Field Period Polarity Reversal Patents (Class 345/96)
  • Patent number: 11909402
    Abstract: Devices and methods are described herein for a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) driver. In one embodiment, the PAM driver includes a first high-speed buffer configured to output a first voltage, a second high-speed buffer configured to output a second voltage, and a plurality of transistors coupled to the first high-speed buffer and the second high-speed buffer. At least one of the first voltage or the second voltage facilitates selective operation of a transistor of the plurality of transistors to output a third voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Ranucci, Alan Roth
  • Patent number: 11900896
    Abstract: A source driver includes a plurality of output terminals and a plurality of driving channels. Each of the plurality of driving channels is coupled to an output terminal among the plurality of output terminals and includes an output buffer, an output enable switch and a charge sharing circuit. The output enable switch is coupled between the output buffer and the corresponding output terminal. The charge sharing circuit is coupled to the corresponding output terminal. Wherein, the charge sharing circuits of at least two of the plurality of driving channels are commonly coupled to a charge sharing bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Yen-Kai Chen, Jui-Chan Chang, Chih-Hsien Chou
  • Patent number: 11875758
    Abstract: A pixel drive circuit, which includes: a first thin film transistor, a first unidirectional conduction switch, a second thin film transistor, a second unidirectional conduction switch, and a pixel capacitor; and the first thin film transistor includes: a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; the first gate electrode being connected with a n-th scan line, the first source electrode being connected with a m-th scan line, and the first drain electrode being connected with the pixel capacitor, and the n and m are positive integers; the second thin film transistor includes: a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode; the second gate electrode being connected with a (n?1)-th scan line, the second source electrode being connected with the pixel capacitor, and the second drain electrode being grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Guangchen Zhang, Yunyang Liu, Tingting Shen, Li Lv, Yuchun Xu, Zhiwei Li, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11798480
    Abstract: An OLED display system includes a display panel, a driving circuit, a voltage generator and a power management application circuit (PMAC). The driving circuit provides scan signals to the display panel. The voltage generator generates a negative voltage based on a first driving voltage having a positive level and a second driving voltage having a negative level and provides the negative voltage to the driving circuit. The PMAC includes a power management application circuit (PMIC) and an additional circuit distinct from the PMIC and disposed externally to the PMIC. The PMIC applies a high power supply voltage and a low power supply voltage to the display panel and generates the first driving voltage based on a battery voltage. The additional circuit generates the second driving voltage based on the battery voltage. The driving circuit generates at least one of the scan signals based on the negative voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byunghun Han, Insuk Kim, Jungmoon Kim, Sungjin Park, Seunggun Ham
  • Patent number: 11798491
    Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A small display device is provided. In the display device, a first layer and a second layer are stacked and provided. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a source driver circuit, and the second layer includes a display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping with the display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit have an overlap region where they are not strictly separated from each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more source driver circuits can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Kosei Nei
  • Patent number: 11749226
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application provides a source driver chip and a display device. Specifically, the source driver chip includes a first pre-charging module for pre-charging first data lines to a first preset voltage and pre-charging second data lines to a second preset voltage when a voltage of a first data signal is greater than a preset reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11730023
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus in which a gate driving circuit is disposed in each of non-display areas other than a non-display area including a pad part among a plurality of non-display areas, and a plurality of connection lines provided on a layer differing from a plurality of gate lines and connected to the gate lines are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HongJae Kim, Hoon Jeong, Byoungwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11721300
    Abstract: A display apparatus sequentially outputs gate pulses to one side and the other side of gate lines. The display apparatus includes a display panel provided with four non-display areas outside a display area, a gate driver provided in a first non-display area of the non-display areas, a data driver provided in the first non-display area, and a controller for controlling the gate driver and the data driver. Gate lines connected to connection lines extended from the gate driver are provided in a second direction different from a first direction in which the connection lines are provided. Gate pulses supplied from the gate driver to the gate lines through the connection lines are alternately output from a first side and a second side of the gate lines. The first side and the second side are divided from each other based on a center portion of the gate lines as a boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: OhJong Kwon, Geunyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11688327
