Diverse Display Devices Patents (Class 345/5)
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Patent number: 8648772Abstract: A reflective display, such as an electrophoretic display (EPD), and an emissive display, such as a backlit liquid crystal display, may be combined to form an amalgamated display. This combination may include layering one display atop the other, alternating reflective and emissive display elements, or otherwise interspersing reflective and emissive display elements with one another. Images on the amalgamated display may be presented using either reflective or emissive modes or a combination of the two, depending upon factors such as refresh rate, power consumption, presence of color and/or video, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph J. Hebenstreit, Amish Rajesh Babu
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Patent number: 8621365Abstract: A file sharing method and a file sharing system are provided. The system includes a first file processing apparatus and a second file processing apparatus with wireless transmission function to transfer files therebetween. At first, the first file processing apparatus is coupled to the second file processing apparatus. The first file processing apparatus automatically or manually executes a file sharing software to receive desktop information of the second file processing apparatus, and the file sharing software integrates a desktop of the first file processing apparatus with the desktop information to generate a integrated desktop shown on the first file processing apparatus. The second file processing apparatus processes a file in response to a control operation of an icon on the integrated desktop.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.Inventors: Wei-Wen Luo, Wen-Chieh Tseng, Shun-Lung Wang, Yi-Lung Tsai, Tang-Lung Lo, Ling-Wei Hou
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Patent number: 8582152Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: an operation part having a display area and operable to receive an input from a user; a first display part operable to display, in a part of the display area, (i) a first image to be visible only from a range of a first viewing angle and (ii) a second image to be visible only from a range of a second viewing angle that does not overlap with the range of the first viewing angle; an audio output part operable to output an audio explaining the first image; and a second display part operable, while the audio explaining the first image is being output, to display, in a remaining part of the display area, a notification indicating that the audio explaining the first image does not correspond to the second image, such that the notification is visible from the range of the second viewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Eguchi, Toshikazu Higashi, Tatsuya Eguchi
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Patent number: 8583178Abstract: The mobile terminal has a memory unit configured to store a software, a first display unit configured to display a first screen image generated by a first version of the software, and an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device having a second display unit. A controller is configured to display the first screen image corresponding to the software of a first version on the first display unit when the software is executed, and to control a second screen image corresponding to the first image, according to the software of a second version to be displayed on the second display unit when the interface unit is connected to the external display device, the second image generated by a second version of the software. Accordingly, a user is able to experience different versions of software simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Chanphill Yun, Woongchang Kim, Sunryang Kim
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Patent number: 8547406Abstract: Display element with at least one color-generating cell of the first type which has an emissive light source, and with at least one color-generating cell of the second type which has a reflective and/or transmissive and/or transflective light source, whereby each cell of the second type can be driven so that it makes visible one of the chromatic colors red, green, blue, magenta, cyan and yellow and the achromatic colors white and black, to compensate at least partly for the absence of the color impression created by at least one color-generating cell of the first type on account of the ambient light of the display element.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Advanced Display Technology AGInventors: Andriy Bitman, Dieter Jerosch, Frank Bartels, Karlheinz Blankenbach, Juergen Rawert
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Patent number: 8537214Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjustment of a harmonization compensation applied to alleviate a discrepancy of conformity between a video image transmitted by a video transducer (1) and projected by a head-up display device (5, 6), of an aircraft, and an external scene ahead of the aircraft. At least one equipment item of the aircraft—preferably the said HUD device—equipped with at least one control element accessible in the cockpit, is programmed to be able to function according to a nominal mode and according to a maintenance mode, in which at least one of its control elements, known as a redirected control element, is used to define the applied harmonization compensation. An operator activates the maintenance mode and starts an adjustment operation, in which he modifies in real time the applied harmonization compensation, by manipulating at least one redirected control element, until the video image is matched with the external scene.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Sandra Poussin, David Bideau, Laurent Coloma, Stephane Gauthier
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Patent number: 8488905Abstract: It is difficult to reproduce an input image more faithfully while enlarging a dynamic range and color gamut, in a reproduced image obtained by overlapping output images by a projector and printer. An image processing apparatus (102) transforms an input signal (101) into an RGB signal for a projector (103) and a CMY signal for a printer (104). In this case, the image processing apparatus (102) uses a transformation LUT, which is generated based on the spectral distribution characteristics of the projector (103) and the spectral reflectivity characteristics of the printer (104). By overlapping images formed by the projector (103) and printer (104) based on the transformed image signals, an input image can be reproduced more faithfully while enlarging the dynamic range and color gamut.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yosuke Hayase
