Patents Examined by Parul H Gupta
  • Patent number: 11972736
    Abstract: Provided is a scan driver including a plurality of stages. Each stage includes a node controller in which a transistor having a gate connected to a first control node and a transistor having a gate connected to a second control node are coupled to each other. Accordingly, a stable scan signal is output without a separate boost capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haijung In, Dongeup Lee, Jaesic Lee
  • Patent number: 11961477
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a driving method are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes: a first power signal terminal receiving a first voltage signal and a second power signal terminal receiving a second voltage signal; a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current in a light-emitting stage; a light-emitting component, connected in series between the driving transistor and the second power signal terminal and configured to emit light in response to the driving current; a light-emitting controller connected in series between the first power signal terminal and the light-emitting component; and a bias unit, electrically connected between the third node and a second output terminal of a light-emitting control circuit, and in response to a first control signal, configured to transmit a first signal outputted by the light-emitting control circuit to a third node to adjust a bias state of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11954241
    Abstract: A position of a user is recognized. A display unit (102) displays a content-display-frame (112). A determination unit (103) determines whether the position of the user is within a predetermined range from a wall surface (12) or not. The display control unit (104) configured to display a content-display-frame on a floor surface (11) when the position of the user is farther than the predetermined range from the wall surface, and configured to display an operation input area (113) that receives an operation input from the user on the wall surface while displaying a content-display-frame to span from the floor surface to the wall surface when the position of the user is within the predetermined range from the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMIZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yuya Igarashi, Motoaki Yamazaki, Michihito Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11954260
    Abstract: A system and method for determining handedness in a device. The system including a first electrode, a second electrode, a sensor, and a processing circuit coupled to each other. The first electrode is placed at a first location, and the second electrode is placed at a second location on the device—the first location is different from the second location. The electrodes are configured to sense a variation in an electrostatic field in response to a user interacting with the device. The sensor detects a differential potential between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the processing circuit determines whether the user is interacting with the device using a left hand or a right hand. The determining is based on data received from the sensor corresponding to the differential potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mirko Guarnera, Wenbin Yang, Enrico Rosario Alessi, Fabio Passaniti
  • Patent number: 11922895
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, a driving method, and a terminal thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a pixel structure including data lines and scan lines, wherein each data line is connected to at least two pixel groups, and each pixel group includes three sub-pixels having different colors sequentially connected to the data lines; and a first driving unit electrically connected to the scan lines and inputting scan signals to the scan lines in a preset order to solve a problem of horizontal bright and dark lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoonsung Um, Lixia Li, Bangyin Peng, Yingchun Zhao, Fen Long, Qiqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11908402
    Abstract: The display device includes: a display panel, having a plurality of pixel assemblies each including a power supply end; a timing control circuit, having a first signal output end configured to output a selection instruction signal, and a second signal output end configured to output a clock signal; and a power circuit, including a voltage generation assembly configured to generate a plurality of step voltages, a voltage selection assembly configured to select at least one step voltage from the plurality of step voltages in response to the selection instruction signal, and a voltage conversion assembly configured to determine a power supply voltage on the basis of the step voltage in response to the clock signal and to output the power supply voltage to the power supply end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianlei Li, Zhicheng Tao, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11900871
    Abstract: A display device including: a display region including a first pixel region, a second pixel region, and a third pixel region; a dummy region including a first dummy region disposed between the second pixel region and the third pixel region; first, second, and third pixels respectively arranged in the first pixel region, the second pixel region, and the third pixel region in a matrix of vertical lines and horizontal lines; a data converter configured to receive first image data including effective data corresponding to the display region and dummy data corresponding to the dummy region and generate second image data by converting a gray scale value of dummy data corresponding to at least one region of the first dummy region in the first image data into a predetermined first gray scale value, the first gray scale value being between a lowest gray scale value and a highest gray scale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Ki Myeong Eom, Chung Yi, Se Byung Chae, Deok Jun Choi, Moon Sang Hwang
  • Patent number: 11893154
    Abstract: An electronic device, while the electronic device is worn over a predefined portion of the user's body, displays, via a display generation component arranged on the electronic device opposite the predefined portion of the user's body, a graphical representation of an exterior view of a body part that corresponds to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device detects a change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device, in response to detecting the change in the position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body, modifies the graphical representation of the exterior view of the body part that corresponds to predefined portion of the user's body in accordance with the detected change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Seung Wook Kim, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, William A. Sorrentino, III, Thomas S. Hulbert, Karlin Y. Bark
  • Patent number: 11893961
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples for adjusting screen brightness based on screen content being presented on a display screen of a mobile device. The described examples may determine a time at which the screen content is to be evaluated. The screen content is categorized based on the evaluation. A category of the screen content may be input into a machine learning algorithm that may be used to determine whether a screen brightness adjustment is appropriate. If a screen brightness adjustment is appropriate, a degree of the screen brightness adjustment may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Vincent Pham, Austin Grant Walters, Anh Truong, Galen Rafferty, Reza Farivar
  • Patent number: 11886673
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: detecting physical touch of a touch-sensitive component on a back portion of a client device, the client device displaying a graphical user interface on a touch-sensitive display screen of a front portion of the client device; in response to detecting the physical touch, transmitting an electrical signal representing the physical touch of the touch-sensitive component on the back portion of the client device to the touch-sensitive display screen of the front portion of the client device; and causing an operation associated with the graphical user interface to be executed in response to the touch-sensitive display screen receiving the electrical signal representing the physical touch of the touch-sensitive component on the back portion of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Shree K. Nayar, Chang Xiao, Changxi Zheng
  • Patent number: 11874716
