Patents Examined by Peter D McLoone
  • Patent number: 11222568
    Abstract: A spliced display device includes at least two display panels and a driver device configured to drive the display panels. Each of the display panels includes at least two display areas disposed side by side in a first direction. Any adjacent two of the display areas are configured to be scanned in directions facing each other or facing away from each other. The display device is provided with a maximum brightness area or a minimum brightness area located between the adjacent two of the display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11221699
    Abstract: A shift register, a driving method thereof and a device are provided. A shift register sub-circuit outputs a gate scanning signal, to dive gate lines. The shift register sub-circuit outputs a touch scanning signal to a touch control circuit, so that the touch control circuit conducts a touch electrode with a touch detection signal terminal in response to the touch scanning signal, and thus, touch driving may be performed. Therefore, the shift register provided by the embodiment of the disclosure is not only capable of realizing scanning driving, but also capable of realizing the touch driving of touch electrodes. In addition, the number of arranged touch detection lines may be reduced, and furthermore, the area of a Fan-out region and the area of a non-display region are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yajie Bai, Zhuo Xu, Jingpeng Zhao, Wu Wang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Ruilin Bi
  • Patent number: 11216102
    Abstract: Touch responsive displays that may be integrated into a wide variety of non-transparent, non-glass surfaces to provide on-demand human computer interfaces that blend with the environment, i.e., remain invisible unless activated, effectively adding digital user interfaces (UI) to non-technology products and surfaces. The interactive display devices are frameless assemblies of a sensor layer, a light layer, and a support layer housing a microcontroller, wherein the device is configured to be positioned beneath a non-transparent surface layer with the sensor layer arranged below the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Touchwood Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dworman, Gaurav Asthana, Charles Hart
  • Patent number: 11209932
    Abstract: A display device can extend a pause period by using a preset second setting period as a unit when a length of the pause period exceeds the second setting period. Further, detection of a touch position and specification of coordinates are interrupted when a vertical synchronization signal is received while specifying the coordinates of the touch position, and coordinates remaining in a coordinate calculation unit are discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 11209923
    Abstract: Touchscreen, comprising: a display device; a touch sensor over the display device; and, a cover lens; wherein the touch sensor comprises: a transparent substrate; a layer of catalytic photoresist patterns of a catalytic photoresist composition, the catalytic photoresist composition including a photoresist and catalytic nanoparticles; a metal conductive layer with conductive patterns over the layer of catalytic photoresist patterns; a metal passivation layer over the metal layer; and a transparent protective layer over the metal passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUTURETECH CAPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Routh, Michael Morrione
  • Patent number: 11199902
    Abstract: An input device includes a tracking target section having an outer surface on which a plurality of light emitting sections are provided; a housing constituting the outer surface of the tracking target section; a first substrate which is a rigid substrate disposed inside the housing; at least one light source mounted on a first surface of the first substrate; and a first light guide member that guides light from the at least one light source to positions of the plurality of light emitting sections on the outer surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nozomu Uchida, Takeshi Igarashi, Isao Okuyama, Kawamura Yoshiaki, Katsuhisa Tadano, Takashi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11188180
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch panel and a display device. The touch panel includes multiple first electrode chains and multiple second electrode chains. Each of the first electrode chains includes multiple first electrodes electrically connected through bridging layers. Each of the first electrodes, the bridging layers, and the second electrode chains consists of mesh metal lines. Each of the first electrode includes a first mesh metal line defect portion, and each of the second electrode chain includes multiple second mesh metal line defect portions. The bridging layers are complementary to the first mesh metal line defect portions and the second mesh metal line defect portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoliang Feng
  • Patent number: 11183096
    Abstract: A driving system of touch display panel includes a panel having an active area, a left gate driving circuit and a right gate driving circuit. The left gate driving circuit is disposed on the left side of the active area, and is connected with a plurality of left gate lines to provide gate driving voltages for performing driving in a scanning direction. The right gate driving circuit is disposed on the right side of the active area, and is connected with a plurality of right gate lines to provide gate driving voltages for performing driving in a scanning direction. The scanning direction in which the left gate driving circuit performs driving is opposite to that in which the right gate driving circuit performs driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Chiung Chen, Jui-Lung Hung, Chien-Hao Cheng, Po-Sheng Shih
  • Patent number: 11175772
    Abstract: The invention provides a touch array substrate, a touch display, and a display device. The touch array substrate includes a driving circuit layer, a touch layer, and a sleep state voltage equalizing connecting unit which are mutually insulated. The driving circuit layer includes driving scanning lines, odd row driving data signal lines, and even row driving data signal lines. The touch layer comprises touch scanning lines, odd row touch data signal lines, and even row touch data signal lines. In a display sleep state, the sleep state voltage equalizing connecting unit enables mutual electrical connection of the odd row driving data signal lines, the even row driving data signal lines, the odd row touch data signal lines, and the even row touch data signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qipei Zhang, Yun Yu
  • Patent number: 11176883
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display includes a semiconductor layer on a substrate, first and second signal lines on the semiconductor layer, a shield layer on the first and second signal lines, a data line on the shield layer, and an OLED on the data line, where the transistor includes a driving transistor, a second transistor connected to the first signal line and the data line, and a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first signal line, a third electrode connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor, and a fourth electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, the shield layer includes an overlapped portion overlapping at least a part of the connection portion and non-overlaps the second transistor, and the shield layer is separated from the first and second signal lines with a gap therebetween in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Su Na, Joong-Soo Moon, Chae Han Hyun, Yang Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 11157228
