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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7616173 | Electronic device and method of driving the same An electro-optical device with a pixel portion of enhanced definition is provided, which uses pixels having a novel structure so that the number of stages of a source signal line side driver circuit is reduced to half the number of pixels in the horizontal direction... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7348942 | Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus To enhance the display characteristics of moving images and enhance the display quality in an electro-optical device using electro-optical elements that emit light with the brightness in accordance with a driving current, a pixel includes a driving transistor T4 | 03/25/2008 |
| 7314785 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device with improved reliability and a manufacturing method of the same with improved yield. A display device according to the invention comprises a display area including a first electrode, an insulating layer covering an edge of the first electrode, a la... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312775 | Electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus and display driver IC using the same A liquid crystal device having a display section provided with a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, a master X driver IC and a slave X driver IC for driving the X electrodes, and a Y driver for driving the Y electrodes. The master IC has a di... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307599 | Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display unit, a time setting unit, a detection unit and an image changing unit. The display unit is configured to display a color image. The time setting unit is configured to set a time. The time to be set by the time setting unit can... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7286110 | Liquid crystal display controller and liquid crystal display device In conventional liquid crystal display controllers such as for portable telephone sets, the display is reduced in the stand-by state but the liquid crystal display duty is not changed, i.e., even the common electrodes of the rows that are not producing display are s... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7268776 | Flat panel display with signal transmission patterns A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245283 | LCD source driving circuit having reduced structure including multiplexing-latch circuits A liquid crystal display (LCD) source driving circuit having a reduced circuit footprint. A plurality of the LCD source driving circuits are typically disposed along a side of an LCD panel and drives the LCD panel in response to digital image signals, such as color ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242380 | Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus having: a panel displaying a picture; a panel driver enabling the panel to display the picture; a scaler transferring an input image signal to the panel driver; a key input part generating a color change execution signal for the input image signa... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239307 | Driving circuit of display and display device A driving circuit of a display to display full color by light emitting elements is provided which can attain sufficient display characteristics even when there is a difference in characteristics of the light emitting elements and can lower power consumption. The dri... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224336 | Display device drive unit and driving method of display device The display device drive unit includes a liquid crystal driver that generates a liquid crystal driving voltage for display device driving, and can operate in a master mode for outputting the foregoing voltage and in a slave mode for driving the display device in acc... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209108 | Differential drive circuit and method for generating an a.c. differential drive signal The differential drive circuit generates a differential drive signal having a root mean square value defined by a digital input value. The differential drive signal includes a first differential component and a second differential component. The circuit comprises a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193601 | Active matrix liquid crystal display An active matrix LCD defines a display signal period and a reset period in each vertical scan period. The display signal period is a period to write and hold display signals in pixels in response to a row select pulse generated from an output pulse of a first shift ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7151513 | Method of driving display device A driving method is used for driving the voltage-driven circuit of an organic light emitting diode display device. Within a frame period, data voltage is set to a negative data voltage for a pre-defined interval within a frame period. When the scanning voltage is se... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7126569 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device which has a liquid crystal display which uses liquid crystal with a memory effect. When a contact action with a screen of the liquid crystal display is made, information displayed thereon is written again thereon. Also, if no changes ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119771 | Liquid crystal display apparatus Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus comprising: a liquid crystal display element composed of a liquid crystal layer and having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern; and a driver for dividing one frame into plural fields and interlace... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116287 | Drive for cholesteric liquid crystal displays Apparatus for driving a cholesteric liquid crystal display wherein the display includes cholesteric liquid crystals having a first planar reflective state and a second transparent focal conic state, which is respectively responsive to different applied fields; an ad... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102631 | Display panel with signal transmission patterns A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088311 | Current generating circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The invention provides a current generating circuit with a single configuration, enhanced durability, and low power consumption. A circuit block C1 appropriately selects elemental currents i11 to i14 and i1F in accordance with data (bits)... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084843 | [Liquid crystal display panel's integrated driver device frame] An integrated driver device frame of a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The integrated driver device frame comprises a plurality of driver units, a plurality of driver lines and a plurality of output terminals. Each output terminal is coupled to a correspon... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079830 | Information handling system with wireless LAN and wired LAN activity monitoring apparatus and methodology An information handling system is provided which includes a wired network controller fixedly mounted in the system and an optional wireless network card which is pluggably receivable by a connector in the system. The system includes a first indicator for annunciatin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7053649 | Image display device and method of testing the same It is the object of the present invention to provide a simple and accurate testing circuit and a testing method while occupying as small space as possible in an image display device. By partly changing dummy pixels arranged in the periphery of a display region into ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7019738 | Display device and its control method There is provided a display device which enables both a full color moving image display (analog mode) and a shallow depth still image display (digital mode), and which achieves a significant reduction in the energy consumption of the display device system including ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006072 | Apparatus and method for data-driving liquid crystal display The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for data-driving a liquid crystal display wherein data lines are time-divided to reduce the number of data driver integrated circuits and to improve the display quality of a picture at the same time. More speci... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6961053 | LCD display device with display density adjusting function A LCD display device with display density adjusting function characterized by that, in an equipment which comprises a controller, a memory, a LCD drive unit of dynamic drive, a LCD, and an input device for distinguishing a using condition, a display density of said ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6952193 | Image display apparatus and image display methods Provided are image display apparatus and image display methods capable of suitably making correction for variation of driving conditions due to an electric resistance of matrix wiring of a display panel by downsized hardware. The apparatus and methods involve a devi... | 10/04/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937216 | Electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus and display driver IC using the same A liquid crystal device having a display section provided with a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, a master X driver IC and a slave X driver IC for driving the X electrodes, and a Y driver for driving the Y electrodes. The master IC has a di... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6909409 | Electronic device and method of driving the same An electro-optical device with a pixel portion of enhanced definition is provided, which uses pixels having a novel structure so that the number of stages of a source signal line side driver circuit is reduced to half the number of pixels in the horizontal direction... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6876365 | Signal processing circuit for display device An input digital video signal is allotted by a first multiplexer (310) between regions of a display area to be driven in a dividing manner and is sequentially input to a first memory portion (30A) or a second memory portion (30B). Each of the fi... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873310 | Display device Provided is a display device having a storing circuit 21 section for storing image signals for controlling display and an active device section 22 for performing display control on the basis of the image signals stored by the storing circuit section | 03/29/2005 |
| 6839119 | Display device A display device includes a substrate (100), pixel electrodes (PIX) formed on the substrate (100), scanning lines (G) to transmit scanning signals, signal lines (S) divided into four groups (LL, LR, RL and RR) to transmit data signals, signal line driv... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6831617 | Display unit and portable information terminal A control section 130 for outputting a selection signal for selecting the display areas of the display section 110 and transferring display data classified in response to the display areas and the display type to both or either of a display data proces... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6788298 | Driving circuit of display and display device A driving circuit of a display to display full color by light emitting elements is provided which can attain sufficient display characteristics even when there is a difference in characteristics of the light emitting elements and can lower power consumption. The dri... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6747628 | Liquid crystal display controller and liquid crystal display device In conventional liquid crystal display controllers such as for portable telephone sets, the display is reduced in the stand-by state but the liquid crystal display duty is not changed, i.e., even the common electrodes of the rows that are not producing display are s... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6741238 | Power saving circuit for display panel A power saving circuit for a liquid crystal panel (LCD) and a plasma display panel (PDP) recovers an energy charged in a panel capacitor through one path of a drive IC driving a scan electrode or data electrode for the PDP, and recovers the energy charged in the pan... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6683591 | Method for driving liquid crystal display device For enabling a liquid display drive with a low voltage and a high speed, each pixel is provided with a liquid crystal cell 5, a switching transistor 7 and an additional capacitance 9, and the additional capacitances are electrically commonly connected for... | 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 |
| 6669361 | Method for enabling/disabling mode functions in a multimode electronic device A method for enabling or disabling mode functions in a multimode electronic device is provided. The method comprises the steps of selecting a mode enabling/disabling mode from a plurality of modes by initiating activation of the mode selecting mechanism u... | 12/30/2003 |
