Color Patents (Class 345/72)
  • Patent number: 11869433
    Abstract: A pixel of a display apparatus includes a light emitting device and a pixel circuit connected to first to third gate control lines and the light emitting device, the pixel circuit including first to fourth nodes. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor connected to the first to third nodes, a first transistor connected to the first gate control line and the first and second nodes, a second transistor connected to the second gate control line, the second node, and a first driving voltage line, a third transistor connected to the first gate control line, the third node, and the fourth node, a fourth transistor connected to the first gate control line, the fourth node, and an initialization voltage line, a fifth transistor connected to the third gate control line, the third node, and a data line, and a storage capacitor between the first node and the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho Bong, Minwoo Park
  • Patent number: 9483973
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device which can improve viewing angle characteristics and a driving method of the liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device including the liquid crystal display device. In a liquid crystal display device which performs display by aligning liquid crystal molecules at a tilt or radially at a tilt, one pixel is divided into a plurality of regions (sub-pixels) and a signal applied to each sub-pixel is made different every desired period. Alternatively, a signal applied to each sub-pixel is made different with respect to an adjacent pixel. To improve viewing angle characteristics by changing transmittance of the liquid crystal molecules every desired period in addition to improving the viewing angle characteristics of a viewer by making the liquid crystal molecules slanted to increase directions of alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9140894
    Abstract: An electro-wetting display apparatus includes a first base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes on the first base substrate, an insulating layer which overlaps the first electrodes, a pixel wall on the insulating layer, where the pixel wall partitions a plurality of pixels respectively corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes, a second base substrate which face the first base substrate, a second electrode on the second base substrate and including a plurality of openings, and a fluid between the first base substrate and the second base substrate and in the plurality of pixels. The movement of the fluid in the plurality of pixels is controlled by voltages respectively applied to the first electrodes and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Myung-Eun Kim, Sang-Il Kim, Yeuntae Kim, Yujin Kim, Byungseok Choi
  • Publication number: 20150009244
    Abstract: A device cover includes a protective layer and a display layer. The display layer includes a plurality of display pixels. Each display pixel includes a first fluid having a first color characteristic and a second fluid having a second color characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Reid
  • Patent number: 8902153
    Abstract: A color display has continuous areas of a single color covering a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes. Each sub-pixel of a given color has sub-pixels of the same given color disposed along at least two of its adjacent edges. Each area of a single color may cover a 2×2 array of sub-pixel electrodes. The colors used may be red/green/blue/white (RGBW), red/green/blue/yellow (RGBY), or orange/lime/purple/white.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Bouchard, Thomas H. Whitesides, Michael D. Walls, Steven P. Dudek
  • Publication number: 20140232621
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes first and second substrates facing each other and separated from each other, a cell region between the first and second substrates, the cell region including a pixel region and a reservoir region, a first fluid and a second fluid in the cell region, the first fluid being conductive and flowing according to an electrowetting principle and the second fluid being non-conductive and not mixed with the first fluid, and an electrode unit turning on and off the pixel region, the electrode unit including a pixel electrode coated with an insulating material and at least one reservoir electrode coated with the insulating material to promote flow of one of the first fluid and the second fluid into the reservoir region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Deuk-seok CHUNG
  • Patent number: 8735577
    Abstract: A 1,3,5-triazine derivative represented by the formula (1): wherein R1, R2 and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group; Ar2 represents an C1-4 alkyl-substituted or unsubstituted aromatic 6-membered heterocyclic group having one or two nitrogen atoms, which may be a condensed ring compound. An organic electroluminescent device comprising the 1,3,5-triazine derivative exhibits low power consumption and long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Tosoh Corporation, Sagami Chemical Research Institute
    Inventors: Hidenori Aihara, Akitoshi Ogata, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8612579
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting and reducing botnet activity includes tracking the number of connections to a destination address over predetermined periods of time. A persistence value is assigned to the destination address based on the number of time periods during which the destination address was connected. The persistence value is compared to a threshold value and an alert is generated if the persistence value is greater than the threshold value. Known safe destinations may be entered into a whitelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jaideep Chandrashekar, Eve M. Schooler, Nina Taft, Frederic Giroire
  • Patent number: 8605127
