Patents Examined by Calvin C Ma
  • Patent number: 10923009
    Abstract: An image compensator includes: a shift path updater for updating a first preliminary shift direction of a fixed image included in an image in a preset first period according a first shift scenario, and updating a second preliminary shift direction of the fixed image in a preset second period according a second shift scenario; a shift direction determiner for correcting the first preliminary shift direction and the second preliminary shift direction respectively to a first target shift direction and a second target shift direction, based on a result obtained by comparing the first preliminary shift direction and the second preliminary shift direction; a first shift controller for performing a first image shift, based on the first target shift direction; and a second shift controller for performing a second image shift, based on the second target shift direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Gyu Lee, Byung Ki Chun
  • Patent number: 10916204
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electroluminescent display and a driving method thereof, the method comprising: generating a predicted value, indicating a degree of degradation of pixels, by accumulating pixel data of an input image at each pixel: and generating a compensation value by adjusting the predicted value to a current measurement value which is obtained by measuring a current in a power line connected to the pixels. Compensation data, which is to be written into each of the pixels, is generated by modulating the pixel data with the compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jooyoung An, Hyojung Park, Jeisung Lee, Euiyeol Oh
  • Patent number: 10915191
    Abstract: A touch substrate, a method for manufacturing a touch substrate, and a display device are disclosed. The touch substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of touch units spaced apart from each other on the substrate. The plurality of touch units are arranged in rows and columns. Each of the plurality of touch units includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged crosswise and insulated and spaced apart from each other. The first electrodes of the adjacent touch units in one of the columns are connected by a first signal line, and the second electrodes of the adjacent touch units in one of the rows are connected by a second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Tsungchieh Kuo, Lei Zhang, Jing Wang, Zouming Xu
  • Patent number: 10901288
    Abstract: A display device including a pair of substrates having surfaces facing each other and electrodes formed on the surfaces, respectively, a display medium having a memory effect and formed between the pair of substrates, and a drive unit that applies a drive voltage to the display medium. The display medium includes charged particles encapsulated therein such that movement of the charged particles based on a voltage applied by the drive unit provides display, and the charged particles include first particles for displaying a first color with application of a first voltage, second particles for displaying a second color with application of a second voltage having a polarity different from a polarity of the first voltage, and third particles for displaying a third color with application of a third voltage which has the same polarity as the polarity of the first voltage and an absolute value smaller than an absolute value of the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehisa Takada, Mamoru Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 10902796
    Abstract: Electronic equipment in a system such as a vehicle or building may include one or more displays. The displays may display image frames for users with light-modulating glasses. The image frames may include interspersed image frames corresponding to unique content for each of the users. Dummy frames may be incorporated into the displayed frames on the display to help obscure displayed content from external observers. The light-modulating glasses may have light modulators such as liquid crystal light modulators. Control circuitry in the glasses may adjust the light modulators to exhibit transparent intervals that overlaps desired image frames and opaque intervals that are aligned with other image frames and the dummy frames. This allows each user to view unique content on a shared display while preventing external observers without glasses from observing the content that is being presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Clarisse Mazuir, James R. Wilson
  • Patent number: 10895933
    Abstract: A timing control circuit and an operation method thereof are provided. The timing control circuit includes a receiving circuit, a line memory, and a timing generating circuit. The receiving circuit receives a video packet stream from the outside and provides an external horizontal sync signal and a first data signal. The line memory temporarily stores the first data signal, and outputs a second data signal to a source driver according to an internal horizontal sync signal generated by the timing generating circuit. A video frame period of the second data signal includes a video display operation period and a touch detection period. A video display operation period is divided into a plurality of sub-periods. The timing generating circuit performs a synchronization operation in each of the sub-periods, so as to synchronize the timing of the internal horizontal sync signal with the timing of the external horizontal sync signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 10891002
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control method and a touch display apparatus. The control method includes: dividing one frame into multiple sub-frames, wherein each sub-frame includes a display time period and a touch control time period; performing display scanning on a touch display apparatus in the display time period to display a picture; performing touch scanning on the touch display apparatus in the touch control time period to obtain a touch sensing signal; and obtaining touch sensing data according to the touch sensing signal and detecting touch according to the touch sensing data, wherein performing touch control scanning on the touch display apparatus includes: if no touch is detected in a preset time period, entering a first mode in which the multiple touch sensing channels are short-circuited and one of the multiple touch sensing channels is scanned in the touch control time period of one of the multiple sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CHIPONE TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pengfei Feng
  • Patent number: 10885853
    Abstract: A shift register and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register includes: an input sub-circuit configured to provide a signal at the signal input terminal to the pull-up node under control of the first clock signal terminal; an output sub-circuit configured to provide a clock signal at the second clock signal terminal to the signal output terminal under control of the pull-up node; and a pull-down sub-circuit configured to provide a signal at the power supply terminal to the signal output terminal under control of the third clock signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFIE BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Meng Li, Hongmin Li, Dong Wang, Fengjing Tang
  • Patent number: 10871820
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are electronic devices, and methods for their operation, that identify user inputs based on interaction of an object with input surfaces separate from the electronic devices. The electronic devices may include one or more self-mixing interferometry sensors that scan a field of view containing the input surface with a light beam, such as a laser beam emitted laser diode. Self-mixing of the emitted light with reflections can generate a self-mixing interferometry signal. Analysis of the self-mixing interferometry signal can allow for identification of an object, such as a user's finger, in the field of view. Deformation of the finger can be detected with the self-mixing interferometry sensor, and a user input identified therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Mutlu, Ahmet Fatih Cihan
