Electroluminescent Patents (Class 313/463)
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Patent number: 8212749Abstract: Disclosed herein is an Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting-Diode (AMOLED) drive circuit using transient current feedback. The AMOLED drive circuit includes a current Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), a data line drive transistor, a constant current source, a variable current source, a differential amplifier, and a transient charging current control unit. The DAC generates current corresponding to input digital data. The data line drive transistor is configured such that the drain terminal thereof is connected to the output node of the current DAC. The constant current source is connected between the source terminal of the data line drive transistor and a ground. The variable current source is connected between both the output node of the current DAC and the drain terminal of the drive transistor, and a voltage source. The differential amplifier is configured to input the output voltage thereof to the gate terminal of the drive transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Gyu-Hyeong Cho, Young-Suk Son, Sang-Kyung Kim, Jin-Yong Jeon, Gun-Ho Lee
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Publication number: 20120153803Abstract: A luminescent element includes a luminescent glass and a metal layer with a metal microstructure formed on a surface of the luminescent glass; wherein the luminescent glass has a chemical composition: aR2O.bZnO.cSiO2.nMnO2, wherein R represents the alkali metal element, a, b, c, and n are, by mole parts, 9.5˜40, 8˜40, 35˜70, and 0.01˜1, respectively. A preparation method of a luminescent element and a luminescence method are also provided. The luminescent element has good luminescence homogeneity, high luminescence efficiency, good luminescence stability and simple structure, and can be used in luminescent device with ultrahigh brightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: OCEAN'S KING LIGHTING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Yugang Liu, Qingtao Li
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Patent number: 8188944Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, a signal driver employs a two-stage system in which the potential of a signal line (SL) is switched from a reference potential (Vofs) to an intermediate potential (Vofs2), and then switched to a signal potential (Vsig) of a video signal. A scanner supplies a first control pulse to a scan line (WS) when the signal line (SL) is at the intermediate potential (Vofs2), and then supplies a second control pulse to thereby turn on and off a sampling transistor T1 when the signal line (SL) is at the signal potential (Vsig). Based on this configuration, two times of mobility correction (? correction) are carried out.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 8174175Abstract: The light-emitting device of the present invention is a light-emitting device having a plurality of pixels that comprises a light-emitting function layer of at least one layer that emits light in accordance with a supplied current, a first electrode layer of a conductive material provided at one surface of the light-emitting function layer, and being transparent to at least part of a wavelength range of light emitted from the light-emitting function layer, a second electrode layer provided facing the first electrode layer on the other surface of the light-emitting function layer, including conductive material, and being transparent to at least part of the wavelength range of light emitted from the light-emitting function layer, and a reflecting layer provided on the second electrode layer, and being reflective to at least part of the wavelength range of light emitted from the light-emitting function layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuto Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8164548Abstract: The variation of characteristics of transistors occurs. The present invention is a signal line drive circuit having a plurality of current source circuit corresponding to a plurality of wirings, a first and a second shift registers, a latch circuit, the foregoing plurality of current source circuits have capacity means and supplying means, respectively, characterized in that the foregoing capacity means converts a supplied current into a voltage according to a sampling pulse supplied from the foregoing first shift register, the foregoing supplying means supplies a current corresponding to the foregoing converted voltage according to a video signal, and the foregoing latch circuit operates according to a sampling pulse supplied from the foregoing second shift register.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hajime Kimura
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Patent number: 8159426Abstract: Organic light emitting display (OLED) devices and methods of rendering image of an OLED device. A pixel of the OLED device includes a first sub-pixel corresponding to a first color, comprising a first pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel corresponding to a second color, comprising a second pixel electrode. A portion of the second pixel electrode is operatively associated with a portion of the first sub-pixel, such that activation of second pixel electrode activates both the first sub-pixel and said portion of the first sub-pixel independent of activation of the first pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Shih-Chang Chang, Du-Zen Peng
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Patent number: 8159419Abstract: A display apparatus is provided to operate a light emitting unit with a small number of power drivers. The display apparatus has a plurality of light emitting units, a power driver, whose total provided therein is less than the total of light emitting units, that outputs driving power to the light emitting units. A power switch is switched on and off to supply the driving power to one of the plurality of light emitting units, and a controller controls the power switch to sequentially supply the driving power to the plurality of light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-hoon Lee, Jeong-il Kang, Kyoung-geun Lee, Yung-jun Park
