Patents Examined by Tom V. Sheng
  • Patent number: 11694624
    Abstract: A pixel compensation device includes a controller and at least one external compensation circuit. In the external compensation circuit, a first input circuit is configured to transmit a first voltage to a first terminal of a driving sub-circuit in a initialization phase, perform blanking in a pre-storage phase, and transmit a threshold compensation voltage to the first terminal in the data compensation writing phase; a second input circuit is configured to transmit a second voltage to a control terminal of the driving sub-circuit in the initialization phase and the pre-storage phase, so that a voltage of the first terminal changes from the first voltage to the threshold compensation voltage in the pre-storage phase; a sensing circuit is configured to sense the threshold compensation voltage in the data compensation writing phase; and the controller is configured to transmit a data voltage to the control terminal in the data compensation writing phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tangxiang Wang, Fei Yang, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11688348
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor and a storage capacitor; a first reset sub-circuit configured to transmit an initialization signal to a third node under control of at least a first reset signal; a writing sub-circuit configured to transmit the initialization signal to a first node under control of a first scanning signal, and write a data signal received at a data terminal to the first node and perform threshold voltage compensation on the driving transistor under control of the first scanning signal and a second scanning signal; a light-emitting device; and a light-emitting control sub-circuit configured to, under control of a first enable signal and a second enable signal, transmit a voltage signal of a first voltage terminal to a second node, and transmit a current output by the driving transistor to the light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Haijun Qiu, Fei Shang, Ming Hu, Shaoru Li, Minho Ko
  • Patent number: 11675457
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing, wherein the display unit includes a panel which has a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a touch input from a user, the panel having a first portion and a second portion with a transparency condition, and a sensing unit installed in the housing and disposed at a bottom of the panel to receive a user input through the panel, wherein the sensing unit includes a camera disposed to correspond to the second portion of the panel and to photograph a user through the second portion of the panel, and a sensing element to sense an object through the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Seungman Kim
  • Patent number: 11662831
    Abstract: A modulator of a distance measuring sensor unit 102 has a photographing pattern that includes a plurality of patterns different from each other, and modulates intensity of light. A gesture detecting unit divides image data obtained by receiving light transmitted through the modulator by the image sensor; restores an image by calculation based on a developing pattern corresponding to the photographing pattern in a divided unit; and obtains an image for detecting gesture of a user. This makes it possible to obtain an image of an object in an outside world without using a lens for forming an image. Therefore, it is possible to reduce a load on a user when the user wears the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Fukushima, Yusuke Nakamura, Osamu Kawamae, Manabu Katsuki, Megumi Kurachi
  • Patent number: 11663980
    Abstract: In a display device and a personal immersive system and a mobile terminal system using the same, at least a part of the display panel includes a switch element configured to electrically connect adjacent sub-pixels to each other in response to a first logic value of a control signal, and electrically separate the adjacent sub-pixels from each other in response to a second logic value of the control signal, a display driver applies the second logic value of the control signal to the switch element when receiving pixel data to be written to a focal region on the display panel to which a user's gaze is directed, and applies the first logic value of the control signal to the switch element when receiving pixel data to be written to a non-focal region on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Kyung Shin, Bong Choon Kwak
  • Patent number: 11656705
    Abstract: An electronic device having a touch screen or display to reduce or eliminate visibility of structures in the device due to reflected light includes a base member and a touch member disposed on one surface of the base member and including first and second sensor parts spaced apart from each other with a boundary interposed therebetween. Each of the first and second sensor parts includes first and second areas disposed adjacent to each, a plurality of first patterns in the first area spaced apart from each other and a plurality of second patterns in the second area spaced apart from the first patterns. Each of the first patterns has a first shape, and each of the second patterns has a second shape different than the first shape. Various embodiments of patterns having shapes selected to reduce or eliminate visibility are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-hee Jeong, Yeontae Kim, Taejoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11650779
    Abstract: An infinitely expandable display apparatus includes a set board outputting image data, a plurality of display devices connected to one another through an interface circuit based on a cascading scheme to sequentially receive the image data, and an output deviation compensation circuit generating a deviation compensation signal for allowing the image data to be simultaneously output from the plurality of display devices, and transferring the deviation compensation signal to the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Hyeon Park, Tae Gung Kim, Sun Cheol Noh
  • Patent number: 11651720
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure is provided with a pixel circuit that includes a light-emitting element; a current modulator that controls a current value flowing through the light-emitting element; a current breaker that interrupts a current flowing through the light-emitting element; and a gray-scale controller that controls the current modulator and the current breaker to perform gray-scale control. The gray-scale controller discretely controls a light emission duty of the light-emitting element through the current breaker, and controls, through the current modulator, the current value flowing through the light-emitting element in accordance with the light emission duty of the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11635930
    Abstract: An image control device and an image control method are provided. The image control device includes a control command output port, an image input port, a processor and an image output unit. The control command output port transmits a scene switching command to an image source device; the image input port receives an image stream from the image source device; the processor is coupled to the image input port and the control command output port to retrieve a first image and a second image from the image stream, wherein the second image corresponds to the scene switching command; the image output unit is coupled to the processor and outputs the first image and the second image, wherein the first image is displayed in a first display area and the second image is displayed in a second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Aten International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tzu-Yi Chuang, Ding-Yuan Wang, Syuan-You Liao, Chih-Chiang Chang
  • Patent number: 11630526
    Abstract: An input system according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises an electronic pen having a pen tip; and an electronic device configured to detect a pointed position of the electronic pen based on a detection signal received pursuant to an approach by the pen tip toward the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a planar sensor configured to acquire the detection signal; a flexible cover provided above the planar sensor and exposed to the outside; an actuator configured to displace the cover at each of multiple positions in an area defined by the planar sensor in at least a direction normal to the planar sensor; and a drive controller configured to perform drive control of the actuator so as to form local unevenness at a position of the cover corresponding to the pointed position of the electronic pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Henry Wong, Oliver Martin Madlener, Moritz Arnt
  • Patent number: 11626073
    Abstract: A display device and an afterimage compensation method thereof are proposed. The display device and the afterimage compensation method thereof capture an input image frame at a predetermined period, detect an edge area in the captured image frame, detect an afterimage compensation area on the basis of the cumulative count detected as the edge area for each pixel, and perform individual afterimage compensation only on a pixel whose cumulative count detected as the afterimage compensation area is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. Accordingly, the afterimage compensation time may be shortened by individually performing the afterimage compensation according to a condition of each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Young Do Kwon
  • Patent number: 11625095
    Abstract: Embodiments are related to a plurality of gaze sensors embedded into a frame of a headset for detection of a gaze vector of a user wearing the headset and user's control at the headset. The gaze vector for an eye of the user can be within a threshold distance from one of the gaze sensors. By monitoring signals detected by the gaze sensors, it can be determined that the gaze vector is within the threshold distance from the gaze sensor. Based on this determination, at least one action associated with the headset is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Zinn Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Konrad, Kevin Boyle, Nitish Padmanaban, Gordon Wetzstein
  • Patent number: 11620960
    Abstract: Various example embodiments described herein relate to a method for synchronizing liquid crystal display (LCD) screens. In some examples, the method includes establishing, by a first device comprising a processor, a master/slave relationship with one or more other devices; determining, by the first device, a frequency associated with turning on a first LCD screen on the first device; and sending, by the first device, a signal to each of the one or more other devices, wherein the signal comprises an instruction to turn on an LCD screen on each receiving device at a same time as the first LCD screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Skvoretz, Abhay Ravi Chandran, Charles Joseph Cunningham, IV, Glenn David Aspenns, Hardik Yomesh Jani
  • Patent number: 11619851
    Abstract: To minimize the width of a non-light-emitting border region around an opening in the active area, data lines may be stacked in the border region. Data line portions may be formed using three metal layers in three different planes within the border region. A metal layer that forms a positive power signal distribution path in the active area may serve as a data line portion in the border region. A metal layer may be added in the border region to serve as a data line portion in the border region. Data line signals may also be provided to pixels on both sides of an opening in the active area using supplemental data line paths. A supplemental data line path may be routed through the active area of the display to electrically connect data line segments on opposing sides of an opening within the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shin-Hung Yeh, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Chien-Ya Lee, Lun Tsai
