Patents Examined by Carolyn R Edwards
  • Patent number: 11211025
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, which includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction, the pixel comprising a transistor; a plurality of data lines extending in the column direction, and including a first data line and a second data line; and a plurality of scan lines extending in the row direction, and crossing the plurality of data lines. The first data line and the second data line are disposed between two adjacent pixel columns, and partially overlap in a thickness direction of the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11209918
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for measuring light using a digital pen. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor determines whether a digital pen that is configured to communicate with an information handling device is in a docked position. The processor receives a light measurement sensed by the digital pen and performs an adjustment to an output parameter of a display for the information handling device in response to receiving the light measurement. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer
  • Patent number: 11200826
    Abstract: A pixel array substrate, including scanning line pads, data line pads, scanning lines, data lines, gate transmission lines, pixels, a data line signal chip, and a scanning line signal chip, is provided. The scanning lines extend along a first direction. The data lines and the gate transmission lines extend along a second direction. The data lines are electrically connected to the data line pads. The scanning lines are electrically connected to the scanning line pads through the gate transmission lines. A ratio of a number of rows of pixels arranged in the first direction to a number of rows of pixels arranged in the second direction is X:Y. Each pixel includes m sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yang-Chun Lee, Sheng-Yen Cheng, Yueh-Hung Chung, Min-Tse Lee, Kuang-Hsiang Liao, Shiang-Lin Lian, Yan-Kai Wang, Ya-Ling Hsu, Chen-Hsien Liao
  • Patent number: 11181787
    Abstract: A touch apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel structures, a first touch electrode, a second touch electrode, a third touch electrode and a first conductive pattern. The first touch electrode and the second touch electrode are located at a first side of a transparent window. The third touch electrode is located at a second side of the transparent window. The first touch electrode, the second touch electrode and the third touch electrode are sequentially arranged in a first direction. A main portion of the first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the first touch electrode. The main portion of the first conductive pattern overlaps with the second touch electrode and is electrically isolated from the second touch electrode. A dummy portion of the first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the third touch electrode and structurally separated from the main portion of the first conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hsun-Chen Chu, Pei-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11163167
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device is provided, including an at least partially see-through display, an electrical device, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) arranged on a surface of a see-through portion of the display. The FPC may include a plurality of electrical traces electrically coupled to the electrical device. Each electrical trace may be separated from at least one other electrical trace by one or more respective see-through gaps. The FPC may further include a transparent material arranged between the electrical traces in each see-through gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Robert Doyle, Simon Hodgson
  • Patent number: 11157077
    Abstract: A method of tracking an eye of a user on a wearable heads-up display (WHUD) worn on the head of the user includes generating infrared light over an eye tracking period, scanning the infrared light over the eye, and detecting reflections of the infrared light from the eye. A motion parameter that is sensitive to motion of the WHUD is measured. Eye tracking is performed in a first mode that is based on glint for values of the motion parameter that fall within a first range of motion parameter values for which an error in measurement of glint position. Eye tracking is performed in a second mode that is based on glint-pupil vector for values of the motion parameter that fall within a second range of motion parameter values for which an error in measurement of glint position exceeds the error threshold. A head-mounted apparatus with eye tracking is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Idris S. Aleem, Andrew S. Logan, Mayank Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11151942
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes scan line, data line, pixel circuit located at a position corresponding to an intersection of the scan line and the data line, a first high potential line supplies a first potential, a low potential line supplies a second potential, and a second high potential line supplies a third potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a memory circuit disposed between the first high potential line and the low potential line, a first transistor including a gate electrically connected to the memory circuit, and a second transistor including a gate electrically connected to the scan line. The second transistor is disposed between the memory circuit and f the data line. A potential difference between the first potential and the second potential is smaller than a potential difference between the third potential and the second potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Miyasaka, Yoichi Momose
  • Patent number: 11138918
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to controlling an emission of a display panel. In one embodiment, a display driver hardware circuit includes row selection logic to select a number of rows in an emission group of a display panel, wherein the number of rows is adjustable from a single row to a full panel of the display panel, column selection logic to select a number of columns in the emission group of the display panel, wherein the number of columns is adjustable from a single column to the full panel of the display panel, and emission logic to select a number of pulses per data frame to be displayed, wherein the number of pulses per data frame is adjustable from one to a plurality and a pulse length is adjustable from a continuous duty cycle to a non-continuous duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen
  • Patent number: 11138944
    Abstract: A pixel matrix driving device and a display device are provided. The pixel matrix driving device includes a pixel matrix, a timing controller and a driving circuit. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of sub-pixels, an i-th column of sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-pixels and an (i+1)-th column of sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-pixels have different polarity inversion positions. The timing controller is configured for obtaining an initial pixel value, and obtaining a first grayscale value and a second grayscale value according to the initial pixel value. The driving circuit is configured for obtaining a first driving voltage according to the first grayscale value, obtaining a second driving voltage according to the second grayscale value, and applying the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage into the pixel matrix. The disclosure can improve the horizontal equidistant horizontal stripes and improve the washout phenomenon of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yusheng Huang, Yuyeh Chen, Yuan-Liang Wu
  • Patent number: 11132089
    Abstract: An input device includes: a detector that detects an operation state of an operation object on an operation surface; a controller that performs input to a predetermined instrument; and a driver that vibrates the operation surface. The predetermined instrument includes a display. Multiple operation buttons are displayed on the display. An operation coordinate position of the operation object is associated with a display coordinate position of each of the multiple operation buttons. The controller causes the driver to generate a predetermined vibration on an area of the operation surface corresponding to an intermediate area between a first operation button and a second operation button. The controller corrects a first display coordinate position to a second display coordinate position or prohibit an attraction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Tomaru
