Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Seiji Hamada

Hirotsugu Fusayasu

Ryo Matsubara

Shinichi Tanimoto

Miyoko Irikiin

Shin-ichi Tanimoto

Shoichi Mimura

Takahiro Kobayashi

Kei Ichikawa

Hideyuki Nakanishi

Yoshio Umeda

Toshiki Onishi

Hiroshi Kunimoto

Masaaki Ofuji

Akihiro Yamamura

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Motonobu Yoshikawa

Hiroto Inoue

Tooru Aoyagi

Takashi Kuwaharada

Tatsuya Ina

Atsushi Nakanishi

Takatoshi Kubiura

Ichiro Hirose

Provided is a backlight device wherein when the drive duty and the drive current are controlled according to a motion, the image quality is improved by preventing flicker caused by the change of the drive waveform. A light-emitting unit () comprises a plurality of light-emitting areas. A motion amount detecting unit () detects the motion amount of an image in each of a plurality of motion areas each corresponding to at least one or more light-emitting areas. A drive condition specifying unit specifies a drive condition including the duty and pulse height value of a drive pulse for causing each of the plurality of light-emitting areas to emit light, on the basis of the detected motion amount. A drive unit drives each of the plurality of light-emitting areas according to the specified drive condition. The drive condition specifying unit adjusts the drive condition such that the drive condition temporally smoothly changes.

Backlight device and display apparatus

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element; and a lens sectioncovering over the light-emitting element. The lens sectionincludes an entrance surface Son which light from the light-emitting elementis incident; an exit surface Sfrom which the light incident on the entrance surface Sis emitted; and an optical axis L extending so as to penetrate the entrance surface Sand the exit surface S. A concave sectionis formed in an area of the exit surface S, which contains the optical axis L, and two flat sectionsare formed so as to face each other across the optical axis L. The exit surface Sdefines an upwardly-protruding curved surface formed between the two flat sections, and the optical axis L is coincidence with a reference optical axis of the light-emitting element

Light-emitting device, surface light-emitting apparatus, display system

A display apparatus including: a liquid crystal panel for displaying left and right images; a liquid crystal driver for writing an image signal into the liquid crystal panel; a backlight source for radiating light to the liquid crystal panel; and a controller for controlling the backlight source so that it emits the light during first emission periods which are set for a left viewing periods while a left image is viewed with a left eye and right viewing periods while a right image is viewed with a right eye, respectively, wherein the controller controls the backlight source so that it emits the light during a second emission period within a non-viewing period, during which no image is viewed, and sets a turn-off period during which the backlight source is turned off between the first and second emission periods.

Display apparatus that controls a length of an emission period or luminance of a display area according to temperature of a liquid crystal panel

A signal transmitter apparatus generates three phase-shifted signals by shifting three transmission signals by predetermined phase shift amounts so that the phase shift amounts of the transmission signals are different from each other by 120 degrees. The signal transmitter apparatus generates three combined transmission signals and outputs the three combined transmission signals to the three transmission conductors, respectively, by combining each of pairs of the phase-shifted signals such that an inverted signal of a first phase-shifted signal is combined with a second phase-shifted signal, when each of the pairs of the phase-shifted signals includes the first and second phase-shifted signals among the three phase-shifted signals and phase shift amounts of the first and second phase-shifted signals are different from each other by 120 degrees. The signal receiver apparatus generates three receiving signals based on received three combined transmission signals, and detects the decoded signals of the transmission signals based on the receiving signals.

Signal transmission system for transmitting transmission signals via a transmission line including transmission conductors

The backlight apparatus allows brightness control with minimum image quality deterioration. This apparatus has: an illuminating section that radiates illumination light on a back of a liquid crystal panel comprising a plurality of image display areas; and a brightness determining section that determines a light emission brightness value of the illuminating section and renews a light emitting state of the illuminating section, based on the determined light emission brightness value. The illuminating section has light emitting areas illuminating each of a plurality of image display areas. The brightness determining section determines light emission brightness values of the image display areas, from values acquired by applying weights to the information based on input image signals of the image display areas, and changes the weights for the information based on luminance of ambient light surrounding the backlight apparatus.

Backlight apparatus and display apparatus

A voltage memory stores a signal level of a transmission signal from a signal generator at a timing of a clock signal, and outputs the transmission signal. A voltage difference detector detects a signal level of a transmission signal at a timing subsequent to the timing and detects a first signal level difference between the signal level and the signal level from the voltage memory. A maximum value detector, a voltage difference detector and bias voltage sources delay the transmission signal so as to keep a rise time of the transmission signal substantially within a predetermined value range by adding capacitances corresponding to the first signal level differences from the voltage difference detectors to transmission lines.

Signal transmitter apparatus provided with signal correction circuit for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic waves between transmission lines

The present invention sufficiently reduces unwanted radiation in a plasma display panel (PDP) display device. The display device includes a PDP having a pair of electrodes, a first, a second, and a third conductive member, and a pair of driving circuits used to apply a voltage to their respective electrodes. Each conductive member has substantially the same width and height as the PDP, and the first, second, third conductive members are disposed on the rear surface of the PDP, in this order on the rear side of the PDP. The PDP and the conductive members are connected electrically to one another in the end portions of these elements, either directly or via the driving circuits, so that the direction of the current flowing in the PDP during driving and discharge coincides with the direction of the current flowing in the third conductive member, and is opposite from the direction of the current flowing in the first conductive member and the second conductive member.

