Patents Examined by Ibrahim Khan
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Patent number: 11175785Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Shouji Nagao
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Patent number: 11170731Abstract: Disclosed is a method of eliminating shutdown afterimage on a panel, including: acquiring an initial voltage of a data line and a set voltage of a reference electrode; acquiring the current voltage of the data line when the display panel is turned off; and updating the set voltage of the reference electrode according to the initial voltage of the data line and the current voltage of the data line. The present application further discloses a method and a device of eliminating the shutdown afterimage on the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: HKC Corporation LimitedInventor: Beizhou Huang
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Patent number: 11164529Abstract: A power supply includes a boost circuit having a first boost circuit configured to output a first driving voltage to be supplied to the display panel by stepping unit an input voltage and a second boost circuit configured to output a second driving voltage to be supplied to the display panel by stepping down the input voltage, and a correction circuit configured to output a correction signal based on a result obtained by sensing the input voltage, and controls output efficiency of the boost circuit based on the input voltage and current sensed from the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Nak-Yoon Kim, Ji-Su Kim, Hong-Soon Kim
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Patent number: 11151768Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takurou Noda, Yasushi Okumura
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Patent number: 11145257Abstract: A display device driving method, suitable for a driver circuit, includes the following steps: determining magnitude of a plurality of data voltages according to received display data, and the plurality of data voltages are configured to be transmitted to a plurality of pixel circuits via a plurality of data lines; comparing the magnitude of the plurality of data voltages to generate a comparison result; and before providing corresponding ones of the plurality of data voltages to a first pixel group arranged at an i-th row of the plurality of pixel circuits, providing a first reset voltage having a value determined according to the comparison result to the plurality of data lines, or providing a second reset voltage to m data lines selected according to the comparison result from the plurality of data lines, i is a positive integer, and m is an integer.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chieh-Hsiang Chang, Shih-Hsiang Pan, Chi-Hung Lin, Wen-Pin Tsai, Huang-Chin Tang
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Patent number: 11144163Abstract: A capacitance detection method of a touch display panel, a capacitance detection circuit, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving a real-time sync signal sent from a display panel, and generating a trigger signal in a period in which a display driving noise is avoided based on the real-time sync signal (S1); generating a sync driving signal in the period in which the display driving noise is avoided based on the received trigger signal, to drive a driving electrode of the touch display panel (S2); and detecting a signal value of a capacitance sensor in the touch display panel in the period in which the display driving noise is avoided based on the received trigger signal (S3). This method is little affected by the display driving operation, and improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a finally detected effective signal, thus greatly improving the touch sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hong Jiang, Guopao Li
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Patent number: 11132939Abstract: A display system includes a number (M) of scan line units, a number (N) of channel line units, a number (R) of light emitting arrays connected to the scan line units and the channel line units, and a number (L) of shared driving circuits, where M?1, N?1, R?1, and L is equal to a maximum of M and N when M?N, and is equal to M otherwise. Each shared driving circuit is operable to generate or not to generate a scan driving output, and is operable to generate or not to generate a channel driving output. Each of a number (M) of the shared driving circuits is for providing the scan driving output to a respective scan line unit. Each of a number (N) of the shared driving circuits is for providing the scan driving output to a respective scan line unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.Inventors: Hung-Lin Yen, Shun-Ching Hsieh
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Patent number: 11132025Abstract: A method of changing screens in an apparatus including multiple touch screens and an apparatus are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen in a first touch screen; displaying a second screen in a second touch screen; detecting multiple touches in the first touch screen; detecting continuous movements of the multiple touches from the first touch screen to the second touch screen; and changing the second screen of the second touch screen in response to the continuous movements of the multiple touches.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Joon-Kyu Seo, Hyun-Jin Kim, Ju-Youn Lee, Min-Kyu Park
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Patent number: 11126001Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head-mounted display that includes an image generation device generating a display image to be viewed through an eyepiece disposed in front of a display panel, the image generation device including a source image reception control section that receives a source image, a distorted image generation section that generates data on pixels in a display image obtained by giving the source image a distortion corresponding to the eyepiece, a partially distorted image storage section that stores the data on the pixels in an order of data generation, and an image display control section that, whenever data on a predetermined number of pixels smaller than a total number of pixels in the display image is stored in the partially distorted image storage section, outputs the stored data to the display panel; the display panel that sequentially displays data outputted from the image generation device; and a content processing device that generates the source image and transmits the generatedType: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
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Patent number: 11100864Abstract: Provided are a data driver and a display driving circuit including the data driver. A data driver configured to drive a display panel including a plurality of subpixels connected to a plurality of sensing lines includes: a plurality of sample-and-hold circuits configured to perform a sampling operation on a plurality of sensing signals received via the plurality of sensing lines; a switching block configured to provide a first sensing signal among the plurality of sensing signals to a first sample-and-hold circuit in a first sensing period, and in a second sensing period, provide the first sensing signal to a second sample-and-hold circuit not being adjacent to the first sample-and-hold circuit in a second sensing period; and a converting circuit configured to generate a plurality of sensing values by amplifying and analog-to-digital converting on outputs of the plurality of sample-and-hold circuits.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajun Lee, Jeongah Ahn, Jiyong Jeong
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Patent number: 11094258Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a main circuit including: a driving transistor that includes a gate terminal connected to a first node, a first terminal connected to a second node, and a second terminal connected to a third node; and an organic light-emitting element connected to the driving transistor and configured to control the organic light-emitting element by controlling a driving current corresponding to a data signal applied via a data line to flow into the organic light-emitting element; and a sub circuit including: a first compensation transistor that includes a gate terminal configured to receive a first gate signal, a first terminal connected to the first node, and a second terminal connected to a fourth node; and a second compensation transistor that includes a gate terminal configured to receive a second gate signal, a first terminal connected to the fourth node, and a second terminal connected to the third node.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Joon-Chul Goh, Sangan Kwon, Jinyoung Roh, Hyojin Lee
