Patents Examined by Fred Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11379007
    Abstract: A transparent display device includes a flexible circuit board, a plurality of lamps, and a plurality of IC components. The flexible circuit board includes lamp fixing portions, a first bending portion, and second bending portions. The lamp fixing portions are spaced apart from each other and arranged in X-axis columns. Each lamp fixing portion extends as a strip along a Y axis. The X axis is perpendicular to the Y axis. Each lamp fixing portion includes an X-axis end edge and a Y-axis side edge. The first bending portion is bent from the end edge of each lamp fixing portion. Each second bending portion is bent from the side edge of one lamp fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eddy Liu, Jun-Kang Fang, Wei Wu, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 11380245
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display drive method, a display drive apparatus, a display apparatus, and a wearable device. The display drive method includes: receiving an original display data signal; sampling the original display data signal based on a clock input signal to obtain a display mode signal, a gate line scanning signal, and an initial data voltage signal; shifting the initial data voltage signal according to the display mode signal to obtain a data voltage signal; and controlling the display apparatus to display based on the display mode signal, the gate line scanning signal, and the data voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qibing Gu, Hsinchung Lo, Chen Meng, Rui Liu, Wei Sun, Guangquan Wang, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11350528
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a first flexible printed circuit board attached to the display panel and electrically connected thereto; a first printed circuit board attached to the first flexible printed circuit board and electrically connected thereto; a data driver which applies a data voltage to the plurality of pixels, receives a voltage flowing to the plurality of pixels and generates mobility sensing information based on the voltage flowing to the plurality of pixels; and a timing controller which detects a first misalignment between the first printed circuit board and the first flexible printed circuit board, and a second misalignment between the display panel and the first flexible printed circuit board, based on the mobility sensing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Myoung Seop Song
  • Patent number: 11335223
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a driving chip and an electrostatic protection module including a plurality of adjustment units. The adjustment units correspond to at least a part of connection lines, and the electrostatic protection module is configured to adjust a current value on the connection lines when an absolute value of an actual voltage on the connection lines is greater than a preset voltage to prevent damage to the connection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gonghua Zou
  • Patent number: 11333696
    Abstract: A circuit portion for indicating a mutual capacitance between a first and second node is provided. The circuit portion comprises a switchable constant current source arrangement configured to supply a first current to the first node in a first direction or a second current to the first node in a second, opposite direction; a variable voltage source configured to output a voltage to the second node so as to hold the first node at a reference voltage; and a comparator arrangement configured to switch between said first and second directions of the constant current source when the voltage output by the variable voltage source reaches a lower threshold voltage or an upper threshold voltage and to output a signal in synchrony with said constant current direction switching. The signal is indicative of the mutual capacitance between the first and second nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Bartosz Gajda
  • Patent number: 11327609
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel having a display area and a non-display area disposed around the display area; a touch sensor disposed on the display panel, the touch sensor comprising a sensing area corresponding to the display area, a peripheral area corresponding to the non-display area, and a pad unit disposed on a part of the peripheral area; a flexible printed circuit board disposed on the touch sensor in the peripheral area and connected to the pad unit; a polarization layer disposed on the touch sensor and a part of the flexible printed circuit board; and a printed layer disposed on at least an area between the flexible printed circuit board and the sensing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon Hyop Lee, Jung Mok Park, Hee Woong Park, Sang Wook Yoo, Ga Yeon Yun, Jeong Heon Lee, Byeong Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11294528
    Abstract: A sensing unit includes a base layer, a sensing pattern part including a first sensing pattern, a second sensing pattern, and a third sensing pattern, which are each disposed on the base layer, a sensing wire disposed on the base layer and electrically connected to the first sensing pattern, a connecting wire connecting the second sensing pattern to the third sensing pattern, a dummy wire disposed around an area on which the connecting wire is disposed, and a connecting part connecting the first sensing pattern to the sensing wire and overlapping the connecting wire on a plane. Here, a cut part is defined in the dummy wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Sung-jin Yang, Minho Chae, Hyunsik Park
  • Patent number: 11291112
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible panel is provided, and the method includes following steps. A column is formed on a carrier substrate. A flexible layer is formed on the carrier substrate, where at least a part of a side surface of the column is surrounded by the flexible layer, so as to form a through hole in the flexible layer. A component layer is formed on the flexible layer, and the column and the carrier substrate are removed. No chars, cracks, and cutting marks are formed on an edge of the through hole of the flexible panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Yao-Chih Chuang, Mei-Ling Chou, Chih-Wei Chen, Ming-Chang Yu, Chia-Yu Liu, Yen-Chung Chen
  • Patent number: 11281339
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel having a display area and a non-display area disposed around the display area; a touch sensor disposed on the display panel, the touch sensor comprising a sensing area corresponding to the display area, a peripheral area corresponding to the non-display area, and a pad unit disposed on a part of the peripheral area; a flexible printed circuit board disposed on the touch sensor in the peripheral area and connected to the pad unit; a polarization layer disposed on the touch sensor and a part of the flexible printed circuit board; and a printed layer disposed on at least an area between the flexible printed circuit board and the sensing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon Hyop Lee, Jung Mok Park, Hee Woong Park, Sang Wook Yoo, Ga Yeon Yun, Jeong Heon Lee, Byeong Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11281011
    Abstract: A head mounted display including two display units is provided. Each display unit includes a display module and an optical assembly disposed in front of the display module. The display module includes a carrier body and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The carrier body includes a plurality of recesses. Each recess has a bottom surface and a reflective side wall connected to the bottom surface. A plurality of the light-emitting elements are located in the plurality of recesses. Each light-emitting element is disposed on the bottom surface of a corresponding recess. The optical assembly is disposed in front of the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11275745
