Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 12380854
    Abstract: A pixel circuit with sensing function that can perform sensing operation and display operation in a simultaneous and parallel manner is implemented using a small number of elements. For each pixel circuit (20) there are provided a sensor circuit (22) connected to a control node (NG) and including three or less circuit elements; and a read circuit (24) connected to a second conductive terminal of a drive transistor (T4) and including one read transistor (T9). A sensing process is performed during a period during which a drive current is supplied to an organic EL element (21) depending on a potential at the control node (NG). A sensing result reading process is performed by maintaining the read transistor (T9) in on state during a predetermined period after ending the sensing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohhei Tanaka, Seiichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 12367810
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels disposed on a base layer, each of the pixels including electrodes and a light emitting element disposed on the electrodes, and scan lines that supply a scan signal to the pixels. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel. The scan lines include a first pixel scan line that supplies a first scan signal to the first pixel, and a second pixel scan line that supplies a second scan signal to the second pixel. The electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode, which are spaced from each other. The second pixel scan line is electrically connected to a second electrode of the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, No Kyung Park, Sun Kwun Son
  • Patent number: 12366755
    Abstract: A control apparatus is configured to control a display apparatus for displaying a partial image based on a partial area of an omnidirectional image or hemispherical image on a display surface. The control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to generate the partial image by performing transformation processing for the partial area of the omnidirectional image or hemispherical image, detect a first position of a line of sight of a user on the display surface, and generate a first partial image based on the first position and display the first partial image on the display surface in a case where the first position is located within a predetermined area for a predetermined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sota Nagayoshi
  • Patent number: 12361861
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus comprising a display panel including data lines connected to a driving transistor of each of subpixels for displaying an image, and reference lines connected to a sensing transistor of each of the subpixels, a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the data lines and supplying a reference voltage to the reference lines, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, sense a reference voltage deviation of each of the reference lines changed independent from a driving characteristic of a subpixel by supplying the reference voltage to the reference lines without supplying the data voltage to the data lines, and compensate for the reference voltage deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MooKyoung Hong, Jinsol Choi
  • Patent number: 12360371
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a waveguide system may be used to support eye tracking in a head mounted display (HMD). The waveguide system may be positioned in a user's field of view and within a lens assembly of the HMD to capture light that is reflected from an eye. The waveguide system may include a waveguide, a first diffraction grating, and a second diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating may be configured to in-couple light of a first wavelength into the waveguide, and the second diffraction grating may be configured to in-couple light of a second wavelength. The first and second diffraction gratings operate together to detect light reflections from an eyebox region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Sascha Hallstein, Jianbo Zhao, Peter Johnsen
  • Patent number: 12355019
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a pixel circuit that generates a PWM signal is provided. In the display apparatus, a pixel has a function of generating a PWM signal. The PWM signal can be generated by an operation of comparing gate-source voltage or on-state resistance of each of two transistors provided in the pixel. Light emission of a light-emitting device such as a micro LED or an organic EL element is controlled with a duty ratio using the generated PWM signal. The PWM signal is generated in a circuit formed of a small number of transistors, which is effective in increasing the definition and the area of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Satoshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 12346634
    Abstract: A method for a contextual assistant to use mouse pointing or touch cues includes receiving audio data corresponding to a query spoken by a user, receiving, in a graphical user interface displayed on a screen, a user input indication indicating a spatial input applied at a first location on the screen, and processing the audio data to determine a transcription of the query. The method also includes performing query interpretation on the transcription to determine that the query is referring to an object displayed on the screen without uniquely identifying the object, and requesting information about the object. The method further includes disambiguating, using the user input indication indicating the spatial input applied at the first location on the screen, the query to uniquely identify the object that the query is referring to, obtaining the information about the object requested by the query, and providing a response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Patent number: 12337769
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control unit for a vehicle interior. In particular, the control unit can comprise an information region with symbols, wherein some symbols are always visible and some symbols are only visible when they are back lit. The application also relates to a method for producing a corresponding control unit. The control unit can be part of a vehicle interior trim part, for example part of an instrument panel, door trim or center console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: René Zemmrich, Raquel Machado
  • Patent number: 12342697
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel unit, a data line, and a connection element, the connection element includes a shielding portion, the shielding portion and the data line extend in the same direction; the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a first transistor, a first electrode of the first transistor is connected with the data line, a first electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a second electrode of the first transistor, the display panel further includes a semiconductor pattern and a fourth conductive pattern layer, the fourth conductive pattern layer is located on a side of the semiconductor pattern away from a base substrate, the data line and the shielding portion are located in the fourth conductive pattern, the data line includes two adjacent data lines, the shielding portion is located between the two adjacent data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mei Li, Tian Dong, Li Wang, Guangliang Shang, Can Zheng
  • Patent number: 12340722
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is provided and configured to drive a first light emitting unit and a second light emitting unit of a sub-pixel to emit light. The pixel circuit includes: an input circuit, a first light emitting control circuit, and a second light emitting control circuit. The input circuit is configured to write a data signal provided by a data signal line to a first node and store the data signal written into the first node, under controlling of a scanning signal provided by a scanning signal line. The first light emitting control circuit is configured to provide a driving current to a second node, under controlling of a first power supply signal provided by a first power supply line, the first node, and a light emitting control signal provided by a light emitting control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hengzhen Liang
  • Patent number: 12322319
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display control method and device, an image processing device and display apparatus, and belongs to the technical field of display. The display control method of the present disclosure includes: determining a data stream format according to data streams for the tth frame of image; determining a dynamic region and image data thereof from the data streams for the tth frame of image when the data stream format is a regional transmission format; and transmitting the image data for the dynamic region and/or the image data for the (t?1)th frame of image in the buffer space to the display assembly according to the end-of-transmission identifier in the data streams for the tth frame of image and the configuration command of the tth frame of image, so that the display assembly refreshes the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaohui Meng, Lin Cong, Xin Duan, Yifan Song
  • Patent number: 12321524
    Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a camera that captures an image of the real space and acquires captured video; a distance-measuring camera that measures a distance from a real object in the real space; and a controller. The controller comprises: captured object processing for recognizing the real object from the captured video; AR object processing for obtaining the AR object and assigning a position, which includes a distance in the real space, to the AR object, and displayed video generation processing for generating displayed video in the MR space while reflecting the perspective of the real object and the AR object in the video. The controller is further provided with: processing for detecting an operation-screen display object from the captured video; and processing for displaying an MR-space operation screen on the operation-screen display object. Video on the operation screen includes the AR object in the MR space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masuo Oku
  • Patent number: 12314622
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a display system. The methods comprise: detecting an occurrence of an event; initiating a display session based on the event being of an event type to trigger a display session; and selecting media content (MC) for display by computing devices (ICDs) (wherein ICDs are located in areas or sections (SA/S) of a venue); selecting a first SA/S at which display of MC is to begin; identifying first CDs (FCDs) that are located in the first SA/S; causing FCDs to notify users that FCDs are to be moved into positions in which first pixel panels are visible by persons located outside of the first SA/S; and causing each FCD to display a respective pixel portion of a first electronic graphic (FEI) contained in MC, whereby an entirety of FEI is displayed collectively by FCDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: FANWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Lance Decker, Bradley Hartman, Daniel Korbelic, Deandrew Daniel, Sherman Wilder, Tyler Culley, Christopher Smith
  • Patent number: 12298522
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device for representing two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional scenes. The display device comprises at least one illumination device to emit sufficiently coherent light, at least one spatial light modulation device, at least one optical system and a tracking device. A hologram is encoded into the at least one spatial light modulation device by means of a single-parallax encoding. The at least one optical system is provided to generate at least one virtual visibility region at the position of an eye of an observer. The encoding direction of the hologram on the spatial light modulation device is modifiable by means of the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
    Inventors: Norbert Leister, Bo Kroll
  • Patent number: 12292572
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces light having an image, a lens that directs the light to a waveguide, and a waveguide that directs the light to an eye box. The lens may produce a foveated image in the light by applying a non-uniform magnification to the image in the light. The non-uniform magnification may vary as a function of angle within a field of view of the lens. This may allow the foveated image to have higher resolution within the central region than in the peripheral region. Performing foveation using the lens maximizes the resolution of images at the eye box without increasing the size of the display module. Control circuitry on the device may apply a pre-distortion to the image that is an inverse of distortion introduced by the lens in producing the foveated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventors: Vikrant Bhakta, David A. Kalinowski, Hyungryul Choi, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Stanley K. Melax, Byron R. Cocilovo
  • Patent number: 12279992
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guidance assistance system having a peripheral rim defining a peripheral field of vision and a guidance information display device on the peripheral rim. The guidance information display device includes light sources which can be controlled by a control unit. The display device includes a sensor of spatial information relating to a position and/or an orientation of the visualisation window and a circuit for processing the spatial information according to the zone of interest in order to determine guidance information. The control unit is configured to control the light sources on the basis of the guidance information in order to display, in the field of vision, a direction to be followed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PERIPHERAL
    Inventor: Aymar De La Choue De La Mettrie
  • Patent number: 12276805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for actively adjusting diopter of a head-mounted display, and a head-mounted display. The method includes the following steps: adjusting a relative distance between a displaying component of the head-mounted display and an optical component by a motor driving component; presetting a mapping relationship between a diopter value and a motor pulse number; accordingly converting into a control signal for the motor driving component according to the mapping relationship; and actively adjusting the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component by the motor driving component according to the control signal. A target diopter value is inputted and converted into a corresponding control signal. The motor driving component actively adjusts the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Weihui Gan, Jiangfeng Chen, Donghua Liu, Zaiyue Yang, Huajun Peng
  • Patent number: 12256597
    Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daiki Nakamura, Ryo Hatsumi, Rai Sato, Shingo Eguchi, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 12254822
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a display device, including: a plurality of sub-pixel areas, each including a pixel circuit, each pixel circuit including: a diode, configured to be in a forward-biasing state during a display phase of the pixel circuit for light-emitting and configured to be in a reverse-biasing state in a sensing phase of the pixel circuit for light-sensing; a driving transistor for driving the diode during the display phase and serving as a source follower in the sensing phase; first to sixth transistors, applied to the gates of the first to sixth transistors respectively so that the pixel circuit switching between the display phase and the sensing phase; and a capacitor for storing a data voltage to be written to the diode in the display phase and storing the charge accumulated by the diode in the sensing phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Hung Yin, Jia-Shyang Wang, Dean Wang
  • Patent number: 12254842
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for driving a plurality of display areas of a display at different driving frequencies are provided. The electronic device can determine a first driving frequency of a first application, and the position of a first portion on which a first execution screen of the first application is to be displayed, determine a second driving frequency of a second application, and the position of a second portion on which a second execution screen of the second application is to be displayed, determine a third driving frequency of a third application, and the position of a third portion on which a third execution screen of the third application is to be displayed, and drive a first area of the display panel based on a first partial scan rate, and drive a second area of the display panel based on a second partial scan rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Youngdo Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Woonbo Yeo, Minwoo Lee, Songhee Jung