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Patent number: 11094755Abstract: A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display layer disposed on the flexible substrate and including a plurality of light emitting units, a plurality of first conductive lines disposed on the display layer, at least one of which comprises a plurality of first openings, and a plurality of second conductive lines disposed on the display layer and intersecting the plurality of first conductive lines to form a plurality of bending sensor units. At least one of the plurality of bending sensor units is disposed between and does not overlap at least two adjacent light emitting units of the plurality of light emitting units in a top view of the display device. At least one of the plurality of first openings does not overlap the at least two adjacent light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventor: Yuan-Lin Wu
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Patent number: 11086581Abstract: In some exemplary processes for controlling an external device using a computer-generated reality interface, information specifying a function of the external device is received from the external device. First image data of a physical environment that includes the external device is obtained with one or more image sensors. A representation of the physical environment according to the first image data is displayed on a display. While displaying the representation of the physical environment, second image data identifying a gesture occurring between the display and the external device in the physical environment is obtained with the one or more image sensors. A determination is made as to whether the identified gesture satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with the function. In accordance with determining that the identified gesture satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with the function, the external device is caused to perform the function.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
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Patent number: 11087701Abstract: A focusing lens is configured to focus display light for an eye of a user. A display is configured to emit the display light having an illumination profile that increases in brightness as a distance from a middle of the display increases. The focusing lens is configured to receive the display light and focus the display light as image light that has a brightness profile that has substantially uniform brightness across the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Dong Chen, Rui Zhang
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Patent number: 11073939Abstract: One variation of a method for characterizing inputs includes: scanning an array of sense electrodes at a first resolution to generate a first force image; detecting a first force input in the first force image; in response to a first geometry dimension of the first force input exceeding a first threshold, characterizing the first force input as a non-stylus input type; in response to the first geometry dimension of the first force input remaining below the first threshold: scanning the array of sense electrodes at a second resolution; detecting a second force input in a second force image; and, in response to a ratio of a force magnitude of the second force input to a geometry dimension of the second force input exceeding a second threshold, characterizing the first force input as a stylus input type; and outputting a location and a type of the first force input.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Sensel, Inc.Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Tomer Moscovich
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Patent number: 11065792Abstract: An injection moulding apparatus and method for producing a moulded article is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the method comprises: (i) securing a layer of film to a part of a first mould half at step 504; (ii) adjusting relative position of the first mould component and a second mould component to an initial moulding position at step 506 to define a mould cavity; (iii) injecting molten moulding material into the mould cavity at step 508 to enable the molten moulding material to contact the layer of protective film; (iv) moving a movable core at step 510 to compress the molten moulding material in the mould cavity; and (v) cooling the compressed molten moulding material at step 514 to bond the layer of film to the cooled moulding material to form the moulded article.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Uniplas Enterprises Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Soe Zen Njoo, Kar Cheong Lim
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Patent number: 11062649Abstract: A luminance compensation device can include a luminance compensator configured to: receive a pixel driving voltage from a host system, the pixel driving voltage being supplied to both the luminance compensator and a display panel, receive a reference pixel driving voltage generated by a drive IC, compare the pixel driving voltage with the reference pixel driving voltage to detect a voltage drop in the pixel driving voltage, the voltage drop being a difference between the pixel driving voltage and the reference pixel driving voltage, amplify the voltage drop of the pixel driving voltage by a predetermined weighted value to generate an amplified voltage drop, and adjust a gamma reference voltage based on the amplified voltage drop to generate an adjusted gamma reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bonghwan Kim, Daekyung Kim
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Patent number: 11061641Abstract: A screen sharing system is configured to perform screen sharing between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire, as screen-sharing information, an image displayed on the first information processing apparatus, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a first server, when a data amount of the screen-sharing information is below a threshold value, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a second server and transmit, to the first server, storage destination information indicating a storage destination of the screen-sharing information, when the data is greater than or equal to the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Kawasaki, Shigeru Nakamura, Masashi Ogasawara, Atsushi Miyamoto, Hiroshi Hinohara, Takeshi Homma
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Patent number: 11048105Abstract: An automotive vehicle comprising a cabin having a windshield, a tablet holder pivotally connected to an interior surface of the cabin, the tablet holder being pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position, and a tablet detachably mounted to the tablet holder. In one embodiment, the tablet is a transparent tablet that may be configured to dynamically shade its display screen to attenuate incoming light.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventor: Matthew Roy
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Patent number: 11048400Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a touch operation on a display surface; and a display control unit configured to perform control so that a list screen of items corresponding to contents stored in a storage is displayed, wherein, in a case where a first touch operation is performed for an item corresponding to a VR content, the display control unit performs control so that the VR content is displayed in a first display mode, in which a display magnification is a first magnification, and in a case where a second touch operation is performed for an item corresponding to a VR content, the display control unit performs control so that the VR content is displayed on the display surface in a second display mode, in which the display magnification is a second magnification which is lower than the first magnification.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Seiji Ogawa