Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
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Patent number: 11893936Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a signal writing sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting control sub-circuit and an initialization sub-circuit. The signal writing sub-circuit is configured to write a voltage of a data signal terminal into the driving sub-circuit as a data voltage. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to, in conjunction with the driving sub-circuit, drive a light-emitting device to emit light. The initialization sub-circuit is configured to transmit the voltage from the data signal terminal to the compensation sub-circuit as a reset voltage. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to transmit the reset voltage from the initialization sub-circuit to the driving sub-circuit to reset the driving sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhichong Wang, Fuqiang Li, Peng Liu, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan
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Patent number: 11892880Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing; a hinge unit configured to rotate the first housing and the second housing, the housing configured to move between a folded state and an unfolded state via the hinge unit; a first display disposed in a first area of the first housing and a second area of the second housing; a second display disposed in a third area of the first housing, located at an opposite side of the first area; at least one sensor; a memory configured to store an image frame set including a plurality of image frames; and at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to obtain, via the at least one sensor, information corresponding to a folding angle between the first housing and the second housing, based on the obtained information corresponding to a first folding angle being smaller than a first reference angle, deactivate the first display and display, via the second display, anType: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Jongwoo Jung, Insik Myung, Jiin Baek, Hyunjin Han, Dasom Lee
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Patent number: 11885962Abstract: A display adjustment method and apparatus, a system, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a reference position from an image displayed by a head-up display HUD system, where the reference position is related to a focal position, on the image displayed by the HUD system, of an eye of a user; obtaining a brightness weakening coefficient of each pixel based on a distance between each pixel in the image and the reference position; adjusting display brightness of each pixel in the image based on the brightness weakening coefficient of each pixel; and displaying an adjusted image based on the display brightness of each pixel in the adjusted image.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuefei Xie, Biwei Song, Shuyue Chen
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Patent number: 11887516Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a display driver, wherein the display driver may be configured to detect a defective output buffer among output buffers and perform an output correction function for the defective output buffer.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Byeong Yong Kim, Chang Bae Lee
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Patent number: 11875532Abstract: The disclosure provides a feature point position detection method and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of first relative positions of a plurality of feature points on a specific object relative to a first image capturing element; obtaining a plurality of second relative positions of the plurality of feature points on the specific object relative to a second image capturing element; and in response to determining that the first image capturing element is unreliable, estimating a current three-dimensional position of each feature point based on a historical three-dimensional position and the plurality of second relative positions of each feature point.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yen-Hsien Li, Shih-Ting Huang, Chao-Shih Huang
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Patent number: 11874462Abstract: An intraocular micro-display (IOMD) system includes an auxiliary head unit. The auxiliary head unit includes a frame for mounting to a head of a user, a scene camera module mounted in or on the frame in a forward-facing orientation, a gaze tracking module disposed in or on the frame and configured to monitor an eye of the user, and an auxiliary controller. The auxiliary controller includes for: acquiring a scene image with the scene camera module, determining a gazing direction of the eye based upon gaze direction data from the gaze tracking module, identifying a sub-portion of the scene image based upon the gazing direction, and wirelessly relaying the sub-portion of the scene image to an IOMD implant within the eye for displaying to a retina of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Twenty Twenty Therapeutics LLCInventors: Shungneng Lee, Supriyo Sinha, Dimitri Azar
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Patent number: 11875753Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver which provides data voltages to the display panel, and a controller which provides output image data to the data driver. The controller includes a data line memory which stores input image data for each pixel row of the display panel, an address line memory which stores addresses for the input image data, and a data serialize block which generates the output image data provided to the data driver by rearranging the input image data stored in the data line memory based on the addresses stored in the address line memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hai-Jung In
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Patent number: 11867902Abstract: A display device includes light sources that emit light, a display panel that displays an image, and a light guide panel that guides the light emitted from the light sources to the display panel. The light guide panel includes an incident surface facing the light sources, an emission surface facing the display panel, a first reflective surface facing the incident surface, and a second reflective surface facing the emission surface. The first reflective surface has a concave shape that reflects light so that the reflected light becomes closer to parallel light when viewed in a facing direction of the display panel and the light guide panel in the light guide panel, is tilted at an angle larger than 0 degrees with respect to the incident surface, and intersects the second reflective surface at an angle smaller than 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yosuke Asai
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Patent number: 11862058Abstract: Provided is an output amplifier having: a push-pull output-stage formed by first and second output-stage transistors; and a detection circuit detecting an abnormal output current output by the output amplifier and including: a coupling circuit, generating first and second currents mirroring current flowing in the first output-stage transistor and third and fourth currents mirroring current flowing in the second output-stage transistor, coupling the first and third currents at a first output node, outputting a first voltage at the first output node, coupling the second and fourth currents at a second output node, and outputting a second voltage at the second output node; and a determination circuit, outputting a determination signal indicating normality of an output current based on the first and second voltages. The coupling circuit generates the first to fourth currents. In the reference state, the third current >the first current, the second current >the fourth current.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuchi
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Patent number: 11852821Abstract: A glasses-type electronic device is provided. The glasses-type electronic device includes a lens frame, a camera and a display, a first wearing member extending from one end of the lens frame and including a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed therein, a second wearing member extending from the other end of the lens frame and including a second PCB disposed therein, and a flexible PCB (FPCB) extending from the first PCB through the lens frame unit and electrically connected to the second PCB. A first wiring line of the FPCB is located in at least a portion of an uppermost layer or a lowermost layer of the FPCB, and a second wiring line of the FPCB is located in at least a portion of an inner layer of the FPCB.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junwhon Uhm, Hyunmo Yang, Minseok Kim, Bumhee Bae
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Patent number: 11847993Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for locating a sensor under a display screen and an electronic device, which can effectively improve performance of the sensor, thereby improving performance of the electronic device. The method includes: acquiring an assembly tolerance region in the display screen, where the assembly tolerance region corresponds to an assembly tolerance of the sensor; lighting up pixels at different positions within the assembly tolerance region sequentially; acquiring multiple pieces of sensing data of the sensor when the pixels at different positions are lit up sequentially, the multiple pieces of sensing data being data obtained after the sensor sequentially receives light signals emitted by the pixels at different positions; and determining a position of the sensor according to the multiple pieces of sensing data.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Songjin Zhong, Canhong Du, Enqi Fu
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Patent number: 11842703Abstract: The panel driving circuit includes a channel circuit, first pads, first switches, a second pad, and at least one second switch. The first pads are configured to be electrically connected to data lines of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CHLC) panel respectively. Each first switch has a first terminal electrically connected to the channel circuit, and a second terminal electrically connected to one of the first pads. Each second switch has a first terminal electrically connected to the second pad, and a second terminal electrically connected to the first pads. In a pixel charging period, the first switches are turned on, and the second switch is turned off. In a test period, the first switch is turned off, the second switch is turned on, and the second pad is configured to receive a measurement signal for measuring capacitance of pixels in the CHLC panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Han Wen Huang
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Patent number: 11843906Abstract: An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Erik Hockman, Alex Luthwaite, Emad Yacoub Hanna
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Patent number: 11837138Abstract: A control circuit for a low-temperature poly-silicon array controls the low-temperature poly-silicon array including M rows×N columns of pixel units. The control circuit includes N operational amplifiers, a comparison unit, and a pixel input switch control unit. The comparison unit determines pixel values of N red subpixels, N green subpixels, and N blue subpixels in at least one row of pixel units of the M rows of pixel units are the same as each other. The pixel input switch control unit controls, when the pixel values of the N red subpixels, the N green subpixels, and the N blue subpixels in the at least one row of pixel units of the M rows of pixel units are the same as each other, the N red pixel input switches, the N green pixel input switches, and the N blue pixel input switches to be all turned on.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: OMNIVISION TDDI ONTARIO LIMITED PARTNERSHIPInventor: Kun-Hua Lee
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Patent number: 11837183Abstract: A circuit device is used in a head-up display device including a display panel and a backlight device having a plurality of light emitting elements. The circuit device includes a distortion correction circuit and an image analysis circuit. The distortion correction circuit performs distortion correction on input image data and outputs output image data after the distortion correction. The image analysis circuit analyzes image data to be analyzed, which is the input image data or the output image data, and, based on an analysis result, and performs backlight control processing of turning off a light emitting element corresponding to a display area that becomes transparent when projected by the head-up display device among a plurality of display areas corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements in the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventor: Yasutoshi Akiba
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Patent number: 11829039Abstract: A display may include illumination optics, a ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon (fLCOS) panel, and a waveguide. The illumination optics may include a red, green, and blue light sources. The fLCOS panel may produce image light by modulating a series of image frames onto illumination light. Control circuitry may control the illumination optics to produce the illumination light for each image frame in the series of image frames according to a green-heavy illumination sequence that includes first, second, and third time periods. The green light source may be active during each of the first, second, and third time periods. This may allow the green light source to be driven with a lower current density than the other light sources without significantly reducing image quality at an eye box. The lower current density may match the peak efficiency of the green light source, thereby minimizing power consumption by the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ziqian He, Xiaokai Li, Yuan Chen, Zhibing Ge, Aaron L. Holsteen
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Patent number: 11830411Abstract: A display driving circuit which is improved to actively control current consumption depending on a change in a pattern displayed on a screen. The display driving circuit includes a current controller configured to provide a current control signal corresponding to a data change amount between first display data of a current frame and second display data of a previous frame; and an output buffer configured to sequentially output source signals corresponding to the second display data and the first display data.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventor: Jin Woo Kim
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Patent number: 11828947Abstract: A vehicle includes a transparent display provided on the dashboard to face the front of the driver and provided to be able to descend inside the dashboard or ascend above the dashboard, an input device provided to obtain a user input, and a controller configured to adjust an ascending height of the transparent display and to adjust transparency of the transparent display, according to a driving mode selected by the user input.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Jong Hwa Park
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Patent number: 11822778Abstract: The present disclosure generally describe user interfaces related to time. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for displaying and enabling an adjustment of a displayed time zone are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for initiating a measurement of time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface using a character are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface that includes an indication of a current time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of a background for a user interface are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of displayed applications on a user interface are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Aurelio Guzman, Christopher Wilson, Kevin Lynch, Edward Chao
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Patent number: 11817040Abstract: A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: X Display Company Technology LimitedInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Christopher Andrew Bower