Patents Examined by Dong Hui Liang
  • Patent number: 11862059
    Abstract: A display device includes a first gamma line providing a first gamma voltage; a second gamma line providing a second gamma voltage; a local tab point line; a first switch configured to connect the first gamma line to the local tab point line based on a tab division enable signal; and a second switch configured to connect the second gamma line to the local tab point line based on the tab division enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taeksu Kwon, Dongwook Suh
  • Patent number: 11862111
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: an offset compensation circuit configured to obtain first data including first low-order bit data, second low-order bit data and high-order bit data, select two compensation values from among a plurality of compensation values based on the first low-order bit data, identify a final compensation value by interpolating the two compensation values based on the second low-order bit data, and compensate the final compensation value to generate second data; and a source driver configured to interpolate and output two gamma voltages from among a plurality of gamma voltages based on the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Whan Na, Jong-Hee Na, Byoungyoon Jang, Yoochae Chung, Hyunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11854487
    Abstract: A pixel drive circuit, a display panel and a display device. The pixel drive circuit includes a drive transistor, a first compensation capacitor, and a second compensation capacitor. The drive transistor has a first control end, a second control end, an output end, and an input end. The drive transistor is configured as a four-terminal drive device having two control ends, and between each control end and the output end, a compensation element is arranged, so that the compensations to the threshold voltage of the front and rear channels are performed simultaneously when the drive transistor is driven. Meanwhile, each control end is equipped with a capacitor to eliminate the influence of a current difference caused by the threshold voltage of the secondary channel in the 4-terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiufeng Zhou, Xin Yuan, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11854499
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The controller is configured to determine first luminances with respect to a reference grayscale in a second frame when the reference grayscale is displayed in the second frame after the reference grayscale is displayed in a first frame. The controller is configured to determine second luminances with respect to the reference grayscale in the second frame when the reference grayscale is displayed in the second frame after a minimum grayscale is displayed in the first frame. The controller is further configured to temporally and spatially arrange first data corresponding to the reference grayscale and second data corresponding to the minimum grayscale to generate a data signal. And, the controller is configured to drive the display panel with a digital driving method in a first grayscale section, and drive the display panel with an analog driving method in a second grayscale section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Kyoungho Lim
  • Patent number: 11854494
    Abstract: The technology of this application relates to a voltage adjustment method and an electronic device. The method includes obtaining a target luminance value of current display of a display pixel, determining a voltage increment value based on the target luminance value, and adjusting, based on the voltage increment value, an initial cathode voltage of an OLED device corresponding to the display pixel, where after voltage adjustment, a change amount between a luminance value of the display pixel and the target luminance value falls within a preset range. This application may be applied to an electronic device, and display quality of a display screen can be improved while reducing power consumption of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinqin Ai, Jinsong Wen, Yiyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11847286
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including unit pixel areas and an input sensor including first-line elements and second-line elements defining crossing areas with the first-line elements. First group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a first electrode. Second group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a second electrode, and the second electrode is insulated from the first electrode while crossing the first electrode. A first angle defined by a first direction and a second direction and a second angle defined in the crossing areas by the first-line elements and the second-line elements to correspond to the first angle are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan-Hee Jeong, Youngbae Jung
  • Patent number: 11847983
    Abstract: An image display device is provided. The image display device includes a display unit and a backlight module. The display unit is used for displaying pictures in an image frame cycle. The backlight module includes a plurality of light sources of different colors. The image frame cycle is divided into a first interval, a second interval and a third interval in sequence, and the second interval is adjacent to the first interval. The backlight module provides a white light source with a first intensity in the first interval and provides a white light source with a second intensity in the second interval, and the second intensity is smaller than the first intensity. The backlight module is turned off in the third interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Jye Chen, Kuang-Hung Chien, Chia-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11847971
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device, comprising: a display panel in which a plurality of driving voltage feedback lines branched from a driving voltage line for supplying a driving voltage to a plurality of subpixels are disposed; a driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the plurality of subpixels and determining a deviation of a feedback driving voltage detected through the plurality of driving voltage feedback lines; and a timing controller for compensating for image data depending on positions at which the plurality of driving voltage feedback lines are branched in the display panel based on the deviation of the feedback driving voltage, and supplying a compensated image data to the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ri Yu, SangHyun Lim, Myoungjae Kang, Bonghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11776447
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels including first, second, and third subpixels disposed in a region where a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction intersect. The display device further includes a gate driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines, a data driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit. In the display panel, a first data voltage is applied to the first subpixel, and a second data voltage is applied to the second subpixels or the third subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jihun Kim
  • Patent number: 11763721
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a driving back plate and a pixel layer disposed on a side of the driving back plate. The pixel layer includes a plurality of pixels, and the pixel includes m color sub-pixels for emitting color light and k white sub-pixels for emitting white light, wherein m and k are both integers greater than 1. The k white sub-pixels are configured to adjust the luminance of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Yunnan Invensight Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qian Wu, Pengcheng Lu, Zhijian Zhu, Chenyu Chen, Yunlong Li, Dongsheng Li, Wei Liu, Longfei Fan, Rongfei Chen, Dacheng Zhang, Yuanlan Tian
  • Patent number: 11755134
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display area including first pixels, driving electrodes, and sensing electrodes. A second display area includes second pixels, sub-driving electrodes, and sub-sensing electrodes. Auxiliary electrodes are between the first and second display areas. A number of first pixels per unit area of the first display area is greater than a number of second pixels per unit area of the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Lyong Bok, Ki Cheol Kim, Ok Kyung Park
  • Patent number: 11741911
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel with unit-pixels disposed thereon, each of the unit-pixels being formed of a plurality of pixels; a data driver applying data voltage to the plurality of pixels during a display period and applying sensing data voltage to the plurality of pixels during a sensing period; a sensing unit sensing an electrical characteristic of the plurality of pixels during the sensing period; and an external compensation unit compensating for the data voltage based on a result of the sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myungjin Pyeon
  • Patent number: 11735123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device, comprising: a display panel including a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current to the light emitting element, and a plurality of switching transistors configured to control an operation of the driving transistor; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel; a data driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of data voltages to the display panel; and a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, wherein a bias voltage is supplied to the driving transistor in a first period in which the data voltage is supplied to the display panel at a low speed mode which the display panel is driven at a low speed driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaemin Kim, Subin Park, Bonghwan Kim, Won-Seok Song
  • Patent number: 11721293
    Abstract: Provided a source driver integrated circuit (IC) and a display driving device eliminating an existing input pad and internal wiring of a source driver integrated circuit (IC) for receiving a sensing reference voltage from an external voltage source by allowing the sensing reference voltage for initializing pixels during sensing of the pixels to be generated by an internal voltage source, rather than the external voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Ji, Ho Sung Hong, Ye Ji Lee, Jung Bae Yun
  • Patent number: 11710453
    Abstract: A pixel circuit including an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor configured to drive the organic light emitting diode, a second transistor electrically connected between a gate node of the first transistor and a data line, a third transistor electrically connected between a source node of the first transistor and an initialization voltage line and a storage capacitor electrically connected between the gate node and the source node of the first transistor. In a data writing period in which the storage capacitor is charged with electric charges, a turn-off time of the third transistor lags compared to a turn-off time of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Lee, Boyong Chung, Jonghee Kim
  • Patent number: 11705075
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a first memory, and a degradation compensator. The first memory device stores stress data including degradation values representing a degradation degree of each of the blocks in the display panel. The degradation compensator loads the stress data from the first memory device, updates the stress data based on current input data and a maximum degradation value, updates the maximum degradation value based on degradation values included in the updated stress data, and generate compensated data by compensating for the current input data based on the updated stress data. The degradation compensator determines whether a first degradation value included in the stress data is normal by comparing the first degradation value with the maximum degradation value, and updates the first degradation value based on at least one adjacent degradation value adjacent to the first degradation value, when the first degradation value is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Soo Sohn, Jong Man Kim, Bong Gyun Kang, Jae Woo Ryu, Sung Mo Yang
  • Patent number: 11699402
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a display device and a data driving circuit. The display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of subpixels and a plurality of data lines electrically connected with the plurality of subpixels and a data driving circuit outputting a data voltage to the plurality of data lines, wherein the data driving circuit outputs the data voltage for image display to the plurality of data lines during an active period and outputs a step voltage to stepwise decrease a level of the data voltage to a preset target voltage level or stepwise increase the level of the data voltage from the target voltage level during a blank period different from the active period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hogeun Koo, Hong Soon Kim, Chan Park
  • Patent number: 11699398
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device includes a pixel configured to display an image based on a difference between a display data voltage and a first reference voltage, a driving voltage generation circuit configured to supply the display data voltage to the pixel through a data line, and a sensing circuit configured to supply the first reference voltage to the pixel through a sensing line. The sensing circuit includes a sensing channel terminal coupled to the sensing line, a switch coupled between the sensing channel terminal and an input terminal for the first reference voltage, and a sampling circuit configured to sense a voltage of the sensing line which has changed from the first reference voltage independent of driving characteristics of the pixel in a vertical blank period in which the switch is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Hyun Hong, Seong En Lee, Jung Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11694636
    Abstract: A sensing circuit includes a first input selecting circuit connected to a first sensing line and a second sensing line, a first path setting circuit that sets a path of a first sensing signal received from the first sensing line or a path of a second sensing signal received from the second sensing line, a second path setting circuit that sets a path of a sensing reference voltage, a first switch matrix connected to the first path setting circuit and the second path setting circuit, a first mode setting circuit connected to a first output terminal of the first switch matrix, a first common sensing amplifier connected to the first mode setting circuit, a second mode setting circuit connected to a second output terminal of the first switch matrix, and a second common sensing amplifier connected to the second mode setting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Kim, Wook Lee, Hayong Jung
  • Patent number: 11696468
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display element configured to emit light; a first refractive layer on the display element and having an opening corresponding to the display element; a light extraction pattern located inside the opening of the first refractive layer; and a second refractive layer on the first refractive layer, the second refractive layer covering the first refractive layer and the light extraction pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiwook An, Soonil Jung, Sanghyun Choi