Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
  • Patent number: 10777114
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the control integrated circuit includes a gate driver configured to selectively drive a plurality of gate lines associated with pixels in a display panel; a source driver configured to supply data to the display panel; and a controller configured to generate switch control signals for controlling a switch driver of the display panel, the switch driver for selectively supplying the data to a plurality of data lines. The controller is configured to control the gate driver and generate the switch control signals such that the plurality of gate lines are activated non-sequentially, and an order of pixels activated and associated with a same one of the plurality of data lines includes at least two pixels of a same color activated in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Bae Moon, Jeongpyo Kim, Kiho Kong, Jeehwal Kim
  • Patent number: 10777143
    Abstract: A gate driver includes a gate shift register in which an A block and a B block each having a plurality of stages, the A block and the B block being alternately arranged; scan clock lines inputting a first scan clock group and a second scan clock group each including both image data writing (IDW) scan clocks synchronized with an image write timing and black data insertion (BDI) scan clocks synchronized with a black write timing to the A block and the B block; and carry clock lines inputting carry clocks to the A block and the B block and sense clock lines inputting sense clocks to the A block and the B block, wherein each of the stages belonging to the A block and the B block includes a BDI memory storing a BDI carry signal for outputting the BDI scan clocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myungho Ban, Inhyo Han, Seok Noh, Kimin Son
  • Patent number: 10768705
    Abstract: A main body includes an input component that receives a load. A pressure-sensitive sensor detects the load received by the input component. A drive unit performs a predetermined operation. A drive controller activates the drive unit when the load detected by the pressure-sensitive sensor reaches a predetermined load threshold. A detection controller changes the predetermined load threshold in accordance with the rate of change in the load detected by the pressure-sensitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Masamoto, Hiroyuki Togawa, Sho Sonoda, Shogo Maenaka, Masaki Kitahashi
  • Patent number: 10763319
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display panel, a method for manufacturing the same, a display device and a displaying method. The display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor on the substrate, an insulating layer covering the substrate and the thin film transistor, a first electrode and a second electrode on the insulating layer and electrically insulated with each other, wherein an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the substrate does not overlap with an orthographic projection of the thin film transistor on the substrate, an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the thin film transistor on the substrate, a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the second electrode, and a third electrode and a fourth electrode on the light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinghua Zou, Ruhui Zhu, Gu Yao, Shupeng Guo, Litao Qu
  • Patent number: 10748500
    Abstract: The present application discloses a driving apparatus and method of a display panel. The apparatus includes a first driver circuit and a second driver circuit; each of the first driver circuit includes two first sub driver circuits, the two first sub driver circuits correspondingly connected to one first scan line and oppositely arranged on two ends of the first scan line, and the two first sub driver circuits jointly driving the first scan line; each of the second driver circuit includes two second sub driver circuits, the two second sub driver circuits correspondingly connected to one second scan line and oppositely arranged on two ends of the second scan line, and the two second sub driver circuits jointly driving the second scan line; and the two second sub driver circuits oppositely arranged on the two ends of the second scan line jointly drive the second scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Jianfeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10743425
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device which is capable of preventing an encapsulation film from being formed in a scribing line, and a method for manufacturing the same. The display device includes a substrate having a display area provided with pixels, a non-display area surrounding the display area, an encapsulation film including an inorganic film which covers the display area, and a buffer layer. The buffer layer is provided at a predetermined interval from the display area in the non-display area and is brought into contact with the edge of the inorganic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongchan Park, Hyunchul Um, JeeHwan Oh, HaeRi Huh
  • Patent number: 10664080
    Abstract: A touch panel, a touch detection method thereof, and a display device are provided. The touch panel includes an electrowetting substrate and a touch substrate which are disposed opposite to each other and a conductive fluid drop disposed between the electrowetting substrate and the touch substrate. The electrowetting substrate includes a first base substrate, a control electrode, and a first insulating layer; the conductive fluid drop is disposed at a side of the first insulating layer away from the control electrode, and corresponds to the control electrode; the touch substrate includes a second base substrate and a touch electrode unit disposed at a side of the second base substrate close to the electrowetting substrate; the touch electrode unit and the conductive fluid drop are disposed opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhixiao Yao, Ming Tian, Jiarong Liu, Xiaoyi Zheng
  • Patent number: 10656828
    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: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    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: 10657924
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and an operating method thereof. The display apparatus includes a control unit outputting a first signal and a display module coupled to the control unit. The display module continuously displays a first image in a first frame time based on the first signal, the first image has a first pattern, and a first ratio of an area of the first pattern to an area of the first image ranges from 5% to 30%. The first pattern at a first time point in the first frame time has a color located at a first coordinate position in a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, the first pattern at a second time point in the first frame time has another color located at a second coordinate position in the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, and the first coordinate position is different from the second coordinate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Kuo-Cheng Tung
  • Patent number: 10649214
    Abstract: An optical device, including a light waves-transmitting substrate has two major surfaces and edges, optical means for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, and a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces (22a, 22b) carried by the substrate. The partially reflecting surfaces (22a, 22b) are parallel to each other and are not parallel to any of the edges of the substrate, one or more of the partially reflecting surfaces (22a, 22b) being an anisotropic surface. The optical device has dual operational modes in see-through configuration. In a first mode, light waves are projected from a display source through the substrate to an eye of a viewer. In a second mode, the display source is shut off and only an external scene is viewable through the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventor: Yaakov Amitai
