Patents Examined by Navin Lingaraju
  • Patent number: 9129577
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel columns to display an image, wherein each of the pixel columns includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and sequentially turned-on in the first direction; a gate driver disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of stages connected to the pixels to sequentially apply a gate signal to the pixels, where at least two stages of the stages are disposed adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction; and a data driver which applies a data voltage to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-ho Park, Ji-Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9111509
    Abstract: A flat panel display is provided. In particular, a flat panel display including a driving circuit in which a timing controller and a data driver for driving a panel are mounted in a single IC, and a driving circuit thereof are provided. The flat panel display includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a gate driver controlling the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of driving circuits processing and converting an image signal and outputting the same to a display panel in a normal mode. The driving circuits generate a black image signal according to a synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minki Kim, SungChul Ha, JinSung Kim
  • Patent number: 9093031
    Abstract: A method for modifying an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image to be displayed on the display having a backlight and a transmissive panel. A backlight signal is provided to the backlight for causing the backlight to selectively illuminate different portions of the backlight with different characteristics. The characteristics include at least one of a different color and a difference luminance. A panel signal is provided to the panel for causing the transmissive panel to selectively change its transmittivities. At least one of the backlight signal and the panel signal are modified in a manner to reduce off-axis artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Benjamin John Broughton
  • Patent number: 9082357
    Abstract: Each image signal line S is connected alternately to a plurality of sub-pixels P positioned on one side of the image signal line S and a plurality of sub-pixels P positioned on the other side. During one frame period, image signals having either one of the positive and negative polarities are input to the first, third, fourth, and sixth image signal lines S1, S3, S4, and S6 of the eight image signal lines S1 to S8 that constitute a unit array of the image signal lines during one frame period, while image signals having the other polarity are input to the remaining image signal lines S2, S5, S7, and S8. According to this liquid crystal display device, it is possible to prevent flicker in image and to prevent the common electrode position from becoming different from the base potential, while preventing increase of power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Teruhisa Nakagawa, Yoshinori Aono, Masahiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 9070332
    Abstract: A display device includes: an insulation substrate; a plurality of gate lines on the insulation substrate and divided into a first group and a second group; a plurality of data lines insulated from and intersecting the gate lines; a gate driver which applies a gate-on voltage to the gate lines and operates in one of a first mode and a second mode; and a data driver which applies a data voltage to the data lines, where the first group and the second group of the gate lines are applied with the gate-on voltage when the gate driver is in the first mode, and where the first group of the gate lines is applied with the gate-on voltage and the second group of the gate lines is in an off state when the gate driver is in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Sun Kim, Chong Chul Chai, Yeong-Keun Kwon, Young-Soo Yoon, Soo-Wan Yoon
  • Patent number: 9030399
    Abstract: A gate driver for driving a TFT-LCD panel includes a number of gate-driver circuits arranged in groups and stages. Each gate-driver circuit has a main driver and an output section. The main driver is used to provide a charging signal to the output section which has two or more output circuits. Each of the output circuits is configured to provide a gate-line signal in response to the charging signal and a clock signal. The gate-driver circuit uses fewer switching elements, such as thin-film transistors, than the conventional circuit. When the gate driver is integrated in a TFT-LCD display panel and disposed within the periphery area around the display area, it is desirable to reduce or minimize the number of switching elements in the gate driver so that the periphery area can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Chang Tseng, Kuang-Hsiang Liu, Sheng-Chao Liu, Che-Chia Chang, Ling-Ying Chien
  • Patent number: 9013395
    Abstract: An electrophoresis display device that reduces power consumption of the device. The electrophoresis display device reduces power consumption by stopping the output of driving circuits that drive a display panel during a stabilization period following an image update period of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sunghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8947329
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a scan driver for driving scan lines and emission control lines, a data driver for driving data lines, a display unit including pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines, first power source lines coupled to a first power source configured to supply a first voltage and coupled to pixels in columns, horizontal power source lines extending in a direction parallel with scan lines and coupled to pixels in rows, and a second power source line coupled to the horizontal power source lines and to a second power source configured to supply the same voltage as the first power source, each of the pixels being configured to store a voltage corresponding to voltages of the second power source and a data signal and to control an amount of current that flows from the first power source in accordance with the stored voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8922474
    Abstract: A method for modifying an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image to be displayed on the display having a backlight and a transmissive panel. A backlight signal is provided to the backlight for causing the backlight to selectively illuminate different portions of the backlight with different characteristics. The characteristics include at least one of a different color and a difference luminance. A panel signal is provided to the panel for causing the transmissive panel to selectively change its transmittivities. At least one of the backlight signal and the panel signal are modified in a manner to reduce off-axis artifacts in selected regions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Patent number: 8773343
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a capacitive electric potential line driving circuit that supplies one of a low-level and a high-level electric potential as a capacitive electric potential to each of the capacitive electric potential lines, reverses polarity of the capacitive electric potential as a write period for the row corresponding to the corresponding capacitive electric potential line is terminated in each subfield period included in a unit period, and, in a final subfield period included in the unit period, reverses polarity of the capacitive electric potential again at the time period of after reversing the polarity of the capacitive electric potential until terminating the corresponding final subfield period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 8760438
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for simulating bristle brush behavior in an image editing application may use stiffness-height parameterization to determine the height of a brush tool above a canvas during a brush stroke. The determination may be dependent on the pressure applied during the stroke (e.g., using a stylus on a pressure-sensitive tablet), and on the stiffness of the brush bristles. The system may select a standard-stiffness or high-stiffness mapping between stylus pressure values and brush height values dependent whether the bristle stiffness value is above or below a pre-determined threshold. The standard-stiffness mapping may apply a linear function to pressure values to determine height values. Using the high-stiffness mapping, the effect of increased pressure on corresponding brush height values may be reduced as bristle stiffness is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen J. DiVerdi, Sunil Hadap, Aravind Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 8749511
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate, a liquid crystal display device comprising the same, and a method for forming the same. The array substrate comprises a gate line, a data line, a signal line and a pixel electrode formed thereon. The gate line intersects the data line to define a plurality of pixel regions in which the pixel electrodes are formed. Each of the pixel electrodes overlaps the signal line to form a first sensing capacitor and overlaps the gate line to form a second sensing capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Wang, Jai-il Ryu
  • Patent number: 8717341
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is for correcting an input image signal and displaying an image on a display unit based on the corrected image signal, and includes: an illuminance detector for sequentially detecting illuminance values around the apparatus; an illuminance analyzer for sequentially outputting image settings for correction of the image signal depending on the detected illuminance values; a setting selector for outputting an image setting which has been output from the analyzer a number of times greater than a number of times any other image setting has been output, or an image setting determined by the statistic of the image settings output from the analyzer; and a setting application unit for changing the image setting used to correct the image signal to be equal to the image setting output from the selector, when a predetermined change occurs in the input image signal or when a predetermined time has come.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 8711077
    Abstract: An LCD device is configured to drive a plurality of shift register units using two clock signals having different driving abilities. Each shift register unit may thus generate a stronger signal for triggering a next-stage shift register unit, thereby improving cold-start. When the LCD device has been activated over a predetermined period of time, the driving ability of the clock signal having higher driving ability is gradually lowered, thereby reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Suei Liao
  • Patent number: 8711075
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second pixel electrodes, first to fourth data lines, and a first gate line. The first pixel electrode has separated first primary and secondary sub-pixel electrodes. The second pixel electrode has separated second primary and secondary sub-pixel electrodes. The first data line is coupled to the first secondary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the first pixel electrode. The second data line is coupled to the first primary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the second pixel electrode. The third data line is coupled to the second primary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the second pixel electrode. The fourth data line is coupled to the second secondary sub-pixel electrode. The first gate line is coupled to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pei-Chun Liao, Hung-Lung Hou, Ting-Wei Su
  • Patent number: 8698774
    Abstract: Provided is a capacitance coupling type on-screen input image display device that enables multipoint detection in a short period of time. The on-screen input image display device includes: a detection circuit (4) for detecting a change in capacitance between the plurality of X coordinate electrodes and the plurality of Y coordinate electrodes of the touch sensor (3); a touch panel control circuit (6) for determining a touched coordinate point; and a main control circuit (7) for receiving touch coordinate data from the touch panel control circuit (6). The main control circuit (7) judges occurrence of a user's touch and coordinates of the occurrence from the touch coordinate data, and supplies a display signal corresponding to the judged coordinates to the display device (1) via the display control circuit (2), whereby the display signal is reflected on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Mamba, Hideo Sato, Toshiyuki Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8692746
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display device includes a display panel including a pixel circuit, the pixel circuit including a light-emitting element, a driver element, and a capacitor element. The image display device further includes a charge supply line for supplying electrical charge to the light-emitting element of the pixel circuit; and a drive control unit which supplies second electrical charge from the charge supply line to the light-emitting element after first electrical charge accumulated in the light-emitting element is supplied to the capacitor element, further supplies the second electrical charge to the capacitor element and accumulates the first charge and the second charge in the capacitor element, and applies a voltage greater than or equal to the threshold voltage to a control terminal of the driver element, within one frame after the light-emitting element emits light until the light-emitting element emits light next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co,. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohei Ebisuno
  • Patent number: 8681141
    Abstract: A display system is provided. The display system includes a display unit for displaying an image, a support stand for supporting the display unit, a power source unit for supplying power to the display unit, an approaching detection unit that is formed on the support stand to detect an approach of an object, and a control unit for controlling the power source unit by recognizing a predetermined command corresponding to a detection signal from the approaching detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soo-Man Lee, Sea-La Park
  • Patent number: 8665205
    Abstract: There is provided a method of driving a backlight of a liquid crystal display device capable of eliminating leakage of light from adjacently-placed light emitting blocks. A gray level and maximum gray level of an input video signal are inputted for every light-emitting block. An output average gray level is calculated and a lighting control signal corresponding to converted luminance is outputted. The drivers responding to the lighting control signal makes LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) emit light. An average gray level from an output from sensors is calculated. An average gray level, based on an average gray level and a light leakage rate, by taking light leakage into consideration. A gray level correcting signal is outputted in the light-emitting block based on the above output average gray level. An output average gray level is corrected in response to a gray level correcting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuaki Honbo
  • Patent number: 8643575
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an organic light emitting display is disclosed. The pixel uses both current and voltage driving methods. A voltage based on an input current and on an input voltage is stored, and current for an organic light emitting diode is generated based on the stored current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung-Soo Kim