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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106856 | Portable electronic device for photo management A portable electronic device with a touch screen display for photo management is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device displays an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of pho... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7362292 | Active matrix display device An active matrix display device has column address circuitry for generating pixel drive signals. The column address circuitry has an output buffer for providing a pixel drive signal to a column conductor, and the positive and negative slew rates of the output buffer... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7268766 | Inverter driving apparatus and liquid crystal display including inverter driving apparatus An inverter driving apparatus for driving a plurality of lamp units is provided. The inverter driving apparatus includes a plurality of inverter boards for generating driving signals for driving respective lamp units based on a control signal and a voltage signal. E... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7227075 | Lighting controller In the present invention, a lighting controller is provided to provide illumination based upon the playing of musical instruments. The lighting controller is programmed with lighting profiles which control the lights on a device. When musical instrument is played, a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228190 | Method and apparatus for controlling a lighting system in response to an audio input Methods and apparatus for executing a lighting program to control a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) in response to at least one characteristic of an audio input. In one embodiment, the audio input is digitally processed to determine the at least one charac... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7202607 | Year-round decorative lights with time-multiplexed illumination of interleaved sets of color-controllable LEDS A decorative lighting apparatus provides user-selectable color schemes corresponding to several holidays and other occasions for year-round use. In one illustrative example, the decorative lighting apparatus includes control circuitry which has a plurality of color-... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7096079 | Audio processing and image generating apparatus, audio processing and image generating method, recording medium and program An audio processing and image generating apparatus for displaying novel line drawing images on a display screen according to music is disclosed. A character object line drawing image is displayed on a virtual road object line drawing image. Further, obstacle object ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7075557 | Method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed IEEE 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format On-screen-display graphics data is transmitted from a source device to a display device over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network utilizing an isochronous data format. The on-screen-display graphics data is generated by the source device and transmitted to a display... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7051283 | Portable electronic apparatus and method for providing visual and/or audio information A portable electronic apparatus and method for receiving information from a transmitter and providing the information to a user are disclosed. A display provides visual information to the user, and the visual information includes an image and at least one active are... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7012384 | Illumination device for vehicle compartment An illumination device having a first light source, a second light source, whose luminous color differs from that of said first light source, and a controller for controlling the illuminating condition of each of the first light source and the second light source is... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6992655 | Input unit arrangement In an input unit arrangement use is made of an input unit in combination with a mouse pad, which is provided with a position-coding pattern which codes coordinates for a plurality of positions on the mouse pad. Areas on the mouse pad are provided with subsets of the... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992645 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel It is disclosed that there is a method and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving brightness as well as realizing a high resolution. A method and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel according to the present ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983336 | Dual pointing device used to control a cursor having absolute and relative pointing devices A personal computer system enables simultaneous use of a relative-coordinate-mode input device and an absolute-coordinate-mode input device, thereby allowing correct input of absolute coordinate data, such as for characters. A pad-type first input device and a stick... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6982686 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND EMITTER USED THEREFORE, DRIVING METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD OF EMITTER A cold cathode tube for illuminating pixels with light which is in accordance with an output signal has luminance which gradually increases at a rise and gradually decreases at a fall per one frame time. In certain example embodiments, illuminating elements respecti... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6681268 | Dual pointing screen cursor device comprising touch pad and stick wherein each has identifying bytes that is transmitted through single channel port A personal computer system enables simultaneous use of a relative-coordinate-mode input device and an absolute-coordinate-mode input device, thereby allowing correct input of absolute coordinate data, such as for characters. A pad-type first input device ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6097351 | Display device A display device which includes a simplified wiring for respective display elements is provided to facilitate the assembly and maintenance. The display device is constituted of a large number of display units (50) arranged in a matrix, each including a di... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5956003 | Flat panel display with array of micromachined incandescent lamps A flat panel display assembly includes an array of micromachined incandescent lamps. According to one aspect of the invention, the array of lamps is placed on a gas filled enclosure to enable the filaments to be operated at higher temperatures with extend... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5856822 | Touch-pad digital computer pointing-device A touch-pad digital computer pointing-device, for controlling a position of a cursor appearing on a display screen of a digital computer, senses and resolves respective locations within an active area at which concurrent multi-finger contacts occur. Multi... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5844364 | Incandescent light-emitting assemblies A display has a matrix array of cells formed in a silicon plate and each containing a tungsten strip filament. The cells are filled with a halogen gas and are sealed by a double-glazed window with an infra-red reflecting filter to reflect heat back into t... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5767818 | Display device A display device which includes a simplified wiring for respective display elements is provided to facilitate the assembly and maintenance. The display device is constituted of a large number of display units (50) arranged in a matrix, each including a di... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5726668 | Programmable graphics panel A graphics display system including one or more display panels having a plurality of lights, a graphics panel data processor including at least one microprocessor, logic for establishing a correspondence between the process variables and selected lights, ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5712650 | Large incandescent live image display system A high speed control is disclosed for delivering delayed phase power to each of four incandescent xenon bulbs. Each of the four incandescent xenon bulbs are oriented behind a colored lens to form a colored pixel. The colored pixel of the present invention... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5191319 | Method and apparatus for visual portrayal of music Apparatus for translating audio signals and producing a visual color display that portrays music. Circuits responsive to audio signal amplitude cause the display brightness to vary in accordance with the loudness of the music source. Circuits responsive t... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5095305 | Large display apparatus using discharge lamps and discharge lamp load circuit for the large display apparatus A high frequency power source is coupled with a capacitor of a large capacitance. An electric power of the power source is supplied to a plurality of discharge lamps repsectively through lamp load circuits associated therewith. Each load circuit includes ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4894645 | Incandescent matrix display with high frequency lamp driving The present invention relates to an electronic sign with a number of light bulbs provided in rows and columns (so called matrix), whereby said bulbs (L) are turned on row by row or column by column (so called multiplex operation). For increasing the life ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4820956 | Light matrix display system A light matrix display system and a lamp socket for use therein. The lamp socket receives a single lamp which may be easily replaced by another lamp. The lamp socket is also designed so that it may be readily replaced if necessary. A solid state switching... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4771278 | Modular large-size forming lamp matrix system A matrix display system including a unit made up of a plurality of modules, each module containing an array of incandescent lamps which provides a low cost assembly for displaying video images and messages. The unit also includes the necessary electronics... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4648028 | Color enhanced display for a numerical control system Color is added to the standard video display (18) of a computer numerical control system for controlling the operation of a machine tool (10) in the performance of specified operations with respect to a workpiece. Color assignment records (62) are include... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4370733 | Pattern generation system A display system employs electronic components for deriving and supplying display control signals, preferably in the form of multi-bit display control words, to control a display device. The display device is formed of a plurality of individual display un... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4361828 | Automotive communication A vehicle communication system device consisting of an opto-electrical message display unit adapted to be viewed from the exterior of the vehicle and of a message control unit that is connected to the display unit for programming a message and transmittin... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4283659 | Display system utilizing incandescent lamp multiplexing A display system utilizing incandescent lamps arranged at the intersection points of a matrix array of row and column conductors includes a plurality of load resistors connecting the row conductors to a first voltage source and a plurality of load resisto... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4109245 | Programmable electronic sign In an electronic sign having a set of segmented character displays, programming cards are used to control which segments are illuminated. In one embodiment, each card has a printed circuit providing electrical connection from an unfiltered, rectified ac p... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4063234 | Incandescent, flat screen, video display A memory and driver circuit for each lamp of a flat screen video display apparatus which comprises a plurality of addressable incandescent lamps arranged in an X-Y matrix is provided. The gray scale visual effect of the video information being presented c... | 12/13/1977 |
