Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11605337
    Abstract: The present embodiments disclose a pixel driving circuit and a display device including the same. A pixel driving circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first pixel circuit configured to control light-emission and non-emission of the luminous element in response to a control signal applied to each of a plurality of subframes constituting a frame during a light-emitting period and a second pixel circuit storing a bit value of image data in a data writing period and generating the control signal based on the bit value and a clock signal in the light-emitting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11594170
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode (LED) display panel is provided. The micro LED display panel includes a substrate and a driving layer. The driving layer is disposed on the substrate. The driving layer includes a micro LED and a photo sensor. When the micro LED emits light to a finger of a user, the photo sensor generates a sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chin-Chuan Hsieh, Hsin-Wei Mao
  • Patent number: 11586334
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion, a display driver, a touch sensing portion, and a touch driver. The display portion includes data lines, scan lines, and pixels connected to the data lines and the scan lines. The display driver provides data signals to the data lines and sequentially provides scan signals to the scan lines. The touch sensing portion includes sensing electrodes. The touch driver senses a touch input based on a change of a capacitance between the sensing electrodes and calculates a movement speed of the touch input. When the movement speed of the touch input is greater than a reference speed, a first period in which the scan signals and the data signals are provided is reduced in a frame period in which a frame image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Seok Son, Myoung Ho Kwon, Jeong Kug Lee
  • Patent number: 11587498
    Abstract: The invention discloses a driving method and a device for a light-emitting element. The method includes: acquiring a display image; calculating a backlight brightness required for the display image; and selecting at least one pulse signal from the preset plurality of pulse signals to drive the light emitting element according to the backlight brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 11580934
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Minhyuk Choi, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Sang Y. Youn, Yafei Bi, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11580912
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display device includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface and a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed on the opposite sides of the substrate. The display device includes a connective portion at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrating from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the connective portion. The display device includes a light-emitting element disposed on the first surface and an insulation layer disposed on the first conductive layer. Along a direction perpendicular to the first surface, the first electrode and the second electrode of the light-emitting element are not overlapped with the connective portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Feng Lee, Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11580897
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels; a timing controller supplying respective scan start signals to a plurality of scan drivers and an emission start signal to an emission driver, in response to synchronization signals supplied from the outside; the emission driver supplying an emission signal to emission control lines connected to the pixels based on the emission start signal; the scan drivers supplying scan signals to the scan lines connected to the pixels based on the scan start signal; and a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines connected to the pixels, and at least one of a frequency of the emission start signal and frequencies of the scan start signals may be a first frequency that is determined independently of a driving frequency when the driving frequency is less than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Young Kim, Dong Hwi Kim, Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 11561693
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Patent number: 11556998
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness. In one aspect, a computing system receives, via a network interface, zone data from the media playback system, wherein the zone data includes an indication of a particular zone of the media playback system, and wherein the particular zone comprises at least one playback device. The computing system identifies audio content based on (i) the indication of the particular zone and (ii) contextual data associated with the particular zone, and provides, via the network interface, an indication of the identified audio content to the media playback system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Bender, Ron Kuper
  • Patent number: 11557247
    Abstract: A driving substrate and a display panel are provided. The driving substrate includes driving modules. Each of the driving modules includes two electrodes. Each of at least one of the two electrodes includes convex parts, and each of the convex parts protrudes from one of the two electrodes where the convex parts are located towards the other one of the two electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao Chi, Jujian Fu, Ping An
  • Patent number: 11550193
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a display area, a terminal area, a first side and a third side, and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate and including a fifth side and a seventh side. The terminal area is sandwiched between the third side and the seventh side. The first substrate includes a first round corner between the first side and the third side. The second substrate includes a third round corner between the fifth side and the seventh side. A radius of curvature of the third round corner is smaller than a radius of curvature of the first round corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Morikazu Nomura
  • Patent number: 11550140
    Abstract: Increasing transparency of one or more micro-displays. A method includes attaching a transparent cover to at least a portion of a semiconductor wafer. The at least a portion of the semiconductor wafer includes the one or more micro-displays. The one or more micro-displays include one or more active silicon areas. The method further includes, after the transparent cover has been attached to the at least a portion of the semiconductor wafer, removing silicon between one or more of the active silicon areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob Becker, Jon Burnsed
  • Patent number: 11541563
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes providing a display panel including a folding area at which the display panel is foldable, and a flat area which is adjacent to the folding area; providing a protective film on both the flat area and the folding area of the display panel; removing a portion of the protective film which corresponds to the folding area, from the display panel, to expose the folding area outside a remaining portion of the protective film, where the remaining portion of the protective film defines a bump of the protective film at a portion of the flat area which is closest to the folding area; and removing a portion of the bump from the portion of the flat area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kwon, Chan Ho Moon, Jeong Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11545079
    Abstract: A display device including a base substrate including a first base film, a second base film disposed on the first base film, and a connection wire, wherein at least a portion of the connection wire is disposed between the first base film and the second base film, a pixel circuit disposed on the base substrate, a light emitting element disposed on the pixel circuit and electrically connected to the pixel circuit, and a driving part disposed under the base substrate. The first base film has a first penetration part and a first protrusion part protruding toward the second base film, and the second base film has a second penetration part overlapping the first protrusion part and a second protrusion part protruding toward the first base film and overlapping the first penetration part. The connection wire extends to an upper surface of the base substrate along the first protrusion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyool Kim, Kwangyoung Choi, Sae-Hee Ryu, Seungmin Song, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11545081
    Abstract: A LED driving apparatus with clock embedded cascaded LED drivers is introduced, including: a plurality of LED drivers, wherein the first stage LED driver receives an original data signal and outputs a first data signal, the Nth stage LED driver receives a (N?1)th data signal and outputs a Nth data signal. The Nth stage LED driver includes a clock data recovery circuit generating a recovery clock signal and a recovery data signal according to the (N?1)th data signal; and a first transmitter outputting the Nth data signal according to the recovery clock signal and the recovery data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Keko-Chun Liang, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Yong-Ren Fang, Yi-Chuan Liu
  • Patent number: 11536970
    Abstract: A wearable heads-up display (WHUD) obtains attribute data corresponding to an attribute of an item of interest and obtains environmental data of an environment surrounding the WHUD via one or more sensors of the WHUD. The WHUD compares the attribute data with the environmental data to detect the item of interest. In response to the detection, the WHUD obtains location data indicative of a location of the item of interest, stores the location data in association with a context of detection of the item of interest. In response to a trigger, such as a query by a user regarding the item of interest, the WHUD provides a location indication based on the location data, the location indication including, for example, a display of a description of the location of the item of interest, a display of the item of interest at the location, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sushant Kulkarni, Idris S. Aleem
  • Patent number: 11532265
    Abstract: Disclosed are a driving backplane and a display apparatus, including: a base substrate, a first conducting layer disposed on one side of the base substrate, a second conducting layer disposed on one side, facing away from the base substrate, of the first conducting layer, and a first insulating layer disposed between the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer, where the second conducting layer includes a plurality of pads, and each pad is connected with the first conducting layer through at least two first via holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Xuemei Zhao, Qingpu Wang, Zhen Qiu, Tengfei Zhong
  • Patent number: 11528573
    Abstract: Example techniques involve outputting multiple audio channels using a multiple driver playback device. An example playback device receives a first and second channel of audio content. The playback device plays back play back the first channel via a first group of audio transducers such that the first group of audio transducers form, via superposition, a first response lobe having a maximum in a first direction. Further, the playback device plays back the second channel via a second group of audio transducers such that the second group of audio transducers form, via superposition, a second response lobe having a maximum in a second direction that is separated by an angle of at least 45° from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Chamness, Romi Kadri
  • Patent number: 11527196
    Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a light emitting unit is provided. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a switch transistor, an emitting transistor, a first capacitor and a first compensation transistor. The switch transistor is coupled to the driving transistor. The emitting transistor is coupled between the light emitting unit and the driving transistor. The first capacitor is coupled to the driving transistor. The first compensation transistor is coupled to the first capacitor. A first end of the first compensation transistor and a first end of the emitting transistor receive same signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Chun Tseng, Kung-Chen Kuo, Lien-Hsiang Chen, Chi Lun Kao
  • Patent number: 11526195
    Abstract: An electronic device with a function of detecting a touch state, comprising: at least one first electrode, configured to generate a first capacitance reflecting a distance between the first electrode and an object; at least one second electrode, configured to generate a second capacitance reflecting a distance between the second electrode and the object, and wherein a first distance between the first electrode and the object is smaller than a second distance between the second electrode and the object when the electronic is in a wearing state; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine if the electronic device is in the wearing state based on a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tsai, Tse-Chung Su, Ren-Hau Gu, Tzung-Min Su