Patents Examined by Nelson Lam
  • Patent number: 11978410
    Abstract: A method of backlight control for a display panel is provided. The display panel is configured to display with a variable refresh rate in a plurality of frame periods each having a fixed period and a variable period. The method includes steps of: generating a first backlight control signal in the fixed period of a frame period; determining whether a liquid crystal (LC) transition time corresponding to the frame period ends before an end time of the variable period of the frame period; generating a second backlight control signal in the variable period of the frame period when the LC transition time ends before the end time of the variable period of the frame period; and generating a compensation backlight control signal in a next frame period according to a backlight duty cycle of the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Hsiang Huang, Chung-Wen Wu, Jiun-Yi Lin, Wen-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 11967273
    Abstract: A control circuit, a drive device, and a display. The control circuit includes: a control unit and a detection unit. The detection unit is connected with a plurality of output voltage feedback terminals of a drive chip, and the detection unit is connected with the control unit. The detection unit is configured for providing a first voltage to the control unit when a voltage of at least one output voltage feedback terminal in the plurality of output voltage feedback terminals is detected, the first voltage being greater than a second voltage received by the control unit. The control unit is configured for controlling the drive chip to restart when the first voltage is greater than the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peiyang Lin, Honghai Liu, Xiaowei Han, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11961492
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a driving method. The pixel circuit includes: a first control module, a latch module, a second control module, a first input module and a second input module. The first control module provides a signal on a data line to a first node under control of a signal of first gate line. The latch module latches signals of the first node and a second node. The second control module provides signal on the data line to a third node under control of a signal on a second gate line. The first input module provides a signal of a reference signal terminal to a pixel electrode under control of signal of the first node. The second input module provides a signal of the third node to the pixel electrode under control of signal of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiguo Wang, Jun Fan
  • Patent number: 11955095
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an output circuit, a display driver including the output circuit and a display device. The disclosure includes a PMOS transistor switch that outputs a positive voltage signal from an output terminal when it is turned on, an NMOS transistor switch that outputs a negative voltage signal from the output terminal when it is turned on, and a voltage control circuit that supplies a voltage obtained by shifting the level of a voltage of a source or a drain when the PMOS transistor switch is turned on to a high potential side to a back gate of the PMOS transistor switch and supplies a voltage obtained by shifting the level of a voltage of a source or a drain when the NMOS transistor switch is turned on to a low potential side to a back gate of the NMOS transistor switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuchi
  • Patent number: 11943970
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor having a drain region connected to the light emitting element, and a second transistor having a drain region connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A source region of the second transistor of the first pixel and a source region of the second transistor of the second pixel share one diffusion region, and a source region, a gate electrode, and the drain region of the first transistor of the first and second pixels are sequentially arranged in one of a positive direction and a negative direction in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11934593
    Abstract: A magneto-electrophoretic medium that can be globally and locally addressed and erased. The medium provides a writeable display with no perceivable lag and the ability to write and erase with only minimal power requirements. In particular, the magneto-electrophoretic medium can be erased by providing a subthreshold electric stimulus and supplementing a second non-electric stimulus that disturbs the written state and allows the magneto-electrophoretic particles to return to their original state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Crystal Nguyen, Evan Griffith, Seth J. Bishop, Stephen J. Telfer, Kosta Ladavac, Andrew A. Drabek, Sunil Krishna Sainis, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Samantha Morrill
  • Patent number: 11900865
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) driving circuit for driving an LED channel including a plurality of LED elements includes a switch-capacitor amplifier circuit configured to sample received input current and amplify an input voltage corresponding to the input current, a replica circuit configured to connect to the switch-capacitor amplifier circuit in a first period to define a first feedback loop, and an output circuit configured to connect to the switch-capacitor amplifier in a second period to define a second feedback loop. The second period is after the first period, and the output circuit is configured to generate output current according to an output voltage of the switch-capacitor amplifier circuit and provide the output current to the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yongsik Kwak, Sunkwon Kim, Yongil Kwon, Uijong Song, Moonsuk Jeong, Youngkil Choi
  • Patent number: 11893952
    Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first display region, a second display region, and a control device. The first display region is on a side of the second display region, and the second display region includes N display sub-regions; and the control device is connected to the first display region and the second display region, respectively, and configured to control display of the first display region and display of the second display region in i time intervals within one frame period, and sequentially control the display of the first display region and display of an i-th display sub-region in the second display region in an i-th time interval, wherein 1?i?N, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liye Duan, Zongmin Liu, Long Wang, Mengjun Hou, Yao Lu
  • Patent number: 11893955
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides common voltage compensation method and device for display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a common electrode, a common voltage compensation unit, and common electrode lines. The common electrode lines are sequentially numbered according to a distance from the common voltage compensation unit, a number of the common electrode lines is n, and n is an integer greater than 8. The method includes: the common voltage compensation unit providing common voltage to the common electrode; the common voltage compensation unit detecting actual common voltage on one of N1-th common electrode line to N2-th common electrode line, N1 being a value rounded down from n/8, and N2 being a value rounded down from n/4; the common voltage compensation unit compensating the common voltage of the common electrode according to the detected actual common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingting Wang, Qi Wang, Yan Yan, Xue Wang
  • Patent number: 11854509
