Patents Examined by David Tung
  • Patent number: 10761642
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a scanning frequency of a touch screen is disclosed. An ambient brightness is acquired when receiving an instruction to light up the touch screen. Whether the ambient brightness is beyond a predefined ambient brightness range is determined. The scanning frequency of the touch screen is reduced, when the ambient brightness is beyond the predefined ambient brightness range. A mobile terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Mingqiang Guo, Tong Han, Rendong Shi, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 10747365
    Abstract: Techniques for input adjustment are described. In one or more implementations, a user perspective of a display surface is estimated, and is used to correlate output that is displayed on the display surface. According to one or more implementations, detected motion of a display surface is used to compensate for an effect of the motion on input to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz
  • Patent number: 10739818
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a flexible display panel, an input sensing panel, and a control module which controls the flexible display panel and the input sensing panel. The flexible display panel includes a display surface extending in a second direction and a rear surface disposed opposite to the display surface in a thickness direction. The input sensing panel includes a first portion disposed on the display surface, a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed on the rear surface, and a third portion extending from the first portion, disposed on the rear surface, and spaced apart from the second portion on the rear surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taewook Kim
  • Patent number: 10741124
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: first and second scan signal input terminals; a data signal input terminal; a first power supply signal input terminal; a light-emitting control signal input terminal; a reference voltage input terminal; first to sixth transistors, a first capacitor, and a piezoresistor having a first electrode electrically connected to a first electrode plate of the first capacitor, and a second electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Xiong, Liyuan Liu, Liujing Fan
  • Patent number: 10714007
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit, including: a data writing unit, a driving unit, a reset unit, a light emission control unit, a storage unit and a light-emitting unit, wherein the data writing unit is configured to write a data signal input by a data signal line into a first mode; the reset unit is configured to reset the data signal and write the data signal into an output terminal of the driving unit; the storage unit is configured to store information on the data signal and transfer it to the driving unit; and the light emission control unit is configured to write a second power supply voltage at a second power supply voltage terminal into the reset unit and provide a light emission current to the light-emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingsong Xu
  • Patent number: 10714006
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of display sub-pixels and a plurality of brightness-enhancement sub-pixels arranged in a display area, some of which are located within a fingerprint identification region in the display area. The display sub-pixel includes first light emission component, first reset module connected to reset signal terminal, first control signal terminal and first light emission component, and first light emission control module connected to power signal terminal, data line, light emission control signal terminal, second control signal terminal, and first light emission component. The brightness-enhancement sub-pixel includes second light emission component and second light emission control module connected to third control signal terminal and second light emission component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Tao Peng, Yongzhi Wang
  • Patent number: 10706779
    Abstract: A display driver for driving a display panel includes a voltage data generator circuit calculating a voltage data value from an input grayscale value and a driver circuitry driving the display panel in response to the voltage data value. The voltage data generator circuit includes a basic control point data storage circuit storing therein basic control point data specifying a basic correspondence relationship between the input grayscale value and the voltage data value, a correction data memory storing correction data for each of the pixel circuits, a control point calculation circuit and a data correction circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Damien Berget, Takashi Nose, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10705573
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an AMOLED display module and displaying method for operable in different bendable states, which the displaying state of a display panel can be directly controlled by a driver chip because a bending state sensor is disposed on a bendable region of the display panel and directly coupled with the driver chip. It increases the efficiency and compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Tan
  • Patent number: 10699662
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for driving a display panel is provided. The integrated circuit includes a gamma mapping unit and a mura compensation unit. The gamma mapping unit is configured to receive a gray level of an image data, map the gray level to a gamma code according to at least one gamma table, and output the gamma code. The mura compensation unit is configured to receive the gamma code, and compensate the gamma code according to at least one de-mura table to generate a compensation result after the gamma mapping unit performs the step of mapping the gray level to the gamma code. The integrated circuit drives the display panel according to the compensation result. In addition, a method for driving a display panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: I-Te Liu, Chia-Wei Chang, Chien-Yu Chen, Hsien-Wen Lo
  • Patent number: 10692453
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes first and second signal lines extending in directions intersecting each other on a component substrate, a pixel area including a pixel electrode disposed in correspondence with an intersection of the first and second signal lines, a signal output circuit disposed outside the pixel area and outputs a driving signal to the first signal line, and a connection wiring connecting the signal output circuit and the first signal line. An outer peripheral edge of the pixel area has a curved portion or a bent portion in a portion facing the signal output circuit, and the signal output circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks arranged along the curved portion or the bent portion of the portion facing the signal output circuit with deviated between adjacent circuit blocks in the direction of extension of the first signal line and/or the direction of extension of the second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuya Anzai, Hideki Kawada, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yukitada Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10665194
