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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7969515 | Video display apparatus and method A video display apparatus displays videos corresponding to a plurality of observers respectively and comprises a display device. A control unit controls a scan timing so that a sum of a video scanning period from an upper end to a lower end of the display device con... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7920213 | Method for maintaining the phase difference of a positioning mirror as a constant with respect to a high speed resonant mirror to generate high quality images System and method for synchronizing the low speed mirror movement of a mirror display system with incoming frame or video signals, and synchronizing buffered lines of video data to the independently oscillating scanning mirror. According to one embodiment of the inv... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7864252 | Video signal processor capable of suppressing excessive heat generation, method using the same, display device and method using the same A video signal processor for processing input video data in accordance with an input clock signal includes: an input section for changing the format of the video data and outputting resultant data; a logic section for decoding the data output from the input section ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7796198 | Display control apparatus of display panel, and display device having display control apparatus In a display control apparatus which is supplied with an input synchronizing signal and an input video signal, and which generates display data from the input video signal on the basis of the input synchronizing signal, and supplies the display data to display means... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7701517 | Electronic image display systems Dual display screens are oriented back-to-back such that one display screen is visible from a first direction and one display screen is visible from a direction opposite the first direction. ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7675578 | Television and back lighting source module capable of preventing harmonic interference A television includes a light source, a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) controller, and a control component. The PWM is coupled electrically to the light source, and is operable so as to generate a source control signal for controlling turning on and turning off of the... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7599011 | Method for synchronizing an image data source and a resonant mirror system to generate images System and method for synchronizing the low speed mirror movement of a mirror display system with incoming frame or video signals, and synchronizing buffered lines of video data to the independently oscillating scanning mirror. According to one embodiment of the inv... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7471345 | Flat display device and control method thereof A flat display device includes, vertical synchronization lock means which generates an internal vertical synchronization signal, a window signal generating circuit which generates a window signal by use of the internal vertical synchronization signal, a detecting ci... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7432991 | Random access display monitor A digital display panel accepts pixel information according to their row-column coordinates. Each pixel can be individually written and read back, much like a random access memory (RAM). A pixel array self-refreshes, and can retain and display each image frame long ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7365805 | Display device, manufacturing method thereof, and television receiver The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a display device comprising the steps of forming a first film pattern using a photosensitive material over a substrate, forming a second film pattern in such a way that the first film pattern is exposed by b... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355570 | Method of expressing gray level of high load image and plasma display panel driving apparatus using the method In a method of expressing a gray level of a high load image and an apparatus for driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) using the method, a load ratio of the input image signal is calculated, and an error diffusion of a lower bit of gray level data corresponding to th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352415 | Electronic image display systems An electronic image display system that provides a wall-mounted television/electronic display. Dual display screens are oriented back-to-back such that one display screen is visible in a first room and one display screen is visible in an adjacent room. The invention... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333156 | Sequential colour visual telepresence system For implementing an anthropomorphic visual telepresence system with high resolution and low loop latency a sequential color video loop is provided. A sequential color camera sequentially captures color images, each captured image consisting of a portion of a single ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317494 | Autostereoscopic video display with a parallax barrier having oblique apertures In the case of a four-eye type stereoscopic viewing system, four videos (dots) “video {circle around (1)}, video {circle around (2)}, video {circle around (3)}, and video {circle around (4)}” composing each of minimum units of video g... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310074 | System for controlling LED devices A DMX512 signal source distributor and a loader for a plurality of LED controllers can control LED devices such as an LED board. The DMX512 signal source distributor includes a UART, an MCU connecting to a memory, and a DMX512 encoder chip connecting to a memory. Th... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305329 | Method for lobby and common area interior A lobby or other public space design process for providing an attractive appearance complementary to a building in which the lobby is installed, by (a) Evaluating a building for determination of appropriate lobby interior design ar... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289160 | Output selection device and output selection method for video signals Video signals that are reproduced or processed are outputted to a first video image display device. An illuminance detection section detects the ambient illuminance during the output of the video signals. In the case that the detected illuminance is equal to or grea... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280151 | Video camera with a rotatable grip unit A video camera is disclosed which can make photographing without any compulsion. A rotary grip is provided on a side face of a camera body so as to be rotatable relative to the camera body, the camera body having an image pickup device, a camera lens and a circuit b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7262813 | Video output device and method A video output device includes a signal converter for generating a video signal corresponding to displayed video; a projector and a main screen for displaying the video based on the video signal output from the signal converter; left and right lighting units, a left... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7234822 | Light propagation structure and optical display device of optical system, light propagation method of optical system, and display method of optical display device A projection-type display device 100 including a light source 10, a luminance modulation light valve having a plurality of pixels capable of independently controlling a transmission factor T1, dichroic mirrors 44a and 44b... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7180556 | System and method for capturing, transmitting, and displaying an image An optical image system includes an image projector and an image generator. The image projector has regions with adjustable brightness levels. The image generator generates an image received from a remote location on the image projector by directing first and second... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180555 | System and method for producing an image with a screen using erase (off) and image (on) light sources An image system includes a beam generator and a screen having a region with an adjustable brightness. The beam generator directs first and second electromagnetic beams onto the region. The first beam changes the brightness of the region according to a first polarity... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171027 | Vehicular image processing apparatus and related method A vehicular image processing apparatus and related method are disclosed as having a high speed camera 2 that picks up an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, a low speed image extracting unit 6 extracting an image calculated with a low speed area calcu... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7129992 | Method and system for video display with automatic reframing A system and method are provided for displaying a video composed of images each comprising a predetermined number M of lines and, a predetermined number N of pixels in each line. Values of a predetermined number P of reference pixels for each line of a current image... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126156 | Thin film transistor display device with integral control circuitry A semiconductor device includes a control circuit for carrying out gamma correction of a supplied signal, and a memory for storing data used in the gamma correction. The control circuit and the memory are constituted by TFTs, and are integrally formed on the same in... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7110050 | Method for processing video pictures for display on a display device using self-priming and refreshing sub-fields The invention is related to a new kind of plasma display panel control. A known principle for PDP control is based on a combination of sub-field addressing and priming. Within the priming period all the plasma cells of the panel are pre-excited by a strong voltage p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7101051 | Projector for portable electronic apparatus A projector. The projector comprises a projection light source, a first digital micro-mirror device, and a second digital micro-mirror device. The projection light source emits a projection beam toward the first digital micro-mirror device. The first digital micro-m... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095907 | Content and display device dependent creation of smaller representation of images A method and apparatus to receive an image and to create a smaller representation of the image from a wavelet representation of the image is described. The size of the smaller representation of the image is selected to compensate for the content of the image and phy... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088353 | Display device In order to provide a display device by which increasing of number of spatial light modulation elements and increasing of number of pixels can be suppressed, and high definition of a display image is easily realized, in the display device, a DMD is inclined with res... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072000 | Projection type color image display unit In a projection type color display unit having three optical shutters formed on substrates corresponding to three primary colors, a color separation circuit and a digitalizing circuit are provided on each substrate having the optical shutter, and signals correspondi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7053917 | Display device A display device is provided that does not cause the viewer to experience a feeling that something is abnormal, even when the relative positions of the display device and the viewer fluctuate. The display device basically includes a display section, a motion detecti... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7019716 | Driving method for PDPs with variable vertical frequency A driving method for PDPs with variable vertical frequency. The method increases the sum of the sustain periods to obtain high brightness, by adjusting vertical frequency of a PDP through an image loading such that each image frame time displayed on the PDP is adjus... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016817 | Method for elevator cab interior An Elevator cab design process for providing an attractive appearance complementary to a building in which the elevator is installed, by a) Evaluating a building for determination of appropriate elevator cab interior design archite... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7017053 | System for reduced power consumption by monitoring video content and method thereof A system and method are provided for reducing power consumption within a video processing portion of a system based on display content. Display content is monitored to determine whether the display content is changing. New display content is compared to old display ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012576 | Intelligent display interface A video display system that co-locates a video display memory with the video display device, and transmits to the display device those portions of the image data that have changed rather than continually updating the entire video image. Each display device is addres... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6977693 | Networked video projector apparatus and method of projecting a video frame on a video projector A video projector including a network adapter, a microprocessor physically and electrically coupled to the network adapter, a graphics adapter physically and electrically coupled to the microprocessor, a light valve physically and electrically coupled to the graphic... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6906754 | Electronic display with compensation for shaking A display device includes a display screen, and horizontal and vertical display signals. The horizontal and vertical display signals are to render an image on the display screen. A first and second accelerometers are directly coupled to the display screen. First and... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900844 | Display control method for video display system and video display system A video display system comprising a plurality of video display apparatuses 11 to 13 for displaying video signals Sv being supplied as video. A specific video display apparatus 11 out of a plurality of the video display apparatuses 11 to | 05/31/2005 |
| 6897900 | Display apparatus comprising a cathode ray tube (CRT) A display apparatus, for instance a television receiver, comprises a cathode ray tube, a first circuit for providing a high voltage to the cathode and a second circuit receiving a gross signal and providing on at least an output at least a luminance signal controlli... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6847411 | Modular television for providing a distinguishable sound according to a selection of a module and/or a module function A modular television for allowing a user to perceive an operation according to a selection of a module and/or a module function, is disclosed. The modular television includes a module rack having at least one module connection slot for mounting at least one module t... | 01/25/2005 |
