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Panel display adjusting number of sustaining discharge pulses according to the quantity of display data

US6100859A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 2, 1996
Grant dateAug 8, 2000
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Expiry dateMay 2, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2360/16
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A display panel has a plurality of cells to be selectively discharged to glow, an addressing unit for setting the plurality of cells to states represented by display data, and a display glowing unit for enabling the plurality of cells to glow according to set states. A display data quantity counter exists for each line that detects display data to be displayed line by line and counts the number of bits as a quantity of detected display data. A frequency of sustaining discharge is set line by line on the basis of the quantity of display data per line which is provided by the display data quantity counter.

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