Patents Examined by Michael Faragalla
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Patent number: 11972071Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11961437Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a long side, a short side, a display pixel, a scan driving circuit, a drive circuit board, and chips on film. one end of each chip on film is coupled to the short side, and another end is coupled to the drive circuit board. The drive circuit board and the scan driving circuit of the embodiment of the present disclosure are respectively located on the short side and the long side of the display panel to improve the problem that the font is easily deformed during display.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Deyan Li, Jianhong Chen, Peng Du, Xiaoming Chen
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Patent number: 11948485Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The method includes acquiring a first Light field (LF) image of different viewpoints, inputting the first LF image to a first artificial intelligence model to acquire a pixel shift value for converting pixels in the first LF image, converting the pixels in the first LF image according to the pixel shift value to acquire a second LF image, inputting the first LF image and the second LF image to a second artificial intelligence model for converting the LF image to a layer image to acquire the layer image, inputting the acquired layer image to a simulation model for restoring the LF image to acquire a third LF image, and learning the first artificial intelligence model and the second artificial intelligence model based on the second LF image and the third LF image.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bora Jin, Youngjin Yoon, Jihye Lee, Yeoul Lee, Sunil Lee, Jaesung Lee
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Patent number: 11947730Abstract: A fluid application system includes a pump unit configured to pump a fluid to a fluid applicator. The fluid application system includes a sensor configured to sense a motion made by a user and generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed motion. The fluid application system also includes a control system configured to identify a gesture based on the sensor signal and control the fluid application system based on the identified gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech CorporationInventor: Nima Abbaspour
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Patent number: 11942010Abstract: A driving method of a display panel and a display device are provided. During a display period of a frame of image, when the display panel performs frequency switching, a data voltage of data signal line of the display panel or a switching voltage of pixels of the display panel is changed synchronously with the frequency switching of a displayed image, effectively alleviating problems of flickering and unsatisfactory display quality when switching between different signal frequencies, and improving a performance of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jianjian Ying
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Patent number: 11942023Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an illumination device, and a control unit, in which, when performing display in a first display mode, the control unit corrects an image signal to generate a correction signal, writes a first image based on the correction signal in the display panel, leaves a second light source unlit, and selectively turns on a plurality of first light sources based on the correction signal, and when performing display in a second display mode, the control unit generates a correction signal, writes a first image in the display panel, leaves the second light source unlit, and selectively turns on the plurality of first light sources based on the correction signal, in a first display period, and writes a second image based on the image signal in the display panel and turns on at least the second light source, in a second display period.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Junichi Masuda, Shugo Yagi, Yuuichi Kanbayashi, Satoshi Tsubooka
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Patent number: 11942052Abstract: A system for generating a voltage at a pixel array includes a plurality of display pixels forming the pixel array, each display pixel comprising a pixel circuit for driving the pixel. The system further comprises a row formatter configured to store a plurality of bits representing image data for a row of display pixels of the LCOS array; a row controller configured to write a subset of the plurality of bits representing image data for a pixel of the row into a plurality of data latches of said pixel circuit; and a waveform generator for generating reference pulses represented by a set of reference bits. The pixel circuit is configured to compare each reference bit to corresponding bits stored in the latches of each pixel circuit, and generate voltage at an electrode of each pixel based on this comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Howard V. Goetz
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Patent number: 11942042Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of sub-pixels to display an image; a data driver for supplying image data to the plurality of sub-pixels; a gate driver for supplying a gate signal to the plurality of sub-pixels; a controller configured to convert a driving frequency of each of the data driver and the gate driver in a high frame rate mode; and a gamma voltage generator for generating gamma voltages respectively based on each driving frequency, wherein the controller is configured to generate a horizontal synchronization signal based on the driving frequency in the high frame rate mode. Accordingly, even when the driving frequency conversion occurs, image quality levels corresponding to various driving frequencies respectively may be kept uniform by applying the same operation duration to the various driving frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangyun Han, Yeongseok Choe, Joonmo Yang
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Patent number: 11908385Abstract: A driving method includes row scanning circuit configured to output scanning signals to sub-pixels in the display panel for plurality of times within one frame and output the scanning signals to the sub-pixels in the display panel in plurality of sub-frames each time; a data processor is configured to receive a display data stream including the display data corresponding to the sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-frames, split the display data stream according to analog-bit display data and digital-bit display data, and output the split display data stream to a column scanning circuit; and the column scanning circuit is configured to generate corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages according to the analog-bit display data and transmit corresponding data signals of dark-state digital data voltages or the corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages to corresponding sub-pixels in the display panel according to the digital-bit display data.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Chengdu Vistar Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Donghao Zhang
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Patent number: 11908393Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 11900888Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, and a driving controller. The driving controller generates image data based on a received image signal. The driving controller includes a minimum emission gray level determining unit that determines a gray level of the image signal, a pattern determining unit that determines a dither pattern of the image signal, a driving frequency sensing unit that determines a driving frequency of the image signal, and a data compensation unit that compensates for the image data based on the gray level and at least one of the dither pattern and the driving frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehyeong An, Jinpil Kim, Joon-Chul Goh, Dongjoon Kwag, Jaesung Bae
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Patent number: 11900857Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a timing controller configured to control the display panel, a memory operating in association with the timing controller, and a data transmission/reception circuit configured to write data to the memory or to read data from the memory under the control of the timing controller, wherein the data transmission/reception circuit includes a transmission direction setting unit configured to set a data transmission/reception path depending on a data transmission period or a data reception period in order to avoid collision between input and output during data transmission/reception.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung Jae Lee, A Rom So
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Patent number: 11903297Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel, a manufacturing method, a driving method and a display device. When the display panel needs to display a normal image, a pixel driving circuit and a first control circuit drive an organic light emitting diode to emit light. When the display panel needs to perform fingerprint detection of a finger, the pixel driving circuit and a second control circuit drive a micro light emitting diode to emit light, so that the light emitted by the micro light emitting diode can be received by a photoelectric converter after being reflected by the finger, the photoelectric converter can output a detection signal, and furthermore, fingerprint information of the finger can be determined according to the detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lizhen Zhang, Sheng Xu, Wei He, Yi Zhou, Qi Yao, Wusheng Li
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Patent number: 11893948Abstract: A display device, including: a light source, used for emitting light source light; a control unit, used for controlling a drive current for the light source, the modulation period of each frame of image to be displayed comprising at least one pulse modulation period, and within the pulse modulation period, the drive current for the light source being an overshoot current so that the average luminous brightness of the light source in the modulation period reaches preset brightness; and a light modulation unit, used for modulating the light source light according to image data of the image to be displayed and the luminous brightness of the light source to obtain a modulated image.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Chen Chen, Fei Hu, Xin Yu, Zuqiang Guo, Yi Li
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Patent number: 11887528Abstract: A display device may include a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, a power supply providing a power voltage to the display panel, and an overcurrent protector shutting down the power supply when at least one of the pixel rows is burnt. The overcurrent protector may include a sensing controller sensing a first current of at least one first pixel row of the display panel in a first frame period, and sensing a second current of the first pixel row in a second frame period after the first frame period when the first current is greater than or equal to a first threshold value. The overcurrent protector may further include a burnt determiner determining whether the first pixel row is burnt, and providing a shutdown signal to the power supply when the first pixel row is burnt.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaehoon Lee, Jung-Taek Kim
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Patent number: 11886650Abstract: A tracking system includes a stylus comprising a light emitter, a head-mounted device comprising an optical sensor configured to detect the light emitter, and a processor communicatively coupled to the optical sensor and configured to determine a position of the stylus based on detection of the light emitter.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Killian J. Poore, Stephen E. Dey, Trevor J. Ness
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Patent number: 11875746Abstract: A display apparatus with improved light emission uniformity includes a pixel. The pixel includes a driving thin-film transistor (TFT); a storage capacitor; a driving semiconductor layer; a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a pixel electrode; a pixel-defining layer defining a light-emitting region; and a conductive layer interposed between the first electrode layer and the pixel electrode and including an extending portion that at least partially overlaps the light-emitting region in a plane view to pass over a central portion of the light-emitting region.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngjin Cho, Joongsoo Moon, Minwoo Byun, Yangwan Kim, Changkyu Jin
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Patent number: 11869449Abstract: An image processing device that realizes local dimming control and push-up control of a display device using an artificial intelligence function is provided. The image processing device includes a trained neural network model that estimates a local dimming pattern representing light emitting states of light source units corresponding to a plurality of areas divided from a display area of an image display unit for a target display image, and a control unit that controls the light emitting states of the light source units on the basis of the local dimming pattern estimated by the trained neural network model for the target display image displayed on the image display unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Takeshi Hiramatsu, Hiroyuki Tahara
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Patent number: 11869394Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel provided with a plurality of pixels; and a light source provided with a plurality of light emission points. The ratio of a pitch of the pixels arranged in a predetermined direction to a pitch of the light emission points arranged in the predetermined direction is 1:4n or 1:6n, and n is a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Takeo Koito
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Patent number: 11862080Abstract: A display panel with a less costly backup arrangement for failed light-emitting elements and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of main sub-pixels and a backup sub-pixel. For any one of the pixels, if there is a failed main sub-pixel, the backup sub-pixel is activated and configured for cooperating with non-failed main sub-pixels to output metamerized light of a desired target color in order that no change in color or brightness is perceived by a viewer.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Te-En Tseng, Tsai-Yi Chien