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Semiconductor display apparatus

US4229736A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 8, 1977
Grant dateOct 21, 1980
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Expiry dateAug 8, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10H29/142
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A display apparatus having a matrix (4) of semiconductor parts (42) acting both as memories and as amplifiers, and which is driven by two grids of electrodes that are parallel respectively to the lines (L) and to the columns (C) of the matrix (4). Actuation means (6, 7, 8) permits one line of the matrix to be selectively actuated to receive the information to be entered in each part on that line. Electrical signal from each semiconductor part (42) of the given line represents the information that is stored and that signal is displayed in an electroluminescent layer of diodes (3) in the apparatus. The apparatus may be used to display television images.

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