Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7414597 | Plasma display panel driving circuit A PDP driving circuit for a stable operation of a ramp pulse. A capacitor having a temperature characteristic opposite to a temperature characteristic of a part coupled to a switch that operates as a constant current source for generation of a ramp pulse is arranged... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7339568 | Signal transmission film and a liquid crystal display panel having the same A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a signal transmission film and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The signal transmission film includes a base substrate, a gate ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327346 | Electrode and connecting designs for roll-to-roll format flexible display manufacturing The present invention generally is directed to electrode designs suitable for roll-to-roll format flexible manufacturing of an EPD. It is also directed to an EPD having a segment design in a repeated pattern across an entire roll of the display. The EPD preferably i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319441 | Supply device for electrodes of a plasma display panel Provided is a device for supplying an array of electrodes of a plasma display panel, the device including, for each electrode, a driver having a series of switches and a series of diodes, the common points of which are connected to the electrode. The upper terminal ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310073 | Plasma display panel The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an electrode structure of a plasma display panel capable of improving brightness and efficiency. According to a first embodiment of the present invention, in a plasma display panel of... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7288012 | Method of manufacturing plasma display panel A plasma display panel is provided that includes scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes. A first pulse voltage for the address electrodes or a second pulse voltage for the address electrodes is applied to the address electrodes in an aging step ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7242372 | Plasma display apparatus A plasma display apparatus, in which a sustain output device (transistor) with a voltage rating in accordance with the sustain voltage can be used even when a voltage greater than the sustain voltage is applied to a sustain electrode in the reset period and the addr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7199780 | Field sequential driving type liquid crystal display apparatus capable of increasing brightness while suppressing irregularity, and its driving method In a sequential driving method for time-divisionally displaying a plurality of color signals in respective ones of sub-frames forming one frame in a liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of data lines, gate lines, and liquid crystal pixels each incl... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193592 | Display device A display device includes self-luminous elements arrayed to form a display screen, and a driving circuit which causes drive currents to flow in the self-luminous elements according to pixel signals. Particularly, the driving circuit is configured to restrict the dri... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7183939 | Shining fan structure for displaying images A shining fan structure for displaying images of patterns or characters by reflection mainly includes a fan. A plurality of blades of the fan are provided with reflective patterns or characters. Light-emitting elements are provided on the periphery of the fan base. ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7123246 | Display device The invention provides a display device which is capable of adjusting the image refresh rate to an optimal value regardless of the type of image data, and thus has low power consumption. The display device includes a liquid crystal panel for displaying images, a liq... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119763 | Light emitting circuit for organic electroluminescence element and display device A light emitting circuit and a display device capable of providing refresh action to an organic electroluminescence element to which a diode is connected in series, in a comparatively easy structure, in order to improve the average luminance. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112928 | Method for increasing durability of organic light emitting diode panel An organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel device includes an OLED panel for displaying an image data and an OLED panel operation circuit for outputting the image data to the OLED panel and performing a screen saving operation without a memory access in order to i... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102631 | Display panel with signal transmission patterns A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7023391 | Electromagnetic field generation antenna for a transponder An antenna for generating an electromagnetic field including several planar inductive cells parallel connected in an array and forming, in association with at least one capacitor, an oscillating circuit adapted to being excited by a high-frequency signal. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006072 | Apparatus and method for data-driving liquid crystal display The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for data-driving a liquid crystal display wherein data lines are time-divided to reduce the number of data driver integrated circuits and to improve the display quality of a picture at the same time. More speci... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6995893 | Electro-optical device, method for manufacturing electro-optical device, apparatus for manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The invention provides an electro-optical device, a method of manufacturing an electro-optical device, an apparatus for manufacturing an electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus, in which, in the electro-optical device, a gap formed between two substrates... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6970162 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus having a plurality of image forming devices. In an output circuit provided between constant voltage supplies and wiring for driving each of the image forming devices, MOSFETs are successively turned on from the one having a higher ON resis... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6950082 | Display driving circuit A display driving circuit. The circuit comprises a first electrode from which a data signal is output, a second electrode from which a scan signal is output, a capacitor having a first and second end with a voltage difference therebetween, a light emitting diode hav... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6924780 | Spatial display of disk drive activity data Real time disk activity data for a disk drive is displayed on a multi-element display in which each display element corresponds to a respective address range or “activity bin” of the disk drive. When an access to the disk drive occurs, the display element associ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6906706 | Driving method of display panel and display device Undue power consumption is reduced in the capacitance between data electrodes during addressing in a display panel. The power consumption associated with the capacitance is reduced to half as compared with the conventional panel, because the current associated with ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900782 | Plasma display panel drive method In the reset step for initializing an amount of wall charge in each of the plurality of discharge cells that define each of the picture elements in a plasma display panel, the number of reset discharges that are caused to occur in the discharge cells that handle the... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6885155 | Arrangement for activating a display device with voltage multiplier The invention relates to an arrangement for activating a display device with rows and columns, in which voltages may be supplied to the rows and columns of the display device as a function of data to be displayed. In addition, the invention relates to a display devi... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6873310 | Display device Provided is a display device having a storing circuit 21 section for storing image signals for controlling display and an active device section 22 for performing display control on the basis of the image signals stored by the storing circuit section | 03/29/2005 |
| 6831634 | Image processing device An inexpensive and simple circuit for improving an image quality of a dynamic image, with appropriate processing flexibly performed for dynamic image qualities also for a plurality of input signal sources. An image processing device comprises a memory unit having a ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6812922 | Digital monitor In a system like a PC, the function of a graphics card is included with the monitor. A processor sends update signals to the monitor to modify image content. The graphics card processes the update signals and applies corrections to the updates to correct for physica... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6707435 | Optical signaling or display device A process for monitoring the light intensity of an optical signaling or display device which has a plurality of light sources arranged on the front of a printed circuit board in a rasterized luminous field (F) and a diffusion lens arranged in the main light emission... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6677920 | Method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof A PDP driving method, at the first timing point of a reset period, a global voltage difference is applied between the sustaining electrodes and the scanning electrodes, wherein the gaseous discharge occurs only in the non-display areas, called the dark ar... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6661397 | Emissive display using organic electroluminescent devices An emissive display using an organic electroluminescent device is provided, in which the pixel circuit is simplified, the aperture ratio is increased, high resolution is achieved, and the power consumption is reduced. In the configuration, among the two s... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6639589 | Tape carrier package and a liquid crystal display panel having the same A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a ga... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6636191 | Emissive display with improved persistence A persistent emissive display device, includes: a light emitting element; a drive circuit connected to the light emitting element, the drive circuit including a transistor having a gate for controlling the power applied to the light emitting element; a st... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6611261 | Liquid crystal display device having reduced number of common signal lines A liquid-crystal-display device which displays an image on display matrix by supplying video signals to pixel cells of the display matrix includes a data driver supplying the video signals to the display matrix and including N digital drivers, N×k common... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6608447 | Plasma display panel and driving method thereof A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof is adaptive for realizing high efficiency. In the plasma display panel, a sustaining electrode pair and an address electrode are included in each discharge cell. A first dielectric layer covers the susta... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6563478 | Driving method for electro-optical device, image processing circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic equipment A first sample-and-hold circuit samples and holds an input image signal so as to output an image signal to be applied to a data line causing noise. A correction circuit produces a correcting signal according to the image signal and a pre-charging voltage.... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6483487 | Plasma display and method of driving the same In a plasma display, a matrix electrode section includes scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and data electrodes. Driving sections are connected to the scan, sustain, and data electrodes to drive display cells. Each driving section includes transistors f... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6483250 | Method of driving plasma display panel, plasma display device and driving device for plasma display panel A synthetic round pulse generation circuit can output constant currents (i1, i2). By charging a capacitance element (CP) with the constant currents (i1, i2), a ramp pulse (10a) having a rate of voltage change of i1/CP and a ramp pulse (10b) having a rate ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6424349 | Data controller with a data converter for display panel A data controller for a display panel includes a first memory for storing video data, a second memory for storing next video data, a control unit for controlling the first memory and the second memory for one of storing and outputting the video data store... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6369810 | Digital monitor In a system like a PC, the function of a graphics card is included with the monitor. A processor sends update signals to the monitor to modify image content. The graphics card processes the update signals and applies corrections to the updates to correct ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6305110 | Interchangable modular programmable neon sign A modular neon sign control system with a plurality of discrete neon letters, numbers or symbols, each with plugs to plug into at any place along a continuous electrical rail. Each neon letter, etc. is a single tube having its own driving inverter and dig... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6172659 | Data interfacing apparatus of a flat panel display An apparatus for L pixel data corresponding to 1 line input from a memory section to an upper and a lower address electrode driving sections, respectively in response to a control signal supplied from a timing control section. The data interfacing apparat... | 01/09/2001 |