Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
  • Patent number: 11862082
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, a space portion, an illuminator, a controller, and an illuminance sensor. The display panel is switchable between an image display mode in which an image is displayed and a transmissive mode in which the display panel is in a transmissive state where a back side of the display panel is visible in a front view. The space portion and the illuminator are provided behind the display panel. The illuminator emits illumination light to the space portion. The controller controls the illuminator. The illuminance sensor detects an ambient illuminance of the image display device. The controller performs illumination control for causing the illuminator to emit illumination light with a brightness that is in accordance with a result of detection by the illuminance sensor when the display panel is operating in the transmissive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeichi Shinya
  • Patent number: 11837608
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a substrate having a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The non-display region includes a first sub-region extending in a first direction, a second sub-region extending in a second direction, and a third sub-region connecting the first sub-region with the second sub-region, and the third sub-region extends in an arc shape, and the first sub-region comprises a binding region; a plurality of signal lines extending in the display region; a plurality of circuit modules located on the substrate; and a plurality of fan-out lines located in the non-display region. Each of the fan-out lines is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the circuit modules and extends to the binding region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xu Qin, Miao Chang, Lu Zhang, Siming Hu, Zhenzhen Han
  • Patent number: 11816286
    Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a method that includes receiving a first sense signal from a first sensing array, the first sensing array configured to provide the first sense signal indicating a first touch on a first touch surface of a touch substrate as well as receiving a second sense signal from a second sensing array, the second sensing array configured to provide the second sense signal indicating a second touch on a second touch surface of a second touch substrate occurring concurrently to the first touch. The method may further include determining whether the first touch and the second touch share at least one anti-ghost. The method may also include associating the first touch and the second touch with a common touch entity in response to determining that the first touch and the second touch share the at least one anti-ghost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Damien Berget, Kenneth Andrew Feehan, Paul Leonard Futter, David Samuel Hecht, Joel Christopher Kent, Robert William Kitchin, Kenneth John North, James Roney, Kyu-Tak Son, Jung Verheiden, Forrest Kim Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 11810505
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel, a display driver IC (integrated circuit) and a processor, wherein the display driver IC may set an output time (horizontal time) of one of lines constituting the display panel to a first time period, set a number of vertical blank lines for the display panel to a first number, drive the display panel at a first refresh rate corresponding to the first time period and the first number of the vertical blank lines, receive a control signal for changing from the first refresh rate to a second refresh rate from the processor, and set the output time to a second time period or set the number of the vertical blank lines to a second number and drive the display panel based on the control signal, and wherein the display panel may be driven at a second refresh rate while the second time period and the second number of vertical blank lines are being set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Lee, Seoyoung Lee, Juseok Lee, Youngdo Kim, Sungha Park, Woonbo Yeo
  • Patent number: 11800748
    Abstract: A display device includes: scan lines extending in a first direction; first data lines, second data lines, and third data lines extending in a second direction; a first driving unit connected to the scan lines and the first data lines; a first light emitting unit connected to the first driving unit; a second driving unit connected to the scan lines and the second data lines; a second light emitting unit connected to the second driving unit; a third driving unit connected to the scan lines and the second data lines; and a third light emitting unit connected to the third driving unit. The first light emitting unit overlaps the second driving unit or the third driving unit, the second light emitting unit overlaps the first driving unit or the third driving unit, and the third light emitting unit overlaps the first driving unit or the second driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Nam, Hae-Kwan Seo
  • Patent number: 11790818
    Abstract: A method for debugging the display panel includes: acquiring a target correction data table of the display panel in each of at least one color mode by debugging the display panel in each of the at least one color mode. Debugging the display panel in each of the at least one color mode includes: controlling the display panel to display a test picture in the color mode; acquiring an initial display parameter curve based on a display parameter of the test picture; determining a reference display parameter curve based on the initial display parameter curve and a standard display parameter curve; and determining the target correction data table based on the reference display parameter curve and the standard display parameter curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guohuo Su, Changcheng Liu, Zhihua Sun, Jiantao Liu, Senwang Li, Zhun Lin, Wenliang Liu, Yinlong Zhang, Jituo Tang, Jinling Zhang
  • Patent number: 11793032
