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| 20080203895 | ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DEVICE WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY - An electro-luminescent device has an array of light-emitting elements, including a near white light-emitting element. The near white light-emitting element includes an inorganic light-emitting layer of quantum dots, spaced between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer produces a spectrum of light having at least a bimodal distribution of wavelengths. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080203899 | ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY - A full-color, light-emitting display device has improved efficiency with a large color gamut. The full-color, light-emitting display device has a plurality of pixels, each pixel having four or more colors of light-emitting elements. Three of the colors of light-emitting elements emits red, green, and blue light, and at least one of the colors of light-emitting elements emitting light is perceived to be within the gamut defined by the chromaticity coordinates of the red, green, and blue colored light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements for emitting red, green, and blue colors of light each comprise a different species of inorganic light-emitting particles for emitting a different color of light. Each of the red, green, and blue species produces light having an emission spectrum with a full-width, half-maximum of less than or equal to 70 nm. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080238829 | COLOR ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY - A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut that includes substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<=u′<=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′v′ chromaticity space. Also included in the display is a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; and a red light-emitting element. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080252797 | METHOD FOR INPUT-SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION FOR RGBW DISPLAYS WITH VARIABLE W COLOR - A method for transforming three color-input signals (R, G, B) corresponding to three gamut-defining color primaries of a display to four color-output signals (R′, G′, B′, W) corresponding to the gamut-defining color primaries and one additional primary of the display, where the additional primary has color that varies with drive level, comprising: a) determining a relationship between drive level of the additional primary and intensities of the three gamut-defining primaries which together produce equivalent color over a range of drive levels for the additional primary; and b) employing the three color-input signals R, G, B and the relationship defined in a) to determine a value for W of the four color-output signals, and modification values to be applied to one or more of the R, G, B components of the three color-input signals to form the R′, G′, B′ values of the four color-output signals. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080259004 | PASSIVE MATRIX ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - A passive matrix, electro-luminescent display system has a passive matrix, electro-luminescent display having an orthogonally oriented array of column and row electrodes and an electro-luminescent layer located between the electrodes at the intersection of each column and row electrode forming an individual light-emitting element. Drivers provide separate signals at different times to different groups of row electrodes within the array of row electrodes; wherein the row electrodes of each group simultaneously receive at least two different level signals. A display driver receives and processes the input image signal to provide a presharpened image control signal. Column drivers respond to the presharpened image control signal for simultaneously providing a signal to the multiple column electrodes within the array of column electrodes at the same time signals are provided to the groups of row electrodes so that the concurrence of row and column signals causes individual light-emitting element to produce light. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080296555 | LAMP WITH CONTROLLABLE SPECTRUM - An area illumination inorganic electro-luminescent device including a substrate; and an array of one or more commonly addressed, light-emitting elements. Each commonly-addressed, light-emitting element includes a first electrode layer formed over the substrate, one or more light-emitting layers formed over the first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed over the light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layers include multiple core/shell quantum dot emitters formed in a common polycrystalline semiconductor matrix, and a number of different core/shell quantum dot emitters emit light with a spectral power distribution having a peak and a FWHM bandwidth, such that the peak wavelengths differ by an amount less than or equal to the average FWHM bandwidth of the different core/shell quantum dot emitters within the range of 460 to 670 nm. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080297027 | LAMP WITH ADJUSTABLE COLOR - A white-light electro-luminescent lamp having an adjustable spectral power distribution, including a first light-emitting element which emits light within each of three wavelength bands, 1) between 440 and 520 nm, 2) between 520 and 600 nm, and 3) between 600 and 680 nm. A second light-emitting element emits light within each of three wavelength bands, 1) between 440 and 520 nm, 2) between 520 and 600 nm, and 3) between 600 and 680 nm. A controller modulates the integrated spectral power of the light produced by the first and the second light-emitting elements such that the spectral power distribution of the light formed by combining the light produced by the modulated first and second light-emitting elements is substantially equal to a CIE standard daylight spectral power distribution for correlated color temperatures between 4000K-9500K. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080297028 | WHITE-LIGHT ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DEVICE WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY - A white-light electroluminescent device having an adjustable color temperature substantially on a predetermined range of a Planckian locus within the 1976 Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) uniform chromaticity scale diagram. According to one embodiment, a first light-emitting element having a fixed ratio of at least two different species of emitters combined to produce a set of chromaticity coordinates at a predetermined white point substantially on the Planckian locus. A second light-emitting element having at least a single species of emitters produces a set of chromaticity coordinates. The set of chromaticity coordinates are positioned along a projected line extending from the Planckian locus and through the chromaticity coordinates of the first light-emitting layer. A controller adjusts the voltage or current associated with the first and second light-emitting elements to provide white light with a predetermined range of chromaticity coordinates substantially on the Planckian locus. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090021455 | REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION IN OLED DISPLAY SYSTEM - A method of controlling a passive matrix display having rows and columns of pixels including receiving an input image signal; determining drive signals for at least a first image field and a second image field; calculating a value that is correlated to a change in the total capacitive charge of the pixels that will occur between the display of the first image field and the second image field for at least one column of the passive-matrix, electro-luminescent display; adjusting at least one of the drive signals within first or second image fields to compensate for the change in total capacitive charge; and providing adjusted drive signals for each pixel. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090072693 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising:
| 03-19-2009 |
| 20090073079 | TILED PASSIVE MATRIX ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY - A tiled, passive-matrix, EL display, including two or more EL tiles, each EL tile including an array of rows and columns of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element being formed from a light-emitting layer that is sandwiched between an orthogonal array of row and column electrodes wherein each of the two or more EL tiles further include at least one row driver; at least one column driver for operating in conjunction with each of the at least one row drivers to control the flow of electrons between the row and column electrodes to control the emission of light from each of the light-emitting elements, with a first exception that when the boundary between the two tiles is to be illuminated, then the number of rows of simultaneously illuminated rows of light-emitting elements within one tile is less than the predetermined number. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090085478 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A thin-film, white-light-emitting diode device includes a reflective, conductive thin-film structure and a semi-transparent, conductive thin-film structure. One or more thin-film layers are formed between the reflective and semi-transparent conductive thin-film structures to form two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures. The thin-film layers emit white light in response to current provided by the conductive thin-film structure. Each of the two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures has a different resonant frequency within one or more optical cavities and emits light with a smaller spectral range than the spectral range of the white-light-emitting thin-film layer(s). A combination of light emitted from the two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures is white. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090091238 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A light-emitting microcavity diode device includes a reflective electrode and a semi-transparent electrode, formed over a substrate, with an unpatterned light-emitting layer formed between the reflective electrode and the semi-transparent electrode. The reflective electrode, semi-transparent electrode, and unpatterned light-emitting layer form an optical cavity. Either the reflective or semi-transparent electrode is patterned to form independently-controllable, light-emitting sub-pixels. At least one, and fewer than all, of the sub-pixels emit light through a color filter. A first sub-pixel emits light having a first primary color and a second sub-pixel emits a complementary colored light. The light emitted from the first and second sub-pixels changes at one or more different angles. The color of the combined light of the first and second sub-pixels changes less at the one or more different angles than the light from at least one of the first or second sub-pixels. A third sub-pixel emits light through a color filter of a second primary color, different from the first primary color. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090115705 | ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE - An electro-luminescent display includes a first array of light-emitting elements. Each of these light-emitting elements has an optical element. A second array of light-emitting elements also includes a second optical element different from the first. One or more row lines are electrically connected to either light-emitting elements in the first array of light-emitting elements or light-emitting elements in the second array of light-emitting elements. One or more column lines provide a data signal to the first and second array of light-emitting elements. A driver circuit delivers common information to the light-emitting elements in both the first and second arrays in response to a select signal for activating light-emitting elements in the first or second arrays. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090135114 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH INTERLEAVED 3T1C COMPENSATION - A method of compensating for changes in the characteristics of transistors and EL devices in an EL display, includes providing an EL display having a two-dimensional array of EL devices arranged in rows and columns, wherein each EL device is driven by a drive circuit in response to a drive signal; providing a first drive circuit for an EL device having three transistors and providing a second drive circuit for an EL device having only two transistors, and wherein a first column in the display includes at least one first drive circuit and an adjacent second column includes at least one second drive circuit; deriving a correction signal based on the characteristics of a transistor in a first drive circuit, or the EL device; and using the correction signal to adjust the drive signals applied to the first drive circuit and one or more adjacent second drive circuits. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135582 | ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT AREA ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An electro-luminescent area illumination device that includes two or more area emitters formed on a substrate. Each of the two or more area emitters emit light having different area illumination profiles. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090153438 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY AND TOUCH-SENSITIVE USER INTERFACE - Display devices and methods for operating the same are provided. In one embodiment, the display device has an electronic display having an active area for presenting visual content; a housing holding the electronic display and having an opening allowing a person to view a first portion of the active area; and a bezel about the opening, the bezel covering a second portion of the active area and providing a window through which at least a part of the second portion can be viewed. A sensor system senses when a person is close to touching the bezel or when a person is in touch with the bezel and generates a sensor signal; and a controller is operable to adjust the appearance of the active area in the part of the second portion when the controller determines that a person has touched the bezel or is close to touching the bezel. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090154805 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING AN INPUT COLOR SIGNAL - A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising a method for converting a red, green, and blue (RGB) input signal to a converted signal having RGB color signals and an additional saturated color signal, by calculating saturation of the additional saturated color in the RGB input signal to determine the proportion of the additional saturated color signal to the sum of the converted RGB color signals such that the proportion of the additional saturated color signal is constant or decreases as the saturation of the additional color in the RGB input signal increases. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090160826 | DRIVE CIRCUIT AND ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - A drive circuit for rapidly interleaving image data displayed on an EL device is disclosed. The drive circuit includes a signal source that provides a image data signals. Each image data signal is provided for a specified load period. A multiplexer receives the image data signals, and in response to a selection signal selects one of the image data signals to provide a control signal that directs the EL device to emit light. Additionally, a controller causes interleaving of the image data during multiple display periods; each display period is shorter than the load period. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100007587 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING DISPLAY LIFETIME - A method for adjusting the intensity values of colored pixels wherein each pixel has a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel, wherein each of the subpixels emits light of a different color and the lifetime of the first subpixel is lower than the lifetimes of the other colored subpixels, comprising: for each pixel, receiving intensity values corresponding to the intensity of each color subpixel in each pixel; and lowering the intensity value of the first subpixel in each pixel and still providing an acceptable pixel color to an observer. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100013748 | CONVERTING THREE-COMPONENT TO FOUR-COMPONENT IMAGE - A method of converting a three-or-more-color-component image input signal to an image output signal includes acquiring an input signal having a plurality of pixel signals, each pixel signal having three, or more, color components; determining a residual difference for each color component of each pixel signal; determining a limit value of the residual differences; calculating a common scale factor for each of the color components based upon the limit value; and applying the common scale factor to the image input signal to produce the image output signal. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100073338 | INCREASING DYNAMIC RANGE OF DISPLAY OUTPUT - A method of controlling an RGBW electroluminescent display system that receives a three-component input image signal having triplets of intensity values in an image range and a highlight range includes transforming at least one of the triplets having an intensity value within the image range to a four-or-more-component drive signal to produce a luminance less than the sum of the corresponding luminance values of the red, green and blue light-emitting elements and transforming at least one of the intensity values within a triplet having an intensity value within the highlight range to a four-or-more-component drive signal to produce a luminance greater than the sum of the corresponding luminance values of the red, green, and blue light-emitting elements. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100102706 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE WITH INCREASED FILL FACTOR - An electroluminescent device including at least two spaced-apart electrodes wherein at least a portion of each of the two spaced-apart electrodes overlap within a first area and a second portion of the two spaced-apart electrodes do not overlap within a second area; a light-emitting layer having a first resistivity formed between the two electrodes, the light-emitting layer disposed to overlap at least a portion of both the first and second areas; a carrier-diffusing layer formed between the light-emitting layer and one of the spaced-apart electrodes; the carrier-diffusing layer disposed to overlap the light-emitting layer in at least a portion of both the first and second areas; and wherein the carrier-diffusing layer has a second resistivity selected to be lower than the first resistivity to cause light to be produced by the light-emitting layer within the first and second areas. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100123384 | TILED OLED DEVICE WITH EDGE LIGHT EXTRACTION - An area-emissive light-emitting diode (LED) device comprises a substrate having an internal substrate surface, an external substrate surface opposite the internal substrate surface, and a substrate edge; an array of area-emissive LED pixels formed on the internal substrate surface with an edge gap between the substrate edge and the LED pixel on the internal substrate surface nearest the substrate edge; and a light-extraction structure formed in the edge gap and at least partially exterior to the LED pixels. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123648 | TONESCALE COMPRESSION FOR ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - A method for controlling an electroluminescent display to produce an image for display that has reduced luminance to reduce burn-in on the display while maintaining visible contrast, includes providing the electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of EL emitters, the luminance of the light produced by each EL emitter being responsive to a respective drive signal; receiving a respective input image signal for each EL emitter; and transforming the input image signals to a plurality of drive signals that have a reduced peak frame luminance value but maintains contrast in the displayed image to reduce burn-in by adjusting the drive signals to have reduced luminance provided by each pixel with the luminance decrease in a shadow range being less than the luminance decrease in a non-shadow range. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123651 | METHOD FOR DIMMING ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - A method for controlling an electroluminescent display to produce first and second images for display wherein the second image has reduced luminance to reduce burn-in on the display, includes providing the electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of EL emitters, the luminance of the light produced by each EL emitter being responsive to a respective drive signal; receiving a respective input image signal for each EL emitter for each of a plurality of frames; transforming the input image signals for a first frame to provide a plurality of first drive signals to produce an image on the display; and transforming the input image signals for a second frame to a plurality of second drive signals using a dimming transform that operates on the input image signals for each frame to provide a peak frame luminance value for the second frame wherein the dimming transform includes an exponential function. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100225673 | FOUR-CHANNEL DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION WITH DESATURATION - A method of presenting an image on a display device having color channel dependent light emission comprising receiving an image input signal including a plurality of three-component input pixel signals; selecting a reduction color component; calculating a reduction factor for each input pixel signal dependent upon a distance metric between the input pixel signal and the selected reduction color component; selecting a respective saturation adjustment factor for each color component of each pixel signal; producing an image output signal having four color components from the image input signal using the reduction factors and saturation adjustment factors to adjust the luminance and color saturation, respectively, of the image input signal; providing a four-channel display device having color channel dependent light emission; and applying the image output signal to the display device to cause it to present an image corresponding to the image output signal. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100231484 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A light-emitting microcavity diode device includes a reflective electrode and a semi-transparent electrode, formed over a substrate, with an unpatterned light-emitting layer formed between the reflective electrode and the semi-transparent electrode. The reflective electrode, semi-transparent electrode, and unpatterned light-emitting layer form an optical cavity. Either the reflective or semi-transparent electrode is patterned to form independently-controllable, light-emitting sub-pixels. At least one, and fewer than all, of the sub-pixels emit light through a color filter. A first sub-pixel emits light having a first primary color and a second sub-pixel emits a complementary colored light. The light emitted from the first and second sub-pixels changes at one or more different angles. The color of the combined light of the first and second sub-pixels changes less at the one or more different angles than the light from at least one of the first or second sub-pixels. A third sub-pixel emits light through a color filter of a second primary color, different from the first primary color. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231485 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising:
| 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231738 | CAPTURE OF VIDEO WITH MOTION - A method of capturing a video of a scene depending on the speed of motion in the scene, includes capturing a video of the scene; determining the relative speed of motion within a first region of the video of the scene with respect to the speed of motion within a second region of the video of the scene; and causing a capture rate of the first region of the video of the scene to be greater than a capture rate of the second region of the video of the scene, or causing an exposure time of the first region to be less than exposure time of the second region. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231800 | DISPLAY OF VIDEO WITH MOTION - A method of displaying a video of a scene on a display with reduced motion blur includes: providing the video of a scene having first subframes that have a first input rate and second subframes that have a second input rate, wherein the first subframes correspond to a first region of the display and the second subframes correspond to a second region of the display; and selectively providing the first and second subframes to corresponding regions in the display, and providing the first region of the display with a first update rate and the second region of the display with a second update rate, wherein the first update rate is greater than the second update rate, so that the displayed image has reduced motion blur. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100252841 | OLED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIFETIME AND RESOLUTION - An organic light-emitting diode device, includes a plurality of first patterned electrodes that define a corresponding plurality of light-emitting areas, and one-or-more organic first light-emitting layer(s) formed over the first patterned electrodes. A plurality of second patterned electrodes are formed over the one-or-more first light-emitting layer(s) corresponding to the first patterned electrodes; and one or more organic second light-emitting layer(s) formed over the second patterned electrodes. A third electrode common to the plurality of light-emitting areas is formed over the one-or-more second light-emitting layer(s). Each of the second patterned electrodes is shared between the first and second light-emitting layers so that the first and second patterned electrodes provide current through the first light-emitting layer(s); and each of the second and third electrodes, within each of the plurality of light-emitting areas, provide current through the second light-emitting layer(s) independent of the current through the first light-emitting layer. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100277064 | TILED ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE WITH FILLED GAPS - A tiled electroluminescent device that improves light-emission uniformity and reduces reflection from ambient light includes a first and a second electroluminescent device tile, a portion of the edge of the first device tile abutted with a portion of the edge of the second device tile leaving a gap between the first and second device tile edges, each device tile including a substrate, having an optical index and a level of transparency, and an electroluminescent diode for emitting light according to a distribution that is substantially Lambertian, whereby light is directed along an oblique angle to the surface of the substrate of the first tile and through the edge of the first device tile; and a filler located in the gap between the abutting edges of the first and second device tiles, the filler having an optical index and a level of transparency matched to the substrates. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100289727 | ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH ADJUSTABLE WHITE POINT - The present invention provides an EL display adapted to receive a three-color input image signal, including three gamut-defining EL emitters for emitting red, green, and blue colored light and two additional EL emitters for emitting at least two additional colors of light, the chromaticity coordinates of the at least two additional colors of light lying inside the gamut and near the Plankian Locus; a structure for providing a display white point; and a controller responsive, to the provided display white point and the input image signal for providing first separate drive signals for the three gamut-defining EL emitters and second separate drive signals for the two additional EL emitters, wherein the respective luminance values corresponding to the second separate drive signals are each a function of the input image signal and the distances between the display white point and the pseudo-blackbody points of the two additional colors. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100315319 | DISPLAY WITH PIXEL ARRANGEMENT - A display, including a substrate having a display area including first and second non-overlapping pixel groups and a gutter located between the first and second pixel groups, the gutter having a dimension in a first direction separating the first and second pixel groups, and each pixel group includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel having three or more differently colored sub-pixels; and wherein the pixel centers of the pixels in each pixel group are arranged in a regular two-dimensional array having one dimension parallel to the first direction, and wherein the pixels within a pixel group are separated by an inter-pixel separation in the first direction; and one or more electrical elements arranged within the gutter, each subpixel being connected to one of the one or more electrical elements, wherein the gutter dimension is greater than the inter-pixel separation, so that artifacts in a displayed image are reduced. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100329457 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A VIDEO OF A SCENE - Method of displaying a video of a scene onto a display with enhanced image quality, the video of the scene having first subframes and second subframes wherein the first subframes correspond to a first region of an image-presentation element of the display and the second subframes correspond to a second region of the image-presentation element; and selecting an access key corresponding to the first subframes. The method further includes encoding the access key into one or more of the second subframes; providing the second subframes to the display using a first data transport; the display, decoding the access key and receiving the corresponding first subframes using a second data transport different from the first data transport; and selectively providing the first and second subframes from the first and second data transports to corresponding regions in the image-presentation element of the display, whereby the displayed image has enhanced image quality. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110050586 | FLEXIBLE MULTITOUCH ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - A display device including a touch sensitive EL display having a flexible substrate; one or more power busses and one or more EL elements disposed over the flexible substrate; and a plurality of distributed chiplets arranged so that at least two chiplets are associated with each of a plurality of touch sensitive areas on the EL display and for sensing stress or strain associated with bending of the flexible substrate or the chiplet substrate to provide respective displacement signals corresponding to the touch sensitive areas; each chiplet connected to one or more of the power busses and one or more of the EL elements for modulating power from the power busses to the EL elements in response to a control signal; and a controller for providing control signals to the chiplets in response to an input image signal and for receiving displacement signals from the chiplets and producing touch signals. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110101870 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT AREA ILLUMINATION WITH INTEGRATED MECHANICAL SWITCH - An electroluminescent lam including a lamp substrate; a first electrode formed over the lamp substrate device side, one or more layers having light-emitting material formed over the first electrode, and a second electrode formed over the one or more layers, a chiplet having a chiplet substrate separate and independent from the lamp substrate and adhered to the lamp substrate device side, one or more connection pads, a mechanical switch, and a control circuit for controlling the mechanical switch, the mechanical switch electrically connected to one or more connection pads and at least one connection pad electrically connected to the first or second electrode with one or more electrical connection(s); and an insulating and planarization layer formed over at least a portion of the chiplet and the electrical connections so that the chiplet is an embedded chiplet. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102413 | ACTIVE MATRIX ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH SEGMENTED ELECTRODE - An active-matrix electroluminescent display including a display substrate; a first electrode disposed over the display substrate; two second electrodes disposed over the first electrode; an electroluminescent light-emitting layer formed between and in electrical contact with the first and second electrodes, so that first and second active areas are defined where the first electrode and each respective second electrode overlap, the light-emitting layer emitting light from each active area in response to current between the first and each respective second electrode; a drive circuit including a drive transistor electrically connected to the first electrode for controlling the flow of current through the electroluminescent light-emitting layer; two power supply circuits connected to respective second electrodes for selectively providing respective voltages to the respective second electrodes; and a controller for sequentially or simultaneously causing the power supply circuits to provide the voltages to the respective second electrodes. | 05-05-2011 |
