Intensity Or Color Driving Control (e.g., Gray Scale) Patents (Class 345/690)
  • Patent number: 11804166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device includes: an input interface to receive an image signal; a first image processor to generate first image frame data based on the image signal; a second image processor including a scaler to generate second image frame data scaled down in comparison with the first image frame data; and an output interface to output the first image frame data and the second image frame data, wherein the scaler generates at least one super pixel or super block and outputs the scaled down second image frame data including the super pixel or the super block. Accordingly, it is possible to generate the scaled down second image frame data with reduced error as compared to the first image frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihoon Lee, Jongchan Kim, Kyeongryeol Park, Jeonghyu Yang, Seoksoo Lee, Byungtae Choi
  • Patent number: 11798513
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yizhan Han
  • Patent number: 11790853
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first pixels connected to first scan lines and a first data line, a plurality of second pixels connected to second scan lines and the first data line, a plurality of third pixels connected to the first scan lines or the second scan lines and a second data line, and a scan driver including a plurality of stages which supplies scan signals to one of the first scan lines and the second scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Jae Jeong, Hyun Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 11790830
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit, a light-emitting element, and a signal line group. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data writing transistor, and a first transistor. The first electrode of the first transistor in a first metal layer is connected to a gate of the driving transistor. A side of the first electrode of the first transistor facing the first electrode of the data writing transistor is a first edge and a side of a first electrode of the data writing transistor facing the first electrode of the first transistor is a second edge. Orthographically projected on a plane parallel to the display panel, at least a partial region of at least one signal line is located between the first edge and the second edge, and is arranged in a layer different from the first metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuping Xu, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 11790834
    Abstract: A display device may include: a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight unit (BLU), a pixel driving circuit configured to generate a scan signal and an image signal, a pixel circuit configured to generate an output current based on the scan signal and the image signal, and transmit the output current to the LED BLU, the pixel circuit including, a first transistor connected between an input pin and a node, the input pin configured to receive the image signal, the first transistor including a gate terminal configured to receive the scan signal, a second transistor connected between the node and a ground terminal, the second transistor including a gate terminal connected to the node, a third transistor connected between the node and a gate node, a fourth transistor configured to generate the output current according to a voltage of the gate node, and a capacitor connected to the gate node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byungil Kim, Yangwook Kim, Pansoo Kim, Hyeongtae Kim, Sukyun Woo, Jisu Yoon, Hyunji Yoon
  • Patent number: 11792387
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of optical correction for pixel evaluation and correction for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Optical correction for correcting for non-homogeneity of a display panel uses sparse display test patterns in conjunction with a defocused camera as the measurement device to avoid aliasing (moiré) of the pixels of the display in the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Shyshkin, Adam Saechao
  • Patent number: 11776485
    Abstract: A display includes a display area having pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction over a substrate. Gate lines, data lines, and reference voltage lines are disposed at the display area and are coupled to the pixels. A gate driving circuit includes stage circuit units disposed at the display area and coupled to each of the gate lines. The stage circuit units include branch circuits divisionally disposed between the pixels along the first direction and a branch network disposed at a network line formation portion positioned at one side of each of the pixels disposed along the first direction. The branch network includes control node lines and network lines selectively coupled to the branch circuits. An additional pattern portion is disposed at the network line formation portion to overlap a reference voltage line disposed at each of some of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: EunJi Park, KyungMin Kim, YoungIn Jang
  • Patent number: 11776489
    Abstract: A control device that controls a liquid crystal display device, the control device includes: an obtainer that obtains a first video signal; a determiner that determines a first backlight value as a reference luminance of a backlight of the liquid crystal display device, using a first luminance characteristic of the first video signal; a tone map processor that performs tone mapping on the first video signal based on the first backlight value and a peak luminance displayable by the liquid crystal display device, and outputs a second video signal obtained through the tone mapping; and a generator that generates a control signal for local dimming control on the liquid crystal display device based on the first backlight value and the second video signal, and outputs the control signal to the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Maekawa, Kazuhiro Uehara, Akira Yoneda
  • Patent number: 11776451
    Abstract: A voltage drop compensation system and a display driving device for compensating for a voltage drop of a display panel. The voltage drop compensation system generates a voltage drop compensation value for each of a plurality of regions into which a test image of a panel is divided, and the display driving device compensates for a voltage drop for each region of image data using the voltage drop compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Young Park, Min Ji Lee, Gang Won Lee, Young Kyun Kim, Ju Hyoung Lim, Ji Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11763735
    Abstract: An image display device includes a glass, a plurality of driving circuits disposed on the glass, and a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the driving circuits respectively. The plurality of light emitting elements corresponds to a plurality of pixels respectively. Each of the plurality of driving circuits is configured to provide a driving current to each of the plurality of light emitting elements and to control the driving current by a pulse amplitude modulation and a pulse width modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11764195
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first display region, a second display region and a non-display region between the first display region and the second display region. The display panel further includes a third display region. The third display region and the non-display region at least partially overlap in the light emission direction of the display panel. In the preceding solution, the third display region is added in the display panel, and the third display region and the non-display region between the first display region and the second display region at least partially overlap in the light emission direction of the display panel, that is, the third display region covers at least part of the joint between the first display region and the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sitao Huo, Shuang Yang
  • Patent number: 11756469
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first display region and a second display region surrounding the first display region, where a first pixel having a first size is disposed in the first display region, and a second pixel having a second size is disposed in the second display region, a gate driver which applies a gate signal to a gate line, a data driver which applies a data voltage to a data line, and a timing controller which controls the gate driver and the data driver. The gate line includes a first gate line connected to both the first pixel and the second pixel, and a second gate line connected only to the second pixel. The data line includes a first data line which does not transmit the data voltage to the second pixel connected to the second gate line, and a second data line which transmits the data voltage to the second pixel connected to the second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Hongsoo Kim, Jaekeun Lim, Jinyoung Roh, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 11756471
    Abstract: A display device includes a processor and a display panel for receiving observation grayscale values from the processor. The display panel includes a data driver for applying data voltages to data lines, a target pixel coupled to at least one of the data lines, and observation pixels each coupled to at least one of the data lines, and located adjacent to the target pixel. The display panel applies a first data voltage to the target pixel, when the observation grayscale values for the observation pixels exceed a reference value. The display panel applies a second data voltage to the target pixel, when at least one of the observation grayscale values does not exceed the reference value. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Seung Kyu Lee, Hyun Jung Son, Yoon Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11756495
    Abstract: A pixel structure driving method and a display device are provided. The driving method includes obtaining a polarity of each of the data lines of a current frame, determining a polarity of each of the sub-pixels according to the polarity of each of the data lines and an arrangement of the pixel structure, performing a value look-up process according to a polarity and an initial gray value of each of the sub-pixels to obtain a polarity high/low gray value of each of the sub-pixels, if a luminance of a high gray value of a positive polarity of a sub-pixel of a color is different from a luminance of a high gray value of a negative polarity of the sub-pixel of the color, adjusting the polarity high/low gray value of the sub-pixel. In this way, the occurrence of vertical strips in a still image could be alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yonglei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11756476
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel, an external input interface configured to receive an image signal and image information about the image signal from an external device, and a processor configured to, when a frequency of the image signal is reduced from a first frequency to a second frequency according to a variable refresh rate (VRR) operation, transmit a local dimming signal based on a third frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency to the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chungwon Song, Suwoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11741908
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit on a substrate, a data line to transmit a data signal for the pixel circuit on the substrate, a power supply line, and an extra voltage supply line different from the power supply line and the data line. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor to control an amount of electric current supplied to a light-emitting element, a storage capacitor between a gate terminal of the driving transistor and the power supply line, a first switching transistor between the light-emitting element and the driving transistor, a second switching transistor between a source terminal of the driving transistor and the data line, and a third switching transistor between the source terminal of the driving transistor and the extra voltage supply line. The third switching transistor supplies a signal voltage different from the data signal to the driving transistor from the extra voltage supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Genshiro Kawachi, Masamichi Shimoda, Yoshihiro Nonaka, Jiro Yanase
  • Patent number: 11741893
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a power supply unit, and a low frequency offset compensator. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The power supply unit generates a first initialization voltage and a second initialization voltage and provides the first initialization voltage and the second initialization voltage to the pixels. The low frequency offset compensator selectively applies an offset to the second initialization voltage when the display panel is driven at a low frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11741861
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one processor configured to determine a target portion of an eye motion box and to identify a facet of a light-guide optical element that is configured to direct a light beam comprising at least a portion of an image field of view toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to identify a display region of an image generator that is configured to inject the light beam into the light-guide optical element at an angle that, in conjunction with the identified facet, is configured to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to selectively activate the identified facet and the identified display region to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Shimon Grabarnik, Tsion Eisenfeld, Elad Sharlin
  • Patent number: 11735118
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a power source configured to provide a high power voltage and a low power voltage to the pixels; a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixels through data lines; a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels through scan lines; a timing controller configured to provide control signals that control the power source, the data driver, and the scan driver; and an image processor configured to receive an HDR image signal by every frame, calculate an on-pixel ratio (OPR) that represents a ratio of a number of the pixels that turn on based on the HDR image signal to the number of all pixels included in the display panel, and control a brightness of the pixels that turn on based on the on-pixel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Jun Lee, Geunjeong Park
  • Patent number: 11735088
    Abstract: End user cumulative blue light exposure from a display is tracked over time so that a message may be provided to the end user if the exposure exceeds a threshold. For instance, a display frame buffer is retrieved to determine an average blue light component presented at the display, which is then adjusted based upon display characteristics, such as display size, luminance and brightness, end user distance to the display and a sensed ambient blue light component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Todd E. Swierk, Stefan Peana, Timoteo T. Lee Kang
  • Patent number: 11735089
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present application comprises a storage configured to store gamut mapping data, a controller configured to, when an image signal is input, convert the input image signal into an output signal based on the gamut mapping data, and a display configured to display an image based on the output signal, wherein the controller changes the gamut mapping data according to the input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yeonoh Nam, Jongmin Park
  • Patent number: 11722634
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for night lapse video capture are disclosed. The apparatus includes an image sensor, a processor, a denoiser, and an encoder. The image sensor is configured to capture image data. The image data includes a first image that is temporally precedent to a second image. The processor is configured to process the image using an image processing pipeline. The denoiser is configured to perform denoising based on a motion estimation that is based on a comparison of a portion of the first image and a portion of the second image. The encoder is configured to encode the denoised image in a video format. The encoder is configured to output a video file in the video format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ojas Gandhi, Anandhakumar Chinnaiyan, Naveen Chinya Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 11719953
    Abstract: A method for collimating light using a film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaolong Zheng, Pubudu Thilanka Galwaduge, Craig Lin, Yih-Ming Kang, HongMei Zang, Hui Du
  • Patent number: 11715419
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which defines first and second display areas, and includes pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, respectively, a data driving circuit which drives the data lines, a scan driving circuit which drives the scan lines, and a driving controller which receives an image signal and a control signal, control the data and scan driving circuits according to an operation mode, and output clock signals. In a multi-frequency mode, the scan driving circuit includes a first scan driving circuit corresponding to the first display area and a second scan driving circuit corresponding to the second display area. The second scan driving circuit sequentially drives first scan lines among scan lines corresponding to the second display area during a first frame, and sequentially drives second scan lines among scan lines corresponding to the second display area during a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Hongsoo Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Hyojin Lee, Jaekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 11711880
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a user-operated spotlight system and method for lighting a performer on a stage or performance space; the user-operated spotlight system comprising a screen which displays an image of the stage and a cursor, a screen cursor positioner adapted to be operated to move the cursor on the screen, a processor connected to the screen, and, a plurality of controllable spotlights which are connected to the processor and which plurality of controllable spotlights can be moved by a user moving the cursor on the screen. The advantage of providing such a user-operated spotlight system is that a single user can operate a plurality of spotlights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventor: Liam Feeney
  • Patent number: 11710463
