Patents Examined by Kevin M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11347339
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module, a touch member, and a first driving substrate. The display module includes a display panel. The touch member is disposed on the display module. The first driving substrate is attached on substrate attachment portions of the touch member, the substrate attachment portions being provided near a first edge of the touch member near a first side of the display device. the first driving substrate is bent in a downward direction with respect to the display module. The display module includes a bending support structure disposed on a first edge of the display module near the first side, the bending support structure protruding outwardly beyond the substrate attachment portions of the touch member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung Ha Jeon, Hyeon Jeong Oh, Ki Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 11340496
    Abstract: A head-up display assembly including a printed circuit board with a plurality of light emitting elements. A display is illuminated by the plurality of light emitting elements. A biconic lens array is between the printed circuit board and the display. The biconic lens array includes a plurality of biconic lenses. Each one of the plurality of biconic lenses is aligned with a different one of the plurality of light emitting elements. Light emitted by the plurality of light emitting elements passes through the plurality of biconic lenses and illuminates the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Olga Adeyshvili, Reben Werman
  • Patent number: 11335225
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provides a stretchable display device. The stretchable display device includes a lower substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a plurality of first substrates and a plurality of second substrates disposed in the display area, a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on each of the plurality of first substrates, a switching transistor and a driving transistor disposed on each of the plurality of second substrates, in which the switching transistor may output a data signal to the driving transistor in accordance with a scan signal and the driving transistor may output a driving current to the light emitting element in accordance with the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seulki Kim, Hyunju Jung
  • Patent number: 11327383
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel having an array of a plurality of subpixels. The display panel includes a plurality of light modulators configured to modulate display contrast of the display panel. Each of the plurality of light modulators is in a light modulation region configured to allow light transmitting through the display panel. Light transmittance in the light modulation region is controlled by a first gate line and a first data line for driving image display in a first subpixel of the plurality of subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shi Shu, Chuanxiang Xu, Jiangnan Lu, Yang Yue, Yue Shi
  • Patent number: 11322070
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a transparent OLED substrate and an OLED substrate. The transparent OLED substrate includes: a base substrate; a first electrode layer located on the base substrate; a light emitting structure layer located on the first electrode layer and including light emitting structures of n colors, n?1; and a second electrode located on the light emitting structure layer. The first electrode layer includes electrode groups arranged along a first direction, each electrode group includes first electrode(s), each first electrode extends along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. When a driving voltage is between each first electrode and the second electrode, the transparent OLED substrate performs a display function; and otherwise, the transparent OLED substrate performs a light transmission function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junhui Lou
  • Patent number: 11322092
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and the base substrate includes a display region, a sensing region, and a dummy region; a plurality of sensing pixel units including a first light emitting element and a first pixel circuit are provided in the sensing region, and the first pixel circuit controls a voltage sensor to sense a voltage at a first terminal of the first light emitting element; a plurality of display pixel units including a second pixel circuit and a second light emitting element are provided in the display region; a plurality of dummy pixel units including a third pixel circuit and a third light emitting element are provided in the dummy region; and the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, and the third light emitting element are all connected to a common voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Hui Wang, Kuanta Huang, Pengcheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11305180
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing assembly comprises a nonconductive interface material, a conductive plastic, an electrode, and a controller. The capacitive sensing assembly is configured to detect a proximity of skin to the nonconductive interface material. The nonconductive interface material comprises a first surface and a second surface that are opposite one another. The first surface receives contact with the skin. The conductive plastic is coupled to the second surface of the interface material. The electrode is electrically coupled to the conductive plastic and configured to provide an electrical signal. The electrical signal corresponds to a surface capacitance of the nonconductive interface material that is based in part on the conductive plastic, the nonconductive interface material, and the proximity of the skin to the interface material. The controller determines the proximity of the skin based on the electrical signal that corresponds to the surface capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raymond Louis Nicoli
  • Patent number: 11300794
    Abstract: A processor causes a display provided on a Head Mounted Display to display a stereoscopic image to which binocular parallax is applied, the stereoscopic image being an image of a virtual space captured by a virtual camera, and acquire orientation information on an orientation of the Head Mounted Display. When, in the virtual space, a predetermined positional relationship is established between a virtual object that exists in the virtual space and a virtual line that passes through the virtual camera, the virtual line having a direction according to the orientation information, the processor causes to move, based on a change in relative position between the virtual line and the virtual object, a display range of display information to be displayed in the virtual space, the display range being a part of the display information and displayed in the display region provided in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Matsuoka, Junichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11302228
    Abstract: A foldable display device includes a display screen including a first half screen and a second half screen, a controller and at least one angle probe set. Each set includes a transmitter and a plurality of receivers. The transmitter is inclined at a first angle with respect to the first half screen and faces the second half screen, and is configured to emit collimated infrared light. Each receiver is inclined at a second angle with respect to the second half screen, and is in signal connection with the controller, and is configured to transmit an electrical signal to the controller when receiving the collimated infrared light. The controller is in signal connection with the display screen, and is configured to determine a bending angle from angle information of the receiver and control the display screen to switch to a display state for the bending angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenxiu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11302764
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a flexible display panel. A source/drain of the array substrate is connected to an active terminal of an active layer through a second through-hole, and is connected to a first metal terminal of a first metal layer through a third through-hole, and is connected to a second metal terminal of a second metal layer through a fourth through-hole. A distance between the second through-hole and the first through-hole is greater than a predetermined distance, which reduces the impact of film segment difference and relieve the problem of faults in source/drain in the current flexible display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zuzhao Xu
  • Patent number: 11296176
    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: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11289684
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; two pixel circuits on the substrate spaced apart from each other with a transmission area therebetween, each of the two pixel circuits including a transistor and a storage capacitor; two display elements respectively electrically coupled to the two pixel circuits; a bottom metal layer between the substrate and the two pixel circuits and including a through hole at the transmission area; an encapsulation member on the two display elements; and an optical functional layer on the encapsulation member, wherein the optical functional layer includes: a first layer including a first opening, second openings, and a first slope portion, the first opening at the transmission area, the second openings corresponding to each of the two display elements, and the first slope portion being around the transmission area; and a second layer on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghyun Cho, Seunghoon Lee, Jinkoo Chung, Beohmrock Choi
  • Patent number: 11270628
    Abstract: A display panel, a display assembly, a display apparatus and a drive method therefor are disclosed. The display panel includes a first display area and at least one second display area. The first display area includes first sub-pixels, and the first sub-pixels are non-transparent sub-pixels. The at least one second display area includes second sub-pixels, and the second sub-pixels are transparent sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huabing Zhang, Zhichao Lv, Qiang Zhang, Weipin Hu, Chenyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262789
    Abstract: A curved display device may include a display panel and a chassis member. The display panel may include a first edge and a second edge. The first edge may be longer than the second edge and may be convex in a back direction. The second edge may be convex in an image-displaying direction. The back direction and the image-displaying direction may be with reference to the display panel. The chassis member may be coupled to the display panel and may support the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yu Bin Kim, Won Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11256104
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed a virtual embodiment display system comprising one or more image sensors, configured to receive one or more images of a vehicle occupant; one or more processors, configured to determine a gaze direction of the vehicle occupant from the one or more images; select a display location corresponding to the determined gaze direction; and control an image display device to display a virtual embodiment of an intelligent agent at the display location; the image display device, configured to display the virtual embodiment of the intelligent agent at the selected display location according to the one or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cagri Tanriover, Richard Beckwith, Asli Arslan Esme, John Sherry
  • Patent number: 11256331
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are generally directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods that utilize electroactive devices in connection with haptic devices (e.g., haptic touch sensors or haptic feedback elements). In some examples, a haptic feedback system may include an array of electroactive devices, each electroactive device including 1) a first electrode, 2) a second electrode, and 3) an electroactive polymer element disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electroactive polymer element may include a nanovoided polymer material that is mechanically deformable in response to an electric field generated by a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. The system may also include control circuitry electronically coupled to the array and configured to apply a voltage to at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Diest, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Katherine Marie Smyth, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Jack Lindsay
  • Patent number: 11257425
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, a pixel light emitting compensation method, and a display apparatus. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, wherein each of the pixel units comprises: an array substrate comprising a pixel driving circuit; a pixel defining layer disposed on a first surface of the array substrate and having a via hole wherein the first surface is far away from a substrate of the array substrate; a light emitting unit disposed in the via hole, wherein the light emitting unit is electrically connected to an output terminal of the pixel driving circuit, so that driving current output by the pixel driving circuit drives the light emitting unit to emit light; and a photoelectric converter configured to receive the light emitted by the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huajie Yan, Qingyu Huang, Xiaohu Li, Tun Liu, Liangliang Kang, Juan Zhang, Zhiqiang Jiao
  • Patent number: 11250780
    Abstract: A system and method for estimating and using pixel compensation coefficients. In some embodiments, the method includes, during a first time interval: comparing a first pixel current for a pixel of the display with a first reference current, to obtain a first pixel current error signal, the first pixel current error signal being the sign of a difference between the first pixel current and the first reference current; and updating one or more compensation coefficients for the pixel, based on the first pixel current error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Amirkhany, Anup P. Jose, Gaurav Malhotra, Younghoon Song, Mohamed Elzeftawi
  • Patent number: 11251235
    Abstract: A display panel may include a substrate, pixels, dummy pixels, and voltage lines. The substrate may include a first transmission region for light transmission and/or sound transmission, a non-display area surrounding the first transmission region, and a display area surrounding the non-display area. The pixels may be arranged on the display area and may emit light. The dummy pixels may be arranged on the non-display area, may include a first dummy pixel, and may emit no light. The voltage lines may transmit voltages to the pixels and the dummy pixels. The voltage lines may include a first voltage line and a second voltage line. The first voltage line may be spaced from the second voltage line, may be aligned with the second voltage line, and may overlap the first dummy pixel. The first transmission region may be positioned between the first voltage line and the second voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Youngsoo Yoon, Jaewon Kim, Hyunae Park, Hyungjun Park, Seungwoo Sung, Nuree Um, Ilgoo Youn, Jieun Lee, Donghyeon Jang, Seunghan Jo
  • Patent number: 11249570
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) sensor panel and a sensor circuit configured to detect a stylus pen, using the EMR sensor panel, wherein the EMR sensor panel comprises a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer which are substantially parallel to the display panel, the first layer comprises a first plurality of conductive lines which extend parallel to one another in a first direction, the second layer comprises a second plurality of conductive lines which extend parallel to one another in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and the third layer includes a third plurality of conductive lines, each of the third plurality of conductive lines electrically connected to ends of respective two of the first plurality of the conductive lines or the second plurality of the conductive lines, through conductive vias formed through at least one of the first layer, the second layer, or the third layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Woon Kim, Jang Hoon Lee