Patents Examined by Van N Chow
  • Patent number: 11386844
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting device and a pixel circuit coupled to the light emitting device; a scan driver which supplies a scan signal to the pixel circuit; a data driver which supplies a data signal to the pixel circuit; a power supply which supplies a voltage to the pixel circuit; a timing controller which controls the scan driver; a first signal generator which provides a first clock signal to the timing controller; and a second signal generator which provides a second clock signal to the timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyeon Jeon, Joon Chul Goh, Jin Wook Yang, Ki Hong Song
  • Patent number: 11360360
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel including a substrate, first pads, second pads, third pads, an integrated circuit chip, and a flexible printed circuit board. The substrate includes a display region and a non-display region. The first pads are disposed in the non-display region and include display signal pads used for transmitting display signals. The second pads are disposed in the non-display region, at least a portion of the second pads are disposed along a first direction, and the second pads are disposed closer to an edge of the substrate than the first pads. The third pads are disposed in the non-display region and along the first direction, and the third pads are electrically connected to the corresponding second pads. The integrated circuit chip covers and is electrically connected to the first pads and the second pads. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected to the third pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Yen Yeh, I-Hsuan Chen, Guang-Shiung Chao, Mu-Kai Kang
  • Patent number: 11361732
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a generation unit and a display unit. The generation unit is configured to generate display images one by one from pieces of image data. The display unit is configured to display the display images generated by the generation unit as a list of the pieces of image data. Before generation of a first display image which the generation unit has started to generate using first image data is completed, the generation unit starts to generate a second display image using second image data, according to a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chie Ito
  • Patent number: 11340743
    Abstract: A touch panel includes an array of touch electrode cells, each touch electrode cell including portions of a plurality of touch electrodes, such as portions of intersecting row and column touch electrodes that include a patterned conductive material. In some examples, the area of patterned conductive material per unit area can be different for different touch electrode cells of the touch panel. For example, the touch panel can include touch electrode cells with increased pattern densities at locations where the overall area of the touch electrode cell may be less than the overall area of other touch electrode cells in the touch panel, such as at corners, notches, perforations, and/or edges of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Arash Akhavan Fomani
  • Patent number: 11335287
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a driving method for a display panel, and a display device. The driving method for the display panel includes a first column of pixels and a second column of pixels. When charging the second column of pixels corresponding to a 2nth row of scanning lines, the second column of pixels corresponding to a (2n+4)th row of scanning lines is pre-charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongyan Chang
  • Patent number: 11322112
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of display elements, a first light source that emits first illumination light, a second light source that emits second illumination light, a signal synthesizing unit configured to generate a mixed image signal based on an input signal, a pixel control unit configured to, based on the mixed image signal, control a voltage applied to the display elements, and a light source control unit configured to control the first and second light sources. During period in which the second illumination light is emitted, the pixel control unit is configured to control a voltage applied to some display elements of the plurality of display elements according to signal value of the input signal and at same time, regardless of signal value of the input signal, set a voltage applied to some other display elements of the plurality of display elements to a constant value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuki Nakajima, Takeshi Makabe
  • Patent number: 11320950
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display member including a plurality of display elements and a sensing member including a first sensing pattern disposed on the display member and a second sensing pattern disposed on the display member and capacitively coupled to the first sensing pattern. Each of the first and second sensing patterns includes a plurality of mesh lines to define a plurality of openings. Each of the first and second sensing patterns includes a unit mesh pattern including a central opening and a plurality of peripheral openings surrounding the central opening. A plurality of cutting lines, each of which opens at least two adjacent openings of the plurality of peripheral openings to each other, are defined in the unit mesh pattern. The cutting lines are arranged in a direction surrounding the central opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hyunjae Na, Jaseung Ku, Gyeongnam Bang, Sangwon Lee
  • Patent number: 11315500
    Abstract: A display device system circuit and a display device are provided. The display device system circuit includes a power supply, a plurality of functional circuit modules and a plurality of ground wires corresponding to the plurality of functional circuit modules, respectively. Operating current input ends of the plurality of functional circuit modules are electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power supply, respectively. An operating current output end of each of the functional circuit modules is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power supply via a corresponding ground wire. The functional circuit modules will not be interfered with each other, avoiding causing abnormal displaying by signal coupling between the functional circuit modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianfeng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11308888
    Abstract: A pixel scan drive circuit including a switch unit, a pull-up output unit and a pull-down output unit is provided. In a scan signal output phase of a scanning cycle, the pull-down output unit outputs a first reference voltage in a scan signal to an output end according to a clock signal. In a maintenance phase of the scanning cycle, the switch unit controls the voltage of a pull-down node according to a switch control signal, thereby controlling the pull-down output unit to stop outputting the first reference voltage. In the maintenance phase, the pull-up output unit outputs a second reference voltage in the scan signal. The second reference voltage controls the pixel units to stop receiving the image data. Transistors in the switch unit are of different types from transistors in the pull-up output unit and the pull-down output unit. An array substrate and a display terminal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ze Yuan, Jiahao Kang, Shaowen Wang, Yao Yan
  • Patent number: 11308846
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a camera that captures images of objects that are illuminated by ambient light. Some ambient light sources may not render the colors of objects faithfully. To detect low quality ambient lighting conditions and to correct for these conditions, control circuitry in the electronic device gathers ambient light measurements from a color ambient light sensor. The measurements are used to produce an ambient light spectral power distribution. The ambient light spectral power distribution can be applied to a series of test color samples to produce responses. Responses can also be produced by applying a reference illuminant to the test color samples. These responses can then be processed to generate a color rendering index or other color rendering metric for the ambient light and can be used to create a color correction matrix to correct the color of the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Chieh Hung, Zhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11302271
    Abstract: A method for driving display panel and a driving device are disclosed. A transition period is inserted between displaying two neighboring frames, pixels in the nth row to the Nth row of the display panel are switched on simultaneously in the transition period, and a voltage with the highest grayscale is applied to the pixels which are switched on. This is equivalent to turning the grayscale of pixels in the nth row to the Nth row into the highest grayscale after displaying a frame and before displaying a next frame. This can improve the response time of pixels in the nth row to the Nth row during displaying the next frame, and thus can increase the display quality of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingyun Shi, Dong Chen, Guangquan Wang
  • Patent number: 11302254
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit compensation method and device, and a display device. The method includes: when the display panel is in a preset display state, sensing a preset mobility compensation value corresponding to a driving transistor in the pixel circuit; according to the preset mobility compensation value, adjusting an initial mobility compensation value corresponding to the driving transistor to a target mobility compensation value, wherein a difference between the target mobility compensation value and the preset mobility compensation value is less than a threshold; based on the target mobility compensation value, when the display panel is in a non-display state, compensating a mobility of the driving transistor in a preset compensation manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Cao, Song Meng, Min He
  • Patent number: 11282467
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit and a source driving circuit. The display panel includes multiple sub-pixels arranged in multiple rows and multiple columns. Three first sub-pixels of the sub-pixels have different colors and constitute one pixel. The first sub-pixels are disposed in the same column. The gate driving circuit is electrically connected to multiple gate lines. The number of the gate lines is less than the number of the rows. Each of the gate lines corresponds to at least two of the rows. Each of the gate lines is electrically connected to at least two of the sub-pixels in each of the columns. The source driving circuit is electrically connected to multiple data lines. The number of the data lines is greater than the number of the columns. Each of the columns corresponds to at least two of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi-Ping Tu, Ming-Hung Weng, Cheng-Che Tsai, Yao-Chieh Li
  • Patent number: 11281336
