Patents Examined by Andrew Sasinowski
  • Patent number: 11776465
    Abstract: A display module is provided. The display module includes a module substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on an upper surface of the module substrate; and a plurality of micro pixel controllers, each of the plurality of micro pixel controllers being configured to control at least two pixels among the plurality of pixels and being provided in a space between the at least two pixels on the upper surface of the module substrate, wherein at least one of the plurality of micro pixel controllers includes a slope waveform generator configured to generate a slope waveform used to control a brightness of each of the at least two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangyoung Park, Daisuke Kawae, Junichi Yamashita, Jongsu Oh, Hoseop Lee, Tetsuya Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11769449
    Abstract: A pixel includes: a light emitting element; a first transistor connected between a first node electrically connected to a first driving power source and a second node electrically connected to an anode electrode of the light emitting element, the first transistor to control a driving current; a second transistor connected between a data line and the first node; a third transistor connected between the second node and a third node connected to a gate of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the third node and a first initialization power source; a fifth transistor connected between a second initialization power source and the anode electrode of the light emitting element, the fifth transistor being turned on by a scan signal provided to a scan line; and a boosting capacitor connected between the scan line and the third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Jang Mi Kang, Min Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11763735
    Abstract: An image display device includes a glass, a plurality of driving circuits disposed on the glass, and a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the driving circuits respectively. The plurality of light emitting elements corresponds to a plurality of pixels respectively. Each of the plurality of driving circuits is configured to provide a driving current to each of the plurality of light emitting elements and to control the driving current by a pulse amplitude modulation and a pulse width modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11763723
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a pixel which displays an image based on a first power voltage and a data signal, a gamma voltage generator which generates gamma voltages, and a data driver which generates the signal using the gamma voltages and provides the data signal to the pixel. The gamma voltage generator generates first and second reference voltages, generates first and second corrected reference voltages by correcting the first and second reference voltages using a target voltage and an external power voltage provided from the display unit in correspondence with the first power voltage, and generates the gamma voltages by dividing the first and second corrected reference voltages. The gamma voltage generator sets the target voltage based on at least one selected from the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage, and a ground voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Byung Chae, Su Bin Kim, Jin Young Jeon
  • Patent number: 11763737
    Abstract: A Micro-LED display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display region provided with pixel units, and includes a first voltage-main-line, a second voltage-main-line, a first input-unit, and a second input-unit. The first voltage-main-line and the second voltage-main-line each surround the display region. A first voltage-access-end of each pixel unit is electrically coupled with the first voltage-main-line nearby. A second voltage-access-end of each pixel unit is electrically coupled with the second voltage-main-line nearby. The first input-unit and the second input-unit are respectively located on a periphery of opposite sides of the display region in a first direction. The first input-unit and the second input-unit each are electrically coupled with the first voltage-main-line nearby, to supply a first voltage to the first voltage-main-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zeyao Li, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11763738
    Abstract: A display driver circuit of controlling a display panel includes an emission compensation circuit and an emission optimization circuit. The emission compensation circuit generates an emission compensation estimate according to at least a gray level, an initial emission duty cycle, and a pulse count of a number of emission pulses in a data frame of the display panel. The emission optimization circuit is coupled to the emission compensation circuit and generates a compensated emission signal according to the initial emission duty cycle and the emission compensation estimate, and drive the display panel according to the compensated emission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-I Wang, Yen-Tao Liao
  • Patent number: 11762478
    Abstract: A sensing and display apparatus, comprising: a first phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a first augmediated-reality space, and a second phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a second augmediated-reality space, is implemented as an extramissive spatial imaging digital eye glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Campfire 3D, Inc.
    Inventors: Meron Gribetz, W. Steve G. Mann
  • Patent number: 11755124
    Abstract: A physical keyboard can be used to collect user input in a typing mode or in a tracking mode. To use a tracking mode, first movement data is detected for a hand of a user in relation to a physical keyboard at a first location. A determination is made that the first movement data is associated with a tracking movement. In response to determining that the movement type is associated with the tracking movement, a tracking mode is initiated. User input is provided based on the movement data and in accordance with the tracking mode. Contact data and non-contact data is used to determine a user intent, and a user instruction is processed based on the user intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Stoppa, Waleed Abdulla, Henning Tjaden, Sree Harsha Kalli, Senem E. Emgin, John B. Morrell, Seung Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11756478
    Abstract: A driving circuit, a display panel, and a panel are provided. The driving circuit includes a substrate and signal lines and a plurality of load components disposed on the substrate. The plurality of load components are distributed along a first direction. Each of the load components is connected to the signal lines. The signal lines include at least two signal input terminals. Signals are loaded to signal lines through the at least two signal input terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haoran Li
  • Patent number: 11749177
    Abstract: In a display device and driving method thereof, a display device includes: a display panel including a pixel, the pixel including a light-emitting device (LED), the pixel receiving a data signal (DS) corresponding to a gate signal, the LED emitting light by a driving current flowing from a first power voltage to a second power voltage in response to the DS, the pixel receiving a reset voltage at least once after receiving one DS and before receiving a next DS, a data driver circuit supplying the DS to the pixel through a data line, a gate driver circuit for: supplying the gate signal to the pixel through a gate line, and outputting a light emission control signal for controlling supply of one of the reset voltage and the first power voltage to the LED, and a timing controller controlling the data driver circuit and the gate driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghun Yoon, Jaehyun You
  • Patent number: 11741883
