Patents Examined by Michael Faragalla
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Patent number: 11605352Abstract: Provided is a display panel including n pixel sets. Each pixel set includes 2m pixel rows arranged along a first direction. n and m are positive integers. Each pixel row includes pixel circuits arranged along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a first reset module configured to transmit, in response to a first scan signal provided by a first scan signal line, a first reset signal provided by a first reset signal line to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and a second reset module configured to transmit, in response to a second scan signal provided by a second scan signal line, a second reset signal provided by a second reset signal line to an anode of an organic light-emitting element. The gate electrode receives high and low levels that are configured to reset the gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Baonan Wang, Xin Li, Dongliang Dun, Zhiqiang Xia
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Patent number: 11600222Abstract: A light-emitting circuit is provided herein, which includes a light-emitting unit, a driving transistor, and a bypass transistor. The driving transistor is configured to drive the light-emitting unit. The bypass circuit diverts the current flowing from the driving transistor to the light-emitting unit for reducing the possibility of the light-emitting unit illuminating in the dark state.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Ming-Chun Tseng, Kung-Chen Kuo, Lien-Hsiang Chen, Chi-Lun Kao
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Patent number: 11599321Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and operating method, which includes a first operation, performed when the electronic device is not connected to an external output device, including displaying a first screen including a plurality of icons representing a plurality of application programs in a first format, and a second operation, performed when the electronic device is inserted into an external docking device for connecting to the external output device, including rendering a second screen including a plurality of icons displayed in the second format while the external docking device is connected to a wired local area network (LAN), and providing data associated with the second screen using the connector, and connecting the electronic device to the wired LAN through the connector using a first media access control address shared with the external device on the wired LAN.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Inventors: Myoungsoo You, Jaewoo Suh, Wooyoung Jung
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Patent number: 11587500Abstract: A data display method and device based on an ARM micro-controller, and a readable storage medium are provided. The data display method includes receiving data signals of a display image, and storing the data signals; extending the stored data signals into multiple data signal sets in a preset sequence, and synchronously caching the multiple data signal sets in a rising edge and a falling edge of a clock signal; and controlling the multiple data signal sets to be respectively output to multiple output ports to control a display unit to display the image.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Binhua Sun, Feng Zi, Jiyang Shao, Feng Gao
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Patent number: 11573423Abstract: The image display apparatus includes a light attenuation section that reflects a portion of light emitted from a light source and a scanning section that scans the light reflected by the light attenuation section. The light attenuation section transmits a portion of light emitted from the light source. The light attenuation section has reflectance and transmittance and the reflectance is smaller than the transmittance. The image display apparatus further includes a light receiving element on which the light transmitted through the light attenuation section is incident. The image display apparatus also includes a control section that controls activation of the light source in accordance with detection results of the light receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Makiko Hino, Shuichi Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11569325Abstract: There is provided a display device including: a light emitting element; and a drive transistor (DRTr) that includes a coupling section (W1) and a plurality of channel sections (CH) coupled in series through the coupling section (W1), wherein the drive transistor (DRTr) is configured to supply a drive current to the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Seiichiro Jinta
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Patent number: 11568792Abstract: To solve the problems of complicated wiring and color difference between LED lamps in adjacent lines in the prior art, the application provides a driver chip, an LED lamp and an LED display screen. On the one hand, the application provides an LED lamp, which further comprises a data direction judgment & switch module arranged inside or outside the driver chip and connected with the driving module; The two signal ends of the LED lamp provided by the application can input and output data signals without distinguishing data directions. Judging the data signal directions of the first signal end and second signal end by the data direction judgment & switch module, automatically switching the input end and output end of the data signals, the wiring complexity is greatly reduced. And there is no color difference among the LED lamps in adjacent rows or columns.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NOVATRONICS CO., LIMITEDInventors: Evgeniy Nayanov, Yi Lin
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Patent number: 11567781Abstract: Disclosed are a drive control method and apparatus and a display device. The drive control method may be applied to a controller, and include: adding at least one configuration instruction into a target region of one row of data to obtain a target row of data, wherein the configuration instruction is intended for self-configuration of a drive parameter by a first driver chip, and the target region includes at least one of a blank region and a region where display data is located; and sending the target row of data to the first driver chip.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuhuan Yu, Xin Duan
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Patent number: 11568789Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
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Patent number: 11561754Abstract: A method for displaying and transmitting images and an electronic device thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first display, a second display separated from the first display, a transceiver, at least one processor electrically connected to the first display, the second display, and the transceiver, and a memory electrically connected to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to display a first screen image on the first display, provide a second screen image on the second display at least partially simultaneously with the displaying of the first screen image on the first display, provide data associated with one of the screen images to the transceiver, and control the transceiver to transmit the data to an external device such that a screen image at least partially identical to one of the screen images is output on a display of the external device.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyeongtae Kim, Changtae Kim, Taekun Kim, Donghun Park, Jaewoong Jeon
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Patent number: 11561656Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display panel including a base member; a first touch electrode disposed on the base member and extending in a first direction; a second touch electrode including touch patterns spaced apart from one another in a second direction crossing the first direction and a bridge pattern connecting two of the touch patterns adjacent to each other in the second direction, the touch patterns being disposed on the base member and spaced apart from the first touch electrode; and a dummy pattern disposed between the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode. The first touch electrode includes a first mesh pattern and first peripheral patterns protruding from the first mesh pattern, and a peripheral border of the first peripheral patterns has an obtuse angle or a curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sunhaeng Cho, Jiwon Han, Ki-Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 11562683Abstract: An LED-driving device includes a displaying section including a plurality of displaying groups, each composed of a plurality of connected LED elements, each with a built-in light emission-controlling element, a power-supplying section configured to provide a supply of an electric power to the displaying section, switching sections configured to selectively make or break connections between the power-supplying section and those displaying groups respectively, and a controlling section configured to make a decision as to whether, when the power-supplying section is powered on, an output value from the power-supplying section is normal or not, and as a result of determining that the output value from the power-supplying section is normal, perform such a control of the connections between the power-supplying section and those displaying groups as to enable the switching sections to in turn connect supplies of the electric power from the power-supplying section to those displaying groups, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhisa Takahashi
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Patent number: 11557248Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 11550358Abstract: Provided is a rotating device, a housing, and an electronic device including the housing and a flexible screen. The housing includes a first frame body, a second frame body, and the rotating device. The rotating device is connected between the first frame body and the second frame body to fold or unfold the first and second frame bodies. The rotating device includes at least one pair of rotation assemblies, and a gear assembly between the rotation assemblies. Each rotation assembly includes a support frame and a rotating rack rotatably connected to the support frame. The rotating rack is provided with a driving gear engaging with the gear assembly. The rotating racks of one pair of rotation assemblies are synchronously rotatable by rotating the rotating rack relative to a corresponding support frame to rotate a corresponding driving gear, and further rotating the gear assembly by the corresponding driving gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Jiao Cheng
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Patent number: 11552137Abstract: A display device includes a light sensing array layer (LSAL), a substrate, a selective light transmission layer (SLTL), a pixel circuit layer (PCL), a display element layer (DEL), and pixels. The LSAL includes an optical sensor to sense incident light. The substrate is on the LSAL and includes a display area (DA) including pixel areas (PAs), and a non-DA adjacent to the DA. The SLTL is disposed on the substrate and includes through-holes to form a path of light onto the optical sensor, and a light-blocking conductive pattern (LBCP) between the through-holes. The PCL is disposed on the SLTL and includes a conductive layer and an insulation layer. The DEL is disposed on the PCL and emits light. Each pixel includes a pixel circuit disposed on the PCL, and a light emitting element on the DEL in a corresponding pixel area. The LBCP is electrically connected to the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Hun Ryu, Eun Jin Sung, Yun Ho Kim, Il Nam Kim, Won Sang Park
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Patent number: 11551593Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being grouped into a plurality of pixel blocks, a nonvolatile memory configured to store previous accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to a previous driving period, a controller configured to calculate current block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks in a current driving period, to calculate current accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to the current driving period by adding the current block degradation information to the previous accumulated block degradation information in response to a power control signal indicating a power-off, and to determine whether a sensing operation for each of the plurality of pixel blocks is to be performed by comparing the current accumulated block degradation information for each of the plurality of pixel blocks with a sensing reference dType: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Siduk Sung
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Patent number: 11551466Abstract: A control circuit configured to control a display panel includes a display driver circuit, a touch sensing circuit and a fingerprint sensing circuit. The touch sensing circuit, coupled to the display driver circuit and the fingerprint sensing circuit, is configured to detect a finger touch on the display panel, determine a position of the display panel on which the finger touch is detected, and send information associated with the position to the fingerprint sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to perform fingerprint sensing on at least one zone corresponding to the position and receive fingerprint image signals from the at least one zone correspondingly.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
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Patent number: 11538430Abstract: This application discloses a display device and an inspection method. The display device includes a display panel and a control circuit board, the display panel includes a display region and switching devices, the switching devices are arranged between the display region and the control circuit board and the control circuit board is configured to drive the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Junhong Cao
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Patent number: 11538799Abstract: Provided are a display including a very-small light-emitting diode (LED) and a method of manufacturing the same. The display includes a panel in which a first signal line and a second signal line are disposed in a lattice form, an LED module including an electrode assembly having a first electrode connected to the first signal line and the second signal line and a second electrode connected to a ground, and a plurality of very-small LEDs connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, and two or more switches which connect the first signal line and the second signal line to the first electrode, wherein the second electrode is connected to a common electrode formed on the panel, at least one other LED module is grounded to the common electrode, and the two or more switches selectively provide a current supplied through the first signal line to the first electrode on the basis of a signal of the first signal line and a signal of the second signal line.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Rag Do, Yeon Goog Sung
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Patent number: 11537348Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-display apparatus including display modules and a sensor. Some of the display modules sequentially connected receive a signal from the sensor, and each of the display modules transmits signals including the signal from the sensor to a display module connected to a rear stage thereof. The display module connected to a final stage transmits the signal from the sensor to a control box. The control box includes a detector configured to detect whether signals from a plurality of transmission lines include a generated flag signal based on the signals including a signal from the sensor and a selector configured to select a transmission line detected as including the flag signal by the detector and set the selected transmission line as a channel for communication with the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sejun Kim, Yongsik Kwon, Kibo Kim