Patents Examined by Jennifer Zubajlo
  • Patent number: 9959807
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel; a deterioration threshold value calculator for calculating a deterioration threshold value from values of accumulated image data respectively input to the plurality of pixels; a current sensor for detecting a current amount flowing through pixels in one of first to nth display areas of the display panel in a power-off section of the display panel; and a deterioration amount calculator for defining a deterioration area including a group of pixels from among the pixels each having a value of image data that is equal to or greater than the deterioration threshold value among pixels in the first to nth display areas, and calculating a deterioration amount of the pixels in the deterioration area, wherein the current sensor is configured to detect a current amount flowing through pixels in one of the first to nth display areas in each power-off section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 9946392
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, an organic electroluminescence display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit initializes a first node during an initialization period of a touch control phase and a display phase; adjusts a voltage at the first node during a touch sensing period of the touch control phase; causes a driver module to output a touch control signal under the control of the voltage at the first node during a touch reading period of the touch control phase, so as to achieve a touch control function; writes data into the first node during a compensating period and a data writing period of the display phase; and causes the driver module to drive a light emitting device in a light emitting module to emit light during a light emitting period of the display phase, so as to allow the light emitting device to achieve its light emitting function normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuquan Hu
  • Patent number: 9916049
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a touch sensing system and a display apparatus including: a touch screen panel defining sensor nodes by first lines and second lines formed in crossing directions, a loop type antenna, and a touch processor that performs a first touch process by receiving a signal with respect to driving pulses applied to each of the first lines and the second lines, through the antenna, and performs a second touch process by sequentially applying the driving pulses to each of two or more selected lines among the first lines and the second lines and by receiving a signal through the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9899000
    Abstract: A display device configured to display at least one image. The display device includes at least one light emitter configured to emit a plurality of colored light beams, each of the plurality of colored light beams being a respective color different than the others; and a light emission controller configured to determine, based on at least one characteristic of the at least one image, one or more light beams of the plurality of colored light beams to emit in a frame period corresponding to the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Takahota, Takashi Hirakawa, Eiji Kato
  • Patent number: 9886099
    Abstract: An adaptive interface device that is programmable and a system and method of programming an adaptive interface device. To program the adaptive interface device, a user navigates navigable data structure stored on the adaptive interface device through certain combinations of user inputs using the programmable inputs. The adaptive interface device outputs navigation codes indicative of the user's navigation of the navigable data structure. A connected computer receives and interprets the navigation codes and provides visual feedback to a user to assist in programming. More particularly, a web browser of the connected computer receives the navigation codes and provides the user with a graphical representation of the navigable data structure and the user's navigation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: JOYLABZ LLC
    Inventors: Jay Silver, Seth Raphael, Yotam Mann
  • Patent number: 9880733
    Abstract: A multi-touch remote control method comprises following steps: a remote control device receiving a touch gesture input; computing a number of the touch points of the touch gesture input; generating and transferring a mouse event data to a receiving device as a mouse input if the number of the touch points is 1; and generating and transferring a single touch event data to the receiving device as a single touch input if the number of the touch points is greater than 1 and all the touch points of the touch gesture input are close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventors: Yu Albert Wang, Robin Cheung
  • Patent number: 9870744
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 9864476
    Abstract: An electromagnetic touch three-dimensional grating comprising: an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposite to each other; a plurality of first strip electrodes located on a side of the lower substrate facing the upper substrate; and a plurality of second strip electrodes located on a side of the upper substrate facing the lower substrate and intersected with the first strip electrodes; wherein, during a touching period, the plurality of first strip electrodes are used as first electromagnetic touch electrodes, and the plurality of second strip electrodes are used as second electromagnetic touch electrodes; and during a three-dimensional displaying period, the plurality of first strip electrodes are used as first three-dimensional driving electrodes, and the second strip electrodes are used as a surface electrode, or, the plurality of second strip electrodes are used as second three-dimensional driving electrodes, and the first strip electrodes are used as a surface electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Jingbo Xu, Jiantao Liu, Xiangyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9858878
    Abstract: A scanning line drive unit selects a plurality of scanning lines in order, and controls the operation of a thin-film transistors. A timing control unit controls the scanning line drive unit on the basis of a display signal that includes a horizontal synchronization signal, a vertical synchronization signal, and an image signal. The timing control unit is provided with: a first terminal to which the display signal is input; a second terminal to which a sub-synchronization signal, which is a signal other than the horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal, is input; and a notification unit that outputs a notification signal in a case where a period while only the sub-synchronization signal, among the horizontal synchronization signal, the vertical synchronization signal, and the sub-synchronization signal, is input is longer than a prescribed period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9858872
    Abstract: An electronic is provided. An input unit provides a multimedia content. An image processor transforms the multimedia content into frame data. A display unit displays images including blue pixels, green pixels, and red pixels. A backlight unit generates a source light. A source light includes a deep blue-light of a low blue waveband and a far blue-light of a high blue waveband. A display panel transforms the source light into the images based on the frame data and emits the images through a surface. An optical path travels through the backlight unit and the surface. A deep blue-light filter is arranged in the optical path through which the source light passes, for restricting a light transmission rate in the low blue waveband. The image processor adjusts a color hue of the frame data to be transformed by the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang-Lin Chen, Cheng Lo, Fu-Tsung Chang, Hsi-Chieh Peng, Yu-Chun Peng
  • Patent number: 9858850
    Abstract: An image adjusting method and a related display are applied to automatically adjust luminance of an image according to analyze of a gray level histogram of the image. The image adjusting method includes generating the gray level histogram of the image, dividing the gray level histogram into at least one first zone and one second zone, comparing a total amount of pixels in the first zone with a threshold, and utilizing a modification function to adjust luminance of each pixel within the first zone according to a comparison result. A grey level of the first zone is greater than a grey level of the second zone. Luminance of the first zone is decreased by the modification function while the total amount of pixels in the first zone is greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventor: Hsin-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 9842559
    Abstract: A demultiplexer circuit (12) of a display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes signal input lines (Vn), control lines (BSW, GSW, and RSW), and sampling transistors (13R2, 13G2, and 13B1). Sampling transistors connected to one signal input line includes first and second sampling transistors. A first sampling transistor (13B1) includes a control electrode (17) which branches to a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b), either one of an input electrode (15) and an output electrode (18) that are disposed between a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b), and other one of an input electrode (15) and an output electrode (18) that are disposed outside of a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9805645
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a timing controller, a power supply, a sensor controller, a sensor, and a power controller. The timing controller outputs a vertical synchronization signal. The power supply outputs a first power and a second power to a display through first and second power lines. The sensor controller outputs a sensor control signal synchronized with the vertical synchronization signal. The sensor measures current flowing through the first power line in synchronization with the sensor control signal. The power controller controls the power supply based on the measured current, and the power supply adjusts the voltage level of the first power based on the sensor control signal. The sensor control signal has a period based on dividing the vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wooseok Jang, Dongki Eun
  • Patent number: 9804440
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a light source area and a display area and including a base substrate having an upper surface facing a first direction, a panel light source part disposed on the upper surface corresponding to the light source area to emit a light to a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a display part disposed on the upper surface corresponding to the display area and a light guide plate disposed adjacent to the display panel in the second direction, receiving the light, and guiding the light to provide the light to the display area, and the display part displays an image using the light received from the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyungwon Kang
  • Patent number: 9798401
    Abstract: A touch screen, a method of manufacturing the same, and a mobile terminal having the same for minimizing a border area of the mobile terminal are provided. The touch screen includes a flexible display panel including an active area in which an image is displayed and a wiring area including signal lines for transmitting data corresponding to the image, and a flexible touch panel attached to a front surface of the display panel and including a touch detection area at which touch sensors for detecting a touch are positioned and a wiring area at which signal lines for transmitting a touch signal are positioned, wherein the wiring area of the display panel and the wiring area of the touch panel are bent so as not to be parallel to the active area and the touch detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongsub Kim
  • Patent number: 9785256
    Abstract: This invention is an ergonomic computer mouse. The computer mouse body has a unique design in shape that may change the way for people to use a computer mouse. It is designed to be handheld by ring finger, little finger, and the hand part between thumb and index finger with a grip handle. A rear extrusion is smoothly curved and is designed to create a curved support area for the hand part between thumb and index finger. A trackball is confined in the body with a spherical housing and partially exposed on right side and left side of the body. The trackball is arranged near the middle of the body and above the grip handle so that thumb can reach it and operate it in its natural posture. A trackball cover is designed to separate the trackball and hand palm. Two click buttons and scroll wheel are arranged vertically on the fore edge of the body so that index finger and middle finger can naturally reach and operate them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Ming Xia
  • Patent number: 9779647
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively displaying a first color, a second color, and a third color; and a signal controller controlling the display panel by processing an input image signal, wherein, in a color weakness mode, at least one color among the first to third colors is displayed with a higher gray than an input gray of the input image signal, and the other colors are displayed with the same gray as the input gray of the input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Young Park, Jong Sung Bae, Dong Hyeon Lee, Jusuck Lee, Hee Soon Jeong, Seong Min Cho, Eun Sil Han, Jeong Jin Hong
  • Patent number: 9760193
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite substrate structure and a touch panel having composite substrate structure, for promoting abrasion resistance, visual transparency, and appearance. The composite substrate structure includes a transparent substrate, a hydrophobic layer disposed on the transparent substrate, and a diamond-like carbon layer disposed between the transparent substrate and the hydrophobic layer, wherein the hydrophobic layer has a coefficient of static friction less than or equal to about 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TPK TOUCH SOLUTIONS (XIAMEN) INC.
    Inventors: I-Chung Hsu, Kuo-Shu Hsu, Chunyong Zhang, Yuchuan Wu, Bangxiong Huang, Binghui Chen
  • Patent number: 9761191
    Abstract: A method for driving a display apparatus and a display apparatus are provided. With the method for driving a display apparatus according to the present disclosure, the gate driver circuit, the source driver circuit and the reference voltage generation circuit are controlled not to output any signal during an interval between display of two frames of pictures, so as to solve the problems that a gate driver circuit and a source driver circuit in the existing display apparatus have large power consumption, and operate at an excessive high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhen Xu, Zhizhong Tu, Fei Shang, Haijun Qiu
  • Patent number: 9760229
    Abstract: A touch screen according to the present invention includes: a transparent substrate; a plurality of row-direction wirings and a plurality of column-direction wirings provided on the transparent substrate, the row-direction wirings and the column-direction wirings intersecting via an inter-layer insulating film with each other in a stereoscopic view; a plurality of lead-out wirings each provided to be electrically extended from each of first ends of the said row-direction wirings and the column-direction wirings; and a shield wiring provided to surround in a planar view the row-direction wirings, the column-direction wirings, and the lead-out wirings, wherein the row-direction wirings, the column-direction wirings, and the shield wiring have comb-teeth parts which are formed to have comb-teeth shapes such that distances from the shield wiring to the row-direction wirings and the column-direction wirings are small at predetermined parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Takeshi Ono, Takashi Miyayama, Naoki Nakagawa, Masafumi Agari, Tae Orita