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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188959 | Liquid crystal display exhibiting less flicker and method for driving same An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a frame buffer (41), a frame rate conversion circuit (42), a data divider (43), and a data driver (44). The frame buffer is configured for doubling a frame rate of inputted signals. The frame r... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188958 | Method, device and system of response time compensation Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method device and/or system of displaying an image on a display having an array of sub-pixel elements. The method may include, for example, obtaining a first set of one or more values by sampling values of on... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184078 | Liquid crystal display and source driving circuit having a gamma and common voltage generator thereof A source driving circuit includes a gamma voltage generator, a common voltage generator and a driver. The gamma voltage generator receives gamma data from a timing controller through reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS) transmission interface to generate corr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184077 | Liquid crystal display device and method for improving color reproducibility thereof A liquid crystal display device and a method for improving a color reproducibility thereof, detects a gray scale value in applied image information that reduces a color reproducibility of a liquid crystal display device by measuring a gray scale level of a color dis... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179349 | Pixel structure and driving method thereof A pixel structure includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel includes a first switching transistor and a first liquid crystal capacitor, wherein when the first switching transistor is turned on, the first liquid crystal capacitor is biase... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179347 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display An apparatus and a method of driving a liquid crystal display device include receiving gamma-treated data, performing a reverse gamma correction of the data, the reverse-gamma-corrected data having a first linear characteristic, performing a signal processing of the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179348 | Driving method, driving circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus A display device includes a data converting section that converts display data that is to be supplied to pixel units. The data converting section converting on the basis of a predetermined conversion rule for each of a plurality of fields. The plurality of fields co... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164554 | Liquid crystal display A data converter divides input data into first subframe data and latter subframe data, and the latter subframe data is given to a data serial-parallel converter and serial-parallel converted. The first subframe data is given to a line memory group, and given to an o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159435 | Active matrix type display device which compensates for an electrical potential variation caused by inter-pixel parasitic capacitance between two adjacent pixels connected to different signal lines An active matrix type display device in which one signal line is provided for every two pixels along a given direction and in which two pixels adjacent in the given direction on respective sides of one signal line share the signal line and are connected to respectiv... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159437 | Liquid crystal display device with influences of offset voltages reduced A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first register which latches display data, a second register which latches the display data of the first register in accordance with a first clock, a gray scale voltage generator which outputs a plurality of gray scale v... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159436 | Data driver using a gamma selecting signal, a flat panel display with the same and a driving method therefor A data driver using a gamma selecting signal, a flat panel display with the same and a driving method therefor are provided. A first to a fourth data lines are electrically connected to a first left sub-pixel, a first right sub-pixel, a second right sub-pixel and a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159434 | Driving device for liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display panel driving device is provided which is capable of reliably improving a response speed of a liquid crystal and of obtaining good display quality. When overshooting driving is performed in a current frame for displaying, an excessive respon... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154493 | Liquid crystal display device, driving method of the same, and electronic device using the same It is an object to provide a display module which can display a correct gray scale by a field sequential driving method and an electronic device including the display module. One frame period is divided into a plurality of lighting periods, and in each of the plural... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149201 | Liquid crystal display (LCD) driving apparatus and method An LCD driving apparatus and an LCD driving method are provided in the application. The LCD driving apparatus includes a difference value circuit which determines whether to enable an overdriving circuit and a memory controller according to a gray level variation be... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149198 | Liquid crystal display device Gray scale display is performed by combining time ratio gray scale and voltage gray scale in a liquid crystal display device which performs display in OCB mode. In doing so, one frame is divided into subframes corresponding to the number of bit for the time ratio gr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149199 | Driving system and method for liquid crystal display A driving system and method for liquid crystal display is disclosed. The system stores only the driving values corresponding to specific grayscale values of pixels on a current frame and specific grayscale values of pixels on a previous frame. The stored driving val... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149197 | Electro-optical device, drive method for electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical display device includes an electro-optical panel, a scanning line drive circuit for scanning the scanning lines of the panel during a selection period, and a signal line drive circuit for outputting a data signal to a predetermined pixel through t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149200 | Overdrive compensation/update including gray to voltage conversion and adaptable to a dynamic gamma generator An overdrive system adaptable for a dynamic gamma generator is disclosed. A current gray-to-voltage converter (G/V) converts image data of a current frame from gray code to voltage level, and a previous gray-to-voltage converter (G/V) converts image data of a previo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144095 | Image display device, display panel and method of driving image display device An image display device applies a higher voltage than the original voltage to the pixel, without causing deterioration of the display quality. The image display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a main capacitive element as a display element perfo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144096 | Liquid crystal display device Provided is a drive circuit low in power consumption and high in display quality for a liquid crystal display device that is used in a small-sized portable device. The liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal display elements and a liquid crystal drivin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139010 | Gamma voltage generator and control method thereof and liquid crystal display device utilizing the same A gamma voltage generator can control brightness of a first color pixel unit and a second color pixel unit. A first potential divider is coupled between a first node and a second node for generating a first main gamma voltage. At least one second potential divider i... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134528 | Driving method of liquid crystal display apparatus, driving apparatus of liquid crystal display apparatus, and program thereof A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of areas in which response speeds greatly different from each other coexist in a pixel. A first replacement process section replaces the image data of the desired target frame with a first gradation, when a gra... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130188 | Method for realizing gray levels of LCD device Disclosed is a method for realizing gray levels of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, which realize various gray levels by interworking a gamma voltage and a sub-frame. The method includes the steps of dividing a liquid crystal response time interval for a pixel... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130187 | OCB liquid crystal display with active matrix and supplemental capacitors and driving method for the same A liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal layer capable of bend orientation; a display screen on which an image is displayed by light transmitted through a bend-oriented liquid crystal layer; and liquid crystal voltage application means for applying a liq... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125430 | Display system A display system that includes a liquid crystal element, a backlight, an adjustment unit, a light source control unit, and a liquid crystal control unit. The light source control unit operates the backlight to change a light source luminance level of light. The liqu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125429 | Liquid crystal display device A small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales is provided. Gray scale display is performed by combining time ratio gray scale and voltage gray scale in a liq... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120560 | Image displaying method, image displaying device, and contrast-adjusting circuit for use therewith A system provides an image displaying technique that provides stable high contrast even in an area having high brightness. Based on information about an average brightness level of a digital luminance signal, black-correction processing which decreases a brightness ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120561 | Display apparatus and driving device for displaying A display driving circuit to supply a gray scale voltage corresponding to display data to a display panel, the display driving circuit including: a generation circuit to divide a reference voltage to generate a plurality of levels of the gray scale voltages; an inte... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115715 | Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer; and a driving circuit including a data driver supplying a data voltage to the liquid crystal panel, wherein the liquid crystal panel displays white at a first data volt... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111225 | Liquid crystal display device having a plurality of subfields A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel provided with plural gate lines to select a pixel and plural data lines to supply pixel data and a data driver dividing a single frame into plural fields and converting frame data into field data to su... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106866 | Method for establishing gamma correction table for liquid crystal display An exemplary method for establishing a gamma correction table for a liquid crystal display includes: providing a liquid crystal display, a signal generator, and a color analyzer, the liquid crystal display comprising a predetermined gamma correction table; invalidat... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106865 | Display device and driving method thereof It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102343 | Liquid crystal device, driving circuit for liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in the shape of a matrix of n rows×m columns (where n and m are natural numbers equal to or larger than two), n scanning lines, 2m data lines including pairs of a first data line and a second data line... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102344 | Display device and method for driving the same A method for driving a display device includes: dividing an entire gray-scale region corresponding to a data gray scale into a first gray-scale region and a second gray-scale region and setting a first gamma value of the first gray-scale region and a second gamma va... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102345 | Method of driving a color liquid crystal display and driver circuit for driving the display as well as portable electronic device with the driver circuit The present invention provides a method and a circuit for driving a color liquid crystal display in a normal driving mode and a power saving mode, wherein in the normal driving mode, voltages corresponding to image display data are applied to data electrodes of the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102342 | Display apparatus including a driver using a lookup table A threshold table (3) has stored therein thresholds for classifying gradation values, and the gradation values are classified into a plurality of gradation sections in accordance with the thresholds. A look-up table (2) has stored therein differential ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094109 | Data driver with multilevel voltage generating circuit, and liquid crystal display apparatus including layout pattern of resistor string of the multilevel generating circuit A multilevel voltage generating circuit includes first and second input nodes provided on a first resistance element and supplied with first and second reference voltages. A current substantially flows in a first specific area for a line between the first and second... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094108 | Liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display driving circuit A gradation voltage adjustment section for increasing a positive gradation voltage VHX of an X-th gradation and a negative gradation voltage of the X-th gradation so that the increment corresponds to a charge pull-in amount ΔV is provided in a gradation voltage gen... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094107 | Liquid crystal display apparatus containing driver IC with grayscale voltage generating circuit A liquid crystal display (LCD) driver integrated circuit (IC) includes a grayscale voltage generating circuit generating grayscale voltages from a set of supply reference voltages. A converting section having connection terminals drives each of data lines of an LCD ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089443 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method of liquid crystal display device using N-time speed driving technique A liquid crystal display device is formed by laminating first and second liquid crystal panels, the liquid crystal panels being each formed by disposing a liquid crystal layer between two transparent substrates arranged so as to be opposed to each other and two-dime... | 01/03/2012 |
