Patents Examined by Saifeldin E Elnafia
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Patent number: 11797090Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to providing haptic output to a stylus. In one example, rotational position data indicating a rotational position of the stylus about a longitudinal axis of the body of the stylus is received. Travel direction data indicating a direction of travel of a tip of the stylus relative to a touch-sensitive screen of a computing device is also received. Using at least the rotational position data and the travel direction data, one or more characteristics of a drive signal are determined. The drive signal is then transmitted to a haptic feedback mechanism within the body of the stylus to generate haptic output at the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Shoham Dekel, Assaf Bar-Ness, Vadim Mishalov, Uri Ron
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Patent number: 11798510Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a gate driving circuit. A display area of the display panel includes at least two sub-display areas, and each sub-display area of the at least two sub-display areas includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The gate driving circuit includes at least two gate driving sub-circuits in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two sub-display areas, and each gate driving sub-circuit of the at least two gate driving sub-circuits is electrically connected to a plurality of sub-pixels included in a corresponding sub-display area. Each gate driving sub-circuit is configured to receive a group of first control signals, generate a group of gate driving signals according to the group of first control signals, and output the group of gate driving signals to the plurality of sub-pixels included in the corresponding sub-display area.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiyang Shao, Yuxin Bi, Ziqiang Guo, Bingxin Liu
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Patent number: 11789534Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating a response that depicts haptic characteristics are presented. Haptic data is received from a client device and the haptic data indicates an interaction with a sensor included in the client device. Haptic characteristics are determined based on the haptic data. At least one image that depicts the determined haptic characteristics is generated. And the at least one image is caused to be displayed on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jesse Chand, Krish Jayaram
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Patent number: 11775156Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for controlling display of different types of medical images and providing touchscreen interfaces for display on a mobile communication device and associated with different image types, e.g., different imaging modalities or different view modes. Detection of a multi-finger tap on the screen of the mobile communication device while viewing a first touchscreen interface for an image type invokes a second or auxiliary touchscreen interface for that image type having a subset of interface elements of the first touchscreen interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Hologic, Inc.Inventors: Julian Marshall, Brian T. Matuska, Chinghsiang Chang, Edgar W. Chen
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Patent number: 11769447Abstract: An electroluminescent display device can include a light-emitting element, a pixel drive circuit configured to apply a driving current to the light-emitting element, a power supply configured to provide a power voltage to the pixel drive circuit, a data drive circuit configured to provide a data voltage to the pixel drive circuit, and a gate drive circuit configured to provide a gate voltage to the pixel drive circuit. In addition, the pixel drive circuit includes a driving transistor of which a source electrode is connected to a first node, a drain electrode is connected to a second node, and a gate electrode is connected to a third node, an emission transistor connected between the driving transistor and the light-emitting element, and an initialization transistor connected to the second node.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Kyu Lee, Woo Kyu Sang, Hyoung Sik Kim
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Patent number: 11699403Abstract: A local-dimming display generally includes a light source configured to generate a backlight, a first display aligned with the light source and having multiple first pixels, wherein each first pixel is configured to selectively pass and block the backlight, and a second display aligned with the first display and having multiple second pixels. A particular pixel is controlled to pass the backlight. The particular pixel corresponds with an aligned pixel and multiple parallax pixels of the first pixels controlled at a first transmit level, and multiple neighboring pixels of the first pixels controlled at one or more second transmit levels. The one or more second transmit levels are less than or equal to the first transmit level. The first pixels cooperating at the first transmit level and the second transmit levels selectively presents the backlight to the second display with a declining intensity pattern in the neighboring pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf
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Patent number: 11670244Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area, a pixel area, a data driver, a data divider, and coupling lines that couple the data driver to the data divider. The pixel area includes first pixel lines in a first area of the display area and coupled to first area data lines, and second pixel lines disposed in a second area of the display area and coupled to second area data lines. The data driver outputs data signals corresponding to the first and second pixel lines. The data divider includes first selectors that transfer the data signals corresponding to the first pixel lines to the first area data lines, and second selectors that transfer the data signals corresponding to the second pixel lines to the second area data lines. A distance between adjacent second selectors is shorter than a distance between adjacent first selectors.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ju Hee Hyeon, Hyun Chol Bang, So Young Lee, Young Taeg Jung
