Patents Examined by Jason M Mandeville
  • Patent number: 11568793
    Abstract: A scan-type display apparatus includes an LED array, a display module, a control module and a driver module. The LED array has a common anode configuration. The control module generates a synchronization control (SC) signal. Based on the SC signal, the driver module outputs an input voltage to scan lines of the LED array sequentially without overlapping in time so as to drive LEDs of the LED array to emit light in a line scan manner, and generates an image refresh signal that is related to the output of the input voltage to one of the scan lines which corresponds to a last line of the line scan in each line scan cycle and that is further related to refreshing of images on a display constituted by the LED array and the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Ta Wu, Chun-Yi Li, Hung-I Cheng, Ping-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 11561399
    Abstract: Provided are a Fourier-beam shaper and a display apparatus including the Fourier-beam shaper. The Fourier-beam shaper includes: a waveguide; an input coupler configured to direct a plurality of light beams toward the waveguide in a time-sequential manner; and a spatial converter configured to output the plurality of light beams traveling in the waveguide through spatially different regions of the spatial converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Young Kim, Hongseok Lee, Seokho Song, Jungkwuen An, Kanghee Won, Changkun Lee
  • Patent number: 11551605
    Abstract: A display module includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels are disposed on a plurality of row lines; and a driver. The driver is configured to set a PWM data voltage to the plurality of sub-pixels included in the plurality of row lines in a row line sequence, apply a sweep signal, which is a voltage signal sweeping between two different voltages, to sub-pixels among the plurality of sub-pixels that are included in at least some consecutive row lines among the plurality of row lines in the row line sequence, and drive the display panel to cause the sub-pixels included in the at least some consecutive row lines to emit light based on the PWM data voltage in the row line sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Yong-Sang Kim, Donggun Oh, Jongsu Oh, Tetsuya Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11545075
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display panel and a spliced display device. The display panel includes a substrate, an array circuit, and a power supply circuit. The substrate includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface located between the top surface and the bottom surface. The array circuit is disposed on the top surface. Power is supplied to the array circuit through the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit has a power input terminal. The power input terminal corresponds to at least two distribution terminals. The at least two distribution terminals are disposed on the side surface and distribute the power to different portions of the array circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Hsien Lin
  • Patent number: 11538897
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate having a display area and non-display area; a first conductive layer disposed corresponding to the display area and comprising a first line segment, a second line segment and a third line segment parallel to the first line segment, wherein the first and second line segments are disposed at two sides of the non-display area; a third conductive layer disposed on the substrate and including a first connection line electrically connected to the first and second line segments, and a projection of the first connection line is overlapped with at least a portion of the third line segment; and a first insulating layer disposed between the first and third conductive layers and including a first through-hole and a second through-hole, and the third conductive layer is electrically connected to the first and second line segments via the first and the second through-holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui-Min Huang, Li-Wei Sung, Cheng-Tso Chen, Chia-Min Yeh
  • Patent number: 11520450
    Abstract: A low-latency touch sensitive device provides a method for determining a location of a touch event thereon. The touch sensitive device row conductors and column conductors, the path of each of the row conductors crossing the path of each of the column conductors. Each of a set of orthogonal row signals are simultaneously transmitted on a respective one of at least some of the row conductors and an amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal row signals present on each of the plurality of column conductors is detected. A set of orthogonal column signals are simultaneously transmitted on a respective one of at least some of the column conductors. An amount of each of the orthogonal column signals present on each of the plurality of row conductors is detected. The detected amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal row signals and the detected amount of each of the plurality of orthogonal column signals is used to determine the location of a touch event on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Clifton Forlines, Darren Leigh, Daniel Wigdor, Steven Leonard Sanders
  • Patent number: 11508289
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a method of driving the same and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a light-emission time control sub-circuitry, a first energy storage sub-circuitry, a first resetting sub-circuitry, a first light-emission control sub-circuitry, a time control data write-in sub-circuitry and a data control sub-circuitry. The time control data write-in sub-circuitry controls a time control data line to be electrically connected to a second end of the first energy storage sub-circuitry under the control of a first gate driving signal. The light-emission time control sub-circuitry controls a first end of the light-emission time control sub-circuitry to be electrically connected to a second end of the light-emission time control sub-circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 11495172
    Abstract: A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11495173
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a light emitting module and a display panel. The light emitting module includes an optical sensor and multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs are adjacent to the optical sensor. The LEDs emit red, green, and blue light. The LEDs dynamically convert brightness of the red, green, and blue light. The display panel is disposed on the light emitting module. The display device of the disclosure may achieve a full-screen display or have a higher resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Yi Hung, Minghuei Wang
  • Patent number: 11460696
    Abstract: A method of assisting a user wearing a head mountable display (HMD) when determining that the user may be in a pathological state includes: detecting, by one or more sensors, one or more parameters indicating one or more current properties of the user, generating information indicating the one or more current properties of the user based on the one or more parameters, determining whether the user may be in a pathological state or a non-pathological state based on the information indicating one or more of the current properties of the user, and performing a process under instruction of a processor in response to determining that the user may be in a pathological state, the process comprising one or more operations that the user can voluntarily instruct when the user is in a non-pathological state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Mandana Jenabzadeh
  • Patent number: 11454822
