Patents Examined by Kirk W Hermann
  • Patent number: 11574594
    Abstract: A display panel of an OLED display device includes a first pixel configured to emit first color light, a second pixel configured to emit second color light, and a third pixel configured to emit third color light. Each of the first, second and third pixels includes at least two transistors, at least one capacitor and an organic light emitting diode. At least one of at least two transistors or at least one capacitor included in the third pixel has a size different from a size of a corresponding one at least two transistors or at least one capacitor included in the first pixel or the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ji-Hyun Ka, Nackhyeon Keum, Kimyeong Eom
  • Patent number: 11556186
    Abstract: A backlight control system includes a keyboard device and a computing device. The keyboard device includes a fixed light sheet, at least one movable light sheet, a light guide module and a key module. The computing device includes a processing unit. The movable light sheet is detachably and electrically connected with the fixed circuit board. The fixed light sheet projects a first light beam to plural keys of the key module through the light guide module. In a special scenario mode, the processing unit drives the movable light sheet to project a second light beam to at least one special key of the key module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Hui-Ling Lin
  • Patent number: 11527188
    Abstract: A display device may include a module housing accommodating a display panel pulled up and down, a moving plate accommodated in the module housing and pulled up and down with the display panel, a driving member pulling up and down the moving plate and the display panel, and a fixed plate coupled to an inside of the module housing and to which the driving member is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SeungWon Seol, JongYoung Park, Hyojin Jung
  • Patent number: 11521550
    Abstract: A data current generation circuit includes a data voltage generation circuit, a data voltage transmission control circuit, a compensation control circuit, a first capacitor, a first transistor and a reference voltage writing circuit. The data voltage transmission control circuit transmits a data voltage from the data voltage generation circuit to a first electrode of the first transistor; the compensation control circuit is electrically connected to a gate and a second electrode of the first transistor separately and associates a threshold voltage of the first transistor with the gate of the first transistor; the first capacitor stores a voltage of the gate of the first transistor; the reference voltage writing circuit is electrically connected to the first electrode of the first transistor and a first reference voltage output terminal separately; and the second electrode of the first transistor serves as an output of the data current generation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SEEYA OPTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping-lin Liu, Haodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11513001
    Abstract: A module comprises a display element, a first polarizing element, a light sensor, a transparent layer, and a second polarizing element. The display element emits a display light source. The first polarizing element covers the display element, and blocks a first phase portion of the display light source and allows a second phase portion of the display light source to penetrate. The transparent layer covers the first polarizing element. The light sensor is disposed on one side of the display element or the first polarizing element. The second polarizing element is disposed between the light sensor and the transparent layer and blocks a second phase portion of the display light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Feng-Jung Hsu, Tsung-Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 11500468
    Abstract: An extended reality apparatus kit has an extended reality headset configured to provide an extended reality experience for a user. The extended reality headset has a display device adapted to be worn on a head of the user. Furthermore, the headset processor is in operable communication with the display device. The headset processor generates virtual data for the extended reality experience. Additionally, the extended reality apparatus kit has a removable smart insole that is adapted for positioning within a plurality of distinct footwear apparatuses. The removable smart insole has one or more sensory feedback devices, one or more motion-based sensors, a transmitter, a receiver, and a smart insole processor. The receiver is configured to directly receive extended reality data associated with the extended reality experience from the extended reality headset in at least substantially real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Zero Point Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Yasha Gruben, Maral Kalinian
  • Patent number: 11501725
    Abstract: An e-paper display device, including a driver circuit. The driver circuit is coupled to the e-paper display panel and drives the e-paper display panel to display one or more line segments, which include a current display line segment and a target display line segment. During a frame period, the driver circuit pre-drives a display area to display a first color according to the current display line segment. At least part of the target display line segment is located in the display area. During a next frame period, the driver circuit drives a part of the display area excluding the target display line segment to display a second color and a part of the display area including the target display line segment to display the first color according to the target display line segment. A method for driving an e-paper display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lung Cheng, Shu-Cheng Liu, Pei-Lin Tien, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Patent number: 11501729
    Abstract: A source driver includes a data latch unit that outputs acquired pixel data, a gradation voltage conversion unit that acquires the pixel data outputted from the data latch unit and converts the pixel data to gradation voltages, an output unit that amplifies and outputs the gradation voltages to source lines, and a timing control unit that controls the timing of the output of the pixel data from the data latch unit. The timing control unit performs control such that the longer a source line is from a source driver to a pixel column, the smaller the timing difference is between acquisition of the pixel data by the data latch unit and the output of the pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Taniguchi, Hiroshi Tsuchi, Takashi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11495170
    Abstract: A display panel including an LED device and a method including: forming a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs); and forming a plurality of partition walls that divide light-emitting regions by each of the plurality of LEDs, wherein the forming the plurality of LEDs includes: etching a growth substrate to form a plurality of LEDs and forming a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of depressions on the growth substrate; and forming a reflector layer on a surface of the plurality of protrusions and a surface of the plurality of depressions, and wherein the forming the plurality of partition walls includes removing a part of the growth substrate so that the plurality of partition walls are formed based on the plurality of protrusions, and a space between the plurality of partition walls is formed based on the plurality of depressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myunghee Kim, Jenghun Suh, Jaephil Shim, Jihoon Kang, Jitsuo Ota
  • Patent number: 11468856
    Abstract: A driving method is configured to drive a display device, and the display device includes a display array and a light valve array. The display array includes rows of sub-pixels, the light valve array includes a plurality of sub light valves, a respective one sub light valve of the plurality of sub light valves corresponds to at least one row of sub-pixels, and the light valve array is on a light-emitting side of the display array. The driving method includes: any sub-pixel in the at least one row of sub-pixels being in a response phase of a display operation, the respective one sub light valve being in a light-shielding state, and the respective one sub light valve corresponding to the at least one row of sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Lili Chen, Hao Zhang, Jinghua Miao, Yukun Sun, Xuefeng Wang, Lixin Wang, Xi Li, Jianwen Suo, Ruifeng Qin, Ziqiang Guo, Guixin Yan
  • Patent number: 11462372
    Abstract: An illuminated keyboard includes a light-emitting diode light string, a controller, a feedback line and a plurality of keys. The light-emitting diode light string includes a plurality of light-emitting diode modules which are connected in series through a serial connection wire. Each light-emitting diode module includes a light-emitting diode chip and a drive circuit. The controller is electrically connected with the light-emitting diode light string. The feedback line is electrically connected between the light-emitting diode modules and the controller. The keys correspond to the light-emitting diode modules and are electrically connected with the feedback line. Each light-emitting diode module emits light according to a received light-emitting signal and outputs a feedback signal. When at least one of the keys is switched to a pressing state, the feedback signal is pulled from a first level to a second level for the controller to differentiate the key in the pressing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ANAPEX TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Tsung-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11460357
    Abstract: An inductive force sensor includes a reference resonance circuit, a first resonance circuit, and a determination circuit configured to obtain information about a first resonant frequency, attributable to first inductance due to an inductive coil based on the displacement between a target and the inductive coil formed by an external force input in a Z-axis direction, and a reference resonant frequency. The determination circuit determines the displacement of the target and the external force in the Z-axis direction based on the first resonant frequency and the reference resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Damoatech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hu Min Jung
  • Patent number: 11443665
    Abstract: A switching circuit is signally-connected to an initial trigger signal, a detection circuit and the GOA circuit. Upon a low voltage level of a low potential signal, the switching circuit is turned on to transmit the initial trigger signal to the GOA circuit so that the LCD panel works normally. Upon a high voltage level of the low potential signal, the switching circuit is turned off so that the GOA circuit does not conduct the initial trigger signal to protect the LCD panel from burn-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 11443666
