Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11328632
    Abstract: A display control apparatus comprises a display device that is a display device to be provided in a moving object that can travel, and outputs image information such that a visible direction from the outside of the moving object is restricted. The display control apparatus detects an image information presentation target that is present around the moving object, and controls the visible direction in the display device to a predetermined direction. The display control apparatus controls the predetermined direction such that an output of the display device is visible to the detected image information presentation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Komori, Satoshi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11330691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display (1) comprising—a casing (10), —an image generation unit (20), and—a light sensor (30), disposed in the interior (INT) of said casing (10), suitable for delivering a signal representative of a light intensity received by same, the display (1) being adapted such that the luminosity of an image generated by the image generation unit (20) is controlled as a function of said signal. According to the invention, the display (1) further comprises a light guide (50) situated in the interior (INT) of the casing (10) of the display (1), having an inlet face (51) and being shaped to collect at the input face (51) of same a light ray coming from outside the casing (10) of the display, and for guiding said light ray to said sensor (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE
    Inventors: François Grandclerc, Pierre Mermillod
  • Patent number: 11315481
    Abstract: Disclosed includes an apparatus, a drive method, a display panel, and a display device. The apparatus may comprise a drive transistor, a light emitting device driven by the drive transistor and a comparator. The comparator may have a first input coupled to a pixel voltage, a second input coupled to a reference voltage, a first control terminal coupled to a first control voltage, a second control terminal coupled to a second control voltage, and an output coupled to a gate of the drive transistor. The comparator may be configured to output the first control voltage to the output during a first time period in which the pixel voltage is not smaller than the reference voltage and output the second control voltage to the output during a second time period in which the pixel voltage is smaller than the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: BOE MLED Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Gao, Ming Chen, Lingyun Shi, Xin Duan, Yuxin Bi, Hong Liu, Mingjian Yu, Guofeng Hu
  • Patent number: 11315479
    Abstract: An array substrate including a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix is provided. Each pixel unit at least includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel that emit light of different colors, the first sub-pixel has a lower luminous efficiency than the second and third sub-pixels. The array substrate further comprises a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines that correspond to respective rows of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units. The first sub-pixel in each row of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units is coupled to a first gate line of the plurality of first gate lines, and the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel in the row of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units are both coupled to a second gate line of the plurality of second gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Cong, Minghua Xuan, Han Yue, Ming Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Liang Chen, Detao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11315907
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a full-color display module and display device. The full-color display module includes at least two light-emitting layers. Any one of the at least two light-emitting layers includes a substrate and a plurality of light-emitting portions encapsulated on the substrate. A type of any one of the plurality of light-emitting portions is one of a red light-emitting portion, a green light-emitting portion, and a blue light-emitting portion. The at least two light-emitting layers are successively laminated in a laminating direction and form a plurality of pixel points. Any one of the plurality of pixel points is a surrounding area on the full-color display module, which is surrounded by a surrounding curved surface. The surrounding area of the any one of the plurality of pixel points includes at least one red light-emitting portion, at least one green light-emitting portion, and at least one blue light-emitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FOSHAN NATIONSTAR OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kailiang Fan, Kuai Qin, Heng Guo, Qiang Zhao, Zongxian Xie, Chungan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11309368
    Abstract: A display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed, which may prevent a crack from occurring on an inorganic film constituting an encapsulation film and prevent a residual film from occurring. The display device comprises a substrate including a display area on which pixels area arranged, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; an encapsulation film covering the display area and including an organic film; a first dam arranged to be in contact with the encapsulation film, having a second side which is an opposite side of a first side facing the organic film and has an inclination smaller than 90°; and a metal pattern pattern-formed on the first dam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyangmyoung Gwon, Byonghoo Kim, Sangheun Lee
  • Patent number: 11301062