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a diffusing element configured to couple portions of a light beam back into a laser diode. The system includes a diode laser driven into a chaotic regime by a combination of a diffuser and a modulated drive current such that it emits light across a frequency spectrum having an envelope between 3 and 10 nanometers wide. The system further includes a diffusing element at least 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm away from the diode laser to couple portions of the light beam back into the laser diode. Another embodiment is directed to using the diffusing element to illuminate a flat panel display or a spatial light modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Pierre St. Hilaire
  • Patent number: 11455941
    Abstract: A control device includes a signal-output device, a signal modulation device, a storage device, and a processing device. The signal-output device outputs a plurality of data signals. The signal modulation device outputs a plurality of modulation signals. The storage device is coupled to the signal-output device and stores a large amount of display data. The processing device is coupled to the signal-output device and the signal modulation device. The processing device controls the signal-output device so that the signal-output device divides the display data and transforms the display data into the data signals according to the repeat performing number and the moving position region, so as to sequentially output the data signals. The processing device controls the signal modulation device, so that the signal modulation device sequentially outputs the modulation signals according to the pulse wave counting number and the pixel unit number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Hao Huang, Yu-Che Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11430372
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include at least one light emitting circuit. One of the at least one light emitting circuit may include an input sub-circuit, a latch sub-circuit, and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit may be configured to transmit a signal at a data voltage terminal to the latch sub-circuit. The latch sub-circuit may be configured to generate a control signal in accordance with the signal at the data voltage terminal and store the control signal. The output sub-circuit may be configured to transmit one of a signal at a first voltage terminal and a signal at a second voltage terminal to a light emitting unit under control of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Han Yue, Ning Cong, Xiaochuan Chen, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11421404
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a display control section which controls a display device to display attachment relevant information generated based on attachment positional information generated by an attachment positional information generation section and three-dimensional contour information of a peripheral working area around the construction machine. The attachment relevant information is information concerning an image obtained by superimposing a peripheral image about a three-dimensional contour of the peripheral working area and a projected image about a leading end attachment which is projected to the peripheral image in a projection direction set arbitrarily or a projection direction set in accordance with a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Ito, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11409393
    Abstract: A touch screen controller system for controlling a touch screen having row conductors and column conductors includes analog-digital circuitry coupled to the row conductors and column conductors to produce digital signals representative of self capacitance changes of one of the column conductors during an element proximity scanning mode and also representative of mutual changes of the touch screen during an element location scanning mode. The analog-digital circuitry indicates the influence of an element on the self-capacitance during the element proximity scanning. Proximity-determining circuitry operates on the digital signal changes during the element proximity scanning to determine if the element is proximate to the touch screen, and also to determine if the element is a specific kind of element by comparing the digital signal changes to a predetermined data profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ronald F. Cormier, Jr., Robert J. Stoddard
  • Patent number: 11379040
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an image processor configured to determine at least one image parameter with respect to at least one image displayed on at least one display; a touch controller configured to determine at least one touch parameter with respect to the at least one display configured to display the at least one image; and a tactile effect generator configured to generate at least one tactile signal based on the at least one touch parameter and the at least one image parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Marko Tapani Yliaho, Mika Petri Ensio Nenonen
  • Patent number: 11380276
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. The display panel includes a subpixel array; among the subpixels in a same row, the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal and the subpixels input with the second voltage data signal are alternately arranged; in adjacent two of the pixels in the same column, the subpixels with a same color each are input with a first voltage data signal and a second voltage data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huai Liang He
  • Patent number: 11334204
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to touch technologies, and provides a touch component, a touch apparatus using the touch component, and a touch-control method applied to the touch apparatus. The touch component is applied to a wearable device, and includes: M self-capacitive touch electrodes (Cs1 to Csm) disposed on a single pattern wiring layer (10). Each of the touch electrodes (Cs1 to Csm) is connected to a touch chip by a wire on the pattern wiring layer (10). M is a positive integer greater than 2 and less than 10. The M touch electrodes (Cs1 to Csm) form a touch sensing surface of the touch component, the touch sensing surface has at least two sliding detection directions, the at least two sliding detection directions intersect, and a quantity of touch electrodes in each of the sliding detection directions is greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shiyu Liu
  • Patent number: 11335241
    Abstract: What is described above are optional embodiments of the present disclosure. It should be noted that, for those of ordinary skills in the art, several modifications and refinements may be made without departing from the principle of the present disclosure. These modifications and refinements should also be considered to be within the scope of the present disclosure. What is described above are optional embodiments of the present disclosure. It should be noted that, for those of ordinary skills in the art, several modifications and refinements may be made without departing from the principle of the present disclosure. These modifications and refinements should also be considered to be within the scope of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Yue, Minghua Xuan, Ning Cong, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Detao Zhao, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11328659
    Abstract: A display device comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of sub-pixels included in each of the plurality of pixels, a first LED chip included in one of the plurality of sub-pixels and emitting light at a first luminosity L1, a second LED chip included in the one of sub-pixel and emitting light at a second luminosity L2, a first wiring supplying a first voltage corresponding to the first luminosity L1 to the first LED chip, a second wiring supplying a second voltage corresponding to the second luminosity L2 to the second LED chip. The first luminous intensity L1 of the first LED chip is calculated based on an equation (1) using a chip area S1 and a luminance EQEL1 of the first LED chip, L1=S1×EQEL1??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Masanobu Ikeda