Patents Examined by Sepehr Azari
  • Patent number: 11127358
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a display driver, and a timing controller. The data driver may apply a first data voltage set and subsequently a second data voltage set to the display panel during a screen saver operation of the display device. The first data voltage set may cause the display panel to display a first illuminated area. The second data voltage set may cause the display panel to display a second illuminated area. The timing controller may supply image data to the data driver for the second data voltage set to cause the second illuminated area to have a luminance level. The timing controller may determine a value for controlling the luminance level based on a distance between a position of the first illuminated area and a position of the second illuminated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11127327
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display driving device and a display device including the same, which are capable of restoring a communication abnormal state to a normal state when a communication abnormality occurs due to an unexpected variable during communication between a timing controller and a plurality of source drivers. The display device may include a timing controller configured to transmit a communication signal, a first source driver connected to the timing controller through a first communication link and configured to receive the communication signal, and a second source driver connected to the timing controller through a second communication link and configured to receive the communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung Yu Kim, Do Seok Kim, Hyun Pyo Cho, Yong Hwan Moon
  • Patent number: 11119608
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a sensing surface, a light emitting unit that outputs a light through the sensing surface, a light receiving unit that collects a reflection light reflected from an external object in contact with the sensing surface, after the light is output from the light emitting unit, and a first Fresnel lens that is disposed between the light receiving unit and the sensing surface. A first surface of the first Fresnel lens total reflects the reflection light introduced in a direction perpendicular to the sensing surface, and a second surface of the first Fresnel lens refracts the total reflected light so as to be introduced to the light receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventors: Sohyun Chung, Yongjin Lee, Younghyun Kim, Inho Yun
  • Patent number: 11119372
    Abstract: A third metal wire, a common power supply line, a sensor power supply line, a selector switch 58, and a shield portion are provided. The third metal wire is provided on a first sensor electrode formed in a display region of an array substrate. The common power supply line and the sensor power supply line are provided in a peripheral region of the array substrate. The selector switch 58 is configured to supply either DC common voltage or AC sensor voltage to the first sensor electrode. The shield portion has a mesh shape. The shield portion is provided above the sensor power supply line. The shield portion is formed using the same material as the third metal wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Abe, Naoki Miyanaga
  • Patent number: 11112889
    Abstract: An electronic device according to certain embodiments may comprise a display configured to display a user interface including one or more objects corresponding to one or more functions; at least one wireless communication circuit configured to wirelessly connect to a stylus pen; at least one processor operatively connected to the display and the wireless communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory is configured to store the user interface, and wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: provide the user interface to the display; detect contact or proximity of the stylus pen with a selected object of the one or more objects of the user interface on the display, wherein the selected object corresponds to a selected function of the one or more functions; receive a first user input using the stylus pen through the wireless communication circuit, the first user input having a selected stylus pen inp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seonho Lee
  • Patent number: 11112895
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix substrate in which parasitic capacitance can be reduced and the display quality can be improved is provided, a touch-panel-equipped display device including the same, and a liquid crystal display device including the same. An active matrix substrate 1 includes a plurality of pixel electrodes 31; a plurality of counter electrodes provided so as to be opposed to the pixel electrodes 31, respectively, capacitors being formed between the counter electrodes 21 and the pixel electrodes 31; a conductive layer provided on a side opposite to the counter electrodes 21 with respect to the pixel electrodes 31; a first insulating layer 461; and a second insulating layer 462. The first insulating layer 461 is arranged between the pixel electrodes 31 and the conductive layer, and the second insulating layer 462 is arranged between the pixel electrodes 31 and the counter electrodes 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakatsu Tominaga, Kuniko Maeno, Shingo Kamitani, Yoshihito Hara
  • Patent number: 11094263
    Abstract: A display device driving method includes: providing a reference voltage for compensating a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in a pixel; and providing a data signal to the pixel, wherein providing the reference voltage, and providing the data signal to the pixel are performed in a first frame period, and a second frame period successive to the first frame period, wherein the display device driving method further comprises providing a compensation signal generated by comparing a data signal with a reference voltage provided in a previous frame period of each frame period to the pixel before providing the reference voltage is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Chol Kim, Jin Wook Yang, Ji Hye Kim, Young Ha Sohn, Jae Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11069317
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first pixel sections; a plurality of second pixel sections; first image lines disposed in a first pixel area; a plurality of second image lines disposed in a second pixel area; short-circuit lines connected to the second image lines, the short-circuit lines short-circuiting the second image lines; a first pixel drive unit driving the first pixel sections; a plurality of second pixel drive units driving the second pixel sections arranged side by side along a row direction by time division while the first pixel drive unit is driving the first pixel sections; and an image signal supply section supplying first image signals to the first image lines in synchronism with the first pixel drive unit driving the first pixel sections and supplying second image signals to the short-circuit lines by time division in synchronism with the second pixel drive units driving the second pixel sections arranged side by side along the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makii, Nobuyuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11068109
    Abstract: Described as a multifunctional display including a display panel and a sensing and emitting base, the display panel comprising a body forming a layer extending substantially between a viewing surface that an observer can see, or against which an object may be placed, and a base surface facing the sensing and emitting base, and a plurality of optical paths bounded by a light resistant material are formed within the body extending between a base orifice in the base surface and a viewing orifice in the viewing surface for the passage of light between base orifice and the viewing orifice, the sensing and emitting base comprising at least one multi-color light source positioned below or in the base orifice and at least one optical sensor positioned below or in the base orifice. The display comprises non-optical sensors, each arranged under a solid region of the display panel between optical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PA.COTTE FAMILY HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Pierre-Alain Cotte
