Patents Examined by Kent W. Chang
  • Patent number: 11282419
    Abstract: A detection method, a display panel, and a drive method are disclosed. The detection method includes: performing group compensation on a scanning line by externally connecting to a compensation resistor having an adjustable resistance value and writing a corresponding resistance compensation value into a gate drive resistance compensation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Bei Zhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11269577
    Abstract: A display device has display panels forming a single display screen, where each display panel is connected to a display controller which receives display data of a portion of a complete image for display on the display panel. The complete image includes one or more bounded regions of display data. Each display controller receives position information relating to a change in lateral position and/or stacking order position of one or more bounded regions to be displayed at least partly on that display panel. If the display controller does not have knowledge of display data in the bounded region to be displayed on the display panel, it obtains that knowledge from another display controller. The display controller processes the display data for the portion of the complete image utilizing the knowledge obtained, and outputs the processed display data for the portion of the complete image to the corresponding display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Jonathan Alexander Jeacocke, Eric Kenneth Hamaker
  • Patent number: 11270640
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device driven at a first driving frequency or a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency includes pixels coupled to first scan lines, second scan lines, and data lines, a first scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the first scan lines during a first period and a second period in one frame period, when the organic light emitting display device is driven at the second driving frequency, a second scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the second scan lines during the first period, when the organic light emitting display device is driven at the second driving frequency, and a data driver configured to supply a data signal to the data lines during the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Jae Kim, Jin Jeon, Chul Kyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11263990
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for adjusting a display panel, a device for adjusting a display panel, and a display device including the adjusting device. The method includes: detecting an image displayed by a display panel to determine whether the displayed image is a flickering image; inverting original polarities of data voltages inputted onto at least partial data lines of the display panel when it is detected that the displayed image is the flickering image; scanning an I2C interface, and determining whether a common voltage is written; and restoring the polarities of the data voltages on the at least partial data lines to the original polarities when it is determined that the common voltage is written via the I2C interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Liu, Min Wang, Rui Ma
  • Patent number: 11262841
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for light and optical depth mapping, 3D imaging, modeling, networking, and interfacing on an autonomous, intelligent, wearable wireless wrist computing, display and control system for onboard and remote device and graphic user interface control. Embodiments of the invention enable augmentation of people, objects, devices and spaces into a virtual environment and augmentation of virtual objects and interfaces into the physical world through its wireless multimedia streaming and multi-interface display and projection systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: eyeCam LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Jonathan Davis, James Fisher, Ronald Eugene Fisher, Walter Norman Maclay, Stuart Gregory Tyrrell
  • Patent number: 11249640
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a controlling method of the electronic apparatus in which based on a first drawing touch input, a first drawing according to the first drawing touch input is displayed on a first layer for displaying a graphic, based on a first user input for receiving an image from an external device, the image is displayed on the first layer, based on a second user input for generating a second layer, a second layer for performing a second drawing is generated, and based on a user second drawing touch input, the second drawing is displayed on the second layer according to the second drawing touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyunsig Lim
  • Patent number: 11244588
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, a serial-to-parallel converter (SPC), a row driver, a column driver, and a switch. The pixels are arranged in rows and columns which include a first column and a first row. A first pixel resides at an intersection of the first row and first column. The SPC extracts, from a signal sent by a graphics controller, pixel data and a command. The row driver initiates a refresh of the pixels residing in the first row based on the pixel data. The column driver transmits the pixel data to the first column. During the refresh, the switch allows transmission of the pixel data to the first pixel when the command indicates that the first pixel is to be refreshed and prevents transmission of pixel data to the first pixel when the command indicates that the first pixel is not to be refreshed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Lee Atkinson, Cheng-Hua Yu
  • Patent number: 11243645
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display unit which includes a display area and a first hole formed in the display area; and an input sensing unit which is disposed on the display unit and comprises a second hole corresponding to the first hole, the input sensing unit further including: a base layer which includes: an adjacent area disposed adjacent to the second hole and a sensing area overlapping the display area and surrounding the adjacent area; detection electrodes which are disposed on the sensing area; and a first connection wiring which is disposed on the adjacent area, the first connection wire electrically connecting at least two detection electrodes spaced apart by the second hole, disposed at respective sides of the second hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Bum Kim, Hyung Chul Kim, Jung Mok Park, Young Sik Kim, Young Seok Yoo
  • Patent number: 11237707
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided that are capable of controlling a display in response to reliable detection of a sliding movement operation of a pointer (e.g., a user's finger) that passes through an end of a display region. The apparatus and method utilize a position detection sensor, which is superposed on the display and configured to detect the pointer's position discretely and successively at a predetermined time interval. Based on a first position detected by the position detection sensor and a second position detected, at the predetermined time interval since the detection of the first position, by the position detection sensor, which together indicate a moving operation of the pointer, it is determined whether the moving operation of the pointer has crossed an end of the display region. If it is so determined, a passed end position of the display region is calculated based on the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobori, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11231774
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for executing an operation action on a display screen and a device for executing an operation action. Firstly, a gazing position of an operator's eyes on the display screen and a corresponding operation position of the operator's operating portion on the display screen are determined, then a corresponding operation is executed for content displayed on the display screen according to the operation action of the operating portion, when it is determined that the gazing position of the operator's eyes on the display screen is consistent with the corresponding operation position of the operator's operating portion on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanling Han, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Chun-wei Wu, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu
  • Patent number: 11231779
    Abstract: A brain computer interface (BCI) module includes a flexible printed circuit assembly (FPCA) configured to conform to the head of a user. A plurality of emitters and a plurality of detectors are mounted on the FPCA. Each emitter of the plurality is configured to emit light towards the head of the user and each detector is configured to detect the emitted light. An array of ferrules is additionally mounted to the FPCA such that each ferrule of the array encases an emitter or a detector. The BCI module additionally includes a controller that is configured to receive an optical signal detected by a detector of the plurality and to encode the detected signal into a biological signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Sundberg, Frances Wing Yee Lau, E-Fann Saung, Ealgoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11226679
    Abstract: A human negligence warning method based on augmented reality includes steps of: using a smart wearable device to photograph multiple physical operation elements of an electronic apparatus to obtain interface depth data; performing spatial position calculations according to the interface depth data, to set corresponding wrapping geometry elements between the physical operation elements and the smart wearable device to wrap the physical operation elements, respectively; photograph a hand of a wearer wearing the smart wearable device to obtain a gesture and a spatial position of the hand; and judging whether the hand touches one of the wrapping geometry elements according to the gesture and the spatial position, and further judging whether a corresponding procedure to be initiated by the physical operation element is correct if yes, If the corresponding procedure is not correct, then an warning operation is performed to avoid human negligence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Chih-Hsing Chu, Ching-Che Chiu, Chun Soon, Chen-Yu Weng
  • Patent number: 11215860
    Abstract: A display panel and a touch display device are provided. The display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate, a planarization layer, and a through hole. The through hole exposes a source/drain electrode of the thin film transistor substrate. A first intermediate layer, a metal wire layer, a second intermediate layer, a first common electrode layer, a first passivation layer, and a first pixel electrode layer are stacked on each other and arranged corresponding to the source/drain electrode at one side of the through hole. A second common electrode layer, a second passivation layer, and a second pixel electrode layer are stacked on each other at another side of the through hole. The first common electrode layer is electrically connected to the metal wire layer, and the first pixel electrode layer is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode layer through and along the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Bangrong Li
  • Patent number: 11217192
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including display pixels, and a display filter overlapping the display panel and including filter pixels that are greater in number than the display pixels, wherein in units of frame, each of the display pixels is configured to emit light at a luminance corresponding to one gray level, and wherein in units of sub-frames, each of the filter pixels is configured to be switched to a transmissive state or a non-transmissive state, wherein each of the sub-frames is shorter in period than a corresponding one of the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Ho Hyun, Hee Kwon Eun, Man Bok Cheon
  • Patent number: 11216129
    Abstract: A touch sensor including a sensor array including a first touch node and a second touch node adjacent to each other in at least one of a first direction or a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first touch node and the second touch node electrically separated from each other, each of the first touch node and the second touch node including a driving electrode and a sensing electrode, and a controller configured to output a first driving signal having a first phase to the driving electrode of the first touch node and output a second driving signal having a second phase opposite to the first phase of the first driving signal to the driving electrode of the second touch node may be provided. The controller may be further configured to output the first driving signal and the second driving signal simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon Kyung Choi, Ki Up Kim, Jin Bong Kim, Sung Yong Cho
  • Patent number: 11217128
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area around the display area; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other on the substrate at the display area; a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines; and a test circuit portion on the substrate at the non-display area, the test circuit portion connected to the plurality of data lines. The test circuit portion includes: a lighting test signal line which applies a lighting signal to each of the plurality of data lines; and a crack detection circuit line connected between the plurality of data lines and the lighting test signal line. The crack detection circuit line includes a plurality of signal lines connected to different data lines among the plurality of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwangchul Jung, Jaeyoon Jung, Joungpyo Park, Boogyo Shin, Hyunsuk Yang
  • Patent number: 11211020
    Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Zino Lee, Gihoon Choo, Hassan Edrees, Chin-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11209903
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer instructions are provided. The apparatus comprises means for: mapping a virtual space to a real space; associating a user's real location in the real space with a virtual location of the user in the virtual space, such that a change in the user's real location causes a corresponding change in the user's virtual location; disassociating the user's real location with the user's virtual location, based at least in part on at least one user input; and changing, following disassociation of the user's real location with the user's virtual location, the user's virtual location without a corresponding change in the user's real location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Mikko-Ville Laitinen
  • Patent number: 11205385
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a plurality of sense lines. The pixel driving circuits are capable of being divided into a plurality of rows of pixel driving circuits each arranged in a first direction and divided into a plurality of columns of pixel driving circuit each arranged in a second direction intersected with the first direction. Each pixel driving circuit includes a detection transistor. The sense lines are arranged at intervals and extending along the second direction, and are configured to provide reference voltage signals to the plurality of pixel driving circuits. Each detection transistor is electrically connected to one of the plurality of sense lines, and in pixel driving circuits in a same column, detection transistors in any two adjacent rows are electrically connected to different sense lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11199756
    Abstract: A lighting device and a method for operating a lighting device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a lighting device includes at least one semiconductor component comprising a plurality of pixels and configured to generate light illuminating a field of view and a drive circuit, wherein the field of view is divided into a plurality of regions, wherein each pixel is configured to illuminate a region of the field of view, wherein each pixel comprises at least a first type subpixel and a second type subpixel, and wherein the first type subpixel is configured to emit light of a white color location and the second type subpixel is configured to emit light of a non-white color location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Désirée Queren, Mikko Perälä, Marco Antretter