Patents Examined by Donna Lui
  • Patent number: 10163417
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driving part, a gate driving part and an off voltage controlling part. The data driving part is configured to output a data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel. The off voltage controlling part is configured to receive a first off voltage and a second off voltage applied to the gate driving part to generate the gate signal, measure a leakage current of the gate driving part, and control the first off voltage based on the leakage current. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus including the gate driving part may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Kyu Kim, Po-Yun Park, Gwang-Soo Ahn, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10032429
    Abstract: A computing device includes an interface configured to receive image data that is indicative of a field-of-view (FOV) that is associated with a head-mountable display (HMD). The computing device also includes a computing system configured to determine optical flow from the image data and to determine, based on the optical flow, whether or not the HMD is associated with operation of a vehicle. Further, the computing device is configured to control the HMD to display information in a first mode, if the HMD is associated with the operation of the vehicle, and to control the HMD to display information in a second mode, if the HMD is not associated with the operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thad E. Starner, Michael P. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10025412
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a method and apparatus for capacitive sensing in input devices integrated with a display device. In one embodiment, a processing system for a display device comprising an integrated capacitive sensing device is provided that includes a display driver module, a transmitter module, and a receiver module. The display driver and transmitter modules are configured to operate in a display update mode and a sleep mode. The receiver module is configured to, while operating in a doze mode, communicate with and trigger the transmitter module to enter the active sensing mode while the display driver module remains in the sleep mode when presence of an object is detected based on the resulting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, David S. Sabo, Erol Eryilmaz
  • Patent number: 10026367
    Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight adjustment method, a backlight adjustment system and a display device. The backlight adjustment method comprises: dividing a frame of picture into n image blocks, obtaining the sub-backlight brightness corresponding to each image block, and further comprises: calculating an average backlight brightness corresponding to the frame of the picture on the basis of each sub-backlight brightness, determining whether the sub-backlight brightness needs to be enhanced on the basis of the average backlight brightness, and performing enhancement for the sub-backlight brightness which needs to be enhanced, wherein n is an integer greater than 1. The backlight adjustment method not only solves the problems of reduced brightness for bright picture and poor display effect associated with existing backlight adjustment method, but also reduces the overall display power consumption, increase the image contrast and reduce influence of mura (ripple phenomenon) on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiming Meng, Weihao Hu, Jianming Wang, Wengang Su, Zongze He
  • Patent number: 10013102
    Abstract: A touch panel, a method for driving the touch panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch panel includes a substrate, and multiple touch electrodes and touch electrode lines located on the substrate, the touch electrodes are respectively connected to the touch electrode lines. The touch electrodes include at least a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode, and the touch electrode lines include at least a first touch electrode line and a second touch electrode line. The first touch electrode line is disposed at a position where the first touch electrode line do not overlap with a projection region of other touch electrode driven simultaneously with the first touch electrode in the direction perpendicular to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingteng Zhai
  • Patent number: 9995933
    Abstract: A see-through, near-eye mixed reality head mounted display (HMD) device includes left and right see-through display regions within which virtual images are displayable. These left and right see-through display regions each having a transmittance that is less than one hundred percent. The see-through, near-eye mixed reality HMD device also includes a see-through transmittance compensation mask that includes a left window through which the left see-through display region is visible and a right window through which the right see-through display region is visible. In accordance with various embodiments, the see-through transmittance compensation mask is used to provide a substantially uniform transmittance across the field-of-view of a user wearing the HMD device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman, Philip Andrew Frank, Andrew Hodge, Barry Corlett
  • Patent number: 9990902
    Abstract: An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The operation method includes detecting a movement speed of contents being scrolled, if the detected movement speed is determined as being equal to or greater than a set speed, changing a brightness of a screen having been displayed at a first brightness, into a second brightness, and changing the brightness of the screen from the second brightness to the first brightness according to a changing movement speed of the contents being scrolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-Chang Jung, Hyuk Kang, Jeong-Min Park, Eun-Jung Hyun
  • Patent number: 9959798
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processing circuit, a data driver, and a gate driver. The data processing circuit increases a first gamma value of input image data of which the gamma value is 0, according to a second gamma value of the input image data of which the second gamma value is not 0. The data driving part outputs a data signal based on the output image data to a data line. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal to a gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Gu Kim, Bong-Im Park, Ik-Hyun Ahn, Hyun-sik Hwang, Woo-Joo Lee, Jin-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9934735
    Abstract: A display control method and an electronic device are described. The electronic device includes a first body and a second body. Two sides of the first body include a first display area and a second display area respectively. The method includes: acquiring space position information of the first body and the second body, determining whether the space position information satisfies a first space predetermined condition, and obtaining a first determining result; detecting a first included angle between the first body and the second body if the first determining result indicates that the space position information satisfies the first space predetermined condition; determining whether the first included angle satisfies a first included angle predetermined condition, and switching an operating state of the electronic device to the triangle supporting state if the first included angle satisfies the first included angle predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Wei, Xueyuan Zhang, Haifang Tan, Shi Chen
  • Patent number: 9905172
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a multiplexer, an alignment circuit and a short bar circuit. The multiplexer is configured to provide a plurality of output data signals according to a plurality of switch control signals and an input data signal. During the alignment period, the alignment circuit is configured to provide a curing voltage to the display panel, and the short bar circuit is configured to couple the multiplexer to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Ming Tsai, An-Hsu Lu
  • Patent number: 9892689