  • Patent number: 11069285
    Abstract: A luminance compensation method is configured to compensate luminance of a plurality of sub-pixels included in a display device. The luminance compensation method includes a curve generation and update process and a compensation process for each sub-pixel to be compensated. The curve generation and update process includes: detecting an actual luminance value of the sub-pixel to be compensated in real time; and generating an actual luminance curve showing how the actual luminance value of the sub-pixel to be compensated changes as a gray-scale value changes according to actual luminance values detected in real-time, and updating the actual luminance curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Danna Song
  • Patent number: 11056062
    Abstract: Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes data lines, first detection lines, first compensation detection circuits, a display driving chip, a compensation chip and a control chip. Each data line is electrically connected to a corresponding first detection line through at least one first compensation detection circuit. The display driving chip sends a reference data signal to the data lines in a detection stage. The compensation chip acquires signals collected by the first detection lines and sends the signals to the control chip in the detection stage. The control chip determines a data signal compensation parameter according to the received signals, and controls the display driving chip to provide a display data signal to the data lines in a display stage according to the data signal compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junkai Liu, Yang Yang, Xiangzi Kong, Shuai Yang
  • Patent number: 11043179
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a GOA device and a gate drive circuit. The GOA device includes at least two GOA units in cascade. The present disclosure connects the input terminal of the pull-up control circuit to the start signal of the n?7-th stage, the control node (Qn) of the n-th GOA unit is thus pulled up to the first high potential and the bootstrap capacitor is charged. The control node (Qn) is charged 7 stages in advance, which resolves the technical problem of insufficient charging of the high-resolution high-refresh rate display panel in the related art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhida Xu, Xiaohui Yao, Ilgon Kim
  • Patent number: 11036341
    Abstract: A plurality of metallic components (e.g., conductive rods) can be included within an insulator layer of a touch sensor panel. The metallic components included within the insulator layer can be electrically floating. The metallic components can increase a signal coupling strength across the thickness of the insulator layer. In some examples, the metallic components can have a uniform spacing and uniform physical dimensions. In some examples, the metallic components can provide increased signal coupling in areas directly above touch sensitive regions of underlying touch sensor electrodes. In some examples, the metallic components can pass through the insulator in a straight line that is normal to opposing surfaces of the insulator layer. In some examples, the metallic components can be flared or otherwise pass through the insulator along a path that is not straight and/or not orthogonal to opposing surfaces of the insulator layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apple inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Gourevitch, Christophe Blondin, Christopher J. Butler
  • Patent number: 11018203
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device comprising the display panel, and a method for detecting a defect thereof are provided. The display panel includes a touch sensor having at least one defect detection pattern to detect a defect by changing the configuration of an array. Thereby, a defect detection at the outside of the array can be easily accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-Ah Song
  • Patent number: 11011125
    Abstract: An electrooptic device includes a scan line; data lines; a scan line driving circuit that selects the scan line; a data line driving circuit that supplies data signals to the data lines; a TFT that includes a gate electrode receiving gate signals for selecting the data line and has one end connected to the data line and the other end connected to the data line driving circuit; and a TFT that includes a gate electrode receiving gate signals for selecting the data line and has one end connected to the data line and the other end connected to the data line driving circuit. The gate electrode of the TFT overlaps the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11003259
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, pen input; determining, using a processor of an electronic device, a modifier key characteristic of the pen input; and executing, using the processor, a modifier key function associated with the pen input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Grigori Zaitsev, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11004397
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit including: an electro-optical element, a driving transistor; a writing control transistor whose first conduction terminal is connected to a data line and whose control terminal is connected to a scanning line; and an initialization transistor whose first conduction terminal is connected to a control terminal of the driving transistor, to whose second conduction terminal an initialization voltage is applied, and whose control terminal is connected to a first control line. In a case of a P-channel transistor, a high-level voltage to be given to the control terminal of the initialization transistor is lower than a high-level voltage to be given to the control terminal of the writing control transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Tamotsu Sakai, Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10997907
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus that improves the uniformity of luminance among a plurality of pixels and improves chromaticity by recalibrating artifacts of a display image recognized by a visual sensation even after calibration is performed, and a method of controlling the same. The display apparatus may include a display panel; a communication circuitry configured to receive an initial calibration coefficient value of a first pixel and at least one second pixel except for the first pixel of the display panel; and a controller configured to compare luminance of the first pixel and the second pixel based on the initial calibration coefficient value, to modify the initial calibration coefficient value based on the comparison result, and to control the display panel based on the modified calibration coefficient value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Jin Baek, Ho Sik Sohn, Kil Soo Jung, Oh Jae Kwon, Ho Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10997905
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. At least one load compensation unit is arranged in a non-display area, and the at least one load compensation unit can be configured to adjust the charging time of pixels by controlling gate lines, thereby making brightness of each area of the display screen uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenxiao Tong, Weiyun Huang, Xiangdan Dong, Tingliang Liu, Yunsheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 10996800
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel electrode layer in which a plurality of light emitting elements constituting respective pixels are arranged in two dimensions; a touch sensor layer in which a plurality of touch sensor electrodes constituting a touch sensor are arranged in two dimensions; and a touch buffer layer between the pixel electrode layer and the touch sensor layer such that the pixel electrode layer and the touch sensor layer are capacitively coupled to each other, the touch buffer layer being optically transparent and including a base material and hollow particles dispersed in the base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Harumi Okuno, Isao Adachi