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Patent number: 8487835Abstract: A display device is provided. A display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel disposed on the first display. One of the first display panel and the second display panel is monochrome and the other of the first display panel and the second display panel is color.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Inventor: Sukho Jung
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Patent number: 8482508Abstract: A LCD display device includes a LCD panel including a plurality of LCD units with trapezoid structure, and three sides of the LCD unit all include three liquid crystal molecules (LCM), the LCMs of all of the first side of the LCD unit constitute a first LCM array and form a first display interface, the LCMs of all of the second side constitute a second LCM array and form a second display interface, and the LCMs of all of the third side constitute a third LCM array and form a third display interface. The LCD display device also includes three signal conversion modules configured to convert three display signals into three control signals respectively, and three driving modules configured to drive the three LCM arrays according to the control signals and cause the first, the second, and the third display interface to display corresponding images.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shih-Fang Wong, Xin Lu, Yu-Cui Zhou
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Patent number: 8482484Abstract: A display device and an electronic device in which more sophistication and a high added value are realized by obtaining a read function by incorporating an imaging device, and by using a panel with small volume can be provided. A display device and an electronic device according to the invention has a first display surface and a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix over one surface of a light transmitting substrate and a second display surface over the other surface of the substrate. The plurality of pixels are each provided with a transistor, an imaging device, and a light-emitting element which emits light to the first display surface and the second display surface. The light-emitting element has two functions of serving as a light source when information of a subject is read and displaying an image.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yasuko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130169512Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display and a second display. The first display is used for displaying dynamic images; and the second display is used for displaying static images. The first display is capable of being translucent, and the first display is stacked on the second display.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Inventor: CHEN-CHI YANG
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Patent number: 8467119Abstract: An electrochromic display device including: a first substrate; first electrodes parallely extending on the first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; second electrodes parallely extending in a direction orthogonal to the first electrodes on the second substrate; and an electrochromic composition layer between the substrates, wherein the device is passive-matrix driven to perform a display by energization between the electrodes, and to perform erasing of the display by energization in a reverse direction, a pixel is formed in a portion where the first electrodes sterically intersect with the second electrodes, and metal electrical wires extending over the regions between the second electrodes and the second substrate along the second electrodes, each of metal electrical wires being conductively connected to each of the second electrodes corresponding to any one of the regions, and insulated from each of the second electrodes corresponding to the other regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wu Weng, Toshimi Fukuoka, Tetsuya Higuchi, Masao Suzuki, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8462080Abstract: A display device includes a display cell having a plurality of sub-pixels to make a single image or dual images, and a control cell for passing through the single image, and guiding a first image of the dual images toward a first direction and a second image of the dual images toward a second direction different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyung-Seok Jang, Joon-Kyu Park, Hyun-Suk Jin
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Patent number: 8451193Abstract: A display (202) is formed on an OLED layer (210) and at least one other layer formed of different display technology (212). At least one sensor (206 and/or 208) is used to determine a condition which impacts readability of the display (202). The different display layers are enabled and disabled in response to the sensed conditions to provide optimum viewing.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Joseph C. Namm, Jorge L. Garcia, Salvador P. Magana
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Patent number: 8432411Abstract: A method, computer-usable medium, and system for processing graphical data for display on a multi-component display is disclosed. Embodiments improve the display quality of multi-component displays by modifying graphical data to preemptively compensate for distortion caused by interstitial layers and/or display screens of the multi-component display, thereby enabling display of graphical objects from multi-component displays with improved optical characteristics. For example, where components of a multi-component display blur displayed images, graphical data used to display graphical objects may be modified to sharpen the graphical objects before display. The pre-sharpening amplifies the high frequency components of the displayed graphical objects to compensate for the dampening caused by passing the graphical objects through the components of the multi-component display.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Pure Depth LimitedInventors: Gareth Paul Bell, Daniel E. Evanicky, Edward Maurice Granger
