Patents Examined by Sujit Shah
  • Patent number: 11217128
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area around the display area; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other on the substrate at the display area; a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines; and a test circuit portion on the substrate at the non-display area, the test circuit portion connected to the plurality of data lines. The test circuit portion includes: a lighting test signal line which applies a lighting signal to each of the plurality of data lines; and a crack detection circuit line connected between the plurality of data lines and the lighting test signal line. The crack detection circuit line includes a plurality of signal lines connected to different data lines among the plurality of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwangchul Jung, Jaeyoon Jung, Joungpyo Park, Boogyo Shin, Hyunsuk Yang
  • Patent number: 11215860
    Abstract: A display panel and a touch display device are provided. The display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate, a planarization layer, and a through hole. The through hole exposes a source/drain electrode of the thin film transistor substrate. A first intermediate layer, a metal wire layer, a second intermediate layer, a first common electrode layer, a first passivation layer, and a first pixel electrode layer are stacked on each other and arranged corresponding to the source/drain electrode at one side of the through hole. A second common electrode layer, a second passivation layer, and a second pixel electrode layer are stacked on each other at another side of the through hole. The first common electrode layer is electrically connected to the metal wire layer, and the first pixel electrode layer is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode layer through and along the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Bangrong Li
  • Patent number: 11205385
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a plurality of sense lines. The pixel driving circuits are capable of being divided into a plurality of rows of pixel driving circuits each arranged in a first direction and divided into a plurality of columns of pixel driving circuit each arranged in a second direction intersected with the first direction. Each pixel driving circuit includes a detection transistor. The sense lines are arranged at intervals and extending along the second direction, and are configured to provide reference voltage signals to the plurality of pixel driving circuits. Each detection transistor is electrically connected to one of the plurality of sense lines, and in pixel driving circuits in a same column, detection transistors in any two adjacent rows are electrically connected to different sense lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11194361
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display module including a display panel for displaying an image; and a housing module for housing the display module therein, wherein the housing module has a front opening defined therein corresponding to a portion of a display region of the display panel, in a stored mode in which an entirety of the display module is housed in the housing module, the portion of the display region is exposed to an outside of the housing module through the front opening, so that the display module displays Always On Display (AOD) data in the portion of the display region corresponding to the front opening, thus to implement an AOD function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokhyo Cho, Yongjoon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11188183
    Abstract: A sense unit for inductive sensing or capacitive sensing is described. The sense unit may include a first terminal coupled to a first node, a first electrode coupled to the first node, and a second terminal. The sense unit may include a second electrode coupled to the second terminal. In a first mode, a first signal is received at the first terminal and a second signal is output on the second terminal, where the second signal may be representative of a capacitance of the sense unit. The sense unit may include an inductive coil. The sense unit may include a first capacitor. The inductive coil and the first capacitor are coupled in parallel between the first node and ground. In a second mode, a third signal is received at the first terminal and a fourth signal is output on the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Unseld, Cathal O'Lionaird, Paul M. Walsh, Oleksandr Hoshtanar
  • Patent number: 11181741
    Abstract: A method to suppress a rainbow effect and an optical device thereof are provided. The method includes receiving, by a dimming element, a light from a real world. The method further includes attenuating, by the dimming element, an intensity of the light with a degree of attenuation growing with an incidence angle. The dimming element includes a liquid crystal (LC) dimming element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Oleg Yaroshchuk, Barry David Silverstein, Alireza Moheghi
  • Patent number: 11170689
    Abstract: A source driver includes a gamma voltage generation circuit. The gamma voltage generation circuit generates a gamma voltage and varies a gamma voltage based on a drive frequency. A data voltage generation circuit generates a data voltage based on the gamma voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Seung Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11164537
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure propose a booster circuit and a method for driving the same, a shutdown circuit and a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huiming Wang, Jing Ma, Rongcheng Liu, Xiuqin Yang, Peng Zhao, Yanwei Lv
  • Patent number: 11157108
    Abstract: An exemplary touch-sensitive array for optimized edge detection includes a first electrode structure having opposing first and second ends and including: a first transmit (TX) electrode pair at the first end of the first electrode structure, a plurality of core TX electrodes disposed between the first and second ends of the first electrode structure, and a second TX electrode pair at the second end of the first electrode structure. The touch-sensitive array further includes a second electrode structure having opposing first and second ends and including: a first receive (RX) electrode pair at the first end of the second electrode structure and including a first plurality of connection members, a plurality of core RX electrodes disposed between the first and second ends of the second electrode structure, and a second RX electrode pair at the second end of the second electrode structure and including a second plurality of connection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Howard Wang, Leeson Li
  • Patent number: 11148510
    Abstract: A shading device comprises: a shading member formed using a dimming glass plate capable of changing light transmittance, the shading member having a plate shape; a display apparatus being capable of transmitting light and disposed on a surface of the shading member, the surface being to face an operator during use of the shading member, in such a manner that a display portion faces the operator; an image pickup device to pick up, as an image, a region which an opposite surface of the surface faces, and generate image pickup data; a data processing circuit to generate display image data to be displayed on the display portion during use of the shading member, based on the image pickup data generated by the image pickup device; and a switch to change light transmittance of the dimming glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11140317
