Patents Examined by Chanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8749458
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display capable of preventing a defect of picture quality by instability of an output voltage of a power IC in a low temperature environment. The OLED display comprises: a display panel having an effective display area in which pixels displaying a gray scale are formed and a non-display area in which a pixel monitoring part monitoring a degree of deterioration of the pixels is formed, wherein each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode and a driving element; a power IC supplying a driving voltage to the display panel; and a voltage limiting part connected between the pixel monitoring part and the power IC to restrict voltage levels of feedback voltages supplied from the pixel monitoring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dowan Kim
  • Patent number: 8749478
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are disclosed to adjust a visual representation of content displayed by an electronic device based at least in part on a measured light intensity. In some aspects, a light sensor may be used to measure a light intensity of ambient light. An electronic display may present a visual representation of objects including text and images. A display controller may control aspects of the electronic display based on at least the light intensity, such as a font size of the text, size of the images, or contrast of the text and the images. In further aspects, the electronic display may be an electronic paper display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Samuel Bowen
  • Patent number: 8749511
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate, a liquid crystal display device comprising the same, and a method for forming the same. The array substrate comprises a gate line, a data line, a signal line and a pixel electrode formed thereon. The gate line intersects the data line to define a plurality of pixel regions in which the pixel electrodes are formed. Each of the pixel electrodes overlaps the signal line to form a first sensing capacitor and overlaps the gate line to form a second sensing capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Wang, Jai-il Ryu
  • Patent number: 8749453
    Abstract: A first capacitor obtains a gate-source voltage of a first transistor in accordance with a programming current flowing through the first transistor, and a second capacitor obtains a threshold voltage of a second transistor. Then, the electric charges held in the first capacitor and the second capacitor are capacitively coupled. By using the voltage obtained with the capacitively coupling as a gate-source voltage of the first transistor, constant current in accordance with the programming current can be supplied to a light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 8749467
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel that displays images using a plurality of pixels each including red, green and blue sub-pixels; a gate driving portion that supplies a gate signal to the liquid crystal panel; a data driving portion that supplies a data signal to the liquid crystal panel; and a timing control portion that compares difference of gray level between image signals corresponding to the red, green and blue sub-pixels with a first threshold value and compares difference of gray level between the image signals corresponding to the red, green and blue sub-pixels of neighboring pixels of the plurality of pixels in order to judge type of the image signals, and drives the data driving portion in different methods according to the type of the image signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Song-Jae Lee, Young-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8743067
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed. The touch sensing apparatus includes a logic control module, at least one storage control module, and at least one decoding control module. The logic control module is used to generate a plurality of control signals having different control timings. The plurality of control signals includes a storage control signal and a decoding control signal. Each storage control module includes a plurality of storage capacitors, and respectively stores each of sensed voltages in different storage capacitors at different times according to a storage control timing of the storage control signal. The sensed voltages are analog data sensed from scan lines of an ITO sensor. The decoding control module performs analog adding process to the sensed voltages stored in the storage capacitors according to a decoding control timing of the decoding control signal to output decoded analog data with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Chan, Chien-Kuo Wang, Shang-Ping Tang, Hung Li, Ko-Yang Tso
  • Patent number: 8743152
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display pixel section including pixels each composed of an arrangement of red, green, and blue subpixels and an additional subpixel of a specified color; and a signal processing section configured to extend signal levels of an input image signal, extract a signal component of the specified color from extended red, green, and blue signals, determine a signal level of the specified color, perform an extension process based on the signal level of the specified color, modulate the red, green, and blue signals subjected to the extension process in accordance with a specified modulation level so as to have different brightness from that of an original image, and modulate brightness of a light source. The input image signal used to determine the modulation level and the input image signal subjected to a modulation process and displayed are of different frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 8743045
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to achieve a scanning line drive device which allows further reduction of circuit scale and production costs. A gate driver (100) of the present invention includes: a shift register circuit (1) including g latch circuits (21) to (2g); g selection circuits (8); and g level shifter circuits (3). A level shifter circuit (3) of an output drive circuit (st1) receives a pulse (61) from a NAND circuit (6) of a selection circuit (8) at its input terminal (N1); a pulse (71) from a NAND circuit (7) of the selection circuit (8) at its input terminal (N2); and a pulse (Q1) from a latch circuit (21) at its input terminal (N3). The level shifter circuit (3) of the output drive circuit (st1) outputs a voltage signal obtained by converting the voltage level of the pulse (61) from its output terminal (O1); and a voltage signal obtained by converting the voltage level of the pulse (71) from its output terminal (O2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ishida
  • Patent number: 8743049
    Abstract: An electrophoretic includes scanning lines, data lines, power supply lines and enable lines provided in a display section. The electrophoretic display device also includes, in each of pixels, a pixel electrode, a control transistor connected to one of the scanning lines and one of the data lines, a driving transistor having a gate connected to a drain of the control transistor and having a drain connected to one of the power supply lines, a storage capacitor connected to the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and an enable transistor connected between the source of the driving transistor and the pixel electrode. The enable transistor switches electrical connection between the pixel electrode and the driving transistor on the basis of a signal input through one of the enable lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8743040
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which includes one image signal line which is connected to a plurality of pixels, a scanning line drive part which outputs an ON voltage to the respective pixels in a predetermined order, and a data line drive part which outputs image signal voltages. The data line drive part outputs a gray level signal voltage corresponding to a gray level value of the pixel as an image signal voltage in a first period, and outputs a correction gray level signal voltage different from the gray level signal voltage as an image signal voltage in a second period which precedes the first period. The liquid crystal display device further includes a control part which generates the correction gray level signal voltage based on the gray level value of the pixel and one or plurarity of gray level values of pixels which precede the pixel in order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Masato Ishii, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima
  • Patent number: 8736593
    Abstract: A power source circuit of a display apparatus includes a voltage divider, an operational amplifier, a first switch, a second switch, and a protector. The voltage divider generates a divided voltage between a first driving voltage and a ground voltage. The operational amplifier receives the divided voltage and outputs the divided voltage as a second driving voltage. The first switch is connected between a first supply voltage terminal to receive the first driving voltage and a common node. The second switch is connected between the common node and a second supply voltage terminal to receive the ground voltage. The protector is connected to the common node to limit a voltage output of the first supply voltage terminal in response to a voltage of the common node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Lee, Jong Jae Lee, Yunjae Park
  • Patent number: 8736537
    Abstract: A shift register increases a number of thin film transistors for lowering drive and a manner of alternatively applying clock signals every other frame, lowers duty cycle of the thin film transistors for lowering drive, and effectively prevents a biasing effect by the thin film transistors for lowering drive, thereby reliability of the shift register unit is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Woo Han, Guangliang Shang
  • Patent number: 8736523
    Abstract: Pixel circuits and an organic electroluminescent display including the same are provided. The pixel circuit includes: an organic light emitting diode; a fifth transistor coupled to a third scan line, a reference power source, and a first node; a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a second node; a second capacitor coupled between the first node and the organic light emitting diode; a fourth transistor coupled to a second scan line, a data line, and the first node; a sixth transistor coupled to a first scan line, a first power source, and the second node; a second transistor coupled to the second scan line, the second node, and a third node; a third transistor coupled to an emission control line, the first power source, and the third node; and a first transistor coupled to the second node, the third node, and the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8736526
    Abstract: A display unit with which luminance is able to be improved and a wide view angle is able to be secured while increase of the power consumption is inhibited is provided. The display unit includes a first region placing priority on front face luminance in which an aperture ratio of a light emitting region is relatively small, a second region placing priority on view angle luminance in which the aperture ratio of the light emitting region is relatively large, and a drive means for driving the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuki Seo, Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8730187
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processing device comprising touch sorting logic. The touch sorting logic sorts the raw touch position data in two stages. In each of the stages, the touch sorting logic predicts the centroid positions for each touch of the plurality of touches, compares the predicted centroid positions for each touch and indexes the centroid position for each touch based on the predicted centroid position that is closest to the raw touch position data. The sorted touch position data is sorted according to the touch index assigned to each of the centroid positions for each of the plurality of touches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Cole D. Wilson, Dana Jon Olson
  • Patent number: 8723763
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a scan driver for driving one or more scan lines and emission control lines; a data driver for sequentially providing j data signals to each of a plurality of output lines in each horizontal period; a demultiplexer for transmitting the j data signals to j first data lines, the demultiplexer being coupled to the output lines; a plurality of pixels at crossing regions of the scan lines and second data lines extending in a direction crossing the scan lines; and a common circuit unit for controlling voltages of the second data lines coupled to the pixels by using a reference voltage and an initial voltage and the data signals, the common circuit unit being coupled between the first data lines and the second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 8723776
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit receives a plurality of clock signals in a sequence and includes a plurality of cascaded drive units sequentially outputting an output signal, wherein a first-stage drive unit of the gate driving circuit receives a scan start signal or a scan end signal while a last-stage drive unit thereof receives a scan end signal or a scan start signal; wherein a driving direction of the gate driving circuit is reversed by reversing the sequence of the clock signals and exchanging the scan start signal and the scan end signal. The present invention further provides a driving method of a gate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.
    Inventors: Hsien Cheng Chang, Yan Jou Chen
  • Patent number: 8723786
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a pixel array including a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, a plurality of liquid crystal elements arranged in a matrix corresponding to an intersection of each scanning line and each signal line, and a plurality of common connection lines arranged one by one corresponding to the liquid crystal elements of each line; a scanning line drive circuit; a signal line drive circuit; and a common connection line drive circuit electrically separating, from each other, one or a plurality of common connection lines (first common connection lines), and a plurality of common connection lines (second common connection lines), and electrically connecting the plurality of second common connection lines to each other to independently drive the first common connection line and the second connection lines from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Takeya Takeuchi, Werapong Jarupoonphol, Tomohiko Sato, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 8717275
    Abstract: A circuit includes a first logic circuit section that outputs a signal that could be in an active voltage level depending on a transfer-signal input from a shift register throughout a display period and outputs a signal whose voltage is constant at the active voltage level throughout an off sequence period; an enable signal output section that outputs an enable signal that is pulsed during the display period; and a second logic circuit section that outputs a signal corresponding to a logical product of the output signal of the first logic circuit section and the enable signal. The enable signal output section keeps the voltage of the enable signal constant at the active voltage level throughout the off sequence period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Masui
  • Patent number: 8717341
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is for correcting an input image signal and displaying an image on a display unit based on the corrected image signal, and includes: an illuminance detector for sequentially detecting illuminance values around the apparatus; an illuminance analyzer for sequentially outputting image settings for correction of the image signal depending on the detected illuminance values; a setting selector for outputting an image setting which has been output from the analyzer a number of times greater than a number of times any other image setting has been output, or an image setting determined by the statistic of the image settings output from the analyzer; and a setting application unit for changing the image setting used to correct the image signal to be equal to the image setting output from the selector, when a predetermined change occurs in the input image signal or when a predetermined time has come.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki