Patents Examined by Chanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9740347
    Abstract: A processing system (and associated input device and method) is disclosed that includes a display module configured to drive a display signal onto a plurality of sensor electrodes for updating a display, and a sensor module configured to communicate with the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is configured to, in a first mode of operation, operate the plurality of sensor electrodes to receive an active input from an active input device, and in a second mode of operation, operate the plurality of sensor electrodes to receive capacitive sensing data from a passive input device. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to determine a position of the active input device based on a harmonic of the active input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Oscar Ayzenberg
  • Patent number: 9741295
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display unit to display an image based on image data on a screen including a plurality of areas, a light emitting unit to individually control emission brightness for each area, a calculation unit to calculate emission brightness of an image displayed on the screen for each area based on the image data, a measurement unit disposed opposing the screen and to measure a characteristic value relating to display characteristics of the display unit, and a control unit to determine whether emission brightness of a first area opposing the measurement unit is lower than a first value when the measurement unit measures the characteristic value and to set the emission brightness to a value equal to or greater than the first value when the emission brightness of the light emitting unit for the first area is lower than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Kimoto
  • Patent number: 9740285
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein provide for an integrated approach for controlling a user's various devices based on the user's brain activity. A user's brain activity is monitored with a first user device. A change in the brain activity is detected. In response to detecting the change, data from a second user device is processed. The detected change in brain activity is compared to the processed data to determine whether the change in brain activity is associated with the second user device. In response to determining that the change is associated with the second user device, an option is generated for display on a display screen to control the second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Beaty
  • Patent number: 9727166
    Abstract: A touch panel controller is equipped with a control unit that outputs a decimation signal to a drive line driving circuit when touch response magnitude data is a designated value or greater, or in other words, when the distance between a touch panel and a stylus pen is closer than a designated value. Thus, it is possible to realize a touch panel system able to moderate the amount of power consumed when synchronizing drive timings between the pen and the touch panel controller that drives the touch panel, and thereby operate with low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michiaki Takeda, Mamoru Takaya
  • Patent number: 9721510
    Abstract: A gate driving unit includes an input circuit, a pull-up circuit, a reset circuit, and an output circuit. The pull-up driving signals received by the input circuit include the gate driving signals for pixel units of row n?2 and row n+4. The reset driving signals received by the reset circuit include the gate driving signals for pixel units of row n+2 and row n+8. The gate driving signals output from the output circuit include the gate driving signals for pixel units of row n and row n+6. Where, n is a positive integer and n?[3,?). The gate driving unit can output gate driving signals of two rows of pixel units and thus has a high service efficiency. An area occupied by a gate driving circuit made of the gate driving units is reduced, and a driving efficiency of the gate driving circuit is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 9721521
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a gate driving method, a driving apparatus of a display panel and a display apparatus. The driving apparatus may be in two driving modes, i.e., a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, due to a reduced number of gate lines to be driven when various frames of images are displayed, the power consumption can be reduced. In addition, due to the effect of persistence of vision of human eyes, better quality of display images can be ensured while reducing power consumption. In the second mode, as respective lines of gate lines are driven progressively when various frames of images are displayed, the display panel is enabled to have better quality of display images. By switching the driving apparatus between the first mode and second mode, a number of gate lines to be driven can be reduced so as to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Jiang, Xinghua Li, Wei He
  • Patent number: 9715861
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including gate lines which extends in a first direction, data lines which extends in a second direction, and sub-pixels connected to corresponding gate and data lines, a gate driver configured to drive the gate lines, a data driver configured to apply a gray-scale voltage to the data lines, and a timing controller configured to generate and apply control signals to the gate and data drivers, where a unit pixel of the display panel is defined by an even number of adjacent sub-pixels among the sub-pixels, each of the data lines is connected to corresponding sub-pixels of the sub-pixels, the data driver inverts a polarity of the gray-scale voltage every two data lines, and two adjacent sub-pixels in the unit pixel are applied with the gray-scale voltages having different polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jinpil Kim, Jai-Hyun Koh, Namjae Lim, Ik Soo Lee, Heendol Kim, Se Ah Kwon, Kisoo Park, Jonghak Hwang
