Fluid Light-emitting Display Elements (e.g., Gas, Plasma) Patents (Class 345/41)
  • Patent number: 9650435
    Abstract: Isolated monoclonal antibodies that bind to HIV-2 isolate NWK08F are provided. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind a polypeptide comprising the HIV-2NWK08F Env, Pol, or Nef proteins, or fragments thereof, respectively. Antigen-binding fragments and humanized versions of the antibody are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: Stephen M. Smith, Preston A. Marx, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9538091
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device which is able to individually set two or more types of exposure conditions with respect to arbitrary pixel groups inside an imaging area section and which reads out an imaging signal, which is obtained from pixel groups where the exposure conditions are individually set, in units of one imaging frame, and an imaging signal processing section which performs signal separation for each exposure condition and performs association with the exposure conditions with respect to the imaging signal which is output from the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventor: Koichi Maeyama
  • Patent number: 9501966
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a driver circuit for generating a reset pulse of an output waveform includes a plurality of ramp paths, each ramp path being configured to control the slope of the reset pulse. The driver circuit also includes a falling switch configured to selectively hold the output waveform low. The driver circuit further includes a switch controller for selectively enabling the plurality of ramp paths and the falling switch to generate the reset pulse. The switch controller can selectively enable the plurality of ramp paths responsive to a reference setting signal to select the slope of the reset pulse. The driver circuit can also generate a sustain pulse. The driver circuit is can generate the reset pulse and the sustain pulse by driving a transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
    Inventor: Dong Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8986964
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for engineering photoautotrophic organisms to convert carbon dioxide and light into fatty acid esters and other molecules, including biofuels. The molecules are then secreted by the organism into a growth medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Joule Unlimited Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Green, Nikos Basil Reppas, Dan Eric Robertson
  • Patent number: 8980141
    Abstract: A dye for a fluid of an electrowetting element, the dye having a general formula selected from the group consisting of: wherein Q has the general formula: -Het1R1 or -Het1R1R2; V has the general formula: -Het2R3 or -Het2R3R4; Het1 and Het2 are heteroatoms; R1 and R3 are H; R2 and R4 are any functional group; T and U are any functional group; W, X, Y and Z are H or an alkyl group; and F, G, L and M are H or an alkyl group, and with the proviso that the dye does not have the general formula: The present invention further relates to a fluid comprising a dye of the present invention, an electrowetting element and an optical display device comprising the fluid, and a use of the dye to reduce photo-bleaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Melanie Maria Hubertina Van De Weijer-Wagemans, Romaric Massard, Robert A. Hayes
  • Patent number: 8797633
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display device assembly which comprises a display device and a luminance enhancement structure. The luminance enhancement structure is directly laminated onto an ITO layer with an adhesive. The assembly of the present invention provides improved performance of the luminance enhancement structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: SiPix Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Sprague, Bryan Hans Chan, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 8791891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrowetting system comprising an electrowetting element, a driver stage for applying a voltage to the element, and a switch connecting the electrowetting element to an output of the driver stage. The element comprises a first fluid and a second, immiscible fluid. The instantaneous position of the fluids is dependent on the voltage applied to the element, the voltage being set when the switch is closed. The voltage on the element is substantially maintained during a holding state longer than 70 ms when the switch is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Liquavista B.V.
