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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7944228 | Mother substrate, substrate for display panel and method of manufacturing display panel In a mother substrate for a lower substrate, a substrate for a display panel and a method of manufacturing a display panel, the substrate for the display panel includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing the lower substrate. The lower substrate includes... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7436381 | Source line repair circuit, source driver circuit, liquid crystal display device with source line repair function, and method of repairing source line A source driver circuit provides a source driving signal to a disconnected source line. The source driver circuit includes a shift register, a latch unit, a DAC unit, a buffer unit, and a source line repair circuit. A source line repair circuit receives a common vol... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429970 | Method for testing drive circuit, testing device and display device A method of testing a drive circuit including a scan line drive circuit and a data line drive circuit for driving a display is disclosed. The display may include a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, each of said scan lines including an initial te... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7412088 | Inspection method, and inspection device, and manufacturing for display panel A method of inspecting a display panel having a substrate and a plurality of fluorescent layers including measuring bright and dark signals reflected by the fluorescent layers while moving the substrate or an illuminating means generating the signals and an imaging ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405723 | Apparatus for testing display device and method for testing the same An apparatus for testing a display device includes a display device to display test patterns, a graphic process unit to supply analog mode signals and digital mode signals to the display device, and a control unit to allow test patterns of an analog testing mode and... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394474 | Method and apparatus for implementing an overlay cursor and associated scope trigger in a video test generator A method and apparatus for implementing a video test generator having an overlay cursor and an associated scope trigger are presented. A user interface permits a user to move a cursor across a displayed image, and to select a scope trigger point in the analog video ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379041 | Interface and method for error detection in image data transmission An interface and a method for image data transmission that is used for data transmission through a plurality of data lines is described, the correctness of the transmitted data being checked by reference to control data. The checking capability is achieved in that a... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375736 | Test method for VGA with overclock frequency and a VGA system thereof A method for testing overclock frequency of VGA includes the following steps. Step A is to receive a new clock parameter of a GPU and a new memory clock parameter, which determine the operation of the VGA. Step B is to make use of the clock parameter of the GPU and ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362123 | Inspection apparatus for thin film transistor substrate An inspection apparatus for a TFT substrate formed with a plurality of pixels, includes a reference substrate being opposite to and spaced from the TFT substrate and formed with a plurality of reference patterns corresponding to the pixels, a power supply to supply ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358953 | Semiconductor device and testing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a liquid crystal driving circuit is disclosed. The driving circuit includes a digital functional unit and an analog functional unit. The digital functional unit is comprised of a display controller and a display data storage RAM, while ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342579 | Thin film transistor array plate, liquid crystal display panel and method of preventing electrostatic discharge A thin film transistor array plate, a liquid crystal display panel and a method of preventing electrostatic discharge thereof are provided. The thin film transistor array comprises a substrate, pixel structures, switching devices, lead lines and electrostatic discha... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7292213 | Method and device for repairing defective pixels of a liquid crystal display panel A method and device for repairing defective pixels of a liquid crystal display panel. First, examine the liquid crystal panel to obtain the locations of defective pixels on a liquid crystal display. Next, input a pixel signal wherein the pixel signal further compris... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7230626 | System and method for optimizing a graphics intensive software program for the user's graphics hardware A system and method for optimizing the performance of a graphics intensive software program for graphics acceleration hardware. This system and method encompasses a procedure that validates the different functions of a 3D acceleration capable video card, decides whe... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7202879 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, electronic device, image processing program, and recording medium on which the same program is recorded The present invention provides an image processing device that does not convert image data into a grayscale value which may cause defects in the displayed images, such as flickering or fluctuation, when performing color reduction/pseudo-halftone processing to conver... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190381 | Liquid crystal display device and adjusting method of the same A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal panel, a DA converter for generating a common electrode signal to be applied to a common electrode of a liquid crystal, and a non-volatile memory for encoding an optimum value of the common electrode signal into a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180530 | Visual display testing, optimization and harmonization method and system A method and system for automatically testing visual displays and automatically optimizing the voltage settings for each visual display being tested by harmonizing and tailoring the voltage settings applied to the display and automatically setting into memory the co... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176861 | Pixel structure with optimized subpixel sizes for emissive displays A method of designing a fixed format emissive display is described using a computing device having a processor and a memory, the display comprising an array of emissive pixel elements, each pixel element comprising at least two sub-pixel elements made of different m... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164419 | System and method for optimizing a graphics intensive software program for the user's graphics hardware A system and method for optimizing the performance of a graphics intensive software program for graphics acceleration hardware. This system and method encompasses a procedure that validates the different functions of a 3D acceleration capable video card, decides whe... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158102 | System and method for recalibrating flat panel field emission displays A field emission display (FED) having a correction system with a correction coefficient derived from emission current is presented. Within one embodiment in accordance with the present invention, a field emission display has an anode at the faceplate and a focus str... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145357 | Mother substrate, substrate for display panel and method of manufacturing display panel In a mother substrate for a lower substrate, a substrate for a display panel and a method of manufacturing a display panel, the substrate for the display panel includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing the lower substrate. The lower substrate includes... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145358 | Display apparatus and inspection method The test circuit of a display apparatus according to the invention detect short-circuiting in each of the data lines Dn by inputting the electric potential Vd of the data line Dn connected to the corresponding one of high resistance first short-circuiting detecting ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136076 | System and method for providing a wide aspect ratio flat panel display monitor independent white-balance adjustment and gamma correction capabilities A system and method are described herein for controlling the white balance and providing gamma correction without compromising gray-scale dynamic range in a flat panel liquid crystal display (LCD). According to one embodiment of the present invention, the flat panel... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129936 | Display unit and electronic device including the same A display unit of which inspection process to inspect a connector for faulty connection can be automated. The display unit comprises a display section, a display driver IC among a plurality of types of display driver ICs capable of driving and controlling the displa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7106283 | Efficiently testable display driving circuit A device for driving a dot matrix display panel has a number of first terminals that can be connected to different signal lines in the dot matrix display panel, to carry current to or from picture elements in the dot matrix display panel. The invented device also ha... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7081908 | Apparatus and method for testing electrode structure for thin display device using FET function In a method of testing an electrode structure in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged in a matrix, a test unit is positioned at a position of a target one of the plurality of electrodes apart from the target electrode by a preset distance. The test unit has ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7064734 | Display device A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7006117 | Apparatus for testing digital display driver and method thereof In a specific embodiment of the present invention, a graphics device generates digital output data in response to a known input data. The resulting digital output data has an expected circular redundancy check (CRC) value. The generated digital output data is provid... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6987497 | System for correcting display device and method for correcting the same In a display device having a nonvolatile memory device, such as an active matrix type liquid crystal display device, display contents displayed on the display device are obtained by a camera device. The obtained information (corresponding to the display contents) is... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6972755 | Driver circuit for a display device The invention relates to a device for driving display devices and to a display device that is provided with a driver circuit. The invention also relates to a method of testing driver circuits. Driver circuits of this kind have a decisive effect on the quality of the... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6961032 | Reducing the effects of shorts in pixels of an active matrix organic electroluminescent device An OLED device, with each pixel including a plurality of laterally spaced first electrodes, each corresponding to a portion of the pixel and a common second electrode vertically spaced from the plurality of first electrodes; at least one light-emitting layer dispose... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956563 | Touch panel inspection device There is provided a highly versatile touch panel inspection device. The touch panel inspection device comprises a stage 1 having a mounting surface, two column members 3, 4 disposed on the stage and extended upward from the stage, a rail member 2 | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954221 | Safety structure of a desk top LCD A safety structure of a desk-top Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is disclosed. The safety structure has a seat body pivotally mounted to a monitor, characterized in that the monitor is provided with two sections of elevation angle, wherein the first section of the elev... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6909472 | Conversion of a video signal for driving a liquid crystal display Method and apparatus for the conversion or generation of a video signal intended to be displayed on an image display with different luminance response times for rise and fall. The conversion or generation of the video signal is so that motion artefacts which are cau... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6839055 | Video data error detection A system for providing an error indication of video data received from a first link of a data interface between a computer system video controller and a display system and for providing the error indication to the video controller from the display system via a secon... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6825844 | System and method for optimizing a graphics intensive software program for the user's graphics hardware A system and method for optimizing the performance of a graphics intensive software program for graphics acceleration hardware. This system and method encompasses a procedure that validates the different functions of a 3D acceleration capable video card, decides whe... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6819114 | Monitor having a self testing circuit A monitor includes a display panel, a displaying circuit, a connector and a self testing circuit. The self testing circuit has a testing signal generator, a switch circuit and a detecting circuit. When the detecting circuit detects the video signals transmitted from... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6809746 | Visual display testing, optimization, and harmonization method and system A method and system for automatically testing visual displays and automatically optimizing the voltage settings for each visual display being tested by harmonizing and tailoring the voltage settings applied to the display and automatically setting into memory the co... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6784862 | Active matrix display device and inspection method for the same An active matrix display device has an inspection circuit for inspecting the image quality. The inspection circuit includes a plurality of input terminals for inputting a test signal and a plurality of test transistors connected respectively to the input terminals. ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6771295 | Electronic apparatus having operation panel A malfunction in an operation panel serving as a man-machine interface of electronic apparatus is detected and recovered adequately. A control apparatus stores data to be displayed on a display section in an operation panel in the form of coded information. The disp... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6762735 | Electro luminescence display device and method of testing the same To increase the proportion of the perfects to the whole lot of final products and to reduce the cost for active matrix EL display devices by checking the operation of a TFT substrate before depositing an EL material. A capacitor for testing is connected to a drain t... | 07/13/2004 |