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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188936 | Context aware auxiliary display platform and applications Described is a mechanism by which application programs (or plug-ins) and an auxiliary service adjust the output and/or data available for output on an auxiliary device based on changes detected in the current context of the auxiliary display. Context sensors detect ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179350 | Display device A display device including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix including rows and columns and a plurality switching elements coupled with the pixel electrodes; a plurality of gate lines coupled with the switching elements and extending in a row dire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179391 | Mobile display device driving apparatus and method that can reduce power consumption A mobile display device driving apparatus and method which can reduce power consumption are disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells each formed in sub-pixel areas of four colors, a battery charged w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174480 | Gate driver and display panel utilizing the same A gate driver including a shift register, a level shifter, an output buffer, and a processing unit. The shift register generates a shifted signal. The level shifter generates a level signal according to a first operation voltage, a second operation voltage and the s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169382 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit thereof, and electronic apparatus A driving circuit of an electro-optical device having electro-optical elements which are changed to optical states corresponding to data signals includes: a first terminal group and a second terminal group of which each includes an input terminal and an output termi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164604 | Flat panel display device and method of controlling picture quality of flat panel display device A flat panel display device includes a display panel having at least one link pixel which has a non-defect area and a panel defect area and where adjacent pixels are linked to each other; a memory which stores a first compensation data for compensating the data whic... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159486 | Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same A display device includes a pixel driver circuit. Each of level converter circuits in the pixel driver circuit has an input terminal supplied with a signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a first first-conductivity... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159449 | Display device having light-emitting element and liquid crystal element and method for driving the same It is an object to provide a display device in which a problem of light leakage from a liquid crystal element in black display is reduced or overcome and the contrast is improved. It is another object to provide a pixel circuit having a function to control a lightin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159425 | Method and apparatus for driving an electro-luminescence display panel with an aging voltage The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving an electro-luminescence display panel capable of doing an aging operation upon driving. A method of driving an electro-luminescence display panel according to the present invention includes: ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154504 | Liquid crystal display device capable of automatically switching to a mode and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate divided into a display region and a non-display region including a first regio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144098 | Dot-matrix display refresh charging/discharging control method and system A dot-matrix display data refresh charging/discharging control method and system is proposed, which is designed for integration to a dot-matrix display device for providing a data refresh charging/discharging control mechanism on the dot-matrix display device. The p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138996 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus with overlapping electrode and power source line A light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus, which are capable of preventing reduction of the amount of current flowing through light-emitting elements and which have an excellent display characteristic, are provided. Cathode wiring lines connected to a cath... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130216 | Display device having display area and non-display area, and driving method thereof An example control signal generating circuit CTL for controlling the writing into pixels PIX instructs a data signal line drive circuit SD2, which is for driving pixels in a non-display area, to write a voltage VB or a voltage VW which are for non-displaying,... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111218 | Pixel, organic light emitting display using the same, and driving method thereof A pixel, an organic light emitting display using the pixel, and a driving method thereof may compensate for degradation of an organic light emitting diode. The pixel includes the organic light emitting diode and a drive transistor that supplies an electric current t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111219 | Pixel, organic light emitting display using the same, and associated methods A pixel including an OLED, the pixel including a first transistor coupled between a data line and a first node, the first transistor being turned on by a low signal on an i-th scan line, a second transistor coupled between a first power source and a fifth transistor... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111227 | Liquid crystal display system capable of improving display quality and method for driving the same Systems for displaying images incorporates a display device that includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of gate lines, a plurality of switches each having a first end coupled to a corresponding gate line and a second... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111234 | Liquid crystal display apparatus, liquid-crystal-display controlling method, and computer program A liquid crystal display apparatus including a liquid crystal display as a display unit, including the following elements: a backlight configured to illuminate the display unit from the back; and a controller configured to receive display-unit-brightness specifying ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106892 | Touch screen driver for resolving plural contemporaneous touches and methods for use therewith A touch screen driver that can be used with a resistive touch screen includes an input/output module that supplies at least one input signal to at least one of a plurality of input/output ports of the touch screen and that generates at least one output signal, in re... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102343 | Liquid crystal device, driving circuit for liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in the shape of a matrix of n rows×m columns (where n and m are natural numbers equal to or larger than two), n scanning lines, 2m data lines including pairs of a first data line and a second data line... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102350 | Display device and driving method thereof A display device and driving method are provided. A display device includes a display area that includes a plurality of pixel cells in respective pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines crossing each other. A data driver is operable to supply dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8072429 | Multi-axial touch-sensor device with multi-touch resolution An apparatus and a method for resolving locations of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device. The method may include detecting presences of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device at respective location... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068080 | Display apparatus, source driver, and display panel driving method A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having a data line and a source driver for supplying a data signal to the data line based on a polarity signal. A polarity of the data signal is determined based on the polarity signal. The s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068084 | Timing controller, data processing method using the same and display apparatus having the same A timing controller includes a receiver and a clock generator connected to output terminals of the receiver. The clock generator receives an external clock signal through the receiver and periodically modulates a frequency of the external clock signal to generate a ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063853 | Organic light-emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a first pixel including a first light emitting diode, a first driving transistor connected to the first light emitting diode and having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, and a first sto... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054244 | Method and apparatus for driving multi-segment display device A method and an apparatus for driving multi-segment display device are described. According to the present invention, problems of driving the electrode wire activation mode of the conventional liquid crystal display are solved by the driving waveforms. The driving w... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054266 | Display device, driving apparatus for display device, and driving method of display device A driving apparatus for a display device includes a gray voltage generator that generates a plurality of gray voltage sets, each including a plurality of gray voltages having different levels, and a signal converter that includes a first selector for selecting one g... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049713 | Power consumption optimized display update Systems and methods for reducing the power consumption necessary for updating a display are provided. The methods include determining a row addressing order based on an attribute of the image data that minimizes the number of column charging transitions necessary to... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049702 | Low power display device A display device which is used in a miniaturized portable information device can exhibit the low power consumption even when a display is not changed over for a long period in a state that a battery or the like is used as a power source. The display device can maint... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044916 | Shift register and organic light emitting display having the same A shift register includes a sampling circuit to sample an input signal in response to a start pulse and two clock signals having different duty ratios from each other, a holding circuit to hold the input signal in response to an output signal of the sampling circuit... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044885 | Driving device of plasma display panel and method A driving device of a plasma display panel for performing a reset period using a ramp pulse. The driving device changes the lowest potential of the ramp down pulse in response to temperature change in order to prevent or reduce low discharge or over-discharge due to... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044914 | Method of compensating for kick-back voltage and liquid crystal display using the same A method and apparatus of compensating for a kick-back voltage to reduce the generation of flicker in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The method of compensating for a kick-back voltage includes correcting input pixel data using a kick-back correction function that m... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044895 | Display device and driving method of the same A problem in that a light emitting element slightly emits light is solved by an off current of a thin film transistor connected in series to the light emitting element, thereby a display device which can perform a clear display by increasing contrast, and a driving ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040315 | Device for driving a display panel with sequentially delayed drive signal A display device includes a scanning line drive circuit, which includes plural stages of D type of flip-flops (DFFs) connected in cascade. The first DFF stage receives a pixel signal of video data to be displayed. These DFF stages have outputs respectively connected... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040312 | Chip-on-glass liquid crystal display and data transmission method for the same A display implemented with a unique circuit arrangement. The display includes a glass substrate, a plurality of serial-connected source drivers and at least one gate driver. The source drivers and the at least one gate driver are disposed on the glass substrate usin... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035634 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of capacitor lines, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a capacitor line driving circuit, a first capacitive signal output circuit, and a data line driving circuit.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031158 | Driving circuit including shift register and flat panel display device using the same A driving circuit for a flat panel display device includes a generation unit for generating n-phase form generation clocks; and a plurality of shift register stages for sequentially generating a plurality gate signals to a plurality of gate lines using the n-phase f... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022897 | Method for driving plasma display panel Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells de... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013850 | Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device A driving circuit of an electrooptic device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels; a scanning-line driving circuit; a capacitor-line driving circuit; and a data-line driving c... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7999787 | Methods for driving electrophoretic displays using dielectrophoretic forces A dielectrophoretic display has a substrate having walls defining a cavity, the cavity having a viewing surface and a side wall inclined to the viewing surface. A fluid is contained within the cavity; and a plurality of particles are present in the fluid. There is a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999770 | Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The present invention provides a technique to improve the display quality of an electro-optical device using an electro-optical element which emits light with a brightness corresponding to a driving current. Each pixel can include an organic EL element OLED which em... | 08/16/2011 |
