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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. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert T. Smith, Tempe, AZ (US);
Cecil W. Penn, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method for driving a field emission display (,) includes the steps of dividing a digital video word (,), which has n-bits, into N digital sub-words (,), each of which has n′-bits, and sequentially converting each of the digital sub-words (,) into a control signal (,). The control signals (,) are sequentially utilized to control drive signals (,) applied to the field emission display (,).