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body to an outside thereof; and a resonance circuit connected to the conductive tip to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip. An inductor unit of the resonance circuit includes a ferrite core and a coil wound in multiple layers over at least a portion of the ferrite core. The ferrite core includes nickel, and the coil can be formed by a litz wire with adjacent winding layers that are wound to be inclined in a zigzag form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Hyoungwook Woo, Kiryoung Jung, Bonkee Kim
  • Patent number: 11294428
    Abstract: An electronic device which can detect a touch state, comprising: a front surface for showing images; at least one first electrode, provided in a first region; at least one second electrode, provided in a second region, wherein a distance between the first region and the front surface is larger than a distance between the second region and the front surface; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate at least one first capacitance generated by the first electrode and coupled to the second electrode to calculate at least one second capacitance generated by the second electrode, wherein the capacitance calculating circuit further calculates a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the touch state according to the capacitance difference. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Pix Art Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tsai, Tse-Chung Su, Ren-Hau Gu, Tzung-Min Su
  • Patent number: 11289009
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit for a light-emission-device-based display panel is provided, including a driving transistor coupled to a light-emission device per subpixel; a digital-driving circuit having a first input terminal configured to receive a pixel voltage signal corresponding to a grayscale level of a subpixel image to be displayed and a first output terminal coupled to a gate terminal of the driving transistor. The digital-driving circuit is configured to convert the pixel voltage signal to a digital signal and transform the digital signal to a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal outputted via the first output terminal to the gate terminal of the driving transistor. The PWM signal comprises a pulse width proportional to the grayscale level as a duty cycle in a period of driving the light-emitting device to display subpixel image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guofeng Hu, Zhenkun Song, Ming Chen, Lingyun Shi, Yuxin Bi, Xin Duan, Yankai Gao, Hong Liu, Mingjian Yu
  • Patent number: 11289014
    Abstract: A display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method, and there are provided a structure and a driving circuit allowing overlap driving for improving a charging rate and fake data insertion driving, in which a fake image is inserted between real images to prevent afterimages and improve moving picture response time, to be simultaneously performed, thereby making it easier to implement high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventor: WooSeok Choi
  • Patent number: 11288994
    Abstract: A source driver adapted to drive a display panel is provided. The source driver includes an output buffer and a slew rate adjustment circuit. An input terminal of the output buffer receives a driving voltage. An output terminal of the output buffer outputs an output signal adapted to drive the display panel. The slew rate adjustment circuit dynamically adjusts a slew rate of a rising edge of the output signal according to a first setting and dynamically adjusts a slew rate of a falling edge of the output signal according to a second setting independent of the first setting, such that the adjustment to the slew rate of the rising edge of the output signal is independent of the adjustment to the slew rate of the falling edge of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Hsiang Wang, Chia-Lun Chang
  • Patent number: 11282443
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light emitting element; and a pixel circuit configured to drive the light emitting element. The pixel circuit may include a first capacitor configured to output a first voltage corresponding to an image signal; a first transistor having a control terminal connected to the first capacitor and to which the first voltage is applied, a first terminal to which a second voltage corresponding to a slope signal that changes over time is applied, and a second terminal configured to output an output signal based on a comparison between the first voltage and the second voltage; and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element based on the output signal of the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawae, Junichi Yamashita, Takashige Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11270633
    Abstract: A display device comprises an array of light emitting diode zones in a display area. The display device further comprises a control circuit to generate dimming signals to control respective duty cycles for driving the light emitting diode zones during a frame. The display device further comprises an array of driver circuits distributed in the display area of the display device. Each of the driver circuits receives the respective duty cycle for the frame at a first time and receives an update signal at a second time. Each driver circuit drives one of the light emitting diode zones according to the respective duty cycles of the dimming signals in response to the update signal. Different groups of driver circuits start driving the respective light emitting diode zones at different respective offset times during the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huayuan Semiconductor (Shenzhen) Limited Company
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Wei, Junjie Zheng, Richard Landry Gray
  • Patent number: 11269584
    Abstract: A display system for improving delivery power of content by outputting content considering a user's moving path, a control method of the display system, and a display apparatus. The control method of the display system, according to an embodiment of the disclosure, includes generating path information to be used to output contents to at least two display apparatuses of a plurality of display apparatuses based on user information; determining content-of-interest based on the user information; and outputting the determined content-of-interest to at least one display apparatus of the plurality of display apparatuses based on the generated path information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younggyoo Park, Jihoon Son
