Patents Examined by Kent W. Chang
  • Patent number: 10839760
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a main pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels which exhibit different colors, respectively, a first pixel block adjacent to the main pixel, a second pixel block adjacent to the first pixel block, and electrically connected to the first pixel block, and a driver which drives the main pixel and the first pixel block, wherein the main pixel, the first pixel block, and the second pixel block are located in a display area which displays an image, the display area includes an outer edge portion, the first pixel block is closer to the outer edge portion than the main pixel is, and the second pixel block is closer to the outer edge portion than the first pixel block is, and the second pixel block overlaps the driver in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masaya Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10838678
    Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment includes an acceptance unit, a setting unit, and a change unit. The acceptance unit accepts a change instruction for a display type on each of a plurality of screens capable of displaying images with different display types. The setting unit limits and sets the display type in such a manner that images with an identical display type are not displayed on the plurality of screens when the display type is changed based on the change instruction. The change unit changes an image on a screen with the change instruction being applied thereto to an image with the set display type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Fumi Honda, Shuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10831269
    Abstract: A system controls a brightness of an augmented reality (AR) eye-mounted device. The system includes an eye-mounted display, a photodetector system, and a controller. The eye-mounted display includes a contact lens and a femtoprojector. The femtoprojector is contained in the contact lens and is configured to project an AR image to a user's retina. The AR image is overlaid on an external scene viewed by the user through the contact lens. The photodetector system detects a brightness level of the external scene. Based on the brightness level of the external scene, the controller adjusts a brightness level of the AR image projected to the user's retina. In some embodiments, the eye-mounted display receives image data defining the AR image and the controller adjusts a bit depth of the image data based on the brightness level of the AR image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Elliot Lemoff, Michael West Wiemer, Paul Scott Martin, Hansong Zhang, Drew Daniel Perkins
  • Patent number: 10832623
    Abstract: The invention provides a display panel, including a color filter substrate and a thin film transistor array substrate disposed oppositely, and a liquid crystal layer filled between the color filter substrate and the thin film transistor array substrate, wherein the thin film transistor array substrate includes a display area, a non-display area, and a plurality of photo sensors are disposed in the display area; the color filter substrate is formed with a plurality of light transmissive passages; the thin film transistor array substrate is disposed with a plurality of sub-pixels; and the photo sensor is configured for detecting position information corresponding to an external photoelectric signal when receiving the external photoelectric signal. The display panel is provided with a plurality of photo sensors, when the incident laser light is irradiated onto the photo sensor, the photo sensor can be triggered to work, and the laser projection position is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanhuan Zhu, Yuan-Liang Wu, Yuyeh Chen, Yusheng Huang, Zihan Liu
  • Patent number: 10831294
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel that displays an image; and a touch sensor that is provided on the display panel, wherein the touch sensor includes a sense electrode that senses a touch and a shield layer that is disposed between the sense electrode and the display panel while partially overlapping the sense electrode, the sense electrode includes a plurality of conductive lines that are connected with each other and have a mesh shape, the plurality of conductive lines includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line that are disposed on different layers, and the shield layer overlaps at least one of the first conductive line and the second conductive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Neung Kim, Do Hyun Kwon, Chang Yong Jung, Choong Youl Im
  • Patent number: 10824280
    Abstract: A touch sensor may include a base substrate, a sensing unit including a first electrode and a second electrode provided on a same layer of the base substrate and not overlapping with each other, wherein a capacitance of the sensing unit is changed by a user's touch, and a cushion layer disposed on at least one surface of the sensing unit and configured to have a permittivity change in response to a pressure of the user's touch, wherein the cushion layer may include an insulator and conductive particles and the insulator may include an elastic material elastically deformed by the pressure of the user's touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Mu Gyeom Kim, Won Sang Park, Young Seok Seo, Won Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 10824228
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a deformation control method, a deformation control apparatus, and a user equipment (UE). The method comprises: generating trigger information according to a focus behavior of a user on at least one associated region in multiple associated regions on a deformation controllable device, where the multiple associated regions are multiple regions on which the user synchronously focuses or will synchronously focus; and controlling, in response to the trigger information, the deformation controllable device to be deformed to a target shape that meets at least one shape restriction condition, where the at least one shape restriction condition comprises: a distance between any two associated regions in the multiple associated regions is less than a distance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuifei Yu, Ran Xu
  • Patent number: 10825420
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display panel, an illuminance sensor to sense an ambient illuminance of the display panel, a plurality of light sources disposed in an edge region of a back surface of the display panel to output light, a plurality of switching elements to switch the light sources, and a processor to control the switching elements, wherein, when a difference in local dimming data of an input image between adjacent first and second regions is above a first reference value, the processor controls driving times of at least some of the switching elements to decrease a difference in illuminance between the first region and the second region, based on the illuminance sensed by the illuminance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsup Park, Byunghyun An, Kanghyun Yoon, Inhwan Lee
  • Patent number: 10825404
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to driving methods for driving an electro-optic display device which can display high quality color states. The electro-optic display may have a plurality of display pixels, a first type of pigment particle, a second type of pigment particle, and a third type of pigment particle, wherein the three types of pigment particles have optical characteristics differing from one another, the method may include: (i) driving a display pixel to the color state of the first type of pigment particles or the color state of the second type of pigment particles; (ii) driving the pixel to a grey state between the color state of the first type of pigment particle and the color state of the second type of pigment particles; and (iii) applying at least one pair of opposite driving pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 10818735
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display panel and a display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a bending axis, a bending region, a first non-bending region, a second non-bending region, and at least one set of touch traces. The bending axis extends in a first direction. The first non-bending region and the second non-bending region are respectively located at two opposite sides of the bending region in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The at least one set of touch traces includes a plurality of touch traces. In the bending region, the plurality of touch traces extends from the first non-bending region to the second non-bending region. In the bending region, an angle between each of the plurality of touch traces and the bending axis is not 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bo Li
  • Patent number: 10810952
    Abstract: A display device according to one aspect of the disclosure includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight including at least one light source to irradiate light to the liquid crystal panel, a timing controller to scan, in each frame period based on a synchronization signal which is input, the liquid crystal panel at a scan rate faster than a frame rate based on the synchronization signal, and a backlight control unit to turn on the backlight till a second time point, which is a scan time point of a next frame, from a first time point when a specified time elapses from a time point in which scan of the liquid crystal panel is finished in each frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Jin Lim
  • Patent number: 10810971
    Abstract: A method of rendering content for display on a multi-view display includes assigning a first display to a first pixel of a pixelated array, with a plurality of pixels periodically spaced along a first axis, the first display associated with a first viewing angle relative to the first axis. The method includes assigning a second display to a second pixel of the pixelated array, display associated with a second viewing angle relative to the first axis. The method further includes controlling a filter value of the first pixel based on a rendering of first content for display, and controlling a filter value of the second pixel based on a rendering of second content for display. The first viewing angle belongs to a first range of viewing angles of an optical multiplexer disposed in front of the pixelated array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nigel A. Clarke, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10809569
    Abstract: A video display device includes: a display panel that displays an image based on an input image signal; a light source substrate that includes a plurality of light sources on a main surface which is a front side of the light source substrate, and emits, toward a rear side of the display panel, light emitted from the plurality of light sources; a reflection sheet that is provided on the main surface of the light source substrate, and in which hollow partitioning walls each of which separates adjacent two light sources of the plurality of light sources are formed; an optical member that is provided between the display panel and the light source substrate, and uniformizes luminance distribution of the light emitted from the light source substrate; and support members each of which is provided between the light source substrate and the optical member, and supports the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kumamoto, Takeichi Shinya, Koujirou Higa, Masaaki Ofuji, Taizou Takeuchi, Tadahiro Kugimaru
  • Patent number: 10803828
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve the operation of display systems are disclosed. In general, techniques are disclosed for dynamically adjusting backlight elements based on image content. More particularly, a backlight element's intensity may be targeted for boosting (i.e., increasing) based on content of the backlight element's corresponding image region, where after a check may be made to determine if the proposed increase is likely to risk generation of a halo. If the proposed intensity increase would risk a halo, the backlight element's proposed intensity may be dimmed. Repeating the boost/dim cycle in an iterative fashion permits an image to be displayed with brighter highlights and deeper blacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ameya Joshi, Marc Albrecht, Sean Chang, Tobias Jung
  • Patent number: 10803782
    Abstract: An unevenness correction data generation method provided for generating unevenness correction data for effectively improving the yield of a display panel. The method includes: a step of capturing an image of a display panel where a predetermined pattern is displayed; a step of generating iteration data for correcting unevenness of the captured image; a step of storing the iteration data in a storage means; a step of capturing an image of the display panel where a pattern in the storage means is displayed; a step of generating iteration data for correcting unevenness of the captured image; a step of storing iteration data in the storage means; a step of judging whether or not an ending condition for ending repetition of the steps is satisfied; and a step of generating the unevenness correction data based on the iteration data stored in the storage means the ending condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: IIX INC., PHOTOLAB INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Murase
  • Patent number: 10803823
    Abstract: The present application provides a shift register circuit, a gate driving circuit including the shift register circuit, and a driving method applied to the shift register circuit. The shift register circuit includes an input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, an output reset sub-circuit, and a first capacitor, wherein the first capacitor is connected between the pull-up node and the second clock signal terminal, and configured to maintain a high level at the pull-up node through the second clock signal input at the second clock signal terminal. The shift register circuit further includes a second capacitor connected between the pull-down node and a first voltage input terminal, and configured to pull down a level at the pull-down node through a reverse bias voltage input at the first voltage input terminal during a blanking time after a frame of scanning ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Yongqian Li, Pan Xu, Miao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10803827
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a display method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display comprising one or more light emitting element groups each group comprising a predetermined number of light emitting devices; and a controller configured to determine priorities of the light emitting elements included in the one or more light emitting element groups based on a collected light emitting time of each of the light emitting elements and to determine, based on the priorities, whether each of the light emitting elements emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-hyeok Koo, Hyun-su Kim, Sin-wook Lee, Cheul-hee Hahm
  • Patent number: 10795500
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first array electrodes, a plurality of second array electrodes, a first switch module electrically connected to the first array electrodes, a second switch module electrically connected to the second array electrodes, a first sensing module electrically connected to the second switch module, and a second sensing module electrically connected to both the first and the second switch modules. When the distance between the display device and a detected object is greater than zero, the first array electrodes receive a first touch driving signal, and the second array electrodes send a first sensing signal to the first sensing module. When the distance is equal to zero, the first array electrodes and the second array electrodes receive a second touch driving signal and send a second sensing signal to the second sensing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsan-Po Weng, Ming-Cheng Hsieh, Yuan-San Hsiao, Chu-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 10797697
    Abstract: A person or object is infused with a signal. The infused signal has a phase relationship with the signals that are transmitted from and used by a touch sensor, controller or wearable. The phase relationship of the infused signal is used in order to increase the ability of receivers at or on the touch sensor, controller or wearable to measure and determine touch events, such as hover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventor: Braon Moseley
  • Patent number: 10789900
    Abstract: A display device includes: a data driver for driving a plurality of data lines; a voltage generator for generating at least one driving voltage to be provided to the data driver; and a driving controller for providing a second image signal and a reference gamma selection signal to the data driver in response to a first image signal and a control signal received from the outside, wherein the driving controller outputs a voltage control signal for changing a voltage level of the at least one driving voltage, and the reference gamma selection signal, based on metadata included in the first image signal, and the data driver receives the reference gamma selection signal and the at least one driving voltage to provide, to the plurality of data lines, data voltage signals corresponding to the second image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang-min Kim, Nam-gon Choi, Namheon Kim, Joohwan Park, Jang-mi Lee, Junghwan Yi