Patents by Inventor Don Carkner

Don Carkner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Shared pixel electroluminescent display driver system
    Patent number: 7027013
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display and driving method is provided wherein the rows of pixels are divided into sub-pixel sets and several different sets of sub-pixels are then addressed from within a larger superset of adjacent sub-pixels. The image data for the addressed sub-pixels is averaged with that for adjacent sub-pixels and is applied to the reduced number of larger sub-pixels in sequence. Consequently, for a given sequence of input frame data sets the time average over one frame for a portion of the sub-pixels at any location of the panel is substantially the same as that for a conventionally addressed sub-pixel in a prior art panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Ifire Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Ouellete, Chung-Fai Cheng, Don Carkner, Eiric Johnstone, Xingwei Wu, James Stiles
  • Shared pixel electroluminescent display driver system
    Publication number: 20020126074
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display and driving method is provided wherein the rows of pixels are divided into sub-pixel sets and several different sets of sub-pixels are then addressed from within a larger superset of adjacent sub-pixels. The image data for the addressed sub-pixels is averaged with that for adjacent sub-pixels and is applied to the reduced number of larger sub-pixels in sequence. Consequently, for a given sequence of input frame data sets the time average over one frame for a portion of the sub-pixels at any location of the panel is substantially the same as that for a conventionally addressed sub-pixel in a prior art panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: iFire Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Ouellette, Chung-Fai Cheng, Don Carkner, Eiric Johnstone, Xingwei Wu, James Stiles