Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
  • Patent number: 10804333
    Abstract: A display, a circuit arrangement for a display and a method of operating a display are disclosed. In an embodiment a display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a given number of light emitters, a current control element for each light emitter, the current control element configured to control an electric current through the light emitter and at least one digital circuit element for each light emitter, the at least one digital circuit element configured to provide at least one data value to the current control element and the at least one data value being indicative of the current through the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Alireza Safaee
  • Patent number: 10804332
    Abstract: A display, a circuit arrangement for a display and a method of operating a display are disclosed. In an embodiment a display includes a voltage supply and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a given number of light emitters, the light emitters being arranged in parallel electric lines with a light emitter per electric line, wherein the voltage supply is adapted to provide an electric voltage to each of the parallel electric lines. Each electric line comprises a current control element, wherein the current control element of an electric line is configured to control an electric current flowing through the light emitter arranged in the electric line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Anant Aggarwal, Alireza Safaee
  • Patent number: 10803806
    Abstract: Pixel circuit and display substrate and driving methods, and display apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueling Gao, Chengchung Yang, Kuanjun Peng, Wei Qin, Xiangxiang Zou, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 10795499
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel. The flexible display device includes a first display portion, a second display portion, and a bendable portion. The bendable portion is configured to be bendable to allow the first display portion and the second display portion to be located at different planes. A sensor is disposed in the flexible display panel and configured to detect whether the bendable portion is bending. A control module is disposed in the flexible display panel and electrically connected to the sensor. The control module enables the first display portion to display a first image and enables the second display portion to display a second image when the sensor detects that the bendable portion is bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuelong Song
  • Patent number: 10795442
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including: a communication interface; at least one first vibration device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to determine vibration information including a first time for vibrating the at least one first vibration device and a second time for vibrating at least one second vibration device included in an external device to which the electronic device is mounted, based at least partially on information included in content to be outputted by the electronic device, transmit, through the communication interface, at least part of the vibration information to the external device such that the external device vibrates the at least one second vibration device based at least partially on the second time, and control the at least one first vibration device to vibrate based at least partially on the first time while the content is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Jun Lee, Sun Young Yi, Ji Won Kim, Young Hak Oh, Yong Gu Lee, Kyu Ok Choi
  • Patent number: 10797026
    Abstract: A video wall module includes a plurality of light emitting diode chips, each including first contact electrodes and second contact electrodes arranged at a contact side, wherein the light emitting diode chips are arranged at a top side of a multilayer circuit board, and the contact electrodes electrically conductively connect to a first metallization layer arranged at the top side of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventor: Jürgen Moosburger
  • Patent number: 10789894
    Abstract: A drive method for a display panel is provided. A first multiplex signal, a second multiplex signal, a third multiplex signal, a fourth multiplex signal, a fifth multiplex signal, and a sixth multiplex signal sequentially generate the high level pulse in the predetermined order in each of the first row periods of the (2i?1)th multiplex period. In addition, the first multiplex signal, the second multiplex signal, the third multiplex signal, the fourth multiplex signal, the fifth multiplex signal, and the sixth multiplex signal sequentially generate the high level pulse in a reverse order to the predetermined order in each of the second row periods of the (2i)th multiplex period. As a result, mura within the display picture of the display panel is eliminated to improve the display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lihua Zheng, Mang Zhao, Yong Tian
  • Patent number: 10791253
    Abstract: An imaging backplate, an imaging device and an electronic apparatus are provided. The imaging backplate is used in a pinhole-imaging-based apparatus and includes a plate body, a plurality of photosensitive sensors, and a plurality of pixel circuits. The plate body is divided into a plurality of illumination subregions and a non-illumination region beyond the plurality of illumination subregions, the plurality of photosensitive sensors is in the plurality of illumination subregions and arranged in matrix, and the plurality of pixel circuits is arranged in the non-illumination region. Each of the plurality of photosensitive sensors is in a corresponding one of the plurality of illumination subregions and is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihjen Cheng, Xiaoliang Ding, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10782867
    Abstract: An instruction associated with a first sliding control is received, where the first sliding control is located on a first side of a second sliding control, and where the received instruction instructs the first sliding control to be slid to a second side of the second sliding control. The first sliding control is slid to the second side of the second sliding control in response to receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xingmin Zhu, Xiaoqing Lin
  • Patent number: 10782866
    Abstract: An instruction associated with a first sliding control is received, where the first sliding control is located on a first side of a second sliding control, and where the received instruction instructs the first sliding control to be slid to a second side of the second sliding control. The first sliding control is slid to the second side of the second sliding control in response to receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xingmin Zhu, Xiaoqing Lin
  • Patent number: 10777617
