Patents Examined by Jennifer L Zubajlo
  • Patent number: 11837190
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; a source driver configured to output a grayscale voltage to the liquid crystal panel; a power supply configured to provide a voltage to the source driver; and a controller configured to control the power supply and the source driver to change a maximum voltage provided to the source driver and a grayscale voltage based on conversion of a screen mode, and to set a predetermined grayscale region and an over driving region within an entire grayscale region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinoh Kim
  • Patent number: 11816817
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining a plurality of view images; identifying a representative value from among difference values between values of a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a first position in the plurality of view images and an intermediate value of a bit range of a display; determining filtering strength corresponding to the representative value, based on a correspondence map indicating a correspondence relationship between filtering strength and a difference value between a value of a sub-pixel and the intermediate value; and applying a filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position, wherein a value resulting from applying the filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position is included in a range of sub-pixel values according to the bit range of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungmin Lim, Seunghyun Lee, Jaesung Lee, Sunil Lee
  • Patent number: 11783787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving device. The device includes a first voltage generation module, a voltage regulation module, a first switch module, a first capacitor module, a first transistor module, and a first light-emitting module. The first voltage generation module may be configured to generate a first voltage; the first switch module may be configured to output the first voltage to a first end of the first capacitor module over a first period; the voltage regulation module may be configured to determine a second voltage based on an amount of change in a voltage at the first end of the first capacitor module and to output the second voltage to the second end of the first capacitor module over a second period; and the first transistor module may be configured to drive the first light-emitting module to emit a light using voltage at the first end of the first capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Zongzhe Xie
  • Patent number: 11776468
    Abstract: An optoelectronic light emitting device includes a plurality of programmable pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each pixel including at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component, and programming device configured to program the pixels in a plurality of successive time intervals. A row pattern including a subset of the rows of the matrix is given. The programming device is configured to program the pixels of those rows per time interval which are comprised by the row pattern. The row pattern is shifted by at least one row per time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11749225
    Abstract: A unit circuit constituting each stage of a shift register serving as a gate driver of a display device charges an internal node to an H level via a transistor T2 when an output signal G(n?4) of a preceding stage turns to the H level and sets the internal node to an L level via a transistor T3 when an output signal G(n+8) of a succeeding stage turns to the H level. Each of the unit circuits of last eight stages in the gate driver is provided with a transistor T4 including a gate terminal to which the signal G(n?4) is applied and a drain terminal connected to the internal node. A signal is applied to a source terminal of the transistor T4, the signal being at the H level during a period when the internal node of any of the last eight stages is to be set to the H level, and being the L level during the other periods. This suppresses a voltage fluctuation generated in the internal node when a stabilization circuit does not normally function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yi-Cheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 11741873
    Abstract: To enable a better and more adjustable manner of HDR video display adaptation, applicants inventor contributed an image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus (500), comprising: a connection (501) to a comprised or connectable video decoder (207), which video decoder is arranged to receive an encoded high dynamic range image (Im_COD), which is encoded according to a first maximum codeable luminance (PB H), and which video decoder is arranged to receive metadata specifying at least one luma mapping function (F_ct; FL_50t1_1), which at least one luma mapping function specifies the offsets of luminances of a secondary image corresponding to the encoded high dynamic range image compared to the luminances of the same pixel positions as encoded in the encoded high dynamic range image, which secondary image has a second maximum codeable luminance (PB_S) which preferably is at least 4× smaller or larger than the first maximum codeable luminance (PB_H), and the video decoder being arranged to output a decoded high dynam
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Rutger Nijland
  • Patent number: 11727893
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11694610
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel having an active area including a plurality of subpixels, at least one hole area surrounded by the active area, a boundary area disposed between the at least one hole area and the active area, a first gate line on the active area and the boundary area, and supplying a scan signal to a first group subpixels, a second gate line disposed on the active area and the boundary area and supplying a EM signal to the first group subpixels, a first data line disposed on the active area and the boundary area and supplying a data voltage to a second group of subpixels excluding a green subpixel, and a second data line disposed on the active area and the boundary area and supplying the data voltage to a third group subpixels including a green subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junggyu Lee, JinHo Lim, Boeun Jo
  • Patent number: 11694615
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods for compensating for display OLED degradation. Correction factors k for OLED degradation of each sub-pixel is modelled and tracked based on grey level, temperature, and time, and used to correct image data provided to an OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Shuenn-Jiun Tang, Junhu He, Tong Liu, Gabriel Franklin Yano de Sousa
  • Patent number: 11694604
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a display wall comprising an arrangement of light-emissive elements and a controller, configured to receive camera data and to adjust a light emission profile of the arrangement of light-emissive elements based on the camera data. In some embodiments, the camera data may include camera location data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventor: Rhea Aylin Fischer
  • Patent number: 11676547