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Patent number: 8142685Abstract: A blue fluorescent material having excellent durability and a high luminance, especially one emitting a high-luminance light by the action of electron rays. The fluorescent material comprises inorganic crystals having a crystal structure which is an AlN crystalline, AlN polycrystalline, or AlN solid-solution crystalline structure. It is characterized in that the inorganic crystals contain at least europium in solution and have an oxygen content of 0.4 mass % or lower and that the fluorescent material emits fluorescence derived from divalent europium ions upon irradiation with an excitation source. More preferably, the fluorescent material contains a given metallic element and silicon. Also provided are a process for producing the fluorescent material and an illuminator including the blue fluorescent material.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventor: Naoto Hirosaki
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Patent number: 8139002Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display for removing a voltage which is charged into a gate electrode of a driving transistor before a current frame is changed to a next frame is disclosed. In the organic light emitting diode display, a display panel has a plurality of pixels that include an organic light emitting diode. A timing controller controls a driving timing of the inputted video data and controls a supply timing of a refresh voltage. A data driver converts a digital data which is outputted from the timing controller for a current frame into an analog data voltage to supply it to the pixels, and then supplies the refresh voltage to pixels which are selected among the pixels in accordance with a control of the timing controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In Hwan Kim, Seung Chan Byun, Jin Hyoung Kim
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Patent number: 8102336Abstract: A pixel has an outer region extending linearly along a boundary with an adjacent pixel and an inner region extending along the inner side of the outer region. Wiring lines are arranged across the outer region and the inner region. An outer uneven zone is formed along the outer region and on a substrate due to level differences resulting from the presence of the wiring lines. Similarly, an inner uneven zone is formed along the inner region and on the substrate due to level differences resulting from the presence of the wiring lines. A pattern of a conductor film of which the wiring lines are made is formed properly such that recessed portions of the outer uneven zone are located directly behind their corresponding raised portions of the inner uneven zone, as viewed from inside the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8044894Abstract: After a sampling transistor is turned ON at a first timing when a control signal has risen, during a sampling period from a second timing when a video signal has risen from a reference potential to a signal potential to a third timing when the control signal has fallen and is turned OFF, the sampling transistor samples and writes the signal potential in a holding capacitance, and negatively feeds back a current flowing into a drive transistor during the sampling period to the holding capacitance and applies mobility correction of the drive transistor on the written signal potential. A signal driver adjusts the second timing for the video signal supplied to respective signal lines to correct a backward shift of the third timing due to a transmission delay along a scanning line of the control signal output from the control scanner.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8040299Abstract: An active matrix for an organic light-emitting diode display screen, including: pixels arranged in rows and in columns, each pixel including, a pixel electrode capable of accommodating an organic light-emitting diode on the surface, and first and second current drivers connected to said pixel electrode, wherein the first and second current drivers each include a current control transistor connected between a supply voltage Vdd and said pixel electrode and at least a first switching transistor that controls a gate of said current control transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: ThalesInventors: Thierry Kretz, Hugues Lebrun, Elisabeth Chuiton
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Patent number: 8022899Abstract: A precharge voltage Vp is applied in period A. The precharge voltage Vp is generated by applying a constant current Iw to a pixel driving transistor of a display panel and using gate terminal voltage of the driving transistor which passes the constant current Iw. The gate terminal potential is held in memory. When displaying images on a display panel, the gate terminal potential is read out of memory, and used as the precharge voltage Vp after arithmetic processing. By the application of the precharge voltage Vp, a source signal line is charged and discharged quickly so that an almost target tone current will flow through the driving transistor. Furthermore, a more accurate program current is written into the pixel during period B.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Takahara
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Patent number: 8018425Abstract: A driving apparatus of a light emitting diode and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The driving apparatus of a LED includes a plurality of LED groups in which LEDs are connected in series to each other; a plurality of constant voltage supply units that supplies a constant voltage required to drive a constant current to each of the plurality of LED groups and that outputs the constant voltage in which an output voltage is equal to or lower than an input voltage; and a pulse width modulation signal supply unit that supplies a pulse width modulation signal to each of the constant voltage supply units.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eui Yeol Oh, Haang Rhym Chu
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Patent number: 7994695Abstract: A RGB phosphor system for a carbon nanotube (CNT)/field emission device (FED) display operated between about 4-10 kV. The RGB phosphor system is formed on an interior surface of a screen of the CNT/FED display. The RGB phosphor system includes ZnS:Cu, Al (green phosphor), ZnS:Ag,Cl (blue phosphor) and Y2O2S:Eu+3 (red phosphor). The average particle size for each of the green, blue and red phosphors should be about 3-4 microns.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Brian Thomas Collins, Peter Michael Ritt, David Paul Ciampa, James Kleppinger
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Patent number: 7903060Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes a first driving device that includes a first control electrode supplied with a voltage from a first node, and switches a current path between a second node and a third node in accordance with a voltage of the first node; a second driving device that is connected to be symmetrical with the first driving device through the second node and the third node, and includes a second control electrode supplied with a voltage of the first node; a high-level driving voltage source that supplies a high-level driving voltage via the third node; an organic light emitting diode device that is connected between the second node and a ground voltage source; gate and data lines; first to third switch devices; a driving circuit that drives the first to third switch devices; and a storage capacitor connected between the first node and the third node.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Soon Kwang Hong
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Patent number: 7638949Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: an emissive layer between an anode and a cathode facing each other; an anode buffer layer formed of a conductive material, installed between the anode and the emissive layer; a cathode buffer layer formed of the conductive material, installed between the cathode and the emissive layer; and a driving device which alternately applies a forward-biased voltage and a reverse-biased voltage which have different voltage values and polarities, to the anode and the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Hara, Rie Makiura
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Patent number: 7561128Abstract: A pixel unit for an organic electroluminescence display device includes four switching transistors, a driving transistor, a capacitor and an organic light emitting diode, configured in a circuit to prevent picture quality deterioration of the display device due to deterioration of the transistors characteristics in a pixel unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Hydis Technologies Co., LtdInventors: Seong Jun Ahn, Chang Soo Pyon
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Patent number: 7557512Abstract: Provided is an organic EL device having a lower power consumption and high performance and enabling to display separate pictures on bidirectional screens as well as to display the same picture on the bidirectional screens, and a driving apparatus thereof. The organic EL device includes: a first organic EL panel for a unidirectional display; and a second organic EL panel for a unidirectional display, each of the first and second organic EL panels having a substrate, a first electrode, an emitting layer and a second electrode, wherein the first organic EL panel and the second organic EL panel are coupled so as to display pictures in bidirections. According to the present invention, a sufficient brightness can be obtained even under a low power. Also, since an opaque cathode is used, performance and transmittance are enhanced compared with the related art organic EL device using a transparent cathode.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myung Seop Kim, Jae Man Lee, Jae Woo Kyung, Sung Kab Kim, Young Soo Han, Hong Gyu Kim, Jong Geun Yoon, Joong Hwan Yang
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Patent number: 7474283Abstract: In an active matrix electroluminescent display device a storage capacitor (24) is provided in each pixel (10) for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor (22) which controls the illumination of the electroluminescent display element (20) and gated discharge photosensitive means (36), for example a phototransistor, are provided for discharging the charge storage capacitor in dependence on the display element's light output. Operation of the gated photosensitive means is controlled by the output of an inverter (50) whose input is coupled to one side of the storage capacitor. Upon the storage capacitor reaching a predetermined discharge voltage, the gated photosensitive means (36) is turned on by switching of the inverter, thereby rapidly discharging the capacitor and turning off the display element. The use of an inverter in this way ensures a fast, robust, and well controlled switching action to terminate light output.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: David A. Fish
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Patent number: 7431864Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a blue-aimed phosphor powder which is more excellent in emission characteristic than the conventional rare-earth activated sialon phosphors and which is more excellent in durability than the conventional oxide phosphors. The solving means resides in: firing a starting material mixture in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature range between 1,500° C. inclusive and 2,200° C. inclusive, wherein the starting material mixture is a mixture of metallic compounds, and is capable of constituting a composition comprising M, A, Si, Al, O, and N (M is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from Mn, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb; and A is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from C, Si, Ge, Sn, B, Ga, In, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Gd, Lu, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ta, and W) by firing; to obtain a phosphor which emits fluorescence having a peak at a wavelength within a range of 400 nm to 700 nm, by irradiation of an excitation source.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventor: Naoto Hirosaki