  • Patent number: 11124128
    Abstract: A display control device generates a display image including an image obtained by reducing a predetermined range in a captured image based on an image captured by an image capturing device, and causes the display device to display the display image. In an adjustment mode, the display control device generates a computer graphics (CG) for allowing a user to set a range included in the display image and causes the display device to display the computer graphics. The CG indicates a range displayed in a reduced state and a range displayed without being reduced in a range included in the display image in different aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Inoue, Masayoshi Michiguchi, Yuichiro Aihara, Yoshimasa Okabe
  • Patent number: 11126025
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel includes: common electrodes arranged in a first direction and a second direction, respectively facing one or more of pixel electrodes and provided separately from each other; and touch lines that extend along the second direction and are each connected to a corresponding one of the common electrodes. Each common electrode has segment electrodes divided with an area on the gate line as a division area, and each segment electrode included in one of the common electrodes is connected by at least one of the touch lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kajita
  • Patent number: 11126307
    Abstract: A detection device and method for touch panel are provided. The device includes a wiring module configured to ground lead of at least one of first touch electrodes; and a processing module configured to detect capacitance value of at least one of second touch electrodes one by one, and determine whether the second touch electrode is broken circuit according to the capacitance value of each of the second touch electrodes which is adjacent to at least one of the first touch electrodes. During detection, the at least one first touch electrode is grounded, and the second touch electrode and the first touch electrode with a lead grounded form a capacitor. If the second touch electrode is not broken circuit, the capacitance value detected is greater than the capacitance value when the first touch electrode is not grounded. It is beneficial for detecting accurately whether the touch electrode is broken circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Meng, Wei Sun, Wenchao Han, Yushuang Zhou, Wei Wang, Tiankuo Shi, Yang Chen, Tian Zhang, Bo Gao
  • Patent number: 11119604
    Abstract: A display controller controls changing timing of a waveform of each of gate clock signals (GCK1, GCK2) so that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively short time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho), and that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively long time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in even-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho). A touch panel controller outputs a pulse of a touch drive signal (STD) so that a position detection operation on a touch panel is started in a stable period after an end of the display driving operation in each of the odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishio, Daiji Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11106299
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a substrate defining an active area and a non-active area around the active area; a touch pad in the non-active area; a plurality of signal lines; a signal line insulation layer; first electrodes; at least one noise reduction electrode on the signal line insulation layer and in a portion other than the area corresponding to the first electrodes; a second electrode over the plurality of first electrodes and the at least one noise reduction electrode; an encapsulation layer on the second electrode; touch lines on the encapsulation layer and connected to the touch pad; and touch electrodes on the encapsulation layer and electrically connected to at least one touch line. The encapsulation layer has a sloped surface between the touch pad and the touch electrodes, and the touch lines are arranged on the sloped surface of the encapsulation layer having a corresponding slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HwiDeuk Lee, Yangsik Lee
  • Patent number: 11093059
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including an opening defined therein, a display area adjacent to the opening, and a non-display area extended along the opening to be disposed between the opening and the display area; a display element with which an image is displayed, on the substrate in the display area thereof; and a metal layer including a plurality of segments spaced apart from each other, each segment disposed in the non-display area of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Inyoung Han, Jonghwa Kim
  • Patent number: 11086445
    Abstract: A method in accordance with an embodiment is performed by a control apparatus. The method includes obtaining, when applications having a region within which the applications are overlapped with each other are displayed on the touch display device, information that one application of the applications is displayed to cover the other application of the applications or that said one application is displayed to be covered by the other application within the region; determining, based on the obtained information, touch sensing cycles for touch sensors among a plurality of touch sensors embedded in the touch display device to be different from each other, each of said at least two touch sensors sensing a corresponding part within an entire region where the applications are displayed on the touch display device; and controlling each of said at least two touch sensors to perform a sensing operation based on its touch sensing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LID.
    Inventors: Gukchan Lim, Yong Woo Bae, Dongyoub Sinn, Seungmin Seen, Seungho Shin, Hak-Soon Lee, Jinsoo Jeon
  • Patent number: 11087704
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel driving circuit is provided. The circuit includes a pulse width modulation integrated circuit, including an input terminal, a first resistor, a second resistor, a comparator, a light-emitting diode, a latch, a RC circuit and a power supply voltage. Wherein the input terminal is connected to a ground terminal through the first resistor and the second resistor which are serially connected, a positive input terminal of the comparator is connected to a reference voltage, and a negative input terminal of the comparator is connected between the first resistor and the second resistor, an anode of the light-emitting diode is connected to an output terminal of the comparator, and a cathode of the light-emitting diode is connected to the latch, and an input terminal and an output terminal of the RC circuit are respectively connected to the power supply voltage and the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11074838
    Abstract: According to one implementation, an image generation system includes a base having a rotor and a motor for spinning the rotor about an axis of rotation, and a display secured to the rotor, wherein a center of mass of the display is situated off of the axis of rotation. Such an image generation system also includes a first counterweight coupled to the rotor and having a first location relative to the rotor, and a second counterweight coupled the to the rotor and having a second location relative to the rotor different than the first location. The first counterweight and the second counterweight are configured to stabilize the display while the display is spun by the motor and the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Hsu, Nathan Nocon
  • Patent number: 11069295
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver outputs a data write gate signal having a corresponding active level and a data initialization gate signal having a corresponding active level to the pixel in a writing frame, outputs the data write gate signal not having the corresponding active level and the data initialization gate signal not having the corresponding active level to the pixel in a holding frame and outputs the data write gate signal having the corresponding active level and the data initialization gate signal not having the corresponding active level to the pixel in a writing compensation frame. The data driver outputs a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver outputs an emission signal to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Nam, Hyo Jin Lee, Jinyoung Roh, Sehyuk Park