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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6304038 | Apparatus for driving a display panel A driving apparatus of a display panel permits an electric power consumption at the time of generation of a pixel data pulse can be reduced. Charges stored in a capacitor are discharged and supplied to a power line. Subsequently, a power potential is appl... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6278423 | Active matrix electroluminescent grey scale display The system illuminates an active matrix EL device (AMEL) to provide a gray scale display. The device includes a first electrode layer comprising an active matrix of individually addressable pixel electrodes, a second electrode layer, and a thin film EL la... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6249267 | Display apparatus having heat dissipation Disclosed is a display apparatus comprising a printed board mounting on one surface with light elitting elements in a matrix form and on the other surface with control components for controlling the drive for the light emitting elements. The printed board... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6246384 | Electroluminescence display apparatus An EL device (40) formed from an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting device layer sandwiched between both electrodes, a first TFT (10) of which a drain electrode (12) is connected to a drain signal line D and a gate electrode (11) is connected to a gat... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6215463 | Driving system for a display panel A data voltage source circuit is provided for applying column electrode driving voltage to a column electrode driver. The data voltage source circuit has a voltage source for supplying column electrode driving voltage of about one half of a maximum voltag... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6188375 | Pixel drive circuit and method for active matrix electroluminescent displays An AMEL display is formed and operated in a manner to provide enhanced gray scale or color operation. The AMEL display is operated over consecutive illumination frames which are partitioned into a plurality of passes. The desired illumination intensity fo... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6147451 | Organic electrominiscent display device The present invention has an object to produce a pixel array comprising an organic EL device and a peripheral driving circuit on the same substrate, to facilitate the fabrication of an organic EL display device and miniaturize the display device. In the o... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6091194 | Active matrix display A flat panel display (10) uses active matrix addressing. Two parallel substrates (20, 30) have an organic electroluminescent medium (40) that emits visible light in response to an electrical signal, sandwiched between them. The top substrate is transparen... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6084349 | High-luminous intensity high-luminous efficiency plasma display panel A surface discharge alternating current plasma display panel has a pair of transparent electrodes supplied with current from metal bus electrodes through connecting portions spaced from each other by slits, a dielectric layer covering the pair of transpar... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6011529 | Current-dependent light-emitting element drive circuit for use in active matrix display device In a light-emitting element drive circuit in an active matrix display device, at least one current-control transistor controls a current flowing through a light-emitting element. The current-control transistor and the light-emitting element are connected ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5880705 | Mounting structure for a tessellated electronic display having a multilayer ceramic structure and tessellated electronic display An electroluminescent display formed on a ceramic substrate having a front ceramic surface and a back ceramic surface. The ceramic substrate includes a metal core that provides structural support, electrical ground, and heat dissipation. Electroluminescen... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5847783 | LCD with electroluminescent panel drive circuitry mounted to oppose LCD drive circuitry An electroluminescent panel is provided in a region of the rear surface side of the display panel, which corresponds to a display region, and the drive circuit for the display panel is located in the other region than the display region, on the surface si... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5786796 | Image desplay device An image display device which is not affected by image control signal for other pixels and gives adjustable intensity based upon control signal is provided. The image display device has a thin film pixel element EL, a non-linear element 5 for emit control... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5764206 | Drive circuit and method for designing the same Fluctuations in an image quality of an active matrix type display device are reduced. The active matrix type display device is driven by a drive circuit constructed of a shift register, an analog memory constructed of an analog switch and a capacitor, and... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5714968 | Current-dependent light-emitting element drive circuit for use in active matrix display device In a light-emitting element drive circuit in an active matrix display device, at least one current-control transistor controls a current flowing through a light-emitting element. The current-control transistor and the light-emitting element are connected ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5670792 | Current-controlled luminous element array and method for producing the same In a current-controlled luminous element array, combinations of a luminous element of a current-controlled type, a current-controlling transistor for controlling the current of the luminous element, and a switching transistor are arranged in a matrix form... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5644327 | Tessellated electroluminescent display having a multilayer ceramic substrate An electroluminescent display formed on a ceramic substrate having a front ceramic surface and a back ceramic surface. The ceramic substrate includes a metal core that provides structural support, electrical ground, and heat dissipation. Electroluminescen... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5616936 | Active matrix assembly with signal line crossing to equalize stray capacitance An active matrix panel including a matrix of driving electrodes couples through thin film transistor switches to a corresponding source line and gate line and at least one of a driver circuit including complementary thin film transistors for driving the s... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5457356 | Flat panel displays and process A flat panel display, such as a head mounted display, and a process for its manufacture are disclosed. Essentially, the flat panel display comprises separately manufactured flat panels including a display material and driver chips that are bump-bonded to ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5371434 | Radiation-emitting devices having an array of active components in contact with a fluorescent layer A display or other radiation-emitting device has an array of vertical ballistic transistors which produce electrons that flow into overlying phosphor regions. Light produced by the phosphors is focussed by an array of convex lenses above the phosphor regi... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5095248 | Electroluminescent device driving circuit An electroluminescent device driving circuit comprising first and second switching devices, a dividing capacitor, an electroluminescent device, a driving power supply, and a current limiting resistor disposed in series between the second switching device ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4983885 | Thin film EL display panel drive circuit A thin-film EL display panel drive circuit capable of varying the drive voltage according to changes in the number of emitting picture elements.... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4862153 | Flat display panel with framing for flexible substrate folding A flat matrix display panel having every side connected to an end of a flexible wiring substrate with an LSI chip loaded thereon. The flexible wiring substrate is formed into an S shape cross section by folding the substrate along an upper and a lower fra... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4839558 | Integrated DC electroluminescent display system An integrated electroluminescent display (DCEL), in which the DCEL (11) is integrted into the substrate board (10), such as, for example, a printed circuit board, which carries associated electronic components (12), such as, for example, those which would... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4553143 | Low cost panel display addressing structure A flat panel display in which photoresistive dividers on a first substrate are coupled to the leads of an optical display on a second substrate, such as an electroluminescent panel, by means of elastomeric connectors for coupling the photoresistor conduct... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4523189 | El display device A thin-film EL display device incorporates a MOS active matrix. Each of the MOS transistor arrays is additionally provided in parallel with a Zener diode for the purpose of protecting the device from a high voltage. This Zener diode has a breakdown voltag... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4266223 | Thin panel display A multilayer display device with thin-film transistor circuits for sequentially switching a common brightness control signal to a plurality of individual display elements.... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4156833 | Information display panel and method of fabrication A modularized information display panel is formed of identical modules which have thin film transistor control elements disposed at display elements which are in an X-Y array upon the module substrate. The display medium driving electrode portion of the t... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4110664 | Electroluminescent bargraph with integral thin-film transistor control circuitry An electroluminescent bargraph display module is detailed with an integral multi-stage thin-film transistor dynamic shift register disposed upon the module substrate side-by-side with the individually controllable electroluminescent display elements. The ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 3988536 | Scanning apparatus for television display or pick-up A scanning apparatus having a sequential linear array of electroluminescent devices which are controlled to be successively illuminated by having a pulsed electrical signal applied thereto by means of connections between said devices which insure that onl... | 10/26/1976 |
