Color Patents (Class 345/88)
  • Patent number: 10223988
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, and including a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a plurality of pixel units electrically connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a gate driving circuit configured to output a gate signal to each of the gate lines, and a data driving circuit configured to output data signals to the data lines using a column inversion method and a dot inversion method. In the column inversion method, polarities of the data signals, applied to first and second consecutive data lines, are inverted with respect to each other, and in the dot inversion method, polarities of the data signals applied to a third data line are inverted in pixel units arranged on opposite sides of the third data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 10210831
    Abstract: The present provides a drive method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device. By burning sets of OTP data corresponding to the use durations which are different in a drive chip, and each set of OTP data comprises a gamma datum and a Vcom datum, and the liquid crystal display device selects the OTP data corresponding to the use duration according to the present use duration, and uses the gamma datum and the Vcom datum in the set of OTP data to drive a display panel to perform image display for avoiding that the gamma value deviates from the target gamma value, and the Vcom deviates from the best Vcom to ensure that the liquid crystal display device always uses the target gamma value and the best Vcom for driving, and always guarantee the display result and quality of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenzhou Xing, Chunpeng Guo, Xingling Guo
  • Patent number: 10199002
    Abstract: A first supply circuit outputs data signals to odd-numbered distribution circuits, and outputs selection signals to all of distribution circuits. A second supply circuit outputs data signals to even-numbered distribution circuits. The odd-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The even-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The first supply circuit outputs the data signals generated based on digital data signals which are basic signals of the data signals and an adjustment value, to the distribution circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nariya Takahashi, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Suguru Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10193550
    Abstract: A switching device adapted to be installed behind an opaque wall (32) so as not to be visible from the outside of the wall and intended to switch at least one electrical device (44) on. This switching device includes a first module (10) and a second module (12) adapted to make the connection between the device and a power source. The first module includes a capacitive sensor (16) having a capacitor on a printed circuit board adapted to change its capacitance value when the hand (34) of a user on the outside is placed near the wall where the device is installed. The capacitor is included in a metal frame whose function is to define the capacitive field due to the capacitor in the plane of the board and to maximize this field perpendicular to the plane of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Inventor: Roberto Airoldi
  • Patent number: 10186218
    Abstract: A drive circuit adapted for a liquid crystal display device and includes a CE circuit, a memory, a data compensating circuit and a timing controller. The CE circuit, the data compensating circuit and the timing controller are electrically connected successively, and the memory is electrically connected to the data compensating circuit. The CE circuit is for receiving image data and performing an image color enhancement processing onto the image data. The memory is for storing compensation values for Mura compensation to the liquid crystal display device. The data compensating circuit is for obtaining the compensation value corresponding to the image data from the memory and performing compensation calculation. The timing controller is for receiving the compensated image data, converting the compensated image data into signals required by the liquid crystal display device. The invention further provides a liquid crystal display device with the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinjie Zhou
  • Patent number: 10185172
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device including a display panel that includes a color filter board is provided. The color filter board includes a light blocking section formed in a grid and color sections that are formed in areas surrounded by a pattern of the light blocking section in different colors from area to area. The color sections form display pixels on a combination basis. The display panel includes a light blocking area in at least a section of an edge along an outline of the display panel. The method includes setting the color sections that do not form the display pixels among the color sections adjacent to the light blocking area in a plan view of the display panel constantly in the black state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Kadowaki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Ryuzo Yuki
  • Patent number: 10170059
    Abstract: A color sequential image method for displaying images using two color fields includes analyzing and sorting percentages of a plurality of colors constituting an input color image, in which a first color possesses a most percentage, a second color possesses a middle percentage, and a third color possesses a third percentage. The method further includes forming a first color field image according to the first color and the third color, and a second color field image according to the second color and the third color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: WISTRON CORP., NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Chi-Wen Chang, Fang-Cheng Lin, Han-Ping Shieh, Meng-Chao Kao, Hui-Chen Lin, Szu-Fen Chen
  • Patent number: 10170034
    Abstract: The present application discloses a graphene display, and a driving method and a driving apparatus for a graphene display, the driving apparatus for a graphene display includes obtaining the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel to be input; determining the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels according to the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel and the correspondence relationship of the preset grayscale values of the three primary colors and the grayscale values of the five primary colors; applying the driving voltages to the three dynamic sub-pixels respectively corresponding to the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels. By the method described above, the gamut of the display is increased, to increase the display performance of the display and decrease the power consumption of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yong Fan
  • Patent number: 10156952
    Abstract: An input detection device is provided with a plurality of drive electrodes, a metal electrode opposed to the plurality of drive electrodes and having a predetermined wiring pattern, and a light-shielding film. In plan view, a width of the wiring pattern of the metal electrode overlapped with a portion of the light-shielding film with a large width is larger than a width of the wiring pattern of the metal electrode overlapped with portions other than the portion of the light-shielding film with the large width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Katsuta, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 10153305
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device, relates to the field of display technology. The array substrate comprises: a substrate; a gate metal layer comprising gate lines; a source and drain metal layer comprising data lines, the gate lines and the data lines intersecting with each other to define a plurality of sub-pixel areas; a pixel electrode layer provided on the substrate, which comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes which are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-pixel areas; a common electrode layer provided on the substrate, which is provided with a plurality of cutting hole at positions corresponding to spaces between the pixel electrodes; a first insulating layer provided between the pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer; and a second insulating layer provided between the gate metal layer and the source and drain metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10152908
    Abstract: A timing controller, a display device, and a method of driving the same able to prevent a dark defect that would otherwise be formed when two or more image control methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MyungJin Pyeon, HyunSon Chon
  • Patent number: 10146081
    Abstract: A display device, including a first substrate including at least one pixel, each pixel including first, second, third, and fourth pixels; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; and first, second, and third color filters on the second substrate corresponding to the first, second, and third pixels, respectively, the first, second, and third color filters, respectively, overlapping portions of the fourth pixel, the fourth pixel being adjacent to the first, second, and third color filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Park, Junho Song, Jihyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10147371
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array including a first set of subpixels of first to fourth colors and a second set of subpixels of the first to fourth colors. The display device also includes a data driver configured to generate first data voltages and second data voltages. The first data voltages have a first polarity with respect to a common voltage that is applied to the pixel array and the second data voltages have a second polarity with respect to the common voltage that is different than the first polarity. The data driver applies the first data voltages of the first polarity to the first set of subpixels of the first to fourth colors via the data line and subsequently applies the second data voltages of the second polarity to the second set of subpixels of the first to fourth colors via the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wookyu Sang, Wonho Lee, Juun Park
  • Patent number: 10140902
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display method and a display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of rows of sub-pixels, the adjacent sub-pixels in the column direction having different colors and being staggered from each other by ½ of the sub-pixel in the row direction. The display method comprises: S1, generating an original image composed of a matrix of virtual pixels; S2, enabling the virtual pixels to correspond to sampling locations, wherein each sampling location corresponds to a virtual pixel; each sampling location is located between every two adjacent rows of the sub-pixels, and corresponds to a location between two sub-pixels in one row and a central location of a sub-pixel in the other row; and S3, calculating a display component of each sub-pixel in accordance with original components of corresponding colors of virtual pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel. The present invention is suitable for high resolution display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingyun Shi, Xue Dong, Hyungkyu Kim, Haiwei Sun, Hao Zhang, Quanhua He, Kai Yang
