Patents Examined by Kwang-Su Yang
  • Patent number: 11455049
    Abstract: A display device, including a display panel that displays an image; a flexible printed circuit board including an attaching part attached to one end of the display panel and a curved part extending from the attaching part and not overlapping with the display panel; a window assembly on an upper surface of the display panel; an adhesive part between the window assembly and the display panel to couple the display panel and the window assembly; and a compensating part not overlapping with the display panel, overlapping with the curved part, and on a same layer as the attaching part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong-Cheol Ahn, Won-il Lee, Byughoon Chae
  • Patent number: 11456350
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display area comprising main sub-pixels; a second display area comprising pixel groups spaced apart from each other and a transmission portion between the pixel groups, the second display area having a different resolution from that of the first display area; and extension lines between two pixel groups adjacent to each other in a first direction among the pixel groups and extending in the first direction, wherein each of the pixel groups comprises a plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels and a plurality of horizontal lines electrically connected to the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels and extending in the first direction, and the extension lines are electrically connected to the horizontal lines included in each of the two pixel groups, and a number of the extension lines is less than a number of the horizontal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghwan Kim, Jinwoo Park, Junghoon Shim
  • Patent number: 11455944
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate and a pixel array. The pixel array includes a plurality of subpixels, each of which includes at least one light-emitting diode that includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The array substrate includes a first power supply structure, a second power supply structure, and a plurality of pixel circuits. The first power supply structure is electrically connected to the first electrode of the light-emitting diode by the pixel circuits, and the second power supply structure is electrically connected to the second electrode of the light-emitting diode. At least one of the first power supply structure and the second power supply structure includes at least one common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUBEI YANGTZE INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION CENTER OF ADVANCED DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingteng Zhai, Jujian Fu, Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 11450267
    Abstract: Brightness compensation method and apparatus for pixel point are provided. The compensation method includes measurement processes of N times, N?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongxu Han, Tieshi Wang, Zhongyuan Wu, Yongqian Li, Pan Xu, Jinxia Hu
  • Patent number: 11448880
    Abstract: A light guide unit forms an optical path to guide a display light emitted from a display unit toward a projection portion. The light guide unit includes a negative optical element and a positive optical element. The negative optical element is placed on the optical path and has a negative optical power. The positive optical element is placed on the optical path and is closer to the projection portion than the negative optical element. The positive optical element has a positive optical power. The positive optical element is a diffractive optical element having a diffractive structure configured to diffract the display light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Onda, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 11442280
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes various features that allow for customizing the HMD to different users. The HMD may include an interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment mechanism that includes a double biasing assembly for smooth, controlled adjustment of the spacing between lens tubes. The HMD may include a field of view (FOV) adjustment mechanism that includes first and second gear assemblies connected via a connecting rod to allow uniform adjustment of the spacing between the lenses and the user's face. The HMD may further include a swappable face gasket, a swappable visor, a removable head strap, and a modular accessory compartment for further customizations to the HMD. The HMD may further include inconspicuous spectrum-transmissive windows that are made with a spectrum-transmissive base material for the HMD housing that is coated with a spectrum-opaque material, and the spectrum-opaque material is selectively removed to create the spectrum-transmissive windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan A. McCracken, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Isaac Frazier, Keaton Snyder, John A. Underwood
  • Patent number: 11424297
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a first display region and a second display region. The first display region includes first pixel units arranged in an array, and the second display region includes second pixel units arranged in an array. A density of the first pixel units in the first display region is lower than a density of the second pixel units in the second display region. The display panel further includes an array substrate, which includes first data lines and second data lines extending in a column direction. The first data lines pass through the first display region. Each first data line is electrically connected to a sub-pixel of the first pixel unit in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoufu Jian, Dongliang Dun
  • Patent number: 11403977
    Abstract: A display panel and a method of driving a display panel are provided. The display panel includes at least one display subpixel. The display subpixel includes a first display region located at a middle part of the display subpixel and a second display region located at a peripheral part of the display subpixel in a first direction; and the display subpixel is configured to enable brightness of the second display region to be greater than brightness of the first display region in a case of displaying an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Wenqing Zhao, Jinye Zhu, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11387283
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include a first subpixel including a first light-emitting layer, and a first subpixel circuit, a second subpixel including a second light-emitting layer, and a second subpixel circuit, a third sub subpixel including a third light-emitting layer, and a third subpixel circuit, a fourth subpixel including a fourth light-emitting layer, and a fourth subpixel circuit, and a fifth subpixel including a fifth light-emitting layer, and a fifth subpxiel circuit. A plurality of scanning lines include a first scanning line connected to the fifth subpixel circuit and a second scanning line adjacent to the first scanning line and connected to the first subpixel circuit. A plurality of data lines include a first data line connected to the first subpixel circuit and the fifth subpixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohzoh Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11386857
    Abstract: A display device performs a comparison process of comparing first adjusted image data and second adjusted image data. The first adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a first image adjustment element performing an image adjustment process on image data to be processed. The second adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a second image adjustment element performing the image adjustment process on the image data to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Trivale Technologies
    Inventors: Yoshiya Saito, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11380235