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Patent number: 8427393Abstract: The multi-layer display device apparatus has a first display part, a second display part arranged at the rear-side of the first display part, a transforming part arranged between the first and the second display part. The transforming part transforms a linear polarized light in to a non-polarized light. Further, the display device has a storage part which stores a parameter for adjusting the image quality of the image displayed on the first and second display part, and an image adjustment part which adjusts the image quality of the image displayed in the first and second display part based on the parameter stored in the storage part.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiko Nakazaki, Yoshinori Saito, Tsutomu Fujita, Yoichi Fukushima
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Patent number: 8427746Abstract: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic image display system and a method of controlling the same. An eye tracking module locates current 3D spatial positions of the viewer's eyes, and generates the information of both left and right eyes' current 3D spatial positions. A control module controls a display device that can alter the direction of the light outputted, and outputs images on the display device in time multiplex mode. The light containing the left eye image is outputted to the position of left eye instead of right eye at one time point, and the light containing the right eye image is outputted to the position of right eye instead of left eye at another time point, so that a stereoscopic image is perceived according to the parallax theory. The present invention enlarges the visual range of stereoscopic image and achieves a better stereoscopic image visual experience for viewers.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Infovision Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co. Ltd.Inventor: Bingyu Si
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Patent number: 8416150Abstract: A method and system for determining a position for an interstitial diffuser for use in a multi-component display is disclosed. Embodiments utilize a camera to capture images of visual output from one or more display screens of a multi-component display, where each image may be taken with an interstitial diffuser at a different position between the display screens. The images may be used to analyze the Moiré interference and blur of the visual output at each position of the diffuser. Moiré interference values for each diffuser position may be determined by processing images captured of the visual output while each display screen displays a white image. Blur values for each diffuser position may be determined by comparing images captured of the visual output with a reference image.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: IGTInventors: Gareth P. Paul, Robert Jaime Craig, Tony Scott Simmiss
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Patent number: 8356907Abstract: A host computer includes a host machine and a projector. The host machine has a keyboard. The projector is positioned about the keyboard and includes a projection lens. A using position of the projection lens is higher than a received position of the projection lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pao-Hsian Chan, Hsin-Yi Hsu, Muh-Jin Uang
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Patent number: 8353766Abstract: During a slot machine game, game effects are also displayed on a liquid crystal panel 39d provided in a reel display window unit 39, and thus the liquid crystal panel 39d serves as a new machine component for performing game effects. Therefore, new effects for the game can be performed on the liquid crystal panel 39d, which facilitates maintaining the novelty of game effects. Furthermore, the diffusion sheet 39f and the light guiding plate 39g are formed with openings 5a, 6a and 7a and openings 5b, 6b and 7b respectively for allowing the symbols variably displayed on the reels to be observed. As a result, there are decreased obstacles, interposed, in such a way as to prevent the light from passing through, between the transparent acryl plate 39a and the reels 2-4 on which the light is variably displayed. Therefore, the visibility of the symbols variably displayed on the reels 2-4 is increased.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Universal Entertainment CorporationInventor: Kazuo Okada
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Patent number: 8350874Abstract: A mobile terminal and method of controlling a display device are provided. The present invention includes a display unit displaying information and a control unit controlling the display of the information according to whether luminescence conversion is performed, the luminescence conversion converting a plane luminescence of the display unit to a plurality of dot luminescences. A user can be provided with a substantially analog type information display as well as a digital type information display by loading the luminescence converting unit, such as a plate having a plurality of holes and a semitransparent film, on a display unit of a mobile terminal or by displaying an image having a configuration of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang Yeon Lim, Yeon Woo Park, Young Suk Oh, Huhn Kim
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Patent number: 8344965Abstract: A head mounted display device has a frame. The frame includes a front portion mountable on a nose of a user, and extending to a right side edge of the front portion, and to a left side edge of the front portion, in front of at least one eye of the user, a connection portion connected to an edge portion of at least one of the right and left side edge, and the connection portion extends rearward from the edge portion, and a temple portion configured to be mountable on an ear of the user, rotatably connected to the connection portion, and rotates around a rotation axis. The head mounted display also has an image display unit having an optical system, for generating an image to be displayed at a position viewable by the user, and a retaining mechanism to hold the image display unit within the connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8339331Abstract: An electro-optical device including: first display elements each divided into at least a first region and a second region, for displaying a first image, and second display elements each divided into at least a third region and a fourth region, for displaying a second image, the first and second display elements being arranged such that each third region is disposed between the first region and the second region of the adjacent first display element and each second region is disposed between the third region and the fourth region of the adjacent second display element; a parallax barrier layer provided on a side of the display elements adjacent to a viewer, the parallax barrier having light transmitting regions at positions thereof corresponding to boundaries between adjoining first and third regions as well as between adjoining second and fourth regions; and a spacer layer separating the display elements from the parallax barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Yoichi Momose