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area; a main sub-pixel at the main display area on the substrate; a main pixel circuit connected to the main sub-pixel, and including a main storage capacitor; an auxiliary sub-pixel at the component area on the substrate; an auxiliary pixel circuit at the peripheral area on the substrate, and including an auxiliary storage capacitor; and a connecting line connecting the auxiliary sub-pixel to the auxiliary pixel circuit. A capacity of the auxiliary storage capacitor is greater than a capacity of the main storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junki Jeong, Hyunho Kim, Sunyoung Jung, Meehye Jung, Seonyoung Choi, Donghwan Shim, Sanghee Jang, Chungsock Choi, Juhoon Kang, Gunhee Kim, Taehoon Yang
  • Patent number: 11790835
    Abstract: A display device includes a data signal line, a low-tone scanning line, a high-tone scanning line, a low-tone emission control line, a high-tone emission control line, a signal line drive circuit that outputs an image signal to the data signal line, a scanning line drive circuit that outputs a selection signal to the low-tone scanning line and to the high-tone scanning line, and first and second power supply lines that receive power from a power supply. Pixel units each include a low-tone scanning transistor, a high-tone scanning transistor, a low-tone capacitor, a high-tone capacitor, a low-tone drive transistor, a high-tone drive transistor, a low-tone emission control transistor, a high-tone emission control transistor, and a light emitter. The display device drives the light emitter by dividing a high tone and a low tone in time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Takanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11782669
    Abstract: Various systems and techniques for intuitively and non-obstructively obtaining awareness of fellow collaborator views and/or statuses in an augmented reality environment are disclosed. An interaction is detected between a first and second HMD, both collaborative participants of a shared dataset represented in an augmented reality environment. The detected interaction can cause the first HMD to request state information associated with the second HMD. The second HMD can process the request in accordance with a privacy policy to generate a set of visual data as a response to the request. The second HMD can communicate the generated set of visual data to the first HMD, such that the first HMD can render the received set of visual data as additional computer-generated object(s) to be displayed concurrently with its own augmented view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Pahud, Nathalie Riche, Eyal Ofek, Christophe Hurter
  • Patent number: 11776456
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including an external device interface configured to receive image data of an external device, a display configured to output the image data, and a controller configured to recognize a type of the external device using reference information of the external device, to correct image quality of the image data using distance information corresponding to the type of the external device, and to output the corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungdae Ahn, Donghun Park
  • Patent number: 11763763
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device and a driving method for electrophoretic display device are provided. The electrophoretic display device includes an electrophoretic display panel, a network module, a processor and an electrophoretic display driver. The network module is configured to transmit a panel information of the electrophoretic display panel to a web application programming interface. The processor is coupled to the electrophoretic panel and the network module. The processor is configured to receive an image information packet corresponding to the panel information via the web application programming interface. The electrophoretic display driver is coupled to the processor and the electrophoretic display panel. The processor makes the electrophoretic display driver drive the electrophoretic display panel to display an image information according to the image information packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Mao Hung, Jia-Hong Xu
  • Patent number: 11756502
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a system and method for providing fast response time performance with low latency in Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a controller and a memory coupled to the controller, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the controller to receive LCD display capability information from a display device, and determine from the received capability information, that a video stream sent to the display device has a lower frame rate than the capabilities of the display device. Using this information the instructions then increase the frame rate of the video stream by repeating each frame during a current time window of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Lei Guo, Eng Cheng Vincent Yap, Bee June Tye
  • Patent number: 11744109
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting portion and a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes a transistor that drives the light-emitting portion and includes a first diffusion layer and a first contact electrode, the first diffusion layer including no silicide formed in a silicon region, the first contact electrode being electrically connected to the first diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 11710455
