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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7425935 | Method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel An apparagraph and method of driving a plasma display panel that enables the display of an image wherein contour noise is minimized and that prevents flickering mal-discharge and mis-discharge when the plasma display panel is being driven at high/low temperature is ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7375722 | Driving circuit and display device In a circuit driving a capacitive load Cp, current passed through a transistor Q3, a diode D1 and a recovering coil L is passed through lines L1, L2, and the inductance components of the lines L1 and L2, and the drain-source... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7304620 | Image display apparatus and image display method The method and apparatus for displaying an image using liquid generate a segment fluid row, in which plural liquid masses each of which includes first liquid having at least one predetermined coloring matter and are separated from each other are arranged in a row sh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7145525 | AC plasma display panel and driving method therefor In a three-electrode AC plasma display panel, a plurality of X electrodes (22) and a plurality of Y electrodes (23) are alternately arranged parallel to each other on one of two, front and rear insulating substrates (20, 21) opposing each other,... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7126562 | Plasma display panel with constant color temperature or color deviation The present invention is characterized in that the PDP drive means makes correction so as to decrease the emission intensity of green or to increase the emission intensity of blue as the display load factor increases compared with the case when the display load fact... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7102597 | Driver device for driving capacitive light emitting elements A device for driving capacitive light emitting elements includes a plurality of electrical charge recovery switches that send a current corresponding with an electrical charge, which has accumulated in a capacitor, individually to a plurality of drive electrodes con... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098876 | Image display method and system for plasma display panel An image of each field displayed on a plasma display panel corresponding to input image signals is divided into sub-fields of different weights, the sub-fields being divided into two continuous sub-field groups having a different weighting value, and in which the we... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7023405 | Method and device for driving plasma display panel A plasma display device having display electrode pairs and providing improved luminance and light emission efficiency of display discharges with reduced variations of the luminance and light emission efficiency thereof resulting from variations of a display load. A ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006059 | Multi-gray-scale image display method and apparatus thereof A multi-gray-scale image display method and apparatus for displaying a multi-gray-scale image on a PDP by diffusing, as an error, a part of gray scale data representing an input image requiring more than a gray scale resolution of the PDP to a target pixel from diff... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6906759 | Device and method for subfield coding of picture data using first subfields having different on-periods and second subfields having identical on-periods A device for subfield coding a large-screen display generates a digital value for a picture element of the display, and determines a first number and a second number of subfields of a predetermined total number of subfields from the digital value, for which determin... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6831618 | Method for driving a plasma display panel A method for driving a display panel which enables changing of the refresh rate, without degrading display quality, of a display panel employing the matrix display scheme for carrying out gray-scale drive by using the sub-field method. By the method, the number of s... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6795044 | Plasma display panel and driving method thereof Scanning electrodes are shared between adjacent display lines. Sustaining electrodes are disposed between the scanning electrodes by two. The sustaining electrodes form display lines by gaps with adjacent scanning electrodes. The sustaining electrodes are separated ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6731255 | Progressive sustain method of driving a plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel showing images having frames composed of odd and even fields. The plasma display panel has scan electrodes and address electrodes perpendicular to the scan electrodes. In the method, first the odd and then the even scan ele... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6724377 | Image display apparatus A practical-purpose structure of an active-matrix display device digitally driven with vertical scanning being multiplexed includes a vertical driver having sequential circuits and logic circuits provided on a bit-by-bit basis and arranged for adding sequentially pr... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6603446 | Plasma display device Disclosed is a configuration of a PDP in which different sustaining discharge signals are applied to odd-numbered ones of X electrodes and Y electrodes and even-numbered ones thereof respectively. Owing to the configuration, the wiring in a drive circuit ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6501444 | Plasma display panel capable of being easily driven and definitely displaying picture In a plasma display panel, red, green, and blue pixels have the same voltage range for write discharges. The red, the green, and the blue pixels have first, second, and third data electrodes, respectively, covered with an insulating film. A red fluorescen... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6456264 | Method of driving plasma display panel with automatic power control function In an address-while-display (AWD) driving method in which addressing and sustaining are simultaneously performed, a plasma display panel (PDP) is driven with an automatic power control function for reducing power consumption when there are lots of ON pixe... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6400345 | Method of operating a plasma addressed liquid crystal (PALC) panel A PALC panel is operated by increasing the voltage between the channel electrodes to a firing voltage to create a plasma in the channel, reducing the voltage between the channel electrodes to a sustaining voltage to sustain the plasma for an interval duri... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6331842 | Method for driving a plasma display panel A plasma display panel has a plurality of first and second sustain electrodes, a plurality of address electrodes which intersect with the sustain electrodes to form a pixel at every intersection. In the method, an address period is provided, in which data... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6155698 | Projection display apparatus having a fresnel scrambler A projection display apparatus includes a scrambler for making a distribution of light intensity uniform and a Fresnel lens positioned between the scrambler and a lamp, for converting the light incident from the lamp into light parallel to the optical axi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6115011 | Plasma display device and driving method A plasma display device is capable of controlling the brightness of the entire image on a screen over a wide range without impairing a predetermined number of display gradations determined by the dynamic range of an A/D converter, an analogue input circui... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6061104 | Flat panel display and stand with vertical adjustment and tilt adjustment A display assembly that includes a flat panel display and a display stand. A hinge that attaches to the housing of the display provides for tilt adjustment. The display stand includes two rails that attach to a base and a sliding frame that is coupled to ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 4031529 | Thermal method for controlling the optical properties of a liquid crystal and devices for the application of said method In a liquid crystal whose molecules have temperature-dependent dielectric anisotropy within a range such that the liquid crystal retains the same phase, the optical properties of a liquid crystal film are controlled by applying an electric field of predet... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4010321 | Light modulating device using Schlieren lens system An electroosmotically movable liquid film is caused to vary its thickness by local loop currents produced by a charge pattern representing an image developed across the film surface, thus forming local gradients which are proportional to the amount of dep... | 03/01/1977 |
