Patents Examined by Dorothy Webb
  • Patent number: 7768505
    Abstract: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image displaying apparatus, which includes a drawing-light-beam projecting unit, a scanning device, an indicating device, a light receiving device, and a position detecting device. The drawing-light-beam projecting unit projects a visible drawing light beam. The scanning device can two-dimensionally scan visible light and invisible light on a surface to be scanned. The indicating device can indicate any position on the surface to be scanned. The light receiving device can receive invisible light deflected by the indicating device and obtain a light receiving timing. The position detecting device can obtain the position indicated by the indicating device in an image projected by the drawing-light-beam projecting unit, on the basis of the light receiving timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7764248
    Abstract: In a display in which pixel circuits each including a drive transistor, switching transistors and a capacitor are arranged in rows and columns, two-stage mobility correction is implemented in which mobility correction with an intermediate grayscale level (gray level) is executed before mobility correction is executed with an input signal (Vsig) level being written to the gate of the drive transistor when the switching transistor is in the conducting state. Thus, even if the mobility correction period is constant, mobility correction can be implemented for all the grayscales within the mobility correction period. This feature allows achievement of a uniform image quality free from streaks and unevenness attributed to variation in the mobility from pixel to pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7755615
    Abstract: A touchscreen display system (418) is provided which includes a touchscreen (420), a touchscreen input detector (422), a capacitive sensor driver (423), and a display driver (424). The touchscreen input detector (422) is coupled to a first layer (504) of the touchscreen (420) and determines a touchscreen (420) input in response to sensing tactile inputs during a sensing time interval (610). The display driver (424) is coupled to a second layer (506) of the touchscreen (420) and provides a drive voltage (606, 608) at a first voltage level to the plurality of optical shutter segments (508) during a first portion (620) of the sensing time interval (610) and maintains the drive voltage (606, 608) at substantially zero volts during a second portion (622) of the sensing time interval (610), the second portion (622) being greater than half of the sensing time interval (610).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken K Foo, John W Kaehler, Pinky Yu
  • Patent number: 7742024
    Abstract: No need of lowering off-current of a switching transistor, fewer luminance variations of a light emitting element between pixels due to characteristic variations of a driving transistor, and less risk of steps due to increase in the number of wirings. A video signal for light emission or non-emission of a pixel is input to a gate of a current controlling transistor operated in a linear region, which is connected in series with the driving transistor, through a switching transistor. Since a voltage Vds between a source and a drain of the current controlling transistor is small, small changes in a voltage Vgs between a gate and a source thereof do not affect a current flowing in a load. The current flowing in the light emitting element is determined by the driving transistor operated in a saturation region, and a fixed potential is input to the gate thereof during light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Fukumoto, Aya Anzai, Yu Yamazaki, Mitsuaki Osame
  • Patent number: 7737960
    Abstract: A source frame signal received at a first frame rate is converted to a destination frame signal output at a second frame rate. By adjusting the clock frequency of the clock signal in the destination frame signal, the second frame rate is made to be the same as the first frame rate. Adjusting the destination clock frequency prevents overflow and underflow conditions. The destination clock frequency is decreased to prevent underflow or increased to prevent overflow. The destination clock frequency during the last horizontal line is adjusted to comply with some display devices having a maximum time constraint from a last horizontal sync signal to a vertical sync signal in the destination frame signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Jin-Sheng Gong, Issac Chen
  • Patent number: 7733307
    Abstract: An emission driver for an organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The emission driver includes a plurality of flip-flops, and each flip-flop selectively receives two input signals and inverts a level of a received input signal. Also, each flip-flop transmits the level-inverted signal to an adjacent flip-flop, inverts the level-inverted signal, and transmits the inverted level-inverted signal to the adjacent flip-flop and as an emission control signal. To invert the level of the received input signal, the emission driver includes a level shifter, which includes transistors of the same conductivity type arranged to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo-Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 7728805
    Abstract: A display capable of rendering flickering hard to visually recognize, reducing power consumption and simplifying the structure of a circuit for negatively/positively reversing an image is provided. This display comprises a plurality of drain lines and a plurality of gate lines, a first pixel portion and a second pixel portion each including a subsidiary capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode and a first subsidiary capacitance line and a second subsidiary capacitance line connected to the subsidiary capacitors of the first pixel portion and the second pixel portion respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Uekuri, Yusuke Tsutsui, Makoto Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 7719490
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a PDP is capable of controlling a scan reference voltage when set up pulses are supplied to scan electrodes Y1 to Ym in a set up period of a reset period and when the scan reference voltage is supplied to the scan electrodes in an address period to reduce the generation of noise. The apparatus for driving the PDP comprises scan electrodes, a scan reference voltage supply comprising a resistance for applying a scan rising waveform that rises to a scan reference voltage with a second slope to the scan electrodes after a rising ramp waveform and a falling ramp waveform having a first slope have been applied to the scan electrodes, and a negative scan voltage supply for applying a negative scan pulse that falls from the scan reference voltage applied by the scan reference voltage supply to the scan electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung Ryeol Shim, Seong Hoon An, Myung Soo Ham
  • Patent number: 7714854
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of data lines and gate lines arranged in a matrix configuration, a data driver for supplying video data to the data lines, a gate driver for supplying gate pulses to the gate lines, and a timing controller for controlling polarity of the video data by supplying a polarity inversion signal to the data driver and controlling a timing of the data driver and the gate driver according to a number of horizontal synchronization signals supplied during a data blanking period, wherein a plurality of the polarity inversion signals are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Dae Kim, Sun Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 7705841
    Abstract: A display system includes a display panel, a timing controller, a plurality of source drivers and an EDDS interface. The control signals, the clock signals and the setting signals generated by the timing controller are embedded as protocols into the data signals. The embedded signals are then transmitted from the timing controller to each source driver via a corresponding pair of differential data lines of the EDDS interface. The decoders of the source drivers can then decode the embedded signals for generating corresponding driving signals for the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Che-Li Lin
  • Patent number: 7697011
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of automatically digitizing analog video and stroke and with size and positioning information. This is accomplished using signal characteristics of the deflection waveforms and video signals together with the video synchronization and blanking timing. This allows analog real time positioning and scaling by synchronizing the video data and deflection information. The deflection information in the form of signals either or both horizontal or X axis and vertical or Y axis characteristics such as amplitude, peak or peak to peak, and zero crossing, can be used to determine the size or scaling for each axis independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Bill A. Dickey, Kevin W. Blietz
  • Patent number: 7692619
    Abstract: A scan driver and an organic light emitting display (OLED) for selectively performing progressive scanning and interlaced scanning. The scan driver includes a plurality of scan units. A scan unit generates an odd-number scan signal or an even-number scan signal and includes a flip-flop and a scan signal generator. The scan signal generator performs a logical operation on output signals from the flip-flop and a mode selection signal, and outputs a signal. A logical operation can be performed on the output signal of the scan unit and an impulse signal to form a scan signal and an emission control signal. The OLED, which selectively performs the progressive scanning and the interlaced scanning in response to a mode selection signal, includes an emission driver for outputting an emission control signal and a program driver for outputting a scan signal and a boost signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 7692643
    Abstract: An active matrix type display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel circuits each having an electroluminescent element EL, a 1st FET to control a current flowing in the EL, and a 2nd FET provided between a gate and a drain of the 1st FET. The plurality of pixel circuits are arranged in a matrix and have every column connected to a data line. The 2nd FET is turned on for a predetermined time period, and an image data current flowing in the data line is supplied to the gate and drain of the 1st FET, thereby writing a current value of the image data current. A preliminary charging circuit is connected to the data line. Before the writing operation in the predetermined time period is expired, a current of a predetermined current value is applied to the image data current so that a gate-source voltage of the 1st FET is equal to or larger than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Somei Kawasaki, Masami Iseki, Fujio Kawano, Takanori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7663586
    Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit, including: first to Jth (J is an integer greater than one) gamma correction data registers in which gamma correction data for generating a plurality of reference voltages is set; and a reference voltage select circuit which selects K select voltages from first to Lth (L is an integer greater than two, and K is a natural number smaller than L) select voltages arranged in potential descending order or potential ascending order and outputs the K select voltages as first to Kth reference voltages in potential descending order or potential ascending order, based on the gamma correction data set in one of the first to Jth gamma correction data registers, wherein the first to Kth reference voltages are output as the reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 7656365
    Abstract: A double-sided fiber-based display includes a plasma tube array sandwiched between two electro-optic materials. The electro-optic materials are preferably sandwiched between two fiber arrays. The two fiber arrays contain wire electrodes to set the charge in the plasma tubes and are parallel to each other and orthogonal to the plasma tube array. The fibers can be alternatively coated with a transparent conductive coating, such as a carbon nanotube film, to spread the voltage across the surface of the fiber. The plasma tubes contain wire electrodes to ignite a plasma along its entire length. The tube surfaces that are in contact with the electro-optic materials are preferably thin and flat. The fiber and plasma tube wire electrodes are preferably directly connected to a circuit board which houses electronics to address the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Inventor: Chad Byron Moore
  • Patent number: 7646381
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes: first through fourth terminals arranged in order in which the first terminal and the fourth terminal are arranged in line symmetry with respect to a center axis of the first through fourth terminals, and the second terminal and the third terminal are arranged in line symmetry with respect to the center axis; a first receiving circuit coupled to the first and second terminals, the first receiving circuit receiving one of a first differential signal pair and a second differential signal pair; a second receiving circuit coupled to the third and fourth terminals, the second receiving circuit receiving the first differential signal pair when the first receiving circuit receives the second differential signal pair and the second differential signal pair when the first receiving circuit receives the first differential signal pair; a first selector selecting one of a first signal and a second signal obtained by inverting the first signal that are output from the first receiving
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Fumikazu Komatsu, Naoki Il
  • Patent number: 7646380
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting alignment and linearity errors in devices using a finger or stylus input device with a display device interactively coupled to a digitizer is disclosed. Touching intersections in a calibration grid on the display device may be performed to create a linearity map. Subsequently, detected stylus input is mapped to a sector in the linearity map, and resultant screen coordinates are calculated using ratios within a reference rectangle corresponding to the detected stylus input and the mapped sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael H. Tsang
  • Patent number: 7639244
    Abstract: A display includes an array of pixel circuits and data drivers to drive the pixel circuits. The data drivers include a first data driver to receive pixel data according to a first clock frequency and to forward some of the pixel data to a second data driver according to a second clock frequency, the second clock frequency being different from the first clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tzong-Yau Ku, Yung-Yu Tsai
  • Patent number: 7633467
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel in which a plurality of electrodes are formed, an energy storage unit for storing energy applied to the electrodes, and a protector for maintaining a voltage level of the energy stored in the energy storage unit at a predetermined voltage range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Janghwan Cho, Donghyuk Park, Changyoung Kwon, Dong Kwon Choi, Yang Ki An, Jinyoung Kim, Yunkwon Jung
  • Patent number: 7616222
    Abstract: A control module for reducing power dissipation is connected to a column driving unit and a row driving unit. The control module includes a memory for storing display data temporarily and an arithmetic/logic unit connected to the memory. The arithmetic/logic unit takes grayscale image data of a current conducted row as a base row to compare with the grayscale image data of n rows that are temporarily stored in the memory and waiting to be scanned, so as to select the row with a minimum gray level difference as a next conducted row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chun Chuang, Wan-I Shih