Patents Examined by Kenneth B Lee, Jr.
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Patent number: 12228813Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical sensor-equipped liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a driver IC. The display panel includes a display area including pixels, a surrounding area surrounding the display area, peripheral circuits provided in the surrounding area, and an optical sensor outputting a detection signal in response to incident light. The peripheral circuit includes a shift register, and a gate switch group connected to the shift register and including a first gate switch and a second gate switch. The first gate switch is connected to a switching element for driving the pixel via a scanning line. The second gate switch is connected to a switching element included in a sensor circuit for driving the optical sensor via a scanning line for sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Akihiko Saitoh, Teppei Yamada
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Patent number: 12229992Abstract: A method of performing a user-specific and device-specific calibration of point of gaze estimation comprising a user's mobile device, a calibration target displayer, a built-in camera video data recorder, a default Point of Gaze estimation pipeline runner, a calibration data set splitter, and a support vector regression calculator by having a built-in camera process gaze in absolute measurement terms based on a series of successive data points.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: eye square GmbHInventors: Karol Duzinkiewicz, Jan Glinko, Artur Skrzynecki, Michael Schiessl
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Patent number: 12228739Abstract: An AR or VR display device. First and third input gratings receive light of a first color from first and second projectors, respectively, coupling the light into a first waveguide. Second and fourth input gratings receive light of a second color from the first and second projectors, respectively, coupling the light into a second waveguide. An output diffractive optical element couples light out of the waveguides towards a viewing position. The first and second projectors provide light to the input diffractive optical elements in directions that are at a first and second angle, respectively, to a waveguide normal vector. The output diffractive optical element couples light out of the waveguides in a first range of angles for light from the first projector and in a second range of angles for light from the second projector, the first range of angles and the second range of angles differing but partially overlapping.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Mohmed Salim Valera
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Patent number: 12228973Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a flexible display layer covered by a protective display cover layer. The flexible display layer may be an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other layer with a flexible substrate. The flexible display layer may have a central region with peripheral edges. The central region may be rectangular, may be octagonal, or may have other shapes. Strip-shaped protrusions may extend along each of the peripheral edges of the central region. The strip-shaped protrusions may be bent to provide the protrusions with curved surface profiles. The display cover layer may have a cushion shape with bowed edges that overlap parts of the strip-shaped protrusions, may have curved inner and outer surfaces and/or planar surfaces, may have rounded corners with compound curvature, may have edges with curved surface profiles, and/or may have other configurations.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell
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Patent number: 12223913Abstract: This disclosure relates to a display substrate, including a display region and a bezel region located around the display region; the bezel region includes a bonding area located at a side of the display region, and the bezel region further includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the bonding area, and a third region opposite to the bonding area; at least one of the first region, the second region or the third region includes a bending area, and a gate driver on array (GOA) driving circuit is disposed at a side of the bending area away from the display region. This disclosure also relates to a display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuanjie Xu, Taofeng Xie, Mingzhi Chai
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Patent number: 12223888Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting diode including a first conductivity-type semiconductor, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor; a first voltage line to which a first voltage is applied; a second voltage line to which a second voltage is applied; a first transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the first voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting diode and to the first conductivity-type semiconductor; a second transistor including a drain electrode electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a source electrode electrically connected to a data line to apply a data signal; a capacitor electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first electrode; and a third transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the second voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Jae Jeong, Kyung Bae Kim, Chong Chul Chai, Kyung Hoon Chung
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Patent number: 12198594Abstract: The present application discloses a chromaticity adjustment method and an adjustment device of a display panel. The chromaticity adjustment method of the display panel includes: determining an initial driving voltage corresponding to a highest gray scale of the display panel; acquiring an initial white picture chromaticity of the display panel based on the initial driving voltage; determining whether the initial white picture chromaticity deviates from a target white picture chromaticity; if the initial white picture chromaticity deviates from the target white picture chromaticity, adjusting the initial driving voltage to adjust the initial white picture chromaticity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bo Hai
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Patent number: 12198599Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, each of the pixel units including a plurality of sub-pixels. The array substrate includes: a plurality of power lines which are arranged in a conductive layer on a base substrate, are arranged at intervals along a first direction and extend along a second direction, and are used for providing power signals to the sub-pixels; and a plurality of power leads which are arranged in another conductive layer, are arranged at intervals along the second direction and extend along the first direction. Projections of at least one of the power lines and at least one of the power leads on the base substrate intersect, and the projections of the power lines and the power leads on the base substrate form a grid-like structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Long Han, Libin Liu, Lujiang Huangfu
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Patent number: 12190827Abstract: A display device includes a sensor, a timing controller, and a data driver. The sensor senses characteristic values of an element included in a pixel of the display device using input initialization and data voltages in a sensing period of one frame period. The timing controller calculates compensation data voltage using the characteristic values, and calculate adjusted initialization and data voltages in the sensing period by using the compensation data voltage. The data driver output the adjusted initialization and data voltages to the pixel during the sensing period in response to a control signal output from the timing controller.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jung Eon An
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Patent number: 12183262Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel compensation circuit, a display panel, and a pixel compensation method. The pixel compensation circuit includes a first transistor, a driving transistor, a compensation transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a reset transistor, a storage capacitor, and a light-emitting device. The circuit of the present disclosure uses transistors having different types and complementary polarity, and the transistors are connected to a first scanning line and a second scanning line, respectively. Compared with a conventional pixel compensation circuit, the circuit of the present disclosure uses fewer scanning signal lines and simpler timing.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiang Yin
