Patents Examined by Mark W Regn
  • Patent number: 10831075
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device comprises a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction. The display device also comprises a plurality of gate lines. The plurality of gate lines comprises a first gate line, a second gate line and a third gate line extending in a second direction different than the first direction to form a matrix with the plurality of data lines. The first gate line and the second gate line are separated from each other and are arranged in a same row of the matrix. The display device further comprises a first gate connector line and a second gate connector line, respectively, electrically connecting the first gate line and the second gate line to one or two gate drivers. The first gate connector line and the second gate connector line extend in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimichi Shirai, Ryutaro Oke, Daisuke Kajita
  • Patent number: 10825409
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the liquid crystal display device are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driving circuit. The liquid crystal display panel includes multiple liquid crystal display pixels disposed in a matrix. The liquid crystal display device is configured to display a same picture in two successive frames. The driving circuit is configured to apply pixel voltages to each of the multiple liquid crystal display pixels separately in the two successive frames so that liquid crystal molecules of each of the multiple liquid crystal display pixels are rotated. In each of the two successive frames, a voltage value of a pixel voltage of each liquid crystal display pixel is different from that of adjacent liquid crystal display pixels. Pixel voltages of a same liquid crystal display pixel in a preceding one frame and in a succeeding frame have a same polarity and different voltage values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10817698
    Abstract: A touch display panel with a fingerprint recognition device is provided. The touch display panel is a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel includes a fingerprint sensing unit and a control circuit integrated in a thin film transistor layer of the liquid crystal display panel. The fingerprint sensing unit is configured to collect a light entering the touch display panel, and convert the collected light into electrical signals. The light is a reflected light generated from a screen light source blocked by a fingerprint. The control circuit is configured to generate a fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tengteng Shi
  • Patent number: 10816802
    Abstract: A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display apparatus includes a transparent display configured so that a background of the transparent display apparatus is projected thereto and configured to display an image; a camera configured to capture an image of a background direction of the transparent display apparatus to obtain a background image; and a processor configured to analyze image information of a background region projected to the transparent display in the obtained background image for each pixel, correct an image to be displayed on the transparent display using the analyzed image information of the background region, and control the transparent display to display the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong-ok Kim, Jae-woo Kim, Tae-young Na, Kang-kyu Lee, Je-ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 10811464
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes at least one light emitting unit that includes a first electrode, an organic film that includes a light emitting layer and is provided over the first electrode, and a second electrode that is provided over the organic film and transmits light from the light emitting layer, and an optical adjusting layer that covers the at least one light emitting unit. The optical adjusting layer in a first area that overlaps the at least one light emitting unit in a planar view and the optical adjusting layer in at least one second area that is adjacent to the first area are different from each other in at least one of a number of layers that the optical adjusting layer includes, a film thickness, and a refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Norihisa Maeda
  • Patent number: 10783842
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel comprising a plurality of pixels that each comprise a plurality of sub-pixels to display different colors and that are arranged in a matrix, a plurality of scan lines coupled to the respective sub-pixels arranged in a row direction, and a plurality of signal lines coupled to the respective sub-pixels arranged in a column direction, and a driver configured to be supplied with a video signal having a predetermined number of gradations and configured to drive the image display panel, and having a first display mode of performing display with the number of gradations of the video signal, and a second display mode of performing the display with a number of gradations smaller than a number of gradations of the video signal and larger than two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Ryo Imai
  • Patent number: 10782806
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments relate to a touch display device and a driving method thereof. A touch sensing time period is divided into a period when the touch is sensed by a self capacitive sensing manner and a period when the touch is sensed by a mutual capacitive sensing manner and a ground signal modulated to be the same as the touch driving signal is output to the display panel during the time period when the touch is sensed by the self capacitive sensing manner. By doing this, the parasitic capacitance in the display panel is reduced, sensitivity of touch sensing is improved, and various touch functions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeseung Kim, JiHyun Jung, DeukSu Lee, Sangkyu Kim, JaeGyun Lee, Taeyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10777161
    Abstract: An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate has a display area and a non-display area in the periphery of the display area, and includes a plurality of gate lines to which gate pulse signals are provided; a plurality of data lines to which data signals are provided, wherein signals on adjacent ones of the plurality of data lines have opposite polarities; a charge sharing device includes a first thin film transistor in the non-display area, a first terminal of the first thin film transistor being connected to one of two adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines, a second terminal thereof being connected the other of the two adjacent data lines, and a gate thereof being configured to be provided with a first control signal in a blank time period between adjacent data frames so as to turn on the first thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuo Xu, Yajie Bai, Xiaoyuan Wang, Rui Wang, Jaikwang Kim, Fei Shang
  • Patent number: 10769979
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of circular pixels. The plurality of circular pixels include a center pixel and a plurality of peripheral pixels located around the center pixel. Some of the plurality of peripheral pixels distributed on a same circumference with the center pixel as a center constitute a first pixel group, so as to form a plurality of first pixel groups on different circumferences respectively. Radiuses of circumferences of the plurality of first pixel groups respectively located on different circumferences gradually increase in a direction away from the center pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiqi Chen, Ni Jiang, Bo Shi, Yin Deng
  • Patent number: 10739852
