Patents Examined by Michael Faragalla
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Patent number: 11086412Abstract: A method for determining display orientation is provided. The method includes the following steps. Sense a plurality of touch points by at least one hold sensor, and determine a holding gesture of the electronic apparatus according to the plurality of touch points. The at least one hold sensor is disposed on at least one side of the electronic apparatus. Determine a holding direction of the electronic apparatus according to the holding gesture. Determine a display orientation of a frame generated by the electronic apparatus according to the holding direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: HTC CORPORATIONInventor: Kuan-Wei Li
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Patent number: 11084379Abstract: A user interface capable of controlling various functions of a vehicle is disclosed. More particularly, an in-vehicle function control apparatus using a detachable knob and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. A method of controlling a vehicle function using a detachable knob includes an integrated operation unit detecting an attachment position of the detachable knob among a plurality of attachment positions in a vehicle, transmitting information on a result of the operation from the detachable knob to the integrated operation unit when an operation unit provided in the detachable knob is operated, and the integrated operation unit controlling a controlled function corresponding to the attachment position of the detachable knob based on the information on the result. The detachable knob is fixed at any one of the plurality of attachment positions using magnetic force.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Si Hoon Sung, Jae Hoon Chung, Sung Un Kim
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Patent number: 11081069Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to displays for electronic devices and methods of operating the displays. The display may include an array of display pixels arranged in rows and columns. A v-drive operation in which rows are alternatingly operated about a center of each of two halves of the display is provided. Data rendering operations are provided that generate a virtual frame rate boost.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Appe Inc.Inventors: Jun Li, Chaohao Wang, Hopil Bae, Mitchell H. Kline, Xiaokai Li
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Patent number: 11061504Abstract: An input sensing unit may include the following elements: a first sensing electrode including first sensors and a first connector coupling the first sensors; a second sensing electrode including second sensors and a second connector coupling the second sensors; a first sensing line including first sensing line parts and a third connector coupling the first sensing line parts; a second sensing line; and an insulating layer including a first insulating side and a second insulating side opposite the first insulating side. The first sensing line parts may overlap the first sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The second sensing line may overlap the second sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The first sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side. The second sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Inventors: Hyun Wook Cho, Tae Joon Kim, Eun Sol Seo, Eung Kwan Lee, Jae Woo Choi
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Patent number: 11049446Abstract: Aspects of the technology provide a graphical display on a client device such as a smartwatch or other electronic display device. Content rendered by a non-emissive display element is augmented by an enhancement display element, for instance to change a color or illumination intensity of the content. The enhancement display element may include multiple illumination sources and light pipes that guide light from the light sources to specific regions along the display. Alternatively, the enhancement display element may be a transparent OLED or similar component, for instance to provide per-pixel illumination, highlighting and/or color enhancement to selected content items. In yet another configuration, the enhancement display element has a mask layer and a light element. The mask layer controls the amount of light reaching the non-emissive display element or viewable by a user. Each of these architectures provides rich enhancement to the content items generated by the non-emissive display element.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Alex Olwal
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Patent number: 11048092Abstract: A head-mounted display to be mounted on a head of the user includes a display panel to display an image, a lighting device to supply light to the display device, the lighting device including at least one light source including a blue light emitting element emitting blue light, and a red phosphor to emit red light when excited by the blue light from the blue light emitting element, the red phosphor including a complex fluoride red phosphor and a nitride red phosphor having a content ratio smaller than that of the complex fluoride red phosphor, a lighting controller to control driving of the light source in synchronization with the image display by the display device so that a one-frame display period in the display device includes a turn-on period and a turn-off period, and a lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Tokumi Hayashi, Kenichi Hatsuda, Seitaro Akagawa, Takeshi Morikawa
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Patent number: 11044796Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a display device including one or more methods for modifying the display brightness by automatically adapting to ambient lighting conditions. A light sensor may measure the ambient light. Ambient light detection may be provided without requiring an additional opening in the device housing to support such detection.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: William Bryson Gardner, Jr.
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Patent number: 11037511Abstract: A display driver (10) includes a power supply circuit (60) that generates at least one power supply voltage, a drive circuit (20) that drives an electro-optical panel (150) based on the at least one power supply voltage, and a control circuit (50) that controls the power supply circuit (60) based on a control signal, a first monitoring circuit (M1) that monitors the control signal on the control circuit (50) side, and a second monitoring circuit (M2) that monitors the control signal on the power supply circuit (60) side.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11036391Abstract: An amusement park ride system including a ride vehicle, a ride control system that may track a location of the ride vehicle on a ride path and a haptic feedback system having a screen having a surface modifying component. The surface modifying component may be positioned on the ride vehicle. The haptic feedback system also includes a control system having a memory and a processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, may cause the haptic feedback system to convert data from the ride control system into tactile information representative of scenery surrounding the ride vehicle based on stored scenery data that is correlated to the location.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Universal Studios LLCInventors: Gregory S. Hall, Dante Lamar Bruno
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Patent number: 11030955Abstract: A system for controlling a display in which each pixel circuit comprises a light-emitting device, a drive transistor, a storage capacitor, a reference voltage source, and a programming voltage source. The storage capacitor stores a voltage equal to the difference between the reference voltage and the programming voltage, and a controller supplies a programming voltage that is a calibrated voltage for a known target current, reads the actual current passing through the drive transistor to a monitor line, turns off the light emitting device while modifying the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, modifies the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, and determines a current corresponding to the modified calibrated voltage based on predetermined current-voltage characteristics of the drive transistor.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
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Patent number: 11024222Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a light emitting diode (LED) module including a plurality of LEDs; a plurality of driving integrated chips (ICs), each of the plurality of driving ICs being configured to apply voltages to a corresponding group of the plurality of LEDs; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify a first voltage corresponding to a first LED from among the plurality of LEDs based on image data, identify a first LED driving voltage as the first voltage or a second voltage based on the first voltage and a reference value, and control a first driving IC, from among the plurality of driving ICs, that corresponds to the first LED based on the first LED driving voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Younghoon Cho, Jiyong Park, Sangkyun Im, Minji Han
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Patent number: 11024244Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, a plurality of timing control circuits, and a signal transmission circuit. The first timing control circuit and the second timing control circuit respectively transmit a plurality of data signals to the first drive circuit according to the obtained plurality of display data, and the first drive circuit respectively controls potentials of the first data line group and the second data line group according to the plurality of data signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bin Qiu
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Patent number: 11023194Abstract: An arrangement includes at least two modules for a video wall including light-emitting components arranged on a carrier, wherein a drive circuit that selectively drives the component at the carrier is provided for each component, row lines and column lines are provided, each drive circuit connects to a row line and a column line, each drive circuit connects to power supply lines, the carrier includes plated-through holes that guide the row lines and the column lines onto an underside of the carrier, the two modules are arranged on a further carrier, the further carrier includes at least one recess, an electrical connector is arranged in the recess, and the electrical connector connects column lines and/or row lines of the two modules to one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbHInventors: Thomas Schwarz, Frank Singer, Jürgen Moosburger, Karl Engl, Alexander Martin
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Patent number: 11011107Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a compensation module, a resetting module, a writing module, a driver module, a light emission enabling module, and a light emitting device. The resetting module is configured to reset the driver module and the light emitting device; the compensation module performs threshold voltage compensation on the driver module; the writing module is configured to write, to the driver module, a data voltage that is output by a data line; the light emission enabling module is configured to provide a voltage of a first supply voltage end to the driver module; the driver module is configured to provide, under action of the voltage output by the first supply voltage end, a drive current to the light emitting device; and the light emitting device is configured to emit light based on the drive current. The pixel circuit is configured to drive to display a subpixel.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Chun Yen Liu
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Patent number: 11009747Abstract: Backlight module and display device are provided. The backlight module includes: a first substrate, a drive circuit on a side of the first substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements and a plurality of fingerprint recognition elements, where the drive circuit includes a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit; the plurality of the light-emitting elements is on a side of the drive circuit away from the first substrate; the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the first drive circuit; the plurality of the light-emitting elements is arranged in an array structure; the plurality of the fingerprint recognition elements and the plurality of the light-emitting elements are on a same side of the first substrate; and the fingerprint recognition element is electrically connected to the second drive circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Binyi Zheng, Zhuo Deng, Ling Wu, Boping Shen
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Patent number: 11009911Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel including a non-rectangular display area. The display panel includes a first pixel row. The first pixel row includes a plurality of inner pixels and a plurality of end pixels. The inner pixels are disposed in the non-rectangular display area, and the end pixels are disposed between an end of the first pixel row and the inner pixels. An area of a display region of each of the end pixels is less than an area of a display region of each of the inner pixels. In the first pixel row, areas of a plurality of display regions of the end pixels are increased along a direction from the end of the first pixel row toward the inner pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATIONInventors: Sung-Chun Lin, Chen-Yin Su
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Patent number: 11004753Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element, and a transistor. The substrate has a top surface. The light-emitting element is disposed on the substrate. The transistor is disposed on the substrate, and includes a drain electrode, a gate electrode, and a semiconductor layer. The drain electrode is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. The semiconductor layer includes an overlapping portion overlapped with the gate electrode. The light-emitting element does not overlap with the overlapping portion along a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Tung-Kai Liu, Tsau-Hua Hsieh, Wei-Cheng Chu, Chun-Hsien Lin, Chandra Lius, Ting-Kai Hung, Kuan-Feng Lee, Ming-Chang Lin, Tzu-Min Yan, Hui-Chieh Wang
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Patent number: 11004401Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a light emitting diode, a first transistor controlling a driving current of the light emitting diode, a second transistor including a second drain electrode connected to a first source electrode of the first transistor, a second gate electrode, a second channel overlapped with the second gate electrode when viewed in a plan view, a second source electrode facing the second drain electrode with the second channel interposed therebetween, and a lower gate electrode, and a plurality of driving voltage lines transmitting a first driving voltage. The lower gate electrode of the second transistor is overlapped with the second channel when viewed in a plan view, and the lower gate electrode is electrically connected to a corresponding driving voltage line among the driving voltage lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventors: Seongbaik Chu, Eungtaek Kim, Seongmin Wang, Young-in Hwang
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Patent number: 11004410Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a gamma generator configured to change a dividing ratio of a high gamma curve and a low gamma curve applied to the high sub-pixel and the low sub-pixel based on a position of the first sub-pixel and to generate a high gamma data corresponding to the high gamma curve and a low gamma data corresponding to the low gamma curve, and a data driver configured to convert the high gamma data and the low gamma data to a high data voltage and a low data voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinpil Kim, Hoisik Moon, Byoung Seok Yoo, Youngsuk Ha
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Patent number: 11004924Abstract: There is provided a display device including: a light emitting element; and a drive transistor (DRTr) that includes a coupling section (W1) and a plurality of channel sections (CH) coupled in series through the coupling section (W1), wherein the drive transistor (DRTr) is configured to supply a drive current to the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Seiichiro Jinta