Abstract: A sensor device including a fingerprint sensor and an antenna. The a fingerprint sensor has a silicon-based area sensor, a sensor area, and an electrically conductive contact region arranged laterally adjacent to the sensor area and configured to be touched upon the contact area being touched by a finger in order to bring the finger to a predetermined potential. The antenna is coupled to the fingerprint sensor to inductively couple the fingerprint sensor to a booster antenna.

Abstract: An electronic device detects a first operation of a user; the electronic device obtains a fingerprint image and a touch signal in response to the first operation; and the electronic device determines, based on the fingerprint image and the touch signal, that the fingerprint image is a fingerprint image of a real finger or a fingerprint image of a fake finger.

Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.

Abstract: A plurality of pixel drive circuits form part of an array of emissive elements. The plurality of pixel drive circuits are disposed to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The plurality of pixel drive circuits are organized into sets of pixel drive circuits, and each set comprises at least one pixel drive circuit. A FET of a set of pixel drive circuits shares a common well with other FETs of similar function in the same set of pixel drive circuits positioned therein, such that the variance of the threshold voltages of those FETs is substantially reduced. Each of the pixel drive circuits comprises a circuit operative to deliver a current at a predetermined voltage to an emissive device and a memory circuit operative to receive modulation data and to use same to modulate the current output of the pixel drive circuit.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of powering the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes: a main control circuit, configured to provide a first control signal; a touch display driving circuit, configured to provide a second control signal; a power supply circuit, coupled to the touch display driving circuit, and configured to provide a power supply voltage to the touch display driving circuit; and a logic circuit coupled to the main control circuit, the touch display driving circuit, and the power supply circuit, and configured to continuously enable the power supply circuit in a first mode and intermittently enable the power supply circuit in a second mode, under a control of the first control signal and the second control signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting gestures on a reduced-size electronic device at locations off of the display, such as gestures on the housing of the device or on a rotatable input mechanism (e.g., a digital crown) of the device, and responding to the gestures by, for example, navigating lists of items and selecting items from the list; translating the display of an electronic document; or sending audio control data to an external audio device.

Abstract: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays, novel pixel circuits therefor, and methods of programming the pixel circuit and measuring the current of the pixel circuit and OLED thereof are disclosed. One pixel circuit includes four TFT transistors, a storage capacitor and an OLED device and is programmed with use of voltage supplied through a data line. One method measures currents of the OLED and the pixel circuit through the data line by a readout circuit.

Abstract: A fingerprint recognition module, a display panel and driving method, and a display device are provided. The fingerprint recognition module includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes, and a piezoelectric layer disposed on a side of the first electrode layer. The fingerprint recognition module also includes a second electrode layer disposed on a side of the piezoelectric layer facing away from the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes that are arranged along a first direction, and one second electrode overlaps at least two first electrodes. Moreover, the fingerprint recognition module includes a flexible circuit board bonded and connected to the plurality of second electrodes. In a plane parallel to the first electrode layer, the plurality of second electrodes and the flexible circuit board are arranged along a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a full-screen display device capable of sufficiently securing light transmittance of a sensor area overlapping a sensor unit in a pixel array and minimizing deterioration in perceived image quality of the sensor area. The pixels are arranged in the sensor area overlapping the sensor unit in the pixel array of the full-screen display device such that the number of pixels gradually decreases from the outer periphery toward the center of the sensor area in units of masks, and the area of a transmission portion gradually increases from the outer periphery toward the center of the sensor area in units of masks.

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel and an input sensor. Mesh lines of the input sensor may include first mesh lines extending in a first direction and second mesh lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first mesh lines and the second mesh lines may cross each other at a plurality of cross points. In a unit region of the sensing electrode, first cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines, and second cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal protection film is capable of ultrasonic fingerprint recognition in order to improve ultrasonic fingerprint recognition performance. The liquid crystal protection film includes a liquid crystal protection film part attached to an upper portion of a liquid crystal so as to protect the liquid crystal. The liquid crystal protection film part includes: a first layer attached to the upper portion of the liquid crystal; a second layer formed on an upper portion of the first layer; and a liquid crystal adhesive layer formed under the first layer and provided so that the liquid crystal adheres to the first layer.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a fingerprint sensor disposed under a specified area of the display. The fingerprint sensor is bonded to an inner surface of the display, through a bonding layer, and at least a portion of the bonding layer is expanded in a second direction different from a first direction facing the specified area and forms a protrusion structure to surround at least a portion of a side surface, which faces the second direction, of the fingerprint sensor.

Abstract: A display device includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a left data line and a right data line extending in a second direction and crossing the gate line, and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along the first and second directions, wherein the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the first direction are connected to a same gate line, and the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the second direction are alternately connected to the left data line and the right data line.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, the display panel includes a gate driving circuit, a first pixel module, and a second pixel module, the first pixel module includes a first pixel circuit, and the second pixel module includes a second pixel circuit; the gate driving circuit respectively provides corresponding gate driving signals for the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; in the first display region, the number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the first pixel module is greater than the maximum number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the second pixel module in the second display region; the display panel further includes a loading structure arranged in a non-display region; the load structure is electrically connected to the gate wiring; the gate wiring is wiring between the gate driving circuit and the second pixel circuit for providing the corresponding gate driving signals to the second pixel circuit.

Abstract: A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.

Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processor; a memory; first and second body portions coupled to each other by a hinge having a single rotation axis; a flexible display attached to at least one of the first or second body portions, the flexible display having parallel edges, the first body portion covering first opposing portions of the parallel edges, the second body portion covering second opposing portions of the parallel edges; and a flexible cover attached to the first body portion, the flexible cover extending to the second body portion and covering third opposing portions of the parallel edges.

Abstract: A display panel includes an active area including pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other and data lines and gate lines arranged to be intersected; and shift registers supplying a gate pulse to each of the gate lines, wherein each of the shift registers includes GIP circuit portions dispersedly disposed in the active area; and GIP lines supplying a predetermined signal to the GIP circuit portions or connecting the GIP circuit portions with each other, the GIP lines being located between neighboring pixels along the second direction.

Abstract: A shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit, configured to input an input voltage provided by the input voltage terminal to an intermediate circuit under control of a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal; the intermediate circuit, configured to write a second clock signal output by the second clock signal terminal or a first power signal output by the first power terminal to the intermediate output terminal as an intermediate output signal under control of the input voltage and the control circuit; and an output circuit, configured to output an output signal, a phase of which is opposite to a phase of the intermediate output signal.

Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.