Patents Examined by Lixi C Simpson
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Patent number: 10983610Abstract: An electronic pen includes a conductive core-side member, a power supply circuit, a signal transmission circuit which, in operation, receives a power supply voltage from the power supply circuit, generates a first signal and a second signal each having a different waveform, and selectively supplies either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member, an input reception circuit which, in operation, receives a designation input designating either the first signal or the second signal to be supplied from the signal transmission circuit to the core-side member, and a control circuit which, in operation, controls the signal transmission circuit to supply either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member according to the designation input received by the input reception circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Hideyuki Hara
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Patent number: 10970513Abstract: An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a first base material, and a display circuit layer and a recognition circuit layer laminated on the first base material. The display circuit layer includes multiple gate lines, multiple data lines, and multiple thin-film transistors (TFT). Projections of the multiple gate lines on the first base material and projections of the multiple data lines on the first base material define multiple sub-pixel projection areas. Each of projections of the multiple TFTs on the first base material falls into a corresponding area of the multiple sub-pixel projection areas. The recognition circuit layer includes multiple photoelectric sensors. Projections of the multiple photoelectric sensors on the first base material fall into different areas of the sub-pixel projection areas. The photoelectric sensor is configured to sense target lights carrying user fingerprint information. A display screen and an electronic device are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Le Yang
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Patent number: 10971061Abstract: Techniques are described for operating a display system comprising a light source and a scanning assembly. The light source includes a plurality of emitters arranged in a column and circuitry configured to drive the emitters based on image data. The scanning assembly includes a reflective surface facing the light source, the reflective surface being rotatable in at least one dimension. A control signal including periodic, non-linear pulses causes the reflective surface to rotate through a range of scan angles, thereby forming an output image based on reflection of emitted light. The image data is supplied to the light source in synchronization with the rotational movement of the reflective surface. Changes in rotation speed due to the non-linear nature of the control signal are compensated for by adjusting emission durations for different rows to provide different emission durations at different times based on changes in the linearity of the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: William Thomas Blank, Ilias Pappas
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Patent number: 10964254Abstract: The disclosure provides a pixel circuit including a lighting element, a current source, an amplitude control circuit, a pulse width control circuit, and an internal compensation circuit. The current source includes a driving transistor, and provides a driving current to the lighting element by the driving transistor. The amplitude control circuit includes a first switch, and provides a first voltage to the driving transistor by the first switch to determine magnitude of the driving current. The pulse width control circuit provides a second voltage to the first switch to determine a pulse width of the driving current. The internal compensation circuit is coupled with the current source and the amplitude control circuit, detects a threshold voltage of the first switch, and provides the driving current to an external compensation circuit to render the external compensation circuit detect a threshold voltage of the driving transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Che Hung, Ting-Wei Guo, Mao-Hsun Cheng
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Patent number: 10950192Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including at least one memory; a setting circuit configured to select either a first mode in which a still image is displayed or a second mode in which a moving image is displayed; and a switching circuit configured to switch coupling between the sub-pixels and the memories according to the selection made by the setting circuit. The first mode is a mode in which each of the sub-pixels is coupled to one of the at least one memory included in the sub-pixel, and the second mode is a mode including a time period in which at least one of the sub-pixels is coupled to the at least one memory included in another of the sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yutaka Mitsuzawa
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Patent number: 10930212Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting pixel driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xu Qian, Hua Gong, Jun Zhang
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Patent number: 10916167Abstract: A gate driving device of a display device may include a voltage generator, a gate controller and a gate driver. The voltage generator may generate a gate driving voltage that varies between a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage. The gate controller may generate gate clock signals based on the gate driving voltage and gate control signals. The gate driver may generate a gate signal based on the gate clock signals. The gate control signals may include a first control signal and clock control signals, each varying between a high level and a low level. The gate controller may output the gate clock signals having a voltage level of the gate-off voltage when the first control signal and the clock control signals are each provided to the gate controller at the low level, thereby avoiding a display defect due to voltage ramping that may otherwise occur.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae-Sik Lee, Yanguk Nam, Yoomi Kim
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Display driving method, display driver integrated circuit, and electronic device comprising the same
Patent number: 10902772Abstract: A display driver integrated circuit is disclosed. The display driver integrated circuit includes panel signal supply circuitry configured to supply an image signal corresponding to image data to a panel, pixel power supply circuitry configured to supply pixel power to a pixel that receives the image signal, and a controller configured to control the pixel power supply circuitry to supply the pixel power based on an on-pixel ratio (OPR) value of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Hui Kim, Young Hee Ha -
Patent number: 10896314Abstract: A fingerprint identification module includes a contact layer, at least one light source, at least one image sensor and a lens. The at least one light source emits at least one light beam. The contact layer is exposed outside the fingerprint identification module to be contacted with a user's finger. The at least one image sensor is located under the contact area. After the at least light beam is received by the at least one image sensor, a corresponding fingerprint image is generated. The lens is arranged between the contact layer and the at least one image sensor, and includes plural openings. The lens includes plural openings. After the at least one light beam is reflected by the finger, the at least one light beam is transmitted through the plural openings and projected to the at least one image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventor: Mao-Hsiu Hsu
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Patent number: 10884619Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display configured to display a virtual keyboard; an inputter configured to receive a stroke input on a key on the virtual keyboard; and a controller configured to display a character which corresponds to the key in an input window in response to the stroke input being received, and configured to perform a control operation to suggest at least one character that is likely to follow a character which corresponds to the key and display the at least one suggested character. The at least one suggested character is displayed so as not to overlap a character of a basic key on the virtual keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byuk-sun Kim, Min-jin Kim, Sang-on Choi, Sung-gook Kim, Yong-deok Kim
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Patent number: 10871826Abstract: Haptic feedback remote control systems and methods are provided. A method for providing haptic feedback to a user of a haptic feedback remote control device includes receiving, by a receiving device, an electronic command issued from the haptic feedback remote control device. The receiving device transmits a haptic feedback command to the haptic feedback remote control device. Based on the received haptic feedback command, the haptic feedback remote control activates a haptic feedback device, within the haptic feedback remote control, to provide a haptic feedback effect to a user of the haptic feedback remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.Inventor: Ellen Letendre
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Patent number: 10867556Abstract: A pixel unit circuit, a driving method of the pixel unit circuit, and a pixel circuit are provided. The pixel unit circuit includes at least one sub-pixel sub-unit circuit connected to display signal lines and display signal terminals; and pixel compensation sub-unit circuit connected to two compensation signal lines and at least one compensation signal terminal, wherein one of the display signal lines and one of the compensation signal lines are a same signal line, and/or one of the display signal terminals and one of the at least one compensation signal terminal are a same signal terminal, and/or the pixel unit circuit further includes a multiplexer sub-circuit, one of the display signal lines is connected to a first terminal of the multiplexer sub-circuit, one of the compensation signal lines is connected to a second terminal of the multiplexer sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10852574Abstract: Substrates such as transparent glass layers or other transparent substrates may be used to form protective display cover layers, windows, housing structures, camera windows, and other structures. Coatings may be formed on the substrates, on pixel arrays such as flexible organic light-emitting diode pixel arrays, housing structures, and other structures. The coatings may have optical properties arising from the inclusion of pigment flakes in a clear polymer binder. The pigment flakes may be formed from a thin-film interference layer. The thin-film interference filter layer may have a stack of dielectric layers with a pattern of refractive index values selected to adjust the optical properties of the pigment flakes. The stack of dielectric layers may be configured to form an infrared-light-blocking-and-visible-light-transmitting optical characteristic for the coatings and/or may have other desired spectral properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James R. Wilson, Matthew S. Rogers
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Patent number: 10852815Abstract: Light output of a display can be dynamically adjusted on-the-fly. When implemented on a low-persistence display that supports a variable refresh rate, this dynamic light output adjustment maintains a constant brightness over a series of frames to eliminate flickering of the display. When pixel data of a given frame is output to a frame buffer for presenting an image on the display, a time difference between an illumination of the display's light emitting elements for a preceding frame and an upcoming illumination of the light emitting elements for the given frame may be determined, and this time difference is used to determine a value of a light output parameter. During presentation of the image on the display, the light emitting elements can be illuminated in accordance with the value of the light output parameter. This determination iterates over a series of frames to dynamically adjust the display's light output.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Valve CorporationInventor: Jeremy Adam Selan
