Spatial Processing (e.g., Patterns Or Subpixel Configuration) Patents (Class 345/694)
  • Patent number: 11030933
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering method includes: obtaining a digital image, in which the number of grey levels in the digital image is greater than a number of sub-pixel structures of a display panel; determining if each grey level is in a dark-on-bright texture; transforming the grey levels into sub-pixel luminances; performing a filter operation on the sub-pixel luminances according to a rendering mask to calculate rendered sub-pixel luminances, in which a weight of the rendering mask is increased if the corresponding sub-pixel luminance is in the dark-on-bright texture; transforming the rendered sub-pixel luminances into rendered grey levels, and driving the display panel according to the rendered grey levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chi-Feng Chuang
  • Patent number: 10991318
    Abstract: A display driver comprises image processing circuitry, compensation circuitry, voltage data generator circuitry, and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to generate a first voltage data based on an image data corresponding to an image to be displayed on a display panel. The compensation circuitry is configured to generate correction values for pixels of the display panel, based on a total current consumed in the pixels of the display panel and positions of the pixels in the display panel. The voltage data generator circuitry is configured to generate a second voltage data by correcting the first voltage data based on the correction values. The drive circuitry is configured to write drive voltages into the pixels based on the second voltage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 10983385
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels. The first and second pixels are configured to display different colors from each other, and a pitch between adjacent ones of the first pixels in a first direction is different from a pitch between adjacent ones of the second pixels in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunsup Lee, Hyesog Lee
  • Patent number: 10984697
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a driving apparatus including a reordering circuit and a source driving circuit. The reordering circuit can be configured to reorder a plurality of sub-pixel data of an input data string to generate a reordered data string so as to reduce a color switching number associated with a target data line. The source driving circuit can be coupled to the reordering circuit to receive the reordered data string. The source driving circuit can be configured to drive the target data line of a display panel according to the reordered data string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tso-Hua Chien, Hung-Hsiang Chen, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 10971088
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering method, comprising the following steps: acquiring a second pixel array corresponding to an original image, each sub-pixel of the second pixel array corresponding to a greyscale value; mapping the second pixel array of the original image onto a first pixel array; respectively finding the central positions of the sub-pixels of the first pixel array and of the second pixel array, determining sub-pixels of the second pixel array positioned in every sub-pixel preset region in the first pixel array and of the same colour as said sub-pixels in the first pixel array, and measuring the distance of same from the central position of said sub-pixels of the first pixel array; on the basis of the distance, calculating the proportional coefficient occupied by the sub-pixels of the second pixel array in the sub-pixels of the first pixel array, and on the basis of the proportional coefficient and the greyscale value of the sub-pixels of the second pixel array, calculating the greyscale value correspondin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TRULY (HUIZHOU) SMART DISPLAY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guoliang Wu, Xiaojin Song, Wu Zheng, Yuewen Wang, Tianyou Chen, Junwen Hu, Junhai Su, Jianhua Li
  • Patent number: 10971055
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display adjustment method and a display device. The method comprises steps of: obtaining a first pixel data of an image displayed by the display device; converting the first pixel data into a second pixel data after the first pixel data enters a timing controller; converting at least one of the second pixel data into sub-pixel data whose amount of stored data is reduced relative to the second pixel data to obtain a corresponding third pixel data; outputting the third pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Shuixiu Hu
  • Patent number: 10964240
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a display panel includes making measurements of color components produced by the display panel, receiving an input image signal consisting of one or more pixel represented by input color component values, applying a first non-linear transform to the input color component values of the pixel to produce transformed color component values, wherein the first non-linear transform is either based upon the measurements and the panel design or a ratio of values of color components based upon the measurements, applying a crosstalk correction transform to the transformed color component values to produce crosstalk corrected color component values, applying a second non-linear transform to the crosstalk corrected color component values to produce final color component values, and sending the final color component values to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Pixelworks, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil Woodall
  • Patent number: 10957282
