With Testing Or Adjusting Patents (Class 445/3)
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Patent number: 8529307Abstract: The present invention discloses a detection circuit in the assembly process of an LCD panel. Through the testing pad collection and the switch collection, the signal line of each of the panel units connects to the corresponding testing signal pad of the testing pad collection respectively through the input terminal and the output terminal of the control switch of the switch collection, and the control terminal of the control switch electrically connects to the control signal pad in order to selectively apply an individual testing to one of the panel units. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method for an LCD panel. Accordingly, the present invention can simplify the detection circuit and reduce the load of the detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Cheng-hung Chen
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Publication number: 20130229125Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) emitter module includes a substrate having a plurality of base layers of an electrically insulating material, a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on a top one of the base layer, and a plurality of electrical paths coupled to the electrical contacts, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of electrical paths is disposed between the base layers. The emitter module also includes two or more groups of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), each group having one or more LEDs, and each of the LEDs is coupled to an electrical contact. The electrical paths are configured for feeding separate electrical currents to the groups of LEDs. The emitter module also includes a memory device containing information associating a plurality of output light colors with a corresponding plurality of combinations of electrical currents, each combination specifying an electric current for each of the two or more groups of LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: LEDENGIN, INC.Inventors: Xiantao Yan, Kachun Lee, David Tahmassebi
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Publication number: 20130221842Abstract: A method for producing an electrode (16) for a high-pressure discharge lamp (10), comprising the following steps: a) scanning at least part of the electrode surface for producing an oxide layer (step 120); b) at least partially sublimating the oxide layer formed in step a) (step 120); and c) reducing the rest of the oxide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventor: Wolfgang Seitz
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Patent number: 8493296Abstract: A dark spot defect of an EL element is detected based on an emission brightness or a current flowing through the EL element when an element driving transistor which controls a drive current to be supplied to the EL element is operated in its linear operating region and the EL element is set to an emission level. A dim spot defect caused can be detected based on a current flowing through the EL element when the element driving transistor is operated in its saturation operating region and the EL element is set to the emission level. When an abnormal display pixel is detected based on an emission brightness, a pixel which is determined as an abnormal display pixel and which is not determined as a dark spot defect is determined, and the pixel is detected as a dim spot defect caused by the characteristic variation of the element driving transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventor: Takashi Ogawa
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Publication number: 20130157538Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode composite for forming an electrode of a spark plug, the electrode composite being formed by laser-welding a first electrode member and a second electrode member together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Inventors: Hiroshi Ichihara, Ryuji Emoto
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Patent number: 8465335Abstract: Large digital displays for entertainment, architectural and advertising displays have interconnected display panels with pluralities of light emitting elements. To solve calibration problems, each of the display panels stores measured luminance and chromaticity data for each of the light emitting elements of the panel. The luminance data is independent of the chromaticity data. A central controller can then perform calibration procedures so that the light emitting elements are matched across the entire display.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Barco, Inc.Inventor: Grant Arthur John Elliott
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Patent number: 8441470Abstract: In a color sensor unit for use in a display device, a color measuring device for use in a display device, a display system and a display calibration method of the invention, a CPU is operable to calculate a luminance value or a chromaticity value substantially equivalent to that to be obtained by a measuring device having a light receiving angle smaller than a light receiving angle of a sensor, by correcting a luminance value or a chromaticity value measured by the sensor based on gradation information from the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.Inventor: Kenichiro Hibi
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Patent number: 8439717Abstract: A device for manufacturing an active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, in which a short-circuit defect in the active matrix substrate is detected and repaired, includes a stage (30a) configured to place a test substrate (19) which will become the active matrix substrate, a defective pixel detector (40a) configured to input a test signal to the test substrate (19) placed on the stage (30a), and electrically detect coordinates of a defective pixel in which a short-circuit defect has occurred, and a defect position identifier (50) configured to input the test signal to the test substrate (19) placed on the stage (30a) to cause the defective pixel detected by the defective pixel detector (40a) to generate heat, and sense the heat generation in the defective pixel using far-infrared thermography, thereby identifying a position of the short-circuit defect in the defective pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshimitsu Tajima