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Patent number: 10847113Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a liquid crystal display pixel including a liquid crystal structure including a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode; a switching transistor connected between the pixel electrode of the liquid crystal structure and a data-line; and a storage capacitor connected to the pixel electrode of the liquid crystal structure. The method includes: calculating an accumulated driving time of the liquid crystal display panel by accumulating a driving time of the liquid crystal display panel; determining whether or not the accumulated driving time has reached a deterioration reference time; and when the accumulated driving time is determined to have reached the deterioration reference time, changing a gate-off voltage applied to a gate terminal of the switching transistor and a common voltage applied to the common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Junpyo Lee, Kyunho Kim, Sungjin Kim, Yong-Jin Shin, Neung-Beom Lee, Kyung-Hwa Lim, Jinhyuk Jang
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Patent number: 10825374Abstract: A liquid crystal driver circuit may include a screen including a plurality of liquid crystal units distributed as an array. The array may include m rows of liquid crystal units along a row direction, and n columns of liquid crystal units along a column direction, wherein m is an integer and n is an integer. The screen may also include n data lines, respectively connected to the n columns of liquid crystal units along the column direction; and at least one data line switch, each connected to a corresponding data line of the n data lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Guosheng Li, Wei Feng, Shanrong Liu
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Patent number: 10824267Abstract: An input detection device includes a plurality of drive electrodes, a first wiring that supplies a first voltage to the plurality of drive electrodes, and a second wiring that supplies a second voltage different from the first voltage, to the plurality of drive electrodes. Input detection through an electromagnetic induction method is performed through a magnetic field generated by supplying the first voltage and the second voltage to the plurality of drive electrodes, and the first voltage and the second voltage supplied to the first wiring and the second wiring are direct-current voltages.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Tadayoshi Katsuta
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Patent number: 10818228Abstract: A pixel circuit, a method for driving a pixel circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit includes a control sub-circuit, a shunt sub-circuit, a light emitting sub-circuit and a latch sub-circuit, where the control sub-circuit is configured to output to the latch sub-circuit a data signal from a data signal line in response to a scan signal from a scan signal line; the latch sub-circuit is configured to latch a first level signal and a second level signal in response to the data signal and the scan signal, and output the second level signal to light emitting sub-circuit in response to a switch signal from a switch signal line, to enable the light emitting sub-circuit to emit light; and the shunt sub-circuit is configured to shunt, in response to a control signal from a control signal line, the second level signal input to the light emitting sub-circuit, to adjust a light emitting brightness of the light emitting sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongni Liu, Xiaochuan Chen, Minghua Xuan, Shengji Yang, Lei Wang, Li Xiao, Pengcheng Lu, Liang Chen
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Patent number: 10809857Abstract: A display device includes a housing, an operation plate, an electrostatic sensor, a piezoelectric sensor, a controller, a storage unit, a display, and a communication unit. When an output voltage of the piezoelectric sensor indicates a first voltage value (Vth1) or larger, the controller determines that the piezoelectric sensor has detected a change in a first pressing force and performs first processing. When an output voltage of the piezoelectric sensor indicates a second voltage value (Vth2) or larger, the controller determines that the piezoelectric sensor has detected a change in a second pressing force. When the piezoelectric sensor detects the change in the second pressing force and the electrostatic sensor continuously detects a touch during a period from the detection of the first pressing force to the detection of the second pressing force, the controller executes second processing.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kihara, Hideki Kawamura
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Patent number: 10788925Abstract: A touch panel sharing support apparatus applicable for sharing a touch panel by a first system and a second system independent of each other, includes: a storage that stores definition data defining a first region for the first system and a second region for the second system, on a touch surface of the touch panel; a hardware processor that discriminates which of the first region and the second region a touched position on the touch surface belongs to on the basis of the definition data; and a transmitter that transmits operation data concerning operation onto the touch surface to the first system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the first region and transmits the operation data to the second system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the second region.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Satoshi Uchino