Patents Examined by Kenneth B Lee, Jr.
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Patent number: 12293710Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a first transistor, and a second transistor. By configuring the first transistor as a dual-gate dual-channel type thin film transistor, so that when a source of the driving transistor is compensated through the first transistor and the storage capacitor by a data signal, a source potential of the driving transistor may be quickly increased to a preset potential in a short time.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuang Jin
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Patent number: 12288522Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a sensor underneath the display. The display has a full pixel density region and a reduced pixel density region. Compared to pixels in the full pixel density region, pixels in the reduced pixel density region can be controlled using overdriven power supply voltages, overdriven scan control signals, different initialization and reset voltages, and can include capacitors and transistors with different physical and electrical characteristics. Gate drivers provide scan signals to pixels in the full pixel density region, whereas overdrive buffers provide overdrive scan signals to pixels in the reduced pixel density region. The pixels in the full pixel density region and the pixels in the reduced pixel density region can be controlled using different black level or gamma settings for each color channel and can be adjusted physically to match luminance, color, as well as to mitigate differences in temperature and aging impact.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shyuan Yang, Salman Kabir, Ricardo A Peterson, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Ting-Kuo Chang, Qing Li, Yuchi Che, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Feng Wen, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Kyounghwan Kim, Graeme M Williams, Kingsuk Brahma, Yue Jack Chu, Junbo Wu, Chieh-Wei Chen, Bo-Ren Wang, Injae Hwang, Wenbing Hu
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Patent number: 12283226Abstract: A data driving circuit includes: a reference voltage generator that receives a data control signal and generates a gamma reference voltage and a test reference voltage, a data driving unit that outputs a data signal for a pixel based on the gamma reference voltage, and an output circuit that outputs a test data voltage for a dummy pixel based on the test reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Sun-Koo Kang, Myeongbin Lim, Min-Seok Bae, Kanghee Lee
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Patent number: 12276804Abstract: A wearable electronic device including a display, a frame attachable to the display, a facial interface movably attached to the frame, and a linkage assembly movably connecting the facial interface to the frame. The linkage assembly can include a first arm pivotably attached to the frame, the first arm comprising a first end and a second end, a second arm pivotably attached to the first end and attached to the facial interface, and a third arm pivotably attached to the second end and attached to the facial interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Nicholas R Trincia
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Patent number: 12277261Abstract: A human interface device may include a deformable body having a handle portion, and a deformable conductor coupled to the deformable body and arranged to deform in response to a physical manipulation of the deformable body. The physical manipulation may include compressing, flexing, twisting, and/or stretching at least a portion of the deformable body. The deformable conductor may be arranged to change an electric characteristic such as a resistance, capacitance and/or inductance in response to the physical manipulation. The deformable conductor may include a sensor portion, and a transmission portion. The sensor portion may sense a first type of physical manipulation, and the transmission portion may sense a second type of physical manipulation.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Liquid Wire Inc.Inventors: Sydney Steinmeyer Bright, Andrew Elliott
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Patent number: 12272334Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of calibrating luminance of a display panel and can accurately derive a calibration value for luminance of the display panel through a first luminance calibration step of calibrating the display panel using a first calibration value derived after the display panel is driven with a first grayscale value and a second luminance calibration step of calibrating the display panel using a second calibration value derived after the display panel calibrated using the first calibration value is driven with a second grayscale value.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyeonju Park
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Patent number: 12266296Abstract: A display device includes pixels connected to scan lines, control lines, data lines, and sensing lines; a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal to the scan lines and supply a control signal to the control lines; a data driver configured to supply one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data lines; a sensing circuit configured to sense the characteristics based on a sensing current supplied through the sensing lines during the sensing period; and a power supply configured to supply a voltage of first power to the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Soo Hwang, Hideo Yoshimura
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Patent number: 12266307Abstract: A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels on the base substrate, each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit, and the pixel circuit includes a drive sub-circuit and a first reset sub-pixel. The first reset sub-pixel is configured to apply a first reset voltage to a control terminal of the drive sub-circuit in response to a first reset control voltage; the display substrate further comprises a first reset signal line electrically connected with the first terminal of the first reset sub-circuit to provide the first reset voltage, and the first reset signal line is in a semiconductor layer and comprises a doped semiconductor material.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongting Lu, Yuhsiung Feng, Xin Mou, Chenyu Chen, Shuang Zhao, Zhongliu Yang, Jing Yang, Wenbo Chen
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Patent number: 12266315Abstract: A display device includes a driving control circuit that receives an input image signal and outputs an output image signal, a data driving circuit that outputs a data signal corresponding to the output image signal, and a display panel including a plurality of pixels to display an image corresponding to the data signal. The driving control circuit determines an amount of time the input image signal is maintained as a still image, determines a color coordinate gain based on the amount of time and outputs the output image signal based on the color coordinate gain.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihyun Sung, Jongwoon Kim, Kihong Song, Hyun-Sik Yoon, Yeseul Lee
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Patent number: 12261248Abstract: An interpolated flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, pixel controllers disposed in a controller array over the display substrate, and pixels disposed in a pixel array over the display substrate. Each pixel controller is connected to one or more control lines and is operable to output pixel information. Each pixel is operable to emit light in response to pixel information received from a pixel controller. The pixel array is larger than the controller array, each pixel is connected to at least one pixel controller, and at least some pixels are interpolated pixels connected to at least two pixel controllers and are operable to emit light in response to pixel information received from the at least two pixel controllers.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: X Display Company Technology LimitedInventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok, Matthew Alexander Meitl
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Patent number: 12260058Abstract: According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a display; a coil array layer disposed under the display; a magnetic layer disposed under the coil array layer; a conductive layer disposed under the magnetic layer; a conductive plate disposed under the conductive layer; a bracket disposed under the conductive plate; and a magnetic component disposed on the bracket and under the conductive plate, wherein the conductive layer has a first opening, and the first opening and the magnetic component at least partially overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changbyung Park, Myeongsil Park
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Patent number: 12260015Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device. A portable eyewear device includes a processor, a memory, and a display projected onto at least one lens assembly. The memory has programming stored therein that, when executed by the processor, captures information depicting an environment surrounding the device and identifies a match between objects in that information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. When the position of the eyewear device reaches a preselected location with respect to the matched objects, a physical output is provided to produce the immersive experience. The physical output changes as the position of the eyewear device moves to maintain the immersive experience.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Doug Mead
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Patent number: 12249289Abstract: A circuit device includes: a color correction circuit configured to perform color correction on image data to output display image data to a display device; a reverse color correction circuit configured to perform reverse color correction of the color correction on the display image data to output image data after being subjected to the reverse color correction; and a comparison circuit configured to compare the image data with the image data after being subjected to the reverse color correction to output a result of the comparison as error detection information of the display image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yasutoshi Akiba
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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