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Publication number: 20130093321Abstract: In a dielectric window 41 for a plasma processing apparatus, a first dielectric window recess 47 is formed on an outer region of a surface of the dielectric window 41 in a diametrical direction of the dielectric window 41 at a side where plasma is generated, and the first dielectric window recess 47 is extended in a ring shape and has a tapered shape inwardly in a thickness direction of the dielectric window 41. A multiple number of second dielectric window recesses 53a to 53g are formed between the center of the dielectric window 41 and the first dielectric window recess 47, and each of the second dielectric window recesses 53a to 53g is recessed inwardly in the thickness direction of the dielectric window 41 from the surface of the dielectric window 41.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Wataru Yoshikawa, Naoki Matsumoto, Jun Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20130065472Abstract: A defect detecting method of a display device includes a defect counting process that measuring a feature amount for each partial region of a display device (P32), and counting regions which is determined as a defective portion based on the measured feature amount of the region (P36), a process that stopping a manufacturing line of the display device when a number of defects counted at the defect counting process is greater than a first threshold value (P38, P42), a defect density calculating process that calculating a defect density in a predetermined area when the number of defects counted at the defect counting process is smaller than the first threshold value (P38), and a process that stopping the manufacturing line of the display device when the defect density calculated at the defect density calculating process is higher than a second threshold value (P40, P42).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nikon Corporation
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Patent number: 8382544Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light-modulating elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light-modulating and self-assembling characteristics may be used during display assembly and operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLCInventors: W. Daniel Hillis, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Publication number: 20130021389Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and a light-emission starting current value for each of the divided regions calculated by a luminance (L)-I characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an I-V characteristic of each pixel by dividing each luminance value of the L-V characteristic calculated for the pixel by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding a light-emission starting current value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the I-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the representative I-V characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: PANASONIC CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130002122Abstract: A spark plug includes an electrode tip assembly located at an axially-facing free end surface of an electrode body. The electrode tip assembly includes an electrode tip body and a firing tip and has a longitudinal axis that is generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the electrode body. The electrode tip body may be a Ni-alloy piece and is attached to the electrode body, and the firing tip may be an Ir-alloy piece with a sparking surface that faces a spark gap. The electrode body may include a groove formed in the axially-facing free end surface that is useful to help position the electrode tip assembly for attachment. The spark gap can be formed between opposing electrode tip assemblies, and the size of the spark gap can be adjusted during assembly without the need for bending the electrode body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION COMPANYInventors: Kevin J. Kowalski, Richard L. Keller, Frederick J. Quitmeyer, Richard Llope
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Publication number: 20120306370Abstract: A lighting device includes multiple solid state emitter (e.g., LED) chips of different colors mounted on a single submount, at least one temperature sensing element arranged to sense temperature of the LED chips, and at least one temperature compensation circuit element mounted on the single submount to maintain output emissions at a substantially constant color point over a range of different temperatures. Such a device may include a blue LED arranged to stimulate a yellow lumiphor and a red LED, arranged in combination to yield warm white light. Multiple separately temperature compensated clusters of solid state emitters may be provided in a single lighting device, which may include an elongated body structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: CREE, INC.Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Praneet Jayant Athalye, Michael James Harris
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Publication number: 20120299459Abstract: An ignition plug having a metallic shell with a through hole extending therethrough in an axial direction, an insulator fitted into the through hole of the metallic shell and having an axial hole extending in the axial direction, and a center electrode fitted into the axial hole of the insulator. The ignition plug further includes a cap member which covers a front end opening of the metallic shell, provided on a front end side thereof where the center electrode is disposed, to thereby form an ignition chamber at the front end portion of the metallic shell, and a ground electrode disposed within the ignition chamber and facing a circumferential surface of the center electrode directly or indirectly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Yasushi Sakakura, Yuichi Matsunaga
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Patent number: 8303362Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a three-dimensional image display includes a control unit configured to cause a display panel bonded to a lens plate while being housed in a decompression chamber to display an inspection chart, to cause an image capture to capture images of the inspection chart multiple times along with an increase in a decompression degree inside the decompression chamber while causing a decompressor to decompress the inside of the decompression chamber, to obtain variance of luminance distribution for each of the images captured by the image capture, to obtain change information of the variance that changes depending on a change in the decompression degree inside the decompression chamber, and to obtain the decompression degree at a change point of the variance based on the obtained change information of the variance.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kentaro Miyazaki, Takashi Miyauchi, Takeshi Morita
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Publication number: 20120256531Abstract: The invention relates to a spark plug, comprising a center electrode and a ground electrode, wherein the center electrode is arranged relative to the ground electrode in such a way that the spark gap extends between the ground electrode and the center electrode, wherein the spark gap is surrounded by a wall, wherein the wall has a recess or opening, which is designed in such a way that a feeler gauge can be inserted between the center electrode and the ground electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Jochen FUCHS, Markus Kraus
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Patent number: 8257125Abstract: A wiring method for checking wirings of an organic electroluminescent display, in which a plurality of organic electroluminescent displays are arranged and encapsulated on a large piece of glass substrate, a power contact block with a main checking wiring is arranged at one side of the glass substrate, the cathode and the anode of the display which is at the centre are connected to said main checking wirings through an electrically conductive cathode checking wiring and an electrically conductive anode checking wiring, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Truly Industry LimitedInventor: Junhai Su
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Patent number: 8257126Abstract: The present invention is intended to evaluate outgoing light from a light emitting device including a structure in which four or more layers of thin films, including a light-emitting layer, are laminated, in a shorter period of computation time, as compared with conventional methods.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventor: Fumihiro Sakano
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Patent number: 8246408Abstract: Large digital displays for entertainment, architectural and advertising displays have interconnected display panels with pluralities of light emitting elements. To solve calibration problems, each of the display panels stores measured luminance and chromaticity data for each of the light emitting elements of the panel. The luminance data is independent of the chromaticity data. A central controller can then perform calibration procedures so that the light emitting elements are matched across the entire display.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Barco, Inc.Inventor: Grant Arthur John Elliott
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Patent number: 8227979Abstract: A method of matching a color of a light to the color of an object is presented which results in custom colored light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Landry, David Socha
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Publication number: 20120147070Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display includes preparing a substrate including pixels. The pixels each include a drive transistor and a capacitor. The capacitor of a subject pixel is caused to hold a voltage which corresponds to a threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and the voltage is read. A first signal voltage is obtained by adding a first correction parameter of the subject pixel to a second signal voltage corresponding to a single gradation level belonging to an intermediate gradation region or a high gradation region of representative voltage-luminance characteristics. The first signal voltage is applied to the driver of the subject pixel, and a luminance emitted by the subject pixel is measured. A second correction parameter with which the luminance emitted by the subject pixel becomes a standard luminance is calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuo SEGAWA, Tetsurou NAKAMURA, Shinya ONO
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Publication number: 20120129419Abstract: After source lines have been grouped into a plurality of blocks including adjacent ones of the source lines, in a region outside a display region, at least one inspection bus line for inputting an inspection signal to pixels is formed in association with each of the blocks, and the source lines in each of the blocks are connected to the associated inspection bus line, thereby forming an inspection circuit including the inspection bus lines. Then, an inspection signal is supplied to the pixels from the inspection bus line through the source lines in each of the blocks in the inspection circuit, and a target pixel is compared with a plurality of comparative pixels arranged along one of the source lines along which the target pixel is located, with a gray-level display provided on the display region, thereby detecting a presence of a black point defect in the target pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Naoki Yoshimoto, Naoki Matsumoto, Shota Ueki, Hidenobu Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Ueda
