Patents Examined by Kwang-Su Yang
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Patent number: 11862064Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are disclosed; at least one GOA circuit is provided in a pixel area of a same row, all GOA circuits of the same row are connected to a same scan line, and each GOA circuit of the same row is connected to a driving IC through a corresponding driving signal line. By setting the GOA circuit in a display area, a near bezel-free display panel design can be realized. Meanwhile, the GOA circuit is modularly designed to form an independent layout model, which improves design efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chao Tian
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Patent number: 11854506Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a signal line, a capacitive line and a pixel including a pixel electrode, a first transparent electrode connected to the capacitive line, a second transparent electrode capacitively coupled to the pixel electrode, a first switch, and a second switch. The first transparent electrode is capacitively coupled to the second transparent electrode. The first switch is electrically connected to the signal line, the pixel electrode, and the first scanning line. The second switch is electrically connected to the signal line, the second transparent electrode, and the second scanning line.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventor: Hirotaka Hayashi
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Patent number: 11853476Abstract: Example techniques are disclosed for increasing the sensitivity of an augmented or virtual reality display system to collecting eye-tracking data for detecting physiological conditions, such as neural processes. An example method includes accessing eye-tracking information associated with a control population and an experimental population, the eye-tracking information reflecting, for each user of the control population and the experimental population, eye-tracking metrics associated with the user; scaling the eye-tracking information based on the eye-tracking information associated with the control population; and determining a sensitivity measure reflecting a distance measure between the control population and experimental population. The sensitivity measure may be utilized to modify physical or operational parameters for the display system and/or the protocol for performing a test.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Farmer, Dorion Bryce Liston
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Patent number: 11846752Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a base, a first lens, a second lens, a first shape memory alloy (SMA) element, and a braking element. The first lens and the second lens are movably disposed on the base. The first SMA element is connected between the base and the first lens or connected between the second lens and the first lens, and is used to move the first lens and adjust a distance between the first lens and the second lens. The braking element is disposed on the base. The braking element brakes the first lens at a braking position. The braking element is separated from the first lens at a movable position.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
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Patent number: 11830453Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a power supply, a backlight unit including a plurality of sub-blocks configured to radiate light to the liquid crystal panel, and a controller configured to determine a peak voltage and a source voltage supplied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks. Each of the plurality of sub-blocks includes a first switching element configured to receive the peak voltage as a gate voltage, and a second switching element including a drain terminal connected to a source terminal of the first switching element, the second switching element configured to receive an amount of charges corresponding to the source voltage through a gate terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonghoon Jung, Sungyeol Kim, Seungyong Shin, Junsung Choi
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Patent number: 11810528Abstract: A display assembly, a display device and a driving method for the display assembly are provided. The display assembly includes: a dimming array (10) and a pixel array (20) stacked together; wherein the dimming array (10) includes a plurality of dimming units (101) arranged in an array; the pixel array (20) includes a plurality of pixel units (201) arranged in an array; each dimming unit (101) corresponds to at least one pixel unit (201), and different dimming units (101) correspond to different pixel units (201), respectively. The display assembly further includes: a first driver chip (102) configured to drive the dimming array (10). The number of output channels of the first driver chip (102) is equal to the number of columns of dimming units (101) in the dimming array (10), and each output channel of the first driver chip (102) is connected to one column of dimming units (101).Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yaoyao Wang, Rui Han, Jie Yu, Xiaoxia Wang, Meng Li, Shulin Qin, Tielei Zhao, Chunhua Wang, Pengtao Li, Tingfeng Huang, Xiaoqiao Dong
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Patent number: 11803285Abstract: A coordinate input device including a coordinate sensor and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly transmits coordinate data, etc. to an external electronic device is realized without affecting coordinate detection by the coordinate sensor and without impeding downsizing of the coordinate input device. A shield sheet (1C) is provided to cover the whole of a surface (back surface) of a sensor (1B) opposite to a sensor input surface (front surface) facing an electronic pen. A controller (200) that controls transmission of the coordinate data detected by the sensor (1B) to the external electronic device is disposed facing the sensor (1B) with the shield sheet (1C) disposed between the sensor and the controller, and a transmission antenna connected with the controller (200) is arranged outside a region covered with the shield sheet (1C).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Fujioka
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Patent number: 11804182Abstract: A first pixel electrode electrically connected to a first transistor, a second pixel electrode electrically connected to a second transistor, a first light-emitting layer formed over the first pixel electrode and overlapping the first pixel electrode, a second light-emitting layer formed over the second pixel electrode and overlapping the second pixel electrode are provided, the first light-emitting layer includes a quantum-dot light-emitting that emits light of a first color, and the second light-emitting layer includes an organic light-emitting layer that emits light of a second color different from the first color.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara
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Patent number: 11797110Abstract: In an embodiment, a system implements detent operation using tactile and audio effects that give the user the effect of a detent without including the mechanical devices that detents would normally imply. The detent operation may be implemented in software and may be synchronized to events on the display of the system (e.g. animation events), which may provide a convincing user experience. A low latency path from the applications and user interface program of the system to the hardware that implements the detent operation may be provided to help ensure that the synchronization of animation events and detent operations is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hernan R. Eguiluz, Michael J. Lamb, Kevin Tyler McAtee, Dylan R. Edwards
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Patent number: 11798503Abstract: A light module driving method for a illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a driving unit, a transformation unit, a compensation and calibration unit and a light module, and the driving unit is configured to output a light driving signal according to a source, wherein the transformation unit is coupled to the driving unit and the light module, and the light driving signal is configured to drive a plurality of lighting zones corresponding to a light-emitting diode (LED) module of the light module, wherein the light module driving method includes transforming, by the transformation unit, the light driving signal into a plurality of modulated light driving signals according to the compensation and calibration unit to drive each lighting zone corresponding to the LED module.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics CorporationInventors: Jon-Hong Lin, Peng-Hsiang Wu, Chun-Yi Sun
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Patent number: 11771163Abstract: The present invention relates to a helmet that includes an outer shell, a heads-up information system that comprises a display, and an attachment assembly. The heads-up information system is movable from a storage position within the outer shell to a use position in which the display of the heads-up information system is visible by a user, without obstructing the field of vision of the user, when the helmet is worn by the user. The attachment assembly is coupled to outer shell and the heads-up information system, and is operable to move the heads-up information system between the storage position and the use position.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Tahoe Research, Ltd.Inventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Raymond C. M. Leung
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Patent number: 11769443Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a first and a second power supply lines, a light-emitting element, a driving TFT, a storage capacitor, a writing TFT, a first, a second, and a third compensation TFTs. The storage capacitor is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the writing TFT is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the first compensation TFT is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the storage capacitor, and the driving TFT, the second compensation TFT is electrically connected to the storage capacitor and the first compensation TFT, the third compensation TFT is electrically connected to the storage capacitor, and the third compensation TFT is electrically connected to the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bin Liu
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Patent number: 11765952Abstract: A display device includes: a first display area comprising main sub-pixels; a second display area comprising pixel groups spaced apart from each other and a transmission portion between the pixel groups, the second display area having a different resolution from that of the first display area; and extension lines between two pixel groups adjacent to each other in a first direction among the pixel groups and extending in the first direction, wherein each of the pixel groups comprises a plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels and a plurality of horizontal lines electrically connected to the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels and extending in the first direction, and the extension lines are electrically connected to the horizontal lines included in each of the two pixel groups, and a number of the extension lines is less than a number of the horizontal lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sunghwan Kim, Jinwoo Park, Junghoon Shim
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Patent number: 11752430Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus including a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. In accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus, the orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled. For example, in a case where the line of sight of the virtual camera rotates in a left direction in a yaw direction and then reverses in a right direction, and when the amount of change in the right direction is greater than or equal to a threshold, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Onozawa, Daigo Shimizu, Kentaro Kawai
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Patent number: 11756499Abstract: A scan driving circuit and a display panel include an even number of signal wires divided into an odd group of signal wires and an even group of signal wires; and a plurality of scanning sub-circuits, each scanning sub-circuit including an assembly coupled between the odd group of signal wires and the even group of signal wires and including a register part and a pull-down part, and a load coupled between the register part and the pull-down part; wherein the register parts and the pull-down parts that are configured on a same side of the loads are alternately arranged, and any two of the register parts that are separated by N of the scanning sub-circuits and configured on one side of the loads are cascaded with each other, wherein N is half of a total number of the even number of signal wires.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi Liu, Ying Zhou
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Patent number: 11740521Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode spaced apart from the first common electrode, a first signal line overlapping the first common electrode and the second common electrode, a first metal line overlapping the first signal line and the first common electrode, and a second metal line overlapping the first signal line and the second common electrode and spaced apart from the first metal line. The first metal line includes an extension portion extending between the first common electrode and the second common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masateru Morimoto
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Patent number: 11733528Abstract: A rugged integrated helmet vision system is disclosed. The system includes an accessory connector for connecting an accessory such as a heads-up display (HUD) device to a helmet worn by a user. The accessory connector includes a connector arm assembly with a portion that attaches the connector to the helmet, and another portion that attaches the accessory to the connector. The portions each provide multiple degrees of freedom of movement to allow adjustment of the connector with respect to the helmet, and adjustment of the accessory with respect to an eye of the user. The connector also provides the ability to lock positions of and the degrees of freedom of movement of the connector arm assembly via a single locking actuator with one-handed operation. In embodiments, a control box computer system at the helmet communicates with various soldier-portable networks to send and receive information for display by a HUD device accessory.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GALVION LTD.Inventors: Christopher Moore, Ed Hall, Mathew Reichl, Pascal Tremblay
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Patent number: 11726335Abstract: Head-mountable devices can include adjustment mechanisms to achieve optimal alignment of optical components during and/or after assembly thereof within the head-mountable device. The alignment mechanisms can be integrated into the head-mountable device itself. A light projecting display element can be adjustable based on movement of ramp members within the head-mountable device (e.g., within an arm) to adjust an orientation of the light projecting display element relative to the waveguide onto which it projects light. Alignment can be verified based on the optical output of the display element. The adjustment mechanisms can adjust the display element during initial assembly and/or be operated by actuators that actively adjust the alignment as needed over time.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cameron A. Harder, David A. Kalinowski
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Patent number: 11721299Abstract: A viewing angle compensation method of a display panel and a display panel are provided. The method includes a step of providing a display panel, a step of setting data polarities, a step of performing grayscale transformation on grayscale values of successive frames, and a step of acquiring grayscale values of successive frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jhenwei He
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Patent number: 11709365Abstract: A head-mountable device can effectively manage heat with a motor assembly that efficiently and accurately senses a temperature of a motor. A temperature sensor can be provided on an outer surface (e.g., case) of the motor. A flex circuit can be operably connect both the motor and the temperature sensor to a controller of the head-mountable device. The flex circuit can have a first side coupled to the outer surface of the case, a second side supporting the temperature sensor, and thermally conductive vias extending from the first side to the second side to conduct heat from the case to the sensor. The flex circuit can further include a memory comprising calibration data of the temperature sensor and a connector for outputting temperature data based on the temperature sensor and the calibration data of the memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Jia Tao, Vijayanish Varadharajan, Alexander M. Brukwinski, Pyone P. Wynn, Hnin Ookhin, Samuel A. Resnick, Aviran Malik, Jason C. Sauers, Amarnath Vuppala