Patents Examined by Ifedayo Iluyomade
  • Patent number: 9786221
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels including an organic light emitting device to be light-emitted by a data current based on a data voltage; a memory to store accumulated data to be displayed on each of the sub-pixels; a deterioration compensator including: a compensation scheme determiner; a compensation amount calculator; and a modulation data generation generator; a timing controller to arrange the modulation data of each of the sub-pixels as pixel data according to a pixel arrangement structure of the display panel; and a data driver to convert the pixel data into the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Seok Bae, Sung Hoon Bang
  • Patent number: 9779663
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display, a method for driving the same, and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The organic light emitting display according to an embodiment includes a panel including subpixels each having a compensation circuit including a reference voltage supply transistor, which receives a reference voltage and initializes a node of a gate electrode or a drain electrode of a driving transistor using the reference voltage, a scan driver supplying a scan signal to scan lines of the panel, a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines of the panel, a timing controller that controls the scan driver and the data driver, and a reference voltage compensation unit supplying the reference voltage including a reverse voltage opposite a ripple generated in the reference voltage to the subpixels and cancel the ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihun Kim, Sangho Yu, Woojin Nam, Joongsun Yoon, Minkyu Chang
  • Patent number: 9778803
    Abstract: An erroneous operation is made less likely to occur in a portable electronic device including a touch panel. The portable electronic device has a plate-like external shape. An organic EL display panel that displays an image on a display surface is disposed on one surface of the external shape. A touch sensor is disposed on the display surface and detects contact of an object with the display surface. As the touch sensor, a capacitive contact sensor is disposed in a main area of the display surface that is set to include a central portion, and a resistive contact sensor is disposed in a side area of the display surface that includes at least a portion of an edge of the display surface and is set exclusively of the main area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9778751
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for gesture-based control using three-dimensional information extracted over an extended depth of field. The system comprises a plurality of optical detectors coupled to at least one processor. The optical detectors image a body. At least two optical detectors of the plurality of optical detectors comprise wavefront coding cameras. The processor automatically detects a gesture of the body, wherein the gesture comprises an instantaneous state of the body. The detecting comprises aggregating gesture data of the gesture at an instant in time. The gesture data includes focus-resolved data of the body within a depth of field of the imaging system. The processor translates the gesture to a gesture signal, and uses the gesture signal to control a component coupled to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oblong Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre St. Hilaire, John S. Underkoffler
  • Patent number: 9778525
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels each including first and second switching elements connected to a first gate line and a data line. Each pixel also includes a first memory capacitor connected to the first switching element and a capacitance voltage line, a second memory capacitor connected to the second switching element and the capacitance voltage line, and a third switching element and a fourth switching element each connected to a second gate line and a reference voltage line. Each pixel further includes a fifth switching element connected to a third gate line and the first memory capacitor, a sixth switching element connected to the third gate line and the second memory capacitor, a first subpixel electrode connected to the third and fifth switching elements, and a second subpixel electrode connected to the fourth and sixth switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Chul Jung, Se Young Song, Sung-Jin Hong, Jae Byung Park, Mee Hye Jung, Hyun Min Cho
  • Patent number: 9779667
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display device including: a display panel including data lines, scan lines, and pixels coupled to the data lines and the scan lines; a digital data converter configured to calculate a panel load utilizing digital video data, and to convert the digital video data such that peak luminance of the pixels have a maximum value when the panel load is equal to or less than a limit value; a data driver configured to convert digital conversion data, which has been converted by the digital data converter, into data voltages, and to supply the data voltages to the data lines; and a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chai-Hoon Lim, Sang-Myeon Han, Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 9772721
    Abstract: An input/output device for a computing device including one or more touch sensors and one or more force sensors. The touch sensors sense data including one or more locations at which a contact or near-contact occurs. The force sensor sense data including a measure of an amount of force presented at the one or more locations at which a contact occurs. The touch sensors and the force sensors responsive to signals occurring in response to whether the signals are in response to contact or in response to an amount of force. The input/output device also includes one or more circuits coupled to the touch sensors and to the force sensors, and capable of combining information from both sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Q. Huppi, Martin P. Grunthaner, John G. Elias, Sinan Filiz, Steven P. Hotelling
  • Patent number: 9773462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing a decrease in display quality when pause drive is performed in an alternating-voltage drive mode, as well as a method for driving the same. In a first drive frame, overshoot drive is performed using correction values provided by an LUT to apply overshoot voltages whose absolute values are higher than absolute values of signal voltages to data signal lines. Subsequently, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed to write signal voltages of the same polarity as the overshoot drive voltages to the data signal lines. Thereafter, a pause period in which an image written by normal drive is displayed continues until the start of a drive period in the next pause drive period. As a result, a decrease in luminance immediately after the signal voltages are written during the second drive frame is suppressed significantly, so that the viewer barely recognizes flicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato
  • Patent number: 9772729
    Abstract: Input devices which include a capacitive force sensor, along with methods of making and using such, are provided. The input device includes a structural component having first and second substantially opposing sides, a plurality of sensor electrodes located on the first side of the structural component, the plurality of sensor electrodes configured to capacitively sense positional information associated with user input in a sensing region, a first capacitive electrode located on the second side of the structural component, the first capacitive electrode being configured to capacitively couple to a second capacitive electrode that is separated from the first capacitive electrode by a gas and moveable relative to the first capacitive electrode, and a biasing member configured to be physically coupled to the structural component such that a force associated with the user input causes a change in a separation distance between the first and second capacitive electrodes based on the force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert J. Bolender
  • Patent number: 9672784
    Abstract: The present invention provides a CMOS gate driving circuit, comprising a plurality of shift register units which are cascade connected, and the shift register unit of the nth stage comprises: a forward-backward scan module, a latch module (200) electrically coupled to the forward-backward scan module and an output module (400) electrically coupled to the latch module; the forward-backward scan module comprises: a first module (100) and a second module (300), and the first module (100) is a transmission module in forward scan and a pull-down module in backward scan; the second module (300) is a pull-down module in forward scan and a transmission module in backward scan; both the first module (100) and the second module (300) comprise a NAND gate, which can achieve forward-backward scan for ensuring the stability of the GOA function and the smooth output of the scan voltage signal to raise the stage transfer efficiency and to effectively reduce the sequence delay of the stage transfer; meanwhile, the multiple f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shangcao Cao, Changyeh Lee
  • Patent number: 9672778
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes steps of generating a plurality of load signals, of which at least one load signal has a different timing from the rest of the load signals, generating data voltages synchronized to low periods of the load signals and outputting the data voltages to data lines. Accordingly, the data voltages synchronized to each of the load signals can be outputted to each of the data lines. A color coordinate problem occurring when applying a RGBW type may be solved by setting a charging time of a white sub-pixel different from the rest of the sub-pixels. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus including the display panel may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woon-Yong Lim, Ki-Hyun Pyun, Bong-Kyun Jo
  • Patent number: 9646556
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel on which first and second gate lines extending in a third direction between a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, data lines extending in the second direction, connection lines extending in a fourth direction crossing the third direction to be connected to the second gate lines, and pixels including pixel areas are disposed and a black matrix disposed in a non-pixel area surrounding each of the pixel areas. The black matrix includes a first black matrix not overlapped with the connection lines and second black matrices overlapped with the connection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sooyeon Lee, Seung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9639202
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided to depress the chance that the touch display device generates bubble, mura or similar bad phenomena. The touch display device includes a touch screen (1) and a display panel (2) arranged opposite to each other, and at least two insert-fitting structures (3) located between the touch screen (1) and the display panel (2), and the touch screen (1) and the display panel (2) are connected with each other in an insert-fitting way through the insert-fitting structures (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenjia Sun, Hongli Zhu, Qing Ma, Daekeun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9626037
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9619020
    Abstract: A computer system can be controlled with non-contact inputs, such as eye-tracking devices. A visual indicator can be presented on a display to indicate the location where a computer function will take place (e.g., a common cursor). The visual indicator can be moved to a gaze target in response to continued detection of an action (e.g., touchpad touch) by a user for a predetermined period of time. A delay between the action and the movement of the visual indicator can allow a user time to “abort” movement of the visual indicator. Additionally, once the visual indicator has moved, the visual indicator can be controlled with additional precision as the user moves the gaze while continuing the action (e.g., continued holding of the touchpad).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Erland George-Svahn, David Figgins Henderek, Rebecka Lannsjö, Mårten Skogö, John Elvesjö
  • Patent number: 9619064
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a device with an integrated acoustics function that includes a patterned touch screen cover, an acoustic thin film, a plurality of electrodes, and a substrate. In some embodiments, the substrate is coupled to the acoustic thin film and reduces heat loss from the acoustic thin film through the substrate. The acoustic thin film may be coupled to the patterned touch screen cover and conducts an oscillating electrical current provided by the plurality of electrodes, thereby acting as a nano-scale acoustic generator. In still some embodiments, the patterned touch screen cover provides an array of microspeakers and a viewing area, where the array of microspeakers is disposed around a perimeter of the patterned touch screen cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 9612620
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a driving method thereof, the display device including: a display panel having a curvature radius; a driver driving the display panel; a timing controller controlling the driver; an image processor supplying an image signal to the timing controller; and an image corrector compressing or expanding the image signal in response to the curvature radius of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyungguk Bae
  • Patent number: 9612489
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided having a discontinuous electrode. In certain embodiments, different portions (such as finger- or slit-like extensions) of the discontinuous electrode may be at different depths relative to one another and/or may be of different widths relative to one another. Similarly, in other embodiments, the different portions of the discontinuous electrode may be spaced apart in a non-uniform manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Cheng Chen, Shih Chang Chang, Ming Xu, Shawn Robert Gettemy, Mingxia Gu
  • Patent number: 9606651
    Abstract: An electronic device (1) is provided with a contact detection unit (40) that detects contact by a contacting object, a vibration unit (50) that vibrates the contact detection unit (40), and a control unit (10) that controls the vibration unit (50) to vibrate. The control unit (10), while controlling the vibration unit (50) to vibrate, determines a position of the contact based on a plurality of positions of contact detected by the contact detection unit (40) during a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 9600120
    Abstract: A method includes displaying three or more display layers, the three or more display layers including at least a first display layer and a second display layer. The method further includes shifting display positions of at least the first display layer and the second display layer. Shifting the display positions includes applying a first (x,y) offset to the display position of the first display layer, and applying a second (x,y) offset to the display position of the second display layer, wherein the first (x,y) offset and the second (x,y) offset are determined in accordance with a calculated difference between a detected orientation of the electronic device and a reference orientation. The method further includes redisplaying the three or more display layers after the shifting of the display positions. At least one of the first display layer and the second display layer is responsive to touch input gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Eliza Carey Block, Alessandro F. Sabatelli