Patents Examined by Nathan Danielsen
  • Patent number: 11886638
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Preston Douglas Brown, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
  • Patent number: 11881155
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module and a compensation module. The drive module includes a drive transistor; the data write module is connected to an input terminal of the drive module, a first electrode of the compensation module is connected to an output terminal of the drive module, and a second electrode of the compensation module is connected to a control terminal of the drive module. The data write module includes a data write transistor and a bias transistor, the data write transistor is connected to a data signal input terminal and configured to transmit a data signal, and the bias transistor is connected to a bias signal input terminal and configured to transmit a bias signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11881156
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module and a compensation module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected to an input terminal of the drive module; a first electrode of the compensation module is connected to an output terminal of the drive module, and a second electrode of the compensation module is connected to a control terminal of the drive module. The data write module includes a data write transistor and a bias transistor, the data write transistor is connected to a data signal input terminal and configured to transmit a data signal, and the bias transistor is connected to a bias signal input terminal and configured to transmit a bias signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11881157
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a drive module and a data write module. The drive module is configured to provide a drive current for the light-emitting element and comprises a drive transistor. An operation of the pixel circuit includes a bias stage, in the bias stage, the data write module and the drive module are on, a compensation module is off, a data signal provides a bias signal for a drain of the drive transistor to adjust a bias state of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11875717
    Abstract: Display panel, integrated chip and display apparatus are provided. Display panel includes pixel circuit including drive module, bias adjustment module and initialization module, and light emitting element. Drive module configured to provide drive current to light emitting element, and includes drive transistor; bias adjustment module configured to provide bias adjustment signal to first pole or second pole of drive transistor; initialization module configured to provide initialization signal to light emitting element. Operation modes of display panel include first mode and second mode, and brightness level of display panel in first mode greater than that in second mode. Bias adjustment signal Vs1 in first mode and bias adjustment signal Vs2 in second mode satisfies Vs1?Vs2; and/or, initialization signal Vi1 in first mode and initialization signal Vi2 in second mode satisfies Vi1?Vi2. With embodiments of present disclosure, display uniformity of display panel can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuheng Zhang, Jiemiao Pan
  • Patent number: 11854465
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit of a display device and the display device. The driving circuit includes an input unit, a control unit coupled to the input unit, and a light emitting unit coupled to the control unit. The control unit is configured to drive the light emitting unit to emit light. the control unit comprises a pulse width modulation (PWM) control unit and a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) control unit, the PWM control unit and the PAM control unit are mutually independent, the PWM control unit is configured to control a light emitting time of the light emitting unit, and the PAM control unit is configured to control a magnitude of a driving current in the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Pengfei Liang
  • Patent number: 11854443
    Abstract: A three-dimensional holographic display device includes a light emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of light sources controlled to sequentially output light according to a preset pattern, a lens configured to refract light incident from the LED array, a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to modulate light incident from the lens, and a processor configured to generate a plurality of holographic signals each comprising depth information adjusted according to an arrangement location of each of the plurality of light sources, and for each of the plurality of light sources, control the SLM to modulate the light based on a holographic signal corresponding to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Kim, Geunwoo Ko, Minsu Kim, Geeyoung Sung, Dongyeoul Lee, Sangbum Lee, Jonghyun Lee, Hongseok Lee, Punjae Choi, Jong-Young Hong
  • Patent number: 11854468
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a pixel driving circuit including a light-emitting control signal terminal and a node control signal terminal; the display panel further includes a light-emitting driving circuit, including a plurality of light-emitting driving units, an output terminal of each light-emitting driving unit transmitting a light-emitting control signal to a light-emitting control signal terminal; a gate driving circuit, including a plurality of gate driving units, an output terminal of gate driving unit transmitting a node control signal to the node control signal terminal, where signals inputted to input terminals of the light-emitting driving units and input terminals of the gate driving units are the same; and a common transmission signal line, the input terminals of the light-emitting driving units and the input terminals of the gate driving units are connected to the same common transmission signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanxi Zhang, Caifeng Chen
  • Patent number: 11847958
    Abstract: A light emitting display panel and a light emitting display apparatus using the same are provided, in which a sensing line is provided in parallel with a gate line. The light emitting display panel comprises a data line provided along a first direction, a black line provided along the first direction, a first voltage supply line provided along the first direction, a gate line provided along a second direction different from the first direction, a sensing line provided along the second direction, a sensing control line provided along the second direction, a black control line provided along the second direction, a pixel driving circuit coupled with the data line, the black line, the first voltage supply line, the gate line, the sensing line, the sensing control line and the black control line, and a light emitting element coupled to the pixel driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HyunJin Kim
  • Patent number: 11847959
    Abstract: A display panel includes pixels connected to first and second data lines and a readout line. The data driver supplies data signals to the first and second data lines and supplies an initialization voltage to the readout line. Each of the pixels includes at least one light emitting element and a driving transistor. The driving transistor controls an amount of current based on a difference between a corresponding data signal among the data signals and an initialization voltage. In a sensing mode, the data driver supplies a test voltage to the first data line and a first off voltage to the second data line in a first period and supplies a second off voltage to the second data line in a second period after the first period. The second off voltage is different from the test voltage and the first off voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Gwang Jang, Soo Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11842674
