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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184079 | Display device having reduced flicker A driving apparatus for a display device and display device having the driving apparatus. The display device has a plurality of pixels each having a switching element. The driving apparatus includes a gate line connected to the switching element, a gate driver to ap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179350 | Display device A display device including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix including rows and columns and a plurality switching elements coupled with the pixel electrodes; a plurality of gate lines coupled with the switching elements and extending in a row dire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164555 | Display device including driver circuit and monitor circuit To provide a display device which can ensure high reliability of a driver circuit even when a threshold voltage of a TFT shifts. The display device includes a power supply control circuit which can apply a forward bias voltage or a reverse bias voltage to a gate of ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8144098 | Dot-matrix display refresh charging/discharging control method and system A dot-matrix display data refresh charging/discharging control method and system is proposed, which is designed for integration to a dot-matrix display device for providing a data refresh charging/discharging control mechanism on the dot-matrix display device. The p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130189 | Gate driving device for liquid crystal display The invention relates to a gate driving device for Thin Film Transistor liquid crystal display comprising: a plurality of shift registers directly deposited on an array substrate, said shift registers being composed of effect transistors and a capacitor, obtaining a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8106868 | Pixel structure and driving method thereof A pixel structure includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a third scan line, a data line, a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, a third TFT, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. Particularly, the second scan line and the third sc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106869 | Liquid crystal display with coupling line for adjusting common voltage and driving method thereof An exemplary liquid crystal display includes parallel data lines, a data driver configured for driving the data lines, a coupling line crossing the data lines, a common electrode layer, and a common voltage generator configured for applying common voltages to the co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102349 | Display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which sandwiches liquid crystal in the inside thereof sealed by a TFT substrate, a color filter substrate and a sealing portion, and a flexible printed circuit board which is mounted on the TFT ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102348 | In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a gate line on the first substrate, a data line crossing the gate line defining a unit pixel region, a thin film transistor at the crossing of the gate line and the data l... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089445 | Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a switching element having a first gate electrode, a source and drain electrode, a channel area formed between the source and drain electrode, and a second gate electrode. The second gate electrode is electrically insulated from the firs... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081148 | Display device The present invention prevents electrostatic breakdown attributed to static electricity even in and after a cell cutting step. In a display device which includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels which is formed in a pixel part, a plurality of video lines which app... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072406 | Display system with single crystal Si thin film transistors A liquid crystal display comprises a display panel that includes at least one pixel transistor, at least one pixel electrode in electrical communication with the pixel transistor, at least one common electrode, and a liquid crystal material between the pixel electro... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072405 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can recover a charge stored in a liquid crystal display panel without using an exteriorly mounted part such as a coil thus achieving the low power consumption. A display device includes a liquid cr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063864 | Switch elements and pixels A pixel, according to the invention, comprises a pixel electrode, a data line, and a switch element. The switch element comprises a gate electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a semiconductor layer. The first electrode is electrically connected to the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059077 | Display device and manufacturing method of display device A display device which can ensure the correction of a black spot, for example, in forming an opening portion in a portion of a scanning signal line where the scanning signal line intersects a video signal line and forming a semiconductor layer and a conductor layer ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059076 | Display panel, mask and method of manufacturing the same A display panel includes a substrate, signal lines, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a dummy opening. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The signal lines are disposed on the substrate and intersect each ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059078 | Semiconductor device, and display device and electronic device utilizing the same A semiconductor device having a normal function means is provided, in which the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased even when a digital circuit using transistors having one conductivity is employed. By turning OFF a diode-connected transi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054270 | Driving circuit of a semiconductor display device and the semiconductor display device There are provided a driving circuit of a semiconductor display device which can obtain an excellent picture without picture blur (display unevenness) and with high fineness/high resolution, and the semiconductor display device. A buffer circuit used in the driving ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049701 | Pixel and organic light emitting display device using the same A pixel capable of compensating for the threshold voltage of a driving transistor, the voltage drop of a first power source and degradation of an organic light emitting diode is provided. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode; a second transistor (e.g.,... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044905 | TFT arrangement for display device A new TFT arrangement is demonstrated, which enables prevention of TFT to be formed over a joint portion between the adjacent SOI layers prepared by the process including the separation of a thin single crystal semiconductor layer from a semiconductor wafer. The TFT... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044907 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display including two substrates, gate bus lines, liquid crystal molecules, and a polymer that determines directions in which the liquid crystal molecules tilt. A plurality of divisional areas are arranged on one of the substrates. The pixels are al... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044906 | Semiconductor device, and display device and electronic device utilizing the same A semiconductor device having a normal function means is provided, in which the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased even when a digital circuit using transistors having one conductivity is employed. By turning OFF a diode-connected transi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040309 | Display panel with image sticking elimination circuit and driving circuit with the same A display panel with image sticking elimination circuit is provided. The image sticking elimination circuit can be applied in a display unit comprising a plurality of pixel units driven by a gate driving circuit and a data driving circuit. The gate driving circuit i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035596 | Liquid crystal display device To provide a pixel matrix and the like, which are capable of improving the picture quality by suppressing generation of flicker and crosstalk without deteriorating the numerical aperture of the pixels and without increasing the manufacturing cost. A first switch dev... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031150 | Liquid crystal display panel with signal transmission patterns A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026886 | 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 ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022912 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device performing multi-picture element driving, gate OFF timing of a switching element connected between each sub picture element and a signal line is matched with phase timing when all the subsidiary capacity wires are at the same poten... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022913 | Instant-on heater A heater, used in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) pixel array that uses a common voltage polysilicon line to supply heat to the pixel elements, instead of using active control transistor input lines, such as gate input lines. The approach permits the display to be ac... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018414 | Active matrix organic light emitting diode pixel unit An active matrix OLED pixel unit disclosed includes four transistors, a capacitor and an OLED. Two transistors are used as switches for receiving two scan signals and a data signal is sent to the OLED via a current mirror structure formed by another two transistors ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004484 | Display device, light receiving method, and information processing device A display device, light receiving method, and information processing device are provided. The display device including a plurality of sub-pixels forming a pixel as a unit of display resolution of an image, the plurality of sub-pixels being arranged in a delta arrang... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995023 | Flat panel display and method for driving the same A flat panel display and method for driving the same. The flat panel display includes a conductive substrate forming an image display unit having at least one thin film transistor and a pad unit including a plurality of terminals, wherein the conductive substrate is... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978165 | Liquid crystal display device, method for repairing liquid crystal display device, and method for driving liquid crystal display device A method for repairing a liquid crystal display device comprises: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, adjacent to each other row-wise and column-wise; a plurality of first bus lines extended row-wise and connected to the pixels arranged row-wise; a plurality... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7952551 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus including same An electro-optical device includes a transistor, a data line, a pixel-potential-side capacitor electrode, a relay layer, an output line, a first and a second scanning line. The transistor includes a first and a second gate electrode. The data line is connected to th... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948461 | Image display device The present invention provides an image display device having about the same numbers of gate lines and data lines as before and capable of reducing the power consumption of a static memory during rewriting of a display image. In the configuration of the image displa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944424 | Pixel control device and display apparatus utilizing said pixel control device A pixel control device and a display apparatus utilizing said pixel control device are provided. The pixel control device is electrically connected to a sub-pixel area to provide a first voltage level, a second voltage level, and a third voltage level to the sub-pix... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940238 | Liquid crystal display A novel method for driving the data signal transmission and the photo signal readout in a pixel of a display as well as the novel pixel structure corresponding thereto is provided to overcome the lightness uniformity issue of the conventional touch sensitive display... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940239 | Semiconductor device and display device utilizing the same A source-drain voltage of one of two transistors connected in series becomes quite small in a set operation (write signal), thus the set operation is performed to the other transistor. In an output operation, two transistors operate as a multi-gate transistor, there... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7928945 | Display device and driving method thereof In the respect of an electrical characteristic of a transistor, a channel size W/L of a transistor is preferably designed small in order to decrease an effect of a variation in threshold voltage, while the channel size W/L is preferably designed large in order to wi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928946 | Electro-optical device and method of driving the same The method of fine gradation display by an electro-optical device with little influence by difference in elemental devices, is disclosed, which is an object of the present invention. In case of an active matrix electro-optical device, a visual gradation display can ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7898514 | Apparatus for driving gate of liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display including: a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix defined by data lines and gate lines that cross each other, wherein a thin film transistor is provided in each respective cell adjacent to a crossing ... | 03/01/2011 |
