Patents Examined by Stephen A Bray
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Patent number: 9093038Abstract: A voltage stabilizer circuit for alternately or simultaneously stabilizing first and second generated voltages includes shared capacitor connected between the first and second generated voltages. The voltage stabilizer circuit may further include first and second switches for alternately connecting the first and second electrode of the shared capacitor to a ground. The alternation of the stabilized first and second voltages output by the voltage stabilizer circuit can be synchronized with a pixel polarity inversion mode signal output by the internal driver circuit of an LCD display.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung-hun Han, Jae-goo Lee
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Patent number: 8878825Abstract: Embodiments includes methods and systems for updating display devices at a variable refresh rate. One embodiment includes a method of updating an image displayed on a display device. The method includes setting an indicator to a first state that indicates that image data has been received subsequent to a previous update of a display device and periodically updating at least a portion of the display device to display the image. The updating is deferred for at least one period when the indicator is in a state other than the first state. In another embodiment, updates of the display are substantially asynchronous and occur as the processor writes data to one or more shift registers. When a shift register is filled, for example, having received data for a row within the display, the data in the shift register is written to the display. Other embodiments include methods of manufacturing such devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Manish Kothari, Clarence Chui, Gaurav Sethi, Jeffrey B. Sampsell
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Patent number: 8654085Abstract: A method performed by a device having a touch panel may include detecting a touch on the touch panel, determining a dimension of the touch, identifying the touch as a standard tap or a full tap based on the dimension of the touch, and generating a command signal based on the identifying of the touch as the standard tap or the full tap.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventor: Simon Lessing
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Patent number: 8619038Abstract: A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and one or both icons can change their visual appearance to indicate their selection status.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Bas Ording, Steven Jobs
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Patent number: 8605023Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed, in which an inversion method of an LCD panel is changed depending on a specific pattern of image data so as to improve picture quality of images displayed on the LCD panel. The apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an LCD panel displaying images, a polarity control signal generator comparing image data with pattern data previously stored for the unit of frame and generating a polarity control signal in accordance with the compared result, a data driver converting an inversion method in accordance with the polarity control signal and supplying the received image data to the LCD panel, a gate driver supplying scan pulses to the LCD panel, and a timing controller controlling the data driver and the gate driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Oh Hyun Lee, Woong Ki Min, Hyuk Jin Kim
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Patent number: 8581819Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a first data line, a second data line, a gate line, a pixel electrode and a reset electrode on the first substrate, the first data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, and a common electrode on the second substrate, during a first period of a frame, the pixel electrode and the reset electrode generating a horizontal electric field with respect to the substrates, and during a second period of the frame the common electrode and the pixel and reset electrodes generating a vertical electric field with respect to the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sang Ho Choi
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Patent number: 8462093Abstract: A IF inversion driving method writes signal voltage of the same polarity to a signal line over a 1F period, and therefore cannot prevent occurrence of crosstalk caused by coupling. Also, shading is caused. In an active matrix type liquid crystal display device including a pixel array unit 11 formed by two-dimensionally arranging pixels 20 in a form of a matrix, the pixel array unit 11 is divided into a plurality of areas (two areas 11A and 11B in a present example) in a vertical direction, while the plurality of areas being vertically scanned in order (alternately in the present example) in a unit of a row, pixels of the plurality of areas are selected in a unit of a row, and a video signal Vsig reversed in polarity in each H is written to the pixels of the selected row.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masakazu Kato, Hiroyuki Sakurai, Kohichi Ohmura
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Patent number: 8405962Abstract: An electro-optical apparatus including a display module and a touch panel is provided. The display module includes a body, at least a first positioning element, and at least a second positioning element. The body has a display surface and a bottom surface opposite to the display surface. The first positioning element and the second positioning element are connected to the body. The first positioning element is disposed on a first side of the body and the second positioning element is disposed on a second side of the body that is adjacent to the first side. The first positioning element and the second positioning element protrude from the display surface in a direction away from the bottom surface. The touch panel is disposed on the display surface of the body, and edges of the touch panel abut against the first positioning element and the second positioning element.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Chi-Cheng Cheng
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Patent number: 8373632Abstract: An apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an image display unit having liquid crystal cells in respective regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines; an over-driving apparatus to detect a signal of a moving image based on a source data and to detect modulated data based on the detected signal, the modulated data changes a response speed of a liquid crystal based on the detected signal; a gate driver to supply scan signals to the gate lines; a data driver to convert the modulated data into analog video signals and to supply the analog video signals to the data lines; and a timing controller to align the modulated data and to generate data control signal and gate control signal, the timing controller outputs the aligned data and the data control signal to the data driver and outputs the gate control signal to the gate driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eui Yeol Oh, Seong Gyun Kim, Nam Yong Kong
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Patent number: 8289263Abstract: There are provided a LED driving apparatus and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the same, in which a circuit configuration of the LED driving apparatus can be simplified and the cost of the LED driving apparatus can be saved in employing a LED as a light source of the liquid crystal display apparatus. The LED driving apparatus comprises a plurality of n LED lamps, constant voltage providing units that provide constant voltages to the plurality of LED lamps, respectively, a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control signal providing unit that provides PWM signals to the constant voltage providing units, respectively, and a feedback control unit that receives voltages feedbacked through the plurality of LED lamps, compensating for the voltages as constant voltages suitable for constant current driving of each of the LED lamps, and sequentially outputs the constant voltages to the constant voltage providing units, respectively, based on time-dividing.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seok Woo Lee, Byoung Chul Kim
