Patents Examined by Gerald Johnson
  • Patent number: 11533580
    Abstract: A method includes determining a device location of an electronic device, and obtaining a content item to be output for display by the electronic device based on the device location, wherein the content item comprises coarse content location information and fine content location information. The method also includes determining an anchor in a physical environment based on the content item, determining a content position and a content orientation for the content item relative to the anchor based on the fine content location information, and displaying a representation of the content item using the electronic device using the content position and the content orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David W. Padgett, Christopher D. Fu, Scott G. Wade, Paul Ewers, Ioana Negoita, Thomas G. Salter, Dhruv Aditya Govil, Dimitris Ladopoulos
  • Patent number: 11521529
    Abstract: An electrostatic ignition protection method of a source driver of a display device and a display device are provided. When a time controller detects that a source driver has static electricity, the time controller controls the source driver not to output a driving signal for a preset duration and the preset duration is greater than an ignition threshold duration. This prevents the source driver having static electricity from accumulating enough heat in a short time to burn and fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangxing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11521561
    Abstract: A display device includes: scan, control, and emission control signal lines, signals transmitted thereby being different from one another; data and driving voltage lines; a first transistor including a first gate electrode and first source and drain; a second transistor including a second gate electrode connected to a first scan line, a second source connected to a first data line, and a second drain connected to the first source; a light-emitting element; a control transistor including a control gate electrode connected to a first control line and between the driving voltage line and the first source or the light-emitting element and the first drain; and an emission control transistor in series between the light-emitting element and the control transistor, the control transistor and the first transistor, or the driving voltage line and the control transistor, and an emission control gate electrode connected to the emission control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Kim, Chul Kyu Kang, Hyun-Chol Bang, Soo Hee Oh, Dong Sun Lee
  • Patent number: 11514832
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gamma reference voltage generator and a data driver. The gamma reference voltage generator is configured to generate a gamma reference voltage. The gamma reference voltage includes a gamma amplifier configured to output the gamma reference voltage. The data driver is configured to generate a data voltage based on the gamma reference voltage and to output the data voltage to the display panel. A polarity of an offset voltage of the gamma amplifier is inverted alternately in a unit of one frame and in a unit of two frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sooyeon Kim, Taegon Im, Jihyun Kim, Jiye Lee
  • Patent number: 11508279
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a method for driving a display device. It is possible to reduce deterioration of the transistor controlled by a first QB node and a second QB node by alternately driving the first QB node and the second QB node of a gate circuit. In addition, by sensing a deterioration deviation between a transistor controlled by the first QB node and a transistor controlled by the second QB node and adjusting a driving period of the first QB node and a driving period of the second QB node based on the sensing result, it is possible to maximize or at least increase the lifetime of the transistor controlled by the first QB node and the transistor controlled by the second QB node, thereby improving the reliability of the gate circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juwon Kim, MooKyoung Hong
  • Patent number: 11501733
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of transferring bulk data, such as OLED compensation mask data, generated by a source device to a sink device using a high-bandwidth embedded DisplayPort (eDP) connection contemporaneous with an ENABLED Panel Self-Refresh (PSR) mode. Upon ENABLING the PSR mode, the source control circuitry causes the source transmitter circuitry, the sink receiver circuitry, and the eDP high-bandwidth communication link to remain active rather than inactive. The source control circuitry generates one or more data transport units (DTUs) having a header portion that contains data indicative of the presence of a bulk data payload and the non-display status of the bulk data payload carried by the DTUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Ajit Joshi, Ravi Ranganathan, Perazhi Sameer Kalathil, Jun Jiang, Geethacharan Rajagopalan, Nandini Mahendran, Gary Smith
  • Patent number: 11501678
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display panel displaying an image including a moving image and a static image; a controller generating first image data to the first area in a first arrangement type, and generating second image data to the second area in a second arrangement type; a scan driver sequentially supplying scan signals to all of pixel rows of the first area during a first period of a first frame and sequentially supplying scan signals to a part of pixel rows of the second area exclusively during a second period of the first frame; and a data driver supplying data signals corresponding to the first image data to data lines during the first period, and supplying data signals corresponding to the second image data to the data lines during the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ji Youn Kim, Hong Soo Kim, Se Hyuk Park, Jun Heyung Jung, Man Seung Cho
  • Patent number: 11495156
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel and a driving chip. The display panel includes at least a first display area and a second display area arranged side by side along a first direction. In the present application, by controlling any two adjacent display areas to scan toward each other or to scan away from each other, at least one scanning lines in the first display area and at least one scanning lines in the second display area simultaneously receive driving signals input from the driving chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenlin Mei, Xingyi Liu, Sikun Hao
  • Patent number: 11495158
    Abstract: A splicing display device, including a control board, a first panel, and a second panel, is provided. The control board includes an output terminal. The first panel and the second panel are disposed in a same column. The first panel is coupled to the output terminal. The first panel includes a first gate driving unit, a first signal line, a first bypass line, and a second bypass line. The second panel is coupled to the first panel. The second panel includes a second gate driving unit. The control board provides a first signal and a second signal to the first panel through the output terminal. The first signal is transmitted to the first gate driving unit through the first signal line and is transmitted to the second panel through the first bypass line. The second signal is transmitted to the second gate driving unit through the second bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Feng, Yu-Tse Lu, Ming-Chi Weng, Chin-Tai Hsu
  • Patent number: 11489957