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a plurality of pixels, a first demultiplexer, a second demultiplexer, a first connecting line and a second connecting line is provided. The substrate has a display area. The first signal lines are arranged on the substrate and define a first row region and a second row region of the display area. The pixels are arranged into a first pixel row and a second pixel row which are respectively disposed in the first row region and the second row region. The first demultiplexer is disposed in the first row region and electrically connected to a part of the second signal lines. The second demultiplexer is disposed in the second row region and electrically connected to another part of the second signal lines. The first connecting line is electrically connected to the first demultiplexer. The second connecting line is electrically connected to the second demultiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Hao Huang, Sung-Yu Su
  • Patent number: 11380735
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a substrate and pixel units arranged thereon. The substrate comprises a display area comprising a plane display area and a bending display area. The bending display area comprises first pixel areas arranged in an array, and the pixel units comprise first pixel units respectively positioned in the first pixel areas. The first pixel regions includes first pixel sub-regions including first display sub-pixels and at least one color difference adjusting sub-pixel for adjusting a color difference of the first pixel unit, and at least one second pixel sub-region. Each of the first pixel sub-regions is provided with the first display sub-pixels, each of the second pixel sub-regions is provided with the color difference adjusting sub-pixel, and the second pixel sub-region is disposed adjacent to the first pixel sub-regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Kong, Long Chen
  • Patent number: 11379076
    Abstract: A touch display device, a data driving circuit, and a driving method are provided. The touch display device, the data driving circuit, and the driving method convert an image digital signal into an image analog signal in response to a gamma reference voltage which is applied to the touch electrodes arranged in the display panel and which is modulated in synchronization with a first touch electrode driving signal swinging with a first amplitude and output a data signal corresponding to the converted image analog signal to the data lines. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively simultaneously perform display and touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HoonBae Kim, CheolSe Kim, SungChul Kim, SunYeop Kim, Seongkyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11372198
    Abstract: A device for adjusting interpupillary distance is provided. The device for adjusting interpupillary distance includes an adjustment bottom, a housing, and an adjustment support. The housing is disposed on the adjustment bottom. The housing includes a base, a holder, and a deformation part disposed between the base and the holder. The holder moves relative to the base via the deformation part. The adjustment support is connected to the holder and the adjustment bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Lung Chen, Han-Chih Hu, Shan-Peng Lai, Yu-Han Liu, Chun-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 11373608
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, and the display panel includes a circuit layer and a pixel layer disposed over the circuit layer. The pixel layer includes a first region used to form a first sub-pixel and a second region used to form a second sub-pixel. The ability of light to pass through the liquid crystal molecules over the first and second subpixels sequentially decreases. The circuit layer includes a driving circuit disposed opposite to the first region, and a difference between image brightness above the first region and image brightness of above the second region is within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yunglun Lin
  • Patent number: 11367405
    Abstract: A spliced display panel and a method of compensating the spliced display panel for a mura phenomenon are disclosed. In the method, secondary compensation values are obtained through a secondary compensation formula and initial compensation values in order to compensate spliced regions of the spliced display panel for the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Xiang Gao
  • Patent number: 11366321
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of controlling a dimming level of dimmable optical element based on a predicted ambient light level is performed at a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a dimmable optical element. The method includes predicting a change, in a first direction, in an ambient light level at a future time. The method includes changing, at a first time in advance of the future time and in the first direction, a transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the predicted change in the ambient light level. The method includes changing, at a second time after the first time and in a second direction opposite the first direction, the transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the ambient light level at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Anselm Grundhoefer
  • Patent number: 11361720
    Abstract: A grayscale voltage output unit outputs, for a signal line including a disconnection location, a first grayscale voltage to a first signal line portion, the first grayscale voltage being corrected to be lower than the grayscale voltage to be output to the signal line on the basis of the location of the disconnection location and the wiring resistance of the signal line, and the grayscale voltage output unit outputs a second grayscale voltage to a second signal line portion, the second grayscale voltage being corrected from the grayscale voltage to be output to the signal line on the basis of the location of the disconnection location, the wiring resistance of the signal line, and the wiring resistance of spare wiring. Thereby, a display device with a simple configuration capable of reducing luminance deviation along a signal line with a disconnection location is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shiro Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 11341925
    Abstract: A portable information handling system presents visual images at first and second displays integrated in first and second rotationally-coupled housing portions. When the housing portions rotate to a clamshell configuration, a keyboard disposed on one of the displays accepts keyed inputs and, to save power, backlight segments below the keyboard are powered down. The display can present information as visual images proximate the keyboard with illumination provided by other backlight segments or by a secondary light source that is presented in coordination with liquid crystal panel pixels transitioning to transparent and opaque states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Gerald R. Pelissier, Preeth K. Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11340463
    Abstract: An artificial-reality device is provided. The artificial-reality device includes a frame having at least one temple section (e.g., a frame arm) and a front section, where the front section is configured to hold at least one lens. The artificial-reality device also includes a hinge pivotally coupling the at least one temple section and the front section. The hinge includes: (A) a front magnetic component that includes a static magnet, and (B) a rear magnetic component, coupled to the at least one temple section, that includes: (i) two or more primary magnets oriented so as to be attracted to the static magnet of the front magnetic component, and (ii) at least one secondary magnet, positioned between the two or more primary magnets, oriented so as to be repelled by the static magnet of the front magnetic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Bobuk