Patents Examined by Dorothy Harris
  • Patent number: 12106712
    Abstract: A display device includes a display pixel circuit including a display light-emitting element, a reference light-emitting element, and a display driving circuit. The display pixel circuit is configured to control light emission of the display light-emitting element based on a data signal in accordance with video data. The reference light-emitting element is precluded from the control in accordance with video data. The display driving circuit is configured to acquire a reference signal indicating a current-voltage characteristic of the reference light-emitting element, acquire a characteristic signal indicating the current-voltage characteristic of the display light-emitting element, and generate a signal indicating a degree of deterioration of the display light-emitting element based on a difference of the characteristic signal from the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Shimoda, Genshiro Kawachi
  • Patent number: 12099671
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a sensing channel. The first electrode includes first electrode cells arranged in a first direction, a first connection portion connecting the first electrode cells in the first direction and a first opening disposed in at least one of the first electrode cells. The second electrode includes an electrode portion disposed in the first opening. The electrode portion is disposed on a same layer as the first electrode cells and separated from the first electrode. The sensing channel includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to the first electrode. The second terminal is connected to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Ik Kim, Ga Young Kim, Sang Hyun Lim, Young Sik Kim, Sang Chul Lee, Hwan Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 12100370
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display, a processor configured to process image data to be displayed on the display, a transformer including a primary coil and a plurality of secondary coils, a first rectifier connected with a first coil of the plurality of secondary coils and configured to output a first output voltage corresponding to a number of turns of the first coil, a direct current-direct current (DC-DC) converter configured to receive the first output voltage from the first rectifier and output a second output voltage that is different from the first output voltage, and a second rectifier connected with a second coil of the plurality of secondary coils and configured to output a first load voltage which is a sum of the second output voltage and a third output voltage corresponding to a number of turns of the second coil to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeeun Kim, Keonwoo Kim, Moonyoung Kim, Jinhyung Lee, Jeongil Kang
  • Patent number: 12100356
    Abstract: This application provides a shift register, a gate drive circuit, a display panel, and an electronic device. The shift register includes a node control module, electrically connected to a first level signal receiving end, a second level signal receiving end, a first node, and a second node; an input module, electrically connected to a first clock signal end, a trigger signal input end, and the second node; an output module, electrically connected to the first level signal receiving end, the second level signal receiving end, the first node, a third node, and a drive signal output end; a first voltage stabilizing module, electrically connected to the first node, a fourth node, and the second level signal receiving end; and a second voltage stabilizing module, electrically connected to the second node, the third node, the fourth node, and a second clock signal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Linhong Han, Wanming Wu, Di Geng, Ling Li, Zheng Tian
  • Patent number: 12094410
    Abstract: A driving voltage compensation circuit including a compensation circuit and a first switching circuit, the first switching circuit connects a driving element and a light emitting device, and the compensation circuit is connected to the driving element. The circuit operates according to an operational timing, the operational timing including a plurality of cycles, each cycle including at least a first time period and a second time period; during the first time period of each of the plurality of cycles, the first switching circuit is turned on, and the compensation circuit is turned off; the energy storage element releases electrical energy to provide a driving voltage to the driving element; during the second time period, the compensation circuit utilizes the received data voltage to store electrical energy for the energy storage element of the compensation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Fan, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 12094395
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a gamma data source, a signal receiving circuit, a buffer circuit, a counter, a multiplexer, and a gamma processing unit. The signal receiving circuit receives source data, and correspondingly generates a grayscale value. The buffer circuit electrically couples the signal receiving circuit and stores the grayscale value. The counter receives a system clock signal to generate a sequence number. The multiplexer electrically couples the counter and the gamma data source. The multiplexer receives the sequence number. The multiplexer outputs a bit message corresponding to the sequence number in the gamma data source. The gamma processing unit electrically couples the multiplexer and the buffer circuit. The gamma processing unit receives the bit message from the multiplexer. The gamma processing unit receives the grayscale value from the buffer circuit. The gamma processing unit outputs a bit value corresponding to the grayscale value in the bit message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Feng, Chong-De Wang, Yung-Hsin Chang
  • Patent number: 12087223
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting module and a driving module including at least two driving units connected in parallel. a quantity of displayable gray scales can be improved or increased by configuring at least two driving units connected in parallel in the driving module where the at least two driving units can each correspondingly configure a light emitting current so that a plurality of light emitting brightness of the light emitting module can be implemented by a sum of these light emitting currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuebin Yuan, Chao Tian
  • Patent number: 12087236
    Abstract: Discussed is a display device including a display panel including first and second display areas that differ in the number of sub-pixels per unit area, a data driver that generates data voltages, and supplies the data voltages to the sub-pixels in the corresponding areas, and a power supply part that generates first display area high-potential power for the first display area and second display area high-potential power for the second display area, and supplies the first and second display area high-potential powers to the corresponding display areas. Each of the sub-pixels includes a switching transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, and a pixel circuit including a driving transistor that is turned on in response to a data voltage stored in a storage capacitor, and supplies a driving current to an organic light-emitting diode positioned between a first power line and a second power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonsuk Lee, Hyunjae Lee
  • Patent number: 12087222
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device with subpixels that share switch transistors that selectively connect sources of driving transistors to a high voltage source. Further, part of reset transistors or part of a select transistor may be shared across multiple subpixels. The reset transistor selectively connects an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) to a low voltage source. The select transistor selectively passes through pixel data from a data line when a gate signal is received via a gate line. Driver transistors and capacitors of the subpixels are independent and not shared. In this way, the dimensions of the subpixels may be reduced and enable increase in the density of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Qianqian Wang, Min Hyuk Choi
  • Patent number: 12080235