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Publication number: 20120094568Abstract: A method of manufacturing a three dimensional image display device includes bonding a lens plate having a lenticular lens to a display panel configured to display an image, with a partially-discontinuous frame-shaped adhesive member interposed in between while having the lenticular lens facing the display panel. The method also includes depressurizing a hermetic inner space formed by the display panel, the adhesive member, and the lens plate, and sealing an opening section communicating with the inner space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kentaro Miyazaki, Takashi Miyauchi, Takeshi Morita
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Publication number: 20120086323Abstract: A method is described for manufacturing a display. The method includes providing a display layer for displaying an image having at least a luminosity component, providing a color filter layer comprising a color filter for filtering the image according to a predetermined pattern, and removably attaching the color filter layer to the display layer. Dependent on the outcome of a test on the product provided with the removably attached color filter layer it may be decided to remove the color filter layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: Polymer Vision B.V.Inventors: Michel Josephus Marie Somers, Fredericus Johannes Touwslager, Nicolaas Aldegonda Jan Maria van Aerle
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Patent number: 8109650Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) illuminant system, a manufacture method thereof, and a backlight module using the same are provided. The LED illuminant system includes a plurality of white light illuminants and at least one green light illuminant mixed in the white light illuminants. A light power ratio of the green light illuminant to the white light illuminants is in between ? to 1/20. The color temperature of the whole illuminant system will be enhanced to a certain extent by mixing the green light illuminant and the white light illuminants. The manufacture method includes the following steps: obtaining a transmission spectrum of the white light illuminants; analyzing the transmission spectrum to determine n supplemental amount of a green light; and disposing at least one green illuminant in accordance with the supplemental amount of the green light.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: AU Optronics CorporationInventors: Ya-Hsien Chang, Hsin-Wu Lin
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Patent number: 8087960Abstract: Embodiments provide an LED comprising a quantum well region operable to generate light and a substrate having an interface with the quantum well region, wherein light generated by the quantum well region traverses the interface to enter the substrate and exit the LED through an exit face of the substrate. The exit face may be opposite from and a distance from the interface, with some portion or all of this LED being shaped to optimize the light extraction efficiency of the device. The exit face can have at least 70% of a minimum area necessary to conserve brightness for a desired half-angle of light. Sidewalls of the LED may be positioned and shaped so that rays incident on a sidewall reflect to the exit face with an angle of incidence at the exit face at less than or equal to a critical angle at the exit face.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Illumitex, Inc.Inventors: Dung T. Duong, Paul N. Winberg, Matthew R. Thomas, Elliot M. Pickering
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Publication number: 20110234084Abstract: An electroluminescent display comprising a mask defining the information to be displayed and an electroluminescent (EL) backlight. The mask compress a layer (13) of physically-stabilised liquid crystal switchable to define the information to be displayed mounted in front of an EL layer (16) of the backlight. At least one pair of electrodes (12, 20) are arranged to generate, in use, an electric field across both the EL layer (16) and the LC layer (13). A barrier layer (15) is provided between the LC layer (13) and the EL layer (16) that restricts migration of liquid crystal from the LC layer (13) to the EL layer (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: MFLEX UK LIMITEDInventors: Yong ZHAO, Christopher Miles EVANS
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Publication number: 20110182064Abstract: A light source and method for making the same are disclosed. The light source includes a plurality of Segmented LEDs connected in parallel to a power bus and a controller. The power bus accepts a variable number of Segmented LEDs. The controller receives AC power and provides a power signal on the power bus. Each Segmented LED is characterized by a driving voltage that is greater than 3 times the driving voltage of a conventional LED fabricated in the same material system as the Segmented LED. The number of Segmented LEDs in the light source is chosen to compensate for variations in the light output of individual Segmented LEDs introduced by the manufacturing process. In another aspect of the invention, the number of Segmented LEDs connected to the power bus can be altered after the light source is assembled.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Ghulam Hasnain, Syn-Yem Hu, Steven D. Lester
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Publication number: 20110169407Abstract: An LED-based lighting device and method for making the same are disclosed. The lighting device includes an LED light source mounted on a heat sink, a power adaptor, and a controller. The power adaptor is configured to be interchangeable with a conventional incandescent bulb power adapter. The controller provides an average current to the LED light source when power is coupled to the device via the power adaptor. The average current causes the LED light source to generate light of a predetermined standard intensity that is substantially independent of variations in the LED light source from device to device. In one aspect of the invention, the LED light source includes a plurality of LEDs connected in series, the LEDs are bonded to the heat sink and connected to one another in series by wire bonds and to conducting traces on the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventor: Ghulam Hasnain
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Publication number: 20110156575Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The display device includes an illuminate unit and a color filter. The illuminate unit has a light-emitting chip and a plurality of quantum dot phosphors for generating a color light which has an optical spectrum including the first blue peak wavelength, a first green peak wavelength, and a first red peak wavelength. The color filter is disposed in the light path of the color light, wherein the color filter has a transmittance spectrum having a second blue peak wavelength, a second green peak wavelength, and a second red peak wavelength. The first blue peak wavelength, the first green peak wavelength, and the first red peak wavelength respectively match the second blue peak wavelength, the second green peak wavelength, and the second red peak wavelength in order to enhance the color performance of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yi-Cheng Yu, Chih-Lin Wang, Ru-Shi Liu, Chun-Che Lin
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Patent number: 7955151Abstract: A method of repairing an organic light-emitting display capable of reducing an eliminated area of an electrode or the like, and preventing a decline in display quality is provided. The method of repairing an organic light-emitting display, the organic light-emitting display including an organic light-emitting device, the organic-emitting device including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a first electrode, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode on a substrate in order, each of the plurality of pixels emitting light from a light-emitting region where the first electrode and the second electrode overlap each other with the organic layer in between, the method includes a step of: applying a laser beam to the periphery of a light-emitting region of a pixel which is constantly a bright spot.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Fujimaki
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Patent number: 7938706Abstract: A device for inspecting a spark plug insulator for bending, the spark plug insulator including a cylindrical body having a radially enlarged flange at an axially intermediate portion thereof, and a through hole formed in the body along an axial direction of the body. The inspection device includes an insulator supporting means for supporting the spark plug insulator so as to be slidable in an axial direction of the spark plug insulator, a linear inspection pin that is to be inserted into the through hole of the spark plug insulator supported by the insulator supporting means, and a detecting means for detecting a sliding movement of the spark plug insulator when the spark plug insulator is caused to slide in the axial direction thereof by the inspection pin by the inspection pin prevented from completely penetrating the through hole of the spark plug insulator owing to bending of the spark plug insulator which exceeds a predetermined tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshitaka Honda, Hirokazu Kurono
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Publication number: 20110103051Abstract: An LED apparatus of the type including (a) a mounting board having an LED-supporting surface with an LED device thereon and (b) a lens member over the LED device establishing a light path therebetween. The inventive LED apparatus includes a lens-aligning member having front and back surfaces and defining an aperture receiving the LED device therethrough such that the LED device protrudes beyond the front surface. The lens member includes a lens portion and a flange thereabout, the flange being attached to the front surface of the lens-aligning member such that the lens portion substantially surrounds the protruding LED device. The lens-aligning member has a first mating feature which is positioned and arranged for mating engagement with a second mating feature of the mounting board, thereby accurately aligning the lens member over the LED device by accurately aligning the lens-alignment member with the mounting board.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: RUUD LIGHTING, INC.Inventors: Kurt S. Wilcox, Wayne Guillien, Scot Siebers, Joel Kapellusch
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Publication number: 20110101857Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL display that enables accurate measurement of the thickness of a transparent resin in an effective pixel area. The organic EL display of the present invention has a structure in which an organic EL device (21) having a plurality of partitions (25) placed at intervals in a predetermined direction and an organic light emitting layer (26) provided between the adjacent partitions (25), and a color filter (22) having a black matrix (29) and a pigment layer (30) placed in each of frames of the black matrix (29) are bonded via a transparent resin (31), and a light transmissive opening (33) is provided in a section of the black matrix (29) other than a section facing the partition (25).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kunimichi Kanatani, Seiji Takagi
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Publication number: 20110058370Abstract: An LED beacon has a plurality of LED's mounted on opposite sides of a square post in the same horizontal plane. Each LED projects the light there from through an optical system. The optical system is provided by a collimating lens, preferably a cylindrical fresnel lens and a condensing, coupling lens for each LED also mounted on the post. The optical system provides enhanced illumination distributed in a cylindrical beam emanating from the fresnel collimating lens. The illumination is enhanced in that the condensing lens shifts the focus of the collimating lens to the location of the LEDs. Nominally, the fresnel collimating lens is focused at the center of the array of LEDs (the middle of the post).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: R. Michael Datz, Stephen T. Vukosie
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Publication number: 20110043541Abstract: Detecting faults in driving circuits within a display device is disclosed. The display device has an array of pixels formed over a substrate in a display area, each pixel having a driving circuit and an associated communication circuit, the communication circuits together forming a multi-pixel serial shift register. The multi-pixel serial shift register is used to shift desired pixel luminance values from a display controller through the multi-pixel serial shift register to corresponding driving circuits for driving the pixels with driven electrical signals to emit light corresponding to the desired pixel luminance values, and sensing electrical signals corresponding to the driven electrical signals with a sensing circuit. Further the sensed electrical signals are shifted by the multi-pixel serial shift register to the display controller and faults are detected in the driving circuits by analyzing the sensed electrical signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Ronald S. Cok
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Patent number: 7884792Abstract: A method of extracting an optimized digital variable resistor (“DVR”) value of a display panel, the method including varying a DVR value, corresponding to a common voltage, and applying the varied DVR values to the display panel, measuring brightness values of the display panel for at least two frames, extracting flicker values corresponding to the varied DVR values using the brightness values, and extracting an optimized DVR value by generating first to third coordinate values in which coordinate values have x-coordinate values and y-coordinate values representing DVR values and flicker values, respectively, calculating a first linear function of a first straight line connecting two of the coordinate values, and a second linear function of a second straight line using the first linear function and the other of the coordinate values, and extracting an x-coordinate value at an intersection point of the first and second lines, as the optimized DVR value.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwan-Young Oh, Seung-Woo Lee, Jae-Ho Oh
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Publication number: 20110026254Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an improved method and apparatus including a hybrid lamp array for use as a simulated light source and within a solar simulator tool. In one embodiment, a light source for simulating a desired spectrum comprises a first plurality of lamps of a first type configured in a first plane and a second plurality of lamps of a second type configured in a second plane, wherein the second plane is substantially parallel to the first plane, and wherein the distance between the first and second planes is adjustable to simulate the desired spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: YUQIANG LI, Xiaohua Xu
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Patent number: 7850499Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display apparatus including an organic electroluminescence device formed on a substrate, the organic electroluminescence device including a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one of which is transparent, and an organic emission layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic emission layer being for emitting light by application of a current. Aging is performed until a rate of change in current efficiency of the organic electroluminescence device per unit time at a predetermined luminance or the amount of change per unit time in the rate of change in current efficiency of the organic electroluminescence device per unit time falls within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Uno, Naoto Okada
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Publication number: 20100253715Abstract: A display device corrects uneven luminance due to uneven element characteristics by simple measurement and correction with a low cost. The display device includes pixels that each include a light emitter and a driver. Data lines supply a voltage signal to the driver of each pixel. A data line driver supplies the voltage signal to each data line. A first memory stores, for each pixel, a luminance gain for adjusting a luminance corresponding to a video signal to a standard luminance. A second memory stores conversion curve information representing a representative conversion curve common to the pixels. A corrector converts, for each pixel, the luminance into a corresponding standard luminance value based on a corresponding luminance gain stored in the first memory, while a converter converts, for each pixel, the corresponding standard luminance into a corresponding voltage signal based on the conversion information stored in the second memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Rie ODAWARA, Toshiyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20100244691Abstract: A LED package includes a LED die, and a memory device. The memory device is arranged for holding LED data information for driving the LED die. A LED driver arrangement includes a LED package as described above, a LED driver device and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is connected to the memory device for accessing the LED data information for driving the LED die and to the LED driver for sending an output flux settings signal. The LED driver device is connected to the LED die for providing a driving signal to the LED die, the driving signal being based on the output flux in package settings signal from the microcontroller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: NXP B.V.Inventors: Gilles Ferru, Jacques Le Berre
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Publication number: 20100237766Abstract: An LED module, selectively comprising at least zero, one, or a plurality of LEDs from Group B and/or Group G and/or Group R and at least one or more LEDs from Group P. The concentration of phosphors/phosphor mixtures of the LEDs in Group P is selected such that the photometric efficiency (lm/W) thereof is at or near the maximum as a function of the CIE x-coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: LUMITECH PRODUKTION UND ENTWICKLUNG GMBHInventors: Erwin BAUMGARTNER, Franz SCHRANK
