Patents Examined by Dennis P Joseph
  • Patent number: 12188514
    Abstract: A hand held electronic device (10) including an air mouse unit for communicating with a remote host device (30) having a display screen (32) on which a cursor is displayed, wherein during operation as an air mouse the movement of the device controls the movement of the cursor, the device comprises an elongated body (11) with different surface regions accessible by a finger of the holding hand, and in one accessible surface region has a control field (35, 36), and a touch sensor (23, 24) is arranged under the control field (35, 36) that senses when the control field (35, 36) is touched by the finger and when the finger is moved thereon, and the air mouse unit has a deflection control unit (27) controlling the speed of the cursor movement in response to a unity movement of the device, and a processor (43) is connected to the touch sensor (23, 24) that controls the deflection control unit (27) to increase or decrease the speed of the cursor control in response to a predetermined first finger movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Geza Balint
  • Patent number: 12193305
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes an active region and an inactive region at least partially surrounding the active region. The input sensor includes a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the active region, a plurality of sensing lines disposed in the inactive region and connected to the sensing electrodes, a ground line extending outwardly to a greater extent than the sensing lines in the inactive region, and at least one shield layer extending from the ground line in the inactive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyungbae Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jaewoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12183237
    Abstract: A shift-register unit circuit includes a first input sub-circuit configured to have a display-input terminal to receive a display-input signal, and to provide a display output-control signal to a first node; a second input sub-circuit configured to have a blank-input terminal to receive a blank-input signal for charging a blank-control node, and to provide a blank output-control signal to the first node; an output sub-circuit configured to output signal under control of the first node; a first control sub-circuit, configured to control a voltage level of a second node under control of the first node; a second control sub-circuit configured to pull down voltage levels of the first node and the output terminal to turn-off voltage levels under control of the second node; and an anti-leak sub-circuit configured to provide a working voltage level to an anti-leak connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 12175917
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit and a display panel. The gate drive circuit includes multi-stage cascaded gate drive units. The gate drive units each include a pull-up control module, an output module, a pull-down module, a pull-down maintain module, a first reference low-level signal input terminal, a second reference low-level signal input terminal, and a pull-up node located in a line between the pull-up control module and the output module. The pull-up control module includes a pull-up control transistor that is electrically connected to the pull-up node and configured to pull a potential of the pull-up node up. The output module includes a scan signal output transistor that is electrically connected to the pull-up node and configured to output a present-stage scan signal under control of the potential of the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Song He, Xiaojin He, Xu Wang, Zelin Yang
  • Patent number: 12164733
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metal mesh array and a manufacturing method thereof, a thin film sensor and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the field of electronic device technology. A method for manufacturing a metal mesh array includes: providing a base substrate; forming a first metal layer on the base substrate as a seed layer; forming a first interlayer dielectric layer on a side of the seed layer away from the base substrate such that the first interlayer dielectric layer includes first groove structures and second groove structures in working areas and arranged in an intersecting manner; and performing an electroplating process on the seed layer to form first metal lines in the first groove structures and second metal lines in the second groove structures. The first metal lines and second metal lines in each working area are arranged in an intersecting manner, thereby forming a metal mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kui Liang, Feng Qu
  • Patent number: 12154509
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a driving method of the pixel driving circuit are provided by the present disclosure. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a reset module, a writing module, a first control module, and a light emitting device. The pixel driving circuit with the 5T2C structure can compensate the threshold voltage drift of the driving transistor, improve the luminous uniformity of the light emitting device, and further improve the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wu, Shijian Bao
  • Patent number: 12154475
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a grayscale compensation method. The grayscale compensation method first divides a display area of the display panel into a first display sub-area and a second display sub-area, and then takes average brightness of the at least one second display sub-area as target brightness and compensates a grayscale of each sub-pixel in the at least one second display sub-area. Accordingly, the present application not only improves the brightness uniformity of the display area, but also requires less gray scale compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinlong Zheng, Chunsheng Li, Kuo Wang
  • Patent number: 12153752
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a display device and a display panel, the display panel including: a transistor disposed over a substrate; a first planarization layer and a second planarization layer disposed over the transistor; an anode electrode disposed in a light emitting area on the second planarization layer and electrically connected to the transistor through an anode contact hole; a touch buffer layer disposed to cover the anode electrode; a touch electrode including an overlap area overlapping a portion of the anode electrode in a non-light emitting area on the touch buffer layer; a touch line disposed under the touch electrode and electrically connected to the touch electrode through a touch contact hole; a bank covering the touch electrode and including an opening in which the light emitting area is placed; and an emission layer and a cathode electrode sequentially disposed on the anode electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinseong Kim, JuHan Kim, Haewon Lee, CheolSe Kim
  • Patent number: 12148370
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To prevent a visible border between the reduced resolution areas of the display and full resolution areas of the display, uniformity compensation circuitry may be used to compensate pixel data. The uniformity compensation circuitry may output compensated pixel data for the display using one or more compensation maps that include compensation factors associated with pixel locations. The uniformity compensation circuitry may also use region-specific gamma look-up tables to apply different gamma curves to pixels in different regions of the display. The uniformity compensation circuitry may also be used to form a transition region between different regions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Yingying Tang, Scott R. Johnston, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Woo Shik Jung
  • Patent number: 12131673
