Abstract: The embodiment of the present invention discloses a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device, a plurality of shift register units connected in one-to-one correspondence are arranged at one terminal of a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of charging modules connected in one-to-one correspondence are arranged at the other terminal of the plurality of gate lines; each charging module charges a corresponding gate line when the corresponding gate line is applied with a scanning signal by the shift register unit, i.e., when the shift register unit applies a scanning signal to the gate line, the charging module to which the gate line corresponds charges the gate line at the same time, which realizes bidirectional application of the scanning signal to the gate line, and increases the charging rate of the gate line.

Abstract: A sensing driving circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the sensing driving circuit includes a plurality of stages configured to respectively output a plurality of sensing signals and including a (K)th stage and a (K+1)th stage. The (K)th stage includes a shift register configured to provide a (K)th carry signal to the (K+1)th stage; and a masking buffer configured to output a (K)th sensing signal. The masking buffer includes a first input circuit configured to provide i) an input signal to a first node based on a node driving signal and ii) a first power voltage to a second node based on the input signal and the node driving signal. The masking buffer also includes a node masking circuit configured to supply the first power voltage to the first node based on a masking signal.

Abstract: An electroluminescent display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel units electrically connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines. The pixel units are arranged in a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, the pixel units in the same column are connected to the same data line, and the pixel units in the same diagonal line of the matrix are connected to the same gate line. The display also includes a data driver located at a first side of the display panel, the data driver being configured to drive the data lines, and a gate driver located at the first side of the display panel and configured to drive the gate lines.

Abstract: An EL display panel having a pixel structure corresponding to an active-matrix drive system, the EL display panel including a current supply line configured to be connected to a plurality of pixel circuits in common, line width of an intersection part of the current supply line with a signal line being smaller than line width of the other part of the current supply line.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of adjusting luminance of a logo region of an image displayed on the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display panel configured to display an image including a logo region. The display panel includes a plurality of red, green, and blue color pixels. The OLED display also includes a display driver configured to drive the display panel and reduce the luminance of blue color light emitted from blue color pixels located in the logo region.

Abstract: A quantum dot light-emitting diode and a display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a first sub-pixel configured to emit blue light and a second sub-pixel configured to emit different colors of light based on the intensity of an electric field applied thereto.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a substrate and an active pattern formed over the substrate and including first to fourth regions, the first and fourth regions connected to each other. The display also includes a gate insulation layer formed over the active pattern, and a first gate electrode formed over the gate insulation layer. The first gate electrode, the first region and the second region define a first transistor. The display also includes a second gate electrode formed over the gate insulation layer, and the second gate electrode, the third region and the fourth region define a second transistor. The display also includes a first insulating interlayer formed over the first and second gate electrodes and a conductive pattern formed over the first insulating interlayer. An OLED is configured to receive a driving current from the first transistor.

Abstract: What is disclosed are methods and systems for color compensation in the context of emissive displays. A set of virtual sub-pixels are defined and color points allocated for the various types of virtual sub-pixels to enable color processing within a modified color gamut, shifting the color of pixels to the modified color gamut to improve a perceived quality color rendered by the display.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a repair line connected to an organic light emitting element of a bad pixel. A first capacitor stores a voltage corresponding to a data voltage of the bad pixel, and a driving transistor outputs a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the first capacitor to an output terminal. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal of the driving transistor and the repair line, and is turned on or turned off in response to a first signal. A second transistor is connected between the repair line and a node, and is configured to be turned on or turned off in response to a second signal. A third transistor is connected between a node and a first voltage line for supplying a first voltage, and is turned on or turned off in response to a third signal.

Abstract: A display device with a plurality of pixels including a video signal wire, a first power supply wire connecting via a first switch a first power supply outputting a first voltage and connecting via a second switch a second power supply outputting a second voltage different to the first voltage, a second power supply wire connecting a third power supply outputting a third voltage different to the first voltage and the second voltage, a light emitting element arranged between the first power supply wire and the second power supply wire, a drive transistor controlling a value of a current supplied to the light emitting element, and a third switch arranged between the video signal wire and the drive transistor, the first power supply wire becoming the second voltage in a first time period within 1 horizontal scanning period, and becoming the first voltage in a remaining second time period.

Abstract: A method and system for driving a light emitting device display is provided. The system provides a timing schedule which increases accuracy in the display. The system may provide the timing schedule by which an operation cycle is implemented consecutively in a group of rows. The system may provide the timing schedule by which an aging factor is used for a plurality of frames.

Abstract: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel rows including a plurality of pixel circuits; a scan driver supplying scan signals to the plurality of pixel rows; and a data driver supplying a data voltage to the plurality of pixel circuits of the plurality of pixel rows, wherein the plurality of pixel circuits each include driving transistors and an organic light emitting diode which emit light depending on a current flowing in the driving transistors, the plurality of pixel rows are divided into a plurality of blocks, each of the blocks including at least one pixel row, and a period for which the data voltage is written in the plurality of pixel circuits in a first block among the plurality of blocks and a period for which a threshold voltage of the driving transistors of the plurality of pixel circuits in a second block temporally close to the first block is compensated partially overlap each other.

Abstract: A non-rectangular display includes: a plurality of first signal lines extending along a first direction; a plurality of DC voltage lines' extending along the first direction; and a plurality of second signal lines extending along the first direction, wherein a first DC voltage line of the plurality of DC voltage lines is between a first line of the plurality of first signal lines and a second line of the plurality of second signal lines, a second DC voltage line of the plurality of DC voltage lines is between a third line of the plurality of first signal lines and a fourth line of the plurality of second signal lines, and the first and third lines are adjacent to each other, or the second and fourth lines are adjacent to each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, an OLED pixel driving circuit and a driving method therefore. The OLED pixel driving circuit includes: an electroluminescent element, a switching unit, a storage unit, a compensation unit, a driving transistor, a reset unit and a partition unit; wherein, the switching unit is connected with a data signal and is connected with the storage unit; the compensation unit is connected with the storage unit; the storage unit is connected with a gate electrode of the driving transistor; a source electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a driving voltage, a drain electrode thereof is connected with the compensation unit; the partition unit is connected with the drain electrode and is connected with the electroluminescent element; the reset unit is connected with a reset signal and is connected with the gate electrode.

Abstract: A scan driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a logic circuit unit. The start of a start pulse of an output signal STp+1 of a p+1'th shift register is situated between the start and end of a start pulse of the output signal STp of a p'th shift register, and one each of a first enable signal through a Q'th enable signal exist in sequence between the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp and the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp+1. The operations of a (p?, q)'th NAND circuit are restricted based on period identifying signals, such that the NAND circuit generates scanning signals based only on a portion of the output signal STp corresponding to the first start pulse, the signal obtained by inverting the output signal STp+1, and the q'th enable signal ENq.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines on the substrate extending in a first direction; a first insulating layer covering the substrate and the first signal lines; a plurality of auxiliary signal lines formed on the first insulating layer and overlapping the first signal lines; a second insulating layer covering the auxiliary signal lines; a plurality of first signal line connecting members formed on the second insulating layer while overlapping parts of the auxiliary signal lines; a plurality of second signal lines crossing the first signal lines; a plurality of switching transistors and a plurality of driving transistors connected with the first signal lines and the second signal lines; and a plurality of organic light emitting diodes electrically connected to the driving transistors, where the first signal line connecting members connect the first signal lines to the auxiliary signal lines.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixel columns, a first data wiring, a second data wiring, and a power supply wiring. The pixel columns include pixels repeatedly arranged in a first direction, and the pixel columns are repeatedly arranged in a second direction. The first and second directions are substantially perpendicular to each other. The first data wiring extends in the first direction and is connected to the pixels in an even row. The second data wiring extends in the first direction and are connected to the pixels in an odd row. The power supply wiring extends in the first direction between the first and second data wirings.

