Segmented Display Elements Patents (Class 345/33)
  • Patent number: 11974466
    Abstract: A first planarization layer, an anode lap joint later, a pixel defining layer are between the first dam and the display area; the anode lap joint layer includes a main body portion and sharp angle portions; the sharp angle portion at least includes a first side edge close to the display area; the pixel defining layer wraps a border of the anode lap joint layer and has a first groove extending from one to the other sharp angle portion. An edge of the first groove adjacent to the first side edge of the sharp angle portion is a second side edge; and an orthographic projection of the second side edge on a base substrate is in an orthographic projection of the third groove on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Bai, Li Song, Chang Luo, Sen Du, Pengfei Yu, Jie Dai, Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11892738
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to a display construct coupled to a structure (e.g., a vision window). The structure can be a supportive structure such as a fixture. The display construct is configured to facilitate media display and is at least partially transparent. The vision window may be a tintable window, e.g., a window in which its tint is electrically controllable (e.g., an electrochromic window). Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed (e.g., via a touch screen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitesh Trikha, Robert Michael Martinson, Anthony Young, Vinh N. Nguyen, Matthew Burton Sheffield, Chee Yung Chan, Todd Daniel Antes, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam
  • Patent number: 11868019
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to a display construct coupled to a structure (e.g., a vision window). The structure can be a supportive structure such as a fixture. The display construct is configured to facilitate media display and is at least partially transparent. The vision window may be a tintable window, e.g., a window in which its tint is electrically controllable (e.g., an electrochromic window). Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed (e.g., via a touch screen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitesh Trikha, Robert Michael Martinson, Anthony Young, Vinh N. Nguyen, Matthew Burton Sheffield, Chee Yung Chan, Todd Daniel Antes, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam
  • Patent number: 11747930
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device, including a substrate, a driving structure layer, a display structure layer and a touch layer. The substrate includes a bending area and a main area adjacent to the bending area. The driving structure layer is disposed on the substrate. The driving structure layer includes an insulating structure, and the insulating structure includes a plurality of recesses. The display structure layer is disposed on the driving structure layer. The touch layer is disposed on the driving structure layer. A portion of the touch layer is disposed on the bending area of the substrate. At least a part of the plurality of recesses is disposed on the bending area of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11696107
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatus, and systems for mass notification including receiving the message from an alarm notification device via a link and causing the projector to project the message on a surface using the light patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: John B. Stowell, Alan John Boguslawski
  • Patent number: 11588951
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a processor including a processing unit, a creating unit, and an output unit. The processing unit stores image data created by executing a job in a storage unit. The creating unit creates an information code representing information indicating a storage area of the storage unit in which the image data is stored. The output unit displays the information code created by the creating unit on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasukazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11501740
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate to a wireless programmable media processing system. In the media processing system, a processing unit in a computing device generates a frame to be displayed based on a graphics content for an application running on the computing device. The frame to be displayed is then divided into a plurality of block groups which are compressed. The plurality of compressed block groups are sent to a graphics display device over a wireless link. In this manner, both the generation and the compression of the frame to be displayed may be completed at the same processing unit in the computing device, which avoids data copying and simplifies processing operations. Thereby, the data processing speed and efficiency is improved significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yunxin Liu, Jiansong Zhang, Lintao Zhang, Thomas Moscibroda
  • Patent number: 11353922
    Abstract: A foldable electronic device is provided. The foldable electronic device includes a hinge structure, a foldable housing, a flexible display disposed inside the foldable housing, a first flexible connection member, a second flexible connection member, an adhesive member attached to the first flexible connection member. The foldable housing includes a first housing structure and a second housing structure. The first housing structure includes a first surface, a second surface, and a first printed circuit board. The second housing structure includes a third surface, a fourth surface, and a second printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Minsoo Lee, Younghun Seong, Jaehoon Lee, Wanjae Ju
  • Patent number: 11342405