Plasma display panel display device

A differential transmission line connector with little unwanted radiation noise is provided. A connector connects a differential transmission pattern for multiple transmission of a group of three differential signals and a differential transmission cable. The differential transmission pattern is provided with three signal lines, and the differential transmission cable also is provided with three signal lines. In a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the differential transmission pattern and the differential transmission cable, the signal lines are positioned at the apexes of an equilateral triangle. The connector is provided with three signal lines that connect, at identical lengths, the signal lines of the differential transmission pattern and the signal lines of the differential transmission cable, between a predetermined first plane of the planes that perpendicularly intersect the longitudinal direction of the differential transmission pattern and a predetermined second plane of the planes that perpendicularly intersect the longitudinal direction of the differential transmission cable.

Differential transmission line connector

The present invention provides a shield structure for an electronic device allowing conductive members to be connected electrically to each other at low impedance while preventing the leakage of electromagnetic waves effectively. The first conductive member and the second conductive member for enclosing the electronic device respectively have laid portions that are laid one on the other and fastened to each other at plural positions by means of screw members. Through-holes into which the screw members are to be inserted are formed on both of the laid portions. Protruding portions, which protrude toward the laid portion of the second conductive member, each are formed between the adjacent through-holes on the laid portion of the first conductive member. The protruding portions each have a shape extending in the direction connecting the adjacent through-holes and bulging from both ends toward the center thereof in a smooth curve.

Shield structure for electronic device

In a signal transmitter for a multiple differential transmission system including the signal transmitter, a signal receiver, and a signal transmission path including first to third signal lines, first to third differential driver transmit first to third output signals and inverted first to third output signals from the first to third output signals responsive to first to third bit information signals, the first output signal and the inverted third output signal are combined and transmitted to the first signal line, the second output signal and the inverted first output signal are combined and transmitted to the second signal line, and the third output signal and the inverted third output signal are combined and transmitted to the first signal line. The first to third differential drivers of the signal receiver detect polarities of terminal voltages generated across terminal resistances connected between adjacent signal lines and output bit information signals.

Multiple differential transmission system including signal transmitter and signal receiver connected via three signal lines

A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel; a front glass; a conductive filter attached to a front surface or a back surface of the front glass; a back cover; and a plurality of glass pressing pieces each of which presses a corresponding one of four sides of the front glass and makes the conductive filter and the back cover be connected electrically. Among the plurality of glass pressing pieces, glass pressing pieces disposed on one pair of opposite sides of the front glass are electrically connected with the conductive filter at the front surface side thereof, and glass pressing pieces disposed on the other pair of opposite sides of the front glass are electrically connected with the conductive filter at the back surface side thereof.

Plasma display device

A transmission cable that has three signal lines, and in which there is little unwanted radiation noise, is provided. In a section that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the differential transmission cable, the distance between any two signal lines of the three signal lines is equal to a predetermined value. The differential transmission cable is twisted in its longitudinal direction. The differential transmission cable further includes a dielectric core line, and the signal lines are formed on the surface of the dielectric core line. In the differential transmission cable, the signal lines are formed in a helix in the longitudinal direction of the dielectric core line.

Transmission cable

A differential transmission line that has three or more signal lines and with which there is little unwanted radiation noise is provided. The differential transmission lineis provided with three signal lines, andthat transmit differential signals from a differential driver ICto a differential receiver IC, and the majority of the signal lines, andis provided in conductor layers Tand Tof a printed circuit board. The signal lines, andare provided with a signal line parallel segment, a signal line route length adjustment segment that is on the differential driver ICside and that connects from differential signal output terminalsEa,Eb, andEc in the differential driver ICto the signal line parallel segment, and a signal line route length adjustment segment that is on the differential receiver ICside and that connects from the signal line parallel segment to differential signal input terminals in the differential receiver IC, wherein the signal lines, andare formed such that their signal line route length adjustment segments on the differential driver ICside are equal in length to one another.

Differential transmission line

In a signal transmitter for a multiple differential transmission system including a signal transmitter and a signal receiver connected via three signal lines, first and second differential drivers generate first and second output signals of bipolar four values and having a first signal voltage level, and inverted first and second output signals, responsive to first and second bit information signals. A third differential driver generates a third output signal of bipolar four values having a second signal voltage level, and an inverted third output signal, responsive to a third bit information signal. The first output signal and the inverted third output signal are combined and transmitted to the first signal line, the second output signal and the inverted first output signal are combined and transmitted to the second signal line, and the third output signal and the inverted second output signal are combined and transmitted to the third signal line.

A checking unit includes a power net extractor for extracting a power net with power attribution, which is segmented by a power-decoupling element, with reference to circuit design data of a printed wiring board; a parts number extractor for extracting a parts number of an integrated circuit connected to the extracted power net; a parts headcount calculator for calculating a headcount of the extracted parts; a judging unit for comparing the extracted parts headcount with a predetermined reference value; and a representing unit for representing a name of the power net and the parts number of the integrated circuit as an unprocessed location of power decoupling when the headcount is larger than the reference value, thereby inspecting quickly whether a power supply in use, shared by each of the integrated circuits, is decoupled at higher frequencies by the power-decoupling element.

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Osaka, Japan

Seiji Hamada