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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7146005 | Input element for a telephone An input element for a telephone for inputting data having two rotary functions in respectively opposite directions, and which also has two key functions which are independent of the rotary functions, the key functions being triggered by a movement in a plane substa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145536 | Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales. According to the present invention, gray scale display... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144121 | Dichroic beam combiner utilizing blue LED with green phosphor A white beam with high color-rendering index is formed by uniting a collimated red beam and a collimated blue-green beam, the latter having as its source a blue LED with a green phosphor. The white beam is formed by a prism with an amber low-pass dichroic filter. Th... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139048 | Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display apparatus comprising a light guide plate having light source receiving recess and light guiding recess In a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display apparatus having the same, the backlight assembly includes a light emitting diode that emits light and a light guide plate that supplies the light to a liquid crystal display panel. The light guide plate includes ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138970 | Method of LED life extension and end-of-life prediction A method or technique of operating the LED illumination system within a line scan camera comprises the operation of the LED illumination sources at a relatively high gain control level, less than the one hundred percent maximum or acceptable gain level, and a corres... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136044 | Display apparatus The invention provides a display panel 9; a gain variable liquid crystal driving circuit 10 for driving the display panel 9; a backlight operating circuit 6 for operating, based on a lamp control signal, a backlight 8 for illuminat... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135712 | Electroluminescent device An electroluminescent device (13), such as a light emitting diode, which has a light-reflecting surface (10) causing undesirable reflection of ambient light incident on the device is provided with a combination of a reflective circular polarizer (17... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134777 | Surface lighting device with closed oblique reflector A surface lighting device (1) includes a light guide plate (11), a point light source (14), and a light reflector (13) substantially juxtaposed with the light guide plate. The light guide plate has a light incident surface (111). T... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133093 | Liquid crystal display device having particular number of the light emitting elements in the backlight for the color display A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having respective pixels which are allocated to red, green and blue and a light source which allows light to pass through the respective pixels, wherein the light source is constituted of a plur... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133092 | Light guiding apparatus, backlight assembly and liquid crystal display device having the same and with integral diffuser A light guiding plate capable of minimizing a thickness of a backlight assembly and an LCD device, a backlight assembly and an LCD device having the same are provided. The light guiding plate has a light incident surface, a light reflection surface having a pluralit... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132064 | Method for manufacturing brightness enhancement film of liquid crystal display and structure thereof A method for manufacturing a brightness enhancement film of a liquid crystal display and a structure thereof are provided. The method includes: (a) providing a first substrate, (b) forming a first macromolecule liquid crystal on said first substrate, (c) curing a pa... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131750 | Backlight apparatus A backlight apparatus includes a plurality of support members that maintain a diffuser plate in a fixed and level position with respect to the lamps and the housing that contains the lamps, to produce uniform illumination. The support members extend from the diffuse... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131735 | Light source device, optical device, and liquid-crystal display device A light source device, comprising a light guide block that is provided with an inner wall capable of reflecting light and is shaped as a hollow component to form a light guide, and a point light source array that is located opposite one end face of the light guide b... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126652 | Light source device including a planar light source having a single, substantially continuous light emission area and display device incorporating the light source device A red light source comprising an array of LEDs 102R that emit light of a red color, a green light source comprising an array of LEDs 102G that emit light of a green color, and a blue light source comprising an array of LEDs 102B that emit light ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126650 | Illumination unit and liquid crystal display apparatus comprising same A liquid crystal display device comprising a lighting unit of the present invention is aimed to inhibit a liquid crystal panel 111 from breaking by a pressure from a display surface side of a liquid crystal cell 111, and to inhibit entry of dust having... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123318 | Double-sided emissive liquid crystal display module containing double-sided illumination plate and multiple display panels A double-sided emissive LCD module includes a double-sided illumination plate, a first LCD panel disposed at the upper surface of the double-sided illumination plate, a second LCD panel disposed at the lower surface of the plate. The double-sided illumination plate ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122767 | Method for controlling power supply to fixing roller in image forming apparatus A fixing roller in an image forming apparatus (such as a copier) has a fixing heater that is supplied power from a capacitor. The fixing heater, the capacitor, a mechanical switch (such as a relay) and a semiconductor switch (such as a FET) are serially connected. A... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121711 | Surface emitting device and liquid crystal display apparatus In a surface emitting device in which a light source is bonded to a light guide bar in contact with a light guide plate, the light source is bonded to the light guide bar using an adjusting member for adjusting the position of the light source. Examples of the adjus... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121710 | Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same A backlight assembly and an LCD apparatus capable of reducing power consumption and increasing brightness of a light. The backlight assembly includes a light guide plate for receiving an external light and an artificial light, a first receiving container for receivi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121692 | Backlight module A backlight module includes a plurality of point light source generators, a diffusing plate installed on the plurality of point light source generators for scattering the light generated by the plurality of point light source generators, and a diffusing sheet instal... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119775 | Liquid crystal drive apparatus and gradation display method A voltage with a predetermined pattern is applied to liquid crystals to drive the liquid crystals during a unit drive period of the liquid crystals and an application pattern according to the gradation data is set taking into account a value obtained by integrating ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7118264 | Backlight module having two lighting sides A backlight module has two lighting sides installed inside a casing. Two sides of the casing are installed with a main display screen and a sub-display screen. The backlight module comprises at least one light source; a light guile plate for guiding light from the l... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117019 | Display and keypad backlight management for portable electronic devices This invention is a portable electronic device (100) including a display (212), an input device (210), a lighting circuit (204), a light sensor (206) and a control circuit (208). The lighting circuit (204) includes a ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116386 | Liquid crystal display device with a structure receiving a back light assembly and a display unit A receptacle assembly that receives a back light assembly and a display unit of a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The receptacle assembly for receiving the back light assembly comprises a first receptacle module and a second receptacle module engaged wit... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116378 | Color-balanced brightness enhancement for display systems A technique for providing a desired level of color balance in field sequential color systems with brightness enhancement. In color wheels having a spectrally-broad transmissive segment, the spectrally-broad segment has a transmittance that is selected to provide a d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113341 | Spatial light modulator and projector A spatial light modulator includes a prism group and satisfies either of the following conditions d1.05×λ/(2×(n−1)) where d is a distance between a reference surface and a flat ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113236 | Liquid crystal display housing with LEDs formed below the lower surface of the extending FPCB inset into openings of the housing A liquid crystal display (LCD) module is provided. The LCD module includes a housing that includes a plurality of openings formed in a lower surface of the housing, an LCD panel formed within the housing, a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) formed on the edge of... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113163 | Liquid crystal display apparatus The present invention includes a panel on which a plurality of pixels are located, a light-source for visualizing an image displayed on the plurality of pixels, a controlling circuit for controlling the light-source, and an image-signal tone characteristic controlli... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110062 | LCD with power saving features Energy efficient transmissive and transreflective display devices use ambient light from a natural or artificial source to supplement light supplied by a backlight. Ambient light passes through a transmissive diffuser to a rear surface of a transmissive display pane... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110061 | Image display device and light emission device An image display device including a light emission section which emits light to an intensity adjusting section and a wavelength conversion section which change the intensity and wavelength of the emitted light. Phosphors and phosphor like materials are employed in w... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110054 | Switchable color filter The liquid crystal switchable color filter switches between three color bands and is preferably used for time-sequential color devices, as for example projection devices, direct view displays and video cameras. The color filter employs circularly polarizing selectiv... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106505 | High dynamic range display devices A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen.... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106397 | Liquid crystal display device having a polarization member that includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and solid optical rotatory film The present invention provides a polarizing member constituted by, at least, a cholesteric liquid-crystal layer (1), a quarter-wave plate (2), and an optical rotatory layer (3). By the polarizing member according to the present invention, the pl... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106350 | Display method for liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display method to display an image according to an image signal, comprises changing a ratio of a display period and a non-display period of the image according to the image signal. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106276 | Color display device In a field sequential display device, a desired chromaticity of the white level can be easily achieved and fluctuations in the white level caused by fluctuation factors such as temperature characteristics can be suppressed. A light source comprises red, green, and b... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104671 | Lamp replacement A direct type backlight modulus lamp replacement device with each lamp respectively being fixed in a replacement device, the replacement device being provided at the bottom of the lampshade in relation to a slot of the lamp, a recess being formed in the device to pl... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106293 | Lighting control method and electronic device A lighting control method and an electronic device. The lighting of the display of the device can be adjusted according to ambient lighting. Information on the ambient lighting is transmitted to a light-sensitive component of the device through a light guide that is... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098970 | Liquid crystal display device and its manufacturing method In an active matrix type liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT having gate lines and data lines formed in a matrix manner and being connected to a source line, a contact hole for connecting the source line with a pixel electrode is formed in a position over... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097341 | Light guide plate and surface light source A light guide plate (32) used in a surface light source (30) for a liquid crystal display includes a light incidence surface (321) for receiving light beams, an emission surface (325) perpendicular to the light incidence surface for emitt... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095463 | Ultraviolet ray emitting apparatus and electronic apparatus using ultraviolet ray emitting elements A display emitting apparatus that irradiates an optically transparent display unit with Ultraviolet rays of light from below to cause luminescent layers provided on the display unit to emit colored rays of light to provide a highly colorful and very ornamental displ... | 08/22/2006 |
