Abstract: The invention provides a method of making a metal casing, including the following steps: (a) providing a roll of metal sheet; (b) sequentially pulling out a part of metal sheet from the roll of metal sheet; (c) etching a plurality of holes on the part of metal sheet; and (d) forming the part of metal sheet into the metal casing. Step (d) includes: implementing a surface treatment on the part of metal sheet and press forming the part of metal sheet into the metal casing. Therein the steps of the surface treatment and the press forming can be exchanged. Therefore, the method continuously makes the metal casing and avoids management problems of intermediate products induced in the process of a traditional production.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for making a shadow mask for an opposed discharge plasma display panel by etching one lateral surface of a metal slab to produce a plurality of parallel and equidistant barrier ribs along the vertical and horizontal directions on the lateral surface and a discharging cell by enclosing every four adjacent barrier ribs. A shadow hole is formed at the middle of each discharging cell and etched through the metal slab, and at least one groove interconnected to the shadow holes is produced on another lateral surface of the metal slab by utilizing a rolling process or a stamping process. The adjacent grooves are interconnected with each other, and a plurality of air guide channels is formed on another lateral side, such that a shadow mask can be made in a simple and fast manner, chemical pollutions caused by a traditional double-sided etching can be minimized, and the product yield rate and the manufacturing cost can be effectively improved and lowered.

Abstract: A gain-determining method for grayscale white balance of a display apparatus comprising a panel is provided. The method first displays a white, a red, a green, and a blue images on the panel respectively and measures the chromatic values and luminance of the images. Next, the chromatic values and luminance of a target white image is inputted. Following, according to the measured chromatic values and luminance of the white, the red, the green and the blue images, a first set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Then, according to the chromatic values and luminance of the target white image and the chromatic values and luminance of the red, the green and the blue images, a second set of color mixture ratios is calculated. Finally, according to the first set and the second set of color mixture ratios, a red gain, a green gain and a blue gain are calculated.

Abstract: A method for automatically detecting and adjusting grayscale/white balance of a display comprises the steps of: detecting a chromaticity coordinate and a brightness of a present white color of the display by a detector; selecting a chromaticity coordinate of three primary colors of red, green, and blue in a known chromaticity space for automatically calculating a present mixing ratio of the three primary colors of red, green, and blue of the present white color of the display according to Grassman's Law of color mixture in colormetry; calculating a desired mixing ratio of three primary colors of red, green, and blue of an ideal white color under a predetermined color temperature; and comparing the present mixing ratio with the desired mixing ratio to obtain a proportion therebetween which is used as a set of gain values of the three primary colors of red, green of the display.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes a front plate, a back plate, a shadow mask, and a discharge destructive film. The shadow mask is located between the front plate and the back plate. The discharge destructive film is formed in a predetermined pattern between the shadow mask and the back plate. The discharge destructive film increases the firing voltages of some parts of the back plate. The discharge distance between the front plate and the back plate is accordingly increased. Thus, the luminous efficiency of the plasma display panel can be improved.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes a front plate, a back plate, a shadow mask, and a first adhesive layer. The shadow mask is located between the front plate and the back plate. The first adhesive layer is formed between the shadow mask and the front plate. The shadow mask is adhered to the front plate via the first adhesive layer. Thus, noises generated during plasma discharge processes in the plasma display panel can be reduced.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes N scan electrodes, N auxiliary electrodes, M address electrodes, and N rows and M columns of lighting cells. The ith row of lighting cells among the N rows of lighting cells corresponds to the ith scan electrode among the N scan electrodes and the ith auxiliary electrode among the N auxiliary electrodes. The jth lighting cell in the ith row of lighting cells corresponds to the jth address electrode among the M address electrodes. When the jth lighting cell in the ith row of lighting cells is assigned to be lightened, the ith scan electrode, the ith auxiliary electrode, and the jth address electrode are operated to generate discharge effects in the jth lighting cell in the ith row of lighting cells.

Abstract: A heating apparatus comprising a support base and a microplate having a first surface and an opposing second surface. The microplate is positioned adjacent the support base and comprises a plurality of wells formed in the first surface thereof. Each of the plurality of wells is sized to receive an assay therein. A sapphire crystalline transparent window is positioned adjacent the microplate opposing the support base. A heating device heats the transparent window in response to a control system.

Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for image signal contrast extension and overflow compensation. The system includes contrast extension and overflow compensation look-up tables, an image gray level boundary determining unit, a contrast extension unit, an overflow judging unit, and an overflow compensation unit. The image gray level boundary determining unit defines a maximum and a minimum among the gray levels of the pixels of an image signal and calculates the difference. The contrast extension unit selects corresponding parameter from the contrast extension table for contrast extension of a given image pixel. The overflow judging unit judges whether the pixels are overflowed. The overflow compensation unit compensates the pixel. When a pixel is overflowed, the overflow compensation unit selects, according to the gray level of the pixel, a corresponding overflow compensation parameter to reduce the gray level to overcome the problem of overflow.

Abstract: The method to reduce image sticking in a plasma display panel (PDP) includes four steps. There is converting a relationship between gray level and brightness of an input signal into a linear relation by a converter. Next, there is recording an image with a static image detector at time t using a frame buffer, and after a period of time ?t, comparing the image at time t with the image at time t+?t, thereby identifying static or dynamic images in the pixel. Then, there is recording a gain of every pixel by a brightness regulator using an image gains memory buffer zone, the gain being regulated according to detection results of the static image detector. Finally, there is improving gray level performance of output images by a gray level promoter and brightness converter. Thus, method actively detects static pixels and reduces brightness in the static region for minimized image sticking.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to automatically regulate brightness of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which resolves the overload and easy fatigue of human eyes and poor image contrast due to high brightness of the conventional LCD. The present invention includes use of four parts, including an image brightness regulating unit, an image brightness ratio computation and output controlling unit, an ambient light detection and brightness adaptation regulating unit and an image gray level expanding unit. The image signals of an LCD are processed in such a manner to enable automatic control of optical flux of LCD TV by regulating the gray level of output images. Also, optical flux of LCD TV can be automatically controlled with the change of images and ambient light, thus alleviating overburdening of human eyes and improving the contrast and comfort of images for a better visual effect.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a degree of saturation of a target pixel is provided. In a first color space, the target pixel is represented by a brightness factor and a set of color factors. Based on the set of color factors, the method first generates an original saturation and a hue factor. Then, selectively according to the brightness factor, the hue factor, and the original saturation, an adjusting gain is generated. The method, according to this invention, multiplies the original saturation by the adjusting gain to generate a new saturation for the target pixel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a PDP structure including a first substrate, a second substrate and a Waffle barrier rib structure located between the first and second substrate. The Waffle barrier rib structure includes three first barrier ribs having different width and a plurality of second barrier ribs perpendicular to the first barrier ribs. The second barrier ribs are located between the two first barrier ribs, and connect the wider structure of the two first barrier ribs. Therefore, discharge spaces are formed. Because of different width, the height difference of the barrier rib structure is formed after thermal process. Hence, gas can pass through the barrier ribs structure between the front and the back substrate sealed together.

Abstract: The invention discloses a plasma display panel (PDP). The PDP grounds an exposed transparent conductive layer to the inner component thereof, so as to shield off electromagnetic interference (EMI). Accordingly, there is no metal structure in the second protective layer formed on the transparent conductive layer, such that the second protective layer can be easily attached onto the transparent conductive layer. Therefore, the manufacturing of PDP is getting much easier, and the yield rate will then increase.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a target gray level of a target pixel based on a spatial mask is provided. The target pixel is surrounded with N adjacent pixels; each of the N adjacent pixels respectively has an adjacent gray level. The method first multiplies the target gray level with a sharpness index to generate an amplified target gray level and respectively multiplies each of the adjacent gray level with an adjacent index to generate N modified adjacent gray levels. Then, the amplified target gray level and the N modified adjacent gray levels are added up to generate a first gray level sum. The method multiplies the first gray level sum with a multiplying parameter to generate a second gray level sum. At last, the method divides the second gray level sum by a dividing parameter to generate an adjusted gray level for the target pixel.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an image on the basis of characteristics of a display system is provided. The image includes M horizontal lines. Each of the M horizontal lines respectively includes N pixels. Each pixel has an original gray level. A look-up table previously stores a plurality of conversion coefficients related to the characteristics of the display system. The method first calculates an ith loading according to the N original gray levels of the N pixels in the ith horizontal line. Based on the ith loading, an ith conversion coefficient corresponding to the ith loading is selected from the plurality of conversion coefficients in the look-up table. The method respectively multiplies the N original gray levels of the N pixels in the ith horizontal line by the ith conversion coefficient to generate N new gray levels for the N pixels in the ith horizontal line, whereby the image is adjusted.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of driving a high definition opposed discharge PDP comprising transversely disposing a barrier rib on a center of any elongate discharge cells of the opposed discharge PDP to divide the discharge cell into two sub-cells; disposing a sustain electrode on a front substrate corresponding to either sub-cell; causing a driving circuit to apply a sustaining pulse to each of the plurality of sustain electrodes in a sustaining period of each sub-field; and causing a phase of the sustaining pulse on the sustain electrode corresponding to one sub-cell to have a phase difference of 180 degrees relative to that of the sustaining pulse on the sustain electrode corresponding to the other adjacent sub-cell in order to effectively eliminate noise caused by vibration of the opposed discharge PDP in discharge, reducing peak current and electromagnetic interference, and greatly increase both light emitting efficiency and brightness of the opposed discharge PDP.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for making a shadow mask for an opposed discharge plasma display panel by etching one lateral surface of a metal slab to produce a plurality of parallel and equidistant barrier ribs along the vertical and horizontal directions on the lateral surface and a discharging cell by enclosing every four adjacent barrier ribs. A shadow hole is formed at the middle of each discharging cell and etched through the metal slab, and at least one groove interconnected to the shadow holes is produced on another lateral surface of the metal slab by utilizing a rolling process or a stamping process. The adjacent grooves are interconnected with each other, and a plurality of air guide channels is formed on another lateral side, such that a shadow mask can be made in a simple and fast manner, chemical pollutions caused by a traditional double-sided etching can be minimized, and the product yield rate and the manufacturing cost can be effectively improved and lowered.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for compensating a brightness error of a flat panel display that compensates the input gray levels under a fixed sustain frequency by an error diffusion compensation circuit. After the gray levels are inputted to the flat panel display, the brightness will be outputted and measured to obtain an actual output brightness, and an ideal output brightness corresponding to the input gray level is calculated according to the linear proportional relation between the input gray level and its ideal output brightness, and then a look up table is created according to the actual output brightness and the ideal output brightness, such that the look up table can be used to overcome the gray level error as well as the error between the actual output brightness and the ideal output brightness of the flat panel display.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of driving an opposed discharge PDP comprising causing a driving circuit of the PDP to apply a sustaining pulse to each of a plurality of sustaining electrodes thereof for showing each of a plurality of sub-fields wherein a phase of the sustaining pulse of any of the sustaining electrodes is 180 degrees different from that of the sustaining pulse of the adjacent sustaining electrode, i.e. a waveform of odd number pixels is 180 degrees different from that of even number pixels in a sustaining period, enabling two adjacent discharge cells discharge in opposite directions so as to eliminate noise caused by vibration of the PDP in discharge, lower peak current and greatly decrease load on sustaining circuit and resulting in prolonging useful life of the circuit and increasing reliability of the circuit.