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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7911545 | Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular in film mode sequences The invention relates to a method for processing video pictures, the video pictures consisting of pixels digitally coded, the digital code word determining the length of the time period during which the corresponding pixel of a display is activated, wherein to each ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7773161 | Method and apparatus for controlling a display device The invention deals with the large area flicker effect reduction in display devices like plasma display panels, in which the light output is controlled by small pulses over a whole frame period and the amount of small pulses determine the brightness of the light out... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7489365 | Driving a panel A panel driving method in which a single TV field includes at least one reset period and at least one subfield and each of the at least one subfields includes an address period and a sustain period, includes supplying a variable reset pulse according to the length o... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7477328 | Plasma television, display panel type television, and fabrication method for display panel type television Conventionally, it was difficult to maintain parallelism between an optical filter and a PDP, and also the weight of the optical filter was put on the PDP. With a PDP 10 and a frame 30 separately fixed to a bracket 20 connecting to a leg ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7414678 | Plasma television, display panel type television, and fabrication method for display panel type television Conventionally, it was difficult to maintain parallelism between an optical filter and a PDP, and also the weight of the optical filter was put on the PDP. With a PDP 10 and a frame 30 separately fixed to a bracket 20 connecting to a leg ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7365799 | Gradation display device The gradation display device contains gradient detecting circuit (3) for detecting a gradient of gradation values of pixels in an incoming image; time-varying gradation-value detecting circuit (4) for detecting changes in gradation values of the pixels... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7345712 | Display apparatus A display apparatus to receive a picture signal containing information of a picture and to process the picture signal using at least an area distinguishing the picture from another picture includes a motion detector to detect whether there is a motion in the area of... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339632 | Method and apparatus for processing video pictures improving dynamic false contour effect compensation The invention relates to a method for processing video pictures for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to the pixels of a picture wherein the time of a video frame or field is divided into a plurality of N sub-fields du... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339555 | Method and apparatus for displaying an image on a plasma display panel A method and apparatus for displaying an image on a plasma display panel. Each of a plurality of subfields has three consecutive subfield groups in time order, and the luminance weight of the subfields in a second subfield group among the three subfield groups is se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327333 | Method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel A method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel, based on an input phase alternation line (PAL) video signal of 50 Hz. Video signal data include successive first and second sub-field groups. When the number of sub-field... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7277105 | Drive control apparatus and method for matrix panel A matrix panel drive control apparatus having improved display peak luminance and reduced black level luminance, permitting further improved contrast, includes a row selection circuit for selecting at least one row from among a plurality of rows of the matrix panel,... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268755 | Architecture for smart LCD panel interface An architecture for a smart liquid crystal display (LCD) panel interface is described. The architecture enables a circuit to transfer only updated display data to the interface. When there are no display data updates to transfer, the circuit is placed in the lowest ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7256756 | Semiconductor device for driving a current load device and a current load device provided therewith In a D/I conversion section of the semiconductor device for driving a light emission display device, a precharge circuit is provided at the rear of each 1-output D/I conversion section. A precharge signal PC is input into the precharge circuit. The D/I conversion se... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253559 | Plasma display panel having dielectric layer with specific color addictive A plasma display panel is able to contrast thereof by increasing a color temperature of the plasma display panel, which comprises a dielectric layer controlling a light transmittance for visible light of a certain wavelength emitted from a phosphor in the plasma dis... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248756 | Apparatus comprising electronic and/or optoelectronic circuitry and method for realizing said circuitry An apparatus/method for producing fabric-like electronic circuit patterns created by methodically joining electronic elements using textile fabrication-like methods in a predetermined arrangement. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236206 | Interpolation method for a video signal, and display device with function of interpolation for a video signal A video signal interpolation can adapt an image of input video signal to voluntary aspect ratios widely. The invention also allows a display device to uniformly line-sequential scan and uses at least two line-memories (LM1, LM2) which are applied with ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227596 | Colour defects in a display panel due to different time response of phosphors The luminous elements of the three colours red, green and blue of a plasma video display have different time responses. Therefore, a coloured trail/edge appears behind and in front of the edges of a moving object. In order to reduce the disturbing character of such ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224329 | Plasma display apparatus and manufacturing method A PDP apparatus of low power consumption and without erroneous malfunctions is equipped with a sustaining circuit that prevents an on/off timing shift and deterioration of a sustaining pulse produced thereby. Phase adjusting circuits, which adjust the timing of the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7153176 | Method for manufacturing plasma display panel using patterned mask to form ribs A method for manufacturing a plasma display panel is provided which is capable of enhancing luminance of a plasma display panel by forming a grid-shaped rib in the plasma display panel so as to be square-shaped. In the method for manufacturing a plasma display panel... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151266 | Nuclear cargo detector Apparatus for the inspection of cargo containers for nuclear materials comprising one or more arrays of modules comprising grounded, closed conductive tubes filled with an ionizing gas mixture such as, but not limited to, Argon:CO2. A wire is suspended al... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7137857 | Method for manufacturing a light-emitting panel An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two subtrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component v... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7061459 | Display controller, display unit and electronic apparatus The invention provides display controllers, display units and electronic apparatuses using the same, which can achieve transfer rates that can accommodate increases in the amount of display data that may result from increases in the screen size of liquid crystal pan... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7042424 | Method for driving a plasma display panel The object of the invention is to provide a method for driving a plasma display panel that provides an improved expression of levels of halftone as well as an improved display quality. In N sub-fields constituting a display period of one field, when a pixel data wri... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042422 | Method and device for processing video pictures The differences between the time responses of phosphor elements of a plasma display panel (17) shall be reduced by signal processing means without a need of a motion estimator. Therefore, the sub-fields for driving the luminous elements are reorganized in at ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7023420 | Electronic display with photo-addressing means An electronic display comprises an electro-optic material (preferably an electrophoretic medium) having a plurality of pixels, and separate first, second and third sets of addressing means for addressing these pixels. Each of the pixels is associated with one addres... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012598 | Liquid crystal display device and method for operating the same A method for operating a liquid crystal display having a panel with a back light includes applying a first gate signal starting a real data period followed by a second gate signal starting a black data period sequentially to gate lines of the panel, applying actual ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012600 | Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an ini... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009586 | Method for driving plasma display panel A driving method enables an improvement in emission efficiency and achievement of a higher degree of brightness when employing the address while display driving (AWD) scheme. Taking a 3-bit 8-gradation display as an example, a first H period (one horizontal scan per... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6980178 | Method of driving plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving brightness and efficiency. In the method, a sustaining pulse for sustaining a discharge of a cell selected in a sustaining interval is alternately applied to each of a sustaining electrode pai... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6937293 | Image display unit for and method of displaying pixels and image display apparatus comprising such a display unit An image display unit (100) displays an image on a display device (406), like a plasma display panel, in a number of sub-fields (204-218). The image display unit can perform motion compensation to reduce motion artifacts. This motion compensatio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6926574 | Plasma display panel that is operable to suppress the reflection of extraneous light, thereby improving the display contrast A plasma display device having a front substrate and a rear substrate is provided. The front substrate is constituted from a transparent first insulating substrate, and a plurality of stripe-shaped first electrodes including at least one discharge electrode and exte... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6906759 | Device and method for subfield coding of picture data using first subfields having different on-periods and second subfields having identical on-periods A device for subfield coding a large-screen display generates a digital value for a picture element of the display, and determines a first number and a second number of subfields of a predetermined total number of subfields from the digital value, for which determin... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6836261 | Plasma display driving method and apparatus In a reset period after a sustain discharge period, erase discharges are done by applying pulse voltages having different waveforms in the first erase discharge period for an ON cell turned on in the preceding sustain discharge period and in the second erase dischar... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6747670 | Method of addressing a plasma display panel The object of the invention is to provide a system for encoding grey levels which makes it possible to reduce the problems of contouring by increasing the number of subscans using subscans common to several rows, thereby remedying the error due to the difference bet... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6630917 | Subfield-driven display In a method of driving a subfield-driven display (PDP), for a position in a subfield it is examined (E) whether a motion vector for the position differs from a motion vector for a neighboring position to determine whether uncovering or covering is present... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6573879 | Plasma-addressed liquid crystal display device A plasma-addressed liquid crystal display device capable of high-speed drive and improved viewing characteristic is composed of a liquid crystal cell structure and plasma cell structure stacked with each other. The liquid crystal cell structure is formed ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6417833 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for lighting backlight thereof In the liquid crystal display, a first backlight and a second backlight are provided and lightened simultaneously. Among all the lamps constituting the backlight, those lamps outputting oscillation waves in one phase are made equal or nearly equal in numb... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6333766 | Tone display method and apparatus for displaying image signal A tone display method for displaying a tone of an image in a display system which divides a time width of a field of an image signal into a plurality of weighted subfields and controls operation of the subfields. The tone display method includes the steps... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6304254 | Display device LC display device based on "plane switching", in which the switching speed is increased by overdriving the pixels upon a change of the voltage across these pixels while taking, for example, the hydrodynamical properties of the LC material into account. Th... | 10/16/2001 |
