Patents Examined by Chad M Dicke
  • Patent number: 11538390
    Abstract: An image display device includes: an image signal reception unit configured to receive an image signal of a pattern image in which N partial images having a different gradation level value are regularly arranged; a conversion unit configured to convert a part of gradation level values included in the image signal in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule; and a display unit configured to display by using an image signal that undergoes conversion by the conversion unit. The conversion unit converts a gradation level value corresponding to a term of a predetermined arithmetic progression in accordance with the predetermined conversion rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Higashikawa, Hiroshi Takeshita
  • Patent number: 11520437
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a touch device, a touch system and a control method thereof. The touch device includes: a touch screen including: a plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of switch circuits corresponding to the plurality of touch electrodes respectively; and a drive chip bound and connected with the touch screen. The touch electrodes are coupled to the drive chip through the corresponding switch circuits. The drive chip is configured to: determine that the touch screen is contacted by an interference object and determine an interference area, according to capacitance values of the touch electrodes during a time period when a stylus is interacting with the touch screen, and disconnect touch electrodes in the interference area from the drive chip through corresponding switch circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhixiang Fang, Guanglei Yang
  • Patent number: 11513617
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device. The display device includes: a display panel; a control circuit board; and a rotary knob assembly connected to the control circuit board. The rotary knob assembly includes a rotary rod and a rotary knob cap, the rotary rod is connected to the rotary knob cap, and the rotary knob cap is configured to drive the rotary rod to rotate. The display panel is connected to the control circuit board, the rotary knob assembly is configured for generating a signal according to an action of the rotary knob cap and transmitting the signal to the control circuit board, and the control circuit board is configured for controlling the display panel to display according to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinggang Wei, Lei Cao, Long Yang
  • Patent number: 11508290
    Abstract: A pixel according to some embodiments includes a light source unit, a first transistor coupled between a first power source and a first node, and configured to control a driving current applied to the light source unit, a first bias transistor coupled between a first bias power source and a gate electrode of the first transistor, and a second bias transistor coupled between a second bias power source and a second node that is electrically coupled to an anode of the light source unit, wherein the first bias transistor and the second bias transistor are configured to be turned on during a first period before a data voltage is applied among one frame, and wherein the second bias transistor is configured to be turned on at least once during a second period after the data voltage is applied among the one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Ki Baek, Oh Jo Kwon, Bong Hyun You, Seok Ha Hong
  • Patent number: 11501696
    Abstract: A pixel driving device includes a capacitance, a reset circuit, a compensation circuit, a driving transistor and a first transistor. Reset circuit and compensation circuit are coupled to a first end and a second end of capacitance. First transistor is coupled between second end of driving transistor and second end of capacitance. Reset circuit resets first end of capacitance at a power supply voltage and reset second end of capacitance at a reference voltage according to a first sweep signal respectively. Compensation circuit writes a data voltage into first end of capacitance via driving transistor and second end of capacitance is maintained at reference voltage according to a second sweep signal. First transistor generates a driving voltage difference between first end and second end of capacitance according to a control signal. Driving transistor outputs a current to a luminous element according to driving voltage difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-En Wu, Ming-Hsien Lee, Wei-Chia Chiu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chia-Yen Lin
  • Patent number: 11501719
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image, an image sticking compensator which receives image data, compensates for the image data based on lifespan data to generate lifespan compensation data, and a panel driver which provides data signals corresponding to the lifespan compensation data to the display panel. The image sticking compensator includes a compensator which receives the first cumulative data, generates the lifespan data based on the first cumulative data, compensates for the image data based on the lifespan data to generate the lifespan compensation data, a memory controller which receives the second cumulative data and the lifespan data from the compensator, a volatile memory which stores the second cumulative data from the memory controller, a main nonvolatile memory which stores the second cumulative data from the memory controller, and a sub-nonvolatile memory which stores the lifespan data from the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yooshin Chon, Byoungkwan An
  • Patent number: 11488541
