Patents Examined by Antonio Xavier
  • Patent number: 11423828
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) display driver circuit includes: a set of channels, each channel of the set of channels having a respective current control circuit; and control circuitry coupled to each respective current control circuit and configured to adjust a respective control signal to each respective current control circuit responsive to an LED brightness estimate for each channel of the set of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Haibin Shao, Yan He, Qingjie Ma, Wei Xu
  • Patent number: 11404015
    Abstract: A display device includes a light control panel and a liquid crystal display panel laminated one on another. The liquid crystal display panel includes one or more first photosensitive thin film transistor for detecting an environmental brightness value of the display device. Each first photosensitive thin film transistor includes a control electrode, an input end and an output end, the liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of first shift register units, the control electrode of each first photosensitive thin film transistor is coupled to a clock signal line of each first shift register unit, the input end of each first photosensitive thin film transistor is coupled to a deflection reference voltage signal line of the liquid crystal display panel, and the output end of each first photosensitive thin film transistor is coupled to a first output signal line of the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shou Li, Jian Zhang, Zhanchang Bu, Bo Li, Luqiang Guo, Zhiming Meng
  • Patent number: 11404025
    Abstract: A video processing system includes an input port and a video processing circuit. The input port obtains device information of a display panel. The video processing circuit obtains an input frame and the device information, configures an image enhancement operation according to the device information, generates an output frame by performing the image enhancement operation upon the input frame, and transmits the output frame to the display panel for video playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Lung Jen, Pei-Kuei Tsung, Chih-Wen Goo, Yu-Cheng Tseng, Yu-Lin Hou, Kuo-Chiang Lo, Chia-Da Lee, Tung-Chien Chen
  • Patent number: 11403869
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application discloses an optical fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device, which can improve performance of the optical fingerprint identification apparatus. The optical fingerprint identification apparatus includes: a light detection array; a filter layer, disposed above the light detection array, where the filter layer is integrated with the light detection array in a photosensor chip; a first light blocking layer formed above the filter layer, where the first light blocking layer is provided with a plurality of light passing holes; and a first microlens array disposed above the first light blocking layer, where the first microlens array is configured to converge the optical signal to the plurality of light passing holes of the first light blocking layer, and the optical signal is transmitted to the light detection array through the plurality of light passing holes of the first light blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baoquan Wu, Sichao Zhang, Wei Long
  • Patent number: 11404026
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of display panels arranged adjacent to each other and each display panel including first pixels in the display panel and second pixels in the display panel and adjacent to a boundary area of the display panels, and a luminance correction unit configured to generate a correction grayscale value for the second pixel. The luminance correction unit includes an image mapping unit configured to map a captured luminance image to a unit pixel image, a de-blurring unit configured to perform a de-blurring operation on the mapped unit pixel image to calculate a correction luminance value for the second pixel, and a correction unit configured to calculate a correction grayscale value for the second pixel corresponding to the calculated correction luminance value of the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Yun Kim, Sang Cheol Park, Si Hun Jang, Min Gyu Kim, Hee Joon Kim, Jun Pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11393411
    Abstract: A multi-display system includes: a master display device; a first slave display device; an optical measuring instrument to measure luminance and color displayed by a first image display unit of the master display device; and a deterioration factor calculating unit to calculate a deterioration factor on the basis of a first set of measurement parameters, which represent the luminance and the color measured by the optical measuring instrument, and of initial values of the first set of measurement parameters. The master display device performs adjustment on the basis of the first set of measurement parameters. The first slave display device performs adjustment on the basis of a second set of measurement parameters of a second image display unit of the first slave display device, wherein the second set of measurement parameters are calculated from the deterioration factor and from initial values of the second set of measurement parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11386692
    Abstract: A display panel has a light-exit side and a non-light-exit side opposite to the light-exit side. A direction pointing to the non-light-exit side from the light-exit side is a first direction. In the first direction, the display panel includes a coded aperture mask layer and an optical sensing layer. The coded aperture mask layer includes a plurality of first light-transmission portions and a plurality of first light-shielding portions. The coded aperture mask layer is configured to form at least one part of a coded aperture array. The optical sensing layer includes a plurality of optical sensors. The optical sensing layer is configured to receive texture recognition light passed through the coded aperture array and convert optical signals of the texture recognition light into electrical signals. The texture recognition light is light carrying information about a texture to be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangbing Li, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Pengpeng Wang, Jiabin Wang, Ping Zhang, Likai Deng, Yapeng Li, Chihjen Cheng, Yanling Han, Xueyou Cao
  • Patent number: 11385790
    Abstract: A user interface verification device and a method of use is presented for recognizing a three-hand gesture on a touchscreen of the device. The gesture is recognized by detecting a plurality of contact points in at least two, disparate touching zones, and simultaneously detecting additional contact points in a third, disparate touching zone. In one embodiment, the device displays content in a review mode that can be reviewed in a normal manner. In the execution mode, the device requires a signature, a touch, or another sign of acceptance involving a touch within the third touching zone. The device can ensure that a customer directly provides consent by requiring that the two, multi-point touching zones are tactilely engaged by both hands of a presenter while in the execution mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BBY Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan R. Buettner
  • Patent number: 11380237
    Abstract: The display device comprises a light source device, an image pre-processing controller, and a light modulation device. The light source device emits first light and second light, wherein a color gamut range of the second light is wider than that of the first light. The image pre-processing controller acquires a color gamut range of the image to be displayed and a brightness value of each pixel based on original image data of an image data to be displayed, and determines a current color gamut range and controls the light source device to emit first light and the second light corresponding to amount of light required in the current color gamut range. The light modulation device modulates the light emitted by the light source device to generate image light of the image to be displayed based on image data corresponding to the current color gamut range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Xin Yu, Fei Hu, Zu-Qiang Guo, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11373621
    Abstract: A display device (101) includes: an output luminance calculation section (83) configured to generate an output luminance for an input luminance for a first reference point residing in a low luminance region, an output luminance for an input luminance for a second reference point residing in a high luminance region, and an output luminance for an input luminance for a third reference point residing between the first and second reference points in such a manner that a straight line connecting the first and third reference points has a different slope than does a straight line connecting the third and second reference points; and a luminance conversion section (85) configured to convert input luminances in the input image to output luminances based on a gamma curve specified using the input and output luminances for the first, second, and third reference points, to output the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 11373432
    Abstract: An electronic device viewable from a viewing side is disclosed. The electronic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display unit, a sensor unit and a first light blocking layer. The second substrate is disposed between the first substrate and a viewing side of the electronic device. The display unit is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sensor unit is disposed on the second substrate. The first light blocking layer is disposed between the sensor unit and the viewing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee, Nai-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11367392
    Abstract: A method and system determine the characteristics of drive devices and load devices in selected pixels in an array of pixels in a display in which each pixel includes a drive device for supplying current to a load device. The method and system supply current to the load device via the drive device in a selected pixel, the current being a function of a current effective characteristic of at least one of the drive device and the load device; measure the current via a measurement line that is shared by adjacent pixels, and extract the value of a selected effective characteristic of one of the drive and load devices from the effect of the current on another of the drive and load devices. Current may be measured via a read transistor in each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Yaser Azizi, Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11361731
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a display device. The display device may include a display panel including a plurality of unit blocks disposed in a display area, the plurality of unit blocks including a first area displaying a logo or a banner, a second area having largest load value and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area, a display panel driver configured to generate data voltages based on input image data, and a zonal compensator configured to receive the input image data, to calculate load values of the input image data for the plurality of unit blocks, respectively, and to control luminance of each of the first area and the third area based on a location difference between the first area and the second area and a load value difference between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Eun Jin Choi, Won Jin Seo, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11355084
