Patents Examined by Gene W Lee
  • Patent number: 11776458
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a driving circuit that receives an input image signal and provides an output image signal corresponding to the input image signal to the display panel. The driving circuit includes an edge and slope detector that detects an edge of the input image signal, and determines an angle between the edge and a virtual line parallel to a first direction, a weight calculator that determines a weight, based on the edge and the angle, and a rendering module that compensates for the input image signal, based on the weight, and outputs the output image signal. The weight is determined through an arithmetic operation between the edge and the angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonwoo Jang, Seungho Park
  • Patent number: 11769461
    Abstract: A backlight control method for a surface light-emitting device is provided. The backlight control method includes generating a plurality of driving currents to drive the surface light-emitting device such that a plurality of backlight zones generate a plurality of brightness values, measuring the plurality of brightness values of the plurality of backlight zones, calculating a plurality of uniformities of the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of brightness values and setting a plurality of target uniformities, generating a plurality of adjustment values according to the plurality of uniformities, the plurality of target uniformities and a plurality of adjustment coefficients corresponding to the plurality of backlight zones, and generating a plurality of adjusted driving currents to drive the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of adjustment values and the plurality of driving currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Fei Wang, Yu-Lin Hsieh, Sheng-Kai Fang, Pei-Ling Kao
  • Patent number: 11755137
    Abstract: Devices and related methods are disclosed herein that generally involve detecting and interpreting gestures made by a user to generate user input information for use by a digital data processing system. In one embodiment, a device includes first and second sensors that observe a workspace in which user gestures are performed. The device can be set to a keyboard input mode, a number pad input mode, or a mouse input mode based on the positioning of the user's hands. Subsequent gestures made by the user can be interpreted as keyboard inputs, mouse inputs, etc., using observed characteristics of the user's hands and various motion properties of the user's hands. These observed characteristics can also be used to implement a security protocol, for example by identifying authorized users by the anatomical properties of their hands or the behavioral properties exhibited by the user while gesturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas J. Moscarillo
  • Patent number: 11749190
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, and a signal control circuit that receives input data. The signal control circuit includes a histogram check unit that divides data of one frame among the input data into a plurality of regions based on a gray scale and calculates a distribution of the data based on the plurality of regions, a gray check unit that calculates the number of major grayscales having data of a specific number or more among the input data, an optical waveform analysis unit that generates a signal calculated based on an optical waveform of the plurality of pixels, and a frequency selection unit that selects a driving frequency of the display panel based on the distribution of the data, the number of the major grayscales, and the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunjung Lee, Youra Kim, Hyosun Kim, Hyungsuk Hwang
  • Patent number: 11741891
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display device and a driving method of the display device. The display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a driver for driving the display panel, a controller for controlling the driver, and a duty cycle controller for defining an unknown area in which vertical resolution information is not known and a known area in which the vertical resolution information is known within one frame when a driving frequency of the display panel is changed, and varying a duty cycle for driving the known area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Yeong Go, Tae Gung Kim, Dae Sung Park
  • Patent number: 11727845
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, and a display panel driver configured to perform a first sensing operation to receive first sensing data for a driving transistor of each of the pixels from the pixels, to perform a second sensing operation to receive second sensing data for a light emitting element, and to determine a degradation rate of the light emitting element based on the first sensing data and the second sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokgyu Ban, Kyungman Kim
  • Patent number: 11721264
    Abstract: A display driving device configured to drive a plurality of display panels includes an external illuminance calculation unit configured to calculate external illuminance using measured illuminance input from an illuminance measurement device, and accumulate and store the external illuminance according to a time zone, a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight according to the calculated external illuminance, an image processing unit configured to apply the weight to first output data to generate second output data, and a target panel determination unit configured to determine target panels that are display panels for displaying an image, among the plurality of display panels, using the second output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Lee, Ji Won Lee, Hyun Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11715432
    Abstract: A driving method for a backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The driving method includes: generating mapping information from each local dimming area to the corresponding piece of local area dimming data according to preset positional relationships between a backlight driving chip and lamp beads in the backlight module; receiving, by a timing control chip, a frame of display data, and converting the display data into panel driving data and corresponding multiple pieces of local area dimming data; receiving, by a backlight driving circuit, the multiple pieces of local area dimming data in sequence, turning on the channel corresponding to the current local dimming area in turn according to the mapping information, and driving the lamp beads in the current local dimming area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi Xiong, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11710450
    Abstract: Driving a LED array includes determining total charge to be transferred to the LEDs during an image frame, and determining a number of drive pulses of equal width and amplitude that would drive the LEDs with nearly the total charge during display of the image frame. One of the drive pulses is modified so the drive pulses drive the LEDs with the total charge during display. If the width is greater than a minimum width and less than a maximum width, the LEDs are driven with the drive pulses. If the width is less than the minimum width and if an amplitude is greater than a minimum amplitude, the amplitude of the drive pulses is decremented. If the width is less than the minimum width and if the amplitude is equal to the minimum amplitude and if the number of drive pulses is greater than one, the number is decremented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gaetano L'Episcopo, Giovanni Conti, Mario Antonio Aleo
  • Patent number: 11710459
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first source group and a second source group, each of which includes a plurality of source channels, and a gamma block that receives first to 2i-th initial voltages (i being an integer of 1 or more), outputs first to 2i-th intermediate voltages by amplifying the first to i-th initial voltages, and outputs first to i-th gamma voltages to the first source group by buffering the first to 2i-th intermediate voltages, and a first buffer block that receives the first to 2i-th intermediate voltages from the gamma block and buffers the first to 2i-th intermediate voltages so as to be output to the second source group, and the gamma block may include a first resistor string including a plurality of resistors connected between nodes from which the first to i-th gamma voltages are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-Suk Kim, Jungmoon Kim, Woo-Nyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11703982
    Abstract: Discussed is a display device including an active area and a non-active area, a light emitting element including an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a light emitting layer, gate lines disposed in the active area and arranged in a first direction, data lines disposed in the active area and arranged in a second direction, data link lines connected to the data lines, an encapsulation layer on the cathode electrode, and including an organic layer and an inorganic layer, a touch sensor on the encapsulation layer, and including driving touch electrodes arranged in the first direction as the data lines, and sensing touch electrodes arranged in the second direction as the gate lines, driving touch lines connected to the driving touch electrodes, and overlapping with a first portion of the cathode electrode in the non-active area and sensing touch lines connected to the sensing touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JaeGyun Lee, Sangkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11699405
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for compensating colors based on virtual chromaticity coordinate points and the related display devices. The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a display comprising an array of pixels and a control circuit electrically connected to the display. Pixels in the array comprise a plurality of first sub-pixels defining a first color area on a chromaticity plane, a plurality of second sub-pixels defining a second color area on the chromaticity plane, and a plurality of third sub-pixels defining a third color area on the chromaticity plane. The control circuit is configured to receive an input image signal and generate a control signal to the display for driving each pixel of the display to output light in a virtual color gamut. The virtual color gamut of the display is among the first, second and third color areas on the chromaticity plane and does not overlap any of the first, second or third color areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DYNASCAN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chia-Liang Yang
  • Patent number: 11676549
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a method of controlling display of a display device, an apparatus thereof and a display apparatus. The display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel, wherein the backlight unit includes a plurality of backlight partitions, each of which is independently driven, and the display panel includes a plurality of display partitions in one-to-one correspondence with the backlight partitions. The method comprises: causing the display panel to display a test image, wherein each pixel of the test image has a same gray value; acquiring a luminance of each display partition of the display panel; determining a compensation coefficient according to the luminance of each display partition; adjusting backlight data of the backlight partition according to the compensation coefficient to obtain adjusted backlight data of each backlight partition; and providing the adjusted backlight data to the backlight unit for display by the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: BOE MLED Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengmeng Wang, Xiurong Wang, Xiaomang Zhang, Wenhao Liu, Juanjuan Shi
  • Patent number: 11670211
    Abstract: A multi-level voltage generator includes P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistors that generate corresponding positive voltages and a common voltage respectively, each PMOS transistor having a source connected to corresponding generated voltage, and a drain connected to an output node to provide the corresponding generated voltage; N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistors that generate corresponding negative voltages and the common voltage respectively, each NMOS transistor having a source connected to corresponding generated voltage, and a drain connected to the output node to provide the corresponding generated voltage; and body-voltage selectors that adaptively select a body voltage for the plurality of PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors respectively, except PMOS transistor associated with a highest positive voltage and NMOS transistor associated with a lowest negative voltage with body and source connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Yen-Hua Lin, Han-Shui Hsueh
  • Patent number: 11663975
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) and other active matrix displays is disclosed. The pixel circuit is programmed by the voltage supplied through a data line. An electrical current through a light emitting device for a known LED voltage and a pixel current for a pixel programed with a known data signal can be measured by a readout circuit through the data line. A 7T1C implementation enables to pre-charge the drive transistor to a reference voltage in each drive cycle, and to pre-set the light emitting device to a reference voltage prior to emission in each cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Hongxin Liu, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11663962
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element; where the pixel circuit includes a drive module, a data writing module, a light emission control module, and a bias module; where the drive module is configured to provide the light-emitting element with a drive current and includes a drive transistor; the data writing module is connected to a source of the drive transistor and configured to selectively provide the drive module with a data signal; the light emission control module is configured to selectively allow the light-emitting element to enter a light-emitting stage; the bias module is connected between a drain of the drive transistor and the light emission control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Yuan, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 11656693
    Abstract: An electronic device tracks, for a user performing a target acquisition movement within a 3D space, movement parameters of a plurality of input devices of the user. The electronic device predicts, for the user, a region of interest within the 3D space, based on the movement parameters. The region of interest includes a plurality of targets in close proximity. The electronic device predicts an endpoint of the target acquisition movement, within the region of interest. In some embodiments, the plurality of input devices includes an eye tracking input device, each input device corresponds to a predefined input device type, and the movement parameters include gaze data from the eye tracking input device. In some embodiments, input devices includes an eye tracking input device, a head-mounted display, and a hand-held controller, and the user's eye, hand, and head movements are coordinated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Rorik Henrikson, Tovi Samuel Grossman, Sean Edwin Trowbridge, Hrvoje Benko, Daniel John Wigdor, Marcello Giordano, Michael Glueck, Tanya Renee Jonker, Aakar Gupta, Stephanie Santosa, Carolina Brum Medeiros, Daniel Clarke
  • Patent number: 11656687
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling an interaction undo/redo interface. The method for controlling an interaction undo/redo interface includes causing interaction to be performed between a plurality of virtual objects created in a three-dimensional virtual space and a user, wherein the interaction is performed by recognition of the user's gesture, and activating the interaction undo interface or the interaction redo interface in response to a gesture not corresponding to the user's interaction gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Min Gyeong Kim, Jung Min Park, Joong-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11657754
    Abstract: The electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a plurality of analog scanning lines, a digital signal line, an analog signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element, a digital driving circuit, and an analog driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving in which a drive current is supplied to the light emitting element in a period of a length corresponding to a grayscale value. The analog driving circuit performs analog current setting in which a current value of the drive current is set based on an analog data voltage. In a period in which the pixel circuit connected to an s-th digital scanning line and an s-th analog scanning line performs the analog current setting, the pixel circuit connected to a t-th digital scanning line and a t-th analog scanning line performs the digital driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 11651722
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for driving a display device and a driver. The method includes obtaining image data, determining whether the image pixels are detail pixels according to the image data, determining a plurality of screen pixel groups, and driving the screen pixels for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qun Jia, Chang Zhang