Patents Examined by Jose R Soto Lopez
  • Patent number: 11402682
    Abstract: A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Daisuke Takama, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 11393427
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive an input image; an image processor configured to process the input image and generate an output image; a storage configured to store a first patch corresponding to a first pixel of the input image; and a controller configured to control the image processor to generate the output image by applying the first patch stored in the storage to the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok-bong Yoo, Hyung-jun Lim, Gi-yeong Gim, Young-su Moon, Tae-gyoung Ahn
  • Patent number: 11386820
    Abstract: A method of detecting threshold voltage shift and a threshold voltage shift detection device are provided. The method is applied to a pixel driving circuit which I is electrically coupled to a control line, a voltage line and a detection node, respectively. The method includes: in a detection cycle including a setting phase and a detection phase, in the setting phase, controlling a transistor included in the pixel driving circuit to be in a biased state; in the detection phase, providing a preset control voltage signal to the control line, providing a preset voltage signal to the voltage line, and determining a threshold voltage shift state of the transistor according to an electric potential of the detection node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyao Li, Dongfang Wang, Jun Wang, Haitao Wang, Chaowei Hao, Bo Feng, Rong Liu, Wei Cai, Biao Luo, Xuechao Sun, Xuehai Gui, Qibin Liang, Yanfei Wan, Jin Su
  • Patent number: 11373578
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first pixel connected to a first data line and a first scan line; a second pixel connected to the first data line and a second scan line; a first scan driver connected to a first scan start line and the first scan line; and a second scan driver connected to a second scan start line and the second scan line. In a first frame period, the second scan start line is to be suppled with a second scan start signal having a turn-on level, after a first period elapses after a first scan start signal having a turn-on level is supplied to the first scan start line. In a second frame period, a difference between a time at which the first scan start signal having the turn-on level is supplied and a time at which the second scan start signal having the turn-on level is supplied corresponds to a second period. The second period is shorter than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Ka, Ki Myeong Eom, Kyong Hwan Oh, Hai Jung In
  • Patent number: 11361691
    Abstract: A drive circuit and a display device are provided. A detection diode is included in a drive chip of the drive circuit. An acquisition circuit may acquire an electrical signal related to a voltage across the detection diode and a current flowing through the detection diode. A detection circuit may obtain an internal temperature of the drive chip based on the electrical signal acquired by the acquisition circuit. A control circuit may control the drive chip based on the internal temperature of the drive chip obtained by the detection circuit. When the detecting circuit detects that the internal temperature of the drive chip is greater than a maximum threshold temperature or less than a minimum threshold temperature, the acquisition circuit controls the drive chip to stop outputting a drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOTOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Bin Qiu, Lidan Ye
  • Patent number: 11341876
    Abstract: A white balance adjusting system for a display device includes a control member including a register storing white balance control commands and a preset white balance lookup table. A built-in self-test module is coupled to the control member and configured to store a test pattern. A first storage element is disposed in the display device. An optical sensor is configured to measure brightness and chroma data of the screen according to the test pattern. An external control device is operated by the control member to execute the white balance control commands so that white balance adjustment is implemented according to the preset white balance lookup table and the brightness and the chroma data of the screen, and a corrected white balance lookup table is produced. The corrected white balance lookup table is stored in the first storage element and provided to update the preset white balance lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanxian He, Yuhong Fu
  • Patent number: 11335253
    Abstract: An optical compensation method for a display panel and an optical compensation device are provided. The optical compensation method for the display panel includes selecting a pixel block to be compensated in an edge region; and acquiring a pixel compensation parameter of at least one pixel block in a main body region as a pixel compensation parameter of the pixel block to be compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lixia Shen, Chang Zhang, Zhiguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11320898
    Abstract: A device and a method is provided. The method includes identifying a sight direction of the device based on the movement information. The method also includes identifying an angle formed between a first straight line that starts from a predetermined position on the display and corresponds to the identified sight direction, and a second straight line that starts from the predetermined position and corresponds to a direction according to a movement trajectory obtained from multiple frames. The method further includes determining whether to start an adjusting mode for providing a frame corresponding to the identified sight direction based on the identified angle and a threshold value determined with respect to a field of view of the device. The method additionally includes identifying a first frame and a second frame among the multiple frames. The method also includes displaying the first frame and then display the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yevhenii Yakishyn, Oleksandr Radomskyi, Oleksandr Shchur
  • Patent number: 11314359
    Abstract: A touch sensing electrode structure includes sensing electrodes, each of which including a plurality of unit patterns, and traces electrically connected to the sensing electrodes. The traces include at least two trace lines and trace bridges connecting the at least two trace lines to each other. An electrode visibility due to a pattern deviation is reduced and a reliability of the trace is improved by the trace bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Sung Jin Noh, Woo Hyun Bae, Min Soo Seo, Cheol Hun Lee, Eung Goo Cho
  • Patent number: 11315450
    Abstract: An inverter, a gate driver on array circuit, and a display panel are provided. The inverter includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a first test transistor, a second test transistor, and a third test transistor. A gate and a source of the first transistor and a source of the third transistor are electrically connected to a first test signal line, a drain of the first transistor, a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to a first node, a gate of the second transistor and a gate of the fourth transistor are electrically connected to the pull-up node, and a drain of the third transistor and a drain of the fourth transistor are electrically connected to a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Suping Xi
  • Patent number: 11308883
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system including a controller to receive a temperature value, from a temperature sensor corresponding to a sub-pixel in an organic light emitting display. The controller calculates a luminous value of the sub-pixel based on the temperature value and a function corresponding to a degradation of luminosity over time and temperature. The controller determines, based on the luminous value, a corrected luminous value corresponding to a target luminous value. The controller retrieves a voltage value from a second database, wherein the second database comprises a luminous-voltage relationship. The controller applies the voltage value to the sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Cheng-Hua Yu, Ann Alejandro Villegas
  • Patent number: 11308853
    Abstract: There are provided in the present disclosure a shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register of the present disclosure includes: a forward scanning input sub-circuit for pre-charging a potential of a pull-up node by an operation level signal under control of a forward input signal and a forward scanning signal upon scanning forwards; a backward scanning input sub-circuit for pre-charging the potential of the pull-up node by an operation level signal under control of a backward input signal and a backward scanning signal upon scanning backwards; an output sub-circuit for outputting a clock signal through a signal output terminal under control of the potential of the pull-up node; wherein the pull-up node is a connection node of the forward scanning input sub-circuit, the backward scanning input sub-circuit and the output sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wang Guo, Yanchen Li, Yue Li, Jinyu Li, Dawei Feng, Yu Zhao, Shaojun Hou, Dong Wang, Mingyang Lv
  • Patent number: 11308857
    Abstract: A gate driver includes first and second stages. Each of the first and second stages includes an output circuit which outputs a scan signal, a carry signal and an inverted carry signal based on voltages of first and second nodes, a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The first stage further includes a first input circuit which controls the voltages of the first and second nodes thereof based on a start pulse and a signal supplied to the second input terminal. The second stage further includes a second input circuit which controls the voltages of the first and second nodes thereof based on a first carry signal and a first inverted carry signal, and a signal supplied to the second input terminal. The second stage is dependently connected to the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Jung In
  • Patent number: 11308864
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode display device and a sub-pixel circuit thereof are provided. The sub-pixel circuit includes a switch unit, a selection driving unit and a light-emitting unit. The switch unit receives a data signal. The selection driving unit is electrically connected to the switch unit, and electrically connected to a first voltage. The light-emitting unit includes two micro light-emitting diodes, which are electrically connected to the selection driving unit. The first ends of the micro light-emitting diodes are connected to the selection driving unit. The second ends of the micro light-emitting diodes are electrically connected to a second voltage. The selection driving unit selects one of the micro light-emitting diodes to emit light according to the data signal transmitted through the switch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PLAYNIIRTDE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Yung Liao, I-Chung Chiu
  • Patent number: 11295662
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel, a voltage line supplying a power voltage to the pixel, and a reference voltage line supplying one of a reference voltage and the power voltage to the pixel; a mode selector configured to output one of a first selection signal and a second selection signal according to an operation mode of the display panel; and a switch configured to provide the reference voltage or the power voltage to the reference voltage line in response to one of the first selection signal and the second selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Jae-Hyeon Jeon, Yu-Chol Kim, Jihye Kim, Jin-Wook Yang, Donggyu Lee, Jakyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 11295674
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image compensation circuit generating output image data to drive a display panel having pixels. The image compensation circuit includes first/second control circuits and first/second compensation circuits. The first control circuit may receive input image data for the pixels and generate a plurality of first compensation values corresponding to compensation for voltage drop on the display panel according to the input image data. The first compensation circuit may compensate the input image data for the pixels with the first compensation values. The second control circuit may receive the first compensation values from the first control circuit and generate a plurality of second compensation values corresponding to compensation for channel length modulation (CLM) effect of the pixels according to the first compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jun-Yu Yang, Wei-Jhe Ma, Yung-Cheng Tsai, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11276339
    Abstract: A display device includes sub-pixels in a display area and arranged along first to eighth columns; first to fourth wiring pads in a non-display area and arranged at one side of the display area; crack detection lines in the non-display area; first to fourth fan-out lines connecting the sub-pixels arranged along the first to eighth columns to the first to fourth wiring pads; and an inspection unit between the first to fourth wiring pads and the display area, the inspection unit being electrically connected to the crack detection lines and the first to fourth fan-out lines, the inspection unit to apply a test voltage to the first to fourth fan-out lines to inspect whether the first to fourth fan-out lines are shorted or open, and to apply the test voltage to the crack detection lines to inspect damage to the crack detection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi Hae Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11270610
    Abstract: A display panel inspecting apparatus includes a first inspecting transistor including a control electrode for receiving a first test gate signal, an input electrode for receiving a first voltage and an output electrode connected to an outermost data line disposed in an outermost area of a display region of a display panel, a second inspecting transistor including a control electrode for receiving the first test gate signal, an input electrode for receiving a second voltage and an output electrode connected to a normal data line disposed out of the outermost area of the display region, and a third inspecting transistor including a control electrode for receiving the first test gate signal, an input electrode for receiving a third voltage and an output electrode connected to a module crack inspecting data line disposed out of the outermost area of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Wook Shim, Ji Ho Moon, In Cheol Song, Chang Gil Oh, Seong Keun Cho, Sae Mi Han
  • Patent number: 11257434
    Abstract: A method and a device for compensating a display device and a display apparatus are provided, each pixel unit includes a pixel driving circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and sensing line, the method includes: acquiring a first mobility and a first threshold voltage of the driving transistor, the first mobility and the first threshold voltage are acquired when the display device is not displaying; acquiring a second mobility of the driving transistor according to the electrical signal on the sensing line, the second mobility is acquired when the display device is displaying; determining a second threshold voltage of the driving transistor according to the first threshold voltage, a difference between the second mobility and the first mobility, and a compensation factor; and calculating an external compensation value of a display data signal according to the second threshold voltage and the second mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haixia Xu, Zhongyuan Wu, Zhidong Yuan, Song Meng
  • Patent number: 11256322
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing virtual environments that are responsively adaptable to users' characteristics. Embodiments provide for identifying a virtual action to be performed by a virtual representation of a patient within a virtual environment. The virtual action corresponds to a physical action by a physical limb of the patient in the real-world. In embodiments, the virtual action is required to be performed to a first target area within the virtual environment. Embodiments determine that the patient has at least one limitation that limits the patient performing the physical action. A determination of whether the patient has performed the physical action to at least a physical threshold associated is made. The virtual environment is caused to adapt in order to allow the virtual action to be performed in response to the determination that the patient has performed the physical action to the physical threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Neurological Rehabilitation Virtual Reality, LLC
    Inventor: Veena Somareddy