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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169391 | Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a main pixel, a sub-pixel, and a boosting capacitor. The main pixel receives a data signal in response to a first gate signal and is charged with a main pixel voltage. The sub-pixel receives the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144097 | Display device, liquid crystal display device, and method for manufacturing display device A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sectio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8115716 | Liquid crystal display device and its drive method In the liquid crystal display device adjacent source lines may be short-circuited during horizontal scanning periods. A gate driver sequentially may apply a pixel data write pulse to gate lines in each frame period and may apply a black voltage application pulse dur... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111226 | Liquid crystal display device A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display device includes a data line, a first gate line, a second gate line, a first sub-pixel unit, and a second sub-pixel unit. The first sub-pixel unit includes a first switch, a first liquid-crystal capacitor and a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106867 | Electro-optical device and driving method for the same A grey tone display and a driving method are described. The display comprises a light influencing layer, an electrode pad located adjacent to the layer at one side of the layer in order to define a pixel in the layer, an n-channel field effect transistors connected ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102347 | Display device The invention provides an active matrix EL display device which can perform a clear multi-gray scale color display. In particular, the invention provides a large active matrix EL display device at low cost by a manufacturing method which can selectively form a patte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102346 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus including the same An electro-optical device includes a pixel circuit with a driving transistor element, a storage capacitor, and a capacitive element. The driving transistor element is electrically connected to a corresponding data line and a corresponding driving electrode. The stor... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094110 | Active matrix display device A plurality of pixel units are arranged in a matrix, each pixel unit including a display element and a pixel circuit which supplies a driving current to the display element. Each pixel circuit includes a first memory section which stores, in a write period of the pi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094111 | Liquid crystal display and array substrate thereof The present invention provides a liquid crystal display and an array substrate thereof. The array substrate comprises scan lines, data lines and a plurality of pixel defined by a crosswise arrangement of the scan lines and the data lines. The pixel comprises a first... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089444 | Liquid crystal display and memory controlling method thereof A display device including a display panel having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines disposed cross-wisely, a timing controller, the timing controller including a data comparing and blank time detecting device comparing whether current data and ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8049700 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of pixels, each including first and second liquid crystal capacitors, a first storage capacitor including a first terminal connected to the second liquid crystal capacitor and a second terminal applied with a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049699 | Liquid crystal display apparatus having storage electrodes overlapping only some sub-pixels A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arrayed in a matrix, each pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes having first and second sub-pixel electrodes. The apparatus further includes a plurality of first switching dev... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040308 | Display device, liquid crystal display device, and method for manufacturing display device A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sectio... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035595 | Liquid crystal panel, driving method for liquid crystal panel, and program Herein disclosed a liquid crystal panel, including: a plurality of liquid crystal cells each serving as a pixel and disposed in a matrix of N horizontal lines and M vertical lines, each of N and M being an integral value equal to or greater than 1; a switching eleme... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8013824 | Sequence control unit, driving method thereof, and liquid crystal display device having the same A sequence control unit includes a voltage input/output unit to receive a driving voltage, and to output the driving voltage after a delay time. A memory stores an output time corresponding to the driving voltage, a clock generating unit generates a clock, a clock c... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013825 | Video system including a liquid crystal matrix display having a precharge phase with improved addressing method In a method for addressing rows and columns in a liquid crystal display, each phase for addressing rows and columns in the display includes precharging pixels of the display before a row write, to apply a precharge voltage to all pixels. Depending on the selected bl... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013823 | Driving method for reducing image sticking A driving method with reducing image sticking effect is disclosed. The driving method includes applying a voltage on the data lines for trapping impurities crossing the data lines and lowering the degree of the image sticking effect, and applying different asymmetri... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009133 | Display device and method of operating the display device to change luminance during a selected portion of a frame A display panel includes a first switching element, a liquid crystal capacitor and a second switching element. The first switching element receives a gate signal and a data signal. The liquid crystal capacitor is connected to the first switching element, and charged... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7936326 | Apparatus and method for LCD panel drive for achieving time-divisional driving and inversion driving A method is provided for driving a liquid crystal display panel including first and second data line sets each including an even number of arrayed data lines, and a plurality of pixels sharing a common electrode having a constant potential. The method is composed of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916109 | Panel for liquid crystal display device A panel of a liquid crystal display panel with a plurality of pixels is disclosed, wherein each pixel comprises one switch, one pixel electrode and one floating line. The switch comprises a gate, a source, and two drains. The pixel electrode can be electrically conn... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903067 | Driver chip and display apparatus having the same A driver chip includes a base body, input terminals, first output terminals and dummy terminals. The base body includes a face having first to fourth edge portions. The first and second edge portions are disposed in substantially parallel along a longitudinal side o... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893906 | Display device having improved substrate and method of manufacture A display device having improved aperture ratio includes a switching element, a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The switching element is electrically connected to a gate line and a source line crossing each other. The liquid crystal capacitor has a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7880707 | Liquid crystal module having storing member for controlling working mode of driving chip thereof An exemplary liquid crystal module (20) includes liquid crystal panel (200) and a driving chip (210). The driving chip includes an interface circuit (230), a storing member (260), and a plurality of input ports. The plurality of in... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7864147 | Method and apparatus for driving capacitive load, and LCD A potential supplied from a capacitive load drive unit to one end of a respective capacitive load is switched to an intermediate potential between a first and a second power supply potentials for a predetermined period of time prior to switching the potential of the... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859501 | OLED display with aging and efficiency compensation A method of compensating for changes in an OLED drive circuit, includes: providing a drive transistor; providing a first voltage source and a first switch; providing an OLED device connected to the drive transistor. Voltages are measured and used to compensate for c... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859500 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates, with a liquid crystal sealed therebetween. A plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines are provided on one of the substrates, along with a pixel electrode, which includes first and second ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7839371 | Liquid crystal display device, method of driving the same, and method of manufacturing the same In a liquid crystal display device includes; a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix pattern; wherein each of the plurality of pixel includes; first and second thin film transistors including current paths connected to a source line in series, a sto... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7782285 | Drive circuit for liquid crystal displays and method therefor In a display unit having an array of liquid crystal cells and a corresponding array of display driver circuits for each of the liquid crystal cells, each display driver circuit in the corresponding array includes an analog memory element and a differential amplifier... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7746308 | Liquid crystal display and portable terminal having the same A liquid crystal display that is unsusceptible to the effect of a pixel potential during writing of data to a memory, allowing a large margin to be provided against variation in characteristics of transistors forming a pixel circuit, and a portable terminal having t... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746309 | Driving circuit having static display units and liquid crystal display device using the same An exemplary liquid crystal display device (1) includes a first substrate (3), a second substrate (2) facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (4) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first su... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7733315 | Display device The invention provides an active matrix EL display device which can perform a clear multi-gray scale color display. In particular, the invention provides a large active matrix EL display device at low cost by a manufacturing method which can selectively form a patte... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728804 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor arranged at crossings of gate lines and data lines; a pixel electrode connected to each thin film transistor; a common electrode arranged on a second substrate; a layer of liquid crystal material provid... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7692614 | Display device A display device including: pixels disposed where scanning lines and signal lines intersect, wherein each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a switching element, and a storage circuit interposed between the pixel electrode and the switching element for storin... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7675498 | Dot-inversion display devices and driving method thereof with low power consumption Display devices with low power consumption. In the display device, and first and second data lines, first and second gate lines, first and second supplemental lines, first and second pixels are provided. In the first pixel, a first transistor comprises a first termi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7652649 | LCD device with improved optical performance In an LCD pixel, the pixel voltage is usually reduced after a gate line signal has passed. To compensate for this voltage reduction, the voltage applied to the charge storage capacitor in the pixel is increased from Vcom to Vcom1 after the gate line signal ha... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646370 | Display device The level of a storage capacitor line changes between two types, an H level and an L level. As a result of this change, the voltage applied to a liquid crystal is shifted so that a sufficient voltage is applied to the liquid crystal to perform a display operation. T... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7598937 | Display panel A display panel is disclosed. The display units with the same position at odd rows and even rows are electrically coupled to different data lines, such that most of the time each of the data lines on the display panel is maintained on a single polarity, respectively... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7595781 | Liquid crystal display device In an active-matrix liquid crystal display device, each of multiple pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, through which different voltages are applicable to a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first and second sub-pixels includes a... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7592990 | Display device A color display of high numerical aperture and multiple gray scales, which can realize multicoloring and area gray scales is accomplished by simplifying the pixel circuit constitution of the display device. A pair of transistors which hold video signals by bridging ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589705 | Circuit and method for driving display panel A circuit for driving a display panel comprises a source driving circuit having a plurality of driving units for driving the display panel according to display data; at least one of the driving units has a buffer and a switch circuit wherein the buffer includes an i... | 09/15/2009 |