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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8363778 | Driver circuit, display device including the driver circuit, and electronic appliance including the display device An object of the present invention is to provide a driver circuit including a normally-on thin film transistor, which driver circuit ensures a small malfunction and highly reliable operation. The driver circuit includes a static shift register including an inverter ... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8243873 | Driver circuit, display device including the driver circuit, and electronic appliance including the display device An object of the present invention is to provide a driver circuit including a normally-on thin film transistor, which driver circuit ensures a small malfunction and highly reliable operation. The driver circuit includes a static shift register including an inverter ... | 08/14/2012 |
| 7430264 | Method to reduce transient current swings during mode transitions of high frequency/high power chips A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided to reduce transient current swings during mode transitions. Traditionally, transient supply voltage fluctuations on a chip account for a large portion of the power supply. The number of series inductances a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7372306 | Method and apparatus for stability control using fast excitation in circuits having elements with negative differential resistance A method and state stabilizer for enhancing computing functionality by using fast excitations are described. The state stabilizer includes a voltage source for producing fast excitations having an associated excitation amplitude. An electronic device having an assoc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372300 | Shift register and image display apparatus containing the same A shift register includes a first transistor connected between an output terminal and a first clock terminal, a second transistor connected between the output terminal and a first power terminal, and an inverter in which a first node to which the gate of the first t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369111 | Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus including a gate driving circuit disposed on a liquid crystal display is provided. The apparatus further includes a data driving chip, disposed on the liquid crystal display panel, to apply data driving signals to data lines. The g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353420 | Circuit and method for generating programmable clock signals with minimum skew A programmable clock deskewer generates an output clock with minimal clock skew. This is accomplished by means of a single series path coupling the input clock to the output clock. The programmable clock deskewer includes: an output clock generator, responsive to th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342568 | Shift register circuit A shift register circuit having shift registers comprising a first transistor having a gate and a first source/drain for receiving an output signal of a pre-stage shift register, a second transistor having a gate coupled to a second source/drain of the first transis... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327338 | Liquid crystal display apparatus Disclosed is an LCD apparatus having improved display characteristics. A clock generator applies first and second clock signals to a gate driver so as to control a pulse width of a gate driving signal. A discharging transistor connected to first ends of gate lines d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310402 | Gate line drivers for active matrix displays A shift register in an amorphous-silicon gate driver comprises a pull-up transistor and two pull-down modules. The pull-up transistor produces a positive pulse when the clock signal is high and the gate of the pull-up transistor is also high. The gate of the pull-up... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301382 | Data latch circuit and electronic device The data latch circuit of the invention includes a means for short-circuiting an input terminal and an output terminal of an inverter and by connecting the input terminal to one electrode of a capacitor and sampling a data signal or a reference potential to the othe... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289594 | Shift registrer and driving method thereof A shift register having a plurality of stages for shifting a start pulse and outputting a shifted start pulse to a next stage, each of the plurality of stages includes a pull-up transistor controlled by a first node to apply a first clock signal to an output line, a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289593 | Shift register and image display apparatus containing the same A shift register has an output stage formed by a first transistor connected between an output terminal and a first clock terminal and a second transistor connected between the output terminal and a ground. Third and fourth transistors are connected in series between... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289096 | Shift register and a display device using the same A shift register in which multiple stages are connected one after another to each other, the multiple stages having a first stage in which a start signal is coupled to an input terminal, the shift register sequentially outputting output signals of respective stages.... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283603 | Shift register with four phase clocks A shift register comprising means for providing a first pair of clock signals, CLK1 and XCLK1, with a first frequency, f1, and a second pair of clock signals, CLK2 and XCLK2, with a second frequency, f2, where the se... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274248 | Booster circuit and semiconductor device having same A booster circuit for boosting an externally supplied voltage includes a plurality of parallel-connected charge pump units. The charge pump units are activated successively in accordance with a boosted voltage to suppress peak current at start-up of the booster circ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7218304 | Shift register and a display device using the same A shift register in which multiple stages are connected one after another to each other, the multiple stages having a first stage in which a start signal is coupled to an input terminal, the shift register sequentially outputting output signals of respective stages.... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210057 | Low-speed DLL employing a digital phase interpolator based upon a high-speed clock A low-speed DLL facilitates a deskewed interface between a high-speed RX data demultiplexer circuit directly to an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with which it is integrated by locking a 156 MHz ASIC clock to a 156 MHz reference derived from a high s... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203264 | High-stability shift circuit using amorphous silicon thin film transistors A high-stability shift circuit using amorphous silicon thin film transistors, which utilizes two out-of-phase pulses to control the operating mechanism and the bias-relations among transistors in the shift circuit. This makes the transistors under the driving condit... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193604 | Shift register circuit, image display apparatus having the circuit, and driving method for LCD devices A shift register circuit includes a plurality of latch circuits connected in series to sequentially transfer a pulse signal ST from one to another, a clock signal line transmitting a clock signal CLK, and a plurality of switching circuits performing electrical conne... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180492 | Scan driving circuit with single-type transistors A single-type thin-film transistor (TFT) is used for making a thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD). The scan driving circuit of the liquid crystal display is made of P-type thin-film transistors or N-type thin-film transistors so as to decrease the ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177385 | Shift register for safely providing a configuration bit The invention relates to a shift register cell for safely providing a configuration bit having a master latch which can be connected to a serial data input on the shift register cell for the purpose of buffer storing a data bit; a first slave latch which can be conn... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155020 | Audio circuitry for dynamics reduction A circuit for processing an audio signal includes an input stage to which the audio signal is applied and an output at which the processed audio signal is presented. The circuit comprises first and second input stages (11, 12) having nonlinear performance cur... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142030 | Data latch circuit and electronic device The data latch circuit of the invention includes a means for short-circuiting an input terminal and an output terminal of an inverter and by connecting the input terminal to one electrode of a capacitor and sampling a data signal or a reference potential to the othe... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123069 | Latch or phase detector device The invention relates to a circuit device, into which a first signal and a second signal are input, wherein a first switching array is provided, by means of which it is determined which of the two signals, is the first to change its state. The circuit device may als... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116748 | Pulse output circuit, shift register and electronic equipment A driver circuit of a display device, which includes TFTs of a single conductivity type and outputs an output signal with normal amplitude. A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 to turn ON the TFTs and a potential of a node α is raised. When the pot... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7079617 | Shift register and driving method thereof A low power consumption shift register which inputs a CK signal with a low voltage with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors. In the invention, an input portion of an inverter is set at a threshold voltage thereof and a CK signal is inputt... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7064000 | Methods of chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology circuit fabrication Chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology (CAEN) provides an alternative to using Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) for constructing circuits with feature sizes in the tens of nanometers. A molecular latch and a method using the latch that enables ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7027307 | Clock routing in multiple channel modules and bus systems An apparatus is provided, which includes a memory interface circuit, a clock signal generating circuit, and a plurality of memory circuits. The memory circuits are operatively coupled and arranged in an order on a plurality of memory modules, such that the memory mo... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027550 | Shift register unit and signal driving circuit using the same A shift register unit. The shift register unit outputs a shift register signal according to a clock signal, an inverse clock signal and a start signal. The shift register has first and second clock inversion circuits, and an inverter. In the first clock inversion ci... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6988217 | Method and mechanism for generating a clock signal with a relatively linear increase or decrease in clock frequency A method and mechanism for generating a clock signal with a relatively linear increase or decrease in clock frequency. A first clock signal is generated with a first frequency which is then used to generate a second clock signal with a second frequency. The second f... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6928135 | Shift register for pulse-cut clock signal When a voltage level of a pulse-cut first clock signal inputted to a first clock terminal is reversed in the state where a first transistor is turned on and a second transistor is turned off, an anti-reversal circuit including a seventh transistor and an eighth tran... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6919874 | Shift register using M.I.S. transistors and supplementary column A display device has an active matrix that includes a plurality of scanners for selection lines, a plurality of scanners for columns, and a supplementary conductive column crossing over the selection lines is capacitively coupled to each of the selection lines in su... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6904116 | Shift register A shift register includes bidirectional register units, a direction switching section, a register unit selecting section, and a shift clock supply section. The bidirectional register units are cascaded through first input/output terminals for data shifting and perfo... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6891917 | Shift register with reduced area and power consumption A shift register device includes transistor pass gates and latches connected in series and disposed along a data bit line, each latch connected to a corresponding transistor pass gate. Each transistor pass gate is controlled by a separate control signal input line t... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6885723 | Shift-register circuit A shift-register circuit. The PMOS transistor includes a first gate coupled to an inverse output signal output from a previous-stage shift-register unit, a first drain, and a first source coupled to an output signal output from the previous-stage shift-register unit... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6879313 | Shift register circuit, image display apparatus having the circuit, and driving method for LCD devices A shift register circuit includes a plurality of latch circuits connected in series to sequentially transfer a pulse signal ST from one to another, a clock signal line transmitting a clock signal CLK, and a plurality of switching circuits performing electrical conne... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6870895 | Shift register and driving method thereof A low power consumption shift register which inputs a CK signal with a low voltage with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors. In the invention, an input portion of an inverter is set at a threshold voltage thereof and a CK signal is inputt... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6845140 | Method of driving a shift register, a shift register, a liquid crystal display device having the shift register In a shift register and LCD device having the shift register that may be employed in the liquid crystal display device having a large screen size and a large resolution, the shift register includes stages cascade-connected with each other and each of the stages have... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839398 | Shift-register circuit A shift-register circuit. The input circuit receives the input pulse and outputs a high-voltage level input signal when the input pulse is at high voltage level. The level shifting circuit includes a first PMOS transistor having a first gate, a first drain and a fir... | 01/04/2005 |
