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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7804548 | Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines which are divided into blocks each composed of m data lines (m is an integer equal to or larger than 2); pixels which are provided at intersections of the plurality of scann... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7724312 | Driving circuit of display element, image display apparatus, and television apparatus A driving circuit for display elements, comprises a modulation circuit that outputs a modulating signal to be applied to wiring to which display elements are connected; and an output circuit that serializes modulation data including height value data for determining... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7425996 | Image forming apparatus and video receiving and display apparatus A control circuit of an image display apparatus controls an output of video signals so that a non-display period TC set between an end of display of images corresponding to a first input video signal for one vertical scan and a start of display of an image correspon... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7419269 | Display device and projector To provide a display device and a projector capable of enhancing the quality of dynamic images, of reducing limitations on light sources, enhancing the utilization efficiency of light, and of displaying images in full color, illumination light emitted from a light s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411632 | Driving circuit of display element, image display apparatus, and television apparatus A driving circuit for display elements, comprises a modulation circuit that outputs a modulating signal to be applied to wiring to which display elements are connected; and an output circuit that serializes modulation data including height value data for determining... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411633 | Display apparatus and method for controlling the same A display apparatus includes a control circuit for outputting a timing signal for determining a predetermined time period and a clock signal counted to determine the length of a modulation signal. The display apparatus is capable of switching between a first state i... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7267442 | Pixelated color wobulation A display system includes a mechanism to provide for simultaneous pixelated color with a spatial light modulator. Also included is a mechanism to project the simultaneous pixelated color to create a color field display on a viewing surface. A further mechanism moves... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265741 | Display apparatus and display apparatus drive method An EPG extraction portion extracts EPG information; a program type decision portion decides the type of broadcast program using the extracted EPG information, and outputs a ratio modification signal to change the ratio of the image display interval to the black disp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7253437 | Display device having a thin film transistor A semiconductor device and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device comprising an insulated gate field effect transistor provided with a region having added thereto an element at least one selected from the group consisting of carbon, ni... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7187420 | Image display system and method An image display system comprises a first liquid crystal projector which projects a counterclockwise-rotating, circularly polarized light beam to form an image containing specific visual information on a screen and a second liquid crystal projector which projects a ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180556 | System and method for capturing, transmitting, and displaying an image An optical image system includes an image projector and an image generator. The image projector has regions with adjustable brightness levels. The image generator generates an image received from a remote location on the image projector by directing first and second... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180555 | System and method for producing an image with a screen using erase (off) and image (on) light sources An image system includes a beam generator and a screen having a region with an adjustable brightness. The beam generator directs first and second electromagnetic beams onto the region. The first beam changes the brightness of the region according to a first polarity... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7142185 | Liquid crystal display, image data compensation circuit, image data compensation method, and electronic apparatus An interpolation processor interpolates reference compensation data stored in a ROM according to the level, generates compensation data corresponding to levels available to image data for each pair of reference coordinates, and stores the compensation data in a comp... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7126570 | Liquid crystal device, image processing device, image display apparatus with these devices, signal input method, and image processing method A liquid crystal device having multiple pixels includes an input terminal that receives a display signal including multiple pixel signals to be supplied to the multiple pixels. The display signal has a predetermined signal embedded therein for generating a common si... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7084840 | Liquid crystal display device Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device in which printed circuit board (PCB) modules are suitably arranged to form a large screen with high resolution. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second main PCBs for driving a dual bank type liquid cry... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079122 | Scan-driving circuit, display device, electro-optical device, and driving method of the scan-driving circuit A scan-driving circuit for making a high image quality and a low power consumption compatible. This scan-driving circuit comprises: a shift register including first to Nth flip-flops corresponding to first to Nth scan lines, respectively, and connected in series; a ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7027022 | Drive circuit of active matrix type display device having buffer with parallel connected elemental circuits and manufacturing method thereof An active matrix device with a plurality of column lines formed over a substrate, a plurality of row lines, a plurality of pixels in a matrix form, a plurality of switching elements, a gate driver circuit, a source driver circuit, said source driver circuit includin... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6980182 | Display system A passive matrix organic light emitting display system includes a plurality of pixels configured for emitting light when energized by one of a plurality of row electrodes and one of a plurality of column electrodes. The display system also comprises a plurality of c... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6972777 | Image display apparatus and method For generating a plurality of light beams having different colors, time sequentially switching the light beams, illuminating a space modulation unit with the light beam, and projecting light modulated by and emitted from the space modulation unit, a white light illu... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6933987 | Multi channel imaging engine apparatus A multi channel video engine (10) for accepting, dividing, modifying and recombining light to project an image. A housing (12) encloses an optical assembly (28) having a dichroic mirror assembly (58) and a color cube (60). A plural... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927765 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof A display device which has a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal material, a driver for driving the liquid crystal display, and a controller for controlling the driver to drive at least a part of the liquid crystal display by selectively using one of a fi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 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 |