  • Patent number: 11263995
    Abstract: A display device, an electronic equipment, and a method for driving a display device are disclosed. The display device includes a first light source group, a second light source group, a first image sensor group, and a second image sensor group. The first light source group is configured to emit light of a first determined frequency to illuminate a first partial region of a detection object, the second light source group is configured to emit light of a second determined frequency to illuminate a second partial region of the detection object, the first image sensor group is configured to receive the light of the first determined frequency emitted by the first light source group and reflected by the detection object, and the second image sensor group is configured to receive the light of the second determined frequency emitted by the second light source group and reflected by the detection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangbing Li, Pengpeng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Jiabin Wang, Yapeng Li, Likai Deng
  • Patent number: 11257412
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a controller configured to determine a peak luminance based on a target luminance and a black duty ratio that is a ratio of a black insertion period to a sum of an image display period and the black insertion period, to determine gray-luminance information representing a plurality of luminances respectively corresponding to a plurality of gray levels based on the peak luminance and a target gamma value, and to generate gray-voltage information representing a plurality of voltage levels respectively corresponding to the plurality of gray levels based on a target white color coordinate and the gray-luminance information, a gray voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of gray voltages having the plurality of voltage levels based on the gray-voltage information, and a data driver configured to provide the plurality of gray voltages corresponding to output image data as data voltages to the plurality of pixels in the image display
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
  • Patent number: 11250814
    Abstract: A display device includes a PWM signal generating part configured to set a duty ratio for each period of a pulse width modulation signal, and configured to generate an intermediate gray scale signal including a signal including a first pulse width modulation signal continuous to a second pulse width modulation signal corresponding to two duty ratios closest to each other among M types of duty ratios, based on a signal related to luminance from an input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshitaka Nadami, Kazuhiko Yoda
  • Patent number: 11250768
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a display apparatus comprising the same are disclosed, in which a maximum voltage level of a plurality of scan signals output from one stage circuit can be prevented from being deteriorated. The gate driving circuit comprises first to mth stage circuits, wherein each of the first to mth stage circuits includes a logic circuit portion controlling a voltage of each of a first control node and a second control node, a node boosting circuit boosting the voltage of each of the control nodes in accordance with boosting shift clock signals, a scan output circuit outputting each of first to ith scan shift clock signals as first to ith scan signals (i is a natural number of 3 or more) in response to the boosting voltage of the first control node, and a carry output circuit outputting carry shift clock signals as carry signals in response to the boosting voltage of the first control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JaeKyu Park, Sangki Jeon
  • Patent number: 11250767
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a light emitting display apparatus comprising the same are discussed, in which a charging characteristic of a control node is improved. The gate driving circuit comprises first to mth stage circuits, wherein each of the first to mth stage circuits includes first to third control nodes, a node control circuit controlling a voltage of each of the first to third control nodes, and an output buffer circuit outputting each of a scan signal, a sense signal and a carry signal in accordance with each of the first to third control nodes, the node control circuit including a node setup circuit charging a first gate high potential voltage in the first control node in response to a first carry signal supplied from a front stage circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JaeKyu Park, SooHong Choi, HongJae Shin, Seongho Yun, Jeongrim Seo
  • Patent number: 11244602
    Abstract: A shift register includes an input sub-circuit, a control sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit and a reset sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is configured to transmit an input signal from an input signal terminal to a pull-up node. The control sub-circuit is configured to transmit a clock signal from a clock signal terminal to the control node. The output sub-circuit is configured to transmit a second voltage signal from a second voltage signal terminal to a first output signal terminal, and to transmit a first voltage signal from a first voltage signal terminal to the first output signal terminal. The reset sub-circuit is configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the control node to reset the control node, and to transmit a third voltage signal from the third voltage signal terminal to the pull-up node to reset the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoliang Zheng, Dongni Liu, Minghua Xuan, Zhenyu Zhang, Li Xiao, Liang Chen, Hao Chen, Guangliang Shang, Lijun Yuan, Xing Yao