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to cause the apparatus to predict, based at least in part on a calendar application, a need for a rich media interface and to trigger startup of a higher capability processing device from among a low capability processing device and the higher capability processing device in the apparatus at a time that is selected based on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventors: Erik Lindman, Jyrki Uusitalo, Timo Eriksson, Jari Akkila, Michael Miettinen, Niko Knappe
  • Patent number: 11841570
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first common electrode and a second common electrode arranged in a first direction and separated from each other, a signal line located between the first common electrode and the second common electrode and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the signal line and overlapping the first common electrode, and a first metal line located between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, overlapping the signal line, and extending in the second direction. The first metal line is applied a predetermined voltage from a plurality of connection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Obinata
  • Patent number: 11822727
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selecting a face among faces of a 3D object in a 3D immersive environment. Each face is oriented in the 3D immersive environment. The method comprises displaying the 3D object in the 3D immersive environment. The method further comprises detecting S20 a hand gesture. The hand gesture comprises an adduction of all fingers except thumb. The method further comprises determining an oriented plane formed with the palm and/or the back of the hand in the 3D immersive environment. The method further comprises identifying the face of the 3D object having the closest orientation with the oriented plane. This constitutes an improved method for selecting a face among faces of a 3D object in a 3D immersive environment using hand interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventor: Fivos Doganis
  • Patent number: 11810516
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. The display may have regions of lower and higher resolution to reduce data bandwidth and power consumption for the display while preserving satisfactory image quality. Data lines may be shared by lower and higher resolution portions of a display or different portions of a display with different resolutions may be supplied with different numbers of data lines. Data line length may be varied in transition regions between lower resolution and higher resolution portions of a display to reduce visible discontinuities between the lower and higher resolution portions. The lower and higher resolution portions of the display may be dynamically adjusted using dynamically adjustable gate driver circuitry and dynamically adjustable data line driver circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Chen, Jason C. Sauers, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, David W. Lum, Chun-Yao Huang, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Graham B. Myhre, Bennett S. Wilburn, Paolo Sacchetto, Shih Chang Chang, Wonjae Choi, Cheuk Chi Lo
  • Patent number: 11775095
    Abstract: An integrated touchscreen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs), display chiplets and touch chiplets disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. For example, the LEDs/OLEDs, display chiplets and touch chiplets can be placed on a substrate by a micro-transfer tool. The integrated touchscreen can also include electrodes disposed in the visible area of the integrated touch screen. The electrodes can be capable of providing display functionality via the one or more display chiplets during display operation (e.g., operating as cathode terminals of the LEDs during the display operation) and capable of providing touch functionality via the touch chiplets during touch operation (e.g., touch node electrodes can be formed from groups of the electrodes and sensed). In some examples, the touch node electrodes can be formed and coupled to touch chiplets via the display chiplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Derek K. Shaeffer, Hasan Akyol, Henry C. Jen, John T. Wetherell, Thierry S. Divel
  • Patent number: 11763765
    Abstract: A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) assembly and an electronic device is provided in the disclosure. The LCD assembly includes a liquid crystal panel, a resistance detection unit, and a color-temperature-compensation unit. The liquid crystal panel has a first detection point in a first region and a second detection point in a second region. The resistance detection unit is configured to obtain a first resistance value by detecting a resistance value at the first detection point and obtain a second resistance value by detecting a resistance value at the second detection point, and further configured to obtain a resistance difference by calculating a difference between the second resistance value and the first resistance value. The color-temperature-compensation unit is configured to receive the resistance difference, and determine whether Mura appears in a region corresponding to the first detection point in the first region according to the resistance difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Keming Yang, Yizhen Xu, Liu He, Feng Jiang, Qiang Leng, Junlin Wang, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11703938
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a first processing core configured to generate first control signals and to control a display by providing the first control signals to the display via a first display interface, a second processing core configured to generate second control signals and to control the display by providing the second control signals to the display via a second display interface, and the first processing core being further configured to cause the second processing core to enter and leave a hibernation state based at least partly on a determination, by the first processing core, concerning an instruction from outside the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventor: Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 11705083
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including scan lines and pixels connected to the scan lines, a first scan driver disposed outside the display panel, first scan output lines including a first terminal connected to the first scan driver and a second terminal connected to a corresponding scan line of the scan lines, and crossing the scan lines, and a first inspection line including a first receiving terminal connected to the first scan driver and a first feedback terminal connected to the first scan driver, extending from the first receiving terminal to the first feedback terminal, and crossing the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Kim, Sung Hee Lee, Deok Hwan Kim, Yong Su Lim
  • Patent number: 11693485
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for improving quality of a visual content, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first gesture of a first hand and accordingly providing a first hand object in the visual content; determining a second gesture of a second hand and accordingly providing a second hand object in the visual content; in response to determining that the first gesture and the second gesture respectively correspond to a first predetermined gesture and a second predetermined gesture, determining a specific distance between the first gesture and the second gesture; and in response to determining that the specific distance is smaller than a distance threshold, refining the first hand object and the second hand object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ting-Wei Lin, Min Chia Wei, Chien-Min Wu
  • Patent number: 11670231
    Abstract: A display driving circuit including: a data driver configured to supply driving signals to a plurality of pixels of a display panel and sense electrical characteristics of each of the plurality of pixels; and a degradation compensation circuit configured to generate and store an accumulated degradation value by, accumulating degradation values for each of a plurality of pixel blocks for a unit time, based on driving data corresponding to the driving signals, correct the accumulated degradation value of a first pixel block, based on sensing data received from the data driver, and perform data compensation to compensate for pixel degradation, based on the accumulated degradation values and a degradation model, wherein each pixel block includes at least one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiheon Ok, Yoonho Ko, Taekon Yu, Hwahyun Cho