  • Patent number: 10649554
    Abstract: A pen configured for use with a touch sensor includes a pen tip that is configured to make contact with the touch sensor. The pen body includes an electrically conductive receiver portion and an electrically conductive emitter portion that is electrically insulated and electrostatically shielded from the receiver portion. The pen includes circuitry configured to receive a touch sensor drive signal applied to a drive electrode of the touch sensor through the receiver portion of the pen body. In response to the received signal, the pen circuitry generates a pen drive signal that is phase additive with the touch sensor drive signal and emits the pen drive signal through the emitter portion of the pen body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas J. Rebeschi, Craig A. Cordeiro, Bernard O. Geaghan
  • Patent number: 10650786
    Abstract: An automatically brightness adjusting electronic device and a brightness adjusting method are provided. The method comprises: sensing an environmental light intensity; generating a brightness adjustment signal according to the environmental light intensity via a second control unit; and adjusting a display brightness of a display unit according to the brightness adjustment signal via a first control unit or the second control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Hung Lin, Wei-Chung Hung, Huai-Hao Syu, Tzu-Ping Lin, Chia-Po Chou, Tsung-Lin Wu, Han-Wei Tang, Yi-Ching Chen, Chih-Lung Lin, Ping-Fu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10599230
    Abstract: A method for dynamically adjusting a backlit mode of a backlit keyboard, which is suitable for a host computer that is electrically connected to a keyboard, wherein the keyboard has a backlit module, and the method includes: obtaining a mode signal, and loading the common mode when the mode signal is indicated as a common mode configuring a file, or when the mode signal indicates a custom mode, detecting an application currently running by the host, wherein the application is in a foreground window, obtaining a custom profile corresponding to the application, and the backlit module is controlled to emit a light according to the common configuration file or the custom configuration file optionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KYE SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventor: Chi-Wai Chan
  • Patent number: 10586499
    Abstract: A color display device in which each pixel can display four high-quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture, wherein each type of particle has a different charge profile (polarity and magnitude) and a different optical characteristic. When driven with a two-step process, the particles of lower charge magnitude can be driven to the viewing surface while the particles with higher charge magnitude are not viewable at the viewing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Ming-Jen Chang
  • Patent number: 10586480
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for sensing a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a source driving circuit and a sensing circuit. The source driving circuit is coupled to data lines to drive the pixel circuits according to a display period comprising frame periods. The sensing circuit is coupled to a plurality of pixel circuits. The sensing circuit senses characteristics of the pixel circuits in the test data periods of the display period. The test data periods are periodically arranged in the display period. In each of the test data periods, a corresponding pixel circuit receives test data, and the sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the corresponding pixel circuit. In the scan-line periods of each of the frame periods, the corresponding pixel circuit receives display data from a corresponding data line, and the sensing circuit does not sense the corresponding pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Shang-I Liu, Hua-Gang Chang
  • Patent number: 10573219
    Abstract: A display driver includes a first digital-to-analog (D/A) converter circuit configured to convert upper-bit data of display data into a gradation voltage corresponding to the upper-bit data, a second digital-to-analog (D/A) converter circuit configured to output a reference voltage that is varied in accordance with lower-bit data of the display data, and an inverting amplifier circuit configured to amplify the gradation voltage with reference to the reference voltage and to drive a data line of an electro-optical panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 10564668
    Abstract: An electronic reading device includes an adjustable RGBW front light and an ambient light sensor. Additionally, the electronic reading device includes circuitry configured to receive a signal corresponding to a brightness level from the ambient light sensor, receive a signal corresponding to a current screen color temperature, calculate a predetermined mixture of light based on at least one of the brightness level or the current screen color temperature, Wherein the calculation allows the current screen color temperature to remain the same regardless of the brightness level, and display the predetermined mixture of light via the adjustable RGBW front light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: RAKUTEN KOBO, INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Hunter, Matt Clements, George Talusan, Paul McDougall, William Chaban, Zheng Xu, Steve Li, Jeffrey Ng Thow Hing
  • Patent number: 10566976
    Abstract: A complementary circuit, including a logic unit comprising pull-up depletion-mode MOS transistors and pull-down depletion-mode MOS transistors having a single channel type and a level shifting circuit coupled to the logic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • Patent number: 10548490
    Abstract: A physiological detection device including a light source, an image sensor and a processor is provided. The light source illuminates a skin surface using a burst mode. The image sensor receives ejected light from skin tissues under the skin surface at a sampling frequency to successively generate image frames. The processor controls the light source and the image sensor, and calculates a physiological characteristic according to the image frames captured when the light source is illuminating light. The physiological detection device reduces the total power consumption by adopting the burst mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ren-Hau Gu, Hsin-Chia Chen, Raman Sahgal, Jung-Tai Lin
  • Patent number: 10535294
    Abstract: A method and system control an OLED display to achieve desired color points and brightness levels in an array of pixels in which each pixel includes at least three sub-pixels having different colors and at least one white sub-pixel. The method and system select a plurality of reference points in the pixel content domain with known color points and brightness levels. For each set of three sub-pixels of different colors, the method and system determine the share of each sub-pixel to produce the color point and brightness level of each selected reference point, and select the maximum share determined for each sub-pixel as peak brightness needed from that sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Allyson Giannikouris, Jaimal Soni, Nino Zahirovic, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji