Patents Examined by Henok Heyi
  • Patent number: 9417722
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch panel, having a light transmission touch sensing region and a peripheral region adjacent to at least one side of the light transmission touch sensing region. The touch panel includes a substrate, a patterned decoration frame, a decoration layer, and at least one touch sensing element. The patterned decoration frame is disposed on a surface of the substrate and in the peripheral region. The decoration layer is disposed on the patterned decoration frame, and the touch sensing element is disposed in the light transmission touch sensing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: WINTEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Chun Lin, Siang-Lin Huang, Kuo-Chang Su
  • Patent number: 9417743
    Abstract: A touch control device includes a touch area, a border area, a inductive coil, a proximity sensing unit, a near field communication unit, and a switch module. The touch area is for sensing touch input. The border area is located at periphery of the touch area. The inductive coil is located on the border area. The proximity sensing unit is for transmitting a driving signal to the inductive coil when being coupled to a first end of the inductive coil, and determining whether the inductive coil is close to an object according to a sensing signal generated by the inductive coil. The near field communication unit is for performing near field communication when being coupled to the first end and a second end of the inductive coil. The switch module is for controlling coupling statuses of the proximity sensing unit and the near field communication unit to the inductive coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: WINTEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiao-Hui Liao, Ting-Yu Chang, Ching-Fu Hsu, Chen-Ho Hsu, Yu-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 9406277
    Abstract: Illumination of a display is controlled so as to modulate the intensity of emissions in one or more spectral ranges over time while content is being presented. Usage data indicative of user interaction with the presented content or previously presented content can be used to generate or modify a pattern profile. The pattern profile is used to control light emitters of a media device. Various operating modes respectively directed to decreasing or increasing intensity over time within certain portions of the visible spectrum can be used during the presentation of written, video or other content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur
  • Patent number: 9401464
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a self-luminous display panel is provided. The self-luminous display panel including: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a substrate which is disposed on a light-emitting surface of the second electrode layer; a light emitting layer which is interposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and generates light based on holes and electrons transmitted by voltages applied to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and a linear grid layer which is interposed between the substrate and the second electrode layer, and including linear grids arranged at a predetermined pitch in order to polarize and filter light generated by the light emitting layer and emitted through the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong-eun Chung, Dong-Jun Lee, Dong-hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9395855
    Abstract: A touchscreen of the present invention is covered by wiring patterns of a row-directional line and a column-directional line being upper and lower two layers. A step height that is produced by an upper electrode riding on a lower electrode when a floating electrode is provided at a region adjacent to the row-directional line and the column-directional line is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Takuji Imamura, Takeshi Ono, Naoki Nakagawa, Masafumi Agari, Seiichiro Mori, Takashi Miyayama
  • Patent number: 9390668
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid-crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer; and a control unit that controls a display operation. The control unit performs a first display control mode when a response speed of the liquid crystal layer is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed and performs a second display control mode when the response speed of the liquid crystal layer is lower than the predetermined speed. In the first display control mode, the control unit executes a display control at a first frame rate with which a number of frames per unit time is equal to a predetermined number. In the second display control mode, the control unit executes a display control at a second frame rate obtained by dividing the number of frames at the first frame rate by an integer equal to or larger than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Matsushima, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9390664
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a transistor and a liquid crystal element, and a driver circuit that inputs at least a video signal and a reset signal to the plurality of pixels. The driver circuit makes the polarity of the video signal inverted every m frames (m is a natural number of 2 or more) and inputs the inverted video signal to the pixel, and inputs the reset signal to the pixel while not inputting the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 9390673
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a driving unit. The driving unit is configured to perform polarity inversion driving by applying, to the pixel electrode, positive and negative video signals. When applying the video signals to the pixel electrode, the driving unit superposes a correction signal corresponding to a polarity inversion frequency and the gray level on the video signals in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Toshiyuki Higano, Kenji Nakao, Hirofumi Wakemoto
  • Patent number: 9384702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple primary colors liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The multiple primary colors liquid crystal display comprises a LED backlight source (1) and a liquid crystal display panel (3); the LED backlight source (1) comprises a plurality of red, green, blue and cyan LEDs (11, 12, 13, 14); the liquid crystal display panel (3) comprises a CF substrate (33), and the CF substrate (33) comprises a plurality of red, green and blue filters (331, 333, 335).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yong Fan
  • Patent number: 9377891
    Abstract: A touch panel is provided, including a substrate, a touch sensing array, a first electrostatic protection circuit, a first insulating layer and a plurality of first connecting lines. The substrate has an active region and a peripheral region surrounding the active region. The touch sensing array is disposed on the substrate and located in the active region. The first electrostatic protection circuit is disposed on the substrate and located in the peripheral region. The first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and located in the peripheral region, wherein the first insulating layer covers the first electrostatic protection circuit. The plurality of first connecting lines is disposed on the first insulating layer and coupled to the touch sensing array respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Tun-Chun Yang, Chih-Jen Hu
  • Patent number: 9377910
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus includes a touch screen panel including first electrodes along a first direction and second electrodes along a second direction crossing the first direction to form capacitances with the first electrodes, a driving circuit configured to supply a driving signal to the first electrodes; and a sensing circuit configured to detect output sensing signals from the second electrodes and recognize a touch input based on the output sensing signals. The sensing circuit includes a switching unit configured to modulate the output sensing signals by providing codes as respective input sensing signals to the second electrodes, an amplifying unit configured to amplify the modulated sensing signals, an analog-digital conversion unit configured to convert the amplified sensing signals into digital sensing signals, and a controller configured to demodulate the digital sensing signals and detect a touch input and its position from the demodulated sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Soon-Sung Ahn, Franklin Bien, Jae-Joon Kim, Sang-Hyune Heo, Kyeong-Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 9355609
    Abstract: Provided is a malfunction prevention circuit for a COG-form source driver integrated circuit with a power sequence in which a low voltage is applied after a high voltage is applied. The malfunction prevention circuit includes: a level shifter configured to process an input signal using the low voltage and output a control signal using the high voltage; and an initialization circuit configured to initialize the control signal to a constant voltage while an initialization signal is enabled. The initialization signal is enabled during a predetermined time from the time at which the low voltage starts to be applied at the initial stage of the power sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong Joon Son, Myung Yu Kim
  • Patent number: 9349331
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a technique of liquid crystal display, and provide a shift register unit circuit, a shift register, an array substrate and a display apparatus. A first TFT is added in the shift register unit circuit and is used to pull down the level of a node PU when a frame start signal is at a high level and a forward clock signal changes from a low level to the high level, such that a H-line defect generated in an output signal caused by a coupling effect of a coupling circuit can be avoided, which is advantageous for increasing productivity and yield rate of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shijun Wang
  • Patent number: 9329729
    Abstract: Provided herein is a capacitive-type touch panel. The capacitive-type touch panel may include a first transparent substrate, a first conductive layer positioned on the first transparent substrate, a sensor layer having a second conductive layer spaced from the first conductive layer by a spacer, and a second transparent substrate positioned on the sensor layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer may be transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Han Kim, Yeong-Seop Lee, Seok-Hong Jeong, Myung-Sop Lee, Kyoung-Suk Oh, Jung-Hun Woo, Dong-Chul Lee, Jong-Hyun Yim, Sung-Il Jang, Yong-Gu Cho, Hyoung-Jun Go, Kyoung-Hun Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Hyeon-Beom Kim, Dae-Bin Noh, Jae-Young Park, Eun-Jin Baek, Chung-Hee Lee, Sung-Ho Jung, Jae-Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 9329674