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a display with discrete gate-in-panel circuitry. In some implementations, a display includes an array of emissive pixels arranged in rows and columns, where the array includes a first continuous area having a first pixel density and a second continuous area having a second pixel density less than the first pixel density, and consecutive rows of the emissive pixels extending between the first and second continuous areas. The display also includes gate in panel (GIP) circuits in the second continuous area, a data lines connected to the array of emissive pixels, and signal lines connected to the array of emissive pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sun-il Chang, Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11842675
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit for driving the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit for driving the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller for receiving a control signal and an image signal and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit such that an image is displayed on the display panel. The driving controller identifies a first region and a second region of an image to be displayed on the display panel based on the image signal and provides the data driving circuit with an image data signal obtained by compensating for the image signal to be provided to pixels adjacent to the second region among pixels corresponding to the first region as a compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Won Lee, Byung Ki Chun, Joon-Chul Goh, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 11837179
    Abstract: A light emitting assembly is described. In one embodiment, one or more light emitting diode (LED) devices and one or more microcontrollers are bonded to a same side of a substrate, with the one or more microcontrollers to switch and drive the one or more LED devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Andreas Bibl, Kelly McGroddy
  • Patent number: 11837151
    Abstract: A display module includes a substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on a surface of the module substrate; a plurality of first micro-pixel controllers provided in spaces between the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of second micro-pixel controllers provided in a periphery area of the upper surface of the module substrate, wherein each of the plurality of first micro-pixel controllers controls two or more pixels of the plurality of pixels, and at least one function performed by the plurality of first micro-pixel controllers is different from at least one function performed by the plurality of second micro-pixel controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangyoung Park, Jongsu Oh, Hoseop Lee, Shigeta Tetsuya
  • Patent number: 11837148
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels grouped into blocks divided into block rows extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, wherein each block includes two or more pixels connected to a first power source line, and each pixel is assigned with a grayscale value in a range of grayscale values that is divided into a plurality of grayscale sections; and a first power source voltage adjuster selecting a reference block row, and determining a magnitude of a first power source voltage supplied to the first power source line based on a number of blocks in the reference block row having a grayscale section that is same as a maximum grayscale section of the reference block row. The maximum grayscale section corresponds to a grayscale section that includes a largest grayscale value having a grayscale value ratio greater than a minimum ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Won Jin Seo, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11830862
    Abstract: The invention provides a chip structure of a micro light-emitting diode display, comprising a package substrate, at least one light-emitting diode (LED) element, at least one metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), and a connection line. The LED element and the MOSFET are positioned on the package substrate, and each MOSFET comprises a source connected with the input voltage in common, a gate connected with a main control circuit, and a drain. An end of the LED element is connected with the drain of the MOSFET through the connection line, and the other end of the LED element is independently connected with a source drive circuit. Therefore, the MOSFET is provided on the package substrate and integrated in a chip structure, so as to achieve a better heat dissipation effect and requirements of high density and brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: EXCELLENCE OPTO. INC.
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsin Huang, Yung-Hsiang Chao, Wen-Hsing Huang, Chang-Ching Huang, Tai-Hui Liu
  • Patent number: 11830418
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a reset unit, a storage unit, an initialization unit, a drive unit, a threshold compensation unit, and a data write unit. A first terminal of the reset unit is configured to input the signal output by a reset power supply. A second terminal of the reset unit is connected to the control terminal of the drive unit and configured to provide the reset power supply for the control terminal of the drive unit during a power-on period. During the power-on period of the pixel driving circuit, the reset unit provides the reset power supply for the drive unit and performs reset control on the drive unit, so that the drive unit is prevented from being abnormally turned on during a power-on stage, thereby avoiding a screen flicker phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Liu Wang, Wei Wu, Zhijie Wang, Shumao Wu, Guochang Lai
  • Patent number: 11817042
    Abstract: A scan driver includes a first transistor including gate, first, and second electrodes coupled to a Q node, a scan clock line, and a scan line. A second transistor includes gate and first electrodes coupled to a scan carry line, and a second electrode coupled to the Q node. A third transistor includes gate and first electrodes coupled to a first control line and a sensing carry line. A fourth transistor includes a gate and first electrode coupled to the sensing carry line and the third transistor first electrode. A fifth transistor includes gate, first, and second electrodes coupled to a fourth transistor second electrode, a second control line, and a node. A capacitor includes first and second electrodes coupled to the fifth transistor first and gate electrodes. A sixth transistor includes gate, first, and second electrodes coupled to a third control line, the node, and the Q node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Hwa Choi, Bo Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 11798468
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel has a conventional display region and a function display region for arranging an optical function element, and includes first pixel circuits and first fixed potential lines that are located in the conventional display region and electrically connected to the first pixel circuits, and further includes second pixel circuits and second fixed potential lines that are located in the function display region and are electrically connected to the second pixel circuits. A distance between two adjacent first fixed potential lines of the first fixed potential lines is greater than a distance between two adjacent second fixed potential lines of the second fixed potential lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaokeng Cao, Gaojun Huang, Zhongjie Zhang, Chunmei Gao, Yangzhao Ma
  • Patent number: 11798461
    Abstract: The application discloses a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof. By synchronously resetting a potential of an input end of a light-emitting unit and a potential of a control end of a driving unit, the input end of the light-emitting unit can obtain a longer reset time; when the light-emitting unit emits light, a resetting transistor and an initialization transistor are both in an off state, which can better prevent leakage of the input end of the light-emitting unit, thereby improving display effect of the pixel circuit in a dark state or low gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuanyun Wang, Chao Dai