Patents Examined by Amr Awad
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Patent number: 12236858Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus are disclosed. The display substrate includes: a base substrate including a first and second display regions; a light transmittance of the first display region is greater than that of the second display region; first sub-pixels in the first display region. At least one first sub-pixel includes a first pixel circuit and a first light emitting device; the first pixel circuit includes a storage capacitor and a driving transistor; and a data writing sub-circuit configured to write a data voltage signal to a gate electrode of the driving transistor in response to a first and second scan signals; a reset sub-circuit configured to provide an initialization voltage signal to a first electrode of the first light emitting device in response to the second scan signal; and a luminescent control sub-circuit configured to transmit a driving current to the first light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Ziyang Yu, Yunsheng Xiao, Gukhwan Song, Cong Fan, Xiangdan Dong
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Patent number: 12236869Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel driver circuit. The pixel driver circuit includes a light-emitting module, a drive transistor and at least one light-emitting control transistor. The drive transistor, the light-emitting control transistor and the light-emitting module are connected in series between a first power supply signal terminal and a second power supply signal terminal, and at least one of the drive transistor or the light-emitting control transistor is a first double-gate transistor. The first double-gate transistor includes a first gate, a second gate and a first source, and the second gate is electrically connected to the first source.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Lihua Wang, Yuheng Zhang, Qiongqin Mao, Yang Nan, Tingling Li, Yimiao Ding
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Patent number: 12237455Abstract: An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a pixel and a sensing circuit supplying a pixel reference voltage to the pixel through a reference voltage line during display driving and sensing a pixel current, flowing in the pixel, through the reference voltage line during sensing driving succeeding the display driving operation. The sensing circuit includes a sensing channel terminal connected to the reference voltage line, a first switch between the sensing channel terminal and an input terminal for the pixel reference voltage, an integrator amplifier including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, an input terminal for an integrator reference voltage connected to the second input terminal, a second switch between the first input terminal and the output terminal, a first capacitor between the sensing channel terminal and the first input terminal, and a second capacitor between the sensing channel terminal and the output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Su Choi, Myung Gi Lim, Byung Jae Lee, Jung Heo
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Patent number: 12236864Abstract: There is provided a display substrate including a base and a pixel circuit layer on the base, the pixel circuit layer includes pixel driving circuits arranged in an array along a first direction and a second direction. The base has recesses, each of which extends in the first direction and has a bottom surface and a side surface, a surface of the base includes the bottom surface and the side surface of each recesses, and a top surface between adjacent recesses, the bottom surface of each recess is substantially parallel to the top surface between adjacent recesses, the side surface of each recesses is at a first angle to the bottom surface of the recess and the top surface between adjacent recesses, and a portion of each pixel driving circuits is formed on the side surface of one recess. A method for preparing a display substrate is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Tuo Sun
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Patent number: 12230214Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a driving method of the array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pairs of gate lines, each pair including a first gate line and a second gate line, and a pixel array, including pixel units arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A scan signal terminal of a pixel unit of an nth column in an mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in an mth pair of gate lines to receive a first scan signal; m and n are positive integers; a reset signal terminal of the pixel unit of the (n+1)th column in the mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in the mth pair of gate lines to receive the first scan signal serving as a first reset signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuang Zhao, Chenyu Chen, Zhongliu Yang, Wenbo Chen, Zhuo Xu, Jing Yang, Hongting Lu
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Patent number: 12223764Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for biometric authentication. Rotation covariant convolution kernels at multiple convolution layers are obtained with weights learned via machine learning based on rotation invariant (RI) training data. For an input image with fingerprint information captured therein related to a person to be authenticated, an initial feature map is obtained and then at each convolution layer, a feature map is processed based on the RC convolution kernels for the layer to output a rotation covariant (RC) feature map, with the feature map being either the initial feature map and an output RC feature map from a previous convolution layer. The last convolution layer outputs a rotation invariant (RI) feature vector representing fingerprint features of the person in a rotation invariant manner, which is then used to authenticate the person.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: ARMATURA LLCInventors: Zhinong Li, Xiaowu Zhang
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Patent number: 12225785Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and sub-pixels on the base substrate. The sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit including a data writing sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit and a resistance device. The resistance device is connected between the driving sub-circuit and the light-emitting element, and is in a same layer as a control electrode of the driving sub-circuit and is insulated from the control electrode. A resistivity of the resistance device is higher than a resistivity of the control electrode of the driving sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Dachao Li
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Patent number: 12219855Abstract: A display device may include a display panel and an input sensor. Mesh lines of the input sensor may include first mesh lines extending in a first direction and second mesh lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first mesh lines and the second mesh lines may cross each other at a plurality of cross points. In a unit region of the sensing electrode, first cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines, and second cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joong-Soo Moon, Kwang-Min Kim, Yangwan Kim, Keunsoo Lee, Youngjin Cho
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Patent number: 12217680Abstract: A display device includes a first vertical power line extending in a first direction and receiving a first power source; and a first horizontal power line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction between a first pixel and a second pixel and receiving the first power source, each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes first to third sub-pixels sequentially disposed in the first direction, the first pixel includes a first common pattern between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel extending in the second direction, the first sub-pixel of the first pixel and the second sub-pixel of the first pixel share the first common pattern and are connected to the first vertical power line, and the third sub-pixel of the first pixel shares the first horizontal power line with the first sub-pixel of the second pixel.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Sun Kwun Son, Sang Yong No
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Patent number: 12211447Abstract: A shift register circuit includes a first control sub-circuit and a first output sub-circuit. The first control sub-circuit is configured to: adjust a voltage of a first node to a turn-on voltage due to an influence of a first direct current voltage signal from a first clock signal terminal, an initial voltage signal from an initial signal terminal and a second direct current voltage signal from a second clock signal terminal; and maintain the voltage of the first node at the turn-on voltage due to an influence of a first clock signal from the first clock signal terminal and a second clock signal from the second clock signal terminal. The first output sub-circuit is configured to be turned on under a control of the turn-on voltage of the first node to transmit a first voltage signal from a first voltage terminal to a signal output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Jiangnan Lu, Long Han, Li Wang, Libin Liu, Xinshe Yin, Shiming Shi
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Patent number: 12198591Abstract: The present invention provides a display effect enhancement method, apparatus, and device. The apparatus includes: an obtaining module configured to obtain a grayscale value of each pixel of a picture to be displayed; a first demura module located in a main control chip and configured to perform, according to the grayscale value of each pixel, a first brightness compensation on the picture to be displayed; a second demura module located in a driving chip and configured to perform a second brightness compensation on the picture to be displayed that has been subjected to the first brightness compensation; and a display module configured to display the picture to be displayed that has been subjected to the second brightness compensation.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Wuhan Jingce Electronic Group Co., LTD, Wuhan Jingli Electronic Technology Co., LTDInventors: Jianchao You, Dingde Peng
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Patent number: 12197657Abstract: An active pen that is used together with a sensor controller includes: an electrode provided at a pen tip, a memory that stores identification data, and a processor connected to the electrode and the memory. The processor returns, as a response to a first uplink signal transmitted from the sensor controller, a response signal including the identification data stored by the memory, and decides, based on whether data corresponding to the identification data is included in a second uplink signal received after the response signal is transmitted, whether the active pen is detected by the sensor controller.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Hara, Masayuki Miyamoto, Sadao Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12198602Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gate drive circuit and a display panel. The gate drive circuit includes a plurality of cascaded gate drive units. The N-level gate drive unit includes a pull-up transistor, a touch transistor, and a voltage holding circuit. An input end of the voltage holding circuit is connected with a high potential line, a first control end of the voltage holding circuit is connected with a touch line, a second control end of the voltage holding circuit is connected with a pull-up node, and an output end of the voltage holding circuit is connected with the pull-up node. The display panel includes a common voltage line and the gate drive circuit mentioned above, thereby alleviating the technical problem of unstable potential of pull-up nodes during a touch stage.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Guangzhou China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTd.Inventors: Minghu Deng, Xinru Yao
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Patent number: 12191320Abstract: A display panel and a display device. Because the pixel distribution density in a second display subarea (A12) is lower than that in a first display subarea (A11), the quantities of sub-pixels (pix) connected to scanning lines are not completely the same; a sub-pixel row having the greatest quantity of sub-pixels (pix) in the display panel is taken as a reference sub-pixel row, the quantity of the sub-pixels (pix) of the reference sub-pixel row is taken as a reference value, a sub-pixel row having the quantity of sub-pixels (pix) smaller than the reference value is taken as a compensation sub-pixel row, and a scanning line connected to the compensation sub-pixel row is taken as a first scanning line; the display panel is provided with load compensation units corresponding to at least part of the first scanning lines, and the load compensation units are located in the second display subarea.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenqiang Li, Long Han, Ling Shi, Ke Liu, Xuewei Tian, Kuo Sun, Pinfan Wang
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Patent number: 12182344Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting gestures on a reduced-size electronic device at locations off of the display, such as gestures on the housing of the device or on a rotatable input mechanism (e.g., a digital crown) of the device, and responding to the gestures by, for example, navigating lists of items and selecting items from the list; translating the display of an electronic document; or sending audio control data to an external audio device.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Colin M. Ely
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Patent number: 12183251Abstract: A display driver integrated circuit and a display driving method are provided. The display driver integrated circuit is suitable for driving a display panel of an electronic device. The display driver integrated circuit includes an image processing circuit, a timing controller, and a data driving circuit. The image processing circuit is configured to generate an output image based on time information, a background image, and an original time indication image. The timing controller is coupled to the image processing circuit, and configured to receive the output image. The data driving circuit is coupled to the timing controller, and configured to receive the output image and generate data voltages according to the output image. The data driving circuit drives the display panel according to the data voltages regarding to the output image.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Wei-Jhe Ma, Feng-Ting Pai, Hui-Hung Chang
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Patent number: 12183113Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. In some aspects, a device may include a flexible display. The device may include an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that is configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal in an acoustic path through the flexible display. The device may include an acoustics configuration layer that is situated between the display and the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. The acoustics configuration layer may be configured to optimize a signal strength of the ultrasonic signal based at least in part on a configuration of one or more layers of the flexible display.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jessica Liu Strohmann, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Yipeng Lu, Chin-Jen Tseng, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev
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Patent number: 12174931Abstract: A head-mounted device (HMD) may be used to determine an access request for accessing a device. An identifier identifying the device may be received at the HMD and from the device. By verifying receipt of the identifier at the HMD, and that access rights associated with the HMD enable granting of the access request, the access request may be granted.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Brett Barros, Alexander James Faaborg
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Patent number: 12170042Abstract: There is provided a detection circuit, a display panel and a detection method. The detection circuit includes: a conversion circuit configured to acquire a photoelectric sensing signal in real time and convert the acquired photoelectric sensing signal into a luminance value; a storage circuit configured to store N luminance values from the conversion circuit on a first input first output basis; a discrimination circuit connected to the storage circuit and configured to determine whether at least two of the N luminance values meet a preset condition; and an output circuit connected to the discrimination circuit and the storage circuit, and configured to output a preset default luminance value in response to the at least two luminance values meeting the preset condition and output at least one of the N luminance values in response to the at least two luminance values not meeting the preset condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lianghao Zhang, Xinle Wang, Yifan Song, Wenchao Han, Zhaohui Meng, Wanzhi Chen, Jing Liu
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Gate driver including pull-up circuit and pull-down circuit and display apparatus including the same
Patent number: 12165553Abstract: A gate driver includes: a pull-up circuit configured to pull up a gate output signal to a high voltage in response to a signal at a first node of the pull-up circuit; a first pull-down circuit configured to pull down the gate output signal to a low voltage in response to a signal at a second node of the first pull-down circuit; a second pull-down circuit configured to pull down the gate output signal to the low voltage in response to a signal at a third node of the second pull-down circuit; a first selection circuit configured to activate the first pull-down circuit and deactivate the second pull-down circuit based on a first selection signal; and a second selection circuit configured to activate the second pull-down circuit and deactivate the first pull-down circuit based on a second selection signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Chulkyu Kang, Kimyeong Eom, Soon-Gi Kwon, Min Jeong Kim