    Abstract: A display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of groups of gate scan signal lines, and a plurality of groups of data lines. Each group of gate scan signal lines includes at least one gate scan signal line, each group of data lines includes n data lines, and the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in an array; and n is greater than or equal to 2. A group of gate scan signal lines is electrically connected to n rows of sub-pixels. A column of sub-pixels is electrically connected to a group of data lines, and includes a plurality of groups of sub-pixels. Each group of sub-pixels includes n sub-pixels. The n sub-pixels are respectively electrically connected to n data lines in the group of data lines to which this column of sub-pixels is electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11854476
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a timing controller having a mechanism for frame synchronization, a display panel having the timing controller thereof, and a display system having the timing controller thereof. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the disclosure provides an integrated circuit which includes a timing controller to transmit a first TE signal to an application processor and receive a first image frame from the application processor after the application processor receives the first TE signal, and a control circuit to generate a first sync signal when the timing controller receives the first image frame, wherein when the application processor receives a second TE signal and the application processor is not ready to transmit a second image frame to the timing controller, the control circuit delays a first waiting period to generate a second sync signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yao-Min Chou, Kai-Wen Shao
  • Patent number: 11842706
    Abstract: A source driver is provided, including a first data receiving part that receives a serial data signal via the first transmission line, a selector that outputs a serial data signal from either the first transmission line or the second transmission line according to a switching signal, a second data receiving part that receives the serial data signal output from the selector, a first serial-parallel conversion circuit that serial-parallel converts the serial data signal received by the first data receiving part and outputs the converted signal as first parallel data, a second serial-parallel conversion circuit that serial-parallel converts the serial data signal received by the second data receiving part and outputs the converted signal as second parallel data, and a comparison circuit that compares the first parallel data with the second parallel data and outputs a comparison result when the selector outputs the serial data signal from the first transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11842704
    Abstract: A mainboard, display device, displaying method, and computer readable storage medium are provided. The mainboard has at least two display interfaces, a detecting circuit, and a processor. The at least two display interfaces are used for connecting to different displays. The detecting circuit is coupled to the at least two display interfaces, for detecting the electrical signal of the display. The processor is coupled to the detecting circuit, for determining information about the display connected to the display interface based on the electrical signal detected by the detecting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Song, Mingbo Wen, Chunping Han
  • Patent number: 11837167
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel having sub pixels configured to emit light of different colors, a data driver configured to output a data voltage to the sub pixels via data lines, and a timing controller configured to output power control signals for controlling a driving current which drives the data driver. The data driver can include source driving integrated circuits, each including power control circuits configured to generate the driving current in accordance with each of the power control signals, and amplifiers configured to be applied with the driving current to output the data voltage to each of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MinKi Kim, JinSung Kim, JinCheol Hong
  • Patent number: 11783795
    Abstract: A gate driver for a panel, wherein the gate driver comprises at least an output channel unit, each of the output channel unit includes a first driving unit; a second driving unit; a first current limit circuit, coupled to the first driving unit, configured to control an output current according to an output voltage of the gate driver to limit an output current slew rate of the gate driver; and a second current limit circuit, coupled to the second driving unit, configured to control the output current according to the output voltage of the gate driver to limit the output current slew rate of the gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Chieh Yen, Po-Chiang Hsu, Ching-Hao Lee, Cheng-Hsun Tsai
  • Patent number: 11783768
    Abstract: A power supply may include a power converter configured to supply a driving voltage to a display panel. The power converter may also include a sub-power unit configured to supply a sub-driving voltage to the display panel when the power converter operates abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun Ryeol Baek
  • Patent number: 11776462
    Abstract: A display apparatus is capable of improving a dynamic false contour. The display apparatus may control to change an order of a plurality of pulses of which widths are modulated for an emission time set within one frame, or divide pulses corresponding to the most significant bit (MSB) and the second significant bit (MSB-1) of image data among the pulses into two or more sub-pulses, and output the sub-pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Haeng Lee, Jin Woong Jang, Ji Han Kim, Dae Young Jung, Jong Gu Jeon, Do Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11768376
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted display or other display system may have a transparent display. The transparent display may be formed from a transparent display panel or a display device that provides images to a transparent optical coupler. A user may view real-world objects through the transparent display. Control circuitry can direct the transparent display to display computer-generated content over selected portions of the real-world objects. The head-mounted display may have adjustable components through which the user may view the real-world objects. The adjustable components may include an adjustable light modulator, an adjustable color filter, and an adjustable polarizer. The control circuitry may adjust these components based on information from a front-facing camera that captures images of the real-world objects, based on information from a gaze tracking camera, and based on other input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Pedder, James H. Foster, Julian Hoening, Julian Jaede
  • Patent number: 11768560
    Abstract: A system and method for mitigating interference within a sensing device. The sensing device may be part of an input device that also includes a display device. The display device may include a display panel having a plurality of display electrodes, and a display driver configured to drive the plurality of display electrodes. The sensing device may include a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed over the display panel, and a sensor driver communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes and the display driver. The sensor driver may be configured to acquire sensor data from the plurality of sensor electrodes, receive a display signal from the display driver, and reduce interference within the sensor data at least partially based on the display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjay Mani, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11765940
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes: a first display area including a first light-emitting element and a first pixel circuit unit; and a second display area including a second light-emitting element disposed to overlap a driving unit and a second pixel circuit unit which drives the second light-emitting element, where the first pixel circuit unit further include a first boost capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Byung Chang Yu, Gyung Soon Park