    Inventors: Roy Van Dijk, Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Anthony John Slack, Henricus Petronella Maria Derckx
  • Patent number: 8786578
    Abstract: A pointing device and a display apparatus applying the same are provided. The pointing device corrects an error that occurs in a boundary between block in calculating a current location of the pointing device and calculates the current location. Accordingly, an error occurring in a boundary between blocks in calculating a current location of the pointing device is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-seok Soh, Sang-on Choi, Yong-wan Choi, Mi-ra Yu
  • Patent number: 8755104
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electrowetting display panel and the manufacturing method thereof The electrowetting display panel comprises: a first glass substrate; a second glass substrate provided opposite to the first glass substrate; a cavity provided between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate; a colored conductive liquid filled into the cavity; and a reflecting conductive element provided on the surface of the first glass substrate facing away from the second glass substrate, and corresponding to the cavity, wherein the reflecting conductive element is used for controlling the light transmissivity of the colored conductive liquid within the cavity according to the voltage applied to the reflecting conductive element and reflecting the light passing through the colored conductive liquid toward the second glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Yao, Jianshe Xue, Zhanfeng Cao, Tianming Dai, Feng Zhang
  • Patent number: 8665944
    Abstract: An image signal processor and a method thereof are provided. The image signal processor sets the subfields to the intermediate illuminating statuses and moves the subfields according to the motion vectors, to display an image on a plasma display panel (PDP). Accordingly, problems such as pseudo contour, motion blur or rounding error can be prevented, and an image enhancement of a PDP is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-seop Lee, Jong-sul Min
  • Patent number: 8456384
    Abstract: A plasma display device is disclosed. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP), a printed circuit board assembly (PBA), and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) electrically connecting electrodes of the PBA and the PDP. In some embodiments, the FPC is formed of two films with signal lines therebetween and electrodes on opposite sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8395645
    Abstract: Crosstalk between adjacent discharge cells is reduced for a stable sustain discharge. A plasma display panel has scan electrodes and sustain electrodes arranged so that the positions of the corresponding scan electrode and sustain electrode are alternately interchanged in each display electrode pair, and image signal processing circuit converts an image signal into image data indicating light emission and no light emission in each discharge cell in each subfield. The image signal processing circuit generates the image data so that a combination of image data is avoided. One of two adjacent discharge cells having side-by-side scan electrodes is lit and the other of the discharge cells is unlit in one subfield of a plurality of subfields forming one field, and the one of the discharge cells is unlit and the other of the discharge cells is lit in a subfield after the one subfield in the same field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Origuchi, Hidehiko Shoji, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8362976
    Abstract: A plasma display device that can utilize an energy recovery voltage regardless of whether pixels are selected. An energy recovery circuit of the plasma display device includes first and second switches serially coupled between a first voltage source and a second voltage source, a third switch coupled to a connection point between the first and second switches, a voltage recovery capacitor coupled between the third switch and a base voltage source, and a precharger for charging the voltage recovery capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 8362977
    Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing one screen into a plurality of areas, wherein each area corresponds to at least one of the plurality of discharge cells, and wherein the plurality of areas form a detection pattern. The method also includes displaying the detection pattern in the plasma display and receiving a detection image which has been previously detected or captured, wherein detection image corresponds to at least one of the plurality of areas. The method further includes comparing the received detection image with the detection pattern and determining a position of the detected or captured area based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Won Kim, Hak-Cheol Yang, Sung-Chun Cho
  • Patent number: 8350783
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrowetting element for a display device, a display device and a control system for controlling at least one electrowetting element. The electrowetting element comprises: a radiation valve comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid, wherein the first and second fluids are configurable to change a characteristic of radiation passing through at least one of the first and second fluids; and an electrically switchable part switchable between a reflective mode for reflecting radiation incident on the switchable part and towards the radiation valve, and a transmissive mode for transmitting radiation incident on the switchable part through the switchable part and towards the radiation valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung LCD Netherlands R&D Center B.V.
    Inventors: Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Anthony John Slack
  • Patent number: 8269419
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. An area ratio of the magnesium oxide crystal particles to the metal oxide layer is 0.1% to 85%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8213071
    Abstract: Display device is based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids, e.g., oil in a first state, adjoins at least a first support plate and, in the second state, the other fluid at least partly adjoins the first support plate. In one embodiment, a picture element corresponds to a substantially closed space and, in the first state, the other fluid layer substantially completely adjoins both support plates and is divided in two sub-layers. This makes it possible, on the one hand, to use lower voltages to make displacement occur. On the other hand, this opens the opportunity to color displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung LCD Netherlands R & D Center B.V.