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Patent number: 8284124Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes an organic light-emitting diode, a first transistor outputting a data voltage by an nth scan signal (n is a natural number), a second transistor providing a current to the organic light-emitting by the data voltage, a capacitor storing the data voltage, and a third transistor supplying the second transistor and the capacitor with a pre-charge voltage by an (n?1)th scan signal, the pre-charge voltage having an opposite polarity to the data voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Hyoung Kim, In-Hwan Kim, Seung-Chan Byun, Sang-Ho Yu
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Patent number: 8284137Abstract: An apparatus for driving a backlight includes: a pulse width modulation signal phase shifting unit that shifts phases of at least one of red, green, and blue pulse width signal modulation signals so as to output at least one of phase-shifted red, green, and blue pulse width signal modulation signals; red, green, and blue light emitting diode arrays, each of which includes a plurality of light emitting diodes; and at least one light emitting diode driving unit driving one of the red, green, and blue light emitting diode arrays by using one of the phase-shifted red, green, and blue pulse width signal modulation signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yeon-Taek Yoo
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Patent number: 8217865Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel array, a life control unit, a signal output unit, and a duty ratio transmission unit. The pixel array, including light-emitting elements constituting a screen, displays each frame of an image on the screen by emitting light having a luminance in accordance with a level of an image signal and continuously emits light from the screen within each frame for an amount of time specified by a duty ratio. The life control unit extends the life of the light-emitting elements by simultaneously adjusting the maximum permissible level of the image signal and the duty ratio. The signal output unit drives the screen to display an image by outputting an image signal adjusted within the maximum permissible level to the pixel array. The duty ratio transmission unit for enabling the screen to emit light for an amount of time specified transmitting an adjusted duty ratio to the pixel array.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Tada, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8154473Abstract: A display control system for a multi-layer display system including at least one multi-layer display unit (6). A multi-layer display unit includes multiple stacked or overlapped display layers (1a, 1b, 1c, 14, 15) each adapted to render display elements (2, 16B, 17B, 18B) thereon for viewing through the uppermost display layer. The level of difficulty for a user to view an overlapped image differs depending on the colour, brightness or type of images (for example text-on-text) being displayed and also the layer in which the image is being displayed and whether the image is currently active. At least any overlapping portion of display elements from different display layers are adjusted (automatically or by a user) in order to improve the viewing experience for a viewer. Types of adjustment possible include moving the images within their display layer or to an alternative display layer or altering their visual properties (such as colour, brightness, contrast etc).Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Pure Depth LimitedInventors: Gabriel Damon Engel, David John Ferguson, Hamish John Ogilvie MacLeod, Bruce David Seymour
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Patent number: 8144114Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, first and second pixel groups, a first gate line group comprising first gate lines connected to the pixels of the first pixel group, a second gate line group comprising second gate lines connected to the pixels of the second pixel group, a first data line group connected to the pixels of the first pixel group and comprising first data lines extending in a second direction, and a second data line group connected to the pixels of the second pixel group and comprising second data lines extending in the second direction. Each data line of the first data line group and each data line of the second data line group are connected to each other, and the first and second pixel groups are adjacent in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Jeon, Kee-Han Uh
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Patent number: 8144116Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a substrate, a partition wall disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a liquid layer, disposed in a container defined by the substrate and the partition wall, including electrophoretic particles and a dispersion medium. In addition, a first electrode is formed at a position apart from the partition wall on the substrate, a second electrode is formed along the partition wall, and a voltage applicator applies a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. At the surface of the substrate defining the container, a resistance layer electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode is formed, and the electrophoretic particles in the container are moved between a surface of the partition wall and a surface of the resistance layer to effect display.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kohei Nagayama
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Patent number: 8134582Abstract: A color display apparatus is of the type wherein a unit pixel is constituted by at least three subpixels including first to third subpixels, and at each subpixel, a medium for changing an optical property depending on a voltage applied thereto is disposed. The color display apparatus includes means for applying a voltage, to each of the first to third subpixels, for changing the optical property of the medium within a brightness change range in which light passing through the medium is changed in brightness and a hue change range in which the light passing through the medium assumes chromatic color and a hue of the chromatic color is changed while including combinations of red and green, red and blue, and green and blue for the first to third subpixels, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasufumi Asao, Kohei Nagayama, Ryuichiro Isobe, Hideo Mori, Hironao Tanaka, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Patent number: 8115720Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, a first printed circuit board attached to one side of the liquid crystal panel and including a mounted drive circuit configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel, a second printed circuit board including a mounted timing controller configured to supply a predetermined control signal and a predetermined data signal to the drive circuit and a mounted power supplying section configured to supply a predetermined voltage to the drive circuit, a flexible circuit board configured to supply the predetermined control signal, the predetermined data signal, and the predetermined voltage supplied from the second printed circuit board to the first printed circuit board, and a memory device mounted to the second printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sun Young Choi
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Patent number: 8111214Abstract: A control circuit for an electro luminescent display in which a flyback converter and an H-bridge are used to provide a high voltage alternating current to a capacitive load from a low voltage DC source. Each time the polarity of the capacitive load is reversed, the capacitive load discharges. This high voltage discharge is stored on a low voltage capacitor and subsequently used as an auxiliary power supply to power the switching elements of the control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2004Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Mflex UK LimitedInventor: Christopher James Newton Fryer
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Patent number: 8059113Abstract: A display includes a display circuit, a power module connected to the display circuit to supply power thereto, a display card chip, and a switch. The power module is connected to a power pin of the display card chip via the switch. A driving pin of the display card chip is connected to the display circuit and is able to control the display to display a white screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsiu-Chang Lai, Ming-Ke Chen, Ke Sun