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20100142220 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays images, a light source unit which generates and emits a light, a reflective sheet disposed below the display panel, and a plate disposed between the reflective sheet and the display panel. The reflective sheet includes a light diffusion pattern provided on an upper surface thereof facing the display panel, which diffusely reflects the light, to guide the light provided from the light source unit toward the display panel. The plate is spaced apart from the reflective sheet by a predetermined distance and includes a plurality of prisms provided on a lower surface thereof facing the reflective sheet to selectively reflect and transmit the light, which is provided from both the light source unit and the reflective sheet, according to an incident angle of the light. | 06-10-2010 |
20100165244 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a light guide plate (LGP) guiding light, a light source that is disposed at one side of the LGP, a bottom receiving container including a bottom plate disposed below the LGP and the light source and a cover that covers the light source and is integrally formed with the bottom surface, a reflective sheet member laminated inside the cover facing the light source, a reflective sheet positioned on the bottom plate, a liquid crystal panel receiving the light from the light source and displaying an image, and a top receiving container including a top plate having a window to expose the liquid crystal panel outside, and a first sidewall portion extending along the boundary of the top plate. | 07-01-2010 |
20100231531 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a touch panel device. A touch panel device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a touch panel and a touch panel controller for controlling the touch panel, wherein the touch panel includes a lower electrode layer, a solid insulating layer disposed on the lower electrode layer, a fluent insulating layer disposed on the solid insulating layer, and an upper electrode layer disposed on the fluent insulating layer. | 09-16-2010 |
20100246209 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device for an embodiment in which a central axis of a light guide plate (LGP) and a central axis of one or more light sources are matched with each other to maximize efficiency of the light sources, and which has an ultra-slim structure. The display device may include: a display panel which displays an image; an LGP which guides light to the display panel; light sources which are disposed on a side of the LGP and provide light to the LGP; a circuit board which is disposed on a side of the display panel with the light sources mounted on a surface thereof, and driving chips which drive the display panel mounted on an opposite surface thereof; and a frame which houses the LGP and the light sources and on which the circuit board and the display panel are mounted. | 09-30-2010 |
20100265205 | METHOD OF DETECTING TOUCH POSITIONS AND TOUCH POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of detecting touch positions includes; providing an external power voltage which drives a touch panel, sequentially turning on a plurality of lower driving elements connected to the touch panel, Turning on a plurality of upper driving elements connected to the touch panel to readout at least one multi-touched position corresponding to an x-coordinate, while each of lower driving elements is turned on, receiving readout position information corresponding to an x-coordinate, turning on at least one of the upper driving elements connected to the touch panel, turning on the plurality of lower driving elements connected to the touch panel to readout the at least one multi-touched position corresponding to a y-coordinate, while each of upper driving elements is turned on, receiving readout position information corresponding to the y-coordinate, turning on a sensing element, and turning off the sensing element. | 10-21-2010 |
20100309194 | METHOD OF DIMMING A LIGHT SOURCE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of dimming a light source module including a light guide plate, a first light emitting module including first to k-th light source blocks, wherein the first light emitting module is disposed on a first edge of the light guide plate, and a second light emitting module including first to m-th light source blocks, the second light emitting module being disposed on a second edge of the light guide plate, the second edge disposed opposite the first , the method including; generating a first group of driving signals and a second group of driving signals based on an image signal and driving the first to k-th light source blocks using the first group of the driving signals during a first period in a reference period and driving the first to m-th light source blocks using the second group of driving signals during a second period in the reference period. | 12-09-2010 |
20130163277 | DISPLAY MODULE AND APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A display module includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, an upper prism layer including a plurality of parallel upper prisms at a lower surface thereof, wherein the plurality of the upper prisms are parallel to one another, a lower prism layer including a plurality of lower prisms at a lower surface thereof, wherein the plurality of the lower prisms are parallel to one another and extend in a substantially perpendicular direction to the upper prisms, and an adhesive part which is at a side of the upper prism layer and is adhered to the lower prism layer and the non-display area of the display panel, wherein the adhesive part fixes the upper prism layer and the lower prism layer to each other. | 06-27-2013 |
20130242541 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed is a display device that can uniformly transmit light emitted from a light source to the entire display panel without using a light guide plate. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight assembly supplying light to the display panel, and a lower cover receiving the backlight assembly. The backlight assembly includes a light source, a circuit board mounted with the light source, and a reflection cover coupled to the circuit board to reflect light emitted from the light source and formed of a bendable plate type member. | 09-19-2013 |
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20090121652 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, BACKLIGHT ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SAME, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NUMBER OF WIRES USED IN INTERCONNECT CABLE OF THE SAME - A light source module includes a driving substrate, a plurality of light source blocks and a currents control element. The light source blocks are disposed on the driving substrate, and each of the light source blocks includes at least one light source. The currents control element is disposed on the driving substrate, and has channel terminals for individually controlling driving currents passed through at least two light source blocks. The channel terminals are electrically connected to the at least two light source blocks, respectively. The currents control element is disposed on the driving substrate and individually controls the driving currents applied to the light source blocks, so that a number of wires of a connection cable connected to a light source driving connector is less than the number of light source drive currents being individually controlled. | 05-14-2009 |
20090267926 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT SOURCE BLOCKS, DRIVING UNIT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DRIVING UNIT - A display apparatus includes light source blocks driven as follows in displaying at least one frame (possibly every frame). An image to be displayed includes image pixels. Each light source block corresponds to an image pixels block which is a block of image pixels to be displayed directly opposite to the light source block. For each image pixels block, a block mean value and a block maximum value are determined. A parameter is determined which corresponds to a total luminance of the frame. For each image pixels block, a block representative value is determined which corresponds to the parameter, the block representative value being within a range between the block mean value and the block maximum value inclusive. During the frame, each light source block is driven to provide a luminance which is an increasing function of the corresponding block representative value. | 10-29-2009 |
20090295841 | METHOD OF BOOSTING A LOCAL DIMMING SIGNAL, BOOSTING DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE BOOSTING DRIVE CIRCUIT - There is provided a method of boosting a local dimming signal. In the method, it is determined whether or not local dimming signals, which are applied for individually driving light source blocks per frame, satisfy boosting conditions. Then, a predetermined local dimming signal corresponding to at least one of the light source blocks is boosted to a reference luminance value when the local dimming signals continuously satisfy the boosting conditions, and the boosting luminance of the predetermined local dimming signal at the reference luminance value is gradually decreased after a light adaptation time of an observer's eye. When the luminance of light source blocks that are boosted is gradually decreased before the light adaptation time or luminance of light source blocks that will be boosted is gradually increased to the light adaptation time, power consumption required to boost the light source blocks may be decreased. | 12-03-2009 |
20100039452 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIGHT SOURCE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A light source device includes a light source part, a power supply part and a light source control part. The light source part includes a plurality of light sources that generates a plurality of color lights. The power supply part applies electric power to the light source part. The light source control part controls the electric power by sensing the light intensity of a portion of the color lights. | 02-18-2010 |
20100060671 | LOCAL-DIMMING METHOD, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS PERFORMING THE LOCAL-DIMMING METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source module of a display device comprises light-emitting blocks each of which comprises multiple sets of light sources, with different sets emitting different colors (e.g. red, green and blue). Each set is independently controllable according to one or more driving parameters. A local-dimming method comprises: (a) in each color-dimming period, driving each light-emitting block by the first color-dimming process; (b) in each compensating period, driving each light-emitting block by a full-color process which is independent of the image; (c) in each compensating period, sensing emitted light and determining the one or more driving parameters' reference driving values operable to generate a reference color; (d) in at least one of the color-dimming and compensating periods, driving each light-emitting block using the one or more driving -parameters' values which depend on the reference driving values; and (e) between a color-dimming period and an adjacent compensating period, gradually switching the light-source module between the first color-dimming process and the full-color process. | 03-11-2010 |