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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7348942 | Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus To enhance the display characteristics of moving images and enhance the display quality in an electro-optical device using electro-optical elements that emit light with the brightness in accordance with a driving current, a pixel includes a driving transistor T4 | 03/25/2008 |
| 7319552 | Micro-electro mechanical light modulator device A micro-electro mechanical light modulator device includes a movable reflective plate, a fixed partial reflective plate, an optical gap defined between the reflective plate and the fixed plate, and an actuator configured to move the reflective plate through an opera... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7265742 | Liquid crystal device, drive method therefor, and projection type display apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal device which can suppress cross-talk and can maintain uniformity of the display quality within the screen, and for which problems such as insufficient writing do not occur. In a liquid crystal light v... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7123216 | Photonic MEMS and structures An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provid... | 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 |
| 7116287 | Drive for cholesteric liquid crystal displays Apparatus for driving a cholesteric liquid crystal display wherein the display includes cholesteric liquid crystals having a first planar reflective state and a second transparent focal conic state, which is respectively responsive to different applied fields; an ad... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7083284 | Method and apparatus for sequencing light emitting devices in projection systems Embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus, method and system relating to a projection illumination source pulsing one or more light emitting devices a plurality of times per frame. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7064735 | Electro-optical device An electro-optical device is provided which includes a TFT array substrate having pixel electrodes, and an opposing substrate having an opposing electrode. The surface of a substrate beneath the pixel electrodes in the TFT array substrate or the surface of a substra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061462 | Driving scheme and electronic circuitry for the LCD electrooptical switching element The invention relates to the problem of the driving of the LCD electrooptic-switching element (1) with alternating, square-wave electric signals, the amplitude of witch can vary between different voltage levels in correspondence with the actual functioning st... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7023140 | Organic EL display apparatus and method of driving the same An organic EL display apparatus which can improve the reliability thereof, by avoiding a leak current which occurs after an operating time, without reducing the product yield. The organic EL display apparatus is comprised of an organic EL panel section, and a drivin... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6922183 | Multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) liquid crystal display (LCD), including a first substrate and a second substrate, a common electrode, a number of pixel electrodes, a number of first switches and second switches, and liquid crystals (LCs). The common electrod... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6894670 | Image display apparatus and method thereof A liquid crystal display apparatus for displaying an image on a liquid crystal cell through a liquid crystal driver driven by a predetermined number of bits by inputting image data in which one pixel is represented with a plurality of sub-pixels. The liquid crystal ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6784861 | Liquid-crystal display device and method of signal transmission thereof A LCD device has a decreased number of required transmission lines. The first interface circuit, which is provided in the controller circuit, receives the polarization reverse signal and the horizontal scanning signal in parallel in such a way that the polarization ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6504519 | Plasma display panel and apparatus and method of driving the same A plasma display panel and a driving apparatus, and method of operation thereof, that is capable of improving brightness. A plurality of sustaining electrode groups formed on a front substrate consist of at least three electrodes. The at least three elect... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6097302 | System and method for monitoring a plural segment light-emitting display A monitoring system for a display unit includes phototransistors for detecting light emitted from a plurality of selectively energizable light-emitting diode (LED) segments in an energized state and for generating a voltage which is representative of the ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5633652 | Method for driving optical modulation device A method for driving an optical modulation device having a group of scanning electrodes and a group of signal electrodes arranged so that picture elements are defined at the intersections therebetween and a bistable optical modulation material assuming on... | 05/27/1997 |
| 4271410 | LCD Data processor driver and method The invention is a method and apparatus for multiplexing liquid crystal displays of increased numbers of alphanumeric characters without shadowing or flicker and minimizes contrast degradation. Bipolar segment voltages are interrelated to bipolar tri-leve... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4121203 | Method of multiplexing liquid crystal displays A liquid crystal display is multiplexed by the digit input being driven between a first and second voltage level and the segment input being driven between the second and a third voltage level. The difference between the first and third voltage level is s... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4076385 | Liquid crystal display device This invention relates to a liquid crystal display device, for driving a plurality of digits of liquid crystal display sequentially by using a time-sharing system.... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4065764 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is disclosed which comprises a plurality of groups of segment electrodes formed on a first plate for energization to define digits each having a seven bar format, and a plurality of groups of digit electrode elements oppose... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4027305 | System for driving liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is driven by alternating current applied thereto by a switching circuit comprising a group of MOS transistors. The transistors are switched in response to display signals applied to the respective gate electrodes by a contr... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3999180 | Multiplex driver system for liquid crystal display Corresponding segments of each display character are connected to common drive voltage conductors to which are applied pulsed DC drive voltages of predetermined polarities and pulse widths in response to segment logic inputs. Base conductors on the opposi... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3976994 | Liquid crystal display system An improvement on a display system which displays multi-digit numeral information on a time-shared basis in response to application of bipolarity alternating voltage to liquid crystal display units. Each of the liquid crystal display units has a common el... | 08/24/1976 |
