Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
  • Patent number: 10514731
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel. The touch panel includes a substrate, and an electrode part formed in a mesh shape on the substrate. The electrode part includes a resin layer comprising first and second sub-patterns, and a transparent electrode on the first sub-pattern. A ratio of a width of the first sub-pattern to a width of the second sub-pattern is in a range of 1:0.01 to 1:0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jae Lee, Hyun Soo Kim, Jung Hwan Bang, Jun Sik Shin, Joon Hyuk Yang, Dong Mug Seong, Jun Phill Eom, Kyoung Jong Yoo, Jun Lee, Chan Kyu Koo
  • Patent number: 10515604
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The driving method of the liquid-crystal display device comprises: generating first and second power supply voltages; generating gamma-compensated voltages based on the first and second power supply voltages; converting data of an input image to the gamma-compensated voltages to output data voltages; distributing, by a multiplexer, the data voltages output from the data driver to a plurality of data lines; and varying at least one of the first and second power supply voltages at a given time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moonsoo Chung, Yousung Nam
  • Patent number: 10515575
    Abstract: A bistable display includes: an inner box constituted of a first substrate, a second substrate and a box body surrounding a space between the first substrate and the second substrate, a bistable display material is injected into the space, and one or more of a common electrode conductive layer, a pattern conductive layer, and a background conductive layer are respectively formed on the first substrate and/or the second substrate inside the inner box, and the common electrode conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a common electrode, the pattern conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a pattern electrode, and the background conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a background electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Weihe Fei, Fenglian Zhang, Vivien Moliton, Pierre Raulin
  • Patent number: 10504460
    Abstract: The display device includes a circuit and multiple pixels. Each pixel includes multiple sub-pixels, and each sub-pixel includes a pixel electrode and a portion of a common electrode. A frame period includes a first polarity period and a second polarity period. The circuit maintains a voltage of the common electrode unchanged during the frame period, and applies a first dot inversion mode in the first polarity period and applies a second dot inversion mode in the second polarity period to the pixel electrodes. If determining that the input image has a bright stripe and the dark stripe adjacent to the each other, the circuit increases an intensity of the sub-pixel in an edge of the dark stripe or the bright stripe, and/or decrease an intensity of the middle sub-pixel in the bright stripe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Tung-Ying Wu, Yi-Hsiu Lin, Cheng-Che Tsai, Ming-Hung Weng
  • Patent number: 10503301
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and extending along a second direction, second touch electrodes arranged in the second direction and extending along the first direction, and sub-pixels; each first touch electrode comprises first electrode blocks arranged in the second direction, every two adjacent first electrode blocks are connected to each other, each second touch electrode comprises second electrode blocks made of metal, every two adjacent second electrode blocks are connected to each other by a bridge structure which is transparent and in the same layer as the second electrode blocks, an orthographic projection of the second electrode block on a plane of the touch display panel is enclosed within an orthographic projection of the non-aperture portion of the sub-pixel on the plane. A touch display device includes the touch display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingxia Wang, Kaihong Huang, Min Chen, Gaojun Huang, Juan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10475400
    Abstract: A method for controlling a digital display device and a digital display system implementing the method are provided in which a required luminance level for a pixel is controlled according to a store provided for each pixel, the contents of which indicate the number of discrete display update periods during an image refresh period for the pixel for which the pixel is to be illuminated to achieve the required luminance level, the content being read at each update period and the content determining whether the pixel is to be illuminated for that update period, the content being updated at each update period for which the pixel is illuminated to indicate that the number of update cycles for which the pixel is to be illuminated is thereby reduced by one and wherein the content of the store may be updated at any update cycle in response to changes in required pixel luminance level indicated by received image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventor: Matthew Frank Offredi
  • Patent number: 10475369
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for subpixel rendering. In one example, for each of an array of pixels on a display, a first signal including a first set of components is received. The first set of components are converted to a second set of components. The second set of components include a first component representing a first attribute of the pixel and a second component representing a second attribute of the pixel. The second set of components of the first signal are modified to generate a second signal by applying at least one operation to at least one of the first and second components based on the corresponding attribute of the pixel. The modified second set of components are converted to a modified first set of components of the second signal. A third signal is generated based on the modified first set of components for rendering subpixels corresponding to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YUNYINGGU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Gu
  • Patent number: 10474265
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes: a display panel including first and second panel blocks (PBs), each including a pixel array with embedded touch sensors, a display driving circuit providing image data to pixels of the first and second PBs during a display period, and a touch sensing circuit driving the touch sensors of the first and second PBs during a touch sensing period, the display driving circuit including a shift register sequentially providing gate pulses (GPs) to gate lines, the shift register including: a first stage group (SG) applying a GP to gate lines in the first PB, a bridge stage connected in cascade to a last stage of the first SG, and providing a first carry signal, and a second SG applying a GP to gate lines in the second PB, a first stage of the second SG operating in response to the first carry signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeongseong So, Kitae Kwon, Kyujin Kim, Seungwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10459577
    Abstract: A video display device includes first and second illuminators irradiating a manipulation surface with illumination light for manipulation detection in different directions, an imaging unit employing an imaging element of a rolling shutter system that images the irradiated manipulation surface together with a manipulation object of a user, and a contact point detecting unit detecting a contact point at which the manipulation object of the user touches the manipulation surface based on a captured image of the imaging unit. Captured images of shadows of the manipulation object of the user formed by repeatedly lighting up the first illuminator and the second illuminator alternately are used in a contact point detection process of the contact point detecting unit, and in the alternate lighting of the first illuminator and the second illuminator, a lighting period of one illuminator is longer than an imaging cycle of one frame of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiro Niikura, Takashi Matsubara, Naoki Mori
  • Patent number: 10446112
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that form an active area and may have an inactive area that runs along an edge of the active area. An opaque layer may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer in the inactive area of the display or may be formed on another transparent layer in the electronic device. An ambient light sensor window may be formed from the opening and may be aligned with color ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensor may have an integrated circuit with an array of photodetectors and may have a color filter layer forming a corresponding array of thin-film interference color filters with different respective pass bands. The color filter layer may have a shared dielectric stack and multiple color-filter-specific dielectric stacks on the shared dielectric stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tingjun Xu, Ove Lyngnes, Avery P. Yuen, Xianwei Zhao, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10429967
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, and particularly, to an in-cell touch type LCD device, and a method for driving capable of preventing deterioration of picture quality and enhancing touch sensitivity, by dividing a touch block in a spatial manner, not in a time manner. The in-cell touch type liquid crystal display (LCD) device, includes: an LCD panel including a first touch block and a second touch block having a plurality of gate lines and common lines; a gate driver for applying high-potential gate driving signals to the gate lines of the first touch block; a common voltage generator for supplying common voltages (Vcom) of first and second waveforms, to the common lines of the first and second touch blocks, respectively; and a touch detection circuit for detecting a touched position on the LCD panel through the second waveform common voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeongHo Cho, CheonKee Shin, KyungSeok Kim
  • Patent number: 10379577
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. With the method and the electronic device, a sensing parameter generated in response to a deformation of the electronic device is acquired with a sensing component, the sensing parameter is processed, and it is acquired a processing result indicating a deformation state of a deformable portion of the electronic device during a deformation of the electronic device, the controllable component located on the second surface of the electronic device is activated and an operating mode corresponding to the controllable component is started up in a case where the processing result indicates that the deformation state of the deformable portion is the predetermined state. The deformable portion includes a deformation supporting component and a supporting portion of the flexible display screen corresponding to the deformation supporting component, the flexible display screen is located on the first surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jihun Yeom
  • Patent number: 10372273
    Abstract: A self-capacitive touch device includes a transparent substrate, multiple sensing electrodes and multiple trace lines. The sensing electrodes are alternately disposed on the transparent substrate, and each of the sensing units has a polygonal planar contour having M sides, where M is a positive integer equal to or greater than 4. A side of each of the sensing electrodes corresponds to sides of at least two of the remaining sensing electrodes. The trace lines are electrically connected to the sensing electrodes in a way that a part of segments of the trace lines are disposed in an active region of the self-capacitive touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ILI TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Peng-Yun Ding, Ping-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 10354598
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling a display and transmitting video content. The method includes determining, by processing circuitry, a blinking frequency to be used during presentation of video content for a light source of a display. The processing circuitry sets the blinking frequency for the light source of the display based on the determined blinking frequency. Further, the processing circuitry controls the light source of the display to blink according to the set blinking frequency while the video content is presented on the display. The light source is configured to illuminate a separate display panel or to emit light that form images of the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Peter Shintani
  • Patent number: 10345857
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. With the method and the electronic device, a sensing parameter generated in response to a deformation of the electronic device is acquired with a sensing component, the sensing parameter is processed, and it is acquired a processing result indicating a deformation state of a deformable portion of the electronic device during a deformation of the electronic device, the controllable component located on the second surface of the electronic device is activated and an operating mode corresponding to the controllable component is started up in a case where the processing result indicates that the deformation state of the deformable portion is the predetermined state. The deformable portion includes a deformation supporting component and a supporting portion of the flexible display screen corresponding to the deformation supporting component, the flexible display screen is located on the first surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jihun Yeom
  • Patent number: 10325541
    Abstract: Large-format display systems having color pixels and white pixels are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system includes a video camera, a video processor, and a large-format display that includes the color pixels and the white pixels. The video processor processes the video signal from the video camera, but the video processor does not perform a white-to-RGB conversion. Instead, the information for the white pixels is sent directly to the large-format display to form the color display image. A viewer's visual system performs the white-to-RGB conversion when viewing the color display image. A method of forming the color display image using color pixels and white pixels is also disclosed. Methods of performing color matching using the color pixels and white pixels are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jeremy Hochman, Robbie Thielemans
  • Patent number: 10318033
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch substrate including a base substrate; a transparent touch electrode layer on the base substrate; and an anti-reflective layer on a side of the transparent touch electrode layer distal to the base substrate. The anti-reflective layer includes a first sub-layer on a side of the transparent touch electrode layer distal to the base substrate; a second sub-layer on a side of the first sub-layer distal to the transparent touch electrode layer; and a third sub-layer on a side of the second sub-layer distal to the first sub-layer. The first sub-layer, the second sub-layer, and the third sub-layer are laminated together. The second sub-layer has a refractive index greater than those of the first sub-layer and the third sub-layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINXHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiawei Xu, Lei Zhang, Tsung Chieh Kuo, Wenjin Fan, Chaoke Zhang
  • Patent number: 10311796
    Abstract: Provided are a scan driving circuit and a display device. Each driving unit comprises a first signal input end receiving a trigger signal or a former stage scan signal, a second signal input end receiving a latter stage scan signal, a first signal output end and a second signal output end connected to a multiplexing circuit; each multiplexing unit comprises a first signal receiving end and a second signal receiving end respectively connected to the first signal output end and the second signal output end, a third signal receiving end receiving the former stage scan signal, a fourth signal receiving end receiving the latter stage scan signal, a fifth signal receiving end receiving a clock signal, a scan signal output end outputting a scan signal for simplifying the circuit and saving the space, which is beneficial for the narrow frame design of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Longqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 10304361
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display device and a method of controlling the same, dedicated spectacles and a display system, thereby enabling switching between secrecy display and normal display. The display device comprises a display panel, in which two adjacent sub-pixels located in the same row are configured to display different image information, and which only displays one image of information when in a first display state displays at least two images of information when in a second display state; the display device further comprises a control panel located at a light exit side of the display panel and comprises first regions and second regions which are alternately arranged and is configured so that when the display panel is in the second display state, a polarization direction of light emitted from the display panel after passing through the first regions is different from that of light emitted from the display panel after the light passes through the second regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yufan Du
  • Patent number: 10282081
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for further implementing a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of a terminal is provided. The method preferably includes determining a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of the terminal, providing the screen of the terminal and the determined virtual screen together, and displaying an operation according to touch input on the provided virtual screen on the virtual screen and the screen of the terminal, which interworks with the virtual screen. The virtual screen can be overlaid on a software screen and can further visually distinguish the virtual screen from the main screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-Hyoung Park