Patents Examined by Amr A. Awad
  • Patent number: 11195480
    Abstract: There are provided display controllers and driving methods related to those described in US Published Patent Application No. 2013/0194250.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Emelie, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson
  • Patent number: 11189242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving circuit of a display panel. A plurality of driving units produce a reference driving voltage according to a gamma voltage of a gamma circuit, respectively. A plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits receive the reference driving voltages output by the plurality of driving units, and select one of the plurality of reference driving voltage as a data driving voltage according to pixel data, respectively. The plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits transmit the plurality of data driving voltages to the display panel for displaying images. A voltage boost circuit is used for producing a first supply voltage and providing the first supply voltage to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits. At least a voltage boost unit is used for producing a second supply voltage and providing the second supply voltage to the plurality of driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Min-Nan Liao, Chih-Ping Su
  • Patent number: 11157071
    Abstract: Systems and methods for eye image set selection, eye image collection, and eye image combination are described. Embodiments of the systems and methods for eye image collection can include displaying a graphic along a path connecting a plurality of eye pose regions. Eye images at a plurality of locations along the path can be obtained, and an iris code can be generated based at least partly on at least some of the obtained eye images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Kaehler
  • Patent number: 11157111
    Abstract: In one aspect, an LED display includes a matrix of LED pixels for producing a demanded image, and within the matrix, one or more sensor elements to detect visible light for document scanning, and/or IR light, and/or laser light. IR emitters also can be part of the matrix for time-of-flight based distance measurements using the matrix. The matrix background can be black or it can be e-ink to present, e.g., interactive user controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Charles McCoy, True Xiong, Blaine Morgan
  • Patent number: 11150758
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining sensor coordinates and pressure values corresponding to the sensor coordinates; mapping, using a first mapping method, a first set of the sensor coordinates to first display screen coordinates; determining that a first one of the pressure values is greater than or equal to a threshold pressure value; determining that a second one of the pressure values is less than the threshold pressure value, after determining that the first one of the pressure values is greater than or equal to the threshold pressure value; in response to the determining that the second one of the pressure values is less than the threshold pressure value, mapping, using a second mapping method, a second set of the sensor coordinates to second display screen coordinates; and outputting the first display screen coordinates and the second display screen coordinates. Accordingly, an operator can easily switch the mapping to the second method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Wilhelm Pollmann
  • Patent number: 11145237
    Abstract: A gate driver includes a plurality of stages, a memory and a selector. The plurality of stages provides a plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines. The memory receives a gate input signal applied to at least one of the stages and outputs the gate input signal as a selection signal. The selector outputs a vertical start signal to a scan start point among the stages based on the selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae-Kwan Seo, Myungho Lee
  • Patent number: 11138914
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels formed over the substrate and a plurality of signal lines formed over the substrate and connected to the pixels. The signal lines include a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and a first crack sensing line connected to a first data line. The first crack sensing line is divided into first and second sections and the first section has a width that is greater than that of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Yeon Cho
  • Patent number: 11139128
    Abstract: The invention relates to a remote control (1, 48) comprising: a first data read-in device (24, 78) and a second data read-in device (24, 78) which are each designed to read in data in a pressure direction (20, 61) on the basis of a pressure exerted by a user, a first pressure take-up element (30) assigned to the first data read-in device (24, 78) and a second pressure take-up element (30, 85) assigned to the second data read-in device (24, 78), which elements each have a pressure take-up side (35, 89) for taking up the pressure applied by the user, and a pressure output side for outputting the pressure, which was taken up, to the respective data read-in device (24, 78); and a flexible printed circuit board (31, 86, 97) which connects the pressure take-up sides (35, 89) of the pressure take-up elements (30, 85) to each other and on which at least one capacitive measurement transducer (38, 39, 93, 94) is formed whose capacitance is dependent on the position of a finger of the user on the flexible printed circui
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FM MARKETING GMBH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Maier
  • Patent number: 11132964
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a light source that emits light onto the liquid crystal panel, the display device including: a video signal obtainer that obtains a video signal; a visible light signal obtainer that obtains a visible light signal; a panel controller that drives the liquid crystal panel at a predetermined frequency according to the video signal obtained; and a light source controller that repeats, in a predetermined cycle, a first control for causing a luminance change in the light source according to the visible light signal. The light source controller synchronizes a control for repeating the first control with a cycle for driving the liquid crystal panel by the panel controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Maeda, Hideki Aoyama, Kensuke Nagauchi, Kazuhiko Nono, Kazuma Sakamoto, Mitsuaki Oshima
  • Patent number: 11125611