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable display; a memory which temporarily stores display data to be displayed on the display; and a processor which performs control when displaying the display data stored in the memory on the display. The processor performs folding angle detection processing to detect a folding angle of the display, and luminance correction processing to correct luminance of at least any one of plural areas preset inside a screen area of the display based on the folding angle detected by the folding angle detection processing and a user's viewpoint position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Masato Sugiyama, Raymond Chen
  • Patent number: 11705052
    Abstract: The present application relates to a sub-pixel rendering method for a display panel, which determines sampling locations according to arrangement locations of the sub-pixels, converts an input image according to a human vision model for correspondingly generating an adjustment luminance data, and samples a plurality of adjustment luminance value of the adjustment luminance data according to the sampling locations. Thereby, corresponded target grayscale data is generated. Thus, the input image is prevented from distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ForceLead Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Ching-Tsun Chang
  • Patent number: 11703687
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes: light sources; a light source driver that drives the light sources; a second control unit that illuminates the light sources via the light source driver on the basis of illumination control data; and a DMD display element that generates display light on the basis of illumination light emitted by the light sources. The illumination control data includes control modes for generating the illumination light brightness corresponding to a requested brightness. The control modes have differing brightness ranges, which partially overlap each other. The second control unit switches modes between the control modes when the requested brightness has reached a mode switching value, which is located in a non-end part of an overlapping region where one of the brightness ranges of one of the control modes and another one of the brightness ranges of another one of the control modes overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tsuchida, Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Masanori Endo, Takashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11705077
    Abstract: A control method is provided for suppressing a flicker phenomenon even if frame periods vary in length. The control method controls an emission period and an extinction period of a frame period, which is a period in which one image continues to be displayed. When a signal indicating start of a frame period is detected, as the frame period, n subframe periods that configure the frame period, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, are sequentially started from the first subframe period, after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the detection of the signal. All of the n subframe periods are controlled to have a substantially same length determined in advance and to have a substantially same ratio between the emission period and the extinction period, determined in advance, the ratio being referred to as a duty ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11698578
    Abstract: [Problem] An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium with which a user can recognize a boundary of a drivable range by feedback for a projection specification position by the user to facilitate determination of and search for a projection position are provided. [Solution] The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform processing of outputting feedback indicating an effect corresponding to a boundary of a drivable region of a drive-type projector in a projection environment space in accordance with a state of a projection specification position specified by a user for the drivable region, the state being determined based on the drivable region and the projection specification position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Ikeda, Fumihiko Iida, Kentaro Ida, Osamu Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11699389
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, including first pixels and second pixels, where each of the first pixels includes a first light-emitting element connected with a first pixel circuit; the first pixel circuit includes a first drive transistor; each of the second pixels includes a second light-emitting element connected with a second pixel circuit; and the second pixel circuit includes a second drive transistor. The display panel further includes a display region, including an optical component region and a first display region, where the first light-emitting element is in the optical component region; the second light-emitting element is in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengyun Wu, Yawei Wang, Dongxu Xiang, Yangzhao Ma
  • Patent number: 11699386
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of display areas, the display areas including scan lines, data lines, and pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines; a first source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a first display area from among the display areas; a second source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a second display area from among the display areas; a first scan driving circuit configured to receive a first clock signal from the first source driving circuit and to output first scan signals to a first group of scan lines from among the scan lines based on the first clock signal; and a second scan driving circuit configured to receive a second clock signal from the second source driving circuit and to output second scan signals to a second group of scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Sun Kwun Son, Na Hyeon Cha, Dong Hyeon Ki
  • Patent number: 11699388
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels emitting light, based on a data voltage; a current limiter for determining a scale factor by comparing a previous frame load with a predetermined threshold load, and generating compensated image data by applying the scale factor to current image data as input image data of a current frame to adjust the data voltage; and a data driver for converting the compensated image data into the data voltage and providing the data voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Yoon, Jong Woon Kim, Ick Kyu Jang, Dae Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 11694643
