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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7812787 | Light emitting display and driving method thereof A light emitting display device having features of enhanced aperture ratio, yield, and volumetric efficiency of panel space that may be enhanced. The light emitting display device includes—a first driver and a second driver. The first driver sequentially generates... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808451 | Organic electroluminescent display device method and apparatus An organic electroluminescent display device connected by a blocking diode in series to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Each pixel or subpixel of the electroluminescent display device comprises an OLED, a blocking diode to prevent the OLED from being reverse... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7442760 | Electroactive polymers Electroactive polymeric arylenes and intermediates useful for making such polymers are disclosed. The present invention also provides electroactive compositions comprising the electroactive polymeric arylenes, organic electronic devices which comprise these polymers... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7421375 | Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and a driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of scan lines in a first direction, a plurality of data lines in a seco... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7375464 | Full-color organic light emitting display having red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow color modulation layers An organic light emitting display having red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow color modulation layers. The organic light emitting display includes a substrate, a first electrode arranged on the substrate, a second electrode arranged on the first electrode, an... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7367145 | Novelty item A novelty item has a base and a display extending upwardly from the base. The display comprises at least a first segment and at least a second segment each having an outer cylindrical wall and an inner cylindrical wall, the inner and outer walls separated from one a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365486 | High contrast organic light emitting device with electron transport layer including fullerenes A high contrast organic light-emitting device (OLED) includes a composite electron transport layer including a generally transparent electron transport layer and a light-absorbent electron transport layer formed of buckminsterfullerene. The light-absorbent electron ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362322 | Pixel circuit, display apparatus and electronic apparatus equipped with current driving type light-emitting device A display apparatus is provided with a current driving type light-emitting device and a driving device for controlling a driving current flowing through the light-emitting device for each pixel of the display apparatus. The display apparatus consists of power source... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7324099 | Image display device In an image display device according to the present invention, means for selecting a pixel to which a display signal current is to be passed has a function of selecting a plurality of pixels simultaneously. Thus, high-precision display can be realized with a number ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317403 | LED light source for backlighting with integrated electronics An LED backlight structure for setting voltages and currents for LEDs. Red LEDs are connected in series between a first voltage regulator and a first controllable current source, green LEDs are connected in series between a second voltage regulator and a second cont... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7298084 | Methods and displays utilizing integrated zinc oxide row and column drivers in conjunction with organic light emitting diodes Methods and displays utilize row and column drivers with ZnO channels that control pixel transistors with ZnO channels, which in turn address OLEDs of an array to produce images of a display screen. A display backplane including the ZnO row and column drivers and th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7233303 | Method of displaying high-density dot-matrix bit-mapped image on low-density dot-matrix display and system therefor A method of and system for displaying high-density bit-mapped dot-matrix imaging data on a large-scale low-density dot-matrix display is disclosed. Bit-mapped image data from each of multiple and adjacently oriented dot image data groups is allocated to drive one do... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227518 | Active-driving type organic el display device, and a method of producing the same An organic EL display device and a method of producing the same wherein superior connection reliability can be obtained between a thin film transistor and a lower electrode of an organic EL element even if a color-converting medium is provided adjacent light-emittin... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221338 | Display device The present invention is intended to suppress power consumption of an EL display. In accordance with the brightness of an image to be displayed in a pixel portion, the contrast of the image is determined whether to be inverted or not, and the number of bits of the d... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215307 | Drive unit of self-luminous device with degradation detection function A drive unit which can prevent the decrease of the luminance of a self-luminous device due to degradation or a change is electric characteristic thereof. The drive unit has a semiconductor device having an electric characteristic almost the same as the that of the s... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198393 | Flexible vehicle display screen A conformable vehicle display includes a flexible display screen coupled to a substrate. The substrate is a curved transparent substrate that is adapted to be coupled to a vehicle component having a curved exterior surface. The flexible display screen is at least pa... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187354 | Organic electroluminescent display and driving method thereof The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent display and a driving method thereof, which divides one frame into a plurality of subframes. Since the present invention divides one frame into several subframes, and drives an organic EL device with the... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176861 | Pixel structure with optimized subpixel sizes for emissive displays A method of designing a fixed format emissive display is described using a computing device having a processor and a memory, the display comprising an array of emissive pixel elements, each pixel element comprising at least two sub-pixel elements made of different m... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173583 | Electroluminescence display apparatus Side faces of anodes have a tapered incline that becomes broader toward a lower layer. Thus, an emissive element layer is smoothly formed on the anodes making it possible to prevent field contraction of the electric field. An EL display apparatus having long life an... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158156 | Display panel driver A display panel driver has a single resistor string for gamma correction and a signal power supply, which have heretofore been required for each of red, green, and blue, and is small in size and has its power consumption reduced. Voltage generator including a single... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151511 | Electro-optical device and driving method of the same In the electro-optical device for carrying out an image display by using n-bit (n is a natural number) digital image signals, one pixel incorporates n×m (m is a natural number) memory circuits, and has a function to store the digital image signals for m frames in t... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148630 | Light emitting device There is provided an active matrix EL display device that can display a clear multi gray-scale color display to reduce the shift in the potential caused by the potential drop due to the wiring resistance of a power source supply line, in order to decrease the uneven... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145296 | Programmable driving method for light emitting diode A programmable driving method for light emitting diode is disclosed, which is capable of providing a programmable multi-phase segment and a corresponding programmable multi-phase actuating signal to an LED with respect to user specification, such that an optimal dri... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7129916 | Organic EL element drive circuit and organic EL display device using the same drive circuit An organic EL element drive circuit comprises a plurality of peak current generator circuits provided correspondingly to terminal pins of an organic EL display panel, for adding peak currents corresponding to pulse widths of predetermined pulse signals and a pulse g... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129635 | Organic EL display device with plural electrode segments The present invention relates to a display device (1A) including a plurality of display elements (10A) formed on a substrate (2A). Each of the display elements (10A) includes an organic segment (4A) containing an organic compound w... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119767 | Active matrix type electroluminescence display device An active matrix type electroluminescence display device is provided which comprises a plurality of display pixels GS11, GS12, GS13, arranged in a matrix of rows and columns; gate signal lines GL1, GL2, Gli connected to and shared ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106281 | Apparatus and method for driving electro-luminescence panel An apparatus and method for driving an electro-luminescence panel wherein pixels in a current driving type electrode-luminescence panel are pre-charged to change a storage voltage of the pixel into the corresponding voltage within a limited scanning time. In the app... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099036 | Image forming system and image forming method Print control program, by its constituent portions in cooperation with a scanner apparatus, spools image data sent from the scanner apparatus and controls the print engine etc. of the printer apparatus to print out the spooled image data. The print control program p... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094902 | Electroactive polymers Electroactive polymeric arylenes and intermediates useful for making such polymers are disclosed. The present invention also provides electroactive compositions comprising the electroactive polymeric arylenes, organic electronic devices which comprise these polymers... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091667 | Thin film transistor array, display panel, method for inspecting the thin film transistor array, and method for manufacturing active matrix organic light emitting diode panel A thin film transistor (TFT) array comprises: a drive TFT for driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED), which is an electroluminescence (EL) device; first common wiring disposed for performing a current source or a current sink for the OLED; second common wiri... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084565 | Assembly of organic electroluminescence display device An organic electroluminescence (EL) display device assembly includes a substrate, an organic EL portion, an optical loss prevention layer, and a fine space layer. The organic EL portion has a first electrode layer, an organic luminescent layer, and a second electrod... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085444 | Porous optical switch films A porous optical switching film is situated between at least two plates that have an electrical bias between them. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080909 | Illumination apparatus and projector display apparatus An illumination apparatus which directs light from a light source to an illuminated area. The illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of light emitters as the light source, a lighting unit configured to cause the light emitters to emit light so that the intensi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7078865 | Capacitive-load driving circuit capable of properly handling temperature rise and plasma display apparatus using the same A capacitive-load driving circuit has a configuration in which a driving power supply source is connected to an output terminal via a driving device. The capacitive-load driving circuit has a power distributing circuit inserted between the driving power supply sourc... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061186 | EL display device and electronic apparatus An EL display device capable of clear, multi-gradation color display, and an electronic device having the EL display device, are provided. Gradation display is performed in accordance with a time division driver method which controls by the amount of time an EL elem... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7030774 | Floating visible indicator for an instrument cluster A visible indicator for an instrument cluster is backlit with an electroluminescent (EL) film. A mounting plate is located a first distance from a light source and includes a first aperture. A translucent lens is located adjacent to the mounting plate. An EL film is... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7009589 | Active matrix type electroluminescence display device An active matrix type electroluminescence display device comprises a plurality of display pixels GS11, GS12, GS13, etc. arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each display pixel including an EL element, a first thin film transistor in which a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6995736 | Active-driving type organic EL display device, and a method of producing the same An organic EL display device and a method of producing the same wherein superior connection reliability can be obtained between a thin film transistor and a lower electrode of an organic EL element even if a color-converting medium is provided adjacent light-emittin... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6991336 | Illumination apparatus and projector display apparatus An illumination apparatus comprise a light control member configured to perform changing the path of light from light emitters to be directed to an illuminated area and/or moving of the light emitters, a movement unit configured to allow the light control member to ... | 01/31/2006 |
