Patents Examined by Chanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8638284
    Abstract: A gate signal line driving circuit and a display device which can suppress the degradation of an element attributed to the use of the element for a long time, and can realize the prolongation of lifetime of the element are provided. With respect to elements to which a HIGH voltage is applied for a long time, a plurality of elements are connected in parallel, and at least some of the plurality of elements are driven by switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kotani, Mitsuru Goto
  • Patent number: 8638285
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a display panel; first to n-th cascade-connected drivers (n being an integer of two or more); a controller transmitting compressed image data to the first driver. The i-th driver of the first to n-th drivers includes a drive circuitry driving the display panel; a first bus adapted to data transfer to the (i+1)-th driver of the first to n-th drivers; a second bus adapted to data transfer to the driver circuitry; and a decompression section receiving the compressed image data from the (i?1)-th driver of the first to n-th drivers or the controller. The decompression section of the i-th driver transfers the received compressed image data to the (i+1)-th driver through the first bus thereof, when the received compressed image data are not associated with the i-th driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 8638304
    Abstract: A touch screen includes an LCD panel; a display controller for processing a video signal to generate a panel control signal and a sensing control signal, with the panel control signal controlling the LCD panel so that the LCD panel displays images according to the panel control signal; a touch panel, for generating the sensing signal in response to a touch; and a sensing circuit, coupled to the touch panel and the display controller, for receiving the sensing signal and the sensing control signal to generate a position signal with reference to the sensing control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi Kang Liu, Chin-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 8633880
    Abstract: When one frame period of two consecutive frame periods is a frame A and a next frame period subsequent to the frame A is a frame B, a tone requested from an external system is displayed in each sub-pixel by displaying two tones during the two frame periods including the frame A and the frame B, display data of an image A displayed during a period of the frame A and display data of an image B displayed during a period of the frame B are display data generated based on the display data and a video line driving circuit supplies, as tone voltages corresponding to the display data, a first set of tone voltages to video lines during the period of the frame A and a second set of tone voltages to the video lines during the period of the frame B subsequent to the frame A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 8629826
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for driving thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) and the storage medium for storing computer program representative of the method thereof. The method utilizes a timing controller to send polarity control signals to a plurality of source drivers in a TFT-LCD panel for changing the polarity distribution of the liquid crystal molecules in the panel. The method is characterized by dynamically changing the positions of polarity inversion for alleviating the problem of undercharging under high resolution and high frequency conditions; utilizing both polar and reverse polar driving signals for solving the problem of color shift in “checker board” checking signals; and providing a mechanism for mending the problem of undercharging of the first horizontal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mu-Shan Liao, Yuan-Jing Chang, Hung-Chun Li
  • Patent number: 8624804
    Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device that displays grayscales in a time-division manner and can prevent the occurrence of false contours and flickers at an interface between neighboring grayscales when displaying sequential images, such as moving images, at a high speed. The method is an interlaced scanning method in which a single frame is divided into an odd-numbered field and an even-numbered field that are sequentially driven, and includes dividing each of the odd-numbered field and the even-numbered field into x sub-frame groups; dividing each of a plurality of sub-frames corresponding to bits of driving data into y divided sub-frame portions; and disposing the y divided sub-frame portions in different ones of the x sub-frame groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Hyung Ryu, Do-Ik Kim
  • Patent number: 8624817
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a driving part and a display panel. The driving part includes a master timing controller and at least one slave timing controller synchronized with the master timing controller using a first data enable signal received by the master timing controller and a second data enable signal received by the slave timing controller. The display panel displays a first image on a first display block, and displays a second image on a second display block using the master timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Bum Kim, Dong-Hyun Yeo, Byung-Kil Jeon
  • Patent number: 8624814