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display region, a pad region spaced apart from the display region, and a bending region between the display region and the pad region. A plurality of pixel structures is positioned in the display region of the substrate. A plurality of pad wirings is positioned in the pad region of the substrate. A plurality of connection wirings electrically connect the pad wirings to the pixel structures. The connection wirings include a plurality of notches in the bending region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seil Cho
  • Patent number: 11281318
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device, including a substrate, a driving structure layer, a display structure layer and a touch layer. The substrate includes a bending area and a main area adjacent to the bending area. The driving structure layer is disposed on the substrate. The driving structure layer includes an insulating structure, and the insulating structure includes a plurality of recesses. The display structure layer is disposed on the driving structure layer. The touch layer is disposed on the driving structure layer. A portion of the touch layer is disposed on the bending area of the substrate. At least a part of the plurality of recesses is disposed on the bending area of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11282450
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a substrate including an active area, a non-active area, a bending area and a pad area; the active area including pixels to display images, each pixel including an organic light emitting layer and a thin-film transistor (TFT); the non-active area located between the active area and the bending area; and the bending area configured to be bent and located between the non-active area and the pad area, the bending area including a signal line and a power line that are made of a same material as a source electrode or a drain electrode of the TFT in the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HoYoung Lee, ChangHeon Kang
  • Patent number: 11283961
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a processor including a processing unit, a creating unit, and an output unit. The processing unit stores image data created by executing a job in a storage unit. The creating unit creates an information code representing information indicating a storage area of the storage unit in which the image data is stored. The output unit displays the information code created by the creating unit on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasukazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11064338
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatus, and systems for mass notification including receiving the message from a server via a link and causing the projector to project the message on a surface using the light patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS FIRE PROTECTION LP
    Inventors: John B. Stowell, Alan John Boguslawski
  • Patent number: 10963013
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a flexible substrate. A first pad and a second pad are arranged on the display panel. The flexible substrate includes a first layer, a first insulating layer, and a second layer on a bending area. A first metal line is arranged in the first layer and connected to the first pad. A second metal line is arranged in the second layer and connected to the second pad. A straightened length of the first metal line is greater than that of the second metal line. The design of a double-layer metal line effectively improves the stress intensity of the metal line in the outer bending area. Therefore, the inner and outer double-line metal line in the bending area is balanced by force, so that the stability of the inner and outer double-line metal line is relatively uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuelong Song
  • Patent number: 10897394
    Abstract: Techniques for deploying a server stack having a cross-server dependency are disclosed. A deployment engine initiates a deployment process for a server stack. The deployment engine provisions servers of one server type (“requisite servers”). The deployment engine attempts to provision servers of another server type (“dependent servers”). The deployment engine executes a test that requires the dependent servers to invoke a service executed by the requisite servers. Based on the test results, the deployment engine determines that an operational requirement of the dependent servers is not satisfied. The deployment engine modifies a configuration for the requisite servers to satisfy the operational requirement of the dependent servers. The deployment engine re-provisions the requisite servers using the modified configuration. The deployment engine completes the deployment process for the server stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Pradip Kumar Pandey, Steven Mark Fillipi, Clayton Drew Seeley, Karthik M U, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma
  • Patent number: 10789886
    Abstract: A display device includes a first voltage primary wiring line that supplies a first voltage to respective pixel circuits of a display unit and a second voltage primary wiring line that supplies a second voltage to respective pixel circuits. An end portion of an unrolled area of the display unit, positioned on an opposite side with respect to a rolling mechanism, is provided as an edge portion. At least one of the first voltage primary wiring line and the second voltage primary wiring line is electrically connected to pixel circuits arranged at the edge portion first, out of the plurality of pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniharu Wakata, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 10755624
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region; a plurality of display elements arrayed in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction in the display region; and transistors electrically connected with the plurality of display elements. The first region is a curved region extending in the second direction, and the transistors are located outer to the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takahiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10671342