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a pixel circuit, and first and second transistors. The OLD includes a cathode electrode connected to a second power source. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode initialized by a third power source. The driving transistor controls the amount of current flowing from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED. The first transistor is connected between a fourth power source and the second power source and an anode electrode of the OLED. The first transistor is turned on based on a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The second transistor is connected between a data line and the pixel circuit. The second transistor is turned on when the scan signal is supplied to the ith scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Tae Jeong, Min Ku Lee, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Seung Kyu Lee, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 11711059
    Abstract: Disclosed are a slew boost amplifier and a display driver having the same, which include a first current generation circuit configured to apply a first current to an upper current mirror circuit, a second current generation circuit configured to apply a second current to a lower current mirror circuit, and a comparison circuit configured to detect a difference between an input voltage and an output voltage and to apply the first current when the difference is greater than or equal to a first predetermined threshold and the second current generation circuit to apply the second current when the difference is less than a second predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: DB HiTek, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mun Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11705076
    Abstract: A cholesteric liquid crystal (LC) composite display device includes a light absorbing substrate, a first and second transparent substrates, a light supplement module arranged between the light absorbing substrate and the first transparent substrate, a control module, a first and second electrode layers respectively formed on the first and second transparent substrates, a first cholesteric LC layer sandwiched between the first and second electrode layers, and a first light absorbing layer disposed on the second transparent substrate. The projection of the first light absorbing layer on the horizontal plane and the projection of the light supplement module on the horizontal plane are arranged in a misaligned manner. The control module is provided for controlling the light supplement module according to the brightness signal. Thereby, when the external brightness is low, the light supplement module enhances the displaying brightness of the cholesteric LC composite display device to meet the usage requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: IRIS OPTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Chang Liao, Cheng-Hung Yao, Chieh-Chao Ho
  • Patent number: 11699708
    Abstract: A sub-pixel structure includes: a first functional layer and a second functional layer which are oppositely arranged, a conductive structure therebetween, and a plurality of electrodes on at least one side of the first functional layer. The first functional layer includes an insulating region, the second functional layer includes a target light-shielding region and a target light-transmitting region, orthographic projections of both the conductive structure and the target light-transmitting region on the first functional layer are partial regions of the insulating region, and orthographic projections of the plurality of electrodes on the first functional layer are outside the insulating region; and the conductive structure is configured to move in the insulating region under the action of voltages loaded on the plurality of electrodes to adjust a luminous flux of light emitted from the target light-transmitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Aojun Bai
  • Patent number: 11699407
    Abstract: A display device driving method and the display device are provided. The display device driving method determines a driving voltage value of each backlight unit based on a content to be displayed by a display unit corresponding to each backlight unit, achieving dynamic adjustment of luminous brightness of the backlight unit according to the display content of the corresponding display unit. Meanwhile, the driving voltage value is related to a noise in an image. Therefore, a better backlight brightness value can be obtained by reducing an influence of the noise on the adjustment of the luminous brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Zhang, Dan Cao, Tao He
  • Patent number: 11688340
    Abstract: A gamma debugging method and a gamma debugging apparatus are provided. The gamma debugging method includes: selecting a test display region in a first display region, performing gamma debugging on test sub-pixels to obtain a first gamma data set; controlling all sub-pixels in the test display region and all sub-pixels in a second display region to emit light, and detecting a target luminance and a target chrominance of the test display region that correspond to a corresponding grayscale; performing gamma debugging on the second display region to obtain a second gamma data set; obtaining, based on the second gamma data set, the first gamma data set and the predetermined gamma data set, a third gamma data set applied to the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanzhang Zhu, Guoqiang Wu, Ting Han
  • Patent number: 11678542
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a first transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a first node, a second transistor including a gate receiving a first scan signal, a third transistor including a gate receiving the first scan signal, a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a second scan signal, a fifth transistor including a gate receiving the second scan signal, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving a third scan signal, a seventh transistor including a gate receiving an emission signal, a first capacitor including a first electrode coupled to a line of a first power supply voltage and a second electrode coupled to a second node, a second capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the second node and a second electrode coupled to the first node, and the OLED including an anode and a cathode coupled to a second power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeon Kyoo Kim