Display Elements Arranged In Matrix (e.g., Rows And Columns) Patents (Class 345/55)
  • Patent number: 10909913
    Abstract: A hidden display apparatus, system, and method. A display apparatus embodiment may include a face layer and a projection layer, with the projection layer positioned behind the face layer. The face layer may include a front side and a back side. The front side may include a first area configured to display high resolution images and a second area positioned around the first area. The first area and the second area may be made of the same material, and have similar color(s) and/or patterns. The projection layer may include a light source operative in an active mode and an inactive mode. When in the active mode, the projection layer may project light to the face layer to display images in the first area. When in the inactive mode, the face layer may be visually obscured so that the first area and the second area together display a colored surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vivint, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Moulton, Craig DeVries, Stephen Edward Boynton
  • Patent number: 10903298
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a driving thin film transistor and a storage capacitor, wherein each of the pixels further includes: a driving semiconductor layer including a driving channel region, a driving source region, and a driving drain region; a first electrode layer, a portion of the first electrode layer overlapping the driving channel region; a second electrode layer overlapping the first electrode layer; a node connection line having a first side connected to the first electrode layer: a pixel electrode overlapping the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and a shielding layer between the first electrode layer and the pixel electrode and overlapping the first electrode layer, the node connection line, and the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungkyu Lee, Taehoon Kwon, Byungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10902755
    Abstract: A stretchable display substrate, a method for manufacturing the stretchable display substrate, and a display device are provided. The stretchable display substrate includes: a base substrate on which a plurality of isolated regions and a plurality of connection regions are distributed, wherein the isolated regions are connected to each other through the connection regions; a plurality of display pixel units arranged in a first array, wherein at least a respective one of the display pixel units is arranged on each of the isolated regions, at least one of the display pixel units includes an independent cathode, and the independent cathode is separated from any cathode of the other display pixel units; and at least one wire configured to be electrically connected to the independent cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weinan Dai, Yingsong Xu
  • Patent number: 10892257
    Abstract: A foldable display device having a first display region, a second display region, and a foldable display region connecting the first display region and the second display region includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of first light emitting units disposed on the flexible substrate in the first display region, a plurality of second light emitting units disposed on the flexible substrate in the foldable display region, a first protector protecting at least one of the first light emitting units, and a second protector protecting at least one of the second light emitting units. A first ratio of a thickness of the first protector to a thickness of the flexible substrate in the first display region is less than a second ratio of a thickness of the second protector to a thickness of the flexible substrate in the foldable display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai, Jia-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10885296
    Abstract: An electronic device and a fingerprint sensing method are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a fingerprint sensor, and an integrated driver chip. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. The integrated driver chip integrates a display driver circuit and a fingerprint sensing circuit. When the pixel units of the display panel are in an undriven state and a finger object is in contact with a sensing area of the display panel to perform a fingerprint unlock operation, the display driver circuit drives at least a portion of the pixel units corresponding to the sensing area, so that at least a portion of the pixel units provide illumination light to the sensing area. The fingerprint sensing circuit drives the fingerprint sensor to capture a fingerprint feature image of the finger object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., LTD
    Inventors: Hsu-Wen Fu, Ping-Hung Yin, Jia-Shyang Wang, Chun-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 10878746
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device has sub-pixels of multiple colors. In one aspect, the organic light emitting display device detects sub-pixels which are positioned at the edges of the panel. Data for the sub-pixels on the edges are reduced so that colors on the edges are less observable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Yang, Geun-Young Jeong, Takeshi Kato, Myung-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10868100
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises a display area including a first display area and a second display area arranged in a row direction, and the first display area includes at least one notch; and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The non-display area includes a first non-display area and a second non-display area, and along the row direction, the first non-display area and the second non-display area are respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the display area. The first non-display area include a first driving circuit, which includes a plurality of cascaded first shift registers, and the second non-display area includes a second driving circuit, which includes a plurality of cascaded second shift registers. The display panel includes a first driving unit and a second driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Tianqing Hu, Zhaokeng Cao
  • Patent number: 10866473
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel rows, a first data line, a second data line, a data driver, a first test part, and a second test part. Each of the plurality of pixel rows includes a plurality of pixels. The first data line is disposed between two adjacent pixel rows among the a plurality of pixel rows. The second data line is disposed between the two adjacent pixel rows. The data driver is configured to provide at least one data signal to the first data line and the second data line. The first test part is connected to one of the first data line and the second data line, and is disposed between the plurality of pixel rows and the data driver. The second test part is electrically connected to the other of the first data line and the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donghee Shin, Choong-ho Noh, Hyungjin Song, Jinyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10852575
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a front cover including a front part shielding an edge area of a front surface of the display panel and a side part shielding a side surface of the display panel, a mounting hole being formed on the side part, a guide panel positioned between the display panel and the front cover and coupled to the side surface of the display panel, a backlight unit positioned at a rear surface of the display panel, a frame positioned at a rear surface of the backlight unit, and an infrared sensor inserted into the mounting hole. The present disclosure can provide an apparently neat display device by positioning the infrared sensor inside the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Heeseung Son
  • Patent number: 10811465
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display region having a first steplike edge. The display region is provided with a plurality of sub-pixel groups. Each sub-pixel group includes a first sub-pixel unit, a second sub-pixel unit and a third sub-pixel unit. The first sub-pixel unit, the second sub-pixel unit and the third sub-pixel unit have different luminous colors. Along a connecting line of step apex angles of the first steplike edge, the display region is provided with a plurality of first sub-pixel groups and a plurality of second sub-pixel groups. The first sub-pixel unit in each first sub-pixel group is disposed at a step apex angle of the first steplike edge, and the second sub-pixel unit in each second sub-pixel group is disposed at the step apex angle of the first steplike edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma AM-OLED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Li, Xian Chen, Lijing Han, Kaihong Huang
  • Patent number: 10803824
    Abstract: In a display device including a non-rectangular display unit in which a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of source bus lines are arranged as signal lines, at least one of the gate bus lines and the source bus lines are driven by a first-type drive circuit unit as a circuit portion configured to drive such signal lines from only one end side, and a second-type drive circuit unit as a pair of circuit portions configured to drive the signal lines from both of one end side and the other end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Ohfuku
  • Patent number: 10802299
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including scan lines, data lines, unit areas corresponding to intersections of the scan lines and the data lines, the unit areas including first unit areas in an effective display area, second unit areas in a dummy area around the effective display area, some of the second unit areas being smaller than the first unit areas, and pixels in the first unit areas; a timing controller configured to receive first data including image data corresponding to the first and second unit areas and to convert the first data into second data corresponding to the effective display area; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the second data. The display unit includes a first horizontal line having fewer pixels than the number of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Soo Kim, Jun Heyung Jung, Ja Kyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 10795063
    Abstract: A transflective and non-rectangular display panel and a display device are provided. The non-rectangular display panel includes a display region, a non-display region surrounding the display region, multiple pixels including multiple sub pixels, and a light shielding layer. There is a first boundary between the display region and the non-display region, and a region surrounded by the first boundary and the display region is non-rectangular. Each of the multiple pixels includes at least three of the multiple sub pixels. An open region of each of the multiple sub pixels has a transmissive region and a reflective region. The multiple pixels include normal pixels in the display region and abnormal pixels passed through by the first boundary. In each of the abnormal pixels, each of the transmissive region and the reflective region is partially blocked by the light shielding layer and partially emits light therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baiquan Lin, Kerui Xi, Ming Xie, Huanxi Zhang, Min Zhang
  • Patent number: 10775429
    Abstract: Monolithic three-dimensional integration can achieve higher device density compared to 3D integration using through-silicon vias. A test solution for M3D integrated circuits (ICs) is based on dedicated test layers inserted between functional layers. A structure includes a first functional layer having first functional components of the IC with first test scan chains and a second functional layer having second functional components of the IC with second test scan chains. A dedicated test layer is located between the first functional layer and the second functional layer. The test layer includes an interface register controlling signals from a testing module to one of the first test scan chains and the second test scan chains, and an instruction register connected to the interface register. The instruction register processes testing instructions from the testing module. Inter-layer vias connect the first functional components, the second functional components, and the testing module through the test layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd., Duke University
    Inventors: Sukeshwar Kannan, Abhishek Koneru, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
  • Patent number: 10746918
    Abstract: A light assembly that acts as a light source multiplier. The light assembly includes a light guide having a light source side and an emitting side with a center portion between the light source side and the emitting side. Both the light source side and the emitting side have a truncated sawtooth shape. The light source side has a plurality of truncated portions and a plurality of apex portions between each truncated portion, with one or more of the apex portions ending in the center portion of the light guide. In some implementations, a number of light guide segments are oriented in a lattice configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rebo Lighting & Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Irgang, Jon Beattie, Chris Casanova
  • Patent number: 10748973
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a lower surface, an upper surface facing the lower surface, and a first area, a first film positioned below the lower surface and provided with a film groove defined therein overlapping with the first area, a second film disposed on the upper surface, and an adhesive layer disposed between the lower surface of the display panel and the first film and provided with an adhesive groove defined therein overlapping with the first area. The first area extends across the display panel along a first direction, one side surface of the adhesive groove is defined by one line when viewed in a cross section taken along a second direction crossing the first direction, and one side surface of the film groove is defined by two or more lines when viewed in the cross section taken along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junghoon Han, Jihoon Kim, Daeseung Mun
  • Patent number: 10741118
    Abstract: Provided are a light-emitting diode (LED) display device and a method of operating the LED display device determining whether a line flicker will occur based on a level of an input image signal, obtaining an LED line scan order corresponding to the level of the input image signal and brightness according to the input image signal based on the determining, and driving at least one LED line based on the LED line scan order. An LED line scan order may be adjusted according to a level of an input/output image signal in an LED display device so as to reduce occurrence of a line flicker phenomenon in all levels of the input/output image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-yong Park, Sang-kyun Im, Young-hoon Cho, Hye-rin Choi
  • Patent number: 10741617
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel units including three-primary-color sub-pixel groups and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels which are alternatively arranged. The fourth sub-pixel has a color different from that of the three-primary-color sub-pixel groups. The fourth sub-pixel is arranged between two adjacent three-primary-color sub-pixel groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 10732438
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including scan lines, data lines, unit areas corresponding to intersections of the scan lines and the data lines, the unit areas including first unit areas in an effective display area, second unit areas in a dummy area around the effective display area, some of the second unit areas being smaller than the first unit areas, and pixels in the first unit areas; a timing controller configured to receive first data including image data corresponding to the first and second unit areas and to convert the first data into second data corresponding to the effective display area; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the second data. The display unit includes a first horizontal line having fewer pixels than the number of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Soo Kim, Jun Heyung Jung, Ja Kyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 10728966
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for operating a plurality of field emission light sources, specifically for performing a testing procedure in relation to a plurality of field emission light sources manufactured in a chip based fashion. The invention also relates to a corresponding testing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: Lightlab Sweden AB, Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Jonas Tirén, Hilmi Volkan Demir, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Swee Tiam Tan
  • Patent number: 10714034
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, a control circuit of a display panel, and a display method. The display method includes: determining a current display mode of the display panel; and determining whether or not to subject a to-be-displayed image on the display panel to color enhancement in accordance with the current display mode of the display panel and/or an image parameter of the to-be-displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Li, Zijiao Xue, Shuaishuai Xu, Lingyun Shi, Wei Sun, Guangquan Wang, Dong Chen, Xue Dong, Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10714054
    Abstract: The relative luminance value of each subpixel in the panel unit area is determined by calculation of the relative luminance value and the weight of the plurality of frame pixels. The plurality of frame pixels constitute a plurality of frame pixel lines extending in the first direction and a plurality of frame pixel lines extending in the second direction, respectively. A first frame pixel line extending in the first direction that includes the closest frame pixel and a second frame pixel line extending in the second direction that includes the closest frame pixel are composed of frame pixels assigned positive weights. Each of the frame pixel lines except for the first frame pixel line and the second frame pixel line includes a frame pixel assigned a negative weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kimura, Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 10699617
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gate driving circuit and its driving method, an array substrate and a display device. The gate driving circuit is configured to drive an irregular-shaped display panel that includes a regular-shaped display area and a first irregular-shaped display area, wherein the gate driving circuit includes a first driving module configured to drive one or more first scan lines in the regular-shaped display area and a second driving module configured to drive one or more second scan lines in the regular-shaped display area; wherein one or more third scan lines are driven by the first driving module or the second driving module, and one or more fourth scan lines are driven by the first driving module or the second driving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunbok Lee, Qianqian Wang
  • Patent number: 10690960
    Abstract: A display device is provided, which includes a display unit and a backlight module. The backlight module is disposed corresponding to the display unit. The backlight module includes a circuit board, a plurality of light sources, a diffuser plate and an optical film. The light sources are disposed on the circuit board, the diffuser plate is disposed between the light sources and the display unit, and the optical film is disposed between the diffuser plate and the display unit. The optical film includes a micro-structure, and the micro-structure faces the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Wei Mao, Ming-Chia Shih, Chih-Chang Chen, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Patent number: 10672749
    Abstract: A light source includes a plurality of semiconductor components, wherein a semiconductor component includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes, the diodes are arranged in a predefined grid in at least one column in or on the semiconductor component, and a control circuit that drives the individual diodes is arranged on the semiconductor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Goldbach, Juergen Holz, Stefan Illek, Stefan Groetsch
  • Patent number: 10666765
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufactures for graphical cross connectivity and dynamic configurability for interconnection between inputs and outputs of a device. Various implementations identify instructions from a user interface to graphically display various view modes that include a global view mode showing all active connections between inputs and outputs or one or more program modes showing all active connections for identified input(s) or identified output(s). Some implementations also provide user interface functions to dynamically query, control, or configure the device and the connectivity between the inputs and the outputs based at least in part upon various view modes of the connectivity of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Custom Microwave Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory S. F. Mau, Jeremy Oliver Korn
  • Patent number: 10650722
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a dummy gate line. The first circuit and the second circuit are disposed adjacent to each other and arranged along a first direction, and the first circuit and the second circuit are electrically insulated from each other. The dummy gate line extends along a second direction and is disposed between the first circuit and the second circuit, wherein the first direction is different from the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi-Cheng Jian, Yu-Hsin Feng, Yu-Tse Lu
  • Patent number: 10643529
    Abstract: A method for compensating brightness non-uniformity of a display panel, and associated display device is provided. The display panel may include a plurality of display blocks, each of the plurality of display blocks may includes one or more display units, and the method includes: according to a control signal, selecting a voltage detection terminal of a display block within the plurality of display blocks, wherein the control signal carries information indicating the display block; according to a voltage level of the voltage detection terminal, generating a plurality of reference voltages; and based on the plurality of reference voltages, driving a display voltage to a display unit within the display block according to a set of display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Chao-Liang Chien, Meng-Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 10642402
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a conductive pattern arranged on a base substrate, a plurality of pressure sensing units arranged on the base substrate, and a first pressure sensing line and a second pressure sensing line connected to the plurality of pressure sensing units and each configured to output a pressure sensing signal. At least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line is within a same layer and made of a same material as the conductive pattern, or the conductive pattern is multiplexed as at least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Zhao, Yuzhen Guo, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Yanan Jia
  • Patent number: 10644268
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including a plurality of sub-pixels on an array substrate in which each sub-pixel includes a circuit part including a switching transistor, a driving transistor and a capacitor; and a light emitting part having a shape defined with a width and a length and including a first electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode, the first electrode including a first pattern having a recess, a second pattern having a protrusion received in the recess, and a third pattern connecting the first and second patterns, wherein a depth of the recess is greater than a half of a longer of the width and the length of the light emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DaeWoong Chun, Ilwan Jang
  • Patent number: 10627687
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes at least one pixel that includes first, second, third, and fourth switches connected to at least one gate line and at least one data line, a first sub-pixel electrode connected to the first switch, a second sub-pixel electrode connected to the second switch, a third sub-pixel electrode connected to the third switch, a fourth sub-pixel electrode connected to the fourth switch, a first capacitor connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the first switch, a second capacitor connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the second switch, a third capacitor connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the third switch, and a fourth capacitor connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the fourth switch. At least two of the first, second, third, and fourth capacitors have different capacitance values from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10630288
    Abstract: A switch includes a substrate and a microwave line comprising two tracks produced on the substrate, an active zone of the substrate being bounded by the two conductive tracks and connecting the two tracks. The switch comprises a set of at least one DC line, intended to convey a DC current, the DC line comprising two electrodes that are distant from each other and that are connected by a separation zone of the substrate, the separation zone being able to be made conductive when it is illuminated by the optical control beam so as to establish an electrical contact between the two electrodes, the two electrodes being separated by a separation plane of the DC line, the separation plane passing through the centre O and being perpendicular to the plane of the active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Yves Canal, Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet, Jean Chazelas
  • Patent number: 10613588
    Abstract: The application discloses a portable electronic device comprising a casing, a rotating shaft, a driving assembly, a flexible display and a supporting member. The housing has a long axis opening. The rotating shaft and the driving assembly are disposed in the housing, and the driving assembly is connected to the rotating shaft. The flexible display is wound around the rotating shaft. A first side of the flexible display is connected to the rotating shaft and a second side is located in the long axis opening. A first end of the supporting member is fixed to the driving assembly. When the second side of the flexible display moves outward from the long axis opening, the rotating shaft rotates and drives the driving assembly to drive a second end of the supporting member to move from the long axis opening toward the second side of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Pegatron Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Wen Chang, Chen-Yu Tsai, Chun-Yuan Wang, Cheng-Yi Lee
  • Patent number: 10593734
    Abstract: A display device may include: a display area; a peripheral area which is located outside the display area and in which a black matrix is disposed; and a plurality of pixel columns including: a first pixel column including a first pixel configured to display a first color; and a second pixel column including a second pixel configured to display a second color different from the first color, wherein an absolute value of a first boundary slope of a boundary line between the first pixel column and the black matrix may be greater than an absolute value of a second boundary slope of a boundary line between the second pixel column and the black matrix, and wherein the first color may be one of white and green.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Ki Park, Tae Jong Jun
  • Patent number: 10576223
    Abstract: A respiratory therapy device is configured, e.g. by a care provider, such that a second therapy mode different from the current therapy mode is unlocked, under predetermined circumstances and a third therapy mode different from the current and the second therapy mode is unlocked, under predetermined circumstances. The user of a given respiratory therapy device may activate the unlocked second or third therapy mode. The second or the third therapy mode may expire after a predetermined amount of usage, and be deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHLIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mark D'Angelo, John Raymond Pujol
  • Patent number: 10571755
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Daichi Hosokawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10553817
    Abstract: A display backplane and a manufacture method thereof, a display device are disclosed. The display backplane includes a bending area and a non-bending area; the bending area includes an adhesive layer on a surface of the bending area that is stretched during the bending area being bent around a central axis of the bending area, and the adhesive layer includes a buffer structure for buffering bending stress of the bending area, and the buffer structure is at a position of the central axis of the bending area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanxin Wang, Song Wang, Shuquan Yang, Peng Huang