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving an A1 gesture motion of a user, where the A1 gesture motion is not in contact with the electronic terminal device; obtaining, an A1 control instruction corresponding to the A1 gesture motion, where the A1 control instruction is used to control the electronic terminal device; obtaining an A2 control instruction of the user within a preset delay period, where the preset delay period is less than three seconds and the A2 control instruction is used to control the electronic terminal device; and comparing the A1 control instruction with the A2 control instruction, where if the A1 control instruction is consistent with the A2 control instruction, the electronic terminal device does not perform an operation corresponding to the A2 control instruction; and if the A1 control instruction is inconsistent with the A2 control instruction, the electronic terminal device performs the operation corresponding to the A2 control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maosheng Huang, Shouyu Wang, Shanfu Li, Kangmin Huang, Yulin Zheng, Kewei Yi, Liang Liang
  • Patent number: 10171294
    Abstract: Consistency between a requirement for communication with respect to software in a system and a requirement for a network is maintained, without re-designing a network by the user. A requirement conversion unit (110) of a system design support device (100) generates a requirement for communication between computers based on a requirement for communication between software components included in a system, and based on identifiers of the computers in which the software components are deployed. The requirement conversion unit (110) generates a requirement for a network for connecting between the computers based on the requirement for communication between the computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Soejima
  • Patent number: 10045123
    Abstract: Embodiments are described herein that provide numerous volume enhancements to a media playback system. An example implementation involves a playback device playing audio content at a first volume level as part of a first audio playback group configuration, storing a first volume level in association with the first audio playback group configuration, joining a second audio playback group configuration, playing audio content at a second volume level as a part of the second audio playback group configuration, receiving a command to play audio content as part of the first audio playback group configuration, identifying the first volume level in the data storage; and playing audio content at the first volume level as part of the first audio playback group configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Agustin, Jonathan P. Lang, Mark W. Triplett
  • Patent number: 9903983
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a curved display device including: a display panel; and a protection pattern coupled to the display panel, wherein the protection pattern includes a plurality of first patterns and second patterns connecting adjacent first patterns, and the second patterns have arcuate shapes when the display panel is flat. According to embodiments of the present invention, the panel is prevented from being bent beyond a threshold curvature by the protection pattern, thereby preventing damage to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 9713957
    Abstract: A method for displaying at least one parameter concerning the operation of a vehicle in the vehicle by a display device with a display surface wherein, in a first display mode of the display device, the display surface generates a display element with a first boundary and an area lying within the first boundary. The area is divided into at least a first sub-area and a second sub-area and the first sub-area includes a scale by which a state variable of the vehicle is displayed. The current value of the state variable is displayed in the first display mode by a graphical element which extends from the second sub-area in the first sub-area to the scale. Also disclosed is a device for displaying at least one parameter concerning the operation of a vehicle in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Volkmar Wagner, Mi-Ran Jun, Sönke Petersen, David Schriever, Matthias Peukert, Tobias Brandt, Jens Geissler, Martin Hofmann, Christian Burghoff
  • Patent number: 9706607
    Abstract: There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Kim, SieHyug Choi, Jehong Park, Yeasle Lee, Chiwoong Kim
  • Patent number: 9287342
    Abstract: Provided is a flexible organic light-emitting display device. The flexible display device includes a flexible substrate having a display area, a non-display area, and a bending area. On the flexible substrate, a first insulation layer is formed in a part of the non-display area. The first insulation layer includes a zigzag pattern. A plurality of wirings are electrically connected to the display area and are extended to traverse the non-display area and the bending area and are disposed on the first insulation layer. On the first insulation layer and the plurality of wirings, a passivation layer is formed. By virtue of a zigzag pattern of the first insulation layer, the frequency of occurrence of cracks in the passivation layer is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeYeoul Kwon, SangCheon Youn, Saemleenuri Lee
  • Patent number: 9275266
    Abstract: A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanhua Wang, Chao Cong, Yanli Wang, Shaobin Wang, Qiuying Dong
  • Patent number: 9013382
    Abstract: A LCD device includes a liquid crystal panel and a control circuit. The liquid crystal panel is configured to display an image in response to various received signals, one of which may include a common voltage signal. The control circuit receives a control signal. In response to the control signal, the control circuit couples the liquid crystal panel to the common voltage signal or to a ground voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gun Woo Do
