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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:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masafumi Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
Abstract
A color image synthesized with three primary color images is outputted to a plane illuminated by a back light by controlling amounts of transmission of the three primary color lights and a monochromatic image is outputted by controlling an amount of transmitted light. When the monochromatic image is displayed, color image reproducing means is not driven. A monochromatic image can be displayed on a color image displayed.