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Patent number: 11657761Abstract: A display panel of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device having a display region includes a plurality of first pixels located at an upper half of the display region, a plurality of second pixels located at a lower half of the display region, a plurality of first data lines extending in a first direction, and coupled to the plurality of first pixels, a plurality of second data lines extending in the first direction, disposed alternately with the plurality of first data lines along a second direction crossing the first direction, and coupled to the plurality of second pixels, and a demultiplexing circuit configured to selectively couple a plurality of data channels of a data driver of the OLED display device to the plurality of first data lines or the plurality of second data lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Ji-Hyun Ka, Won Kyu Kwak, Ki Myeong Eom, Kyonghwan Oh
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Patent number: 11657776Abstract: The present application discloses a driving method and a drive circuit of a display panel. The driving method includes the following steps: according to the distance from the data driving chip, the display panel is divided into a plurality of charging regions in advance, each charging area is provided with a unique digital code, and the corresponding information of the charging area and the digital code is stored in the timing control chip in advance; detecting a charging area where the pixel to be charged is located, and outputting a corresponding digital code according to the charging area by a timing control chip; the gamma chip receives the digital code and generates a gamma voltage corresponding to the digital code according to the input operating voltage to drive charging operation of the charging area corresponding to the digital code.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Mingliang Wang
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Patent number: 11651735Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a drive method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor, a first light-emission control sub-circuit, a second light-emission control sub-circuit, a first threshold compensation sub-circuit, a second threshold compensation sub-circuit, a first initialization sub-circuit, a second initialization sub-circuit, a data-in sub-circuit, a capacitor, and a light-emitting element; wherein the second light-emission control sub-circuit is connected to the first light-emission control sub-circuit, a second initialization sub-circuit and a gate of the drive transistor, and is configured to send the signal of the first threshold compensation sub-circuit or the signal of the second threshold compensation sub-circuit to the gate of the drive transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi
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Patent number: 11587492Abstract: A full-panel display with hybrid regional subpixel layouts is provided. The full-panel includes a display panel having a first region with an array of first subpixels of respective a first color, a second color, and a third color, and a second region with an array of second subpixels of respective the first color, the second color, and the third color. The array of first subpixels and the array of second subpixels are collectively configured to achieve a higher transmission rate in the first region to an accessory installed therein while keep a luminance ratio between the first subpixels unchanged from that between the second subpixels. Optionally, a number density and/or a unit subpixel area of the first subpixels of at least one color is smaller in the first region than that in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhenzhen Li
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Patent number: 11587531Abstract: Technologies for power efficient display synchronization are disclosed. A compute device may be connected to two display devices. The compute device may send image data to be displayed on each of the display devices in a burst mode, sending the image data in less time than the time between frames. The compute device may then enter a low-power state prior to sending the next image to the display devices. Before sending the next image to the display devices, the compute device may send a synchronization signal, which the display devices may use to synchronize the timing of displaying images between the two display devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Nausheen Ansari, Zhiming Zhuang
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Patent number: 11532285Abstract: A display device and controlling method are provided. The display device includes a display including a display panel and a backlight unit arranged on the rear surface of the display panel, a light emitting frame including a plurality of light emitting elements, the light emitting frame being arranged on at least one edge of the display, a backlight driver, and a processor configured to control the backlight driver so as to supply power to the backlight unit based on an event for turning on the display occurring, and supply power to the light emitting frame based on an event for turning off the display occurring.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jeongil Kang
