Patents Examined by Eboni N Giles
  • Patent number: 11322063
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The scan driving circuit includes: a control circuit, a scanning circuit group and a first processing circuit group. The control circuit is configured to generate and output a keyword signal to the first processing circuit group, to control a scan order of respective scanning circuits in the scanning circuit group; the first processing circuit group is configured to generate a scan enable signal according to the keyword signal, and output the scan enable signal to a scanning circuit corresponding to the keyword signal in the scanning circuit group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Chen, Zhi Zhang, Xiuzhu Tang, Heecheol Kim, Xing Dong, Zhenguo Tian, Shuang Hu, Taoliang Tang, Jingpeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11282431
    Abstract: A system and method for updating a display of a display device. The display device may include a plurality of subpixels, and a display driver coupled to the plurality of subpixels. The display driver may be configured to compare a first data signal of a first statistically selected subpixel of the plurality of subpixels to a first statistically selected threshold, increase a value of a first counter corresponding to the first statistically selected subpixel in response to the first subpixel data signal exceeding the first statistically selected threshold, adjust the first subpixel data signal in response to the first counter value satisfying a second threshold, and drive the first statistically selected subpixel based at least in part on the adjusted first subpixel data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Damien Berget, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11276356
    Abstract: A backlight unit of the present disclosure includes: a backlight including a plurality of light-emitting devices that are allowed to emit light at mutually different timings and include a first light-emitting device and a second light-emitting device; and a controller that controls a light emission operation of the backlight to cause the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device to emit light with mutually different average light emission intensities in a first sub-frame period of a plurality of sub-frame periods provided corresponding to a frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Shingo Kimura, Kazuhiro Horiuchi, Kenichi Nakaki
  • Patent number: 11270613
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first display portion including, the first display portion including a first area and a second area alternately arranged in one direction, a first emission device being disposed in the first area and the second area being located adjacent to the first area and configured to transmit external light, an electronic component facing one surface of the display panel and arranged corresponding to at least the second area, and a transmittance control component between the display panel and the electronic component and configured to control transmittance of the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Joohyuk Bang, Sungjin Ma, Yijoon Ahn, Inho Cho
  • Patent number: 11272152
    Abstract: The orientation and/or position estimation system includes: a movable operating unit configured to be held by a user and having an image capturing section; and a stereoscopic image providing unit including a display portion configured to display a stereoscopic image, a contact portion configured to come into contact with a part of a face of a user who is viewing the stereoscopic image, and a detection subject portion configured to be captured by the image capturing section. A detection subject portion image in the image captured by the image capturing section is detected and the position and the orientation of the movable image capturing unit are estimated on the basis of the detection subject portion image. On the basis of a result of the estimation, the stereoscopic image is generated and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Goto, Hideaki Shimizu, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kenji Iwata
  • Patent number: 11270627
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method acquiring and transmitting compensation data and an intelligent terminal. The method for acquiring and transmitting the compensation data includes: respectively encoding a screen body module and compensation data to obtain a first identifier corresponding to the screen body module and a second identifier corresponding to the compensation data, and the second identifier corresponding to the first identifier; identifying the first identifier of the screen body module; acquiring the compensation data that has the corresponding second identifier according to the first identifier; storing the compensation data in a data driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11250751
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit, a gate driver, a driving method thereof and a display device. The shift register unit includes: an output circuit, configured to receive a clock signal and output the clock signal to an output signal terminal under control of a voltage of a pull-up control node; a pull-down control circuit, configured to receive a control voltage signal and control the voltage of the pull-up control node and a voltage of the output signal terminal according to the control voltage signal; and an output control circuit, configured to receive a first voltage signal and the control voltage signal, and control the voltage of the output signal terminal in response to the first voltage signal and the control voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Li, Liugang Zhou, Ke Dai, Yizhan Han, Jianwei Sun, Yulong Xiong
  • Patent number: 11243293
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes processing user interactions with an electronic device based on different processing modules. The electronic device includes one or more radar-based transmitters and receivers. The method transmits radio waves into an area in the vicinity of the electronic device from the transmitters and receives at the receivers the radio waves reflected off one or more objects in the vicinity of the electronic device. The method selects either trilateration processing or imaging process to process the received radio waves based on different requirements for processing user interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Santiago Ortega Avila, Cody Wortham, Sajid Sadi
  • Patent number: 11244080
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method may include displaying content on a touch screen of the computing device, wherein the touch screen comprises a flexible touch screen display, detecting an obstruction of the content on one or more areas of the touch screen, wherein a user's view of the content is obstructed by the obstruction, determining obstructed content in the areas based on the detected obstruction, and determining a display configuration for a portion of the obstructed content. The method may further include detecting a deformed condition of the touch screen in which the obstruction is positioned within a display angle of the image projection device, rendering display content for concurrent display with unobstructed content of the touch screen, wherein the rendered display content corresponds to the obstructed content, and projecting the rendered display content onto the obstruction for viewing in superposition within a user's field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, James E. Bostick
  • Patent number: 11239284
    Abstract: A display device including a color filter is provided. The display device may include at least one color conversion pattern realizing a color same as the color filter. The color conversion pattern may be surrounded by the color filter. Thus, in the display device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the color gamut may be improved without increasing the overall thickness of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-Beum Lee
  • Patent number: 11237675
