Patents Examined by Chanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8907873
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light-emitting display (OLED) panel and a method for driving the same. The OLED panel comprises pixel rows, data lines, scan lines and power lines, and each of the pixel rows includes pairs of first and second pixels, and the data lines cross the scan lines, and the power lines are arranged parallel to the pixel rows. When driving the first or second pixel, two of the scan lines are turned on at the same time, and the two turned-on scan lines are positioned at two opposite sides of the driven first or second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yawei Liu
  • Patent number: 8902147
    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: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kotani, Mitsuru Goto
  • Patent number: 8896509
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a pixel having red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; a mode selector selecting one from an RGB mode and an RGBW mode as a driving mode; an RGBW mode signal generating part performing a color correction on RGB input data corresponding to the pixel and converting the RGB input data into RGBW data in the RGBW mode; and an output controlling part outputting RGBW output data by performing a gamma conversion on the RGBW data in the RGBW mode and outputting the RGB input data and a W data for turning off the W sub-pixel as the RGBW output data in the RGB mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheung-Hwan An, Eui-Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 8890772
    Abstract: Glasses apparatus interlocking with a 3D display device is provided. The glasses apparatus includes a shutter glasses unit, a synchronous signal receiving unit receiving a synchronous signal from the 3D display device, a shutter glasses which drives unit driving the shutter glasses unit, a DC/DC converter unit which converts converting a DC voltage provided from a battery, and a control unit which controls the DC/DC converter unit to apply the converted DC voltage to the shutter glasses driving unit through supplying of a PWM signal to the DC/DC converter unit and controlling the shutter glasses driving unit, which is driven by the applied DC voltage, to turn on/off the shutter glasses unit according to the synchronous signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-myung Woo, Jin-hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8890790
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a pixel array. Each pixel driving circuit of the plurality of pixel driving circuits includes four thin film transistors and has four output terminals, where each thin film transistor is used for driving an output terminal of the four output terminals, and the four output terminals are coupled to two gate lines and two sharing lines respectively for outputting two main output signals and two sharing output signals. The phases and timings of the two main output signals and the two sharing output signals are all the same. A pixel of the pixel array is charged/discharged to a specific voltage level according to a main output signal of the two main output signals, a sharing output signal, and a signal of a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Ying Lin, Chun-Hsin Liu, Kuo-Chang Su, Yung-Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 8890837
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having touch sensing functionality includes a display panel and a sensing unit integrated in the display panel. The display panel has a gate line for delivering a gate signal, a scan line for delivering a scan signal and a readout line for delivering a readout signal. The sensing unit resets a sense voltage according to the low-level voltage of the gate signal. Further, the sensing unit performs a pull-up operation on the sense voltage according to the high-level voltage of the gate signal and performs a boost operation on the sense voltage according to the high-level voltage of the scan signal, for enhancing touch sensitivity. The readout signal is generated by the sensing unit according to the sense voltage and the high-level voltage of the gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Tzu-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 8890800
    Abstract: In an image rewriting process of rewriting an image displayed on a display section by applying any one of a first electric potential, a second electric potential and voltage based on a driving pulse signal to each of a plurality of pixel electrodes and by moving electrophoretic particles by an electric field generated between the pixel electrodes and a common electrode, a first pulse application process which uses the driving pulse signal with the pulse width of the first electric potential being a first width, a second pulse application process which uses the driving pulse signal with the pulse width of the first electric potential being a second width longer than the first width, and a third pulse application process which uses the driving pulse signal with the pulse width of the first electric potential being a third width shorter than the second width, are sequentially performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Miyasaka, Kazuki Imai
  • Patent number: 8890848
    Abstract: An optical touch device includes: two light beam scanning modules each scanning a touch region of a panel body with a scanning light beam, whose incident angle varies with time, and outputting a time index signal associated with the incident angle; two light sensor modules each sensing a corresponding reflected scanning light beam generated due to presence of a touch within the touch region so as to output a sensing signal; and a processing unit for locating the touch based on the time index signal from each light beam scanning module, the sensing signal from each light sensor module, and a look-up table having pieces of angle information corresponding to a series of time indexes and associated with the incident angle of each scanning light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: UC-Logic Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Joe Yu
  • Patent number: 8890789
    Abstract: A level shift circuit includes first and second NMOS transistors that are coupled between a first supply terminal, and first and second output nodes, respectively, and have respective control terminals receiving input signals of a low amplitude, third and fourth PMOS transistors which are coupled between a second supply terminal, and the first and second output nodes outputting signals of high amplitude, respectively, a fifth PMOS transistor which is coupled between a gate of the third PMOS transistor and the second output node, and has a gate coupled to the first output node, a sixth PMOS transistor which is coupled between a gate of the fourth PMOS transistor and the first output node, and has a gate coupled to the second output node, and first and second load elements which are coupled between the second supply terminal and the gates of the third and fourth PMOS transistors, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuchi
  • Patent number: 8890793
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, systems, or apparatuses relating to adjusting a brightness level of at least a portion of a backlight of a display device based, at least in part, on one or more measurements of ambient light values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhang Wei, Min Chen, Tsai Chen Jung
  • Patent number: 8890796
    Abstract: A method and a circuit for synchronizing input and output synchronizing signals are disclosed. The method for synchronizing input and output synchronizing signals includes detecting an Nth (N is a positive integer) input period of the input synchronizing signal, determining whether the detected Nth input period is the same with a prior (N?1) the output period of the output synchronizing signal, detecting a difference between an end time of the (N?1)the output period and an end time of the Nth input period, if the detected Nth input period is not the same with the (N?1)the output period, operating the detected difference with the Nth input period, and setting the operated value as an Nth output period, and generating and outputting the output synchronizing signal having the set Nth output period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joung-Woo Lee, Jun-Hyeok Yang
  • Patent number: 8884865
    Abstract: A scanning line driving circuit includes a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode to a scanning line and a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line. The conductivity type of the second transistor is identical to that of the first transistor. A bias can be supplied, so that the first and second transistors are caused to be in an off-state simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Haga, Yoichi Kitagishi
  • Patent number: 8884862
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a data driver connected to the plurality of pixels by a plurality of data lines and applying data signals to the plurality of pixels; a scan driver connected to the plurality of pixels by a plurality of scan lines and applying scan signals to the plurality of pixels for the data signals to be applied to the plurality of pixels; a boost driver connected to the plurality of pixels by a plurality of boost lines and applying boost signals, boosting the pixel voltage charged to the plurality of pixels by the data signals, to the plurality of pixels; and a boost voltage maintaining unit applying a restoring voltage restoring the voltage in the plurality of boost lines by the scan signal to the plurality of boost lines. The voltage generated in the boost line by the coupling may be quickly restored and the crosstalk may be minimized, thereby improving the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang-Hwa Choi, Seung-Kyu Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Chul-Ho Kim, Se-Hyang Kim
  • Patent number: 8884898
    Abstract: A touch sensing device is provided. The provided touch sensing device may include a touch sensing circuit having a conducting unit for generating an alternating current (AC) touch signal, a phase delaying circuit electrically coupled to the touch sensing circuit for receiving the AC touch signal and delaying the AC touch signal for a predetermined phase so as to derive a delayed signal, and a determination circuit electrically coupled to the touch sensing circuit and the phase delaying circuit for comparing intensities of the delayed signal and the AC touch signal with a predetermined threshold in order to derive a waveform-overlapping time period. When the waveform-overlapping time period is longer than a predetermined period, the determination circuit concludes the conducting unit is approached or contacted by the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Innovation & Infinity Global Corp.
    Inventor: Ming-Yu Ho
  • Patent number: 8884860
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an image signal modifier for generating a modified signal based on a first image signal of a first frame, a second image signal of a second frame, and a lookup table. A data driver converts the modified signal into a data voltage which is supplied to a pixel of the display. The lookup table stores a plurality of reference modified signals for a plurality of reference first image signals and a plurality of reference second image signals. The lookup table includes a first lookup table having a gray gap of the reference first image signals and a gray gap of the reference second image signals of x, and a second lookup table having a gray gap of the reference first image signals and a gray gap of the reference second image signals of y, where y is greater than x.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo-Young Lee, Jae-Won Jeong, Woo-Jin Jung, Kang-Hyun Kim, Duc-Han Cho, Su-Bin Park
  • Patent number: 8884943
    Abstract: A driving apparatus of a display is disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit, an output buffer circuit and a pre-charge circuit. The DAC circuit receives a display data with a digital format for generating a gray level voltage. The output buffer circuit is coupled to the DAC circuit, and receives the gray level voltage. The output buffer circuit has an output terminal to output a driving output signal. The pre-charge circuit is coupled to the output buffer circuit, and generates a pre-charge output signal according to the gray level voltage and a pre-charge enable signal, and outputs the pre-charge output signal to the output terminal of the output buffer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jin-Sheng Hsieh, Hsueh-Yi Lee, Wing-Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 8884995
    Abstract: A system for compensating for gamma data is provided comprising a display panel including at least one feedback line connected to at least one pixel, a gray voltage generator generating a reference gray voltage based on first gamma data, a data driver generating a data voltage based on the reference gray voltage and applying the generated data voltage to a data line, a multiplexer receiving at least one feedback voltage from the at least one feedback line and selecting a feedback voltage from the received at least one feedback voltage and outputting the selected feedback voltage, an A/D converter converting the selected feedback voltage into feedback data, and a signal controller storing the feedback data as feedback gamma data for the entire grays and compensating for the first gamma data based on the feedback gamma data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Sun Kwak, Nam-Suk Bang, Ji-Won Kim, Won-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8878812
    Abstract: There is offered a signal processing circuit for an electrostatic capacity type touch sensor capable of detecting a larger number of locations with a smaller number of touch pads as well as improving noise immunity. A selection circuit selects either a signal from a combination of the first and second kinds of touch pads outputted through the first and second output terminals CO1 and CO2 in a touch panel or a signal from a combination of the third and fourth kinds of touch pads outputted through the third and fourth output terminals CO3 and CO4. An electric charge amplifier outputs first and second output voltages V1 and V2 corresponding to a difference between capacitances of the touch pads on the touch panel based on the signals from the selected combination. A delta sigma type A/D converter converts the first and second output voltages V1 and V2 into digital signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kumiko Fukai, Yasuhiro Kaneta
  • Patent number: 8872759
    Abstract: A writing apparatus for performing a writing operation on an electronic paper includes a writing controller and a pixel array writing unit. The writing controller includes a data driving unit for providing a plurality of data signals, and a scan driving unit for providing a plurality of scan signals. The pixel array writing unit is coupled electrically to the data driving unit and the scan driving unit, and is adapted to be disposed to confront a first planar side of the electronic paper for performing the writing operation on the electronic paper as controlled by the writing controller, where the data signals are written into the electronic paper with reference to the scan signals so as to enable the electronic paper to display a corresponding image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Winstron Corporation
    Inventor: Yao-Tsung Chang
  • Patent number: 8872865
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a data driving circuit. Each pixel includes a main region and a sub region. The main region stores a gray level voltage and the sub region stores a gray level voltage corresponding to the gray level voltage stored in the main region when the main region and the sub region display image. In the data driving circuit, first, second, third, and fourth gray level voltages are generated by means of a first selecting circuit outputting first digital data corresponding to the first pixel and second digital data corresponding to the second pixel to the corresponding digital-to-analog converters. The first, second, third, and fourth gray level voltages are distributed to the main and sub regions of the first and second pixels by a second selecting circuit, thereby reducing the number of digital-to-analog converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Meng-Ju Wu, Chun-Fan Chung