    Abstract: In various examples, a low-latency variable backlight liquid crystal display (LCD) system is disclosed. The LCD system may reduce latency and video lag by performing an analysis of peak pixel values within subsets of pixels using a rendering device, prior to transmitting the frame to a display device for display. As a result, the display device may receive the peak pixel value data prior to or concurrently with the frame data, and may begin updating the backlight settings of the display without having to wait for a substantial portion of the frame to be received. In this way, the LCD system may avoid the full frame delay of conventional systems, allowing the LCD system to more reliably support high-performance applications such as gaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jens Roever, Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, Robert Jan Schutten
  • Patent number: 11694634
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method for selecting a gamma power in which when selecting a gamma set corresponding to each luminance in an organic light emitting (OLED) display apparatus, a low power voltage and an initial voltage corresponding thereto are selected, and are provided to a display panel, thereby optimizing a black voltage and a driving voltage. To this end, the display apparatus includes a data driver which sets the low voltage and the initialization voltage corresponding to each gamma set and stores the same into a lookup table. Therefore, the low power voltage and the initialization voltage are changed only by selecting the gamma set. The display apparatus is suitable for operating at a black voltage and a low gray voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mincheul Kim
  • Patent number: 11694625
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate having a first display area, a second display area, and a non-display area; a first circuit disposed on the substrate; a first light emitter electrically connected to the first circuit and which overlaps the first display area; a second circuit disposed on the substrate; a second light emitter electrically connected to the second circuit and which overlaps the second display area; and a scan driver positioned on the substrate and which overlaps at least a portion of the second display area and the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Hong, Sun Ho Kim, Hye Won Kim, Ju Chan Park
  • Patent number: 11681396
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and system for optical input diodes. A liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight device may include a processor and a color filter of a pixel including at least one of a red filter, a green filter, or a blue filter. The LCD backlight device may also include a diode to emit light through the color filter in response to being driven by the processor. The diode may generate a voltage in response to light passing through the color filter and arriving on the diode, where an image value may be calculated as a function of the voltage generated and a color filter value of the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Nicholas Brian Hansen
  • Patent number: 11682360
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels for displaying a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color; and a signal processor configured to convert an image signal including gradation data of the first to third colors into a first signal including gradation data of the first to third colors and a second signal including a gradation datum of the fourth color and output the first and second signals. When the gradation data of the image signal have the same value, output signals from the signal processor include an output signal in which the gradation data of the first signal and the gradation datum of the second signal have the same value and an output signal in which the gradation data of the first signal and the gradation datum of the second signal have values different from each other by 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Ayato Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11682347
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and describes a pixel driving circuit detection method, a display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The detection method includes inputting a reference voltage to the data line during at least part of the initial phase; turning on the first and second switch sub-circuits during the charging phase, to input the detection voltage to the data line, while inputting the reset voltage to the sensing line; turning on the second switch sub-circuit during the charging phase, to input the driving current by the driving transistor to the sensing line under the effect of the detection voltage; turning off the first and second switch sub-circuits during the detection phase, to detect the voltage on the sensing line; and obtaining the mobility of the driving transistor according to the voltage on the sensing line detected in the detection phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Meng, Xuehuan Feng
  • Patent number: 11676540
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit, a first light-emission controlling sub-circuit, a second light-emission controlling sub-circuit, an anode potential controlling sub-circuit, all of which operate in cooperation so that the pixel circuit drives a light-emitting element to emit light, where the second light-emission controlling sub-circuit provides voltage output by the driving sub-circuit to an anode of the light-emitting element in a light-emission period, and the anode potential controlling sub-circuit provides a signal of a first voltage signal terminal to the anode of the light-emitting element in a non-light-emission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qian Li, Bing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11676533
    Abstract: A signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display including an organic light emitting diode panel and a signal processor configured to control the display, wherein the signal processor is configured to perform luminance conversion based on a first luminance conversion pattern in the case in which the luminance level of an input image is greater a first level and to perform luminance conversion based on a second luminance conversion pattern having a higher luminance level than the first luminance conversion pattern in the case in which the luminance level of the input image is equal to or less than the first level, whereby low gray level expression of the organic light emitting diode panel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 11657780
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11657749
    Abstract: A display device includes a controller, a panel driver, and a voltage generator. The controller generates a first control signal and generates image data and a second control signal in response to first and second image signals. The panel driver generates a driving signal in response to the image data and the first control signal to drive a display panel. The voltage generator generates a driving voltage to drive the display panel and changes a voltage level of the driving voltage in response to the second control signal. The first image signal corresponds to a second frame located before a third frame in which the driving voltage is changed. The second image signal corresponds to a first frame located before the second frame. The controller generates image data corresponding to the second frame in response to the first image signal and the second image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Seok Ha, Kyoungsoo Kim, Kyu-Jin Park, Sung-Jae Park, Seung-Woon Shin, Ho Lee, Woon-Rok Jang
  • Patent number: 11651747
    Abstract: Provided with: a detecting means to detect a possible light intensity changing frequency of a measuring object; a frequency determining means to determine a light intensity changing frequency with reference to the possible light intensity changing frequency; a resolution determining means to determine a frequency resolution for flicker measuring with reference to the determined light intensity changing frequency; and a flicker measuring means to conduct flicker measuring with the determined frequency resolution. The resolution determining means determines the frequency resolution to be an integral submultiple of the light intensity changing frequency determined by the frequency determining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11650243
    Abstract: An automobile lighting unit is provided that includes a lighting device provided with one or more OLED light sources, and an electronic device configured in such a way as to control an OLED light source by means of a pilot signal which has a trailing edge wherein the pilot signal varies between a high value and a low value, to determine an electrical quantity indicative of the electrical behaviour of the OLED light source in a measurement time interval (toff) following the trailing edge of said pilot signal, and to determine a failure condition of the OLED light source on the basis of an electrical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.
    Inventors: Carlotta Burcovich, Giulio Manfreda, Sara Padovani
  • Patent number: 11645954
    Abstract: A curved display screen forming method includes: modeling to obtain a virtual display layer, and segmenting the display layer to obtain a size of a virtual display module; mapping the size of the virtual display module to obtain a size of a materialized display module; reducing edges of the materialized display module, and arranging an adjustment protrusion on each edge of the materialized display module; modeling to obtain a virtual adjustment layer, wherein a virtual plate of the virtual adjustment layer corresponds to the plurality of virtual display modules, obtaining a size of the virtual plate; converting the size of the virtual plate from a curved surface to a plane to obtain a planar size of the materialized plate; and assembling the materialized display module and the materialized plate to form a curved display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING LOPU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Shen, Bin Zhu, Lili Ji, Fei Shen, Lingling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11640782
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gamma adjustment method and device for a display panel. The gamma adjustment method comprises the following steps: obtaining the light intensity of ambient light of a display panel; obtaining a value of the intensity of the reflected light from the display panel according to the light intensity of the ambient light and the corresponding relation between the intensity of the reflected light from the display panel and the light intensity of the ambient light; and determining a gamma curve according to the value of the intensity of the reflected light and the maximum brightness of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangchun Xiao, Huijun Li
  • Patent number: 11636813
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, an image data corrector configured to generate a corrected image data by adjusting an image data and a data driver providing data signals to the plurality of pixels based on the corrected image data. The image data corrector divides the display panel into a plurality of unit areas, and adjust the image data for a unit area among the plurality of unit areas by using a full image load for the entire display panel, a first image load for the unit area, and a second image load for peripheral unit areas surrounding the unit area among the plurality of unit areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Lee, Deokho Kang, Jong Wook Kim, Youngwoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11632830
    Abstract: A system and method for setting one or more compensation coefficients for a transistor. In some embodiments, a method for setting a first compensation coefficient for a transistor includes: determining a plurality of measured transistor currents, each at a respective one of a plurality of transistor control voltages; setting the first compensation coefficient based on the measured transistor currents and the transistor control voltages; and adjusting a voltage applied to a gate of the transistor based on the first compensation coefficient, the voltage corresponding to a color value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gaurav Malhotra
  • Patent number: 11631371
    Abstract: The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Jaimal Soni, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji, Nino Zahirovic, Joseph Marcel Dionne