Patents Examined by Jose R Soto Lopez
  • Patent number: 11244596
    Abstract: A display device includes: a gain provider configured to set a time point elapsed by a set period from a time point at which a first region of an input image is detected as a still region, as a set time, and to gradually decrease a gain value from the set time; and a grayscale converter configured to generate an output image by applying the gain value to the first region and a second region including a peripheral region of the first region among the input image, wherein the gain provider is configured to set the set period differently according to size of grayscale values in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11238801
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for obtaining a compensation parameter for pixel data, and an AMOLED display panel. The method for obtaining a compensation parameter for pixel data includes: obtaining a sensing voltage value of a driving transistor in each of pixel units in an AMOLED display screen in a first state; obtaining a sensing voltage value of a driving transistor in each of the pixel units in a second state; determining a compensation parameter of pixel data for each of the pixel units based on the sensing voltage values in the first state and the second state; the sensing voltage value refers to a potential value at a terminal of the driving transistor coupled with a display diode after the pixel data is written; the compensation parameter is used for compensating the pixel data in the subsequent display process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11222594
    Abstract: A digital pixel driving circuit and a digital pixel driving method. The digital pixel driving circuit includes a pixel driving module, a display module, a storage module and a short-circuiting module. An output terminal of the pixel driving module is electrically connected to an input terminal of the display module, and a control terminal of the pixel driving module is electrically connected to any output terminal of the storage module. An input terminal of the short-circuiting module is electrically connected to the input terminal of the display module, an output terminal of the short-circuiting module is electrically connected to an output terminal of the display module, and a control terminal of the short-circuiting module is electrically connected to any output terminal of the storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CHENGDU VISTAR OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cuili Gai
  • Patent number: 11222578
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and the display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines. A data driver provides data signals to the plurality of data lines. A gate driver sequentially generates gate signals corresponding to a start pulse using a clock signal, and provides the gate signals to the plurality of gate lines. A timing controller provides the clock signal and the start pulse to the gate driver. The gate driver compares a data signal provided to a first data line among the plurality of data lines and at least one of the gate signals to generate a feedback signal. The timing controller sets a delay value of the clock signal based on the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Won Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11222588
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display area including pixels arrayed next to one another in first direction and in second direction that is different from first direction, wherein pixels include light-emitting element configured to emit light by current flowing therethrough, drive transistor, and holding capacitance, while one terminal of light-emitting element is coupled to one of source and drain of drive transistor, first potential is supplied to other terminal of light-emitting element, second potential that is higher than first potential is supplied to other one of source and drain of drive transistor, holding capacitance is coupled between source and gate of drive transistor, and display device being configured to write initialization potentials into gates of respective drive transistors in accordance with voltage across drain and source of drive transistor, then write video writing potentials into the gates of the respective drive transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hisashi Tomitani
  • Patent number: 11205369
    Abstract: A display method for generating grayscale mapping information can be applied to a terminal device, and include: determining an Open Pixel Ratio (OPR) corresponding to an image to be displayed; acquiring a preset corresponding relationship between an original grayscale value and a target grayscale value under the OPR; sequentially converting the original grayscale value corresponding to each pixel of the image to be displayed into the corresponding target grayscale value according to the corresponding relationship; and displaying the image to be displayed according to the target grayscale value corresponding to each pixel obtained by the conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Yang, Dong Zhai
  • Patent number: 11204657
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Yuki Okamoto, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11205381
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a compensation method are provided. The display panel includes at least one pixel unit group, at least one sensing line, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of first data lines and a plurality of second data lines. Each pixel unit group includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in two rows and a plurality of columns, the plurality of pixel units in each pixel unit group are connected to a same one of the gate lines, one of two pixel units in each column of each pixel unit group is connected to one of the first data lines corresponding thereto, other one is connected to one of the second data lines corresponding thereto, the plurality of pixel units in each pixel unit group are connected to a same sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Cheng Lin, Quanhu Li, Cuili Gai, Ling Wang, Baoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11183138
    Abstract: A segment driver (100) that drives a display panel is provided with a signal output circuit (140), a first voltage generation circuit (15_1), a voltage output circuit (160), and an inspection circuit (170). The first voltage generation circuit (15_1) generated a voltage to be applied to an electrode (Ta1) based on a display signal indicating a first voltage or a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage. The voltage output circuit (160) includes an inspection voltage output line (Lx) for outputting an inspection voltage (Vd) for inspecting an application state of a voltage to the electrode (Ta1). The signal output circuit (140) includes a signal voltage output line (Ly) for outputting a signal voltage (Vs) of the display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11181986
    Abstract: Systems and methods for context-sensitive hand interaction with an immersive environment are provided. An example method includes determining a contextual factor for a user and selecting an interaction mode based on the contextual factor. The example method may also include monitoring a hand of the user to determine a hand property and determining an interaction with an immersive environment based on the interaction mode and the hand property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Shiqi Chen, Jonathan Tompson, Rahul Garg
  • Patent number: 11169700
    Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The control method of the electronic device includes displaying at least one page from among a plurality of pages, detecting a touch drag input while the at least one page is displayed, performing a scroll function with respect to the plurality of pages according to the touch drag input based on a start point of the touch drag input being positioned in a first area, and performing a drawing function according to the touch drag input based on the start point of the touch drag input being positioned in a second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeannie Kang, Dong-hyuk Kim, Soo-ah Kim, Yong-ku Kim, So-jeong Park, Hyeon-seung Bae, Dong-hee Won, Sung-hye Lee, Jae-kwang Lee, Hyun-ho Choi, Young-ran Han