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Patent number: 8334819Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and systems for constructing and configuring displays constructed from superimposed display subunits are disclosed. A display may be formed by superimposing two display subunits including multiple display elements or pixels which emit or otherwise modulate light. Display subunits may be optically superimposed with an optical system such that a light emitting element in the first subunit is superimposed with a corresponding light emitting element in the second subunit that emits light in a like wavelength band. A method of producing a display may include superimposing first and second display subunits to form a superimposed display area, controlling the first display subunit to produce a first light pattern; and controlling the second display subunit to produce a second light pattern that when superimposed with the first light pattern produces a desired light pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLCInventors: W. Daniel Hillis, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Patent number: 8330723Abstract: Coupling an outer covering to a frame of an appliance. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are devices including a frame member of an appliance (the frame member defines an outer portion and a first ridge feature on the outer portion, the first ridge feature has a length along the frame member, a height, and a flat contact portion that defines a width), an outer covering member in contact with the contact portion of the first ridge feature, and an adhesive disposed between the frame member and the outer covering member proximate to the first ridge feature (the adhesive adhered to the frame member and the outer covering member). For at least a portion of the length of the first ridge feature, a thickness of the adhesive is the same as a height of the first ridge feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Keith A. Sauer, Jeffrey A. Lev, Kenneth D. Reddix
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Patent number: 8314751Abstract: A dual-display electronic device includes a housing, a first type of display panel mounted on the housing, and a second type of display unit received in the housing. The housing defines a receiving space therein and an opening communicating with the receiving space. The second type of display unit is slidably received in the receiving space and includes an second type of display panel. A first magnet is mounted on the second type of display unit, a second magnet and an electromagnet are mounted on the housing respectively. When the electromagnet is powered off, the second magnet attracts the first magnet to keep the second type of display panel hiding in the receiving space. When the electromagnet is powered on, the electromagnet attracts the first magnet to make the second type of display panel slide out of the receiving space.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Song-Ling Yang
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Patent number: 8284118Abstract: A device may include a first display and the second display. The second display may be substantially transparent during an inactive state, and may overlay the first display. In addition, the device may include logic configured to enter a power savings mode upon detecting a first event associated with use of the device, place the second display in the inactive state in the power savings mode, and activate the first display when the second display is in the inactive state.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Paul O. Perry, Heath Stallings, Chivas Nambiar
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Publication number: 20120206321Abstract: The present invention relates to a display apparatus comprising front display unit (10) and rear display unit (50), wherein the front display unit (10) and the rear display unit (50) are arranged such that an image on the rear display unit (50) is visible through a portion of the front display unit (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Kyoung Chan Lee, Chan Hwan Kim, Gun Ho Lee
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Patent number: 8233863Abstract: A mobile terminal having electronic paper and a method for controlling the same are provided, wherein the mobile terminal comprises: a first display unit configured to implement a role of electronic paper; a second display unit configured to be mounted at one side of the first display unit for implementing a role of a light emitting display unit; a memory configured to store a program for implementing a predetermined menu; and a controller configured to display the menu on the first display unit or the second display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Jong Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 8233033Abstract: A visual display system includes a display device having an image display region for presenting images to a viewer. The system includes one or more illumination sources that at least partially peripherally surround the image display region and/or project illumination radiated therefrom so as to illuminate a region visually appearing to the viewer to at least partially peripherally surround the image display region. A control device controls light radiation emitted in use from the one or more illumination sources in response to at least one of image and audio indicative signals so as to provide at least a partial spatial extension of the image display region.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: TP Vision Holding B.V.Inventors: Ronaldus Maria Aarts, Emmanuel Johannes Smits
