Abstract: A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a through-transmissive area of a display. The through-transmissive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the through-transmissive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements, and a light blocking layer to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for under-display fingerprint sensor timing control are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by fingerprint sensor control circuitry, an indication to activate a fingerprint sensor that is located under a display panel of a computing device, the fingerprint sensor attached with respect to the display panel such that the fingerprint sensor is exposed to light produced by the display panel and reflected off a finger placed over the display panel at a location of the fingerprint sensor; outputting, for receipt by the fingerprint sensor, a start-sensing trigger signal at a start time synchronized with a display panel timing signal that is provided to the display panel to control emission of the display panel; and outputting, for receipt by the fingerprint sensor, a stop-sensing trigger signal at a stop time synchronized with the display panel timing signal.

Abstract: Examples of wearable systems and methods can use multiple inputs (e.g., gesture, head pose, eye gaze, voice, and/or environmental factors (e.g., location)) to determine a command that should be executed and objects in the three-dimensional (3D) environment that should be operated on. The multiple inputs can also be used by the wearable system to permit a user to interact with text, such as, e.g., composing, selecting, or editing text.

Abstract: Systems and methods are used to dim an emissive display such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. A dimming level setpoint signal is received. At least one dimming process is selected from four dimming processes based on a magnitude of the dimming level setpoint signal. A first dimming process selects a subrange of pixel illumination levels from a range of pixel illumination levels. A second dimming process adjusts a VCOM voltage for the pixel array. A third dimming process selects between rolling shutter and global shutter. A fourth dimming process selectively utilizes one or more subpixels from an emissive display pixel based on the magnitude of the dimming level setpoint signal. The selected dimming process or processes are applied to the emissive display, there by dimming the display. The display can be an OLED display.

Abstract: A method, device, and display device for detecting ambient light are provided. The method includes obtaining brightness information of the ambient light, determining a brightness interval of the ambient light according to the brightness information of the ambient light and preset correspondences between a plurality of ambient light sensors and different brightness intervals, using the ambient light sensor corresponding to the brightness interval of the ambient light as a reference sensor, and outputting a brightness signal of a current ambient light according to output signals of the ambient light sensors and a preset conversion formula.

Abstract: An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a signal processing device including a first logic circuit to process a first voltage range of a voltage level of the input signal, a second logic circuit to process a second voltage range of the voltage level of the input signal, higher than the first voltage range, and a protection control circuit including a protection switch and a protection controller for controlling the protection switch, wherein the protection switch is turned on based on the protection controller being turned off or powered down. Accordingly, a breakdown phenomenon can be reduced in case of power off or power down.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a display panel driver, and a zone compensating circuit which divides the display panel into a plurality of unit blocks, obtains load values of input image data for the unit blocks, and generates corrected image data by correcting the input image data based on the load values. Each of the load values corresponds to one of the unit blocks. The display panel driver generates a data signal for displaying an image on the display panel based on the corrected image data. When grayscale values included in the input image data are the same, a luminance of the image displayed on the display panel is decreased moving away from a center of a reference block having a largest load value among the unit blocks based on the corrected image data.

Abstract: A backlight module includes at least one drive light-emitting group. The drive light-emitting group includes a drive unit provided with plurality of signal transmission channels, a plurality of light-emitting units and a plurality of line groups. The signal transmission channel is connected to the light-emitting unit through the line group. The signal transmission channel, the line group and the light-emitting unit are arranged in one-to-one correspondence. The line group includes a main transmission line and a compensation line arranged in parallel. The compensation lines of the plurality of line groups are connected through a control switch group. When there is an abnormal signal transmission channel, the control switch group is enabled to control a compensation line corresponding to the abnormal signal transmission channel to be conducted with compensation line corresponding to at least one normal signal transmission channel.

Abstract: A gate driver and a display device comprising the same are discussed. The gate driver can comprise a plurality of stages for individually driving a plurality of gate lines by a combination of a plurality of group signals, a plurality of block signals, and a plurality of clock signals. Each of the plurality of stages driven independently can include an output buffer including a pull-up transistor configured to generate and output a gate-on level of a scan signal under the control of a first node, and a pull-down transistor configured to generate and output a gate-off level of the scan signal under the control of a second node. Each stage can further include a first controller configured to control the first node, and a second controller configured to control the second node to be opposite to the operation of the first node.

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: A method, device, and apparatus for determining a brightness compensation parameter. The method includes: obtaining, at any grayscale, a plurality of first acquired brightness values of a plurality of first sub-pixels of a target color in the first display region and a plurality of second acquired brightness values of a plurality of second sub-pixels of the target color in the second display region of the display panel to be compensated; determining whether an acquisition ratio of an average value of the plurality of first acquired brightness values to an average value of the plurality of second acquired brightness values is within a standard range; correcting the plurality of first acquired brightness values or the plurality of second acquired brightness values to obtain a corrected brightness value of the display panel; determining the brightness compensation parameter of the display panel based on the corrected brightness value.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, which enables minimization of a transformer circuit and which can be driven using various commercial voltages, and a method for controlling the display device. The display device according to an embodiment comprises: a display; a transformer which transforms commercial power and supplies the transformed commercial power to the display and which includes a plurality of switching devices; and a controller for determining, on the basis of the magnitude of an input voltage input to the transformer, whether or not to open at least one of the plurality of switching devices, and controlling the plurality of switching devices on the basis of an output voltage of the transformer to perform a modulation control of the output voltage to follow a predetermined reference voltage.

Abstract: A display driver and a driving method thereof is disclosed. The display driver includes at least one first latch, at least one second latch, an output buffer, and a comparator. The first latch receives input data. The input terminal of the second latch is coupled to the output terminal of the first latch. The output buffer, including at least one variable current source, is coupled to the second latch. The comparator is coupled to the first latch, the second latch, and the variable current source. The comparator generates at least one control signal of the variable current source.

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: A display driver integrated circuit includes a gamma circuit, a control circuit, and an output buffer circuit. The gamma circuit generates a plurality of gamma voltages based on gamma control information, a first gamma power supply voltage and a second gamma power supply voltage. The control circuit calculates a gamma limit value based on panel brightness information, voltage levels of the first and second gamma power supply voltages and the number of the plurality of gamma voltages. The control circuit generates a mode determination signal. The output buffer circuit includes a plurality of buffer circuits. Each of the plurality of buffer circuits includes an input stage and the input stage includes first transistors and second transistors. In a first driving mode, each of the plurality of buffer circuits turns off the first transistors and turns on the second transistors included in the input stage.

Abstract: A driving circuit includes first and second input signal terminals, first and second output signal terminals, constant current sources, first and second transistors having control terminals connected to the first and second input signal terminals, third and fourth transistors each having a control terminal to which a first bias voltage is applied, first and second inductors each having a first inductance, and third and fourth inductors each having a second inductance larger than the first inductance. The driving circuit further includes fifth and sixth transistors each having a control terminal to which a second bias voltage is applied, outflow terminals connected to inflow terminals of the third and fourth transistors via the first and second inductors, and inflow terminals connected to the first and second output signal terminals via the third and fourth inductors.

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: 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: 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 1D scanning micro-display architecture for high-resolution image visualization in compact AR and Head Mounted Displays (“HMDs”). A display driver is configured to drive a plurality of display pixels of a tri-linear microdisplay, wherein the tri-linear microdisplay defines one or more stripes. Each of the stripes are constructed of one or more rows of pixels, and is used in the 1D-scanning display system to create high-resolution images in an augmented reality (“AR”) or Head Mounted Display.