| RE38661 | Method and apparatus for liquid crystal display with intermediate tone A liquid crystal display is capable of displaying intermediate, partial or half tones of images, while at the same time preventing the occurrence of flicker and the decay of the liquid crystal panel. The display operation for data to be displayed in an intermediate ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6806854 | Display An active matrix display comprises an active matrix 1 and a digital data driver 30 formed on a common substrate 100 by a common integration process. The driver 30 comprises a serial to parallel converter 20 having m registers formi... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6597336 | Display apparatus and method Writing of a second field is started at a time point when writing of a first field has been completed, while information written in the first field is held. Writing of a first field of the next frame is started at a time point when the writing of the seco... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6542143 | Method and apparatus for driving the display device, display system, and data processing device It is an object to provide a high-performance display element driving device or the like which can be easily reduced in power consumption and scale. A display element driving device (100) drives a liquid crystal serving as a capacitive display element. A ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6469687 | Driver circuit and method for electro-optic display device In driver circuitry for driving an electro-optic display device having a row and column matrix array of pixels, including means for converting incoming digital display information signals into analog signals, sampling errors due to switch and column resis... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6456337 | Moving image correcting circuit for display device In a moving image correcting circuit for a display unit wherein a motion vector detecting portion detects inter-frame motion vectors and a moving image correcting position corrects the display positions of subfields for pixels in blocks, based on the dete... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6396468 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal between a substrate having gate buslines, source buslines, switching elements, pixel electrode array, gate driver, source driver, etc., and a substrate having a counter electrode, etc. In this liqu... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6380989 | Display system and method for supplying a display system with a picture signal A display system and a method for supplying a display system with a picture signal are described, in which the picture signal is fed in dependence on a system clock pulse of the display system, whereby an improvement in the picture quality is achieved. A ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6310651 | Data processing method and device for use in display apparatus A data processing system that allows satisfactory display even when the driving condition changes. The data processing system includes a display device, a video data memory which stores video data in which one frame consists of a plurality of fields, and ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6300982 | Flat panel display apparatus and method having on-screen display function A flat panel display apparatus including an on screen display (OSD) driver designed to operate in accordance with a system clock used in the flat panel display apparatus, thereby enabling the flat panel display apparatus to stably display an OSD picture. ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6128045 | Flat-panel display device and display method A liquid crystal display device is composed of a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data signal lines, and a panel control unit CNT for controlling the liquid crystal panel so that a selected one of a high vision signa... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6118500 | DRAM bit-plane buffer for digital display system A formatter and frame buffer unit (20) for a display system (10) that uses a spatial light modulator (16) to display data formatted in bit-planes. Formatters (21) convert multi-bit pixel data to bit-plane data. The frame buffer memory (25) is comprised of... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115084 | Projection-type display apparatus A projection-type video display in which the entire input video signal is first digitally corrected through digital gamma correction. Then, a subset of the corrected video signal is corrected again through analogue correction techniques. In particular thi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6046711 | Image display device An image display device for arbitrarily switching a display area includes a drive signal supply device for supplying drive signals for pixels arranged in a matrix-like fashion, in response to the generation of predetermined signals, in signal lines of row... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6020938 | Matrix-type display device A matrix-type display device is a liquid crystal device having 240 vertical lines on a display screen, and is provided with a driving circuit which writes a signal simultaneously into two vertical lines in one in every three scanning lines of an EDTV2 sig... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5986630 | Display apparatus and method Writing of a second field is started at a time point when writing of a first field has been completed, while information written in the first field is held. Writing of a first field of the next frame is started at a time point when the writing of the seco... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5978052 | Method of operating a plasma addressed liquid crystal display panel to extend useful life of the panel A display device for displaying an image represented by an incoming raster scan video signal comprises a PALC display panel having a rectangular array of addressable panel elements. A frame buffer stores a frame of video and a comparator compares the inco... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5956082 | Video signal processing apparatus A video signal processing apparatus is arranged to input a video signal in which one frame is composed of a plurality of fields and scanning lines are interlaced among the plurality of fields, selectively take a mode for sequentially outputting video sign... | 09/21/1999 |
