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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7605777 | Display device for a portable instrument such as a watch A display device for a portable instrument includes at least a first transparent or semi-transparent plate arranged on a bottom element. Several closed cavities are formed at least in part in the first plate in the field of view of the device to display information.... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7324071 | Segmented character display A character display comprises fifty-nine segments arranged into rows and columns. Twenty eight of the fifty-nine segments define a periphery of the display, eleven additional segments define horizontal and vertical dividers that define four quadrants, and five addit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7129911 | Segmented display having uniform optical properties A display comprising: a) a substrate; b) first transparent conductors; d) second conductors patterned to form segments; e) inter-segment material disposed between said second condu... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7092688 | Method for directly indicating the strength of a signal and the device thereof A wireless communication device includes multiple properly arranged indication members. Thus, the indication members may be operated corresponding to the strength of the local RF (radio frequency) signal, so that the user may directly learn the strength of the local... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7063429 | Light-emitting display device using light-emitting element and electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus has a light-emitting element and a light-emitting portion. An output light from the light-emitting element is guided by a frame-like member having serrations and radiated toward the light-emitting portion. This causes the light-emitting porti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7015877 | Multi-color segmented display A multi-color segmented LED or other light emitting arrangement display includes specially designed segments such that there are two or more rooms within one segment. When one or more LEDs or light emitting arrangements with different colors are placed in each room ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6975345 | Polarizing modulator for an electronic stereoscopic display A polarizing modulator for use in an electronic stereoscopic display system having a sequentially scanning display includes a plurality of liquid crystal segments arranged contiguously in a direction of the sequential scan. The liquid crystal material used in each s... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6937212 | System and method for driving LCD displays A system and method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) having at least one segment. The system includes an LCD driver connected to a segment of the LCD. A processor is connected to the LCD driver. The processor may be selectively configured into any of at le... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6927750 | External display device of refrigerator and method for controlling the same An external display device of a refrigerator which includes a microprocessor enabling a serial data transmission/reception between the external display device and a control unit included in the refrigerator. The microprocessor is coupled with a second microprocessor... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927749 | LCD display with failure control Liquid crystal display with conductive segments for representing symbols which also has at least one inverse segment that fills at least in part the display area that is not covered by the remaining segments. This liquid crystal display allows a simple, visual detec... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6683587 | Switched mode digital logic method, system and apparatus for directly driving LCD glass A digital circuit having a plurality of digital outputs coupled to backplane(s) and segments of a LCD glass in combination with a software program functions as a "switched mode" LCD driver. Alternating in polarity but equal in magnitude RMS voltage pulses... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6674416 | Small-sized sensor A photoelectric sensor 11 has a level display unit (28). The level display unit (28) is constituted by arranging a plurality of 7-segment indicators (33). The 7-segment indicators (33) are partially constituted of red LED segments (33b) and partially cons... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6567978 | Television audience monitoring system and method employing display of cable converter box A display interface device and method for determining a currently tuned-to channel of a set-top converter box having an electronic display that indicates the currently tuned-to channel via seven-segment display elements in response to drive signals provid... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6549179 | LED display assembly Surface mounted LEDs are arrayed in special patterns to provide a relatively high resolution dot-matrix visual display and/or multi-segment character displays. Especially abbreviated solder bonding pads are utilized to obtain a higher density packing of t... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6535186 | Multicolor display element A multicolor display element includes a plurality of display areas arranged in a pattern. Each display area includes three light emitting diodes for emitting light signals of respectively different colors. The light emitting diodes of the same color are c... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6525700 | Multi-segment alphanumeric display A multi-segment alphanumeric display, such as a seven-segment display, is described. The display comprises a body including at least seven discreet segments. A lens to covers each of the segments. A bottom section comprising at least two light sources per... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6496168 | Display element drive device A transistor Q11 for supplying driving currents Ia to In to EL display elements 11a to 11n is provided in a stabilization voltage supply circuit 33. The transistor Q11 is connected to a current sensing resistor Ras for detecting a collector current of the... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6414662 | Variable color complementary display device using anti-parallel light emitting diodes A variable color complementary display device includes a plurality of display areas arranged in a pattern for selectively exhibiting a plurality of display units. Each display area includes a plurality of pairs of light emitting diodes for emitting, when ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6388642 | Bidirectional multispeed indexing control system A bidirectional multispeed indexing control system for a display unit which has an increment input and a decrement input so as to be controllable to sequentially index through an ordered list of discrete elements. The control system has a two-button user ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6345174 | Display apparatus for a vehicle audio system A display panel includes a plurality of alphanumeric segment display elements. A display control circuit controls a plurality of the alphanumeric segment display elements in accordance with either of frequency data or equalizing characteristic data suppli... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6307527 | LED display assembly Surface mounted LEDs are arrayed in special patterns to provide a relatively high resolution dot-matrix visual display and/or multi-segment character displays. Especially abbreviated solder bonding pads are utilized to obtain a higher density packing of t... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6281864 | Digital display system for variable color decimal point indication A variable color light emitting diode digital display system automatically exhibits integers and decimal numbers in different colors. A logic circuit is provided for detecting the presence or absence of a decimal point in a string of digits. The color of ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6239776 | Multicolor multi-element display system A multicolor multi-element display system includes a plurality of multicolor display elements, each having color control inputs for controlling its color and an enable input for controlling its condition. The color control signals are commonly presented t... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6219014 | Variable color display device having display area and background area A light emitting diode display device includes a variable color display area, for exhibiting a selective display unit, substantially surrounded by a variable color background area. The light emitting diodes in the display area are commonly coupled to a pl... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6204831 | Liquid crystal display driver A liquid crystal display driver has a system of driving a plurality of segments with 1/n duty binary voltages. In the system, one frame period has the following three sub-periods; the first sub-period, where the line sequential driving is performed, the s... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201529 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and method of driving the same An electrically controlled birifringence type liquid crystal display panel has a pictograph (picto) display area and character display areas. Character codes are stored in a DDRAM and color attribute data indicating the display colors of characters are st... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198466 | Multifunctional digital indicator A nonmechanical fully electronic multifunctional digital indicator useful for providing elapsed time indications or as event counters is disclosed. The event counter uses a ChLCD-type matrix array and requires unique steps to properly erase and place new ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6166710 | Variable color display system for sequentially exhibiting digital values A variable color display systems sequentially exhibits digital values in a color in accordance with the relation of the presently exhibited digital value to a past digital value. A memory, controlled by a timer, is provided for storing data representing t... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6097302 | System and method for monitoring a plural segment light-emitting display A monitoring system for a display unit includes phototransistors for detecting light emitted from a plurality of selectively energizable light-emitting diode (LED) segments in an energized state and for generating a voltage which is representative of the ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6058276 | User interface for an electrostatographic reproduction machine An electrostatographic reproduction machine including a controller to time multiplex the function of displaying visual information and scanning user input devices. The machine includes an input device, to generate a signal responsive to a user input, a us... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6005538 | Vacuum fluorescent display driver A vacuum fluorescent display driver and method for driving a vacuum display device includes a segment selecting circuit which selectively applies a potential of a particular polarity to a segment to illuminate that segment and a grid driver circuit which ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5969628 | Display device for a 7-segment font A display device is disclosed for displaying a character having a font of the "7-segment" type. The display includes segment drivers for activating/deactivating one or various icons from a set of icons formed each by one or various electrically connected ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5963185 | Display device with variable color background area A display device includes a display area, for exhibiting a display unit, substantially surrounded by a variable color background area, which includes a color control input for uniformly controlling its color. The variable color background area includes a ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5952985 | Update method for displaying highly dynamic events in multiplexed character displays A method of updating characters within a multiplexed display used for displaying events including dynamic events which occur at a relatively faster rate. The display characters representing dynamic events are refreshed at a higher refresh frequency and mo... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5903244 | Light display and method of forming the same An alpha-numeric display arrangement, designed to be vandal-proof, has an opaque mould plate mounted on the reverse of a metal front plate. Elongate apertures in the front plate each form one of a plurality of segments of the alpha-numeric display. Elonga... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5874931 | Microcontroller with dual port ram for LCD display and sharing of slave ports A single semiconductor chip device is utilized for controlling an external system which has a liquid crystal display (LCD) associated therewith. A dual port random access memory (RAM) stores data representative of information to be displayed on the LCD. T... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5812102 | Vital monitoring system for seven-segment display used in railroad applications A system and method of monitoring light emitted from a light emitting diode (LED) display device, which typically has a plurality of selectively energizable display segments which are grouped to form desired shapes and/or alphanumeric characters, is provi... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5703607 | Drive circuit for displaying seven-segment decimal digit A drive circuit for displaying the partition symbol intermittently comprising at least a pair of buffers, a plurality of display units of seven-segment, a partition symbol display buffer, a control circuit, a display unit of partition symbol, is provided.... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5644326 | Display device with electrically interconnected display elements In one embodiment of the present invention, a first diode is connected between two elements of a seven-segment display character. A second diode is also connected between two elements of the seven-segment display character. With the diodes so connected, t... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5623274 | Front-panel indicator using a serial link for a PC A front-panel display of a PC has several 7-segment light-emitting diode (LED) displays. A serial link is provided from an I/O port on the PC motherboard to the front panel display. This serial link uses the turbo-in line that is normally used to light th... | 04/22/1997 |
