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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7242379 | Image display apparatus, driving circuit for image display apparatus, and image display method An image display apparatus includes an image display member having a plurality of light-emitting portions, electron-emitting devices for emitting electrons and causing the light-emitting portions to emit light in accordance with an input image signal, and an adjustm... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7186996 | System for reading out storage phosphor screens A system has been described for reading out stimulable phosphor screens, plates or panels, whether or not differing from each other in phosphor composition or phosphor layer arrangement, after exposing said screens to X-rays. Said system comprises at least one sourc... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7102701 | Display device A display device equipped with a display unit for displaying information includes a terminal connected to the display unit and adapted to supply a predetermined potential to an electrode in the display unit, an insulator provided outside the display unit and adapted... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7067171 | Manufacturing method of electron beam apparatus and spacer, and electron beam apparatus A method of manufacturing an electron beam apparatus having an airtight container with electron-emitting devices contained therein and spacers provided in the airtight container comprising the coating step of providing a film on a spacer substrate to be the spacers,... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061062 | Integrated circuit with unified input device, microprocessor and display systems An integrated circuit having at least one micromechanical element thereon is described comprising a support substrate, a sensor element electrically connected to a logic circuit, and the logic circuit electrically connected to a semiconductor visual display element.... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6947018 | Image display apparatus, driving circuit for image display apparatus, and image display method An image display apparatus includes an image display member having a plurality of light-emitting portions, electron-emitting devices for emitting electrons and causing the light-emitting portions to emit light in accordance with an input image signal, and an adjustm... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6926419 | Backlight unit structure for liquid crystal display Disclosed is a backlight unit structure for an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). The backlight unit structure comprises: a lamp disposed under a display panel; and a reflection plate rotatably disposed around the lamp and having an opening through which light can be con... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6674231 | Panel for color cathode ray tube with seal and surface having rough surface A panel for a color cathode ray tube includes an opening portion provided with a seal end surface to which a funnel is sealed through a frit glass. The seal end surface of the opening portion is a rough surface comprising a large number of streak-shape ri... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6519289 | Method and apparatus for compensation of luminance defects caused by chrominance signal processing In analogue television systems, it is known to compensate for the receiver-end luminance defects which are caused by transmitter-end low-pass filtering of the gamma-predistorted chrominance signals, with the aid of transmitter-end correction signals. This... | 02/11/2003 |
| 5610667 | Apparatus and method for maintaining synchronism between a picture signal and a matrix scanned array A display apparatus for receiving a picture signal having video and synchronizing components includes a matrix of display cells arranged in an array of M columns by N rows. Display cells in the matrix are individually addressable by row and column signals... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5585868 | Video quality improvement A video quality improvement method and apparatus for a television system recovers lost brightness information from the chrominance channels of an encoder due to processing errors, such as quantization roundoff errors, and adds it to the luminance input to... | 12/17/1996 |
| 4935670 | Image display device An image display device capable of causing an interval between picture cells to be significantly decreased using control electrode means of a simple structure, to thereby provide a displayed image with high resolution. In the device, two control electrode... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4924148 | High brightness panel display device A high brightness panel display (20) includes a plurality of discrete gas discharge cells (24) sealed against a phosphor-carrying front panel section (26) and operable to produce a high brightness display. Gas discharges are ignited and extinguished in se... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4920410 | Drive method for synchronizing scanning and modulation of flat-configuration color CRT A drive method for a color CRT in which a point-sequential color video signal is produced to drive a modulation electrode of the CRT, in which an index signal is generated consisting of pulses at a frequency identical to a frequency of scanning successive... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4794449 | Electron multiplier flat CRT display apparatus providing successive color scanning lines for each scanning line of a received color video signal Color display apparatus including a color display tube in which a single electron beam is scanned in television raster fashion across the input surface of an electron multiplier (16) adjacent a screen (14) comprising a repeating pattern of three different... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4763187 | Method of forming images on a flat video screen A device and method for formation of images with flat video screens by a line- and column-addressed point matrix. Field point matrix uses field emission micro tips as fluorescent screen portions being connected in columns. An electric field is applied bet... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4626899 | Beam scanning device producing a horizontally uniform electron beam A flat cathode-ray tube wherein a horizontally uniform sheet-like electron beam is vertically deflected and modulated with a video signal, with the modulated electron beam irradiating a portion of a phosphor screen, includes a modulation electrode assembl... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4571614 | Color image display apparatus A flat CRT type color image display apparatus comprises a number of horizontally disposed parallel line cathodes, vertical and horizontal deflection means and electron beams control means, wherein a clock pulse signal is produced by frequency-multiplying ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4523225 | Image display apparatus A flat CRT type image display apparatus comprises a number of horizontally disposed parallel line cathodes and vertical and horizontal deflection means, and electron beams control means, and the deflection means includes digital memory means storing data ... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4451852 | Image display apparatus A video image display apparatus of the flat tube and multi line cathode type of the present invention includes a phosphor screen, and a predetermined number (e.g. 15) of line cathodes for in-turn emitting a predetermined number of horizontal rows of elect... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4451846 | Color image display apparatus A flat type color display apparatus includes a phosphor screen and 15 horizontal line cathodes activated in turn from the top one to the bottom one. An electron beam control means and a beam deflection means are provided. Each horizontal line cathode emit... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4449148 | Image display apparatus A flat type display apparatus includes an electron beam source for emitting a row of a large number of electron beams, and a phosphor screen having a phosphor layer which emits light in response to impingement by the electron beams. An electron beam conve... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4386364 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes a phosphor screen which is divided into a plurality of phosphor screen portions arranged in both horizontal and vertical directions, a set of an electron gun and horizontal and vertical deflection devices provided in op... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4325084 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same, as well as a pick-up device and a display device having such a semiconductor device The invention relates to a semiconductor cathode based on avalanche breakdown in the p-n junction. The released electrons obtain extra accelerating energy by means of an electrode provided on the device. The achieved efficiency increase makes the manufact... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4280125 | Thin vacuum panel display device A thin vacuum panel cathode ray display device for providing visible information upon a phosphor layer, on a viewing wall, in response to electron beam excitation. Electron beams are generated by cathodes on an electron source wall spaced from the viewing... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4257068 | System for periodically reversing the order of video data in a flat panel display device The analog video signal for a modular flat panel display device is digitized in an analog to digital converter. The digitized data are supplied to a left/right serial shift register. A left/right control signal causes the left/right shift register to peri... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4174523 | Flat display device An evacuated envelope has a rectangular display section and a gun section at one edge of the display section. The display section includes front and back walls which are generally rectangular, in closely spaced, parallel relation, and a plurality of space... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4158210 | Picture image display device The present invention relates to a picture image display device constituted a control electrode for taking out an electron beam from a flat electron source and a display plate for emitting light in accordance with the impinging of the electron beam. The p... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4137551 | Cathode addressing system In an image having a plurality of cathode stripes, individual cathodes may be addressed using a system having a first resistor at one end of each of the cathodes and a second resistor at the other end of each of the cathode stripes. The first resistors ar... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4080630 | Line scan converter for an image display device The brightness signal for an image display device is digitally processed using an analog to digital converter to translate the signal into digital words. A primary shift register is connected to the output of the analog to digital converter. The primary s... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4077054 | System for modulating a flat panel image display device Electron beams in a cathodoluminescent display device are modulated utilizing a means for generating a voltage proportional to the instantaneous electrical charge on the cathodoluminescent screen and means for generating a periodic reference waveform havi... | 02/28/1978 |
| 3992644 | Cathodoluminescent display with hollow cathodes A novel structural combination for use in gas discharge panels for generating alpha-numeric and video images which exhibit a high level of brightness, even in panels scanned in a point-at-a-time mode and at television scan rates. The combination includes ... | 11/16/1976 |
