Patents Examined by Adam J Snyder
  • Patent number: 10013133
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a method for driving the touch display panel. The touch display panel including: a substrate; first scan lines and data lines; sub-pixels arranged in an array; touch sensing electrodes disposed in an array, each of which corresponds to the sub-pixels; first control switches, wherein each of the touch sensing electrodes is connected to at least one of the data lines via one of the first control switches. When in a touch state, the first control switch is turned on, so that the at least one of the data lines is configured to provide a touch signal to the touch sensing electrode corresponding to the data lines; and when in a display state, the first control switch is turned off, so that each of the data lines is configured to provide a display signal to the sub-pixel corresponding to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 10008177
    Abstract: Provided is a display device, including: a timing controller including: a frequency adjusting unit configured to adjust a frequency of externally input image data, which is input from an outside; a bit rate determining unit configured to determine a bit rate necessary to transmit the externally input image data; a plurality of output buffer units different from one another in drive performance; and a buffer switching unit configured to make a switch from one of the plurality of output buffer units to another, in which the frequency adjusting unit is configured to adjust the frequency of the externally input image data based on the determined bit rate, and the buffer switching unit is configured to make a switch from one of the plurality of output buffer units to another based on the determined bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Iwami
  • Patent number: 10002563
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first storage capacitor that has a first electrode and a second electrode, and a second storage capacitor that has a third electrode and a fourth electrode, and a first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit includes a first transistor having a first gate, a first drain, and a first source, an electro-optical element, a second transistor through which a first data line is electrically connected to the first gate during the second transistor is in an on-state, and a third transistor through which the first gate is electrically connected to the first drain or the first source. The second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to the first data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ota, Hideto Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9998731
    Abstract: A 3-dimensional displaying apparatus includes an image displaying panel having a plurality of pixels and a backlight panel spaced apart from one surface of the image displaying panel. The backlight panel includes a first line source set having a plurality of line sources arranged at regular intervals and a second line source set having line sources arranged spaced apart from the respective line sources of the first line source set by a predetermined interval. The first line source set and the second line source set are driven alternately. Thus, in a case where a horizontal location of an observer varies, the change of brightness of image information and the crosstalk between adjacent visual fields are minimized, and pseudo-stereoscopic vision is prevented. Also, the irregularity of brightness distribution in a visual field may be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Kyu Kim, Ki Hyuk Yoon
  • Patent number: 9990053
    Abstract: A keyboard and a method of controlling the same are provided. The keyboard includes a base, a plurality of keys, a plurality of key chips and a controller. The base has a plurality of connecting portions. Each key is detachably connected to one of the connecting portions. Each key chip is correspondingly disposed on one of the keys and has a corresponding key code. The controller is disposed on the base. The controller outputs an inquiring code to each key chip, and each key chip determines whether the key code thereof corresponds to the inquiring code. The key chip which has the corresponded key code feedbacks a press state of the corresponding key to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventor: Yao-Jen Chang
  • Patent number: 9978314
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a curved side or a polygonal side, the display panel including a plurality of pixels in a display region, a gate driver including a plurality of normal stages connected to each other for outputting gate signals to the pixels via a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of dummy stages between some of the normal stages, and a data driver providing data signals to the pixels via a plurality of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Bae Bae, So-Young Lee, Won-Se Lee
  • Patent number: 9978335
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, first color pixels, and second color pixels. A first color pixel arranged in an f-th column between an f-th data line and an (f+1)th data line is connected to one of the f-th data line and the (f+1)th data line. A first color pixel arranged in a g-th column between a g-th data line and a (g+1)th data line is connected to one of a (g?1)th data line and a (g+2)th data line. First color pixels in a first color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity. Second color pixels in a second color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jai-hyun Koh, Jin-kyu Park, Seokyun Son, Kuk-hwan Ahn, Joon-chul Goh, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 9959833
    Abstract: A driver and an electronic device include a capacitor driving circuit and a capacitor circuit having a plurality of capacitors provided between a plurality of capacitor driving nodes and a data voltage output terminal. The capacitor driving circuit has a plurality of driving units that output capacitor driving voltages, and in the case where a capacitance of one of the plurality of capacitors is the highest, after a driving unit that drives that capacitor has outputted a capacitor driving voltage, the next driving unit outputs the next capacitor driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 9953561
    Abstract: There are provided an array substrate and a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. Multiple gate lines are arranged on the array substrate, two ends of the gate lines are connected to a first gate driving circuit and a second gate driving circuit respectively, each of the gate lines is divided into a first gate line portion connected to the first gate driving circuit and a second gate line portion connected to the second gate driving circuit, and a switch element is arranged between the first gate line portion and the second gate line portion. Simultaneous turning-on of display TFTs controlled by one gate line is avoided, and the pulling to the voltage of a common electrode is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Hengzhen Liang
  • Patent number: 9946405
    Abstract: A program includes first to fourth steps. The first step includes a step of fetching a first sensor image at the time when a light unit is lighting and a second sensor image at the time when the light unit is not lighting. The second step includes a step of calculating a third image by calibrating the first sensor image using a first calibration image; and a step of calculating a fourth image by calibrating the second sensor image using a second calibration image. The third step includes a step of calculating fifth to seventh images using the third image and the fourth image; and a step of calculating an eighth image by obtaining a weighted average of the fifth to the seventh images in accordance with an illumination and a display image. The fourth step includes a step of calculating touch data using the eighth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip Irri, Julian Lindblad
  • Patent number: 9946369
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display for displaying data stored on the electronic device; input means; sensing means for sensing the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to the device; and control means for controlling the data displayed on the display in dependence on the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to the device. The input means includes a source of electromagnetic radiation for directing an infrared conical beam onto the display. The sensing means can sense the elliptical eccentricity of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the angle at which it strikes the display, and can sense the area of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the distance of the input means from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: POWER2B, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Lipman, Sarah Michelle Lipman
  • Patent number: 9941340
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. The display includes a scan line formed over a substrate and configured to carry a scan signal. First and second data lines are adjacent to each other and crossing the scan line. The first and second data lines are configured carry a data voltage. A driving voltage line crossing the scan line is configured to carry a driving voltage, and a switching transistor is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line and includes a switching drain electrode configured to output the data voltage. A driving transistor includes a driving gate electrode and a driving source electrode electrically connected to the switching drain electrode. An OLED is electrically connected to the driving drain electrode of the driving transistor, and a connector is connected to the driving gate electrode of the driving transistor and interposed between the first and second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Sae Lee, Mi Hae Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Won Mi Hwang
  • Patent number: 9934753
    Abstract: A display device includes a scan driver which supplies a gate-on voltage or a gate-off voltage to scan lines, and a power supply unit which supplies the gate-off voltage to the scan driver, and includes a temperature sensor which generates a sensing voltage of which voltage value is changed corresponding to a temperature of a panel or an ambient temperature, a first voltage limiter which limits a minimum voltage value of the sensing voltage, and a second voltage limiter which limits a maximum voltage value of the sensing voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Uk Nam, Jong Jae Lee, Su Jin Kim, Dae Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 9933847
    Abstract: A system and/or method that uses a body posture of a user to determine and modulate a content mode of a virtual reality system. The content mode may define the manner in which virtual reality content is presented to the user and/or the manner in which the user interacts with the virtual reality content. The user's body posture and/or a change in body posture may cause the content mode and/or the virtual reality content to change accordingly. In some implementations, primary content may be presented to the user according to a first content mode in response to the user sitting. Secondary virtual reality content may be presented to the user according to the second content mode in response to the user standing. As such, a user may initiate a change in the virtual reality content and/or the content mode by standing from a sitting posture and/or sitting from a standing posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Visionary VR, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Ross, Gil Baron, Cosmo Raleigh Scharf, Luke Russell Patterson, Jake Richard Parker, John Kanikula Peters
  • Patent number: 9927640
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a display method, relates to a field of display technology, and improves user's poor experiences in the existing anti-peeping display device. A display device includes: a display panel; a visual angle adjustment panel provided on an exit side of the display panel, the panel including at least one first region in strip shape and at least one second region in strip shape, the first region and the second region being alternately arranged relative to each other; and a control device connected to the panel, wherein the control device is configured to control the panel such that the first region and the second region are transmissive upon receipt of a first instruction and to control the panel such that the first region is opaque and the second region is transmissive upon receipt of a second instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinli Ma
  • Patent number: 9921705
    Abstract: A resistive film type touch panel includes a transparent insulating film, a plurality of upper electrodes, and a plurality of routing wires. The plurality of upper electrodes are formed on the lower surface of the transparent insulating film and are arranged in a direction, and includes a group of the electrodes electrically connected with each other. The electrical combinations of the detection electrodes adjacent with each other in the direction of a planned simultaneous detection number are different from one another. The plurality of routing wires extend from the plural upper electrodes, and are formed in a frame area outside of the plurality of upper electrodes on the lower surface. Thus, the number of the electrodes is increased in order to improve the resolution, while also miniaturizing the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Nissha Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9916812
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first timing controller, a second timing controller and a third timing controller. The first timing controller controls an operation of a first region in the display panel, and generates a reference clock signal. The second timing controller controls an operation of a second region in the display panel, and receives the reference clock signal. The third timing controller controls an operation of a third region in the display panel, and receives the reference clock signal. The first, second and third timing controllers are synchronized with one another in response to the reference clock signal and a state synchronization signal, and operate in one of a plurality of states depending on an operation of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwan-Young Oh, Sil-Yi Bang, Kyoung-Won Lee, Jae-Ho Choi, Sangsu Han, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9898952
    Abstract: A data compensation device includes a current calculator which calculates an average current of each of blocks included in a pixel array based on an input data, a data enable signal, a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical synchronization signal, a voltage drop info provider which provides a bus voltage drop information of predetermined bus points and an array voltage drop information of predetermined array points, the bus points being included in a power supply bus wiring which is connected to the pixel array, the array points being included in the pixel array, a data compensation circuit configured to provide a compensation data corresponding to the input data based on the average current, the bus voltage drop information and the array voltage drop information, and an adder configured to provide a compensation result data by adding the input data and the compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Fujii
  • Patent number: 9898102
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to pairing styluses to an interactive display. One example provides a stylus comprising a processor and memory holding instructions executable by the processor. The instructions are executable by the processor to, before sending a pairing request to a display, receive a broadcast packet indicating an occupancy of a set of stylus communication slots of the display, determine that at least one stylus communication slot is available based on the broadcast packet, and responsive to determining that the at least one stylus communication slot is available, selectively send the pairing request to occupy a stylus communication slot based on a pairing request history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Tianzhu Qiao
  • Patent number: 9881555
    Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED display device capable of sensing and correcting a progressive bright point defect and a method of driving the same. The OLED display device includes a data driver for supplying an off-driving voltage to a driving transistor for driving a light emitting element in each sub-pixel, and sensing a voltage corresponding to a leakage current of the driving transistor, and a bright point estimator for estimating a progressive bright point of a sub-pixel by comparing a voltage value sensed through the data driver with a reference value, and darkening and correcting the sub-pixel estimated to have the progressive bright point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Mo Park, Soo-Hong Choi, Yoon-Ju Lee, Kwang-Hun Jeon