    Abstract: A method for driving an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display panel is provided. In the present method, how to drive a single pixel having a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a first blue (light blue) sub-pixel, and a second blue (dark blue) sub-pixel is effectively determined based on the characteristics of the (1931) CIE color space. Besides, at the same time point, only one of the two sub-pixels corresponding to the two blues (i.e. dark blue and light blue) in the single pixel is enabled to be mixed with the red sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel. Accordingly, the luminous efficiency of the AMOLED is improved and the power consumption of the entire AMOLED display is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hsueh-Yen Yang, Tze-Chien Tsai
  • Patent number: 8570591
    Abstract: A color conversion device include a limit value setting unit that sets, in accordance with a color gamut, a limit value of a color material total amount that is used in an output device that uses color materials of M colors including black, where M is an integer equal to or larger than 4, and outputs an image; and a black amount determining unit that calculates a total amount limit value corresponding to the color gamut for each black amount on the basis of the limit value that has been set in accordance with the color gamut by the limit value setting unit and determines a black amount from a conversion target-independent color signal of a device-independent color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kuwada
  • Publication number: 20130278649
    Abstract: In the plasma display apparatus, address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, one of a forced initializing operation and a selective initializing operation is performed in the initializing period. Then, one field includes a specific-cell initializing subfield having an initializing period in which a forced initializing operation is performed in a specific discharge cell and a selective initializing operation is performed in the other discharge cells. In the address period of the specific-cell initializing subfield, the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the selective initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield is made longer than the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the forced initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayuhiko Saito, Takahiko Origuchi, Yuya Shiozaki, Naoyuki Tomioka, Hidehiko Shoji
  • Patent number: 8519956
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound probe receiving echo signals from a subject, and a processor converting echo signals received from the probe to echo data corresponding to an ultrasound image. The system also includes a grayscale mapper transforming the echo data received from the processor to a corresponding value of perception data. The grayscale mapper makes this transformation using a DICOM compliant GSDF calibration curve. The perception data is passed to a transform processor, which also receives an ambient light signal from an ambient light sensor. The transform processor converts the perception values to respective digital driving levels based on the ambient light signal and display characteristics of a display device to which the digital driving levels are applied to maintain optimal image display under varying ambient light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: David Rust, Joseph M. Luszcz
  • Patent number: 8508467
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3). In the display device (10), a signal electrode (first electrode) (4) is provided on the upper substrate (2), and a scanning electrode (second electrode) (5) and a reference electrode (third electrode) (6) are provided on the lower substrate (3). The signal electrode (4) comes into contact with the conductive liquid (16) and is made of a material that is electrochemically inert to the conductive liquid (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoko Teranishi, Akio Miyata, Shinichi Nakano, Toshiki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8466853
    Abstract: A driving method of a plasma display device according to an exemplary embodiment groups a plurality of address electrodes extending in a first direction into a plurality of groups, and logically divides each of the groups into a plurality of sub-groups. During a first period, a first pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of groups, and a second pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of sub-groups included in at least one of the plurality of groups during a second period following the first period. The first and second periods are address periods for sensing in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Yong Song, Suk-Jae Park, Woo-Joon Chung
  • Patent number: 8446435
    Abstract: A display device has an improved white balance in white display and excellent display quality, and includes a plurality of pixels each including four sub-pixels More specifically, the display device includes a plurality of pixels each including: a sub-pixel pair of a red (R) sub-pixel and a green (G) sub-pixel; and a sub-pixel pair of a blue (B) sub-pixel and a green (G) sub-pixel, wherein in most of the pixels, a product of an aperture area per sub-pixel and a light amount per unit aperture area, in each of the red (R) sub-pixel and the blue (B) sub-pixel, is approximately two times that of the green (G) sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Kozo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8437046
    Abstract: This presents an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which print and output image data subjected to halftone processing with an appropriate density characteristic. The image processing apparatus generates a halftone image from a multi-value image using a threshold value arrangement, and generates a difference image between the generated halftone image and a second halftone image having the density characteristic different from that of the generated halftone image. The image processing apparatus stores the generated halftone image and the generated difference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahito Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8363040
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3) so as to be moved toward an effective display region (P1) or a non-effective display region (P2). In the display device (10), a signal electrode (4), a reference electrode (5), and a scanning electrode (6) are configured so that voltages in a predetermined voltage range can be independently applied to the respective electrodes. The same voltages (third voltage and fourth voltage) are applied to the reference electrode (5) and the scanning electrode (6) that are provided on the lower substrate (3) so as to be located on the effective display region (P1) side and the non-effective display region (P2) side, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Matsuoka, Akio Miyata, Tomoko Teranishi, Shinichi Nakano, Kazuhiro Deguchi
