Patents Examined by Kenneth B Lee, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11694593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes source driver chips. The source driver chips include charging compensation modules, and each of the charging compensation modules includes: a plurality of shift registers cascadely connected and configured to time-divisionally output a plurality of pulse signals, and a plurality of level shift circuits time-divisionally conducted in response to the plurality of the pulse signals to prevent the plurality of the level shift circuits in the source driver chips from outputting and generating a plurality electron currents at a same time, which would result in a superposition of current peaks and cause electromagnetic interference problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11693450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 11688316
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a data line, a sensing line, a first pixel sub-circuit and a second pixel sub-circuit. The first pixel sub-circuit includes a first writing unit, a first sensing unit and a first driving unit. The first driving unit is configured to drive a first light-emitting unit to emit light. The second pixel sub-circuit includes a second writing unit, a second sensing unit and a second driving unit. The second driving unit is configured to drive a second light-emitting unit to emit light. The first writing unit and the second sensing unit are both configured to be connected to a gate driving unit. The second writing unit and the first sensing unit are both configured to be connected to another gate driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11688352
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying an image on a flat panel display with an array of pixels. A method includes receiving image data including a grayscale value for each pixel; determining a grayscale delta for each pixel where the grayscale delta is a variation between the grayscale value for a given pixel addressable by a first scan line and the grayscale value for another pixel addressable by a scan line addressed prior to the first scan line; determining an aggregated grayscale delta for the first scan line; comparing a magnitude of the aggregated grayscale delta to a threshold value corresponding to a data signal that results in line crosstalk; modifying the image data when the magnitude of the aggregated grayscale delta equals or exceeds the threshold value, and displaying the image on the flat panel display using the modified image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Wonjae Choi
  • Patent number: 11682328
    Abstract: A display manufacturing system includes: a plurality of display devices, each including a display panel which displays an image; a driving voltage measurer which calculates a saturation voltage corresponding to a luminance of the image displayed on the display panel by changing a driving power voltage for driving the display panel; and a processor which calculates a current density and a degradation weight value based on the saturation voltage, and controls the display panel included in each of the plurality of display devices based on the current density and the degradation weight value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi Na Yoo
  • Patent number: 11682752
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a junction or active layer between doped semiconductor layers coextensive over a contiguous device area, corresponding sets of electrical contacts connected to the semiconductor layers, and multiple nanostructured optical elements at a surface of one semiconductor layer opposite the other semiconductor layer. Composite electrical contacts of one set include a conductive layer, a transparent dielectric layer between the conductive and semiconductor layers, and vias through the dielectric layer connecting the conductive and semiconductor layers. The nanostructured elements redirect light, propagating laterally in optical modes supported by the semiconductor layers, to exit the device. The composite electrical contacts can be independent and define independently addressable pixel areas of the device. The nanostructured elements and thin semiconductor layers can yield high contrast between adjacent pixel areas without trenches between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Toni Lopez, Aimi Abass
  • Patent number: 11676544
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including: a data wiring that includes a main data line disposed in a display area and a first data line disposed in a peripheral area; a driving voltage wiring that includes a main driving voltage line disposed in the display area and a first driving voltage line that is connected with the main driving voltage line and disposed in the peripheral area while extending in a first direction; and a driving low-voltage wiring that includes a cathode extending to the peripheral area while overlapping the display area, and a plurality of first driving low-voltage connection portions that are connected with the cathode and disposed in the peripheral area, wherein each of the plurality of first driving low-voltage connection portions comprises a wiring portion extended in the first direction and a pad portion electrically connected with the wiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, An Su Lee, Dong Woo Kim, Sung Jae Moon, Kang Moon Jo
  • Patent number: 11670240
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: pixels; scan lines extending in a row direction and connected to the pixels; a data lines extending in a column direction and connected to the pixels; a receiving lines extending in the column direction and connected to the pixels; and a compensation circuit portion that generates first sensing data by receiving a current flowing to the pixels through the receiving lines, and generates a compensation value that compensates a characteristic of a driving transistor included in each of the pixels by multiplying the first sensing data by a calibration factor that corresponds to a position of each of the pixels, wherein the calibration factor includes a line calibration factors that correspond to the receiving lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Man Kim, Seok Gyu Ban
  • Patent number: 11664408
    Abstract: A light emitting module and a driving method thereof, and a displaying device. The light emitting module includes: a light emitting base plate, wherein the light emitting base plate includes M rows and N columns of light emitting regions, and each of the light emitting regions includes a plurality of light emitting devices that are connected in series; and a driving assembly, wherein the driving assembly includes one or more driving chips, each of the driving chips includes a plurality of first leads and a plurality of second leads, each of the first leads is connected to the first terminal of a corresponding one instance of the light emitting regions, and each of the second leads is connected to the second terminal of a corresponding one instance of the light emitting regions; wherein a total quantity of the second leads in the driving assembly is integer multiples of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiao Dong, Rui Han, Xiaoxia Wang, Qi Qi, Jie Yu, Meng Li, Yaoyao Wang, Chunhua Wang, Tielei Zhao, Pengtao Li
  • Patent number: 11657756
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The display region includes: a plurality of sub-pixels disposed in an array, and each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light emitting device. A control terminal of anode reset transistor is electrically connected with a control terminal of reset transistors in the next row of sub-pixels. The non-display region includes: a row of dummy sub-pixels, the dummy sub-pixels correspond to columns of sub-pixels in one to one correspondence, each dummy sub-pixel includes a dummy pixel circuit and a dummy light emitting device, and the dummy light emitting device does not emit light. and a control terminal of the dummy anode reset transistor is electrically connected with a control terminal of reset transistor in a first row of sub-pixels correspondingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Wang, Yunsheng Xiao, Yuqian Pang
  • Patent number: 11650685
    Abstract: A display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function are disclosed. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11645965
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: constructing an image data analysis model; obtaining a first gray level of at least one of a plurality of first sub-pixels, and second gray levels of at least two second sub-pixels corresponding to each of the at least one first sub-pixel; obtaining a first light transmittance corresponding to the first gray level of the at least one first sub-pixel, and second light transmittances corresponding to the second gray levels of the at least two second sub-pixels corresponding to each of the at least one first sub-pixel, and determining actual light transmittances corresponding to the second gray levels of the at least two second sub-pixels respectively according to the image data analysis model; and obtaining target light transmittances corresponding to the second gray levels of the at least two second sub-pixels respectively, and determining compensation gray levels corresponding to the at least two second sub-pixels according to the actual light transmittances corresponding
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shenghua Hu, Chunyang Nie, Ruilian Li, Xueqin Wei, Ke Dai
  • Patent number: 11645996
    Abstract: A display control circuit applies to a LCoS panel including pixel units and a substrate. The display control circuit includes a pixel memory array circuit and a driving circuit. The pixel memory array circuit includes pixel memory units. A projection of the pixel memory array circuit on the substrate is in a projection of the pixel units on the substrate. The driving circuit includes a row driving circuit and a column driving circuit. A projection of the driving circuit on the substrate is outside the projection of the pixel units on the substrate. The driving circuit provides a modulation signal and pixel data. The pixel memory array circuit modulates the pixel data by the modulation signal to provide a pixel display voltage to each of the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Silicon Display Optoelectronics Corporation Ltd.
    Inventor: Lan Lee
  • Patent number: 11640799
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, the plurality of pixels being connected to scan lines and data lines; a data driver configured to transmit a data signal to a source output line; a data distributer configured to selectively connect the source output line to the data lines; and a latch portion arranged between the data distributer and the pixel portion, wherein the latch portion includes a plurality of latches connected to at least one of data lines excluding a data line, from among the data lines, connected to the source output line by the data distributer at a timing at which a scan signal is transmitted to the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sanghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11640204
    Abstract: Systems and methods for decoding intended symbols from neural activity in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a symbol decoding system for brain-computer interfacing, including a neural signal recorder implanted into a brain of a user, and a symbol decoder, the symbol decoder including a processor, and a memory, where the memory includes a symbol decoding application capable of directing the processor to obtain neural signal data from the neural signal recorder, estimate a symbol from the neural signal data using a symbol model, and perform a command associated with the symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Krishna V. Shenoy, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis Robert Willett
  • Patent number: 11635888
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Howard, Ryan S. Dixon, Joshua Mc Glinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
  • Patent number: 11636809
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and sub-pixels on the base substrate, a sub-pixel includes an organic light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode which are stacked, the second electrode is electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The display substrate further includes an active semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a source-drain metal layer, and a third conductive layer, the source-drain metal layer includes a first power signal line, and the third conductive layer includes a second power signal line; the display substrate further includes reset power signal lines, the reset power signal lines include a first reset power signal line and a second reset power signal line which are electrically connected to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Mou, Yongfu Diao
  • Patent number: 11617942
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains information regarding the position of each fingertip of a user in a real space, and determines contact between a virtual object set within a virtual space and a finger of the user. The information processing device sets the virtual object in a partly deformed state such that a part of the virtual object, the part corresponding to the position of the finger determined to be in contact with the object among the fingers of the user, is located more to a far side from a user side than the finger, and displays the virtual object having the shape set thereto as an image in the virtual space on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11615731
    Abstract: A display, system and method of providing a display are described. The display includes sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of the display and produces a combination of light that forms a color of the corresponding one of the pixels. Lenses control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs has a red microLED that emits red light, a green microLED that emits green light, a blue microLED that emits blue light, and another microLED that emits light along a red-green locus. The red-green locus light is selected to enhance efficiency at a white point to compensate for reduced emission from the red microLED dependent on a size of the red microLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Charles André Schrama
  • Patent number: 11610554
    Abstract: A light emitting display apparatus, which turns on a first transistor included in a pixel driving unit and connected to a data line during a data period where a data voltage is supplied from a data driver to the data line, is provided. The light emitting display apparatus includes a light emitting display panel including a pixel including a first transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the first transistor, a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data line, and a switching driver connecting the data line to the data driver or connecting a sensing line to the data driver, wherein the gate driver turns on and then turns off the first transistor during a data period where a data voltage is supplied from the data driver to the data line through the switching driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MoungO Kim, YuSok Lim