Patents Examined by Matthew Yeung
  • Patent number: 11755076
    Abstract: Included are at least one first semiconductor resistance element overlapping with one of the spacers and provided as the same layer as the semiconductor layer of the pixel transistors, at least one second semiconductor resistance element provided as the same layer as the semiconductor layer of the pixel transistors and not overlapping with any of the spacers, and a detection circuit detecting a force applied to the display region based on a midpoint voltage between the first semiconductor resistance element and the second semiconductor resistance element, and a resistance value of the second semiconductor resistance element is equivalent to a resistance value of the first semiconductor resistance element when no force is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Naoki Takada, Yuto Kakinoki
  • Patent number: 11747703
    Abstract: The application provides a method for driving a color electronic paper, including: according to an image to be displayed, applying a first driving signal to a first electrode on a to-display-white microcapsule and a second driving signal to a first electrode on a to-display-black microcapsule. The first driving signal includes: a first sub-driving signal applied to the first electrode on the to-display-white microcapsule in display phase; and the first sub-driving signal is configured to drive a white particle in the to-display-white microcapsule to be closer to a display side than a black particle and a colored particle. The second driving signal comprises: a second sub-driving signal applied to the first electrode on the to-display-black microcapsule in display phase, and the second sub-driving signal is configured to drive the black particle in the to-display-black microcapsule to be closer to the display side than the white particle and the colored particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Smart Electronics System Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengbo Zhang, Lichun Chen, Qiangeng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11749164
    Abstract: A controller to drive a display includes a voltage code generator and a voltage code compensator. The voltage code generator is configured to generate a first voltage code to drive pixels in the display based on input image data. The voltage code compensator is to generate a second voltage code to drive the pixels by compensating zero-grayscale codes of the first voltage code based on the zero-grayscale codes of the first voltage code, one-grayscale codes of the first voltage code, and the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jang-Mi Lee
  • Patent number: 11749192
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel row, and a first scan line and a second scan line on the base substrate. The pixel row includes a plurality of sub-pixels along a first direction on the base substrate; the first scan line and the second scan line are extended along the first direction, and each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit including a data writing sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, and a driving sub-circuit. The first scan line and the second scan line are respectively electrically connected with the data writing circuit to provide control signals. The first scan line and the second scan line have the same resistance and the same area of orthographic projections on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dachao Li
  • Patent number: 11740700
    Abstract: The operating unit for a vehicle comprises a housing with an operating element on the front side, wherein the operating element has a display with a display surface and a cover plate, which defines an operating surface of the operating element, and has at least one projection region projecting laterally over the display, and is elastically laterally moveably mounted on and/or in the housing. An actuator is arranged below the cover plate, said actuator having a drive and a control element driven by the drive. The operating unit is also provided with an elastic actuation arm which protrudes from the cover plate and which is mechanically acted upon by the control element of the actuator at a force application point of the actuation arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Kirsch, Pasi Kemppinen
  • Patent number: 11735127
    Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Shang-Chia Chen, Yajuan Chen, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 11733812
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing array includes a first transmitter electrode, a plurality of first receiver electrodes, a second transmitter electrode, and a plurality of second receiver electrodes disposed in a first row of the array. The first transmitter electrode is disposed in a first column of the array and is coupled to a first transmitter channel. The first receiver electrodes are disposed in a second column of the array, adjacent the first transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of a plurality of first receiver channels. The second transmitter electrode is disposed in a third column of the array and is coupled to a second transmitter channel. The second receiver electrodes are disposed in a fourth column of the array, adjacent the second transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of the first receiver channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: David Hoch, Adam L. Schwartz, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11705023
    Abstract: A rollable payment card is shiftable between a flat configuration and a rolled configuration via a manual rolling process. The payment card comprises a verification element, a processor, an electronic display unit in communication with the processor, and a power element providing electrical power to the display unit. The electronic display unit includes an electronic display region configured to display an image. The electronic display region is manually rollable. The payment card in the flat configuration presents horizontally spaced apart first and second ends and vertically spaced apart top and bottom edges. The first end overlaps the second end during the course of the rolling process, with the first end being disposed arcuately past the second end when the payment card is in the rolled configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Shawn J. Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11699406
    Abstract: A control method of an e-ink screen. The e-ink screen includes a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel includes first color charged particles and second color charged particles, and the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles are same in electrical property. The control method of the e-ink screen includes: inputting a first color driving signal to pixels expected to display a first color in the e-ink screen. The first color driving signal includes a plurality of sub-signals corresponding to a plurality of driving stages. The plurality of sub-signals include a first color imaging sub-signal and a particle separation sub-signal. The particle separation sub-signal is configured to drive the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles in the at least one pixel to move, and to separate the first color charged particles from the second color charged particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Smart Electronics System Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Senlei Ma, Lichun Chen, Bo Liu, Yunyan Xie, Qiangeng Cheng, Heng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11699404
    Abstract: Often when there is a glare on a display screen the user may be able to mitigate the glare by tilting or otherwise moving the screen or changing their viewing position. However, when driving a car there are limited options for overcoming glares on the dashboard, especially when you are driving for a long distance in the same direction. Embodiments are directed to eliminating such glare. Other embodiments are related to mixed reality (MR) and filling in occluded areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur J. Runyan, Richmond Hicks, Nausheen Ansari, Narayan Biswal, Ya-Ti Peng, Abhishek R. Appu, Wen-Fu Kao, Sang-Hee Lee, Joydeep Ray, Changliang Wang, Satyanarayana Avadhanam, Scott Janus, Gary Smith, Nilesh V. Shah, Keith W. Rowe, Robert J. Johnston
  • Patent number: 11682339
    Abstract: A vehicle display control apparatus is equipped with a display device, and a control unit that causes the display device to display a peripheral screen for presenting a driver of an own vehicle with a position of a different vehicle running around the own vehicle with respect to the own vehicle. The control unit is configured to acquire the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle and a driving manner score as a numerical rating scale representing how good driving manners of the different vehicle are, and display the driving manner score on the peripheral screen in such a manner as to correspond to the position of the different vehicle with respect to the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 11682351
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a power integrated circuit, a comparison circuit and a selection circuit. The display panel is configured to receive a system cross voltage. The power integrated circuit is configured to provide the system cross voltage to the display panel and includes a current conversion circuit configured to convert a calibration current outputted by the display panel when displaying a calibration frame into a detection voltage. The comparison circuit is configured to compare the detection voltage with a threshold to generate a comparison result. The selection circuit is configured to determine a magnitude of the system cross voltage according to the comparison result. The power integrated circuit is configured to generate the system cross voltage according to the magnitude of the system cross voltage determined by the selection circuit to provide the system cross voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AUO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feng-Sheng Lin, Ching-Sheng Cheng, Ming-Ci Siao, Wei-Jen Chen, Chun-Chi Lai, Yi-Yo Dai
  • Patent number: 11676538
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a light emitting unit, a current source, voltage comparator, and an emission control unit. The voltage comparator is configured to receive a voltage data and a ramp signal and output a comparison signal according to the voltage data and the ramp signal. The emission control unit is configured to output a driving current to the light emitting unit according to the supply current, the emission enable signal, and the comparison signal. The ramp signal is a first ramp signal during a first frame, and the ramp signal is a second ramp signal during a second frame after the first frame. The emission control unit is configured to be operated in a first mode based on the first ramp signal, and the emission control unit is configured to be operated in a second mode based on the second ramp signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Hidetoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11673471
    Abstract: A vehicle interior control panel includes a pressure-sensitive slider switch embedded within the thickness and beneath a decorative surface of a deco panel. The slider switch in non-visible and includes a variable resistance layer that sequentially and electrically connects different pairs of electrical contacts in the deco panel as a user-applied pressure is moved across the decorative surface and over the slider switch. The slider switch operates to change a parameter or characteristic of a display panel during use. Light from a light source beneath the deco panel is emitted at the decorative surface through otherwise non-visible perforations. The control panel appears to be only a wood panel until activated via user-applied pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Interior Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugo Piccin, Mark Greenspan, Lavinia Danielescu
  • Patent number: 11669212
    Abstract: A touch panel includes first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes, and third touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes include sub electrodes spaced apart from one another in a first direction. The second touch electrodes extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second touch electrodes are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes extend in the second direction and are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes are shaped differently than the second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Ra Jo, Sang-Hyun Lim, Chang-Sub Jung, Jae-Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11670212
    Abstract: An image sticking compensation device includes: a deterioration calculator which calculates deterioration data of a current frame based on input image data and sensing frequency information which are received from a timing controller; an accumulator which accumulates the deterioration data and generates age data in which the deterioration data is accumulated; and a compensator which determines a grayscale compensation value corresponding to the age data and an input grayscale value of the input image data, and outputs age compensation data by applying the grayscale compensation value to the input image data. The sensing frequency information includes a frequency of the current frame, and the deterioration data varies in accordance with the frequency of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Seung Ho Park, Jin Ho Lee, Sang Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 11663987
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel and a display driver is provided. The display driver is coupled to the display panel. The display driver is configured to drive the display panel by at least one of a plurality of gray levels to display an image frame in a first state. The display driver is configured to drive the display panel by a predetermined gray level to display a standby frame in a second state. The display driver determines the predetermined gray level of the standby frame according to the gray levels of the image frame. In addition, a driving method of a display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Sheng Lin, Chen Chu Tsai, Chia-Chun Yeh
  • Patent number: 11657741
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: detect when a right-side operation region provided on a right side of a steering wheel has been operated; detect when a left-side operation region provided on a left side of the steering wheel has been operated; in a case in which operation of the right-side operation region has been detected, display a right-side image corresponding to the right-side operation region in a right-side area of a display region set in front of a driving seat; and in a case in which operation of the left-side operation region has been detected, display a left-side image corresponding to the left-side operation region in a left-side area of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Hori, Ryota Hamabe, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 11651721
    Abstract: A driving method of the display panel and a driving apparatus are provided. The method includes: during a display period of one frame, acquiring an actual charge grayscale of a pixel unit of an Nth row and a target grayscale of a pixel unit of an N+1th row, wherein the pixel unit of the Nth row and the pixel unit of the N+1th row are connected to a same data line; according to the actual charge grayscale of the pixel unit of the Nth row and the target grayscale of the pixel unit of the N+1 th row, acquiring an over drive grayscale of the pixel unit of the N+1 th row; and driving the pixel unit of the N+1 th row using the over drive grayscale. Thus, the over drive grayscale of the pixel unit of the N+1 th row is more accurate, thereby increasing a charge rate of the pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuning Zhang, Yoongu Kim
  • Patent number: 11651745
    Abstract: A backlight driving method includes steps of: (A) receiving a piece of image data; (B) generating a piece of adjustment data based on the image data; (C) generating, based on a plurality of predetermined delay values and on an original synchronization control (SC) signal that has a pulse, an internal SC signal that has a plurality of pulses, where respective time delays of the pulses of the internal SC signal with respect to the pulse of the original SC signal are respectively dependent on the predetermined delay values; and (D) generating a backlight driving output based on the adjustment data and the internal SC signal, so as to drive a backlight source of a scan-type display to emit light intermittently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Chang-Lin Chen, Chun-Yi Li, Wei-Chung Chen