  • Publication number: 20150091782
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit that displays a physical quantity; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display the physical quantity. The display unit includes a numerical value display part that displays a numerical value of a plurality of digits and a unit display part, in which a plurality of units representing the physical quantity coexist; the numerical value display part has a numerical character segment group representing a numerical character in each of the digits; the unit display part has a plurality of symbol segments representing symbols making up the units; and the display control unit selects one of the units, causes symbol segments that represent a selected unit to be displayed in the unit display part, and causes a numerical value representing the physical quantity corresponding to the selected unit to be displayed in the numerical value display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMAZAKI, Masaki YOSHIKAWA, Kazuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 8941635
    Abstract: There is offered a driving circuit for an electrophoretic display device directed to avoiding a problem that clearing display on a display unit is not performed when the power supply is lost and a wrong display such as wrong time display is left unchanged. In the driving circuit for the electrophoretic display device, either a display clearing signal or a display retaining signal is set in a display setting register in advance. When the loss of the power supply is detected by a low voltage detection circuit while the display clearing signal is retained in the display setting register, the display on the display unit is cleared or retained in accordance with the setting in the display setting register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Onoue
  • Patent number: 8922458
    Abstract: A system and method distributes data and power in a robust manner for a large scale LED display. Master modules of the display are capable of receiving a data stream on any one of four data ports. The master modules extract the data for its module and an associated group of slave modules from a data stream received on one port and send the received data stream to three other master modules via the other three data ports. Unregulated D.C. power is distributed from one or more power hubs to the master modules which in turn distribute regulated D.C. power to their associated slave modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventors: Robert J. Sefton, Sheldon Lee Black, Hamid Kharrati, Daniel S. Kline, Anthony D. Barghini
  • Patent number: 8885117
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a thin thickness and improved esthetic sense is disclosed. The display apparatus comprises a display panel including an upper substrate having a signal line to which gate and data signals are supplied, and at least one lower substrate bonded to the upper substrate; and a panel support member supporting the display panel to externally expose an entire upper surface of the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a display portion having a main display region, a sub display region having an area smaller than that of the main display region, and a boundary region dividing the main display region and the sub display region from each other; and a periphery portion surrounding the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HongSung Song, JoungMoo Ko, YoungMin Kweon, YongGi Son, ChangSoo Jang
  • Patent number: 8879035
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, a color-filter substrate, a thin-film-transistor substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin-film-transistor substrate has a pixel array and transparent conductive material. The pixel array has a plurality of thin-film-transistor units, pixel electrodes and metal signal lines. The transparent conductive material is mounted on the pixel array with an insulating layer placed therebetween, and correspondingly covers an area containing the thin-film-transistor units and the metal signal lines. And voltage difference between the transparent conductive layer and a common electrode of the color-filter substrate is smaller than a threshold voltage of liquid crystal cell. Therefore, without enough voltage difference for driving, the liquid crystal material between the transparent conductive material and the common electrode can maintain at a vertical status to block lights, so as to replace the function of traditional black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shyh-feng Chen
  • Patent number: 8866871
    Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing device are provided. The image processing method includes: determining a first width and a second width, where the second width is the width of a gap between display devices of target images on N screens, the first width is the width of a blind spot between source images corresponding to the N screens, N is an integer greater than 1, and the N screens are of a same size and are arranged side by side at a same height; and when the first width is different from the second width, adjusting the source images according to the determined first width and second width so as to obtain the target images, so that no mismatch exists in the stitched target images on the N screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Xiao, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 8704734
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a digit display are provided. In one aspect, a digit display comprises at least one display unit. The at least one digit unit comprises twenty-eight character segments that are arranged in a manner including a quadrilateral, a cross, and four X-shaped arrangements. The quadrilateral is formed by eight of the twenty-eight character segments with two character segments on each of four sides of the quadrilateral. The cross is formed by four of the twenty-eight character segments and dividing the quadrilateral into four quadrants. Each of the four X-shaped arrangements is disposed in a respective one of the four quadrants and formed by respective four of the twenty-eight character segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Wu, Wen-Chieh Huang, Yao-Wen Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20140098034
