Patents Examined by Tom V. Sheng
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Patent number: 11763748Abstract: A control circuit of a pixel-addressable display corrects a brightness of a pixel element of a pixel circuit of the display based on a curvature of a curvable area of the display. The control circuit selectively applies data line voltages to the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit applies a driving voltage to the pixel element based on the data line voltages.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Dehuei Chen, Ann Alejandro Villegas
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Patent number: 11763750Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a drive circuit, a display device, and a drive method for reducing power consumption. A drive circuit of the present invention includes a setting circuit configured to precharge, to a first voltage, a video signal line connected to a first transistor configured to sample a voltage of the video signal line, and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust a voltage of the video signal line by charging or discharging the video signal line precharged to the first voltage during a time period corresponding to a second voltage set in the video signal line.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Kouichi Hashikaki
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Patent number: 11756485Abstract: An emission driver includes stages outputting an emission control signal. At least one of the stages includes an input circuit controlling voltages of a first node and a second node, an output circuit supplying a voltage of first power or a voltage of second power to an output terminal as the emission control signal in response to a voltage of a third node and a voltage of a fourth node, a first signal processor controlling the voltage of the fourth node, a second signal processor controlling the voltage of the fourth node, and a third signal processor controlling the voltage of the third node electrically connected to the first node in response to signals supplied to the second input terminal and the third input terminal and the voltage of the first node.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LtdInventor: Ji Su Na
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Patent number: 11755075Abstract: An electronic device according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include: a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing, and configured to move in a first direction from a first position to a second position or in a second direction opposite the first direction between the first position at least in part accommodated in the first housing and the second position protruding from the first housing, a driving unit comprising a driving motor configured to move the second housing in the first direction or the second direction, a first sensor configured to detect a position of the second housing, at least one processor operably coupled with the driving unit and the first sensor, and a memory operably coupled with the at least one processor, wherein the memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: detect an input for moving the second housing in the first direction, control the driving unit to drive the driving unit for a first time to move the sType: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Juyeol Park
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Patent number: 11749201Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a circuit and method for acquiring voltages, and belongs to the field of display technologies. The display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of sensing lines, each of the sub-pixels being connected to one of the sensing lines; a reference voltage providing circuit configured to provide a reference voltage; a sampling circuit electrically connected to the sensing lines and the reference voltage providing circuit, respectively, and configured to acquire a voltage on each sensing line to obtain a first sampling value, and acquire the reference voltage provided by the reference voltage providing circuit to obtain a second sampling value; and a processing circuit electrically connected to the sampling circuit, and configured to correct the first sampling value based on the second sampling value and the reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Taejin Kim, Wenchao Bao
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Patent number: 11747901Abstract: A virtual reality system enables a user to interact with virtual objects. The system includes a fiducial ring, an imaging device and a console. The fiducial ring includes a ring body that includes a plurality of fiducial markers that each correspond to a different location on the ring body. An imaging device is configured to capture one or more images of the fiducial ring. The console receives the images that include an image of one or more fiducial markers. Based on the received images of the fiducial markers, the console determines a location on the fiducial ring that corresponds to the imaged fiducial marker. The console determines a position of the fiducial ring based on the determined location of the fiducial marker on the fiducial ring. The console provides content to a head mounted display (HMD) based on the determined position of the fiducial ring.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Sean Jason Keller, David R. Perek, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Garett Andrew Ochs, Nicholas Roy Corson, Raymond King
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Patent number: 11741908Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit on a substrate, a data line to transmit a data signal for the pixel circuit on the substrate, a power supply line, and an extra voltage supply line different from the power supply line and the data line. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor to control an amount of electric current supplied to a light-emitting element, a storage capacitor between a gate terminal of the driving transistor and the power supply line, a first switching transistor between the light-emitting element and the driving transistor, a second switching transistor between a source terminal of the driving transistor and the data line, and a third switching transistor between the source terminal of the driving transistor and the extra voltage supply line. The third switching transistor supplies a signal voltage different from the data signal to the driving transistor from the extra voltage supply line.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Genshiro Kawachi, Masamichi Shimoda, Yoshihiro Nonaka, Jiro Yanase
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Patent number: 11741867Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub pixels, a deterioration compensating unit configured to compensate for a deteriorated sub pixel based on a sensing voltage inputted from the display panel and dimming the plurality of sub pixels responsive to the compensation, and a memory configured to store a lookup table, the lookup table including gain, deterioration compensating timing, and target luminance.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Won-Hee Lee
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Patent number: 11735114Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a first reset module, a drive transistor, and a light-emitting module. The data write module is configured to apply a constant first voltage signal inputted from a data signal terminal to a first electrode of the drive transistor at a first reset stage; the first reset module is configured to apply a reset voltage signal inputted from a reset signal terminal to a gate of the drive transistor at the first reset stage; and the data write module is configured to apply a data voltage signal inputted from the data signal terminal to the gate of the drive transistor at a data write stage.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., LtdInventor: Dongfang Zhao
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Patent number: 11735113Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a method of driving the same, and a display device. In the pixel driving circuit, under the control of a gate line, a data writing-in sub-circuit controls to connect or disconnect a data line and a first common node, and controls to connect or disconnect the first common node and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; under the control of a reset signal line, a first reset control sub-circuit controls to connect or disconnect a reference voltage input terminal and a second common node, and controls to connect or disconnect the second common node and the gate electrode of the driving transistor; a first end of a third capacitor unit is connected to the first common node and/or the second common node, and a second end of the third capacitor unit is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tian Dong
