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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 12, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340793 ; 340784 ; 358241 ; 350332 ;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display is capable of displaying intermediate, partial or half tones of images, while at the same time preventing the occurrence of flicker and the decay of the liquid crystal panel. The display operation for data to be displayed in an intermediate tone has one or more lines of a repeating frame of display data that are prohibited from being displayed during in each frame. Such inhibited display lines are designated differently on a sequential basis over consecutive frames, and the sequence of designation is varied in successive frames in accord with changing patterns.