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Examiner: Hjerpe, Richard


Primary examiner statistics: 4447 patents; average approval time: 4445 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 157 patents; average approval time: 846 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8115702 Plasma display device and driving method thereof
8115718 Color passive matrix bistable liquid crystal display system and m...
8115726 Liquid crystal display image presentation
8115737 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, ...
8115740 Electronic device capable of executing commands therein and metho...
8115785 Method for driving liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal ...
8115788 Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic ...
8111209 Composite display
8111211 Plasma display comprising at least first and second groups of ele...
8111212 Method for driving plasma display panel
8111249 Impulse-type driving method and circuit for liquid crystal displa...
8106855 Energy recovery circuit and driving apparatus of display panel
8106865 Display device and driving method thereof
8106868 Pixel structure and driving method thereof
8106884 Pointing input device, method, and system using image pattern
8106929 Peak intensity level control device, self light-emitting display ...
8102344 Display device and method for driving the same
8102360 Methods and apparatus of dynamic backlight control
8102365 Remote control systems that can distinguish stray light sources
8102377 Portable interactive media presentation system
8098265 Hierarchical multicolor primaries temporal multiplexing system
RE43084 Method and apparatus for inputting information including coordina...
8094092 Plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma displ...
8094098 Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof
8094104 Semiconductor integrated circuit, liquid crystal drive device, an...
8094110 Active matrix display device
8094112 Liquid crystal display driving method/driving circuit capable of ...
8094116 Serial-parallel conversion circuit, display employing it, and its...
8094118 Dynamic backlight scaling for power minimization in a backlit TFT...
8094122 Guides and indicators for eye movement monitoring systems
8094143 Image processing method and liquid-crystal display device using t...
8089467 Keyboard frame with induction light source
8089426 Plasma display panel drive method of determining a subfield, havi...
8089428 Flat panel display apparatus
8089430 Self-luminous display panel driving method, self-luminous display...
8089436 Image stability in liquid crystal displays
8085219 Plasma display device and driving method thereof
8085222 Plasma display device and method for driving the same
8085230 Driving device and display apparatus having the same
8085263 Power supply circuit, driver circuit, electro-optical device, ele...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5206630 Improved driving circuit for a gaseous discharge display device w...
5204658 Structure for a door including a display device
5202672 Object display system
5196839 Gray scales method and circuitry for flat panel graphics display
5191320 Variable scale input device
5191319 Method and apparatus for visual portrayal of music
5189404 Display apparatus with rotatable display screen
5185597 Sprite cursor with edge extension and clipping
5185599 Local display bus architecture and communications method for Rast...
5172101 Omnidirectional input device
5164716 Image processing system
5164717 Method and apparatus for the dithering of antialiased vectors
5162788 Chunky planar data packing apparatus and method for a video memor...
5160920 Fail safe display for shelf labels
5159320 Graphic data processing system for extending font data into color...
5153568 Liquid crystal display panel system and method of using same
5146213 Electroluminescent display with memory effect and half-tones
5136284 Security system
5132674 Method and apparatus for drawing high quality lines on color matr...
5124695 Display device
5122785 Squeezable control device for computer display system
5122791 Display device incorporating brightness control and a method of ...
5113181 Display apparatus
5111196 Electronic information display module and connector therefor
5111191 Method and apparatus for waveform digitization
5093654 Thin-film electroluminescent display power supply system for prov...
5093655 Liquid-crystal display apparatus
5089811 Advanced video processor having a color palette
5086295 Apparatus for increasing color and spatial resolutions of a raste...
5063376 Numeric mouse one hand controllable computer peripheral pointing ...
5061921 Remote-controlled message sign
5057826 Digital TV raster scan waveform display device with images of sel...
5053758 Touchscreen control panel with sliding touch control
5053757 Touch panel with adaptive noise reduction
5049864 Display scheme for decompression data
5043717 Display control device
5041821 Ferroelectric liquid crystal apparatus with temperature dependent...
5041820 Cursor device for a capacitive coupling tablet
5036315 Simultaneous display of interleaved windowed video information fr...
5031206 Method and apparatus for identifying words entered on DTMF pushbu...
 
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