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display driving circuit. The display driving circuit is configured to have a function of detecting a short of a data line occurring on a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiming Piao, Young Tae Kim, Won Kim
  • Patent number: 12125428
    Abstract: A shift register includes: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal; a first control circuit configured to control, in response to a second clock signal and a voltage at a second node, a voltage at the first node; a second control circuit configured to control, in response to a first clock signal, the second clock signal, and the voltage at the first node, a voltage at the second node, and control, in response to the second clock signal and the voltage at the first node, a voltage at the fifth node; and an output circuit configured to transmit, in response to an active level at the first node, a second power signal to an output signal terminal, and transmit, in response to an active level at the fifth node, the first power signal to the output signal terminal. All transistors included in the shift register are N-type transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungwoo Han, Haoliang Zheng, Dongni Liu, Li Xiao, Jiao Zhao, Xiaorong Cui, Minghua Xuan
  • Patent number: 12115902
    Abstract: A method for resolution-optimized control of a motor vehicle light module, wherein the motor vehicle light module is designed to emit segmented light distribution, wherein the motor vehicle light module includes a deflection unit, with which a native resolution of the motor vehicle light module can be visually increased by at least temporary beam deflection by means of the deflection unit, wherein the method includes a) receiving an image signal (S1), wherein the image signal (S1) contains a setpoint image (Ssoll) of light distribution, b) converting the setpoint image (Ssoll) received according to step a) into two lower-resolution images (S_low1, S_low2), and c) controlling the motor vehicle light module, wherein it is controlled in such a way that the two low-resolution images (S_low1, S_low2) of the image pair (S_res) are emitted one after the other by the motor vehicle light module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Miedler, Clemens Aigner, Erik Haas
  • Patent number: 12105909
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hung-Hsiang Chen, Chang-Hung Chen, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 12106720
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines whether input image data represents a still image. When the input image data represents the still image, the panel driver determines a flicker value of the still image, applies a compensation value corresponding to a carry shift interval to the flicker value, determines a driving frequency for the display panel based on the flicker value to which the compensation value is applied, and performs an alternate driving operation for the display panel at the driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Woomi Bae, Hui Nam, Jinyoung Roh, Sehyuk Park, Jaekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 12100357
    Abstract: A shift register, a gate drive circuit and a driving method therefor. The shift register includes a display pre-charge reset subcircuit, a sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit, a pull-down control subcircuit, an output subcircuit, a sensing cascade subcircuit and a black frame insertion cascade subcircuit. The display pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first power supply end for a pull-up node under control of a first signal input end and provide a signal of a second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a reset signal end; the sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first clock signal end to the pull-up node under control of the sensing cascade node and the first clock signal end, and provide a signal of the second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a total reset end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 12094399
    Abstract: A power supply circuit, a driving chip and a display apparatus. The power supply circuit comprises: a reference current generation circuit (101), which is configured to generate a reference current; a driving circuit (302), which is connected to the reference current generation circuit (101) and is configured to generate, according to the reference current, a mirror image current with an adjustable mirror image proportion, and output a bias voltage and a gate driving voltage; and a channel current output circuit (303), which is connected to the driving circuit (302) and is configured to receive the bias voltage and the gate driving voltage, and generate, according to the mirror image current, a channel current with an adjustable mirror image proportion. Since a mirror image proportion is adjustable, the current precision can be improved, and when a relatively large output current is required, a mirror image current can remain relatively small, thereby reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CHIPONE TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingjie Ma
  • Patent number: 12087192
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel and a display panel. The touch panel outputs touch sensing signals. At least one of a plurality of touch sensing signals is converted from a time domain to a frequency domain, and then information on a thickness of a common electrode is detected based on a peak of the converted touch sensing signal. As a result, it is possible to inspect whether the common electrode is formed with a uniform thickness without destroying the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hyeon Yang, Jun Young Ko, Han Su Cho, Tae Joon Kim, Jae Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 12080234
    Abstract: A display device may comprise a substrate, a plurality of driving transistors on the substrate, a plurality of anode electrodes connected with the plurality of driving transistors, a light emitting layer on the plurality of anode electrodes, and a plurality of split cathode electrodes on the light emitting layer. Each of the plurality of split cathode electrodes may alternate between a first state applied with a cathode voltage and a second state of floating not applied with the cathode voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MunChae Yoon, SangWook Lee, JeongHyeon Choi
  • Patent number: 12073774
    Abstract: A pixel includes a light-emitting element, a driving switching element and a noise switching element. The driving switching element applies a driving current to the light-emitting element. The noise switching element outputs a noise signal having a noise frequency to an input electrode of the driving switching element in response to a noise control signal. The noise frequency is equal to or greater than a driving frequency of the pixel. The noise signal having a periodicity is applied to the input electrode of the driving switching element of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunjung Lee, Woo-Young Cheon, Hyungsuk Hwang
  • Patent number: 12067936
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel circuit and a pixel control method capable of quickly controlling pixels with a simpler configuration of a combination of a photosensor and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor for switching a data signal to be applied to a data line; a driving transistor for supplying a drive current to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) according to a charge voltage corresponding to the data signal; a compensation transistor for compensating for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and a photosensor having a terminal to which a bias voltage is applied, wherein the switching transistor is a dual gate transistor having a first gate connected to another terminal of the photosensor, and a second gate connected to a gate of the compensation transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Takatori