Patents Examined by Hong Zhou
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Patent number: 12062330Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a display panel. The display panel includes a transition display region and a transparent display region. First pixel driving circuits are placed in the transition display region. Dummy pixel driving circuits are placed in the transition display region. One of the dummy pixel driving circuit is adjacently placed within a predetermined distance from at least one side of the first pixel driving circuits arranged along the second direction. This could reduce the environment difference between the pixel driving circuit close to the light sensing region and the pixel driving circuit inside the transition display region and thus reduce the luminance difference between the first display pixels controlled by the pixel driving circuit close to the light sensing region and the first display pixels controlled by the pixel driving circuit inside the transition display region.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Maojun Yin, Shaojing Wu, Cheng Yang, Xiaoguang Zhu
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Patent number: 12046218Abstract: An image data acquirement section of an image processing apparatus acquires data regarding a frame of a moving image generated by a server. A decoding/decompression section repeats a cycle of a decoding/decompression process for each of frames at a rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. An image processing section repeats a cycle of applying a necessary image process to each of the frames at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. The display control section outputs the data regarding the frame ready for displaying to a display panel at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Katsushi Otsuka, Masakazu Tanikawa
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Patent number: 12046211Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a terminal portion, a switching transistor, a driver circuit portion, and a pixel circuit portion including a pixel transistor and a plurality of pixels, a second substrate provided with a common electrode electrically connected to the terminal portion through the switching transistor, and liquid crystal between a pixel electrode and the common electrode. In a period during which a still image is switched to a moving image, the following steps are sequentially performed: a first step of supplying the common potential to the common electrode; a second step of supplying a power supply voltage to the driver circuit portion; a third step of supplying a clock signal to the driver circuit portion; and a fourth step of supplying a start pulse signal to the driver circuit portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Koyama, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 12039104Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an input device including an operating part with an input surface; a carrier; a mount that is adapted to mount the operating part on the carrier in a restoring manner, which are configured to mount the operating part to deflect from a rest position in a deflection direction substantially parallel to the input surface and to elastically restore to the rest position; and an actuator for an excitation of movement of the operating part in the deflection direction to generate a haptic feedback for an operator; wherein the mount comprises two spring members, which extend substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel to the input surface, and which respectively have one leaf spring strip having a spring steel and three fastening members in which the leaf spring strip is positively accommodated, wherein the fastening members are arranged in a uniformly spaced-apart manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Preh GmbHInventors: Michael Miller, Thilo Schultheis, Tobias Bodenstein, Michael Schwab
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Patent number: 12041205Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen including information on a remaining amount of the recording material; and a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, in which the home operation portion is closer to the capacitive touch panel than the power supply operation portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasuo Koyauchi, Seiji Kimura
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Patent number: 12039908Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel. The display panel includes: a substrate; a pixel driving circuit disposed on the substrate, the pixel driving circuit comprises driving sub-circuits; and a pixel layer disposed on the substrate, the pixel layer comprises pixel units arranged in an array, each of the pixel units comprises a red pixel, a green pixel, a first blue pixel, and a second blue pixel; each of the driving sub-circuits is in one-to-one correspondence with each color pixel, and a light transmission band of the first blue pixel is different from a light transmission band of the second blue pixel; in a first display mode, the pixel driving circuit drives the red pixels, the green pixels, and the first blue pixels to light up; in a second display mode, the pixel driving circuit drives the red pixels, the green pixels, and the second blue pixels to light up.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignees: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., LTD., SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo Gao, Lin Xiong
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Patent number: 12024018Abstract: A decorative panel in which a touch sensor member can be disposed with a large degree of freedom even in a relatively large electronic device is provided. The decorative panel includes a cover panel member that has an opening portion; a touch sensor member that is disposed at the opening portion; and a design film that covers the cover panel member and the touch sensor member, and that has a movable portion that supports the touch sensor member so that the touch sensor member is displaceable with respect to the cover panel member.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Honmatsu, Yasushi Sakai
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Patent number: 12027116Abstract: A display device including: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, each including an electro-optical element having a structure in which a display functional layer is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode; and an auxiliary interconnect contact in a pixel area in which the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix and electrically connecting the upper electrode to an auxiliary interconnect, wherein m (m is an integer equal to or larger than two) sub-pixels adjacent to each other along an arrangement direction of the sub-pixels are regarded as one group, and n (n is a natural number smaller than m) auxiliary interconnect contacts are formed for each group.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 12022701Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. A dummy electrode pattern is disposed in a first display region of the display panel and disposed in a different layer from a first connection trace. The first connection trace can connect a second light-emitting unit group in a second display region to a second pixel circuit group in the first display region through the dummy electrode pattern. An overlapping area between the dummy electrode pattern and the first connection trace is approximately the same as that between a first electrode and the first connection trace.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lili Du, Yuanyou Qiu, Yue Long, Xingliang Xiao, Yao Huang, Tianyi Cheng
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Patent number: 12019830Abstract: A sensor device includes: first sensors; second sensors which form capacitances with the first sensors; a sensor transmitter connected to the first sensors, where the sensor transmitter supplies driving signals to the first sensors; and a sensor receiver connected to the second sensors, where the sensor receiver receives sensing signals from the second sensors, and the sensor receiver includes a band pass filter which filters the sensing signals. The band pass filter includes: a first integrator including a first amplifier; a first high pass filter converter connected to a first input terminal, a second input terminal and a first output terminal of the first amplifier, where the first high pass filter converter time-divisionally provides N high pass filter conversion paths; and a first gain auxiliary component connected to the first input terminal and the first output terminal of the first amplifier while the first integrator performs an integral function.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Moon Jae Jeong
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Patent number: 12001632Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch sensing device and a touch sensing method, and more particularly, to a touch sensing device and a touch sensing method to prevent a tracking error of touch coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang Been Lim
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Patent number: 12001631Abstract: Embodiments relate to a technology of sensing a position of a pen in a touch panel in which a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed. In order to reduce the noise of data when sensing the position of a pen, a method of calculating a position by using data of all data slots for a region preset on the basis of a previous position of the pen.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventor: Ho Sup Choi
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Patent number: 11995273Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device may include providing a support layer and a display panel on a digitizer. The display panel may include a folding region that is folded with reference to a folding axis extending in a first direction. The providing of the support layer may include forming an opening penetrating the preliminary support layer by providing a laser or an abrasive agent to one surface of the preliminary support layer. A first width of the opening on the one surface in a second direction and a second width of the opening on another surface in a second direction may be different from each other, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Yong Sim, Minji Kim, Hyunjun Cho, Yonghyuck Lee
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Patent number: 11995275Abstract: A detection device includes: a substrate, a detection electrode on a first surface of the substrate, a first flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the detection electrode, a shield layer on a second surface opposite the first surface of the substrate, and a second flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the shield layer on the second surface; wherein the first flexible printed circuit board has a first terminal on a side of a first side extending outward from the substrate, the second flexible printed circuit board has a second terminal on a side of a second side extending outward from the substrate, the first flexible printed circuit board and the second flexible printed circuit board are arranged side-by-side along a side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Takayuki Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11991910Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a first display region and a second display region, the first display region includes first light emitting unit groups and first pixel circuit groups connected with the first light emitting unit groups; the second display region includes second light emitting unit groups and second pixel circuit groups connected with the second light emitting unit groups; a density of the second light emitting unit groups is smaller than that of the first light emitting unit groups. The second pixel circuit groups include first pixel circuit units each including a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit, and at least two pixel circuits in the first pixel circuit unit are configured to be electrically connected with a same light emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lili Du, Weiyun Huang, Yao Huang, Yuanyou Qiu
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Patent number: 11985884Abstract: A display device prevents cracks from spreading to an active area. The display device includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area having a bending area, a thin-film transistor disposed in the active area, a light-emitting element disposed in the active area and connected to the thin-film transistor, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting element, a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer, a touch pad disposed in the non-active area, a first routing line connecting the touch sensor to the touch pad via a second routing line in the bending area, and a crack prevention layer disposed on the second routing line in the bending area. Thus, the crack prevention layer is capable of preventing the occurrence of cracks in the bending area BA, thus preventing cracks from spreading to the active area AA.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Hyuk Won, Min-Joo Kim, Jae-Won Lee, Sang-Hoon Pak, Byong-Hoo Kim, Ji-Hye Lee, Jae-Man Jang, Sung-Jin Kim, Jae-Hyung Jang
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Patent number: 11977705Abstract: A touch event processing circuit includes receiving circuits and an average circuit. Each of the receiving circuits includes an operation amplifier, a current processing circuit, and a touch event detection circuit. The operation amplifier receives an input signal from a touch panel, and outputs a first current signal and a second current signal. The current processing circuit processes the first current signal and the second current signal according to a first current average signal and a second current average signal, to generate a processed current signal. The touch event detection circuit detects a touch event according to the processed current signal. The average circuit receives first current signals and second current signals from the receiving circuits; performs an average operation upon the first current signals, to generate the first current average signal; and performs an average operation upon the second current signals, to generate the second current average signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang, Yi-Yang Tsai
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Patent number: 11978418Abstract: The present application refers to a control method and control device of a drive circuit, and a drive circuit. The control method of the drive circuit includes: acquiring a bus address in a bus signal. The bus signal is a signal transmitted over an I2C bus, and the I2C bus is connected to a timing controller. The control method further includes: if the timing controller determining that the bus address matches an address of the timing controller, transmitting a frequency adjustment signal to a controllable power supply with an adjustable operating frequency and connected to the timing controller. The frequency adjustment signal is configured to indicate that an operating frequency of the controllable power supply is adjusted from a first operating frequency to a second operating frequency. The second operating frequency is higher than the first operating frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Mingliang Wang
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Patent number: 11971551Abstract: An optical device includes variable optical material that alters at least one of: incident ambient light, spectral content of incident ambient light or direction of incident ambient light through the optical device in response to a stimulus provided by the device. The device can sense intensity and/or spectral characteristics of ambient light and provide appropriate stimulus to various portions of the optical device to activate the variable optical material and alter at least one of: incident ambient light, spectral content of incident ambient light or direction of incident ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Eric Baerenrodt, Nastasja U. Robaina, Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Christopher M. Harrises, Mark Baerenrodt
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Patent number: 11966547Abstract: An electronic device, a control method, a control module of the electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The electronic device includes: a shell; a display screen disposed in the shell; a fingerprint module movably disposed in an inner cavity; and a drive mechanism. The inner cavity is formed between the shell and the display screen. The drive mechanism is connected to the fingerprint module, and drives, in a case that the display screen is touched, the fingerprint module to move to a position corresponding to a first region. The first region is a region that is of the display screen and that is touched.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaokao Zhang, Ling Hu