    Abstract: A luminance compensation method for a display panel includes: dividing the display area into at least two sub-display areas including a first sub-display area and a second sub-display area, where a density of luminance abnormal textures in the first sub-display area is smaller than that in the second sub-display area, a number of types of the luminance abnormal textures in the first sub-display area is less than that in the second sub-display area; dividing the first sub-display area into a plurality of first compensation units, dividing the second sub-display area into at least one second compensation unit, where a total number of pixel units in each first compensation unit is greater than that in each second compensation unit; obtaining a compensation coefficient of each compensation unit and forming a compensation coefficient table; performing luminance compensation for the display panel according to the compensation coefficient table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yajun Hei, Jingxiong Zhou, Ruiyuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 10950162
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a six-primary color system for display. A six-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. The six-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gary B. Mandle, James M. DeFilippis
  • Patent number: 10943519
    Abstract: An image processing method and a display device are provided. The display device includes a computation circuit and a display panel. In the image processing method, at first, an original image including a straight line pattern and upper pixels is provided. The straight line pattern includes lower pixels opposite to the upper pixels. The display panel includes first lower sub-pixel structures corresponding to the first lower pixels and first upper sub-pixel structures corresponding to the first upper pixels. Thereafter, vertical sub-pixel rendering methods are performed on pixel luminances of the first lower pixels and the upper first upper pixels to obtain rendering sub-pixel luminances of the first lower pixels and the upper first upper pixels. Then, the first lower sub-pixel structures and the first upper sub-pixel structures are driven according to the rendering sub-pixel luminances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chi-Feng Chuang
  • Patent number: 10923904
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection unit, an overvoltage protection method, a sampling module, a pixel circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The overvoltage protection unit includes a comparator and an output switch, where a first input terminal of the comparator is supplied with a predetermined maximum voltage, a second input terminal of the comparator is supplied with an actual sampled voltage, an output terminal of the comparator is connected with a control terminal of the output switch and the actual sampled voltage is supplied to an input terminal of the output switch; the output switch selectively outputs the actual sampled voltage in accordance with an output signal of the comparator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Cao, Min He
  • Patent number: 10916211
    Abstract: Provided are a method for correcting luminance nonuniformity of a liquid crystal display apparatus and a correction data generation device. Included are setting a voltage of a counter electrode to a specific counter voltage and capturing an image of a display screen; capturing each image of the display screen while increasing and decreasing the voltage of the counter electrode by a predetermined voltage; detecting a luminance value for each of a plurality of regions of the display screen each time an image is captured; determining a correction voltage for each of the region, for correcting a deviation of the counter voltage, based on a luminance value detected without varying a voltage of the counter electrode and luminance values each detected while increasing and decreasing a voltage of the counter electrode and superimposing a determined correction voltage on the data signal having an amplitude corresponding to a grayscale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10916184
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a driving method thereof, a display panel as well as a display device. The array substrate comprises: m rows and n columns of subpixels, wherein m and n are positive integers; a plurality of gate lines, wherein if m is an even number, when i<(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the (2i?1)th row and the 2ith row, and wherein if m is an odd number, when i<(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the (2i?1)th row and the 2ith row and when i=(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the mth row, wherein i is a positive integer less than or equal to (m+1)/2; and a plurality of data lines, wherein each column of subpixels corresponds to two data lines coupled to the subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Lei Wang, Li Xiao, Shengji Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10916591
    Abstract: A pixel structure, the pixel structure comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, each pixel comprising three sub-pixels of different colours arranged in two adjacent rows; the plurality of pixels also comprise a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels being arranged alternately along the row direction; along the row direction, one sub-pixel of each first pixel is positioned in the same row as two sub-pixels of the adjacent second pixel, and the other two sub-pixels of each first pixel are positioned in the same row as the other sub-pixel in the adjacent second sub-pixel; and two sub-pixels positioned in different rows in each first pixel are respectively adjacent to the sub-pixels of the same corresponding colour in an adjacent second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Panting He, Chang Luo, Ju Mei
  • Patent number: 10909953
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel including sub-pixels of three primary colors, and pixels having a high-luminance color having higher luminance than that of the primary colors. The three primary colors include a first primary color, a second primary color, and a third primary color. The number of the sub-pixels is smaller than twice the number of the pixels, sub-pixels of the same color are arranged at even intervals in a row direction and at even intervals in a column direction, and the sub-pixels of the same color are arranged in a staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shuji Hayashi, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10909901
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement includes a plurality of first groups of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction, each first group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels arranged alternately. A plurality of second groups of sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction, each second group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged. The first groups and the second groups are alternately arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first groups and the second groups are arranged to form a plurality of third groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction and a plurality of fourth groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction. The third groups and the fourth groups are alternately arranged in the first direction, each third group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels alternately arranged, each fourth group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haidong Wu, Yansong Li, Weilong Zhou, Shanshan Bai, Yue Liu, Zhihui Xiao, Yangpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10903281
    Abstract: Discussed are embodiments of an organic light emitting display device, which includes a plurality of pixels, each including at least one red sub pixel, a plurality of green sub pixels, and at least one blue sub pixel, wherein red sub pixels and blue sub pixels of adjacent pixels are aligned in a first direction and a second direction, wherein green sub pixels of the adjacent pixels are aligned in the first direction and are also aligned in the second direction, wherein the plurality of green sub pixels is disposed between the at least one red sub pixel and the at least one blue sub pixel of each pixel, and wherein the plurality of green sub pixels is offset from the at least one red sub pixel and the at least one blue sub pixel in the first direction and the second direction in the each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: EuiHyun Chung, Yongmin Jeong
  • Patent number: 10871678
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a color filter substrate is provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes: forming a strip-like first black matrix pattern on a base substrate of the color filter substrate, where the first black matrix pattern defines a first pixel region and a second pixel region alternately arranged in a first direction, the first direction is perpendicular to an extending direction of the first black matrix pattern, and a first width of the first pixel region in the first direction is larger than a second width of the second pixel region in the first direction; fabricating a color resistance layer or a light-transmissive layer in the first pixel region through an inkjet printing process; and fabricating a color resistance layer or a light-transmissive layer in the second pixel region through an exposure and development process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dahai Li
  • Patent number: 10872554
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display screen, a display device and a luminance compensation method. The display screen includes a window area and a bezel area; wherein the window area includes a first sub-area for actual display and a second sub-area provided around the first sub-area, the bezel area is provided in a periphery of the window area; the display screen further includes an auxiliary pixel area provided with multiple auxiliary pixels, the auxiliary pixel area covers at least the second sub-area, and the auxiliary pixels are controlled to present a same color as the bezel area when the display screen is switched on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongliang Lv, Libao Cui, Boning Wang, Ruifeng Yang, Litao Fan, Yufei Liu, Huaxu Yang, Qingnan Al
  • Patent number: 10867543
    Abstract: A display device may have multiple light emitter arrays. Each array may include multiple light emitters that emit light of a color. One or more of the arrays may have a reduced spatial resolution compared to other arrays as the size of the light emitters in the arrays with the reduced resolution may be larger than other light emitters. The display device may include one or more waveguides that converge light emitted from light emitters of different colors to form an image by overlapping the light at a spatial region. The display device may include an image processing unit that applies an anti-aliasing filter to reduce any visual effect perceived by users due to the reduced resolution in one or more color channels. The anti-aliasing filter may include convolution kernels that convolve input color values of different colors and may combine the convolution result for output color values of a color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 10854154
    Abstract: A method of driving an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix and each configured from a first subpixel for displaying a first primary color, a second subpixel for displaying a second primary color, a third subpixel for displaying a third primary color and a fourth subpixel for displaying a fourth color, and a signal processing section. The signal processing section is capable of calculating a first subpixel output signal, a second subpixel output signal, a third subpixel output signal, and a fourth subpixel output signal. The method includes a step of calculating a maximum value (Vmax(S)) of brightness, a saturation (S) and brightness (V(S)), and determining the expansion coefficient (?0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Yasuo Takahashi, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 10840306
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels. The OLED display includes a first column including a plurality of the first pixels alternately arranged with a plurality of the second pixels; and a second column adjacent to the first column and comprising a plurality of the third pixels. One of the first pixels and one of the second pixels in the first column correspond to more than two of the third pixels in the second column. Rendering driving is applied such that high resolution of more than 350 pixels per inch (PPI) may be realized without deterioration of the image quality while the total number of pixels is smaller than in a pentile matrix arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gun-Shik Kim