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Patent number: 7797117Abstract: A method and system of classifying predicted performance of HID lamps or light sources. A characteristic of each lamp or light source is measured after a relatively short time of operation of the lamp or light source. The measurement is placed into one of a plurality of classifications based on its relative value to other similar measurements. Each class is correlated to long term predicted performance of the lamp or light source.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Musco CorporationInventor: Myron K. Gordin
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Publication number: 20100220462Abstract: The orientation of fluorescent lamps is detected in a manufacturing method for a direct backlight unit that alternates orientations of adjacent fluorescent lamps. In a preparation step of the manufacturing method for the backlight unit of the present invention, a plurality of fluorescent lamps are prepared. In each of the fluorescent lamps, a length (a1) from a first sealed portion of a glass bulb (26) to a non-phosphor layer (32) area is shorter than a length (a2) from a second sealed portion to a non-phosphor layer (32) area (a1<a2). In a detection step, the difference between the lengths is detected with use of a sensor. In an installation step, the fluorescent lamps are arranged with use of the detection results so that the first and second ends alternate on a same side of a housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2007Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiko Nakanishi, Taizou Ono, Hirofumi Yamashita, Kazuhiro Kumada, Haruo Yamazaki, Shinji Kihara, Akio Kitada, Masanobu Murakami, Tomokazu Matsuura, Hiroshi Sakurai, Makoto Yokozeki, Shigeru Ido
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Publication number: 20100207521Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including: a substrate; an LED chip mounted on a first surface of the substrate; a fluorescent material-containing layer containing a first fluorescent material, which fluorescent material-containing layer is provided above the first surface of the substrate so as to cover the LED chip; and a color-adjusting fluorescent layer that contains a second fluorescent material, which color-adjusting fluorescent material layer is formed in a layer provided on an outer side of the fluorescent material-containing layer in an emission direction, the color-adjusting fluorescent layer being formed in dots. Thus, the present invention provides a light-emitting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same, each making it possible to carry out fine color adjustment so as to prevent a subtle color shift that occurs due to a factor such as a difference in concentration of a fluorescent material or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Kazuo TAMAKI, Tohru Ohnishi, Toshio Hata
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Publication number: 20100207865Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling illumination of a display device are disclosed. These systems and methods can detect a plurality of luminance values in a digital image of the display device that correspond to a plurality of pixel positions of the display device. A first plurality of luminance values of the plurality of luminance values can be mapped to a first pixel position of the plurality of pixel positions of the display device, and a compensation mask value for the first pixel position can be determined based upon the first plurality of luminance values. The compensation mask value can correspond to an adjustment of a luminance value of the first pixel position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: ZORAN CORPORATIONInventor: David Auld
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Publication number: 20100195039Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, an opposite substrate on which a conductive pattern is formed is coupled with a display substrate to face the display substrate, and the opposite substrate is cut to partially expose the display substrate. Since the conductive pattern is cut with the opposite substrate during the cutting of the opposite substrate, an electric resistance of the conductive pattern is changed. The change in electric resistance of the conductive pattern is detected to determine whether the opposite substrate is cut or not.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventor: Jung Woo PARK
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Publication number: 20100182293Abstract: A liquid crystal display module (10) in accordance with the present invention includes a liquid crystal display module provided with a liquid crystal display panel (11), an external circuit substrate (13) and a film-shaped flexible print substrate (14) connected to an edge of the circuit substrate. In the liquid crystal display module, a source driver IC (21) is mounted, by COF mounting, between a TFT substrate (17) and an external circuit substrate (13). In the flexible print substrate (14), a connector (22) to connect together an external connection terminal (24) on the external circuit substrate (13) and an external connection terminal (23) on the flexible print substrate (14) is provided. The connector (22) is furnished so as to sandwich an edge of the external circuit substrate (13). This way, it is possible to conduct a connection of the circuit substrate and of the flexible substrate easily, and to achieve a complete automation of the assembly line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Kohji Minamino, Suguru Kusakai, Hisao Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20100159780Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a discharge lamp using a two-stage filling process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Lothar Hitzschke, Frank Vollkommer