    Abstract: A display device with integrated touch screen is provided. The display device may include a panel, a display driver IC, and a touch IC. The panel may include a plurality of driving electrodes and sensing electrodes. The display driver IC may apply a driving pulse to the driving electrodes and receive a plurality of sensing signals from the sensing electrodes when the panel operates in a touch driving mode, and, when the panel operates in a display driving mode, the display driver IC may apply a common voltage to the driving electrodes and sensing electrodes. The touch IC may generate the driving pulse and apply the driving pulse to the display driver IC, and may receive the sensing signals from the display driver IC to determine whether there is a touch. The touch IC may include a sensing unit sensing whether there is a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Joon Lee, Sun Yeop Kim, Sung Yub Lee
  • Patent number: 9324356
    Abstract: A multi-stack optical data storage medium (30) for recording and reading using a focused radiation beam (40) entering through an entrance face (41) of the medium (30) is described. It has a first substrate (31a) with present on a side thereof a first recording stack (33) named L0, comprising a recordable type L0 recording layer (35), formed in a first L0 guide groove (38a, 38b). A first reflective layer (39) is present between the first L0 recording layer (35) and the first substrate (31a). A second substrate (31b) with present on a side thereof a second recording stack (32) named L1 is present at a position closer to the entrance face (41) than the L0 recording stack (33) and formed in a second L1 guide groove (37). A transparent spacer layer (36) is sandwiched between the recording stacks (32, 33). The first L0 guide groove (38a, 38b) has a depth GL0<100 nm. In this way a relatively high reflection value of the L0 stack is achieved at a radiation beam wavelength of approximately 655 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Hubert Cécile François Martens, Ronald Joseph Antonius Van Den Oetelaar
  • Patent number: 9323496
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an image capturing unit configured to generate captured data, a display unit, a communication unit configured to transmit image data based on the generated captured data to an external device, and a controller. When transmitting first image data resulting in a first delay on transmitting the first image data to the external device, the controller causes an image which corresponds to the first image data and is based on the captured data to be displayed on the display unit. When transmitting second image data resulting in a second delay larger than the first delay on transmitting the second image data to the external device, the controller causes an image other than an image corresponding to the second image data to be displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellctual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Nosaka
  • Patent number: 9323041
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for dissipating charge buildup within a display element with a conductive layer. The conductive layer is maintained in electrical contact with a fluid within the display element. The fluid, in turn, remains in contact with light modulators within the display elements. Any charge buildup that may be caused by the filling of the fluid during fabrication of the display device, or during operation of the light modulators can be dissipated by the conductive layer. Thus, by dissipating the charge buildup, the conductive layer reduces or eliminates electrostatic forces due to the charge buildup that may affect the operability of the light modulators. The display can include conductive spacers in an active display region of the display and a spacer-free region that allows the substrates to deform while retaining an electrical connection between the conductive layer and the spacers in the active display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene E. Fike, III, Cait Ni Chleirigh, Susan Oakley, Jignesh Gandhi
  • Patent number: 9324267
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display including a repair circuit is disclosed. In one aspect the organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels positioned at the intersection of scanning lines, data lines, and power lines, The OLED display further includes an organic light emitting diode OLED connected to the pixel circuit, and repair lines disposed in parallel with data lines and repair circuits connected to the repair lines and the power lines. The OLED display further includes a switching unit for selectively connecting output lines of the data driving unit to the repair lines or the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Yong-Sung Park
  • Patent number: 9311871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to various techniques, systems, devices, and methods for driving high resolution monitors while reducing artifacts thereon. Data may be stored on pixels of a display such that a first half of the pixels of the display (e.g., arranged in a checkerboard fashion) have data of a first polarity stored on them during a first half of a frame, then a second half of the pixels of the display have data of a second polarity stored on them during a second half of the frame. In such an arrangement, the polarity used to provide data to the pixels may be switched only one time during each frame. The data provided to drive the second half of pixels may be inverted relative to the first half of pixels. The display may use the dot inversion method to provide overall good image quality, yet operate with reduced power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Taesung Kim