  • Patent number: 10839729
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing a display panel and a driving method thereof. The apparatus includes: a driver for providing a test signal to a display panel; an image sensor for acquiring image data by photographing the display panel on which an image corresponding to the test signal is displayed; a luminance calculator for calculating luminance distribution data, based on the image data; and a compensation data generator for determining a compensation value with respect to pixels of the display panel, based on the luminance distribution data. The driver provides a test signal corresponding to a first gray scale level to a first region including a central portion of the display panel, and provides a test signal corresponding to a second gray scale level different from the first gray scale level to a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Seuk Yoo, Hyung Jin Kim, Hye Sang Park
  • Patent number: 10816802
    Abstract: A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display apparatus includes a transparent display configured so that a background of the transparent display apparatus is projected thereto and configured to display an image; a camera configured to capture an image of a background direction of the transparent display apparatus to obtain a background image; and a processor configured to analyze image information of a background region projected to the transparent display in the obtained background image for each pixel, correct an image to be displayed on the transparent display using the analyzed image information of the background region, and control the transparent display to display the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong-ok Kim, Jae-woo Kim, Tae-young Na, Kang-kyu Lee, Je-ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 10803820
    Abstract: The present application relates to a driving method and a display device for a display panel and the method comprises: dividing a pixel into a plurality of pixel groups and each pixel group comprising an adjacent first pixel unit and a second pixel unit; a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal for each pixel group in each frame image; adjusting the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal so that all the first and second voltage signals of each frame is the same as the average signal. The average signal of all the second voltage signals of each frame image is the same. The first voltage signal of the different pixel group is the same as the average signal of the multiple frame image, and the second voltage signal of the different pixel group is the same as the average signal of the multiple frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huai Liang He
  • Patent number: 10797112
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color that is a red-shifted color of a deep blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels. Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may also provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color, and where the plurality of sub-pixels comprise a light blue sub-pixel, a deep blue sub-pixel, a red sub-pixel, and a green sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Julia J. Brown
  • Patent number: 10789897
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for regulating color shift in white balance procedure of a four-color display device. The method includes steps of: obtaining brightness of a white color displayed by a combination according to stimulus values Y of a red sub pixel unit, a green sub pixel unit, a blue pixel unit, and a fourth sub pixel unit; and balancing a white color and one shifting color/two shifting colors/three shifting colors using a weighting factor in case of a two-color balance, a three-color balance, or a four-color balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10777113
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. One pixel includes four sub-pixels, and the display unit includes: a pixel including one each of four sub-pixels of four different colors that are a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color; and a pixel including four sub-pixels, where two of the four sub-pixels are identical and are one of sub-pixels of the first color, the second color, and the third color, and remaining two of the four sub-pixels are different two of the sub-pixels of the first color, the second color, and the third color but are not one of the identical sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 10761377
    Abstract: [Object] To suppress a decrease in transparency while maintaining an effect of improving viewing angles. [Solution] Each of pixels (P) of a liquid crystal panel (100) includes a bright subpixel (BS) and a dark subpixel (DS). The bright subpixel (BS) includes four bright domains (BD) in which alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules (41) are different from one another. The dark subpixel (DS) includes two dark domains (DD) in which alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules (41) are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10762810
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a head worn device (HWD) for viewing augmented reality, or virtual images. A projector coupled to the HWD may use a microelectromechanical systems projector and project onto a holographic lens of the HWD. Images may be projected into an eyebox area that is deemed comfortable to the user, the eyebox area located in one of a plurality of vertically adjacent recording zones. The recording zone for projection may be selected by the user, or be automatically selected based on configuration parameters of the HWD. Horizontal correction of the eyebox may be included. In an embodiment, multiple horizontal images are displayed in the selected recording zone, in different wavelengths. Another embodiment adjusts horizontal shift of the projected image based on user inputs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NORTH INC.
    Inventor: Nicolas Abele
  • Patent number: 10748469
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of gate lines in a first direction and connected to the pixels, and a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels. A number of data lines are between pixels in one row and in each of first areas adjacent to one side of the pixels in one column of a first column and the last column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-joo Kim, Mukyung Jeon, Ansu Lee
  • Patent number: 10740877
    Abstract: Patient imaging systems, such as PET imaging systems, for example, may suffer from the introduction of artificially introduced noise. This noise is, typically, introduced during iterations of reconstruction algorithms, such as the least-squares algorithms, which attempts to recreate a 2D or a 3D image from raw acquisition information. The noise appears as “hot-spots” in the reconstructed image. Approaches to address these artefacts use filtering approaches. Typically, a least-squares reconstruction is supplemented with a penalty term, an approach known as “Relative Difference Penalty”. The penalty parameter causes the reconstruction algorithm to filter more or less strongly at certain regions of the reconstruction. The present application proposes an approach which supplements the penalty term with continuous probability information about the likelihood of an edge being present in a portion of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Dey, Andreas Goedicke, Andre Frank Salomon
  • Patent number: 10733948
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driver, a gate driver, an extra resistance part through which a constant current passes, and a circuit configured to generate a first gamma voltage, and output a first extra gamma voltage indirectly to the data driver through the extra resistance part. The data driver is configured to generate a data signal based on the first gamma voltage and output the data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driver is configured to output a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Kim, Byeong-Doo Kang, Jong-Hwa Kim, Jongman Bae
  • Patent number: 10735699
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein can address these and other issues by providing a CV image sensor that has a repeating pattern of two pairs of color-opponent color sensors and a luminance sensor to provide a high amount of functionality while maintaining relatively low power requirements. By using color opponency, embodiments can sidestep the need for processor-intensive color conversions required of other color sensors. Embodiments may optionally provide for surface area optimization, hyperspectral sensitivity, low-light optimization, neuromorphic light sensing, and more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Victor Chan, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Patent number: 10720111
    Abstract: This application provides a display screen backlight control method, a display screen backlight control apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes determining a backlight to-be-switched-on region of a display screen according to an operation on the display screen, determining a specified to-be-lighted light source according to the backlight to-be-switched-on region, and lighting the specified to-be-lighted light source and illuminating at least the backlight to-be-switched on region of the display screen while maintaining other light sources associated with region outside of the backlight to-be-switched-on region in an unilluminated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fanfan Zhao, Jing Zhao
  • Patent number: 10706781
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a digital driving method and a digital driving system of an OLED display device. The digital driving method includes: dividing the frame into N sub frames, wherein N is an integer larger than or equal to 2, one of the sub frames is a full-brightness sub frame, the full-brightness sub frame includes a full-emission sub frame and the blanking period, pixels of the OLED display device keep emitting lights within the full-emission sub frame, and the blanking period follows the full-emission sub frame; determining the time ratios of driving the pixels in the sub frames as ½N-1, ½N-2 . . . , 1 to increase the luminance of the OLED display device, wherein the time ratio of driving the pixels in the full-brightness sub frame is 1. By using the present disclosure, the brightness uniformity of the OLED display device can be increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian He, Ming-Jong Jou, ShenSian Syu
  • Patent number: 10700137
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. It has N types of sub-pixels, each type emits a different color of light, here N is a positive integer and N3. The panel includes: a matrix of repetitive units arranged, each unit has N-row & N-column sub-pixels. The N sub-pixels in each row or each column emit light of different colors. For each repetitive unit, the N sub-pixels along one diagonal line emits light of the same color, and at least two of the N sub-pixels along another diagonal line emit light of different colors; two adjacent sub-pixels in the same column form one pixel unit, and have shapes which are mirror-symmetrical to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xian Chen
  • Patent number: 10690922