  • Patent number: 11158268
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device, includes: a display panel that includes a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal sealed between two facing substrates and is configured to display a frame image by arranging a plurality of line images in a scanning direction; and a light source that is configured to emit light from one side surface side of the display panel. One frame period assigned to the frame image includes an image display period and a luminance correction period, and a total luminance of the display panel during the luminance correction period is increased with decreasing distance from an opposite side of the one side surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadafumi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11145231
    Abstract: A test circuit and a display device are provided. The test circuit includes N first test pads, N second test pads, a first test circuit, a switching circuit, and a control circuit. The first test circuit is configured to output a plurality of test signals to the test pads. The control circuit outputs a control signal to the switching circuit to control the N first switching circuits to be individually turned on simultaneously, or control the N second switching circuits to be individually turned on simultaneously, thereby a one-side test of the display panel is achieved. Working states of the N first data lines or the N second data lines are determined according to a brightness of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peixin Lin
  • Patent number: 11094292
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a backlight module, a display panel and a display device. The backlight module includes a metal backplate, a control unit, and a switch, a metal backplate is applied with a coupling voltage under an electric field coupling action, the switch includes a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal is electrically connected with the metal backplate, and a second terminal is grounded, the control unit is electrically connected with the metal backplate and the control terminal of the switch, respectively, the control unit controls whether the switch is turned on or turned off depending on a value of the coupling voltage, and the control unit controls whether the metal backplate is grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinzhao Zhou, Jian Zhang, Tingting Zhao, Litao Fan, Meiling Jin, Lulu Li, Liangliang Li, Yujie Liu, Yingxue Yu, Qin Xin, Cai Zheng, Yahui Niu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jiao Chang
  • Patent number: 11093197
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a master agent, announcements from candidate consumer agents indicating the presence of the candidate consumer agents. Each announcement includes display parameters for a display of the corresponding candidate consumer agent. The method further includes receiving at the master agent content parameters from a producer agent, the content parameters defining characteristics of content to be provided by the consumer agent. A mosaic screen is configured based on the received announcements and the content parameters. This configuring of the mosaic screen includes selecting ones of the consumer agents for which an announcement was received and generating content distribution parameters based on the content parameters and the display parameters of the selected ones of the consumer agents. The generated content distribution parameters are provided to the consumer agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL NV
    Inventors: Benedetto Vigna, Mahesh Chowdhary, Matteo Dameno
  • Patent number: 11087669
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit, a driving method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The gate drive circuit, includes: a plurality of scanning output terminals and a decoder circuit. The decoder circuit includes a plurality of input terminals and a plurality of output terminals; the plurality of output terminals of the decoder circuit are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of scanning output terminals; the plurality of input terminals of the decoder circuit are configured to receive a parallel data frame; and the decoder circuit is configured to output a trigger signal for generating a scanning signal at an output terminal, which is corresponding to the parallel data frame, of the decoder circuit when receiving of the parallel data frame outputted by the latch circuit is accomplished, so as to allow a scanning output terminal corresponding to the parallel data frame outputs the scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenghua Lu, Zongze He, Shuo Li, Yuxuan Chen, Xiuyun Chen
  • Patent number: 11067813
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device including a body, a strap, two first elastic parts, two second elastic parts, two first soft pads and two second soft pads is provided. The body is corresponded to an eye of the user. The strap is connected to the body and adapted to surround a head of a user. The two first elastic parts and the two second elastic parts are disposed on the strap or the body. The two first soft pads are disposed on these first elastic parts. These first soft pads are respectively configured to lean against the left cheek bone of the user and the right cheek bone of the user. The two second soft pads are disposed on these second elastic parts. These second soft pads are respectively configured to lean against the section between the left first soft pad and the left ear of the user and the section between the right first soft pad and the right ear of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
  • Patent number: 11069297
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a writing sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data signal to the driving sub-circuit in response to a scanning signal. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to compensate the driving sub-circuit for a threshold voltage in response to the scanning signal. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to turn on a circuit between a first voltage terminal and a second voltage terminal in response to a light-emitting signal. The driving sub-circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting device to emit light according to the written data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haigang Qing
  • Patent number: 11061266
    Abstract: A touch electrode structure and a touch display device are provided. The touch electrode structure includes a base substrate, and a plurality of touch driving electrodes and a plurality of touch sensing electrodes which are disposed on the base substrate. The touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are disposed in the same layer of the base substrate and are insulated from each other, at least one of each of the touch driving electrodes and each of the touch sensing electrodes includes a metal mesh structure, the metal mesh structure includes a plurality of irregular polygonal metal frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingpu Wang, Lei Zhang, Tsung Chieh Kuo, Wenjin Fan, Wei Zhang, Zhenzhong Fang, Xiaoyue He
  • Patent number: 11054944
    Abstract: A projection display unit and a function control method. The projection display unit includes: a projection optical system including an illumination section, a projection lens, and a light valve; and a detection optical system including an image pickup device, the image pickup device being disposed in a position optically conjugating with the light valve, wherein: the detection optical system is configured to detect whether an input operation is performed in a peripheral region of a projection region on a projection surface, and in response to detection by the detection optical system in the peripheral region, a specific function is caused to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazumasa Kaneda