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a liquid crystal panel having gate lines, data lines and pixels. The pixels are grouped into pixel lines. The LCD further includes a data driver which performs line-inversion driving by applying a data voltage having a positive or a negative polarity to the pixels such that the pixels in each pixel line have a same polarity. The pixel lines are grouped into first and second pixel line groups. A polarity of the pixels in each pixel line of the first pixel line group is the same as a polarity of the pixels in at least one pixel line disposed on an immediately adjacent side thereof. A polarity of the pixels in each pixel line of the second pixel line group is opposite to a polarity of both pixels in pixel lines disposed on two immediately adjacent sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 8619057
    Abstract: The invention realizes certainly detecting two or more positions on a touch panel that are touched at the same time. A drive circuit selects one from X lines, and supplies an alternating drive voltage to the selected line. A multiplexer selects a first sense line and a second sense line from Y lines that extend to cross the X lines. A charge amplifier outputs an output voltage corresponding to a difference between a first capacitance between the first sense line and the X line selected by the drive circuit and a second capacitance between the second sense line and the X line selected by the drive circuit. A touch position is then detected based on the output voltage of the charge amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kumiko Fukai, Yasuhiro Kaneta
  • Patent number: 8619032
    Abstract: A mouse structure including a housing having a base portion, and a tongue portion having a guiding slot and at least a sliding channel; a first sliding device; a second sliding device including a base board, a sliding element, and a resilient apparatus having a pivoting end rotatably connected to the base board, a connecting bar connected to the sliding element, and a resilient portion; a linking element having a first linking portion fastened with the first sliding device, and a second linking portion fixedly attached to the sliding element, wherein when the first sliding device is being pulled or pushed, the linking element moves in conjunction with the first sliding device and drives the sliding element sliding on the base board, whereby the resilient apparatus rotates in conjunction with the sliding element to enable the sliding element to move between first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Shih Lee, Shih-Chuan Li
  • Patent number: 8610648
    Abstract: A display device having a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a light-emitting element, a storage capacitor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor which supplies a data voltage to the storage capacitor in response to an on-voltage of a scanning signal, a second switching transistor which diode-connects the driving transistor in response to an on-voltage of a compensation signal, and a third switching transistor which supplies a driving voltage to the driving transistor in response to an on-voltage of a light emitting signal. The storage capacitor stores a control voltage depending on a threshold voltage of the driving transistor when the driving transistor is diode-connected, transmits the control voltage and the data voltage to the control terminal of the driving transistor, and a period in which the compensation signal is in an on-voltage state is longer than a period in which the scanning signal is in an on-voltage state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Chul Goh, Young-Soo Yoon, Chong-Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 8610702
    Abstract: A gamma voltage controller includes a gamma distribution unit that generates a plurality of voltages by performing voltage divisions between a first gradation voltage and a N(th) gradation voltage, a gamma selection unit having first through M(th) gamma selectors that respectively select first through M(th) gamma voltages among the plurality of voltages, a gamma buffer unit that changes inflection points of the gamma curve, and buffers the first through M(th) gamma voltages to output buffered first through M(th) gamma voltages, and a gradation distribution unit that generates second through N?1(th) gradation voltages by performing voltage divisions among the buffered first through M(th) gamma voltages. Each of the buffers includes a feedback loop, and some of the buffers change inflection points of the gamma curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-Suk Kim, Jae-Hyuck Woo, Jae-Goo Lee
  • Patent number: 8610655
    Abstract: A method for removing noise of a gate signal that is outputted from a gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages, the method includes electrically connecting two terminals of two adjacent stages that have noise components opposite in phase to each other during a first period, and electrically disconnecting the two terminals of the two adjacent stages that have the noise components opposite in phase to each other during a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Wan Yoon, Sung-Hoon Yang, Chong-Chul Chai, So-Woon Kim, Chang-Hyeon Shin
  • Patent number: 8605032
