Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7397448 | Circuits including parallel conduction paths and methods of operating an electronic device including parallel conduction paths In one embodiment, a circuit for driving an electronic component includes a first conduction path and a second conduction path connected in parallel. Each of the first and second conduction paths includes a field-effect transistor. The first field-effect transistor ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394195 | Organic EL display device and substrate for the same Scanning electrode circuitous wires are disposed in an area in the vicinity of a left side of a rectangular substrate; data electrode connecting wires, which serve to supply a signal to data electrodes from outside an organic EL display device, are disposed between ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372371 | Notification lights, locations and rules for a computer system Notifications to computer users are provided via indicators such as lights. The indicators are controlled according to rules, to convey computer-related state information to users in a consistent manner. Locations of visible indicators are chosen to facilitate easy ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364488 | Methods and apparatus for enhancing inflatable devices Methods and apparatus for enhancing an inflatable device. In one example, a first component adapted to generate at least one of light and sound is coupled to a second component that is adapted to facilitate insertion into an inflatable device. The first component ma... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7298084 | Methods and displays utilizing integrated zinc oxide row and column drivers in conjunction with organic light emitting diodes Methods and displays utilize row and column drivers with ZnO channels that control pixel transistors with ZnO channels, which in turn address OLEDs of an array to produce images of a display screen. A display backplane including the ZnO row and column drivers and th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292210 | Circuit for driving flat panel display The present invention provides a circuit for driving a flat panel display, including a storage capacitor, a transmission gate and a current-limiting transistor. A first terminal of the storage capacitor is coupled to a system voltage, and a second terminal of the st... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277070 | Light emitting device and method of driving the same A method of driving a display device capable of obtaining a luminance of constant level irrespective of temperature change is provided. A change in luminance of an EL element due to temperature change is prevented by controlling the luminance of the EL element with ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7259397 | Self-scanning light-emitting element array chip Provided is a self-scanning light-emitting element array chip structured on a substrate using Si. A lattice mismatching buffer layer (32) is formed on a Si substrate (30). On the lattice mismatching buffer layer (32), successively stacked are an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256766 | Electrophoretic display comprising optical biasing element The invention features an electrophoretic display element. The display element includes an electrophoretic display medium, an optical biasing element to modify an optical characteristic of the electrophoretic display element, and an addressing electrode to address t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247076 | Pulse width modulation drive and method for ornaments with movable components A decoration device may include a low-friction drive line and a PWM controlled motor that reduces or eliminates the gearing needed to achieve appropriate speed and torque at the motor output shaft. In preferred embodiments, the decoration device is an ornament that ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239082 | Illumination device with at least one LED as the light source The invention relates to a luminescence conversion led based illumination deice that emits primarily radiation in the range of from 370 and 430 nm of the optical spectrum (peak wavelength). Said radiation is converted to radiation having a longer wavelength using th... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233831 | Systems and methods for controlling programmable lighting systems One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a control system. The control system may be adapted to control one or more lighting systems (e.g. stand-alone or networked lighting systems). The control system may also have a user interface (e.g. dial or butto... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227540 | Image display unit and method of manufacturing the same An MEM unit according to the invention comprises an Si (silicon) substrate 1 having such a thickness as to transmit a visible light therethrough, an insulating layer 2 formed in contact with the upper surface of the Si substrate 1, a lower elect... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7180095 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof In a display device including thin film transistors formed on an insulation substrate, the thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode and a gate insulation film which is interposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. Th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177064 | Display device using printed circuit board as substrate of display panel Disclosed is a display device using a printed circuit board (PCB) as a substrate of a display panel. The display device includes the PCB formed with a via hole, a display panel having an electrode aligned adjacent to one side of the via hole formed in the PCB in ord... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7131990 | Phototherapy system and device A phototherapy system and device is disclosed, including an array of light sources arranged so as to achieve substantially uniform distribution of light on a subject. The light sources can be arranged in a number of configurations, including but not limited to distr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133022 | Apparatus for image projection The invention is directed to a solid-state projection device incorporating a light source, modulator, and control circuitry on a single chip. For example, projection device may include several sets of VCSELs, each associated with a set of MEMs mirrors and coupled to... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130013 | Method of forming a display A method of forming a display including three conductive layers is described. The display is driven by contacting a third conductive layer and a second conductive layer, wherein the second conductive layer transmits current to the first conductive layer, and an elec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116294 | LED driver circuits Several driver circuits for energizing series arrays of LEDs are disclosed. The LED driver circuits incorporate programmable microcontrollers and switching regulators in circuits that permit precise control of current applied to the series array of LEDs. One driver ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102673 | Defective pixel specifying method, defective pixel specifying system, image correcting method, and image correcting system A defective pixel specifying method and a defective pixel specifying system for a semiconductor device having a defective pixel are provided. Also provided are an image correcting method and an image correcting system for making a defective pixel inconspicuous on th... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088334 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof, and drive control method of lighting unit A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, plural pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix on a second substrate, ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083284 | Method and apparatus for sequencing light emitting devices in projection systems Embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus, method and system relating to a projection illumination source pulsing one or more light emitting devices a plurality of times per frame. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084565 | Assembly of organic electroluminescence display device An organic electroluminescence (EL) display device assembly includes a substrate, an organic EL portion, an optical loss prevention layer, and a fine space layer. The organic EL portion has a first electrode layer, an organic luminescent layer, and a second electrod... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7046217 | Energy recovery apparatus for plasma display panel An energy recovery apparatus for a plasma display panel is provided that may include a capacitor equivalently formed at a discharge cell, an inductor, an energy recovery capacitor, switching units and a voltage sustain diode. The inductor may form a resonance circui... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038399 | Methods and apparatus for providing power to lighting devices Methods and apparatus for providing power to devices via an A.C. power source, and for facilitating the use of LED-based light sources on A.C. power circuits that provide signals other than standard line voltages. In one example, LED-based light sources may be coupl... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038395 | Organic EL display device At a wire crossover portion, extension wires, which are electrically connected to scanning electrode connecting wires, extend so as to cross over the other scanning electrode circuitous wires without having contact with the other scanning electrode circuitous wires ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7019879 | Angled strobe lines for high aspect ratio spatial light modulator An electronic circuit that can be used, for example, in a spatial light modulator to photolithographically transfer an image onto a substrate, includes angled strobe lines electrically coupled to respective sets of circuit elements within an array of circuit element... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6995753 | Display device and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a display device capable of automatically controlling a luminance in response to a brightness of a surrounding. The display device has a gamma correction circuit for converting an image signal voltage into a drive voltage for gray scale display and... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6972784 | Recording control apparatus and recording control method Light quantity unevenness is corrected at high resolution to improve image quality, without increasing a speed of system clock. Pixel correction data which is to correct a light emission characteristic of each light emission element by the pixel unit is prepared for... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6916097 | Light source device and projection type display unit to which the device is applied A light emitted from a semiconductor light emitting device array having a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices arranged two-dimensionally on a substrate is converged by a condensing lens. In a light guide, a mirror surface is formed from a light inciden... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914595 | Digitizing apparatus Graphics are drawn with an input pen, which is provided with an optical sensor at its tip, on a display surface of an EL display. At this time, the EL display is caused to emit light in dot sequence, and the position of the input pen is detected as coordiante inform... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6911959 | Low cost horizontal bar indicator system for on screen displays The present invention provides a bar indicator that minimizes the burden placed on the microcontroller. A horizontal bar indicator is generated that requires very little microcontroller firmware overhead, allowing a less powerful microcontroller to be used in the ap... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6900784 | Display apparatus with luminance adjustment function A display apparatus is capable of displaying an image at a proper luminance based on an input video signal without being influenced by temperature changes or time-dependent changes. The display apparatus is provided with a monitoring circuit constituted by a monitor... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6879306 | Scanned display systems using color laser light sources A display system for providing a user viewable visible color image includes a display for receiving color laser light so that the display, in response to color laser light, produces a viewable visible colored image; a plurality of different color laser light sources... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6836259 | Electrooptical display with changeable pictures An electrooptical display comprising an electrooptically active (EOA) element, a first electrode element having a pattern of separated electrodes, a second electrode element, and a picture element having a pattern of picture parts which may be transparent, transluce... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6831405 | Organic electroluminescence device Organic EL device including a plurality of data electrode lines on a substrate, a plurality of scan electrode lines perpendicular to the data electrode lines, and an organic EL layer between the plurality of data electrode lines and the plurality of scan electrode l... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6791566 | Image display device In a display device according to a first aspect of the invention, luminance is not made substantially uniform over the entire display screen but rather imparted a luminance gradient such that luminance substantially monotonously decreases from the center of the scre... | 09/14/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6690341 | Method of displaying high-density dot-matrix bit-mapped image on low-density dot-matrix display and system therefor A method of and system for displaying high-density bit-mapped dot-matrix imaging data on a large-scale low-density dot-matrix display is disclosed. Bit-mapped image data from each of multiple and adjacently oriented dot image data groups is allocated to d... | 02/10/2004 |
