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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111209 | Composite display A composite display is disclosed. A first paddle has a first plurality of pixel elements wherein the first paddle is arranged to sweep out a first area during a first paddle cycle. A second paddle has a second plurality of pixel elements wherein the second paddle is... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106854 | Composite display A composite display may include a compound paddle having a plurality of components and configured to sweep out an area. A plurality of pixel elements may be mounted on at least one component of the plurality of components. Selectively activating one or more of the p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085218 | Providing a floating alphanumeric/graphical display without moving electronics Mechanisms for providing a floating display without moving electronics is provided. The mechanisms include a stationary array of light emitting elements and a moving reflective element. As the reflective element rotates, oscillates, or otherwise moves in a path rela... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8054243 | Method for forming a movable matrix image and device for a light-emitting diode running letters The set of inventions relates to display engineering and is used for displaying color alphanumeric and graphical information for designing and developing different infomercial display means on externally and internally located objects. The said invention makes it po... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8013806 | Display device Image display apparatus comprising two or more arrays of light sources is described. Each array is rotatable around a common axis, and the light sources in each array are arranged so that each light source traverses along a unique path around the common axis. A cont... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7978152 | LED display device for displaying pattern on rotatable object by light-scanning An LED display device for displaying a pattern on a rotatable object by light-scanning; wherein when the rotating object rotates with a high speed, the pattern will display; the device comprising: a display device for displaying at least one pattern; the display dev... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7847756 | Three-dimensional image display apparatus including a rotating two-dimensional display panel A three-dimensional image display apparatus which displays a three-dimensional image as a set of two-dimensional images by switching and displaying the two-dimensional images on a rotating self-luminous two-dimensional display panel while synchronizing with the rota... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7733297 | Image display apparatus, three-dimensional image display apparatus, and three-dimensional image display system An image display apparatus includes: a light modulation device having an electro-optic effect in which a refractive index changes according to electric field intensity; a plurality of control points provided on a surface of the light modulation device; and an electr... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7646358 | Image display device In an image display device which has an image display panel, in which two or more groups of particles or liquid powders having different colors and different charge characteristics are sealed between opposed two substrates, at least one of two substrates being trans... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7477208 | Rotational light emitting display apparatus A rotational light emitting display apparatus is provided. The rotational light emitting apparatus device allows static and animated images and instruments to be displayed on dynamic screen. The display is refreshed repeatedly to take advantage of the persistence of... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7443364 | Projection of overlapping sub-frames onto a surface A method of displaying an image with a display system includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data based on a geometric relationship between a hypothetical refere... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7409246 | Apparatus and method for evaluating equipment operability, and equipment operability evaluating program When an input unit of the equipment operability evaluating apparatus selects the human body type of the human body model and a scenario, the posture calculation unit calculates an appropriate operating posture of the human body model having the physique of the selec... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397387 | Light sculpture system and method A moving, pulsed-light-source light sculpture display with communication between a stationary portion, i.e. the knobs and buttons and their corresponding electronics, and rotating and illuminated PCBs. An optical data link is implemented with an IR LED in the statio... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372430 | Light emitting device and light receiving and emitting driving circuit A light emitting device including a plurality of pieces of LEDs D01, D02 to D16, one or more driving circuit(s) for supplying the plurality of LEDs D01, D02 to D16 with electrical power, the number of the driving circuit(s) ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367806 | Braille cell cap An electromechanical Braille cell assembly includes a plurality of parallel bimorph reeds. A first plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a first side of a printed circuit board by a first plurality of clips and a second plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7355612 | Displaying spatially offset sub-frames with a display device having a set of defective display pixels A method of displaying an image with a display device having a set of defective display pixels includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data. The method includes s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355573 | Residual image display In one of the present invention, a scanning control means and a generating means scan an image by part of light-emitting diodes among a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and generate two-dimensional residual image data enlarged from the image. A light-emission con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355782 | Systems and methods of controlling micro-electromechanical devices An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provid... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352339 | Diffuse illumination systems and methods The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to sources of diffuse illumination for providing substantially uniform illumination to a surface. The diffuse illumination arises from varying the diffusion angle of light generated by an LED system. To vary the diffus... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338705 | Static dissipation treatments for optical package windows An optically transparent conductive material is disposed directly or indirectly on an inside surface of a cover material for static dissipation in an optical switching device. The optically transparent conductive material forms an electrically continuous film. The o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336691 | Apparatus for combining beams from repetitively pulsed lasers along a common path Two pulse sequences are delivered by two lasers. A rotating segmented mirror having one or more reflective areas and one or more transmissive areas is rotated synchronously with the delivery of the pulse sequences to transmit pulses from one sequence, and to reflect... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7306463 | Pseudo-cuneiform tactile display This is an entirely new type of tactile display based upon cuneiform writing concepts which is an alternative to Braille. This invention uses electromechanical components to display a tactile coding of letters, numbers and symbols using rotating linear components an... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7287874 | Portable signal light, vehicle guidance tool and vehicle guidance method When using, an entire length from a grip portion to a light emitting lamp portion is elongated by drawing out the light emitting lamp portion from the grip portion so as to extend, and each of light emitting diodes in the light emitting lamp portion is turned so as ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271813 | Rotational display system The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7250954 | Three-dimensional image rendering devices and methods A three-dimensional rendering device may project an image on a movable display through a collimating device, which collimates the rays from the display into a narrow solid angle. The narrow solid angle may allow the rays from the display to be projected only to a vi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248232 | Information processing device There is provided an information processing apparatus which occupies a small space and which is capable of supplying image information having high definition and high resolution. An information processing apparatus of the invention employs a head mount display (HMD)... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236146 | Hand-held display device A display device comprising a first body and a second body, the second body connected to the first body at a rotary connection. A display element, which may include one or more light-emitting diodes, is disposed on the second body. A controller is electrically conne... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234823 | Illumination apparatus and image projection apparatus An illumination apparatus illuminating an objective illumination region comprises a plurality of illuminants having light-emitting surfaces radiating diffused light, an illuminant substrate in which the illuminants are disposed so as to be set in array on the circum... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233441 | Stereoscopic display The invention provides a stereoscopic display to display a high-quality three-dimensional video which can be viewed without using polarizing glasses. A stereoscopic display according to the present invention includes an electronically-formed, multi-viewpoint light b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230751 | Electrophoretic displays using gaseous fluids Various improvements are provided in gas-based electrophoretic displays, including (a) the use of water getters to remove water from the gas; (b) the use of electron accepting or donating gases; (c) the use of electrophoretic polymer particles having high glass tran... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230599 | Display device for data processing equipment A display device adopted for use on data processing equipment includes a hollow case for housing a turnable axle and an elastic element, a pliable LCD screen wound around the peripheral surface of the axle, and a retaining member fastening to one side of the pliable... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226291 | Refreshable tactile computer display A method and apparatus for refreshable tactile output of information from a computer, includes using a movement actuator to move in unison along a first dimension a plurality of tactile elements that can be touched by a user of the tactile output. Based on data rece... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227532 | Optical projection system for computer input devices A computer input device, such as an electronic mouse, having an optical projection system. The optical projection system is configured to project an image onto a housing wall surface, which may be on a side, top, or rear of the device. In one arrangement the optical... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221495 | Thin film precursor stack for MEMS manufacturing This invention provides a precursor film stack for use in the production of MEMS devices. The precursor film stack comprises a carrier substrate, a first layer formed on the carrier substrate, a second layer of an insulator material formed on the first layer, and a ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213929 | Illumination apparatus and image projection apparatus An illumination apparatus illuminating an objective illumination region comprises a plurality of illuminants having light-emitting surfaces radiating diffused light, an illuminant substrate in which the illuminants are disposed so as to be set in array on the circum... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212839 | Visualization supplemented wireless mobile telephony-audio A wireless mobile phone is provided with the capability to visually convey audio to users, using a number of light sources, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), in accordance with one or more attributes of the audio. The attributes may include different volume, spe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205991 | Graphical user interface widgets viewable and readable from multiple viewpoints in a volumetric display The present invention is a widget display system for a volumetric or true three-dimensional (3D) display that provides a volumetric or omni-viewable widget that can be viewed and interacted with from any location around the volumetric display. The widget can be view... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196950 | Non-volatile semiconductor storage device performing ROM read operation upon power-on A power-on reset circuit has a power-on level detecting circuit which detects a power voltage to output a power-on reset signal and a delay circuit which delays the power-on reset signal output by the power-on level detecting circuit. Two chip address specifying pad... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193729 | Instrument cluster with laser beam illumination An automotive instrument cluster containing a grouping of display fields representing measured automotive operating quantities such as speed, temperature and pressure. Illumination markers which are analogs of pointers are created within the display fields from a si... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178923 | Illumination apparatus and image projection apparatus An illumination apparatus illuminating an objective illumination region comprises a plurality of illuminants having light-emitting surfaces radiating diffused light, an illuminant substrate in which the illuminants are disposed so as to be set in array on the circum... | 02/20/2007 |
