Patents Examined by Joe H. Cheng
  • Patent number: 11334244
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device and a method of processing a pop-up window using a multi-window thereof. The electronic device includes: a housing; a display viewable through a first face of the housing; a processor operatively coupled with the display; and a memory operatively coupled with the processor. The memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: in response to occurrence of an event, display a pop-up window including a first User Interface (UI) corresponding to the event in some regions of the display, detect an input requesting extending and displaying the pop-up window, identify whether a multi-window is active in response to the detection of the input, and based on the multi-window being active, remove the pop-up window and display a second UI for the event on a sub-window having a lowest priority among at least one sub-window other than a main window among the multi-windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyuok Choi, Younghak Oh, Bokeun Kim, Inkyeong Shin, Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11334150
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for controlling a screen viewing angle, and a flexible display device. The control method comprises: capturing one or more observers whose sight lines fall within a display area of a flexible screen; determining one or more viewing angles of the one or more observers relative to the display area; determining a curling angle based on the one or more viewing angles; and controlling the flexible screen to be curled according to the curling angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaorui Hu, Zhouping Wang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 11335216
    Abstract: A display panel, a folding method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region, a non-display region, and a bending region. Side edges of the bending region include bending points, the bending points are disposed in the bending region, and the side edges are concaved toward an interior of the bending region at the bending points. During folding, the bending points on the side edges of two sides form at least one guiding axis, which makes the display panel easier to bend, and folding precision and folding effect are good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Ningkun Peng, Shaojing Wu
  • Patent number: 11335217
    Abstract: A display device and a method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a bending portion, a first non-bending portion and a second non-bending portion, positioned at two opposite sides of the bending portion. The second non-bending portion is positioned by bending the bending portion in an asymmetric and non-180 degree way toward a back side of the first non-bending portion. The present disclosure solves the issues of the conventional art, which cannot narrow down the width of the side frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cuilin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11320866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible cover window comprising at least one flat portion corresponding to flat areas of a flexible display and a folding portion corresponding to a folding area of the flexible display and formed to be connected to the at least one flat portion, wherein the flexible cover window is made from a glass substrate having a pattern layer for impact dispersion thereon, wherein the pattern layer for impact dispersion is formed on the flat portion and the folding portion, and the height of the pattern layer is less than half of the thickness of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kukhyun Sunwoo, Hak Chui Kim, Tea Joo Ha
  • Patent number: 11322054
    Abstract: A cover window is proposed. Particularly, a flexible cover window having improved visibility for a flexible display is proposed, the flexible cover window including: a first window made of glass and provided on an upper part of a first surface of the flexible display; a second window made of glass and provided on an upper part of a second surface of the flexible display; and a folding part provided between the first window and the second window by corresponding to a folding area of the display and filled with a transparent resin material, wherein a transparent resin layer is provided on a total surface of each of the first window and the second window by continuing to the folding part filled with the transparent resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Deok Young Park, Jae Young Hwang, Hak Chul Kim, Kukhyun Sunwoo, Tea Joo Ha
  • Patent number: 11322053
    Abstract: The present application provides a flexible display screen and a display device. The flexible display screen includes a display panel, at least one reel, at least one reel restoring mechanism, and a flexible layer. The reel is disposed at a side of the display panel, the reel restoring mechanism is disposed at a side of the display panel, and the reel is correspondingly set on the reel restoring mechanism. The flexible layer includes a middle portion and a side portion connected to the middle portion, the middle portion of the flexible layer covers a surface of the display panel far away from the display surface, and the side portion of the flexible layer is wound on the reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xia Chen
  • Patent number: 11315512
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit is provided. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA units. One of the GOA unit includes: a scan control module, an anti-backfill module connected to a constant high-level signal and the scan control module, a cascading reset module, and a gate signal output module. Base on functions of prior art solution, the provided GOA circuit of the disclosure reduces two types of signal to simplify signal traces at the bezel to realize a narrow bezel design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Tao, Yafeng Li, Bo Yang
  • Patent number: 11315444
    Abstract: A suitcase includes a case body. The case body is provided with rolling wheels and a pull rod. A foldable display screen is provided on an outer surface of the case body. The display screen includes a fixed first display unit and at least one second display unit which is foldable relative to the first display unit. When the display screen is in the folded state, the at least one second display unit is folded on and overlapped with the first display unit. After the at least one second display unit is unfolded relative to the first display unit, the display screen is in the unfolded state, and the display area of the display screen is equal to the sum of the first display unit and the at least one second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shufu Li
  • Patent number: 11314343
    Abstract: A touch pad structure includes a touch module, a first bracket, a second bracket, and a plurality of linkage rods. The first bracket has a plurality of first pivoting portions, and the touch module is disposed on the first bracket. The second bracket has a plurality of second pivoting portions. Each of the linkage rods is pivotally connected between the first pivoting portion and the second pivoting portion, so that the touch module is moved together with the first bracket when the touch module is pressed. One portion of each of the linkage rods is pivotally rotated at the first pivoting portion, and another portion of each of the linkage rods is pivotally rotated and moved at the second pivoting portion, so that the touch module and the first bracket are moved toward a plane where the second bracket is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Shih Wang, Wen-Chieh Tai, Cheng-Nan Ling, Chih-Chun Liu
  • Patent number: 11308908
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a pixel unit module comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning lines, each of the scanning lines connected to at least two of the pixel units on a same row; a gate driving circuit connected to the plurality of scanning lines and providing gate signals for the scanning lines to control the pixel units, which the scanning lines are connected to, to be turned on; a plurality of data lines respectively connected to at least one pixel unit on different columns; a data driving circuit, which is connected to the plurality of data lines and provides data signals for the data lines to charge the turn-on pixel units which the data lines are connected to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shan Wang, Yichien Wen
  • Patent number: 11308828
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel, a display module and a display device. In a non-display region of the display panel, exhaust holes are disposed inside arranging areas of alignment terminals. When attaching a support film in the non-display region, the exhaust holes serve as gas discharge channels to exhaust the gas located in the arranging areas of the alignment terminals and located between the support film and the display panel, thereby alleviating the problem of bubbles between the display panel and the support film in existing flexible displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11287858
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel including a signal pad and a circuit board including a connection pad having a first connection pad portion and a second connection pad portion. The second connection pad portion may be thicker than the first connection pad portion and may not be overlapped with the first connection pad portion in a plan view. The connection pad may be in contact with the signal pad. A first surface roughness between the first connection pad portion and the signal pad may be greater than a second surface roughness between the second connection pad portion and the signal pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoungyong Kim, Seongtaek Lee, Young-Min Park
  • Patent number: 11287907
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch pad module, which includes a touch panel, a frame and a linkage assembly. The frame is disposed under the touch panel. The linkage assembly is disposed between the touch panel and the frame. The linkage assembly includes an elastic plate and supporting plate. The elastic plate has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The second portion is located between the first portion and the third portion, the first portion is connected to the touch panel, and the third portion is connected to the frame. The supporting plate is correspondingly disposed on the second portion of the elastic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Hsin Li, Wen-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 11287845
    Abstract: Provided is a foldable display apparatus that reduces inconvenience of an operation. Smartphone is a display apparatus including two screens respectively held by two casings that are connected rotatably about an axis. When an app is selected by selection unit in response to an operation for instructing startup of the app being performed by a user on operation unit, execution unit executes the app. Display control unit determines on which of the two screens an image of the app executed by execution unit is to be displayed based on an opening degree of the two casings detected by opening degree detecting unit and inclinations of the two casings relative to a vertical direction detected by inclination detecting unit, according to data stored in storage unit. Display unit displays the image of the app on either or both of the two screens in accordance with the determination of display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Takurou Itou
  • Patent number: 11282434
    Abstract: A method is provided for driving an active matrix display device comprising a matrix of pixels configured to display an n-bit image data in an image frame by dividing the image frame for each pixel into n subframes; defining the n-bit image data to have n1 number of greater significant bits and n2 number of lesser significant bits, where n1+n2=n; and selecting the rows of pixels non-sequentially in the subframes corresponding to the n2 number of lesser significant bits such that there is no more than one row of pixel being selected in each subframe. The provided method can utilize the scan sequence in a more flexible way to make better use of the available scan time such that a higher display resolution or dynamic range can be achieved without increasing the scanning frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Solomon Systech (China) Limited
    Inventors: Wing Chi Stephen Chan, Chi Wai Lee, Chui Kwan Leung
  • Patent number: 11282416
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and an adsorption layer including at least one rigid plane and the flexible display panel is adsorbed on the rigid plane to maintain flatness of the flexible display plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huanyu Huang, Jr-Hong Chen, Chengpei Huang
  • Patent number: 11281419
    Abstract: A dual-screen computing device includes two separate displays that are coupled to an interconnecting hinge. A hinge detector detects movement or position of the hinge, and the positions of the displays may be determined based on the hinge movement or position. The positions of the displays relative to each other may then be used to determine which mode of operation the dual-screen computing device is operating (e.g., tent mode, open, closed, etc.). Additionally, the dual-screen computing device may include various sensors that detect different environmental, orientation, location, and device-specific information. Applications are configured to operate differently based on the mode of operation and, optionally, the sensor data detected by the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kapil Kumar, Robert I. Butterworth
  • Patent number: 11282415
    Abstract: A retractable stanchion barrier system with a flexible RGB display matrix utilizes one or more stanchion units, each stanchion unit comprising a stanchion head, a weighted base, a stanchion post, and a flexible LED stanchion ribbon display which extends from each stanchion head. A computer system governs the operation of the flexible RGB display. The flexible LED stanchion ribbon display may extend from one stanchion head and connect to another stanchion head. The stanchion heads may mount to walls, doors or stanchion posts. Such a system may be configured to be ultra-portable or implemented as a fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Kay, Zachariah Gambino, Hermelindo Ramirez, Victor Siemens
  • Patent number: 11276712
    Abstract: A display panel has a display area; and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the peripheral area comprising a first area, a second area, a third area opposite to the first area, and a fourth area opposite to the second area. The display panel may further include a data driving integrated circuit provided in the first area; a gate drive circuit provided in the third area; and a plurality of signal transmission lines arranged in at least one of the second area and the fourth area. The configuration of the data driving integrated circuit and the gate drive circuit makes it possible to manufacture a display panel with a narrow bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Luo, Xinchao Cui, Delong Zhong, Zhiqiang Wang