Patents Examined by Sejoon Ahn
  • Patent number: 11263940
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, an output circuit, a pull-down control circuit and a pull-down circuit; and the output circuit is connected to a first DC power supply terminal, a second clock signal terminal, a pull-up node, a first driving signal output terminal and a second driving signal output terminal respectively, and is configured to output a first power supply signal of the first DC power supply terminal to the first driving signal output terminal under control of the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Li Sun, Fengjing Tang, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 11232734
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes a first gate driving output circuit and a second gate driving output circuit. The first gate driving output circuit is used to output a first gate driving signal through the first gate driving signal output terminal; the second gate driving output circuit is used to generate a second gate driving signal outputted simultaneously with the first gate driving signal based on the first gate driving signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal. In the present disclosure, the second gate driving output circuit is added, the first gate driving signal, the first clock signal, and the second clock signal are used to generate an inverted second gate driving signal, so that positive and negative switching control signals are generated by one stage of shift register unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Can Zheng, Jiangnan Lu, Tian Dong, Libin Liu, Long Han, Shiming Shi, Dawei Wang
  • Patent number: 11232736
    Abstract: A mura compensation method for a display device in which a data driver and a scan driver disposed at a first side of a pixel unit, includes capturing an image of the pixel unit based on a predetermined first sample gray level; calculating mum luminance of diagonal mura corresponding to the first sample gray level by sharpening the diagonal mura based on light components of the captured image for a first sample area including the diagonal mura; calculating target luminance based on the mura luminance and a luminance distribution of the imaged first sample area; and calculating a first compensation value corresponding to the first sample gray level and a pixel corresponding to the diagonal mura in the first sample area by using the first sample gray level, the mura luminance, and the target luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Yun Kim, Min Gyu Kim, Sang Cheol Park
  • Patent number: 11232766
    Abstract: A display device, a driving method thereof and a display system are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a polarizer disposed on a side, where a light emitting surface of the display panel is located, of the display panel, and a phase retarder disposed on a side, where a light emitting surface of the polarizer is located, of the polarizer. The display region of the display panel includes a peep-proof area and a compensation area; the phase retarder includes a first phase retarder and a second phase retarder respectively corresponding to the peep-proof area and the compensation area; both the first and second phase retarder are a quarter-wave phase retarder; and the first and second phase retarder are configured to respectively convert light that is incident into the first phase retarder and the second phase retarder into polarized light with opposite rotation directions, in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinli Ma
  • Patent number: 11231588
    Abstract: The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine
  • Patent number: 11222932
    Abstract: An electronic display apparatus includes a light source unit configured to provide a first light. A color filter unit is disposed on the light source unit and is configured to receive the first light. The color filter unit includes a quantum dot. A first electrode layer is disposed on a first side of the color filter unit. A second electrode layer is disposed on a second side of the color filter unit. A solar cell unit is disposed on the light source unit and includes the first electrode layer, the color filter unit, and the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Iyong Bok
  • Patent number: 11221710
    Abstract: A shift register unit includes a first pull-up node control circuit, a second pull-up node control circuit, a pull-down node control circuit, an output pull-up circuit and an output pull-down circuit. The first pull-up node control circuit is configured to control a first pull-up node to be electrically connected to a second voltage end under the control of an input signal, and control the first pull-up node to be electrically connected to a first voltage end under the control of a resetting signal and/or a voltage signal at a pull-down node. The second pull-up node control circuit is configured to control a second pull-up node to be electrically connected to an input end under the control of the input signal, and control the second pull-up node to be electrically connected to the first voltage end under the control of the resetting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiujie Su
  • Patent number: 11222570
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a driving method. The display panel comprises: a cascade array substrate gate electrode driving unit, each cascade array substrate gate electrode driving unit being provided on at least one side of the display panel, coupled with multiple scan lines (G1-GN and G1?-GN?), and outputting driving signals for the scan lines (G1-GN and G1?-GN?) in a preset order; front virtual array substrate gate electrode driving units, provided at one end of the cascade array substrate gate electrode driving units and provided to generate a trigger signal and to output same to the corresponding cascade array substrate gate electrode driving units; and a rear virtual array substrate gate electrode driving unit, provided at the other end of the cascade array substrate gate electrode driving units and provided to generate a reset signal and to output same to the corresponding cascade array substrate gate electrode driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junhong Cao
  • Patent number: 11222565
    Abstract: The present application discloses a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. The shift register includes an input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a reset control sub-circuit, a pull-up node reset sub-circuit, and an output signal reset sub-circuit; the input sub-circuit is configured to pre-charge the pull-up node under the control of a signal input to the first signal input terminal; the output sub-circuit is configured to output, through the signal output terminal, a signal input to the first clock signal input terminal under the control of a potential of the pull-up node; the reset control sub-circuit is configured to control, under the control of a reset signal input to the second signal input terminal, whether the pull-up node reset sub-circuit and the output signal reset sub-circuit operate to reset the pull-up node and the signal output terminal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Xing Zhang, Qi Hu, Pan Xu, Yongqian Li, Meng Li, Zhidong Yuan, Zhenfei Cai, Can Yuan
  • Patent number: 11217132
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage display luminance, for the purpose of power efficiency, halo reduction, and flicker prevention. An example apparatus includes a backlight analyzer to determine a first baseline luminance level associated with a first segment of a backlight of a screen of a display device based on pixel data defining a frame of content to be displayed via the screen and to determine a second baseline luminance level associated with a second segment of the backlight different than the first segment based on the pixel data, a segment-pair ratio analyzer to determine a segment-pair luminance ratio between the first and second segments based on the first and second baseline luminance levels, and a luminance controller to adjust an amount of power provided to at least one of the first segment of the backlight or the second segment of the backlight when the segment-pair luminance ratio satisfies a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roland Wooster, Perazhi Sameer Kalathil
  • Patent number: 11211001
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device that includes a control circuit, an array of light emitting diode (LED) zones, and an array of zone integrated circuits that are distributed in the display area. The zone integrated circuits may comprise integrated LED and driver circuits and may include sensor circuits. The zone integrated circuits are arranged in groups that are coupled to each other and to the control circuit in a serial communication chain via serial communication lines. The control circuit provides control signals that control the driver circuits to drive the LED zones and may provide commands to request readback data from the zone integrated circuits. Responsive to the commands, the zone integrated circuits output readback data to the control circuit via the serial communication chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huayuan Semiconductor (Shenzhen) Limited Company
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Wei, Junjie Zheng, Richard Landry Gray, Yung-Ting Chen, Lilun Chi
  • Patent number: 11210997
    Abstract: In an embodiment a passive matrix LED display module includes n>1 first electrical lines connected to a respective first switch, m>1 second electrical lines connected to a respective second switch and at least m·n LED light sources, wherein each of the LED light sources is connected on an anode side to a first line and on a cathode side to a second line, wherein each of the first switches is a push-pull switch having a first terminal for connection to an LED supply voltage, a second terminal for connection to an adjustable discharge potential, a third terminal for receiving a switching signal and a fourth terminal for connection to an associated first line, wherein each of the second switches in a switched state is configured to allow current to flow to a reference potential, and wherein the second terminals of the push-pull switches are connected in common to an output voltage terminal of an adjustable voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Kaestle
  • Patent number: 11210988
    Abstract: A graphical indicator is provided. The graphical indicator includes a plurality of header blocks and a plurality content blocks. The header blocks include N first header blocks and (M?1) second header blocks. Each of the content blocks has a data micro-graphic. The N first header blocks are disposed at a first row of an indicator matrix. Each of the (M?1) second header blocks is disposed at (M?1) rows other than the first row of the indicator matrix. Each of the N first header blocks has a header micro-graphic. Furthermore, one or more target second header blocks in the (M?1) second header blocks do not have the header micro-graphic, and each of a plurality of remaining second header blocks other than the one or more target second header blocks in the (M?1) second header blocks has the header micro-graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONIX Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhen-Fu Ye, Yi-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11194540
    Abstract: A controlled-environment facility and/or communications management system interface accepts definition of a digital bulletin board message directed to at least one controlled-environment facility resident, accepts assignment of a priority for displaying the digital bulletin board message on the digital bulletin board and a schedule for display of the digital bulletin board message and accepts assignment of the digital bulletin board message to controlled-environment resident communication and/or media device(s) disposed in the controlled-environment facility. The digital bulletin board message(s) are received by the controlled-environment resident communication and/or media device(s) to which the digital bulletin board message is assigned, and are displayed by the controlled-environment resident communication and/or media device(s) to which the digital bulletin board message(s) are assigned, in accordance with the assigned priority and the schedule for display of the digital bulletin board message(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alice J. Clements, Joseph Higgs, Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11194163
    Abstract: The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine
  • Patent number: 11176863
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes a bias control circuit. The bias control circuit is electrically connected to a pull-down node, a control clock signal terminal, and a bias voltage terminal, respectively, and is configured to control connection between the pull-down node and the bias voltage terminal under the control of a control clock signal provided by the control clock signal terminal; and the bias voltage terminal is configured to input a bias voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mindong Zheng, Hui Wang, Yifeng Zou, Ruiying Yang
  • Patent number: 11171189
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels on the substrate, the plurality of pixels being around a first area and at least partially surrounding the first area; a light-transmissive wire on the substrate and overlapping the first area; and an encapsulation member covering the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehwan Oh, Jinoh Kwag, Deokhoi Kim
  • Patent number: 11164499
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color temperature adjustment method of a display. The display is a transparent display. The color temperature adjustment method includes: detecting current color temperature data of a background environment right behind the display, obtaining a color temperature compensation coefficient of the display, calculating a target color temperature of the display according to the color temperature data of the background environment and the color temperature compensation coefficient, obtaining a gamma voltage corresponding to the target color temperature, controlling the display to adjust the color temperature of the display to the target color temperature according to the obtained gamma voltage. The present disclosure further relates to a computer readable storage medium. As such, the color temperature of the transparent display may accurately be adjusted, and the user experience may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Limin Wang
  • Patent number: 11158229
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless reception device and an image display apparatus including the same. The image display apparatus includes a first signal converter configured to convert an input signal based on the RF signal into a first baseband signal, a second signal converter configured to convert the input signal based on the RF signal into a second baseband signal, a processor of a first standard configured to perform signal processing on the first baseband signal from the first signal converter based on a first standard, and a first processor of a second standard configured to perform signal processing on the second baseband signal from the second signal converter based on the second standard. Accordingly, the time delay when signal processing is performed on input signals of a plurality of standards is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sangchae Lim
  • Patent number: 11143908
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a backlight control method thereof are provided. In response to that average pixel brightness of image data is less than a threshold, a first backlight driving signal is generated based on gray level information of the image data and a second backlight driving signal is generated based on saturation information of the image data. A convolution operation is performed on the first and the second backlight driving signal to output a backlight driving signal. The backlight driving signal is modulated and provided to a backlight module for producing backlight to a liquid crystal panel. Power consumption of the backlight module is lowered and meanwhile a dark effect caused in displaying images of a pure color is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qingcheng Zuo