Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11443687
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a first transistor coupled between a first node and a second node, an emission driver supplying an emission control signal at a first frequency to an emission control line, a scan driver supplying first to fourth scan signals respectively to first to fourth scan lines, a data driver supplying a data signal to a data line, and a timing controller. The first scan signal controls a timing at which a voltage of a first power source is supplied to the first node or the second node, and the second scan signal controls a timing at which a first electrode of the first transistor and a gate electrode of the first transistor are coupled to each other. The scan driver controls a bias state of the first transistor by supplying, plural times, the first and second scan signals in a non-emission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Seong Son, Seung Kyu Lee, Sun Joon Hwang, Yun Seong Kim, Youn Woo Choe
  • Patent number: 11443689
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element control circuit, a display panel and a display device. The light-emitting element control circuit includes a current source and at least one light-emitting unit, and the at least one light-emitting unit is connected in series to the current source. The at least one light-emitting unit each includes a first branch and a second branch which are connected in parallel. The first branch includes a first gating unit and a light-emitting element which are connected in series, and the second branch includes a second gating unit. The light-emitting element control circuit provided by the present application enables the current provided by the current source to pass through one of the first branch and the second branch in an active-selection mode, and meanwhile generation of photo-generated carriers in the light-emitting element can be avoided, thereby improving the display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yingteng Zhai
  • Patent number: 11437447
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes an organic light-emitting display panel and a fingerprint identification assembly disposed on a non-light-emitting display side of the organic light-emitting display panel. The fingerprint identification assembly includes a first substrate, a fingerprint identification unit and a light-shielding structure. The fingerprint identification unit and the light-shielding structure are disposed on a same side of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingping Liu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Guozhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11438523
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a display controller configured to display a graphic image together with an HDR image on a display unit, wherein the display controller is further configured to (1) display the graphic image in second brightness in a case where brightness of the HDR image is first brightness, and (2) display the graphic image in fourth brightness that is higher than the second brightness in a case where brightness of the HDR image is third brightness that is higher than the first brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nashizawa
  • Patent number: 11436972
    Abstract: A driving method of a light emitting device includes that the light emitting device has a plurality of pixels and performs gray-scale display in sections of the sub-frame periods in which one frame period for displaying one frame image is divided into a plurality of sub-frame periods. The driving method includes writing analog gray-scale data to the plurality of pixels to display analog gray-scales in one sub-frame period of the plurality of sub-frame periods, and writing first digital gray-scale data to the plurality of pixels to display first digital gray-scales in a sub-frame period of the same length as the one sub-frame period, and in a sub-frame period different from the one sub-frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Kazunari Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 11429236
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first touch electrode; a first touch pad electrically connected to the first touch electrode by a touch wire; and a first dummy pad not connected to the touch wire, and disposed adjacent to the first touch pad, wherein a width of the first touch pad is greater than a width of the first dummy pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyo-Sang Yang
  • Patent number: 11430382
    Abstract: A LED driving apparatus with differential signal interfaces is introduced, including: N-stages LED drivers, wherein the first stage LED driver receives a first data packet differential signal and a first clock differential signal and outputs a second data packet differential signal and a second clock differential signal, the Mth stage LED driver receives a Mth data packet differential signal and a Mth clock differential signal and outputs a (M+1)th data packet differential signal and a (M+1)th clock differential signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Keko-Chun Liang, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Po-Hsiang Fang, Ju-Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 11423832
    Abstract: A method of generating compensation data in a display device includes setting a pixel group including a first target pixel and first non-target pixels adjacent to the first target pixel among a plurality of pixels of a display panel; switching on the first target pixel and switching off the first non-target pixels to generate a first captured image and store the first captured image; switching on the first target pixel and the first non-target pixels to generate a second captured image and store the second captured image; switching off the first target pixel and switching on the first non-target pixels to generate a third captured image and store the third captured image; and calculating luminance correction data of the first target pixel based on the stored first to third captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Joon Kwag, Hyung Jin Kim, Seok Ha Hong
  • Patent number: 11422621
    Abstract: A first display surface of a first display device in a first space displays a second section of a second space in which a second display device is located. An eye position of a user in the first space is recorded by at least one first recording apparatus. The second section of the second space is determined in dependence on the eye position of the user in the first space and is recorded by at least one second recording apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Schwartze, Markus Klug, André Schwager, Muhammad Ali Kezze
  • Patent number: 11423831
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving method for a display device and a display device. The display device includes a display driver, the display driver includes a plurality of driving channels each of which drives corresponding display unit according to display data in a pulse width modulation manner within one frame period, the method comprises: selectively enabling, in each sub-frame subset among a plurality of different sub-frame subsets of the frame period, different channel subset among a plurality of channel subsets of the plurality of driving channels to drive corresponding display unit, wherein each channel subset of the plurality of channel subsets includes two or more driving channels among the plurality of driving channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Chun-Fu Lin, Po-Hsiang Fang, Ju-Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 11422372
    Abstract: A distance measurement device includes an imaging optical system, an imaging device, and a distance measurement section which measures based on a plurality of images captured by the imaging device, a distance from the imaging device to the target to be imaged. The imaging optical system includes a polarization beam splitting section which splits a first polarization beam having a first polarization direction and a second polarization beam having a second polarization direction substantially orthogonal to the first polarization direction and allows the polarization beam splitting section to be incident on the imaging device. The imaging device receives the first polarization beam to capture a first polarization image and the second polarization beam to capture a second polarization image. The distance measurement section measures the distance to the target to be imaged on the basis of the first polarization image and the second polarization image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Yamaguchi, Toshiki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11403994
    Abstract: A light emitting assembly includes active matrix (AM) light emitting circuits and an AM driver circuit. Each AM light emitting circuit includes at least one light emitting element, at least one shift register and a current control sub-circuit. The at least one shift register is configured to generate a control signal according to the clock signal from a clock line and the data signal from an inter-array data line and the control signal from the at least one shift register. The current control sub-circuit is configured to control the brightness of the at least one light emitting element according to the base current from a current supply line and the control signal. The AM driver circuit is configured to generate the data signal according to a serial data packet, and provide the data signal, the clock signal and the base current to the AM light emitting circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Chin-Chih Cheng, Ching-Chung Cheng
  • Patent number: 11403998
    Abstract: A display device comprises a control circuit and a plurality of LED channels coupled to a shared supply voltage. The control circuit obtains respective brightness levels for each of the LED channels and determines, based on the brightness levels, a group current level sufficient to drive all of the LED channels. The control circuit also determines respective duty cycles for each of the LED channels that will achieve the respective brightness levels when each of the LED channels are driven with the group current level. The control circuit configures driver circuits to drive the LED channels in accordance with the group current level and the respective duty cycles. The control circuit may furthermore obtain sensed channel voltages associated with each of the LED channels, and configure the shared voltage supply based on the sensed channel voltages to a voltage level sufficient to drive all of the LED channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Huayuan Semiconductor (Shenzhen) Limited Company
    Inventors: Junjie Zheng, Richard Landry Gray, Chih-Chang Wei
  • Patent number: 11398173
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes pixels including light emitting elements, a weight calculation unit configured to calculate a weight of one of the pixels based on an amount of current flowing therethrough and a number of light emitting elements thereof, a deterioration accumulation unit configured to accumulate a deterioration amount of the one of the pixels based on the weight and previous compensation data thereof, and a data compensation unit configured to generate compensation data to be supplied to the one of the pixels based on the deterioration amount thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 11393254
    Abstract: A system including neural network that use deep learning for object detection allows users to interact with images of their face and, in particular, interact with different face landmarks as an input channel for interaction with smart devices. That is, the face is employed as a touch surface for interactions with a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mona Hosseinkhani Loorak, Wei Zhou, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11386835
    Abstract: In a display with subpixel LEDs, each pixel includes two subpixel LEDs controlled via a shared control circuit and switching element. Switching element logic allows one set of brightness control transistors to alternatively control two subpixels. The driving and control elements of a display backplane are organized into pixels units of four driving elements and three control elements. Each pixel may comprise two green subpixels controlled via the switching element. Alternatively, each pixel may comprise a white subpixel that only illuminates when the colored pixels are off; the green and white subpixels are controlled via the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Mosier, Michael A. Ropers, Jana Wills
  • Patent number: 11386861
    Abstract: A liquid crystal on silicon panel including a plurality of driving circuits is provided. Each of the driving circuits includes a first driving route and a second driving route. The first driving route and the second driving route are configured to drive corresponding subpixel electrodes and respectively determine display content of a first wobulation image and a second wobulation image. In addition, a projection apparatus including the liquid crystal on silicon panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuet-Wing Li, Shun-Tai Huang
  • Patent number: 11385599
    Abstract: An input mechanism, such as a crown, detects amounts of applied force. In various examples, an assembly including an input mechanism has an enclosure; a stem coupled to the enclosure such that the stem is rotatable, translatable, and transversely moveable with respect to the enclosure; a sensor, coupled between the stem and the housing, to which force is transferred when the stem moves with respect to the housing; and a processing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing unit is operable to determine a measurement of the force, based on a signal from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: 11380252
    Abstract: Addressing an emissive display having pixels arranged into rows and columns. A first clock signal is received at an address select input of a first row of the display. Data signals are received at data signal inputs of the first row of the display, each of the received data signals corresponding to a column of the display. When the first clock signal is active at the address select input, the data signals are output to corresponding drivers of light emitting semi-conductors of the first row and via corresponding data signal outputs of the first row. The data signals are received from the data signal outputs of the first row at a first row of shift registers. A second clock signal is received at the first row of shift registers. When the second clock signal is active, the data signals are output from the first row of shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: LUMIODE, INC.
    Inventors: Ioannis Kymissis, Yu-Jen Hsu, Vincent Lee, Brian Tull
  • Patent number: 11380249
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel, a data driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller configured to determine an operation mode based on an input signal, and configured to control the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit in order to drive a first display region of the display panel at a first driving frequency and drive a second display region of the display panel at a second driving frequency while the operation mode is a multi-frequency mode, wherein the driving controller may change the operation mode to a compensation mode in which the second display region is periodically driven at the first driving frequency when the duration of the multi-frequency mode is greater than a reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Eun Sil Yun, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Bonghyun You, Changnoh Yoon