Patents Examined by Adam J Snyder
  • Patent number: 11475827
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a pixel array and a first driving circuit. The pixel array is disposed on a substrate and includes a plurality of sub-pixel rows. The first driving circuit is disposed on the substrate and located on one side of the pixel array. The first driving circuit includes a plurality of demultiplexer circuits and a plurality of switching circuits. The demultiplexer circuits include a first demultiplexer circuit. The switching circuits include a first switching circuit. The first switching circuit is coupled to the first demultiplexer circuit, and the first demultiplexer circuit is coupled to at least three of the plurality of sub-pixel rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Tsai, Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Syuan-Ruei Siao, Chien-Feng Shih, Sheng-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 11475813
    Abstract: A scan driver circuit including shift register units and gate control circuits is provided. The shift register units are in a peripheral area of a display panel, and for receiving first clock signals. The gate control circuits are in an active area of the display panel, and for receiving second clock signals. Each shift register unit is coupled with corresponding N of the gate control circuits, and for providing a corresponding one of the first clock signals as a control signal to the corresponding N of the gate control circuits. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are coupled with corresponding M of gate lines. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are for providing, according to the control signal, corresponding M of the second clock signals as M gate signals to the corresponding M of gate lines, in which M and N are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Che-Wei Tung, Wei-Li Lin, Yu-Zuo Lin, Chia-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 11467662
    Abstract: A brain computer interface system includes a wearable interface, an eye tracking device, and a client device for determining what object a user is looking at on an electronic display. The client device determines a region on the electronic display based on an estimated user gaze direction received from the eye tracking device. For each virtual object in the gaze region, the client device displays a visual stimulus with a unique frequency. The client device receives from the wearable interface an electrical potential signal measured at the user's brain and evoked by a visual stimulus on the electronic display. The client device identifies the object in the gaze region with a stimulus frequency matching a frequency derived from the potential signal, and executes instructions relating to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Te Wang, Mark Allan Chevillet
  • Patent number: 11468820
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes: an input sub-circuit configured to receive an input control signal and an input signal, and transmit the input signal to a first pull-down node of the shift register unit under control of the input control signal; a first control sub-circuit configured to receive a first clock signal and electrically couple the first pull-down node to a second pull-down node of the shift register unit under control of the first clock signal; and an output sub-circuit configured to receive a first constant voltage signal and transmit the first constant voltage signal to an output terminal of the shift register unit under control of a voltage at the second pull-down node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuwei Weng
  • Patent number: 11462141
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display area, a second display area, a first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer. The first display area includes a plurality of first data lines. The second display area is adjacent to the first display area and includes a plurality of second data lines. The first multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the first data lines. The second multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the second data lines. The first data line is electrically connected to a first number of sub-pixels. The second data line is electrically connected to a second number of sub-pixels. The first number is less than the second number. The size of the first multiplexer is smaller than that of the second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuo-Ting Hong, Hung-Kun Chen, Ting-Yao Chu, Yen-Lin Gau
  • Patent number: 11462148
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of sub-pixels, and a first and a second auxiliary lines. The plurality of sub-pixels are arranged into first rows arranged in a first direction and second rows arranged in a second direction. The first auxiliary line and the plurality of scan lines belong to a first conductive layer. The second auxiliary line and the plurality of data lines belong to a second conductive layer. The first auxiliary line is located between two scan lines. A first end of the first auxiliary line is connected to one of the two scan lines. A second end of the first auxiliary line is separated from the other one of the two scan lines. The second auxiliary line is electrically connected to the first auxiliary line at the second end through a conductive via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Tse Lee, Sheng-Yen Cheng, Ping-Wen Chen, Yueh-Hung Chung, Ya-Ling Hsu, Chen-Hsien Liao
  • Patent number: 11455936
    Abstract: A shift register and a drive method therefor, and a gate drive circuit. The shift register includes: an input sub-circuit, a detection control sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a first reset sub-circuit, and a pull-down sub-circuit. The detection control sub-circuit is respectively connected to a random detection signal end (OE), a signal input end (INPUT), a first clock signal end (CLKA), a first reset end (RST1), and a pull-up node (PU), and is configured to provide a signal of the first clock signal end (CLKA) for the pull-up node (PU) under the control of the signal input end (INPUT), the random detection signal end (OE), the first clock signal end (CLKA), and the first reset end (RST1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11455957
    Abstract: A shift register circuit and its driving method, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The shift register circuit includes an input module, a first inverter, a second inverter, and an output module. The input module is connected to a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, and a first electrical-level terminal, to respond to signals from the second and third input terminal and control a voltage of a first node. In the first inverter, an input terminal is connected to the first node, and an output terminal is connected to a second node. In the second inverter, an input terminal is connected to the second node, and an output terminal is connected to the first node. The output module provides a signal of the fourth input terminal to an output terminal of the output module, and also provides a voltage of a first power terminal to the output terminal of the output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Shaorong Yu
  • Patent number: 11443712
    Abstract: A projector selects an image of a home screen as an image to be displayed by a display section even when input of an image signal to the interface section is detected when the home screen has been displayed on the grounds that an operation has been received by a remote controller or an operation panel, and changes the image to be displayed by the display section from the image of the home screen to the image based on the image signal the input of which has been detected when the input of the image signal to the interface section is detected when the home screen has been displayed on the grounds that no input of the image signal to the interface section has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11443682
    Abstract: A display device, a gate drive circuit, a shift register and a control method are disclosed. A first shift register unit of the shift register is configured to write a first control signal to a first node under control of a first input signal, write a first clock signal to a first signal output terminal; a second shift register unit of the shift register is configured to write a second control signal to the first node under control of a second input signal, write a second clock signal to a second signal output terminal; during the first frame, the first clock signal and the first input signal are pulse signals, the second clock signal and the second input signal are DC signals; during the second frame, the first clock signal and the first input signal are DC signals, the second clock signal and the second input signal are pulse signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuquan Hu, Zhenyu Zhang, Haipeng Yang, Ke Dai
  • Patent number: 11435835
    Abstract: An electronic communications method includes receiving, by a device, electronic information. The electronic communications method further includes receiving, by the device, additional electronic information. A time period between receiving the electronic information and the additional electronic information is less than another time period between receiving the electronic information and the additional electronic information by using a standard keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: John Walter Downey
  • Patent number: 11423823
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register including: a pre-charge reset circuit and an output circuit, the pre-charge reset circuit is configured to write, in a pre-charge stage, an input signal in an active level state into the pull-up node in response to the control of a first control signal, and write, in a reset stage, an input signal in an inactive level state into the pull-up node in response to the control of a second control signal; the output circuit is configured to write, in an output stage, a clock signal in an active level state into a signal output terminal in response to the control of an electric signal in an active level state at the pull-up node, and write, in the reset stage, a clock signal in an inactive level state into the signal output terminal in response to the control of the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Xue, Hongmin Li, Yue Shi, Qinghua Jiang
  • Patent number: 11416087
    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: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Power2b, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Michael Lipman, Sarah Michelle Lipman
  • Patent number: 11417261
    Abstract: A gate driving unit circuit comprises an input sub-circuit and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is connected to a first pull-up node, a second pull-up node, and an input terminal, and transmits a signal input from the input terminal to the first pull-up node and the second pull-up node. The output sub-circuit is connected to the first pull-up node, the second pull-up node, a first control terminal, a third control terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The output sub-circuit transmits a signal input through the first control terminal to the first output terminal, and transmits a signal input through the third control terminal to the second output terminal under the control of a potential of the second pull-up node, wherein, an effective voltage of a signal of the first control terminal is greater than that of a signal of the third control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Group Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Xiong, Yifeng Zou, Yudong Liu, Youlu Li
  • Patent number: 11397493
    Abstract: A method for touch sensing enhancement implemented in a single chip, a single chip capable of achieving touch sensing enhancement, and a computing apparatus are introduced. The single chip is used to be coupled to a display panel with a touch sensor and a fingerprint sensor. The computing apparatus may include the display panel, the single chip, and a processing unit, wherein the single chip is coupled between the display panel and processing unit. The method includes obtaining touch sensing data by a touch sensing module disposed within the single chip and coupled to the touch sensor; obtaining fingerprint sensing data by a fingerprint sensing module disposed within the single chip and coupled to the fingerprint sensor; and generating output touch data based on the touch sensing data and the fingerprint sensing data. With the contribution of the fingerprint sensing data, touch sensing enhancement can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jyun-Sian Li, Yun-Hsiang Yeh, Yen-Heng Chen
  • Patent number: 11398177
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device using a pulse width modulation generator are provided. The pixel circuit has a data latch; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) generator, which is electrically coupled to the data latch, a scan line and a counter; wherein, the pulse width modulation generator is based on the pixel data, the scan signal and a counter code generated by the counter to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. Therefore, the pixel signal can be generated in a voltage and/or current mode according to the PWM signal and connected to the corresponding pixel electrode of the pixel display medium module, so that the period time for driving the display medium by accurately controlling the voltage and/or current to precisely provide grayscale function of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Shih-Hsien Tseng
  • Patent number: 11393385
    Abstract: A shift register includes a first reset circuit having a first transistor and a second transistor, and a selection control circuit connected to a pull-down node, and control electrodes of the first and second transistors. First electrodes of the first and second transistors are connected to a first voltage terminal, and second electrodes of the first and second transistors are connected to a signal output terminal. The selection control circuit is configured to: control a line between the pull-down node and the control electrode of the first transistor, and a line between the pull-down node and the control electrode of the second transistor to be alternately closed. The first reset circuit is configured to output a voltage of the first voltage terminal to the signal output terminal under control of a potential at the pull-down node transmitted by the selection control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11380254
    Abstract: In a display device including pixels that are coupled to data lines, that are supplied with a data signal during a display period, and that are configured to emit light corresponding to the data signal during a bias period, the display device includes a source capacitor coupled to each of the data lines, and a data driver configured to supply the data signal during the display period, to supply a bias signal during a first period in the bias period, and to not supply the bias signal during a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Soo Kim, Woo Chul Kim, Hyun Su Kim, Young Min Bae
  • Patent number: 11380243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a scan driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The shift register includes an input module; a control module; a reset module; a first output module; a second output module; and a stabilization module, that a phase of a signal output from the second output module lags behind a phase of a signal output from the first output module, and does not overlap with the phase of the signal output from the first output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Shaorong Yu
  • Patent number: 11361703
    Abstract: A gate driving unit, a gate driving method, a gate driving circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided. The gate driving unit includes a start terminal, a first gate driving signal output terminal, a second gate driving signal output terminal, a pull-up control node control circuit, a pull-up node control circuit, configured to control a potential of a first pull-up node and a potential of a second pull-up node based on the potential of the pull-up control node, a first gate driving signal output circuit, a second gate driving signal output circuit, and a pull-down node control circuit, configured to control and maintain the potential of the pull-down node under the control of a third clock signal and a fourth clock signal, and control to reset the potential of the pull-down node under the control of the potential of the pull-up control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Bailing Liu, Fuqiang Li, Zhichong Wang, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan