Patents Examined by Gloryvid Figueroa-Gibson
  • Patent number: 11302227
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display, a display driving circuit which drives the display, and at least one processor operationally connected to the display or the display driving circuit, wherein the at least one processor gives an afterimage risk ranking to each of a plurality of applications, and, when an application given an afterimage risk ranking higher than a designated range among the plurality of applications is executed, generates afterimage data by accumulating images sampled from the execution screens of the application given the afterimage risk ranking higher than the designated range, and delivers the afterimage data to the display driving circuit. Various other embodiments that can be understood through the present specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanyuool Kim, Taewoong Lee, Seungkyu Choi, Dongkyoon Han, Kwangtai Kim
  • Patent number: 11289035
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a backlight intensity may improving data processing speed of a display device. The method includes: dividing image data into N sets of data; calculating a backlight intensity of each backlight block according to a corresponding set of data; for each group of pixels, calculating a backlight intensity corresponding to a first pixel according to a backlight intensity of each effective backlight block corresponding to the first pixel and a backlight diffusion weight of the effective backlight block corresponding to the first pixel; calculating backlight intensities corresponding to second to Mth pixels in the Tth group of pixels according to the backlight intensities corresponding to first pixels in the Tth group of pixels and a (T+1)th group of pixels; and for a Nth group of pixels, setting the backlight intensity corresponding to the first pixel as backlight intensities corresponding to second to Mth pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Ji, Tiankuo Shi, Zhenkun Song, Xiaomang Zhang, Hsinchung Lo, Chingwen Kung, Lingyun Shi, Xin Duan, Yue Li, Yifan Hou
  • Patent number: 11269578
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of cabinets configured to be arranged to form a screen of the display apparatus, each cabinet of the plurality of cabinets including at least one display module, the plurality of cabinets disposed to be adjacent to one another to form a screen of the display apparatus, a plurality of wireless communicators provided in each cabinet of the plurality of cabinets, and a processor configured to, based on a first cabinet among the plurality of cabinets receiving a signal from at least one adjacent cabinet that is adjacent to the first cabinet via at least one wireless communicator provided in the first cabinet, transmit the signal to adjacent cabinets that are adjacent to the first cabinet via a plurality of wireless communicators provided in the first cabinet, and based on the plurality of cabinets receiving the signal according to the transmission, control a display module of each cabinet of the plurality of cabinets to display an image corresponding to each cabinet throug
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sangwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11263949
    Abstract: A display panel, a control method and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a first display area having a notched boundary and a second display area. The first display area includes a first pixel unit group comprising X white sub-pixel or sub-pixels and Y first single color sub-pixels, and the second display area includes a second pixel unit group comprising Y second single color sub-pixels, where X is an integer of at least 1 and Y is an integer of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaowei Chen, Jiaqiang Wang, Chao Yu, Shengwei Yang, Jinlong Zheng, Xiaojuan Gao, Xiance Liu, Fuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11245948
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a sensor module functionally connected with the electronic device; a receiving module functionally connected with the electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor may detect that the electronic device is worn by a user, obtain content from an external electronic device in response to the detection, and execute the obtained content upon obtaining the content from the external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-Hak Lim, Hyuk Kang, Taeho Kim, Taegun Park, Gyu-Cheol Choi
  • Patent number: 11231587
    Abstract: A line-of-sight direction detection section 32 detects a direction of a line of sight of a user wearing a head-mounted display. A main image generation section 42 generates a first image regarding main content selected by the user as an item to be displayed on the head-mounted display. A display control section 50 causes the head-mounted display to display a second image regarding content different from the main content for promoting recognition of a given thing or service together with the first image. The display control section 50 controls a manner in which the second image is displayed on the head-mounted display in accordance with the direction of the user's line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Yasushi Okumura, Yurika Mulase
  • Patent number: 11226698
    Abstract: A method for detecting, by a force sensing circuit within an electronic device, a change in force applied to a surface of the electronic device. The method includes correlating the change in the force applied to the surface to a functional change of at least one setting of the electronic device. The method further includes identifying when a detected change is a first change of the change in force, which corresponds to a trigger that activates at least one of a plurality of sensing devices within the force sensing circuit to monitor for a subsequent change in the force. In response to detecting the subsequent change of the change in force, the method includes adjusting the at least one setting of the electronic device based on the subsequent change of the force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Suresh Sethuraman, Kiyoun Cho, Jonathon J. Prinz, Kathryn E. Thomas, Francis Kuzhiyil, Alexis G. Valasek
  • Patent number: 11227551
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method and system for an OLED display panel. The driving method for the OLED display panel includes: controlling a gate line driving circuit of the display panel for each frame image to sequentially output a scanning signal to each gate line of the display panel; and when the gate line driving circuit of the display panel starts to output the scanning signal to one gate line, timing from a starting scanning time of the same scanning gate line; and after the scanning time of the current scanning gate line reaches a preset fixed scanning time, controlling the gate line driving circuit of the display panel to stop outputting the scanning signal to the current scanning gate line. Therefore, the present disclosure does not need to change the gamma curve when the refresh frequency is changed, and screen flicker will not occur, and a seamless dynamic refresh switching of the display panel is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Shaodong Ma, Shanglong Wang, Fei Shen
  • Patent number: 11222908
    Abstract: An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a base, a first electrode and a second electrode which are on the base and a touch line on the base, both the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to transmit a display signal, the touch line is configured to transmit a touch signal; the first electrode and the touch line are respectively in different layers, and an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the touch line on the base. A preparation method of the array substrate and a touch display panel are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinguo Wu, Fengguo Wang, Dawei Shi, Hong Liu, Zifeng Wang, Feng Li, Bo Ma, Zhixuan Guo, Yuanbo Li, Jing Zhao, Cenhong Duan, Haiqin Liang
  • Patent number: 11175697
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area with a display device to display an image, and a non-display area around the display area. The non-display area has a bending area bent about a bending axis. An encapsulation layer is located over the display area. A touchscreen layer is located over the encapsulation layer and includes a touch electrode. A touch wire is connected to the touch electrode, and extends from an upper portion of the encapsulation layer, and at least partially into the bending area. A fan-out wire configured to apply an electric signal to the display area and is at least partially disposed in the bending area. The touch wire and the fan-out wire are on different layers from each other in the bending area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jintae Jeong, Byungsun Kim, Chiwook An, Jaeyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11158241
    Abstract: A display device including: an image determiner configured to determine whether a still image is displayed by comparing first partial image data that is a portion of image data of a previous frame with second partial image data that is a portion of image data of a current frame at a first time of a first mode in which a non-moving image is displayed, and determine whether the still image is displayed by comparing first frame data that is all image data of a previous frame with second frame data that is all image data of a current frame at a second time of a second mode in which a moving image is displayed; a display panel including pixels that receive a data signal corresponding to image data; and a panel driver configured to change a frequency at which the pixels are driven according to the first and second modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Lee, Seung Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11144170
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display module. The display panel includes a display area; a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein the non-display area includes a bending area adjacent to the display area and a bonding area away from the display area; and a power line, wherein the power line includes a first type of power line and a second type of power line positioned in the bending area; wherein the first type of power line and the second type of power line are disposed at different layers in the bending area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chenghao Bu
  • Patent number: 11120741
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device which employs internal compensation, by which a non-emission period can be shortened without causing the luminance of display elements to be unstable. During a period in which a voltage on a data signal line Dj is written to a pixel circuit, transistors M4 and M6 are controlled to be in an OFF state, and transistors M2, M3, and M5 are controlled to be in an ON state. As a result, a drive transistor M1 is diode-connected, a source terminal thereof is disconnected from a high-level power line ELVDD, and a gate terminal thereof and an anode of an organic EL element OLED are connected to an initialization voltage supply line Vini. Consequently, a gate voltage Vg of the drive transistor M1 and an anode voltage Va of the organic EL element OLED are initialized, and first and second capacitors C1 and C2 respectively hold a voltage corresponding to the voltage on the data signal line Dj and a threshold voltage of the drive transistor M1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Seiji Umezawa
  • Patent number: 11119591
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a spacer provided on the first substrate, a second substrate on the spacer, a pixel provided on the second substrate and configured to display an image, a sensing part including a first electrode provided between the first substrate and the spacer and a second electrode provided between the spacer and the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Won Il Choi, Bek Hyun Lim, Hye Jin Joo
  • Patent number: 11119569
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach captures a set of sensory data corresponding to a first user traversing over a physical terrain in a physical world. The approach uses the set of sensory data to create a set of instructions to emulate the physical world by a locomotion system. The approach invokes the locomotion system to emulate the physical terrain utilizing the set of instructions while a second user is positioned on the locomotion system and using a virtual reality device to traverse through a virtual world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yahel Nachum, Chowdhury Annur, Aashil Patel
  • Patent number: 11100828
    Abstract: A measurement system has a photosensitive element, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a reference voltage source, and a transmission interface. The photosensitive element senses variations of brightness of a display panel of a liquid crystal display (LCD) to generate a voltage signal. The ADC converts the voltage signal into a digital signal. The reference voltage source provides a reference voltage to the ADC to drive the ADC to dynamically adjust a convertible voltage range of the ADC for any voltage inputted to the ADC according to the reference voltage. The transmission interface transmits the digital signal to a computer to trigger the computer to calculate a response time of the LCD according to the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yung-Chih Chen, Wei-Chih Lin, Jui-Te Wei, Po-An Chen
  • Patent number: 11093083
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to touch technology, and provides a method for preventing an edge from being unintentionally touched, a touch control apparatus and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring touch data of a touch screen in real time; judging whether there is any edge touch operation according to the touch data; calculating a coordinate point movement track of the edge touch operation according to the touch data if there is an edge touch operation; judging whether the edge touch operation is an edge mis-operation according to the touch data and the coordinate point movement track; and suppressing the edge mis-operation if the edge touch operation is an edge mis-operation. With embodiments of the present disclosure, accuracy of edge mis-operation recognition is improved while ensuring a normal response of an edge region of a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Weitongbo Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Xianpeng Chen
  • Patent number: 11079888
    Abstract: A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with a region of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC and other digital signals generated by other DSCs determine the region of the surface of the TSD that is associated with the overlay and to adapt sensitivity of the TSD within that region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Kevin Joseph Derichs, Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11068093
    Abstract: A touch display panel is provided, including a common electrode ring, a first and a second common electrode pattern, pixel structures, an edge common signal line, and common signal lines disposed on a substrate. The first and second common electrode patterns and the pixel structures are located in a region surrounded by the common electrode ring. The first common electrode pattern is spaced from the second common electrode pattern by a gap. The first and the second common electrode patterns respectively overlap some of the pixel structures. The edge common signal line is disposed on the substrate, traces along the gap, and extends toward the common electrode ring to be electrically connected to the common electrode ring. The first common electrode pattern overlaps and is electrically connected to one common signal line. The second common electrode pattern overlaps and is electrically connected to another common signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Te-Chun Huang, Wen-Yi Hsu, Zeng-De Chen, Pei-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11061510
    Abstract: A propagating signal transmitted through a propagating medium is received where a detected disturbance to a signal property of the propagating signal is analyzed to detect whether a touch input has been provided. It is determined whether the detected disturbance matches a signature and in the event it is determined that the detected disturbance matches the signature, it is determined that the detected disturbance does not correspond to the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Lapoe E. Lynn, Shirish A. Altekar, Stanislav Maximov