Patents Examined by Andrew Sasinowski
  • Patent number: 11961435
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories. and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungho Park, Guiwon Seo
  • Patent number: 11962293
    Abstract: A passive sensor for detecting the operation of a light source includes a photosensor which, when illuminated by the light source, delivers a voltage to a field effect transistor (FET) which can switch a circuit to control a device at a remote location. The FET transitions rapidly between very low resistance (short circuit) and very high resistance (open circuit), allowing a binary indication to be given in the circuit. The circuit can be used to charge an electrical storage device to allow later download of recent status of the lamp by detecting the charge stored in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Zoualfaghari, Michael Fisher, Ian Neild, Michael Williamson
  • Patent number: 11955062
    Abstract: Provided are a display driving method and apparatus, and a display panel and an electronic device. The display driving method is applied to a display panel, and comprises: determining a first charging duration of each display point on the basis of a preset position, in a display panel, of each display point in the display panel; generating, according to the first charging duration of each display point, a display control signal corresponding to each display point; and adjusting a second charging duration of each display point according to the display control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Li-Tang Lin, Chia-Wei Su
  • Patent number: 11955055
    Abstract: A display panel driving method includes: obtaining a target grayscale value of each pixel unit in picture data of a frame to be displayed; determining, based on the target grayscale value of the pixel unit in the picture data of the frame to be displayed, a target pixel unit row that needs luminance compensation in the frame to be displayed; and if a display panel is driven to display a picture of the frame to be displayed, when a non-target pixel unit row is scanned, outputting, through scanning lines corresponding to the non-target pixel unit row, scanning signals with turn-on voltages each equal to a first turn-on voltage; and when a target pixel unit row is scanned, outputting, through scanning lines corresponding to the target pixel unit row, scanning signals with turn-on voltages higher than the first turn-on voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peidi Huang, Tao Gu, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11955040
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes an array substrate and at least two driving units. The array substrate includes a peripheral region and a display region, the array substrate further includes a peripheral grounding line and a test line, wherein the peripheral grounding line is located in the peripheral region, and the test line is located in the peripheral region. The at least two driving units are located on at least one side of the array substrate, the driving unit includes at least two grounding pins, a grounding pin of at least one of the driving units is connected to the peripheral grounding line, and each of at least one grounding pin of one of two adjacent driving units is electrically connected to a corresponding grounding pin of the other adjacent driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingqing Yang, Wenkai Mu, Haoliang Ji, Bo Feng, Xiaoxiao Chen, Tianxin Zhao, Ji Dong, Zhiying Bao, Wenjun Xiao, Yang Wang, Shijun Wang, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11948498
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting device, a first transistor, and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and the light-emitting device and including a gate electrode which receives the emission control signal. When a driving frequency is a second frequency less than a first frequency, one frame includes an active period and a blank period, and during the active period, a pulse width of the emission control signal has a first value, and during the blank period, the pulse width of the emission control signal has a second value different from the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihye Kim, Yu-Chol Kim, Seongoh Yeom, Jakyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 11935572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information storage medium and a method for long-term storage of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Pflaum, Martin Kunze
  • Patent number: 11934278
    Abstract: A data storage library is described that protects against a malware attack by providing a scheduled write window of time where archive data can be written to tape cartridges in the tape library on behalf of a client. At times outside of the write window, the tape library is disabled from writing any archive data to any of the tape cartridges in the tape library. Accordingly, the tape library is protected from a malicious entity attempting to download malware to tape cartridges in the tape library outside of the designated write windows. The tape library is configured to provide or otherwise read archived data from a tape cartridge both in the write window and outside of the write window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Christopher Thompson, Matthew Thomas Starr, Matthew Ninesling, Walter Wong
  • Patent number: 11935559
    Abstract: This magnetic disk device is a 3.5-inch magnetic disk device equipped with magnetic disks formed from an aluminum alloy substrate. The magnetic disks arranged in a stacked manner have a thickness Td of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm, the number N of magnetic disks involved is 10 to 16, and spacers disposed between the magnetic disks have an outside diameter 2 Rso of 35 mm to 65 mm. The outside diameter 2 Rso (mm) of the spacers satisfies 2 Rso??60 Td+70 and 2 Rso??0.5 N2?+16.5 N?73.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Kitamura, Kotaro Kitawaki, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Ryohei Yamada, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11935463
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes: a light emitting diode at a display area, and including an anode and a cathode; a pixel circuit at the display area, and to transmit an output current to the anode of the light emitting diode; a repair line extending in a first direction; a repair pixel circuit connected to the repair line; a bridge including one end overlapping with the repair line; and a connecting portion connected to the anode, and including one end overlapping with the bridge. The bridge is not connected to the repair line, the connecting portion, and the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Minku Lee, Seunghee Lee
  • Patent number: 11929586
    Abstract: A method of delivering optical energy to a substrate comprises applying a temporal group of optical pulses to a region of the substrate, wherein the temporal group comprises twenty or fewer pulses of a femtosecond pulse duration, arranged as a first subgroup of pulses comprising up to three pulses followed by a second subgroup of pulses comprising the remaining pulses in the temporal group; and wherein energies of the pulses are controlled such that pulses in the first subgroup have a first energy per pulse and pulses in a second subgroup of pulses have a second energy per pulse which is less than the first energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Masaaki Sakakura, Yanhao Yu, Peter Kazansky, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11929017