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Patent number: 11513755Abstract: In a display control device, a first display control unit displays values of a plurality of molding conditions in a first display area, on the basis of layout information including a display size and a display position of the plurality of molding conditions. A data setting unit sets as molding data the values of the plurality of molding conditions that are displayed in the first display area. On the basis of the layout information, and in the same layout as that of the first display area, a second display control unit displays for inspection in a second display area the values of the plurality of molding conditions based on the molding data which are stored in a storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Junpei Maruyama, Akimasa Matsuo
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Patent number: 11501713Abstract: The disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a storage capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a first node and a second terminal coupled to a second node; a light emitting diode having a first electrode coupled to a third node and a second electrode coupled to a second power supply terminal; a data writing circuit configured to write a data voltage into the second node; a compensation circuit configured to write a voltage of the third node, as a compensation voltage, into the first node; a driving transistor having a control terminal coupled to the first node, a first electrode coupled to a first power supply terminal and a second electrode coupled to the light emitting control circuit; a light emitting control circuit configured to control the light emitting diode to emit light.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Han Yue, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Minghua Xuan
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Patent number: 11488526Abstract: A display apparatus in which data signal distortion is reduced and thus is capable of accurately displaying an image includes a substrate including a display area that includes a first display area and a second display area, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, first and second data lines respectively across the first and second display areas, main scan lines across the display area and disposed in parallel to the first and second data lines, sub scan lines across the display area and respectively connected to the main scan lines, the sub scan lines being disposed to cross the main scan lines, first data line pads connected to the first data lines, second data line pads connected to the second data lines, and scan line pads connected to the main scan lines, the first data line pads, the scan line pads, and the second data line pads being adjacent.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Jisu Na, Seungkyu Lee
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Patent number: 11455094Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes detecting a first touch event on a touch-sensitive input area of a display, the touch-sensitive input area having groups of virtual ambiguous keys arranged approximately radially about a center point. The method further includes determining a plurality of words based on the detected first touch event, outputting at least two of the determined words to a list on a first portion of the display, and in response to detecting a gesture based second touch event in a predefined area of the touch-sensitive input area, changing the list on the display. The method further includes outputting at least one of the words in the list to a second portion of the display in response to detecting a tap based second touch event in an area selected from the group consisting of: the predefined area and the first portion of the display.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Thumba Inc.Inventors: Andras Plank S., Gabor A. Rab
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Patent number: 11450295Abstract: A charge compensation circuit of the present disclosure includes: a sorting sub-circuit, configured to sort inputted initial data voltages according to a pixel structure type to obtain a plurality of channels of data, each channel of the data including initial data voltages corresponding to all data lines when a gate line in a row corresponding to the channel is turned on; a storage comparison sub-circuit, configured to output many sets of comparison data according to the stored data; a lookup sub-circuit, configured to look up actual compensation data corresponding to the set of comparison data; and a compensation sub-circuit, configured to compensate for the initial data voltage on a data line corresponding to the actual compensation data when the gate line in the current row is turned on, to obtain an actual data voltage on the data line when the gate line in the current row is turned on.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenxu Lyu, Xinqiu Wang, Xue Dong, Ming Chen, Wei Sun, Hsinchung Lo
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Patent number: 11443681Abstract: A gate driver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes a pull-up-pull-down circuit configured to pull up a gate signal to a high level of a first clock signal in a first duration and configured to pull down the gate signal to a low level of the first clock signal in a second duration, and a pull-down boosting circuit configured to output a first off voltage to the pull-up-pull-down part in the second duration in response to a second clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Cholho Kim, Gunwoo Yang, Hyunyoung Choi, Jihoon Yang, Yongwoo Lee
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Patent number: 11436982Abstract: Various embodiments provide a data driver circuit, a controller, a display device, and a method of driving the same. Overlap driving of overlapping subpixels and fake data insertion driving of inserting a fake image, different from real images, into each of a plurality of lines are performed in a combined manner. Image quality is improved, despite of combined driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: JiHyun Kang, HyunHaeng Lee