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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106860 | Luminance balancing A composite display may include a paddle configured to sweep out an area and a plurality of pixel elements mounted on the paddle. Selectively activating one or more of the plurality of pixel elements while the paddle sweeps the area may cause at least a portion of a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106861 | Reflective type electro-wetting display device An electro-wetting display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a plurality of side walls interposed between the first and second substrates, the side walls being arranged in a matrix and cooperating with the first a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089431 | Instructions controlling light modulating elements The present invention provides a various methods, systems and devices for controlling light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control light modulating elements an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089433 | Contrast ratio enhancement system using black detector The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method of enhancing a contrast ratio of a display device. An exemplary method comprises determining a quantity of pixels in a frame of video data having a predetermined level of blackness, comparing the quantity of pi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089432 | Display device A display device that can prevent linear unevenness (uneven line) generated in one direction of a display image and can provide excellent display qualities includes a pixel including sub-pixels of n-colors (where n is an integer of 4 or more), and a signal line arra... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8072402 | Interferometric optical modulator with broadband reflection characteristics An optical device suitable for forming a pixel in a video display. The optical device includes a first layer having a first refractive index; a second layer over the first layer, the second layer having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index;... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8040305 | Constant-weight bit-slice PWM method and system for scrolling color display systems A display system 100 includes a light source 110 and a color wheel 114. An optical section 112 is arranged to receive light from the light source 110 and to direct the light toward a color wheel 114. A digital micromirror de... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8026880 | Optical element, and illuminating optical device, display device and electronic device using the same A microlouver includes a periodic structure in which a transparent layer and a light absorption layer are alternately disposed with a constant, repetitive period. The range of the exit direction of a light beam passing through the transparent layer is restricted by ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018410 | Flexible and transparent ground plane for electric paper An improved electric paper structure is provided. A ground plane assembly having discontinuous grounding elements is used to render electric paper applications more flexible. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7999773 | Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof which allow a component to be replaced and repaired simply, rapidly, and stably are provided. The display apparatus comprises a main body which accommodates a light source part, and comprises a display element w... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7969395 | Spatial light modulator and mirror device The present invention discloses a spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixel elements disposed on a substrate. Each of the pixel elements comprises a deflectable micromirror. Specifically, instead of SRAM, the spatial light modulator is implemented with a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965266 | Image display unit and method of detecting object An image display unit and a method of detecting an object which are capable of reliably detecting an object with a simple structure irrespective of use conditions are provided. Invisible light is emitted from a screen of a display portion. The invisible light reflec... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961161 | Display system comprising a mirror device with micromirrors controlled to operate in intermediate oscillating state A display system includes a spatial light modulator for displaying a image by the modulation state of a plurality of micromirrors, and a control device for controlling the spatial light modulator. The control device includes a data conversion device for converting t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7928940 | Drive method for MEMS devices Embodiments of exemplary MEMS interferometric modulators are arranged at intersections of rows and columns of electrodes. In certain embodiments, the column electrode has a lower electrical resistance than the row electrode. A driving circuit applies a potential dif... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928941 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit and electronic apparatus It is possible to suppress the voltage amplitudes of data lines and to prevent deterioration in display quality by a simple configuration. Each of pixels 110 includes a pixel capacitor and a storage capacitor of which one end is connected to a pixel el... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920112 | Electronic paper system, image processing apparatus for electronic paper system storage medium storing image processing program, and image writing method using image processing apparatus An electronic paper system includes: electronic paper having a display unit that can display and retain an image in a no-power state; image generation means for generating a displaying image by combining a scale-down image of at least a part of a document and an ima... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911428 | Method and device for manipulating color in a display Embodiments include methods and devices for controlling the spectral profile and color gamut of light produced by an interferometric display. Such devices include illuminating a display with selected wavelengths of light. Embodiments also include a display comprisin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903061 | Self illuminating electro wetting display A portable electronics device (110, 210) having a self illuminating display (112, 200, 400, 402, 404, 406, 500, 600, 700) that reduces both the thickness of known displays and processing steps in the fabrication thereof is provided. The portable electr... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898512 | Image display device and electronic apparatus An image display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel display portions arranged in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction thereof, a plurality of slits arranged on the display panel so as to correspond to spaces between the pixel dis... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7884787 | Display device and portable information device having a mirror function The invention has an object of providing a display device which can make a full use of a mirror functionality even in a dark environment. A display device comprising: image forming means (50, 60, 70, 71) for displaying information to be displayed during one s... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876298 | Control timing for spatial light modulator A spatial light modulator clocking method, called fast-clear, which employs embedded clear hardware in the SLM to enable the fast-clear bit to generate least-significant short-bit periods and without any bit ordering restrictions. In this method, fast data clears | 01/25/2011 |