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display and a driving method thereof are provided. The electrophoretic display includes a display panel, a storage unit, a timing controller (TCON). The display panel has a plurality of sub-pixels. The storage unit stores a plurality sets of driving waveforms, wherein the lengths of driving waveforms in the sets of driving waveforms are different from each other. The TCON has an analysis module, couples to the display panel and the storage unit, and receives an image signal having a plurality of display data. The analysis module analyzes the display data to obtain a analysis result. The TCON selects one of the sets of driving waveforms according to the analysis result, and drives the sub-pixels according to the selected set of driving waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: SiPix Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Ting Liu, Hsu-Ping Tseng, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Patent number: 8605030
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source module having a light-emitting block, an image analysis part, a duty ratio calculation part, a duty ratio determination part and a signal generation part. The image analysis part extracts representative luminance data of the light-emitting block based on pixel data. The duty ratio calculation part calculates duty ratio data of the light-emitting block based on the representative luminance data. The duty ratio determination part generates determined duty ratio data of the light-emitting block based on the duty ratio data from a first period, and the signal generation part generates a driving signal having a duty ratio corresponding to the determined duty ratio data to drive the light-emitting block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Ku Kang, Hyuk-Hwan Kim, Dae-Gwang Jang, Yu-Han Bae, Hyeon-Yong Jang
  • Patent number: 8599145
    Abstract: A manually operated operation apparatus that is combined with a display apparatus for showing a different image for respectively different occupants includes a driver sensor at a position being touched by a driver who operates an operation unit, a passenger sensor at another position being touched by a passenger who operates the operation unit. Based on a detection result of these sensors, the operator of the operation unit is determined. In this manner, the operation apparatus distinguishes the operator of the operation unit for removing a limitation on an operation icon being displayed on the display apparatus without imposing a special operation on a user, thereby enabling an improvement of the usability of the operation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Shibata
  • Patent number: 8599182
    Abstract: A power sequence control circuit receives an input positive voltage and an input negative voltage. The control circuit includes a pull-up stage, having a first terminal receiving the input positive voltage, a second terminal coupled to a node, and a control terminal receiving feedback of an output positive voltage. A pull-down stage has a first terminal coupled to the node and a second terminal coupled to an output negative voltage. A current-limit switching unit has a first terminal receiving the input positive voltage, a second terminal outputting the output positive voltage, and a control terminal coupled to the node. When the output negative voltage decreases, and if the pull-down stage decreases a control voltage at the node and the control voltage is less than a threshold value, the current-limit switching unit is conducted to transmit the input positive voltage as the output positive voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chih-Yuan Chang
  • Patent number: 8599185
    Abstract: A driving apparatus of a display is disclosed. The driving apparatus mentioned above includes a digital-to-analog converter circuit and an output buffer circuit. The digital-to-analog converting circuit receives a display data with a digital format for generating a gray-level voltage. The output buffer circuit has an output terminal to output an output signal. The output buffer circuit receives the gray-level voltage, a pre-charge enable signal and the output signal and provides a pre-charge output signal to the output terminal of the output buffering circuit according to the pre-charge enable signal and a comparison result of the gray-level voltage and the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jin-Sheng Hsieh, Hsueh-Yi Lee, Wing-Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 8599183
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided to prevent a liquid crystal module from being driven abnormally. The liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel displaying a picture corresponding to a data; a DC-DC converter for generating driving voltages necessary for driving the liquid crystal display panel; a system for supplying the data, a module operation power and a backlight operation power in a play state, and cutting off the module operation power and the backlight operation power while supplying the data in a pause state; and a switching circuit for controlling an input of the DC-DC converter whether or not the module operation power and the backlight operation power are supplied, wherein the input of the DC-DC converter is cut-off if either the module operation power or the backlight operation power is not input to the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Inho Yeo
  • Patent number: 8599223
    Abstract: A display device includes a first reference pixel section configured to be driven to emit light at a predetermined luminance, a second reference pixel section configured to be driven to emit light when an amount of luminance degradation is to be detected, and a correcting unit configured to correct luminance degradation of effective pixels that contribute to display on the basis of a detection result of luminances of the first reference pixel section and the second reference pixel section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino