Patents Examined by Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 10878779
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of establishing overdrive lookup table for display panel, which could determine the overdrive lookup table of the display panel according to an overdrive lookup table of a target adjustment area after determining the overdrive lookup table of the target adjustment area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Feilin Ji, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10879493
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that includes a display area and a non-display area that surrounds the display area; a selective light-transmitting layer disposed under the display panel that blocks visible light and transmits infrared light; a panel bottom sheet disposed under the selective light-transmitting layer that includes a first opening in the display area that exposes the selective light-transmitting layer; and a first infrared sensor inserted in the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan Jin Kim, Gyeong Sang Park
  • Patent number: 10878743
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including an active area that includes at least one module area and a bezel area positioned outside the active area, wherein a pixel array is positioned in the active area, and the at least one module area is formed as a light-transmissive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Namwook Cho, Changsoo Kim, Cheolhwan Lee
  • Patent number: 10871858
    Abstract: An embodiment disclosed herein provides a display device including: a display panel including a driving signal line, a sensing signal line, a data line extending in a first direction and configured to apply a data signal to a pixel, and a photosensor circuit controllable by a first power signal and configured to output a sensing signal to the sensing signal line according to a driving signal received through the driving signal line; a sensing-driving circuit configured to output the driving signal supplied through the driving signal line and to detect the sensing signal from the sensing signal line; and a power supply unit configured to supply the first power signal, wherein the data line is disposed in a region where the photosensor circuit is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungHwan Shin, Soyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10866681
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first touch screen display arranged between the first and second surfaces and exposed to an outside through the first surface, a second touch screen display arranged between the first and second surfaces and exposed to an outside through the second surface, and at least one pressure sensor arranged between the first and second touch screen displays to sense a pressure of an external object on at least one of the first and second touch screen displays. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Ji Woong Oh, Jeong Seob Kim, Hyung Sup Byeon, Sung Ho Son, Jung Won Kim, Eun Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 10861403
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pair of substrates including a display area in which pixels are arranged, pixel electrodes and memories provided in the pixels, signal lines supplied with digital signals, switching elements connecting the memories and the signal lines, scanning lines supplied with scanning signals, a first driver unit, and a second driver unit. The first driver unit is provided in a peripheral area around the display area, and supplies the digital signal to the signal line. The second driver unit is provided in the peripheral area, and supplies the scanning signal to the scanning line. In the display device, at least a part of the first driver unit is provided between the display area and the second driver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takehiro Shima
  • Patent number: 10852897
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch panel and a touch display panel, wherein touch electrodes including bodies and wings are arranged so as to interlock with each other to thus reduce a difference in sensing sensitivity depending on position and a movement direction, thereby improving uniformity of touch sensing. In addition, the body and wing of the touch electrode can be arranged so as to be varied in length/width depending on the position thereof, so that the boundary area between the touch electrodes is increased, thereby improving the intensity of a touch-sensing signal, and so that sensing time is reduced, thereby enhancing the performance of touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HwiDeuk Lee, DeukSu Lee, JaeGyun Lee, Yangsik Lee
  • Patent number: 10854146
    Abstract: A directional optical waveguide includes a time division multiplexing unit and N layers of optical waveguides that have a same light-emitting direction and that are stacked, a light-emitting surface of each layer of optical waveguide being provided with a pixel-type grating; the time division multiplexing unit being configured to hierarchically control, within each frame video stream cycle, the N layers of optical waveguides to introduce a source light ray into a corresponding pixel-type grating during a corresponding frame video period, and the source light ray that is introduced into the pixel-type grating being diffracted in the pixel-type grating to form a plurality of first-order diffraction light rays that have different diffraction angles and diffraction azimuth angles and are in a one-to-one correspondence with display pixels, to be incident on a next layer of optical waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDMINDS (SHENZHEN) ROBOTICS SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Chen, William Xiao-Qing Huang, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10847089
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel circuits each having a light-emitting element, the display panel being divided into a plurality of display regions comprising respective groups of the pixel circuits, and a display panel driving circuit configured to drive the display panel by sequentially performing an emission preparation operation, a scan operation, and an emission operation for the pixel circuits, and configured to perform the emission operation independently on each of the display regions, wherein, in each frame, the display panel driving circuit is configured to calculate a region grayscale that each of the display regions is to implement by analyzing grayscale data to be applied to the pixel circuits in each of the display regions, and to change a length of an emission period for each of the display regions based on the calculated region grayscale, the emission operation being performed in the emission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heesoon Jeong, Jaekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 10845910
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel, including: in the display area, fingerprint recognition electrode block groups arranged in M1 rows and N1 columns, each of which includes fingerprint recognition electrode blocks arranged in m1 rows and n1 columns, where M1, N1, m1 and n1 are natural numbers; and at least one fingerprint recognition signal line group, each of which includes fingerprint recognition signal lines; and in the non-display area, at least one transistor group, each of which includes switch transistors; and control signal lines. A fingerprint recognition electrode block in an x1th row and y1th column of a fingerprint recognition electrode block group in an X1th row and Y1th column is electrically connected to a fingerprint recognition electrode block in an x2th row and y2th column of a fingerprint recognition electrode block group in an X2th row and Y2th column via one of the fingerprint recognition signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Fuyin Lin
  • Patent number: 10838517
    Abstract: A stylus placed in a docking station is used as a joystick by setting up a self-capacitance or mutual capacitance between the stylus and the docking port and measuring changes in that mutual capacitance as the stylus is moved by the user. The mutual capacitance is set up using electrodes and/or the housing of the stylus and the changes may be measured either from the stylus or from the docking station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Eliyahu Barel
  • Patent number: 10839750
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharging circuit includes a first transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to a signal line, a second electrode receiving a first voltage, and a first gate electrode electrically connected to a first node. A second transistor includes a third electrode electrically connected to the signal line, a fourth electrode electrically connected to the first node, and a second gate electrode electrically connected to the first node. A first capacitor receives the first voltage and is electrically connected to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mee-Hye Jung, Se-Hyoung Cho, Jang-Mi Kang, Kyung-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10818249
    Abstract: A control device is a control device that controls, based on an image signal for display of an image for each frame period, driving of a liquid crystal display apparatus, and the control device includes: a period dividing unit that divides a frame period into a first period and a second period later than the first period; a signal calculating unit that calculates, based on the image signal, a first signal value and a second signal value for driving of a liquid crystal element of the liquid crystal display apparatus; and a liquid crystal driving unit that drives the liquid crystal element with the first signal value in the first period, and drives the liquid crystal element with the second signal value in the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10818734
    Abstract: A display device includes an input sensing unit having a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of signal lines each of which is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of sensing electrodes, and a plurality of sensing pads each of which each is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of signal lines. The sensing pads are arranged in a non-linear configuration, such as a plurality of rows when viewed in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-ae Park, Jinhwan Kim, Byeong-jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10809583
    Abstract: An array substrate, where the array substrate includes a substrate, an active switch, a shift register circuit disposed at a side edge of the substrate and including multiple stages of shift registers, and each of the shift registers includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, and a fifth switch, in which the distance between a first end and a second end of the plurality of switches of the shift registers is greater than a distance between a first end and a second end of the active switch. Hence, increasing the distance between the first end and the second end of the plurality of switches of the shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianfeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10802307
    Abstract: An anti-peeping assembly and a manufacturing method thereof, a method for controlling an anti-peeping assembly and a display device are described. The anti-peeping assembly includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer located between said first substrate and said second substrate; wherein, a first electrode is disposed on said first substrate at a side near the liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of second electrodes arranged as an array are disposed on said second substrate at a side near the liquid crystal layer; and wherein, in response to applying a same voltage to said first electrode and any second electrode, liquid crystals between said first electrode and said any second electrode scatter light, and in response to applying different voltages to said first electrode and said any second electrode, liquid crystals between them transmit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang You, Ruizhi Yang, Fei Wang, Yanfeng Wang, Xiaoling Xu, Ruiyong Wang, Zhenhua Lv
  • Patent number: 10803805
    Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel structure corresponding to a display area, and a receiver antenna structure disposed on the pixel structure. The receiver antenna structure includes multiple receiver antennas providing first signals to the pixels of the pixel structure. Each receiver antenna corresponds to at least one pixel, and has an induced decibel (dB). For each receiver antenna, the induced dB is determined by multiple parameters of the receiver antenna, such as a winding number of the receiver antenna; an outer diameter of the receiver antenna; an inner diameter of the receiver antenna; a line pitch of the receiver antenna; a line width of the receiver antenna; and a line thickness of the receiver antenna. The induced dB of at least one of the receiver antennas is greater than the induced dB of other receiver antennas. The display panel may be used in a tiled micro LED display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: A.U. VISTA, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Min Cho, Yu-Sheng Huang, Pin-Miao Liu, Ching-Yi Hsu
  • Patent number: 10803817
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an emission control circuit including a first processing module, a second processing module, a third processing module and an output module. The first processing module generates a first signal in response to a first control signal, a second control signal and a second signal. The second processing module includes a first transistor having a control electrode electrically connected to the first node, a first electrode electrically connected to the second node and a second electrode electrically connected to the first control signal terminal, and a second transistor having a control electrode electrically connected to the first control signal terminal, a first electrode electrically connected to the second node and a second electrode electrically connected to the first control signal terminal. The third processing module generates a third signal and a fourth signal in response to the second control signal, the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yana Gao, Xing Yao Zhou, Yue Li, Renyuan Zhu, Dongxu Xiang, Gaojun Huang, Yilin Xu, Zhonglan Cai, Juan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10795510
    Abstract: In one example, a method for detecting input can include detecting a capacitive pattern from a physical object and detecting that the physical object is a passive physical object. The method can also include determining a plurality of characteristics corresponding to the passive physical object based on the capacitive pattern, wherein the plurality of characteristics comprise a type of the physical object and a capability of the physical object. Additionally, the method can include modifying an application manager to detect input from the passive physical object based on the plurality of characteristics and modifying a user interface setting detected from the capacitive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Rob Disano, Ken M. Sadahiro, Gregg Wygonik, Roy Berger, Robert D. Steen
  • Patent number: 10775934
    Abstract: An optical touch apparatus includes a light source unit, an optical signal processing unit, and a position computation unit. The light source unit emits light beams and generates three reference light spots at different positions. The optical signal processing unit receives three pieces of reflected light information respectively reflected and propagated by the three reference light spots and analyzes the three pieces of reflected light information to correspondingly generate three pieces of optical analysis information, each of the three pieces of optical analysis information includes a piece of vibration wave information and a piece of vibration time point information, and the piece of vibration wave information includes a touch vibration wave. The position computation unit computes a piece of touch position information according to each of the pieces of light spot position information, each of the pieces of vibration time point information, and the piece of vibration wave velocity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: inFilm Optoelectronic Inc.
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiung Lin