Patents Examined by Scott Au
  • Patent number: 10290693
    Abstract: Provided is a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable or a display panel with a high pixel aperture ratio. The display panel includes the first display element, the first conductive film electrically connected to the first display element, the second conductive film having a region overlapping with the first conductive film, the second insulating film having a region sandwiched between the second conductive film and the first conductive film, a pixel circuit electrically connected to the second conductive film, and the second display element electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The second insulating film includes an opening, and the second conductive film is electrically connected to the first conductive film in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 10282032
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel, a touch module located on the display panel, a cover film located on the touch module, a first adhesive layer located between the display panel and the touch module, and a second adhesive layer located between the touch module and the cover film, wherein a thickness ratio of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer with respect to a thickness of the display device is in a range of 7% to 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Kyu Song, Hee Bong Kim, Jun Hee Sung, Min-Ho Lim
  • Patent number: 10283045
    Abstract: A display device including a light emitting element, a drive transistor connected to the light emitting element, a first switching element connected to the drive transistor and a main power supply line, a second switching element connected to the drive transistor and a reset power supply line, a third switching element connected to the drive transistor and a signal line, a fourth switching element connected to the third switching element and an initialization power supply line, and a capacitor element connected to the drive transistor and the third switching element, wherein two horizontal periods ON signal is supplied to a gate terminal of each of the second switching element, third switching element and fourth switching element respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Shibusawa, Hiroyuki Kimura, Tetsuo Morita
  • Patent number: 10262612
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scan compensation method and a scan compensation circuit of a gate driver. The scan compensation method comprises: when the gate driver switching from first scanning mode to second scanning mode or from second scanning mode to first scanning mode, performing a first operation to a clock signal and a first compensation signal of the gate driver, and performing a second operation to the obtained signals and a second compensation signal, wherein the first scanning mode is a sequential scan mode, the second scanning mode is non-sequential scan mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 10223975
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an organic light-emitting diode display. The display may include row driver circuitry that provides an emission control signal at an output terminal to display pixels. The emission control signals may enable or disable light emission by the pixels. The row driver circuitry may include a bootstrapping capacitor that stores charge for boosting a gate signal at an intermediate node for a pull-up transistor above a power supply voltage. The row driver circuitry may include a pull-down transistor coupled to the intermediate node. The source terminal of the pull-down transistor may be coupled to the output terminal or an additional pull-down transistor may be stacked with the pull-down transistor to reduce leakage current. Charge pump circuitry may be coupled to the intermediate node to ensure that the intermediate node is maintained at a voltage above the power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Jae Won Choi, Sang Y. Youn, Young Bae Park, Chin-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10209834
    Abstract: A display with integrated self-capacitance sensors comprises a sensor electrode and a guard layer in the display stack. Touch displays combine internally elements required for the display function and the touch sensing function. In an embodiment, the common voltage layer, VCOM layer, is used as the guard layer and another layer on top of the common voltage layer, for example a color filter layer, is used as the electrode array layer. The functionality of the common voltage layer is alternated between the touch sensing function and the display function. Either function may be used while the other function is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Pasi Pylvas
  • Patent number: 10198136
    Abstract: The present invention provides an OGS touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The OGS touch screen comprises a base substrate and a metal bridge provided on the base substrate, wherein at least a region, which corresponds to the metal bridge, of a surface of the base substrate facing the metal bridge is uneven. In the OGS touch screen provided by the present invention, by making at least the region of the surface of the base substrate corresponding to the metal bridge uneven, incident light from a side of the base substrate without the metal bridge can be reflected diffusely at least at the region of the base substrate corresponding to the metal bridge, so that the vanishing effect of the metal bridge is enhanced and the visibility of the metal bridge is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Wenjie Shi, Wenjin Fan, Lei Zhang, Ming Hu, Kefeng Li
  • Patent number: 10186223
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a GOA circuit, comprising a plurality of GOA units which are cascade coupled, and the Nth stage GOA unit is employed to control charge to the Nth level scan line G(N), and the pull-down holding circuit of the Nth stage GOA unit comprises a Nth control circuit, a Nth holding circuit and a Nth shared circuit; the pull-down holding circuit of the (N+4)th stage GOA unit comprises a (N+4)th control circuit, a (N+4)th holding circuit and a Nth shared circuit; a first control end Q(N) of the Nth control circuit and a second control end receiving the first control signal regulates and controls a voltage level of the output end P(N) thereof; a first control end Q(N+4) of the (N+4)th control circuit and a second control end receiving the low frequency control signal regulates and controls a voltage level of the output end P(N+4) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hongyuan Xu
  • Patent number: 10176757
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a collection module, a data write module, a storage module, a light emission control module, and a light emission module, wherein the data write module is configured to write a voltage at a data signal terminal into the storage module, wherein the collection module is configured to collect a threshold voltage of the drive module and write the threshold voltage into the storage module, wherein the storage module is configured to store a driving voltage for driving the drive module, wherein the drive module is configured to drive the light emission module to emit light according to the driving voltage stored by the storage module, and wherein the light emission control module is configured to control the drive module for driving the light emission module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lirong Wang
  • Patent number: 10170052
    Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels and a driving circuit. The plurality of pixels may respectively include a plurality of pixel circuits each having at least one transistor, and a plurality of display structures connected to the plurality of pixel circuits. The driving circuit may drive the plurality of pixels. The plurality of display structures may define a display region of the display device, and the driving circuit may be disposed at a center portion of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Nam, Myung-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10162386
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a folding part. The display panel includes an edge part curving in a first direction and a flat part connected the edge part. The folding part is below the flat part and is used to fold the display panel. The edge part includes a groove in a central portion of the edge part in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the groove extends in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongho Chong, Eunjung Lee, Suyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10147368
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: (a) calculating an average value of grayscale values of each of pixels in a global raw image; (b) calculating Mura threshold values of the grayscale values of all of the pixels in a local raw image; (c) calculating Mura compensation values for each of the pixels of the local raw image in accordance with the Mura threshold value; (d) obtaining updated grayscale values of each of the pixels in the local raw image by adding the grayscale values of each of the pixels in the local raw image and the corresponding Mura compensation values; (e) displaying the updated image; (f) repeating step (b) to (e) for a plurality of times for the updated image with a changed dimension, and calculating a standard deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10139971
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a display device are disclosed which achieve touch function and narrow bezel function while the required number of the vertical wiring is reduced and the aperture ratio of the touch display panel is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanchen Li, Peizhi Cai, Xi Chen, Xu Cao, Fengchun Pang, Jinyu Li, Xingyou Luo, Lei Ma
  • Patent number: 10102800
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes pixel driving circuits to control pixels which include organic light emitting diodes. The pixel driving circuits include a first pixel driving circuit and a second pixel driving circuit, and the organic light emitting diodes include a first organic light emitting diode. The first organic light emitting diode emits light at a first brightness based on a driving current from the first pixel driving circuit in a first frame, and emits light at a second brightness based on a driving current from the second pixel driving circuit in a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 10088944
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes common electrodes, detection electrodes, a common-electrode drive circuit including shift registers and switch circuits electrically connected to the shift registers, and a driver which outputs four-phase clock signals and a touch-drive signal, wherein a reset operation of the each shift register is controlled by predetermined two of the four-phase clock signals, each of the switch circuits connects a signal line from the driver to common electrodes based on a shift signal output from an associated shift register, and the each switch circuit causes the touch-drive signal from the driver to be supplied to the common electrodes of the block during a period from time at which the shift signal is output from the associated shift register to time at which a predetermined one of the four-phase clock signals is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10083498
    Abstract: A compensation method for a driving circuit of a display device includes generating a motion vector between a previous frame and a current frame subsequent to the previous frame; generating a first estimation frame according to the current frame and the motion vector; adjusting the first estimation frame according to the difference between the current frame and the first estimation frame, to generate a first overdrive frame; and inserting the first overdrive frame between the current frame and a next frame subsequent to the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuei-Chung Chang, Shang-I Liu, Pu-Hsien Chang
  • Patent number: 10068523
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device having a driving transistor for current-driving a light-emitting element provided in each pixel, wherein the drain of the driving transistor is connected to a first power source, the source of the driving transistor is connected to the light-emitting element and one end of a capacitor, and the gate of the driving transistor is connected to a voltage source via a first switch and simultaneously therewith is connected to the other end of the capacitor via a second switch; the other end of the capacitor is further connected to a signal line via a third switch; and the display device has a control circuit for selectively controlling the first power source to a plurality of voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 10061505
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes an operation screen display unit that displays a specific operation screen containing an operation key for causing the in-vehicle device to perform a specific action, an operation key moving unit that moves the operation key in a predetermined direction, a camera and a movement recognition unit that detect a movement of part of a body of a user or a movement of an operation member held by the user, and an operation selection unit that, when a movement direction of the operation key matches a direction of the detected movement of the user, selects the operation key moved by the operation key moving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Sato, Shizuo Kanbayashi, Fumiaki Hoki, Rintaro Kuroda, Takashi Jogataki, Naoki Saegusa, Haruhiko Nakatsuji, Hai Lin
  • Patent number: 10061453
    Abstract: Determining a touch contact location is disclosed. A signal that has been disturbed by a touch input on a surface is received. The received signal is transformed to determine a spatial domain signal. The spatial domain signal is compared with an expected signal associated with a potential location of a source of a disturbance caused by the touch input. The touch contact location of the touch input is determined based at least in part on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Sentons Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish A. Altekar, Shih-Ming Shih
  • Patent number: 10043444
    Abstract: A display panel and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display panel includes an active pixel including a driving circuit configured to generate a driving current based on a data signal and an emission circuit configured to emit light based on the driving current. The display panel also includes a repair pixel including a repair driving circuit configured to provide a repair driving current to the emission circuit instead of the driving current of the driving circuit when the driving circuit is disconnected from the emission circuit. The repair pixel further includes an aging switch configured to apply an aging voltage to the repair driving circuit during an aging operation and electrically disconnect the repair driving circuit from a power supply after the aging operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Mi-Jin Yoon, Yu-Hyun Cho