    Abstract: A method for light sensing senses the light during a sub-frame of a picture frame operated display. The sensing is performed during an adaptive observation window which is determined in dependence on the duty cycle of the operation of the display. A calculation that uses the light sensed during the observation window and the light sensed during the sub-frame delivers a value indicative of the amount of received ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventors: Helmut Theiler, Josef Kriebernegg
  • Patent number: 11114052
    Abstract: The utility model relates to a voltage conditioning circuit, and particularly relates to an AD voltage conditioning circuit. The conditioning circuit comprises a voltage-dividing circuit and a voltage translation circuit. The voltage-dividing circuit and the voltage translation circuit share an output end. The voltage-dividing circuit and the voltage translation circuit are integrated together and share the output end so that the voltage-dividing circuit and the voltage translation circuit can be isolated without using an isolation circuit, AD voltage can be conditioned to an appropriate value, three arithmetic units required to be used by an original conditioning circuit is reduced to only two arithmetic units, and four resistors required to be used by the voltage-dividing circuit and the translation circuit of the original conditioning circuit are reduced to only three resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11099798
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that detects and locates viewers, establishes a set of characteristics for the viewers, generates or selects personalized content for each viewer based on the characteristics, and displays the personalized content, via at least one multi-view display, to the plurality of viewers simultaneously is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 11074879
    Abstract: Disclosed are a drive circuit of a display device, a display device and a display panel. The drive circuit of the display device drives a first drive signal output branch and a second drive signal output branch to output a preset logic level signal separately by drive signals of a timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11068050
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a first camera module, a display device, and a processor functionally connected with the first camera module and the display device. The processor may be configured to determine a size of at least one eye area included in an image obtained by the first camera module while displaying a virtual image using the display device and to control a degree of display of the virtual image corresponding to the size of the at least one eye area. Other various embodiments are also available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Won-Nam Jang
  • Patent number: 11069309
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing the power consumption of high-dynamic range (HDR) displays via buck-boost conversion are described. In some embodiments, an information handling system (IHS) may include an embedded controller (EC) and a memory coupled to the EC, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the EC to: determine a characteristic of a display having a backlight, and control a buck-boost converter to increase or decrease a voltage applied to the backlight based upon a frame rate of a video signal received by the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss, Mitch Anthony Markow
  • Patent number: 11069288
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display panel and an organic light emitting display device including the same, in which a pixel driving circuit of a subpixel, sharing an anode with a white subpixel, of subpixels configuring a unit pixel is disconnected from the outside of the subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SoonJae Hwang, DaeWoong Chun, Sangyoul Lee, Chulwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11037517
    Abstract: A display device to display an image during frame intervals, and to display a blank image during a blank interval defined between the frame intervals, includes: a gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages, an ith stage (i is an integer greater than or equal to 2) from among the plurality of stages including a clock terminal to receive a clock signal, wherein the clock signal swings between a first clock voltage and a second clock voltage smaller than the first clock voltage during a normal interval corresponding to each of the frame intervals, and the clock signal is changed to a voltage lower than the second clock voltage during a stabilization interval corresponding to the blank interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghwan Hwang, Chanwook Shim, Youngchul Jo
  • Patent number: 11030957
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a plurality of column lines and a power line, each sub-pixel being supplied with first and second power voltages and including a light emitting diode, the power line extending along a column line direction and transferring the first power voltage; and a peak luminance control portion which derives a compensation value that is adjusted according to a maximum IR variation amount of IR variation amounts in the column line direction for a picture input thereto, applies the compensation value to an average picture level of the picture to derive a compensated average picture level, and controls a peak luminance of the picture according to the compensated average picture level, wherein the IR variation amount includes IR drop amount for the first power voltage and an IR rise amount for the second power voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang-Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11011127
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first clock line portion in the non-display area, the first clock line portion having a plurality of gate shift clock lines; a second clock line portion in the non-display area between the first clock line portion and the display area, the second clock line portion having a gate start signal line; and a gate driving built-in circuit in the non-display area between the first clock line portion and the second clock line portion, and connected with the plurality of gate shift clock lines and the gate start signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taehwi Kim
  • Patent number: 11010017
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and one or both icons can change their visual appearance to indicate their selection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Bas Ording, Steven P. Jobs