US Patent Issued to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY on May 20 for "Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving display device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,977, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving display device" was invented by Masahito Sano (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regarding a display device that uses display elements driven by current, occurrence of flicker upon pause driving is suppressed while an increase in power consumption is suppressed. In a period, during which supply of a drive current to an organic EL element is stopped, in a refresh frame period (RF) included in a driving period, before a writing period (14) during which a data voltage is provided to ...