  • Patent number: 10553540
    Abstract: A fabric-based item may include fabric layers and other layers of material. An array of electrical components may be mounted in the fabric-based item. The electrical components may be mounted to a support structure such as a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have a mesh shape formed from an array of openings. Serpentine flexible printed circuit segments may extend between the openings. The electrical components may be light-emitting diodes or other electrical devices. Polymer with light-scattering particles or other materials may cover the electrical components. The flexible printed circuit may be laminated between fabric layers or other layers of material in the fabric-based item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sunshine, Paul S. Drzaic, Daniel A. Podhajny, David M. Kindlon, Hoon Sik Kim, Kathryn P. Crews, Yung-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 10545607
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor (T1); a touch module (200) configured to cause a voltage change when a touch operation happens and coupled to a data line; and a writing compensation module (100) having a storage capacitor (C1) and a holding capacitor (Coled), configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving transistor (T1), and to allow the voltage change to be read out through the data line by sharing at least one component with the touch module (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuquan Hu
  • Patent number: 10540923
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display technology, and more particularly, to a shift register, a method for driving the shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register comprises a pull-up module, a pull-down module and a holding module. The pull-up module is connected to the holding module and the pull-down module, an electrical connection point of the pull-up module and the pull-down module constituting an output signal terminal, and configured to pull up a signal outputted at the output signal terminal in response to a first clock signal. The pull-down module is connected to the holding module and configured to pull down the signal outputted at the output signal terminal in response to a second clock signal. The holding module is configured to hold a signal outputted from the pull-up module and the pull-down module at a fixed level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhanjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10535319
    Abstract: The disclosed display device may include a display screen having (1) a front surface and (2) at least one display region that emits image light from the front surface, the at least one display region including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns, the plurality of pixel rows and the plurality of pixel columns each extending obliquely relative to a peripheral edge of the front surface. The display device may also include a display driver circuit for driving the plurality of pixels of the at least one display region. The display driver circuit may be disposed adjacent to the peripheral edge of the front surface. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 10535118
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit which includes a plurality of pixels and a display area having a corner of a non-right angular shape and a signal controller which controls the display unit to display an image through the plurality of pixels based on an input image signal, detects a specific pattern in a partial region, of the image, corresponding to a partial area, of the display unit, including the corner of the non-right angular shape, and controls the display unit to display a partial image corresponding to the partial region of the image in the display area without crossing the corner, according to a position of the specific pattern in the partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jae Park, Mu Gyeom Kim, Dong Won Park, Jae Sung Bae, Jae-Gwan Jeon, Dong Hwa Shin
  • Patent number: 10522101
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, display panel and display device, for improving display effect at irregular-shaped edge. The display substrate includes at least one first region. The first region includes a plurality of pixel units, which includes a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit, the first pixel unit is adjacent to the connecting edge. The first pixel unit includes at least three sub-pixels corresponding to different colors arranged along row direction, and at least one sub-pixel included in the first pixel unit is an irregular-shaped sub-pixel. The second pixel unit includes at least three sub-pixels corresponding to different colors arranged along a row direction, and the sub-pixels included in the second pixel unit each are a regular sub-pixel. A shape of the irregular-shaped sub-pixel is different from that of the regular sub-pixel. Along the row direction, adjacent first and second pixel units share at least one sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liting Fang, Yucheng Chen, Yujiao Liang, Nasen Chen, Qiong Song, Ling Wu, Boping Shen
  • Patent number: 10515986
    Abstract: A flexible array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a flexible display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The flexible array substrate includes: a flexible base substrate; and a plurality of signal lines on the flexible base substrate, comprising: a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines, intersected to each other to form a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array, wherein each of the signal lines has at least one straight line segment, the at least one straight line segment and a first direction form a preset included angle, the first direction is a direction where a long edge of the flexible array substrate is positioned, and the preset included angle is not equal to zero or a right angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanjie Xu, Yang Wang, Tingliang Liu
  • Patent number: 10497302
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a power circuit, a gate driver, a data driver, and a controller. The power circuit generates gate supply voltages. The gate driver applies a gate driving signal to gate lines. The data driver applies data signals to data lines intersecting the gate lines. The controller controls the power circuit, the gate driver, and the data driver to set the gate driving signal to be at least one of the gate supply voltages when abnormal power off occurs. The controller also controls the power circuit to allow the gate supply voltages to be discharged naturally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Peng, Ryan Wang, Jae Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10490150
    Abstract: A shift register includes an input circuit configured to control a voltage of a first and second node, a hold circuit configured to hold the voltage of the first and second nodes as well as an output voltage of the first and second output circuits, an output selection circuit configured to select the first and second outputs to output a scanning signal, a first output circuit configured to output a first output signal from a first output terminal based on the voltage of the first and third nodes, a second output circuit is configured to output a second output signal from a second output terminal based on the voltage of the first and fourth nodes, and a third output circuit configured to output a third output signal from a third output terminal based on a second clock signal and the voltage of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhanjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10483098
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display apparatus is provided as follows. A substrate having a display portion on an upper surface of the substrate is prepared. A protection film having an opening is attached to a lower surface of the substrate so that the protection film overlaps the display portion. A support film is attached to the lower surface so that the support film is disposed within the opening of the protection film. A driving circuit chip is attached to the upper surface so that the driving chip is spaced apart from the display portion and the opening. At least a part of the support film is removed. The substrate is bent along a longitudinal direction of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongbin Um, Jihong Hwang, Hayoung Choi
  • Patent number: 10475873
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: pixels in a non-rectangular display region; a scan circuit outputting a scan signal; a data signal circuit outputting a data signal; a first wiring portion with a first signal to control the scan circuit; a second wiring portion with a second signal to control the data signal circuit; a first auxiliary wiring portion connecting the first wiring portion and the scan circuit; and a second auxiliary wiring portion connecting the second wiring portion and the data signal circuit. The scan circuit and the data signal circuit are outside the display region, the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion are disposed outside the first region, the first auxiliary wiring portion lies approximately orthogonal to an extension direction of the first wiring portion, and the second auxiliary wiring portion is disposed along a direction approximately orthogonal to an extension direction of the second wiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yojiro Matsueda, Kenichi Takatori, Yoshihiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10475876
    Abstract: A single metal layer device, such as a display or sensor, comprises a substrate and a patterned metal layer. The patterned metal layer forms a two-dimensional array of spatially separated column line segments that each extend only partially across the display substrate in a column direction and forms a one-dimensional array of row lines extending across the display substrate in a row direction different from the column direction. The row lines and column line segments are electrically separate in the patterned metal layer. Spatially separated electrical jumpers are disposed on the display substrate and electrically connect pairs of column line segments adjacent in the column direction. Each electrical jumper has an independent jumper substrate independent of and separate from the display substrate. In certain embodiments, spatially separated light-emitting pixel circuits are disposed on a display substrate and are electrically connected to at least one row line and one column line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: X-Celeprint Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Bower, Matthew Meitl, Carl Prevatte, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 10453363
    Abstract: An annular display apparatus and a display device are provided. The annular display apparatus includes a display panel, an integrated circuit chip and a flexible printed circuit. The display panel includes an annular display region, an outer non-display region and an inner non-display region, the display region is provided with multiple control signal lines, the inner non-display region is provided with multiple panel binding interfaces, and the multiple control signal lines are electrically connected to the multiple panel binding interfaces respectively. The flexible printed circuit includes a bonding region and a chip region, the bonding region is provided with multiple circuit board binding interfaces which are bound to to the multiple panel binding interfaces, the chip region is configured to arrange the integrated circuit chip, and the integrated circuit chip is electrically connected to the multiple circuit board binding interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Wei, Jiubin Zhou, Lingling Zhang