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a source driving circuit adapted to a display panel. The source driving circuit includes a data channel and a control circuit. The data channel is configured to be coupled to a data line of the display panel and drive the data line of the display panel sequentially according to first display data and second display data. The first display data corresponds to a first scan line of the display panel, and the second display data corresponds to a second scan line of the display panel next to the first scan line of the display panel. The control circuit is coupled to the data channel and is configured to control a time point that the data channel outputs the second display data according to similarity between the first display data and the second display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Cheng-Tsu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11670254
    Abstract: The present invention includes a common voltage generation part, a reference gamma voltage generation part, a gamma compensation part, a gradation voltage generating circuit, and a DA conversion part. The common voltage generation part generates a common voltage by amplifying a reference common voltage and applies the common voltage to a common electrode of a display panel. The reference gamma voltage generation part generates reference gamma voltages. The gamma compensation part takes in a voltage of the common electrode as a feedback common voltage from the display panel and generates compensation reference gamma voltages in which voltage values of the respective reference gamma voltages are adjusted on the basis of a difference between the feedback common voltage and the reference common voltage. The gradation voltage generating circuit generates gradation voltages on the basis of the compensation reference gamma voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11645992
    Abstract: A display device in which high voltage can be applied to a display element is provided. A display element includes a pixel provided with a display element including a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the pixel is electrically connected to a first data line and a second data line. Supply of a first potential to the pixel through the first data line and supply of a second potential to the pixel through the second data line are performed concurrently, and then a third potential is supplied to the pixel through the second data line, whereby the first potential held in the pixel is changed to a fourth potential, and the fourth potential is applied to the pixel electrode. Here, the second potential is a potential calculated based on the first potential. When the value of the second potential is less than or equal to a potential applied to the common electrode, the third potential is higher than the potential applied to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Shigeru Onoya, Marina Hiyama
  • Patent number: 11620926
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Patent number: 11574601
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for controlling a display device includes inputting frame data for each frame input period of a vertical synchronization signal, accumulating stress data for some pixels in predetermined accumulation units based on the frame data for each blank period of the vertical synchronization signal, accumulating an input time of the frame data, calculating a correction gain value for correcting the accumulated stress data based on the input time accumulated when the accumulation of the stress data is completed for all pixels, correcting the accumulated stress data based on the correction gain value, and storing the corrected accumulated stress data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jintaek Choi, Chulha Park
  • Patent number: 11574608
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of horizontal lines each including a plurality of pixels, a timing controller configured to output a polarity control signal representing a polarity corresponding to each of the plurality of horizontal lines and having a value inverted by n horizontal line units, and a source driver configured to generate a timing pulse signal sequentially representing a data charging time of each of the plurality of horizontal lines and to output a data voltage, having a polarity corresponding to each of the plurality of horizontal lines, to the display panel on the basis of the timing pulse signal. When a value of the polarity control signal is inverted, the source driver generates the timing pulse signal including a data charging time corresponding to a count value obtained by counting a number of horizontal lines after a polarity is inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beophee Kim, Sungjin Lim, Yongjoo Song, Chulho Choi, Hanchiang Su, Yichien Wen
  • Patent number: 11551601
    Abstract: A display device includes: a gray converter which adds compensation grays to input grays to provide output grays; a data driver which provides data voltages corresponding to the output grays; and a display panel which includes pixels which receives the data voltages, where the gray converter includes: a voltage domain converter which converts the input grays into conversion grays; and a compensation gray calculator which calculates the compensation grays based on the conversion grays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik Hyun Ahn, Sun Koo Kang, Cheol Min Kim, Ji Ye Moon, Ju Gon Seok, Hyeon Uk Won
  • Patent number: 11521551
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a pixel array unit in which pixels including a light-emitting unit are arranged in a matrix shape; two drive units which are disposed on the same substrate as the pixel array unit with the pixel array unit interposed therebetween, which have output stages in a number that is half of the number of pixel rows of the pixel array unit, and in which the output stages are in charge of driving of pixels on an odd row side and on an even row side; and a control unit which performs control of driving the pixels on the odd row side by using the output stages of one drive unit between the two drive units, of driving the pixels on the even row side by using the output stages of the other drive unit, and of inverting the driving for each field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Onoyama, Kei Kimura
  • Patent number: 11508288
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels; an image converter which generates a second image by correcting grayscales of a logo among a first image for the pixels; and a data driver which provides data voltages corresponding to the second image to the pixels. The image converter generates first accumulated data by accumulating first map data corresponding to a logo area larger than the logo among the first image during a plurality of frame periods, generates second accumulated data by scaling the first accumulated data every refresh cycle, generates third accumulated data by initializing values smaller than a first threshold value among the second accumulated data to be a background value, and specifies pixels corresponding to the logo based on second map data corresponding to the third accumulated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeon Min Kim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Hyun Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 11508324
