Patents Examined by Roy P Rabindranath
  • Patent number: 11432386
    Abstract: A driving circuit and a method for a backlight using light-emitting diodes, LED, the backlight having a first and second segment is presented. A driving circuit for an LED backlight with a first and second segment has a first terminal, a second terminal for sensing a first signal, a third terminal for connecting to a first current generating unit for providing a first driving current, a first current regulation circuit, a fourth terminal for sensing a second signal, a fifth terminal for connecting to a second current generating unit, a second current regulation circuit for controlling the second current generating unit, and a control unit which is prepared to adjust the supply voltage and to adjust the first and/or second driving current in dependence on the first and the second signal by means of the first and/or the second current regulation circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited
    Inventor: David Gamperl
  • Patent number: 11430398
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive a target image with a first number of bits per color and access a seed mask from a storage media. The system may generate a set of masks based on the seed mask. Each of the masks may include a number of first dot patterns that observe a spatial stacking property. The system may generate a number of images based on the target image and the set of masks. Each of the images may have a second number of bits per color smaller than the first number of bits per color. The system may display the images sequentially in time domain on a display for representing the target image. The images may have a number of second dot patterns for representing corresponding grayscale values. The second dot patterns of the images may observe a temporal stacking property across the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventor: Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 11423848
    Abstract: A display device comprises a timing controller which provides data comprising a pre-emphasis value and an image data value, and a data driver which supplies to data lines a pre-emphasis voltage generated based on the pre-emphasis value during a first period of a horizontal period, and supplies to the data lines a data voltage generated based on the image data value during a second period of the horizontal period. The timing controller provides data based on which the pre-emphasis value is changed in correspondence with one screen mode selected from a plurality of screen modes having different target color coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang An Kwon, Kyun Ho Kim, Woo Mi Bae, Jun Woo Son
  • Patent number: 11403738
    Abstract: A display device having a high display quality is provided. The display device is formed such that for each target block that is to be displayed, different super-resolution processing are applied. Specifically, an image analysis unit analyzes image data that is input, and a target block within an image to be displayed is specified. In the image analysis unit, data of the target block is analyzed using a learned neural network, and an image dividing unit is controlled to divide the image data according to the analysis results. In the image analysis unit, in order to perform different super processing that applies to each image data that has been divided according to the analysis results, an image calculation processing unit including a plurality of super-resolution processing circuits is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 11398202
    Abstract: Display apparatuses, data drivers and display controller are provided. The data drivers receive video signals, generate positive-polarity and negative-polarity gradation data signals with respect to a predetermined reference voltage based on the video signals, output the positive-polarity gradation data signals to one of a first and a second data line groups, and output the negative-polarity gradation data signals to the other data line group. The data drivers generate, as the positive-polarity gradation data signals, signals in which data pulses each having a positive-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel based on the video signal appear in predetermined cycles, and generate, as the negative-polarity gradation data signals, signals where data pulses each having a negative-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel appear in each predetermined cycle with phases different from the positive-polarity gradation data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuchi, Keigo Otani
  • Patent number: 11392233
    Abstract: An electronic device including: a first pattern part including first mesh lines in which a plurality of first cut line parts are defined; and a second pattern part spaced apart from the first pattern part in a first direction and including a plurality of second cut line parts in which a plurality of second cut line parts are defined. A first reference region is defined in the first pattern part; a second reference region having a same width and area as the first reference region in a second direction crossing the first direction is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Hwan Park, Nayun Kwak, Jongseok Kim
  • Patent number: 11393367
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a sensor, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a virtual flat screen based on an angle of the display identified through the sensor, correct a size of a content based on a distance between the virtual flat screen and the display, project the corrected content to a virtual space, map the content projected to the virtual space to the virtual flat screen, render the virtual flat screen that the content is mapped to, and display the rendered virtual flat screen on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myoungwoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11385752
    Abstract: A touch module, touch display substrate and touch display device are provided. The touch module includes: a base substrate, and a conductive grid layer and a bridging pattern disposed on the base substrate; the conductive grid layer covers an entire touch area on the base substrate. The conductive grid layer includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are arranged crosswise and insulated from each other, each of the first touch electrodes includes a plurality of connected first sub-electrodes, and each of the second touch electrodes includes a plurality of independent second sub-electrodes; the bridging pattern and the conductive grid layer are arranged in different layers; and adjacent second sub-electrodes belonging to the same second touch electrode are connected through the bridging pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Li, Meizhu Zheng, Junjie Li
  • Patent number: 11380273
    Abstract: Buttons and other interactive functionality for touchscreen displays of e-book and other electronic media content can be automatically optimized for viewing on client devices, in particular those employing an electrophoretic display. A hardware display driver pushes e-ink material through various predetermined voltage waveforms to consistently accomplish interface effects such as color inversion for a button which is touched on the interface screen. Machine learning schema can assist in determining the appropriate waveforms for interactive elements in the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Elie Saliba, Hao Hu
  • Patent number: 11373610
    Abstract: A display apparatus with low-power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes an inverter circuit and a pixel having a function of adding data, and the inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The pixel has a function of adding data supplied from the source driver and the inverter circuit. Accordingly, the pixel can generate a voltage several times higher than the output voltage of the source driver and can supply the voltage to a display device. With such a structure, the output voltage of the source driver can be lowered, so that a display apparatus with low power consumption can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11367403