    Abstract: A drive circuit for adjusting a voltage required for aging detection using a feedback circuit comprises a drive chip (100), a detection signal generation circuit (200), and a feedback circuit (300). The drive chip (100) is configured to output a working voltage. The detection signal generation circuit (200) is configured to generate a detection control signal for aging detection according to a received trigger signal. The feedback circuit (300) is configured to receive the detection control signal output by the detection signal generation circuit (200) and the working voltage provided by the drive chip (100) and to generate a feedback voltage according to the detection control signal and the working voltage and output the feedback voltage to the drive chip (100), such that the drive chip (100) adjusts, according to the feedback voltage, the working voltage to a voltage required for aging detection. A display panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11435849
    Abstract: A touch-controlled display panel comprising: a display screen comprising a displaying region and a non-displaying region surrounding the displaying region; first touch-control electrodes and first touch-control lead wires provided on one side of the display screen, wherein the first touch-control electrodes are insulated and separated from each other and are individually connected to different first touch-control lead wires, and orthographic projections of the first touch-control electrodes and the first touch-control lead wires on the display screen are located within the non-displaying region, and are adjacent to an edge of the display screen; and a driving module connected to all of the first touch-control lead wires and configured for, in response to a touch-and-sliding operation on the touch-controlled display panel by a finger, detecting variations of capacitances corresponding to the first touch-control electrodes and, according to the variations, determining a touch-and-sliding direction and a touch-a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixiang Yi, Hongqiang Luo, Kwang Gyun Jang, Feng Xiao, Guiyu Zhang, Mingqiang Wang, Xiaoxia Liu
  • Patent number: 11429196
    Abstract: A keyboard includes a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to cause the processing resource to communicate, in response to the keyboard being in a computing device input mode, with a computing device connected to the keyboard, and communicate, in response to the keyboard being in a mobile device input mode, with a mobile device connected to the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony Kaplanis, John W. Frederick, Alexander Williams
  • Patent number: 11393400
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a reset sub-circuit configured to be turned on in response to a control signal, and transmit a reference voltage to a first node to reset a voltage of the first node; an input sub-circuit configured to transmit a data signal to a second node in response to a gate scan signal; a driving sub-circuit configured to be turned on or off in response to a voltage of the first node, write the data signal and a compensation signal into a third node, and output a driving signal according to the voltage of the first node; a compensation sub-circuit configured to transmit the data signal and the compensation signal to a fourth node in response to the gate scan signal; and a voltage control sub-circuit configured to control the voltage of the first node according to a voltage of the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: MIANYANG BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Cao, Yawei Zhu, Heungsik Kim, Jing Hu, Zifeng Wang, Haifeng Xu, Haoyuan Fan
  • Patent number: 11373565
    Abstract: A non-display area is disposed around a display area, a test circuit of non-display area comprises a plurality of signal lines disposed in parallel along a first direction, a plurality of switch groups are disposed in a same row along a second direction, a connecting signal line and a plurality of transmission line groups, the display area comprises a plurality of pixel groups disposed in parallel along the second direction, the second direction and the first direction are perpendicular to each other, and each of switch groups comprises a first switch and a second switch disposed in the same row along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaohui Nie
  • Patent number: 11373625
    Abstract: Passive display devices such as a passive magnifying device (e.g., a screen magnifier) or a projector (e.g., a built-in mobile phone projector) are useful in enlarging photos, documents, videos, etc. for view for small-sized small-screen device screens. However, optimal content resolution for the small-screen device screens may not be optimal for the passive display devices. Particularly, when a small-screen device receives content from a remote computing device, the initial content resolution may not be optimal even for the small-screen device screen because of low transmission speed and/or low bandwidth of a connection with an original data source. Content resolution adjustment may be performed by determining distance between the passive display device and the small-screen device, calculating magnification ratio for the passive display device, and adjusting the content resolution based on the calculated magnification ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Haibo Lin, Cungang Lin, Shihao Qian, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11367398
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a potential compensation subcircuit configured to control a junction voltage of a light emitting element to be within a preset voltage range according to an initial voltage input by an initialization reset voltage terminal and a reset sequence input by a reset sequence signal terminal. The preset voltage range is higher than zero and lower than an emission threshold voltage of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Li Wang, Libin Liu