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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7381000 | Electronic paper printer An electronic paper printer is provided that is capable of describing display patterns properly and definitely on rewritable electronic paper. An electronic paper printer 1 has a describing head 3 for describing display patterns on electronic paper ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7368866 | Envelope, envelope manufacturing method, image display device, and television display device Provided is an envelope which includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a frame interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a low melting point metal for bonding the first substrate and the frame to each... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362338 | Controllable pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix (m+2x by n+2x) including an active, e.g., controllable, pixel border located around the edge locations of a frame buffer matrix for improved character viewability. The border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337565 | Display unit A display unit comprises a display region constituted of twenty-four display segments each of which has a triangular display surface. The display region consists of a quadrangular central region and a quadrangular and annular peripheral region surrounding the entire... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324072 | Pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. The pixels of the border are “dummy pixels” each containing a red, a green and a blue subpixel. Each subpix... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7274374 | Map display device and method for operating thereof A car navigation device displays a map by using display colors included in a first color pallet when the speed of a vehicle traveling is lower than a predetermined value and displays the map by using display colors included in a second color pallet having a group of... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274952 | Portable telephone set An image inputted from a camera input part 8 or the like is displayed on a display part 6 and converted through an analysis process such as latter recognition of the image in an image analysis part 7 to code data. A check is then made as to whet... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7264595 | Method for detection and improving visual attention deficit in humans and system for implementation of this method Method and system for detection and treatment of visual attention deficit is suggested. The method is based on exposing a patient to a visual display, capable to generate various images suitable for use as stimuli and to run the stimuli with a required frequency in ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7239128 | Liquid crystal module inspecting apparatus and liquid crystal module An inspection and adjustment of a liquid crystal module have required a number of processes, which has been inefficient. According to the present invention, OSD image data is stored in a ROM 42 of a liquid crystal module 10, and the liquid cryst... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224403 | Televised scoreboard or statistics presentation with colors corresponding to players' uniforms A method and apparatus for allowing a television viewer to quickly and easily relate the teams' names and scores to the players are disclosed. The teams' names and scores are presented on a small scoreboard or banner on the television screen, and either the backgrou... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7195533 | Method for fabricating envelope and method for fabricating image display apparatus The present invention provides a method for fabricating an envelope, which has a high freedom of process, is economical and allows an easy process management. The method aims to fabricate an envelope formed by sealing first and members, the envelope having a vacuum ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193364 | Encapsulation for organic devices A method of encapsulating devices including providing a getter layer in the penetration path of atmospheric elements. The getter layer serves as a barrier to potentially deleterious atmospheric components, such as moisture and gases, that penetrate the device. In on... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7131226 | Display device with rail support Disclosed is a display device, elongate mount, and display module for displaying alphanumeric information to passengers of a mass transit vehicle. The display modules are mounted along a single edge to a elongate mount. The elongate mount includes at least one end c... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7091662 | Image display device and method of manufacturing the same In an image display device having in an airtight container an electron source and an image display member that receives electrons from the electron source, an evaporating getter and a non-evaporating getter are stacked in the airtight container. This makes it possib... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6995734 | Apparatus for driving metal insulator metal field emission display device and method for same An apparatus/method for driving a metal insulator metal device, which are capable of removing an electric charge in a pixel cell inside a panel. The apparatus includes a data supply unit which supplies video data to a plurality of data lines, a scan driving unit for... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6961029 | Pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. In particular, the border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 11/01/2005 |
| 6906633 | Program-controlled household appliance The optical indicator unit of a program-controlled household appliance includes one or more indicator elements for the display of information in plain text. Each indicator element includes a matrix with 5×8 pixels for the display of a character. Each indicator elem... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6813853 | Sectional display system Electronic alpha-numeric or symbol sectional display system featuring readily accessible access to internally located modular display and other components for quick changeout of modular and other components. Display panels, which are modular, are readily and quickly... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6496163 | Plasma display panel having large offset margin for assemblage and controlling method used therein A memory type alternating current plasma display panel has two pixel blocks on both sides of a spacer wall, and scanning/sustain electrode pairs for the two pixel blocks respectively have the innermost sustain electrodes closer to the spacer wall than the... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6417822 | Display device and driving method thereof In an operation of an address period for addressing cells of a display device, such as a plasma display panel, comprising a plurality of cells of three kinds, red (R), green (G), blue (B), which are arranged on a plane for forming a display surface thereo... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6370019 | Sealing of large area display structures A plurality of sealing methods may be used either alone or in combination with each other to seal an electronic display structure. The display module includes a first substrate having a plurality of column electrodes. Each of a plurality of portions of a ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6314669 | Sectional display system Electronic alpha-numeric or symbol sectional display system featuring readily accessible access to internally located modular display and other components for quick changeout of modular and other components. Display panels, which are modular, having side-... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6216370 | Display array and device A sign having a changeable array constituted by a plurality of pivotally mounted disks which have opposite bright and dark surfaces. The bright surface of each disk is illuminated by an adjacent light emitter when positioned in a direction of viewing. Lig... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6209243 | Display device and array A display element includes a disk which rotates preferably through 160°-180° to display a bright or a dark side in a viewing direction in ON and OFF positions respectively. A constantly on LED is arranged to illuminate the disk in ON position for viewin... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6101750 | Portable message sign A changeable portable, solar powered message sign is disclosed which offers reduced power consumption and enhanced visibility to intended observers especially during the difficult hours about dawn and dusk. The system features character matrices and two i... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101038 | Infrared audio/video interface for head-mounted display A video interface linking a base station with a remote display, e.g., a head-mounted display, converts input video signals from NTSC or PAL formats into modulated video signals containing repetitive sequences of frame times with embedded audio and control... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6100858 | Alphanumeric display with 21-dot matrix format An alphanumeric symbol generator having a five-by-five matrix of twenty-one pixels. The pixels are arranged such that there are no pixels at the points where the second and fourth columns intersect with the second and fourth rows. The pixels may be light ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6097990 | Input device to input characters and symbols for recording characters and symbols on a film An input device by which a character or symbol is retrieved and determined using an irreducible minimum number of numeric keys 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in an address reference table of an information exchange code main memory. Ten bits of data cor... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6028582 | Solenoid for scanned flip-disk sign improvements An improved solenoid and reset pin for a modular display apparatus for displaying indicia at a front thereof having a frame for rotationally mounting a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes first and second display faces joined along respective adjacen... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6014258 | Color image display apparatus and method In a color image display apparatus, assuming that time response characteristics of light emission by red, green and blue light emitting cells have values TR, TG and TB, the difference between the values TR and TG is less than that between the values TR an... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6008929 | Image displaying apparatus and method An image displaying apparatus and method is provided which can provide a satisfactory display with a gradation of intensity even with a spatial light modulator which provides a binary light modulation. A light from a light source 1 is modulated by a spati... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5901483 | Display device and array A display element includes a disk which rotates through 160°-180° to display a bright or a dark side in a viewing direction in ON and OFF positions respectively A constantly on LED is arranged to illuminate the disk in ON position for viewing in a first... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5828355 | General purpose liquid crystal display controller A general purpose Liquid Crystal Display controller apparatus for controlling an LCD driver is operable to control an LCD having a plurality of individually addressable pixels arranged in lines. The apparatus has a pixel group generator for generating a p... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5825341 | Control interface for LCD dot matrix displays and method of operating the same A control interface for a liquid crystal display having more than 80 characters uses a pair of controller/driver devices each having inputs for eight data bits but being adaptable to operate with four data bits from a 4-bit microprocessor. A standard 8-bi... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5729243 | Multi-frame-rate operation of digital light-modulators A matrix display of light reflecting elements is capable of displaying images represented by data codes received from a variety of different sources at different respective frame rates. The codes are stored at whatever frame rate they are received, but ar... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5612710 | Real time low cost, large scale array 65K color display using lamps A large scale video display of the present invention is designed to receive a standard NTSC video signal and display it on a large scale array of low cost, voltage or current controlled lamp transducers. The video signals are received by a video capture d... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5612711 | Display system A display comprising a matrix of display pixels each receptive of a drive signal for energizing same to emit light of one of a plurality of colors and circuitry receptive of serial data corresponding to a message and at least one color for the message for... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5412398 | Electrophoretic display panel and associated methods for blinking displayed characters A tetrode type electrophoretic display includes local anode lines electrically grouped into groups having the width of a character. In operation, the local anode may be used to blink selected characters by applying appropriate voltages to the various elec... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5124845 | Interior rearvision mirror The present invention relates to an interior rearvision mirror which is provided with a supporting rod (15) secured to an inner roof of a passanger car and a frame (11) movably supported by a front end portion of the supporting rod (15) and wherein a mirr... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4982181 | Alphanumeric display Individual character templates for an alphanumeric display are provided. Each individual character template includes an M row by N column pixel matrix. The M row by N column pixel matrix provides MN pixels. Each of the N columns has a generally vertical s... | 01/01/1991 |