    Abstract: A super-resolution scanning display. The scanning display includes a light source, a conditioning assembly, and a scanning mirror assembly. The light source is configured to emit source light from a plurality of columns of emitters formed along a first dimension, including at least a first column of emitters emitting in a first band of light and a second column of emitters emitting in a second band of light which are offset along the first dimension by a fraction of an emitter width and offset along a second dimension—that is orthogonal to the first dimension—by greater than the emitter width. The conditioning assembly receives and conditions the source light. The scanning mirror assembly scans the conditioned light along the second dimension to generate a portion of an image at a first location with a resolution that is more than a first threshold number of emitters in a unit angle in the first dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Byron Taylor, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 10692450
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, display device and driving method thereof. The display panel includes: N pixel column unit groups, each including a first pixel column unit and a second pixel column unit; N data line unit groups one-to-one corresponding to the N pixel column unit groups, each including a first data line unit and a second data line unit; N driving unit groups one-to-one corresponding to the N data line unit groups, each including a first driving unit and a second driving unit; and N data output groups corresponding to the N driving unit groups in one-to-one correspondence, each including a first data output and a second data output, and a polarity of data signal output from the first data output is opposite to a polarity of data signal output from the second data output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Jianxun Wang, Hongbo Zhou, Wenbin Yang
  • Patent number: 10665640
    Abstract: A pixel array structure and a display device are provided. The pixel array structure includes pixel groups arranged repeatedly, wherein each pixel group at least includes a first pixel (21), a second pixel (22) and a third pixel (23), each type of pixels include sub-pixels of at least two colors, and sub-pixels included in different types of pixels are different in color or sequence, which can improve aperture ratios of part of color sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingyi Zhu
  • Patent number: 10636364
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a gamma voltage correction method and system for a display module. A display area of the display module includes adjacent first sub-display area and second-sub-display area, which are independently driven by different source drivers respectively. The method comprises performing gamma curve adjustment to the first sub-display area according to a target gamma curve to obtain a first data voltage corresponding to a first grayscale; driving the second sub-display area with the first data voltage so that the second sub-display area emits light; and regulating the first data voltage based on a difference in brightness between the first-sub-display area and the second-sub-display area when driven by the first data voltage respectively to obtain a second data voltage for driving the second sub-display area so as to reduce a brightness difference between the first sub-display area and the second sub-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO. LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hualing Yang, Lina Liu
  • Patent number: 10627966
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides technology for an in-cell organic light-emitting display device. The present disclosure enables one component of an organic light-emitting display device to be used not only for a display operation but also for a touch operation, thus achieving an in-cell organic light-emitting display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Sun Na
  • Patent number: 10624190
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode driving circuit including a micro light-emitting diode, a driving circuit, and a digital-to-analog converter is provided. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor electrically coupled to the micro light-emitting diode in series. The digital-to-analog converter is electrically coupled to a gate terminal of the driving transistor and is configured to provide grayscale voltage levels of the micro light-emitting diode to the driving circuit and the micro light-emitting diode. The grayscale voltage levels are determined by a gamma curve. A driving voltage is applied to the driving transistor and the micro light-emitting diode, such that at least one-sixteenth of the whole grayscale voltage levels of the micro light-emitting diode is within a linear region of at least one of current-voltage curves of the driving transistor. An accessible working range of the micro light-emitting diode is about 2 volts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: MIKRO MESA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 10598980
    Abstract: This application provides a pixel structure and a display panel having the same. The pixel structure includes: a plurality of data lines; a plurality of scanning lines, disposed in a manner of intersecting with the data lines; and a plurality of pixel units, where each of the pixel units includes a plurality of subpixels, and the subpixels are connected to the data lines and the scanning lines; and each of the pixel units includes a plurality of monochromatic subpixels disposed in a form of an array and a plurality of white subpixels, the white subpixels and the monochromatic subpixels are disposed in pairs and adjacent to each other, and colors of the plurality of monochromatic subpixels in each of the pixel units are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10573667
