Patents Examined by Dismery Mercedes
  • Patent number: 12386464
    Abstract: A proximity detection device with a detection distance for detecting an object separated to some extent from an operation surface is provided. The proximity detection device includes a proximity detection unit that has a piezoelectric body and first and second electrodes disposed in contact with the piezoelectric body to detect proximity of an object, a signal applying unit that causes the proximity detection unit to perform capacitance detection and ultrasonic transmission and/or ultrasonic reception by applying a plurality of signals of different frequencies to at least one of the first and second electrodes, and a charge measurement unit connected to at least one of the first and second electrodes to measure electric charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shigetaka, Tatsumi Fujiyoshi
  • Patent number: 12387672
    Abstract: A transparent display device may improve light transmittance. The transparent display device comprises a substrate provided with a display area on which a plurality of subpixels are disposed, a first non-display area disposed at a first side of the display area and a second non-display area disposed at a second side facing the first side, a first common power electrode extended from the first non-display area in a first direction, a second common power electrode extended from the second non-display area in the first direction, and an initialization line extended from the display area in a second direction, electrically connecting the first common power electrode with the second common power electrode and supplying an initialization voltage to each of the plurality of subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: EuiTae Kim, ChangSoo Kim, Soyi Lee, DongHo Choi
  • Patent number: 12372789
    Abstract: Provide is a display terminal having a small display space, in which high operability is realized while convenience is maintained. A display terminal including a photographing device comprises: an image analysis unit configured to analyze an image captured by the photographing device, use region information that is information of a region on the image which corresponds to a real object existing in the external field, and refer to an icon DB so as to specify an icon related to the real object; and an app start unit configured to obtain an application associated with the specified icon from an app DB and start the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Ikuya Arai, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Sadao Tsuruga, Hiroshi Shimizu, Osamu Kawamae
  • Patent number: 12373050
    Abstract: A touch display device, a display panel, and a gate driving circuit are disclosed. A touch display device comprises a display panel having subpixels, a gate driving circuit including gate stages for applying a scan signal to the display panel through gate lines and dummy stages selectively disposed between the gate stages, and a touch driving circuit applying a touch driving signal to the display panel through touch lines and receiving a touch sensing signal generated by the display panel, wherein the dummy stages are divided into two or more dummy stage groups, and wherein a group control signal line for applying a group control signal based on dummy stage group and an individual control signal line for applying an individual control signal to each dummy stage included in the dummy stage group are disposed along a bezel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoungwoo Kim, JoonHo Lee, HyunHo Park, Sunghoon Paik
  • Patent number: 12367796
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control circuit, a display device, and electronic equipment. The control circuit includes a temperature detection unit, a control unit, a voltage output unit, and a thin-film transistor. The display device includes anyone control circuit described above. The electronic equipment includes anyone control circuit described above. The embodiments of the present disclosure perform temperature compensation on the output voltage, so that the liquid crystal display panel can achieve better display effects at different temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wenfang Li
  • Patent number: 12366955
    Abstract: A recognition system for recognizing multiple inputs of gestures, handwriting symbols and virtual keys on a touch screen includes a touch IC serves to convert a plurality of touch signals of the touch screen to a touch data frame. A processor set is connected to the touch IC and serves to perform a touch data processing on the touch data frame. The touch data processing is performed by using a processing directly executed by an OS (Operating System) and a processing of AI (artificial intelligence) recognizing. An AI recognition module is connected to the processor set. The AI recognition module is used for recognizing multiple key inputs, operation gestures and handwriting symbols. The key inputs and handwriting symbols are corrected by a grammar correction and a symbol correction respectively. The touch screen serves to display a virtual keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SUNIA PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Jianming Zhuang
  • Patent number: 12361853
    Abstract: An image display method for handling a dynamic image signal including a plurality of continuous video frames, wherein the method includes steps as follows: Firstly, a first display parameter is output to display an Nth video frame of the plurality of continuous video frames according to a first attribute data of the Nth video frame. Then, at least one of (N+K)th video frame is detected, and when the at least one of the (N+K)th video frame has second attribute data, the first display parameter is output to display the at least one of the (N+K)th video frames. Subsequently, an (N+K+1)th video frame is detected, and when the (N+K+1)th video frame has the second attribute data, a second display parameter is output to display the (N+K+1)th video frame according to the second attribute data. Wherein, K is a positive integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventors: Hung-Chi Tsai, Chen-Cheng Huang
  • Patent number: 12361893
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display driver integrated circuit (IC), a display and a processor configured to receive an interrupt signal from the display driver IC based on a plurality of scanning rates set to a plurality of regions of the display, obtain a plurality of vertical synchronization signals associated with a plurality of regions, based on the received interrupt signal, obtain pieces of content to be displayed in a plurality of regions based on the plurality of vertical synchronization signals, synthesize content based on the coordinate information about the pieces of content, and transmit, to the display driver IC, information about the synthesized pieces of content and information about the remaining pieces of the synthesized content so the synthesized pieces of content and the remaining pieces of the synthesized content are displayed in the plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungjin Kim, Minwoo Lee, Joonyung Park, Gwanghui Lee, Juseok Lee, Woojun Jung, Mooyoung Kim, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 12361876
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device and a method for providing low luminance power thereof includes a data driver including a lookup table storing therein a low potential voltage and an initialization voltage corresponding to each gamma set such that a low potential voltage and an initialization voltage in a 60 Hz operation mode are respectively different from a low potential voltage and an initialization voltage in a 90 Hz operation mode and a method compensates for an anode charging time in the low luminance range, thereby improving seamlessness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwangpyo Park, Bonghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12354525
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing control circuit and a power converter circuit. In response to reception of a control signal used to transition from a display mode to a pause mode from a host controller, the timing control circuit transmits a pause signal to the power control circuit. The power control circuit converts an input voltage to an output voltage at a first switching frequency in the display mode before receiving the pause signal and converts the input voltage to the output voltage at a second switching frequency in the pause mode after receiving the pause signal from the timing control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hayashi, Kohji Saitoh, Kazuhisa Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 12354555
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a control assembly and a display panel; wherein the display panel includes a display region and drive circuits, wherein the drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit that are respectively disposed on two sides of the display region, and an aperture area is defined in the display region, wherein a distance between the aperture area and the first drive circuit is less than a distance between the aperture area and the second drive circuit; and the control assembly is connected to the display panel, and configured to: determine a target region where the aperture area is located; acquire a display control signal; and control the drive circuits to drive a first target region of the aperture area and a second target region of the aperture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lianbin Liu, Hengzhen Liang, Tingliang Liu, Huijuan Yang, Jianli Yao, Xinpeng Wang, Yunhan Xiao, Yingjun Deng, Qinghu Wei, Hang Min
  • Patent number: 12346164
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel including a folding area and first and second non-folding areas spaced apart from each other with the folding area between the first and second non-folding areas, and a digitizer including a first non-folding portion overlapping the first non-folding area, a second non-folding portion overlapping the second non-folding area, and a folding portion overlapping the folding area and including holes. The digitizer includes first loop coils in a first direction and second loop coils in a second direction and insulated from and intersecting with the first loop coils. The second loop coils may include non-folding coils respectively in the first and second non-folding portions and folding coils, at least one of which is in the folding portion. The non-folding coils are driven in a first mode, and the folding coils are driven in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjae Na, Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Yong-Kwan Kim, Sungguk An, Seokwon Jang, Chul Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 12340754
    Abstract: A shift register circuit includes an input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a control sub-circuit and a compensation sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is configured to, under control of a first input signal received at a first input signal terminal, transmit the first input signal to a pull-up node. The output sub-circuit is configured to transmit a first clock signal received at a first clock signal terminal to a first signal output terminal under control of a voltage at the pull-up node. The control sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage at a first reference node to the pull-up node under control of a first control signal received at a first control signal terminal. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage at a seventh node to the pull-up node under control of a seventh clock signal received at a seventh clock signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 12333978
    Abstract: The method includes, in a low-frequency driving mode where a keeping phase is arranged between two active phases, providing a light-emitting control signal with a duty cycle of a % to a pixel circuit during the active phase; and performing first and second switches on the light-emitting control signal during the keeping phase. The first switch is performed before the second switch. Panel brightness at the first switch is higher than panel brightness at the second switch. The duty cycle of the light-emitting control signal is b % after the second switch. b>a. A total duration of active levels of the light-emitting control signal within one frame after the first switch is between a total duration of active levels of the light-emitting control signal with the duty cycle of a % and a total duration of active levels of the light-emitting control signal with the duty cycle of b % within one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Chenguang Sun, Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao, Shuai Yang, Mengmeng Zhang, Jian Kuang
  • Patent number: 12327508
    Abstract: A compensation method and compensation apparatus for a display panel, a display device and a storage medium. The method includes: with a first display grayscale of a first display region as a reference display grayscale, acquiring a second display grayscale of a second display region after a user adjusts the second display region; determining, according to the first display grayscale and the second display grayscale, a difference coefficient between the second display region and the first display region under a current use duration of the display panel; determining, according to the difference coefficient and a pre-stored display compensation curve of the second display region, a compensation start duration of the second display region, where the display compensation curve is a change curve of a relationship between a use duration of the second display region and a difference coefficient between the second display region and the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengzhang Hu, Junhui Lou, Tao Tang, Jinquan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12315440
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a group of pixels; a control unit configured to execute deterioration monitoring for detecting a decrease in luminous efficiency of the group of pixels and first high-speed monitoring for determining whether to execute the deterioration monitoring, the first high-speed monitoring being executed at a faster speed than the deterioration monitoring; and a storage unit configured to store reference data specifying an acceptable range for executing the deterioration monitoring. The control unit executes the deterioration monitoring in a case where a first high-speed monitoring measurement value obtained by the first high-speed monitoring is within the acceptable range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mohammad Reza Kazemi, Masafumi Ueno, Masaaki Moriya, Naoki Shiobara, Masafumi Kawai, Hiroyuki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12293043
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described that may mitigate display pixel and touch crosstalk noise. A touch processing system may compensate touch scan data to reduce the noise based on a luminance value. An image processing system may determine the luminance value based on image data and a display brightness value of an electronic display. Using the compensated touch scan data, the touch processing system may determine a proximity of a capacitive object to at least one touch sense region of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andy J Zhou, John B Laflen, Eric S Winokur, Joseph W Colosimo, Steven N Hanna, Nitya Ramdas, Tyler D Holmes
  • Patent number: 12288502
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus and an electronic device for debugging driving parameters of a display panel, and relate to the field of display technology. The method for debugging driving parameters of a display panel includes: obtaining position information of the display panel to be debugged on a motherboard to which the display panel to be debugged belongs; determining first target driving parameter information of the display panel to be debugged according to the position information; and debugging the driving parameters of the display panel to be debugged according to the first target driving parameter information. The embodiments of the present application are beneficial to shorten the debugging duration of the driving parameters of the display panel and improve the debugging efficiency of the driving parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiyu Qin, Jilong Jiang
  • Patent number: 12282611
    Abstract: A portable information handling system manages thermal energy presented at a keyboard with a hybrid support plate having a first portion of a first material and first thermal conductivity and a second material of a second thermal conductivity so that heat is presented in an even manner at the keyboard. For example, a keyboard support plate of a metal, such as steel, has a portion of liquid crystal polymer aligned with a central processing unit to impede heat transfer at the location of the central processing unit. In various embodiments, the liquid crystal polymer can include a carbon liquid crystal polymer and a delta liquid crystal polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventors: Po Hung Chi, Ling Yi Chu
  • Patent number: 12254811
    Abstract: A display panel, a control method thereof, and an electronic terminal are provided. The control method includes: determining whether a display frequency of the display panel is converted in each of x frames, wherein x is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and in response to determining that the display frequency of the display panel is converted in each of the x frames, changing a common voltage from a first voltage gradually to a second voltage in a plurality of frames, from at least a last frame in the x frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yizhuo Zhao