Patents Assigned to Ignis Innovation Inc.
  • Patent number: 11935478
    Abstract: The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Jaimal Soni, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji, Nino Zahirovic, Joseph Marcel Dionne
  • Patent number: 11917309
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods for optical correction for correcting for non-uniformity in active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays, using iterative processing of images of calibration patterns including features of coarse and fine granularity to successively generate a high-resolution estimate of the panel pixel locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Vyacheslav Shyshkin
  • Patent number: 11908400
    Abstract: A system including a display module and a system module. The display module is integrated in a portable device with a display communicatively coupled to one or more of a driver unit, a measurement unit, a timing controller, a compensation sub-module, and a display memory unit. The system module is communicatively coupled to the display module and has one or more interface modules, one or more processing units, and one or more system memory units. At least one of the processing units and the system memory units is programmable to calculate new compensation parameters for the display module during an offline operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11875744
    Abstract: Methods of compensating for common unwanted signals present in pixel data measurements of a pixel circuit in a display having a plurality of pixel circuits each including a storage device, a drive transistor, and a light emitting device. First pixel data is measured from a first pixel circuit through a monitor line. Second pixel data from the first pixel circuit or a second pixel circuit is measured through the monitor line or another monitor line. The first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data or both are used to clean the other of the first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data of common unwanted signals to produce cleaned data for parameter extraction from the first pixel and/or second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11847976
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the current of a pixel circuit and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The pixel circuit is connected to a source driver by a data line. The voltage (or current) supplied to the pixel circuit by the source driver. The current of the pixel and the OLED can be measured by a readout circuit. A value of a voltage from the measured current can be extracted and provided to a processor for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Jafar Talebzadeh, Ray Leerentveld
  • Patent number: 11792387
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of optical correction for pixel evaluation and correction for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Optical correction for correcting for non-homogeneity of a display panel uses sparse display test patterns in conjunction with a defocused camera as the measurement device to avoid aliasing (moiré) of the pixels of the display in the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Shyshkin, Adam Saechao
  • Patent number: 11790868
    Abstract: Circuits for programming a circuit with decreased programming time are provided. Such circuits include a storage device such as a capacitor for storing display information and for ensuring a driving device such as a driving transistor drives a light emitting device according to the display information. The present disclosure provides driving schemes for decreasing flickering perceived while displaying video content by introducing idle phases in between in emission phases to increase the effective refresh rate of a display. Driving schemes are also disclosed for reducing the effects of cross-talk by ensuring that programming information is refreshed in a display array that utilizes a driver connected to multiple data lines via a multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Jackson Chi Sun Lai, Yaser Azizi, Maran Ran Ma
  • Patent number: 11783773
    Abstract: A method and system determine the characteristics of drive devices and load devices in selected pixels in an array of pixels in a display in which each pixel includes a drive device for supplying current to a load device. The method and system supply current to the load device via the drive device in a selected pixel, the current being a function of a current effective characteristic of at least one of the drive device and the load device; measure the current via a measurement line that is shared by adjacent pixels, and extract the value of a selected effective characteristic of one of the drive and load devices from the effect of the current on another of the drive and load devices. Current may be measured via a read transistor in each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Yaser Azizi, Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11756463
    Abstract: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays, novel pixel circuits therefor, and methods of programming the pixel circuit and measuring the current of the pixel circuit and OLED thereof are disclosed. One pixel circuit includes four TFT transistors, a storage capacitor and an OLED device and is programmed with use of voltage supplied through a data line. One method measures currents of the OLED and the pixel circuit through the data line by a readout circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11749143
    Abstract: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays, novel pixel circuits therefor, and methods of programming the pixel circuit and measuring the current of the pixel circuit and OLED thereof are disclosed. One pixel circuit includes four TFT transistors, a storage capacitor and an OLED device and is programmed with use of voltage supplied through a data line. One method measures currents of the OLED and the pixel circuit through the data line by a readout circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11694615
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods for compensating for display OLED degradation. Correction factors k for OLED degradation of each sub-pixel is modelled and tracked based on grey level, temperature, and time, and used to correct image data provided to an OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Shuenn-Jiun Tang, Junhu He, Tong Liu, Gabriel Franklin Yano de Sousa
  • Patent number: 11665934
    Abstract: A pixel having an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and method for fabricating the pixel is provided. A planarization dielectric layer is provided between a thin-film transistor (TFT) based backplane and OLED layers. A through via between the TFT backplane and the OLED layers forms a sidewall angle of less than 90 degrees to the TFT backplane. The via area and edges of an OLED bottom electrode pattern may be covered with a dielectric cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Striakhilev, Arokia Nathan, Yuri Vygranenko, Sheng Tao
  • Patent number: 11663975
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) and other active matrix displays is disclosed. The pixel circuit is programmed by the voltage supplied through a data line. An electrical current through a light emitting device for a known LED voltage and a pixel current for a pixel programed with a known data signal can be measured by a readout circuit through the data line. A 7T1C implementation enables to pre-charge the drive transistor to a reference voltage in each drive cycle, and to pre-set the light emitting device to a reference voltage prior to emission in each cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Hongxin Liu, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11637973
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods for optical correction for correcting for non-uniformity in active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays, using iterative processing of images of calibration patterns including features of coarse and fine granularity to successively generate a high-resolution estimate of the panel pixel locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventor: Vyacheslav Shyshkin
  • Patent number: 11631371
    Abstract: The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Jaimal Soni, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji, Nino Zahirovic, Joseph Marcel Dionne
  • Patent number: 11580913
    Abstract: A voltage-programmed display system allows measurement of effects on pixels in a panel that includes both active pixels and reference pixels coupled to a supply line and a programming line. The reference pixels are controlled so that they are not subject to substantial changes due to aging and operating conditions over time. A readout circuit is coupled to the active pixels and the reference pixels for reading at least one of current, voltage or charge from the pixels when they are supplied with known input signals. The readout circuit is subject to changes due to aging and operating conditions over time, but the readout values from the reference pixels are used to adjust the readout values from the active pixels to compensate for the unwanted effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Joseph Marcel Dionne, Yaser Azizi, Javid Jaffari, Abbas Hormati, Tong Liu, Stefan Alexander
  • Patent number: 11545084
    Abstract: A system including a display module and a system module. The display module is integrated in a portable device with a display communicatively coupled to one or more of a driver unit, a measurement unit, a timing controller, a compensation sub-module, and a display memory unit. The system module is communicatively coupled to the display module and has one or more interface modules, one or more processing units, and one or more system memory units. At least one of the processing units and the system memory units is programmable to calculate new compensation parameters for the display module during an offline operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11501705
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. The electrical output of a pixel is compared with a reference value to adjust an input for the pixel. In some embodiments an integrator is used to integrate a pixel current and a reference current using controlled integration times to generate values for comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11488541
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the current of a pixel circuit and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The pixel circuit is connected to a source driver by a data line. The voltage (or current) supplied to the pixel circuit by the source driver. The current of the pixel and the OLED can be measured by a readout circuit. A value of a voltage from the measured current can be extracted and provided to a processor for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Jafar Talebzadeh, Ray Leerentveld
  • Patent number: RE49389
    Abstract: A display system includes a driver for operating a panel having a plurality of pixels arranged by a plurality of first lines and at least one second line The driver includes a driver output unit for providing to the panel a single driver output for activating the plurality of first lines, the single driver output being demultiplexed on the panel to activate each first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Kongning Li, Vasudha Gupta, Arokia Nathan