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes a display group including a master display module and a plurality of slave display modules coupled by a Daisy Chain method, a first sensor equipped on the master display module, a second sensor equipped on at least one from the plurality of slave display modules, and a processor included in the master display module. The processor is configured to, based on sensing data obtained from the second sensor being received by the master display module through the Daisy Chain method, provide the received sensing data and sensing data obtained through the first sensor to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Jeongryeol Seo, Youngkook Kim
  • Patent number: 11144166
    Abstract: Provided is a display device with an electrostatic capacitive touch panel including a display panel, the electrostatic capacitive touch panel, a circuit substrate provided with a control circuit that controls the display panel and the electrostatic capacitive touch panel, and a supporting member supporting the electrostatic capacitive touch panel, in which the electrostatic capacitive touch panel includes a sensor film having a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface and detecting a contact with the electrostatic capacitive touch panel, and a cover glass protecting the first surface of the sensor film in a first area, which is a partial area in an area where the sensor film is present when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first surface, and the supporting member is fixed to the first surface in a second area, which is an area outside the first area in the area where the sensor film is present when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11137614
    Abstract: A viewing apparatus includes a housing, an optical mechanism including a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel, and an adjustment mechanism including a driving assembly and a sliding assembly. The driving assembly includes a mounting base, a toggle wheel, and a rotating shaft inserted through the toggle wheel and rotatably mounted at the mounting base. The sliding assembly includes a first sliding component connected to the first lens barrel, and a second sliding component connected to the second lens barrel. In response to a rotation of the toggle wheel, the rotating shaft is driven to have a rotation. The rotation of the rotating shaft enables a relative movement between the first sliding component and the second sliding component, and adjusts a distance between a distance between the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shaojun Yan
  • Patent number: 11132940
    Abstract: A display system includes a light emitting array and a driving circuit. The light emitting array includes: a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of channel lines, and a plurality of light emitting elements connected to the scan lines and the channel lines. The driving circuit includes: a delay-locked loop generating an internal global clock signal; a signal processor generating a scan control output and a channel control output based on the internal global clock signal and display data; a scan driver driving the scan lines based on the scan control output; and a channel driver providing a plurality of driving current signals respectively to the channel lines based on the channel control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Hung-Lin Yen, Shun-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11126291
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display panel and a display device. The touch display panel includes: a base substrate, including a surface; the surface includes a display area and a non-display area, and the non-display area surrounds the display area; the display area includes a plurality of first touch electrodes extending along a first direction; the non-display area includes a plurality of first touch wires correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of first touch electrodes, and wire lengths of the plurality of first touch wires are different; and at least one of following ways is adopted to make resistance of the respective first touch wires consistent: the different first touch wires have different numbers of first via holes; and the different first touch wires have different wire widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dengyu Wang, Benlian Wang, Weinan Dai, Xucong Wang
  • Patent number: 11119597
    Abstract: Provided is a thin touch sensor having excellent flexibility and durability against bending. A thin adhesive layer with a high elastic modulus under the touch sensing electrode pattern serves as a substrate, and a thick adhesive layer with a low elastic modulus on top of the touch sensor layer disperses the stress of the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Yu, Dongjin Son, Byung Hoon Song, Hodong Yoon
  • Patent number: 11114018
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method for driving the same which can improve color unevenness in a low-grayscale (low-luminance) area and improve color accuracy and grayscale expression, and an image processor of a display device according to an embodiment identifies a low-grayscale area less than a threshold value according to an input maximum luminance and applies a grayscale reproduction mask thereto to reproduce a luminance of the low-grayscale area as a combination of the threshold value and a minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Geun Jo, Tae-Uk Kim, Yu-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11107435
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a position detector, a driving controller, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel is configured to display an image. The position detector is configured to determine a position of a user. The driving controller is configured to generate an overdriving value according to a grayscale value of previous frame data and a grayscale value of present frame data. The gate driver is configured to output gate signals to the display panel. The data driver is configured to output data voltages to the display panel based on the overdriving value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongman Kim, Yong-Bum Kim, Dong-Hyun Yeo, Byung Kil Jeon, Woojung Jung
  • Patent number: 11107373
    Abstract: A flexible display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel having a display area and a driving area, wherein a signal control chip controlling the display panel is mounted on the driving area; a first base film part disposed under the display area and including a metal layer; and a second base film part disposed under the driving area and formed to be transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Seung-Hwa Ha, Sung Sang Ahn, Jung Hun Lee, Kyu Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11107153
    Abstract: An input device includes one or more groups of two or more touch sensitive elements. Each group of two or more touch sensitive elements is arranged to generate a sequence of electronic waveforms corresponding to a multi-digit code that identifies the group in response to a swiping touch across the two or more touch sensitive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Ping Mei, Janos Veres