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide an attachment coupled to a hand of a user. The attachment can comprise a laser sensor. The attachment can be constructed to cause a signal to be transmitted via the wireless transmitter responsive to motion of a finger of the user determined by the laser sensor. The attachment can comprise wireless transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventor: Logan Amstutz
  • Patent number: 10726786
    Abstract: A pixel compensation circuit includes: an initialization sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a light-emission control sub-circuit, and a light-emitting element. Since the sub-circuits operate in cooperation with each other only under the control of the gate scan signal terminal and the reset signal terminal so that operating current of the light-emitting element isn't affected by threshold voltage of the driver sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lijun Yuan
  • Patent number: 10719179
    Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing a planar capacitive touch sensor that can be folded over a three-dimensional object that does not require substantial modification to function, wherein columns and rows of capacitive measurement nodes follow substantially linear designs, and wherein the algorithms used for detection and tracking objects are substantially the same as for a planar touch sensor design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Glad
  • Patent number: 10698545
    Abstract: A display device with a position input function includes pixel electrodes arranged at interval, a position detection wire disposed between the adjacent pixel electrodes and included in a layer different from a layer of the pixel electrodes, a position detection electrode forming a capacitance between the position detection electrode and a positional input body to detect an input position and included in a same layer as the position detection wire and connected to the position detection wire, the position detection electrode overlapping the pixel electrodes and divided into divided position detection electrodes by the position detection wire, and a connection part included in a layer different from the layer of the position detection electrode and the position detection wire while having an insulation film therebetween, the connection part including a portion overlapping a portion of each divided position detection electrode and connected to the divided position detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10699624
    Abstract: A method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display, and for operating a display at a constant luminance even as some of the pixels in the display are degraded over time. The system may include extracting a time dependent parameter of a pixel for calibration. Each pixel in the display is configured to emit light when a voltage is supplied to the pixel's driving circuit, which causes a current to flow through a light emitting element. Degraded pixels are compensated by supplying their respective driving circuits with greater voltages. The display data is scaled by a compression factor less than one to reserve some voltage levels for compensating degraded pixels. As pixels become more degraded, and require additional compensation, the compression factor is decreased to reserve additional voltage levels for use in compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arokia Nathan, Gholamreza Chaji, Stefan Alexander, Peyman Servati, Richard I-Heng Huang, Corbin Church
  • Patent number: 10690920
    Abstract: A transparent display comprises an at least partially transparent display substrate having a display area and a bezel area adjacent to each of at least one corresponding side of the display area. Light-controlling elements are disposed in, on, or over the display substrate in the display area. Display wires are disposed in, on, or over the display substrate in the display area and are electrically connected to the light-controlling elements. Bezel wires are disposed in, on, or over the display substrate in the bezel area, the bezel wires electrically connected to respective ones of the display wires. The transparent display has a bezel transparency that varies over the bezel area. Bezel wires can be spaced apart by a bezel wire spacing that is greater than a width of the bezel wires. A display wire can be a mesh wire or have a depth greater than a width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Christopher Andrew Bower, Matthew Meitl, Brook Raymond, Erich Radauscher
  • Patent number: 10687184
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for implementing radar-based touch interfaces. In one aspect, a computing device includes: (1) a casing; (2) a radar transceiver configured to detect one or more objects in the vicinity of the computing device; and (3) one or more controllers coupled to the radar transceiver, the one or more controllers configured to, for each detected object in the one or more detected objects: (a) determine whether the detected object is in contact with the casing based on data received from the radar transceiver; (b) in accordance with a determination that the detected object is in contact with the casing, identifying an input command based on at least one of: a location of the detected object, and a movement of the detected object; and (c) adjust operation of the computing device based on the input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Silverstein, Eden Sherry
  • Patent number: 10670880
    Abstract: A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
  • Patent number: 10666780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal having a display unit, at least a part of which can be curved or bent. The mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a main body formed such that at least a part thereof can be folded; a flexible display provided on the front side of the main body and formed such that a part thereof is exposed to the outside with the main body folded; a touch pad provided on the rear side of the main body and disposed to face in the same direction as the part of the flexible display that is exposed to the outside in the state in which the main body is folded; and a controller that controls a part of the flexible display to output screen information associated with a preset type of touch when the preset type of touch is performed on the touch pad in the state in which the main body is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taehoon Cho, Wonseok Joung, Youngjoon Kim, Minkyoung Shin
  • Patent number: 10664089
    Abstract: The invention relates to a man/machine interface (10) that can be used to control at least two functions of a motor vehicle, said man/machine interface comprising: a capacitive touch pad (20) including at least two control areas (21, 22, 23), each control area being configured to receive a command for at least one function; a haptic feedback device (40) configured to supply feedback to the user of the man/machine interface as acknowledgement of the command; and a control device (30) configured to receive a signal from the touch pad that is representative of a command from the user on the touch pad and to accept the command when the level of the signal received is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The invention is characterised in that the control device is configured to include different threshold values for at least two control areas of the touch pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Anthony Aubry
  • Patent number: 10649646
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a touch panel, a processor configured to detect that the touch panel is being pressed at a first position, acquire a first position coordinate of the first position when the touch panel is detected as being pressed at the first position, and determine whether the touch panel has been continuously pressed at a second position for a reference period or more, and a controller configured to provide a notification if the touch panel has been continuously pressed at the second position for the reference period or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Aburaya