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optical imaging are disclosed. An optical sensor includes: an image sensor array comprising a plurality of pixels; and a collimator filter disposed above the image sensor array, the collimator filter comprising a plurality of light collimating apertures and light blocking material, wherein multiple light collimating apertures of the plurality of light collimating apertures are disposed within a photosensitive area of one of the pixels in the plurality of pixels, and wherein the multiple light collimating apertures are disposed over different portions of the photosensitive area of the one of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: WILL SEMICONDUCTOR (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Klenkler, Arash Akhavan Fomani, Marek Mienko
  • Patent number: 11276341
    Abstract: A display driving apparatus includes a first bias circuit configured to provide a first bias current; a second bias circuit configured to provide a second bias current; a selection circuit configured to select and output the first bias current as a bias current during a first period in which a change in a driving current occurs, and select and output the second bias current as the bias current during a second period from after the first period to until a next change in the driving current occurs; and an output buffer configured to drive a first input current or a second input current by the bias current, and output the driving current for driving a panel, in correspondence to the first input current or the second input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Taiming Piao
  • Patent number: 11269418
    Abstract: A proximity selection feature of a content creation and consumption application for selecting proximate content displayed by a computing device is described. The content application can initiate a selection mode in response to receiving, for example, a command to enter the selection mode or a defined gesture. The content application can identify an origination point and surface a two-dimensional selection shape anchored to the origination point. The selection shape may form an original capture area. The origination point is a location on a user interface where the selection shape is to be surfaced, anchored to, and have a capture area expanded from. After surfacing the selection shape, the content application can receive indicia of expansion, and based on the indicia of expansion, expand the selection shape from its original capture area to an expanded capture area to capture content proximate the original capture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lisa C. Cherian, Nassr Albahadly, ArunKumar Narayanan Kotiedath
  • Patent number: 11257455
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit and a display panel are provided. The gate drive circuit includes N clock signal lines and a plurality of gate drive units. Each of the gate drive units is connected to at least one of the clock signal lines. Each of the clock signal lines is provided with a capacitance compensation unit, a sum of an area of any one of the clock signal lines and an area of the capacitance compensation unit provided on the same clock signal line is equal to a predetermined area, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jue Xiong, Ilgon Kim, Bin Zhao, Xin Zhang, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11250798
    Abstract: A display driving method includes: determining, by a timing controller, an actual grayscale value of a sub-pixel image in an X-th row and a Y-th column according to a preset grayscale value of a sub-pixel image in an (X?1)-th row and the Y-th column and a preset grayscale value of the sub-pixel image in the X-th row and the Y-th column of an image frame to be displayed. The image frame to be displayed includes J rows and Q columns of sub-pixel images. X is greater than or equal to 2, and is less than or equal to J. Y is greater than or equal to 1, and is less than or equal to Q, and X, Y, J, and Q are all integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Liugang Zhou, Jingang Liu, Ke Dai, Xiaofeng Yin, Jianwei Sun, Liu He, Zhenlin Qu, Qing Li, Yunyun Liang, Yulong Xiong, Yu Quan
  • Patent number: 11250801
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display drive method and a display device, where the display drive method includes the following operations: in response to a scan signal on a scan line connected to a pixel being converted from an off-level to a first on-level at a first time point, in a determination that a data signal on a data line connected to the pixel is inverted from a first polarity to a second polarity, controlling the scan signal to be at a second on-level in a pre-charging duration before the first time point to pre-charge the pixel by the data signal, wherein the data signal is in the second polarity in the pre-charging duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Yanna Yang
  • Patent number: 11250756
    Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, and a first connecting line, a second connecting line, a first GOA circuit, and a second GOA circuit disposed on the substrate. The first GOA circuit is disposed opposite to the second GOA circuit, and a first single-sided driving area and a second single-sided driving area are sequentially disposed between the first GOA circuit and the second GOA circuit. The first connecting line is disposed in the first single-sided driving area and connected to an input terminal of the first GOA circuit, and the second connecting line is disposed in the second single-sided driving area and connected to an input terminal of the second GOA circuit. The present disclosure can prevent screen tearing which is caused by single-sided driving when performing an aging test, and improve a yield of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rui Xiong