Patents Examined by David Tung
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Patent number: 11328657Abstract: Display panels and display devices are provided. The display panel includes a non-display area, a display area surrounding the non-display area, and a plurality of first signal wirings arranged along a first direction. The non-display area includes a first non-display area between adjacent through-holes of the at least two through-holes, a second non-display area located between the at least two through-holes and the display area, and at least two through-holes arranged along the first direction. The plurality of first signal wirings includes a plurality of first sub-signal wirings and a plurality of first cross-lines. Each end of the first cross-line is connected to one first sub-signal wiring; a number of first cross-lines of the plurality of first cross-lines in the first non-display area is M; a number of first cross-lines of the plurality of first cross-lines in the second non-display area is N; and M is greater than N.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rili Fei, Ruiyuan Zhou, Zhiqiang Xia, Yingjie Chen
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Patent number: 11314349Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, and more particularly, to a touch display device which can have a small bezel size even when touch routing lines connecting a touch sensor to a touch sensing circuit are disposed in a non-display area and which can improve touch sensitivity by preventing or minimizing the formation of parasitic capacitance that can be caused by the touch routing lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HwiDeuk Lee, Yangsik Lee
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Patent number: 11315497Abstract: A gate driving circuit and an image display device including the gate driving circuit are provided. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages configured to sequentially and repeatedly output a plurality of scan pulses having different pulse widths in response to a gate control signal applied from a timing controller and the plurality of stages sequentially generate the plurality of scan pulses having different pulse widths and phase-delayed in response to three-phase clock pulses among the gate control signals and sequentially supply the plurality of scan pulses to gate lines of a display panel to selectively adjust a light emission period or a color display period for each red pixel, green pixel, and blue pixel, thereby improving image quality.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaesung Yu, Chungsik Kong, Sewan Lee, Juhnsuk Yoo, Jungsoo Park, Mihee Shin
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Patent number: 11307758Abstract: Methods and systems for providing input to a computing device based on a single contact scaling gesture are provided. A scaling gesture can be performed on a touch-sensitive panel to zoom in or out of a displayed image, for example. One example of a scaling gesture can include two touch contacts moving towards or away from each other. A single contact scaling gesture can include selecting a scaling command based on a first touch input being held for a predetermined duration of time, or based on other criteria. Once the scaling command has been selected, subsequent touch input can determine both a scaling factor and a scaling direction of the scaling command.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Assaf Bart, Igor Rayboy
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Patent number: 11308909Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit, wherein each of GOA units includes a pull-up control circuit, wherein a control terminal thereof receives a first control signal, and a second terminal thereof outputs a second control signal; a pull-up circuit including a first transistor, wherein a control terminal thereof is connected to the second terminal of the pull-up control circuit, a first terminal thereof receives a first clock signal, and a second terminal thereof outputs a driving signal; a bootstrap capacitor connected between the second terminal of the pull-up control circuit and the second terminal of the first transistor; and a cascade-transmission circuit including a second transistor, wherein a control terminal thereof is connected to the second terminal of the pull-up control circuit, and a second terminal thereof outputs a cascade-transmission signal; wherein a duty cycle of the first clock signal is less than 33%.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventor: Jiangchuan Chen
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Patent number: 11301089Abstract: An optical IR touch sensing apparatus configured to determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor is then configured to operate an image reconstruction algorithm on at least part of the thus-generated transmission values and determine a position of a touching object on the touch surface, and an attenuation value corresponding to the attenuation of the light resulting from the object touching the touch surface. Using these values, the processor is configured to identify the type of object.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories ABInventors: Tomas Christiansson, Mattias Krus, Kristofer Jacobson, David Gillsjö
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Patent number: 11301127Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for correcting an input error in an input apparatus capable of touch inputs of a first touch input scheme and a second touch input scheme. Upon detecting a touch input of the first touch input scheme, an activity corresponding to the detected touch input is executed and activity execution information corresponding to the activity is stored. The activity executed in accordance with the touch input of the first touch input scheme is cancelled, when a touch input of the second touch input scheme occurs before the touch input of the first touch input scheme is released or before a preset timer expires. The first touch input scheme and the second touch input scheme are different schemes.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Inventors: Gwan-Hyung Kim, Joo-Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 11282457Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is disclosed. A first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode of a driving sub-circuit respectively receives a first voltage signal, is coupled to the light-emission control sub-circuit, and to a first electrode of a second storage sub-circuit. A first electrode and second electrode of a first storage sub-circuit is coupled to a first node and receives a second voltage signal respectively. A second electrode of the second storage sub-circuit is coupled to a second node. A writing-compensation control sub-circuit is coupled to the first node and the second node, and receives a data signal, a gate signal, and a third voltage signal. A light-emission control sub-circuit is coupled to the first node, the second node, a second electrode of the driving sub-circuit, and the light-emission sub-circuit, and receives a light-emission control signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yingsong Xu
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Patent number: 11257438Abstract: A display device includes a display part including an organic light emitting diode (OLED) connected to a pixel circuit connected to a scan line and a sensing scan line, a signal generator configured to generate at least one display output enable (OE) signal during an image display period; and generate at least one sensing OE signal during a sensing period; and a scan driver including a display scan signal terminal connected to the scan line and a sensing scan signal terminal connected to the sensing scan line, wherein the scan driver is configured to: generate a scan signal for turning on the switching transistor in response to the display OE signal during the image display period; and generate a sensing scan signal for turning on the sensing transistor in response to the sensing OE signal during the sensing period.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Jin Kim, Gyu Su Lee, Myung Ho Lee
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Patent number: 11257429Abstract: A pixel circuit including an organic light-emitting element, a switching transistor, a storage capacitor that stores a data signal applied via a data line, a driving transistor that allows a driving current corresponding to the data signal to flow into the organic light-emitting element, an emission control transistor electrically connected to the organic light-emitting element and the driving transistor in series, and sync transistors electrically connected to a bottom metal electrode of the driving transistor. The sync transistors include a first sync transistor electrically connected to a first one selected from a source electrode of the driving transistor, a gate electrode of the driving transistor, the high power voltage, and the low power voltage and a second sync transistor electrically connected to a second one selected from the source electrode of the driving transistor, the gate electrode of the driving transistor, the high power voltage, and the low power voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young-Cheol Jeong
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Patent number: 11257436Abstract: Provided are a scan driver and a display device including the same. The scan driver includes a first power line configured to supply a first voltage signal, a second power line configured to supply a second voltage signal having a lower voltage level than the first voltage signal, a pull-up transistor configured to output a corresponding clock signal, among multiple clock signals, as a scan signal in response to a logic state of a first node, a pull-down transistor configured to output the second voltage signal from the second power line as the scan signal in response to a logic state of a second node, and a first light-blocking film overlapping the pull-up transistor or the pull-down transistor, and configured to receive the second voltage signal from the second power line and the first voltage signal from the first power line.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jong Hee Kim
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Patent number: 11243686Abstract: An earbud includes a housing, a speaker mounted within the housing, a processor mounted within the housing, a user input surface on the housing, and a set of self-mixing interferometry (SMI) sensors mounted within the housing. The set of SMI sensors includes a first SMI sensor configured to emit a first beam of light, and a second SMI sensor configured to emit a second beam of light. The second beam of light passes through the user input surface about an axis that is non-perpendicular to the user input surface. The processor is configured to adjust a parameter of the speaker at least partly in response to a first SMI output of the first SMI sensor and a second SMI output of the second SMI sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Michael K. McCord
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Patent number: 11238824Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include a switch sub-circuit (10), a storage sub-circuit (20), and a driving sub-circuit (30). The storage sub-circuit (20) may include a first storage transistor (Tf1) and a second storage transistor (Tf2). Both the first storage transistor (Tf1) and the second storage transistor (Tf2) may be floating gate transistors. The storage sub-circuit (20) and the driving sub-circuit (30) may be configured to transmit a data signal from one of a plurality of data lines to a pixel electrode under control of the switch sub-circuit (10).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lijun Yuan, Seungwoo Han, Guangliang Shang
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Patent number: 11238793Abstract: A pixel compensation method includes: detecting driving transistors of pixels to obtain present characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels; extracting historical compensation characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels obtained in a previous display cycle of a screen; calculating a present compensation characteristic value of at least one driving transistor of the pixels according to a present characteristic value and a historical compensation characteristic value corresponding to the driving transistor of the pixels; and compensating a corresponding pixel according to the present compensation characteristic value of the driving transistor of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Song Meng, Zhongyuan Wu
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Patent number: 11221697Abstract: A device including a mechanical input and a touch-sensitive surface for detecting one or more touch inputs and an input from the mechanical input. The touch-sensitive surface can include a first portion for detecting at least the touch inputs, and a second portion for detecting at least the mechanical input. The touch-sensitive surface can include a first portion for detecting at least the touch inputs and the mechanical input. The mechanical input can comprise an electrically conductive material, and the mechanical input can be detected based on capacitance measurements between the mechanical input and the touch-sensitive surface. The device can include a sensing element, the mechanical input can comprise an electrically insulating material, and the mechanical input can be detected based on capacitance measurements between the touch-sensitive surface and the sensing element. The device can include logic to differentiate between the touch inputs and the mechanical input.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Christopher Werner, Colin M. Ely, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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Patent number: 11217146Abstract: A gray-level compensation method and apparatus, a display device and a computer storage medium are provided, which belong to the field of display technology. The method includes: acquiring an initial gray-level value of a target pixel; determining an actual luminance offset of the target pixel based on the initial gray-level value, where different initial gray-level values within a specified threshold range correspond to different actual luminance offsets; and performing a gray-level compensation on the target pixel based on the actual luminance offset. The actual luminance offset is determined based on the initial gray-level value of the target pixel, and since the different initial gray-level values within the specified threshold range correspond to the different actual luminance offsets, flexibility of gray-level compensation performed on the pixel is improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang Zhang, Tairong Kim, Shanfu Jiang
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Patent number: 11211019Abstract: A driving method for a display panel and a display device are provided. The driving method includes adopting drive data of relatively high voltage and drive data of relatively low voltage respectively for driving any two adjacent pixels; and with three columns of pixels as a repeater, adopting a first polarity arrangement drive for pixels in a first column, and adopting a second polarity arrangement drive for the rest two columns of adjacent pixels; the first polarity arrangement drive is to perform positive polarity drive, negative polarity drive, negative polarity drive and positive polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively; and the second polarity arrangement drive is to perform negative polarity drive, positive polarity drive, positive polarity drive and negative polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively. The display device uses such a driving method.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Bei Zhou Huang
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Patent number: 11182046Abstract: Embodiments are directed to gesture-based navigation through windows displayed on a mobile device by receiving a first gesture through a touch-sensitive screen of the mobile device. In response to receiving the first gesture, display of a first window of an ordered set of windows on a first display area of the touch sensitive screen can be stopped and display of the first window on the second display area of the touch sensitive screen can be started. In response to receiving a second gesture, display of a second window of the ordered set of windows on the first display area can be stopped and display of the second displayed window on the second display area can be started. The second displayed window on the second display area can at least partially obscures the first displayed window on the second display area.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Alexander de Paz, Paul E. Reeves, Maxim Marintchenko
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Patent number: 11164515Abstract: An electronic device comprises an electronic display having an active area having a pixel. The electronic device also comprises processing circuitry configured to receive image data to send to the pixel and adjust the image data to generate corrected image data based at least in part on a stored correction value for the pixel. The processing circuitry also is configured to generate a test data to send to the pixel subsequent to sending corrected image data to the pixel, wherein the test data is selected based upon a comparison of at least one aspect of the corrected image data with a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunwoo Nho, Sun-Il Chang, Junhua Tan, Jie Won Ryu, Shengkui Gao, Rui Zhang, Injae Hwang, Kingsuk Brahma, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Shiping Shen, Hyunsoo Kim
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Patent number: 11157115Abstract: The present disclosure relates to one or more intermediate layers located on a surface of a cover material of an acoustic touch screen. In some examples, the one or more layers can include one or more intermediate layers. The one or more intermediate layers can include a first layer including a plurality of features and a second layer located between the first layer and the cover material. In a touch condition, the touch object can apply a force to the top surface of the acoustic touch sensor. The applied force can create one or more local bends causing the plurality of features to move closer to the cover material and causing one or more surface discontinuities in the cover material. The acoustic waves can undergo reflections (e.g., causing the signal to be attenuated) due to the discontinuities located in the path of the wave propagation.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ehsan Khajeh, Brian Michael King, Marcus Yip, Aaron Scott Tucker, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Marduke Yousefpor, Giovanni Gozzini