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; a light guide plate having a first surface and a second surface, configured to spread light emitted from the plurality of light sources therein to emit light through the first surface; and a local dimming unit configured to reflect or scatter light emitted through the second surface of the light guide plate according to a location. The local dimming unit may include an electro-optical layer configured to change optical properties according to an electric field; a plurality of electrodes located on the same plane, configured to generate the electric field; and a controller configured to change a voltage applied to the plurality of electrodes according to an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hyun Cho, Nam Seok Roh, Sang Hyun Sohn, Jong Hee Han
  • Patent number: 11360525
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first housing and a second housing, a first hinge structure including a first hinge housing, first and second hinge connecting parts, first and second gears, first and second idle gears, at first support that rotatably supports the first gear and the first idle gear, and a second support that rotatably supports the second gear and the second idle gear, a second hinge structure including a second hinge housing, third and fourth hinge connecting parts, third and fourth gears, third and fourth idle gears, a third support that rotatably supports the third gear and the third idle gear, and a fourth support that rotatably supports the fourth gear and the fourth idle gear, wherein the first hinge structure and the second hinge structure allow the first housing and the second housing to rotate relative to each other between a first state and a second state, and a first surface faces a third surface in the first state, and a second surface faces a fourth surface in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hee-Cheul Moon, Gyeong-Tae Kim, Gi-Dae Kim, Young-Sun Park, Sun-Keun Cho
  • Patent number: 11353712
    Abstract: Provided is a virtual reality fluid body sensing device which includes: a body sensing eye mask made according to the contour of a face and having an opening for a wearer's eyes to see through, and the body sensing eye mask is in conjunction with a virtual reality goggle. There is also a fluid channel in the body sensing eye mask. A fluid control system, connected to the body sensing eye mask, can supply a fluid to the fluid channel of the body sensing eye mask and adjust the fluid temperature, flow rate and flow speed of the fluid injected into the body sensing eye mask. By combining the body sensing eye mask with the virtual reality goggle and supplying cold and hot fluids to the body sensing eye mask through the fluid control system, a virtual reality environment can be achieved for the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: National Taipei University of Technology
    Inventors: Yi-Ya Liao, Ju Chun Ko
  • Patent number: 11355053
    Abstract: A source driver includes a plurality of output buffers configured to output data signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of data lines, and an output controller configured to control a timing at which each of the data signals corresponding to second image data is transferred from the output buffers to the data lines based on a difference between first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Tae Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Jae Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11348507
    Abstract: A method for identifying a display current includes: acquiring grayscales of pixels in a to-be-displayed image, where the grayscale of each pixel includes grayscales of a plurality of color channels; calculating an average grayscale of a same color channel of all pixels in the to-be-displayed image; identifying a current value of each color channel and a current offset value of each color channel according to the average grayscale of each color channel, where the current offset value represents a difference between a display current value of a nonmonochromatic image and a display current sum of monochromatic images corresponding to the nonmonochromatic image; and calculating a display current of the to-be-displayed image based on the current value and the current offset value of each color channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Li, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11335283
    Abstract: A display device and a display method thereof, and a display equipment are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel and a light transmittance adjusting layer, the display panel includes a plurality of pixel regions, the light transmittance adjusting layer is stacked with the display panel, and the light transmittance adjusting layer is configured to adjust display brightness of the plurality of pixel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenru Wang, Yali Liu, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Ruijun Dong, Xuebing Zhang, Ke Li
  • Patent number: 11320654
    Abstract: A headup display device may include: a mirror part rotatably supported by a support part; a housing part installed on one side of the mirror part; a driving part installed in the housing part; a spiral gear part rotatably connected to the driving part; and a mirror rotating part connected to the mirror part, and configured to rotate the mirror part as the spiral gear part is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 11322103
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of display technology, and provides a driving method and a driving device of display panel, and a display device, by calculating an average gray-scale value of original pixel units in each sub-region of the display panel, then judging whether the average gray-scale value is greater than a preset gray-scale threshold. If the average gray-scale value is greater than the preset gray-scale threshold, a corrected pixel voltage value of the sub-region, according to the average gray-scale value and a preset pixel voltage conversion relationship, is determined, and the corrected pixel voltage value as a pixel voltage value of original pixel units in the sub-region is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chihtsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11314350
    Abstract: A display device including a position input function includes a pixel, a pixel line extending so as to pass transversely across a display area, a signal supply unit connected to the pixel line, a first position detecting electrode placed in a first area A1 beside the signal supply unit, a second position detecting electrode placed in a second area on a side opposite to the signal supply unit, a first position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in the first area and connected to the signal supply unit and the first touch electrode, and a second position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in such a manner as to lie astride the first area and the second area and connected to the signal supply unit and the second position detecting electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakatsu Tominaga, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11315482
    Abstract: A pixel includes a light emitting device, a first transistor for controlling an amount of current flowing from a first power source to a second power source via the light emitting device, in response to a voltage applied to a first node, a second transistor coupled between a data line and a second node corresponding to a first electrode of the first transistor, and including a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line, a third transistor coupled between the first node and a third node corresponding to a second electrode of the first transistor, and including a gate electrode coupled to the first scan line, and a fourth transistor coupled between the third transistor and the third node, and configured to maintain a turn-on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Youn Cho, Ji Ho Moon, Jong Woo Park, Young Tae Choi