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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115758 | Light emitting device Power consumption required for charging and discharging a source signal line is reduced in an active matrix EL display device. A bipolar transistor (Bi1) has a base terminal B connected to an output terminal c1 of an operational amplifier (OP1),... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106902 | Display device A display device including independent power sources for a display use and a detection use, display elements, switches (21, 22 and 23) for independently connecting the power sources and the individual elements, a circuit (10) for controlling the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102388 | Method of driving organic electroluminescence display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving circuit disposed in each of the plurality of light emitting elements, scanning lines, emission control lines, and data lines. Here, each driving circuit includes a driving transistor supp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098242 | Arrangement comprising a first electronic device and a power supply unit and method for operating an electronic device An arrangement includes a first electronic device and a power supply unit adapted to provide the first electronic device with electric operating energy from a mains voltage. The first electronic device includes an evaluation unit adapted to switch the first electron... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094146 | Driving method for pixel circuit and display apparatus Disclosed here is a driving method for a pixel circuit which includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor for applying current in response to a signal value applied between a gate and a source thereof to the light emitting element when a driving voltage i... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094145 | Driving method for organic electroluminescence light emitting section A driving method for an organic EL light emitting section is provided which achieves optimization of a mobility correction process for a transistor of a driving circuit in response to luminance. In a driving method for an organic EL light emitting section wherein a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089477 | Display device and method for controlling the same A display device is provided which includes a luminescence element, a data line, and a switch connected between an electrode of the luminescence element and the data line. A voltage generation circuit supplies a pre-charge voltage to the data line. A current generat... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085261 | LCD with the function of eliminating the power-off residual images An LCD includes a PWB, a FPC, and a display panel. The PWB includes a level shift circuit and a power-off discharge circuit. The display panel includes a gate driving circuit and a TFT array. The power-off discharge circuit can electrically connects a gate high volt... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077171 | Signal regulator module and related display device A signal regulator module includes a floating current regulator, a signal sensor, and a feedback controller. The floating current regulator is electrically coupled to a driving circuit and the light sources of a display panel for regulating the driving signals based... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072446 | Display with power saving function A display and a driving control method for the display are provided. The display includes a display panel, a driving control module and a power-saving control module. The display panel is configured to display a plurality of frames. The driving control module is cou... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072447 | Display drive device A display drive device includes a low-voltage circuit section driven by a first power supply potential and a high-voltage circuit section driven by a second power supply potential higher than the first power supply potential. The display drive device further include... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059115 | Source driving circuit of LCD apparatus A source driver circuit of an LCD apparatus with a small occupied area and low power consumption is disclosed. The source driver circuit comprises a reference voltage circuit, a negative voltage driving DAC, a positive voltage driving DAC, an invert amplifier, a non... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059114 | Organic light emitting diode driver Pulse width modulation (PWM) of a drive current to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is performed by a circuit subjected to corresponding signaling. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8040341 | Brightness control system In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method to control the brightness of a display. One exemplary method includes generating a signal indicative of a display brightness level, and controlling the brightness of the display, based at least in part on t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035634 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of capacitor lines, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a capacitor line driving circuit, a first capacitive signal output circuit, and a data line driving circuit.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026909 | Electro-luminescence display device and driving apparatus thereof An electro-luminescence display device includes: pixels provided between data lines and scan lines, each of the pixels including a light-emitting cell driven with a current; and a current controller for temporarily increasing the current for driving the light-emitti... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8013850 | Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device A driving circuit of an electrooptic device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels; a scanning-line driving circuit; a capacitor-line driving circuit; and a data-line driving c... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004514 | Method and system for updating of displays showing deterministic content A method and apparatus for displaying image data is disclosed. The method includes receiving one of a plurality of sets of stored image update data to be displayed on a display device, wherein each set corresponds to one image in a sequence of images and wherein the... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999804 | Monitor A monitor includes a display device, a signal interface, a power interface, and a power controller. The display device is configured for displaying information to users. The signal interface is configured for receiving display signals, and providing the display sign... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995052 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit and electronic apparatus A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of common electrodes, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a common electrode driving circuit, and a data line driving circuit. When a predetermined number of scanni... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986317 | Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof, including compensating to display images of desired luminance An display and a driving method thereof are capable of displaying images of desired luminance. The display includes a scan driver connected to scan lines, a data driver connected to data lines, pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels being ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986316 | Method and apparatus for power level control in a display device The invention relates to a method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, a power level mode defining a subfield organization to be used for subfield coding is selected as a function of the average power... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982730 | Method and apparatus for power control in a display device The invention relates to a new method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, the contrast/brightness control and the power management (based on an average power level control) are made independently. Th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973784 | Electro-optical device, drive circuit, and electronic apparatus A drive circuit of an electro-optical device includes: plural rows of scanning lines; plural columns of data lines; a plurality of common electrodes; pixel switching elements, pixel capacitors; and pixels. Here, the drive circuit includes a scanning line drive circu... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7936349 | Power supply apparatus and flat-screen television set A safety circuit 16 for monitoring the waveform of a start signal outputted from a microcomputer 40a is provided in a power supply circuit. If a start signal inputted to the safety circuit 16 is not a pulse wave, a power supply cutoff sec... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916134 | Power supply method and power supply circuit A power supply method of supplying a high-potential drive power voltage to a data line driver circuit which drives a plurality of data lines in a display panel which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of scanning lines in addition to the data lines. An output... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916133 | Buffer amplifier, driver IC and display apparatus using that driver IC A buffer circuit is driven with a low voltage and operates at a high speed has first and second comparators constituted by P channel and N channel MOS transistors provided between an input terminal and an output terminal of a buffer amplifier. A predetermined offset... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911462 | Soft-start high driving method and source driver device A soft-start high driving method and device to drive display panels are provided. The driving method includes the following steps. First, a display signal is provided for driving a display panel and displaying images. If no predetermined event happens, then, a high-... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911463 | Power supply topologies for inverter operations and power factor correction operations A method according to one embodiment may include generating, by a controller, a plurality of control signals to control operations of inverter circuitry to generate an AC signal from a DC signal. The method of this embodiment may also include using the control signa... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907137 | Display drive apparatus, display apparatus and drive control method thereof There is provided a display drive apparatus for operating, in accordance with display data, a current control type optical elements each having a display pixel provided with the optical element and a drive element which supplies a driving current to the optical elem... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889190 | Apparatus for supplying power source The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying power source for providing power source to a plurality of display devices. The apparatus for supplying power source includes a boosting circuit and a voltage adjusting circuit. The boosting circuit boosts a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7864171 | Display apparatus, source driver and dispaly panel An organic EL display apparatus includes: a display panel on which a plurality of pixel sections are provided; source drivers provided with pixel drivers, which includes current drivers for supplying drive currents to the pixel sections, registers for latching data ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864172 | Cathode potential controller, self light emission display device, electronic apparatus, and cathode potential controlling method A cathode potential controller for controlling a common cathode potential applied to a self light emission type display panel in which an emission state of each of pixels is driven and controlled in accordance with an active matrix drive system, the cathode potentia... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7843447 | Liquid crystal display with feedback circuit part In a liquid crystal display device having a feedback circuit part, the feedback circuit part prevents black points and blinking pixels from being generated on a liquid crystal display panel by compensating ripple voltages generated from a common electrode of a commo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839398 | Gate driving circuit and power control circuit A gate driving circuit and a power control circuit are disclosed. The gate driving circuit includes a gate driver and the power control circuit. The gate driver is adapted for receiving a starting signal and sequentially outputting a plurality of scan signals accord... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7830371 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same is capable of for preventing a difference in brightness from occurring between horizontal line blocks. A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged in ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825920 | Level regulation circuit of common signal of LCD A level regulation circuit of a common signal of an LCD generates a first level voltage and a second level voltage according to a common voltage so as to generate a first common signal and a second common signal. Each pixel of the LCD includes two storage capacitors... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7808497 | Driving circuit and method for AMOLED using power pulse feed-through technique An AMOLED driving circuit and driving method adds an additional switching transistor to a 2T1C driving circuit. An additional switching transistor is connected to the high voltage source, a scan line and a node connected a source terminal of a driving transistor of ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7773081 | Methods and apparatus for efficiently operating fluorescent lamps Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the efficiency of a fluorescent lamp suitable for use as a backlight in an avionics or other liquid crystal display (LCD). The apparatus includes a channel configured confine a vaporous material that produces an ultra... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773082 | Display device and controlling method thereof A conventional setting voltage was a value with an estimated margin of a characteristic change of a light emitting element. Therefore, a voltage between the source and drain of a driver transistor Vds had to be set high (Vds≧Vgs−... | 08/10/2010 |