    Abstract: There is provided a display device which includes a display panel, a backlight that has a plurality of light sources and applies light to the display panel, a human body detector configured to detect a human body located around the display panel, a human body information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the human body, and a control that controls an operation of a user recognition unit when the human body is detected in a standby mode, performs user recognition based on the acquired human body information, controls an operation of the display panel such that notification information of the user is displayed in a portion of the display panel, and turns some light sources out of the plurality of light sources on. According to the invention, for the user who views the display device, the local dimming is performed on the backlight which provides content information desired by the user utilizing only a portion of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Sok Kang, Hak Sup Song, Sang Il Lee, Joo Whan Lee, Seong Seol Hong, Soo Yong Lee, Mi Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 9869908
    Abstract: A system and device for driving high resolution monitors while reducing artifacts thereon. Utilization of Z-inversion polarity driving techniques to drive pixels in a display reduces power consumption of the display but tends to generate visible horizontal line artifacts caused by capacitances present between the pixels and data lines of the display. By introducing a physical shield between the pixel and data line elements, capacitance therebetween can be reduced, thus eliminating the cause of the horizontal line artifacts. The shield may be a common voltage line (Vcom) of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Wook Kim, Young Bae Park, Shih Chang Chang, Chun-Yao Huang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 9865213
    Abstract: A scan driver circuit for driving scanning lines is proposed. The scan driver circuit includes a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, a recovering control module, a recovering module, a downlink module, a first bootstrap capacitor, a constant low voltage supply, and a constant high voltage supply. The present inventive scan driver circuit has advantages of simple structure and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Yao Yan
  • Patent number: 9857965
    Abstract: Methods and systems involving resolution of directional ambiguity between a graphical display and a touch-based user-interface are disclosed herein. An example system may be configured to: (a) cause a visual depiction of a first reference marker on a graphical display; (b) receive first input data indicating an initial touch input on a touch-based user-interface, where the initial touch input corresponds to an input-direction path having a first end and a second end, and where the touch input corresponds to movement of the input-direction path; (c) associate movement of the first reference marker with subsequent touch inputs; (d) receive second input data indicating a subsequent touch input; and (e) cause a visual depiction of movement of a second reference marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thad Eugene Starner, Nirmal Patel, Adrian Wong, Michael Patrick Johnson
  • Patent number: 9858880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a GOA circuit based on oxide semiconductor thin film transistor, which cannot only prevent the electrical leakage to raise the reliability of the GOA circuit but also avoid the generation of the crossfire current in the non-function period by shorting the gate and the source of the fortieth thin film transistor (T40) in the first pull-down module (400) for avoiding the influence of the constant high voltage level (DCH) to the pull-down holding of the first node by electrically coupling both the gate and the drain of the seventy-fifth thin film transistor (T75) in the pull-down holding module (600) to the first node (Q(N)), and clearing the interference of the residual charge to the GOA circuit by providing the reset module (700) to reset the first node (Q(N)) before generating the each frame to guarantee the normal output of the GOA circuit and the normal display of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chao Dai
  • Patent number: 9852018
    Abstract: A method of detecting an error of a multi-time programmable (MTP) operation in which each gamma-offset and each header-bit at predetermined reference gray-levels are written in a MTP memory device while the MTP operation is performed on a pixel circuit, the each header-bit indicating whether or not the each gamma-offset is written in the MTP memory device, and it is detected whether or not the MTP operation is performed on the pixel circuit based on a logical operation between the header-bits at the predetermined reference gray-levels read from the MTP memory device when the MTP operation is finished on the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Ho Kwon, Chang-Jin Lee, Chang-Kil Lee, Tae-Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 9836094
    Abstract: A display method and an electronic device are described. The display method is applied in an electronic device that includes a display unit and at least one sensing unit. The method includes obtaining first sensing data by a first sensing unit; determining first display information according to the first sensing data; judging whether a predetermined condition is met or not to obtain a judgment result; and selecting a first mode or a second mode to be used to determine a display position of the first display information on the display unit according to the judgment result, wherein the first mode is different from the second mode; and displaying the first display information at the display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenchao Ma
  • Patent number: 9818354
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a gate line, data lines, a first reference voltage line, a second reference voltage line, a pixel electrode having a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode in a pixel area, and switch circuits connected to these lines and electrodes. The first and second reference voltage lines respectively apply a first and second reference voltages having different polarities. The second substrate includes a common electrode with a cutout. The first and second reference voltage lines include a first connector and a second connector parallel to the data line, and the first connector and the second connector overlap the cutout of the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Won Kim, Hyung Jun Park, Seong Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9805683
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Gate-driver-On-Array (GOA) circuit and the driving method thereof and a display device. The GOA circuit comprises a driving module, a low-resolution module and at least two high-resolution modules, the driving module being connected with the low-resolution module and the at least two high-resolution modules respectively; wherein, the driving module is used to output control signal to the low-resolution module and the high-resolution modules; the low-resolution module is used to output a low-resolution signal to at least two rows of pixels under the control of the control signal during low-resolution display; and each high-resolution module is used to output a high-resolution signal to corresponding one row of pixels under the control of the control signal during high-resolution display. The GOA circuit of the present invention may be used to drive multiple rows of pixels and implement the switching between low resolution display and high resolution display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xing Yao, Seungwoo Han, Yuanbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 9786235
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel structure and a liquid crystal display panel. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in array, and each pixel unit comprises a white sub pixel (W), a red sub pixel (R), a green sub pixel (G) and a blue sub pixel (B); in respective pixel units, the white sub pixel (W), the red sub pixel (R), the green sub pixel (G) and the blue sub pixel (B) are aligned with the same order along a horizontal direction; a driving mode of the pixel structure is row inversion; as showing an image of the same frame, in pixel units of each column, polarities of sub pixels of every two adjacent columns are opposite; in the sub pixels of every two adjacent columns, polarities of sub pixels of the same color are opposite to make that polarities of every two adjacent sub pixels of the same color in the pixel units of the same row are opposite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao He, Jhenwei He, Wenqin Zhao