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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7375716 | Display driver and electro-optical device A display driver which drives a plurality of data lines of an electro-optical device includes a capture start timing setting register in which is set a period between a changing time of a given capture start timing instruction signal and a staring time of capturing ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7289170 | Method and apparatus for compensating for interlaced-scan type video signal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for compensating for an interlaced-scan type video signal for stably displaying the video signal in the LCD panel. An aft part of 264th data of a first field and a fore part of 23rd data of a second field... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271793 | Liquid crystal display device, driving method for liquid crystal display devices, and inspection method for liquid crystal display devices Using technology which uses a single shift register and simultaneously generates multiple pulses, this invention is a liquid crystal display device which rapidly drives data lines. It is possible to increase the frequency of the shift register output signal without ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262757 | Data driver and electro-optical device A data driver includes a capture start timing setting register in which is set data for setting capture start timing of the gray-scale data based on a signal which indicates supply start timing of the gray-scale data, and a capture instruction signal generation circ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259741 | Data driver and electro-optical device A data driver drives comb-tooth distributed data lines of an electro-optical device in units of a predetermined number of data lines. The data driver includes first and second divided gray-scale buses, a gray-scale bus to which gray-scale data is supplied correspond... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236214 | Liquid crystal television receiver and liquid crystal display apparatus In a configuration including a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver for driving a gate line of the liquid crystal panel, a data driver for driving a data line of the liquid crystal panel, a cold cathode tube used as a light source of a back light part for illuminatin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7218261 | Method of adjusting sampling condition of analog to digital converter and apparatus thereof A method of adjusting a sampling condition to generate a sampling clock in an analog to digital converter includes performing an analog to digital conversion on an analog input signal to thereby produce a digital sampled signal having a plurality of samples; calcula... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7180488 | Liquid crystal display device, active matrix type liquid crystal display device, and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device with no flicker and with bright excellent display is provided. A polarity pattern of a conventional frame inversion driving is one kind of display. A polarity pattern of a conventional source line inversion driving is two kinds of dis... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161573 | Liquid crystal display unit and method for driving the same In a method for driving a liquid crystal display apparatus in which in each field, scan lines are successively scanned in order to display an image, the scanning sequence or the polarity of a signal voltage is reversed between a first field and a second field. A liq... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161568 | Method of driving liquid crystal display A method of driving a liquid crystal display that is adaptive for improving a picture quality. In the method, a clock pulse is applied to a gate driver. First to third gate output enable signals are applied to the gate driver. A scanning pulse is applied to t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7095397 | Drive method, a drive circuit and a display device for liquid crystal cells A multiplex driving method is provided for a liquid crystal cell device having a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, a plurality of row electrodes arranged on one of the substrates and a plurality of column electrodes arranged on the other su... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084848 | Liquid crystal display device, electroluminescent display device, method of driving the devices, and method of evaluating subpixel arrangement patterns An active matrix liquid crystal display device has a plurality of unit pixels being arranged in a matrix configuration, each unit pixel being divided into a plurality of subpixels. Each of the subpixels has a subpixel electrode, a pixel transistor connected to the s... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079124 | Active matrix display device and driving method thereof For a gradation displaying operation of an electro-optical device, a gradation display method and an electro-optical device therefor which can be controlled with a digital signal, and which is hard to be affected by variation in characteristics between elements and ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6943781 | Liquid crystal display module and its scanning circuit board A liquid crystal display module and its scanning circuit board therein. There are a first scanning circuit and a second scanning circuit located at both ends of each of the scanning lines in the LCD panel. While scanning, both the first scanning circuit and the seco... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933916 | Liquid crystal display and its driving method A liquid crystal display of the present invention is adapted to perform initialization by inputting voltages with different polarities to two pixel electrodes (23á, 23â) adjacent in front and back direction. It is preferable that in the... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6919869 | Liquid crystal display device and a driving method employing a horizontal line inversion method A control circuit receives the digital input data of n-bit and controls horizontal drivers so as to provide a liquid crystal panel with voltage corresponding to the input data during a 1H cycle based on standard voltage. In addition, the control circuit creates grad... | 07/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6545653 | Method and device for displaying image signals and viewfinder Signals of odd lines in progressive scanning image signals in a first frame are extracted and displayed along odd lines on a matrix-type display device such as a liquid crystal display panel. Further, signals of even lines in progressive scanning image si... | 04/08/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6340959 | Display control circuit In the display control device of the present invention, individual control signals are supplied to a liquid crystal display device and a television-signal encoder respectively from a reading circuit so that RGB data, stored in a display memory, is commonl... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6115020 | Liquid crystal display device and display method of the same A display device includes a display panel having display pixels arranged in matrix formation. A first driver circuit sequentially supplies image data to vertical lines of the display panel in synchronism with a first clock signal. A second driver circuit ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6008793 | Drive apparatus for self light emitting display unit A drive apparatus capable of driving a self light-emitting display unit in an linear scanning mode based on video signals, obtained by interlaced scanning, while maintaining a high image quality. Two different image processes are performed on pixel data o... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5898414 | Display method for intermediate gray scale and display apparatus for expressing intermediate gray scale A display apparatus permitting high resolution and a large number of gray-scale levels and causing indiscernible flicker has been disclosed. One frame is divided into or composed of j subframes, and light is produced according to a luminance level predete... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5739804 | Display device A liquid crystal display device having pixel selection switching elements in a one-to-one correspondence with pixels includes an interlace processing circuit for performing n (n is an odd number of 3 or larger): m (m is an arbitrary number equal to or sma... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5654777 | Method for controlling display of video data on an LCD and circuit for implementing the same A method for controlling display video data on an LCD panel having a display matrix of pixels arranged in rows and columns and having a delta structure, which includes the steps of displaying the video data in its original (unchanged) form during a first ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5365284 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof In a liquid crystal display device for receiving television signals by an interlace scanning method, number of the rows of pixels and of scan signal lines on a liquid crystal panel is increased to be the same as the number of valid scan lines of 1 frame o... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5357290 | Liquid crystal displaying apparatus capable of receiving television signals that differ in broadcasting format A liquid crystal displaying panel is formed of a number of pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions based on a PAL system of many horizontal scanning lines. A polarity reversing circuit reverses the polarity of an input video signal at a predeterm... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5122790 | Liquid crystal projection apparatus and driving method thereof A liquid crystal projection apparatus includes first, second and third liquid crystal display panels, first, second and third liquid crystal display panel driving circuits and a control circuit. The liquid crystal projection apparatus projection apparatus... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5060055 | Color display circuit A color display circuit is disclosed which comprises: a video signal input section for receiving color information data, intensity information data, and vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals; a color mode selecting section for selectively outputti... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5057928 | Drive apparatus for liquid crystal display device utilizing a field discriminating apparatus The invention relates to a drive apparatus for a liquid crystal display device. The voltage, to be applied to longitudinally and latitudinally arranged liquid crystal cells of the liquid crystal display device, is altered in polarity from field to field a... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5047849 | Image display apparatus with image turbulence suppression An image display apparatus which detects the presence or absence of motion of each picture element at a present frame and a preceding frame regarding a video signal to be inputted, so that, when each picture element at one field by interlaced scanning is ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5040874 | Liquid crystal display device having interlaced driving circuits for black line interleave of a video signal A liquid crystal display panel comprising pixels in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines corresponding respectively to odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines of a video signal. During the odd-numbered field, a video signal for the odd-numbered f... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4908710 | Method for driving a liquid crystal display device A video display for a liquid crystal display and a method for displaying a complex video signal thereon is provided. A line memory stores one line of video data of a complex video signal. A field memory stores one field of video data of the complex video ... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4872059 | System for driving a liquid crystal display panel First and second driving pulses, which are different in shape, are alternately applied to each pixel of a liquid crystal matrix display panel. Each driving pulse comprises a high voltage portion and a low voltage portion. By changing the width of the high... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4792857 | Liquid crystal television A liquid crystal television comprises providing two multivibrators different in time constant with a vertical synchronizing pulse inputted as a trigger signal, providing a detection circuit for generating a field detection pulse on output pulses of the mu... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4789899 | Liquid crystal matrix display device The present invention comprises a selective supply of image signals and a desired direct current potential to picture elements during each period of field scanning, whereby flickering and shading unevenness are prevented.... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4727414 | Circuit for converting digital signals representing color information into analog voltage level signals with enhanced contrast between foreground and background Circuit for converting digital signals representing color information into analog voltage level signals applied to a monochrome CRT monitor. Digital signals representing color information are applied to first ends of a plurality of resistors (R1 to R4) th... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4701799 | Image display panel drive A selection circuit is connected between a display composed of unit picture elements arranged in a dot matrix and a vertical scanning circuit, the selection circuit effects the selection of odd or even lines in the display. The advantages offered by such ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4694348 | Method of driving liquid crystal display panel of TV receiver A method of driving a liquid crystal display panel of a TV receiver whereby of each set of six scanning lines consisting of three successive lines of one field and three corresponding lines of the succeeding field, three lines are displayed by display ele... | 09/15/1987 |