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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144265 | Liquid crystal television receiver and liquid crystal display device The liquid crystal television receiver comprises an inverter circuit 28, transistors Q14, Q13, and a microcomputer 22. The inverter circuit 28 includes resistors R5, R6, R7, R8 determining the value of a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139169 | Liquid crystal TV set and liquid crystal display unit Disclosed are a liquid crystal display unit and a liquid crystal TV set, each of which has a sequence circuit 13 that includes first, second, and third voltage output units. The sequence circuit 13, upon the turning-on of the power to the liquid crysta... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139168 | Display device using LCD panel and a method of executing timing control options thereof A display device including a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a driving circuit unit to drive the LCD panel, a main controller to generate a data signal that includes predetermined option information, and a timing controller,to detect the option informati... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125575 | Liquid crystal television and backlight unit A liquid crystal television 100 displays an image on a liquid crystal display by transmitting a light source from a backlight unit 10. The backlight unit 10 drives two cold-cathode tubes 13a, 13b as the backlight 1... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8098338 | Liquid crystal television including a left speaker and a right speaker for outputting audio based on an audio signal An audio signal is transmitted to a sensor substrate D through a cable 60c connecting the lower end of an analog substrate A arranged on the rear face of the liquid crystal panel and the sensor substrate arranged below the liquid crystal panel of a cab... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8059214 | Direct-type backlight device and liquid crystal television apparatus Fluorescent tubes are arranged such that their arrangement spaces gradually become wider in central area than in edge areas, fluorescent tubes located in the vicinity of the central area of an arrangement direction are bent into chevron-shapes such that the central ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7982810 | Panel-type image display device and liquid crystal television A panel-type television whose colors and image qualities of OSD portions are kept intact and the qualities of images other than the OSD portions are adjusted is provided. The panel-type television includes an image quality adjustment circuit 30a that p... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7649575 | Liquid crystal display device with improved response speed A display device displays corrected externally-supplied video signals, and includes plural pixels, a scanning driver and a signal driver which applies display voltages to signal lines coupled to the pixels. The signal driver includes a first converter which converts... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7639312 | Apparatus and method for processing moving picture, and computer program product A method of processing a moving picture includes determining, based on a pixel value at a predetermined position in a first frame included in a moving picture, a pixel value at a corresponding position to the predetermined position in a second frame which is subsequ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7609329 | Driving apparatus for liquid crystal display A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display capable of adjusting a field area displayed on a liquid crystal display panel at the exterior thereof is disclosed. In the apparatus, an image signal processor separates a television image signal from a complex image ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7595847 | Audio/video playback control system of liquid crystal display television An audio/video playback control system of liquid crystal display television (LCD TV) is provided to control an audio signal system, an image display system and a backlight source system of an LCD TV, and the control system uses an audio/video control unit to maintai... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7511772 | Liquid crystal television receiver for correcting optical response characteristics, LCD control method, and recording medium When a video signal type detecting section detects a video signal of PAL/SECAM (50 Hz) video signal, the input image data is subjected to enhancing conversion with a degree lower than the degree of enhancing conversion in the case of NTSC (60 Hz). With this, the res... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7443469 | Display device, color filter, and electronic apparatus To provide a display device, a color filter, and an electronic apparatus, which can prevent the deterioration of resolution and display quality and can improve display characteristics. There is provided a display device comprising a plurality of dots in a unit pixel... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440038 | Liquid crystal television and liquid crystal display apparatus There is disclosed a liquid crystal display apparatus including a main body and a swivel mechanism, where the main body is capable of smoothly swiveling. A countersunk hole is formed in a bottom plate member as follows: When a through-hole for inserting a screw is f... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7429111 | Two-panel color management system The invention provides a two-panel color management system for projection display applications, wherein color sequencing is accomplished using achromatic beam switching and static color separation. In a preferred embodiment, a liquid-crystal polarization switch alte... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7425996 | Image forming apparatus and video receiving and display apparatus A control circuit of an image display apparatus controls an output of video signals so that a non-display period TC set between an end of display of images corresponding to a first input video signal for one vertical scan and a start of display of an image correspon... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7411633 | Display apparatus and method for controlling the same A display apparatus includes a control circuit for outputting a timing signal for determining a predetermined time period and a clock signal counted to determine the length of a modulation signal. The display apparatus is capable of switching between a first state i... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411632 | Driving circuit of display element, image display apparatus, and television apparatus A driving circuit for display elements, comprises a modulation circuit that outputs a modulating signal to be applied to wiring to which display elements are connected; and an output circuit that serializes modulation data including height value data for determining... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391568 | Luminous intensity distribution control device and display having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus including: a liquid crystal display element having a liquid crystal layer; a backlight apparatus arranged at one side of the couple of substrates of the liquid crystal display element; a polarizer arranged between the liquid crysta... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388623 | Liquid crystal display device and inspection method An OSD display unit generates test pattern data to spread image patterns stored in a storage unit as digital font data for OSD display so as to match the number of pixels of a liquid crystal panel and sends the test pattern data to a panel processor for display on t... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382419 | Liquid crystal television and liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus including a tilt mechanism, which is capable of preventing an inadvertent insertion of a finger of a user in a groove of a bracket of the tilt mechanism even while a cover for concealing the bracket is removed, wherein provided is ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369672 | Personal audio visual system An audio visual system has a housing with a video display and one or more speakers. The speakers are housed in cavities which limit dispersion of the sound generated, and the video display is preferably a directional LCD display. The housing is preferably mounted to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7345713 | Video display apparatus for correcting luminance difference between display pixels An analog-to-digital converter converts a video signal into a digital video signal consisting of N bits and outputs the converted signal. A correction value memory stores correction data consisting of M bits which is used to correct the difference in luminance betwe... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339714 | Variable blazed grating based signal processing A light processing system includes an array of optical signal processing devices. The array of processing devices are operable to receive at least some of a first signal part and to modulate the first signal part based at least in part on a control signal received f... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327408 | Illuminator that generates linearly polarized light for microdisplay based light engine A hollow sphere with a scattering (e.g., white diffusive) interior surface directs light input from at least one input light source to an exit. In one embodiment, an internal hot mirror and phosphor are positioned to intercept the input light on which visible light ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7289170 | Method and apparatus for compensating for interlaced-scan type video signal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for compensating for an interlaced-scan type video signal for stably displaying the video signal in the LCD panel. An aft part of 264th data of a first field and a fore part of 23rd data of a second field... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283179 | Liquid crystal television apparatus Disclosed herein is a video signal process circuit that includes a control circuit having a level detection circuit and a dynamic range switch circuit. In the control circuit and a microcomputer, an average luminance of an image displayed on a liquid crystal panel v... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279812 | Light direction assembly shorted turn A light direction assembly comprises a tip-tilt platform having a light direction member and at least one current coil coupled to the tip-tilt platform. The light direction assembly also includes a plurality of magnetic producing devices that are positioned in close... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274383 | Arrangement of color pixels for full color imaging devices with simplified addressing A three-color pixel element for a display comprises a blue emitter disposed at the origin of a rectangular coordinate system having four quadrants, a pair of red emitters and a pair of green emitters spaced apart from the blue emitter and symmetrically disposed abou... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262818 | Video system with de-motion-blur processing A video system that performs TV signal decoding, deinterlacing, and de-motion-blurring for progressive scan flat panel display is introduced. The system embeds a frame buffer and a scaler for conducting format and resolution conversions for display panels of differe... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245506 | System for reducing noise induced from reference plane currents A method of reducing noise induced from reference plane currents is disclosed. The method includes routing a first path for an electrical trace on a circuit board such that the first path references a voltage plane. The method further includes routing a second path ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236214 | Liquid crystal television receiver and liquid crystal display apparatus In a configuration including a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver for driving a gate line of the liquid crystal panel, a data driver for driving a data line of the liquid crystal panel, a cold cathode tube used as a light source of a back light part for illuminatin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227595 | Liquid crystal television receiver A liquid crystal television receiver includes a DC power supply to generate and output tuning DC power, a receiving portion, a display portion, and a series regulator. Preferably, the receiving portion is fed the tuning DC power and receives a video signal, the disp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224412 | Ceiling suction type digital television device A ceiling suction type digital television device includes a wireless signal received through an aerial, whereupon the wireless signal having a carrier wave is converted into a general signal by means of a demodulator decoding unit and transmitted to a sound processi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218261 | Method of adjusting sampling condition of analog to digital converter and apparatus thereof A method of adjusting a sampling condition to generate a sampling clock in an analog to digital converter includes performing an analog to digital conversion on an analog input signal to thereby produce a digital sampled signal having a plurality of samples; calcula... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209189 | LCD-TV capable of receiving two or more display signals A LCD-TV capable of receiving two or more display signals is discloses. An indicator is provided with the LCD-TV to emit light of a specific color corresponding to a display signal when the display signal is displayed on a LCD panel of the LCD-TV. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7190519 | Plate-like polarizing element, a polarizing conversion unit provided with the element, and a projector provided with the unit This specification discloses a polarizing. element for dividing light into first and second polarized lights differing in polarized state from each other by a polarizing dividing surface, directing the first polarized light in a first direction, reflecting the secon... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177064 | Display device using printed circuit board as substrate of display panel Disclosed is a display device using a printed circuit board (PCB) as a substrate of a display panel. The display device includes the PCB formed with a via hole, a display panel having an electrode aligned adjacent to one side of the via hole formed in the PCB in ord... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173760 | Luminous intensity distribution control device and display having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus including: a liquid crystal display element having a liquid crystal layer between a couple of substrates; a backlight apparatus arranged at one side of the couple of substrates; a polarizer arranged between the liquid crystal displ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172288 | Display device including a spatial light modulator with plural image regions A display device includes a spatial light modulator and a light generator. The spatial light modulator may have an array of modulating elements with a plurality of image regions. The light generator may be configured to direct a different one of a plurality of subst... | 02/06/2007 |
