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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174543 | Display device driving circuit of which power consumption is reduced, control method thereof, and display device using the same A display device driving circuit includes: a grayscale signal output circuit, grayscale signal lines, a grayscale voltage output circuit, grayscale voltage lines, a digital-analog conversion circuit, a first to third switches. The grayscale signal output circuit out... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169450 | System and method for ambient-light adaptive intensity control for an electronic display The techniques of the present invention relate to automatically controlling display intensity. The present invention includes a calibration step in which the display intensity settings are correlated to the ambient light intensity conditions. The present invention a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169451 | Content transmission apparatus and content display system A content transmission apparatus includes a communication module configured to carry out wireless communication with a partner apparatus, a detection module configured to detect a motion of the content transmission apparatus, and a transmission control module config... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164602 | Wide color gamut displays A display has a modulator illuminated by a illuminator comprising an array of light sources. The array includes light sources of a plurality of colors. The light sources of different colors are individually controllable. Within each color, the light sources that ill... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164603 | Methods of measuring image-sticking of a display A method of measuring image-sticking of a display is described. A display having N gray levels is provided. Next, an image-stick test frame having at least a first pattern having a low gray level and at least a second pattern having a high gray level is displayed on... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159510 | Liquid crystal display The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal display panel and a drive section performing divisional drive operation which includes first and second drive operations. The first drive operation performs a driving process with a f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159509 | Color display device and method for reproducing color with an increased number of gradation levels A color display device has a display screen having pixels arrayed, each of which is composed of primary color sub-pixels capable of reproducing respective primary colors and at least one subsidiary color sub-pixel capable of reproducing gray. While gradation signals... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159511 | Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment Sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment allows the luminance for the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel, while the chrominance can match the linear response of the human eye's chrominance channels. The... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159508 | Electro-luminescence display An electroluminescent display comprises a substrate with a plurality of pixel regions, wherein each pixel region has a first sub-pixel region, a second sub-pixel region, and a third sub-pixel region. Pluralities of first color light-emitting layers, second color lig... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154565 | Apparatus and method for gamma correction Apparatus and method for gamma correction are disclosed. An adjustable blending unit is utilized for adjustably blending a linear gamma function with a nonlinear gamma function, thereby resulting in an adjustable gamma curve. The nonlinear gamma function is adjustab... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154566 | Active-matrix display apparatus driving method of the same and electronic instruments Disclosed herein is an active-matrix display apparatus, wherein if any particular one of N light emitting sub-devices pertaining to any specific one of pixel circuits is defective, the particular light emitting sub-device is electrically disconnected from the specif... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149250 | Gamma curve correction for TN and TFT display modules A circuit and methods eliminating production related luminance variations of electronic display applies to all display technologies that require gamma adjustment or also adjustment of other display parameters e.g. brightness or contrast as e.g. LCD or OLED display m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149251 | Methods and apparatus for assessing and monitoring the capability and quality of a color reproduction system A color reproduction system comprises a color imaging output device (e.g., monitor, printer, etc.) and its device characterization (e.g., ICC profile, device link, etc.). A method for assessing the capability and accuracy of a color reproduction system is presented.... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144173 | Image processing apparatus and image display apparatus According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes following units. The image display unit includes a light source unit provided with light sources, each source being controlled respectively, and a liquid crystal panel displaying on a display area. The luminance cal... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144172 | Color temperature correction device and display device A color temperature correction device corrects, in a display device that represents brightness of RGB of a video signal by a plurality of levels of gray scales, a color temperature of the video signal. The color temperature correction device includes: a recording me... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139090 | Image processor, image processing method, and image display device An image processing device and an image processing method according to the present invention, by dividing an image into a plurality of blocks, generates a control signal denoting a change in the image data, based on a result of comparing first encoded image data tha... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134580 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes multiplying a frame frequency of an inputted current frame to generate a multiplied odd-numbered frame and a multiplied even-numbered frame; determining whether said current frame is a still image frame or... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130246 | Image display apparatus, image display monitor and television receiver A point at which the luminance varies between successive frames is detected with respect to an input image signal whose one-frame period is represented by a given gradation level. In a frame in which the luminance has just varied (i.e., in a post-change frame), the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125502 | Method for driving a pixel by generating an over-drive grey level and driver thereof A method for generating an over-drive grey level for driving a pixel includes providing a corresponding over-drive function according to an original grey level for the pixel in the previous frame, and generating the over-drive grey level according to the correspondi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125501 | Voltage modulated driver circuits for electro-optic displays A method and system for applying addressing voltages to pixels of a display involves receiving input data. The input data includes an indication of an addressing voltage impulse to be applied to a pixel via an electrode. One or more voltage sources are selected, to ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125500 | Apparatus for driving a plasma display panel with APL pre-measurement and corresponding method A picture quality when reducing the brightness or the contrast of the picture on a plasma panel shall be improved. For this purpose there is provided a driving apparatus including brightness/contrast control means for receiving video input data for modifying the vid... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120627 | Redistribution of N-primary color input signals into N-primary color output signals A method of redistributing an N-primary color input signal (IS) having a particular number≧4 (N) of input components (I1, . . . , IN) into N-primary color output signal (OS) having the particular number (N) of output components (P1, . . . , PN) under... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120628 | Method for driving a display A method for driving a display is provided. According to the driving method, a display panel is divided into a plurality of bright regions and a plurality of dark regions, wherein the dark regions and the bright regions are alternately arranged so that the bright re... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115785 | Method for driving liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display device, and electronic device An object of the present invention is to provide a driving method of a liquid crystal display device for improvement of image quality and a liquid crystal display device in which the driving method is used. One frame period is divided up into an n (n: integer, n≧3... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115787 | Device, system and method of data conversion for wide gamut displays A method and system for converting color image data (data outputting from element 202) from a, for example, three-dimensional color space format to a format usable by an n-primary display (206), wherein n is greater than or equal to 3. The system (conv... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115786 | Liquid crystal driving circuit The liquid crystal driving circuit for converting pixel values into driving voltages on a plurality of channels includes a reference voltage generating circuit, a plurality of buffer amplifiers, an output selection circuit coupling, and a plurality of switch circuit... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111270 | Driving device inserted impulsive image, display apparatus having the driving device installed therein and method of driving the display apparatus A driving device including a signal controller which receives input image data corresponding to a plurality of frame periods, outputs the input image data during a first sub-frame period of one frame period among the plurality of frame periods, and outputs impulsive... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106929 | Peak intensity level control device, self light-emitting display device, electronic device, peak intensity level control method, and computer program A peak intensity level control device that controls a peak intensity level in a self light-emitting display module of an active matrix driving type is disclosed. The device includes: an average picture value calculation section that calculates an average picture val... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106928 | Method of displaying image in image display device using sequential driving method An image display method of improving brightness of an output image in an image display device using a sequential driving method and a plurality of single-color light sources. The image display method includes extracting a white color component from the primary color... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089497 | Display device and driving method thereof A driving method for a display device includes the steps of: performing writing processing to apply a video signal to a first node over a data line via a writing transistor with a predetermined driving voltage applied from a power supply to one of source/drain regio... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085283 | Data processing apparatus, liquid crystal display apparatus comprising the same and control method thereof A data processing apparatus which revises n-bit image data, includes a frame memory which stores therein n−m bit image data of a previous frame; a memory interface which outputs n-bit revision data including upper n−m bits having n−m bit image data of the prev... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085282 | Image display apparatus and driving method of image display apparatus There is provided an image display apparatus including: a first correction unit for outputting data to determine a lighting time of a first pixel on the basis of data to indicate luminance of the first pixel, wherein the first correction unit carries out first corre... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077188 | Gamma correction device and gamma correction method for liquid crystal display device A gamma correction device for a liquid crystal display device including LCD panels. The gamma correction device includes a storage device for storing gamma correction data corresponding to chiral directions of LCD panels. A chiral direction data acquisition circuit ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072473 | Gray scale voltage generator, method of generating gray scale voltage and transmissive and reflective type liquid crystal display device using the same A gray scale voltage generator and a method of generating a gray scale voltage in a transmissive and reflective type liquid crystal display device are disclosed. A transmissive mode gray scale data are transformed into real reflective mode gray scale data. An intege... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068125 | Luminescence shock avoidance in display devices A luminescence shock avoidance algorithm selectively limits the brightness level of a display device when the display device is activated in a dark environment to prevent the temporary vision impairment that can occur when a display device is activated in a dark env... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068123 | Display and driving method thereof A display device that includes a data modulator for comparing input data of m (m is a natural number of not less than 2) number of frames and inserts any one of black data and gray data in accordance with the comparison result and a driving method thereof are provid... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068124 | Computing device entertainment mode system and method A computing device entertainment mode system comprises a computing device comprising at least one indicator element disposed thereon, the computing device configured to be placed into an entertainment mode of operation such that, in response to being placed in the e... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063920 | Display time control for images This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product and a device for reducing motion blur of images shown on non-stroboscopic display devices, in which local areas p, of an image of a video signal are displayed during respective local ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063919 | Display device and instrument panel and automobile incorporating the same A display device includes a display panel for displaying information, and a driving circuit for driving the display panel. The driving circuit of the display device is capable of changing, with a lapse of display time, a displayed color of information which is stati... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063921 | Display drive method, display, and program therefor In one embodiment of the present invention, data, such as video signal data, for example, for a next desired frame is first modulated or varied to facilitate a transition from a current frame to a next desired frame. A modulation processing section can be used, for ... | 11/22/2011 |