  • Patent number: 10140905
    Abstract: A controller, a data driver circuit, a display device, and a method of driving the same are provided. Color-specific data driving is performed through adaptive overdriving in consideration of differences in response times of color-specific subpixels. Differences in response times of color-specific subpixels due to different thicknesses of color-specific pigment layers are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungHoon Choi, Hanjin Kim
  • Patent number: 10088770
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imaging display system includes an imaging device and a display device, which operate synchronously with each other. The imaging display system includes a control device. The control device is configured to measure light exposure when the imaging device captures an image and determine whether the measured light exposure is insufficient, and control the display device to decrease a refresh rate and the imaging device to prolong an exposure time, when determined that the light exposure is insufficient. The first scanning time for the imaging device to scan the image and the second scanning time required for the display device to scan the display panel are constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Fumitaka Gotoh, Takayuki Nakanishi, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 10089919
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a scanning driving circuit including a plurality of cascaded-connected scanning driving units. Each of the scanning driving unit includes a forward-backward scanning circuit, a first and a second input circuit outputting first and second input signals; a pull-down circuit outputting first or second pull-down signals and pulling down or charging a first pull-down control signal point or a second pull-down control signal point; a first and a second control circuit charging or pulling down the first pull-down control signal point or the second pull-down control signal point; and the first and the second output circuit generating the first and the second scanning driving signals for the first and the second scanning line to drive pixel cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10078158
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a display panel with integrated micro lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro lenses are aligned to the pixel light sources and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer to maintain the positioning between the micro lenses and pixel driver circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Beida Jade Bird Display Limited
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fang Ou, Qiming Li
  • Patent number: 10074301
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display panel comprises a matrix structure formed by arranging sub-pixels of three different colors. Two adjacent sub-pixels of the same color in the row direction form a group. The groups of three different colors are arranged in turn in the row direction, and the groups of the same colors in two adjacent rows are arranged in such a manner that the groups of the same colors in the two rows are staggered by one or three sub-pixels in the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junsheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10067591
    Abstract: Disclosed are a touch device and a driving method thereof. The touch device includes a touch screen, a detection circuit and a driving circuit, the touch screen including a common electrode, an induction electrode and a pixel electrode, the detection circuit including a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, the first input terminal being connected with the induction electrode; during a display period, the common electrode is configured to load a common electrode signal outputted by the driving circuit, the pixel electrode is configured to load a pixel electrode signal outputted by the driving circuit, a display electric field is generated between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, the reference signal is the same as the common electrode signal. In this disclosure, no voltage difference is generated between the common electrode signal and the reference signal, and thus avoiding affecting the normal display of the touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weijie Zhao, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu
  • Patent number: 10062737
    Abstract: An OLED pixel arrangement structure includes multiple first sub-pixels, multiple second sub-pixels and multiple third sub-pixels. Four adjacent ones of the first sub-pixels and four adjacent ones of the second sub-pixels are alternately arranged and surround one of the third sub-pixels. Centers of the four adjacent first sub-pixels and centers of the four adjacent second sub-pixels form vertexes of a virtual octagonal cell, and the virtual octagonal cell has at least two orthogonal symmetry axes, a basic pixel unit is formed by the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels forming the virtual octagonal cell and a part of the third sub-pixel inside the virtual octagonal cell which are located on one side of one of the at least two orthogonal symmetry axes of the virtual octagonal cell. A center of the third sub-pixel coincides with a center of the virtual octagonal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TRULY (HUIZHOU) SMART DISPLAY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhihua Hong, Xiaoyi Cai, Xianjun Ke, Junhai Su, Yaqing Huang, Jianhua Li
  • Patent number: 10061153
    Abstract: A curved display comprises a first substrate 100 and a second substrate 200 that are disposed opposite to each other and both curved along the first direction. The first substrate includes data lines 11 and gate lines 12. The second substrate includes light transmission parts 202 and a light shielding part 203. The light shielding part includes first light shielding portions 203b extending in the first direction and second light shielding portions 203a extending in a second direction. The second light shielding portions include a central light shielding portion a5, a first end light shielding portion a1 disposed on one end side in the first direction, and a middle light shielding portion disposed therebetween. A width in the first direction of the middle light shielding portion is greater than or equal to that of the central light shielding portion and the first end light shielding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Hirata, Hiroaki Goto, Takeshi Aramaki, Masashi Kuno
  • Patent number: 10061167
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups, wherein each of the plurality sub-pixel groups comprises eight sub-pixels disposed in a row direction or in a column direction and the eight sub-pixels comprise two red sub-pixels; two blue sub-pixels; two green sub-pixels; and two sub-pixels of a predetermined color, wherein in each of the plurality of sub-pixel groups, a distance between the red sub-pixels or between the blue sub-pixels is less than a distance between the green sub-pixels or between the sub-pixels of the predetermined color, and the sub-pixels of the predetermined color have a luminance higher than a luminance of the red sub-pixels and the blue sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Hsueh-Yen Yang, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10049638
    Abstract: Disclosed is a demultiplex type display driving circuit, applied in a RGBW four colors pixel structure display device, comprising a plurality of driving units, and each driving unit comprises eight demultiplex modules, and each demultiplex module comprises three thin film transistors, and gates of the three thin film transistors are electrically coupled to a first branch control signal (Demux1), a second branch control signal (Demux2), and a third branch control signal (Demux3) respectively, and source are electrically coupled to the same data signal, and drains are electrically coupled to one data line in a jump manner, respectively. Thus, the pulse duration of each branch control signal is equal to ? of a pulse duration of the scan signal to increase the charging time of the data signal and promote the charging rate of the sub pixel under circumstance that the pulse duration of the scan signal is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhong Lin
  • Patent number: 10043435
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, a plurality of third sub-pixels, a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, and a plurality of fifth sub-pixels. The image device further comprises a plurality of basic repeating units. Each of the basic repeating units comprises the first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, the fourth sub-pixels, and the fifth sub-pixel. A ratio of the first sub-pixels to the second sub-pixels to the third sub-pixels to the fourth sub-pixels and to the fifth sub-pixel in the basic repeating unit is 3:3:4:1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: VP ASSETS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gia-Chuong Phan, Maggie Phan, Anthony Phan, Shi-Ki Dong, Hon-Wah Wong, Ka-Ho Ng
  • Patent number: 10018750
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display substrate comprises a base substrate and a pixel layer disposed on the base substrate, the pixel layer comprising a plurality of pixel units distributed in a matrix array. The display substrate further comprises a Fresnel lens layer including a plurality of Fresnel lenses. The pixel units each are located at a position within a focal plane of at least one of the Fresnel lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Zhou, Xiaodong Zhou
  • Patent number: 10012858
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a first line and a second line extending between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel with a gap therebetween, and a first alignment film as an outermost layer. The second substrate includes a second alignment film opposed to the first alignment film. Further, the first substrate includes a groove in which the first alignment has a recessed surface between the first line and the second line, and the groove is filled with the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Genki Asozu, Shigesumi Araki
  • Patent number: 10008170
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a GOA circuit and a display device adopting the same. The GOA circuit includes thirteen transistors and a first capacitor. The GOA circuit can be driven in 2D and 3D driving modes to prolong charging time of each pixel. Each two GOA circuit units share a set of Nth stage start pulse signals, Nth stage gate pulse signals and eight clock pulse signals. Because the charging time of each pixel is prolonged, the display device can show images with better display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Wang, Peng Du
  • Patent number: 10002583
    Abstract: A display drive circuit is provided, including a line buffer, a lever converter, a D/A converter, a Gamma reference voltage generator, and a buffer. The Gamma reference voltage generator has a first duty time and second duty time. In the first duty time, the Gamma reference voltage generator outputs the Gamma voltage to the buffer to charge pixel electrodes of a display having the display drive circuit. In the second duty time, the Gamma reference voltage generator outputs a common voltage to the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenzhou Xing, Junxiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10002571