  • Patent number: 8355176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a screen processor for determining each pixel value of a screen processing application unit region composed of a plurality of pixels to which a threshold matrix is applied, in an inputted image; and for carrying out a screen processing by applying one threshold matrix among a plurality of threshold matrices in which applied positions of the threshold values are different from each other, to the plurality of pixels in the screen processing application unit region based on each determined pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kosuke Toura
  • Patent number: 8330676
    Abstract: This invention provides a plasma tube array-type display device and a luminance correcting method realizing reduced variations in luminance values of a plasma tube array. A gradient of the luminance value in the longitudinal direction of one plasma tube is calculated on the basis of the obtained luminance value at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of at least one plasma tube. A difference of the luminance value of each plasma tube obtained at the same relative position. On the basis of the gradient of the luminance value and the difference of the luminance value of each plasma tube at the same relative position, a correction luminance value in each discharge cell in the longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of plasma tubes is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shinohe, Koji Kishimoto, Tetsuya Makino, Hitoshi Hirakawa, Kenji Awamoto
  • Patent number: 8319705
    Abstract: The plasma display device has a display panel having first and second display electrodes and address electrodes, an electrode drive circuit, and a drive control circuit for controlling the electrode drive circuit. The drive control circuit performs a reset drive control, address drive control and sustain drive control in each subfield. The drive control circuit performs an all cell reset drive control which resets all cells in a first subfield out of the plurality of subfields, and an ON cell reset drive control which resets ON cells in a second subfield. At a first temperature T1, an ultimate potential of an slope pulse of the first display electrode is controlled to be a first potential in the ON cell reset drive control, and at a second temperature T2>T1, the ultimate potential is controlled to be a second potential higher than the first potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Kumagai, Katsumi Ito
  • Patent number: 8319455
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the output of a plurality of light sources. The system can include four or more light sources (e.g. light emitting diodes (“LEDs”)) and a controller. The light sources are included in, for example, a luminaire. The respective outputs of the plurality of light sources are controlled using a hue and purity (“HP”) control technique. The HP technique includes selecting a dominant hue (e.g., green, blue, red, etc.). The purity of the selected hue is then modified to include or remove wavelengths of light adjacent to the selected hue. For example, if the selected hue is green, gradually reducing the purity of the selected hue gradually increases the presence of cyan and amber in the output of the luminaire. As the purity is reduced further, additional wavelengths of light are included, but the output of the luminaire remains, in essence, green.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Bennette
  • Patent number: 8305402
    Abstract: A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) having an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes formed on the upper substrate, and a plurality of address electrodes formed on the lower substrate; and a driver applying driving signals to the plurality of electrodes, wherein a reset discharge occurs in a part of discharge cells. The plasma display device can contribute to the reduction of dark-area luminance and the improvement of dark-room contrast ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon Shick Chung, Choon Sub Kim, Dong Hyuk Park
  • Patent number: 8289233
    Abstract: Visual artifact reduction method for a display comprising the use of error diffusion. Other artifact reduction methods can be used with error diffusion, including gamma correction, dithering, and center of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Guy, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 8259038
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3). In the display device (10), a signal electrode (first electrode) (4) made of a material that is electrochemically inert to the conductive liquid (16) is placed in the display space (S). Moreover, a scanning electrode (second electrode) (5) and a reference electrode (third electrode) (6) are provided on the lower substrate (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Matsuoka, Akio Miyata, Tomoko Teranishi, Shinichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8223091
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided for performing image display by dividing one frame period into a plurality of sub-frame periods, determining a gradation level of each of the sub-frame periods in accordance with a gradation level of an input image signal and supplying the determined gradation level to an image display section. The image display apparatus comprises a display control section, wherein the display control section supplies a relatively largest gradation level in a relatively central sub-frame period which is at a time-wise center or closest to the time-wise center of one frame period, and supplies a sequentially lowered gradation level in a sub-frame period which is sequentially farther from the relatively central sub-frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Akihiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 8203512
    Abstract: A display and techniques for displaying information involve the use of pixel-generating elements that include a light conduit and multiple adjustable light absorbing filters. The light conduit allows light from a light source to pass from a first side to a second side of the pixel-generating element. A first adjustable light absorbing filter adjustably absorbs a first set of visible light wavelengths from light passing through the light conduit to produce a first filtered light. A second adjustable light absorbing filter adjustably absorbs a second, different set of visible light wavelengths from the first filtered light. Each adjustable light absorbing filter is adjustable to a substantially transparent state, and the pixel-generating element generates a viewable pixel having a color adjustable between substantially a color of the light source and a color of the light source as modified by one or both of the adjustable light absorbing filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Marcu, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 8194032
    Abstract: An image display medium is disclosed, which medium includes a pair of substrates each having an electrode and colored particles between the pair of substrates, and the colored particles have an absolute electric charge of 0.5 to 4.0 ?C/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeki Takenouchi, Eiichi Sakai, Tatsuya Nagase, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya
  • Patent number: 8130422
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided which comprises an input unit and an analog front end circuit with DC inputs. According to the invention, no capacitor is installed in the input unit and no clamper is installed in the AFE circuit with DC inputs. By appropriately selecting a comparing voltage and adding a level shifter or a compensation circuit, the invention can still generate an accurate digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Jui-Yuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 8115702
    Abstract: A plasma display device and a method of driving the same, capable of reducing or preventing the deterioration of components such as a switching device, due to an overcurrent. In a reset period, in order to cause the voltage of a scan electrode to ramp down from a first voltage to a second voltage, a panel driver includes a falling ramp switch that repeats turn-on/turn-off operations, alternately coupling and de-coupling a low-level power supply to the scan electrode, resulting in a gradually falling ramp waveform. A switch controller generates a switching pulse to control the falling ramp switch. Each turn-on time of the switching pulse for the initial falling ramp waveform following a power-on of the plasma display device is controlled to be shorter than each turn-on time of the switching pulse for other falling ramp waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ito Kazuhiro, Yoo-jin Song, Tae-wook Kim
  • Patent number: 8054247
    Abstract: In a method for driving a display, one frame may be divided into more sub frames than a number of bits of data. A time period of the one frame may be divided into a number of periods corresponding to a number of scan lines multiplied by the number of sub frames. A start position of the sub frames may be set based on a bit weight of the data so that gradations are linearly expressed. Remainders of the sub frames may be obtained by dividing the start position of the sub frames by the number of sub frames. A line number of a scan line to which a scan signal is supplied may be obtained based on the time period of the one frame, the start position of the sub frames, and the number of the sub frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Hyung Ryu, Do Ik Kim
  • Patent number: 8013867
    Abstract: Techniques for modifying aspects of the gamut mapping function in a multi-primary display system influence the performance of the display or the perception of certain ones of the colors. One embodiment of the system comprises a method for selecting a metamer. Other embodiments provide methods for modifying the output color produced by the gamut mapping operation for input colors that are on the darker or brighter surfaces of the input color gamut, or for certain out-of-gamut colors such as yellow colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Francis Higgins, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Patent number: 8013808
    Abstract: A panel driving method has, in one filed time period, an all-cell initializing subfield for causing initializing discharge in all discharge cells for displaying an image in the initializing period, and a selection initializing subfield for selectively causing initializing discharge in the discharge cell that has caused sustaining discharge in the last subfield in the initializing period. The number of all-cell initializing subfields can be increased and decreased, and the initializing voltage for causing initializing discharge in the all-cell initializing subfield can be varied. At least one of the number of all-cell initializing subfields and the initializing voltage of the all-cell initializing subfields in one field is controlled based on the accumulation of the panel power-on time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Takeda, Shigeo Kigo, Takeru Yamashita, Tooru Kawase
  • Publication number: 20110187628
    Abstract: A display device which exhibits functional effects in which color separation between sub-pixels constituting a pixel is hardly recognized and white line display is easily recognized as one line, in enlargement of the color reproduction range in image display using multi-primary colors, and thereby improves display quality, and provides a liquid crystal display device including such a display device. The display device displays an image constituted by pixels each including sub-pixels of four or more colors, wherein the pixels constituting the display device mainly include a pixel arranging a sub-pixel of a color having the highest brightness value in a central region of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OKADA, Kazunari TOMIZAWA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Shoji OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7956823