    Abstract: Provided is a display system with which visibility can be improved. The display system includes an imaging device, a control device, and a display device. The imaging device includes first pixels arranged in a matrix, and the display device includes second pixels arranged in a matrix. The imaging device has a function of generating first image data on the basis of the illuminance of light emitted to the first pixels. The control device has a function of forming a histogram on the basis of the first image data and dividing the histogram into two or more illuminance ranges. The control device has a function of converting the gray levels which are included in the first image data as information and correspond to the illuminance of the light emitted to the first pixels, thereby generating second image data obtained by performing dynamic range compression on the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Fukai, Takayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11670258
    Abstract: A method of luminance compensation includes; generating luminance compensation data based on test image data, each of the test image data corresponding to one gray level, and each of the luminance compensation data including compensation values corresponding to the one gray level, generating intra-plane data based on the luminance compensation data, one of the intra-plane data being generated based on one of the luminance compensation data, generating inter-plane stream data based on the intra-plane data, one of the inter-plane stream data being generated based on data blocks included in the intra-plane data and disposed at a same location within the intra-plane data, and sequentially storing the inter-plane stream data in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongki Kwon, Taewoo Kim, Jinyong Park, Hyunwook Lim, Woohyuk Jang, Hojun Chung
  • Patent number: 11668937
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying a first portion of a video, the first portion comprising a subset of the video that fits in a display area of a computing device. The systems and methods further detect movement of the computing device during playback of the first portion of the video, calculate a rotation of the display of the first portion of the video based on a direction of the movement, and cause the display of the first portion of the video to rotate relative to the direction of movement to display a second portion of the video, the second portion comprising a subset of the video that is associated with the direction of movement and that was at least partially not visible in the first portion of the video when displayed in the display area of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Alex Bamberger, Matthew Hanover, Nathan Litke, Michael Brian Murray
  • Patent number: 11657780
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11636804
    Abstract: A power supply unit adapts based on an image to be displayed by a display panel. The power supply unit includes a controller circuit for generating a control signal, and a converter circuit for generating an output supply voltage based on the control signal. The controller circuit includes a first look-up table (LUT) storing a set of lower limit values, and a second LUT storing a set of upper limit values. Moreover, the controller circuit includes a microcontroller for receiving an on-pixel-ratio (OPR) value and identifying an entry in the first LUT and the second LUT from the received OPR value. The controller circuit further includes an output circuit for generating the control signal between a first voltage corresponding to a lower limit stored in the identified entry in the first LUT and a second voltage corresponding to an upper limit stored in the identified entry in the second LUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Klement, Yuming Liu
  • Patent number: 11635891
    Abstract: The invention relates to an input device (6) for operating a multimedia device (4) depending on the position of a user's finger on a pressure plate (24) comprising: the pressure plate (24) which comprises a bottom side (50) and a top side (48) opposite the bottom side (50), on which the user can move their finger, a regular grid (15) made of tactile elements (26) which can be haptically sensed by the finger of the user and which are formed on the top side (48) of the pressure plate (24), and a sensor (62) arranged on the bottom side (50) of the pressure plate (24) which is set up to transmit a button selection signal (42) to the multimedia device (4) depending on the position of the finger on the top side (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: 11635801
    Abstract: This application relates to an information output apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a casing including an expression surface and an expression hole formed in the expression surface. The apparatus also includes a protrusion provided to reciprocate such that at least a part thereof protrudes out of the expression hole and information is expressed on the expression surface. The apparatus also includes a driving module located inside the casing and connected to the protrusion to move the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DOT INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Ju Yoon Kim, Ji Ho Kim, Hyeon Cheol Park
  • Patent number: 11630570
    Abstract: A spatial position indication system includes an electronic pen, an indicated position detecting circuit, a spatial position detecting circuit, and a selecting circuit. The indicated position detecting circuit detects a position of the electronic pen at an input surface or a hover region over the input surface. The spatial position detecting circuit detects the position of the electronic pen in a spatial region including at least a part of the hover region separately from and independently of the indicated position detecting device circuit. Based on output from the indicated position detecting circuit and the spatial position detecting circuit, the selecting circuit performs selection control so as to use output from the indicated position detecting circuit or the spatial position detecting circuit according to a separation distance of the electronic pen from the input surface when a drawing image to be displayed on a display device is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kumami, Koji Yoshida, Hiroshi Tamano, Hiroshi Munakata, Yuanhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11624923
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying a first portion of a video, the first portion comprising a subset of the video that fits in a display area of a computing device. The systems and methods further detect movement of the computing device during playback of the first portion of the video, calculate a rotation of the display of the first portion of the video based on a direction of the movement, and cause the display of the first portion of the video to rotate relative to the direction of movement to display a second portion of the video, the second portion comprising a subset of the video that is associated with the direction of movement and that was at least partially not visible in the first portion of the video when displayed in the display area of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Alex Bamberger, Matthew Hanover, Nathan Litke, Michael Brian Murray
  • Patent number: 11615761
    Abstract: A calibration method for splicing displays including initializing a plurality of displays, obtaining the gamuts of the displays, setting a display with the smallest gamut among the displays as the reference display, adjusting the color temperature, brightness and six-axis hue and saturation of the reference display respectively to a reference color temperature, a reference brightness and reference RGB coordinates, and adjusting the displays according to the reference color temperature, the reference brightness and the reference RGB coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: BenQ Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Ting Tsai, Yi-Ho Bai