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the current of a pixel circuit and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The pixel circuit is connected to a source driver by a data line. The voltage (or current) supplied to the pixel circuit by the source driver. The current of the pixel and the OLED can be measured by a readout circuit. A value of a voltage from the measured current can be extracted and provided to a processor for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Jafar Talebzadeh, Ray Leerentveld
  • Patent number: 11488538
    Abstract: A display is provided that includes an array of display pixels that receive data signals from display driver circuitry and that receive control signals from gate driver circuitry. The gate driver circuitry may include a chain of row driver circuits. Each row driver circuit may include a scan driver circuit and a scan inverter circuit. An enable transistor may be interposed between the scan driver circuit and the scan inverter circuit and may be selectively disabled to decouple the scan inverter circuit from the scan driver circuit to allow the scan inverter circuit to operate independent from the scan driver circuit. The scan inverter circuit may include a transistor that receives a scan pulse signal from the scan driver circuit and may further include additional transistors connected in a negative feedback configuration to reduce a drain-to-source voltage across the transistor to reduce leakage across the transistor during blanking times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Shinya Ono, Gihoon Choo
  • Patent number: 11468811
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel. A display area of the display panel includes pixel units, and non-display areas positioned on opposite sides of the display area are provided with a gate driver on array (GOA) bus unit. Two GOA circuit units are arranged side by side between two adjacent rows of the pixel units, and the two GOA circuit units arranged side by side are electrically connected to the pixel units. The GOA circuit units are electrically connected to the GOA bus unit through signal-connecting lines disposed in the display area, and wherein the two GOA circuit units arranged side by side share at least one of the signal-connecting lines. The present application is beneficial for increasing aperture ratio and transmittance of the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11468858
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method of the same are proposed, the display device including first and second display panels displaying one image in a division manner; first and second data drivers supplying data voltages to the first and second display panels, respectively; first and second scan drivers supplying scan signals to the first and second display panels, respectively; and first and second timing controllers controlling the first and second data drivers and the first and second scan drivers, respectively, wherein the first data driver latches a first data signal output from the first timing controller in a first direction and converts the first data signal to a first data voltage to be outputted, and the second data driver latches a second data signal output from the second timing controller in a second direction and converts the second data signal to a second data voltage to be outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byunggwan Ko, Hongbin Kim
  • Patent number: 11457206
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of optical correction for pixel evaluation and correction for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Optical correction for correcting for non-homogeneity of a display panel uses sparse display test patterns in conjunction with a defocused camera as the measurement device to avoid aliasing (moiré) of the pixels of the display in the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Shyshkin, Adam Saechao
  • Patent number: 11449119
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a first plate, a second plate disposed under the first plate, a flexible display including a screen area configured to expand based on a movement of the first plate from a closed state to an open state with respect to the second plate, at least one display driver integrated circuit, and a processor electrically connected to the flexible display and the at least one display driver integrated circuit, and the at least one display driver integrated circuit being configured to display, in a first state where the processor is in an inactive state and the screen area of the flexible display is not expanded, at least one first object in a first area of the screen area, and display, in a second state where the processor is in the inactive state and the screen area of the flexible display is expanded, at least one second object associated with the at least one first object, in a second area of the screen area of the expanded flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hanchul Jung, Jungchul An, Sungho Lee, Youngin Choi, Jungyeob Oh, Bonghak Choi, Donghyun Yeom, Minwoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 11443706
    Abstract: A shift register includes an input circuit, a compensation circuit, an output circuit, a pull-down control circuit, a pull-down circuit, and a reset circuit. During operation of a pixel driving circuit, if a display abnormality occurs in one or more pixels corresponding to the shift register, a compensation signal may be provided by the compensation circuit to a pull-up node according to specific condition of the display abnormality, so as to change a voltage of the pull-up node, and further change a delay time of waveform of the signal passing the switching element in the output circuit connected to the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuo Xu, Hailong Wu, Yajie Bai, Haipeng Zhu, Min Ran, Peng Liang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11430369
