Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11416108
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area and a frame area surrounding the display area. The display device comprises a TFT layer, a light-emitting element layer, a sealing layer including a first inorganic sealing film, an organic sealing film, and a second inorganic sealing film, a bank coated with the first inorganic sealing film and the second inorganic sealing film, a touch panel function layer, and a plurality of touch panel wires running to intersect with the bank in planar view and connected to the touch panel function layer. The second inorganic sealing film includes a bank coating that coats an upper face of the bank, and a protrusion, in a clearance between neighboring two of the plurality of touch panel wires, protrudes from the bank coating toward the display area or away from the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Yamanaka, Yi Sun, Masahiko Miwa, Takao Saitoh, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Seiji Kaneko
  • Electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 11402899
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an infrared ray module, a camera module, and a display module including an active area through which an image is displayed and a non-active area adjacent to the active area and including a high transmittance area and a low transmittance area which are defined in the active area. The high transmittance area includes a first transmission area and a second transmission area, the camera module overlaps the first transmission area, and the infrared ray module overlaps the second transmission area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Sungkook Park, Hyosun Kim, Young-Jun Seo, Yongwoo Yi
  • Context aware selective backlighting techniques
    Patent number: 11397464
    Abstract: Context aware backlighting techniques include determining a focal point of a display space based on a user display context. The user display context represents an area of interest on the monitor. The user display context can be based on eye tracking data, ambient light data, motion sensing data, cursor location in the display space, an image content, proximity data, or the like and any combination thereof. A first set of one or more of a plurality of backlight sections corresponding to the determined focal point of the display space can be driven to output at a first intensity level, while a second set of one or more of the plurality of backlight sections can be driven to output at a second intensity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dhaval V. Sharma, Nivruti Rai, Durgesh Srivastava, Shobhit Kumar
  • Display device, electronic device and method for driving display device
    Patent number: 11397475
    Abstract: A display device, an electronic device, and a method for driving a display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a plurality of image sensors. The display panel has a display side and a back side opposite to the display side, the plurality of image sensors are independent at a plurality of independent positions on the back side of the display panel, and the plurality of image sensors are configured to integrally obtain depth image information of a target to be detected on the display side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Wenqing Zhao, Yangbing Li, Yapeng Li, Likai Deng, Yuanyuan Ma, Lei Wang
  • Rotational image viewer
    Patent number: 11393432
    Abstract: A rotational image viewer for viewing an image on a mobile device having a display including a viewport. The image viewer monitors the orientation of the mobile device and enlarges/reduces the image responsive to the mobile device's orientation such that the viewport remains filled with at least a portion of the image (i.e., no letterboxing or pillarboxing within the viewport).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Huang, Oleksandr Romanov
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11385489
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region for displaying an image; a second electrode opposed to the first electrodes; a plurality of switching elements that are arranged in the display region and coupled to the first electrodes or the second electrode; a gate line for supplying a scanning signal for scanning the switching elements; a data line for supplying a signal to the switching elements that are coupled to the switching elements; and conductive wire that is opposed to the second electrode via an insulating layer and is coupled to the switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Touch sensor and display device including the same
    Patent number: 11379067
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes first through third sensing areas, first through third sensing patterns respectively disposed in the first through third sensing areas, a sensing line disposed in a non-sensing area and electrically connected to the first sensing pattern, and a connection line disposed in the non-sensing area and disposed between the sensing line and the first sensing pattern. The connection line electrically connects the second and third sensing patterns. The touch sensor further includes a connection portion electrically connecting the sensing line and the first sensing pattern, a dummy line disposed between the sensing line and the connection line, a ground line disposed in the non-sensing area that transmits a ground voltage to the first to third sensing areas, and a bridge line electrically connecting the ground line and the dummy line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Su Lee, Jong Hwa Kim, Duck Joong Kim, Il Joo Kim
  • Sub-pixel arrangement structure, mask device, and display device
    Patent number: 11380236
    Abstract: A sub-pixel arrangement structure, a mask device, and a display device are provided. The sub-pixel arrangement structure includes: a reference sub-pixel array, a plurality of third sub-pixels, and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels. In the reference sub-pixel array, each row of sub-pixels or each column of sub-pixels includes: first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels, both of which are arranged alternately; in either or both of first and second directions of the sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, one of the third sub-pixels is arranged between any two adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array; and one of the fourth sub-pixels is arranged among any four adjacent sub-pixels in the reference sub-pixel array, and a center of the one of the fourth sub-pixels is located between two rows of sub-pixels of the four sub-pixels arranged in two rows and two column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., LTD., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanqi Zhang, Fengli Ji, Peng Xu, Sen Du
  • Switchable continuous display information system above camera
    Patent number: 11363180
    Abstract: Systems comprising a display having a first pixel array and a gap in the first pixel array in which at least some pixels of the first pixel array are missing, a device such as a camera, a light emitting device or a light receiving device, and a second pixel array. The systems are operable in a first operation mode in which the camera or light emitting device are operative while the second pixel array is not operative to display information, and in a second operation mode in which the camera or light emitting device are not operative while the second pixel array is operative to display the second array pixel information in the gap in the first pixel array. Systems are also operable in a third operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Bachar, Ephraim Goldenberg, Roy Rudnick
  • Touch panel and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 11360624
