Patents Examined by Adam J Snyder
  • Patent number: 10971085
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of optimizing display image quality on display devices having a plurality of display power modes. Each power mode has associated therewith a respective baseline allowable percentage of distorted pixels and a baseline first relationship between an original pixel value and boosted pixel value. Display control circuitry determines a baseline second relationship using the baseline percentage of distorted pixels and the baseline first relationship. The display control circuitry selects a plurality of test distorted original pixel values and determines a respective test first relationship. Using the test distorted original pixel value, the respective test first relationship, and the baseline second relationship, the display control circuitry determines a respective PSNR and value indicative of the change in display image quality for each of the test distorted original pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Nandini Mahendran, Ajit Joshi, Shravan Kumar Belagal Math, Sherine Abdelhak
  • Patent number: 10949025
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical touch device and a manufacturing method thereof, a display and an electronic device, wherein the optical touch device comprises: a pixel array (11) that comprises a plurality of pixel sub-circuits (101) each of which comprises M first pixels (1011) and N second pixels (1012), wherein detection rays with a preset frequency are emitted by the second pixels (1012), where M and N are positive integers; a light receiving array (12) that comprises a plurality of light receivers (121) corresponding, at a one-to-one basis, to the plurality of pixel sub-circuits (101), wherein each of the light receivers (121) generates an sensing signal by receiving reflected rays of the detection rays emitted by a corresponding second pixel (1012); and a detection circuit (13) connected with the plurality of light receivers (121), wherein the detection circuit (13) performs touch positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Wei Liu, Chih-Jen Cheng, Pengpeng Wang, Xueyou Cao, Ping Zhang, Chun-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 10950174
    Abstract: Provided are a display device. The display device comprises: a display unit defined by a display area and a non-display area located outside the display area, and including pixels arranged in the display area, first sensing wirings electrically connected to the pixels, and auxiliary voltage wirings electrically separated from the pixels; and a sensing unit electrically connected to the first sensing wirings, wherein the first sensing wirings and the auxiliary voltage wirings extend in a first direction and are sequentially arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction at first intervals, the first sensing wirings are spaced apart from each other along the second direction at second intervals greater than the first intervals and are electrically separated from each other, and the auxiliary voltage wirings are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Wook Kim, Kwang Min Kim, Yang Wan Kim, Ji Su Na, Min Woo Byun
  • Patent number: 10928964
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device having touch sensors which may improve visibility. In the display device, the touch sensors having a multilayer structure including a blackened layer are arranged on an encapsulation assembly arranged to cover light emitting elements, and touch pads having a multilayer structure including a partially transparent conductive layer are arranged on a region of a substrate exposed by the encapsulation assembly. Therefore, the blackened layer may prevent reflection of external light and thus visibility may be improved, and the partially transparent conductive layer may lower sheet resistance of the touch pads and thus contact resistance between the touch pads and a driver integrated circuit may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Il Kim, Chang-Hyun Song
  • Patent number: 10921865
    Abstract: A touchpad module includes a touch member, a base plate, a switch, a supporting structure and a sheet-like elastic element. The base plate includes a triggering part. The switch is disposed on the touch member and aligned with the triggering part. The supporting structure is arranged between the base plate and the touch member. The sheet-like elastic element is located under the touch member and extended along an extension direction. The sheet-like elastic element includes plural vacant spaces. The plural vacant spaces are discretely arranged along the extension direction. The sheet-like elastic element is divided into a swinging structure and plural fixing structures by the plural vacant spaces. In response to an external force, the touch member is swung toward the base plate by using the supporting structure as a fulcrum, and the swinging structure is swung toward the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Tai-Sou Huang, Shao-Ju Yen
  • Patent number: 10923056
    Abstract: An array board includes a display area having a non-rectangular shape, TFTs disposed in the display area, a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and connected to the TFTs, a non-display area surrounding the display area, unit circuits disposed in the non-display area and connected to the gate lines, and a block connection line. The unit circuits are linearly arranged in the non-display area to form circuit blocks. The circuit blocks in the non-display area form a gate circuit portion in which at least two of the circuit blocks are away from each other in an oblique direction with respect to an arrangement direction of the unit circuits. The block connection line extends across the circuit blocks in the non-display area. The block connection line is connected to the circuit blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehisa Sakurai, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10908723
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a light emitting element located on the base substrate; a thin-film encapsulation layer located on the light emitting element; touch electrodes located on the thin-film encapsulation layer, each of the touch electrode including an opening; and a strain gauge including: resistance lines located in the openings, respectively, the resistance lines located in the same layer as the touch electrodes and having variable resistance values changed in response to a touch input; a first connection line connecting two resistance lines neighboring each other along a first direction; and a second connection line connecting two resistance lines neighboring each other along a second direction, the second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the first connection line and the second connection line are located between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the resistance lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ga Young Kim, Jang Hui Kim, A Ra Jo
  • Patent number: 10901538
    Abstract: A pen mouse includes a housing, a rotatable actuator, an optical sensor and a processor. The rotatable actuator is movably disposed inside the housing along a structurally longitudinal direction and a structurally horizontal direction of the housing. The optical sensor is adapted to detect surface reflection of the rotatable actuator. The processor is electrically connected with the optical sensor and adapted to compute a rotating direction, a rotating angle and depth variation of the rotatable actuator via analysis of the surface reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Wang, Tsung-Fa Wang
  • Patent number: 10902812
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image and including a gate line and a data line, a gate driver outputting a gate signal to the gate line, a data driver outputting a data signal to the data line, a timing controller outputting a vertical start signal and a gate clock, and a gate clock signal compensator generating an inner clock signal based on the vertical start signal, selecting one of the gate clock signal and the inner clock signal based on a comparison result of a time difference between the gate clock signal and the inner clock signal and a reference time which corresponds to tolerance of jitter of the gate clock signal, increasing a level of the selected clock signal, and outputting the increased clock signal to the gate driver, where the gate driver generates the gate signal based on the increased clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chang-Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10891903