    Abstract: A trigger event is set, based on information in an information flow. One or more actions are set to occur in response to occurrence of the trigger event. The information flow is received. The set one or more actions are performed upon occurrence of the trigger event, and a user interface is displayed based on the information flow. The actions include, but are not limited to, filtering display of information from the information flow in response to occurrence of the trigger event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: IPC SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Miller, Theodore O. Calvin, Matthew John O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 11257452
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch display device, a touch sensing circuit, and a driving method. Further, the present disclosure relates to a touch display device, a touch sensing circuit, and a driving method, in which multiple touch electrodes are grouped into multiple touch electrode groups, and sensing is concurrently performed for each of the multiple touch electrode groups, so that excellent touch sensitivity and a fast touch sensing speed are allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungChul Kim, CheolSe Kim, HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim, Seongkyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11256326
    Abstract: A display control method, a display control apparatus and a user equipment are provided. A method comprises acquiring eye movement information related to that at least one eye of a user gazes a user equipment; and adjusting display of a display content of the user equipment at least according to a non-saccade eye movement part in the eye movement information. A display content of a user equipment can be adjusted according to a non-saccade eye movement part of the user equipment gazed by a user, to enable relative movement between the head of the user and the adjusted display content to disappear or decrease, thus improving the user's reading experience in a scenario of having relative movement with the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD
    Inventor: Dayong Ding
  • Patent number: 11231581
    Abstract: Augmented reality glasses include near eye displays the include sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light optical coupled to spatial phase modulators or active zone plate modulators and optically coupled to eye coupling optics. The sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light can include emissive 2D display panels or light sources coupled to imagewise amplitude modulators. The eye coupling optics can include volume holographic diffraction gratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Jia, Hao Zheng, Jeffrey Todd Daiker, Jeremy A. Grata
  • Patent number: 11211018
    Abstract: A grayscale compensation method and apparatus are provided. The grayscale compensation method includes: performing a grayscale compensation data detection on a display panel to obtain a first grayscale compensation data; preforming a grayscale compensation data detection on a backlight module to obtain a second grayscale compensation data; performing a data fusion on the first grayscale compensation data and the second grayscale compensation data to obtain a third grayscale compensation data; and performing a grayscale compensation on the display panel according to the third grayscale compensation data. By calculating the grayscale compensation data of the display panel and the backlight module at the same time, display brightness of the display panel is more uniform. Moreover, before the data fusion, the first and second grayscale compensation data may be reduced in resolution, the data amount of fusion calculation is less and the calculation time and storage space are saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Yuyeh Chen, Pan Fei Zhang, Zheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11209924
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bezel-less touch display module and a manufacturing method thereof. The bezel-less touch display module includes: a display panel, a touch layer configured on the display panel, at least one flexible circuit board electrically connected to two sides of the touch layer, and packaging glue configured to enclose a lateral side of the touch layer and two sides of the flexible circuit board. As such, appearance of the touch display module may be improved by replacing the bezel by the packaging glue, and the demands of the appearance of the bezel-less products may be satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuchun Hsiao, Xiaohong Jing
  • Patent number: 11201195
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first lead, a second lead, a touch sensitive display panel including a screen area and an extended area that extends from the screen area, and a control circuit. The touch sensitive display panel includes a flexible substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements, an insulation layer in which a via-hole is formed, and a touch sensor. The first lead is formed on the TFT layer in the screen area and the extended area and connects the control circuit and the plurality of light-emitting elements. The second lead is formed on the insulation layer in the screen area and on the TFT layer in the extended area, and extends from the screen area to the extended area through the via-hole formed in the insulation layer and connects the control circuit and the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Won Hong, Yong Hwan Kim, Eui Jin Kim, Hak Yeol Kim, Jong Dae Park, Woo Young Oh, Su Jin Yun, Kwang Tai Kim, Hyung Sup Byeon, Su Cheol Cheong
  • Patent number: 11175727
    Abstract: A method is provided, including the following operations: capturing images of an interactive environment by an image capture device; analyzing the captured images to track motion of a user's head in the interactive environment; providing a view through a display screen of a three-dimensional (3-D) information space, wherein the view of the 3-D information space is defined from a perspective that is determined by the tracked motion of the user's head in the interactive environment, the perspective being dynamically updated in response to the motion of the user's head; wherein the 3-D information space includes a plurality of predefined content regions that are configured to present respectively assigned visual content, the content regions being visually accessible through the display screen based on the provided view of the 3-D information space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11126302
    Abstract: A touch device can include a plurality of touch electrodes including a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode; and a touch sensing circuit configured to supply a touch driving signal to at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes in a touch period, the touch period including a first touch period and a second touch period, in which the touch driving signal includes a first touch driving signal or a second touch driving signal; and the touch sensing circuit can supply the first touch driving signal having a first frequency to the first touch electrode for sensing a touch in the first touch period, supply a first load-free driving signal having the first frequency to the second touch electrode in the first touch period, supply the second touch driving signal having a second frequency to the second touch electrode for sensing a touch in the second touch period, and supply a second load-free driving signal having the second frequency to the first touch electrode in the second touch period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: MyungHo Shin
  • Patent number: 11119373
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors on the base substrate; and a plurality of light shielding layers on a side of the plurality of thin film transistors facing away from the base substrate, each thin film transistor includes an active layer, at least a portion of the active layer serves as a channel of the thin film transistor, and an orthogonal projection of each of the light shielding layers on the base substrate at least partially overlaps an orthogonal projection of the channel of one of the plurality of thin film transistors on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunze Li, Ni Yang, Qian Tan, Zhongfei Dong, Xiaoyuan Wang