  • Patent number: 10866481
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display system and a developing method are provided. The electrophoretic display system includes an electronic device storing a control ware, a first electrophoretic display device coupled to the electronic device and a first application program interface (API) provided by the control ware. A first application program loads a first image data into the control ware, and calls the first application program interface. The control ware obtains a first driver of a first communication protocol of the first electrophoretic display device according to the first API. The control ware encapsulates the first image data with a first data encapsulating format according to the first driver. The control ware transmits the encapsulated first image data to the first electrophoretic display device according to the first communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Ming Tseng, Yu-Hsun Kuo
  • Patent number: 10860152
    Abstract: A capacitance detection circuit, a touch apparatus, and a terminal device are provided. The capacitance detection circuit includes: a charging circuit, configured to charge a detection capacitor, so that a voltage difference value between two polar plates of the detection capacitor is a first preset voltage value; a discharging circuit, configured to cause the charged detection capacitor to release a first quantity of charges where the first charge quantity is smaller than a charge quantity corresponding to the first preset voltage value; and a signal detection circuit, configured to detect a voltage difference value between a voltage value on the detection capacitor after being discharged by the discharging circuit and a second preset voltage value to determine a capacitance change of the detection capacitor based on the voltage difference value. The capacitance detection circuit is capable of performing capacitance detection when the self-capacitance is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 10860126
    Abstract: A display device with built-in touch sensors comprises: a display panel with built-in touch sensors; and a touch driver that converts a sensed voltage of the touch sensors into sensed data, wherein the touch driver comprises: an enable signal generator that compares the sensed voltage with a preset offset voltage and outputs an enable signal at a first level if the sensed voltage is higher than or equal to the offset voltage and outputs the enable signal at a second level if the sensed voltage is lower than the offset voltage; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the sensed voltage into the sensed data when the enable signal is at the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joohee Lee, Moonsoo Chung, Yonghwa Park
  • Patent number: 10859824
    Abstract: A display device for head-up display forms an image with a view of an object from above in a vertical direction in a space outside the display device for an image which presents an object with a vertical direction. The object includes a reference surface that is a reference of the vertical direction. The display device forms the image so that an observer has a view from the upper part of the reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Mitsuru Okuda, Norikazu Kitamura, Yasuhiro Tanoue
  • Patent number: 10857885
    Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of a display includes a cover, a plurality of display panels that collectively establish a display area, and a polarizer between the display panels and the cover. The polarizer is coextensive with the entire display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: J. Roger Davis, John D. Newton
  • Patent number: 10861370
    Abstract: Provided are a driving circuit and driving method for a display panel, and a display device. The driving method of a display panel includes that: the display panel includes a base substrate, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanlines; the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanlines intersect to define a plurality of sub-pixels; each of pixel units is formed by adjacent N sub-pixels, a data line group is formed by every X data lines of the plurality of data lines connected to M columns of the pixel units, and the data line group is connected to a data signal output line through a multiplexer; the method further includes: controlling, through the multiplexer, data lines in a same data line group and corresponding to sub-pixels of a same color to continuously input data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingping Liu, Zhenqing Xie, Guozhao Chen
  • Patent number: 10832622
    Abstract: A driving method is provided for an electric-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, the method including dividing the plurality of display pixels into multiple groups of pixels, applying at least one waveform structure to the multiple groups of pixels, the at least one waveform structure having a driving section for updating the multiple groups of pixels, and updating the multiple groups of pixels in a contiguous fashion such that only one group of display pixels completes the driving section at any given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Emelie, Ana L. Lattes, Kenneth R. Crounse, Chih-Hsiang Ho
  • Patent number: 10831323
    Abstract: An input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system that is operable in at least a first mode or a second mode. The processing system is configured to receive an input current from a pair of the sensor electrodes. When operating the first mode, the processing system is configured to measure a capacitance across the pair of sensor electrodes based on the received input current. When operating the second mode, the processing system is configured to measure a resistance between the pair of sensor electrodes based on the received input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric Scott Bohannon, Steve Chikin Lo, Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 10831282
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for utilizing bone conduction to detect gestures. According to one aspect, a device can generate a signal and send the signal to a sensor network that is connected to a user. The device can receive a modified signal from the sensor network. The modified signal can include the signal as modified by a body of the user. The device can compare the modified signal to the signal to determine a difference in a feature between the signal and the modified signal. The device can determine a gesture performed by the user based upon the difference in the feature between the signal and the modified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Baldwin, Brian S. Amento
  • Patent number: 10810963
    Abstract: A shift register and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided, the shift register comprising: an input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a pull-down control sub-circuit, a pull-down sub-circuit, a first reset sub-circuit, and a second reset a sub-circuit, wherein the input sub-circuit and the output sub-circuit are electrically coupled to a pull-up node, the pull-down control sub-circuit, the pull-down sub-circuit, the first reset sub-circuit and the second reset sub-circuit are electrically coupled to a pull-down node, the first reset sub-circuit is electrically coupled to the input sub-circuit, and the second reset sub-circuit and the output sub-circuit are both electrically coupled to a signal output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 10809854
    Abstract: A system includes a screen, and a computer that detects an object near the screen through use of a camera on the object without using a visible code on the object and that sets up a dedicated link between the object and the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: T1V, INC.
    Inventors: James E. Morris, Michael R. Feldman