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device comprises a stage, a panel cell disposed on the stage and including a first alignment line, and a second alignment line extending parallel to the first alignment line, a field application part providing an alignment signal to the first alignment line and the second alignment line of the panel cell, and light-emitting elements aligned between the first alignment line and the second alignment line. The field application part provides an alignment signal to the first alignment line and the second alignment line, the alignment signal having the same positive integral value and negative integral value, having a different positive peak voltage from the alignment signal's negative peak voltage, and having a different positive pulse width from the alignment signal's negative pulse width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joo Nyung Jang
  • Patent number: 11922863
    Abstract: A display panel and a pixel circuit thereof are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving current generator, a pulse width signal generator, a voltage provider, and a current enabler. The driving current generator provides a driving current. The pulse width signal generator includes an output switch. The output switch is controlled by a control signal, and provides a pulse width signal according to the control signal. The voltage provider adjusts the control signal according to a data write-in signal and a pulse width modulation enable signal. The current enabler provides the driving current to a lighting component according to the pulse width signal and an amplitude modulation enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Che-Wei Tung, Mei-Yi Li, Che-Chia Chang, Yu-Chieh Kuo, Yu-Zuo Lin
  • Patent number: 11922983
    Abstract: The technology of this application relates to a data read/write apparatus and an electronic device, which relate to the data storage field, and can improve data read/write performance. The data read/write apparatus includes a first laser, configured to output a first optical pulse based on a control signal, where the control signal is a signal obtained based on to-be-written data, a dispersion compensator, configured to perform dispersion compensation on the first optical pulse to output a second optical pulse, and an optical fiber lens, connected to the dispersion compensator by using an optical fiber, and configured to focus the second optical pulse onto an optical storage medium, to write the to-be-written data to the optical storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Xu, Yuhao Zou, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 11922865
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel that emits light toward an upper side, a second pixel that emits light toward a lower side, a plurality of lines and a pad electrode. The first pixel includes a first light emitting element, a first pixel circuit connected to the first light emitting element and some of the plurality of lines and a bottom reflective layer that is under the first light emitting element to overlap the first light emitting element and has a greater size than the first light emitting element. The second pixel includes a second light emitting element, a second pixel circuit connected to the second light emitting element and the others of the plurality of lines, and a top reflective layer that on the second light emitting element to overlap the second light emitting element and has a greater size than the second light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HyeonHo Son
  • Patent number: 11907048
    Abstract: A tool for scaling media utilizing healthy regions of a data storage cartridge. The tool determines a health status index for one or more regions of a data storage cartridge. The tool records the health status index to a cartridge memory and housekeeping dataset of the data storage cartridge. The tool determines one or more available regions of the data storage cartridge, based, at least in part, on a capacity designation and the health status index for the one or more regions. The tool returns the one or more available regions and a reduced capacity for the data storage cartridge to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Setsuko Masuda, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Tatsuki Sawada
  • Patent number: 11907022
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for physical keyboards with multi-display computing devices. An example keyboard includes a plurality of keys and a translucent backplate having a first side and a second side. The example keyboard also includes a coating between the first side of the backplate and the plurality of keys, the coating to pass light to illuminate the plurality of keys, and the coating to obscure the plurality keys when viewed from the second side of the backplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Ku, Tim Liu, Yihua Lai, Lance Lin, Gavin Sung
  • Patent number: 11908386
    Abstract: A display apparatus, including a display panel which includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines, and a plurality of sub-pixel circuits, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements, and wherein each sub-pixel circuit of the plurality of sub-pixel circuits corresponds to an inorganic light emitting element of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a driver configured to drive the plurality of sub-pixel circuits so that the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements emit light a plurality of times in an order of the plurality of row lines based on an image data voltage corresponding to one image frame, wherein the each sub-pixel circuit includes a discharge transistor configured to remove a potential difference between both ends of a corresponding inorganic light emitting element based on a predetermined cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Seungran Park, Donggun Oh, Jongsu Oh
  • Patent number: 11908392
    Abstract: A display device including: a first transistor configured to control a control current based on a voltage of a first node; a second transistor configured to electrically connect a second node that is a first electrode of the first transistor to a first data line in response to a scan write signal; a third transistor configured to control a driving current based on a voltage of a third node; a fourth transistor configured to electrically connect a fourth node that is a first electrode of the third transistor to a second data line in response to the scan write signal; a fifth transistor configured to control the driving current based on a voltage of a fifth node having received the control current; and a light emitting element configured to receive the driving current, wherein the fifth transistor is of a different type from that of the first to fourth transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ki Jeong, Hyun Joon Kim, Jung Hwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 11900012
    Abstract: A method performed by a portable media player device. The method receives a microphone signal that includes audio content output by an audio playback device via a loudspeaker. The method determines identification information regarding the audio content, wherein the identification information is determined through an acoustic signal analysis of the microphone signal. In response to determining that the audio playback device has ceased outputting the audio content, the method retrieves from local memory of the portable media player device or a remote device with which the portable media player device is communicatively coupled, an audio signal that corresponds to the audio content and drives a speaker that is not part of the audio playback device using the audio signal to continue outputting the audio content and any additional audio content related to the audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Tomlinson Holman