Patents Examined by Chanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9318064
    Abstract: A shift register includes shift register units, in which at least one shift register unit is coupled to a forestage shift register unit and a post-stage shift register unit, where the at least one shift register unit includes a signal input circuit, a signal output circuit, a pull down circuit and a switching circuit. The signal input circuit electrically coupled to the forestage shift register unit can receive a logic signal from the forestage shift register. The signal output circuit is electrically coupled to the signal input circuit via a control signal terminal and is electrically coupled to the post-stage shift register unit. The signal output to circuit can receive a first clock signal. The pull down circuit is electrically coupled to or electrically isolated from the control signal terminal through the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pei-Hua Chen, Yu-Hsin Ting, Chung-Lin Fu, Tsao-Wen Lu, Nan-Ying Lin, Wei-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9311863
    Abstract: A dimming method and dimming device for a backlight module are provided. The dimming method includes the following steps. Light distribution information of a plurality of light sources of the backlight module corresponding to a display panel is provided. According to the light distribution information of each of the light sources, a plurality of light contribution ratios of the light sources corresponding to a plurality of different positions of the display panel are obtained respectively. According to the light contribution ratios corresponding to the different positions, the needed intensity of each of the light sources is determined respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsing-Chuan Chen, Wen-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 9286856
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device has pixels which include three color sub-pixels, for example, red, green, and blue sub-pixels. The pixels also include a white sub-pixel. The display calculates data for the red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels based on data for red, green, and blue sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Won-Woo Jang, Ju-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9280941
    Abstract: A direct type liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may enhance the brightness uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: TaeUk Kang, SungYong Park
  • Patent number: 9275590
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a register for storing pixel information of a problem pattern and polarity pattern information, a block pattern recognition unit for comparing input data with the problem pattern to count the number of problem patterns contained in the input data and comparing the count value with a first threshold value, a line pattern recognition unit for determining the line containing the problem pattern as a problem line, a frame pattern recognition unit for comparing the number of problem lines with a second threshold value, and determining the frame containing the input data as a problem frame, a polarity control signal generating unit for generating vertical and horizontal polarity control signals, and source drive integrated circuits (ICs) for controlling the vertical and horizontal polarities of data voltages supplied to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngho Kim, Suhyuk Jang, Songjae Lee
  • Patent number: 9262017
    Abstract: There is offered a signal processing circuit of the electrostatic capacity type touch panel which can eliminate duplication of components to reduce a cost of the components. A touch panel 51 is formed on a glass substrate 200. Sensor circuits 50A and 50B are arrayed in a Y direction, and sensor circuits 50C and 50D are arrayed in an X direction on the periphery of the touch pane 51. Serial clock terminals SCL of the sensor circuits 50A-50D are connected to a serial clock line 53 all together, while serial data terminals SDA are connected to a serial data line 54 all together. A microcomputer 52 is disposed on a PCB substrate outside the glass substrate 200. Data communication can be performed between the microcomputer 52 and the sensor circuits 50A-50D through the serial clock line 53 and the serial data line 54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kumiko Fukai, Yasuhiro Kaneta
  • Patent number: 9245478
    Abstract: A pixel circuit 110 includes a driving transistor, a light-emitting element, and a voltage limiter circuit. The transistor and the light-emitting element are connected in series between power supply. The transistor allows an electric current that is dependent on a voltage between its gate and source to flow through the light-emitting element. The light-emitting element emits light at a luminance that is dependent on an electric current that flows between two terminals. The voltage limiter circuit performs voltage limiting in such a way as to ensure that a voltage between the drain of the transistor and the source thereof does not exceed a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 9208715
    Abstract: A display device is provided that can provide sufficient time for threshold voltage compensation of a driving transistor of each pixel during high-speed driving of the display device, and a method for driving the same. A data writing and threshold voltage compensation step of pixels at odd and even-numbered lines are concurrently performed during an extended time period so that the time available for threshold voltage compensation of the driving transistors can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Cheol Kim, In-Hwan Kim, Byung-Geun Jun
  • Patent number: 9196204
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image display unit and a luminance control unit. The image display unit includes pixels arranged in a matrix, each of which is formed of a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel, and performs image display. The luminance control unit adjusts a ratio between a generation amount of first luminance generated by the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel and a generation amount of second luminance generated by the fourth sub-pixel. Over all input tones, the luminance control unit makes the generation amount of the second luminance lower than the generation amount of the first luminance and generates the second luminance so that a function representing a luminance value of the second luminance is continuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Amane Higashi, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe
  • Patent number: 9189991
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an organic light emitting display device capable of stably compensating for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor. The organic light emitting display device according the present invention includes pixels, each for storing a voltage of a data signal in a storage capacitor through a first threshold voltage different from a second threshold voltage of a driving transistor for driving the pixel; scan lines and light emitting control lines respectively coupled to the pixels; and data lines for supplying the data signal to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hyun Ka, Kwang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 9183781
    Abstract: A stage circuit includes an output unit for outputting the voltage of a first or second power source to a first output terminal, corresponding to a voltage at a first or second node; a bidirectional driver for receiving sampling signals of previous and next stages; a first driver coupled to the bidirectional driver to control the voltages at the first and second nodes, corresponding to first and second clock signals; and a second driver coupled to the bidirectional driver to output a sampling signal corresponding to the first and second clock signals. The first driver includes a first transistor coupled between the first power source and the second node; a second transistor coupled between the second node and the second power source; a third transistor coupled between the bidirectional driver and the first node; and a first capacitor coupled between the second node and a second input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hwan-Soo Jang
  • Patent number: 9182850
    Abstract: A touch type electrophoretic display apparatus, including: at least one photo-controlled voltage source, used for generating at least one reference voltage, wherein the level of the at least one reference voltage gets lower/higher as the intensity of environmental light increases/decreases; and a plurality of photo sensing circuits, each of which including: a photo transistor, generating a channel current according to an incident light; a light intensity storing capacitor, used for integrating the channel current to generate a photo sensing voltage; and an output switch, used for providing an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Wen Lin, Kai-Cheng Chuang, Ted Hong Shinn
  • Patent number: 9177495
    Abstract: In one unit period of a display period, each pair of two scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to an image signal of pixels of one scanning line of each pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line. In another unit period, the other scanning line of each pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to an image signal of the pixels of the other scanning line is supplied to each signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 9170692
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provides a capacitive in-cell touch panel, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus, wherein touch sensing electrodes are set on a color filter substrate, a common electrode layer connected as a whole plane on a TFT array substrate is divided into strips to be used as touch driving electrodes; touch driving signal lines are set in a display area of the touch panel by adopting a dual gate structure, which is helpful for a narrow frame design of the touch panel; each of the touch driving electrodes is electrically connected to at least one touch driving signal line and is supplied with a driving signal by a plurality of touch driving signal lines simultaneously, such that transmission efficiency of the driving signal can be improved to the maximum extent and delay of the driving signal can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang
  • Patent number: 9171494
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an OLED display device and control method thereof. The OLED display device includes a display screen, a sensor and a timing controller, wherein the timing controller includes a detection unit, a test image generation unit, a data compensation unit and image control unit. Detection unit provides command for generating test image. Test image generation unit generates test image according to the command for generating test image. Data compensation unit obtains decayed signal corresponding to test image detected by the sensor and to generate compensation signal to transmit to image control unit according to decayed signal. Image control unit transmits test image to display screen for detecting decay of display screen when inputting test image. As such, the present invention can improve the uneven display situation caused by decay of OLED display device as time passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tai-Jiun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9165491
    Abstract: A display device having multiple viewing zones includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels in a matrix form, each pixel including red, green and blue sub-pixels arranged in a vertical direction; and a light guide panel guiding a first image emitted from the pixels in first columns among the plurality of pixels to a first viewing zone and a second image emitted from the pixels in second columns among the plurality of pixels to a second viewing zone, wherein the first column is adjacent to the second column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hoon Woo, Young-Bok Lee
  • Patent number: 9142704
    Abstract: A photosensor includes a sensing switching element, a sensing element, and a reset switching element. The sensing switching element includes an output terminal connected to a sensing signal line, a control terminal connected to a first gate line, and an input terminal connected to the first node. The sensing element includes an output terminal connected to a first node, a control terminal connected a second gate line disposed next to the first gate line, and an input terminal connected to a source voltage line transmitting a source voltage. The sensing element senses light. The reset switching element includes an output terminal connected to the first node, a control terminal connected to the second gate line, and an input terminal connected to a driving voltage line transmitting a driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suk Won Jung, Seung Mi Seo, Sung Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 9129577
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel columns to display an image, wherein each of the pixel columns includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and sequentially turned-on in the first direction; a gate driver disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of stages connected to the pixels to sequentially apply a gate signal to the pixels, where at least two stages of the stages are disposed adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction; and a data driver which applies a data voltage to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-ho Park, Ji-Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9111509
    Abstract: A flat panel display is provided. In particular, a flat panel display including a driving circuit in which a timing controller and a data driver for driving a panel are mounted in a single IC, and a driving circuit thereof are provided. The flat panel display includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a gate driver controlling the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of driving circuits processing and converting an image signal and outputting the same to a display panel in a normal mode. The driving circuits generate a black image signal according to a synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minki Kim, SungChul Ha, JinSung Kim
  • Patent number: 9105225
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon, a gate driver which applies a gate signal to the gate lines, and a controller which controls the gate driver, where the controller includes a signal controller which generates a scanning start signal and a gate clock signal comprising a plurality of pulses, where the scanning start signal instructs to start a scanning of the gate signal, and a driving voltage modulator which generates a modulated gate-on voltage and a modulated gate-off voltage based on a basic gate-on voltage and a basic gate-off voltage, where the driving voltage modulator adds an overshoot voltage corresponding to a rising edge of a pulse of the gate clock signal to the basic gate-on voltage or adds an undershoot voltage corresponding to a falling edge of the pulse of the gate clock signal to the basic gate-off voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hun Tae Kim