Patents Examined by Kevin M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11778878
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel display device is provided. The display panel includes a display region, a first terminal region, and a second terminal region, and the first terminal region is provided not to block the display region and includes a region overlapping with the display region. The first terminal region includes a first group of terminals, and the first group of terminals includes a first terminal. The second terminal region includes a second group of terminals, and the second group of terminals includes a second terminal. The display region includes one group of pixels, another group of pixels, a scan line, and a signal line. The one group of pixels includes a pixel and is arranged in a row direction. The another group of pixels includes the pixel and is arranged in a column direction intersecting the row direction. The scan line is electrically connected to the one group of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11778300
    Abstract: A display device and a white balance adjusting method of a photosensitive element of the display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel, the photosensitive element, and a driver integrated circuit (IC). A first white balance imaging parameter is color parameters of a preset image collected by the photosensitive element of the display device under a preset light source. A second white balance imaging parameter is color parameters of a preset image collected by a photosensitive element of a typical display device under the preset light source. The driver IC is configured to perform a white balance compensation on image data collected by the photosensitive element of the display device according to a deviation between the first white balance imaging parameter the second white balance imaging parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zeng, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 11769433
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: operating state switching processing to switch an operating state of a system among a first operating state, a second operating state in which processing of the system is more limited than that in the first operating state and at least the display is hidden, and a third operating state in which the processing of the system is shut down, display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode to control display by setting a screen area of the display as one display area, and a second display mode to control display by splitting the screen area into plural display areas, and setting switching processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Patent number: 11765957
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel comprising a light emitting area and a non-light-emitting area; an input sensor on the display panel; and an anti-reflective layer on the input sensor, the input sensor comprising: a sensing electrode on the display panel and having a first opening defined therethrough to correspond to the light emitting area; a first insulating layer between the sensing electrode and the display panel and having a second opening defined therethrough to correspond to the first opening; and a second insulating layer comprising a first portion inside at least the first opening and the second opening, wherein one of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer comprises an organic material, the other of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer comprises an inorganic material, and the first opening has a substantially same shape as the second opening in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn Joon Kim, Eun-Sook Jung, Jonghyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11763736
    Abstract: A messaging apparatus for wearable items. The messaging apparatus may comprise a light source, at least one sensor to detect are event, and a controller to control the flashing of the light source in response to the detection of the event. The controlling of the flashing of the light source may generate at least one visible element that is visible to a viewer. Further, the light source may not be adapted in the form of the at least one visible element, but rather, the controlled flashing of the light source may be in the form of the at least one visible element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Peter David Cauwood, Keir Samuel Jackson, Keith Paul Thompson, Constantin Zwick, Tomek Kamil Cegielny, Scott James Grubb, Peter Georg Laitenberger
  • Patent number: 11762488
    Abstract: A device for simulating finger movement on a computer touchpad prevents the computer attached to the touchpad from falling asleep or locking. The device includes a small motor that moves a weight inside the device and thereby changes the location of the center of gravity of the device, causing the device to tilt in different directions when the device is placed on the touchpad. The lower support of the device is conductive, e.g., metalized, so that the changes in the location of the contact patch between the device and the touchpad simulate finger movements on the touchpad. The small motor may be an electric motor, such as a wall/desk clock motor powered by an AA battery, or a mechanical wind-up movement. In examples, the simulated finger movement is linear or circular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: WORK-LIFE BALANCE CORPORATION LLC
    Inventors: Evgeny Korol, Victor Korol
  • Patent number: 11762274
    Abstract: A projection screen including a capacitive touch panel, such as a projected capacitive touch panel. The touch panel includes first and second glass substrates, one of which is patterned (e.g., etched with acid or the like) to form a diffuser. A conductive coating is formed on the patterned surface of the diffuser glass substrate, and is patterned into a plurality of electrodes for the touch panel. The system, including an optional projector, may be used as an interactive transparent display for augmented reality applications such as storefronts. The touch panel may also be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Jason J. Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 11763776
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a processor. The processor is coupled to the display panel. The processor is configured to generate first output data according to first input data and a first compensation value, generate a stress reduction value and a compensation reduction value according to the first input data, calculate a final stress value according to the first output data, at least one first operating factor, and the stress reduction value, calculate a second compensation value according to the final stress value and the compensation reduction value, and output second output data according to second input data, the second compensation value, and at least one second operating factor. The display panel receives the second output data to display according to the second output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 11758791
    Abstract: An assembly can include a first substrate, a second substrate, a non-light-emitting, variable transmission device deposited on the first substrate, and a transparent light-emitting device deposited on the second substrate, where the non-light-emitting, variable transmission device faces the transparent light-emitting device, and where the non-light emitting device alters an intensity of a wavelength prior to reaching the transparent light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAGE ELECTROCHROMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Cody VanDerVeen, Jean-Christophe Giron, Robert J. Anglemier
  • Patent number: 11758790
    Abstract: A display device including a first sensor part that includes a first trunk portion, a first branch portion connected to the first trunk portion and extending in a direction different from a first direction and a second direction, a second branch portion spaced apart from the first branch portion, and a bridge connecting the first branch portion to the second branch portion. A second sensor part includes a second trunk portion extending in the second direction, and a third branch portion disposed between the first branch portion and the second branch portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunjae Na, Jaseung Ku, Kwan-ho Kim, Gyeongnam Bang, Hoseok Son, Sungyeon Cho
  • Patent number: 11751460
    Abstract: A display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. In the display panel, sub-pixel areas in a same row along a first direction are divided into a plurality of sub-pixel area groups independent from each other, and each sub-pixel area group includes at least two adjacent sub-pixel areas, a connection layer includes a connection pattern arranged in each sub-pixel area, and the connection pattern is coupled to the initialization signal line pattern in the sub-pixel area wherein the connection pattern is located, connection patterns located in a same sub-pixel area group are sequentially coupled along the first direction to form the connection portion; at least part of a first auxiliary signal line layer is located in an anode spacing area, and is insulated from an anode pattern, the connection pattern in each sub-pixel area group is coupled to the first auxiliary signal line layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Lujiang Huangfu, Libin Liu
  • Patent number: 11741913
    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: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean William Muir, Christopher Harold Koch
  • Patent number: 11735107
    Abstract: A display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a shift register unit and a first clock signal line that are on the base substrate, the first clock signal line extends along a first direction 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 an orthographic projection of the intermediate transfer electrode on the base substrate is between a whole of an orthographic projection of the active layer of the first control transistor on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the second control transistor on the base substrate and orthographic projections of the active layers of the first noise reduction transistor and the second noise reduction transistor on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    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: 11735108
    Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a repeating unit, the repeating unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is identical to a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel, a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is different from a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libin Liu, Mei Li, Hongli Wang
  • Patent number: 11735143
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one display, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to obtain, through a first display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is folded, an input to select a plurality of applications to be executed and displayed when the at least one display is unfolded, detect an unfolding of the at least one display, based on the detection of the unfolding, split a second display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is unfolded to correspond to a number of the plurality of applications, and execute the plurality of applications and display the plurality of applications on the split second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngchan Cho, Sungwook Kwon, Nanhee Kim, Byeongcheol Kim, Seungeun Lee, Dugjin Han, Seungnyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11737327
    Abstract: A display device and an electronic device are provided, and they shield the parasitic capacitance between the gate lead and the transparent wire by a shielding layer, so as to avoid the difference in parasitic capacitance from affecting a potential of the gate of the drive transistor to be varied and enhance the stability of the drive transistor as driving the light emitting device, so as to avoid the problem of uneven brightness when the light emitting device of the display device is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chujun Yi, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11727872
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a threshold compensation transistor, a shielding element including a first shielding portion and a second shielding portion coupled with each other; a data writing transistor, orthographic projections of an active layer of the data writing transistor and the gate of the data writing transistor on the substrate are overlapped to form a first overlapping area; the first electrode and the active layer of the data writing transistor are in a same layer, orthographic projections of the first electrode of the data writing transistor and the second shielding portion on the substrate are overlapped to form a second overlapping area; a size of the second overlapping area in the first direction is smaller than that of the first overlapping area in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lulu Yang, Tinghua Shang, Huijuan Yang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Yupeng He, Huijun Li, Yi Qu, Meng Zhang, Xin Zhang, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11727880
    Abstract: A pixel may include a light-emitting element, a first transistor including first and second gate electrodes, a second transistor which is connected between a data line and the second gate electrode, and turned on in response to a third scan signal, a third transistor which is connected between first and second nodes, and turned on in response to a second scan signal, a fourth transistor which is connected between the first node and a third power line, and turned on in response to a first scan signal, a fifth transistor which is connected between the first power line and the first transistor, and turned off in response to a first emission control signal, a sixth transistor which is turned off in response to a second emission control signal, and a first capacitor connected between the first power line and the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keun Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11721257
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image display device and a method of controlling an image display device. The image display device includes a motion detection unit for detecting a motion of a user and provides a welcome feedback to the user in the form of a visual signal, an audio signal, or both according to whether the motion of the user is detected or not, thereby drawing attention of the user or switching a display state to reduce power consumption of the image display device. The image display device determines a motion exception event that is not regarded a user motion on the basis of an overall change or a local change in pixel value between image frames, thereby preventing the display panel from being activated by a non-human-related factor such as a sudden change in illuminance or a movement of a periodically operating object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Ji Han Son
  • Patent number: 11722059
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter may include: a first converter for converting an input voltage to generate a first power supply voltage; a duty ratio controller configured generate a duty ratio control signal for controlling a duty ratio of a switching pulse of the first converter; a switching frequency controller configured to generate a switching frequency control signal for controlling a driving frequency of the first converter corresponding to a switching frequency of the switching pulse; and a current sensor configured to sense current flowing through the first converter. The first converter is driven at a switching frequency of a first frequency in a first mode, based on the switching frequency control signal, and generates the first power supply voltage of a first level, based on the duty ratio control signal. The switching frequency controller determines whether to turn off the current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Uk Nam