Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11881852
    Abstract: An operator for controlling electrically adjustable furniture includes a housing and an actuation panel movably supported in the housing to form a cover body. A circuit board is provided in the housing, and a main control unit for detecting an actuation signal is provided on the circuit board. A first switch for generating a first actuation signal and a second switch for generating a second actuation signal are provided between the actuation panel and the main control unit, and a third switch for generating a third actuation signal is provided between a bottom wall of the housing and the main control unit. The main control unit issues a first command when simultaneously detecting the first actuation signal and the second actuation signal, and the main control unit issues a second command when simultaneously detecting the first actuation signal, the second actuation signal, and the third actuation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG JIECANG LINEAR MOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renchang Hu, Xiaojian Lu, Xueli Chen, Zhekang Zhang, Shaoping Zhou
  • Patent number: 11881153
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display apparatus includes a display panel including first and second pixel, a data voltage supply unit supplying the first pixel with a first data voltage of a first gate signal and supplying the second pixel with a second data voltage of a second gate signal in a vertical active period of a first frame and continuously supplying the second pixel with a sensing data voltage and a recovery data voltage of a third gate signal in a vertical blank period of the first frame, and a sensing circuit sensing an electrical characteristic of the second pixel based on the sensing data voltage in the vertical blank period. The recovery data voltage is supplied to the second pixel later than the sensing data voltage. The recovery data voltage supplied to the second pixel in the vertical blank period includes the first and second data voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Min Park
  • Patent number: 11876513
    Abstract: A low power consumption boost circuit for providing high driving voltage of a touch circuit is provided. The low power consumption boost circuit includes a charge pump circuit, two digital-to-analog converters (DACs), and a switch circuit. The charge pump circuit receives a system voltage and correspondingly outputs a positive output voltage twice the system voltage and a negative output voltage with opposite polarity as the system voltage. One of the DACs receives the positive output voltage from the charge pump circuit as supply voltage, and the other DAC receives the negative output voltage from the charge pump circuit as supply voltage. The switch circuit is connected between the DACs and the touch circuit. The DACs are connected between the charge pump circuit and the switch circuit. The DACs are alternately connected to the touch circuit by controlling the switch circuit, thereby driving the touch circuit alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang, Zong-You Hou
  • Patent number: 11868611
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Patent number: 11869396
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device and a method of driving the same. For example, a display device according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure includes pixels, a sensing unit, and a compensator calculating a current compensation value for each of the pixels based on a sensing value of the sensing unit, a first pixel among the pixels includes at least two light emitting diodes connected in series with a first transistor that controls a current, the sensing unit outputs a sensing value by sensing a voltage of the light emitting diodes in a sensing period, and the compensator increases the current compensation value for the first pixel as a voltage of the second node decreases in the sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yo Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11869419
    Abstract: A display device includes a first source printed circuit board connected to a control printed circuit board through a cable, a second source printed circuit board connected to the first source printed circuit board through a flexible printed circuit board, a display panel connected to the first source printed circuit board and the second source printed circuit board through a connection part, and a timing controller determining predicted power currents based on input image data, determining a target gain based on the predicted power currents and a maximum allowable power current of the flexible printed circuit board, and correcting the input image data corresponding to a gain reduction region of the display panel based on the target gain. Accordingly, the display device may reduce a power current flowing through the flexible printed circuit board and may include a flexible printed circuit board including a small number of pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jang-Hoon Kwak
  • Patent number: 11869413
    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 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    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: 11862069
    Abstract: A micro-LED driver applies a low baseline power (i.e., a baseline voltage or current) to pre-charge a micro-LED in a nominally-off (i.e., non-light-emitting) state in addition to applying an operating driving power to drive the micro-LED in a light-emitting state. By pre-charging the micro-LED prior to applying the operating driving power, the micro-LED driver significantly decreases the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED. In some embodiments, the micro-LED driver applies an operating driving power having multiple phases of current density to reduce the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aurelien Jean Francois David, Patrick F. Brinkley, Carlin Vieri
  • Patent number: 11862071
    Abstract: The present embodiments disclose a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Jun Young Jung
  • Patent number: 11862076
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting diode display module, including a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode, a third light-emitting diode, a scan block, a voltage conversion block, a first sink block, and a second sink block. An operating voltage of the first light-emitting diode is lower than that of the second and third light-emitting diodes. The voltage conversion block provides an auxiliary power supply voltage based on a high power supply voltage and a low power supply voltage. The first light-emitting diode is coupled between the scan block and the first sink block receiving the high power supply voltage and the auxiliary power supply voltage. The second light-emitting diode and the third light-emitting diode are coupled between the scan block and the second sink block receiving the high power supply voltage and the low power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Hsu, Chi-Yu Geng, Shu-Hao Chang, Hung-Chi Wang, Ming-Hung Tu, Ya-Fang Chen, Chih-Hsiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11854466
