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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6970154 | Fringe-field filter for addressable displays The display kit of the present invention comprises: an addressable display medium configured to exhibit a first aspect under the influence of an addressing vector field in a first direction at an addressing magnitude; and an addressor; where the addressor is configu... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6903724 | Handheld communications devices with joysticks and switch contact layouts therefor An electronic device, for example a handheld telephone, having an integrated joystick with a conductive contact surface disposed toward a printed circuit board (PCB). The joystick is aligned with a neutral position contact portion of the PCB when the joystick is in ... | 06/07/2005 |
| RE38637 | Data collection system An electronic data collection device configured in a substantially two-dimensional arrangement is disclosed. The data collection device uses inexpensive flexible sheet materials to provide a flat framework in which to situate an interconnected combination of electro... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6803899 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and a temperature compensation method therefor Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of chiral nematic liquid crystal display layers stacked on each other. To compensate temperature dependency, a control unit, in accordance with a temperature detected by a temperature detection un... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801180 | Display device The present invention provides a display device having a plurality of write lines and a plurality of data lines that are correspondingly disposed in an array pattern having a dot array as a minimum unit of display. Within the dot array pattern can be provided n sets... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6798396 | Foot switch interface for operation of computer A foot switch, interface and associated software, the foot switch having a plurality of switch positions and which permits the operator to duplicate the equivalent series of keyboard entries for the operation of computer functions by means of foot manipulation utili... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6798429 | Intuitive mobile device interface to virtual spaces The present invention relates to a simple to use intuitive interface for mobile devices and, in particular, to a method and apparatus to permit the motion of a mobile device to serve as an input to the mobile device. In various embodiments, the relative and/or absol... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6784877 | Image control method and apparatus for digital monitor An image control method and apparatus for a digital monitor that is capable of controlling a contrast and a color temperature in the digital monitor is disclosed. In the method, an offset control signal is produced. A digital input signal is added to the offset cont... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778154 | Display device Rise time in matrix_LED displays is decreased by providing extra current via capacitive (37) of column electrodes (12) to a circuit (39) providing peak currents. ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6778161 | Central symmetric gamma voltage correction circuit A central symmetric Gamma voltage correction circuit is mainly applied to the displaying circuit of liquid-crystal display. By installing a resistor voltage dividing circuit and a driving circuit so that a well adjustment way to the Gamma correction voltage can be a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6778156 | Method for examining quality of flat panel display device A method for examining quality of a flat panel display device is disclosed, in which good/fail of the flat panel display device is automatically examined to improve efficiency of the operation and obtain exact examined result. The method for examining good/fail of a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771282 | Matrix display device providing a larger connection pitch In a matrix display device, when cells of first to third colors composing one pixel are first to third cells, the second cell is disposed on one side of the first cell in a signal line alignment direction while disposing the third cell on the other side of the first... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771244 | Display apparatus and assembly of its driving circuit A display apparatus and an assembly of a driving circuit for the display apparatus having a display device, a film carrier with a lead to transfer a signal for driving the display device, and a bus board to supply a signal to the lead. A dummy lead is provided along... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771256 | Remotely programmable control device for use in electroluminescent display and lighting applications Described is a remotely programmable control device for use in electroluminescent display and lighting applications. Elements of this invention include a power supply, various inverters/wave form conditioners, a motherboard, inbound/outbound communications capabilit... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771241 | Active matrix type display device The invention provides an active matrix type display device which realizes an image display of multiple gray scale exhibiting high numerical aperture and high definition with a least number of wiring by having an image memory circuit equivalent to a static memory ci... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6768483 | System and method of providing restrained, streamlined access to a computerized information source The present disclosure is directed to a system for providing restrained, streamlined access to a computerized information source. The system—which works in association with a multipurpose computer—includes a discrete article, such as an advertising specialty lik... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6765555 | Passive optical mouse using image sensor with optional dual mode capability A passive optical mouse is provided. The mouse does not require an interrogating light source. Instead, the mouse includes a sensor array and lens assembly that captures ambient images from arbitrary sources. A comparison is made between successive images to determi... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762754 | Driving circuit for electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus A device is miniaturized by efficiently using an area on a substrate in a liquid-crystal device, and the like, of a type in which a driving circuit is contained and plural data lines are driven simultaneously. On a substrate of a liquid-crystal device, a sampling ci... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6762753 | Touch panel device A touch panel device includes a plurality of input IDTs for exciting surface acoustic waves and a plurality of output IDTs for receiving the surface acoustic waves, corresponding to a plurality of tracks on a non-piezoelectric substrate, and each input IDT has a wid... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6760015 | Double-sided keyboard for use in an electronic device A keyboard having a plurality of first keys on one side and second keys on the other, separated by a circuit board and a plurality of domes. The circuit board can be activated for entering information in an electronic device by pressing one or more keys on either si... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6760016 | Integrated digitizing tablet and color display apparatus and method of operation An integrated digitizing tablet with color display is disclosed. The digitizing tablet portion of the integrated digitizing tablet and display apparatus includes an array of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cells that can be modified by at least one externally-a... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6760013 | Hand held gaming and data entry system A hand held gaming and data entry system (100, 100′, 100″) has an ergonomic housing (102) including thumb operated controls (104) which generate a first set of electrical signals, and finger operated controls (106, 106′) which gener... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6756959 | Display driving apparatus and display apparatus module A display driving apparatus in accordance with the present invention outputs a plurality of types of driving voltages that vary depending on display data to display device from a plurality of output terminals for liquid crystal driving voltages via voltage follower ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6756964 | Magnetophoresis type display device and process of production of same A magnetophoresis type display device is provided with a transparent front panel sheet, a back panel sheet arranged with respect to the front panel sheet so as to form a sealed space with it, and a partitioning member is between the front panel sheet and the back pa... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6753881 | Adapter and method to connect a component video input television to a video providing unit An adapter (e.g., connector, dongle) is used to connect a component video television, such as an SDTV or HDTV, to a video providing unit, such as a computer or any other suitable video providing unit, that includes a plurality of video input pins, a plurality of vid... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6753835 | Method for driving a liquid crystal display The liquid crystal display is a “Cs on Gate type” active matrix liquid crystal display in which an auxiliary capacitor is formed by each pixel electrode and an adjacent gate line. By driving gate lines sequentially line by line to control the potential of the pi... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6750877 | Controlling haptic feedback for enhancing navigation in a graphical environment Method and apparatus for controlling haptic feedback to enhance navigation of a cursor or other controlled displayed object in a graphical environment. An interface device is capable of communicating with a computer running an application program and generating a gr... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6747610 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of selectively displaying desired stereoscopic image A stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of presenting a stereoscopic image of a desired planer image includes an input operating unit for designating an image of a desired portion of the planer image, and a stereoscopic display control unit for displaying, on... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747627 | Redundancy shift register circuit for driver circuit in active matrix type liquid crystal display device In a shift register circuit included in a driver circuit for driving an active matrix circuit in an active matrix type display device, a plurality of serial-connected registers constructing register lines are arranged to construct a redundancy shift register circuit... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747611 | Compact optical system and packaging for head mounted display A head mounted virtual image display unit is provided which is compact in size and weight, and incorporates a high performance optical system offering a clear see-through capability. A sliding light shield may be incorporated for those instances when see-through cap... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747629 | Adjusting contrast based on heating and cooling rate An electronically controlled appliance capable of automatically adjusting a contrast level of a data display module is disclosed. The device includes an appliance, an intelligent control electrically connected to the appliance and adapted for controlling the applian... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747612 | Head-up display An improved head-up display enables a user to view a light emitting display and an ambient environment simultaneously. The improved display comprises a light-transmissive block allowing the transmission of light from the ambient environment to the user's eye through... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6744417 | Display device and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display driven by a dot-line inversion driving method in combination with a 2-step dot sequential precharge driving method which, if black window or black lines are displayed, is free of horizontal trails on circumscribing portions thereof is provid... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741240 | Image display apparatus The invention provides an image display apparatus that efficiently adjusts a video display even when a change takes place in an input signal. The image display apparatus includes a video input device that receives a video signal, a video display that displays an opt... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6741228 | Display apparatus There is provided behind an optical modulation panel (101) which is not provided with a color filter a planar light source which is provided with EL elements (100R, 100G and 100B) with a built-in optical resonator structure adapted to emi... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738107 | Liquid crystal display device A storage capacitance Cs0 (=Cs+Csadd) added to a pixel capacitance is set such that a transmittance T1 at a voltage V1 of a pixel electrode becomes substantially equal to a transmittance T2 at a voltage V2 of the pixel electrode wh... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738802 | Method and system for transmitting data among various memory units of position measuring devices A method for transmitting data among various memory units of one or more position measuring devices, specific data pertaining to the position measuring device being stored in the memory units. Data are transmitted via a data transmission line, from a first memory un... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6737591 | Orientation sensing device A sensing device for generating orientation data when positioned or moved relative to a surface, the orientation data being indicative of an orientation of the sensing device relative to the surface, the surface having coded data disposed upon it, the coded data bei... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6734842 | Portable and wearable data entry apparatus A portable data entry apparatus adapted to be carried by a user including a planar member having top and bottom surfaces. A data entry device is secured to the top surface of the planar member leaving a gap therebetween. A first member is detachably attached to the ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6734836 | Current driving circuit A current driving circuit includes a first terminal electrically connected to a voltage source, a second terminal grounded, a signal line through which a signal current runs, a first switch, a second switch electrically connected to the signal line and further elect... | 05/11/2004 |