    Abstract: A display, a circuit arrangement for a display and a method of operating a circuit arrangement of a display are disclosed. In an embodiment a display includes a plurality of light emitters arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, each row including an electric line and each column including an electric line, a voltage supply for providing a first voltage level to the electric lines of the rows and a second voltage level to the electric lines of the columns and a light emitter arranged in a first row and a first column and interconnecting the electric line of the first row and the electric line of the first column, wherein the electric line of the first column includes a current source, the current source being adapted to be switched on and off and to provide an electric current to drive the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Alireza Safaee, Marcel Severin
  • Patent number: 10777125
    Abstract: Full color displays that include optical thin film layers with a controllable reflectance are provided. The layers allow for the overall transparency and display properties of each side of the display to be controlled, allowing for augmented reality displays virtual reality displays, two-sided signage, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver
  • Patent number: 10775886
    Abstract: Gaze tracking data may be analyzed to determine the onset and duration of a vision interrupting event, such as a blink or saccade. Presentation of images to a viewer may then be suspended during the vision interrupting event and resumed in sufficient time to ensure that the viewer sees the image at the time the vision interrupting event has concluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Young, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Patent number: 10770015
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display area, in which an image is displayed, and a peripheral area, which is non-display area surrounding the display area. The display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area, a data integrated circuit (IC) disposed in a first side portion of the peripheral area, the peripheral area is disposed adjacent to the display area, a gate IC disposed in a second side portion of the peripheral area, the display area is disposed between the first and second side portions, a data fan-out part disposed in the first side portion, the data fan-out part extends from the data IC to the display area, the data fan-out part includes a plurality of wires that are spaced apart from each other in a fanned out manner, and a gate connecting part, disposed in the peripheral area, electrically connected to the gate IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kye-Uk Lee, Kee-Bum Park, Yanghee Kim, Seunghee Oh
  • Patent number: 10762858
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including: a plurality of pixels; and a signal controller which generates, on a frame-by-frame basis, a display signal based on an input image signal and a control signal from an outside. The signal controller includes a memory which stores a preset image signal, a receiver which receives the control signal, a clock signal modulator which generates an internal clock signal having a first frequency during a blank period, which is determined based on the control signal in a frame period, and a data processor which reads the preset image signal from the memory in response to the internal clock signal for an image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Kyu Kim, Myeong Su Kim, Po-Yun Park, Gwang Soo Ahn
  • Patent number: 10762825
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gamma correction circuit and method capable of minimizing power consumption by adding third and fourth input amplifiers receiving reference voltages which are identical to voltages to first and second input amplifiers, respectively, and deactivating the first and second input amplifiers during an always on display (AOD) mode. The gamma correction circuit includes a first input amplifier configured to output a maximum voltage when active, a second input amplifier configured to output a minimum voltage when active, a third input amplifier configured to output a highest gamma voltage in response to the first reference voltage, and a fourth input amplifier configured to output a lowest gamma voltage in response to the second reference voltage. The first and second input amplifiers are deactivated when the display driving device operates in the AOD mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: DB HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Tae Kim, Seung-Jin Yeo, Mun-Gyu Kim, Jae-Hong Ko
  • Patent number: 10747343
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image on one surface thereof, a substrate including a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface faces the display panel, and a first touch sensor provided between the display panel and the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a recess on the first surface, and the first touch sensor is arranged on at least a portion of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong Hee Won, Hye Yong Chu, Young Chan Kim, Byung Han Yoo, Won Sang Park
  • Patent number: 10719697
    Abstract: A gesture judgment device includes a reference part detection unit that outputs reference part information indicating a reference part region, a movement extraction unit that outputs movement information indicating a movement region, a reference part disappearance judgment unit that generates a reference part disappearance information, a timing judgment unit that judges whether first timing indicated by the reference part disappearance information and second timing of occurrence of a frame in which the movement region overlaps with the reference part region indicated by the reference part information are synchronized with each other or not and outputs a timing judgment result as the result of the judging, and an operation judgment unit that judges contents of a gesture operation performed by an operator based on the timing judgment result and the movement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai Nakamura, Masashi Kamiya, Masahiro Naito
  • Patent number: 10719232
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer program product, and method for providing virtual buttons are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of providing virtual buttons in a device includes detecting a grip around a perimeter of the device, where the perimeter of the device includes one or more ultrasonic sensors; determining one or more locations of one or more fingers of a user using data collected by the one or more ultrasonic sensors; and providing one or more virtual buttons around the perimeter of the device based on the one or more locations of the one or more fingers of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Justin Tse
  • Patent number: 10719127
    Abstract: A system may include a display, an eye tracking system, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive eye tracking data. The processor may be further configured to determine a foveal region of interest of the display based on the eye tracking data. The processor may be further configured to perform a display modification operation configured to a) reduce a brightness profile for at least some of pixels outside of the foveal region of interest, wherein the reduced brightness profile is less than a foveal region brightness profile for foveal region pixels corresponding to the foveal region of interest, and/or b) modify a non-foveal region image portion. The processor may be further configured to generate image data indicative of the performed display modification operation. The processor may be further configured to output the image data to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Keith