Patents Examined by Amr Awad
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Patent number: 11705029Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to compensate image data for display on a curved display. A pixel uniformity compensation factor may be applied based on a pixel uniformity compensation factor map that is calibrated to the display panel while the display panel has a flat shape, and a panel curvature compensation factor may be applied when the image content is to be displayed while the display panel has a curved shape. The panel curvature compensation factor may be based on a panel curvature compensation factor map that is calibrated to the display panel after the display panel is bent from the flat shape to the curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Shengchang Cai, ByoungSuk Kim, Yi Huang
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Patent number: 11690270Abstract: 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 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joong-Soo Moon, Kwang-Min Kim, Yangwan Kim, Keunsoo Lee, Youngjin Cho
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Patent number: 11676414Abstract: A liquid crystal protection film is capable of ultrasonic fingerprint recognition in order to improve ultrasonic fingerprint recognition performance. The liquid crystal protection film includes a liquid crystal protection film part attached to an upper portion of a liquid crystal so as to protect the liquid crystal. The liquid crystal protection film part includes: a first layer attached to the upper portion of the liquid crystal; a second layer formed on an upper portion of the first layer; and a liquid crystal adhesive layer formed under the first layer and provided so that the liquid crystal adheres to the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: REALOOK & COMPANY CORP.Inventor: Nam Il Lim
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Patent number: 11670257Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for determining a gray-scale value of a display panel. The method includes that: brightness values corresponding to multiple gray scales under a target area of a display panel are fitted to obtain a target slope value and a target deviation value; a reference brightness value under a target gray scale of the display panel is determined according to the target slope value and the target deviation value; and an output gray-scale value corresponding to each pixel under the target gray scale is determined according to the reference brightness value.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: ANALOGIX (CHINA) SEMICONDUCTOR, INC., ANALOGIX INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: Xin Jiao, Ning Zhu, Xiaowei Sun
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Patent number: 11663847Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a fingerprint sensor disposed under a specified area of the display. The fingerprint sensor is bonded to an inner surface of the display, through a bonding layer, and at least a portion of the bonding layer is expanded in a second direction different from a first direction facing the specified area and forms a protrusion structure to surround at least a portion of a side surface, which faces the second direction, of the fingerprint sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventors: Yunjang Jin, Suna Kim, Seyoung Jang, Cheolho Cheong, Chihyun Cho
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Patent number: 11651730Abstract: A display device includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a left data line and a right data line extending in a second direction and crossing the gate line, and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along the first and second directions, wherein the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the first direction are connected to a same gate line, and the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the second direction are alternately connected to the left data line and the right data line.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Boo-Heung Lee, Eui-Hyun Chung, Da-Hye Shim, Sung-Hun Kim
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Patent number: 11631356Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, the display panel includes a gate driving circuit, a first pixel module, and a second pixel module, the first pixel module includes a first pixel circuit, and the second pixel module includes a second pixel circuit; the gate driving circuit respectively provides corresponding gate driving signals for the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; in the first display region, the number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the first pixel module is greater than the maximum number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the second pixel module in the second display region; the display panel further includes a loading structure arranged in a non-display region; the load structure is electrically connected to the gate wiring; the gate wiring is wiring between the gate driving circuit and the second pixel circuit for providing the corresponding gate driving signals to the second pixel circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Hongfei Cheng, Yongda Ma
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Patent number: 11620956Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-region backlight control system, a multi-region backlight control method, a television and a readable storage medium. The multi-region backlight control system includes a color liquid crystal display screen, a non-color liquid crystal display screen, a first driver, a second driver, a constant backlight source, and a main controller; the color liquid crystal display screen and the non-color liquid crystal display screen are sequentially fixed on the constant backlight source, and the non-color liquid crystal display screen is disposed between the color liquid crystal display screen and the constant backlight source; the main controller is respectively connected with the first driver, the second driver and the constant backlight source, the first driver is electrically connected with the color liquid crystal display screen, and the second driver is electrically connected with the non-color liquid crystal display screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Xin Li, Wensheng Hong, Tiejun Lu
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Patent number: 11614803Abstract: A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
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Patent number: 11609616Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus including a first body, a second body, and a keyboard is provided. The second body is pivotally connected to the first body. The keyboard is disposed on the first body and includes a plurality of key structures. One of the key structures includes an elevating platform, a key cap, and a camera. The key cap is detachably mounted to the elevating platform, and the camera is mounted at one side of the key cap facing the elevating platform. After the camera is detached from the elevating platform together with the key cap, the camera is mounted and positioned to the second body together with the key cap, and at least a portion of the camera is exposed to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Hung-Chi Chen, Shun-Bin Chen, Huei-Ting Chuang, Kuo-Lun Huang
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Patent number: 11609611Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processor; a memory; first and second body portions coupled to each other by a hinge having a single rotation axis; a flexible display attached to at least one of the first or second body portions, the flexible display having parallel edges, the first body portion covering first opposing portions of the parallel edges, the second body portion covering second opposing portions of the parallel edges; and a flexible cover attached to the first body portion, the flexible cover extending to the second body portion and covering third opposing portions of the parallel edges.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Tsung Peng Lin
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Patent number: 11610428Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCEInventor: Joël-Yann Fourre
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Patent number: 11600685Abstract: A display panel includes an active area including pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other and data lines and gate lines arranged to be intersected; and shift registers supplying a gate pulse to each of the gate lines, wherein each of the shift registers includes GIP circuit portions dispersedly disposed in the active area; and GIP lines supplying a predetermined signal to the GIP circuit portions or connecting the GIP circuit portions with each other, the GIP lines being located between neighboring pixels along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyundong Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Youngin Jang
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Patent number: 11581051Abstract: A shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit, configured to input an input voltage provided by the input voltage terminal to an intermediate circuit under control of a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal; the intermediate circuit, configured to write a second clock signal output by the second clock signal terminal or a first power signal output by the first power terminal to the intermediate output terminal as an intermediate output signal under control of the input voltage and the control circuit; and an output circuit, configured to output an output signal, a phase of which is opposite to a phase of the intermediate output signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Can Zheng
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Patent number: 11545073Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels coupled to a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of emission control lines, a controller for determining a width of a gate-off section of an emission control signal, which corresponds to a non-emission section of each of a plurality of frames belonging to a dimming period, in response to a dimming signal, and an emission driver for supplying the emission control signal in units of a plurality of consecutive pixel rows through the plurality of emission control lines.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Seung Kyu Lee, Min Seong Son
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Patent number: 11545065Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim, Matthew J. Aprea
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Patent number: 11538395Abstract: A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to provide signals of the signal input terminal to the first control node, and provide signals of the first power supply terminal or the first clock signal terminal to the second control node. The first control circuit is configured to provide signals of the second power supply terminal or the second clock signal terminal to the first output terminal. The second control circuit is configured to provide signals of the first power supply terminal to the second output terminal. The output circuit is configured to provide signals of the second power supply terminal to the second output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Jiangnan Lu, Can Zheng, Hao Zhang, Long Han, Libin Liu, Shiming Shi, Dawei Wang
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Patent number: 11527826Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which an active area and a peripheral area are defined, and an antenna unit including a main pattern, a first sub-pattern, and an antenna line. The main pattern is disposed on the display panel in the active area, transmits and/or receives a signal, and operates at a first frequency. The first sub-pattern is disposed on the display panel in the active area, is spaced apart from the main pattern in a first direction, is capacitively coupled to the main pattern, and operates at a second frequency different from the first frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)Inventors: Gangil Byun, Jae-Kyoung Kim, Kiseo Kim, Wonsang Park, Jinmyeong Heo
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Patent number: 11521536Abstract: A display apparatus comprising a pixel provided on a substrate, the pixel including a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel which are arranged to be adjacent to each other and are configured to generate light components of colors different from each other, and the first, second and third subpixels comprise an organic compound layer including a light emission layer, wherein letting I1, I2, and I3 be driving current amounts of the first, second and third subpixels when generating white light of a predetermined luminance, if I1>I2>I3 holds, a current leakage between the first and third subpixels is limited as compared to that between the second and third subpixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yojiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 11514840Abstract: A light emission control driver includes stages, each including: an input circuit controlling voltages of first and second nodes (N1, N2) based on a first clock signal (CS) and one of a start signal and a carry signal; a first main circuit controlling a voltage of a third node (N3) based on the voltage of N1 and a second CS; a second main circuit controlling the voltage of N3 based on the voltage of N2; an output circuit controlling output of an emission control signal (ECS) based on the voltages of N2 and N3; a first auxiliary circuit controlling a low level output of the ECS from a first low level to a second low level based on the second CS; and a second auxiliary circuit controlling the low level output in a single step from a high level to the second low level based on the voltage of N2.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hwan Soo Jang