    Abstract: In an electronic device and a method for operation of the electronic device according to various embodiments, the electronic device may comprise: a communication module for transmitting/receiving data to or from an external electronic device; a display; a memory in which to store commands to execute on the external electronic device a function mapped onto a user input and state information of the external electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: control the communication module to establish a connection to the external electronic device; receive first state information of the external electronic device from the external electronic device; receive a first user input to a certain area of the display; select a first command corresponding to characteristics of the first user input and the first state information from the commands stored in the memory; and control the external electronic device such that a function corresponding to the first command is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seungyup Lee
  • Patent number: 11475809
    Abstract: A driving circuit for a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes a plurality of driving units, wherein at least one of the driving units includes M dummy pins, at least one of the M dummy pins is configured to be electrically connected to at least one clock pin of the display panel, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BQE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingqing Yang, Wenkai Mu, Shijun Wang, Wenjun Xiao, Ji Dong, Tianxin Zhao, Bo Feng, Xiaoxiao Chen, Zhiying Bao, Haoliang Ji, Hao Xu, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 11471052
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and devices, for the wireless communication of analyte data are provided. In some embodiments, a method and calibration station for calibrating a continuous analyte sensor system is provided. Methods and testing systems for testing a continuous analyte sensor system is provided. Continuous analyte sensor systems, display devices and peripheral devices configured for wireless communication of analyte, connection, alarm and/or alert data and associated methods are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Patrick Van Tassel, John Francis Loughlin, Sean S. Nihalani, James Stephen Amidei, Stephen Alan Reichert, Sebastian Bohm, Krishna Prashant Daita, Brian Christopher Smith, Michael A. Ploof, Benjamin Elrod West, Mark S. Dervaes, Vincent P. Crabtree, William A. Pender, Douglas William Burnette
  • Patent number: 11455928
    Abstract: A pixel structure, a driving method and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in rows, a plurality of data lines arranged in columns, and a plurality of subpixel circuits arranged in an array form. Each subpixel circuit includes a subpixel and a switching element, the subpixel is electrically connected to one of the data lines via the switching element, a control electrode of the switching element is electrically connected to one of the gate lines, and the subpixels electrically connected to the same data line are in a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianshu Wang, Chunyu Li, Bo Hu
  • Patent number: 11450255
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of blocks. The block includes a plurality of first-gate lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of second-gate lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The first-gate lines are connected to corresponding second-gate lines one-to-one in the block. The second-gate lines disposed in a first area of the block are connected to odd numbered first-gate lines among the plurality of first-gate lines one-to-one. The second-gate lines disposed in a second area of the block are connected to even numbered first-gate lines among the plurality of first-gate lines one-to-one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Geunho Lee, Yonghee Lee
  • Patent number: 11450257
    Abstract: An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area including a plurality of pixel lines and a non-display area including a gate driving circuit supplying a gate signal to the plurality of pixel lines, and each of the plurality of pixel lines includes a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels includes a pixel driving circuit and a light emitting device, each of the pixel driving circuit and the gate driving circuit is implemented with a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor, and the gate driving circuit supplies a gate signal to the n-type transistor of the pixel driving circuit, so that a stably output can be provided, and the non-display area of the display panel can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Seok Park, Sung Jin Lee, Jae Yong You
  • Patent number: 11450266
    Abstract: A luminance control unit includes: a driving power voltage setting unit configured to determine a driving power voltage to be provided to a display panel, the driving power voltage corresponding to a target brightness, based on a plurality of driving power voltages respectively corresponding to a plurality of reference brightnesses of the display panel; and a gamma voltage setting unit configured to determine a target luminance corresponding to the target brightness, based on a plurality of target luminances respectively corresponding to the plurality of reference brightnesses, and to set gamma voltages for implementing the target luminance, wherein the driving power voltage and the gamma voltages are differently set with respect to the same reference brightness according to an ambient illumination intensity of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Sung Kook Kim
  • Patent number: 11443672
    Abstract: A data driver includes a digital to analog converter, a buffer and a buffer controller. The digital to analog converter is configured to receive a data signal having a digital type and to convert the data signal into a data voltage having an analog type. The buffer is configured to buffer the data voltage and to output the data voltage. The buffer controller is configured to determine a parameter of the buffer based on previous line data of the data signal and present line data of the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Young-Soo Hwang, Joon-Chul Goh, Ohjo Kwon, Jeongmin Kim, Bonghyun You, Hyung-Min Lee, Seung Hun Choi
  • Patent number: 11430362
    Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display panel that includes a light-emitting unit and that displays image data, the display control device comprises a light-emission control unit that controls a light-emission timing of the light-emitting unit; and an image-data update control unit that controls an update timing of the image data independently from the control of the light-emission timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11423819
    Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to receive first subpixel data for a first scan line of a display panel. The display panel includes a first region with a first pixel layout and a second region with a second pixel layout different from the first pixel layout. The image processing circuitry is further configured to determine an overshoot amount based, at least in part, on the first subpixel data and region indication data and generate resulting voltage data using the overshoot amount. The region indication data indicates whether the resulting voltage data is for the first region or for the second region. The drive circuitry is configured to drive the display panel based, at least in part, on the resulting voltage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Masao Orio
  • Patent number: 11398175
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driver and a gate driving circuit. The display panel includes pixels, data lines, and gate lines. The data driver applies data voltages to the data lines. The data driver includes dummy stages. The gate driving circuit applies gate signals to the gate lines, and is disposed between opening portions in a display area of the display panel. The gate driving circuit includes normal stages that output the gate signals to the gate lines. The dummy stages output a reset signal to at least one of the normal stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Beomjun Kim, Sang Seop Kum