Patents Examined by Richard Hong
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Patent number: 10210792Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally systems and methods for controlling current provided to display devices. A method for controlling the current may include receiving drive current values associated with subpixels in a display and receiving information that corresponds to an application type being rendered on the display and/or an indication of image data being rendered on the display. The method may then include reducing at least some of the drive current values based at least in part on the application type. Alternatively, the method may include reducing the at least a portion of the image data corresponding to the at least some of the drive current values has substantially similar luminance and color values. The method may then include supplying the subpixels with drive currents that correspond to the drive current values.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Paul S. Drzaic
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Patent number: 10209779Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device of the present invention may comprise determining movement information of the electronic device based on sensing data measured through a sensor module; determining bio information for a user by analyzing one or more bio signals; and controlling the electronic device according to the movement information and the bio information. In addition, another embodiment is also possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byoung-Tack Roh, Cheol-Ho Cheong, Yang-Su Kim, Dong-Il Son, Jae-Yung Yeo
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Patent number: 10204546Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel group having first, second, third, and fourth pixels arranged along a column direction, and a second pixel group having fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels arranged along the column direction. A gate line is connected to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels. A first data line is connected to the first pixel, the third pixel, the fourth pixel, and the sixth pixel, and a second data line is connected to the second pixel, the fifth pixel, the seventh pixel, and the eighth pixel. The first pixel group and the second pixel group are alternately disposed along a row direction. This arrangement allows inversion driving wherein the first data line receives a voltage having a different polarity from that of the second data line so as to reduce line flickering and reduce power consumption in the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungman Kim, Junho Song, Seongsu Lim, Taehyung Hwang
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Patent number: 10191582Abstract: A terminal is provided. The terminal includes a processor and a touch control button, and the touch control button includes a touch control sensor and a button cover plate. The button cover plate is located above a sensor sheet of the touch control sensor. The processor is electrically connected to the touch control sensor and is configured to acquire a detection signal value of the touch control sensor, wherein the detection signal value of the touch control sensor increases as a sensing area of the sensor sheet increases. The processor is further configured to determine a control instruction according to pre-stored corresponding relationships between detection signal values and control instructions and to execute the control instruction.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Zhongsheng Jiang, Kun Yang, Jun Tao
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Patent number: 10186210Abstract: An image display device includes light emission units, a display unit having display areas corresponding to the light emission units, a determination unit determining whether the display areas are a first area satisfying a predetermined condition or a second area having luminance lower than that of the first area, respectively, based on an input image signal, a light emission control unit controlling light emitted from the light emission units to reduce an amount of light emitted from a light emission unit corresponding to the second area relative to an amount of light emitted from a light emission unit corresponding to the first area, and a correction unit outputting a displayed image signal to the display unit, and the displayed image signal is obtained by adding a first correction value to a portion corresponding to a partial area of the second area of the image signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Umeyama, Miyako Takahashi, Takeshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 10170071Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a display device that displays an image; and a drive circuit that drives the display device. The display device includes a regulator that supplies power based on a predetermined set voltage, a plurality of functional blocks that are operated by the supply of the power from the regulator and are related to operation of the display device, a voltage monitoring circuit that determines whether a level of a power supply voltage of at least one of the functional blocks is high or low based on a predetermined threshold voltage, and a voltage controller that increases the set voltage when the voltage monitoring circuit determines that the power supply voltage of the functional block is lower than the threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Go Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10163392Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix display device capable of producing a favorable display on a non-rectangular display unit, such as a circular display unit. In an active matrix liquid crystal display device with a circular display unit, a control signal Sck is generated so as to reduce a decrease amount ?Vsl of a data signal line voltage Vsl due to a parasitic capacitance Cgd, as a control signal of an Nch transistor (SWk) that is a switching element of a sample-and-hold circuit for sampling a video signal Svi and holding the sampled signal in a data signal line capacitance. That is, at the time of turning off the Nch transistor (SWk), a connection switch control signal Sck is generated such that the control signal Sck changes from an H-level connection control voltage VCH as an on-voltage to an L-level connection control voltage VCL as an off-voltage through a period TCI for an intermediate level voltage VCI.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Imai
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Patent number: 10140906Abstract: An optical axis of a light emitting element is inclined against a normal line of a light emitting surface of the light emitting element to a central side of a display area in a row direction according to positions of subpixels in the row direction, and the optical axis is inclined against the normal line of the light emitting surface to the central side of the display area in a column direction according to the positions of the subpixels in the column direction. A range of inclination of the optical axis is different in the row direction and the column direction. In the row direction and the column direction, the subpixels are disposed such that color filters of the same color are arranged in a direction in which the range of inclination becomes larger, and color filters of colors which are different from each other are arranged in another direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Koshihara
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Patent number: 10134333Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a controller, a power supplier, and an initialization voltage generator. The controller generates a power control signal based on an input image. The power supplier generates a variable driving voltage that is changed based on the power control signal. The initialization voltage generator changes an initialization voltage to initialize the pixels based on the variable driving voltage.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Su-Hyeong Park
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Patent number: 10133459Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a methods and devices for interaction with one or several users, where each user carries at least one personal communication device which is Body Coupled communication, BCC, enabled. A communication device comprises screen which displays information comprising user interface components and the communication device comprises a BCC enabled selection indication means and the users uses the selection indication means to make selection indications of user interface components.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Markus Andreasson, Henrik Bengtsson
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Patent number: 10133073Abstract: A position and rotation information acquisition unit 730 acquires information relating to a position and a rotation of the head of a user who wears a head-mounted display unit 100. A coordinate transformation unit 740 and a panorama image processing unit 750 generate an image to be displayed on the head-mounted display unit using the information relating to the position and the rotation acquired at a certain point of time by the position and rotation information acquisition unit 730. A correction processing unit 780 corrects the generated image using updated information relating to the position and the rotation at a different point of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Oto, Simon Mark Benson, Ian Henry Bickerstaff
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Patent number: 10127851Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing method for reducing power consumption of an OLED display device. A method of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving image data; determining whether a frequency of a predetermined area of the image data is lower than a predetermined reference; deciding a minimum value among a plurality of blue data values of the predetermined area when the frequency of the predetermined area is lower than the reference as a result of the determination; and changing blue data of the predetermined area on the basis of the determined minimum value.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jung Hwan Kim, Seung Hyun Lee, Myung Jin Park, Seung Chan Baek, Seong Hak Moon
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Patent number: 10115331Abstract: A method for processing image data according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes detecting a gray level distribution of frame image data, calculating a cluster size of each of gray levels based on the gray level distribution, determining a remapping function for increasing contrast of the frame image data based on the gray level distribution and the cluster size, and converting the frame image data based on the remapping function.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Myung Woo Lee
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Patent number: 10074308Abstract: Provided is a method for driving a display device including: a display unit having a sub-pixel having a first light emitting element (organic EL element) and a first driving transistor for supplying a first electric current corresponding to a first gray level signal, and a sub-pixel having a second light emitting element (organic EL element) and a second driving transistor for supplying a second electric current corresponding to a second gray level signal; and a power supply unit configured to apply a power supply voltage to each sub-pixel via an electric current path that is common to the sub-pixel and the sub-pixel. The driving method includes correcting the first gray level signal based on the first gray level signal and the second gray level signal so as to compensate for a reduction in the first electric current caused by a voltage drop that occurs in the electric current path.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Shinya Ono, Shigeo Homura
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Patent number: 10061426Abstract: A self-capacitive touch display panel includes a resistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a common electrode, a display driving source, and a touch sensing circuit. The first capacitor is coupled between a first terminal of the resistor and a ground terminal. The second capacitor and the third capacitor are coupled in series between the first terminal of the resistor and the ground terminal. The common electrode is coupled to a second terminal of the resistor. The display driving source is coupled between the second capacitor and the third capacitor. The touch sensing circuit is coupled to the common electrode and used to sense a touch capacitance via the common electrode when touch sensing. A first driving voltage of the display driving source is larger than a second driving voltage of the common electrode, so that the touch capacitance sensed by the touch sensing circuit is smaller than the capacitance of the first capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Kun-Tsung Lin, Chih-Hsiung Chen, Chih Yuan
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Patent number: 10061356Abstract: A flexible display panel including: a flexible panel including a first region including a display region and oriented on a first plane and a second region including a non-display region and oriented on a second plane different from the first plane; and a flexible encapsulation member disposed on the flexible panel so as to encapsulate at least the display region.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Un Jin, Woo-Jong Lee, Yang-Wan Kim, Young-Sik Kim, Jun-Sang Lyu, Sang-Min Kim
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Patent number: 10042492Abstract: An apparatus including a notched shield electrode portion including a notch at an edge; and an overlapping shield electrode portion, wherein the overlapping shield electrode portion overlaps the notch in the notched shield electrode portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Janne Lesonen, Esa Makelainen
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Patent number: 10043459Abstract: A display device includes a display timing controller to effect interlaced writing of images to a display panel. The display timing controller includes a single-frame buffer memory and is configured to, during a first frame write time, write odd row image data from odd row memory locations to odd rows of pixels of the display device while simultaneously storing even row image data into even row memory locations while abstaining from overwriting the odd row data. At a second frame write time, the display timing controller writes even row image data from the even row memory locations to the even rows of pixels of the display device while simultaneously storing odd row image data into odd row memory locations while abstaining from overwriting odd row image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Petrus Maria de Greef
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Patent number: 10031590Abstract: A method of one embodiment includes generating, by a stylus, a composite signal. The composite signal includes a first signal having a first frequency, the first signal being used by a touch-sensing device to determine a position of the stylus relative to the touch-sensing device, and a second signal having a second frequency. The second signal may include status information such as an amount of force exerted on the stylus, battery information, orientation information, information indicating whether the stylus is within a threshold distance of the touch-sensing device, information indicating a status of a button of the stylus, and/or information indicating input from a user of the stylus. Furthermore, the second frequency is higher than the first frequency. The stylus sends the composite signal to the touch-sensing device, and an electrode array of the touch-sensing device may receive the composite signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Vemund Kval Bakken, Izhar Bentov, Vivek Pant
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Patent number: 10019939Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel having pixels and a display panel driver driving the display panel. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, and the display panel driver selects one of the pixels, determines a reference grayscale value, compares a grayscale value, and determines the selected pixel as a low grayscale pixel when the grayscale value is lower than the reference grayscale value and higher than a black grayscale value. Some of the low grayscale pixels display the black grayscale value when there are more than one neighboring low grayscale pixels. The reference grayscale value is determined based on a reference grayscale variable, and the reference grayscale variable includes at least one of a temperature of the display panel, a time period when the selected pixel emits light, and a wavelength of light emitted by the selected pixel.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Seung Ho Park, Do Hyung Ryu, Jae Woo Song, Hae Goo Jung