| 7782280 | Display apparatus and method A display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator, such as a digital micromirror device or an LCD panel, and a lighting unit that illuminates the spatial light modulator. The lighting unit may include red, green, and blue lamps which emit light that impinges on... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755582 | Display methods and apparatus The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators. ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7733309 | Image display apparatus In a light emitting display apparatus requiring power supply lines, excellent uniformity in display luminance is provided over a relatively large screen by disposing at least one of input terminals for the power supply lines between input terminals for signal lines.... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7733310 | Display screens having optical fluorescent materials Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728800 | Method and device for manipulating color in a display Embodiments include methods and devices for controlling the spectral profile and color gamut of light produced by an interferometric display. Such devices include illuminating a display with selected wavelengths of light. Embodiments also include a display comprisin... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7719500 | Reflective display pixels arranged in non-rectangular arrays A display is formed with a plurality of reflective display pixels arranged in a curvilinear configuration, and a plurality of electrodes, where each electrode is electrically coupled to two or more reflective display pixels. In some embodiments, the array is at leas... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7663582 | Disordered percolation layer for forming conductive islands on electric paper An exemplary embodiment for an electric paper application is provided. The embodiment utilizes a disordered percolation layer for forming conductive islands on electric paper. The percolation layer is comprised of a disordered mixture of conductive and non-conductiv... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7646368 | Spoke recovery in a color display Embodiments of the invention include a method, device and/or system for spoke recovery. A method for spoke recovery in a sequential multi-primary color display may include producing a primary color image component corresponding to a first primary color during a disp... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7619599 | Optical scanning device, method of controlling optical scanning device, and image display apparatus An optical scanning device, which scans a plurality of color light components so as to display an image, includes a light source unit that supplies a plurality of light beams, and a scanning unit that repeatedly scans each light beam from the light source unit in a ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7605785 | Black level uniformity correction method A method for improving liquid crystal spatial light modulator (10) uniformity is disclosed wherein an original code value (40) is obtained for a first pixel and a conditioned code value (50) is assigned to the first pixel. The conditioned code v... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7592988 | Display device having optical waveguides and light-emitting units A display device is provided that includes a display panel having a light-emitting unit for emitting light according to predetermined display data, an elongated optical waveguide unit which guides the light incident from the light-emitting unit and has a core layer ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7586472 | Subtractive display A display and techniques for displaying information involve the use of pixel-generating elements that include a light conduit and multiple adjustable light absorbing filters. The light conduit allows light from a light source to pass from a first side to a second si... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580017 | Image display medium and image writing apparatus A voltage is supplied from an image writing apparatus to the power receiving electrode of an electronic paper and an optical signal is applied to light receiving elements of the electronic paper from the LEDs of the image writing apparatus. Then, the light receiving... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7551154 | Image display system and method Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for processing an image. An image processing unit includes a processor unit and a control unit. The processor unit receives an incoming video signal. The control unit defines image frames from the video signal. The im... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7477219 | Micro-mirror and method According to one embodiment of the present invention a method of reflecting light is disclosed including providing an element having a surface having an edge on which the element is capable of rolling and selectively reflecting light by rolling the surface such that... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474289 | Display apparatus and image signal processing apparatus To attain high image quality such as high resolution and high dynamic range in a display apparatus for irradiating light generated by a light source onto a light modulating element and for forming a display image plane from the light transmitted through or reflected... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463226 | Driver circuit and display device A display device according to this invention includes: a display panel (2) having plural pixels configured to display image information; plural driver circuits (10) configured to drive the plural pixels according to a video signal indicative of the ima... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7443388 | Housing for a computing device Improved housing for a computing device is disclosed. The improved housing is provided with one of an illuminable connector, a touch pad arrangement, and a palm rest stiffening plate. Normally, the illuminable connector and the touch pad arrangement are provided on ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439944 | Light emitting diode multiphase driver circuit and method A method and a circuit for driving light emitting diodes (LEDs) in multiphase are provided. A string of LEDs divided into groups connected to each other in series is provided. Each group is coupled to ground through separate conductive paths. A phase switch is provi... | 10/21/2008 |
