Patents Examined by Dong Hui Liang
  • Patent number: 11694623
    Abstract: A display device may include a display unit, a signal controller, and a sensing unit. The display unit may include pixels. The signal controller may select a first pixel set from the pixel according to ages of the pixels determined based on an image signal. The sensing unit may be electrically connected to each of the display unit and the signal controller and may sense deterioration information of one or more pixels included in the first pixel set for a vertical blank period in which the display unit displays no image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
  • Patent number: 11688349
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a first output part, a second output part, a power supply circuit connected to input terminals of the first output part and the second output part, a first sensing part connected to an output terminal of the first output part, a second sensing part connected to an output terminal of the second output part, a first voltage output terminal connected to the first sensing part and the second sensing part, a plurality of pixels connected to the first voltage output terminal and configured to display an image, and a defect determination part controlling shutdown of the power supply circuit by comparing a first sensing value and a second sensing value, which are received from the first sensing part and the second sensing part, with a first reference value and a second reference value having a level lower than the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Yoon, Yong-Ju Jeong, Daeho Hwang
  • Patent number: 11682354
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a first source circuit board, a second source circuit board, and a control circuit board. The first source circuit board is configured to output a first feedback voltage corresponding to a first driving voltage. The second source circuit board is configured to output a second feedback voltage corresponding to the second driving voltage. The control circuit board is configured to supply the first and second driving voltages to the first and second source circuit boards, respectively, and receive the first and second feedback voltages from the first and second source circuit boards, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Hyunjoo Seo
  • Patent number: 11683960
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a thin film transistor disposed in a display area of a substrate and a display device in the display area that is electrically connected to the thin film transistor, an encapsulation layer that protects the display device, at least one through portion formed in the display area that vertically penetrates the substrate and a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate, and a first groove and a second groove that are spaced apart from each other and that surround the at least one through portion. A flow-restriction portion is disposed in a region between the first groove and the second groove that protrudes upwards from the substrate and confines an organic encapsulation layer of the encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoungsub Lee, Wooyong Sung, Junghan Seo
  • Patent number: 11670235
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a display device including the same. The pixel circuit includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node; a first switch element including a first electrode connected to a fourth node, a gate electrode to which a scan pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to the first node, and configured to be turned on according to a gate-on voltage of the scan pulse while a threshold voltage of the driving element is sensed; and a first capacitor connected between the second node and the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ho Heo, Dong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11657769
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device includes a display panel including pixels, a storage circuit, a luminance compensation circuit and a data driver. The storage circuit stores information on a leakage curve indicating a luminance change value of a target pixel according to a change of an input pixel value of a neighboring pixel, the plurality of pixels including the target pixel and the neighboring pixel. The luminance compensation circuit receives input pixel values corresponding to the pixels and generates compensated pixel values respectively corresponding to the pixels by compensating for lateral leakage based on the leakage curve, where the lateral leakage is caused by leakage currents through a common conduction layer of the pixels. The data driver drives the pixels based on the compensated pixel values. The exact (or close) luminance of the input image is realized by compensating for the luminance distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoungyoon Jang, Sewhan Na, Jonghee Na, Yonghoon Yu, Hyunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11651742
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes an organic light emitting element emitting light, a driving transistor configured to control a driving current supplied to the organic light emitting element, a first switch transistor configured to transfer a voltage input through a data line to a first node of the driving transistor, a second switch transistor turned on/off simultaneously with the first switch transistor to connect a second node of the driving transistor and a sensing line, a sensing capacitor connected to the sensing line to store a sensing voltage during an organic light emitting element threshold voltage sensing period, and a first switch configured to disconnect the sensing capacitor from the sensing line during a period in which sensing data for sensing a threshold voltage of the organic light emitting element is input to the data line and to connect the sensing capacitor to the sensing line during the organic light emitting element threshold voltage sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheol Su Lee, Dong Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11631373
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display panel includes steps of: detecting a plurality of lines of display data to generate a detection result; determining whether to apply a general timing or a compensation timing to each of the lines of display data according to the detection result; allocating a first display line period for a first line of display data determined to be applied with the general timing; outputting at least one control signal to the display panel in the first display line period according to a length of the first display line period; allocating a second display line period for a second line of display data determined to be applied with the compensation timing; and outputting the at least one control signal to the display panel in the second display line period according to a length of the second display line period different from the first display line period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Hsiang Chen, Che-Ching Chang, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 11620958
    Abstract: A display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a time schedule controller. The display panel is configured to display images. Areas where afterimages of dynamic images occur are identified according to comparison results of dither values. Tailing phenomenon of the dynamic images may be relieved by transmitting backlight data without brightness to a second backlight sub-area corresponding to where the afterimages occur. Furthermore, because frequency multiplication is not applied, risks of display instability will not increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Li, Yu Wu, Xiong Hu, Haoran Li, Tao He, Guangxing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11605345
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region including pixel circuits, and a driver for outputting a control signal to the pixel circuits. The display region includes a first region and a second region having a lower pixel circuit density than the first region. The driver includes output buffers. Each of the output buffers simultaneously outputs the control signal to the pixel circuits. The output buffers include a first output buffer and a second output buffer. The number of the pixel circuits as output destinations of the control signal of the first output buffer is larger than the number of the pixel circuits as output destinations of the control signal of the second output buffer. A channel width of a drive transistor of the first output buffer is larger than that of a drive transistor of the second output buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 11600230
    Abstract: A display substrate, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a first display sub-region including a plurality of first repeating regions each including a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit disposed adjacently, the first pixel unit including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and the second pixel unit including a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; and a second display sub-region including a plurality of second repeating regions each including a third pixel unit and a first transparent pixel, the third pixel unit including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; the first transparent pixel is configured such that a pixel density of the second display sub-region is less than a pixel density of the first display sub-region, and a light transmittance of the second display sub-region is greater than a light transmittance of the first display sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanyan Wang, Lujiang Huangfu, Wenjing Tan
  • Patent number: 11600228
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels electrically connected to first scan lines, second scan lines, and emission lines, a first scan driver that applies first scan signals to the first scan lines, a second scan driver that applies second scan signals to the second scan lines, an emission control driver that applies emission signals to the emission lines, and a power supply that generates and outputs a first high voltage and a second high voltage. The second scan driver receives the first high voltage. The first scan driver and the emission control driver share the second high voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Su Na, Yang Wan Kim, Jung Hun Yi, Min Woo Byun
  • Patent number: 11594173
    Abstract: An architecture and method of operation is described for a modular display utilizing wireless mesh networked individual display modules. A controller acts as a master node in the mesh network and sends image data to each individual display module. Each display module acts as a node in the mesh network, asynchronously processes received image data into a memory buffer, and periodically updates the display output to maintain a seamless display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen David Rycyna, III, Roshan Barua, Christian Knight
  • Patent number: 11592951
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image on a first surface thereof, a digitizer layer disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the display panel and including first electrode patterns configured to generate a magnetic field and second electrode patterns configured to generate a magnetic field, a shield member disposed on a first surface of the digitizer layer, and a rigid member between the display panel and the shield member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Da Som Gu, Yong Hyuck Lee, Chul Ho Jeong, Hyun Jun Cho, Soh Ra Han, Hyun Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11579736
    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: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan-Hee Jeong, Youngbae Jung
  • Patent number: 11573603
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Tseng-Mau Yang, Dale N. Memering
  • Patent number: 11568826
    Abstract: An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a pixel including a driving element generating a driving current, a data line connected to the pixel to transfer a data voltage needed for generating the driving current, a reference voltage line connected to the pixel to transfer a first reference voltage and/or a second reference voltage needed for generating the driving current, and a driving & sensing circuit configured to perform an integral on the driving current input through the reference voltage line, output an integral result to the data line, decrease a voltage of the data line from the data voltage to an off voltage for turning off the driving element, and detect an off voltage of the driving element from the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Su Choi, Myung Gi Lim, Kyung Hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11568819
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a method for driving the same and a display panel are provided. In an embodiment, the pixel driving circuit includes: a driving circuit; a light-emitting circuit including a first electrode and a first reset circuit. In an embodiment, a working timing sequence of the pixel driving circuit includes working periods, one of which includes first and second light-emitting stages. In an embodiment, the first and second light-emitting stages each include a reset stage and a light-emitting stage, wherein, during the reset stage of the first light-emitting stage, the first reset circuit transmits a first reset voltage to the first electrode of the light-emitting circuit and during the reset stage of the second light-emitting stage, the first reset circuit transmits a modification reset voltage to the first electrode of the light-emitting circuit, the modification reset voltage being different from the first reset voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Jian Kuang, Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao, Mengmeng Zhang, Gaojun Huang
  • Patent number: 11557258
    Abstract: In an electroluminescence display apparatus and a driving method of an electroluminescence display apparatus, the electroluminescence display apparatus includes a pixel connected to a data line and a reference voltage line, the pixel including a driving element configured to generate a driving current based on a sensing data voltage supplied through the data line and a reference voltage supplied through the reference voltage line, and a level of the driving current being proportional to a level of the sensing data voltage, a comparison and tracking circuit configured to previously determine a target current range between a reference low current and a reference high current and change current tracking data for adjusting a level of the sensing data voltage until the driving current input through the reference voltage line is within the target current range, and a digital-to-analog converter configured to adjust a level of the sensing data voltage so as to be proportional to a size of the current tracking data a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Koo Kim, Tae Young Lee, Sang Goo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11551622
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a compensator, a controller, and a data driver. The compensator determines a degradation grayscale of a compensation region of the display panel. The degradation grayscale may be determined based on a driving time of at least one pixel in the compensation region and degradation data corresponding to the at least one pixel. The controller generates compensated image data for input image data based on the degradation grayscale. The data driver provides a data voltage to the at least one pixel based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokgyu Ban, Wook Lee, Jaehoon Shin