Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
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Patent number: 11521544Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels connected to compensation gate lines, and a compensation gate driver which supplies compensation gate signals to the display panel. The compensation gate driver includes: a first compensation gate driver which generates the compensation gate signals based on a first-first clock signal and a second-first clock signal and a second compensation gate driver which generates the compensation gate signals based on a first-second clock signal and a second-second clock signal. The first-first clock signal and the second-first clock signal have the same waveform as the first-second clock signal and the second-second clock signal, respectively, during a scan period in which a compensation gate signal is supplied to the display panel, and have different waveforms from the first-second clock signal and the second-second clock signal, respectively, during a blank period in which the compensation gate signal is not supplied to the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Won Park, Yang Wan Kim
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Patent number: 11520551Abstract: Methods and system are directed to wireless and non-conductive transfers of power and data to electronic devices. The methods and systems can be implemented in retail security products, such merchandising display assembly for displaying devices such as smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, and wearables. In one aspect, a merchandising display assembly may include a wireless power transfer capability and a wireless data transfer capability. An electronic device may interface directly with the base position assembly or via an intermediary assembly. The interface may be accomplished without an electrical cable to transmit power and data from the base position assembly to the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Mobile Tech, Inc.Inventors: Robert Logan Blaser, Michael D. Miles, Lincoln Wilde
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Patent number: 11514843Abstract: A display device includes: pixels arranged in a display area; a timing controller which generates image data of each frame based on an input image signal of the each frame, the timing controller including a logo controller which detects a logo image and a logo area including the logo image from the input image signal of the each frame to control luminance of the logo image; and a data driver which generates a data signal based on the image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels. The logo controller generates a first logo map based on an input image signal of a previous frame, generates a second logo map based on an input image signal of a current frame, and determines a similarity between the first logo map and the second logo map to selectively change luminance of a logo image of a next frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyeon Min Kim, Hyun Jun Lim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 11514847Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a timing controller, a data driver, and a sensing unit. The display unit includes a data line, a sensing line, and a pixel that includes a light emitting element and a transistor for providing a driving current to the light emitting element. The timing controller generates a first voltage value by compensating a first grayscale value and generates a second voltage value by remapping the first voltage value from a first voltage range to in a second voltage range. The data driver generates a data voltage based on the second voltage value and supplies the data voltage to the data line. The sensing unit provides an initialization voltage to the sensing line. A voltage difference between the data voltage and a threshold voltage of the transistor is greater than or equal to the initialization voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventors: Seok Gyu Ban, Kyung Man Kim, Wook Lee
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Patent number: 11508293Abstract: A display system includes a display panel that includes a plurality of micro-light-emitting diodes (microLEDs), the display panel being divided into a plurality of display blocks; and a plurality of drivers correspondingly driving the plurality of display blocks. Data signals of each driver are provided to a corresponding display block at different times within a horizontal scan period.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Prilit Optronics, Inc.Inventors: Biing-Seng Wu, Tzung-Ren Wang
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Patent number: 11503409Abstract: Digital audio signal processing techniques used to provide an acoustic transparency function in a pair of headphones. A number of transparency filters can be computed at once, using optimization techniques or using a closed form solution, that are based on multiple re-seatings of the headphones and that are as a result robust for a population of wearers. In another embodiment, a transparency hearing filter of a headphone is computed by an adaptive system that takes into consideration the changing acoustic to electrical path between an earpiece speaker and an interior microphone of that headphone while worn by a user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ismael H. Nawfal, Joshua D. Atkins, Stephen J. Nimick, Guy C. Nicholson, Jason M. Harlow
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Patent number: 11490061Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to electrical/electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, portable, wearable, and stationary media devices. RF transceivers and/or audio system in each media device may be used to wirelessly communicate between media devices and allow configuration and other data to be wirelessly transmitted from one media device to another media device. The proximity detection system may be configured to detect a presence of a user or multiple users and upon detecting presence, access content on a user device, and record the content while also playing back the content on the media device. One or more user devices in proximity of the media device post detection may wirelessly communicate with the media device and the media device may orchestrate handling and/or queuing of content from those devices or from a wirelessly accessible location such as the Cloud, Internet, NAS, Flash memory, or other wireless sources.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Jawbone Innovations, LLCInventors: Michael Edward Smith Luna, Thomas Alan Donaldson
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Patent number: 11481057Abstract: A multi-touch touch panel and a method of detecting touches is disclosed. The touch panel comprises at least one hole in an active region of the touch panel, having a selected size for mechanically mounting a respective user input device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Zytronic Displays LimitedInventors: Andrew Morrison, Christopher Graham John Caldwell, Stephen Michael Ormston, Philip Andrew Rudland
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Patent number: 11482165Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.Inventor: Jae Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 11481870Abstract: Embodiments shifts the color fields of a rendered image frame based on the eye tracking data (e.g. position of the user's pupils). An MR device obtains a first image frame having a set of color fields. The first image frame corresponds to a first position of the pupils of the viewer. The MR device then determines a second position of the pupils of the viewer based on, for example, data receive from an eye tracking device coupled to the MR device. The MR device generates, based on the first image frame, a second image frame corresponding to the second position of the pupils. The second image frame is generated by shifting color fields by a shift value based on the second position of the pupils of the viewer. The MR device transmits the second image frame to a display device of the MR device to be displayed thereon.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Ian Russell
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Patent number: 11475830Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure describes a device that includes a first light sensor to determine a first quantity of light at a first location; a second light sensor to determine a second quantity of light at a second location; a display device to display images; a processor; and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor to: determine when a difference between the first quantity of light and the second quantity of light device exceeds a threshold quantity, select a light sensor from the first light sensor and the second light sensor based on the first quantity of light received by the first light sensor and the second quantity of light received by the second light sensor, and alter a brightness of the display device based on the selected light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Yuan Hsi Cheng, Yu Shu Wang, Shu-Ting Hsu, Ming-Fong Chou
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Patent number: 11475829Abstract: An optoelectronic light emitting device includes an optoelectronic semiconductor component configured to generate light, a current source configured to generate a current, and a PWM transistor driven by a pulse-width modulated signal. The PWM transistor enters a first state or a second state based on said pulse-width modulated signal. The PWN transistor is configured to supply the optoelectronic semiconductor component with the current generated by the current source in the first state and to decouple it from the current generated by the current source in the second state. The current source is manufactured by a first technology and the PWM transistor is manufactured by a second technology.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventors: Hubert Halbritter, Jens Richter
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Patent number: 11468831Abstract: A light emitting device array circuit capable of reducing ghost image includes: a light emitting device array, plural scan line switch circuits, and a driver circuit. The light emitting device array includes plural light emitting devices arranged in plural scan lines and plural data lines. In one frame, plural scan line switch circuits respectively electrically connect plural scan nodes in plural corresponding scan lines to a scan conduction voltage in a non-overlapping sequential order. Data line buffer circuits of the driver circuit provide predetermined dimming levels to corresponding data nodes respectively according to data operation signals. A pre-discharge control amplifier circuit of the driver circuit is coupled to the plural scan nodes and provides a pre-discharge level to at least one predetermined scan node during a predetermined pre-discharge time period according to a pre-discharge signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Heng-Sheng Chao, Jia-Nan Tai, Hsing-Shen Huang
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Patent number: 11468829Abstract: A display device is proposed. The display device includes unit pixels in which red, white, blue, and green sub-pixels are sequentially arranged, and includes an image processor configured to detect text from an image signal input from outside, perform image processing on the text, and output the text, wherein in the unit pixels respectively corresponding to both edges of the text, the image processor may perform image processing so that predetermined sub-pixels adjacent to a central part of the text are driven in a light-emitting state.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seunghyun Kim, Yuhoon Kim, Junggeun Jo
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Patent number: 11468827Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element, and an enable line drive circuit that outputs an enable signal to a plurality of pixel circuits. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The enable line drive circuit outputs an enable signal that is active in a partial period of a first display period corresponding to a first bit, which is a lower bit of display data. When the enable signal is active in a partial period of the first display period, a pixel is ON-state or OFF-state.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Patent number: 11468828Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel including sub pixels. The pixel includes a sub pixel area in which the sub pixels are disposed and a common area. The pixel includes a light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, and the anode electrode is electrically connected to a first power line to which a high potential voltage is supplied. Each of the sub pixels includes a driving element in which a source is connected to a N1 node, a gate is connected to a N2 node, and a drain is connected to a N3 node, a capacitor connected to the N2 node and a N4 node; a N1 switching circuit connected to the N1 node; a N2 switching circuit connected to the N2 node; a N3 switching circuit connected to the N3 node; and a N4 switching circuit connected to the N4 node.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: JinYeong Kim, HyeonHo Son, SeongHwan Ju
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Patent number: 11462151Abstract: A light emitting device including a plurality of pixels is provided. At least one of the pixels includes a light emitting unit, a first pixel driving circuit and a second pixel driving circuit. The first pixel driving circuit is configured to drive the light emitting unit. The second pixel driving circuit is configured to drive the light emitting unit. An emission period of the first pixel driving circuit is shorter than an emission period of the second pixel driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventor: Kazuyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11455942Abstract: A method of providing environmental information to an electronic device includes, at the electronic device, receiving ambient light from a surrounding environment of the electronic device with one or more camera sensors in data communication with a processor and capturing a raw pattern with the camera sensor, wherein the raw pattern includes light intensity information and light spectrum information. The method further includes deriving at least one ambient light value from the light intensity information and light spectrum information and providing the ambient light value to the processor of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sathyanarayanan Karivaradaswamy, Wenjie Shi, Ziran Wu, Onji Bae, Michael Jeffrey Ajax, Naveen Thumpudi, Karthik Elangovan, Andrew Wathen Quirk, Mei Ling Wilson
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Patent number: 11449179Abstract: A display device includes a display module, a first supporter under the display module, a second supporter under the display module, the first and second supporters being arranged in a first direction with a space therebetween, and a digitizer module under the first and second supporters and including a first opening extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and second openings respectively extending along the first direction from both ends of the first opening. The first opening overlaps with the space between the first supporter and the second supporter.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaiku Shin, Jiwon Han
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Patent number: 11445123Abstract: A PWM control system includes a memory and a processor. The processor obtains camera characteristics relating to a camera that is configured to capture an image displayed by a video display. The camera characteristics include a duration of a period when a shutter of the camera is open. The processor also calculates a PWM timing control for the video display. The PWM timing control specifies a PWM cycle duration that is based on the period when the shutter of the camera is open. The processor further sends a signal to the video display. The signal includes the PWM timing control and is configured to cause the video display to control a brightness of the video display according to the PWM timing control during the period when the shutter of the camera is open.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Brompton Technology Ltd.Inventor: Christopher Deighton