    Abstract: A device is provided that includes a display that is switchable between a collapsed state and an extended state. In the collapsed state, the display is approximately the size of a smartphone. The device may be unfolded or unrolled to the extended state, which is approximately the size of a tablet or three times the size of a smartphone. The device may be held and operated with one hand in the collapsed state while the extended state may require two hands to hold or operate. The device may include a housing affixed to a flexible display. The housing may be used to incorporate rigid electronics or a battery into the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Ruiqing Ma, Emory Krall
  • Patent number: 8676921
    Abstract: A method, network server, communication device and system of preparing a pictorial representation of information. The system comprises a server for providing information and generating the pictorial representation, a wireless network for communicating said server over the air waves, and wireless terminals of said wireless network for receiving the information and making mark-ups or indications to the information from which the pictorial representation is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Tomi Konkonen
  • Patent number: 8661277
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including an HDMI connector complying with HEC (HDMI Ethernet Channel)-compliant HDMI standards, comprising: an HEC communication unit configured to communicate, via HEC, with an HEC-compliant communication apparatus connected to the HDMI connector; a determination unit configured to determine, using a protocol of the HDMI standards, whether or not an HEC-compliant communication apparatus is connected to the HDMI connector; and a control unit configured to stop power supply to the HEC communication unit if it is determined that an HEC-compliant communication apparatus is not connected to the HDMI connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Tokoro
  • Patent number: 8654054
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a liquid crystal display device which is capable of driving a liquid crystal using image signals supplied to two adjacent data lines, and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display device has a plurality of liquid crystal cells formed respectively in pixel areas defined by intersections of n gate lines and m data lines. Each of the liquid crystal cells includes a thin film transistor connected to any one of the gate lines and any one of two data lines adjacent respectively to left and right sides of a corresponding one of the liquid crystal cells, among the data lines, and a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor each formed between the other one of the two adjacent data lines and the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8648774
    Abstract: A large scale LED display has a number of display panels each having a cable and spacer support structure for a number of LED modules. Adjacent display panels are connected together by a number of seam links that snap onto one cable of one of the display panels and one cable of the adjacent display panel. The cables may include a number of seam link engagement members spaced along the length of the cable and onto which the seam links snap wherein each of the seam link engagement members locates an LED module on the support structure. The LED modules include top and bottom housing sections that snap together, wherein one of the housing sections includes a seat for an electrical connector. The seat locates the connector and a printed circuit assembly within the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel S. Kline, Matthew W. Shankle, David F. Cox, James C. Lee, Sam R. Sarcia
  • Patent number: 8633883
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiment relates to a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Chaeyoul Cho, Woongki Min, Yonggi Son, Suhyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8605091
    Abstract: An enhanced power distribution unit (PDU) with self-orienting display uses an orientation sensor in conjunction with a microprocessor to properly orient visual display of information by one or more displays of the enhanced PDU. Information displayed can relate to electrical current furnished to one or more power outlets of the enhanced PDU and/or information related to temperature, humidity or other conditions of the enhanced PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Bradbury, Carlos Ramirez
  • Patent number: 8581804
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a display driver having an internal non-volatile memory in order to save memory storage and computation effort of a host processor. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the display driver is applied for an electronic paper display. Contained within the display driver are user-definable display graphics bitmaps, multiple stored bitmaps used to assemble complex display images, and multiple phase tables, each table of arbitrary length. The invention removes the requirement for a host processor to store display images and/or display image decodes of numerical data and simplifies the process required to construct a display image from stored bitmaps. Furthermore the invention provides pre-programmed multiple phase tables (phase/delay waveform definitions), allowing a simple mechanism to alter the waveform generation, required for example to accommodate temperature variations, blanking the display before updating an image, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor GmbH.
    Inventors: Julian Tyrrell, Peter Hayes
  • Patent number: 8576140
    Abstract: Methods and systems for simultaneous local and contextual display comprise displaying a smaller, “local” image on a first surface using a first device having limited screen real estate. A second, larger, “contextual” image is simultaneously displayed on a larger second surface, which may comprise a projector screen or a separate computer monitor screen. The contextual image may be projected onto the second surface using the first device, or the first device may be coupled to a second device for displaying the contextual image. The local image comprises a subset of the contextual image such that a user may view both the fine detail of the local image using the first device and the context of the local image within the contextual image on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Wilsher
  • Patent number: 8553052
    Abstract: Display device, with a plurality of display elements arranged in the shape of a bar, wherein each display element can represent at least one first display state (off) and one second display state (on), and a value being shown can be indicated by the second display state (on) of at least one display element assigned to the value, so that an intermediate value between the value being displayed and a succeeding or preceding value can be represented by activating the preceding or succeeding display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Vega Grieshaber KG
    Inventors: Siegbert Wöhrle, Daniel Schultheiss, Josef Fehrenbach, Thomas Deck, Michael Fischer
  • Patent number: 8552928
    Abstract: Discrete flexible pixel assemblies can be hermetically sealed from the environment and can comprise unitary, self-contained replaceable modules which enable efficient, economical production of large scale, free-form electronic displays, signs and lighting effects for outdoor use. The method and means for producing hermetically sealed discrete flexible pixel assemblies can include encapsulation means, exterior encasement means, and cable connector means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Daktronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett David Wendler, Eric Steven Bravek, Erich J. Grebel
  • Patent number: 8552929
    Abstract: A graphical display station of arbitrary shape such as channel letters or other shaped structures is populated with pixels which are components of flexible pixel strings which can be arranged to fit the arbitrary shape(s). The flexible pixel strings provide for straightforward and cost effective fabrication of channel letter or other shaped displays. The invention also includes pixel units which comprise lighting elements together with such control circuits as are needed to roperly drive the lighting elements to form a graphical image. Addressing of the particular pixels is provided to accommodate the arbitrary arrangement of pixels of the flexible pixel strings. Methods of fabricating a channel letter display are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Daktronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Mittan, Chad Neal Gloege, Brett David Wendler
  • Patent number: 8548528
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a touch pad; a first display unit including a transparent display; a second display unit including a non-transparent display disposed below the transparent display; and a controller configured to selectively control the first and second display units to operate in a dual-operation mode by controlling at least a portion of the first display unit to be transparent and not display information and controlling the second display unit to display information that can be viewed through the at least the portion of the first display unit that is transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Byunghee Hwang
  • Patent number: 8543165
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission processing section which performs short-range one-to-one communication with a communication partner device, a reception processing section, a received data processing section which acquires information displayed by the communication partner device by communication with the communication partner device, a display processing section which performs processing for displaying information acquired by the information acquisition section, and a display section which displays the information. According to such a configuration, it becomes possible to easily and visually recognize the information displayed on the communication partner device of a connection destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Matsubara, Toyohide Isshi, Aramu Mine
  • Patent number: 8542172
    Abstract: A method of operating an electro-optic display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus includes a display device having image regions and a display driving system having a data input for selecting image regions. The data input is connected to the input of a distributor for providing signals for driving the image regions. Each image region has an active display state in which the image region is driven with an active voltage signal. The active voltage signal includes a first signal level which sets an image region to the active display state and a second signal level different from said first signal level and which is applied for a shorter duration than said first signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Liquavista B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Gerardus Hendrik Boom, Roy Van Dijk, Henricus Petronella Maria Derckx
  • Patent number: 8514170
    Abstract: A smaller sized flip dot display utilizes a magnetically actuated pixel that rotates between two orientations. The orientations display two different optical states. A simulated dot matrix design improves the aesthetics and consumer appeal, and also permits a flip dot display capable of producing a positive contrast display image with darker colored “ON” pixels contrasting with brighter background and “OFF” pixels by reducing the visibility of the spacing gap between each rotating pixel and the surrounding background. An interwoven configuration of magnetic actuators with a coil around each arm of a U-shaped core may result in lower power consumption, low production cost, and small size required for use in consumer and small mobile devices such as watches and mobile phones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Art Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Brewer, David B. Cope, Andrew M. Wright, Christopher J. Corcoran
  • Patent number: 8493290
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes: a segment driver having a plurality of segment signal output circuits for driving a plurality of segment lines; a common driver having a plurality of common signal output circuits for driving a plurality of common lines; and a power supply circuit that supplies a first power supply at a first voltage level, a second power supply at a second voltage level, a third power supply at a third voltage level and a fourth power supply at a fourth voltage level to the segment driver and the common driver, wherein each of the plurality of segment signal output circuits sets a voltage level of a segment signal to the third voltage level in a first transition period from a period in which the voltage level of the segment signal is set to the first voltage level to a period in which the voltage level of the segment signal is set to the fourth voltage level, and sets the voltage level of the segment signal to the second voltage level in a second transition period from a period in which
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Tsuchiya