Patents Examined by Aaron Midkiff
  • Patent number: 8816942
    Abstract: A luminous display includes pixels arranged in rows and columns. Control signals that are used for controlling first switches for measuring parameters of pixel cells in a first row are also used to control second switches for programming pixel cells in a second row. In this way it is possible to use a single control signal for selecting one pixel cell for programming and simultaneously selecting another pixel cell for measuring. Programming and measuring are thus performed in a time staggered manner, while the addressing is moved to the respective next row. The programming is preferably voltage programming. In one embodiment the current through the pixel cell that is currently programmed is interrupted. In another embodiment the measuring is performed only after the transient current into signal holding means coupled to current control means has set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Thomas Schwanenberger, Heinrich Schemmann, Thilo Marx
  • Patent number: 8786540
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for controlling a segmented LED backlight in particular, comprises a generator (50) with a first input (10) to be supplied with a synchronizing signal (SYNC) that comprises image frequency information and/or line frequency information of a display unit, a second input (20) to be supplied with a data signal (DATA) that comprises image information of the display unit, and with an output (30) for providing a modulated signal (MOD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventor: Manfred Pauritsch
  • Patent number: 8766898
    Abstract: A multi-channel circuit includes a first-channel circuit configured to receive a digital input and a second-channel output voltage, and to generate a first-channel output voltage as a function of the received digital input and second-channel output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Iliana Fujimori Chen, David Hall Whitney
  • Patent number: 8749475
    Abstract: A pixel array including a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines disposed crossing the scan lines to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions; at least a controlling structure, disposed in one of the sub-pixel regions and electrically connected to one of the scan lines and data lines; a plurality of sensing signal lines disposed parallel with the data lines and crossing the scan lines to define a plurality of regions having at least one first sub-region and second sub-region; at least one sensing-signal readout device disposed in the first sub-region and electrically connected with one of the scan lines and sensing signal lines; and at least one first sensing pad disposed in the second sub-region and electrically connected to the sensing-signal readout device in the second sub-region. The numbers of the sensing-signal readout devices electrically connected to the respective scan lines are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Szu-Chieh Chen, Ming-Tien Lin, Pin-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 8648889
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, in an even-numbered signal line group, the arrangement sequence of the first and second signal lines is reversed between in a display area and in a non-display area, and the same goes for the arrangement sequence of the third and fourth signal lines. The ends of the first to sixteenth signal lines in the non-display area are connected to the first to sixteenth individual drivers, respectively. An odd-numbered individual driver and an even-numbered individual driver each output a corresponding one of drive signals of opposite polarity. Thus, the polarities of subpixels of the same color arranged in a first direction D1 (horizontal direction) differ between the subpixels connected to the odd-numbered signal line group and the subpixels connected to the even-numbered signal line group. That is, all of the subpixels having the same color arranged in the horizontal direction do not have the same polarity. This helps reduce a horizontal shadow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Hideki Morii, Takayuki Mizunaga
  • Patent number: 8519967
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a color filter touch sensing substrate is provided. Firstly, a first film is formed on a substrate. The first film includes a plurality of first and second touch sensors and a plurality of first bridge lines for electrically connecting the first touch sensors in the same column. Then, a second film is formed on the substrate. The second film includes a plurality of second bridge lines for electrically connecting the second touch sensors in the same row. Next, a light shielding pattern layer is formed between the first and the second films. The light shielding pattern layer is used to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions on the substrate. Afterward, a plurality of color filter pattern layers is formed in the sub-pixel regions. Furthermore, a color filter touch sensing substrate, a display panel and manufacturing methods thereof are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Feng Chien, Tun-Chun Yang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Wei-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8436803
    Abstract: An image display device adjusts display luminance in accordance with a surrounding illuminance. Since the display luminance considered to be appropriate differs depending on a user, the image display device includes a display unit operating according to a display luminance calculated based on the surrounding illuminance. For example, in the image display device, a user can set a range of the display luminance as a predetermined rule. The image display device provides a user interface enabling a user to easily input the predetermined rule or perform the setting input without being aware of it. That is, when the surrounding illuminance is above a predetermined illuminance, an input bar indicates only the range where the maximum value can be set as an input screen and when the surrounding illuminance is below the predetermined illuminance, the input bar indicates only the range where the minimum value can be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takamasa Inoue
  • Patent number: 8368644
    Abstract: An operation feeling giving input device includes an operation member that is displaced to an arbitrary operational position according to the operation of an operator, actuators that change the operational position of the operation member separately from the operation of the operator by applying an operational force to the operation member, operational position detecting means that detects the operational position of the operation member, storage means that stores information about display areas of buttons displayed on a predetermined display screen, and control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ikuyasu Miyako
  • Patent number: 8368621
    Abstract: An image display device includes a plurality of pixels, and feeders that commonly supply power to the plurality of pixels. In this image display device, each of the pixels has a light-emitting portion that emits light by a current supplied to the light-emitting portion, a driver that controls light emission of the light-emitting portion, and a switching portion electrically connected to the driver. The parasitic capacitance of the switching portion is determined with respect to each one pixel or one group of pixels according to the voltage drop of said feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 8362998
    Abstract: While an output signal of a flip-flop is inactive in a shift register, NAND circuits of clock pulse extracting sections prevent the performing of conduction switching operation in accordance with periodic level change of clock signals between a logical derivation path for High output and a logical derivation path for Low output, by input of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinsaku Shimizu, Yuhichiroh Murakami
  • Patent number: 8310478
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes first and second transistors NTr1 and PTr1 push-pull connected between first and second power supply lines and outputting a voltage of one of the first and second power supply lines to a connection node ND by a charge-pump operation, and a pad PD electrically connected with the connection node ND and electrically connected with a flying capacitor, to which a given voltage is applied at one end, at the other end of the flying capacitor. The pad PD is disposed in an upper layer of at least one of the first and second transistors NTr1 and PTr1 so that the pad PD overlaps part or the entirety of at least one of the first and second transistors NTr1 and PTr1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kumagai, Hisanobu Ishiyama, Kazuhiro Maekawa, Satoru Ito, Takashi Fujise, Junichi Karasawa, Satoru Kodaira, Takayuki Saiki, Hiroyuki Takamiya
  • Patent number: 8305337
    Abstract: In method of individually driving a plurality of light-emitting blocks of a light source module providing light to a display panel including a unit pixel, luminance of a first light-emitting block corresponding to a first image block that includes an out of gamut (OOG) data among a plurality of image blocks corresponding to the light-emitting blocks is boosted. A second light-emitting block corresponding to a second image block that does not include the OOG data is driven so that the second light-emitting block has luminance corresponding to a representative gray-scale of the second image block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Sung Bae, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 8264424
    Abstract: Luminance of a plasma display is enhanced while suppressing deterioration in resolution. In a plasma display module comprising panel sections (12, 18) and a circuit section (27) and performing display by receiving an interlace signal, two horizontal lines adjacent vertically in each of odd field and even field form a set, two vertically adjacent cells belonging to a set of two horizontal lines display one pixel, each field consists of a plurality of subframes, and two cells in the set are lighted or unlighted simultaneously in a certain subframe at least for some display load rate wherein the ratio of emission intensity is different from 1 when the two cells are lighted simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masaji Ishigaki, Masayuki Shibata, Tomokatsu Kishi
  • Patent number: 8207933
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a substrate and has a plurality of light emitting areas. In each light emitting area, at least one light emitting diode and a bypass current path are connected in parallel between a connection node and a switching unit. The switching unit is configured to connect a selected one of the light emitting diode and the bypass unit to the connection node of the next light emitting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Sik Shin, Gi-Cherl Kim, Sang-Il Park, Yong-Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8174477
    Abstract: A gate driver and a repairing method are disclosed, wherein the gate driver is provided with one or more plurality of auxiliary stages that can substitute for a disabled stage, the gate driver including a shift register provided with a plurality of first output lines; at least three output repairing lines arranged across the first output lines; at least two clock transmission lines to transmit at least two clock pulses of different phases; at least one clock repairing line arranged across the clock transmission lines; and at least one auxiliary stage connected to the output repairing lines and to the at least one clock repairing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Binn Kim, Kwon Shik Park, Soo Young Yoon, Min Doo Chun
  • Patent number: 8154483
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display wherein luminance change due to change of the light-emitting device over time is compensated while suppressing affects of characteristics change in the drive transistor. Specifically disclosed is an image display comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel has a light-emitting device (OLED) which emits light when current is passed therethrough, a driver device (Td) for controlling light emission of the light-emitting device, and a control circuit (A) which is electrically connected to the light-emitting device and the driver device, and directly or indirectly detects the voltage applied to the light-emitting device at least during when the light-emitting device is emitting light and reflects the detection results to the driver device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Takasugi, Osamu Tokuhiro, Kaoru Kusafuka, Yutaka Kuba
  • Patent number: 7995023
    Abstract: A flat panel display and method for driving the same. The flat panel display includes a conductive substrate forming an image display unit having at least one thin film transistor and a pad unit including a plurality of terminals, wherein the conductive substrate is laminated with a plurality of insulating layers to form the image display unit and the pad unit; a substrate-exposing part for exposing the conductive substrate is formed by removing at least one area of the insulating layers formed on the pad unit; a system control panel for supplying a reverse bias voltage through the substrate-exposing part, wherein the system control panel is electrically connected with the pad unit; and a metal member for transferring the reverse bias voltage to the conductive substrate, wherein the metal member is formed between the substrate-exposing part and the system control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Kyeong Jeong, Jae Bon Koo, Hyun Soo Shin, Se Yeoul Kwon, Yeon Gon Mo, Keum Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 7928932
    Abstract: A display element drive circuit includes a first circuit which holds as a voltage component electric charges based on a gradation signal corresponding to display data, a second circuit which supplies the gradation signal to the electric charge holding circuit at a timing of application of a selection signal, current control type display elements, and a third circuit which generates a driving current based on the voltage component held in the first circuit and supplies the generated driving current to the display element. One of the second and third circuits includes at least one field effect transistor. The field effect transistor includes gate, source and drain electrodes, and a source-side parasitic capacitance formed between the gate and source electrodes and a drain-side parasitic capacitance formed between the gate and drain electrodes of the field effect transistor have different capacitance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuhiro Yamaguchi, Manabu Takei
  • Patent number: 7903068
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a plurality of pixel units defined by scanning lines and data lines. Each pixel unit includes two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a storage capacitor. The two storage capacitors in a pixel unit are connected to different voltage sources to modify the electric potential of the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chen, Po-Sheng Shih
  • Patent number: 7898501
    Abstract: A mobile terminal having a flat panel display device includes: a body unit having an input device; a display unit connected to the body unit; an extended display unit connected to the display unit using a hinge such that the display unit and the extended display unit are folded/unfolded; a first flat panel display device formed in the display unit; and a second flat panel display device in the extended display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myong-Gi Jang, Nam-Yong Kong, Seong-Man Jeon, Soon-Shin Jung, Eun-Ju Kim