Patents Examined by Benjamin C. Lee
  • Patent number: 12205516
    Abstract: The present application relates to light-emitting diode (LED) driver circuits, display devices, and display systems. An example LED driver circuit includes: a driver including a plurality of data channels; a controller electrically connected to the driver. The controller is configured to, in response to detecting that data in all the data channels is 0 in a predetermined time period, control all the data channels to be in a closed state. The predetermined time period is determined based on a duration of an external input signal input to the LED driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanru Zhang, Zhizheng Huang, Jingshuai Wang
  • Patent number: 12205554
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus has a three-TFT structure in which each of pixels includes a first liquid crystal capacitor including a first pixel electrode, a second liquid crystal capacitor including a second pixel electrode, a first TFT including a drain electrode connected to the first pixel electrode, a second TFT including a drain electrode connected to the second pixel electrode, and a buffer capacitor including a buffer capacitor electrode connected to the second pixel electrode via a third TFT. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, a configuration is adopted in which a gate scanning signal is independently supplied to a plurality of gate bus lines one by one, and a sub-gate-on pulse is substantially simultaneously applied to the third TFTs belonging to at least two pixel rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12198609
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first region and a second region, a first driver circuit, a first driver circuit, a function component, a function hole and a virtual hole. The first region includes a pixel unit. The first driver circuit is located in the second region and includes a first drive signal output terminal, where the first drive signal output terminal is configured to provide a first drive signal for the pixel unit in the first region. The function component includes a first function layer, a second function layer and a preset dielectric layer located between the first function layer and the second function layer. The function hole penetrates through the preset dielectric layer and is configured to connect the first function layer to the second function layer. The virtual hole penetrates through the preset dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaxiang Dai, Ping An
  • Patent number: 12198622
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and pixel circuits. The display area includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area is used as an optical element reservation area. The pixel circuits include a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first display area includes minimum repeating units. One of the minimum repeating units includes first light-emitting elements of at least three different colors. Multiple first light-emitting elements include a light-emitting element of a first color, a light-emitting element of a second color, and a light-emitting element of a third color. The first pixel circuit is configured to drive first light-emitting elements to emit light. In at least one minimum repeating unit, at least two first light-emitting elements of at least one same color are electrically connected to a same first pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Hao Dai
  • Patent number: 12175919
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for refreshing an LED display. A signal signaling a timing for refreshing the LED display is received. In response to the signal, a bit-based image block is retrieved from one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a read buffer pointer, which is then toggled to point at the other of the pair of alternate buffers. The bits in the bit-based image block are sequenced in accordance with a connection pattern in which lights of the LED display are connected to generate sequenced image bits for the bit-based image block and control signals are generated for refreshing the lights of the LED display based on the sequenced image bits. The alights of the LED display re the refreshed based on the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ALPHASCALE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Qi Dong, Minglang Wang, Gufeng Xi
  • Patent number: 12170058
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The image display apparatus includes a display, an image receiver configured to receive an input image, and a signal processing device configured to perform signal processing of the input image from the image receiver and to output image data to the display, wherein, when a luminance deviation of a first input image is greater than a luminance deviation of a second input image, the signal processing device controls a luminance adjustment change rate of a first input image to be less than a luminance adjustment change rate of the second input image. Accordingly, contrast of an image displayed on the display is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungwook Lee, Jongmin Park
  • Patent number: 12165556
    Abstract: A display device includes a display part, a degradation compensator that generates a first compensated grayscale value by compensating for a first grayscale value corresponding to a first pixel, and generates a second compensated grayscale value by compensating for a second grayscale value corresponding to a second pixel, and a data driver that generates a first data signal based on the first compensated grayscale value to supply the first data signal to the first pixel, and generates a second data signal based on the second compensated grayscale value to supply the second data signal to the second pixel. A second degradation curve is defined by a first degradation coefficient corresponding to a first degradation curve, and a second degradation coefficient corresponding to a first estimated degradation curve for the light conversion particles of a second color calculated by applying the first degradation curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Ha Hong, Joon Chul Goh, Dong Joon Kwag, Hyung Jin Kim, Ji Eun Park, Jae Sung Bae, Young Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 12165609
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel in which transistors in an input pull-up module, a stage transfer output module, and an output pull-up module are provided as P-type low temperature polysilicon thin film transistors, and a transistor in an output pull-down module is provided as an N-type metal oxide thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiming Cao, Chao Tian, Yanqing Guan, Fei Ai, Guanghui Liu, Zhifu Li
  • Patent number: 12150369
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device, a test method, and a crack detection method. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a plurality of sub-pixels in the display area; a plurality of data signal lines in the display area and electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels; a plurality of signal transmission lines in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the plurality of data signal lines; a plurality of multiplexers in the peripheral area; and a first test circuit on a side of the plurality of multiplexers away from the plurality of sub-pixels. The first test circuit includes a plurality of test components, each of at least a portion of the plurality of test components being electrically connected to at least two multiplexers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Linhong Han, Meng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Pengfei Yu, Shikai Qin
  • Patent number: 12141397
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a display driver integrated circuit (IC) (DDI) configured to output a synchronization signal corresponding to update of a screen to be displayed on the display, and a touch circuit including a touch sensor and a touch sensor IC, wherein the touch sensor IC is configured to when a synchronization signal corresponding to a first display update frequency is received from the DDI, apply a first driving signal to the touch sensor on the basis of an interval in which the synchronization signal is applied, and when a synchronization signal corresponding to a second display update frequency is received from the DDI, apply a second driving signal to the touch sensor during a designated active interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Ko, Bongjun Ko
  • Patent number: 12141379
    Abstract: A stylus pen including a pen unit, a switch, and a control unit is provided. The pen unit includes a tip, and a shaft connected to the tip. The control unit is switchable between a default mode and an alternative mode in response to operation on the switch. In the default mode, the control unit emits a default-mode wave of a default-mode frequency to the shaft. In the alternative mode, the control unit emits an alternative-mode wave to the shaft in a pulsating pattern. The pulsating pattern has a wave period that includes a working period where the control unit emits the alternative-mode wave of the default-mode frequency, and a non-working period where the control unit stops emitting the alternative-mode wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sunrex Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Cheng Lee, Wen-Hao Kuo, Jyun-Ying Jin
  • Patent number: 12133432
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a first display region and a second display region; the first display region is located at a periphery of the second display region; the first display region includes first light-emitting elements, first pixel circuits, second pixel circuits, and third pixel circuits; the second display region includes second light-emitting elements; the second pixel circuits are connected with the second light-emitting elements; the third pixel circuit is a dummy pixel circuit. The display substrate further includes first data lines and second data lines, the first data lines are configured to be connected with the first pixel circuits, and the second data lines are configured to be connected with at least the second pixel circuits. Part of the third pixel circuits overlap with the second data lines are insulated from the second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yudiao Cheng, Binyan Wang, Yue Long, Weiyun Huang
  • Patent number: 12130962
    Abstract: First media content including text is presented on a display. User expressions of a user, including eye movement, are tracked by an image detector while the user is reading the text of the first media content. User expression data is generated based on the user expressions of the user. A determination can be made as to whether the user expression data indicates that the user gazes at a portion of the text presented on the display for a period exceeding a threshold value. Responsive to determining that the user expression data indicates that the user gazes at a portion of the text presented on the display for a period exceeding a threshold value, one or more actions can be automatically initiated. For example, additional media content that provides further explanation of the media content can be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Subil M. Abraham, James P. Appleyard, Pratik A. Naik
  • Patent number: 12131685
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resetting control signal generation circuitry, a resetting control signal generation method, a resetting control signal generation module and a display device. The resetting control signal generation circuitry includes a resetting control signal output end, a first node control circuitry, a second node control circuitry, a first output circuitry and a second output circuitry. The first output circuitry is configured to enable the resetting control signal output end to be electrically coupled to or electrically decoupled from a first voltage end under the control of a potential at a first node. The second output circuitry is configured to enable the resetting control signal output end to be electrically coupled to or electrically decoupled from a second voltage end under the control of a potential at a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuang Zhao, Wenbo Chen, Zhongliu Yang, Chenyu Chen, Hongting Lu, Jing Yang, Yanping Ren
  • Patent number: 12123781
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an electronic device, a method and an apparatus for measuring color temperature of ambient light, and a storage medium. The electronic device can include a display screen, a first color temperature sensor and a second color temperature sensor that are arranged side by side under the display screen, and a filter element that is located between the second color temperature sensor and the display screen to filter ambient light incident on the second color temperature sensor. The device can further include a processing element that is connected with the first color temperature sensor and the second color temperature sensor respectively to determine ambient light color temperature of an environment where the electronic device is located according to a first color temperature signal value detected by the first color temperature sensor and a second color temperature signal value detected by the second color temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Guo
  • Patent number: 12124665
    Abstract: A human-machine interface device includes a touch panel having a front surface intended to be visible to a user and a rear surface, the touch panel being configured to detect an interaction of the user with the touch panel and being resiliently deformable, and a plurality of actuators arranged behind the touch panel, each actuator being controllable between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration wherein the actuator deforms an area of the touch panel located opposite the actuator by forming a bump protruding from the front surface of the touch panel. The human-machine interface device has at least one configuration wherein several actuators in the extended position together define a single control element protruding from the front surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Omar Ben Abdelaziz, Adnen Nouri, Amine Ben Mhamed
  • Patent number: 12118934
    Abstract: A display device, by detecting a subpixel which is a defect by using an electronic fuse electrically connected to a driving transistor disposed on a subpixel and performing a repair, a display device being capable of detecting a defect and repairing by a circuit driving of the subpixel can be provided. Thus, even in the case that a repair by a physical method is not possible according to types of the display device, by detecting a defect of the subpixel and performing a repair, an image quality deterioration due to the defect of the subpixel can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: UnSang Yu, Bongchoon Kwak
  • Patent number: 12118929
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, and the data driver pauses a data latch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Chul Ha, Jin Cheol Hong
  • Patent number: 12112688
    Abstract: A display apparatus may include a display panel including a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) pixels; a panel driver configured to provide a driving signal to the display panel to drive the display panel; a memory storing heating characteristic information of each of a red (R) sub-pixel, a green (G) sub-pixel, and a blue (B) sub-pixel included in each of the plurality of LED pixels; and a processor configured to: obtain an average brightness value corresponding to an input image based on a gray level value of the input image, obtain heating estimation data of the input image based on the gray level value of the input image and the heating characteristic information stored in the memory, modify the obtained average brightness value based on the heating estimation data, and control the panel driver based on the modified average brightness value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohjae Kwon, Jinyong Park, Hwaseok Seong, Jinsung Kang
  • Patent number: 12105924
    Abstract: In a display device according to the present disclosure, the display device includes a display panel and an input sensor layer. The display panel includes a display area that includes a first area through which an optical signal passes and a second area by which the optical signal is blocked. The first area includes a first sub-area having a first light transmittance and a second sub-area having a second light transmittance lower than the first light transmittance. The input sensor layer includes a first sensing pattern that overlaps the second area and includes first openings, and a second sensing pattern that overlaps the first area. The second sensing pattern includes second openings that overlap the second sub-area and are larger than the first openings, and at least one third opening that overlaps the first sub-area and is larger than the second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kicheol Kim, Minjoo Kim, Chiwook An, Hyeonbum Lee