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Patent number: 12169613Abstract: A display panel and a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes at least one pixel circuit, at least one light-emitting device coupled to the pixel circuit, at least one data line, and a first voltage signal line. One pixel circuit of the at least one pixel circuit includes a data writing transistor and a photodiode. The data writing transistor includes a first electrode coupled to one of the at least one data line, and a second electrode coupled to a first electrode of the photodiode. The photodiode includes a second electrode coupled to the first voltage signal line.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: Wuban Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai BranchInventor: Lei Suo
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Patent number: 12165572Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first display region, a second display region and pixel circuits. The pixel circuits include a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit is configured to provide a drive current for a light-emitting element in the first display region. The second pixel circuit is configured to provide a drive current for a light-emitting element in the second display region. The pixel circuits further include at least one bias adjustment module, each of which is configured to provide a bias adjustment signal for a respective one drive transistor. A preset electrode of a drive transistor in the first pixel circuit is connected to one bias adjustment module and a preset electrode of a drive transistor in the second pixel circuit is connected to no bias adjustment module.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jieliang Li, Ping An, Guoxing Chen, Yuping Xu
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Patent number: 12159599Abstract: A method of adjusting a display screen, an adjusting device for a display screen, a display device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining brightness information in an abnormal brightness area in response to detecting that the abnormal brightness area is in a current display screen, obtaining a corresponding transmittance cut-off wavelength sequence in an abnormal color area in the abnormal brightness area in response to determining that the abnormal color in the abnormal brightness area is blue, and eliminating the abnormal color area in the display screen by absorbing wavelength energy whose wavelength is less than a predetermined wavelength threshold in the transmittance cut-off wavelength sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bo Hai
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Patent number: 12154517Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a Q node controller generating a voltage of a Q node by using a first clock, a second clock, a third clock, and a start signal; a QB node controller generating a voltage of a QB node by using the second clock and the third clock; and an output part including a pull-up TFT and a pull-down TFT and generating an output signal including a first pulse interval, of a gate-on voltage, synchronized with a part of the first clock according to the voltages of the Q node and the QB node.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sanghyun Lim, Nakwoo Kim, Donghyang Lee
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Patent number: 12148347Abstract: A driving method of a display panel, a display panel, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels in N areas. Gray level states of each of the sub-pixels include a high gray level and a low gray level. The gray level states of the sub-pixels in the same area remain for N consecutive frames, and the gray level states of the sub-pixels in one of the N areas in the same frame are switched. As such, a brightness change range between adjacent frames can be decreased, and a brightness change frequency can be increased, thereby reducing or avoiding flicker phenomenon.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jhenwei He
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Patent number: 12141492Abstract: A process management device includes a first display control section to display a plan image of a mounting-related process including multiple partial processes; a second display control section to display a progress image showing progress of the mounting-related process together with the plan image on the display for each partial process; and a third display control section to, when the progress of the mounting-related process is delayed from the plan of the mounting-related process in a case where the mounting-related process is performed based on the plan of the mounting-related process, display a delay image showing the delay of the progress of the mounting-related process from the plan of the mounting-related process in association with the partial process in which the delay occurs in the mounting-related process, together with the plan image on the display.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuya Fukao
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Patent number: 12140998Abstract: Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible displays made up of segments reconfigured from a folded state to an expanded state are described. The form factor of the folded state is the size of a handheld phone (including an integrated speaker and microphone). The form factor of the expanded state is the size of a tablet computer. Both states provide a configuration including a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices include sensors indicating the state and mechanisms for folding, alignment, and structural support, and magnets for the devices to be locked in the folded or unfolded state. A module attached to at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, all which may be used in either state.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Lepton Computing LLCInventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
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Patent number: 12135847Abstract: An interaction interface device for providing an interface between a touch display unit and an external device. The touch display unit comprising a display unit having a touch surface. The interaction interface device comprises a first interface between the interaction interface device and the touch display unit, the first interface being configured to: receive a first touch data from the touch display unit, wherein the first touch data corresponds to touch interactions occurring within a sub-portion of the display unit, and transmit a first video data to the touch display unit for display on the sub-portion of the display unit, a second interface between the interaction interface device and the external device, the second interface being configured to: receive the first video data from an external device, and transmit the first touch data to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories ABInventor: Markus Andreasson
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Patent number: 12136370Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel sensing circuit in which a test is performed only on selected specific channels among channels of the pixel sensing circuit and the total test time of the pixel sensing circuit and data throughput for the test may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Hwan Ji, Yong Jung Kwon, Ho Sung Hong, Jung Bae Yun
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Patent number: 12124660Abstract: A touch apparatus includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a power supply electrode and a plurality of first conductive patterns. The second conductive layer includes a common electrode and a plurality of second conductive patterns. The first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns are electrically connected to form a plurality of first conductive elements. At least one portion of the first conductive elements is first touch electrodes. The third conductive layer includes a plurality of bonding pads and a plurality of second touch electrodes. In a top view of the touch apparatus, the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are staggered.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: AUO CorporationInventors: Tai-Hsuan Lin, Yu-Feng Chien