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof. A first GOA circuit and a second GOA circuit are provided, and channel widths of thin film transistors in the first GOA circuit are greater than channel widths of thin film transistors in the second GOA circuit. When the ambient temperature is too high, the start signal and the clock signal are only outputted to the second GOA circuit to provide the scan signals. When the ambient temperature is too low, the start signal and the clock signal are only outputted to the first GOA circuit to provide the scan signals to the plurality of scan lines. When the ambient temperature is normal, the start signal and the clock signal are outputted to the first GOA circuit and the second GOA circuit to provide the scan signals to the plurality of scan lines at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 10635217
    Abstract: An electronic device that senses home button inputs through ultrasonic force sensing. The electronic device may correlate that amount of force that a user applies to the home button with a specific home button command. In certain embodiments, the system may combine the force of touch information with other information that is sensed for a particular touch to correlate the touch input with a greater number of home button commands. A home button embodiment discussed herein may include a home button image that is displayed on a touch sensitive panel. In other embodiments, a home button may be located outside of the boundaries of a touch sensitive panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Q. Huppi, Martin P. Grunthaner, John G. Elias, Sinan Filiz, Steven P. Hotelling
  • Patent number: 10629129
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gate driving apparatus for a pixel array and a driving method therefor. The pixel array includes N gate lines. The gate driving apparatus includes: a plurality of gate drivers, wherein the N gate lines are divided into a plurality of groups, each group includes a plurality of gate lines, each gate driver corresponds to the plurality of groups on a one-to-one basis, and is used for generating a gate driving signal for the plurality of gate lines in the group corresponding thereto; and a driver control module which is used for generating a plurality of driver control signals corresponding to the plurality of gate drivers on a one-to-one basis, and state switching between any two driver control signals has at least a difference of first time, wherein under control of the driver control signals, the gate drivers are switched from first state to second state in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Xiao, Yihjen Hsu, Shuai Hou, Xu Lu, Fei Shang
  • Patent number: 10614753
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and an electronic device including the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of pixel units. The plurality of sub-pixels includes at least a first color sub-pixel and at least a second color sub-pixel. The plurality of sub-pixels and the plurality of pixel units are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner. The display panel provided by the present disclosure can greatly reduce the difficulty of the preparation process while remaining a high aperture ratio, thereby improving the production yield of the display panel, significantly reducing the preparation cost of the display panel, greatly improving the display performance of the display panel, providing a comfortable user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wanwan Xia, Xian Chen, Lijing Han, Yu Xin
  • Patent number: 10599277
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch panel and a display device. The touch panel includes first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and second touch electrodes arranged in a second direction in a touch area of a substrate, first touch electrode lines and second touch electrode lines, and the first touch electrode lines are at least partially arranged in a touch area, the first touch electrode and/or the second touch electrode has an opening area, and an orthographic projection of the first touch electrode line to the substrate overlaps with that of the opening area to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Xie, Hong Ding, Kang Yang
  • Patent number: 10600389
    Abstract: A display driving apparatus including a receiver circuit, a detection circuit and a driving circuit is provided. The receiver circuit receives the video image data at a first rate. The detection circuit is coupled to the receiver circuit. The detection circuit detects whether the video image data is a static image, and determines whether the display driving apparatus enters a power saving mode based on a detecting result. The driving circuit is coupled to the receiver circuit. The driving circuit drives the display panel. In the power saving mode, the receiver circuit continuously receives the video image data at the first rate, and periodically masks a part of the video image data according to the detecting result and outputs an unmasked part of the video image data to the driving circuit. Furthermore, a display driving method adapted for the foregoing display driving apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Chen, Chien-Chou Hung, Wei-Ying Tu, Jiun-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 10585529
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to reducing noise in received signals. An example provides a method comprising receiving, via one or more electrodes of an input device, a capacitive signal, for each of two or more reference sequences designed for a respective capacitive signal condition, correlating the capacitive signal with the reference sequence, and identifying a particular one of the two or more reference sequences that produced a highest noise immunity when correlated with the capacitive signal. The method may further comprise correlating the identified reference sequence with a subsequent capacitive signal to thereby receive information in the subsequent capacitive signal regarding an input device condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Tianzhu Qiao, Jonathan Westhues
  • Patent number: 10579182
    Abstract: A display substrate, an in-cell touch screen and a display device the field of touch technology are disclosed. The display substrate includes a TFT, a 2D touch electrode and a pressure-sensing electrode, and includes a first signal output wire for outputting electrical signal of the pressure-sensing electrode. A metallic layer forming a source/drain in the TFT is configured to act as the first signal output wire. The first signal output wire is electrically connected with the pressure-sensing electrode by a through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10558321
    Abstract: The disclosed method and device are directed to navigation, by a dual display communication device, through display objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Alexander de Paz, Paul E. Reeves, Maxim Marintchenko
  • Patent number: 10540088
    Abstract: A touch screen device capable of executing an event based on a gesture combination according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and an operating method thereof maintain a command database storing a plurality of predetermined gesture combinations, in which two or more gestures are sequentially combined, and commands corresponding to the plurality of predetermined gesture combinations, and confirm a gesture combination according to two or more touch inputs when a user inputs the two or more touch inputs onto a touch screen with an interval within a predetermined time, extract a command corresponding to the gesture combination from the command database, and execute an event corresponding to the extracted command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: HANCOM FLEXCIL, INC.
    Inventors: Changil Lee, Hongshik Kim