    Abstract: A touch panel may include a transparent substrate and a light blocking layer in a touch area and on a side of the transparent substrate. The light blocking layer may include a keyboard pattern, and the keyboard pattern may include hollow characters. The light blocking layer may be configured to display the characters of the keyboard pattern on the light blocking layer by light passing through the hollow characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qitao Zheng, Zouming Xu, Lei Zhang, Jian Tian, Guiyu Zhang, Chunjian Liu, Xintao Wu, Tong Chen
  • Display device, gate driving circuit, and driving method thereof
    Patent number: 11355069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, a gate driving circuit, and a driving method thereof, and more specifically, to a display device, a gate driving circuit, and a driving method thereof capable of solving problems with insufficient charging time or image abnormalities by controlling supply timing of two gate signals, e.g., scan signals and sense signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SangJae Lee, SungJoong Kim, Kyuhwan Joo
  • Disappearing button or slider
    Patent number: 11353921
    Abstract: An input device is operable to detect input. The input device is a deflection based capacitive sensing input device. Deflection of a metal frame of the input device causes a change in capacitance that is used to control a function of an electrical device. The input device appears invisible because it is made of the same material as the housing it is contained in. Invisible backlit holes may make the input selectively visible or invisible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Omar S. Leung, David T. Amm
  • Method for manufacturing touch input device and touch input device
    Patent number: 11353976
    Abstract: Technologies for manufacturing a touch input device are disclosed. The method includes: forming, on a single carrier substrate, a flexible display for each of a plurality of display devices, cutting the flexible display into individual pieces, and separating the flexible display from the carrier substrate; a separate structure different from electrodes may be used to detect touch position forming step of forming, under a single substrate, a separate structure different from electrodes may be used to detect touch position for each of the plurality of display devices and cutting the substrate for the separate structure into individual pieces; and adhering each of the individual pieces of the separated flexible display to an individual piece of the substrate for the separate structure. The substrate for the separate structure may not be relatively easily bent as compared to the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Bonkee Kim, Seyeob Kim
  • Shift register unit and method for driving the same, and gate driving circuit
    Patent number: 11348534
    Abstract: A shift register unit and a method for driving the same, and a gate driving circuit are provided. The shift register unit includes: an adjustment circuit coupled between an input signal terminal and an input node of the shift register unit, and configured to couple or decouple the input signal terminal and the input node under control of a potential at the input signal terminal; an input circuit for providing a potential at the input node to the pull-up node under control of a potential at the input signal terminal; an output circuit for receiving a clock signal from the clock signal terminal and provide an output signal to the output signal terminal based on the received clock signal under control of a potential at the pull-up node; and a control circuit for controlling a potential at the output signal terminal under control of a potential at the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Sixiang Wu
  • Apparatus and method for determining cosmetic skin attributes
    Patent number: 11348366
    Abstract: A method of determining a cosmetic skin attribute of a person is provided. The method includes obtaining a color channel image of a person's skin, analyzing the color channel image with a computer using entropy statistics to obtain an entropy value, and then determining a cosmetic skin attribute for the person based on the entropy value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Mahathma Bandara Dissanayake, Naoki Miyamoto
  • Display control device and display control method
    Patent number: 11334242
    Abstract: Display of a display object is changed more appropriately. A display control device includes: a display region setting unit configured to set a display region in accordance with a screen size of a display; a display control unit configured to control display of at least one or more display objects arranged in an arrangement region provided in the display region; and a priority setting unit configured to set relative priority among the display objects arranged in the same arrangement region, wherein the display control unit sets a size of the arrangement region correspondingly to the display region that is set in accordance with the screen size of the display, and controls display of the display objects based on the priority that is set among the display objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jitsu Ezaki
  • Display assembly, electronic device, and method for assembling display assembly
    Patent number: 11335740
    Abstract: A display assembly, an electronic device, and a method for assembling a display assembly are provided. The display assembly includes a flexible screen, a cover plate, and a capacitive fingerprint sensor film. The capacitive fingerprint sensor film is disposed between the cover plate and the flexible screen and covers a display surface of the flexible screen, to sense a fingerprint of a finger in contact with the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zimei Yang, Ke Ran
  • Organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and display device
    Patent number: 11329106
    Abstract: The present application provides an OLED display panel and a display device, the OLED display panel includes: a flexible substrate; a touch functional layer formed on the flexible substrate; a driving circuit layer formed on the touch functional layer; a light emitting functional layer formed on the driving circuit layer; and an encapsulation layer formed on the light emitting functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Xie
  • Eyewear device mode indication
    Patent number: 11330165
    Abstract: An electronics-enabled eyewear device includes a mode indicator comprising a series of light emitters arranged on a forward-facing surface of the eyewear device, for example being provided by a ring of LEDs arranged peripherally about a camera lens opening in a front surface of an eyewear frame. The mode indicator automatically displays different visual indications corresponding to different modes of operation or states of the eyewear device. One visual indication provides an animated pattern of circulating LEDs during video capture by the eyewear device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Hanover
  • Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate drive circuit and display device
    Patent number: 11315496
    Abstract: A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, connected to a pull-up node, and configured to charge the pull-up node according to an input signal; an output circuit, connected to the pull-up node and an output terminal, and configured to output an output signal to the output terminal under control of a voltage of the pull-up node; a reset circuit, connected to the pull-up node, and configured to reset the pull-up node; and a reset signal control circuit, connected to a first reset terminal and the reset circuit, and configured to generate and output a reset control signal according to a reset control input signal and a reset signal provided by the first reset terminal; the reset control signal is configured to control the reset circuit to perform a reset operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Xiao, Zhenguo Tian, Yanan Zhao, Shaohong Gao, Zhiyou Liu, Ming Deng