Abstract: A method for controlling a display panel includes calculating an on-pixel ratio based on gamma information corresponding to image information, providing maximum current information based on a dimming level, calculating an average current of the display panel based on the on-pixel ratio and the maximum current information, and providing pixel average current information for each of a plurality of pixels in the display panel. The on-pixel ratio is based on the turned-on pixels of the pixels in the display panel. The pixel average current information is determined based on the average current of the display panel.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including: a substrate including a pixel part for displaying an image and a peripheral part enclosing the pixel part; a plurality of scan lines formed on the substrate, each for transferring a scan signal; a plurality of data lines for transferring a data voltage, and a plurality of driving voltage lines intersecting the plurality of scan lines for transferring a driving voltage, respectively; a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines, respectively and formed in the pixel part; and at least one dummy pixel connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines and formed in the peripheral part.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an electrophoretic image display (EPD) panel, a switch circuit includes a relay and a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOS-FET), and a electrophoretic display control unit in communication with the EPD panel and the MOS-FET through a data bus. The electrophoretic display control unit can receive a touch signal when a click operation is performed on the EPD panel, drive the EPD panel to update an image displayed on the EPD panel by controlling two normally open terminals of the relay to connect two common terminals of the relay, and control two normally closed terminals of the relay to connect the two common terminals of the relay after updating the image of the EPD panel. Thus, the quality of the image displayed on the EPD panel is increased as a contrast value of the image is barely changed.

Abstract: In a data line driving circuit that supplies data signals to each data line provided at a first column to an nth column, unit circuits of n+1st to n+3rd tiers are provided on the subsequent tier of a unit circuit Un of n tiers of a shift register corresponding to the nth column, and a start pulse transmitted to the n tier is further transmitted from the n+1st tier to the n+3rd tier. By an OR gate, a latch pulse with a pulse width wider than the start pulse is generated by performing a logical OR of the start pulse transmitted from the n+1st tier to the n+3rd tier. The data signals latched in the first latching circuit by the sampling signal are simultaneously latched in the second latching circuit by the latch pulse.

Abstract: A lighting system uses a multi-pixel lighting matrix, for example, having an n by m pixel matrix of light emitters, to provide illumination from a ceiling or wall. Instead of using an actual image or video, which may be distracting, the examples in this case manipulate a frequency domain representation, for example, in Fourier transform space. The representation is transformed to real time image space, to drive the matrix of the lighting device. Manipulation in the frequency domain can maintain image characteristics suitable to an intended illumination application yet produce an output illumination image on the matrix that is less obviously an image of an object and less likely to draw unnecessary attention from an occupant of the illuminated space.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first polarizing plate having a first polarizing axis substantially parallel to a first direction, a backlight unit which generates a light, a diffusion plate interposed between the first polarizing plate and the backlight unit, the diffusion plate includes an anisotropic area having a transmission axis substantially parallel to the first direction and a diffusion axis substantially perpendicular to a second direction, where the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a photographic unit interposed between the anisotropic area and the backlight unit, where the photographic unit captures an image of an object transmitted to the photographic unit through the display panel.

Abstract: An apparatus including a display panel, configured to be backlit by infrared light and visible light, including electronic circuitry configured to control transmission of visible light; and a plurality of discrete infrared light apertures configured to facilitate projection of a pattern of infrared light through the front face of the display panel for detecting an object in front of but not touching the front face of the display panel.

Abstract: A controlling method of a display apparatus, which includes pixels each including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, includes receiving image data in a unit of frame, analyzing the image data to extract pixel data with respect to a first pixel among the pixels and block data with respect to a first block of a backlight unit, which corresponds to the first pixel, normalizing the pixel data and the block data, comparing the normalized pixel data and the normalized block data, and generating white compensation data corresponding to the white sub-pixel on the basis of the compared result.