  • Patent number: 11615748
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array unit in which display elements constituting pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix in a row direction and a column direction. Each of the display elements includes a current-driven light-emitting unit and a drive circuit for driving the light-emitting unit. The drive circuit includes at least a write transistor for writing a video signal and a drive transistor for applying current to the light-emitting unit. A voltage is supplied to a back gate of at least the write transistor via a back gate line provided separate from a power supply line that supplies a voltage to the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11610529
    Abstract: A functional panel is provided. The functional panel includes a first driver circuit, a second driver circuit, and a region. The first driver circuit supplies a first selection signal, the second driver circuit supplies a second selection signal and a third selection signal, and the region includes a pixel. The pixel includes a first pixel circuit, a light-emitting element, a second pixel circuit, and a photoelectric conversion element. The first pixel circuit is supplied with the first selection signal, the first pixel circuit obtains an image signal on the basis of the first selection signal, the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the first pixel circuit, and the light-emitting element emits light on the basis of the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Masataka Shiokawa, Daisuke Kubota, Jiro Imada, Katsuki Yanagawa, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 11610549
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a signal control sub-circuit and a time control sub-circuit. The signal control sub-circuit includes a first driving sub-circuit connected to a first node. The signal control sub-circuit is configured to: write at least a first data signal into the first node, and enable the first driving sub-circuit to output a driving signal according to the first data signal and a first power supply voltage signal. The time control sub-circuit includes a second driving sub-circuit including a first transistor connected to a second node and the signal control sub-circuit. The time control sub-circuit is configured to: transmit a second power supply voltage signal and a third power supply voltage signal to the second node in different periods, so as to control a turn-on time of the first transistor and transmit the driving signal to an element to be driven when the first transistor is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Yue, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 11610548
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, a device, a display device and a medium for improving OLED residual images. The method for improving OLED residual images includes obtaining a life attenuation rate relationship and a life attenuation degree relationship of an OLED display panel, dividing a display area of the display panel into a plurality of sub-areas to monitor temperature change and gray scale change of each sub-area respectively, obtaining a temperature value and a gray scale value of each sub-area at a current moment, calculating a current life attenuation rate according to the temperature value and the gray scale value, and calculating a current luminous time of each sub-area, calculating a life attenuation degree of each sub-area according to the current luminous time of each sub-area, and performing pixel compensation to each sub-area respectively according to the current life attenuation degree of each sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Biao Xu, Pohsien Wu, Shuang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11600671
    Abstract: An electronic panel may include a plurality of sensing electrodes and a plurality of sensing lines. The sensing lines may include a plurality of first group sensing lines and a plurality of second group sensing lines, which are spaced apart from each other in a specific direction and are alternately arranged with respect to each other. Each of the first group sensing lines and the second group sensing lines may include a first pattern layer and a second pattern layer, which are spaced apart from each other with an insulating layer interposed therebetween and are coupled to each other through the insulating layer. Each of the first group sensing lines may include a first pattern layer in a specific region, and each of the second group sensing lines may include a second pattern layer in the specific region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeongguk Jeon, Dong-Hyun Lee, Deok-Young Choi
  • Patent number: 11594162
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting a display substrate and a device for detecting a display substrate. The method includes: exciting a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in each pixel driving circuit in the display substrate, so that the threshold voltage of the driving transistor with a shifted threshold voltage is further shifted; inputting a detection signal to each pixel driving circuit in the display substrate, where the detection signal is a signal enabling the pixel driving circuit to operate normally; and judging whether the display substrate is normal or not according to the voltage output by each pixel driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyao Li, Yuankui Ding, Liusong Ni, Jun Wang, Haitao Wang, Dongfang Wang