method and IC chip A driving device that drives a display device using a subfield driving method eliminates the need to use an expensive 1-frame delay memory. A compensated sustain pulse data generator enables displaying the same frame information on the display panel even when the 1-... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059117 | Liquid crystal display device, and method and circuit for driving liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a display section, an image signal drive circuit, a scan signal drive circuit, a common electrode potential control circuit, and a synchronous circuit. The display section has scan electrodes, image signal electrodes, a plura... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049747 | Light diffuser for a stretchable display An apparatus (100) including a pixel diffuser for a stretchable display is disclosed. The apparatus may include an elastic viewable display (110) that is stretched in a first viewable display area configuration and contracted in a second viewable displ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040342 | Image compensation apparatus and method An image compensation apparatus and method is provided. The image compensation apparatus includes a power control module which controls a light emitting unit according to a power control input signal input thereto by a user and provides power reduction information c... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8009162 | Thin-film semiconductor device, display device including the same, and method of driving display device A thin-film semiconductor device includes a temperature sensor formed of a thin-film semiconductor and sensing a temperature as current, and a current-voltage converter formed of a thin-film semiconductor and having temperature dependence in which its current-voltag... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7940257 | Methods for segment driver circuits and application specific SEG decoders in LCD driver systems This invention describes methods and circuits for the segment driver circuit in a LCD driver system as well as application specific SEG decoder. The methods include the following steps: the array signal undergoes an inversion process (from 1 to 0, or from 0 to 1); t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7928975 | Plasma display and driving method thereof In a plasma display and a driving method thereof, a misfiring prevention period is provided between a reset period and an address period in response to a temperature of the plasma display being higher than predetermined temperature or a weight value of a previous su... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911464 | Electroluminescent display devices The pixels of an active matrix display device have a current-driven light emitting display element, a drive transistor for driving a current through the display element, a storage capacitor for storing a pixel drive voltage to be used for addressing the drive transi... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7880736 | Display control system for micromirror device This invention provides a display control system that includes: a) a micromirror array comprising a plurality of mirrors; b) a first control function for controlling the mirrors in a first state; c) a second control function for controlling the mirrors in a second s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7800605 | Multi-view video switching control methods and systems Multi-view video switching control methods and systems are disclosed. It is determined whether a VBI (vertical blanking interval) of signals respectively transmitted by a first GA (graphic array) and a second GA is detected. The video source of first and second GAs ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7724248 | Image display apparatus having deformation detection An image display apparatus includes a display panel that displays an image, and a detecting unit that detects a magnitude of deformation of the display panel. In addition, a control unit controls display on the display panel according to an output of the detecting u... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719530 | Image display control apparatus and image display control method An image is moved and displayed through an image movement orbit composed of one or more annular orbits. The annular orbit is set such that a central point of the image to be displayed on a display screen is defined as a reference position, and the reference position... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7605810 | Demultiplexer and display device using the same A display device including a plurality of data lines for transmitting a data current corresponding to image signals, a plurality of scan lines for selecting select signals, and a plurality of pixel circuits coupled to the data lines and the scan lines. The display d... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7595796 | Optimizing lifetime of a display A lifetime of a display is optimized by determining whether to control at least a portion of a display based on a lifetime metric. A plurality of display control options is identified in response to determining to control the portion of the display, and one of the d... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7502022 | Synthesis mode, synthesis writing mode, and reading mode for power saving in a portable device An image synthesis output apparatus is capable of saving power in the stage of obtaining a synthetic image of a plurality of images. In the apparatus, during a period when either of first and second input images is updated within a first predetermined period, a mult... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7477248 | Display device, electric device comprising such a display device and method for driving a display device The invention relates to a display device and a method of driving a display device, wherein the display comprises a plurality of light emitting elements and means for applying a driving signal to the light emitting elements. The display device comprises control mean... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7439966 | Data driver and driving method thereof A data driver and a method of driving the data driver are disclosed. A multiplexer receives data signals from a signal source. A control circuit periodically outputs a plurality of control signals to the multiplexer. When the multiplexer receives the control signals... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439968 | Display device In a display device comprising a cooling suction fan and an air filter arranged on the suction side of the cooling suction fan, there are provided first means for measuring the value of a current flowing through a power supply line to the cooling suction fan for eac... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432920 | Method and apparatus for the display of still images from image files An apparatus for displaying digital image files on a standard display device such as a television set is provided in the form of a set-top box. The box includes an integrated circuit and memory buffer for computing an image from a file, a second memory buffer for st... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423447 | Method for testing liquid crystal display panels A method for testing a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The gate drivers are integrated onto the panel. The method includes simultaneously inputting a clock signal, an inverted clock signal, and a pull down signal into clock signal, inverted clock signal, a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420550 | Liquid crystal display driving device of matrix structure type and its driving method A liquid crystal display driving device of matrix structure type and its driving method are disclosed in the present invention. The driving device consists of a group of thin film transistors with matrix array, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420554 | Display and semiconductor device A display capable of correctly displaying images with brightness in response to a video signal is provided. This display comprises a pixel including a p-type first field-effect transistor subjected to application of a first bias voltage in the period of an operation... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421375 | Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and a driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of scan lines in a first direction, a plurality of data lines in a seco... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420548 | Display system and control method thereof Disclosed is a display system displaying a picture on a screen by a video signal from a computer and serving as an input device of a computer coupled to the display system. The display system includes an input part through which a user inputs data, a signal processi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411586 | Light emitting device, method of driving a light emitting device, element substrate, and electronic equipment A display device capable of obtaining a constant luminance without being influenced by temperature change is provided as well as a method of driving the display device. A current mirror circuit composed of a first transistor and a second transistor is provided in ea... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7400097 | Organic EL display device A driver IC (4) and a current driver circuit (40) are shared by a first organic EL panel (2) and a second organic EL panel (3). Therefore, not like conventional cases, the current driving circuit (40) on a side not selected is not ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400311 | Response time accelerator and method for driving liquid crystal display A response time accelerator and method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) are provided. According to the response time accelerator for driving an LCD, an acceleration unit reads previous data Pn−1 corresponding to input current data Pn from a frame memory ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400314 | Display device The display device has at least two set of maximum luminances including an image maximum luminance for displaying an image and an ordinary maximum luminance for displaying non-image information, the ordinary maximum luminance being lower than the image maximum lumin... | 07/15/2008 |
| RE40422 | Device and methods for repeatedly updating the function of a LCD monitor A monitor control system capable of reprogramming the function of a LCD monitor. The monitor control system utilizes VGA signal lines for video signal transmission during normal mode of operation and the same VGA signal lines for transmitting erase/record commands a... | 07/08/2008 |
