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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365798 | Video signal identification device and video signal identification method The procedure of the invention acquires a maximum RB value, which is a largest value of an R signal component and a B signal component, on the assumption that the signal format of an input video signal is an RGB signal, and obtains an RGB probability corresponding t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7342561 | Driving method and drive control circuit of liquid crystal display device, and liquid crystal display device including the same A drive control circuit supplies a gate voltage so that display quality is not degraded even in a case where a vertical scanning frequency or a horizontal scanning frequency is changed. The circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333149 | Apparatus and method for converting analog and digital video format The present invention provides an apparatus for converting a video format of a digital TV and method thereof, by which various functions such as video format detection, color space conversion, chroma format conversion, gamma correction, geometric correction, image q... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327329 | Dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel overdrive in an LCD panel based display In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by performing the following operations. A video vertical refresh rate of an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327355 | LCD monitor with dual interface and control method thereof An LCD monitor with a dual interface, having a DVI-I connector through which digital and analog video signals from a computer main body are input, and digital and analog display modes according to the type of the input video signal. The monitor includes a signal sen... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7304656 | Device for digital display of a video image The present invention relates to a device for digital display of a video image using time-division modulation. This device is intended to display a video image during a video frame comprising a plurality of consecutive subfields distributed within at least two separ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295173 | Image display method An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of brightness of the subfield images, and displaying the arranged subfield ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275120 | Configurable advanced technology attachment/integrated drive electronics host controller with programmable timing registers that store timing parameters that control communications An ATA/IDE host controller 100 generated from an HDL design base and a default frequency configuration script is disclosed. The controller supports ATA/IDE interface communications at a user-selected default frequency of 33, 66, 100, or 133 Mhz and at frequen... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7248256 | CAD data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 fo... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7212174 | Systems and methods for sharing application data in a networked computing environment A system and method for facilitating application sharing in a networked environment is provided. Specifically, the system divides a display area on a host computer into a plurality of regions, with each region comprised of a predetermined number of current pixels. T... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209134 | Liquid crystal display Disclosed is a liquid crystal display which can automatically select channels of signals outputted from a digital signal receiver according to frequencies of input signals, when the input signals are digital signals. According to the liquid crystal display, the liqu... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202865 | Image signal repeater apparatus, image display apparatus with image signal repeater function, and method of controlling same There is provided an image signal repeater apparatus with a simple construction, which can prevent the accumulation of jitter even if the image signal repeater apparatuses are connected in multiple stages, and which enables the reception of image signals of various ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190360 | Display device and method of driving the same The present invention is intended to achieve an improvement in the horizontal resolution of an active matrix semiconductor display device. In accordance with the present invention, by supplying a modulated clock signal obtained by frequency modulating a reference cl... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184001 | Method and apparatus for frame processing in a liquid crystal display A method of frame processing which includes the following steps: 1) an input frame is input into the frame processing device, 2) according to the input frame and the previous input frame, the frame processing device selects a multiple number of output frames, and 3)... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176912 | Image display apparatus with driving modes and method of driving the same An image display apparatus includes an image display section in which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a matrix at intersections of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. A control circuit selects one of modes as an operation ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176848 | Method of synchronizing images on multiple display devices with different refresh rates A method for displaying images on multiple monitors with different refresh rates is disclosed. To prevent screen tearing, the surface containing image data is not released when the access by the master monitor is completed until the slave monitor or monitors finish ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173597 | Signal-adjusted LCD control unit An LCD control unit includes a software adjustment block for adjusting the γ-correction voltages by a software. The LCD control unit includes a voltage generator block generating n γ-correction voltages and m Vcom voltages based on a voltage address signal, a volt... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170469 | Method and apparatus for image frame synchronization A method and apparatus for converting a source frame signal received at a first frame rate to a destination frame signal output at a second frame rate. By adjusting the number of pixel data in the destination frame signal, the second frame rate is made to be the sam... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161558 | Calibration system for an electronic sign Electronically programmed signs consist of any array of picture elements (pixels) that can be controlled independently to create an image. Varying the intensity of each pixel and adding multiple colors per pixel will enhance the image quality. It is currently common... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142187 | Liquid crystal display driving scaler capable of reducing electromagnetic interference An LCD driving scaler capable of reducing electromagnetic interference employs a spread spectrum phase locked loop (PLL) in which a multi-phase voltage controlled oscillator oscillates and outputs a scaler pixel clock signal and a plurality of oscillation signals of... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138989 | Display capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats A display is capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats. The display includes a controller that is coupled to a plurality of image data interfaces. When the plurality of image data interfaces are simultaneously operating, th... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136110 | Image signal processing apparatus A resizing unit resizes a captured image or an inputted image and outputs a resized image. A first conversion unit converts the resized image into an RGB image or an image for a TV monitor. A second conversion unit converts the RGB image or the image for the TV moni... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133035 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of data lines and gate lines arranged in a matrix configuration, a data driver for supplying video data to the data lines, a gate driver for supplying ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129936 | Display unit and electronic device including the same A display unit of which inspection process to inspect a connector for faulty connection can be automated. The display unit comprises a display section, a display driver IC among a plurality of types of display driver ICs capable of driving and controlling the displa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123213 | Three dimensional display unit and display method In a structure in which six active matrix regions 103 to 108 are integrated on one glass substrate, horizontal scanning control circuits 101 and 102 are commonly disposed for the respective active matrix regions 103 to 105 a... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119779 | Display device refresh Some embodiments provide application, at a beginning of a first display frame, of a first potential to a pixel imaging element, the first potential to reset the pixel imaging element to a reset state, application, during the first display frame, of a second potentia... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103432 | Auto-configuration of hardware on a portable computing device A method of manufacturing a portable computing device, involves the steps of (1) maintaining a table comprising stimulus/response data for possible hardware components that may be interfaced in the computing device; (2) performing one manufacturing step in the manuf... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091967 | Apparatus and method for image frame synchronization A source frame signal received at a first frame rate is converted to a destination frame signal output at a second frame rate. By adjusting the clock frequency of the clock signal in the destination frame signal, the second frame rate is made to be the same as the f... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085804 | Method for processing objects of a standardized communication protocol In a method for processing objects of a standardized communication protocol for image and data exchange between devices via a communication network by means of processing devices, the objects are converted with a conversion routine into a pure text file (plain text)... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061512 | Constant-weight bit-slice PWM method and system for scrolling color display systems A display system 100 includes a light source 110 and a color wheel 114. An optical section 112 is arranged to receive light from the light source 110 and to direct the light toward a color wheel 114. A digital micromirror de... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057609 | Electromagnetic interference prevention apparatus for flat panel display An electromagnetic interference (EMI) prevention apparatus for a flat panel display which is capable of modulating the frequency of an input clock signal using a spread spectrum clocking method to increase the frequency of the clock signal and reduce the amplitude t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053892 | CAD data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 fo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050064 | Method and apparatus for displaying higher color resolution on a hand-held LCD device Effective color resolution of a limited-memory color-mapped display system such as a portable liquid crystal display (LCD) handheld video game system can be increased by changing the color mapping information during active display time (e.g., during the horizontal b... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050049 | Display device and method of controlling the same A display device includes a displaying part which displays a picture based on a video signal output from a computer main body, a power supply which supplies driving power corresponding to one of a normal mode and a power saving mode, a power saving mode selection pa... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038697 | Color gradient paths A system and method for generating color gradients is provided. The system generates color gradients using techniques from geometric surface modeling. The system and method of the present invention allow designers to specify very complex gradients in a simple way. T... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027061 | Raster engine with multiple color depth digital display interface An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012610 | Portable device for providing dual display and method thereof Systems and methods are provided for supporting an external display on a portable device. A system on a chip (SOC) of the portable device provides a first set of graphics data to a graphics controller. The embedded graphics controller renders the first set of graphi... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006115 | Supporting variable line length in digital display timing controllers using data enable signal A digital display unit which receives horizontal lines of unequal length in a V-active region and computes an average length of the lines. The average is used to generate horizontal line demarkers in the V-blank (vertical blank) region. The demarkers specify the tra... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006112 | Method for scaling image frame A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided into a plurality of image portions. Then, the plurality of image portio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6970148 | Image display method An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of brightness of the subfield images, and displaying the arranged subfield ... | 11/29/2005 |
