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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Chenggang Xie, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Robert T Smith, Tempe, AZ (US);
Rodolfo Lucero, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for providing a gray scale in a field emission display (50) includes the step of providing a first driving pulse (214) having a pulse width equal to a pulse width separation (115) between the graphs (100, 200) of total charge response versus pulse width of a driving pulse for the non-ideal field emission display and the corresponding ideal field emission display. The pulse width separation (115) is the horizontal distance between the two graphs (100, 200) at a region wherein the two graphs (100, 200) are generally parallel. The pulse width, t.sub.n, of an nth driving pulse corresponding to an nth gray scale level is given by t.sub.n =t.sub.1 +[n-1]*[(t.sub.N -t.sub.1)/(N-1)], wherein t.sub.1 is the pulse width of the first driving pulse (214), N is the total number of gray scale levels, and t.sub.N is the pulse width of the Nth driving pulse.