Patents Examined by Michael J Jansen, II
  • Patent number: 11727866
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power management device and a display device comprising the same, and more particularly, to a power management device and a display device comprising the same, capable of reducing the power consumption of a display device by disabling a gamma reference voltage generation circuit when the display device is driven at a low scan rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ha Kim
  • Patent number: 11715422
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode that includes first and second terminals. A driving transistor generates a driving current, and includes a first terminal for a first power supply voltage, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the organic light emitting diode, and a gate terminal for an initialization voltage. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal connected to a first node, a second terminal connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor, and a gate terminal for a data initialization gate signal. The second switching transistor includes a first terminal for the initialization voltage, a second terminal connected to the first node, a first gate terminal for the data initialization gate signal, and a second gate terminal for a light emitting element initialization signal. The first terminal of the organic light emitting diode is connected to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11710449
    Abstract: A display device includes an afterimage compensator generating output grayscales by applying at least one of first and second weights to input grayscales when the input grayscales correspond to a still image, and pixels displaying an image based on the output grayscales. The afterimage compensator applies the first weight having an initial value greater than 1 to the input grayscales of a first group, and converges the first weight to 1, and applies the second weight having initial values less than 1 to the input grayscales of a second group, and converges the second weights to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, Kang Hee Lee, Joon Chul Goh, Jae Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 11693518
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch driver circuit capable of reducing the distortion of a common voltage modulation signal caused by line resistance. The touch driver circuit may include a touch power integrated circuit configured to generate a reference gamma voltage set to output the reference gamma voltage set through a gamma transmission path during a display period, and generate a touch driving voltage to output the touch driving voltage through the gamma transmission path during a touch period, and a source-readout integrated circuit configured to drive a source driving circuit block using the reference gamma voltage set during the display period, and generate a common voltage modulation signal using the touch driving voltage to drive a readout circuit block using the generated common voltage modulation signal during the touch period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Yoon Jung, Hyung Sub Kim, Jung Hyun Tark
  • Patent number: 11694644
    Abstract: Methods for driving an electrophoretic medium including two pairs of oppositely charged particles. The first pair including a first type of positive particles and a first type of negative particles and the second pair consists of a second type of positive particles and a second type of negative particles, wherein the first pair of particles and the second pair of particles have different charge magnitudes (identifiable as zeta potentials). In particular, the driving methods produce cleaner optical stakes of the lesser-charged particles with less contamination from the other particles and more consistent electro-optical performance when the intermediate driving voltages are modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink California, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Feng-Shou Lin
  • Patent number: 11694598
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display driving circuit and a frequency correction method of the display driving circuit, capable of quickly correcting a frequency change of a clock signal when a display device is driven at a low scan rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyeong Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 11687184
    Abstract: A touch display device including a display panel including a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels alternately disposed along a first direction, and a touch screen layer disposed on the display panel, the touch screen layer including a plurality of first touch electrodes having a zigzag shape and disposed between one of the first and second pixels along a second direction crossing the first direction, in which a first pixel of the first pixels and a second pixel of the second pixels have different sizes from each other, and a first distance from a first touch electrode of the first touch electrodes to the first pixel is different from a second distance from the first touch electrode to the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Beom Hong, Gun-Shik Kim, Jung-Joo Park
  • Patent number: 11688333
    Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate and a backplane substrate. The display substrate includes an array of micro-LEDs forming individual pixels. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. Each pixel logic hardware module includes a local memory element configured to store a multi-bit pixel intensity value of a corresponding micro-LED for an image frame. The backplane substrate is bonded to a backside of the display substrate such that the pixel logic hardware modules are physically aligned behind the array of micro-LEDs and each pixel logic hardware module is electrically connected to a micro-LED of the corresponding pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Walter Boecker, Niranjan Achugundla Puttaswamy, Barry Thompson, Sheethal Somesh Nayak, Jeffrey Neil Margolis, Chuan Pu
  • Patent number: 11676534
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a driver configured to drive the display panel, and a compensation circuit configured to repeat a process of obtaining a sensing voltage from a sub-pixel included in the display panel, storing the sensing voltage, outputting the stored sensing voltage to the sub-pixel, and obtaining a sensing voltage from the sub-pixel to integrate the sensing voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuck Jun Kim, Dong Kyun Woo, Tae Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11670225
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel blocks each including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver supplying a scan signal to the scan lines and to supply a control signal to the control lines; a data driver supplying an image data voltage or a low grayscale data voltage to the data lines; and a power supply supplying a reference voltage to the pixels, wherein the pixels are configured to receive the image data voltage during a first scan period of a frame, and to receive the low grayscale data voltage during a second scan period of the frame, and the reference voltage supplied to a first pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period is different from the reference voltage supplied to a last pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Taek Kim, Sang Su Han, Kyun Ho Kim, Hyung Keun Park, Joon Suk Baik, Se Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11670224
    Abstract: A driving circuit for a light-emitting diode (LED) panel includes a first current source and a second current source. The first current source, coupled to a current source terminal of the driving circuit, is configured to output a first current to the LED panel through the current source terminal. The second current source, coupled to a current sink terminal of the driving circuit, is configured to receive a second current from the LED panel through the current sink terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Chun-Fu Lin
  • Patent number: 11670245
    Abstract: A lower-power driving display device and a driving method. The driving method of the display device includes dividing the plurality of output buffers of the data driver into a plurality of output buffer groups, each of the plurality of output buffers being configured to apply the data voltage to each of the plurality of data lines connected with the display panel, and determining the magnitude of a bias current supplied to an output buffer on the basis of a pattern of a data voltage output by the output buffer which belongs to each of the plurality of divided output buffer groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daehwan Kim, Jeongho Kang, Yongjin Park
  • Patent number: 11663960
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a driver, a driving circuit and an electronic element. The driver converts a first PWM data to a second PWM data according to a gamma setting curve, and converts a first PAM data to a second PAM data according to the gamma setting curve. The driving circuit includes a PWM circuit and a PAM circuit. The PWM circuit receives the second PWM data. The PAM circuit receives the second PAM data. The electronic element emits a light according to a driving current provided from the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11663959
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of red, a second sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of green, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of blue. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are inorganic light-emitting diodes. A light emission intensity of the second sub-pixel is increased at a predetermined ratio with respect to a light emission intensity of the first sub-pixel when the first sub-pixel emits light at a light emission intensity within a low-luminance range equal to or lower than a predetermined level of luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Kazunari Tomizawa, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 11651719
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display panel having multiple display pixels for displaying an image based on analog voltage signals. The electronic device may also include interpolation circuitry to generate the analog voltage signals based on digital image data corresponding to the image. The interpolation circuitry may also receive analog reference voltages and interpolate between sets of the analog reference voltages to generate intermediate voltages, which may be a part of the analog voltage signals. Interpolating between the sets analog reference voltages may include performing a first level interpolation of a first set of the analog reference voltages to generate a first intermediate voltage and performing a second level interpolation of a second set of the analog reference voltages to generate a second intermediate voltage, wherein the first level interpolation is different from the second level interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Wetherell, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Jaeyoung Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Hasan Akyol, Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 11651728
    Abstract: A pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to a first node, a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first scan line, a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, a fourth transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second scan line, a fifth transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to a third scan line, an sixth transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to the third scan line, a resistor electrically connected in parallel with the sixth transistor between the second node and the anode of the light emitting element, and an amplifier having a non-inverting terminal and an inverting terminal electrically connected to ends of the resistor, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Ha Sohn, Se Hyuk Park, Hae Kwan Seo, Jin Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11645990
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display panel includes: controlling polarities of data signals transmitted to pixel circuits in partial columns in a target display region to be inverted when a (KN?1)th frame is displayed; and controlling polarities of data signals transmitted to pixel circuits in other columns than the partial columns in the target display region to be inverted when a KNth frame is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiuqin Zhang, Lisheng Liang, Wenliang Liu, Ming Deng, Zhihua Sun, Ying Huang, Chengri Quan, Xiangyang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11630569
    Abstract: Internet of Things (“IoT”) appliances are gaining consumer traction, from smart thermostats to smart speakers. These devices generally have limited user interfaces, most often small buttons and touchscreens, or rely on voice control. Further, these devices know little about their surroundings—unaware of objects, people and activities around them. Consequently, interactions with these “smart” devices can be cumbersome and limited. The present invention presents an approach that enriches IoT experiences with rich touch and object sensing, offering a complementary input channel and increased contextual awareness. The present invention incorporates a range sensing technology into the computing devices, providing an expansive ad hoc plane of sensing just above the surface with which a device is associated. Additionally, the present invention can recognize and track a wide array of objects, including finger touches and hand gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Christopher Harrison, Gierad Laput
  • Patent number: 11626058
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a contrast analyzer, a contrast processor and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of sub display areas. The display panel is configured to display an image based on input image data. The contrast analyzer is configured to analyze the input image data in a time division method. The contrast processor is configured to adjust contrast of the input image data based on analysis result of the contrast analyzer. The data driver is configured to generate data voltages based on output data of the contrast processor. A number of contrast analysis cores of the contrast analyzer is determined according to a number of the sub display areas and a frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dale Yim, Nam-Gon Choi
  • Patent number: 11605338
    Abstract: A driving controller includes: a logo determiner configured to determine whether or not input image data includes a logo; a logo grayscale value calculator configured to calculate a logo grayscale value of a logo area corresponding to the logo in response to the input image data including the logo; a light emitting element life expectancy determiner configured to determine a life expectancy of a light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; a compensation reference grayscale value generator configured to determine a compensation reference grayscale value according to the life expectancy of the light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; and a logo luminance compensator configured to compare the logo grayscale value to the compensation reference grayscale value to determine whether or not to compensate a luminance of the logo area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunjin Choi, Wonjin Seo, Kihyun Pyun