Patents Assigned to Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10616630
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for querying information of a TV program broadcasted currently and a smart TV, to solve the problem that the descriptive information of a TV program broadcasted currently displayed by the smart TV doesn't match the actual video image broadcasted. The method comprises: obtaining a program information list corresponding to a channel identification from an EPG server according to the channel identification of a channel broadcasted currently, where the program information list includes correspondence between program identifications and program descriptive information; after obtaining a real time video stream from a program source server corresponding to the channel identification, parsing and obtaining a program identification in the real-time video stream; and obtaining program descriptive information corresponding to the program identification from the correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hu Song, Shanjuan Bao, Shiming Lu, Yanmei Yu
  • Patent number: 10602228
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for editing channels of a smart TV. The device includes a memory and at least one processor, wherein the memory stores therein computer readable instructions, wherein the instructions are executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to: receive an interface calling up instruction, and displaying a channel editing list and an operation prompt on a display screen of the smart TV; receive a channel selecting instruction, and determine a channel to be edited in the channel editing list according to the channel selecting instruction; and receive a channel edit instruction, and edit the channel to be edited according to the channel editing instruction, wherein the operation prompt is configured to remind a user that the channel editing instruction is triggered by using a left arrow key or right arrow key of a remote control, and the channel editing instruction is an instruction indicating deletion or a move of the channel to be edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuelei Wang
  • Patent number: 10482828
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and an apparatus for controlling backlight brightness, and a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuxin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190335132
    Abstract: This application provides a method for method for television (TV) remote keypress response based on Android operating system (OS) and a TV thereof, and includes: creating a first process when the Android OS is being initialized; executing the first process to obtain a key value of a remote key event; and performing a remote keypress operation according to the key value. The method creates and executes the first process during the initialization of the Android OS, thereby realizing responding to remote keypress during TV start-up, greatly enhancing user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicants: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Yu, Jingjian Wang, Hanyong Wu, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 10439108
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide an LED light emitting device for a display device, and a display device, relate to the field of display technologies. The LED light emitting device includes a quantum dot film, a reflective filter layer, and at least one LED lamp, wherein the quantum dot film is arranged between the at least one LED lamp and the reflective filter layer; the at least one LED lamp is configured to emit light to excite a quantum dot material encapsulated in the quantum dot film to generate white backlight; and the reflective filter layer is configured to reflect light in a preset band and to transmit light outside the preset band, wherein the light in the preset band is light in a part of a band of the light emitted by the at least one LED lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fulin Li, Zhicheng Song, Kun Shao
  • Patent number: 10423305
    Abstract: A method for controlling display device operation including a personal dashboard, the method including: detecting, by a display device, a command to present a personal dashboard based on one or more selections of a displayed control interface of the display device; presenting, by the display device, the personal dashboard corresponding to an active profile in response to the command, wherein the personal dashboard includes: a user image of the active profile, a background image of the active profile, and a content pane including a plurality of graphical elements associated with content titles, the content titles are selected based on the active profile; detecting, by the display device, an input command within the personal dashboard; and updating, by the display device, a presentation output of the display device based on the input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Alexander DePaz, Salvador Soto, Dean Britto
  • Patent number: 10416495
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight control method and a liquid crystal display device, where the backlight control method includes generating backlight data of a backlight partition corresponding to an image partition according to grayscale data of each of the image partition in an image to be displayed; generating a PWM backlight control signal for the each of the backlight partition according to a grayscale interval where the backlight data of the each of the backlight partition lies, where current amplitudes of PWM backlight control signals corresponding to backlight data in different grayscale intervals are different; and controlling a backlight source of the each of the backlight partition according to the PWM backlight control signal for the each of the backlight partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10410589
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for controlling a backlight source, a device for controlling a backlight source and a liquid crystal display, where the method includes: determining time intervals of received synchronous signals; determining an output delay compensation value of the synchronous signals, according to the time intervals and fixed response delay time for processing the synchronous signals; generating a compensated synchronous signal according to the output delay compensation value of the synchronous signals; transmitting the compensated synchronous signal to a PWM driver. The application allows a backlight source to perform optical display according to multipath control signals with relatively stable frequency, and reduces backlight blinking of the backlight source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10397511
    Abstract: This application provides a method for method for television (TV) remote keypress response based on Android operating system (OS) and a TV thereof, and includes: creating a first process when the Android OS is being initialized; executing the first process to obtain a key value of a remote keypress event; and performing a remote keypress operation according to the key value. The method creates and executes the first process during the initialization of the Android OS, thereby realizing responding to remote keypress during TV start-up, greatly enhancing user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Yu, Jingjian Wang, Hanyong Wu, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 10382808
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to digital television processes and systems. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a display device includes presenting, by a display device, display content. The display device can receive a touch command indication, wherein the indication is associated with a remote control touch command exceeding a first threshold. The display device can also present a touch layer representation including content elements which are gradually presented based on the duration of the touch command received, determine that the touch command has exceeded a second threshold, and update presentation of the touch layer to display one or more graphical elements in response to the touch command exceeding the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Alexander DePaz, Salvador Soto
  • Patent number: 10373546
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image display method and device. An image display method applicable a multi-domain display device includes: obtaining grayscales of respective pixels in one frame of input image; determining grayscales of the respective pixels in two adjacent frames of output image according to the grayscales of the respective pixels in the frame of input image, wherein the grayscale of any pixel in one of the two adjacent frames of output image is higher than the grayscale of the pixel in the input image, and the grayscale of the pixel in the other frame is lower than the grayscale of the pixel in the input image; and displaying the two adjacent frames of output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunming Huang
  • Patent number: 10373359
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for erasing a writing path on an infrared electronic white board, the method including: adding data points to a writing path to obtain a complete writing path in which the distance between any two adjacent data points is no more than an erasing distance corresponding to a selected erasing mode; determining an erasing area according to an input erasing path and the erasing mode; and erasing those data points on the complete writing path, which lie in the erasing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Wang, Chunhua Li, Zhenbao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10366671
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission of a VBO signal and a display terminal. The method is applied in the display terminal, where the display terminal includes a mainboard and a Tcon board which use a VBO interface for communications, and the method includes: after a system is powered on, performing multiple interactions between the Tcon board and the mainboard according to a VBO signal transmission protocol; after each of the interactions, acquiring, by the Tcon board, a timing control signal by parsing valid image data of a received VBO signal transmitted by the mainboard, and if the timing control signal acquired by parsing successively satisfies a preset condition in a preset number of handshakes, then stopping repeating the interaction, and only performing transmission of display image data in the VBO signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shili Zhang, Haoqiang Fang, Qinghua Tian
  • Patent number: 10362260
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to device control and multiple input event handling. In one embodiment, a process includes detecting a plurality of input commands for control of a display device, determining a multiple input event based on the plurality of input commands, and determining a multiple input control function for the display device based on the multiple input event. The multiple input control function is determined based on input type of the multiple input event and a function of the input type of the multiple input event. The process can also includes controlling operation of the display device based on the multiple input control function, wherein controlling includes modifying display device operation from a control function associated with the plurality of input commands to a multiple input event control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE USA CORP., HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongtao Duan, Xiuyuan Shang, Jianchun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10360868
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide an image processing method and apparatus, and a liquid crystal display device, and relate to the field of image processing, where backlight values in respective backlight zones are determined as a function of values of grayscale brightness in a displayed image, display values in sub-pixels in a display zone corresponding to a target backlight zone are compensated for according to the result of comparing the backlight value in the target backlight zone with the weighted average of the backlight values in the other backlight zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiyin Liu
  • Patent number: 10353137
    Abstract: A quantum dot (QD) light source component, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The QD light source component includes a bracket, a light source, and a QD unit, the bracket is formed with a groove; the light source is arranged at bottom center of the groove of the bracket for emitting light; the QD unit is arranged at opening of the groove of the bracket, and includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a QD layer; at least one of the upper substrate and lower substrate is provided with a substrate groove, the upper substrate and lower substrate form enclosure space through the substrate groove; the QD layer is located within the substrate groove, and emits light under excitation of light emitted from light source, where the QD layer is thicker at its central position than at its edge position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fulin Li, Lin Lu
  • Patent number: 10356479
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for editing channels of a smart TV. The device includes a memory and at least one processor, wherein the memory stores therein computer readable instructions, wherein the instructions are executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to: receive an interface calling up instruction, and displaying a channel editing list and an operation prompt on a display screen of the smart TV; receive a channel selecting instruction, and determine a channel to be edited in the channel editing list according to the channel selecting instruction; and receive a channel edit instruction, and edit the channel to be edited according to the channel editing instruction, wherein the operation prompt is configured to remind a user that the channel editing instruction is triggered by using a left arrow key or right arrow key of a remote control, and the channel editing instruction is an instruction indicating deletion or a move of the channel to be edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuelei Wang
  • Patent number: 10330980
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a quantum dot light emitting device, a backlight module, and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Coporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhicheng Song
  • Patent number: D854026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Alexander De Paz, Salvador Soto, Sergii Grysenko
  • Patent number: D888019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: Jamdeo Canada Ltd., Hisense USA Corp., Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bernard San Lap Lo