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Patent number: 11735092Abstract: A display device includes first pixels partitioned into a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks being categorized as a first block or a second block, a sensor configured to generate first sensing data for at least two of the first pixels in each of the plurality of blocks during a first period, and a sensing controller configured to generate interpolated data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor by interpolating the first sensing data, for the first block, and configured to forgo interpolation of the first sensing data, for the second block. The sensor generates second sensing data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor, for the second block, during a second period after the first period.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su Min Yang, Wook Lee, Hye Ji Kim, Ki Hyun Pyun
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Patent number: 11726577Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: eyeSight Mobile Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Itay Katz
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Patent number: 11721287Abstract: Provided are a photoelectric detection circuit and a driving method thereof, a display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The photoelectric detection circuit includes: a first reset sub-circuit, a second reset sub-circuit, a first storage sub-circuit, a data read sub-circuit and a photosensitive device. A first terminal of the data read sub-circuit, a first terminal of the first storage sub-circuit, a first electrode of the photosensitive device and a first terminal of the first reset sub-circuit are connected to a first node. A second electrode of the photosensitive device is connected to a common voltage line. The data read sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage of the first node to a data read line in response to a signal of a scan line. The first reset sub-circuit is configured to reset the voltage of the first node.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenyu Zhang, Li Xiao, Dongni Liu, Liang Chen, Hao Chen, Haoliang Zheng, Minghua Xuan, Jiao Zhao
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Patent number: 11721286Abstract: The pixel circuit of the present disclosure includes: a light emitting module configured to emit light; a driving module configured to drive the light emitting module to emit light according to a driving voltage during a light emitting stage; a storage module configured to maintain and provide the driving voltage to the driving module during the light emitting stage; a first transistor, a first electrode of the first transistor being connected to a position where the driving module receives the driving voltage, and a second electrode of the first transistor being not directly connected to a signal source; a second transistor, a first electrode of the second transistor being connected to the first electrode of the first transistor, wherein a structure to which a second electrode of the second transistor is connected is different from a structure to which the second electrode of the first transistor is connected.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Miao Wang, Dan Cao
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Patent number: 11710452Abstract: A pixel circuit, is provided, including: a light-emitting element, a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, an on-off control circuit, a first initialization circuit and an energy storage circuit; the data writing circuit writes a data voltage into a third node under control of a first gate driving signal; the on-off control circuit controls communication between a first node and the third node under the control of the first gate driving signal; the first initialization circuit controls writing an initialization voltage into the first node under the control of the first gate driving signal; and a type of a transistor included in the first initialization circuit is different from a type of a driving transistor included in the driving circuit, and a type of a transistor included in the data writing circuit is different from the type of the driving transistor of the driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi
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Patent number: 11704088Abstract: Intelligent control method and device, and electronic device are provided. The method includes transmitting display data and audio data in real time for a projection device through a data channel connected to the projection device; monitoring a state of the data channel and an output state of the audio data on the projection device; and controlling the audio data transmitted in real time to be switched to a playback device for output if the state of the data channel is a connected state and the output state of the audio data on the projection device is an ineffective output state.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Li, Liang Zhang
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Patent number: 11694627Abstract: A scan driver includes stages, each of the stages receiving first and second clock signals having a first low level as an active level, and a third clock signal having a high level as the active level. Each of the stages includes a logic circuit that changes a voltage of a first node to the first low level based on an input signal and the first clock signal, and changes a voltage of the first node to a second low level lower than the first low level based on the second clock signal, a first output buffer that outputs, as an active-low scan signal, the second clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node, and a second output buffer that outputs, as an active-high scan signal, the third clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun Joon Kim
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Patent number: 11694624Abstract: A pixel compensation device includes a controller and at least one external compensation circuit. In the external compensation circuit, a first input circuit is configured to transmit a first voltage to a first terminal of a driving sub-circuit in a initialization phase, perform blanking in a pre-storage phase, and transmit a threshold compensation voltage to the first terminal in the data compensation writing phase; a second input circuit is configured to transmit a second voltage to a control terminal of the driving sub-circuit in the initialization phase and the pre-storage phase, so that a voltage of the first terminal changes from the first voltage to the threshold compensation voltage in the pre-storage phase; a sensing circuit is configured to sense the threshold compensation voltage in the data compensation writing phase; and the controller is configured to transmit a data voltage to the control terminal in the data compensation writing phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Tangxiang Wang, Fei Yang, Yu Wang
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Patent number: 11688348Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor and a storage capacitor; a first reset sub-circuit configured to transmit an initialization signal to a third node under control of at least a first reset signal; a writing sub-circuit configured to transmit the initialization signal to a first node under control of a first scanning signal, and write a data signal received at a data terminal to the first node and perform threshold voltage compensation on the driving transistor under control of the first scanning signal and a second scanning signal; a light-emitting device; and a light-emitting control sub-circuit configured to, under control of a first enable signal and a second enable signal, transmit a voltage signal of a first voltage terminal to a second node, and transmit a current output by the driving transistor to the light-emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Rui Wang, Haijun Qiu, Fei Shang, Ming Hu, Shaoru Li, Minho Ko
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Patent number: 11675457Abstract: A mobile device includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing, wherein the display unit includes a panel which has a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a touch input from a user, the panel having a first portion and a second portion with a transparency condition, and a sensing unit installed in the housing and disposed at a bottom of the panel to receive a user input through the panel, wherein the sensing unit includes a camera disposed to correspond to the second portion of the panel and to photograph a user through the second portion of the panel, and a sensing element to sense an object through the panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventor: Seungman Kim