    Abstract: Provided is a display device with extremely high resolution, a display device with higher display quality, a display device with improved viewing angle characteristics, or a flexible display device. Same-color subpixels are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a predetermined direction. In other words, when attention is paid to a subpixel, another two subpixels exhibiting the same color as the subpixel are preferably located upper right and lower right or upper left and lower left. Each pixel includes three subpixels arranged in an L shape. In addition, two pixels are combined so that pixel units including subpixel are arranged in matrix of 3×2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ikeda, Kouhei Toyotaka, Hideaki Shishido, Hiroyuki Miyake, Kohei Yokoyama, Yasuhiro Jinbo, Yoshitaka Dozen, Takaaki Nagata, Shinichi Hirasa
  • Patent number: 10565424
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in a fingerprint recognition region. Each of the plurality of pixel units includes a first electrode and a light-emitting layer. A driving unit of each pixel unit includes a storage capacitor. An orthographic projection of the storage capacitor on a plane of the display panel is located within an orthographic projection of the corresponding first electrode on the plane of the display panel. An orthographic projection of the light-emitting layer of each organic light-emitting device on the plane of the display panel is located within an orthographic projection of the corresponding first electrode. A distance between an edge of an orthographic projection of the first electrode and an edge of an orthographic projection of the light-emitting layer of each red and/or green organic light-emitting device is larger that of each blue organic light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Xin, Lijing Han, Xian Chen
  • Patent number: 10565922
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels, and a black matrix. The pixels are disposed on the substrate. The black matrix is disposed between the pixels. The black matrix includes a first sub-portion, a second sub-portion, and a third sub-portion. The first sub-portion, the second sub-portion, and the third sub-portion are disposed side by side. The first sub-portion has a first width, the second sub-portion has a second portion, and the third sub-portion has a third width. The first width, the second width, and the third width are in an ascending order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Miao Huang, Yu-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 10559249
    Abstract: To provide a novel device, a device with low power consumption, or a versatile device, the device includes a decoder, a driver circuit, and a display portion. The driver circuit includes a plurality of circuits. The display portion includes a plurality of display panels. The decoder has a function of generating a signal corresponding to an image displayed on the display portion. The decoder has a function of determining the necessity of rewriting an image of each of the display panels by detecting a change in the image of each of the display panels. The circuit has a function of outputting a signal to a display panel for which that image rewriting is determined to be necessary. The circuit has a function of stopping output of a signal to a display panel for which image rewriting is determined to be unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiichi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 10535297
    Abstract: A display that includes circuit an irregular-shape active area, pixel units, first gate drivers, second gate drivers and a data driver is disclosed. The pixel units are arranged in rows and columns in the irregular-shape active area. Each of the first gate drivers is configured to scan a corresponding row of the pixel units. Each of the second gate drivers is configured to scan a corresponding column of the pixel units. The data driver is configured to provide data to a pixel unit selected by the first gate drivers and the second gate drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: INT TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shih-Song Cheng
  • Patent number: 10535321
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a driving method of a display panel, aiming to lower power consumption of display devices. The display panel operates in P pixel charging sub-phases, and P is a number of rows of pixels. Every two sequential pixel charging sub-phases form one pixel charging phase. In one pixel charging sub-phase of each pixel charging phase, switch group elements of each driving unit are switched on in a first sequence, and in the other pixel charging sub-phase of each pixel charging phase, the switch group elements of each driving unit are switched on in a second sequence. The first sequence and the second sequence are reversed. In the present disclosure, 1?P, 1?N, and P and N are positive integers. The above display panel is applicable to display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbin Yang