    Abstract: The system for coordinated color control of LCD backlight and filters comprises a display pixel, a light source driver, a filter driver, and a processor. The light source driver sets a backlight color and a backlight intensity level for the display pixel. The filter driver sets an array of filter levels for three or more filters for the display pixel. The processor is configured to determine the backlight color and the backlight intensity level and the array of filter levels to target a desired color and intensity for the display pixel. The array of filter levels is determined based at least in part on the backlight color and the backlight intensity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Zulch Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Zulch
  • Patent number: 9997129
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a grayscale voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of grayscale voltages, a data processing unit that performs data processing of first color component display data to third color component display data, and a drive unit that drives a display panel based on the first color component display data to the third color component display data that are subjected to the data processing and the plurality of grayscale voltages that are used in common for the first color component display data to the third color component display data. The data processing unit performs grayscale correction processing on at least one color component display data of the first color component display data to the third color component display data in a grayscale correction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 9990892
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel units, each including sub-pixel units of a plurality of colors, the sub-pixel units included in the liquid crystal panel includes a main pixel area and a secondary pixel area. The driving method includes: acquiring a grayscale value of a picture to be displayed of each of the partial sub-pixel units; searching for a main grayscale value and a secondary grayscale value corresponding to the grayscale value of the picture to be displayed of the each of the partial sub-pixel units from a corresponding relationship between grayscale values of a color of each of the partial sub-pixel units and the main grayscale values and the secondary grayscale values; and providing the searched main grayscale value and the secondary grayscale value to areas of the main pixel unit and the secondary pixel unit of the each of the partial sub-pixel units respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixuan Chen, Chih-tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 9989823
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels defined by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, and a color filter layer including a plurality of color blockers in a plurality of colors. The plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in a matrix and includes first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels, third sub-pixels, and fourth sub-pixels configured to display different colors. The first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, and the fourth sub-pixels each includes an aperture region, and a non-aperture region. A length-to-width aspect, ratio of the plurality of sub-pixels is greater than 2:1. An aperture region of the fourth sub-pixel is smaller than an aperture region of any one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huijun Jin
  • Patent number: 9989807
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix shape. Each pixel includes a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode. Two data lines are positioned between two adjacent pixel columns of the plurality of pixels. First subpixel electrodes in a first pixel row and a second pixel row are connected to a first gate line. Second subpixel electrodes in the second pixel row and a third pixel row are connected to a second gate line. A first data voltage applied to the first subpixel electrodes is higher than a second data voltage applied to the second subpixel electrodes. First duration of a first gate signal applied to the first gate line is shorter than second duration of a second gate signal applied to the second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haeng Won Park
  • Patent number: 9978322
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels displaying first, second, third, and fourth colors are repeatedly arranged in the second direction. A k-th gate line connected to at least one of first pixels displaying the first color among the pixels arranged in an i-th row is electrically connected to a (k+j)th gate line connected to at least one of second pixels displaying the first color among pixels arranged in one row of (i+1)th, (i+2)th, and (i+3)th rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunkyu Namkung, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Jai-Hyun Koh, Heendol Kim, Seokyun Son, Ik Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 9977152
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a display panel with integrated micro lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro lenses are aligned to the pixel light sources and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer to maintain the positioning between the micro lenses and pixel driver circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Beida Jade Bird Display Limited
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fang Ou, Qiming Li
  • Patent number: 9972256
    Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal panel comprises providing a liquid crystal panel with a plurality of pixel units in a matrix with M rows and N columns, wherein each of the pixel unit has at least a blue sub-pixel, dividing the liquid crystal panel into multiple display units, wherein each display unit comprises two of the pixel units, providing a gray level value, B, to the blue sub-pixels of each of the display units with a higher gray level value, BH, and a lower gray level value, BL, to the blue sub-pixels respectively, wherein the combination of BH and BL results the blue sub-pixels in the display unit to approach a predetermined Gamma Curve, and ?=1.8˜2.4 at a perspective viewing angle. This invention also discloses a liquid display panel comprising the driving method mentioned above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chih-tsung Kang, Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 9971190
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display surface on which pixels each including sub-pixels of a plurality of colors are two-dimensionally arrayed; a reflective member; a first substrate provided with the reflective member; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a color filter provided with filters of at least two colors corresponding to the sub-pixels; and a scattering member provided on the second substrate. A main viewing angle direction of the display device is a direction intersecting with the display surface. The color filter is formed such that a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in the main viewing angle direction is smaller than a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in a direction orthogonal to the main viewing angle direction in a direction parallel to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga, Masashi Mitsui, Susumu Kimura
  • Patent number: 9940865
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: an image processing circuit configured to carry out image processing on input display data input from an outside; and a timing controller configured to receive display data subjected to the image processing by the image processing circuit, to thereby generate a plurality of timing signals for defining an operation timing of a data line driving circuit and an operation timing of a gate line driving circuit, the image processing circuit being configured to receive at least one timing signal among the plurality of timing signals generated by the timing controller, to thereby carry out the image processing on the input display data based on the received at least one timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9934736
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes: gate lines arranged in a row direction; data lines arranged in a column direction; and subpixels arranged in basic units of eight subpixels. Each subpixel is each connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines, and the subpixels are continuously arranged along a row and are arranged in a matrix. In the basic units, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a first subpixel to a fourth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a fifth subpixel to an eighth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, and polarities of the fourth subpixel and the fifth subpixel are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Jai-Hyun Koh, Jin Pil Kim, Kyung Su Lee, Ik Soo Lee, Nam Jae Lim
  • Patent number: 9928791
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels include pixels arranged in a k-th row and pixels arranged in a (k+1)th row disposed adjacent to the pixels arranged in the k-th row in the second direction. An (i+1)th gate line is disposed between the pixels in the k-th row and the pixels in the (k+1)th row. A first pixel arranged in a g-th column among the pixels arranged in the k-th row and a second pixel arranged in the g-th column among the pixels arranged in the (k+1)th row are connected to a j-th data line. The pixels arranged in the k-th row are alternately connected to an i-th gate line and the (i+1)th gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Seokyun Son, Jai-Hyun Koh, Geunjeong Park, Dong-Won Park, Donghwa Shin, Won Sik Oh, Ik Soo Lee, Sang-Uk Lim, Seokha Hong
  • Patent number: 9927908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an in-cell touch panel and a display device, wherein each self-capacitance electrode is provided with a transversal slit within a region of the self-capacitance electrode corresponding to a gap between two adjacent pixel units in a column direction, and/or each self-capacitance electrode is provided with a longitudinal slit within a region of the self-capacitance electrode corresponding to a gap between two adjacent pixel units in a row direction, so that it can ensure that the slits in the self-capacitance electrodes and the gaps between the self-capacitance electrodes are uniformly arranged in the whole in-cell touch panel, thereby overcoming the defects such as bright lines, dark lines or the like in the in-cell touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanchen Li, Dong Yang, Rui Xu, Shuai Han, Zhiying Bao, Zhenhua Lv
  • Patent number: 9916036
    Abstract: An area of a region arranged on one side out of a display region in a direction in which scanning signal lines extend is reduced. A display apparatus includes: a partial circuit; a plurality of scanning signal lines; and a plurality of scanning signal connection wirings for connecting the partial circuit and each of the plurality of scanning signal lines. Each of the plurality of scanning signal lines extends in an X-axis direction, and is arranged with a pitch in a Y-axis direction. A plurality of ends respectively included in the plurality of scanning signal connection wirings are connected to the partial circuit, and are arranged in the Y-axis direction. A distance in the Y-axis direction between the respective centers of the two ends adjacent to each other is narrower than the pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Katsuta, Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 9911791