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a pixel circuit, a control method thereof and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a first light-emitting element, a pixel drive circuit connected with the first light-emitting element, a repair branch circuit connected with a node between the pixel drive circuit and the first light-emitting element, wherein the repair branch circuit includes a switch circuit and a second light-emitting element connected in series, and the switch circuit controls a connection or disconnection of the second light-emitting element with the pixel drive circuit; a control circuit connected with a control terminal of the switch circuit, a first data terminal and a first control terminal, the control circuit is configured to write a signal of the first data terminal to the control terminal of the switch circuit under a control of the first control terminal to control on or off of the switch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongni Liu, Minghua Xuan, Li Xiao, Liang Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11741888
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LED display device, a driving method and a chip thereof. The LED display device comprises: a display array comprising row lines, column lines, and pixel units each comprising an LED connected to a corresponding one of the row lines and a corresponding one of the column lines; a row driver module, connected to the row lines and providing selection signals; a column driver module, connected to the column lines and providing driving signals corresponding to gray scale data according to pulse width modulation signals; a channel control module, connected to the column lines and adjusting a column-line voltage of a corresponding column line to a target voltage in a first time period when a corresponding pulse width modulation signal is active, thus improving constant current cut-in speed and improve consistency and linearity under low gray scale when an image with low gray scale is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CHIPONE TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhizheng Huang
  • Patent number: 11735118
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a power source configured to provide a high power voltage and a low power voltage to the pixels; a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixels through data lines; a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels through scan lines; a timing controller configured to provide control signals that control the power source, the data driver, and the scan driver; and an image processor configured to receive an HDR image signal by every frame, calculate an on-pixel ratio (OPR) that represents a ratio of a number of the pixels that turn on based on the HDR image signal to the number of all pixels included in the display panel, and control a brightness of the pixels that turn on based on the on-pixel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Jun Lee, Geunjeong Park
  • Patent number: 11727865
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode driver and a display apparatus using the same are provided. The light-emitting diode driver includes a driving module and a plurality of current control modules. The driving module includes a plurality of bias circuits and a plurality of resistive devices, in which any two of the bias circuits are electrically coupled to each other through at least one of the resistive devices. The current control modules are respectively coupled to the bias circuits, and each of the current control modules includes a current control circuit and a slew-rate enhancement circuit. The current control circuit is configured to output a driving current. The slew-rate enhancement circuit is electrically coupled to the current control circuit, so as to output a complementary current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Yang, Chia-So Chuang, Pin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11727840
    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: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungho Park, Guiwon Seo
  • Patent number: 11715416
    Abstract: A method for driving an active-matrix pixel array is provided. The method includes the following steps: during a first period, inputting a data signal into a control terminal of a second transistor of the each of pixel circuits from a first terminal of a first transistor of the each of the pixel circuits; during a second period, turning-on a third transistor of the each of the pixel circuits, so that a current generated by according to the data signal flows through the light emitting unit of the each of the pixel circuits; and during a third period, inputting a reset signal into the control terminal of the second transistor of the each of the pixel circuits from the first terminal of the first transistor of the each of the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Watsuda, Tzu-Min Yan, Tsau-Hua Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11699386
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of display areas, the display areas including scan lines, data lines, and pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines; a first source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a first display area from among the display areas; a second source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a second display area from among the display areas; a first scan driving circuit configured to receive a first clock signal from the first source driving circuit and to output first scan signals to a first group of scan lines from among the scan lines based on the first clock signal; and a second scan driving circuit configured to receive a second clock signal from the second source driving circuit and to output second scan signals to a second group of scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Sun Kwun Son, Na Hyeon Cha, Dong Hyeon Ki
  • Patent number: 11699385
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including pixels, wherein each of the pixels includes stacks connected in series and each of the stacks includes a light emitting element; a storage to store pieces of stack number information, wherein each of the pieces of the stack number information indicates the number of stacks constituting an effective light source from among the stacks for each of the pixels; a compensator to generate compensated data by compensating image data based on the pieces of the stack number information; and a data driver to generate data voltages based on the compensated data and to provide the data voltages to the display unit. The pixels are to emit light with luminances corresponding to the data voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Won Lee, Seok Young Yoon
  • Patent number: 11699380
    Abstract: An embodiment of a display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a data driver. In operation the driving controller determines a gain reducing area based on an edge load of input image data corresponding to an edge area of the display panel and compensates a grayscale value of the input image data corresponding to the gain reducing area to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heesook Park, Kihyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11694602
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel drive circuit and a display panel. The pixel drive circuit includes a Micro-LED, a cathode of which is grounded; a light-emitting control circuit connected with an anode of the Micro-LED and configured to control an emission time of the Micro-LED; a current control circuit connected with the light-emitting control circuit and configured to output a preset current to the light-emitting control circuit to control the Micro-LED to work under a set current density, and luminance efficiency of the Micro-LED under the set current density is greater than a set threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Cong, Ming Yang, Han Yue, Can Wang, Can Zhang, Jiao Zhao, Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen