Patents Examined by Julie Anne Watko
  • Patent number: 12288525
    Abstract: A method of processing data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring voltage values of a plurality of sub-pixels to be detected in the pixel array; determining a plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated from the plurality of sub-pixels to be detected according to the voltage values of the plurality of sub-pixels to be detected, where differences between the voltage values of the plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated and voltage values of corresponding adjacent sub-pixels are greater than or equal to a first filtering threshold; determining at least one sub-pixel column to be compensated according to a position of the plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated in the pixel array; and performing a filtering compensation on the voltage values of a plurality of sub-pixels in the at least one sub-pixel column to be compensated based on a second filtering threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenchao Bao, Miao Liu, Cheng Xu, Yao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12282628
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including detection electrodes; a data driving circuit configured to output data signals or detection driving signals; and a selection circuit configured to provide the data signals to the plurality of pixels in response to a first enable signal and provide the detection driving signals to the detection electrodes in response to a second enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keumdong Jung, Jaesang Kim, Jiwoong Kim, Hyunggun Ma, Taehun Lee, Moonjae Jeong, Sanghyun Heo
  • Patent number: 12271558
    Abstract: A computing device may determine, based on one or more inputs detected by a presence-sensitive screen, whether at least a threshold amount of liquid is present on the presence-sensitive screen. The computing device may automatically transition the computing device from operating in a first operating mode to operating in a second operating mode responsive to determining that at least the threshold amount of liquid is present. The computing device may discard inputs detected by the presence-sensitive screen while the computing device is operating in the second operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: John J. Anthony, III, Aaron Michael Rudolph, Tyler Gore, Sushant Sundaresh
  • Patent number: 12260817
    Abstract: A display device including: first and second scan drivers; a data driver; a display unit including pixels connected to first and second scan lines, and data lines; and a controller controlling the first and second scan drivers, and the data driver, a first pixel includes: a light emitting element, a first transistor including a gate connected to a first node, wherein the first transistor is connected between a second node and a third node, a second transistor including a gate connected to a first scan line, the second transistor is connected between a data line and the second node, and a storage capacitor connected between the first node and a first power voltage; the first transistor is reverse biased by a second scan signal applied to a second scan line; and a first scan signal applied to the first scan line is different from the second scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 12249282
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a first circuit including a driving transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, a gate electrode, and a back gate electrode, a light emitting element including an anode and a cathode connected to the first circuit, and a second circuit including a first transistor connected between the back gate electrode of the driving transistor and a compensation voltage line, and a second transistor connected between the back gate electrode of the driving transistor and a first voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byungchang Yu, Jangmi Kang, Myunghoon Park, Dong-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12236030
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a fingerprint identification sensor, a first light shield layer disposed on the fingerprint identification sensor and a color film layer disposed on the first light shield layer, wherein the color film layer includes color filters with different colors and light transmission parts disposed between the color filters with different colors; the first light shield layer includes first openings and light shield parts, the light transmission parts and the first openings are used for allowing fingerprint reflected light to transmit and reach the fingerprint identification sensor, and the light shield parts are used for blocking out stray light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanxiang Xu, Shi Shu, Haitao Huang, Yang Yue, Yong Yu, Xiang Li, Qi Yao
  • Patent number: 12236019
    Abstract: A pointing method, applied to a pointing device comprising a processing circuit, comprising: (a) receiving input delta by the processing circuit, wherein the input delta indicates supposed movement of the pointing device; (b) adjusting the input delta to generate output delta by the processing circuit, wherein the input delta has a first magnitude and the output delta has a second magnitude, wherein the second magnitude is smaller than or equal to the first magnitude; and (c) output the output delta by the processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Zi Hao Tan, Joon Chok Lee, Kevin Len-Li Lim
  • Patent number: 12229379
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first area and a second area; first electrode units comprising a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and electrically connected to one another and located in the first area; second electrode units comprising a plurality of second touch electrodes arranged in a second direction and electrically connected to one another and located in the first area; and a first electrode pattern comprising a first portion located in the first area and electrically connected to one of the first electrode units that is adjacent thereto, and a second portion extended from the first portion to the second area, wherein a width of the first electrode pattern in the first direction is less than a width of the first touch electrodes in the first direction and is greater than half the width of the first touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Cheol Kim, Hwan Hee Jeong, Mi Kyung Seo
  • Patent number: 12223892
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a Light emitting device, a Data signal write-in module, a Driving transistor, a Compensation module, a First initialization module, and a Light emitting control module. The first initialization module is electrically connected to the compensation module and electrically connected to the gate of the driving transistor through the compensation module. When the voltage level of the gate of the driving transistor, the number of the transistors connected to the driving transistor could be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mian Zeng, Liang Sun
  • Patent number: 12216825
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, a lower frame disposed under the display panel, a first vibration element attached to a lower surface of the display panel and which generates a first vibration based on a first vibration signal, a second vibration element disposed under the lower frame and which generates a second vibration based on a second vibration signal, and a first vibration driver circuit which provides the first vibration signal to the first vibration element, where a phase of the second vibration signal is opposite to a phase of the first vibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Joon Ahn, Jung Hun Noh, Jae Woo Im
  • Patent number: 12217534
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a sensor area, a first light shield layer disposed above the sensor area, and a color film layer disposed above the first light shield layer, the color film layer includes color filters with different colors and a light transmission part disposed between the color filters with different colors; the first light shield layer includes a first opening and a light shield part, the light transmission part and the first opening are configured to allow at least partial light to transmit the sensor area and the color film layer further includes a first black matrix disposed between the color filters with different colors, the first black matrix is provided with a second opening which forms the light transmission part. The display panel includes a touch structure layer, the touch structure layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanxiang Xu, Shi Shu, Haitao Huang, Yang Yue, Yong Yu, Xiang Li, Qi Yao
  • Patent number: 12211457
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display having multiple illuminators that generate light at a first wavelength and a quantum dot layer that converts a portion of the light from the first wavelength to a second wavelength. The first wavelength may vary based on a brightness level of the illuminator, and the amount of light generated by the illuminator that is converted to the second wavelength may vary based on the first wavelength. The electronic display may also include a display pixel to regulate the light emitted from the electronic display at a pixel location based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to determine a luminance contribution to the light from the illuminator for the pixel location, determine per color component compensation values based on the luminance contribution, and generate the compensated image data based on the per color component compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12197673
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, comprising: an OLED display panel, comprising a substrate, a driving circuit layer and a touch layer; wherein the OLED display panel further comprises a touch bonding terminal area and a display bonding terminal area, and the touch bonding terminal area is provided with a touch bonding terminal and the display bonding terminal area is provided with a display bonding terminal; a touch driving chip, comprising a touch connection terminal and a display connection terminal; and a flexible circuit board; wherein the flexible circuit board comprises a converting terminal and a converting line, and the touch bonding terminal is bonded to the converting terminal, and one end of the converting line is connected to the converting terminal and an other end of the converting line is connected to the touch connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Ye, Pengfei Liang
  • Patent number: 12190842
    Abstract: A first flipflop outputs a first signal synchronized with a first clock signal. In the first transistor, the first clock signal is input to a first terminal and the second signal is output from a second terminal. In the fourth transistor, a first signal is input to a first terminal and a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor. In the sixth transistor, the third signal is input to a first terminal, a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate of the fourth transistor, and the gate of the sixth transistor is electrically connected to the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 12164716
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, including a display substrate (1); and a touch electrode (2) and a shielding electrode (6) arranged on the display substrate (1); where the shielding electrode (6) and the touch electrode (2) are sequentially arranged in a direction away from the display substrate (1); and an orthographic projection of the shielding electrode (6) on the display substrate (1) at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the touch electrode (2) on the display substrate (1), the shielding electrode comprises shielding units arranged in an array, in a row direction of the array, M shielding units each having a load value x are provided, M*x?P; and in a column direction of the array, N shielding units each having a load value y are provided, N*y?P; P is a maximum load capacity of a driver chip for providing signals for the shielding electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guiyu Zhang, Hongqiang Luo, Yichen Jiang, Lixiang Yi, Yuanyuan Chai, Hang Min
  • Patent number: 12165601
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel which emits light at a luminance corresponding to a data voltage applied thereto; and a data driver which supplies the data voltage to the pixel. The data driver includes: a first amplifier which outputs a first reference voltage; a first booster circuit including an input terminal connected to a first input terminal of the first amplifier, and an output terminal connected to a second input terminal of the first amplifier; a second amplifier which outputs a second reference voltage; a resistance string which receives the first and second reference voltages, and generate gamma voltages which are intermediate voltages between the first and second reference voltages; a digital-analog converter which outputs a gamma voltage corresponding to a gray scale of the pixel among the gamma voltages; and a source amplifier which outputs the gamma voltage as the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se Byung Chae
  • Patent number: 12164359
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a touch sensor driver; a sensor configured to sense changes in movement and inclination in real time; a host system connected to the sensor and configured to transmit a pixel data of the input image to a display panel driver, and to receive a touch coordinate data from a touch sensor driver; and a luminance control device configured to control a luminance a first pixel region and a luminance of a second pixel region in the display panel. The luminance control device is configured to lower the luminance of the second pixel region responsive to detecting the touch input on the second pixel region or, responsive to the mobile terminal being rotated or inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hee Hwang, Su Jin Kwon
  • Patent number: 12153756
    Abstract: Circuit for performing a display driving function and a fingerprint and touch detecting function includes a unity gain buffer amplifier, an operational amplifier integrator, an ADC circuit, and a digital processing circuit coupled to the ADC circuit. An input terminal of the operational amplifier integrator is coupled to a touch sensor. When the circuit is operated under a display driving mode, an input terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier receives a gray level voltage and an output terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier is coupled to a display panel. When the circuit is operated under a fingerprint detecting mode, the input terminal and the output terminal of the unity gain buffer amplifier are respectively coupled to a fingerprint sensor and the ADC circuit. When the circuit is operated under a touch detecting mode, an output terminal of the operational amplifier integrator is coupled to the ADC circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Patent number: 12147625
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated methods utilize a flexible touch panel having a layer of piezoelectric material arranged between a number of first electrodes and at least one second electrode and a device connected to the first electrodes and configured to determine a bending state of the touch panel based on one or more radii of curvature of the touch panel from signals received from one or more of the first electrodes. A touch location for one or more user interactions is determined from signals received from the one or more of the first electrodes. An electronic device including the apparatus may switch between operating modes based on the bending state of the touch panel. A non-transitory computer readable medium may store computer programs implementing the methods for determining the bending state of the touch panel, switching the device between modes based on the bending state and determining a touch location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Astley, Xiang Cheng, Arokia Nathan
  • Patent number: 12141389
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an example embodiment includes: a touch panel configured to sense a touch input; a display panel configured to output an image; a touch and display driver integration (TDDI) configured to control the touch panel and the display panel; and an interface circuit for data interfacing with a host, wherein the TDDI is configured to receive touch firmware data from the host via the interface circuit, and manage the touch firmware data by using at least one of a first volatile memory included in the interface circuit and the TDDI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunhyung Kwon, Kyounghwan Kwon, Youngseob Choi, Jonghan Choi