Patents Examined by Antonio Xavier
  • Patent number: 11735141
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a display device. The display device may include a display panel including a plurality of unit blocks disposed in a display area, the plurality of unit blocks including a first area displaying a logo or a banner, a second area having largest load value and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area, a display panel driver configured to generate data voltages based on input image data, and a zonal compensator configured to receive the input image data, to calculate load values of the input image data for the plurality of unit blocks, respectively, and to control luminance of each of the first area and the third area based on a location difference between the first area and the second area and a load value difference between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Jin Choi, Won Jin Seo, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11721304
    Abstract: A method and device of compensating a brightness for a display device and a method and device of driving a display device are provided. The method of compensating a brightness includes: acquiring display brightness data of multiple frames of pictures displayed after a display picture of the display device is switched from a first grayscale value to a second grayscale value; determining a brightness coefficient of each frame of picture according to the display brightness data; determining a reference picture and at least one frame of to-be-compensated picture according to the brightness coefficient; and determining a grayscale compensation value, so that a ratio of a display brightness of each frame of to-be-compensated picture displayed by the display device to a display brightness of the reference picture displayed by the display device is greater than or equal to a preset first brightness threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbin Chen, Rongjian Yan, Guangjun Song
  • Patent number: 11714452
    Abstract: Provided are foldable electronic device and method for estimating bio-information by using the same. The foldable electronic device may include: a main body part including a first main body and a second main body that are configured to be folded toward each other or unfolded from each other along a fold line where the first main body and the second main body meet; an image sensor part including a first image sensor and a second image sensor which are disposed at the first main body; and a processor configured to obtain a contact image of an object from the first image sensor disposed at the first main body and obtain an image of a marker that is displayed on the second main body, from the second image sensor disposed at the first main body, when the object is in contact with the first image sensor and the main body part is folded along the fold line, and estimate bio-information based on the contact image of the object and the image of the marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Min Kang, Yong Joo Kwon, Sang Yun Park
  • Patent number: 11715443
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display brightness control apparatuses and electronic devices. The display brightness control apparatus can be applied to a display panel. The display panel includes a thin film transistor unit and a light emitting unit. The display brightness control apparatus includes: a detector, which includes a plurality of thin-film transistors in the thin-film transistor unit and is used for outputting a detection current according to the brightness of ambient light; and a controller electrically connected to the detector and used for controlling the luminous brightness of the light-emitting unit according to the detection current. The detector is realized by means of the thin-film transistors, and is arranged inside the thin-film transistor unit of the display panel. The photosensitive characteristic of the thin-film transistors is used to detect the brightness of the ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kongning Qu
  • Patent number: 11705065
    Abstract: In a display device and display panel, a display panel includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each including two white subpixels and a plurality of colored subpixels, and a data pad connecting two adjacent colored subpixels, among the plurality of colored subpixels, corresponding to a same color, in a first direction, wherein luminance data is applied to the white subpixel, wherein each of the plurality of colored subpixels includes a dual subpixel having a size of the two white subpixels arranged in a second direction, the dual subpixel including a plurality of transistors, wherein a first transistor in the dual subpixel is connected to a first signal line extending through a first of the two white subpixels, and wherein a second transistor in the dual subpixel, is connected to a second signal line extending through a second of the two white subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HyunHaeng Lee
  • Patent number: 11694470
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first substrate, a display unit disposed on the first substrate, a sensor unit disposed on the first substrate, and a first light blocking layer disposed between the sensor unit and the first substrate. The first light blocking layer blocks a light entering the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee, Nai-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11688364
    Abstract: An electronic device may display image content via a tile-based display by controlling light emission from display pixels of the tile-based display. Based on image data associated with the image content, a processing circuitry of the tile-based display may receive a potential tile boundary. The processing circuitry may resample the image data based on geometry of the tile boundary and positions of the display pixels on the tile-based panel. After resampling the image data, the processing circuitry may adjust gain of the tile boundary display pixels according to a gain mask to compensate for the tile boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hari P Paudel, Chaohao Wang, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Wei Chen, Wei H Yao, Seung B Rim, Sunmin Jang
  • Patent number: 11663974
    Abstract: A correction method of a cathode voltage is provided, including: controlling an image generator to send a first image test signal including a cathode voltage to a display module to be tested at each brightness level of the display module to be tested; controlling an optical measuring device to measure a first display parameter of the image displayed by the display module to be tested according to the first image test signal; obtaining the first display parameter from the optical measuring device, and determining whether the first display parameter is within a display parameter threshold ramie; progressively adjusting the cathode voltage according to a determination result, and using a second image test signal including an adjusted cathode voltage to test the display module to be tested and obtain a second display parameter until a corrected cathode voltage at a current brightness level is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baoyun Wu, Zebang Guo, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11650624
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a cover glass disposed on the display panel, and a biometric sensor device disposed below the display panel. The biometric sensor device includes a printed circuit board, a biometric sensor disposed on the printed circuit board, and a housing disposed on the printed circuit board and in which an opening is formed. The biometric sensor is disposed in the opening of the housing and is attached to a surface of the display panel through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Park, Ji Hun Heo, Joo Han Kim, Jin Man Kim, Bong Jae Rhee, Se Young Jang
  • Patent number: 11645998
