Patents Examined by Alexander S. Beck
  • Patent number: 8294702
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array part including row first drive lines, row second drive lines, and column signal lines; and a drive part including a horizontal drive circuit, a first vertical drive circuit, and a second vertical drive circuit, wherein the first vertical drive circuit simultaneously drives pixels on two rows adjacent to each other, the second vertical drive circuit simultaneously drives pixels on two rows adjacent to each other, and a pair of rows of the pixels simultaneously driven by the first vertical drive circuit and a pair of rows of the pixels simultaneously driven by the second vertical drive circuit are shifted from each other by one row, for light-emission operation of the pixels on a row-by-row basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 8294633
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for reducing visual distortion in near-to-eye (“NTE”) visual display systems that is worn, at least partially, on a viewer's head. The movement rate of the viewer's head is sensed while an image that comprises individual content frames is displayed on the NTE using a vertically based raster scan. A characteristic of the raster scan is varied to mitigate distortion of the content frames due to the viewer's head movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Andrei Cernasov
  • Patent number: 8294722
    Abstract: An interface apparatus and method are provided. The interface apparatus includes a level detecting unit detecting a level of an inputted control signal, a counter unit increasing or decreasing a count value according to the level detected in the level detecting unit, and a driving control unit outputting a driving control information mapped into a count value of the counter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Young Hong, Hyun Ha Hwang
  • Patent number: 8294739
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a signal conversion circuit is disclosed which is suitably used in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and a multiprimary liquid crystal display device having such a signal conversion circuit. A signal conversion circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and converts an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When generating a multiprimary signal for displaying dark skin, the signal conversion circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention applies a conversion to the video signal so that a color difference ?u?v?=((u??u60?)2+(v??v60?)2) is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shun Ueki, Takao Muroi
  • Patent number: 8294661
    Abstract: A projection display unit includes: a light modulation panel which modulates light from a light source in accordance with a given image signal; an iris diaphragm which regulates, by changing a diaphragm diameter, a transmission amount of light modulated by the light modulation panel; a histogram creator which creates a histogram of a luminance signal distribution of the image signal; a histogram analyzer which analyzes the created histogram to specify high-luminance and low-luminance reference values in the histogram; a reference value derivation section which derives a single reference value from both the high-luminance reference value and the low-luminance reference value specified by the histogram analyzer; and an iris controller which determines the diaphragm diameter of the iris diaphragm for the light modulated by the light modulation panel in accordance with the image signal on the basis of the single reference value specified by the reference value derivation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Kaida
  • Patent number: 8289310
    Abstract: A horizontal electric field liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The horizontal electric field LCD includes a first liquid crystal cell driven by a voltage difference between a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a second liquid crystal cell driven by a voltage difference between a third pixel electrode and a fourth pixel electrode, a first data line to which a first analog data voltage is supplied, a second data line to which a second analog data voltage and a fourth analog data voltage are supplied, a third data line to which a third analog data voltage is supplied, a first gate line that receives a first scan pulse to select the first liquid crystal cell, a second gate line that receives a second scan pulse to select the second liquid crystal cell, first, second, third, and fourth thin film transistors. The second pixel electrode is spaced apart from the second gate line, and the fourth pixel electrode is spaced apart from the first gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suwoong Lee, Youngmin Jeong
  • Patent number: 8289285
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixel cells for displaying an image and sensing light incident on the pixel cells, each of the pixel cells includes a pixel circuit that displays an image based on a data voltage supplied from a data line in accordance with a gate signal from a gate line; and a touch sensor that senses light incident on the pixel cell, storing a light sensing signal based on the sensed light, and supplying the stored light sensing signal to a read-out integrated circuit via a read-out line in accordance with a scan signal from a scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Hyuk Jang, Hwan Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 8289306
    Abstract: A video display method consistent with certain embodiments involves sampling video from a video source using a sample and hold frame buffer such that frames are received and stored as the frames of video information are supplied from the video source at a refresh interval to a video display panel in a dynamic mode of operation wherein the screen is refreshed with a new frame of video data at each refresh interval; determining that a static mode of operation is to be entered; sending an output signal from the sample and hold frame buffer to the video display panel during the static mode of operation; and placing the video source in a lower power consumption mode in the static mode of operation. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Allan Unger
  • Patent number: 8284218
    Abstract: A display device in which the image quality is improved by control of the peak luminance. A plurality of instantaneous luminances are expressed by performing signal writing to each pixel plural times within one frame period. The gray level is expressed by controlling time integration levels of the plurality of instantaneous luminances. Moreover, the time integration level is increased as the level of gray level data of the pixel is higher, and the time integration level is increased as the average value of gray level data of an image to be displayed is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8284159
    Abstract: An input processing device comprises a display screen and a pointing device for inputting corresponding 2-dimensional coordinates on the display screen. A 3-dimensional space is displayed on the display screen and the 2-dimensional coordinates inputted from the pointing device are detected. Next, shift amounts, per unit of time, of the detected 2-dimensional coordinates are calculated based on a predetermined calculation start condition. And the calculated shift amounts are converted to 3-dimensional coordinate shift amounts in the 3-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Konno, Yoshitaka Ajioka, Yasushi Ebisawa, Kiyoshi Mizuki
  • Patent number: 8284184
    Abstract: The present invention directs to a method an device for avoiding image sticking, the method for avoiding image sticking is to adjust a real common electrode voltage by difference between the real common electrode voltage and an ideal common electrode voltage, said difference is obtained by acquiring a real pixel electrode voltage on a panel; the device comprises a difference generation block for generating the difference between the real common electrode and the ideal common electrode voltage and an adjusting block for adjusting the real common electrode voltage, said adjusting block comprises an enabling block for generating a common electrode voltage adjustor enabling signal, a control block for generating a common electrode voltage adjustor control signal, and a common electrode voltage adjustor for adjusting the real common electrode voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fang Dou
  • Patent number: 8284123
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit selectively supplies positive polarity gray scale voltages or negative polarity gray scale voltages to video signal lines as video signals. The circuit includes a gray scale voltage generation circuit for generating a gray scale voltage for display; and first and second gray scale voltage adjustment sections included in the circuit, for increasing positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages while maintaining a voltage difference between the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages and respectively adjust a center potentials of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages. This makes it possible to provide the liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit which can make the center values of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages proximate to values which makes it possible to further reduce the flicker phenomenon without changing the gray scale property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Higashino
  • Patent number: 8279164
    Abstract: A surface light source includes first and second light sources that emit lights, and an optical deflection element. The optical deflection element changes light emitted from the first light source into first illumination light having a maximum value of an exit light intensity present in a direction parallel to a normal line of the surface light source, a spread angle range, and high directivity in a direction of the normal line and allows the changed light to exit therefrom. The optical deflection element also changes light emitted from the second light source into second illumination light having a maximum value of an exit light intensity in an oblique direction inclined at an angle with respect to the normal line and a spread angle range wider than that of the first illumination light and allows the changed light to exit therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Daiku
  • Patent number: 8279151
    Abstract: The present invention efficiently arranges a spare TFT element in a pixel region of a liquid crystal display device. A display device includes a substrate on which TFT elements which are arranged in pixel regions each of which is surrounded by two neighboring scanning signal lines and two neighboring video signal lines are formed. The substrate arranges a first TFT element and a second TFT element in each pixel region in which the first TFT element and the second TFT element independently include a channel layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode respectively, only either one of the first TFT element and the second TFT element in each pixel region is operated when a video signal is applied to the video signal line and a scanning signal is applied to the scanning signal line, and the first TFT element and the second TFT element differ from each other in largeness or a shape of an occupied area or a channel width and a channel length of each TFT element when the substrate is viewed in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Shisei Kato
  • Patent number: 8279207
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image display apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a transmitting unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a first image. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit the first image, first additional information that indicates a process by which a second image is to be displayed simultaneously while the first image is displayed, and second additional information that indicates a frame at which displaying of the second image by the process is to be started, to the image display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Toyama
  • Patent number: 8279153
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing controller generating a polarity control signal. A logic inverting period of the polarity control signal during frame periods ranging from an Nth frame period among M frame periods to 2 to 4 frame periods following the Nth frame period is longer than a logic inverting period of the polarity control signal in the other frame periods, where N is an integer equal to or larger than 4 and M is larger than N. The liquid crystal cells in one frame period of the M frame periods are charged to the data voltage whose a polarity is opposite to a polarity of the data voltage in a previous frame period of one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsung Song, Woongki Min, Yonggi Son, Suhyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8279160
    Abstract: An LED driving element that can perform black line insertion display without increasing the clock frequency. LED driving element 11 has first and second shift registers 34a, 34b used for controlling the light-emitting elements on one side among the light-emitting elements arranged in two adjacent rows. In the normal mode, the first and second shift registers 34a, 34b are connected in series. In the image quality improvement mode, the first or second shift register is bypassed by short circuit line 30. In the normal mode, the light emission data are moved serially through the first and second shift registers 34a, 34b. In the image quality improvement mode, the light emission data are moved in only one shift register, that is, shift register 34a or 34b, so that black line insertion can be performed in the same rewriting time per row as in the normal mode without increasing the clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Shinichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8269694
    Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) that can increase dark contrast without causing erroneous discharges is provided. A unit display period is divided into a plurality of subfields. A reset process and a sustain process are performed in one of the subfields. In the reset process, a reset pulse is applied to row electrodes of the PDP to initialize each discharge cell to an emission mode (or non-emission mode). In the sustain process, a sustain discharge is repeatedly generated a number of times, corresponding to the number of times a sustain pulse is to be applied, in those discharge cells that are in the emission mode. In this case, a peak potential of the reset pulse is changed based on the number of those discharge cells that are maintained in the non-emission mode during the unit display period and the number of times the sustain pulse is to be applied in the sustain process in this subfield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Shiozaki, Hitoshi Fujimura, Kazuo Yahagi, Tsutomu Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 8269702
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device and a method of driving the same. The organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver, a data driver for supplying data signals, and pixels. Each of the pixels is configured to control whether or not a current flows from a first power to a second power both coupled to the pixels, the current corresponding to a corresponding one of the data signals. A power supply is included for supplying the first power to a power line coupled to the pixels. A sensing resistor is coupled between the power supply and the power line. A power controller is provided for controlling the power supply to adjust a voltage value of the first power for controlling an amount of current that flows through the sensing resistor to be substantially equal to an amount of current corresponding to data of a current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Do-Ik Kim
  • Patent number: 8264825
    Abstract: A flat image display device that has a bracket and a frame section integrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting section is disposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections that are disposed on the outside of the frame section. A front panel is formed by a transparent material and disposed on the front surface side of the bracket; an apparatus body section has a screen surface that is mounted at the apparatus mounting section of the bracket. One or more signal paths send and receive electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections. This enables sending and receiving of electric signals between the apparatus body section and the functional sections that send and receive electric signals to exhibit a predetermined function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroyoshi Maeda, Masamoto Noguchi, Hiroyuki Ono, Takuya Niitsu, Tatsuya Sakata, Keiichi Takagi, Kenichi Katayama