Patents Examined by Amare Mengitsu
  • Patent number: 10942597
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a touch sensing unit, and a touch driving circuit. The touch sensing unit includes a transmission touch line. The touch driving circuit provides a touch driving signal to the transmission touch line. The touch driving circuit may include a switch group and a control switch group. The switch group may include a plurality of switch devices, each of which has one end connected to the transmission touch line. The control switch group may be connected to the other end of at least a portion of the switch devices, include a plurality of control switch devices and a capacitor device, and receive a driving voltage and a ground voltage. The touch driving signal has N voltage levels, where N is a natural number of 3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Youngmin Park, Sangjin Pak, Jiheon Park, Jonghyun Oh, Sanghun Park
  • Patent number: 9202418
    Abstract: A projection system is provided that uses an additional light valve in series with the conventional color splitting-converging prism in order to increase the contrast of a projected image, wherein bit sequences are generated for the additional light valve that do not result in interference with the conventional color light valve bit sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventor: Lawrence Goerzen
  • Patent number: 8896618
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same are provided for one or more embodiments. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of display blocks and displaying an image in response to image signals; a plurality of light-emitting blocks emitting light to the liquid crystal panel and corresponding to the plurality of display blocks; a first look-up table including a normalized value obtained by normalizing an initial duty ratio corresponding to the brightness of the image to a maximum duty ratio corresponding to the maximum brightness of the image; and a timing controller receiving the normalized value corresponding to each of the light-emitting blocks from the first look-up table and using the normalized value to provide an optical data signal corresponding to each of the light-emitting blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Hoon Kwon, Gi-Cherl Kim, Se-Ki Park, Moon-Hwan Chang, Dong-Min Yeo, Ho-Sik Shin
  • Patent number: 8427398
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel structure of picture elements in current programming-type semiconductor devices, and in particular, the structure of picture elements of an active matrix organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. The device makes a self-compensation for OLED current deviations due to the deterioration in threshold voltage and uneven electric characteristic in thin film transistors. The invention also provides a method for driving a data driver capable of compensating for the uneven electric characteristic of thin film transistors in the driver for driving picture elements in the current programming-type active matrix OLED display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Min-Koo Han, Jae-Hoon Lee, Woo-Jin Nam
  • Patent number: 8411046
    Abstract: Column organization of content is described. In an implementation, a mobile communications device configures a user interface to include a plurality of representations of content arranged according to a plurality of columns that permits navigation between first and second said columns upon detection of a gesture input via a touchscreen of the mobile communications device. The user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device. The first column is configured for vertical navigation through each of the plurality of representations and the second column includes a filtered subset of the plurality of representations such that at least one of the representations is included in the first column and not the second column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Kruzeniski, Paula Guntaur, Brian M. Wilson, Chad Aron Voss
  • Patent number: 7755598
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing method for a display device. The method includes: calculating an average brightness of an image; adjusting the average brightness to generate an adjusted average brightness; utilizing Brightness Preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization (BBHE) and the adjusted average brightness to process the image; and displaying the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Sun-Chen Yang, Yii-Lin Wu, Hsiang-Jui Hung
  • Patent number: 7733310
    Abstract: Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots. A screen may include a multi-layer dichroic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Prysm, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger A. Hajjar, David Kindler, Patrick Tan, David Kent, Phillip H. Malyak
  • Patent number: 6724372
    Abstract: A computer system which includes one or more wireless interface devices that are adapted to communicate with a remote host over a radio link. Each of the wireless interface devices is a pen-based device which includes an ink field in which pen events are translated into pen data. packets and transmitted to the remote host over the radio link. Local inking is provided at the wireless interface device in order to maintain the pen paradigm in essentially real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Depeng Bi, Daniel A. Boals, S. Christopher Gladwin, James Y. Wilson, Jose T. George, Scott Merkle