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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189017 | Apparatus and method for controlling picture quality of flat panel display An apparatus and method for controlling picture quality of a flat panel display. The apparatus for controlling picture quality of the flat panel display includes a position determining unit which determines a display position of digital video data; a gray-level dete... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8164604 | Flat panel display device and method of controlling picture quality of flat panel display device A flat panel display device includes a display panel having at least one link pixel which has a non-defect area and a panel defect area and where adjacent pixels are linked to each other; a memory which stores a first compensation data for compensating the data whic... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164605 | Liquid crystal display panel and display devices A liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of display units. Each display unit includes a first sub-display unit and a second sub-display unit. The first sub-display unit includes a first sub-pixel unit corresponding to a first color, a seco... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159512 | Method of driving a display The present invention relates to a method of driving a display comprising: receiving grey level input data, comprising a subpixel input data consisting of N bits, from an external image data source; mapping the L u... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154567 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device including the same A liquid crystal panel includes a first type pixel and a second type pixel that are formed adjacent to each-other. The first type pixel has a first layout of respective first and second sub-pixels, and the second type pixel has a second layout of respective first an... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134582 | Color display apparatus A color display apparatus is of the type wherein a unit pixel is constituted by at least three subpixels including first to third subpixels, and at each subpixel, a medium for changing an optical property depending on a voltage applied thereto is disposed. The color... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8115788 | Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic appliance An object is to reduce a pseudo contour occurring in time gray scale method display. One pixel is divided into m subpixels (m is an integer of m≧2), and the area of the (s+1)th subpixel (1≦s≦m−1) is twice the area of the s-th subpixel. Further, one frame is ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8081199 | Light emitting element drive apparatus, planar illumination apparatus, and liquid crystal display apparatus A light emitting element drive apparatus that drives light emitting elements reduces power loss caused by variability between forward voltage drops of the light emitting elements. A plurality of voltage applying sections (1, 32 and 33; and 2, 34... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059143 | Flat display apparatus capable of compensating a panel defect electrically and picture quality controlling method thereof utilizing dithering A flat panel display device and a picture quality controlling method thereof is provided. The flat panel display device includes a display panel. A memory stores location information about a panel defect location on the display panel and a compensation value to be d... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7990403 | Device, system and method for color display A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982757 | Method for reducing noise and jitter effects in KVM systems In KVM systems for comparing new video frames to reference frames to update video, a method of reducing the effects of noise comprising (i) determining the differences between the sets of pixel values for new and reference pixels to produce a difference set of diffe... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969456 | Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with adaptive filtering Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data, and converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data. In one embodiment, the conversion generates the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arra... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965305 | Color display system with improved apparent resolution A full color display system comprised of: a) a display which is formed from a two-dimensional array of three or more differently colored light-emitting elements arranged in a repeating pattern forming a first number of full-color two-dimensional groups of light-emit... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7948506 | Method and apparatus for defect correction in a display A full-color display device, comprising: a) a display having a plurality of sub-pixels formed in rows or columns in a first dimension including at least three different color sub-pixels forming a color gamut, and grouped into pixels within each row or column, each p... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7889216 | Image display device, electronic apparatus, and pixel location determining method An image display device displays an image by using a plurality of display pixels, each display pixel including four sub-pixels corresponding to different colors. The four sub-pixels forming each of the display pixels are located such that two sub-pixels having a sma... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876340 | Pulse width modulation algorithm In display systems employing spatial light modulators, the OFF-state light from OFF-state pixels of the spatial light modulator can be captured and directed back to the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to recycle the OFF-state light in the display system.... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876339 | Multi-primary color display device and liquid crystal display device A display device which exhibits functional effects in which color separation between sub-pixels constituting a pixel is hardly recognized and white line display is easily recognized as one line, in enlargement of the color reproduction range in image display using m... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7864202 | Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format A method of determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in a source pixel data specified in a first sub-pixel format is used for sub-pixel rendering an image on a display specified in a second sub-pixel format. Each of the first and second sub... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7782346 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels that are arranged in matrix so as to form a plurality of rows extending in an X direction and a plurality of columns extending in a Y direction. Each pixel includes a liquid crystal layer and a plurality... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755652 | Color flat panel display sub-pixel rendering and driver configuration for sub-pixel arrangements with split sub-pixels Various embodiments of a sub-pixel repeating group are disclosed. In one embodiment, an octal subpixel repeating group may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7750928 | Light source apparatus and method for driving the same A light source apparatus includes a substrate, cell blocks, a scan driver and a data driver. The cell blocks includes a plurality of sub-pixels located in a matrix type format at intersections between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines on the su... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7701476 | Four color arrangements of emitters for subpixel rendering Novel three-color and four-color subpixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed. Novel techniques for subpixel rendering on the above subpixel arrangements are also herein disclosed. ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692672 | Liquid crystal devices with greyscale This invention relates to a liquid crystal device with grey scale. The invention uses dither, either spatial or temporal. For spatial dither the invention arranges so that at least one bit of dither is not a multiple of the size of a smaller bit of dither—in other... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692673 | Display device and demultiplexer A display device including plural pixels, plural scan lines for applying scan signals to the pixels, plural first data lines for transmitting first data currents to the pixels, a scan driver for outputting the scan signals, a demultiplexer including plural demultipl... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692674 | Liquid crystal display The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used in a television receiver or a display section of an electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display having a wide viewing angle and high viewing angle characteristics. The viewing angle characteristic... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7652681 | Systems for displaying images involving display panels Systems for displaying images are provided. A representative system comprises a display panel. The display panel comprises first, second and third signal lines, and first and second pixel areas. The first and second signal lines are extended straight along a first d... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7629988 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display A method of driving a liquid crystal display including a color filter array having a plurality of red, green, blue and white color filters includes applying first driving signals to first liquid crystal cells during one frame interval, the first liquid crystal cells... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7619641 | Color display A color display comprises a plurality of first pixel groups and a plurality of second pixel groups. Each first pixel group includes three color pixels and each color pixel has at least two subpixels. Each first pixel group has a first arrangement of subpixels. The f... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7605832 | Method and apparatus for improving images provided by spatial light modulated (SLM) display systems The invention provides a method and system for reducing distortion in images provided by display systems employing Spatial Light Modulating elements is provided. A method comprises steps of providing a set of pixel values corresponding to pixels of an image to be di... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7586506 | Light emitting display device and method of driving the same A video signal processing method and a delta-structured display device using the same where video signals are rearranged in a logical structure such as a programmable logic chip. The video signal processing method includes receiving sequentially first line video sig... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583279 | Subpixel layouts and arrangements for high brightness displays High brightness displays comprising subpixel repeating groups having at least white with a number of colored subpixels are disclosed. Colored subpixels may comprise: red, blue, green, cyan or magenta in these various embodiments. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7545397 | Enhancing contrast Video processing for enhancing contrast includes detecting the ambient light levels on a display, performing local contrast enhancement processing to emphasize the luminance component based on the detected ambient light levels to provide a processed video signal, an... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7522177 | Image display system and method A method of displaying an image is provided. The method comprises receiving interlaced image data for the image where the interlaced data comprises a first field and a second field, generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame for the image using the first fi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7505053 | Subpixel layouts and arrangements for high brightness displays High brightness displays comprising subpixel repeating groups having at least white with a number of colored subpixels are disclosed. Colored subpixels may comprise: red, blue, green, cyan or magenta in these various embodiments. ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505052 | Method and apparatus for displaying image and computer-readable recording medium for storing computer program A method and apparatus for displaying an image using a display pixel including at least one subpixel displaying one among four or more colors, and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a computer program for performing the method. A target phase of a targ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7492377 | Display devices and driving method therefor A display device, for example a liquid crystal display device (1), and driving method are provided that avoid the need to provide the display device with display data (e.g. video) containing individual display settings for each pixel. The display device compr... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492378 | Image display system implements a light source with a controllable schedule to emit light of adjustable intensities An image display system includes a light source for projecting an illumination light. The image display system further includes a light source control unit that controls the light source to adjust the illumination intensity and/or light emission time of the illumina... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7483044 | Displaying sub-frames at spatially offset positions on a circle A method of displaying an image with a display device includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the image data. The method includes displaying the sub-frames at a set of spatially offset po... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7474319 | Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames A display device for displaying an image using a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame is provided. The display device comprises an array having a first plurality of pixels and a second plurality of pixels offset from but overlapping the first plurality of pixels a... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463272 | Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames A method of displaying an image with a display device includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the image data. The sub-frames are generated based on a set of spatially offset sub-frame pos... | 12/09/2008 |
