Patents Assigned to Global OLED Technologies LLC
  • Patent number: 8149190
    Abstract: An OLED display having a correction circuit for producing corrected image data in response to the first image data and in response to correction data to correct for brightness unevenness due to TFT variations; a memory for storing first image data or correction data; a switch effective in first and second states in response to a function switching signal having first and second conditions, respectively; and circuitry for causing the switch to be in the first state to connect the memory to the image input signal interface and to provide the stored first image data to the panel as the second image data; and for causing the switch to be in the second state to connect the memory to the correction circuit, provide the stored correction data to the correction circuit, and provide the corrected image data to the panel as the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Seiichi Mizukoshi, Makoto Kohno, Kouichi Onomura
  • Patent number: 8147989
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device including an anode, a cathode and a green light-emitting layer located therebetween, said light-emitting layer including an anthracene host, a bis-diarylamine 9,10-substituted anthracene and a stabilizer compound which is selected from a quinacridone or a biphenylstyrylamine. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as stability and efficiency while maintaining excellent color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Marina E. Kondakova, Kevin P. Klubek, Margaret J. Helber, Peter G. Bessey, J. Ramon Vargas, Michele L. Ricks
  • Patent number: 8144084
    Abstract: An electro-luminescent display includes a first array of light-emitting elements. Each of these light-emitting elements has an optical element. A second array of light-emitting elements also includes a second optical element different from the first. One or more row lines are electrically connected to either light-emitting elements in the first array of light-emitting elements or light-emitting elements in the second array of light-emitting elements. One or more column lines provide a data signal to the first and second array of light-emitting elements. A driver circuit delivers common information to the light-emitting elements in both the first and second arrays in response to a select signal for activating light-emitting elements in the first or second arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Miller, Joseph R. Bietry, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 8136961
    Abstract: An electro-luminescent area illumination device that includes two or more area emitters formed on a substrate. Each of the two or more area emitters emit light having different area illumination profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Miller, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 8129039
    Abstract: An OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having there between a red light emitting layer containing a non-light-emitting fluoranthene compound with a 7,10-diaryl substituted fluoranthene nucleus having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus, and a red light-emitting phosphorescent dopant. OLED devices of the invention provide reduced drive voltage and improved color, and provide embodiments with other improved features such as operational stability and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 8130182
    Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) subpixel driven by a digital-drive scheme has a readout transistor driven by a current source when the drive transistor is non-conducting. This produces an emitter-voltage signal from which an aging signal representing the efficiency of the EL emitter can be computed. The aging signal is used to determine the loss in current of the subpixel when active, and an input signal is adjusted to provide increased on-time to compensate for voltage rise and efficiency loss of the EL emitter. Variations due to temperature can also be compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Charles I. Levey, Felipe A. Leon, John W. Hamer, Gary Parrett, Christopher J. White
  • Patent number: 8125416
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes an organic EL element includes a storage capacitor charged with a data voltage; a first driving transistor responsive to charged voltage of the storage capacitor to supply drive current to the organic EL element; and a second driving transistor connected the storage capacitor and a predetermined power supply responsive to potential corresponding to a voltage drop in the organic EL element, and supplies charge current to the storage capacitor, circuitry for causing the second driving transistor to supply charge current to the storage capacitor from a time when the storage capacitor is charged with data voltage and the drive current from first driving transistor flows through the organic EL element. When drive current from the first driving transistor is stopped by changes in the charged voltage of storage capacitor, the drive current supplied to the organic EL element for a period corresponding to the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 8125472
    Abstract: A display device responsive to a controller, including a substrate having a display area; a two-dimensional array of pixels formed on the substrate in the display area, each pixel comprising an optical element and a driving circuit for controlling the optical element in response to selected pixel information; a two-dimensional array of selection circuits located in the display area, each associated with one or more pixels, for selecting pixel information provided by the controller, wherein each selection circuit receives the provided pixel information, selects pixel information corresponding to its associated pixel(s) in response to the provided pixel information, and provides the selected pixel information to the corresponding driving circuit(s); and a parallel signal conductor electrically connecting the selection circuits in common for transmitting pixel information provided by the controller to each of the selection circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Christopher J. White
  • Patent number: 8125418
    Abstract: A passive-matrix display device having a plurality of chiplets, each chiplet associated with one or more independent column electrodes located in the display area, each chiplet electrically connected to and driving a separate subset of the independent column electrodes and electrically connected to and driving a subset of the row electrodes to cause the light-emitting material in each pixel to emit light, wherein each chiplet includes a serial luminance shift register for shifting pixel luminance values corresponding to each independent column electrode from one chiplet to another and a column driver for driving each of the independent column electrodes to which it is connected with the corresponding pixel luminance values; and wherein each chiplet further includes a row driver for driving each corresponding row electrode to which it is connected and a row control shift register for controlling the row drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 8120555
    Abstract: An active-matrix circuit for controlling an LED display pixel that includes a control circuit responsive to control signals for storing a luminance value in a storage circuit during a frame period. A drive circuit responds to the storage circuit for controlling current through an LED to emit light at a luminance level determined by the luminance value. A luminance-value reduction circuit, connected to the storage circuit, provides a controlled reduction of the luminance value stored in the storage circuit during the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 8115383
    Abstract: An electroluminescent lam including a lamp substrate; a first electrode formed over the lamp substrate device side, one or more layers having light-emitting material formed over the first electrode, and a second electrode formed over the one or more layers, a chiplet having a chiplet substrate separate and independent from the lamp substrate and adhered to the lamp substrate device side, one or more connection pads, a mechanical switch, and a control circuit for controlling the mechanical switch, the mechanical switch electrically connected to one or more connection pads and at least one connection pad electrically connected to the first or second electrode with one or more electrical connection(s); and an insulating and planarization layer formed over at least a portion of the chiplet and the electrical connections so that the chiplet is an embedded chiplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael E. Miller
  • Patent number: 8115380
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; one or more pixels arranged on the substrate, each pixel including a control electrode; a wiring layer located over the substrate, the wiring layer having a continuous line and a discontinuous pass-thru line formed therein. The active-matrix device includes at least one chiplet located over the substrate and including first, second, third, and control connection pads including; a control line electrically connecting the control connection pad to the control electrode; a first end of the discontinuous pass-thru line connected to the first connection pad and a second end of the discontinuous pass-thru line connected to the second connection pad; circuitry electrically connecting the first and second connection pads; and the continuous line electrically connected to the third connection pad, wherein the continuous line extends to opposite sides of the chiplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer, Dustin L. Winters
  • Patent number: 8115705
    Abstract: An active matrix type display device includes array having pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns matrix form, each pixel circuit includes a current-driven diode type light-emitting element and a plurality of thin-film transistor for controlling the diode type light-emitting element; a data line provided for each column of the matrix for supplying a data signal to the pixel circuits on the corresponding column; data driver for controlling the supply of the data signal to the data line; a gate line provided for each row of the matrix for supplying a selection signal to pixel circuits on the corresponding row; a gate driver for supplying a selection signal to the gate line; and a control circuit for controlling the data driver and gate driver, wherein the data driver switches a plurality of sets of video signals alternately and supplies the video signals to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 8102114
    Abstract: A method of making an inverted bottom-emitting OLED device, comprising: providing a substrate; providing one or more first electrodes driven by n-type transistors on the substrate; providing an electron-transporting layer over the substrate and first electrode(s), wherein the electron-transporting layer comprises an n-type inorganic semiconductive material with a resistivity in the range of 1 to 105 ohm-cm and a bandgap greater than 2.5 eV; providing an organic light-emitting layer over the electron-transporting layer; providing a hole-transporting layer over the organic emitting layer; and providing a second electrode over the hole-transporting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Lee W. Tutt, Therese M. Feller, Peter J. Cowdery-Corvan
  • Patent number: 8101235
    Abstract: Apparatus for vaporizing a particulate material, comprising a metering apparatus including: a reservoir; a housing having an internal volume and first and second openings for respectively receiving and discharging the particulate material; a rotatable shaft disposed in the internal volume, the shaft having a smooth surface and a circumferential groove for receiving particulate material from the reservoir and for discharging the particulate material; the rotatable shaft and the internal volume cooperating such that the particulate material is transported by the circumferential groove and not along the remainder of the rotatable shaft; a scraper disposed in relation to the second opening, having at its end substantially the same cross section as the groove in the rotating shaft, the scraper cooperating with the groove to dislodge particulate material retained therein, and in response to the shaft rotating, delivers metered amounts of particulate material through the second opening; to the flash evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Long, Thomas W. Palone, Bruce E. Koppe, Michael L. Boroson
  • Patent number: 8094933
    Abstract: A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising a method for converting a red, green, and blue (RGB) input signal to a converted signal having RGB color signals and an additional saturated color signal, by calculating saturation of the additional saturated color in the RGB input signal to determine the proportion of the additional saturated color signal to the sum of the converted RGB color signals such that the proportion of the additional saturated color signal is constant or decreases as the saturation of the additional color in the RGB input signal increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael E. Miller
  • Patent number: 8088500
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device including a cathode, an anode, and having there between a light-emitting layer, further including, between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a first layer containing a fluoranthene compound including one and only one fluoranthene nucleus and having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus, the fluoranthene nucleus having independently selected aromatic groups in the 7,10-positions and an azine group in the 8- or 9-position, provided that the azine group is not a phenanthroline group. The OLED device desirably includes a second layer containing an alkali metal or alkali metal compound, located between the cathode and the first layer. The OLED device can also include a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound in the first layer or in a third layer located between the first layer and the light-emitting layer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as efficiency and drive voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Natasha Andrievsky, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 8081177
    Abstract: A display device having a display substrate defining an optical waveguide for transporting light carrying pixel information; a chiplet disposed over the display substrate, having a chiplet substrate separate from the display substrate, a photosensor responsive to light from the optical waveguide at the selected control wavelength for providing the pixel information, a selection circuit responsive to the pixel information for providing a control signal, and a drive circuit responsive to the control signal, wherein the chiplet is adapted to receive the transported light; an optical transmitter for transmitting the pixel information from the controller as light at the selected control wavelength into the optical waveguide, and a display optical element located in or over the display area responsive to the drive circuit for providing light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. White, John W. Hamer
  • Patent number: 8076009
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having there between a light-emitting layer, further comprising, between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a non-luminescent electron transporting layer containing a compound with a 7,10-diaryl substituted fluoranthene nucleus having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus and desirably comprises still further an additional layer containing an organic alkali metal compound, located between the cathode and the electron transporting layer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as efficiency, drive voltage, and operational stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Liang-Sheng Liao, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Patent number: 8072400
    Abstract: During image display, pixel current measurement for brightness irregularity correction is carried out. Display is carried out by sequentially writing pixel data in a horizontal direction to pixel sections that are arranged in a matrix shape. Horizontal power supply lines PVDD are arranged for each horizontal line, and power is supplied from these power supply lines to corresponding pixel sections. When carrying out measurement of pixel current by lighting pixel sections one at a time, a horizontal power supply line PVDD of a horizontal line to which the lit pixel belongs is connected to a power supply PVDDb by a switch, and other horizontal power supply lines PVDD are connected to PVDDa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Global Oled Technology LLC
    Inventors: Seiichi Mizukoshi, Makoto Kohno, Kouichi Onomura, Kazuyoshi Kawabe