    Abstract: An E-paper display device including an E-paper display panel and a display driver is provided. The E-paper display panel displays an image. The image includes a first frame and a second frame. The display driver is coupled to the E-paper display panel. The display driver drives the E-paper display panel to display the image. The display driver drives a first pixel group of the E-paper display panel in a first polarity and drives a second pixel group of the E-paper display panel in a second polarity to display the first frame during a first frame period. The first pixel group and the second pixel group are arranged in interlacing. The display driver drives the second pixel group of the E-paper display panel in the first polarity to display the second frame during a second frame period. Moreover, a method for driving an E-paper display panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Liu, Hsiao-Lung Cheng, Pei-Lin Tien, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Patent number: 11475813
    Abstract: A scan driver circuit including shift register units and gate control circuits is provided. The shift register units are in a peripheral area of a display panel, and for receiving first clock signals. The gate control circuits are in an active area of the display panel, and for receiving second clock signals. Each shift register unit is coupled with corresponding N of the gate control circuits, and for providing a corresponding one of the first clock signals as a control signal to the corresponding N of the gate control circuits. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are coupled with corresponding M of gate lines. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are for providing, according to the control signal, corresponding M of the second clock signals as M gate signals to the corresponding M of gate lines, in which M and N are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Che-Wei Tung, Wei-Li Lin, Yu-Zuo Lin, Chia-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 11443708
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel having pixels with a first electrode and a second electrode; a control circuit; and a counter. The number and an arrangement of pixels where a potential of the second electrode is higher than that of the first electrode in a first mode equal the number and an arrangement of pixels where the potential of the first electrode is higher than that of the second electrode in a second mode. The counter increases a count while the panel operates in the first mode, and decreases the count while the panel operates in the second mode. The control circuit operates the panel in the first mode when the count at a determination timing is not greater than a first threshold, and operates the panel in the second mode when the count at the determination timing is not less than a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Kazuhiko Sako
  • Patent number: 11436971
    Abstract: A display driving apparatus includes an output control circuit configured to, with one frame being divided into a plurality of blank periods by touch driving, output source signals corresponding to display data during the plurality of blank periods; and a polarity control circuit configured to receive pre-polarity control information for polarity inversion, and control polarities of the source signals outputted from the output control circuit, for polarity inversion by the unit of vertical 2 dots for one frame, wherein polarities for pre dummy lines and active data lines of odd-numbered and even-numbered blank periods are controlled by the pre-polarity control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yong Min Kim, Ju Ho Lee, Da Sol Won, Se Hyuk An
  • Patent number: 11373617
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a display panel which includes divided display areas, signal line drivers, circuit boards which include a master board, power supply circuits, gradation voltage generation circuits, and at least one connection line, all the gradation voltage generation circuits generating the gradation voltages corresponding to a reference voltage supplied from the power supply circuit provided on the master board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11366361
    Abstract: An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixel units disposed in a matrix. In two adjacent ones of the pixel units in two adjacent rows, a second pixel electrode in an auxiliary area of one of the two adjacent ones of the pixel units extends to a main display area of the other of the two adjacent ones of the pixel units. A second pixel electrode extending part is disposed between a first pixel electrode and a corresponding one of the data lines. A metal electrode plate for light shielding is not disposed in an area in which the second pixel electrode extending part is disposed, and thus a transmittance is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wu Cao
  • Patent number: 11348547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for compensating the display voltage, a display apparatus and a display device, the method comprises acquiring, when performing an inversion operation with a polarity inversion signal for an arbitrary pixel, a preceding grayscale value and a subsequent grayscale value of the pixel, wherein the polarity inversion signal is configured to control the polarity of the pixel voltage of the pixel, the preceding grayscale value is a grayscale value of the pixel in a preceding frame before the inversion operation, and the subsequent grayscale value is the grayscale value of the pixel in a subsequent frame after the inversion operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yulong Xiong, Liugang Zhou, Tao Li, Yizhan Han, Jianwei Sun, Liu He, Yunyun Liang
  • Patent number: 11341928