Abstract: According to the method provided by some embodiments of the present disclosure, under different gray-scale voltages, the liquid crystal deflection directions of liquid crystal molecules are different, such that when a first frame is displayed, the deflection difference between the deflection direction of the liquid crystal molecules in the pixel structure in the liquid crystal display screen and the deflection direction when a second frame is displayed is increased, after human eyes view the displayed first frame and second frame, an image obtained after the first frame and the second frame are displayed may be observed at different viewing angles, and at this time, the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display screen is increased on the premise of not increasing the number of sub-domains in the pixel structure of the liquid crystal display screen.

Abstract: A display device includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction intersection the first direction, first type pixel rows, and second type pixel rows. Each of the first type pixel rows includes a plurality of adjacent first type pixels extending in the first direction. Each of the second type pixel rows includes a plurality of adjacent second type pixels extending in the second direction. Each first type pixel is connected to a j-th data line, and each second type pixel is connected to an (i+1)-th data line, wherein i and j are natural numbers, and each of the first and second type pixels is disposed between two consecutive data lines. The display device of the present disclosure may drive the first type pixel rows during a first sub-frame period, and drive the second type pixel rows during a second sub-frame period.

Abstract: An active device array substrate is provided. The active device array substrate includes multiple pixel structures, a drive circuit, multiple signal lines and a control line. The pixel structures are disposed in a display area. The drive circuit is disposed outside the display area. The signal lines are electrically connected to the drive circuit and the pixel structures corresponded to the signal lines. The control lines are intersected with the signal lines. A method adapted for inspecting defects on the active device array substrate is also provided. First, a tested signal line is selected from the signal lines, and the control line and the tested-signal line are conducted. Second, a test signal is input from the control line to the tested-signal line to determine a location of a defect. Finally, the control line and the tested signal line are isolated.

Abstract: A display substrate. The display substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units; a gate driving unit supplying a gate signal to the plurality of pixel units and including a plurality of shift register circuits which are dependently connected to each other; a vertical start line supplying a vertical start signal to the gate driving unit; and an electrostatic protection unit having two ends connected to different points of the vertical start line, the electrostatic protection unit including a plurality of back-to-back diodes connected in series with each other between the two ends. Each of the back-to-back diodes include a pair of diodes connected in parallel to each other in a bidirectional diode structure.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of reducing power consumption when switching a gate line between a selected state and a non-selected state, and of providing a narrower frame for an active matrix substrate. A gate driver (11) that scans each gate line is formed inside a display area in an active matrix substrate (20a) having gate lines (13G) and data lines formed therein. The gate driver (11) switches the gate line to either a selected state or a non-selected state, in accordance with a control signal supplied via a line (15L). The gate driver (11) includes a high-charge drive circuit (11a), a low-charge drive circuit (11b), and a shift register (11c). The high-charge drive circuit is supplied with a first DC voltage signal corresponding to the selected state via the line (15L), and charges the gate line to the potential of the first DC voltage signal.

Abstract: A driver and an electronic device include a driving circuit having a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data lines in an electro-optical panel, and a correction circuit that carries out a correction process on display data and supplies the corrected display data to the driving circuit. The correction circuit supplies, to the data line driving circuits, the display data corrected using a correction coefficient based on coupling capacitances between a given data line and the two data lines adjacent to that data line, respectively.

Abstract: A driver and an electronic device include a driving circuit having a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data lines in an electro-optical panel, a measurement circuit that measures a voltage in the data lines, and a computation circuit that computes a correction coefficient for correcting display data. Based on a measurement result, the computation circuit computes the correction coefficient that changes in accordance with a coupling capacitance between one data line and a data line adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A client device and method are provided for reconstructing a viewport from a rendered rendering surface of a predicted user viewpoint in order to reduce user perceived latency of the network. The client device may execute instructions to: receive, from a server device over a network, a rendered rendering surface of a predicted scene having a predicted user viewpoint, receive, from the user input device, a subsequent user navigation input in the stream of user input, determine an actual user viewpoint based on the subsequent user navigation input, determine a user viewpoint misprediction based on the predicted user viewpoint and the actual user viewpoint, and reconstruct a viewport for the actual user viewpoint from the rendered rendering surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a normal function means is provided, in which the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased even when a digital circuit using transistors having one conductivity is employed. By turning OFF a diode-connected transistor 101, the gate terminal of a first transistor 102 is brought into a floating state. At this time, the first transistor 102 is ON and its gate-source voltage is stored in a capacitor. Then, when a potential at the source terminal of the first transistor 102 is increased, a potential at the gate terminal of the first transistor 102 is increased as well by bootstrap effect. As a result, the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased.