    Abstract: In a display device, light emitting areas and colored areas each have a predetermined planar shape having no rotational symmetry so that rotation of the area by an angle greater than or equal to 0° but smaller than 360° does not produce an initial shape of the area and are so arranged as to have different types of rotation angle. The colored areas are grouped based on a set of the colored areas of colors different from one another to forma plurality of full-color pixels. The full-color pixels are so arranged that the rotation angle of the colored areas of the same color have different types. In the full-color pixels of the same type, the colored areas of the same color have the same rotation angle. In the full-color pixels of different types, the colored areas of the same color have different rotation angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Haochun Lee, Michiaki Sakamoto, Masaru Uchiyama, Masaya Adachi, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9905173
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes: gate lines arranged in a row direction; data lines arranged in a column direction; and subpixels arranged in basic units of eight subpixels. Each subpixel is each connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines, and the subpixels are continuously arranged along a row and are arranged in a matrix. In the basic units, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a first subpixel to a fourth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a fifth subpixel to an eighth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, and polarities of the fourth subpixel and the fifth subpixel are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Jai-Hyun Koh, Jin Pil Kim, Kyung Su Lee, Ik Soo Lee, Nam Jae Lim
  • Patent number: 9905151
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of first unit pixels, each including: a data input terminal, a data output terminal, a display element, and a waveform shaping section. The display element is configured to perform display based on data inputted to the data input terminal. The first waveform shaping section is provided on a signal path from the data input terminal to the data output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Suzuki, Toshiyuki Miyauchi, Yosuke Ueno, Yoshifumi Miyajima, Masayuki Hattori, Kazukuni Takanohashi, Haruo Togashi, Tamotsu Ikeda, Hiizu Ootorii, Sachiya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9891494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pixel unit, a driving method of the pixel unit, a driving module of the pixel unit, a display panel and a display device. The pixel unit includes four sub-pixels and a first color filter, a second color filter, a third color filter and a fourth color filter corresponding to the four sub-pixels respectively, the first color filter allows only light of a first color to pass through, the second color filter allows only light of a second color to pass through, the third color filter allows only light of a third color to pass through, and the fourth color filter allows light of n different colors selected from the first color, the second color, and the third color to pass through, wherein n is larger than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Sun, Seungmin Lee, Baoyu Liu, Weichao Ma, Shulin Yao, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9892701
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel connected to a plurality of data lines, a data driver configured to generate a plurality of data voltages, and to apply the plurality of data voltages to the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of feedback lines disposed in a fan-out region between the display panel and the data driver, wherein the data driver is further configured to applies a first signal to each of the plurality of feedback lines, wherein delays by the fan-out region are obtained based on the first signal, the delays being associated with the plurality of data lines, and wherein the data driver is further configured to controls output times of the plurality of data voltages based on the delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Haw Park, Yong-Su Lim, Ji-Youn Seo, Ye-Seul Lee
  • Patent number: 9892697
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a liquid crystal layer, a first pixel having the liquid crystal layer with a first thickness, a second pixel having a color filter and the liquid crystal layer with a second thickness. The display apparatus also includes a data generating unit configured to generate a first image signal corresponding to the first pixel and a second image signal corresponding to the second pixel in response to an input image signal, a data converting unit configured to convert a gradation value of the first image signal into a conversion gradation value of the first image signal according to refractive index anisotropy and the first thickness of the liquid crystal layer, and a driving unit configured to output to the first pixel a first data voltage corresponding to the compensation gradation value of the first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yonghwan Shin
  • Patent number: 9881975
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of red sub-pixels, a plurality of green sub-pixels, a plurality of blue sub-pixels, a plurality of white sub-pixels, and a plurality of yellow sub-pixels. A ratio of the total number of red sub-pixels to the total number of green sub-pixels to the total number of blue sub-pixels to the total number of white sub-pixels and to the total number of yellow sub-pixels is about 3:3:3:1:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: VP ASSETS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gia-Chuong Phan, Maggie Phan, Anthony Phan, Shi-Ki Dong, Hon-Wah Wong, Ka-Ho Ng