    Abstract: A system and a method for adjusting brightness of a content are provided. The method includes: receiving a camera feed based on a visible-light; measuring a light sensor value indicating an intensity of the visible-light; detecting a translucent surface over a display screen based on capturing a plurality of visible-light parameters from the camera feed and the light sensor value; predicting a reflectance value of the translucent surface using an artificial neural network model based on the plurality of visible-light parameters and an input brightness level associated with the display screen; determining a proportionality of a change in at least one of a camera feed value and the light sensor value with respect to the input brightness level; verifying the reflectance value through a statistical function based on the determined proportionality; and determining an output brightness level for the display screen based on the reflectance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rohit Thapliyal, Sattdeepan Dutta, Kushagra K, Arun Kumar
  • Patent number: 11645991
    Abstract: The present application discloses methods for debugging and using an overdrive brightness value look-up table, and a display panel. The debugging method includes the following steps: measuring actual brightness by exhaustively enumerating all gray scales in an available gray scale range at a preset gray scale interval as a gray scale M of a previous frame, and exhaustively enumerating all the gray scales in the available gray scale range at the preset gray scale interval as a target gray scale N of a current frame, and correspondingly recording all actual brightness values in the overdrive brightness value look-up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11629994
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for detecting ambient light sensing value, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: collecting a light sensing value when a display screen is in an on state, to obtain a first light sensing value; collecting a light sensing value when the display screen is in an off state, to obtain a second light sensing value; calculating a difference between the first light sensing value and the second light sensing value, to obtain a light sensing value drop depth; acquiring a first calibration coefficient or a second calibration coefficient; calculating the ambient light sensing value based on the first light sensing value, the light sensing value drop depth and the first calibration coefficient; or calculating the ambient light sensing value based on the second light sensing value, the light sensing value drop depth and the second calibration coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luming Zhou, Xiangyu Yang, Siqiu Cheng
  • Patent number: 11626086
    Abstract: A method for adjusting brightness of a display panel and a device for adjusting brightness of a display panel are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and the method includes adjusting data voltages of at least two sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels to be different when performing a zero grayscale display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yajun Hei, Guang Wang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Jingxiong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11620848
    Abstract: A detection circuit, a skin print recognition device and a method for driving a detection circuit are disclosed. The detection circuit includes a photosensitive element, a switching sub-circuit and a charge releasing sub-circuit. The photosensitive element is electrically coupled to the switching sub-circuit and the charge releasing sub-circuit, and is configured to convert a received optical signal into an electrical signal, the switching sub-circuit is configured to output the electrical signal, and the charge releasing sub-circuit is configured to release charges in the photosensitive element after the switching sub-circuit outputs the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Pengpeng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Ping Zhang, Wenjuan Wang, Yapeng Li, Jiabin Wang, Likai Deng
  • Patent number: 11620959
    Abstract: Enhanced push pull driving waveforms for driving a four particle electrophoretic medium including four different types of particles, for example a set of scattering particles and three sets of subtractive particles. Methods for identifying a preferred waveform for a target color state when using a voltage driver having at least five different voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Amit Deliwala
  • Patent number: 11620964
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel that has a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a light source configured to illuminate the display area; a first control circuit configured to receive first signals corresponding to a first partial image to be displayed in a portion of the display area; and a second control circuit configured to receive second signals corresponding to a second partial image to be displayed in another portion of the display area. The light source has a plurality of light-emitting areas in each of which a light emission intensity is individually controllable. The first control circuit is configured to transmit lighting quantity information indicating the light emission intensity of each of the light-emitting areas to the second control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Kazuhiko Sako
  • Patent number: 11615765
    Abstract: A light emission control method is adapted to a direct-lit LED backlight display. The display includes a backlight module, a driving circuit, a detection circuit, and a control circuit. The backlight module includes a first light emission group and a second light emission group. The first light emission group includes a plurality of first LEDs, and the second light emission group includes a plurality of second LEDs. The first LEDs and the second LEDs are in an interleaved arrangement. The driving circuit is activated to selectively drive the first light emission group and the second light emission group to emit light. On detection of an abnormal light-emission status of any of the plurality of LEDs, the detection circuit sends an abnormal signal. The control circuit obtains a shut-down group according to the abnormal signal and actives the driving circuit not to drive the shut-down group to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yao-Tsung Chang, Chuan-Yen Kao, Yu-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11615752
    Abstract: A backlight device includes LED elements divided into dimming groups; a panel driver configured to output a reference current for driving the LED elements; and pixel circuits, each of which is connected to the panel driver through a common line and is respectively configured to drive first LED elements comprised in a corresponding dimming group. Each of the pixel circuits is configured to: in a first period of a frame period, obtain a reference voltage based on the reference current and store the reference voltage, in a second period of the frame period, obtain luminance data of an image displayed by the corresponding dimming group, and in a third period of the frame period, drive the first LED elements during a light emitting time corresponding to the luminance data obtained in the second period using the reference voltage stored in the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changju Lee, Yongil Kwon, Yoon-Kyung Choi, Junho Huh
  • Patent number: 11605321
    Abstract: A three-dimensional-image display device includes a display unit, a variable focus lens unit, and a controller. The display unit sequentially displays a first image displayed by a first image signal and a second image displayed by a second image signal, and that projects a display light of the first image and a display light of the second image. The variable focus lens unit switches the focal lengths for the display lights to respectively form, as virtual images, the first image and the second image on a first display surface and a second display surface. The controller controls, on the basis of a start timing at which writing, of an image signal of a different image, to pixels of the display unit starts, a projecting timing at which the display unit projects the display light of the first image and the display light of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Tetsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 11592899
    Abstract: Systems and methods for activating a button within a display are described. Embodiments of the invention provide a multi-step activation process using user eye movement within the display. The multi-step activation process comprises displaying an confirmation element in response to a first user gaze at a button. The button is subsequently activated in response to a second user gaze at the confirmation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic Philip Haine, Ben Rafael Kimel Green