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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7990345 | Plasma display panel and drive method therefor A plasma display panel and a drive method therefor, which can enhance a representation capability when displaying a dark image. The plasma display panel includes fluorophor layers containing magnesium oxide. The drive method includes a reset step to initialize all t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7333075 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel There is explained a driving method and apparatus for a plasma display panel that can be driven stably under a high temperature environment. A driving method and apparatus of a plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the present invention increases... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7289086 | Image data correction method and apparatus for plasma display panel, and plasma display panel device having the apparatus An image data correction method and apparatus for a plasma display panel, and a plasma display panel device having the apparatus. The image data correction method calculates a load factor of video signals fed into a plasma display panel, and determines an automatic ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7205720 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel (PDP) has a structure which extends a discharge space, increases a visible light emission area, enables a low driving voltage, and improves light emission efficiency. The PDP comprises: a pair of substrates including a first substrate and a se... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190333 | Video coding method and system for a plasma display panel The present invention relates to a coding method intended to improve the performance of GCC coding based on the temporal centre of gravity of displayed video codes. According to the invention, the number of video levels that can be selected in order to implement the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170471 | Plasma display apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel An interlace-type PDP is driven by an improved driving method so as to achieve a greater operating margin, higher resolution, and higher brightness. The interlace-type PDP is driven using odd and even frames in such a manner that the cells are grouped into cell grou... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7158095 | Visual display system for displaying virtual images onto a field of vision An optically transparent, ghost-free visual display system that superimposes a virtual image comprising graphical or textual information onto a field of vision. Embodiments of the visual display system utilize illumination and optical components that introduce a vir... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140940 | Plasma display panel manufacturing method for manufacturing a plasma display panel with superior picture quality, a manufacturing apparatus, and a phosphor ink The present invention intends to provide a manufacturing method for a PDP that can continuously apply phosphor ink for a long time and can accurately and evenly produce phosphor layers even when the cell construction is very fine. To do so, phosphor ink is continuou... | 11/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7009602 | Method of driving plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of mutually parallel first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes separated from and perpendicular to the first electrodes, the intersection points of neighboring pairs of the first electrode... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7001028 | Method and device for preventing dew condensation and frosting on optical glass window A method and an apparatus are provided for preventing formation of dew and/or ice on an optical glass window, with which formation of dew and/or ice is easily and simply prevented while an air turbulent disturbance is minimized and a deformation is inhibited as litt... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6867552 | Method of driving plasma display device and plasma display device After a sustain discharge period, a voltage twice a sustain pulse is applied to one of sustain discharge electrodes to form, on an address electrode, wall charges capable of self-erase discharge between an address electrode and the sustain discharge electrode by an ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6683589 | Surface discharge type plasma display panel with intersecting barrier ribs Barrier ribs of the second type (50) of the same height and material as barrier ribs of the first type (29) are formed on a second substrate in parallel with each other along a first direction (D1) to which display electrodes XE and YE extend. Further, ph... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6661394 | Driving circuit for radio frequency plasma display panel A driving circuit for a radio frequency plasma display panel that is capable of effectively making an impedance matching between a radio frequency signal generator and a panel. In the circuit, radio frequency electrode lines are divided into a plurality o... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6650045 | Displays having mesa pixel configuration A multicolor organic light emitting display device employs angle-walled blue, green and red emitting mesas, with optional metal reflectors on the angled walls, in a plurality of pixels. The angle-walled mesas, which resemble truncated pyramids, direct lig... | 11/18/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6552674 | Automatic configuration of universal variable length code for video coding This invention is a method to automatically configure the universal variable length coding (UVLC). The method is applicable to code the syntax elements with a lot of symbols like the transform coefficients and motion vectors. The configuration problem inc... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6535184 | Dynamic driving vacuum fluorescent display A dynamic driving vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) preventing erroneous activation of a phosphor layer by leakage electrons and allowing a simpler wiring structure is disclosed. The VFD has a substrate; a plurality of anodes formed on the substrate, phosp... | 03/18/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6489939 | Method for driving plasma display panel and apparatus for driving the same A method for driving an interlace system plasma display panel comprising applying a pulse higher than a discharge start voltage at the end of a sustain discharge period for a period in which only a cell that has executed a sustain discharge and cells adja... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6467925 | Spread illuminating apparatus There is provided a spread illuminating apparatus to suppress leakage of light. Light emitted from a light source, reaching a first inclined surface of grooves of a light reflection pattern and exiting out there is caught by a second inclined surface ther... | 10/22/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6377232 | Method of compensating for the differences in persistence of the phosphors in an image display screen The present invention relates to a method of compensating for the differences in persistence of the phosphors in an image display screen consisting of cells arranged in lines and in columns, several adjacent cells being covered with different phosphors in... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6362799 | Plasma display A plasma display panel has a pair of insulating substrates (a front substrate and a rear substrate) which face each other. A plurality of surface discharge electrodes, each including a transparent scanning electrode and a transparent maintaining electrode... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6249264 | Surface discharge type plasma display panel with intersecting barrier ribs Barrier ribs of the second type (50) of the same height and material as barrier ribs of the first type (29) are formed on a second substrate in parallel with each other along a first direction (D1) to which display electrodes XE and YE extend. Further, ph... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6195075 | Plasma display device and method for driving the same In a plasma display device having a three-dimensional matrix wiring arrangement of anodes, cathodes and address electrodes, writing discharge is caused between anodes and address electrodes to temporarily store writing charge on a dielectric layer, and th... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6157355 | Matrix type display device A plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes are provided so as to intersect with each other to form a pixel at every intersection. A phosphor layer is provided along each of the column electrodes. The phosphor layer is disposed so t... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6031511 | Multiple wave guide phosphorous display A two dimensional display panel produces a time variable image composed of light emitting pixels. The pixels are generated by a light emitting phosphor distributed within the panel, the pixels radiate light in response to being excited by charging and tri... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5828356 | Plasma display gray scale drive system and method An AC color plasma display system comprises an AC plasma display panel having transversely oriented first and second insulated electrode arrays defining a matrix of display pixels. Linear ribs are in substantially parallel alignment with one of the linear... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5763139 | Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same A plasma display panel includes a light-transmittable first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes provided in correspondence with pixels on the first substrate and partition walls provided on the first substrate so that each of the partition walls su... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5754159 | Integrated liquid crystal display and backlight system for an electronic apparatus An integrated liquid crystal display and backlight system for generating video images for a portable computer (12) comprising a top glass (32), a bottom glass (34) and a thin film transistor and liquid crystal layer (36) disposed therebetween, a diffuser ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5629716 | Luminescent panel for color video display and its driving system, and a color video display apparatus utilizing the same. A plurality of filaments are stretched in parallel on a rear plate, and an insulating plate is provided so as to cover the filaments. In the insulating plate, a plurality of through-holes are formed along the longitudinal direction of the respective filam... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5608419 | Gas flat display tube with anode gates A gas flat display tube is disclosed including a glass container having a discharge gas therein; a plurality of cathodes extending horizontally and arranged by a predetermined interval in the glass container, for emitting electrons; a plurality of anodes ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5396149 | Color plasma display panel This disclosure relates to a color PDP comprising a plurality of striped color filters formed in parallel on the inner surface of a front plate, a plurality of dielectric layers formed on the color filters and having a plurality of light-passing holes for... | 03/07/1995 |
