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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7839366 | Display device The present invention relates to a display device that includes a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit different-colored light, a plurality of driving transistors that supply driving currents to the light-emitting elements so that the light-emitting elemen... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7612748 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program In order to carry out information transmission/reception intuitively and easily, a black-and-white pattern of a symbol representative of data of an image is switched every scan timing of one frame of a display unit and is displayed continuously only during a period ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7580014 | Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes which are arrayed on a side of one surface of the substrate, EL layers each of which is formed on a corresponding one of the pixel electrodes, and an counter electrode which is formed on the E... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7545350 | Active-matrix organic electroluminescent display device An organic electroluminescent display device includes scanning lines, signal lines, and pixels formed in a matrix, each pixel being at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element, a light-e... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7525523 | Semiconductor device comprising pixel having light receiving portion and display portion A lightweight, thin, small size semiconductor device is provided. A pixel has a display portion, and a light receiving portion comprising a photodiode. A transistor is used with the semiconductor device for controlling the operation of the display portion and the li... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7502001 | Light emissive active matrix display devices with optical feedback effective on the timing, to counteract ageing In an active matrix display, each pixel has a storage capacitor for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor. A discharge transistor is provided for discharging the storage capacitor thereby to switch off the drive transistor. The timing of thi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7479938 | Optically addressable display and method driven by polarized emissions An optically addressable display of a preferred embodiment uses emissions having plural polarizations to define a corresponding number of color channels. A data encoder applies data for each of the color channels to corresponding ones of the plural polarizations. Th... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474286 | Laser displays using UV-excitable phosphors emitting visible colored light Laser display systems using at least one scanning laser beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials. ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7432991 | Random access display monitor A digital display panel accepts pixel information according to their row-column coordinates. Each pixel can be individually written and read back, much like a random access memory (RAM). A pixel array self-refreshes, and can retain and display each image frame long ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432886 | Organic electroluminescent (EL) display device and method for driving the same An organic EL display device for compensating for a reduction of the voltage between the gate and source of a driving transistor occurring due to a voltage drop of the source voltage caused by the resistance component of a power source line, and a method for driving... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7417607 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus A capacitor is disposed between a gate of driving transistor of which conduction state correspond to a driving current supplied to a driven element. The gate voltage of the gate of the driving transistor is set by supplying a data current to the driving transistor o... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414621 | Method and apparatus for controllably producing a laser display A laser projection device (LPD) suitable for displaying color images is disclosed. The LPD is used to excite various photoluminescent materials located on a display screen so as to produce multi-color displays. Additionally, the screen may be movably mounted so as t... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7385572 | Organic electronic device having improved homogeneity A display for an electronic device may be calibrated and corrected for pixel-to-pixel variations in intensity. Radiation-sensing elements used for the calibration are not incorporated as circuit elements within the pixel circuits and may lie outside the pixels. Wave... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7329849 | Electronic circuit, method of driving electronic circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus There is provided a method of driving an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit includes a light-emitting element that is interposed between a first electric supply line and a second electric supply line having different potentials and emits light by the supply ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328846 | Display apparatus, light receiving apparatus, communication system, and communication method A communication method performed between a display apparatus having a display screen capable of displaying moving pictures and a light receiving apparatus having a light receiving means capable of receiving light by using a two-dimensional dynamic code which is a tw... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321348 | OLED display with aging compensation An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having addressable pixels on a substrate, the pixels having performance attributes, and a control circuit for controlling the pixels of the display device, includes one or more OLED pixels; an OLED reference pixel locat... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7304640 | Method of measuring luminance of image display apparatus, method of manufacturing the same, method and apparatus for adjusting characteristics of the same A method of measuring luminance of an image display apparatus, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method and an apparatus for adjusting characteristics of the same, in which accuracy of measurement is improved while reducing time for measuring luminance of a ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301618 | Method and apparatus for uniformity and brightness correction in an OLED display A method for the correction of average brightness or brightness uniformity variations in OLED displays comprising: a) providing an OLED display having one or more light-emitting elements responsive to a multi-valued input signal for causing the light-emitting elemen... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301513 | Display element and display device A display element is configured as follows in order to prolong the display lifetime of an electro-optical element without inserting a resistance element or lowering the numerical aperture due to a change in layout. The display element includes an organic EL element,... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292211 | Liquid crystal display and driving circuit thereof A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of light emitting elements and display cells. The display cells are respectively connected to a plurality of data electrodes and gate electrodes. A gate driver outp... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292209 | System and method of driving an array of optical elements A system and/or method for controlling a display array without the use of row and column drivers. The display elements within the system are configured to maintain an active address signal in response to a received signal containing serially encoded display settings... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288753 | OLED display with composite photosensor An OLED display and photo-sensor is described, comprising: a substrate; a composite light sensor made up of a plurality of individual thin-film light sensitive elements located over the substrate and connected in parallel to provide a common signal; a first transpar... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286259 | Self-scanned light-emitting device array, its driving method, and driving circuit A method for driving a self-scanning light-emitting element array is provided in which two light-emitting elements may be illuminated simultaneously in one chip. In a self-scanning light-emitting element array including a transfer element array and light-emitting el... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7253813 | Electro-optical device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus An electrooptical apparatus includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and electrooptical devices, each being placed at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines. The electrooptical apparatus is driven accor... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221340 | Self light emitting type display device Provided is a self light emitting type display device which can correct variations in characteristics of self-emitting elements arranged in a display panel, a driver IC which drives lighting of the self-emitting elements, and the like. A self-emitting module ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215304 | Display apparatus in which characteristics of a plurality of transistors are made to differ from one another A characteristic of a driving transistor which drives a diode is made to differ in terms of current driving capability from that of a switching transistor. The current driving capability of the driving transistor is made lower than that of the switching transistor. | 05/08/2007 |
| 7208713 | Light source unit and display device having luminance control based upon detected light values A light source unit includes a light source having LED chips for emitting different colors of light and an optical sensor for detecting light from a light mixer. A light source control section controls by feedback control luminance of each of the LED chips according... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205169 | Driving circuit for AMOLED display and driving method thereof A driving circuit and method for an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display are provided. The driving circuit comprises a power circuit, a linear thermistor, and a pixel circuit. The power circuit provides an equivalent current. The linear thermi... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205987 | Image display apparatus and method of driving image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes row wiring, a plurality of column wirings, a modulator, and a plurality of display devices. The plurality of display devices are commonly connected to the row wiring, each of the plurality of column wirings is connected to a corre... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202882 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device employing an overshooting driving method is provided which is capable of reducing memory capacity of a frame memory used to delay input data. The above liquid crystal display device for displaying an image using a liquid crystal panel... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202841 | Organic EL panel Pixels for three colors, namely, R, G, and B, are arranged in a stripe manner. Two data lines DL are placed in a space between pixel columns for every other pixel column, and a power supply line is placed in a space between the pixel columns, where a data line is no... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190336 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program An information processing apparatus and method disclosed herein allows information to be communicated intuitively and readily. The information processing apparatus including, production element for producing a plurality of first graphic images representative of outp... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173601 | Method and apparatus for providing position feedback of an optical dithering element According to one embodiment, a method for providing position feedback for a device includes providing a photointerrupter having a light-emitting diode, a phototransistor, and an aperture between the light-emitting diode and the phototransistor. For a given size aper... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7145533 | Electro-optical device, method of checking the same, and electronic apparatus To effectively check a plurality of unit circuits, each including an electro-optical element and a control circuit. Each unit circuit U includes an OLED element and a control circuit for controlling operation of the OLED element. A check signal for tentatively drivi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145530 | Electronic circuit, electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device and electronic apparatus The present invention provides an electronic circuit that can achieve adequate display quality by a small amount of electrical power, an electro-optical device, a method for driving the electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus. A drive current correspondi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142178 | Driving device and image display apparatus A modulator includes a modulation circuit for generating modulation signals based on inputted luminance data and for outputting the modulation signals to a plurality of image display elements, each of which is driven by a potential difference between a selection pot... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133022 | Apparatus for image projection The invention is directed to a solid-state projection device incorporating a light source, modulator, and control circuitry on a single chip. For example, projection device may include several sets of VCSELs, each associated with a set of MEMs mirrors and coupled to... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7106279 | Display substrate, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus To provide an electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus capable of maintaining the display quality by preventing brightness unevenness without widening a frame in a mounting terminal portion connection portions connecting to a fourth power source bus line a... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102293 | Organic EL panel A drive transistor is connected, via its drain region, to a power supply line, and, via its source region, to a transparent electrode of an organic EL element. The channel region is formed bent into a substantially L shape. This arrangement is able to simplify the a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091937 | Display device A display device includes signal lines, scanning lines, pixel switches, display pixels, and a signal line driving circuit which supplies analog video signals to the signal lines. Each of the display pixels comprises one of three types of luminescent element, the thr... | 08/15/2006 |