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate layer, a plurality of sensing electrodes on the substrate layer, and a dummy line between the sensing electrodes, the dummy line extending along a boundary of the sensing electrode. Electrode visibility is reduced by the dummy line, and touch sensitivity of the touch sensor is also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, DongOk Kim
  • Patent number: 11226695
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device capable of reducing the reflection of external light. The display device includes an optical adhesive layer disposed between an element substrate, on which a light-emitting element and a touch sensor are disposed, and a cover substrate, wherein the optical adhesive layer includes a first lower adhesive layer disposed so as to overlap an emission area, in which the light-emitting element is disposed, and a second lower adhesive layer formed so as to have a shape different from the shape of the first lower adhesive layer, the second lower adhesive layer being disposed so as to overlap a non-emission area, excluding the emission area, whereby it is possible to improve optical efficiency while reducing the reflection of external light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun-Young Kim, Byong-Hoo Kim, Young-Sub Shin, Sung-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11221719
    Abstract: A sensor pattern and a capacitive touch screen are provided. The sensor pattern comprises: a plurality of unit blocks, and a first unit block of the unit blocks comprises: a first 1st-type sensor element, a first 2nd-type sensor element, and a second 2nd-type sensor element. The first 1st-type sensor element is disposed on a first patterned layer, having a border trace, two parallel main traces, a bridge, a first cell, and a second cell, wherein the first and second cells are not aligned. The first 2nd-type sensor element is disposed on a second patterned layer, having a main trace and a sub-trace, wherein the main trace surrounds the first cell of the first 1st-type sensor element. The second 2nd-type sensor element is disposed on the second patterned layer, having a main trace and a sub-trace, wherein the main trace surrounds the second cell of the first 1st-type sensor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung Tsai, Ying-Zhuan Liu, Yuan-Ting Chen, Chin-Yuan Chiang, Jui-Ni Li, Wai Pan Wu, Shen-Feng Tai
  • Patent number: 11211443
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area where a plurality of pixels are arranged to display an image, and a non-display area around the display area; an opposite electrode commonly provided to the plurality of pixels; a driving voltage supply line extending in a first direction to correspond to one of sides of the display area in the non-display area, and configured to supply a driving voltage to the plurality of pixels; and a common voltage supply line comprising a bent portion that is bent to correspond to one corner of the driving voltage supply line in the non-display area, and configured to supply a common voltage by being connected to the opposite electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonse Lee, Ae Shin
  • Patent number: 11199830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an operating system for a machine of a food industry. The operating system includes eyeglasses for a user of the operating system and a transceiver for exchanging data between the operating system and the machine. The eyeglasses include a display system configured to display a control element and information of a human machine interface (HMI). Furthermore, the operating system includes at least one input module which receives user input from the user with respect to the control element. The operating system additionally includes a processing module. The processing module converts the received user input into an input signal for controlling at least one of the machine or the HMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Hoferer, Sebastian Vogl, Thomas Stauber, Johannes Reschke
  • Patent number: 11181787
    Abstract: A touch apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel structures, a first touch electrode, a second touch electrode, a third touch electrode and a first conductive pattern. The first touch electrode and the second touch electrode are located at a first side of a transparent window. The third touch electrode is located at a second side of the transparent window. The first touch electrode, the second touch electrode and the third touch electrode are sequentially arranged in a first direction. A main portion of the first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the first touch electrode. The main portion of the first conductive pattern overlaps with the second touch electrode and is electrically isolated from the second touch electrode. A dummy portion of the first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the third touch electrode and structurally separated from the main portion of the first conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hsun-Chen Chu, Pei-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11176885
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array unit in which pixel circuits are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits each including a light emission unit, a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal, a retention capacitor that retains the signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor that drives the light emission unit on the basis of the signal voltage retained by the retention capacitor; and a common line that is wired along a pixel row, for each pixel row. The pixel circuit includes a switching transistor which selectively connects the common line and a source electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Katsuhide Uchino, Yuki Seo
  • Patent number: 11175774
    Abstract: A method for determining a time of contact of a capacitive sensor includes continuously measuring a capacitance value of the capacitive sensor and processing the measured capacitance value into a digital sensor signal. The sensor signal is filtered to output a filter signal. Initial dynamics of the filter signal are identified upon the filter signal exceeding a first set filter threshold value. A time at which the filter signal falls below a second set filter threshold value is determined as being a potential time of contact of the capacitive sensor. An actual time of contact of the capacitive sensor is determined when the sensor signal relative to an offset of the sensor signal exceeds a sensor signal threshold value. The offset of the sensor signal is a value of the sensor signal prior to the contact of the capacitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Quint, Philipp Ciolek, Christoph Rebbe, Carl Christian Lexow
  • Patent number: 11169612
    Abstract: A method and system for improving wearable device function control is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture executed by a user. A speed and direction of the first gesture; an eye focus of the user, and a time period associated with eye focus being directed towards a display portion of a wearable device are detected. The first gesture is analyzed with respect to previously determined mapping data, the speed and direction of the first gesture, the eye focus of the user, and the time period. In response, a specified function of the wearable device associated with the first gesture is determined and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Norbert Herman, Shubhadip Ray
  • Patent number: 11164520
    Abstract: A light emitting display panel includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a light emitting element, a capacitor that is connected to a gate of a drive transistor and the light emitting element, a first switch transistor that is connected to a first electrode of the capacitor, a first wire that is connected to the first electrode of the capacitor via the first switch transistor, a second switch transistor that is connected to a second electrode of the capacitor and the light emitting element, and a second wire that is connected to the second electrode of the capacitor via the second switch transistor. A voltage of the first wire and a voltage of the second wire are the same during a power off operation or during a non-light emission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tsuge