Patents Examined by Gustavo Polo
  • Patent number: 12293688
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a gate driver configured to output a first gate signal for writing data voltages to the pixels and a second gate signal for applying an initialization voltage to the pixels, which have activation levels, to the pixels in a misconnection detection period, a data driver configured to output the data voltages to the pixels in the misconnection detection period, a power voltage generator electrically connected to the data driver through a cable and configured to output a first power voltage to the display panel in the misconnection detection period, and a timing controller electrically connected to the data driver through the cable and configured to perform a protection operation by detecting misconnection of the cable based on the first power voltage in the misconnection detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Jungeon An
  • Patent number: 12288504
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electrical apparatus. The electrical apparatus includes a timing controller, a data driver circuit, and a display panel. The timing controller is configured to receive at least one data polarity configuration signal. The timing controller generates and outputs a plurality of polarity inversion signals according to the data polarity configuration signal. The phases of the polarity inversion signals are different. The data driver circuit is coupled to the timing controller. The data driver circuit is configured to receive the polarity inversion signals. The display panel is coupled to the data driver circuit. The display panel is configured to display images. The data driver circuit drives the display panel to display the images according to the polarity inversion signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Feng Hsieh, Pei-Hung Hsieh, Meng-Chang Tsai
  • Patent number: 12284832
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes sub-pixels, a driving circuit for driving at least a part of the sub-pixels, and a signal line connecting the sub-pixel and the driving circuit, the driving circuit is located on a side of the sub-pixel in a first direction, the signal line includes an extension segment extending along the first direction, a plurality of extension segments of a plurality of signal lines are arranged side by side along a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction. The display panel includes a plurality of region segments arranged side by side along the second direction, the plurality of region segments include at least two adjacent first region segment and second region segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Yangu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Mi, Hongrui Li, Yusheng Liu
  • Patent number: 12277362
    Abstract: This application provides a screen casting method, a device, and a storage medium. In a screen casting process, when a sound output device is switched to the screen casting transmit end, whether the screen casting transmit end outputs a sound depends on a current status of an audio status switching control, thereby ensuring that whether the screen casting transmit end outputs a sound can be consistent with an expectation of a user in a screen casting scenario. In addition, in the screen casting method provided in this application, when whether the screen casting transmit end outputs a sound is set based on a click operation performed by the user on the audio status switching control, an icon corresponding to the audio status switching control is dynamically modified based on an audio status (mute or non-mute) corresponding to the audio status switching control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lan Zhang, Hui Dou
  • Patent number: 12272295
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a data writing circuit, a light-emission adjusting circuit, a light-emission control circuit, and a light-emission driving circuit; wherein the data writing circuit is coupled to a gate signal terminal, a first data signal terminal and a first node; the light-emission adjusting circuit is coupled to a target signal terminal, the first node and a second node; the light-emission control circuit is coupled to the second node, a reference signal terminal, a light-emission control signal terminal and a third node; the light-emission driving circuit is coupled to the third node, the gate signal terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second data signal terminal and a light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Cong, Minghua Xuan, Can Zhang, Xiaochuan Chen, Lijun Yuan, Qi Qi, Can Wang, Jinfei Niu
  • Patent number: 12265671
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for wireless communication, which is applicable to wireless communication between the active pen and the plurality of touch screens, the plurality of touch screens respectively correspond to a plurality of wireless channels, a respective wireless channel is used for wireless communication between a touch screen and the active pen, and the method includes: the active pen sends a coding signal to the first touch screen; the active pen receives a wireless signal sent by the first touch screen, the wireless signal carries identification information of the first touch screen; the active pen identifies the first touch screen that is currently close to or in contact with the active pen according to the identification information of the first touch screen; and the active pen sends a wireless message to the first touch screen through the wireless channel corresponding to the first touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiquan Liang
  • Patent number: 12266279
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a device includes: an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device, an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device, and one or more out-coupling diffractive structures arranged downstream the in-coupling diffractive structure along the first direction and configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second, different direction. The in-coupling diffractive structure is configured to cause a first optical dispersion for the light, and at least one out-coupling diffractive structure is configured to cause a second optical dispersion for the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan MacNeill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Patent number: 12260148
    Abstract: A video projection switching apparatus includes a screen interface, a display controller, a switching unit, and a plurality of input interfaces. At least two of the input interfaces are electrically connected to the display controller and used for connecting to external input devices. The screen interface is used for connecting to a display screen. The display controller is electrically connected to the switching unit and the screen interface. When at least two input interfaces both input video signals, the display controller first outputs a video signal input from one of the at least two input interfaces through the screen interface according to a preset program. The switching unit outputs a switching signal to the display controller when a user operates. The display controller selects to output a video signal input from another one of the at least two input interfaces through the screen interface when receiving the switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Chuchu Wang
  • Patent number: 12254848
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a gate driver; a source driver, supplying gradation voltage signals to multiple pixel parts via multiple data lines based on a video data signal, and supplying to the gate driver a gate control signal; and a video data transmission part, transmitting the video data signal to the source driver by using LVDS. The video data transmission part assigns, to an empty region that is a region other than regions assigned to multiple pixel data pieces forming one pixel of the video data signal in each data packet defined for a time of transmitting the video data signal for one pixel by using LVDS, an arithmetic value calculated based on the pixel data pieces, and transmits to the source driver together with the pixel data pieces as the video data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 12249296
    Abstract: A data transmission method, device, conference system, wireless screen transmitter and storage medium are provided. According to the data transmission method, when the wireless screen transmitter accesses the terminal apparatus and performs screen transmission on the display apparatus, the privacy recognition program is quickly loaded from the wireless screen transmitter to the terminal apparatus. While transmitting corresponding media data to the wireless screen transmitter in real time according to current display screen, the terminal apparatus runs the privacy recognition program to recognize a privacy window in the current display screen and acquires corresponding position information, and then sends the position information to the wireless screen transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nan Tian
  • Patent number: 12235443
    Abstract: A head-up display includes: a display that emits light showing an image from a display surface; and a mirror, wherein the image is seen as a virtual image by an observer through a windshield by the light emitted from the display surface of the display toward the mirror being reflected only by a reflecting surface of the mirror toward the windshield, and further being reflected by the windshield toward the observer, and the display surface of the display is directed downward from a direction toward the mirror from the display, and a center of the display surface of the display is located below a the center of gravity of the reflecting surface of the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12236151
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a light-transmission member disposed in a line-of-sight direction of a user when the information processing apparatus is worn on a user's head; and a processor configured to: switch between displaying of a virtual screen to be superimposed on a real space through the light-transmission member when the information processing apparatus is worn on the user's head and displaying of a display content of the virtual screen on the light-transmission member when the information processing apparatus is not worn on the user's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Esaki
  • Patent number: 12216851
    Abstract: Electronic devices can include a textured exterior surface that is used for controlling functions associated with the electronic device or another electronic device when an object moves along the textured exterior surface. In some examples, the textured exterior surface can be a multi-directional textured surface to enable multi-directional touch functionality. In some examples, sensors of the electronic device can detect signal inputs generated by vibrations caused by the object moving along the textured exterior surface. The signal inputs can be processed to determine the directionality and/or speed of the movement input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Travis N. Owens, Daniel J. Bechstein, Jeremy A. Bagnol, Daniell Dokko, Supratik Datta
  • Patent number: 12217713
    Abstract: Display units for executing operational updates in a prioritized fashion are disclosed. A control subsystem is in electronic communication with an electronic display, sensor(s), and a thermal management subsystem. Requests to update established operational parameters for the electronic display and the thermal management subsystem are received at the control subsystem. The established operational parameters include operational parameters specific to sensor readings. The control subsystem determines which of the requests would provide a largest change to the established operational parameters if implemented, and prioritize that, largest, one of the requests for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, John Schuch
  • Patent number: 12211415
    Abstract: A compensation method a pixel circuit and a display panel are provided. In the compensation method, a gate potential and a source potential of a driving transistor in a writing stage are obtained and a compensation coefficient of the pixel circuit is determined, and then a light-emitting current flowing through the driving transistor in a light-emitting stage is determined based on the compensation coefficient, the gate potential and the source potential of the driving transistor in the writing stage. The compensation coefficient can adjust transmission loss of the gate potential and the source potential of the driving transistor in the writing stage, so as to ensure that the light-emitting current flowing through the driving transistor in the light-emitting stage is desired, without causing the phenomenon of shift in brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Bi
  • Patent number: 12204808
    Abstract: An interactive object displaying structure and a method of use are disclosed. The interactive object displaying structure includes a plurality of object collecting structures configured to hold at least an object and the plurality of object collecting structures includes at least a sensor, wherein the at least a sensor is configured to detect sensor data, a plurality of display devices, wherein the plurality of display devices is configured to display at least a content, a controller communicatively connected to the at least a sensor and the plurality of display devices, wherein the controller is configured to generate the at least a content as a function of the sensor data, determine at least one display device from the plurality of display devices as a function of the sensor data and transmit the at least a content to the at least one display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Pharma Vision LLC
    Inventors: Mark Earl Young, Mark Hyland
  • Patent number: 12200356
    Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality display system that controls power inputs to the display system as a function of image data. Image data itself is made of a plurality of image data frames, each with constituent color components of, and depth planes for displaying on, rendered content. Light sources or spatial light modulators to relay illumination from the light sources may receive signals from a display controller to adjust a power setting to the light source or spatial light modulator, and/or control depth of displayed image content, based on control information embedded in an image data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Martinez Perez, Reza Nourai
  • Patent number: 12197099
    Abstract: A system for simplified driving of electrophoretic media using a positive and a negative voltage source, where the voltage sources have different magnitudes, and a controller that cycles the top electrode between the two voltage sources and ground while coordinating driving at least two drive electrodes opposed to the top electrode. The resulting system can achieve roughly the same color states as compared to supplying each drive electrode with six independent drive levels and ground. Thus, the system simplifies the required electronics with only marginal loss in color gamut. The system is particularly useful for addressing an electrophoretic medium including four sets of different particles, e.g., wherein three of the particles are colored and subtractive and one of the particles is light-scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Crystal Nguyen, Amit Deliwala, Kosta Ladavac, Christopher L. Hoogeboom
  • Patent number: 12189847
    Abstract: An electronic device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) can be connected to another electronic device that is typically a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a laptop or a non-mobile device such as a desktop computer or workstation), allowing the electronic devices to be used together. This connection can be a wired connection or a wireless connection. The relative location of one of the electronic devices relative to the other of the electronic devices is automatically determined by analyzing changes in the gaze of the user of the electronic devices. An indication of the position of one of the electronic devices relative to the other is then displayed on one of the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jeffrey T Snow, Olivier D Meirhaeghe
  • Patent number: 12189430
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing, a flexible display including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is exposed for view to the outside of the electronic device in a first state, and when the first state is switched to a second state according to movement of the second housing with respect to the first housing, at least a portion of the second area may be exposed for view to the outside of the electronic device together with the first area, and a processor. The processor may be configured to, in the first state, supply power related to driving of the flexible display to a first portion of the second area, the first portion being adjacent to the first area and not exposed for view to the outside through a front surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukdong Kim, Myunghoon Kwak, Moonsun Kim, Junwoo Choi, Changryong Heo