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Patent number: 7414357Abstract: A window (1) with an opaque coating (2) comprising a surface region (3) which has opaque surface portions (5) and which is perforated by surface portions (4) allowing light to pass through and distributed over the surface. At least one flat electroluminescent light element (EL) with several layers, including a transparent electrode (8), is placed in at least some of the opaque surface portions (5) of the surface region (3), which element, after applying an electrical supply voltage to the side of the transparent electrode (8), radiates light through at least one of the faces of the window (1).Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Bernhard Reul, Volkmar Offermann, Horst Mercks, Walter Goerenz, Dieter Linnhoefer
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Patent number: 7382512Abstract: Various devices and methods employing a resistive phase change material are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Inventors: Zhizhang Chen, Qin Liu, Timothy F. Myers, Chien-Hua Chen
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Patent number: 7361417Abstract: A phosphor layer having improved contrast and brightness characteristics and a display device including the same are provided. The phosphor layer is made out of an ultra-fine pigment, a dispersant, a phosphor, a photosensitizer and a binder. The phosphor has a uniform distribution along the thickness of the phosphor layer, and the pigment varies in content over the thickness of the phosphor layer. A method of forming the phosphor layer is based on existing phosphor layer processes and includes a reduced number of processing steps than a filter screen method, thereby markedly lowering the manufacturing costs. The phosphor layer can be used in a cathode ray tube, a plasma display panel, a field emission display, and an organic electroluminescent device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung-Heun Kang, Jong-Sang Lee, Jae-Hong Lim, Seok-Hwan Cha, Hong-Kyu Choi
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Patent number: 7326371Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprises a light emitting layer including an anthracene material bearing at least one aryl ring in the 2-position and having a hydrogen or an alkyl group in the 6-position and having up to 12 aromatic carbocyclic rings including at least one naphthalene group in the 9-position of the anthracene group and an aryl group in the 10-position, the anthracene material including among the rings only carbocyclic rings.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Scott R. Conley, William B. Vreeland, Lelia Cosimbescu
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Patent number: 7321464Abstract: A brightness enhanced reflective polarizer includes a reflective polarizer and a structured surface material.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Michael F. Weber, Olester Benson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20070252509Abstract: The display device module according to the present invention comprises a pixel circuit section including at least one light emitting area, each light emitting area being formed on an overlying area of a first electrode and a second electrode on a substrate; at least one first line connected to a first end portion of the first electrode; at least one first auxiliary line to a second end portion of the first electrode; at least one second auxiliary line having a connecting bar formed at one end thereof; at least one second line connected to the second electrode; and at least one dummy line having a connecting bar formed at one end thereof, the dummy line being disposed not to contact with the pixel circuit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventor: Il Ho Lee
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Patent number: 7283131Abstract: An image display apparatus having a plurality of image forming devices. In an output circuit provided between constant voltage supplies and wiring for driving each of the image forming devices, MOSFETs are successively turned on from the one having a higher ON resistance at the time of switching to make a stepwise transition between outputs from the constant voltage supplies, and have steady potential, thereby limiting undesirable variation in signal potential at the time of switching.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiko Murayama, Tadashi Aoki, Aoji Isono, Kenji Shino
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Publication number: 20070216280Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate that is conductive at least on a first surface; a first insulating film located on the first surface of the substrate and including a portion of a first opening, a portion of a second opening, and a portion of a third opening; a semiconductor film located on the first insulating film and receiving a current from the first surface of the substrate via the portion of a first opening; a second insulating film located on the semiconductor film and in contact with the substrate via the portion of a second opening; a capacitance electrode located on the second insulating film; a gate electrode located on the second insulating film and overlapping the semiconductor film; an intermediate insulating film located on the gate electrode and capacitance electrode; a pixel electrode located on the intermediate insulating film and receiving a current via the semiconductor film; a light-emitting layer located on the pixel electrode; a common electrode located on the lType: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki HARA, Sumio UTSUNOMIYA, Daisuke ABE, Masayoshi TODOROKIHARA, Kazuyuki MIYASHITA
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Patent number: 7239361Abstract: A display includes a display surface, an electroluminescent panel, which has a plurality of electroluminescent elements, and a liquid crystal panel, which has a plurality of liquid crystal elements. The liquid crystal panel and the electroluminescent panel overlaps each other in the front and rear direction of the display. The electroluminescent elements and the liquid crystal elements are aligned with each other in the front and rear direction of the display. In the display, at least one of the electroluminescent elements and the liquid crystal elements function as pixels to show an image on the display surface. Therefore, the display can show an image in the appropriate manner in accordance with an environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventor: Yoshifumi Kato
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Patent number: 7227302Abstract: Optical filter layers that transmit only light with a desired wavelength are provided in a non-formation region of an optical absorbing layer formed on an inner surface of a glass panel, and phosphor layers that emit either one of red, green, and blue light are provided on the optical filter layers. The optical filter layers transmit blue light. Assuming that the thickness of the optical filter layer underlying the phosphor layer that emits blue light is t1, and the thickness of the optical filter layers underlying the phosphor layers that emit red and green light is t2, a relationship: t1>t2 is satisfied. Because of the above configuration, a color cathode-ray tube is provided, which can be produced at low cost with satisfactory yield with less peeling of a phosphor layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Iida, Hidemi Matsuda
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Patent number: 7084936Abstract: A display includes a display surface, an electroluminescent panel, which has a plurality of electroluminescent elements, and a liquid crystal panel, which has a plurality of liquid crystal elements. The liquid crystal panel and the electroluminescent panel overlaps each other in the front and rear direction of the display. The electroluminescent elements and the liquid crystal elements are aligned with each other in the front and rear direction of the display. In the display, at least one of the electroluminescent elements and the liquid crystal elements function as pixels to show an image on the display surface. Therefore, the display can show an image in the appropriate manner in accordance with an environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventor: Yoshifumi Kato
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Patent number: 6995737Abstract: A method and system for controlling a voltage used for precharging current-driven elements in a matrix, and a method of manufacturing a device to perform this function. Elements are driven during successive scan cycles, each having a precharge period and an exposure period. The elements conduct current during conduction periods, which typically have variable length within exposure periods. Conduction voltages are sensed at earlier times (e.g., near the beginning) and later times (e.g., near the end) within conduction periods. A precharge voltage is adapted based on a comparison of the earlier and later sensed conduction voltages, typically so as to reduce any average difference and thereby cause the voltage during exposure to be consistent.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Clare Micronix Integrated Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert LeChevalier
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Patent number: 6909228Abstract: The present invention proposes a Braun Tube for projectors having an illuminant layer provided on a phosphor screen, the illuminant layer including Zinc Silver Aluminum Oxide (ZnS:Ag, Al) as a blue color illuminant, Yttrium Terbium Silicate (Y2SiO5:Tb) as a green color illuminant, and Yttrium Europium Oxide (Y2O3:Eu) as a red color illuminant, all illuminants having particle size of 5 to 7 ?m. As a result, it is possible to realize a Braun Tube for projectors, in which an extended life cycle is achieved by constraining the degradation of the illuminant, constraining the browning phenomenon, as well as improving the spot size of the electron beam thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Igarashi, Tsuneo Kusunoki, Katsutoshi Ohno
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Patent number: 6900784Abstract: A display apparatus is capable of displaying an image at a proper luminance based on an input video signal without being influenced by temperature changes or time-dependent changes. The display apparatus is provided with a monitoring circuit constituted by a monitoring luminescent device, a reference current source of a reference drive current for causing the monitoring luminescent device to emit light at a luminance of K %, a transistor for supplying the reference drive current to the monitoring luminescent device, and a switch for connecting an output end of the reference drive current and a control end of the transistor. An input video signal is corrected to have a level according to the voltage value on the control end of the transistor driving the monitoring luminescent device when the luminance indicated by the video signal is K % of a maximum luminance level.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventor: Masami Tsuchida
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Patent number: 6861794Abstract: A display device (1) comprises a display screen (10) which comprises a blue color filter layer (24B) and a blue phosphor (25B). The blue phosphor is provided with or covered by blue pigments.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2000Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Remko Horne
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Patent number: 6825604Abstract: The phosphor screen is capable of minimizing the spread of lights in the phosphor screen, so as to restrict fading images and lowering contrast. The phosphor screen comprises a lot of minute phosphor sections. The phosphor sections are respectively enclosed by barriers, which absorb visible lights and have electric conductance, and whose height is equal to or higher than a half of thickness of the phosphor sections. The barriers are made of a material including the particles of an inorganic compound, whose average diameter is 1-8 &mgr;m, and carbon particles, whose average diameter is less than 1 &mgr;m.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha KakumaInventor: Lyuji Ozawa
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Patent number: 6808829Abstract: An image-display device using phosphor can improve the its luminescence efficiency and characteristics of color coordinates by adding an IIA element to a host crystal of ZnS phosphor to form a composite crystal. The image-display device improves the luminescence efficiency and color coordinate characteristics by using a phosphor expressed by Zn(1−x)MIIAxS:MIB, MIII where MIIA is one or more IIA elements in periodic table of elements, MIB is one or more IB elements and MIII is one or more MIIIA elements such as Sc or Y.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Komatsu, Masatoshi Shiiiki, Shin Imamura
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Patent number: 6743378Abstract: A mixed green color fluorescent material for an electric device such as a plasma display panel includes: at least a first fluorescent material selected from a Group A defined in a range (0.10≦x≦0.18, 0.70≦y≦0.80) on a chromaticity coordinate; and at least a second fluorescent material selected from a Group B defined in a range (0.25≦x≦0.35, 0.55 ≦y≦0.65) on the chromaticity coordinate.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Kawamura
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Patent number: 6717346Abstract: An additional phosphor-excitation mechanism improves the light output of a visible-light emitting phosphor. One excitation mechanism indirectly excites the visible-light emitting phosphor by first striking a non-visible-light emitting particle (such as an ultra-violet-emitting phosphor) with an electron beam, which then emits non-visible radiation that strikes a visible-light emitting phosphor. The non-visible-light emitting particles can be disposed behind and/or adjacent to die visible-light emitting phosphors. A second mechanism directly excites the visible-light emitting phosphor by directly striking the visible-light emitting phosphor with an electron beam. Thus, the same visible-light emitting phosphor is activated by the first indirect mechanism as well as the second direct mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventor: John Friedrich Breuninger
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Patent number: 6703992Abstract: In an active matrix type EL device, a semiconductor layer (intersection protective film F1, F2, F3, F4) is inserted between lines at an intersection of a gate line GL and a data line DL; an intersection of the gate line GL and a power source line VL; an intersection of a storage capacitor line CL and the data line DL; and an intersection of the storage capacitor line CL and the power source line VL for inter-line insulation. No impurities are doped in the regions corresponding to these intersections CR1˜CR4, to thereby maintain high resistance. The intersection protective films are integrally formed for the intersections CR1 and CR2 and for the intersections CR3 and CR4 and extend over the respective two intersections. With the above-described structure, it is possible to prevent short circuit or deterioration of voltage withstanding characteristics at the intersections on the panel where lines intersect, without a drastic increase in the number of processes.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsutomu Yamada
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Publication number: 20040028109Abstract: An electron beam pumped semiconductor laser screen and an associated fabrication method are described which provide a display screen that has a relatively long operating lifetime, is less expensive to produce, and operates at lower electron voltages and near room temperature conditions. The laser screen includes a multi quantum well active gain region having quantum wells of GaInP and barrier layers of (AlxGa1−x)Inp, thereby permitting operation in the visible, red spectrum. Moreover, the first layer epitaxially grown on the sacrificial substrate is an etch stop layer of (GaxAl1−x)yIn1−yP that acts as an etch stop during the subsequent etching of the sacrificial substrate and may also be used to adjust the cavity length to the correct resonance condition. The laser screen also includes an output mirror having alternating layers of two different compositions of GaxAl1−xAs that are epitaxially grown on the multi quantum well active gain region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Robert Rex Rice, Neil F. Ruggieri, J. Stanley Whiteley, Robert A. Morgan, Richard A. Skogman
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Patent number: 6656574Abstract: A structure used in the production of a face plate of a display includes a substrate assembly having a conductive surface at a first side thereof, one or more projections (e.g., spacers) extending from the first side of the substrate assembly, and electrophoretically deposited and patternable material (e.g., photoresist), on the conductive surface and adjacent the projections. The patternable material may define openings to the conductive surface for use in deposition of one or more light emitting elements on the conductive surface. In another embodiment, the structure used in the production of a display may comprise a substrate assembly including a conductive surface, one or more nonconductive regions (e.g., one or more phosphor light emitting elements, black matrix material, nonconductive regions have a thickness less than about 15 microns) formed on the conductive surface, and electrophoretically deposited patternable material formed over the conductive surface and the one or more nonconductive regions.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Jefferson O. Nemelka
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Patent number: 6614161Abstract: A resonant microcavity display (20) having microcavity with a substrate (25), a phosphor active region (50) and front and rear reflectors (30 and 60). The front and rear reflectors may be spaced to create either a standing or treaveling eledtromagnetic wave to enhance the efificenty of the light transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Stuart M. Jacobsen, Steven M. Jaffe, Hergen Eilers, Michieal L. Jones
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Patent number: 6590330Abstract: A display device comprises a color filter pattern between a phosphor pattern and a display window. For blue, the thickness (t2) of this color filter pattern is more than 2.5 micrometer, preferably 5-7 micrometer, and/or for red said thickness is 0.25-1.5 micrometer. The red and/or blue color filter patterns are provided by means of a non-linear photoresist. This enables an improved contrast (LCP) to be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1998Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Arie R. Van Doorn, Godefridus P. Van Melis
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Publication number: 20030085646Abstract: An electroluminescence device having a layer containing a specific metal coordination compound is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: Takao Takiguchi, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori
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Publication number: 20030011304Abstract: An electroluminescent device has at least two electroluminescent elements arranged on a substrate in accordance with a desired pattern, each element comprising a first and a second electrode layer and, disposed therebetween, an electroluminescent layer obtained from a liquid layer. A partitioning relief pattern including partitioning ribs of an insulating material protruding from the substrate, forms enclosure areas for containing the liquid layer in accordance with the desired pattern. In order to prevent mixing of liquids between adjacent electroluminescent elements and to allow filling of a maximum amount of liquid in each element, the partitioning element between adjacent elements is comprised of at least two partitioning ribs with an intermediate groove in the area between the partitioning ribs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventors: Paulus Cornelis Duineveld, Coen Theodorus Hubertus Fransiscus Liedenbaum, Jochem Petrus Maria De Koning, Ivo Godfried Jozef Camps
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Patent number: 6501102Abstract: Presented is an LED device that produces white light by performing phosphor conversion on substantially all of the primary light emitted by the light emitting structure of the LED device. The LED device comprises a light emitting structure and at least one phosphor-converting element located to receive and absorb substantially all of the primary light. The phosphor-converting element emits secondary light at second and third wavelengths that combine to produce white light. Some embodiments include an additional phosphor-converting element, which receives light from a phosphor-converting element and emits light at a fourth wavelength. In the embodiments including an additional phosphor-converting element, the second, third, and fourth wavelengths combine to produce white light. Each phosphor-converting element includes at least one host material doped with at least one dopant. The phosphor-converting element may be a phosphor thin film, a substrate for the light emitting structure, or a phosphor powder layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: LumiLeds Lighting, U.S., LLCInventors: Regina B. Mueller-Mach, Gerd O. Mueller, George M. Craford
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Patent number: 6501100Abstract: There is provided a white light illumination system including a radiation source, a first luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 570 to about 620 nm, and a second luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength of about 480 to about 500 nm, which is different from the first luminescent material. The LED may be a UV LED and the luminescent materials may be a blend of two phosphors. The first phosphor may be an orange emitting Eu2+, Mn2+ doped strontium pyrophosphate, (Sr0.8Eu0.1Mn0.1)2P2O7. The second phosphor may be a blue-green emitting Eu2+ doped SAE, (Sr0.90-0.99Eu0.01-0.1)4Al14O25. A human observer perceives the combination of the orange and the blue-green phosphor emissions as white light.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo
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Patent number: 6489715Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate of a luminous faceplate of a color projection cathode ray tube and a luminous faceplate which is composed of this substrate. The substrate consists of transparent polycrystalline material, and the luminous faceplate comprises a transparent polycrystal substrate and a luminous layer which is formed thereon. The luminous faceplate using the substrate of the present invention has an advantage over the prior art in the volume of a product, operating power, manufacturing cost, and resolution and so on. Thus, it is widely used in the field of color projection TV, advertisement display and so on.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1999Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Research Institute of Synthetic CrystalsInventors: Dezhong Shen, Cunxin Huang, Zaixue Peng, Deming Lui, Muyun Lei, Zhiyang Zhang