    Abstract: A pixel circuit provided corresponding to a scanning line and a data line includes a transistor and an OLED serving as one example of a light emitting element. In a compensation period, a gate node and a drain node of the transistor are electrically coupled to each other to cause a voltage of the gate node of the transistor to be a voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage. In the gate writing period, a voltage of the gate node of the transistor is varied from a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage into a voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED, and the voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED is applied to the drain node of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko Kubota, Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 12079416
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a sensor substrate disposed on the display panel, the sensor substrate including a touch sensing area; sensing electrodes and antenna sets, disposed on the touch sensing area of the sensor substrate; and an input sensing circuit for sensing an external input based on sensing signals from the sensing electrodes. The input sensing circuit determines whether the external input occurred on an area in which the antenna sets are disposed in the touch sensing area, based on the sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jae Lee, Sung Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12073036
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a position detection sensor including a position detection region corresponding to an instruction input surface for receiving an instruction input by an indicator, a position detection circuit which, in operation, detects at least a position of an instruction in the position detection region of the position detection sensor based on an interaction of the position detection sensor and the indicator, and a plurality of motion sensors. The position detection sensor includes a flexibly displaceable part that is deformable together with the instruction input surface according to an operation of a user, and the flexibly displaceable part is disposed between two of the motion sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ipei Hung, Henry Wong, Akiyuki Kake, Kizuku Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 12073023
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that enables one user to appropriately recognize a tactile sensation based on a force from the other user. [Solving Means] A tactile presentation apparatus according to the present technology includes a first detection unit, a first presentation unit, and a control unit. The first detection unit detects a first detection value based on a force of a first user. The first presentation unit is provided at a position other than a position of the first detection unit and presents a tactile sensation to the first user. The control unit controls the first presentation unit to present a tactile sensation to the first user on the basis of a second detection value of another tactile presentation apparatus, the other tactile presentation apparatus including a second detection unit that detects a second detection value based on a force of a second user and a second presentation unit that presents a tactile sensation to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Orihashi, Masahiro Sato, Hironobu Abe, Akihito Nishiike
  • Patent number: 12062319
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display apparatus having a lock function and a display driving circuit thereof. The display driving circuit of the present disclosure is configured to transfer a lock signal in a cascade way, receive a lock signal by pull-up and transfer the lock signal in an open drain form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Wan Jung, Seong Bok Cha, Soo Woo Kim, Yong Ik Jung
  • Patent number: 12057061
    Abstract: A display driving circuit drives a display unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements connected along respective common lines and arranged in a matrix. The driving circuit includes one or more element drivers for driving the plurality of light-emitting elements of the display unit, a memory that stores lighting period information indicating a lighting period in which each light-emitting element is lit by the one or more element drivers, an element lighting period controller that outputs the lighting period information stored in the memory to each element driver, a switching unit that selects each common line based on the lighting period information stored in the memory, and a common line lighting period controller that is interposed between the memory and the switching unit and controls a lighting period in which each common line is activated according to the lighting period information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Higashidani
  • Patent number: 12056296
    Abstract: An active stylus includes a haptic feedback subsystem, an accelerometer, and a controller that controls the haptic feedback subsystem to generate a haptic pulse having predefined haptic characteristics. The controller receives a detected acceleration profile from the accelerometer. The detected acceleration profile is caused at least partially by propagation of the haptic pulse through a stylus body of the active stylus, and caused at least partially by attenuation of the haptic pulse by an external object contacting the stylus body. A current usage state of the active stylus is identified based at least in part on a comparison between the detected acceleration profile and a acceleration context model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Eliyahu Barel
  • Patent number: 12039922
    Abstract: A display pixel including at least one light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The driver circuit is powered with a first power supply voltage received between the first and second pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first binary signal, received between the third and second pads, and alternating between a second power supply voltage, greater than the first voltage, and a third voltage, smaller than the first voltage. The driver circuit is configured to determine a digital signal based on the values of a second binary signal on the fourth pad received during each of first pulses of the first binary signal at the third voltage and to control the light-emitting diode from the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Aledia
    Inventor: Frédéric Mercier
  • Patent number: 12039932
    Abstract: A pixel includes a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a driving transistor, and a light emitting element. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal to which a bias power supply voltage is applied, a second terminal connected to a first node, and a gate terminal to which a light emitting element initialization signal is applied. The second switching transistor includes a first terminal connected to the first node, a second terminal connected to a second node, and a gate terminal to which the light emitting element initialization signal is applied. The driving transistor includes a first terminal connected to the second node, a second terminal connected to a third node, and a gate terminal. The light emitting element is connected to the driving transistor. The first node is connected to the third node, and the bias power supply voltage is applied to the second and third nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 12039912
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels variably driven between a first refresh rate and a second refresh rate which is different than the first refresh rate, a processor outputting a frequency variation command signal indicative of a request to switch between the first refresh rate and the second refresh rate, and a timing controller differently controlling a time when a refresh rate of the plurality of pixels changes between the first refresh rate and the second refresh rate based on a temporal position of the frequency variation command signal received from the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Ho Kim, Jun Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 12032766
    Abstract: A display driving device capable of operating a source driver integrated circuit (IC) in a low power mode during a touch sensing period includes a source driver IC configured to operate in a first low power mode in which an analog data processing unit is deactivated or operate in a second low power mode in which both of the analog data processing unit and a digital data processing unit are deactivated, during a touch sensing period of a first frame; and a readout IC configured to supply touch sensor driving signals to touch sensors during the touch sensing period and receive touch sensing data from the touch sensors according to the touch sensor driving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Seong Sik Yoon, Jung Min Choi