    Abstract: A color display device determines a relationship between RGB components of an input color image signal in terms of their gradation levels, and carries out a different calculation for each input color image signal depending on which of six patterns of the relationship that the input color image signal belongs to. Further, the color display device carries out the calculation for each of the RGB components excluding a component with a smallest gradation level, using variables that vary depending on the respective gradation levels of the RGB components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Akihito Jinda, Hidekazu Miyata, Kazunari Tomizawa, Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 7953852
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting and reducing botnet activity includes tracking the number of connections to a destination address over predetermined periods of time. A persistence value is assigned to the destination address based on the number of time periods during which the destination address was connected. The persistence value is compared to a threshold value and an alert is generated if the persistence value is greater than the threshold value. Known safe destinations may be entered into a whitelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jaideep Chandrashekar, Eve M. Schooler, Nina Taft, Frederic Giroire
  • Patent number: 7907103
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of a plasma display panel are provided. This may include a plasma display panel having a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, and a plurality of address electrodes formed to intersect with the plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes. A driving unit/circuit may drive the scan electrodes, the sustain electrodes, and the address electrodes to allow a voltage difference between the scan electrode and the sustain electrode or a voltage difference between the scan electrode and the address electrode during an address period at one or more subfields of a frame to be larger than a voltage difference between the scan electrode and the sustain electrode or a voltage difference between the scan electrode and the address electrode during the address period at other subfields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunkwon Jung, Muk Hee Kim, Byung Hyun Kim, Myung Soo Ham
  • Patent number: 7889188
    Abstract: This invention relates to a flat panel display device that is adaptive for perfectly compensating a panel defect by performing an electrical compensation on pixels in a panel defect location, and a method of controlling a picture quality thereof. A flat panel display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel which has a non-defect area and a panel defect area; a memory which stores a first compensation, a second compensation data, a third compensation data, a fourth compensation data, and a fifth compensation data; a compensation part; and a driver for driving the display panel in use of the data modulated by the compensation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Hee Hwang
  • Publication number: 20100283775
    Abstract: The driving method of the plasma display device has a plurality of combination sets for display that include a different number of combinations, and has a random number generating section for generating a random number. For each of a red image signal, a green image signal, and a blue image signal, a combination set for display selected from the plurality of combination sets for display based on a predetermined selection reference is used, and disturbance based on the random number is added to the predetermined selection reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 7817118
    Abstract: A display device in which measurement emissive elements that emit light in accordance with a drive current are arranged in a matrix within a display region, the display device includes a measurement emissive element which is formed in a position different from the display region and formed by the same process as the organic EL elements formed in the display region; drive voltage supply circuit for supplying drive voltage to the measurement emissive element; and drive state detection circuit for detecting the drive state of the measurement emissive element in the case where the drive voltage is supplied by the drive voltage supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 7786955
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus includes an image data transmitter to convert an externally input image signal into image data and to transmit the converted image data, an image data receiver to receive the image data and to restore an image signal from the image data, and a data driver to supply the restored image signal to an address electrode of the plasma display panel through a switching operation. The image data may be transmitted as a differential signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Gwan Han, Yang Woog Ryu, Sonic Kim, Dong Kwon Choi
  • Patent number: 7782335
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal panel including 4-color sub-pixels, a data driver to provide video data signals to each sub-pixel, a gate driver to provide a scan pulse to each sub-pixel, a data conversion part to generate a gain value by analyzing a ratio of an achromatic color signal to a chromatic color signal of 3-color source data inputted from an external source and convert the 3-color source data into 4-color data using the generated gain value, and a timing controller to provide the 4-color data received from the data conversion part to the data driver and control the gate driver and the data driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Heume Il Baek
  • Patent number: 7777696
    Abstract: A display associated with a treatment device for dental material, with which at least one operating state of the device can be displayed. The display is a function of the operating state of the device. The display shows different operating states of the treatment device exclusively with the aid of color signals, whereby each color is associated with an operating state of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadeal AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Rohner, Robert Gruenenfelder
  • Patent number: 7773060
