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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7425935 | Method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel An apparagraph and method of driving a plasma display panel that enables the display of an image wherein contour noise is minimized and that prevents flickering mal-discharge and mis-discharge when the plasma display panel is being driven at high/low temperature is ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417602 | Plasma display panel and driving method thereof A method for driving a plasma display panel. A discharge occurs at a selected discharge cell by scan and address pulses to form wall charges in an address period. A setup pulse is applied to a scan electrode in a sustain period. A discharge occurs between sustain an... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7403174 | Method and apparatus for improving gray-scale linearity of plasma display A method and an apparatus for improving the gray-scale linearity of a plasma display. At least two types of gray-scale allocations are mixed for forming the original gray scale, or different gray scales are mixed to derive the original gray scale, so as to obtain th... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403200 | Current sensing bi-directional switch and plasma display driver circuit A bi-directional switch comprising first and second semiconductor switching devices, a current sensor connected in series with the switching devices, thereby forming a series circuit, a driver circuit controlling the on/off operation of the first and second switchin... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7375722 | Driving circuit and display device In a circuit driving a capacitive load Cp, current passed through a transistor Q3, a diode D1 and a recovering coil L is passed through lines L1, L2, and the inductance components of the lines L1 and L2, and the drain-source... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362338 | Controllable pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix (m+2x by n+2x) including an active, e.g., controllable, pixel border located around the edge locations of a frame buffer matrix for improved character viewability. The border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358968 | Sustain driver, sustain control system, and plasma display The collector, emitter, and base of a bipolar transistor circuit are connected to a high side power supply terminal, the drain of a level shift transistor, and a floating power supply terminal, respectively. When a high side output transistor is on, the floating pow... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327333 | Method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel A method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying pictures on a plasma display panel, based on an input phase alternation line (PAL) video signal of 50 Hz. Video signal data include successive first and second sub-field groups. When the number of sub-field... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317431 | Display panel driving method A method of grayscale-driving a display panel in accordance with pixel data derived from a video signal. The display panel includes a plurality of display lines, with a plurality of pixel cells serving as pixels being arranged on each display line. A display period ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307602 | Plasma display addressing There is disclosed the priming or conditioning of an AC gas discharge plasma display panel for improved selective write and selective erase which comprises addressing n number of rows in an order or sequence that is changed from frame to frame such that later rows t... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301520 | Image display device and driver circuit therefor There is provided an image display device operating in response to the input of digital picture signals, in which the occupied area of a signal line driver circuit thereof is reduced, and the parasitic capacitance and resistance of input transmission lines of the di... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283131 | 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... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7248243 | Level shifter circuit and display device provided therewith A level shift circuit includes first and second level shifters which respectively output first and second output signals that are produced by level shifting two kinds of input clock signals whose high level periods do not overlap. The level shift circuit also includ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242399 | Capacitive load drive circuit and plasma display apparatus A low-cost capacitive load drive circuit, in which a reference voltage, a first voltage, and a second voltage are supplied to a capacitive load, and a plasma display apparatus using it, have been disclosed. The capacitive load drive circuit comprises a reference vol... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242373 | Circuit for driving flat display device A ramp waveform generation circuit for generating a ramp waveform to be applied to a capacitive load serving as a display element is connected between the ground and a signal line for supplying a high-level voltage generated by a power supply circuit for generating ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241963 | Plasma display apparatus including electrode pad A plasma display apparatus having an electrode pad including first and second electrode parts for connecting an electrode driving unit to the electrodes of the plasma display panel. The first electrode part includes a first electrode connection part and a first conn... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7197373 | Operating mechanism, electrical apparatus, and associated method of operation An operating mechanism for an electrical apparatus (10), in particular, for a hand-held machining tool, includes a storage (18, 20) for inputting of control data and/or a control program for controlling the electrical apparatus (10), as well as ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190333 | Video coding method and system for a plasma display panel The present invention relates to a coding method intended to improve the performance of GCC coding based on the temporal centre of gravity of displayed video codes. According to the invention, the number of video levels that can be selected in order to implement the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170471 | Plasma display apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel An interlace-type PDP is driven by an improved driving method so as to achieve a greater operating margin, higher resolution, and higher brightness. The interlace-type PDP is driven using odd and even frames in such a manner that the cells are grouped into cell grou... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167146 | Plasma display panel driving method and apparatus for reducing address power consumption A method of driving a plasma display panel and an apparatus thereof wherein a switching frequency of a data drive IC is reduced to decrease power consumption required for an addressing operation. In the method and apparatus, a plurality of write sub-fields at which ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164394 | Plasma display apparatus A PDP apparatus of good display quality has been disclosed, wherein plural common electrodes and plural scan electrodes that extend in the directions perpendicular to each other are formed on a first substrate and plural address electrodes that respectively make a p... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7113153 | Plasma display device The present invention solves the problem that the color temperature of initial setting is changed, when a PDP is driven for a long period of time, due to the non-uniform deterioration of red, green and blue fluorescent materials that is caused by the ultraviolet ray... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102598 | Predrive circuit, drive circuit and display device A predrive circuit, a drive circuit and a display device which are capable of driving output elements so as to transmit control signals stably even when reference potentials generated on the output elements side turn to high voltage. A first level shift circuit outp... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098876 | Image display method and system for plasma display panel An image of each field displayed on a plasma display panel corresponding to input image signals is divided into sub-fields of different weights, the sub-fields being divided into two continuous sub-field groups having a different weighting value, and in which the we... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7075504 | Display device having unit light emission region with discharge cells and corresponding driving method A plasma display panel capable of improving dark contrast. A unit light emission region is comprised of a display discharge cell in which a discharge is produced between portions of row electrodes X, Y of each row electrode pair (X, Y) opposing each other, and a res... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7046216 | Method for driving plasma display panel A plasma display panel that minimizes the power consumption required for driving the PDP is disclosed. A reset pulse of a ramp-down waveform supplied in a reset period goes down to a voltage level higher than a negative scan reference voltage, and is kept for a spec... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7023405 | Method and device for driving plasma display panel A plasma display device having display electrode pairs and providing improved luminance and light emission efficiency of display discharges with reduced variations of the luminance and light emission efficiency thereof resulting from variations of a display load. A ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019799 | Liquid crystal display with optical adjustment layer controlling transmittance of emitted light in accordance with wavelength A liquid crystal display for displaying an image to be visible for a viewer, has a liquid crystal, a pair of electrodes for controlling an orientation of at least a part of the liquid crystal in accordance with an electric field between the electrodes, a light sourc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7009582 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel utilizing asymmetry sustaining A PDP driving method that is adaptive for a high-speed driving. In the method, an upper driving signal is applied to supply a data to address electrode lines provided at an upper block. A lower driving signal is applied to supply a data to address electrode lines pr... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6924778 | Method and device for implementing subframe display to reduce the pseudo contour in plasma display panels A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which dynamic pseudo contours are reduced and pattern noises are suppressed so that image quality of an animation display is improved. In the method, a superposition method is applied only to the area of a d... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6888519 | Characteristics adjustment method of image forming apparatus, manufacturing method of image forming apparatus and characteristics adjustment apparatus of image forming apparatus There is provided a characteristic adjustment method for an image forming apparatus that is provided with a multi-electron source in which a plurality of electron-emitting devices are electrically connected by wiring and arranged on a substrate and a fluorescent mem... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6822626 | Design, fabrication, testing, and conditioning of micro-components for use in a light-emitting panel A method of forming micro-components is disclosed. The method includes pretesting and conditioning of the micro-components. The micro-components that fail testing or conditioning are discarded, and those remaining are assembled into a panel. ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6809287 | AC plasma display panel An AC plasma display panel of the present invention changes the conventional disposition of three electrodes. Either the scanning electrode or sustaining electrode is disposed in the rib or on the sidewall of the rib. Also, two scanning electrodes both use the same ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6795044 | Plasma display panel and driving method thereof Scanning electrodes are shared between adjacent display lines. Sustaining electrodes are disposed between the scanning electrodes by two. The sustaining electrodes form display lines by gaps with adjacent scanning electrodes. The sustaining electrodes are separated ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6768479 | Method for driving a plasma display panel A driving method of a plasma display panel for achieving a high-quality image display by preventing an erroneous discharge light emission between row electrodes during a light emission sustaining step. In each subfield, a pixel data writing step and the light emissi... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6731255 | Progressive sustain method of driving a plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel showing images having frames composed of odd and even fields. The plasma display panel has scan electrodes and address electrodes perpendicular to the scan electrodes. In the method, first the odd and then the even scan ele... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727870 | Electrode structure of plasma display panel and method of driving sustaining electrode in the plasma display panel An electrode structure of a plasma display panel and a method of driving sustaining electrodes in the plasma display panel that are capable of improving the brightness. In the electrode structure, refractive electrodes are connected to a sustaining electrode pair an... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6633285 | Driving circuit and display In a circuit driving a capacitive load Cp, current passed through a transistor Q3, a diode D1 and a recovering coil L is passed through lines L1, L2, and the inductance components of the lines L1 and L2, and the drain-source capacitances of the transistor... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6593903 | Method for driving a plasma display panel A method for driving a plasma display panel is deviced to produce a high-quality image with an increased number of gradations. In each subfield, first and second picture element data write processes are executed for writing picture element data in each di... | 07/15/2003 |
