Patents Examined by Peter D McLoone
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Patent number: 11222568Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
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Patent number: 11221699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yajie Bai, Zhuo Xu, Jingpeng Zhao, Wu Wang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Ruilin Bi
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Patent number: 11216102Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Touchwood Labs, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dworman, Gaurav Asthana, Charles Hart
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Patent number: 11209932Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa
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Patent number: 11209923Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: FUTURETECH CAPITAL, INC.Inventors: Robert Routh, Michael Morrione
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Patent number: 11199902Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nozomu Uchida, Takeshi Igarashi, Isao Okuyama, Kawamura Yoshiaki, Katsuhisa Tadano, Takashi Furukawa
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Patent number: 11188180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoliang Feng
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Patent number: 11183096Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yi-Chiung Chen, Jui-Lung Hung, Chien-Hao Cheng, Po-Sheng Shih
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Patent number: 11175772Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Qipei Zhang, Yun Yu
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Patent number: 11176883Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Su Na, Joong-Soo Moon, Chae Han Hyun, Yang Wan Kim
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Patent number: 11157228Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Jeongryeol Seo, Youngkook Kim
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Patent number: 11144166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11137614Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shaojun Yan
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Patent number: 11132940Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.Inventors: Hung-Lin Yen, Shun-Ching Hsieh
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Patent number: 11126291Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dengyu Wang, Benlian Wang, Weinan Dai, Xucong Wang
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Patent number: 11119597Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.Inventors: Sungwoo Yu, Dongjin Son, Byung Hoon Song, Hodong Yoon
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Patent number: 11114018Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung-Geun Jo, Tae-Uk Kim, Yu-Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11107435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jongman Kim, Yong-Bum Kim, Dong-Hyun Yeo, Byung Kil Jeon, Woojung Jung
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Patent number: 11107373Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Inventors: Seung-Hwa Ha, Sung Sang Ahn, Jung Hun Lee, Kyu Young Kim
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Patent number: 11107153Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Ping Mei, Janos Veres