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a controller and a display panel displaying an image. The controller includes a detector, a compensator, and a converter. The detector separates image data into first image data corresponding to a first image recognized as a non-afterimage component and second image data corresponding to a second image recognized as an afterimage component using a pre-trained deep neural network. The compensator outputs a compensation signal to control a luminance value of the second image data. The converter converts the first image data to first converted image data and converting the second image data to second converted image data based on the compensation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Masahiko Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 11348533
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels, where each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to associated thin-film transistors. The thin-film transistors may be controlled using at least first and second horizontal scan line signals. Loading different data values into any given row in the array may cause the scan line signals to exhibit varying rise/fall times, which results in horizontal crosstalk and luminance non-uniformity across the display. The rise and fall times of the second scan line signal are crucial, so the second scan line signal is driven by two separate scan line drivers formed on both sides of the display. Only the fall time of the first scan line signal is crucial, so the first scan line signal is driven by only one peripheral scan line driver and is coupled to an auxiliary pull-down circuit that is only activated during the pull-down transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chin-Wei Lin, Gihoon Choo, Shiping Shen, Jie Won Ryu, Zino Lee, Hassan Edrees, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 11348470
    Abstract: An aircraft display control system is disclosed. The system comprises one or more displays configured to present a video stream of a surrounding environment to a user of the aircraft, image sensors configured to generate images of the surrounding environment, and a controller configured to execute an enhanced vision system (EVS) module, a synthetic vision system (SVS) module, a combined vision system (CVS) module and a brightness equalization module. The brightness equalization module measures an apparent brightness of a first frame of the video stream and applies a sigmoid transform function to equalize grayscale levels of a second frame of the video stream based on the apparent brightness of the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Irina R. Sandu, Zoubair Entezari, Alexander D. Reid, Usama Gheblawi, Daniel Y. Chiew
  • Patent number: 11347056
    Abstract: A color correction mask programmatically generated in software on an HMD device is applied to a gaze region on a display field of view (FOV) on a head-mounted display (HMD) device to optimize system resources while rendering a display. Eye monitoring sensors are utilized to track movement of a user's eyes while the user operates the HMD device to determine a gaze position of the user's eyes on the display FOV. Using the determined gaze position, a dynamic foveal gaze region is sized around the gaze position so that the foveal portion of the display FOV is color-corrected, that is, color non-uniformities are reduced or eliminated. In other implementations, a gaze-based weighting mode is implemented in which measurements of the user's full eye or eye orbit are utilized to color correct a larger surface area of the display FOV relative to the foveal color correction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven John Robbins, Christopher Charles Aholt, Andrew Kilgour Juenger, Nicholas Mark Cirucci
  • Patent number: 11337474
    Abstract: A panel of a vehicle may be provided with or configured to provide interactive skin. The interactive skin may be configured for accepting touch input from a user. The interactive skin may include one or more flexible layers and may include or be mounted under a transparent display cover layer such as a layer of clear glass or plastic. Interactive skin may include a touch-sensitive layer that allows a user to provide touch input to the panel of the vehicle. Display pixels on interactive skin may be used to display visual information to the user. The interactive skin may be configured for detecting a condition of at least one panel and generating an output function in response to the detected condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: INTERACTIVE SKIN, INC.
    Inventor: Paul R. Juhasz
  • Patent number: 11334114
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a cover glass disposed on the display panel, and a biometric sensor device disposed below the display panel. The biometric sensor device includes a printed circuit board, a biometric sensor disposed on the printed circuit board, and a housing disposed on the printed circuit board and in which an opening is formed. The biometric sensor is disposed in the opening of the housing and is attached to a surface of the display panel through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Park, Ji Hun Heo, Joo Han Kim, Jin Man Kim, Bong Jae Rhee, Se Young Jang
  • Patent number: 11334308
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device including a display circuit, a sensor, a light control circuit and a processing circuit. The display unit includes a first display unit and a second display unit adjacent to the first display unit. The sensor obtains a first brightness value of the first display unit and a second brightness value of the second display unit. The light control circuit adjusts the light transmittance of multiple light control units of the light control circuit. The processing circuit calculates a brightness difference ratio value according to the first brightness value and the second brightness value. When the brightness difference ratio value is greater than a threshold value, the processing circuit adjusts a light control signal to change the light transmittance corresponding to the position of the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Ta Yu