Patents Examined by Jose R Soto Lopez
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Patent number: 11908373Abstract: The present application provides a display driving circuit and a display device, wherein the display driving circuit comprises a plurality of driving units, each of the driving units comprises a plurality of stages of sub driving units, each of the driving units is electrically connected to one of independent triggering units, and the sub driving units in the driving units are electrically connected stage by stage; and the display device comprises the display driving circuit. A structure of the driving circuit can realize partitioned work of the driving circuit, and can reduce power consumption of the display device when the display driving circuit is applied in the display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zuzhao Xu, Seungkyu Choi
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Patent number: 11908374Abstract: A demultiplexer is provided. The demultiplexer includes a plurality of demultiplexer units. Each of the demultiplexer units includes two first type thin film transistors sharing a source electrode, and two second type thin film transistors are disposed between two of the demultiplexer units adjacent to each other. Space utilization of the demultiplexer is improved. A display panel and a display device having the demultiplexer are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenqiang Yu
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Patent number: 11908378Abstract: The present application provides a gate driving circuit and a display panel. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of cascaded gate driving units, where each of the plurality of cascaded gate driving units includes a pull-up control module, an inversion module and a feedback module. The potential of the pull-up node is stepwise increased by the pull-up control module, so that the feedback module can be controlled to be turned off by the inversion module when the potential of the pull-up node is lower, thereby improving a phenomenon of leakage of the pull-up node through the feedback module.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd., TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wenbo Shi
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Patent number: 11900856Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a protection circuit for a display device, a display device thereof, and a method for protecting a display device using a protection circuit. The display device includes a gate driving circuit, a level shift circuit, and a power management circuit. The level shift circuit is configured to provide an input signal to a signal input terminal of the gate driving circuit. The power management circuit is configured to provide power to the gate driving circuit. The protection circuit is configured to provide a power control signal to the power management circuit based on a current at the signal input terminal of the gate driving circuit, so that the power management circuit stops providing the power to the gate driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jituo Tang, Kun Yang, Zhihua Sun, Feng Qu, Ming Deng, Ruilian Li, Tianxun Xiu, Zhun Lin
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Patent number: 11893914Abstract: A test circuit and method for a display panel, and a display panel. The test circuit includes a panel test sub-circuit configured to control panel test switch units to turn on or turn off, to transmit multiple panel test signals; an array test sub-circuit configured to control array test switch units to turn on or turn off, to output short circuit determination signals at test terminals according to the multiple panel test signals, which are used to determine whether there is a short-circuited data line in the display panel; at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on in a test sub-period, and under a condition that the at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on, the panel test signals corresponding to different types of sub-pixels in the display panel change alternately to an effective level.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Yungu (Gu' an) Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Guoxiao Bai
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Patent number: 11874981Abstract: A display device with excellent visibility can be provided. The display device includes a display region displayed by a light-emitting element. In the display region, a point touched by a user is a first point, a point which has been touched by the user prior to the first point is a second point, a vector that starts at the first point and ends at the second point is a first vector, a vector obtained by multiplying the first vector by k (k is a real number) is a second vector, and a point that is the second vector away from the first point is a third point, the display region includes a first region and a second region obtained by excluding the first region from the display region. The first region includes a first circle and a second circle, the center of the first circle is the first point, and the center of the second circle is the third point. The luminance in the first region is higher than the luminance in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Yuki Okamoto, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11854459Abstract: A method for driving a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor. The method includes: acquiring a theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at a plurality of different gray levels; determining compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels according to the theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and the actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels; and driving the pixel circuit emit light according to the compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ling Wang, Cuili Gai, Lei Mi
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Patent number: 11837147Abstract: A display substrate, a display panel, a display apparatus, and a display driving method are provided. The display substrate includes: a display region and a peripheral region at a periphery thereof. Gate lines, data lines and a pixel array are in the display region. The pixel array includes pixel units each coupled to a corresponding gate line and data line, and color mixing pixel columns each including multiple pixel units emitting light of different colors and including periodic structures along the column direction. The number of pixel units in each periodic structure is constant. A gate driving circuit is in the peripheral region and includes cascaded shift registers each having a cascading signal output terminal and scanning signal output terminals each coupled to a corresponding gate line. The number of scanning signal output terminals of each shift register is equal to the number of pixel units in each periodic structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Sun, Zhen Wang
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Patent number: 11830395Abstract: A detection circuit, a method for driving the same, and a display device are provided. In an embodiment, the detection circuit includes driving circuits, signal reading lines, and a pre-configuration module. In an embodiment, one of the signal reading lines is coupled to at least two of the driving circuits. In an embodiment, the pre-configuration module is coupled to the signal reading lines, and configured to output a preset signal to the signal reading lines to pre-configure potentials on the signal reading lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Qijun Yao
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Patent number: 11823612Abstract: A display device include a first light emitting diode (LED), a second LED, and at least one processor of a driver. The processor drives the first LED and the second LED. The processor determines a first pulse width associated with the first LED and a second pulse width associated with the second LED based on a level of brightness to be emitted by the first LED and the second LED. The processor also receives a gap clock and determines a first pulse start time and a first pulse end time for the first LED based on the first pulse width. Moreover, the processor determines a second pulse start time and a second pulse end time for the second LED based on the first pulse end time, the second pulse width, and/or the gap clock, in which the first pulse end time and the second pulse end time are different.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Behzad Mohtashemi, Asif Hussain, Feng Guo, Jingdong Chen, Ming Gu, Mohammad J Navabi-Shirazi, Omar Alnaggar, Venkataraman V Iyer, Yang Zhang
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Patent number: 11804164Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels to display an image; a first power supply to generate a first power voltage; a second power supply to generate a second power voltage; and a signal controller to control the first power supply to supply the first power voltage to the display unit in response to at least one control signal associated with luminance of the image, and to control the second power supply to stop supplying the second power voltage after the first power voltage starts to be supplied.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Ho Lim, Min Ha Keum
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Patent number: 11798456Abstract: A display panel including: a base substrate which includes a display region and a non-display region on at least one side of the display region, the display region includes a first display region and a second display region having a resolution higher than that of the first display region, and the non-display region includes a pixel circuit region; a plurality of first light-emitting elements in the first display region; and a plurality of first pixel circuits in the pixel circuit region, where orthographic projections of the plurality of first pixel circuits and orthographic projections of the plurality of first light-emitting elements on the base substrate are not overlapped with one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuanyou Qiu, Yudiao Cheng
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Patent number: 11798446Abstract: A display device includes a display region including display pixels, dummy pixels disposed outside the display region, light blocking films covering the dummy pixels. The display region includes a first region and a second region having a lower display pixel density than the first region. A control circuit is configured to supply the display pixels in the second region with driving current higher than driving current for the first region for the same grayscale level specified in image data, supply each of the dummy pixels with the same data signal as a data signal for the associated display pixel in the second region, measure deterioration of the light-emitting element of each of the dummy pixels, and adjust data signals for the display pixels in the second region associated with the dummy pixels based on results of the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yojiro Matsueda, Masamichi Shimoda
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Patent number: 11783753Abstract: Provided are a shift register circuit, a display panel and a display device. The shift register circuit includes a plurality of cascaded shift register unit groups; each shift register unit group includes at least two shift register units; in each shift register unit group, the signal output terminal of each shift register unit in the shift register unit group of a previous stage is electrically connected with the scan control terminal of each shift register unit in the shift register unit group of a next stage; in the same shift register unit group, the pull-down control module of one shift register unit also serves as the pull-down control module of each of other shift register units, and the signal output terminal of each shift register unit sequentially outputs an enable level of the scan signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huijun Jin, Wantong Shao
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Patent number: 11783739Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for testing and repairing various aspects of an electronic display. The electronic display includes a reference array and an active array. The electronic display also includes test circuitry used to test individual or any combination of pixels of the electronic display. Switches may be disposed between the pixels and the test circuitry to be to repair the various components of the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu, Henry C. Jen, John T. Wetherell
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Patent number: 11776450Abstract: A driving method and a display device are disclosed. The driving method drives the display panel according to a common voltage look-up table, and the common voltage look-up table is generated by a method including: driving a preset area for display with a preset area gray-scale value; shooting the preset area and obtaining a brightness and a flicker value corresponding to the preset area; adjusting the common voltage value multiple times, and recording the common voltage value when the corresponding flicker value is the minimum as the optimal common voltage value; adjusting the preset area gray-scale value multiple times, and recording a plurality of optimal common voltage values corresponding to the adjusted preset area gray-scale values; and generating the common voltage look-up table according to the multiple preset area gray-scale values and the corresponding optimal common voltage values.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Mingliang Wang, Haoxuan Zheng
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Patent number: 11763758Abstract: A luminance-unevenness correction system includes the following: an inspection backlight; an imaging device that generates imaged panel data by imaging a liquid-crystal display panel being illuminated with the inspection backlight; and a correction device that generates correction data and transmits the correction data to the liquid-crystal display panel. The correction data is used for correcting the luminance unevenness of the liquid-crystal display panel. The imaging device can generate backlight luminance-distribution data indicating the luminance distribution of the inspection backlight, by imaging the inspection backlight remaining on. The correction device extracts panel luminance-distribution data from the imaged panel data and the backlight luminance-distribution data, and generates the correction data in accordance with the panel luminance-distribution data extracted. The panel luminance-distribution data indicates luminance unevenness specific to the liquid-crystal display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akiyoshi Miyatani
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Patent number: 11763726Abstract: A shift register circuit includes: an input sub-circuit connected to a first node, and configured to receive a first control signal, and cause a potential of the first node to jump from an initial potential to a first potential greater than the initial potential; an output sub-circuit connected to the first node, and configured to receive a first clock signal, generate an output signal, cause the potential of the first node to jump from the first potential to a third potential greater than the first potential; and a chamfering sub-circuit connected to the first node, and configured to receive a second control signal, cause the potential of the first node to gradually decrease from the third potential to a fourth potential greater than the initial potential and less than the third potential, and cause the potential of the first node to jump from the fourth potential to the initial potential.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
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Patent number: 11763734Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes data lines located in a display region, and a power bus, connection traces, and a control circuit that are located in a non-display region. The connection trace at least partially overlaps with the power bus in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the display panel, and has a first area that is an overlapping area between the connection trace and the power bus. The control circuit includes control transistors. A first electrode and/or a second electrode of the control transistor is coupled to the connection trace. The control transistors include a first control transistor and a second control transistor. The connection trace coupled to the first control transistor and the connection trace coupled to the second control transistor have different first areas. Channel areas of the first control transistor and the second control transistor are different.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai BranchInventors: Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao, Wei Liu, Kang Yang, Jian Kuang
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Patent number: 11749167Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data drive circuit capable of increasing clock and data recovery stability by generating a clock synchronized with input data, a clock recovery method thereof, and a display drive device having the same, and the data drive circuit according to an aspect includes a receiver including a clock and data recovery part configured to recover a test data pattern from input data using an internal clock, and a data comparator configured to compare the recovered test data pattern with a predetermined reference data pattern to generate a control signal according to a degree of asynchronicity between the recovered test data pattern and the reference data pattern, wherein the clock and data recovery part recovers a clock synchronized with the input data according to the control signal, and recovers control information and image data from the input data using the recovered clock.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Hwi Park, Gi Baek Choi, Yong Jung Kwon, Jung Bae Yun