  • Patent number: 9711084
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a first pixel circuit for displaying a first color. The first pixel circuit includes a large light emitting element, a small light emitting element, and a current control circuit that controls whether a current is supplied to the small light emitting element and the large light emitting element or not respectively, and the amount of the current to be supplied to at least one of the small light emitting element and the large light emitting element, according to a tone to be displayed by the first pixel circuit. The current control circuit supplies the current to the small light emitting element if the tone is equal to or smaller than a threshold value, and supplies the current to at least the large light emitting element if the tone is larger than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Uetake
  • Patent number: 9697781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device (LCD) and display driving method thereof. The LCD includes display panel; scan driver; a plurality of data drivers; first timing controller, for controlling scan driver, receiving and processing first signal, outputting synchronization signal and first driving control signal, the first driving control signal controlling first data driver to drive display of all pixels in a part of pixel rows of n pixel rows; and second timing controller, for receiving synchronization signal and second data signal, processing second data signal, outputting second driving control signal, second driving control signal controlling second data driver to drive display of all pixels in the other part of pixel rows of the n pixel rows. As such, through modifying input and output of two timing controllers, the present invention makes two timing controllers to synchronously support high resolution output of LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yin-hung Chen
  • Patent number: 9699435
    Abstract: The invention discloses a liquid crystal driving method and apparatus for black frame insertion of an image, and a liquid crystal display device. The method includes, in a black frame insertion period after the frame period ends, sending, by a timing controller, a row of black image data to a register of a source driver; and in the black frame insertion period, maintaining, by the register, the row of black image data being output until the black frame insertion period ends, so as to enable the row of black image data to refresh each row of liquid crystal cells. Accordingly, the complexity of driving processes and the data calculations in the black frame insertion are greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: HISENSE HIVIEW TECH CO., LTD, HISENSE USA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jie Yang, Shunming Huang
  • Patent number: 9691337
    Abstract: A digital gamma correction part includes a memory and a selector. The memory is configured to store a basic gamma reference data, a first compensated gamma reference data and a second compensated gamma reference data, where respective data of the first compensated gamma reference data are greater than respective data of the basic gamma reference data, and respective data of the second compensated gamma reference data are less than respective data of the basic gamma reference data. The selector is configured to receive a luminance data determined based on a luminance of a display panel, and to output a gamma reference data by selecting one from the basic gamma reference data, the first compensated gamma reference data and the second compensated gamma reference data based on the luminance data and a gamma converted reference range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-In Kim, Young-Sun Kwak, Jun-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 9691320
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a third light source, a first color filter, a second color filter, a third color filter, and an opto-functional device. The first light source and the second light source are allowed to emit light in a first emission time period to form a first display pattern. The third light source is allowed to emit light and the opto-functional device controls the third color filter to transmit light in a second emission time period to form a second display pattern. The first emission time period and the second emission time period are alternately repeated to combine the first display pattern and the second display pattern to obtain an intended display pattern when the display apparatus displays the intended display pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motokazu Yamada
  • Patent number: 9691350
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a pixel part including a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix form, where the matrix form includes a unit matrix having X columns in a horizontal direction and Y rows in a vertical direction, where X and Y are natural numbers; and a plurality of light controlling parts inclined with respect to the vertical direction of the pixels on the pixel part at an inclined angle of ?, where the inclined angle of ? satisfies the following equation: ?=tan?1((M×X)/(N×Y)), where M and N are different natural numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Hoon Lee, Hae-Young Yun, Tae-Hyeong Park, Kyung-Ho Jung, Jin-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9685106