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device comprises: a display panel including a substrate, a plurality of data lines on the substrate, a plurality of gate lines on the substrate and oriented transverse to the data lines, and a plurality of pixels connected to the data lines and the gate lines. A data driver supplies data voltages to the data lines, and a gate-in-panel (GIP) gate driver supplies gate pulses to the gate lines. The gate driver drives the display panel in a plurality of blocks of pixel lines within one frame. The data voltages are sequentially supplied to pixel lines of a jth block (j is a natural number) during a data writing period, and a black image is written simultaneously to pixel lines of a qth block (q is a natural number different from j) during a black data insertion period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 10884556
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a gate driving integrated circuit and an operating method thereof operating in a time-division method divided into a display period and a touch period. The gate driving integrated circuit includes a charging circuit, a gate control circuit, and a discharging circuit. The charging circuit charges a memory element. The discharging circuit discharges the memory element. The gate control circuit outputs a gate-on voltage to a gate line based on the charged memory element in during display period. The gate control circuit electrically disconnects the memory element from the gate control circuit during the touch period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Ju Lee, Jaeho Park, YoonKyung Choi
  • Patent number: 10884521
    Abstract: A dial device including an upper case and a bottom base disposed with an electrode pattern having a directional pattern corresponding to a direction, wherein an interactive display device utilizes the dial device as an input device (such as a mouse or a rocker capable of instructing an index displayed by a screen to move toward the direction) according to moving signals transmitted by the dial device and sensing signals generated by a touch circuit of the interactive display device. Thus, the interactive display device is capable of mapping a direction caused by relative motions between the upper case and the bottom base to a moving direction of an object displayed by the interactive display device, so as to increase an operation of the dial device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tai Ju, Chueh-Pin Ko, Chih-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 10853017
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of displays arranged adjacent to each other, and a connector coupled to adjacent ends of the plurality of displays to couple the plurality of displays to each other, wherein the connector electrically connects the plurality of displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Su Park, Chae Joo Son, Do Sung Jung, Sae Rom Hong, Min Hee Lee, Ji Hye Lim
  • Patent number: 10818213
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a substrate including an active area in which a plurality of pixels is disposed and a non-active outside a periphery of the active area. A plurality of signal lines is disposed in parallel with one another and extend in a first direction in the non-active area. Each of the plurality of signal lines includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion which are sequentially connected to one another. The first and third portions extend in the first direction and are disposed in parallel with one another. Embodiments provided herein facilitate a reduction of electromagnetic interference between the display device and an external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chansoo Park, HyungBeom Shin, SeEung Lee
  • Patent number: 10810919
    Abstract: An image shift control method including generating image position information by using sample data of first image data; and determining a movement direction and a movement amount of an image by using the image position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyun Seuk Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Won Woo Jang, Yong Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 10795439
    Abstract: An interface device including: a first fixed portion and a first rotation portion which are fixed to a body; a first power portion which is connected to the first fixed portion and the first rotation portion and provides power to the first rotation portion; and a control unit which controls, when receiving a signal from an external device, the first power portion to control rotation of the first rotation portion, wherein the first power portion switches the first rotation portion to a free state of being rotatable by external force or a control state of being not rotatable by external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: REALGAM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yon Woo Chung, Bok Sung Oh, Yun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10798372
    Abstract: A 3D display driving method, a 3D display driving device and a display device are provided. The 3D display driving method includes, during each display period: within a display duration (2n?1)th for a left-eye image of a left-eye image frame, scanning a first gate line in an nth group of gate lines, and within a part of the display duration (2n?1)th for the left-eye image, scanning a second gate line in the nth group of gate lines; and within a display duration (2n)th for a right-eye image of a right-eye image frame, scanning the second gate line in the nth group of gate lines, n being a positive integer smaller than or equal to M, and M being an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Quanhu Li, Yicheng Lin, Yu Wang, Yue Wu, Song Meng, Yongqian Li, Pan Xu
  • Patent number: 10795431
    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: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mindshow Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Ross, Gil Baron, Cosmo Raleigh Scharf, Luke Russell Patterson, Jake Richard Parker, John Kanikula Peters
  • Patent number: 10777128
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit, a display apparatus and a dual-gate driving transistor. The pixel circuit comprises a dual-gate driving transistor having a drain electrically connected to a first power supply terminal; a threshold voltage compensation unit electrically connected to a data terminal, a first control terminal, a first gate of the dual-gate driving transistor, and a source of the dual-gate driving transistor respectively; a mobility compensation unit electrically connected to a sensing signal terminal, a second control terminal, and the source of the dual-gate driving transistor respectively; and a light emitting control unit electrically connected to the data terminal, a third control terminal, a second gate of the dual-gate driving transistor, the source of the dual-gate driving transistor, and a light emitting device respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Zhidong Yuan, Zhenfei Cai, Meng Li, Can Yuan
  • Patent number: 10761637
    Abstract: A pressure sensing detection circuit and a driving method thereof, an electronic device. The pressure sensing detection circuit includes: an excitation signal circuit, configured to output an alternating current voltage signal; a pressure sensing circuit, configured to sense a magnitude of an external pressure and output a detection voltage signal under excitation of the alternating current voltage signal; and a phase detection circuit, configured to detect a phase change value of the detection voltage signal and convert the phase change value into a voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Chih Jen Cheng, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang, Xueyou Cao, Wei Liu, Yuzhen Guo