Patents Examined by Adam J Snyder
  • Patent number: 11435835
    Abstract: An electronic communications method includes receiving, by a device, electronic information. The electronic communications method further includes receiving, by the device, additional electronic information. A time period between receiving the electronic information and the additional electronic information is less than another time period between receiving the electronic information and the additional electronic information by using a standard keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: John Walter Downey
  • Patent number: 11423823
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register including: a pre-charge reset circuit and an output circuit, the pre-charge reset circuit is configured to write, in a pre-charge stage, an input signal in an active level state into the pull-up node in response to the control of a first control signal, and write, in a reset stage, an input signal in an inactive level state into the pull-up node in response to the control of a second control signal; the output circuit is configured to write, in an output stage, a clock signal in an active level state into a signal output terminal in response to the control of an electric signal in an active level state at the pull-up node, and write, in the reset stage, a clock signal in an inactive level state into the signal output terminal in response to the control of the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Xue, Hongmin Li, Yue Shi, Qinghua Jiang
  • Patent number: 11416087
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display for displaying data stored on the electronic device; input means; sensing means for sensing the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to the device; and control means for controlling the data displayed on the display in dependence on the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to the device. The input means includes a source of electromagnetic radiation for directing an infrared conical beam onto the display. The sensing means can sense the elliptical eccentricity of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the angle at which it strikes the display, and can sense the area of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the distance of the input means from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Power2b, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Lipman, Sarah Michelle Lipman
  • Patent number: 11417261
    Abstract: A gate driving unit circuit comprises an input sub-circuit and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is connected to a first pull-up node, a second pull-up node, and an input terminal, and transmits a signal input from the input terminal to the first pull-up node and the second pull-up node. The output sub-circuit is connected to the first pull-up node, the second pull-up node, a first control terminal, a third control terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The output sub-circuit transmits a signal input through the first control terminal to the first output terminal, and transmits a signal input through the third control terminal to the second output terminal under the control of a potential of the second pull-up node, wherein, an effective voltage of a signal of the first control terminal is greater than that of a signal of the third control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Group Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Xiong, Yifeng Zou, Yudong Liu, Youlu Li
  • Patent number: 11397493
    Abstract: A method for touch sensing enhancement implemented in a single chip, a single chip capable of achieving touch sensing enhancement, and a computing apparatus are introduced. The single chip is used to be coupled to a display panel with a touch sensor and a fingerprint sensor. The computing apparatus may include the display panel, the single chip, and a processing unit, wherein the single chip is coupled between the display panel and processing unit. The method includes obtaining touch sensing data by a touch sensing module disposed within the single chip and coupled to the touch sensor; obtaining fingerprint sensing data by a fingerprint sensing module disposed within the single chip and coupled to the fingerprint sensor; and generating output touch data based on the touch sensing data and the fingerprint sensing data. With the contribution of the fingerprint sensing data, touch sensing enhancement can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jyun-Sian Li, Yun-Hsiang Yeh, Yen-Heng Chen
  • Patent number: 11398177
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device using a pulse width modulation generator are provided. The pixel circuit has a data latch; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) generator, which is electrically coupled to the data latch, a scan line and a counter; wherein, the pulse width modulation generator is based on the pixel data, the scan signal and a counter code generated by the counter to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. Therefore, the pixel signal can be generated in a voltage and/or current mode according to the PWM signal and connected to the corresponding pixel electrode of the pixel display medium module, so that the period time for driving the display medium by accurately controlling the voltage and/or current to precisely provide grayscale function of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Shih-Hsien Tseng
  • Patent number: 11393385
    Abstract: A shift register includes a first reset circuit having a first transistor and a second transistor, and a selection control circuit connected to a pull-down node, and control electrodes of the first and second transistors. First electrodes of the first and second transistors are connected to a first voltage terminal, and second electrodes of the first and second transistors are connected to a signal output terminal. The selection control circuit is configured to: control a line between the pull-down node and the control electrode of the first transistor, and a line between the pull-down node and the control electrode of the second transistor to be alternately closed. The first reset circuit is configured to output a voltage of the first voltage terminal to the signal output terminal under control of a potential at the pull-down node transmitted by the selection control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11380254
    Abstract: In a display device including pixels that are coupled to data lines, that are supplied with a data signal during a display period, and that are configured to emit light corresponding to the data signal during a bias period, the display device includes a source capacitor coupled to each of the data lines, and a data driver configured to supply the data signal during the display period, to supply a bias signal during a first period in the bias period, and to not supply the bias signal during a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Soo Kim, Woo Chul Kim, Hyun Su Kim, Young Min Bae
  • Patent number: 11380243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a scan driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The shift register includes an input module; a control module; a reset module; a first output module; a second output module; and a stabilization module, that a phase of a signal output from the second output module lags behind a phase of a signal output from the first output module, and does not overlap with the phase of the signal output from the first output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Shaorong Yu
  • Patent number: 11361703
    Abstract: A gate driving unit, a gate driving method, a gate driving circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided. The gate driving unit includes a start terminal, a first gate driving signal output terminal, a second gate driving signal output terminal, a pull-up control node control circuit, a pull-up node control circuit, configured to control a potential of a first pull-up node and a potential of a second pull-up node based on the potential of the pull-up control node, a first gate driving signal output circuit, a second gate driving signal output circuit, and a pull-down node control circuit, configured to control and maintain the potential of the pull-down node under the control of a third clock signal and a fourth clock signal, and control to reset the potential of the pull-down node under the control of the potential of the pull-up control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Bailing Liu, Fuqiang Li, Zhichong Wang, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan
  • Patent number: 11347335
    Abstract: A touch device includes: a touch panel including a plurality of touch electrodes; a driver/receiver for applying a first driving signal to the touch panel while driven in a first mode, and applying a second driving signal that is different from the first driving signal to the touch panel while driven in a second mode; and a controller for comparing first detection signals received from the touch panel with a first threshold value to obtain first touch data while driven in the first mode, and comparing second detection signals received from the touch panel with a second threshold value to obtain second touch data while driven in the second mode, wherein the controller determines the second threshold value based on at least part of the first detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Hwanhee Lee, Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Hyoungwook Woo, Kiryoung Jung
  • Patent number: 11348538
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of optimizing display image quality on display devices having a plurality of display power modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Nandini Mahendran, Ajit Joshi, Shravan Kumar Belagal Math, Sherine Abdelhak
  • Patent number: 11340739
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an input device and a method of producing the device. The input device includes a flat panel defining an array of control surfaces, a support disposed on a side of the panel facing away from an operator, and a flat film layer structure disposed between the flat panel and the support which defines an array of capacitive sensors; wherein each capacitive sensor forms a measuring capacitance assigned to one of the control surfaces; wherein the support forms at least one web, which protrudes towards the flat panel and connects to the flat panel to fix the film layer structure between the flat panel and the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Preh GMBH
    Inventors: David Heurich, Matthias Lembach, Ronald Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11335276
    Abstract: A display driving device, which adjusts a brightness of an image on the basis of an ambient illumination even without an increase in amount of power consumption, includes a controller determining a clipping ratio for clipping input image data by using an ambient illumination value when the ambient illumination value is input thereto, a gain calculator calculating a frame gain which is to be applied to the input image data, based on the clipping ratio, an input image clipping unit clipping the input image data by applying the frame gain in the input image data, and a gamma converter gamma-converting clipped input image data to generate output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Lee, Heung Lyeol Lee, Hyun Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11328652
    Abstract: A gate driving unit, a gate driving method, a gate driving circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided. The gate driving unit includes a start terminal, a first gate driving signal output terminal, a second gate driving signal output terminal, a pull-up control node control circuit, a pull-up node control circuit, configured to control a potential of a first pull-up node and a potential of a second pull-up node based on the potential of the pull-up control node, a first gate driving signal output circuit, a second gate driving signal output circuit, and a pull-down node control circuit, configured to control and maintain the potential of the pull-down node under the control of a third clock signal and a fourth clock signal, and control to reset the potential of the pull-down node under the control of the potential of the pull-up control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Bailing Liu, Fuqiang Li, Zhichong Wang, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan
  • Patent number: 11328672
    Abstract: A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: a first input circuit, a second input circuit, an output circuit, and a compensation circuit, the first input circuit is configured to write a first input signal to the first node in response to a first control signal; the second input circuit is configured to input a second input signal to the second node in response to a detection control signal and configured to transmit a level of the second node to the first node in response to a second control signal; the compensation circuit is configured to compensate the level of the second node; and the output circuit is configured to output a composite output signal to the output terminal under control of a level of the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11315473
    Abstract: A gate-on-array (GOA) driving circuit is provided, and the GOA driving circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA driving units. Each of the GOA driving units further includes a first GOA driving sub-unit including a first signal source and a second GOA driving sub-unit including a second signal source. The first GOA driving sub-unit operates when the first signal source transmits a first signal with a high voltage, and the second GOA driving sub-unit transmitting a second signal operates when the first signal source transmits the first signal with a low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiyan Quan, Xiaowen Lv
  • Patent number: 11315513
    Abstract: A driving circuit for display panel is provided. Wherein, a first and a second power supply circuits produce a first and a second supply voltages. The electric charge provided by the second power supply circuit is less than that provided by the first power supply circuit. A plurality of drivers include a plurality of first power input terminals and a plurality of second power input terminals. The first power input terminals are coupled to the first power supply circuit and receives the first supply voltage. The second power input terminals are coupled to the second power supply circuit and receives the second supply voltage. The drivers increase the voltage levels of a plurality of gate signals in a voltage rising period according to the first supply voltage. The drivers hold the voltage levels of gate signals in a voltage holding period according to the second supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Kuan-Chao Liao, Sheng-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11308872
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an OLED display panel for minimizing the size of a bezel and includes: an active area including data lines, scan lines intersecting the data lines, and sub-pixels arranged at each intersection; and a stage of a GIP driving circuit distributed and arranged in a plurality of unit pixel regions driven by m (m being a natural number) scan lines in the active area, to supply scan pulses to the corresponding scan lines, wherein the active area further includes m GIP internal connection lines parts respectively adjacent to the m scan lines, and a plurality of internal connection lines for connecting elements constituting each stage is distributed and arranged in the m GIP internal connection line parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Min Kim, In-Hyo Han, Hun-Ki Shin
  • Patent number: 11307699
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a light emitting element located on the base substrate; a thin-film encapsulation layer located on the light emitting element; touch electrodes located on the thin-film encapsulation layer, each of the touch electrode including an opening; and a strain gauge including: resistance lines located in the openings, respectively, the resistance lines located in the same layer as the touch electrodes and having variable resistance values changed in response to a touch input; a first connection line connecting two resistance lines neighboring each other along a first direction; and a second connection line connecting two resistance lines neighboring each other along a second direction, the second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the first connection line and the second connection line are located between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the resistance lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ga Young Kim, Jang Hui Kim, A Ra Jo