Abstract: A command input method includes: converting an original pixel data into command embedded pixel data based on a command to control a device, the command being embedded in the command embedded pixel data; transmitting the command embedded pixel data from a host to the device; extracting the command from the command embedded pixel data; and controlling the device according to the extracted command.

Abstract: A display driver is disclosed that includes: an external interface circuit having input modes as interface modes to input display data. The display driver keeps the scan driving of a display panel stopped during a predetermined period until the driving of the display panel by display data input in the interface mode after switching is enabled in case that the interface mode of the external interface circuit is switched in the middle of driving the display panel based on display data input through the external interface circuit.

Abstract: A display panel and a display driver are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel repeating units, which are arranged repeatedly to form a pixel array. Each row of the sub-pixel repeating unit includes an odd number of sub-pixels, where every two sub-pixels are regarded as one pixel unit, and another sub-pixel is added at the last column of the sub-pixel repeating unit. The odd-numbered sub-pixels are respectively written by N groups of pixel data. The amount of these sub-pixels is 2N+1, which is between two to two and a half times of the amount of the pixel data. Each odd-numbered column of the sub-pixel repeating unit includes the sub-pixels of two different colors, which are alternately arranged in each odd-numbered column.

Abstract: An information handling system can include a display for displaying an image and a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit can select a display color table based on a display type determined based on extended data identification data for the display, receive an input image into a graphics processing unit, perform image contrast and sharpness calculations on the input image, perform a color optimization using the display color table, and provide an output image to the display.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a a graphics processing unit and a display with a timing controller. The graphics processing unit can receive an input image comprising three color values for pixels of the input image, and map the pixels of the input image to pixels of the display. The graphics processing unit can provide three-color sub-pixel values to the timing controller, and the timing controller can perform a color calibration of the image using three dimensional look up tables to produce four-color sub-pixel values. Alternatively, the graphics processing unit can perform the color calibration and provide the four-color sub-pixel values to the timing controller. In another alternative, the graphics processing unit can perform the color calibration and provide the timing controller with three-color sub-pixel values, and the timing controller can generate four-color sub-pixel values from the combination of the three-color sub-pixel values and a chrominance value.

Abstract: A peripheral electronic device is described which is configured to communicate with a computing device comprising a display having a screen configured to display a virtual gaze cursor; wherein the peripheral electronic device comprises at least one user interface configured to trigger at least one operational command in response to interaction with a user, wherein the at least one operational command is associated with a current location of the virtual gaze cursor at the screen, and wherein a change at the current location of the virtual gaze cursor being displayed, is determined based on a shift of a user's gaze from a first location at said screen to a different location thereat, or based on a tilt of the user's head, or based on any combination thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a display device including a timing controller configured to output a clock synchronizing signal for a clock data recovery operation, and a plurality of source driving chips configured to perform the clock data recovery operation in response to the clock synchronizing signal, wherein each of the source driving chips includes a filter unit configured to determine whether the first and second detection signals are activated or deactivated in response to a voltage level of the clock synchronizing signal and to output an operation signal according to a comparative result of the first and second detection signals, and an internal clock generator configured to perform the clock data recovery operation in response to the activation state of the operation signal.

Abstract: A method comprising entering a passive viewing state of an apparatus, determining occurrence of a software event, generating a visual event notification that is indicative of the software event based, at least in part, on the passive viewing state, causing display, on a display, of the visual event notification in conformance with an impaired-viewing display mode based, at least in part, on passive viewing state, receiving environmental sensor information, determining that the environmental sensor information indicates that the apparatus is actively viewed by a user, entering an active viewing state of the apparatus based, at least in part, on the determination that the environmental sensor information indicates that the apparatus is actively viewed by the user, and causing display, on the display, of different visual information in conformance with an unimpaired-viewing display mode based, at least in part, on the active viewing state is disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same which can effectively reduce an afterimage phenomenon generated on a display unit. A control apparatus of a mobile terminal for reducing an afterimage of a display unit of the mobile terminal according to embodiments of the present invention may comprise: the display unit for displaying items in a turned-on state; and a control unit for turning off the display unit after displaying the items on the display unit, moving display locations of the items displayed on the display unit in the turned-on state in a state where the display unit is turned off, and displaying the items in the moved display locations when the display unit is turned back on.

Abstract: A data processing system 1 comprises a display controller 7 operable to provide to a display 12 a compressed version of an output surface to be displayed that has been compressed using a lossy compression scheme, and one or more processing stages 2-6 operable to provide a surface or surfaces that are to be used when forming an output surface to be displayed. At least one of the one or more processing stages 2-6 is operable to output one or more regions of the surface or surfaces that it provides to be used when forming an output surface to be displayed in a compressed form using a lossy compression scheme.

Abstract: A string tensioner module for a stringed musical instrument is configured to apply a constant or near-constant tension to the musical strings of the instrument. The module is divided into a plurality of string tensioners, one string tensioner for each musical string. Each string tensioner employs a primary spring that apply the primary force coaxial with the string. Each string tensioner also employs a secondary spring that applies a secondary force in a direction crossing the axis of the string, and thus applying an axial force component that changes as the angle of the secondary spring changes. The primary and secondary springs are selected so that the change in the axial force component of the secondary spring as the string changes in length approximates the change in force applied by the primary spring so that the axial force applied to the string remains generally constant even as the string changes in length.

Abstract: A device configured for holding a plectrum to a user's hand. The device includes a loop end and a pick end, the loop end configured to be disposed over a user's thumb, and the pick end configured to hold at least one pick. The pick end may include adhesive or an area of higher friction by which the pick is coupled with the device. The pick end may include a cavity configured for receiving the pick. The cavity may be substantially rigid, configured to fit a particular shape and size of plectrum. The cavity may be substantially flexible, configured to receive plectra of different shapes and sizes. The pick end and loop end may be a single unit. The pick end may be removably coupleable with the loop end, allowing a user to prepare multiple pick ends or to interchange an adhesive pick end with a cavity pick end.

Abstract: A musical instrument mute, a mute body, a microphone, a speaker, and a microcontroller for electronic modification of sound emitted from a musical instrument. A mute body is positionable within a bell or horn of the musical instrument, and the body has a proximal end portion and is configured to at least partially occlude the bell or horn. A microphone is positioned at the proximal end portion of the mute body and is configured to transduce a sound produced by the musical instrument. A speaker is positioned in the mute body as well. A microcontroller is configured to receive a signal from the microphone and to electronically modify the sound of the instrument when emitted through the speaker. Some mutes also provide a communication transceiver, sensors, and input devices to control and manipulate sound produced by the mute.

Abstract: A marching drum articulation dampener for percussion instrument holder that allows attachment to a user mounted carrier. The holder allows adjustment for positioning about the user, and pivoting of the holder to allow the holder to pivot or rotate up to allow the holder with instruments to fit a narrower space. The holder further allows for pivotal attachment of individual drums to link or pivot allowing the linked drums to articulate. The holder can also consist of members that allow a connected drum to move in horizontal position, angle, or height of the drum. A plurality of unique drum connecting members is disclosed that allow the connecting members to connect onto drum tension rods or on a drum lug. A lift assisting mechanism is used to assist in lifts drums from a horizontal to a vertical orientation.

Abstract: A drumhead that is removably fitted onto a drum shell and seated in a rubber ring to create a seal to form a percussion instrument is disclosed. The percussion instrument thus formed does not require any hardware, rope, or adhesives applying tension to hold the drumhead to the drum shell to create a normal percussive sound.