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Patent number: 8194062Abstract: A display terminal includes a nonvolatile display device and a power-off control device. The display device has a display region and holds display in the display region even if a supply of power from a power source is cut off. The power-off control device updates only the display in a partial display region, which is a part of the display region, with display of notification information indicating that the power supply has been cut off. The power-off control device also performs processing to cut off the supply of power from the power source to the display terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroki Sugamata
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Patent number: 8174464Abstract: A display device, adapted to display a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image, includes an image panel for displaying an image and a barrier panel located in front of the image panel. The barrier panel includes a first substrate including In-Plane-Switching type electrodes arranged on a surface of the substrate, a second substrate having a transparent electrode on the inner side surface, and a liquid crystal layer located between the first and second substrates. The barrier panel displays the image as a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image depending on electric fields established between first and second substrates of the barrier panel and between the In-Plane-Switching type electrodes formed on the first substrate. The two-dimensional image may be displayed with wide viewing angle and narrow viewing angle options.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung Ho Choi, Brent Jang, Hui Nam
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Patent number: 8156267Abstract: The present invention provides a switching apparatus, which includes at least one first USB hub, one second USB hub and a controller. The first USB hub includes at least one first USB port for connecting N image input apparatus respectively; N is a positive integer. The second USB hub includes at least one second USB port for connecting M peripheral apparatus respectively; M is a positive integer. The controller is connected to the first USB hub and the second USB hub, for selecting at least one target image input apparatus from the N image input apparatus, and controlling the at least one target image input apparatus to communicate with at least one of the peripheral apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., LtdInventors: Chien-Chou Chen, Yu-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 8149183Abstract: Various embodiments and methods relating to driving a stacked arrangement of display panels are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Peter James Fricke, Alan R. Arthur
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Patent number: 8115698Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying or projecting images that may be implemented to provide the ability for a user of an information handling system to view a selected image on a display or projection screen privately, while allowing other images to appear on the display or projection screen which are publicly viewable to other users who cannot see the privately-displayed image. With appropriate intervening polarization, a user may be allowed to view the private image as well as any displayed or projected publicly viewable images, and the private image and publicly viewable images may be optionally simultaneously displayed or projected if so desired.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Frank C. Azor, Mark A. Casparian, Reginald I. Rego
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Patent number: 8106853Abstract: An effective method to create very large electronic displays forms the structure using fiber or tube arrays or electroded sheets containing wire electrodes. The electroded sheets are formed by embedding wire electrodes into the surface of a polymer substrate and electrically connecting a patterned transparent conductive electrode lines to the wires. The wire electrodes are used to carry the bulk of the current and the transparent conductive electrode is used to spread the charge or voltage from the wire electrode across the line of pixels. In most display applications, the electroded surface of the electroded sheet has to be flattened. The electroded sheets may be used to form many different types of displays.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Nupix, LLCInventors: Chad B. Moore, Giacomo James Piazza
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Patent number: 8098215Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which includes: a transparent display element display unit (21) that displays a transparent window in association with display position information for specifying a display position on a display (2), the transparent window being displayed as transparent at least in part such that display information covered with the transparent window is visually recognized through the transparent window; an information acquisition unit (22) that acquires the display information covered with the transparent window based on the display position information; a superimposition detection unit (27) that detects that a plurality of the transparent windows are in a positional relation in which the plurality of the transparent windows overlap one another to be displayed, based on the display position information; and a processing execution unit (28) that executes, in a case where the superimposition of the plurality of the transparent windows is detected, predetermined processing based onType: GrantFiled: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: PFU LimitedInventor: Hiroaki Takata
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Patent number: 8081964Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for removal of a display screen from a wireless device, or, in a different embodiment, provide for a display screen as a separate and additional device that functions in real time in the same way as if the screen were incorporated in the wireless device. This functionality is enabled by a short range wireless connection, such as Bluetooth, between transceivers located in the wireless device and the display screen device. The display screen device allows a user to monitor the associated wireless device without needing to operate the full device. The display screen device may also have control capability for controlling the wireless device. Thus, a user can monitor, and control, a mobile device from a smaller remote display device while being presented with the information that would be displayed on the display screen of the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark J. Enzmann, Paul Christopher Grooms, Robert Torrence Moton, Jr.