    Abstract: Disclosed are a curved display device and a driving method therefor. The curved display device includes: a display panel including a curved portion and a flat portion; a luminance compensator configured to determine a first luminance compensating value for the flat portion and to determine a second luminance compensating value for one or more positions of the curved portion; and a signal controller for adjusting an input image signal corresponding to the first and second luminance compensating values set by the luminance compensator so as to compensate luminance of those portions of the input image signal corresponding to both the curved portion and the flat portion of the display panel, and for transmitting the compensated image signal to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ui Yeong Cha
  • Patent number: 9685124
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes, on a substrate, three sub-pixels, three sampling switches, three data lines, three image signal lines, and three lead wiring lines. The three sub-pixels correspond to red, green and blue, respectively. The three sub-pixels are included in a unit pixel. The three sampling switches correspond to the three sub-pixels, respectively. The three data lines electrically connect the three sub-pixels and the three sampling switches with each other, respectively. The three image signal lines, which are provided on a side opposite to the three sub-pixels with respect to the three sampling switches, correspond to the three sampling switches, respectively. The three lead wiring lines electrically connect the three sampling switches and the three image signal lines with each other, respectively. Among the three sampling switches, a sampling switch corresponding to green is disposed close to the three image signal lines compared to other two sampling switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 9672772
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: an organic light-emitting panel defined into a plurality of pixel regions which each includes a drive transistor configured to drive an organic light emission element and a load capacitor configured to charge a threshold voltage of the drive transistor; and a controller configured to calculate an offset information on the basis of the threshold voltage and derive a second image signal by reflecting the offset information to a first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ui Taek Jeong
  • Patent number: 9674905
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display; a driver including an amplifier configured to detect a current of the display and to generate a constant current control signal, and a transistor configured to adjust the current supplied to the display in accordance an output voltage of the amplifier; and a controller configured to monitor the current of the display and a dropout voltage of the transistor, and control the amplifier so that a pulse width modulation (PWM) duty ratio is decreased in response to the dropout voltage being equal to or higher than a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-hyung Lee, Youn-seung Lee, Gil-yong Chang
  • Patent number: 9666134
    Abstract: A scan driving device includes shift registers, each including a first signal terminal to which a forward direction driving start signal is transferred, a second signal terminal to which a backward direction driving start signal is transferred, a clock signal terminal and a clock bar signal terminal to which a clock signal and a clock bar signal are applied, a sustain signal terminal to which a sustain signal is transferred, a control signal terminal to which a control signal is transferred, a gate clock signal terminal to which a gate clock signal is transferred, and an output signal terminal, where driving power source voltages including a high potential power source voltage and low potential power source voltages is applied to each shift register, and an application of the low potential power source voltages to each shift register is controlled based on the sustain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-Seok Han, Jin-Wook Yang, Yun-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9665220
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel, a touch panel, a data driver, a common voltage noise predictor and a touch position detector. The display panel includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels. The pixels are electrically connected to the data lines, respectively. The touch panel is configured to output a first touch signal based on a touch event. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the data line based on a data signal. The common voltage noise predictor is configured to output a common voltage noise compensating signal based on the data signal. The touch position detector is configured to detect a touch position based on the common voltage noise compensating signal and the first touch signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hong Park, Moon Shik Kang, Moon-Sung Choi, Sang-Min Choi
  • Patent number: 9665189
    Abstract: A touch stylus capable of detecting pressure on its tip is disclosed in the present disclosure. The touch stylus includes a body, a tip, and a pressure sensing module disposed between the body and the tip for detecting a pressure on the tip. The pressure sensing module includes a lighting unit, a pressure sensing unit connected to the tip, and a controller electrically connected to the lighting unit and the pressure sensing unit. The pressure sensing unit detects a movement of the tip relative to the body, and generates a corresponding electrical signal. The controller receives the electrical signal to drive the lighting unit for generating a corresponding optical signal. A scintillating frequency of the optical signal and a value of the electrical signal are in direct proportion, and an optical detector can transform the optical signal into the pressure on the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsing Wang, Pei-Chen Chin, Pin-Hsien Su, Wen-Chin Wu, Yi-Sheng Kao