Patents Examined by Kevin M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12079419
    Abstract: Disclosed are a touch array substrate, a touch positioning method and a display panel. The touch array substrate includes: a plurality of receiving lines, a plurality of transmitting lines and a transmitting driven unit. Each receiving line is connected to the reception and detection terminal of the timing controller, each transmitting line can be with the plurality of receiving lines to form a plurality of corresponding touch capacitors; a plurality of clock input terminals of the transmitting driven unit are connected to the plurality of clock output terminals of the timing controller one-by-one; a plurality of output terminals of the transmitting driven unit are connected to input terminals of the plurality of the transmitting lines one-by-one, and the transmitting driven unit can sequentially output transmitting driven signals to the plurality of transmitting lines according to a plurality of received clock signals, to drive the transmitting lines to work sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tianyu Xia, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 12073782
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on image data. The electronic display may include an illuminator that generates light, multiple light regulators that control emission of the light pixel locations on the electronic display based on bitplane data, and driving circuitry that applies an operating electrical stimulus to the illuminator during an emission period of the image frame and a reference electrical stimulus to the illuminator during an off period of the image frame. While the reference electrical stimulus is applied the bitplane data may be indicative of off bitplane. Additionally, the electronic display may include measurement circuitry that measures a response characteristic of the illuminator in response to the reference electrical stimulus and generates temperature data indicative of the temperature of the illuminator based on the response characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Johan L Piper, Arash Hazeghi, Adam Adjiwibawa
  • Patent number: 12073140
    Abstract: A first screen device establishes a pairing session between a first screen device and a second screen device. The first screen device presents, in a user interface on the first screen device, a video and one or more media features related to the video. The media features pertain to at least one of a presentation of the video or user feedback about the video. The video is cast from the first screen device onto the second screen device. The first screen device receives, via the user interface, user input indicating a user request to enable presentation of at least one of the media features on the second screen device in connection with the video. In response to the user input, the first screen device causes the at least one of the media features to be presented on the second screen device in connection with the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aran Mun, Sana Mithani
  • Patent number: 12073786
    Abstract: A pixel of display device includes a light emitting element, a first transistor coupled between first power source and a second node and having a gate electrode connected to a first node N1, and the first transistor being configured to control a driving current supplied to the light emitting element in response to a voltage of the first node, a first capacitor including one electrode connected to the first node and another electrode connected to a third node, a second transistor coupled between the third node and a data line, a third transistor coupled between the first node and the second node, a fourth transistor coupled between the first node and an initialization power source, a fifth transistor coupled between a reference power source and the third node, and an eighth transistor coupled between a fourth node and an anode initialization power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang Mi Kang, Jun Hyun Park, Min Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 12072498
    Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) glasses may include a main housing configured to accommodate lenses of the AR glasses, with at least a portion of the main housing formed of a conductive member A sub-housing forms a leg of the AR glasses. A PCB is disposed in the sub-housing. A conductive hinge structure is configured to interconnect the main housing and the sub-housing such that the sub-housing is foldable with respect to the main housing. The conductive hinge structure is electrically connected to the PCB and the conductive member. A wireless communication circuit is disposed in the sub-housing and is configured to transmit and/or receive a signal of a predetermined frequency band based on an electrical path including the conductive hinge structure and the conductive member by directly feeding power to the conductive hinge structure. Various other embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaewon Choe, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehoon Jo, Nakchung Choi
  • Patent number: 12075541
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes pixel circuits arranged to form rows and columns and each including a light emitting element, signal lines each extending in a column direction and configured to supply a pixel signal to the pixel circuits, row selection lines each extending in a row direction and configured to supply a row selection signal to the pixel circuits, and column selection lines each extending in the column direction and configured to supply a column selection signal to the pixel circuits. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a light emission control circuit configured to allow the light emitting element of a pixel circuit indicated by the row selection signal and the column selection signal to emit light in a brightness according to the pixel signal that is being supplied to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Hiromasa Tsuboi, Masahiko Mizoguchi, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12066712