    Abstract: A method, medium, and apparatus compensating for differences in the persistence of phosphors in a display panel. The method of compensating for differences in persistence of phosphors in a display panel, having two or more light-emitting elements with different response characteristics, may include compensating for the response time of a first light-emitting element that represents the longest response time, selecting data response time for a second light-emitting element, which is different from the longest response time, and compensating for the differences in the persistence of phosphors due to a difference between the response times of the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element by compensating for the selected video data based on the compensated video data for the first light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-hwa Oh, Ho-young Lee, Du-sik Park, Sung-su Kim, Chang-yeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20100177022
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is movably sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3). In the display device (10), a signal electrode (first electrode) (4) is provided on the upper substrate (2), and a scanning electrode (second electrode) (5) and a reference electrode (third electrode) (6) are provided on the lower substrate (3). The signal electrode (4) comes into contact with the conductive liquid (16) and is made of a material that is electrochemically inert to the conductive liquid (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Tomoko Teranishi, Akio Miyata, Shinichi Nakano, Toshiki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7719491
    Abstract: A driving circuit of a plasma display panel (PDP) and a reset circuit thereof are disclosed. The above-mentioned driving circuit includes a reset circuit and a sustaining circuit. The reset circuit is connected to a display cell of the PDP and generates a reset signal for the above-mentioned display cell by means of an LC resonance. The sustaining circuit provides a sustaining voltage to the above-described display cell during the sustaining period of the display cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsiu Lin, Ming-Zhang Lin
  • Patent number: 7701419
    Abstract: A first group of data drivers is connected to a sub-field processor, a first power recovery circuit, and a PDP, and a second group of data drivers is connected to a sub-field processor, a second power recovery circuit, and a PDP. The first and second groups of data drivers apply to the PDP data pulses that differ in phases. The first and second power recovery circuits generate a voltage for generating the data pulses to the first and second groups of data drivers due to LC resonance, and discharge and recover charges to and from the PDP. Recovery potentials of recovery capacitors in the first and second power recovery circuits are changed depending on the number of times of switching between discharges and non-discharges of discharge cells in the PDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Shoji, Kazuo Oohira, Hironari Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20100090930
    Abstract: A display and techniques for displaying information involve the use of pixel-generating elements that include a light conduit and multiple adjustable light absorbing filters. The light conduit allows light from a light source to pass from a first side to a second side of the pixel-generating element. A first adjustable light absorbing filter adjustably absorbs a first set of visible light wavelengths from light passing through the light conduit to produce a first filtered light. A second adjustable light absorbing filter adjustably absorbs a second, different set of visible light wavelengths from the first filtered light. Each adjustable light absorbing filter is adjustable to a substantially transparent state, and the pixel-generating element generates a viewable pixel having a color adjustable between substantially a color of the light source and a color of the light source as modified by one or both of the adjustable light absorbing filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Marcu, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 7649507
    Abstract: A plasma display panel, a white linearity control device and a control method thereof. The white linearity control method includes calculating a load ratio of an image signal, determining an automatic power control level corresponding to the load ratio, and calculating first correction data corresponding to the automatic power control level. In addition, the method includes discriminating vertical and horizontal positions of the image signal, and obtaining a white linearity value for a corresponding region from two white linearity values defining a period in which the discriminated positions are included through interpolation, and producing second correction data by multiplying the first correction data by the obtained white linearity value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi-Young Joo
  • Patent number: 7646359
    Abstract: There is disclosed a flat display unit which can obtain color signals adapted to a pixel arrangement. The unit has a gate drive circuit and a source drive circuit. Among R, G, B input video signals, a G signal is regarded as a color signal of a reference, R and B signals are regarded as second and third color signals, a plurality of samples of the R signal are multiplied by coefficients and synthesized to generate a first interpolation color signal R?, a plurality of samples of the B signal are multiplied by coefficients and synthesized to generate a second interpolation color signal B?. The R?, B? and G signal are successively selected and supplied to the source drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kimio Anai
  • Publication number: 20090322656
    Abstract: This invention provides a plasma tube array-type display device and a luminance correcting method realizing reduced variations in luminance values of a plasma tube array. A gradient of the luminance value in the longitudinal direction of one plasma tube is calculated on the basis of the obtained luminance value at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of at least one plasma tube. A difference of the luminance value of each plasma tube obtained at the same relative position. On the basis of the gradient of the luminance value and the difference of the luminance value of each plasma tube at the same relative position, a correction luminance value in each discharge cell in the longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of plasma tubes is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji SHINOHE, Koji Kishimoto, Tetsuya Makino, Hitoshi Hirakawa, Kenji Awamoto