    Inventors: Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Robert Andrew Hayes, Menno Willem Jose Prins
  • Patent number: 8203507
    Abstract: A drive method of a plasma display panel that can increase the dark contrast, without causing a discharge failure. When a discharge cell that assumes a black display state in a first field from among first and a second fields that are adjacent in time and switches to a display state representing a brightness other than black in the second field is detected as a lighting transition cell, at least one drive of the below-described first and second forced lighting drives is executed. In the first forced lighting drive, the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of a predetermined subfield within the field in the first field. In the second forced lighting drive, an adjacent discharge cell that is adjacent to the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of the predetermined subfield in the second field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Itakura, Mitsuhiro Ishizuka, Kazuo Yahagi, Tetsuya Shigeta, Hirofumi Honda
  • Patent number: 8159487
    Abstract: A plasma display device includes a scan electrode drive circuit including a sustain pulse generating circuit, which includes an electric power recovery capacitor, a first recovery switch and a first recovery inductor connected in series so as to form an electric current passage in which an electric current is allowed to flow from the electric power recovery capacitor to a scan electrode, a second recovery switch and a second recovery inductor connected in series so as to form an electric current passage in which an electric current is allowed to flow from the scan electrode to the electric power recovery capacitor, a first damper capacitor connected to a node between a diode of the first recovery switch and the first recovery inductor, and a second damper capacitor connected to a node between a diode of the second recovery switch and the second recovery inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Fumito Kusama, Masaaki Kuranuki, Hironori Konno
  • Patent number: 8138993
    Abstract: The control of a plasma display panel, successively comprises, at least for all the cells of a current line having to switch state for the next line: a connection of a terminal of application of an intermediary supply voltage to output terminals of column control stages corresponding to the junction points of first and second switches between two terminals of application of a supply voltage, to perform a precharge or a predischarge of the screen cells; a disconnection of said output terminals from this intermediary voltage; and a connection of each output terminal to a first or to a second power supply voltage by the turning-on of the first or second switch of the corresponding stage, according to a luminance reference value, delayed with respect to the disconnection of the corresponding output terminal from the terminal of application of the intermediary voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Jerome Bourgoin, Gilles Troussel
  • Patent number: 8134549
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method to reduce power consumption of a self-luminous display. The image processing apparatus includes a parameter selection unit to select a parameter to adjust a degree to which power consumption is reduced; a scale factor setting unit to extract a high-frequency component of a current pixel in an input image and to set a scale factor according to the selected parameter and a size of the extracted high-frequency component; and a multiplier to multiply the current pixel by the set scale factor and to output a result of the multiplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-ran Han, Ho-young Lee, Du-sik Park
  • Patent number: 8076851
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other across a discharge space, and a plurality of row electrode pairs and a plurality of column electrodes extending in a direction orthogonal to the row electrodes. The row electrodes and said column electrodes being provided between the front substrate and the back substrate and forming unit light emission areas at intersections with each other within the discharge space. A crystal having a volumetric particle-size distribution in which a ratio of a crystal having a particle size of 0.7 ?m or less is 25% or less, is provided in an area facing the discharge space between the front substrate and the back substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8054245
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are provided. A maintenance period of a sustain signal changes depending on a temperature of a plasma display panel or an ambient temperature of the plasma display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won Jae Kim, Sung Im Lee
  • Patent number: 8035880
    Abstract: In a reflective a display device based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e.g. oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid (6) at least partly adjoins the first support plate, in which picture elements are separated by areas (13) having a hydrophilic surface dyes (or sometimes pigments) are added to the oil (usually hydrocarbon but also possibly silicone or fluorocarbon), to provide sufficient optical intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Liquavista, B.V.
    Inventors: Robert A. Hayes, Mickael Joulaud, Thibault J B Roques-Carmes, Stephanie A. Palmier
  • Patent number: 8035578
    Abstract: A display apparatus, which displays a color image by controlling the number of emissions or the intensity thereof in accordance with primary color video signals input thereto, has a detection portion and a white balance correction portion. The detection portion is used to detect the number of emissions or the intensity, and the white balance correction portion is used to correct white balance by adjusting the amplitudes of the primary color video signals in accordance with the detected number of emissions or the detected intensity. Therefore, correct white balance can be maintained regardless of the number of emissions or the intensity of emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited
    Inventors: Ken Kumakura, Hideaki Ohki, Yuichiro Kimura, Yasuji Noguchi, Takayuki Ooe
  • Patent number: 8035879