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Patent number: 8077244Abstract: A camera, including a camera main body; a first monitor which is openable and closable on the camera main body; and a second monitor which is openable and closable on the camera main body; wherein the first monitor and the second monitor are configured so that the second monitor is closed when the first monitor is opened, and the first monitor is closed when the second monitor is opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Atsushi Misawa
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Patent number: 8068130Abstract: An active matrix type display panel, used as a display-use panel, has pixel patterns each having aperture sections. The aperture sections are set to have a width satisfying the following inequality, 0<(minimum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)/(maximum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)?0.037, or 0.130?(minimum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)/(maximum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)<1.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Sunao Aoki, Tatsuji Saitoh, Kenji Fujita, Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20110260950Abstract: A display device is provided. A display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel disposed on the first display. One of the first display panel and the second display panel is monochrome and the other of the first display panel and the second display panel is color.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Inventor: Sukho JUNG
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Patent number: 8018354Abstract: An onboard display device has a pickup unit that picks up nighttime environment to acquire a nightview image, a display that can display a nightview image together with a map image, and a display control unit that displays an information-providing image that is different from the map image and the nightview image on the display and controls displays of the map image and the nightview image, when the information-providing image has to be displayed in a state in which the map image and the nightview image are displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takuo Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8009145Abstract: In a conventional display device comprising a sub-display, the display device is increased in thickness and in the number of components as the number of displays is increased. In the present invention, a dual emission display device is used so that either surface of a display is used as a main display or a sub-display. Accordingly, the display device can be reduced in thickness and in the number of components. Further, mechanical reliability can be enhanced when the invention is applied to a tablet PC, a video camera and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama
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Patent number: 7999759Abstract: A display system for presenting one or more planes of display information. The display system may include two or more display modules positioned in a spaced relationship in a stacked formation substantially along a Z-axis perpendicular to a display face of a display module. Each display module may be selectively activated to display a visual image or deactivated to a quiescent state. Further, when a display module is activated to display the viewed image, the viewed image can be viewed through a prior display module which is deactivated to a quiescent state.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Rambus Inc.Inventor: Martin G. Selbrede
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Publication number: 20110128260Abstract: A stacked display (20b) comprises superposed regions for changing between a reflective color state (R, G, B) and a transparent state, which regions form part of a˜bended substrate (20). The substrate (20) may comprise a sequence of portions (1-6) which forms regions having pre-defined color. Each portion (1-6) is electrically connected to a further portion in the sequence by interconnect regions (b?, c?, d?) which form an oversized loop between the regions (1-2, 3-4, 5-6) when the substrate (20) is bent. The regions (1-2, 3-4, 5-6) are filled with a suitable optoelectronic color material (R, G, B).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Polymer Vision LimitedInventors: Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Petrus Johannes Gerardus van Lieshout, Erik van Veenendaal
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Patent number: 7917662Abstract: The subject invention relates to a Universal Graphics Adapter (UGA) that is a hardware-independent design that encapsulates and abstracts low-level graphics hardware in a standard manner through firmware. UGA is a firmware standard, intended to wrap existing or planned hardware, including VGA. UGA does not require the use of real-mode assembly language, direct hardware register, or frame buffer access to program, thus providing advantages over conventional systems. UGA supports basic drawing operations, continuous display modes, and power management. As a firmware-based standard, UGA facilitates updating a system to support both evolving and new hardware features. UGA includes the capability to determine ranges of output display capabilities for multiple devices and determine an overlap in capabilities of the multiple devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Maciej Maciesowicz
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Publication number: 20110050545Abstract: A display (202) is formed on an OLED layer (210) and at least one other layer formed of different display technology (212). At least one sensor (206 and/or 208) is used to determine a condition which impacts readability of the display (202). The different display layers are enabled and disabled in response to the sensed conditions to provide optimum viewing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.Inventors: JOSEPH C. NAMM, JORGE L. GARCIA, SALVADOR P. MAGANA
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Publication number: 20110043435Abstract: A reflective display, such as an electrophoretic display (EPD), and an emissive display, such as a backlit liquid crystal display, may be combined to form an amalgamated display. This combination may include layering one display atop the other, alternating reflective and emissive display elements, or otherwise interspersing reflective and emissive display elements with one another. Images on the amalgamated display may be presented using either reflective or emissive modes or a combination of the two, depending upon factors such as refresh rate, power consumption, presence of color and/or video, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventors: Joseph J. Hebenstreit, Amish Rajesh Babu
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Patent number: 7876288Abstract: A device with a touchscreen with a light modulator is disclosed herein. The device transitions from a netbook mode to a touchscreen mode. The device comprises a main unit and a touchscreen unit with a transparent display. The touchscreen unit is preferably separated from the main unit when in a netbook mode, and the touchscreen unit communicates wirelessly with the main unit. The touchscreen unit preferably has an outer screen display surface and an inner screen display surface on each side of a light modulating unit. The main unit preferably has a main unit display.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Chumby Industries, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Shane Huang
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Publication number: 20100309096Abstract: When a main display element is in an active mode, all of a plurality of unit display regions of a sub display element are switched to a transmitting portion for displaying display information of the main display element. When the main display element is in a sleep mode in which the main display element provides black or dark display, the plurality of unit display regions of the sub display element are switched to the transmitting portion for displaying the black or dark display information of the main display element, and a reflecting portion for displaying white or bright display information by blocking light from the main display element and reflecting light from a viewer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2008Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventor: Ippei Inoh