Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11614810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an input device. The input device includes a circuit board, a wheel, a supporting frame, a push button switch and a tilt switch. The wheel has a rotary shaft. The supporting frame includes a body, an extension arm, a first and a second supporting portion. The wheel is pivotally connected to the body by the rotary shaft. The extension arm is disposed at the side edge of the body. The first and second supporting portion are connected to the body, where the second supporting portion is disposed between the rotary shaft and the first supporting portion. The push button switch is corresponding to the body. When the wheel is pressed, the body is driven to trigger the push button switch. The tilt switch is corresponding to the extension arm. When the wheel tilts, the extension arm is driven to trigger the tilt switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Tse Kao, Yu-Cheng Pan, Tsung-Yueh Yu
  • Patent number: 11615739
    Abstract: A method of compensating for change in pixel and a display device incorporating such method are presented. The method includes dividing pixels into groups including a previous group L?1, a current group L and a next group L+1; determining Aconverged[L] and Bconverged[L] for each pixel in the current group L; for each pixel in the current group L, determining a first moving average Amean[L] and a second moving average Bmean[L] as follows: A mean [ L ] = A ? mean [ L - 1 ] ? ( K - 1 ) + A [ L ] K , B mean [ L ] = B ? mean [ L - 1 ] ? ( K - 1 ) + B [ L ] K , wherein Amean[L?1] is a first moving average of a pixel in the corresponding column in the previous group L?1, Bmean[L?1] is a second moving average of a pixel in the corresponding column in the previous group L?1, and K is a moving average window; and for the next group L+1, setting a first initial value A0[L+1] and a second initial value A0[L+1] of each pixel to Amean[L] and Bmean[L].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyunglok Kim, Amir Amirkhany, Gaurav Malhotra
  • Patent number: 11615730
    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: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
  • Patent number: 11610537
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a pixel unit including first pixel rows connected to first scan lines and second pixel rows alternating with the first pixel rows and connected to second scan lines, a scan driver including first scan stages connected to the first scan lines and second scan stages connected to the second scan lines, and an emission driver including emission stages in which each of emission lines is connected to two or more pixel rows. Accordingly, the display device is capable of changing a display frequency and maintaining the same cycle in which luminance decreases when the display frequency is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jae Keun Lim, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Se Hyuk Park, Woo Mi Bae, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11610538
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver is configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to provide a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver is configured to provide an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element and a bias switching element. The driving switching element is configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element. The bias switching element is configured to provide a bias voltage to an input electrode of the driving switching element. A frequency of a bias gate signal applied to a control electrode of the bias switching element is greater than a frequency of a data write gate signal applied to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Jangmi Kang, Minjae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11605337
    Abstract: The present embodiments disclose a pixel driving circuit and a display device including the same. A pixel driving circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first pixel circuit configured to control light-emission and non-emission of the luminous element in response to a control signal applied to each of a plurality of subframes constituting a frame during a light-emitting period and a second pixel circuit storing a bit value of image data in a data writing period and generating the control signal based on the bit value and a clock signal in the light-emitting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11594170
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode (LED) display panel is provided. The micro LED display panel includes a substrate and a driving layer. The driving layer is disposed on the substrate. The driving layer includes a micro LED and a photo sensor. When the micro LED emits light to a finger of a user, the photo sensor generates a sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chin-Chuan Hsieh, Hsin-Wei Mao
  • Patent number: 11586334
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion, a display driver, a touch sensing portion, and a touch driver. The display portion includes data lines, scan lines, and pixels connected to the data lines and the scan lines. The display driver provides data signals to the data lines and sequentially provides scan signals to the scan lines. The touch sensing portion includes sensing electrodes. The touch driver senses a touch input based on a change of a capacitance between the sensing electrodes and calculates a movement speed of the touch input. When the movement speed of the touch input is greater than a reference speed, a first period in which the scan signals and the data signals are provided is reduced in a frame period in which a frame image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Seok Son, Myoung Ho Kwon, Jeong Kug Lee
  • Patent number: 11587498
    Abstract: The invention discloses a driving method and a device for a light-emitting element. The method includes: acquiring a display image; calculating a backlight brightness required for the display image; and selecting at least one pulse signal from the preset plurality of pulse signals to drive the light emitting element according to the backlight brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 11580934
    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: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 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: 11580912
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display device includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface and a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed on the opposite sides of the substrate. The display device includes a connective portion at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrating from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the connective portion. The display device includes a light-emitting element disposed on the first surface and an insulation layer disposed on the first conductive layer. Along a direction perpendicular to the first surface, the first electrode and the second electrode of the light-emitting element are not overlapped with the connective portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Feng Lee, Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11580897
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels; a timing controller supplying respective scan start signals to a plurality of scan drivers and an emission start signal to an emission driver, in response to synchronization signals supplied from the outside; the emission driver supplying an emission signal to emission control lines connected to the pixels based on the emission start signal; the scan drivers supplying scan signals to the scan lines connected to the pixels based on the scan start signal; and a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines connected to the pixels, and at least one of a frequency of the emission start signal and frequencies of the scan start signals may be a first frequency that is determined independently of a driving frequency when the driving frequency is less than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Young Kim, Dong Hwi Kim, Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 11561693
    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: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Patent number: 11556998
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness. In one aspect, a computing system receives, via a network interface, zone data from the media playback system, wherein the zone data includes an indication of a particular zone of the media playback system, and wherein the particular zone comprises at least one playback device. The computing system identifies audio content based on (i) the indication of the particular zone and (ii) contextual data associated with the particular zone, and provides, via the network interface, an indication of the identified audio content to the media playback system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Bender, Ron Kuper
  • Patent number: 11557247
    Abstract: A driving substrate and a display panel are provided. The driving substrate includes driving modules. Each of the driving modules includes two electrodes. Each of at least one of the two electrodes includes convex parts, and each of the convex parts protrudes from one of the two electrodes where the convex parts are located towards the other one of the two electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao Chi, Jujian Fu, Ping An
  • Patent number: 11550193
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a display area, a terminal area, a first side and a third side, and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate and including a fifth side and a seventh side. The terminal area is sandwiched between the third side and the seventh side. The first substrate includes a first round corner between the first side and the third side. The second substrate includes a third round corner between the fifth side and the seventh side. A radius of curvature of the third round corner is smaller than a radius of curvature of the first round corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Morikazu Nomura
  • Patent number: 11550140
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob Becker, Jon Burnsed
  • Patent number: 11541563
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes providing a display panel including a folding area at which the display panel is foldable, and a flat area which is adjacent to the folding area; providing a protective film on both the flat area and the folding area of the display panel; removing a portion of the protective film which corresponds to the folding area, from the display panel, to expose the folding area outside a remaining portion of the protective film, where the remaining portion of the protective film defines a bump of the protective film at a portion of the flat area which is closest to the folding area; and removing a portion of the bump from the portion of the flat area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kwon, Chan Ho Moon, Jeong Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11545079
    Abstract: A display device including a base substrate including a first base film, a second base film disposed on the first base film, and a connection wire, wherein at least a portion of the connection wire is disposed between the first base film and the second base film, a pixel circuit disposed on the base substrate, a light emitting element disposed on the pixel circuit and electrically connected to the pixel circuit, and a driving part disposed under the base substrate. The first base film has a first penetration part and a first protrusion part protruding toward the second base film, and the second base film has a second penetration part overlapping the first protrusion part and a second protrusion part protruding toward the first base film and overlapping the first penetration part. The connection wire extends to an upper surface of the base substrate along the first protrusion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyool Kim, Kwangyoung Choi, Sae-Hee Ryu, Seungmin Song, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11545081
    Abstract: A LED driving apparatus with clock embedded cascaded LED drivers is introduced, including: a plurality of LED drivers, wherein the first stage LED driver receives an original data signal and outputs a first data signal, the Nth stage LED driver receives a (N?1)th data signal and outputs a Nth data signal. The Nth stage LED driver includes a clock data recovery circuit generating a recovery clock signal and a recovery data signal according to the (N?1)th data signal; and a first transmitter outputting the Nth data signal according to the recovery clock signal and the recovery data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Keko-Chun Liang, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Yong-Ren Fang, Yi-Chuan Liu