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a backlight module and a panel body. The panel body includes a light-transmitting region. The backlight module includes: a backlight unit, provided with a light-transmitting portion corresponding to the light-transmitting region; and a light source assembly. The panel body includes: a substrate, located on the backlight unit; a metal wire, located on a side of the substrate opposite the backlight unit; and a shading layer, located between the substrate and the metal wire, the shading layer covering the metal wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fancheng Liu, Peng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12058896
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display area composed of a light-emitting area and a light-transmissive area in which a dark spot defect in the light-transmissive area does not occur. Further, in the display panel, a decrease in transmittance due to light leakage can be prevented, and color mixing between adjacent pixels can be prevented. To this end, a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between the light-emitting area and the light-transmissive area, a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between sub-pixels rendering different colors and adjacent to each other, and a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between two adjacent light-transmissive areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongmin Kim, Jaeyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 12056267
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a shape changing system. The electronic device includes a plurality of deforming interfaces, each having a shape changing unit that causes a shape of the deforming interface to change, and, by controlling operations of the shape changing units to cause the shapes of the deforming interfaces to change, is capable of forming a vertex formed by causing a part of a surface formed including the plurality of deforming interfaces to protrude, in any desired position of the surface formed including the plurality of deforming interfaces. The shape changing system includes a shape change control unit that, by controlling operations of the shape changing units to cause the shapes of the deforming interfaces to change, is capable of forming a vertex, formed by causing a part of a surface formed including the plurality of deforming interfaces to protrude, in any desired position of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Takahashi, Takamoto Tsuda, Daisuke Iseki
  • Patent number: 12051361
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. Both a constant voltage signal line and a variable voltage signal line extend along a first direction. The constant voltage signal line includes an initialization voltage line, and the variable voltage signal line includes an initialization control signal line. A first electrode of an initialization transistor is electrically connected to the initialization voltage line, a second electrode of the initialization transistor is electrically connected to a first electrode or a second electrode of a drive transistor, and a gate of the initialization transistor is electrically connected to the initialization control signal line and used for turning on the initialization transistor according to a control signal on the initialization control signal line so as to initialize the first electrode or the second electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuping Xu, Xiao Yang
  • Patent number: 12045425
    Abstract: A display stack with millimeter-wave antenna functionality comprising a plurality of adjoining layers, the layers comprising at least a cover layer, a touch sensor panel layer comprising a touch sensor arrangement, and a display panel layer. The touch sensor panel layer comprises a first sensor line grid pattern and a second sensor line grid pattern, the first sensor line grid pattern comprising a plurality of continuous first sensor lines, the second sensor line grid pattern comprising a plurality of continuous second sensor lines. At least a part of the first sensor lines and the second sensor lines are configured to function as radiators for the millimeter wave antenna functionality. This allows providing the millimeter wave antenna in the touch sensor panel structure without the antenna and the touch sensor panel interfering with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Linsheng Li, Chien-Ming Lee, Yongchao Wang, Cheng Gou, Junyong Zhang, Haiming He, Hanyang Wang
  • Patent number: 12032790
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a display layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of light emitting areas; a code pattern layer disposed on the display layer and including a plurality of position code patterns; and a reflective layer that receives first light incident from the outside having a first wavelength band and reflects the first light to generate second light having a second wavelength band, wherein a second peak wavelength of the second light is smaller than a first peak wavelength of the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Da Som Gu, Ki Jun Roh, Gil Yeong Park, Sung Guk An, Hee Young Lee, So Yeon Han
  • Patent number: 12033596
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a display method thereof. When a change of a grayscale data of a sub-pixel between a current frame and a previous frame, and a change of a polarity of a data voltage of the sub-pixel between the current frame and the previous frame satisfy a compensation condition, the grayscale data of the sub-pixel in the current frame is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd., TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yonglei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12016228
    Abstract: A display device including: a plurality of display bodies, wherein each of the plurality of display bodies includes a display region, a frame region surrounding the display region, and a terminal region in the frame region, a surface formed with the terminal region is a first face, the plurality of display bodies include a first display body and a second display body, either one of a first notched frame region provided with a first notched portion in the frame region of the first display body and a second notched frame region provided with a second notched portion in the frame region of the second display body is folded back to form a bonding portion by the first face of the first notched frame region and the first face of the second notched frame region, and the first notched portion and the second notched portion form a through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12014665
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. A first display area of the display panel is located at least one side of a second display area, and a first data line in the first display area is electrically connected to a demultiplexing unit through a first connection line segment and a second connection line segment. The second connection line segment is located between the adjacent first sub-data line and second sub-data line in the second display area, and a distance between the second connection line segment and the first sub-data line is smaller than a distance between the second connection line segment and the second sub-data line. The control terminal of the switch element in the demultiplexing unit corresponding to the first data line is connected to a same switch control line as the control terminal of the switch element corresponding to the first sub-data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dian Zhang
  • Patent number: 12010901
    Abstract: A display apparatus may include a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area, pixel circuits in the display area, data lines in the display area and connected to the pixel circuits, first circuit driving signal lines in the peripheral area, and configured to transmit a first circuit driving signal to drive the pixel circuits, a data test pad portion at the peripheral area, and including data test pads connected to the data lines, a pad portion on the peripheral area, and including first circuit pads connected to the first circuit driving signal lines, a first test pad portion at the peripheral area, and including first circuit test pads connected to the first circuit pads, and a second test pad portion at the peripheral area, and including second circuit test pads connected to the first circuit test pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Namhyoung Kim, Jiyong Jung
  • Patent number: 11990090
    Abstract: A display substrate and an electronic device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, including a display region and a peripheral region on at least one side of the display region; and a shift register unit and a first clock signal line in the peripheral region of the base substrate, wherein the first clock signal line extends along a first direction on the base substrate, and is connected to a first clock signal terminal to be configured to provide a first clock signal to the shift register unit; the shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit, and an output control circuit; the output control circuit includes an output control transistor and a first capacitor, and the output circuit includes an output transistor and a second capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Lu Bai, Jie Dai, Mengqi Wang, Huijun Li, Yupeng He, Hao Zhang, Meng Zhang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11989061
    Abstract: An electronic device may include: a first housing capable of being slid; a second housing; a flexible display including a first region mounted on one surface of the first housing and a second region extending from the first region, wherein the second region is at least partially accommodated inside the first housing or the second housing or exposed to an outside of the first housing or the second housing based on a sliding movement of the first housing; a driving unit disposed in the second housing and configured to provide power for sliding the first housing; and a rail unit including a rail configured to receive the power from the driving unit and to move together with the first housing when the first housing slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoungtak Cho, Youngmin Ji, Hyunggwang Kang, Myunghoon Kwak, Junhyuk Kim, Yeonggyu Yoon, Hojin Jung
  • Patent number: 11990089
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a shift register unit, a first clock signal line, and a second clock signal line that are provided on the base substrate. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and an output control circuit, and the second control circuit includes a first noise reduction transistor and a second noise reduction transistor; and the input circuit includes an input transistor, the input transistor and the first noise reduction transistor are sequentially arranged in the first direction, and an imaginary line of a channel region of the first noise reduction transistor extending in the second direction does not intersect with an imaginary line of an active layer of the input transistor extending in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Lu Bai, Jie Dai, Mengqi Wang, Huijun Li, Yupeng He, Hao Zhang, Meng Zhang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11990101
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a data line, first and second selection lines and a common electrode. A control circuit element includes first and second diode-like elements coupled between the first and second selection lines and a charging node. A charging capacitive element is coupled between the charging node and the date line. An active pixel element is coupled between the charging node and the common electrode. The common electrode can overly the entire electronic display and is a suitable transparent conductive material. Each of the first and second diode-like elements includes an amorphous metal non-linear resistor. The active pixel element may include one of liquid crystal display circuitry, light emitting diode circuitry, and electrophoretic circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sean William Muir, Christopher Harold Koch