Patents Examined by Gene W Lee
  • Sub-pixel unit, display panel, and display apparatus and drive method therefor
    Patent number: 11183102
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sub-pixel unit, a display panel, a display apparatus, and a driving method of the display apparatus, which belongs to the field of display technology. The sub-pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels; any of the sub-pixels includes a display module, a control module, and a driving module; wherein the control module is connected to a second gate line, a data line, a first voltage end and a first node, and configured to receive a data signal on the data line under control of a signal on the second gate line, and control one of the data line and the first voltage end to be connected to the first node according to the received data signal; and the driving module is connected to a first gate line, the first node and the display module, and configured to drive the display module according to a signal on the first node under control of a signal on the first gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxuan Chen, Guangquan Wang, Xiuyun Chen, Zongze He, Pin Xiao, Yu Zhang, Feng Long, Jiguo Wang, Xiaoyan Yang
  • Method for driving display device and driver
    Patent number: 11176869
    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: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qun Jia, Chang Zhang
  • Device and method for driving display
    Patent number: 11176868
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for driving a display. The method includes calculating differences between digital codes corresponding to grayscale voltages each provided to pixels connected to the same data line and gate lines which are sequentially driven, summing digital code differences of a threshold value or more, generating a compensation code corresponding to the summation result, and providing grayscale voltages compensated with the compensation code to pixels of which digital codes have a difference of less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Anapass Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Bae Park, Jun Young Jang, Hyun Seung Lee, Dong Joon Lee
  • Electronic apparatus, display apparatus, and multivision setting method
    Patent number: 11163516
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus may include an image processor configured to recognize each of IDs displayed on a plurality of display apparatuses in an image in which the plurality of display apparatuses displaying the respective IDs are captured and determine an array of the plurality of display apparatuses, and to determine positions of the plurality of display apparatuses based on the recognized respective IDs and the determined array of the plurality of display apparatuses; and a setter configured to generate video wall setting information for each of the plurality of display apparatuses based on the determined positions of the plurality of display apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Hun Son
  • Display device, door including the same, and refrigerator including the door
    Patent number: 11156398
    Abstract: A display device, a door including the display device and a refrigerator including the door are provided. A display device includes: a frame configured to be rotatably mounted to a base object; a display panel mounted to the frame; a detector disposed in the frame, and configured to detect a movement of the frame and output a signal corresponding to the movement; and a controller configured to determine a movement state of the frame based on the signal, and control the display panel based on the movement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Sok Kang, Ho June Yoo, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Nak-won Choi, Sang On Choi
  • Display control method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11132926
    Abstract: A display control method is applied to a mobile terminal having a foldable display screen, wherein the display screen includes n display regions, where n is a positive integer of not less than 2. The method includes: identifying multimedia elements currently displayed in a first display region; filtering the identified multimedia elements to obtain a target multimedia element; and displaying the target multimedia element in a second display region. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, through effective display control on the n display regions of the display screen, the multimedia elements can be flexibly displayed among the n display regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qun Chang, Changming Mo
  • Display device and operating method thereof
    Patent number: 11114008
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a plurality of data lines are configured to receive a plurality of data voltages from a source driver, wherein the source driver is disposed in a non-display area of the display device; and a first multiplex switch is disposed in a display area of the display device and configured in response to a first multiplex signal, to provide a first data voltage of the data voltages to a first data line of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuo-Wen Jang, Hsin-Lin Hu, Jui-Chi Lo
  • Method, storage medium and display device for adjusting a displayed image
    Patent number: 11114051
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for adjusting a displayed image. The method includes obtaining brightness information of a plurality of color channels of a currently displayed image; determining a target color channel with abnormal brightness from the plurality of color channels based on the brightness information; obtaining stimulus information of the target color channel, and determining a target grayscale from a predetermined grayscale interval based on the stimulus information; and determining brightness and chromaticity corresponding to the target grayscale, and adjusting the displayed image based on the brightness and chromaticity corresponding to the target grayscale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bo Hai
  • Keyboards with configurable displays
    Patent number: 11112878
    Abstract: In example implementations, an all-in-one (AIO) keyboard is provided. The AIO keyboard may include a plurality of keys, a configurable touch screen display and a movable display. The configurable touch screen display is located adjacent to the plurality of keys on a top side of a housing. The movable display is movably coupled to a bottom side of the housing below the plurality of keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sara Ferris, Dimitre D. Mehandjiysky, Kevin L. Massaro
  • Shift register, driving method thereof, gate driving circuit, and display device
    Patent number: 11100841
    Abstract: A shift register, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. The shift register includes an input sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, a node control sub-circuit, a potential maintenance sub-circuit, a first output sub-circuit, and a second output sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongjun Wang
  • Matrix sensor with receive isolation
    Patent number: 11099680
    Abstract: A sensor system comprises a plurality of receiving antennas. Another antenna functions as an isolating antenna that assists in preventing a signal received at some of the receiving antennas from being interfered with by the other receiving antennas. The isolating antenna may be operably connected to a ground or the source of signal that is also infused into a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: David Holman, David Clark Wilkinson, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo, Adam Landa
  • Spliced display device, configuration method thereof, display server and control method thereof
    Patent number: 11094281
    Abstract: A spliced display device and a configuration method thereof, and a display server and a control method thereof are provided. The configuration method may be applied to a spliced display device, and the spliced display device includes a plurality of displays spliced together in an array. The configuration method includes: receiving display control information sent by a display server in a preset protocol format, wherein the display control information at least includes position setting information; and configuring the plurality of displays according to the display control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianting Wang, Jinhui Cheng, Wei Zhang, Zhanchang Bu, Junning Su, Jianzi He, Rui Guo
  • Non-quadrangular display
    Patent number: 11087689
    Abstract: A display includes a plurality of pixels in a non-quadrangular display area and a plurality of first driving circuits and a plurality of second driving circuits in a peripheral area of the display area. Each of the pixels is connected to a first signal line in a first direction and a second signal line in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the first driving circuits outputs a first signal to the first signal line of a corresponding one of the pixels. Each of the second driving circuits outputs a second signal to the second signal line of a corresponding one of the pixels. The number of second driving circuits between neighboring first driving circuits is different depending on a position in the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Kwang-Min Kim, Byoung Sun Kim
  • Information provision device, information provision method, and recording medium storing information provision program for a vehicle display
    Patent number: 11077753
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Michinari Shinohara
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11048351
    Abstract: A display device may include a display part, a substrate, a first spacer, a second spacer, a first touch electrode, and a second touch electrode. The display part may emit, transmit, and/or reflect light. The substrate may overlap the display part and may receive a touch. The first spacer and the second spacer may be formed of a spacer material and may be positioned between the display part and the substrate to maintain a distance between the display part and the substrate. No intervening spacer analogous to the first spacer or the second spacer may be positioned between the first spacer and the second spacer. The first touch electrode may be positioned between the first spacer and the second spacer in a plan view of the display device. The second touch electrode may intersect the first touch electrode in the plan view of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Seok Je Seong
  • Haptic feedback device
    Patent number: 11048331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a haptic feedback device comprising: a body (10) able to form an interface with a user; contacting means (20) able to establish a contact with a surface (2) of a system (3) able to contain information; a first actuator (30) linked to the contacting means and able to apply a translational movement to said contacting means with respect to said body; braking means (40) able to apply a mechanical resistance to the relative movement between the contacting means (20) and the body (10); a second actuator (50) able to make the mechanical resistance applied by the braking means (40) vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE
    Inventors: Nicolas Andreff, Marc Viallon, Sergio Lescano
  • Display device supporting variable frame mode, and method of operating display device
    Patent number: 11043184
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to generate data voltages based on a gamma reference voltage, and to provide the data voltages to the plurality of pixels, a gate driver configured to provide gate signals to the plurality of pixels, and a controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver. The controller is configured to initialize the gamma reference voltage when a blank period starts in a frame period comprising an active period and the blank period, and to change the gamma reference voltage when a duration of the blank period reaches at least one threshold time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehyeong An, Jai-Hyun Koh, Hoi Sik Moon, Jae Sung Bae, Namjae Lim, Nam-Gon Choi
  • Method and apparatus for multiuser interaction and accompanying robot
    Patent number: 11023034
    Abstract: A method for multiuser interaction includes: detecting the number of users of an accompanying robot and azimuths of the users relative to the accompanying robot; dividing a display screen of the accompanying robot into a plurality of screen splitting display areas according to the number and azimuths of the users; and interacting the users located at the different azimuths with the accompanying robot simultaneously by the plurality of screen splitting display areas. The method for multiuser interaction may be operated to realize synchronous interaction between the accompanying robot and the plurality of users, reduce the power consumption and production cost of the accompanying robot, and improve the overall performance of the accompanying robot. An apparatus for multiuser interaction and an accompanying robot are provided by the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuan Zhang
  • Load sensor unit and input device
    Patent number: 11015992
    Abstract: A load sensor unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes an operating part movable forward and backward in a first direction; a load sensor that has a pressure receiving part and outputs a signal according to a load received in the first direction by the pressure receiving part; a linking part that has one end part linked to the operating part and an other end part that causes the pressure receiving part to operate and is movable forward and backward in the first direction in synchronization with the operating part; and an elastic member that gives biasing force to the other end part of the linking part and gives an initial load to the pressure receiving part through the other end part. This can prevent a load sensor from being broken by an overload with a simple configuration and fully demonstrate detection accuracy of the load sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisanobu Okawa, Eiji Umetsu
  • Touch sensitive processing method and apparatus and touch sensitive system
    Patent number: 11016617
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: selecting a detection area including N first electrodes; repeating following steps N times: designating N?1 of the first electrodes among the N first electrodes as a i-th combination, where i is a positive integer ranged from 1 to N; simultaneously applying driving signals to the first electrodes designated as the i-th combination in a first time period; and retrieving i-th period one-dimension sensing information based on sensed induced driving signals of the second electrodes; adding all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information to generate one all-period one-dimension sensing information; and calculating a two-dimension sensing information according to the all-period one-dimension sensing information and all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh