Modular Display Patents (Class 345/903)
  • Patent number: 11386832
    Abstract: A tiled display device includes a plurality of display panels coupled to each other, where each of the plurality of display panels includes an edge region adjacent to a boundary line between the plurality of display panels, and a panel driver which multiplies input gray levels of input image data for the plurality of display panels by an adaptive gain, generates boundary compensated image data by adding boundary compensation gray levels to the input gray levels multiplied by the adaptive gain for the edge region, and drives the plurality of display panels based on the boundary compensated image data. The adaptive gain is gradually decreased over a plurality of frame periods in a case where a sum of each of the input gray levels for the edge region and a corresponding one of the boundary compensation gray levels exceeds a maximum gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunseuk Yoo, Bonghyun You, Kyung-Woo Kim, Seokha Hong
  • Patent number: 10736223
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for attaching a display device to an exterior member in an electronic device are provided. The method includes arranging a tube to be at least partially surrounded by a foldable flexible display device, arranging the flexible display device to be at least partially surrounded by the exterior member, the flexible display device and the exterior member being folded, and inflating the tube by injecting gas into the tube. The flexible display device is attached to inner surfaces of the exterior member by the inflation of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Chul Choi, Ha-Youl Jung
  • Patent number: 10218829
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a casing, a flexible display panel, a cushion, an inflatable pad, a gas transportation device and a sensing unit. The flexible display panel is embedded in the casing and including a movable region. The cushion is attached on a bottom surface of the movable region. The inflatable pad is attached on a bottom surface of the flexible display panel and covers the cushion. The gas transportation device is in communication with the inflatable pad and electrically connected with the sensing unit. When the sensing unit is touched by a user, a first driving signal is transmitted from the sensing unit to the gas transportation device, in response to which the gas transportation device inflates the inflatable pad again to raise the cushion, so that the movable region corresponding to the cushion is raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Ta-Wei Hsueh, Shih-Chang Chen, Jia-Yu Liao, Wei-Ming Lee, Yung-Lung Han
  • Patent number: 9887722
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Heecheul Moon, Uyhyeon Jeong
  • Patent number: 9857849
    Abstract: The description relates to hinged devices, such as hinged computing devices. One example can include a first portion and a second portion. The example can also include a pair of self-regulating hinge assemblies rotatably securing hinge ends of the first and second portions around a first hinge axis associated with the first portion and a second hinge axis associated with the second hinge axis so that an extent of rotation around the first hinge axis corresponds to an extent of rotation around the second hinge axis. The example can also include a first display positioned on the first portion and wrapped around the hinge end between the pair of self-regulating hinge assemblies. The example can further include a second display positioned on the second portion and wrapped around the hinge end between the pair of self-regulating hinge assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony C. Reed, Benoit Guillaume Henri Rouger, Ying Zheng, Errol M. Tazbaz
  • Patent number: 9651998
    Abstract: Disclosed are folding type display apparatuses. The folding type display apparatus comprises a flexible display section, and a plurality of housings, which includes a first housing having a space formed therein, and second and third housings bendably connected to both ends of the first housing. The display section is fixed to the second and third housings, and in a closed state of the second and third housings, a folding portion of the display section is housed in the space formed by the first housing, while in an open state of the second and third housings away from each other, the display section becomes flat, and the first housing functions as a leg protruding from flat surfaces of the second and third housings, so that the second and third housings are fixed to each other and the folding portion of the display section is supported, by a holding member for connecting these housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 9350904
    Abstract: The time necessary for specifying an improper video signal is significantly reduced. An input signal determination circuit and a signal distribution circuit are included, the input signal determination circuit determining, for video signals to be input to a synchronization circuit, whether or not each of the video signals satisfies a display reference for performing video display in a division display area corresponding to the video signal, the signal distribution circuit distributing, for another proper video signal for a video signal determined by the input signal determination circuit to be a video signal that does not satisfy the display reference for performing video display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8963801
    Abstract: Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Scott C. Harris
  • Patent number: 8896498
    Abstract: A display includes a frame component, a display module, a first outer frame and a second outer frame. The frame component includes a first side and a second side. The display module is configured on the frame component. The first outer frame is configured at the second side, while the second outer frame is configured at the first side. The length of the second outer frame is shorter than or equal to the length of the first side, so that the two sides of the second outer frame are adapted without exceeding the two ends of the first side. By means of such a design structure, two displays may be connected into a display assembly with a larger display area. When connecting two displays, the first outer frames are able to be removed and the second sides of the two displays are inclined close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng-Bei Huang, Ming-Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 8890911
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display unit including multiple light-emitting elements arranged at the substrate and configured to display an image according to an image signal, a displacement sensor provided to at least one of a front surface and a back surface of the substrate and configured to detect a curved state of the substrate, and a control unit configured to execute a control by which the image is split and displayed in the display unit when a curve of the substrate is detected by the displacement sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 8803766
    Abstract: A large scale LED display has a cable and rigid link support structure for a number of LED modules. The cable and rigid link support structure is flexible but has sufficient structural integrity to prevent misalignment of the pixel modules. The LED modules are removable from the support structure individually and as a group so as to facilitate repair of the display. The LED modules are rugged so as to withstand harsh outdoor conditions and they provide sufficient luminescence for use in sunlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel S. Kline, Matthew W. Shankle, David F. Cox, James C. Lee, Sam R. Sarcia
  • Patent number: 8766880
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for a pixel module to determine its location in a large scale LED display. The system and method determine the pixel module's location based upon the data received by the module and the identity of the module's port via which the data was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventors: Hamid Kharrati, Robert J. Sefton
  • Patent number: 8760364
    Abstract: A separable portable multi-display device is provided. A portable multi-display device includes a main body panel housing having a first display, a sub-panel housing having a second display, and a coupling device for coupling the main body panel housing to the sub-panel housing such that at least one sides of the first display and the second display can contact each other. The panel housings are separable from and connectable to each other, a range of a border between the displays when the panel housings are interconnected being minimized so that the displays can be shown as if it is driven as a single screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Inventors: Si Han Kim, Hyun Hee Kim, Jang Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8717263
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an LCD unit, an LCD apparatus, and a method of setting a drive voltage of the LCD unit with a simple operation. The LCD unit includes a label pasted on a place of the LCD unit, wherein the label includes an information code, which is information-coded from a data of a drive voltage for achieving the best contrast in optical characteristics of the LCD unit. The best drive voltage to drive the LCD unit with the best contrast is thereby easily set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 8582028
    Abstract: A multi-monitor display is disclosed. A multi-monitor display receives a video data stream configured for a single H×V video display; splits the video data stream into a plurality of video data streams for transmission to a plurality of displays which, together, substantially span the H×V display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Henry Zeng
  • Patent number: 8576185
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises a first touch panel comprising a first display module, a second touch panel comprising a second display module, and a contact detection module located between the first touch panel and the second touch panel. A control module performs display control of the first touch panel and the second touch panel based on operations of the first touch panel, the second touch panel, and the contact detection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8508432
    Abstract: A multi-display apparatus includes; a first display panel including a first display device, and a second display panel including a second display device, wherein pixels of the first display panel are vertically aligned with pixels of the second display panel in an area where the first display panel and the second display panel overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-shik Shim, In-seo Kee, Young-gu Lee
  • Patent number: 8482480
    Abstract: A multi display system which includes a plurality of display apparatuses in which partial images of an entire image are displayed is provided. The multi display system includes a plurality of display apparatuses which display partial images of an entire image, and an image distribution apparatus which generates the partial images based on a separation distance set between the partial images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-chan Kim, Byoung-in Choi
  • Patent number: 8400407
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises a substrate having a forward major surface and formed of a plurality of assembled substrate segments. Cover material overlies the forward major surface to reduce the visibility of seams between adjacent substrate segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Tanya Oleskevich, Don Robertson, Nicole Martin
  • Patent number: 8253648
    Abstract: A portable terminal comprises a first body 104 on which the first display surface 102 is formed, a second body 108 on which the second display surface 106 is formed, and hinge units which combine the first body 104 and the second body 108 in a foldable way. The first display surface 102 and the second display surface 106 form a combined display 112 continuously at a time of opening the first body 104 and the second body 108, and it further comprises a display control unit which displays one information on the whole combined display 112. Two display screens respectively formed in the individual bodies are used effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Michio Nagai, Hideo Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 8174547
    Abstract: A tablet PC capable of providing continuous utilization of a sound signal collected from a microphone without requiring any user intervention when a use mode thereof has been changed from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode is disclosed. The tablet PC includes a set of microphones to form a microphone array. The tablet PC is able to operate in a sound emphasis mode wherein sound signals collected from the microphones are processed while forming an emphasis space, and to operate in a non-processing mode wherein the sound signals are processed without forming the emphasis space. When a user manipulates a chassis orientation of the tablet PC from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode, the tablet PC operates to process the emphasis space so that the sound signals collected by the microphones can be utilized in the tablet use mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Yoneda, Hironari Nishino, Hidetoshi Mori
  • Patent number: 8152312
    Abstract: An apparatus that presents a projection image has a screen and plural projectors, each of which projects a section of the projection image onto the screen. The apparatus has a projected-section-determining unit that determines as a projected section the section of the projection image, based on an input image signal, corresponding to a part of the screen onto which each of the projectors projects the section of the projection image. The apparatus has an image-signal-generating unit that generates an image signal corresponding to the section of the projection image which each of the projector projects onto the part of the screen, based on the input image signal and the projected section determined by the projected-section-determining unit, and a projectors-controlling unit that controls the projectors to adjust centers and/or ranges of the projections by the projectors based on the projected section determined by the projected-section-determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Kenji Tanaka, Hitoshi Mukai, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8154569
    Abstract: A modular display system and method assembles an external interface module with a display module to support built-to-order display configurations. The display module has display panel, timing controller and speaker components assembled in a display module housing that accepts a single LVDS and a single audio interface. The external interface module couples to the display module housing to form an integral display system. Selective assembly of the display system from plural types of external interface modules allows selective configuration of the display system with various television and information handling system display functionalities, such as to fill a purchaser order in a build-to-order manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Ford, Jeffrey Thelen
  • Patent number: 8149183
    Abstract: Various embodiments and methods relating to driving a stacked arrangement of display panels are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter James Fricke, Alan R. Arthur
  • Patent number: 8111208
    Abstract: Display apparatus and methods of making them are disclosed. The display apparatus includes frame members assembled to form a frame for the display apparatus and display modules configured for displaying at least a portion of an adaptable image. Each display module is coupled to the frame members to form a matrix organization of display modules for the display apparatus. The display module includes a removable panel and apertures formed therethrough. The apertures are arranged as pixel rows including pixel arrangements distributed along each pixel row. The display module also includes coupling devices attached to the removable panel, which are configured for detachably coupling the removable panel to the frame members, wherein the coupling devices may be operated to attach or remove the removable panel. Furthermore, the coupling devices are configured such that they can be operated from a front side or from a back side of the removable panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Young Electric Sign Company
    Inventor: Brent W. Brown
  • Patent number: 8102333
    Abstract: A display device securing mechanism to which a plurality of display devices that are linearly disposed are mountable includes a plurality of housings to which the plurality of display devices are mounted, first rotating members which rotate the corresponding housings around a rotational axis extending vertically with respect to the display devices, and a second rotating member which rotates all of the housings together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Keiichi Totsuka, Haruo Oba, Junichiro Sakata, Yasushi Tatehira, Naohide Yamada, Kazutaka Uchida, Yoshinori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7969382
    Abstract: A separable portable multi-display device is provided. A portable multi-display device includes a main body panel housing having a first display, a sub-panel housing having a second display, and a coupling device for coupling the main body panel housing to the sub-panel housing such that at least one sides of the first display and the second display can contact each other. The panel housings are separable from and connectable to each other, a range of a border between the displays when the panel housings are interconnected being minimized so that the displays can be shown as if it is driven as a single screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventors: Si Han Kim, Hyun Hee Kim, Jang Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 7821388
    Abstract: Embodiments for lighted see-through displays include a plurality of light elements positioned thereon at select points arranged to convey information. The light elements may be selectively lit to provide fixed or moving information, or may even be programmed to change or even display like a marquee or even a television. Particular embodiments of the invention employ a lightweight, flexible substrate to support the light elements. Other embodiments employ one or more comparatively rigid substrates supporting rows of light elements. Particular applications for the lighted sign embodiments include display in vehicle windows such as police vehicle windows, construction and utility vehicle windows, and school bus and public transportation windows. Global Positioning System and radio signal receiver components allow for regional display of pertinent information in particular embodiments of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Booth, Kael Duaine Burden
  • Patent number: 7756314
    Abstract: A method for acquiring an image on an imaging system includes accessing at least first image data from a first imaging system, processing the first image data in accordance with a CAD algorithm, acquiring at least second image data based upon results of the CAD algorithm and processing the second image data in accordance with the CAD algorithm to confirm the results of the CAD algorithm regarding the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Lynn Karau, Saad Ahmed Sirohey
  • Patent number: 7714801
    Abstract: An electronic device, which comprises: at least two parts foldable in relation to each other, which can be turned into a first position and into a second position around a rotation axis; and a flexible display device, which extends over at least two foldable parts, covering them either entirely or partly. The flexible display device comprises: a folded position, to which the display device settles in the first position, and in which it folds around a first direction, which is parallel in relation to the rotation axis; and a curved position, to which the display device settles in the second position, and in which it curves around a second direction, which is transverse in relation to the rotation axis. A flexible display device can also be used with an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Jyrki Kimmel
  • Patent number: 7623142
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first member, a second member and a flexure. The flexure has a central portion connected to the first member, outer portions connected to the second member and an intermediate portion spaced from the first member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Adel Jilani, Charles Gustav Schmidt, Kenneth James Faase
  • Patent number: 7583178
    Abstract: A system and method for providing operational feedback of systems employing electronic tags such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In one configuration, the RFID reader is actuated by a single trigger pull, with the reader continuing to read multiple RFID tags in the read zone as long as the trigger is held until a terminating event occurs and in another configuration, an apparatus and method provides real-time feedback of the progress of a multiple RFID tag reading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Datalogic Mobile, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Hougen, Patrick S. Watkins, Kurt E. Steinke, Mark R. Cohen
  • Patent number: 7518624
    Abstract: A modular display system and method assembles an external interface module with a display module to support built-to-order display configurations. The display module has display panel, timing controller and speaker components assembled in a display module housing that accepts a single LVDS and a single audio interface. The external interface module couples to the display module housing to form an integral display system. Selective assembly of the display system from plural types of external interface modules allows selective configuration of the display system with various television and information handling system display functionalities, such as to fill a purchaser order in a build-to-order manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Ford, Jeffrey Thelen
  • Patent number: 7477140
    Abstract: Embodiments for lighted see-through displays include a plurality of light elements positioned thereon at select points arranged to convey information. The light elements may be selectively lit to provide fixed or moving information, or may even be programmed to change or even display like a marquee or even a television. Particular embodiments of the invention employ a lightweight, flexible substrate to support the light elements. Other embodiments employ one or more comparatively rigid substrates supporting rows of light elements. Particular applications for the lighted sign embodiments include display in vehicle windows such as police vehicle windows, construction and utility vehicle windows, and school bus and public transportation windows. Global Positioning System and radio signal receiver components allow for regional display of pertinent information in particular embodiments of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Booth, Kael Duaine Burden
  • Patent number: 7453419
    Abstract: An edge lighting system has a plurality of light sources, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted at spaced-apart intervals along a rail that is disposed adjacent to an edge of a display surface. Orifices formed in the rail in which the light sources are inserted are sized to enable each light source to move freely into contact with the edge of the display surface when urged by a force provided by a compressed elastomeric member to provide a uniform illumination as the light is internally reflected in the material comprising the display surface. The light sources extend beyond a concave (parabolic) surface on the rail that reflects light from the light sources into the edge. Any object approaching the display surface is illuminated by the light being conveyed within the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dawson Yee, Thomas D. Mehlhaff
  • Patent number: 7414594
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multi display device that can realize a large-sized screen by interconnecting a plurality of display elements. The multi display device comprises at least two flat display elements of which adjacent sides are closely contact each other to make a large-sized screen, housings receiving and supporting the display elements, respectively, light-compensating means for refracting display light from the display elements toward a center area of the adjacent sides thereof, thereby to minimize or remove the non-display area in the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Si Han Kim
    Inventors: Si Han Kim, Hyung Nyun Kim, Mi Sun Cha
  • Patent number: 7358929
    Abstract: A tile lighting system is provided in which an interior space of a tile is lit by LEDs, such as in a grid or edge-lit formation, and a light diffusing panel is disposed over the interior space. The tile lighting system can be combined with others to tile any surface, such as a floor, ceiling, wall, or building exterior. Lighting control signals can be supplied to generate a wide range of effects on the tile lighting units, including effects coordinated among different tile lighting units. Two- and three-dimensional embodiments are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: George G. Mueller, Ihor A. Lys, Frederick M. Morgan, Colin Piepgras, Brian Roberge, Hern Kim, Kevin J. Dowling, Derek Logan, Charles H. Cella
  • Patent number: 7355562
    Abstract: A modular display panel is formed of a segmented symmetrical graphics panel having display pixels. The panel's interlock in for directions to allow forming larger electronic graphics panel. The preferred shape of the panel is square, defining a perimeter with for edge surfaces. Each of those edge surfaces includes an electrical connection thereon. A frame assembly forms the outer portion of the panel, thereby allowing providing of signals and power to the units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Schubert, James Brownlie
  • Patent number: 7295179
    Abstract: A flat panel display having a single back glass substrate and a single color filter passive plate divided into multiple, electrically isolated, separately addressable, functional sections having no visible seam between sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: American Panel Corporation
    Inventor: William R. Dunn
  • Patent number: 7295196
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver IC formed on said base substrate, an input pattern formed on said base substrate that applies gate driving signals input from an external device to the gate driver IC, a first output pattern formed on said base substrate that outputs a first gate driving signal processed in said gate driver IC, and a second output pattern formed on said base substrate, that outputs a second gate driving signal bypassing the gate driver IC among the gate driving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Soo Kim, Choong-Seob Oh, Jin-Hyeok Park, Jin-Ho Park, Dong-Gyu Kim, Yong-Eun Park, Nam-Soo Kang, Gyu-Su Lee
  • Patent number: 7280100
    Abstract: An accessory module or accessory display device for a handheld computer is disclosed. The device includes an interface configured to be coupled to a handheld computer through an interface slot. The module may be flexibly hinged to the interconnect interface, permitting the coupling of the module to a variety of host devices. The module includes memory configured to store information customized to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: William Robert Hanson, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Patent number: 7256802
    Abstract: An LCD module includes a user connector part that receives power voltages, image signals and control signals from an external host system and outputs the power voltages, image and control signals through a first integrated type connector and an LCD module having a second integrated type connector connected with the first integrated type connector through an FPC. The LCD module receives power voltages and image and control signals through the second integrated type connector, provides image data signals and timing signals to data lines and provides scan signals to gate lines. Namely, the LCD can receive power voltage, the image signals and control signals through the integrated type connector instead of a plurality of connecting terminals, thereby providing an LCD having slim weight and compact size and reducing the size thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haeng-Won Park, Jong-Seon Kim
  • Patent number: 7237202
    Abstract: An apparatus for display of multiple electronic documents. The apparatus includes one or more tilting, rotatable, and detachable display devices coupled to a display stand, or to a personal computer or other data processing apparatus via a hinge or the like. A screen control user interface running on the data processing apparatus is provided for switching electronic documents between the various display devices. One or more of the display devices may include a local memory, power supply, and application software so that the screen can be detached from the multiple document display apparatus and still display an electronic document. The displayed electronic document may then be marked up by a second user and returned to a first user for editing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventor: Cynthia Joanne Gage
  • Patent number: 7170468
    Abstract: A section of a housing on a portable computing device is removed or folded away, thereby exposing a free edge of an LCD screen as well as electrical (data and power) connectors and structural connectors. Connectors are placed symmetrically across the exposed edge whereby a male connector on one side mates with a female connector on the other device. Two such devices are physically pushed together, with locking catches securing the two devices together. Upon docking, the two devices recognize the new configuration and re-map the desktop area of the display into a single display for the combined device. In a preferred embodiment, either a top edge or a side edge is selectively exposed independently on the same device, to mate two devices in either a portrait or landscape orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Andrew Knopf
  • Patent number: 7152989
    Abstract: A bracelet includes at least one electronic display unit. Each display unit has a display having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of the display. The bracelet has a control circuit to control the display elements so that the characters displayed by the display elements appear to move along the sequence of display elements with time. In the alternative, the characters appear to move along a discrete face which is provided along the bracelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Inventor: Philip J. Radley-Smith
  • Patent number: 7071620
    Abstract: A display pixel module for use in a configurable large-screen display application, with an array of pixels (122) mounted at the front (200) of the module (120) and provided with input and output connectors (206–207), characterized in that at least some of the side walls (202) and of the upper and lower walls (203–204) are tapered inwardly, enclosing an angle (A) with the front (200) and in that it is provided with mounting means to fix the module on a mounting surface of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: BARCO, naamloze vennootschap
    Inventors: Bruno Devos, Herbert Van Hille, Nele Dedene, Patrick Willem, Robbie Thielemans, Karim Meersman
  • Patent number: 7034853
    Abstract: A multiple-contents distribution in a client and server system is disclosed. The multiple-contents contain contents-pieces, which are to be distributed to a set of clients including mobile phone terminals. The set of clients are registered with the server in response to registration requests. The server determines an order of the registered set of clients. The server then initiates a distribution of the contents-pieces to the registered sets of clients, wherein the contents-pieces are selected in accordance with the order of the clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenta Cho, Naoki Kase
  • Patent number: 6943795
    Abstract: An image display control method and its system for this method in an information processing unit sequentially changing a series of image contents to display images on the screen. Image content information for displaying image contents on the information processing unit and screen transition process information for performing an screen transition process on a series of image contents are made separate and generated separately. One frame of the display image of the information processing unit consists of one parent frame and two child frames in the parent frame. The image content information is stored in one child frame and the screen transition process information is stored in the other child frame, and a series of image contents is sequentially moved to display images on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayaki Matsui, Norio Danbara
  • Patent number: 6930655
    Abstract: A display monitor has at least a stand-alone operational mode, and a further operational mode as a further peripheral to, e.g., a PC. The monitor has an input for connecting to a first peripheral device. The monitor also has circuitry for enabling data communication with the first peripheral device for user control of a functionality of the display monitor in the stand-alone mode, and for data communication between the first peripheral and the PC via the monitor when the monitor is in the further operational mode and connected to the PC and to the first peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Glenn Adler
  • Patent number: RE44882
    Abstract: The present invention is a portable telephone device that is composed of two displays of substantially a same size, and can continuously perform two display processes in parallel by allocating different display processes to each of the displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Otsuka, Hideji Kawasaki, Hiroomi Kashu