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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179338 | Method and system for displaying information A display and a method of displaying information are disclosed. The display includes a first display screen including a first plurality of pixels controllable to display a visual indicator. A second display screen includes a second plurality of pixels, wherein the f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8154473 | Display control system A display control system for a multi-layer display system including at least one multi-layer display unit (6). A multi-layer display unit includes multiple stacked or overlapped display layers (1a, 1b, 1c, 14, 15 | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149182 | Dual-view display device and method of driving the same A dual-view liquid crystal display device includes a display panel to display images; and a switching panel including first and second regions, the first and second regions controlled to represent a single image or different images displayed on the display panel, wh... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149183 | Display Various embodiments and methods relating to driving a stacked arrangement of display panels are disclosed. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8120547 | Information display A method displaying information for viewing by a user characterised by the steps of: peripherally displaying primary information (5) on a first focal plane (3), and displaying secondary information (6) on at least a second focal plane (2)... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115700 | Auto-blanking screen for devices having multi-layer displays A system to automatically blank a screen from a multi-layer display is disclosed. The system includes a multi-layer display, an associated logic device and a display controller in communication therewith and configured to receive signals from the logic device. The m... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106852 | Display device and electronic device A display device includes: a first display unit that provides a light emitting display by individually controlling a light emitting quantity for each pixel; and a second display unit that allows either a transmitting state for transmitting ambient light or a reflect... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098215 | Information processing device, and transparent display element control method and program Provided is an information processing device which includes: a transparent display element display unit (21) that displays a transparent window in association with display position information for specifying a display position on a display (2), the tra... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8054242 | Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device including a main cell comprising a first substrate having a gate line, a data line, a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a black matrix and a color filter layer; and a ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044879 | Two-panel liquid crystal system with circular polarization and polarizer glasses suitable for three dimensional imaging Disclosed herein are systems and methods for three dimensional display that produce stereo images (left and right eye images) each having particular known polarization so that they can be segregated and viewed with suitable polarizer eyeglasses to create the percept... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7999759 | Z-axis redundant display / multilayer display A display system for presenting one or more planes of display information. The display system may include two or more display modules positioned in a spaced relationship in a stacked formation substantially along a Z-axis perpendicular to a display face of a display... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7956821 | Liquid crystal display unit and system including a plurality of stacked display devices, and drive circuit LCD unit includes first and second LCD panels stacked one on another. An image-data processing unit outputs monochrome image data to the second LCD panel, and color image data to the first LCD panel. The monochrome image data specifies a full transmission for a pixe... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7876288 | Touchscreen with a light modulator A device with a touchscreen with a light modulator is disclosed herein. The device transitions from a netbook mode to a touchscreen mode. The device comprises a main unit and a touchscreen unit with a transparent display. The touchscreen unit is preferably separated... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7843401 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus for displaying image signals of a form of packets incorporating display position information includes a combination of unit display devices so as to acquire translational objectivity. Each of the unit display devices including a receiving ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7821474 | Rendering luminance levels of a high dynamic range display Systems, methods, and computer software for use in driving a high dynamic range display involve generating table entries of luminance levels for a high dynamic range display and ordering the table according to the luminance levels. If the table includes multiple ent... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7786953 | Apparatus displaying three-dimensional image In a three-dimensional image display apparatus in which a lenticular plate and shutter device are arranged in front of a display module, one frame image is displayed using n field images. To display each field image, a shutter device is driven to substantially simul... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7724208 | Control of depth movement for visual display with layered screens A multi-level visual display system has a plurality of screens spaced in the depth direction. A user can move a visual indicator such as a cursor between the screens, via an input device such as a mouse button. In drawing applications a visual link such as a line ca... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7696954 | Multi display device A multi display device includes: a first display disposed at a predetermined position; a second display disposed 10B in front of the first display 10A and being movable from a first position where the second display overlaps with the first display to a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7501994 | Multi-picture simultaneous display device, multi-picture simultaneous display method, video signal generator, and recording medium There are provided: a display surface (20) (mixed picture display part) for assigning a plurality of pieces of video information, respectively, to a plurality of a first divided area (S-I), a second divided area (S-II) and a third divided area (S-III), so as ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7434060 | Secure entry of a user-identifier in a publicly positioned device A method for secure entry of a user-identifier in a publicly positioned device can include establishing a private communications link between a user and the publicly positioned device; dividing the user-identifier into at least two portions; separately prompting the... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420549 | Electro-wetting displays The performance of electro-wetting displays can be improved by: (a) providing a concealment member (112) which conceals the moving fluid (108) when that fluid (108) is confined to a small area; (b) using the moving fluid to cover one or more sec... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7369044 | Display apparatus for vehicle A display apparatus for a vehicle includes display screen having a plurality of display areas such as a tachometer display area, a speedometer display area, and an auxiliary display area. The display apparatus for a vehicle further includes a CPU for controlling ima... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358943 | Color display apparatus A color display apparatus includes a display panel which has a light reflection area and a light transmission area for each pixel, and a light source for causing light to enter the display panel from a back surface. The light reflection area includes a first subarea... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357510 | Projection-type 3-D image display device using single projector A projection-type 3-D image display device includes a single display element, a polarization conversion switch, a first image shifter, a second image shifter, a projection lens unit, a mirrored light tunnel, and a screen unit. The screen unit includes an image separ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355338 | Electronic device provided with multiple display panels including at least one dual electroluminescent light emission panel A dual light emission panel (panel capable of displaying images on both screens) is mounted in a display device or a portable information terminal to achieve a module with a small volume. The display device of the invention comprises a display screen, a first housin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356823 | Method for displaying single monitor applications on multiple monitors driven by a personal computer A direct access driver solves limitations of DirectX operation under the Microsoft architecture when using multiple monitors. The direct access driver allows applications employing DirectX application program interfaces to use hardware acceleration without display e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355562 | Electronic interlocking graphics panel formed of modular interconnecting parts A modular display panel is formed of a segmented symmetrical graphics panel having display pixels. The panel's interlock in for directions to allow forming larger electronic graphics panel. The preferred shape of the panel is square, defining a perimeter with for ed... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7345654 | Three-dimensional image display apparatus A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes an image display configured to output image light which arrays a plurality of pixels and has polarization, a lens array arranged in front of the image display, configured to function as lens at light which has a 1... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333072 | Thin film integrated circuit device A device having an integrated circuit, especially an IC card, for reliably verifying a person's identity by display of PIN numbers or passwords with ingenuity. Portable electronic devices such as a PDA or a cellular phone, or other products can have plural displays ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333071 | Methods of using mixed resolution displays A method of using two or more display units with different resolutions which have been combined such that the geometry of images displayed across the multiple display units is preserved and the image appears to be substantially continuous to a viewer of the image. C... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329181 | Gaming machine with multilayered liquid crystal display for displaying images based on a priority order The gaming machine has the game result display means including the reels (3L, 3C, 3R), the liquid crystal display device (31) arranged at a more front side than a display area of the reels (3L, 3C, 3R) when seen from ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327335 | Display device and an electronic apparatus using the same In a conventional display device comprising a sub-display, the display device is increased in thickness and in the number of components as the number of displays is increased. In the present invention, a dual emission display device is used so that either surface of... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322884 | Gaming machine having a variable display The gaming machine has the game result display means including the reels (3L, 3C, 3R) and the liquid crystal display device (31) arranged at a more front side than a display area of the reels (3L, 3C, 3R), and the liq... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324068 | Chained image display apparatus having mutual examining function A chained image display apparatus having a mutual examining function where a plurality of image display apparatuses, controlled by a central control unit and connected in series, recognize interruption of power to an image display apparatus and correspondingly notif... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314281 | Projection display device A projection display device having a plurality of transmission screens, each having an image display portion of different dimension, and each having light transmissivity and being provided with a back surface layer having optical directivity on a back surface side; ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312926 | Lenticular image display apparatus An apparatus for displaying a lenticular image comprising a lenticular image sheet and a lenticular lens sheet. The apparatus comprising a housing adapted to receive the lenticular image sheet and lenticular lens sheet so as to allow relative sliding movement betwee... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312764 | Methods and apparatus for displaying images on mixed monitor displays A method relates to operating a system using a mixed monitor workstation, such as a medical PACS workstation, having a first display of a first resolution and a second display having a different resolution. The method may include moving a graphical element displayed... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302274 | Method and device for real-time shared editing mobile video According to the present invention, there is provided a method and device for the viewing, editing and dissemination of an editable object in real-time mobile collaboration sessions. The invention comprises a set of mobile terminals and a protocol which enables user... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295183 | Extension of battery life in a battery-powered optical pointing device A method for extending battery life in an optical pointing device powered by one or more battery cells (30), the optical pointing device including an optical motion sensing device (10) for tracking motion with respect to a surface (S) and comprising mo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292206 | Information processing apparatus and method of operating pointing device An information processing apparatus comprises a first display device which displays a pointer, a second display device which displays a virtual screen including a screen of the first display device, and a display controller which moves the pointer to a pointed posit... | 11/06/2007 |
