Patents Examined by Kwang-Su Yang
  • Patent number: 11594578
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure of an OLED display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Shin Lee
  • Patent number: 11587983
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display panel includes a plurality of repeating units each including a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer including a first via hole, and an anode including a main body and an auxiliary portion. At least one repeating unit includes a first-color sub-pixel, a second-color sub-pixel, and a third-color sub-pixel; the area of the main body of the third-color sub-pixel is larger than that of the second-color sub-pixel and that of the first-color sub-pixel; and an overlapping area between the main body of the third-color sub-pixel and the first conductive layer is larger than that between the main body of the second-color sub-pixel and the first conductive layer, and the overlapping area between the main body of the third-color sub-pixel and the first conductive layer is larger than that between the main body of the first-color sub-pixel and the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaipeng Sun, Yuanyou Qiu, Weiyun Huang, Yue Long, Chao Zeng, Jiangnan Lu, Libin Liu, Hongli Wang
  • Patent number: 11586408
    Abstract: An information handling system includes adjacent displays connected by a hinge. A processor renders a first image on the first display, renders a second image on the second display, and receives data representing a misalignment between the first display and the second display. The data is implemented to compensate for the misalignment between the first display and the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Preeth K. Srinivasan, Jace W. Files, John Trevor Morrison
  • Patent number: 11574572
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, the display area includes a first rectangular area and a first special-shaped area disposed adjacent to the first rectangular area, and the non-display area includes a second rectangular area adjacent to the first rectangular area and a second special-shaped area adjacent to the first special-shaped area. The display area includes pixel units arranged in an array, and a plurality of shift registers are disposed in the second rectangular area and the second special-shaped area, where each of the plurality of shift registers is connected to a row of pixel units. The second special-shaped area includes a laser cutting affected area, where none of the plurality of shift registers is disposed in at least part of the laser cutting affected area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengzi Zhang, Fan Guo, Junjun Gan, Huangyao Wu, Shumao Wu, Guochang Lai, Xiufeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11567336
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive, or register, image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye alignment vary for different users and may change over time (e.g., as a given user moves around or as the HMD slips or otherwise becomes displaced). The wearable device may determine a relative position or alignment between the HMD and the user's eyes by determining whether features of the eye are at certain vertical positions relative to the HMD. Based on the relative positions, the wearable device may determine if it is properly fitted to the user, and provides feedback on the quality of the fit to the user, and may take actions to reduce or minimize effects of any misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Xu, Jordan Alexander Cazamias, Rose Mei Peng
  • Patent number: 11567567
    Abstract: An encoder for encoding images. The encoder includes processor. The processor is configured to: receive, from display apparatus, information indicative of at least one of: head pose of user, gaze direction of user; identify gaze location in input image, based on the at least one of: head pose, gaze direction; divide input image into first input portion and second input portion, wherein first input portion includes and surrounds gaze location; and encode first input portion and second input portion at first compression ratio and at least one second compression ratio to generate first encoded portion and second encoded portion, respectively, wherein at least one second compression ratio is larger than first compression ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Mikko Ollila
  • Patent number: 11561584
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a first surface in a first direction, a second surface in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a third surface enclosing at least a portion of a space formed between the first surface and the second surface. The electronic device also includes an audio module changing an audio signal input to the electronic device into an electronic signal, and a processor being operationally connected to the display and the audio module. The processor is configured to detect the audio signal input via the audio module from a first user via the first surface, detect a touch signal dragged from the third surface in the direction of the second surface, and display in the second surface a translation corresponding to the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventors: Dohyung Ha, Jungsik Park, Jaeyoung Shin, Chongyoon Chung, Namsu Kim, Geonsoo Kim, Byounguk Yoon, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 11557634
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display module with variable sub-pixel opening area. The display panel includes a display area, a non-display area, and a transition area disposed between the display area and the non-display area. The transition area comprises a first sub-pixel area and a second sub-pixel area, and the first sub-pixel area comprises a first opening and the second sub-pixel area comprises a second opening. The first opening is disposed closer to the display area than the second opening, and the first opening has an area greater than the area of the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongsen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11551624
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel, a source driver that generates a gradation voltage signal based on an image data signal, a timing controller that supplies the image data signal to the source driver, and an illumination drive unit that controls an amount of light of a backlight that illuminates each of a plurality of areas formed by dividing a display screen in the display panel. The source driver or the timing controller calculates feature values of the image data signal corresponding to each of the plurality of areas of the display panel and supplies a dimming data signal representing the amount of light of the backlight according to the feature values of each area to the illumination drive unit. The illumination drive unit controls the amount of light of the backlight for each of the plurality of areas based on the dimming data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ishii, Shinichi Fukuzako
  • Patent number: 11545527
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure may include a plurality of repeating units (100). Each of the plurality of the repeating units (100) may include a first sub-pixel (01) being at a center point of a virtual hexagon and second sub-pixels (02) and third sub-pixels (03) being alternately arranged at vertices of the virtual hexagon. Virtual hexagons of adjacent repeating units may share one common side as well as two sub-pixels on the common side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Liu, Yansong Li, Haohan Zhang, Shanshan Bai, Haidong Wu
  • Patent number: 11526682
    Abstract: One example embodiment is a device which includes a non-conductive substrate and at least one touchpoint. The substrate has an external surface. The touchpoint includes a conductive pad disposed on the external surface, and a conductive line that has a first end and a second end. The first end makes electrical contact with the conductive pad and the second end extends spatially away from the first end to a pre-determined distance. When the external surface of the non-conductive substrate is placed in proximity to a touch surface, the conductive pad triggers a touch event on the touch surface such that a coordinate of the conductive pad relative to the touch surface is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Yat Fei Cheung
  • Patent number: 11520149
    Abstract: A display device includes a diffractive optical element and a tunable light source operable in different states including a first state and a second state. The tunable light source provides first light having a first wavelength while the tunable light source is in the first state and second light having a second wavelength, distinct from the first wavelength, while the tunable light source is in the second state. The first wavelength and the second wavelength correspond to a first color band. The diffractive optical element is positioned to receive and redirect the first light and receive and redirect the second light. The diffractive optical element has a first focal length for the first light and a second focal length, distinct from the first focal length, for the second light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Zhao, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Patent number: 11513357
    Abstract: An image display device includes, an imaging light generation part configured to generate an imaging light having a single color, a light-guiding plate, an incident side diffraction element provided at a light incident part of the light-guiding plate, and configured to cause the imaging light to enter the light-guiding plate, an exit side diffraction element provided at a light emitting part of the light-guiding plate, and configured to cause the imaging light propagating within the light-guiding plate to exit, and an angle dependent reflective film provided between the light-guiding plate and the exit side diffraction element, and having a reflectance varying depending on magnitude of a propagation angle of the imaging light, in which the reflectance for the imaging light propagating at a relatively small propagation angle is larger than the reflectance for the imaging light propagating at a relatively large propagation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11501702
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of light emitting elements and in which a plurality of areas is defined based on the plurality of light emitting elements, a compensation unit which calculates compensation values for image data provided to each of the plurality of areas, and a control unit which controls the output of the image data provided to the display panel based on the compensation values and the image data, where the control unit may include a correction unit which outputs a correction ratio of each of the plurality of areas based on the compensation values and a comparison unit which determines whether an input current of the image data is in a normal range based on the correction ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonjin Seo, Eunjin Choi, Kihyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11493758
    Abstract: A volume hologram is arranged inside a transparent portion of a pane of a display device for a vehicle. The display device further includes a light source by which light is coupled into the volume hologram. An image appearing three-dimensional to a human observer can be generated by use of the volume hologram. A camera includes a light-sensitive image sensor to acquire images via an optical unit which is at least partially formed by the transparent portion of the pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Schwartze, Markus Klug, André Schwager, Muhammad Ali Kezze
  • Patent number: 11493759
    Abstract: It is an objective of this disclosure to protect a highly transparent hologram light guide plate from water vapor and ultraviolet ray, thereby suppressing deterioration of the hologram light guide plate even when employed in a head mount display used in outdoor environments. A hologram light guide plate according to this disclosure comprises a protection layer that protects a hologram layer and an intermediate layer that is placed between a glass layer and the protection layer, wherein the glass layer and the hologram layer form a transfer layer that transfers image light. The intermediate layer causes the image light to transfer only in the transfer layer in a section from an input area of the image light to an output area of the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoto Kawamura, Takeru Utsugi, Mitsuru Nagasawa, Hiromichi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 11487356
    Abstract: Example techniques are disclosed for increasing the sensitivity of an augmented or virtual reality display system to collecting eye-tracking data for detecting physiological conditions, such as neural processes. An example method includes accessing eye-tracking information associated with a control population and an experimental population, the eye-tracking information reflecting, for each user of the control population and the experimental population, eye-tracking metrics associated with the user; scaling the eye-tracking information based on the eye-tracking information associated with the control population; and determining a sensitivity measure reflecting a distance measure between the control population and experimental population. The sensitivity measure may be utilized to modify physical or operational parameters for the display system and/or the protocol for performing a test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Farmer, Dorion Bryce Liston
  • Patent number: 11482144
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate having a display area in which pixels are arranged and a peripheral area; wiring provided in the display area and coupled to the pixels to supply a signal; a first terminal and a second terminal, provided in the peripheral area; a driver terminal provided in a first peripheral area on a first direction side of the display area, and coupled to the wiring to allow a driver IC to be coupled to the driver; a first switch provided in the first peripheral area closer to the display area than the driver terminal to switch between coupling and decoupling between the first terminal and the wiring; and a second switch provided in a second peripheral area on a second direction side in a direction opposite to the first direction, and coupled to the second terminal and the wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kengo Shiragami, Keita Sasanuma, Naoyuki Obinata
  • Patent number: 11475837
    Abstract: A display substrate, a display method and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a display region and an offset region surrounding the display region. The display substrate includes a silicon-based substrate, an emitting structure layer arranged on the silicon-based substrate. The first pixel driving circuits are connected with the emitting structure layer of the display region, and at least part of the first pixel driving circuits are configured to provide driving signals for the emitting structure layer electrically connected with the first pixel driving circuits during normal display. The second pixel driving circuits are connected with the emitting structure layer of the offset region, and at least part of the second pixel driving circuits are configured to provide no driving signals for the emitting structure layer electrically connected with the second pixel driving circuits during normal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijian Zhu, Yu Ao, Pengcheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11460726
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a display area; a non-display area; a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of source lines; a plurality of thin film transistors; a gate driver; a source driver; a control unit configured to supply a control signal to the source driver; and an auxiliary line extending in the non-display area from an end of one of the plurality of source lines to another end thereof, wherein each of the plurality of thin film transistors is turned on and off when one of the plurality of gate signals supplied to one of the plurality of gate lines connected to that thin film transistor changes to an ON voltage level and an OFF voltage level respectively, and the control signal rises at a different timing from a fall in one of the plurality of gate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroto Akiyama, Yasunao Iwata