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a GOA circuit, a source driving chip, a multiplexing circuit, and a plurality of pixels distributed in an array; through improvement of the cascade connection between GOA units and the at least partially overlapping between working cycles of adjacent ones of the GOA units, more working cycles can be provided for the writing of the data signals to meet the writing requirements of the data signals during high-frequency drive display or ultra-high frequency drive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuanyun Wang, Chao Dai
  • Patent number: 11852800
    Abstract: Increasing transparency of one or more micro-displays. A method includes attaching a transparent cover to at least a portion of a semiconductor wafer. The at least a portion of the semiconductor wafer includes the one or more micro-displays. The one or more micro-displays include one or more active silicon areas. The method further includes, after the transparent cover has been attached to the at least a portion of the semiconductor wafer, removing silicon between one or more of the active silicon areas, causing the one or more micro-displays to have a transparency of at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob Becker, Jon Burnsed
  • Patent number: 11848317
    Abstract: A light emitting substrate (100) and a display device are provided. The light emitting substrate (100) includes a light emitting region (110) and a border region (160). The light emitting substrate (100) includes a base (10), and a plurality of light emitting units (102) and a plurality of signal lines (30) located on the base (10). The light emitting units (102) are located in the light emitting region (110), and each includes a driving circuit (103) and at least one light emitting element (104). The plurality of light emitting units (102) are arranged into M rows along a first direction (D1) and into N columns along a second direction (D2) intersecting the first direction (D1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE RUISHENG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjie Xu, Min He, Xiaodong Xie, Bin Pang, Huayu Sang, Xinxiu Zhang, Xue Zhao, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11847970
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a first display region including first light emitting unit groups and first pixel circuit groups connected with the first light emitting unit groups, a second display region including second light emitting unit groups, second pixel circuit groups connected with the second light emitting unit groups and third pixel circuit groups, and a third display region including third light emitting unit groups connected with the third pixel circuit groups. Each light emitting unit group includes light emitting units of different colors. The light emitting unit includes a main body electrode, an area of the main body electrode of at least one color light emitting unit in a non-edge region of the second display region is greater than that of a main body electrode of the same color light emitting unit in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lili Du, Wei Zhang, Yu Zhang, Chi Yu, Weiyun Huang
  • Patent number: 11847960
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes multiple pixel circuits. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor and at least one switch unit. At least one switch unit includes M thin film transistors connected in parallel, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The M thin film transistors are configured to be turned on during different display phases, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Zhiyong Xiong, Yaolin Wang
  • Patent number: 11842708
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Minhyuk Choi, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Sang Y. Youn, Yafei Bi, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11837157
    Abstract: A display module includes: a module substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on the module substrate; and a plurality of micro-pixel controllers provided in spaces between the plurality of pixels and configured to supply a drive current to at least two pixels among the plurality of pixels, where each micro-pixel controller of the plurality of micro-pixel controllers includes a pixel circuit configured to, based on a first voltage and a second voltage being applied to the micro-pixel controller, control an amplitude of the drive current based on the first voltage and control a pulse width of the drive current based on the second voltage, and, based on the display module being in a power saving mode, the first voltage is adjusted to decrease a brightness of a pixel in a specified region, among the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongsu Oh, Sangyoung Park
  • Patent number: 11837158
    Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel including sub pixels. The pixel includes a sub pixel area in which the sub pixels are disposed and a common area. The pixel includes a light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, and the anode electrode is electrically connected to a first power line to which a high potential voltage is supplied. Each of the sub pixels includes a driving element in which a source is connected to a N1 node, a gate is connected to a N2 node, and a drain is connected to a N3 node, a capacitor connected to the N2 node and a N4 node; a N1 switching circuit connected to the N1 node; a N2 switching circuit connected to the N2 node; a N3 switching circuit connected to the N3 node; and a N4 switching circuit connected to the N4 node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JinYeong Kim, HyeonHo Son, SeongHwan Ju
  • Patent number: 11837161
    Abstract: A display device and a control method therefor are provided. The display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels consisting of a plurality of light emitting devices of different colors; a sensor for sensing a temperature of the display panel; a driver IC for driving the plurality of pixels; a memory storing a plurality of pieces of correction data; and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to identify, on the basis of the temperature sensed by the sensor, correction data corresponding to the sensed temperature from among the plurality of pieces of stored correction data, correct image data on the basis of the correction data, and control the driver IC on the basis of the corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeongcheol Hyeon, Jaehyang Lee, Jiyong Park, Taeje Park
  • Patent number: 11837153
    Abstract: A light emitting substrate is provided. The light emitting substrate includes a plurality of light emitting controlling units arranged in M rows and N columns, M is an integer equal to or greater than one, N is an integer equal to or greater than one, wherein a respective one of the plurality of light emitting controlling units includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in J rows and I columns, J being an integer equal to or greater than one, I being an integer equal to or greater than one, a i-th column of the I columns of light emitting elements includes J rows of light emitting elements, 1?i?I; (M×J) number of first voltage signal lines; and (M×J) number of groups of second voltage signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOB Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Qi Qi, Wanzhi Chen, Lubin Shi, Fuqiang Li, Fei Wang