Patents Examined by Jeff Piziali
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Patent number: 11328663Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The pixel driving circuit includes a first driver, a second driver, and a light emitting element. The first driver is configured to generate a first driving current. The second driver is configured to generate a second driving current. The first driving current and the second driving current alternately drive the light emitting element as a main driving current.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianrui Qian, Fei Li, Bo Li, Yuting Chen, Zixuan Wang
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Patent number: 11322085Abstract: A pixel circuit is provided, which includes a switching unit, a driving unit, a first light-emitting control unit, a second light-emitting control unit, a light-emitting unit, a storage unit, a voltage dividing unit, a reset unit, and a compensation unit. In the pixel circuit provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the compensation unit, which is not limited to a duty cycle of a switching unit, can independently compensate a threshold voltage of the driving unit during a duty cycle of the compensation signal, and is suitable for high frequency pixel driving.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventor: Yuan Zheng
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Patent number: 11322087Abstract: A pixel circuit for a display device may be operable in three phases, including an initialization phase, a combined threshold compensation and data programming phase, and an emission phase. The pixel circuit may include a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current from a first power supply to a light-emitting device during the emission phase depending upon a voltage applied to a gate of the drive transistor. The pixel circuit may also include a second transistor and a third transistor that are connected in series between the gate and a second terminal of the drive transistor and are configured to implement the three phases. The pixel circuit may also include two capacitors, with one capacitor connected between the gate of the drive transistor and a first node of the circuit, and another capacitor connected between the gate and a second node of the circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Oliver James Beard, Tong Lu
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Patent number: 11308880Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a display panel, a power supply configured to supply a first potential voltage and a second potential voltage to the display panel, and a switch circuit unit configured to sense the first potential voltage applied to the display panel and to feedback the first potential voltage to the power supply, wherein the power supply compensates for the first potential voltage based on the first potential voltage fed back from the switch circuit unit and to output the compensated first potential voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung-Jae Kim, Yong-Chul Kwon, Soon-Dong Cho, Sang-Uk Lee, Dongwon Park
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Patent number: 11301046Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an apparatus body, a pressure detector, and a controller. The apparatus body includes a principal surface, and a peripheral surface that is held by a user. The pressure detector is arranged on the peripheral surface, and detects a holding force that acts on the peripheral surface. The controller controls an operation of the apparatus body according to a temporal change in the holding force detected by the pressure detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akihiro Shoei, Tomoko Katsuhara, Ichirou Higuchi, Takeshi Koizumi, Norikatu Ito
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Patent number: 11302252Abstract: A method for improving a display effect of a display screen includes: determining a current voltage loss of a first electrode at a preset area of the display screen when the preset area of the display screen is switched from a first state to a second state; obtaining a preset drain voltage for a second electrode at the preset area of the display screen; and determining a target drain voltage of the second electrode of the display screen based on the current voltage loss and the preset drain voltage, to enable a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode of the display screen to be equal to a preset voltage difference.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinshan Liu
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Patent number: 11295668Abstract: Provided are a pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a pixel driving method, the pixel circuit including: a data compensation circuit, a storage circuit, a driving transistor and a replication transistor, the replication transistor and the driving transistor have the same structure; the data compensation circuit writes, in an initialization stage, a first voltage into a first node under a control of a second control signal and a third control signal; and to write, in a data writing and compensation stage, under a control of the third control signal and a first control signal, a data voltage to a first electrode of the replication transistor to detect a threshold voltage thereof, write a compensation voltage to the first node for storage by the storage circuit, the compensation voltage being equal to a sum of the data voltage and the threshold voltage of the replication transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zuquan Hu, Peng Jiang, Ke Dai
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Patent number: 11289040Abstract: A driving circuit and a driving method of a liquid crystal display are provided. By controlling a reset signal of a timing controller through a switching transistor, a GOA signal is recovered when reading compensation parameters is completed, and the GOA signal is turned off when the reset signal is restarted. Therefore, the timing controller is not affected by the GOA signal output by a pulse width modulator when performing SPI communication with a flash memory. In addition, this reduces communication time, thereby improving speed of optical compensation debugging of a production line.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Miaofa Wu
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Patent number: 11282915Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel units arranged in an array, and the array includes N rows and 8M columns. Sub-pixel units in each row are divided into a plurality of sub-pixel unit groups, and each sub-pixel unit group includes a first sub-pixel unit, a second sub-pixel unit, a third sub-pixel unit, a fourth sub-pixel unit, a fifth sub-pixel unit, a sixth sub-pixel unit, a seventh sub-pixel unit and an eighth sub-pixel unit which are sequentially in eight adjacent columns along a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan
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Patent number: 11282469Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit configured to output an input signal from an input signal terminal to a pull-up node; an output circuit configured to output a clock signal from a clock signal terminal to an output signal terminal under control of a potential at the pull-up node; a resetting and de-noising circuit configured to reset and de-noise the pull-up node and the output signal terminal under control of a potential at a pull-down node; and a pull-down node control circuit coupled to a first voltage terminal and the pull-down node, and configured to electrically couple the pull-down node to the first voltage terminal under control of the potential at the pull-down node.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunze Li, Ni Yang, Qi Hu, Jianfeng Liu, Zhi Wang
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Patent number: 11263937Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a data written-in sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a threshold compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting element, a sensing sub-circuit and a first light-emission control sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to control a driving current for driving the light-emitting element to emit light. The data written-in sub-circuit writes threshold compensation information into a second terminal of the driving sub-circuit at a compensation stage. The threshold compensation sub-circuit stores a data signal and adjusts a voltage at the second terminal of the driving sub-circuit in a coupled manner. The sensing sub-circuit writes a sensing voltage into a first terminal and the second terminal of the driving sub-circuit at a display process, senses aging information of the light-emitting element during an aging detection process and transmits the aging information to the aging detection device.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO.. LTD.Inventors: Ying Wang, Hongmin Li, Di Wu
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Patent number: 11257406Abstract: An aging detection circuit, an aging compensation circuit, a display panel, and an aging compensation method are provided. The aging detection circuit includes: a first current mirror circuit, a second current mirror circuit, a voltage converter and an analog-digital converter. An input terminal of the first current mirror circuit is electrically coupled to an initial reference voltage terminal and an anode of a to-be-detected light-emitting diode respectively, and an output terminal of the first current mirror circuit is electrically coupled to an input terminal of the second current mirror circuit. An output terminal of the second current mirror circuit is electrically coupled to an input terminal of the voltage converter.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Qi Hu, Hui Jing, Weijing Liao
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Patent number: 11243606Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controlling deformation of a flexible virtual reality interaction controller, comprising: determining that a posture at which a user holds a VR interaction controller is changed; determining, according to a feature of the changed holding posture, an object to be simulated by the VR interaction controller; determining, according to a shape of the object to be simulated and a shape of the VR interaction controller before the holding posture is changed, a deformation parameter of the VR interaction controller; and controlling, according to the deformation parameter, the VR interaction controller to generate deformation. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for controlling deformation of a flexible VR interaction controller and a VR interaction system. By adopting the technical solutions of the present invention, a more concrete VR interaction controller is provided for a user, thereby improving the user experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Liang Zhou
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Patent number: 11244614Abstract: A pixel driver circuit, a display device, and a pixel driving method are provided. The pixel driver circuit includes a driving module for providing a drive current to a pixel; a threshold voltage compensation module for providing threshold voltage compensation for the driving module; and a first switch module, a second switch module, a third switch module, and a fourth switch module, the terminals of each of which are electrically connected to various components in a particular manner. According to the embodiments of the present application, the threshold voltage of the driving transistor can be effectively compensated.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing He, Chunmiao Tang, Ting Li, Zhonglin Cao, Yuanjie Xu, Pengcheng Zang, Yao Li
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Patent number: 11244610Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a control method for a display panel are provided. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixel circuits, each of which includes a driving transistor, an energy storage unit, a data writing unit, a reset unit, a compensation unit, and a light emitting unit. The display panel further comprises a driving circuit, which is used to control the compensation unit during a compensation period so as to disconnect the other terminal of the energy storage unit from one terminal of the light emitting unit, so that the light emitting unit in each of the pixel circuits is in an extinguished state.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yongqian Li
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Patent number: 11232746Abstract: A pixel circuit of an organic light emitting device and an organic light emitting display panel are disclosed. Two steps of a pixel circuit duty cycle can be realized by completing initialization in synchronization during the program period at same time, maintaining a gate voltage of a driving transistor, and compensating for a threshold voltage drift in the driving transistor. Thereby improving response speed of the organic light emitting device, and increasing refresh rate of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Inventors: Chunyang Wang, Qi Ouyang
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Patent number: 11232749Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, an array substrate and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a driving circuit, including a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal, and configured to control a driving current flowing through the first terminal and the second terminal for driving a light-emitting element to emit light; and input circuit, configured to transmit a reset voltage and a data signal in response to a first scan signal; a reset circuit, configured to apply the reset voltage to the control terminal in response to a second scan signal; a compensation circuit, configured to store the data signal and to electrically connect the control terminal with the second terminal in response to a third scan signal; and a data writing circuit, configured to apply the data signal to the compensation circuit in response to the third scan signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhichong Wang, Fuqiang Li, Jing Feng, Peng Liu, Xinglong Luan, Gaoming Sun
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Patent number: 11219102Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device driving method and a display device. In driving the display device in which any one of a first frequency drive and a second frequency drive can be selected as a specific frequency, for a scanning period at the specific frequency from a start of a quenching period for a first row forming a frame to an end of a quenching period for a last row forming the frame, the scanning period in the second frequency drive is shorter than the scanning period in the first frequency drive.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Asahi Yamato, Hikaru Kuki, Akira Nomura
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Patent number: 11217184Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a display unit for generating a display output, comprising a first light source; a first back polarizer arranged to polarize light from the first light source in a first polarization direction; a second light source; a second back polarizer arranged to polarize light from the second light source in a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction; a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate, second substrate and liquid crystal layer are arranged to receive light from the first light source that has been polarized by the first back polarizer and receive light from the second light source that has been polarized by the second back polarizer; and a front polarizer arranged to polarize light, the front polarizer being for polarizing light that has passed through the liquid crystal layer; wherein operating the first light sourType: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Michiel Hans Zeinstra
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Patent number: 11217159Abstract: A pixel circuit, a method thereof, an electroluminescent panel, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a first switch sub-circuit, a second switch sub-circuit, a luminescent sub-circuit, and a dual-drive sub-circuit. Through improving the pixel circuit, a first driving terminal of the dual-drive sub-circuit connects to a first node, a second driving terminal of the dual-drive sub-circuit connects to the second node, when a first and a second gate line signal terminal input the gate line scanning signal alternatively, the first and the second switch sub-circuit are working alternatively, cause the first and the second driving terminal are working alternatively, thus to drive the luminescent sub-circuit to emit light. Therefore, the two driving terminals work alternatively to avoid the voltage instability due to threshold voltage shift caused by one driving terminal of the dual-drive sub-circuit works for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Miao Zhang, Mo Chen, Jing Sun, Wuxia Fu