Patents Examined by Kevin M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11244627
    Abstract: The present application relates to a display panel, a display screen and a control method thereof, and a display terminal and a driving method thereof. The first electrodes in the display panel have a one-to-one correspondence with the pixel circuits, and a second electrode is a full-surface electrode, at least a scanning line and at least a data line are connected to the pixel circuit, and the scanning lines control the turning on and turning off of the pixel circuit. When the pixel circuit is turned on, the data line provides a driving current for the first electrode to control the illumination of the sub-pixel. The scanning lines control the turning on and off of the pixel circuit, which requires only a switching voltage required by the pixel circuit, thereby greatly reducing a load current of the scanning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhui Lou, Li Lin, Shixing Cai
  • Patent number: 11243433
    Abstract: In an image display device having a backlight including a plurality of light sources, the backlight is divided into a plurality of areas arranged in the same direction as an order of writing to pixels. A backlight drive circuit sets lighting periods separately for each of the areas and causes the brightness of the light sources to rise and drop in a non-step manner during the corresponding lighting period. In a case where first and second areas are adjacent to each other, there is a period of overlap between a lighting period set for the first area and a lighting period set for the second area, and the period of overlap includes a middle portion in which the brightness of light sources corresponding to the first area drops and the brightness of light sources corresponding to the second area rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11237672
    Abstract: A display apparatus for detecting three-dimensional (3D) spatial information. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of active subpixels in a display area configured with multiple gaps respectively between at least some active subpixels, the display panel including a counter substrate at front and a backplane substrate at back; an optical layer at a back side of the backplane substrate; multiple light sensors attached discretely on a back side of the optical layer and substantially aligned with the multiple gaps in the display area; and a light source on the backplane substrate and configured to provide an infrared light signal in a direction toward a field of view beyond the counter substrate. The multiple light sensors are configured to detect respective infrared light signals reflected from multiple different regions of an object in the field of view for collectively deducing 3D spatial information of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yangbing Li, Likai Deng
  • Patent number: 11237638
    Abstract: Systems and methods of multi-modal control of a touch-based device include receiving multi-modal control inputs from one or more of voice commands, a game controller, a handheld remote, and physical gestures detected by a sensor; converting the multi-modal control inputs into corresponding translated inputs which correspond to physical inputs recognizable by the touch-based device; and providing the corresponding translated inputs to the touch-based device for control thereof, wherein the translated inputs are utilized by the touch-based device as corresponding physical inputs to control underlying applications executed on the touch-based device which expect the corresponding physical inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cuesta Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Flagg, Jeremy Barrett, Scott Wills, Sean Durkin, Vinod Valloppillil, Satya Mallick
  • Patent number: 11239298
    Abstract: An Organic Light-emitting Diode (OLED) display substrate, a method of forming the same and a display device are provided. The OLED display substrate includes: a driving thin film transistor located on a base substrate and configured to drive an OLED light-emitting unit to emit light; and a photosensitive thin film transistor located on the base substrate and configured to be capable of detecting light emitted by the OLED light-emitting unit and generating an electrical signal, at least a part of film layers of the photosensitive thin film transistor and at least a part of film layers of the driving thin film transistor are disposed at a same layer and made of a same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Muxin Di, Yingwei Liu, Zhiwei Liang, Haixu Li, Zhanfeng Cao
  • Patent number: 11232730
    Abstract: A display system comprises a current source, pulse circuitry, a pulsed laser, control circuitry, and a display surface. The pulse circuitry outputs a first pulse of electrical current based upon electrical current emitted by the current source. The pulsed laser emits first light based upon the first pulse, wherein luminance of the first light is based upon a first amplitude of the first pulse. The control circuitry generates an estimate of pulse history effects on second light that is to be emitted by the pulsed laser, the estimate is generated based upon a parameter of the first pulse and a desired luminance of the second light. The control circuitry causes the pulse circuitry to output a second pulse of electrical current based upon the estimate. Based upon the second pulse, the pulsed laser emits second light with the desired luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Hamish Barter, John Allen Tardif
  • Patent number: 11221694
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes: a display layer including: an emission region; a first non-emission region having a pixel definition layer surrounding the emission region; and a second non-emission region having a spacer on the pixel definition layer; and a touch screen layer including a touch electrode at a position corresponding to the first non-emission region and the second non-emission region, wherein the touch screen layer further includes a sensitivity compensation layer including a first dielectric constant portion and a second dielectric constant portion of different dielectric constants arranged to respectively correspond to the first non-emission region and the second non-emission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwhan Jung, Hyeonbum Lee
  • Patent number: 11217138
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display screen including a multiplex pixel array having multiplex sub-pixels, wherein a driving signal is inputted to the display screen; and a camera disposed behind the display screen and corresponding to positions of the multiplex sub-pixels. The display screen further includes a control unit configured to control the multiplex sub-pixels not to receive the driving signal when receiving an instruction for taking pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rui Xie
  • Patent number: 11217656
    Abstract: A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and sub-pixels on the base substrate. The sub-pixels are arranged in a sub-pixel array. At least one sub-pixel includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and a storage capacitor. The first electrode of the third transistor is electrically connected to an active layer of the third transistor through a first via hole, and the first electrode of the third transistor is configured to be electrically connected to the light emitting element through a second via hole; the first via hole and the second via hole are at least partially overlapped with each other in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Zhongyuan Wu, Yongqian Li, Can Yuan, Zhidong Yuan, Xuehuan Feng, Lang Liu, Dacheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11215858
    Abstract: The display device includes: a flexible display panel including a display portion in which scanning lines and signal lines cross each other; a supporting portion for supporting an end portion of the flexible display panel; a signal line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the signal line, which is provided for the supporting portion; and a scanning line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the scanning line, which is provided for a flexible surface of the display panel in a direction which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Satohiro Okamoto, Yasuyuki Arai, Ikuko Kawamata, Atsushi Miyaguchi, Yoshitaka Moriya
  • Patent number: 11209705
    Abstract: A display panel has an odd-shaped active area and a peripheral area. The display panel includes a substrate, pixel units, gate lines and at least one dummy thin film transistor. The pixel units are disposed on the active area of the substrate. The gate lines are disposed on the substrate, each of the gate lines is coupled to one or more of the pixel units, and the number of pixel units coupled to a first gate line of the gate lines is smaller than the number of pixel units a second gate line coupled to of the gate lines. The dummy thin film transistor is disposed on the substrate, and is coupled to the first gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hua Yu, Sung-Chun Lin, Hsien-Tang Hu, Hsuan-Chen Liu, Chien-Ting Chan
  • Patent number: 11209943
    Abstract: An OLED touch display panel and a touch display device are disclosed. The OLED touch display panel includes a TFT back plate and a cathode layer disposed on the TFT back plate. The cathode layer includes a plurality of touch leads which are insulated from each other and a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes which are insulated from each other and arranged in a form of a matrix. The touch leads extend to a non-display region of the OLED touch display panel. Each one of the touch leads is connected with one of the self-capacitance electrodes, and resistance values of the touch leads connected with the self-capacitance electrodes of a same row are all consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Minghua Xuan, Lei Wang, Jie Fu, Li Xiao, Pengcheng Lu, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 11204659
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a substrate; a conductive layer, disposed on the substrate; and a cover layer, disposed on a side of the conductive layer facing away from the substrate. The flexible circuit board is provided with a through hole penetrating through the flexible circuit board in the thickness direction. The cover layer includes a hollowed-out region located at least at an edge of one side of the through hole. The conductive layer includes an electrostatic discharge section exposed in the hollowed-out region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Zhihua Yu, Tao Peng
  • Patent number: 11199744
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a display device, a camera, and a processor. The camera captures an image including first and second observers in a field of view in front of the display device. Based on the captured image, the processor determines a first location of the first observer and a second location of the second observer. Based on the first and second locations, the processor determines a first set of pixels located within a primary field of view for the first observer, and a second set of pixels located within a second field of view for the second observer. The processor calculates a viewing legibility adjustment for the second set of pixels. Based on the viewing legibility adjustment, the processor adjusts a contrast ratio for the second set of pixels to below a viewing threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Asim M. Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 11200019
    Abstract: A computer system is disclosed comprising an operating system having a display subsystem. The display subsystem includes a display interface for receiving display information from applications, and is adapted to generate display output based on the display information. A redirection module is configured to intercept calls from an application to the display interface. Responsive to the intercepted calls, the redirection module transmits display output generated by the application to a connected display device, bypassing at least part of the display subsystem, including for example a desktop compositor or window manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventor: Paul James
  • Patent number: 11189254
    Abstract: A video processing device processing input videos, includes a video processing unit that processes the input videos; and a control unit that sets a control value for controlling the video processing unit, wherein an entire input video is constituted by combining the input videos, and among partial areas associated with the respective input videos constituting the entire input video, one of the partial areas is defined as a first partial area, and another of the partial areas adjacent to, the first partial area is defined as a second partial area, and when processing which is performed, by referring to a pixel value in one of the first partial area and the second partial area, on another of the first partial area and the second partial area, is defined as adjacent boundary processing, the video processing unit performs the adjacent boundary processing on the entire input video, and generates processed videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11183094
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a data line, a plurality of first scan lines, a plurality of first sub pixels, and a plurality of second sub pixels. The data line transmits a plurality of data signals. The plurality of first scan lines intersect the data line and transmit a plurality of first scan signals. The plurality of first sub pixels are coupled to the data line, and configured to emit first color light. The plurality of second sub pixels are coupled to the data line and configured to emit second color light different from the first color light. At least two of the plurality of first sub pixels receive at least two of the plurality of data signals successively according to at least two of the plurality of first scan signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Tsai, Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Yung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 11183111
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel unit and a method for manufacturing the same, and a double-sided OLED display device. The pixel unit includes: a substrate; a driving circuit layer including a first and a second driving transistor on one side of the substrate; a first light emitting device including a first anode on one side of the driving circuit layer away from the substrate and connected to a drain of the first driving transistor, a first functional layer on one side of the first anode away from the driving circuit layer, and a cathode on one side of the first functional layer away from the first anode; a second light emitting device including the cathode, a second functional layer, and a second anode on one side of the second functional layer away from the cathode and connected to a drain of the second driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xing Huang
  • Patent number: 11170725
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes having a long shape and arranged at least in a long side direction of the plurality of pixel electrodes; a common electrode overlapping the plurality of pixel electrodes with an insulating film interposed therebetween; an image wiring line extending in a short side direction of the plurality of pixel electrodes, arranged such that two of the image wiring lines are sandwiched between two pixel electrodes of the plurality of pixel electrodes, and supplying an image signal to each of the two pixel electrodes; and a common wiring line extending in the short side direction, arranged to sandwich one of the plurality of pixel electrodes together with the image wiring line in the long side direction, connected to the common electrode, and including a portion formed of a portion of the same conductive film as the image wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11163184
    Abstract: Reduction of luminance is suppressed while effectively suppressing temperature rising of an LED of a backlight and a peripheral circuit. A backlight driving control unit (8) of a control device (50) included in a liquid crystal display device (10) according to an aspect of the invention increases and reduces, on the basis of two thresholds, power supplied to a backlight, and makes a time during which the power supplied to the backlight (9) is reduced longer than a time during which the power supplied to the backlight (9) is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ozeki