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a first and a second transparent substrates, multiple partition walls, a polar liquid, a non-polar liquid, and a phosphor layer. The non-polar liquid is opaque and immiscible with the polar liquid. The phosphor layer is formed on at least one of the first and the second transparent substrates. The phosphor layer comprises a first part that transforms the short-wavelength light into red light, a second part that transforms the short-wavelength light into green light, and a third part that transforms the short-wavelength light into blue light or allows the short-wavelength light to pass therethrough without transformation. Each of the first, the second, and the third parts is corresponding to one pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Wintek Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chun Wang, Kuo-Chang Su, Cheng-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 7995077
    Abstract: A portable electronic equipment includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module includes a first elongated chamber, a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, an opaque medium partially filled in the first elongated chamber and an air pocket received in the first elongated chamber. The display controlling module is configured for deviating the displayed image at a given angle clockwise or counterclockwise from the original orientation of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jen-Tsorng Chang
  • Publication number: 20110134105
    Abstract: In a driving method of a plasma display panel of the present invention, plural display electrode pairs are divided into plural display electrode pair groups and one field is divided into plural sub-fields. The length of the sustain period is compared to the length of the erase period. If the sustain period is longer than the erase period, sustain discharge and erase discharge are performed for each of the display electrode pair groups, while if the sustain period is shorter than the erase period, sustain discharge and erase discharge of one display electrode pair group are synchronized with those of another display electrode pair group. For a sub-field with a largest luminance weight or a sub-field with a highest lighting ratio, sustain discharge and erase discharge of one display electrode pair group are synchronized with those of another display electrode pair group without fail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Hideki Nakata, Hiroyasu Makino, Yasuhiro Arai, Toshikazu Wakabayashi, Satoshi Kominami, Masumi Izuchi, Junko Matsushita
  • Patent number: 7944409
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes are formed on substrates to form a discharge cell and electrode driving parts for driving the scan electrodes, the sustain electrodes, and the address electrodes. The plurality of scan electrodes are divided into a plurality of scan electrode groups and the driving parts are controlled such that a voltage different from a scan bias voltage is applied for a predetermined time in the address period of one or more scan electrode groups among the plurality of scan electrode groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jeong Pil Choi
  • Publication number: 20110090195
    Abstract: A driving device drives a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells at intersections of a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes with a plurality of data electrodes by a sub-field method. A scan electrode drive circuit applies a first ramp waveform that drops from a first potential to a second potential to the plurality of scan electrodes in a first period in a setup period of a sub-field. A sustain electrode drive circuit applies a second ramp waveform that drops from a fourth potential to a fifth potential to the plurality of sustain electrodes when a potential detection circuit detects that the plurality of scan electrodes attain a third potential that is lower than the first potential and higher than the second potential in the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Origuchi, Hidehiko Shoji
  • Patent number: 7898718
    Abstract: Display device is based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids, e.g., oil in a first state, adjoins at least a first support plate and, in the second state, the other fluid at least partly adjoins the first support plate. In one embodiment, a picture element corresponds to a substantially closed space and, in the first state, the other fluid layer substantially completely adjoins both support plates and is divided in two sub-layers. This makes it possible, on the one hand, to use lower voltages to make displacement occur. On the other hand, this opens the opportunity to color displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Liquavista B.V.
    Inventors: Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Robert Andrew Hayes, Menno Willem Jose Prins
  • Patent number: 7830337
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving method of a plasma display panel with ADS method comprising a reset period including an erase period, a rising period and a falling period, an address period and a sustain period, in which an auxiliary electrode is inserted between a scan electrode and a sustain electrode which are disposed in parallel on a front substrate, while an address electrode is disposed on a rear substrate facing the front substrate, wherein an erase pulse which rises from a first voltage to a second voltage is applied to the auxiliary electrode in the erase period. According to the present invention, the reset driving method is used in a four electrode AC PDP for a high efficiency, in which the reset discharge is stabilized by lowering the reset voltage, thereby, the address discharge is stabilized. Thus, the four electrode AC PDP having a high efficiency can be stably drived. The plasma display panel using the method uses a low reset voltage, so that the power consumption is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Inventors: Kyung Cheol Choi, Jin Bhum Yun
  • Patent number: 7817107
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus of a plasma display panel and a method for stabilizing the PDP to minimize the residual image on the display are disclosed. In particular, the present invention minimizes the residual image that is generated due to the degeneration of phosphors caused by a high voltage and a high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Byung Joon Rhee
  • Patent number: 7804465
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and a driver. The plasma display panel comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode. During a first frame, the driver alternately supplies a sustain signal to the first electrode and the second electrode and supplies a constant voltage to the third electrode. During a second frame having a smaller APL of the first frame, the driver alternately supplies a sustain signal to the first electrode and the second electrode and supplies an auxiliary signal to the third electrode so as to correspond to at least one sustain signal of the sustain signals supplied to the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won Jae Kim, Min Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 7755574
    Abstract: In a plasma display device, a second terminal of a first transistor, whose first terminal is connected to an electrode, is connected to a power source for supplying a first voltage. A first driver is adapted to drive the first transistor to change the voltage of the electrode, and a second driver adapted to sustain the voltage of the electrode substantially at a second voltage differing from the first voltage by intercepting a path between the first transistor and the power source when the voltage of the electrode is changed into the second voltage in a first period, and to change the voltage of the electrode substantially back to the first voltage in a second period. In this way, it is possible to supply two or more voltages having a different voltage level by one power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Yul Lee
  • Patent number: 7728791
    Abstract: A PDP display apparatus driving method for performing multi-level gradation display by constituting one frame of a plurality of subfields assigned different weights, wherein in a subfield in which a relative luminance ratio corresponds to a lowest weight, display is performed according to discharges in two periods only, the periods being an initialization period and a write period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 7710355
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes first display electrodes and second display electrodes positioned inside barriers while opposing each other. A front panel has closed-type barriers to increase fluorescent substance application area. A rear panel has stripe-type barriers to lower address voltage between the first display electrodes and address electrodes and improve emission efficiency by means of long-gap discharge. The plasma display panel uses trigger discharge during address discharge and sustain discharge to lower discharge voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Hur, Jeong Doo Yi, Hak Cheol Yang
  • Patent number: 7659871
    Abstract: Provided are a plasma display panel (PDP) and a driving method thereof. The PDP includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed in parallel and spaced apart from one another. Address electrodes are provided on the first substrate with a first dielectric layer over the address electrodes and the first substrate. Barrier ribs are provided on the dielectric forming a plurality of discharge spaces in which phosphor layers are provided. Sustain electrodes are formed on the second substrate facing the first substrate and are arranged crossing the address electrodes. A second dielectric layer is formed over the address electrodes and on the second substrate, and a protective layer including MgO of at least 99.6% purity by weight is formed over the second dielectric layer by a sintering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Dong Kim, Yong-Su Park
  • Patent number: 7652642
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma display apparatus and a driving method of a plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and an electrode driver alternatively applying a sustain pulse of a first polarity to the first electrode and the second electrode and applying a pulse of a second polarity opposite to a first polarity after a magnitude of a voltage of a sustain pulse of a first polarity is maximized. Therefore, it is possible to increase discharge efficiency without rising a driving voltage or increasing an electrode space by increasing an amount of space discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seong Hak Moon
  • Patent number: 7649317
    Abstract: A plasma display device having an improved electrode structure that is capable of improving a contrast of the plasma display panel while decreasing a discharge firing voltage is provided. A plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the invention includes first and second substrates disposed opposite to each other, barrier ribs arranged in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate to define at least one discharge cell, address electrodes formed along a first direction, and display electrodes formed along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The display electrodes include bus electrodes formed extending in the second direction, expansion electrodes that extend toward the center of each discharge cell from the bus electrodes and face each other in the discharge cell with a discharge gap interposed therebetween, and auxiliary electrodes located at front ends of the expansion electrodes opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon-Young Choi, Min Hur, Young-Do Choi, Yon-Goo Park
  • Patent number: 7619891
    Abstract: A plasma display apparatus including a plasma display panel displaying images, a chassis base arranged behind the plasma display panel, and a heat conductive member and a porous adiabatic member arranged between the plasma display panel and the chassis base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Gyun Woo, Ki-Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 7605781
    Abstract: A display panel driving method that can reduce power consumption in a sustain step is provided. Output terminals of a column electrode drive circuit connected to column electrodes of a display panel sustain a state of high impedance during the period of the sustain step. An X sustain signal is set as a bipolar pulse signal, in each half-cycle of which the commencement time of the rise of the negative pulse is set longer than the completion time of the rise of the positive pulse, and the commencement time of the fall of the positive pulse is set longer the completion time of fall of the negative pulse. Furthermore, a Y sustain signal is displaced by a half cycle from the phase of the X sustain signal. It should be noted that the polarity of these pulses may be reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwami, Toyohisa Yuasa
  • Patent number: 7573200
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce power consumption in a plasma display panel (PDP) by reducing the discharge firing voltage, while suppressing the occurrence of discharge variability when the PDP is driven, as well as ensuring the wall-charge holding performance of a protective film surface. To achieve this, a front panel of a PDP of the present invention has a catalyst layer dispersed on a surface of display electrodes formed in stripes on one side of a glass substrate, and needle crystals composed of graphite formed to stand upright on the catalyst layer. The needle crystals form a phase-separated structure with the materials of a dielectric film and a protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamamoto, Mikihiko Nishitani, Yukihiro Morita
  • Patent number: 7545345
    Abstract: A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof. In the plasma display panel, Y electrodes are divided into a plurality of groups according to a scanning order and a final reset voltage is established to be different for each group. The plasma display panel includes a panel including a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes, a plurality of selection circuits that are respectively coupled to the plurality of the first electrodes, and a driving circuit coupled to the second terminals of the selection circuits. The driving circuit includes a transistor which allows the voltage at the first electrodes to be reduced in a ramp style in a reset period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Sung Kim, Seung-Hun Chae, Jin-Ho Yang
  • Patent number: 7525512
    Abstract: An improved method of testing and inspecting a plasma display panel. In a plasma display panel, a plurality of cells are formed at an intersection of each electrode disposed in a row direction and in a column direction of the panel. A field is formed of a plurality of sub-fields, and the combination of the sub-fields enables the panel to have a gradation display. In the inspection method, an address pulse voltage is not applied to a target cell to be inspected in a predetermined sub-field, but is applied to at least one cell of the cells adjacent to the target cell, and the address pulse voltage is applied to the target cell in the successive sub-field. If the barrier ribs of the target cell have an imperfection, wall charges of the cell are affected by the discharge occurred in an adjacent cell, and the target cell fails to light on in the successive sub-field. The inspection method can thus detect lighting failure caused by defective barrier ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Ikura, Takao Wakitani
  • Patent number: 7515117
    Abstract: Provided is a driving method for a plasma display panel capable of prolonging a life span of the plasma display panel and improving luminous efficiency thereof by preventing an accumulation of positive charges on an address electrode of the plasma display panel. For the purpose in the present invention, voltage pulses having different polarities and sizes are applied to a pair of sustain electrodes of a plasma display panel while sustaining a discharge for the plasma display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seong-Hak Moon
  • Patent number: 7505014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel including a scan driver. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel includes one switching device to apply a scan pulse per one Y-electrode wherein the switching device is turned on to apply the scan pulse to the selected Y-electrode and wherein other switching devices are turned off. By performing scan and sustain processes using one switching device only, the present invention reduces the costs and the volume of the scan driver. Specifically, by turning on the switching device corresponding to the selected channel only and by turning off the switching devices corresponding to other channels, the present invention minimizes power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Seong Hak Moon
  • Patent number: 7486260
    Abstract: A driving apparatus of a plasma display panel (PDP) and a method for displaying pictures on the plasma display panel, which are capable of increasing the ability to express a low gray scale. Common non-emitted sub-fields are detected, using picture signal data having the maximum level of the gray scale, of all input picture signal data within one frame of the input picture signal data. Sub-fields having higher weights are divided into a plurality of sub-fields having lower weights and the plurality of sub-fields having lower weights are rearranged as sub-fields for expression of gray scale, corresponding to the number of non-emitted sub-fields. In addition, the number of sustains corresponding to the rearranged sub-fields are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soo-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 7463398
    Abstract: Display device based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e.g oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid (6) at least partly adjoins the first support plate. In one embodiment a picture element corresponds to a substantially closed space and in the first state the other fluid layer substantially completely adjoins both support plates and is divided in two sub-layers. This makes it possible on the one hand to use lower voltages to make displacement occur. On the other hand this opens the opportunity to color displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Liquivista B.V.
    Inventors: Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Robert Andrew Hayes, Menno Willem Jose Prins
  • Patent number: 7456806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-screen plasma display panel having improved structures of a sustain electrode and a scan electrode used in configuration of a multi-screen, thereby improving an operation characteristic and a brightness. In a unit plasma display panel, a front panel whereon a sustain electrode and a scan electrode are formed are sealed with a rear panel whereon an address electrode is formed. A multi-screen is formed by combining a plurality of the unit plasma display panels. End portions of the sustain electrodes to receive scan signals form a common electrode connected to the scan electrode, and the sustain electrode is configured to receive a sustain signal from the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Orion PDP Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Joon Moon, Min Soo Kim