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor electrically connected with the display and a memory and configured to use a first content in a 3-dimensional (3D) space in response to executing the first content, render an area corresponding to a field of view (FOV), and store information relating to the FOV in the memory as metadata of the first content in response to a specified event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jung Hee Lee, Yong Joon Jeon, Eun Jung Hyun
  • Patent number: 11120722
    Abstract: A data transmission method applied in a display, which includes a display panel, is provided. The data transmission method includes the following steps of: providing a host controller and n display drivers, n is a natural number greater than 1; providing a communication link under mobile industry processor interface (MIPI), connecting the host controller to the n display drivers; determining n virtual channel values Vc1-Vcn corresponding to the respective n display drivers; employing the host controller for providing a command with a virtual channel parameter through the communication link under MIPI; when the virtual channel parameter corresponds to an ith virtual channel values Vci, an ith display driver executing corresponding operations in response to the command, while the rest n?1 display drivers ignoring the command, wherein i is a natural number smaller than or equal to n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Chuan Chang-Chian, Chun-Yi Chou, Wing-Kai Tang, Ching-Chun Lin, Chih-Wei Tang
  • Patent number: 11084358
    Abstract: A shading device comprises: a shading member formed using a dimming glass plate capable of changing light transmittance, the shading member having a plate shape; a display apparatus being capable of transmitting light and disposed on a surface of the shading member, the surface being to face an operator during use of the shading member, in such a manner that a display portion faces the operator; an image pickup device to pick up, as an image, a region which an opposite surface of the surface faces, and generate image pickup data; a data processing circuit to generate display image data to be displayed on the display portion during use of the shading member, based on the image pickup data generated by the image pickup device; and a switch to change light transmittance of the dimming glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11079620
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing the display area of an electronic display of an article include maximizing the contiguous area of the display, on one or more surfaces of the article, on which text or images may be presented to a user, and/or to minimize the area of a border of the display that is viewable to the user. Optimization techniques may include bending portions of the display, and/or minimizing the footprint of the display border by particularly configuring the electrical connections to the display elements. These optimization techniques may be applied to rigid electronic displays, to statically-flexed displays, or to dynamically flexible displays, as well as to other rigid, statically-flexed, or dynamically flexible electronic sheets of individual electronic elements, such as lighting arrays, solar cell arrays, sensor arrays, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FLEXTERRA, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Inagaki, Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema
  • Patent number: 11075255
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a display region, and the display region includes a first group of pixels, a second group of pixels, a third group of pixels, a fourth group of pixels, a first scan line, a second scan line, a first signal line, and a second signal line. The first group of pixels include a first pixel and are arranged in a row direction. The second group of pixels include a second pixel and are arranged in the row direction. The third group of pixels include a first pixel and are arranged in a column direction that intersects the row direction. The fourth group of pixels include a second pixel and are arranged in the column direction. The first signal line is electrically connected to the third group of pixels and the second signal line is electrically connected to the fourth group of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi, Hideaki Shishido, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11068023
    Abstract: Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including an accessory coupling system to couple at least one accessory to at least one computing device case portion wherein the accessory coupling system includes at least one connection portion being affixed with the computing device case portion; and an engagement component, which includes at least one engagement projection being couplable with the at least one connection portion affixed with the computing device case portion. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER SQUARE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Megan Elizabeth Zumel Manzano, Michael Cooper Ferren, Brian Lewis Piper
  • Patent number: 11062667
    Abstract: A display device that achieves both high-accuracy sensing by a touch sensor unit and smooth input using the touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs touch sensing operation at a different timing from display image rewriting by the display unit, whereby the high-accuracy sensing can be achieved. The display unit has a function of rewriting a display image only in a region that needs to be rewritten. In the case where the entire display region is not necessarily rewritten, the time for the sensing operation by the touch sensor unit can be lengthened, whereby the smooth input can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11056041
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11024228
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: an initialization sub-circuit, configured to initialize a drive sub-circuit; a data write and compensation sub-circuit, configured to perform threshold voltage compensation on the drive sub-circuit; the drive sub-circuit, configured to output a signal of a second voltage terminal to a light-emitting sub-circuit; the light-emitting sub-circuit, configured to under control of the enable signal terminal input a signal of a first voltage terminal to the drive sub-circuit to control the drive sub-circuit to be turned on, and emit light under control of the enable signal terminal and a third voltage terminal; a leakage-current eliminating sub-circuit, configured to under the control of the enable signal terminal cause the initialization sub-circuit to output no signal to an initial voltage terminal when the initialization sub-circuit is in a turn-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 11023002
    Abstract: Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including a stylus coupling assembly, which includes a stylus retention component being couplable with a stylus-shaped computer input device and also includes an engagement component being couplable with the stylus retention component and also being couplable with a computing device case portion. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER SQUARE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Megan Elizabeth Zumel Manzano, Michael Cooper Ferren, Brian Lewis Piper