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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7675481 | Device for representing and/or displaying various process and/or controlled variables A device for representing and/or displaying various process and/or controlled variables for selectable application cases on a display unit, with bar graphs being arranged in respective, predetermined surface elements (A, B, C), with each bar graph, respectively each... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7328956 | Printer comprising a printhead and at least two printer controllers connected to a common input of the printhead A printer comprising a printhead comprising at least a first elongate printhead module, the at least one printhead module including at least one row of print nozzles for expelling ink; and at least first and second printer controllers configured to receive print dat... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327240 | Indicator device for motor driven vehicle A motor driven vehicle having an indicator device that includes a speed indicating portion for indicating the running speed of the motor driven vehicle provided with an electric motor capable of imparting power to a driving wheel, plural running mode indicating port... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7234854 | Illuminating device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An illuminating device is provided for use as a backlight of a liquid crystal display, and has a plurality of light sources and a light guiding plate emitting lights from the light sources outward. At least one of the light sources is configured to be lighted indepe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223014 | Remotely programmable integrated sensor transmitter A remotely programmable integrated sensor transmitter device for measuring and reporting a physical quantity of a given medium comprises a sensor for measuring a physical quantity of a medium and providing an electrical output as a function of the property measured,... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7176943 | Intelligent windows bumping method and system A system and method for bumping graphical components between display regions of a graphical computer interface are provided. The present invention bumps a selected graphical component in response to a signal from an input device. Bumping involves locating a destinat... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7119764 | Combination indicator assembly in vehicle instrument panel To provide a combination indicator assembly (1) of a minimized size to provide a sporty feeling and easy to view various displayed parameters while having an increased display functionality, the combination indicator assembly (1) includes a generally a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7038646 | Circuit arrangement for the voltage supply of a liquid crystal display device The circuit arrangement serves for the voltage supply of the row and column drivers of a liquid crystal display device. It comprises a voltage divider (1) having a plurality of series-connected resistors (R1–R5) and having voltage pick-offs ( | 05/02/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6995893 | Electro-optical device, method for manufacturing electro-optical device, apparatus for manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The invention provides an electro-optical device, a method of manufacturing an electro-optical device, an apparatus for manufacturing an electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus, in which, in the electro-optical device, a gap formed between two substrates... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6989806 | Current limiting device An embodiment of the present invention pertains to an electronic device such as a passive matrix display, an alpha-numeric display, a detector array, or a solar cell array. The electronic device includes multiple organic optoelectronic devices and one or more of the... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6906634 | Indicating device A display device includes having a display unit which comprises a scale with graphic information and an indicator element which can be aligned as a function of at least one input parameter with a position of the scale. In order to ensure a better readability particu... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6879864 | Dual-bar audio level meter for digital audio with dynamic range control A dual bar audio level meter for a digital audio signal with dynamic range control decodes the digital audio signal to produce a full range audio signal and control parameters. A reduced range audio signal is derived from the full range audio signal using the contro... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6864864 | Virtual stereoscopic light emitting diode display panel The LEDs of a display panel are arranged in a matrix array and oriented at an angle with the directions of columns or rows. Such an orientation causes the diffused light incident on neighboring LEDs of activated LEDs to create a shaded area with the same aspect rati... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6746884 | Method of manufacturing field-emission electron emitters and method of manufacturing substrates having a matrix electron emitter array formed thereon In a method of manufacturing matrix electron emitter arrays, each array comprising a plurality of scanning lines formed on a glass substrate and arranged in parallel with each other, a plurality of signal lines formed in a direction to cross the scanning lines and a... | 06/08/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6618528 | Optical display apparatus A multiple optical fiber display module may be used in a Large Screen Display system. The multiple optical fiber display module includes at least two modular optical fiber display elements. Each modular display element further includes an optical fiber di... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6618529 | Tiled fiber optic display apparatus A fiber optic display apparatus consists of a plurality of optical fibers which convey a projected image from an input, or first surface, to a display, or second surface, whose area is greater than or equal to that of the first surface, such that any imag... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6593901 | Electronic device An electronic device provided with a multilayer display panel (60), in which during information display by any display panel layer (1 or 2) of the multilayer display panel (60), display driving means (40) maintains all the display segments of the other di... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6571043 | Large screen fiber optic display with high fiber density and method for its rapid assembly This invention encompasses a method for the manufacture and rapid assembly of large screen fiber optic displays (1, 2) containing a very large number of individual fibers (thousands to hundreds of thousands, or more). The display surface is modularized in... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6486861 | Method and apparatus for a display producing a fixed set of images A method to greatly simplify and reduce the cost of displays when all of the images that need to be displayed are known beforehand. By precomputing the intersections of the images and addressing the intersections of the images, the number of drivers that ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6466188 | DC-DC converter with current sensing for use with non-linear devices Provided is an electrical circuit that provides a boosting circuit that all in one provides a regulated step-up voltage to a non-linear device such as an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) used in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The unique placement of... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6448900 | Easy-to-assembly LED display for any graphics and text The invention is an easy-to-assemble LED display driven by a simple circuit for any graphics and text by utilizing a plurality of LED display elements with built-in resistors directly installed on a display with power to light up the LED elements and disp... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6400399 | Process for viewing a motion picture film with concurrently displayed subtitle text A process for viewing a motion picture film scene image with concurrently displayed subtitle text comprising: providing a motion picture print film comprising a support bearing at least one light sensitive image recording layer and a transparent magnetic ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6396985 | Contoured large screen display apparatus An apparatus for use in contoured architectural milieus includes a contoured large screen display having a mounting means to which modular flat display tiles including, tiles of diverse or non-standard shapes and sizes are attached, each display tile havi... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6363325 | Automotive emergency awareness system A vehicular emergency awareness system and method is provided. A vehicle is provided with an onboard computer system adapted to receive and process signals generated at an external source. Under predetermined conditions, the emergency awareness system ale... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6254217 | Apparatus and method for hue shift compensation in a bidirectional printer An printing apparatus and method for reducing hue shift due to differing deposition orders of different color ink drops. A differing deposition order occurs in bidirectional inkjet printers with printheads that deposit overlapping drops in a single scan i... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5956000 | Digital image display system and method A digital image display system and method for displaying a digital image in a large format are provided. The system includes a frame buffer for storing the digital image, which is projected via a plurality N of projection units. Each projection unit proje... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5880710 | Adaptive vehicle display In the field of engine-powered vehicles is desirable to monitor vehicle operating parameters and provide a vehicle operator with an indication when the monitored parameters enter undesirable operating conditions. It is further desirable in many instances ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878302 | Image forming apparatus informing internal abnormality A copying machine according to the present invention having a multi-job function can perform processing to a current job and a sub job, and errors are divided into two stages. If a high level error occurs in a job processed as the sub job, the job is swit... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5719558 | Monitoring apparatus for a power plant comprising direct current sources A monitoring apparatus for a power plant including a plurality of direct current sources, includes a unit for displaying a predetermined number of symbols representing the direct current sources, and a unit for changing a displayed form of a corresponding... | 02/17/1998 |
| 4937037 | Combined inforamtion recording and graphic display device An electronic recording and display apparatus for performing the function of a chart recorder comprises a solid state display device controlled from a memory by a display controller. The memory receives signals in the form of 8-bit binary number digitized... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4920311 | User selection of meter ballistics User selection of meter ballistics is accomplished by separating the meter display from the meter drive circuitry. An input signal is input in parallel into appropriate level determining circuits, with the outputs being selected for processing by a microp... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4814757 | Electrical, scrolling digit display An electrical display and method in which the least significant digit is moved or scrolled in mechanical counter fashion are disclosed. Only the least significant digit is scrolled, and the more significant digits change instantaneously when an adjacent l... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4782338 | Display scheme for decompression data Novel display scheme for decompression data is herein presented which can be animated by various types of decompression computers and permits the use of new, highly advantageous procedures in many aspects of diving, notably: (1) no-decompression diving, (... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4688029 | Analog display device An analog display device is disclosed which is capable of accurately displaying warning about input data. The device comprises a plurality of high range display segments and a plurality of low range display segments which are of any shape and alternately ... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4679042 | Bar/dot level meter A device for providing a visual indication of the value of a variable of an electrical signal has a plurality, n, of driver circuits each having an input terminal for receiving the electrical signal and a plurality, m, of output terminals. Each driver cir... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4559534 | Display device with legends formed integrally with electrode structure A display device having a cell containing a liquid-crystal substance arranged between two opposing electrodes (3, 4, 5, 6). One of the opposing electrodes is subdivided into a plurality of selectively activatable adjacent display electrodes (4, 5, 6) form... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4495585 | Method of and apparatus for indicating characteristics of undulating data Characteristics of undulating data having variations with oppositely directed peaks are displayed on a display having x and y axes. The consecutive, oppositely directed peak values of each variation are determined. Each variation is assigned to a coordina... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4458540 | Remote display module for displaying characteristics of flowing slurry A remote display module displays characteristics, e.g. specific gravity and velocity, of a slurry of solids and liquid flowing in a pipeline. The remote display module generates a light spot representative of the coordinates of velocity and specific gravi... | 07/10/1984 |