    Abstract: The present invention provides a determining method of a gamma value and a device thereof, and a display terminal. The method includes obtaining a plurality of target gray scales from a gray scale range of a display panel; determining a local gamma value of each of the target gray scales of the plurality of the target gray scales; determining an approximate gamma value of the display panel according to the local gamma value of the plurality of the target gray scales; and determining a gamma value of the display panel according to the approximate gamma value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11422624
    Abstract: A hand interface device is provided comprising: A glove portion to be worn on top of a user's hand, including a plurality of anchoring finger caps circumscribed around the extremities of the user's fingers and thumb; at least one haptic actuator housed within each of the anchoring finger caps; a housing structure attached to the forearm; and a plurality of wires running between at least one haptic actuator and the housing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CONTACT CONTROL INTERFACES, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas F. Buchanan, IV
  • Patent number: 11425813
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module configured to display an image, and a flexible substrate including a first bonding region connected to the display module, with the flexible substrate bent such that a portion thereof is disposed under the display module. The flexible substrate may include a circuit layer electrically connecting the display module to a printed circuit board, a cover layer on the circuit layer, and a bubble-prevention layer disposed between the cover layer and the circuit layer and configured to overlap with the first bonding region, wherein the display module includes a non-display region surrounding a display region, the non-display region includes a pad region to which the flexible substrate is connected, and the bubble-prevention layer overlaps the pad region, and the bubble-prevention layer does not overlap the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeungsoo Kim, Yun-ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11422635
    Abstract: A wearable device with an optical sensor is disclosed that can be used to recognize gestures of a user wearing the device. Light sources can be positioned on the back or skin-facing side of a wearable device, and an optical sensor can be positioned near the light sources. During operation, light can be emitted from the light sources and sensed using the optical sensor. Changes in the sensed light can be used to recognize user gestures. For example, light emitted from a light source can reflect off a wearer's skin, and the reflected light can be sensed using the optical sensor. When the wearer gestures in a particular way, the reflected light can change perceptibly due to muscle contraction, device shifting, skin stretching, or the distance changing between the optical sensor and the wearer's skin. Recognized gestures can be interpreted as commands for interacting with the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ehsan Maani
  • Patent number: 11417262
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages, and a power supply circuit outputting a clock signal, a clock-bar signal, a first discharge voltage, and a second discharge voltage. Each of stages includes a charge part that charges a clock signal having a first high voltage to a charge node, an output part that charges the first high voltage to an output node in response to a first node voltage of the charge node and outputs a second node voltage of the output node to a gate signal, a first discharge part that discharges the second node voltage to a first discharge voltage in response to the clock-bar signal having a second high voltage, and a second discharge part that discharges the first node voltage to a second discharge voltage in response to the clock-bar signal having the second high voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keunoh Kang, Yanguk Nam, Gwangsoo Ahn
  • Patent number: 11404011
    Abstract: A scan-type display apparatus includes a light emitting module, a display module, a control module and a driver module. The light emitting module includes an LED array having a common anode configuration. The control module generates a synchronization control (SC) signal. The driver module generates a plurality of switching signals and an image refresh signal based on the SC signal. The switching signals cause the LED array to emit light in a line scan manner. The image refresh signal is related to one of the switching signals that corresponds to a last line of the line scan in each line scan cycle, and is further related to refreshing of images on a display constituted by the light emitting module and the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Ta Wu, Chun-Yi Li, Hung-I Cheng, Ping-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 11404009
    Abstract: Provided are an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area including a first peripheral area and a corner area; a plurality of sub-pixels, data lines, gate lines and light emitting control lines; a plurality of groups of connecting lines located at the corner area, each group of which including a plurality of connecting lines including a gate connecting line electrically connected to a gate line and a light emitting control connecting line electrically connected to a light emitting control line; a gate driving circuit; a light emitting control driving circuit; a plurality of data signal input lines; and a multiplexing circuit. The orthographic projection of each connecting line on the base substrate passes between that of two adjacent multiplexing units and does not overlap with that of the multiplexing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pengfei Yu