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a gate driver for applying a gate-on signal through a plurality of gate lines of the display panel; a data driver for applying a data signal through a plurality of data lines of the display panel; and a timing controller for controlling the gate driver and the data driver to display an image frame at a first frame frequency. The display panel is driven at a second frame frequency that is higher than the first frame frequency. The timing controller controls the gate-on signal to be applied to the plurality of gate lines for a time determined on the basis of the second frame frequency, and controls the data driver to apply an over driven data signal to the plurality of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minhoon Lee, Jaemoon Lee, Byungkwan Kim, Changhun Kim, Sungjin Lim
  • Patent number: 11335292
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. In the display panel, subpixels input with a first voltage data signal and subpixels input with a second voltage data signal are alternately arranged, and among the subpixels with a same color in a same row; the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a positive polarity is equal to the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a negative polarity; two adjacent pixel groups in a same column adopt contrary polarity driving manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huai Liang He
  • Patent number: 11335235
    Abstract: A display driving method and a display driving device are disclosed. The display driving method includes the steps of: setting an image signal to be inputted, so that when the image signal is driven on a display panel, a first sub-pixel showing a positive polarity is displayed, and other sub-pixels are not displayed; copying the set image signal by the logic board and inputting the set image signal to the display panel; and finally inputting a gate drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dongsheng Guo
  • Patent number: 11322931
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving device of the display panel, which includes a protection circuit in a chip, the protection circuit includes: a plurality of chip input ends; a plurality of first diodes (D1) connected to the plurality of chip input ends in parallel, the cathodes of the first diodes (D1) connect to the chip input ends; a third diode (D3), a cathode of the third diode (D3) connects to an anode of the first diode (D1), an anode of the third diode (D3) is grounded, an area of the third diode (D3) is larger than an area of the first diode (D1), an amount of the third diode (D3) is less than an amount of the first diode (D1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: HKC Corporation, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11323668
    Abstract: A projection device and a controlling method of the projection device are provided. The projection device includes a light emitting module, a driver, a light valve, a projection lens and a processor. The light emitting module generates a light beam according to a driving current respectively. The driver generates the driving current and transmit the driving current to the light emitting module according to an operating signal. The light valve receives the light beam to form an image light beam. The projection lens projects the image light beam. The processor provides the operating signal with a default period to the driver and provides an operation of the light valve. According to the operating signal or the operation of the light valve, the driver generates the driving current lower than a default current during a first time interval in the default period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Hsin Chang, Shun-Tai Chen, Tung-Yi Lu, Chen-Yi Hong
  • Patent number: 11308907
    Abstract: Provided are a shift register and a driving method of a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel and device. The shift register includes a first power signal input terminal, a second power signal input terminal, a first signal output terminal, a first node control device, a first output device, a first voltage stabilizing device and a first clock signal terminal, where a first terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to an output terminal of the first node control device at a first node, a second terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to a first control terminal of the first output device at a second node, and a control terminal of the first voltage stabilizing device is electrically connected to the first clock signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11282429
    Abstract: The present disclosure, which relates to a power management integrated circuit to dynamically control ripples of driving voltages, allows reducing power consumption of the power management integrated circuit in a section where there is no operation for a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Min Choi, Seong Sik Yoon, Sang Woo Kim, Jung Hyun Tark
  • Patent number: 11250809
    Abstract: A configuration information setting method including: receiving a user-triggered information setting indication; generating, according to the information setting indication, an information setting instruction including setting indication data, the setting indication data configured to instruct the source driver to set configuration information of the source driver according to the setting indication data; and transmitting the information setting instruction to the source driver via the first signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifang Chu, Hao Zhu, Xin Duan, Jieqiong Wang, Ming Chen, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 11250805
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus for generating data voltages which are to be output to pixels included in second virtual horizontal lines, based on pieces of image data corresponding to first virtual horizontal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MinKi Kim, JinSung Kim, HyunTaek Nam, Gyeonghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11250801
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display drive method and a display device, where the display drive method includes the following operations: in response to a scan signal on a scan line connected to a pixel being converted from an off-level to a first on-level at a first time point, in a determination that a data signal on a data line connected to the pixel is inverted from a first polarity to a second polarity, controlling the scan signal to be at a second on-level in a pre-charging duration before the first time point to pre-charge the pixel by the data signal, wherein the data signal is in the second polarity in the pre-charging duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Yanna Yang
  • Patent number: 11163389
    Abstract: A touch display substrate and a display device are provided. The touch display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel units (10), data lines (20) and touch signal lines (30). For any two adjacent rows of sub-pixel units, the sub-pixel unit (10) in one row of sub-pixel units is staggered in a row direction with respect to the sub-pixel unit (10) in the other row of sub-pixel units adjacent to the one row of sub-pixel units by a distance of X sub-pixel units (10), and 0<X<1; these two sub-pixel units (10) have different colors. Data lines (20) and touch signal lines (30) are at gaps which extend in a column direction and are between the plurality of sub-pixel units (10). The touch signal lines (30) and the data lines (20) are in a same layer and the touch signal lines (30) are insulated from the data lines (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Wang, Yun Qiao, Jian Sun, Xiaozhou Zhan, Jun Fan, Jianjun Zhang, Cheng Li, Hailin Xue
  • Patent number: 11164535
    Abstract: Provided are a display control method and apparatus, a display apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device. The display control method includes: detecting a picture frame to be output; and controlling a plurality of data lines to output, in a first mode, data signals for displaying the picture frame to be output in in response to detection that the picture frame to be output comprises a reference picture, wherein a signal polarity sequence in the first mode is different from a signal polarity sequence in a second mode, the second mode is an output mode of the plurality of data lines when the picture frame to be output does not comprise a reference picture, the signal polarity sequence is a sequence of polarities of data signals provided by all of the plurality of data lines according to an arrangement order of the plurality of data lines in a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingna Hou, Weifan Yang, Na Li
  • Patent number: 11158271
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a driving method of a display device including a display area in which liquid crystal pixels are arranged in a matrix, a plurality of scanning lines arranged along display rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged along display columns, a backlight which illuminates the display area, and a controller which controls a display operation, the driving method includes via the controller, driving the scanning lines alternately from a center of the display area to both edges of the display area, outputting video data corresponding to a driven scanning line to the signal lines in synchronization with the driving of the scanning line, and turning on the backlight for a predetermined time after outputting the video data of one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Tsunashima, Yoshiro Aoki, Makoto Uchida
  • Patent number: 11158272
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels disposed at rows and columns, first data lines respectively disposed at the columns, and second data lines respectively disposed at the columns, a first data driver connected to the first data lines, and a second data driver connected to the second data lines. A first portion of the pixels are connected to the first data lines, and a second portion of the pixels are connected to the second data lines. The first data driver provides first gray voltages corresponding to a first gamma curve to the first portion of the pixels through the first data lines, and the second data driver provides second gray voltages corresponding to a second gamma curve different from the first gamma curve to the second portion of the pixels through the second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeon-Sung Kim, Bongchun Park, Hyunseop Song
  • Patent number: 11151958
    Abstract: A driving method and a driving apparatus of a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes adjacently disposed several first pixel units and several second pixel units. The driving method includes: dividing multiple pixel units of the display panel into multiple pixel unit groups each including adjacent two rows of pixel units; using driving voltages of different voltage levels to drive each sub-pixel of a first pixel unit and each sub-pixel of a second pixel unit; using driving voltages of opposite polarities to drive sub-pixels arranged in a same column in each adjacent two of the pixel unit groups; and using driving voltages with a same polarity distribution to drive adjacent two columns of pixel units of each successively arranged three columns of pixel units in a same pixel unit group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Bei Zhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11030931
    Abstract: Provided are a shift register unit, a driving method, a gate drive circuit and a display device in the field of display technology. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a first pull-down circuit. The output circuit is coupled to a first clock signal terminal, a first node, a first DC power supply terminal, and a first output terminal respectively, and configured to output a first power supply signal from the first DC power supply terminal to the first output terminal in response to a potential of the first node and a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Meng Li, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 11017709
    Abstract: The invention provides a driving method for a pixel matrix. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, the polarity of data lines is inverted once every two columns, the polarity of the voltage loaded in the direction of the data lines is exchanged once every N sub-pixels, and each data line alternately loads the voltage to the lth column and (I+2)th column of sub-pixels every N sub-pixels. The driving method includes: acquiring original pixel data; generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage according to the original pixel data; and loading the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage to the pixel matrix along the data lines within one frame, where I?1, N?2. In addition, the invention further provides a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yusheng Huang, Yuyeh Chen
  • Patent number: 11004400
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a gray group data generator configured to receive current line data for pixels in a current row, and to generate current row gray group data based on the current line data, a horizontal crosstalk determiner configured to determine whether horizontal crosstalk occurs in the current row, a horizontal crosstalk compensator configured to compare the current row gray group data with adjacent row gray group data when the horizontal crosstalk is determined to occur in the current row, and to selectively adjust a plurality of gamma reference voltages according to a result of the comparison between the current row gray group data and the adjacent row gray group data, and a data driver configured to generate and provide data voltages corresponding to the current line data based on the selectively adjusted plurality of gamma reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Soon-Dong Kim, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 10950322
    Abstract: A shift register unit circuit is disclosed that includes a first node control circuit, a second node control circuit, and a plurality of output circuits. Each of the plurality of output circuits is connected to a respective output terminal and provides a gate drive signal to the respective output terminal. Also disclosed are a method of driving the shift register unit circuit, a gate drive circuit, and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Fan, Jie Zhang, Jiguo Wang, Fuqiang Li
  • Patent number: 10923065
    Abstract: A data signal delay circuit and delay method and a display device are disclosed. The data signal delay circuit includes a feedback signal generation sub-circuit, a compensation signal generation sub-circuit, and a control sub-circuit. The feedback signal generation sub-circuit is configured to generate a feedback signal based on a first level signal from the first level signal terminal and a second level signal from the second level signal terminal under the control of a gate drive signal from a scan signal line currently being scanned. The compensation signal generation sub-circuit is configured to generate a compensation signal based on the feedback signal and a data enable signal from the data enable signal line. The control sub-circuit is configured to delay a data enable signal of the data enable signal line in a next cycle based on the compensation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingming Wang, Wei Sun, Ming Chen, Xue Dong, Wenchao Han, Rui Liu
  • Patent number: 10915192
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a first gate driver circuit, a second gate driver circuit, common electrodes in an array, data lines, and gate lines, where the gate lines include first and second gate lines alternately row by row in the extension direction of the data lines, the first gate driver circuit is connected with the first gate lines, the second gate driver circuit is connected with the second gate lines, and the common electrodes are reused as touch electrodes; and in one frame, a gate scan signal or an alternating-current touch scan signal is input respectively to the first gate lines and the second gate lines in different periods so that a display function can be enabled, but also a touch report rate can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingpeng Zhao, Jieqiong Wang, Zhi Zhang, Guangquan Wang, Xiang Wang, Panpan Li, Yanfei Yan, Xiuzhu Tang, Shuai Chen
  • Patent number: 10890811
    Abstract: An LCD device includes first and second electrodes in each of the first and second pixel regions, a first TFT connected to a second gate line and a first data line and configured to supply a first data voltage to the first electrode in the first pixel region, a second TFT connected to the second gate line and a second data line and configured to supply a second data voltage having a level opposite the first data voltage to the second electrode in the first pixel region, a third TFT connected to a fourth gate line and the first data line and configured to supply the first data voltage to the second electrode in the second pixel region, and a fourth TFT connected to the fourth gate line and the second data line and configured to supply the second data voltage to the first electrode in the second pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Wook Lee, Hyung-Beom Shin
  • Patent number: 10878779
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of establishing overdrive lookup table for display panel, which could determine the overdrive lookup table of the display panel according to an overdrive lookup table of a target adjustment area after determining the overdrive lookup table of the target adjustment area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Feilin Ji, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10877611
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 10861368
    Abstract: A driving method for a display panel is through making the first demultiplexing signal, the second demultiplexing signal, the third demultiplexing signal, the fourth demultiplexing signal, the fifth demultiplexing signal and the sixth demultiplexing signal according to the first sequence generate the high-level pulse in the first image frame, and through making the first demultiplexing signal, the second demultiplexing signal, the third demultiplexing signal, the fourth demultiplexing signal, the fifth demultiplexing signal and the sixth demultiplexing signal according to the second sequence different from the first sequence generate the high-level pulse in the second image frame, thereby by adding the effect of the two image frames to eliminate stripes on the images displayed by the display panel to improve the display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihua Zheng, Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10852887
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing electromagnetic interference of a display device. The display device may have a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes. Further, the display device includes a processing system that is configured to drive a first gate electrode of a plurality of gate electrodes of the display device with a first gate select signal to select first subpixels for updating during a first period. The processing system further comprises driving a first common electrode proximate the first gate electrode with a reference signal during the first period. Further, the processing system is configured to drive a second common electrode with a first interference reduction signal during the first period to reduce the electromagnetic interference of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Tetsuo Tanemura, Takayuki Noto