Patents by Inventor Frank Paul Cuomo

Frank Paul Cuomo 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).

  • Bus arrangement for a driver of a matrix display
    Patent number: 6825836
    Abstract: A demultiplexer applies picture information to pixels arranged in an array of a display device having columns and rows. The demultiplexer includes transistor switches each having a control terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal. A first bus couples switch control signals to the control terminals of the switches. The conductors of a first bus extend in a region containing each of the switches to form a global bus arrangement. Local buses have each conductors coupled to the input terminals of the switches associated with the individual local bus. The output terminals of the switches associated with the individual local bus are coupled to corresponding, consecutively disposed column conductors of the array. The individual local bus has a section that crosses over the first bus and a second section extending between the crossover section and the input terminals of the associated switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Roger Green Stewart, Frank Paul Cuomo
  • Method and apparatus for providing a high-performance active matrix pixel using organic thin-film transistors
    Patent number: 6639281
    Abstract: A pixel structure having at least one organic thin film transistor (OTFT) that minimizes gate-to-pixel capacitance. In one embodiment, a pixel structure provides a new transistor structure where an OTFT electrode on the data-line side of the transistor is extended or wrapped around three sides of the transistor relative to a pixel-side electrode. Thus, the pixel-side electrode can be made very small without reducing the effective width (and therefore on-current) of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventors: Michael G. Kane, Barry K. Greening, Frank Paul Cuomo
  • Active matrix light emitting diode pixel structure and concomitant method
    Patent number: 6618030
    Abstract: LED pixel structures and methods that improve brightness uniformity by reducing current nonuniformities in a light-emitting diode of the pixel structures are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignees: Sarnoff Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gillis Kane, James Harold Atherton, Roger Green Stewart, Frank Paul Cuomo
  • Method and apparatus for providing a high-performance active matrix pixel using organic thin-film transistors
    Publication number: 20020145144
    Abstract: A pixel structure having at least one organic thin film transistor (OTFT) that minimizes gate-to-pixel capacitance. In one embodiment, a pixel structure provides a new transistor structure where an OTFT electrode on the data-line side of the transistor is extended or wrapped around three sides of the transistor relative to a pixel-side electrode. Thus, the pixel-side electrode can be made very small without reducing the effective width (and therefore on-current) of the transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Michael G. Kane, Barry K. Greening, Frank Paul Cuomo
  • Active matrix light emitting diode pixel structure and concomitant method
    Publication number: 20010024186
    Abstract: LED pixel structures and methods that improve brightness uniformity by reducing current nonuniformities in a light-emitting diode of the pixel structures are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: SARNOFF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Gillis Kane, James Harold Atherton, Roger Green Stewart, Frank Paul Cuomo