Patents Examined by Vinh T Lam
  • Patent number: 11232728
    Abstract: A display panel and a crack detecting method, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region, the peripheral region being provided with a crack detection circuit structure, the crack detection circuit structure including a detection circuit wire and a first detection switching circuit, the display panel includes a first sub-pixel and a first data line electrically connected to the first sub-pixel, a first end of the first data line is electrically connected to a first end of the detection circuit, a second end of the first data line is electrically connected to a second end of the detection circuit wire through the first detection switching circuit and the second end of the detection circuit wire is configured to receive a detection voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Yong Qiao, Xinyin Wu
  • Patent number: 11217194
    Abstract: The array substrate comprises: a substrate including a first region, a second region, and a third region; a first metal layer is disposed on the substrate and forms a gate metal and a common line; a first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and the first metal layer; a second metal layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and forms a source/drain metal; a second insulating layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and the second metal layer; and a third metal layer is disposed on the second insulating layer and forms a voltage signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Suping Xi
  • Patent number: 11216096
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes: an array substrate; a pixel defining layer disposed on a side of the array substrate; a plurality of light-emitting layers correspondingly disposed in a plurality of sub-pixel regions defined by the pixel defining layer; a plurality of electrode dividing strips disposed on a side of the pixel defining layer away from the array substrate, the plurality of electrode dividing strips dividing a touch area of the touch display panel into a plurality of strip-shaped areas; and a divided electrode layer disposed on a side of the plurality of electrode dividing strips away from the array substrate and disposed in the plurality of strip-shaped areas. The divided electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrode strips correspondingly located in the strip-shaped areas and a plurality of second electrode strips correspondingly located on surfaces of the electrode dividing strips away from the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangdan Dong, Yunsheng Xiao, Tingliang Liu, Hongwei Ma
  • Patent number: 11216092
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a signal reception unit; a communication unit for communicating with a remote control device; a storage unit for storing sound data; a speaker; and a processor for playing a sound and outputting the same through the speaker when a specific remote control signal transmitted from the remote control device is received through the signal reception unit, wherein the processor receives, from the remote control device and through the communication unit, recording data in which the point in time, at which the sound is received by the remote control device, is recorded, thereby enabling the distance between the display device and the remote control device to be calculated on the basis of the recording data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-myung Hur, Dong-wook Kim, Seung-il Yoon, Kwan-young Kim, Hyun-kyu Yun
  • Patent number: 11211026
    Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. The display device includes a first circuit, a pixel, and a wiring. The first circuit has a function of supplying data to the wiring and a function of making the wiring floating to hold the data. The pixel has a function of taking in the data twice from the wiring and performing addition. The pixel can perform the first writing of the data in a period during which the data is supplied to the wiring, and can perform the second writing of the data in a period during which the data is held in the wiring. Therefore, by one time of data charging to a source line, a data potential larger than or equal to an output voltage of a source driver can be supplied to a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11211407
    Abstract: A display device includes a polycrystalline semiconductor including a channel, a first electrode, and a second electrode of a driving transistor, a first gate insulating layer, a gate electrode of a driving transistor, a first electrode of a boost capacitor, a second gate insulating layer, a first interlayer insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor including a channel, a first electrode, and a second electrode of a second transistor, a channel, a first electrode, and a second electrode of a third transistor, and a second electrode of a boost capacitor, a third gate insulating layer disposed on the oxide semiconductor, a gate electrode of the second transistor overlapping the channel of the second transistor, a gate electrode of the third transistor overlapping the channel of the third transistor, and a second interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode of the second transistor and the gate electrode of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Tanaka, Yeong-Gyu Kim, Ki Seong Seo, Seung Hyun Lee, Chang Ho Yi
  • Patent number: 11210960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the representation of tactile characters, in particular in Braille, comprising tactile elements which are combined in groups, wherein a tactile character consists in each case of a matrix of tactile points, which can be arranged in two adjacently arranged columns of points and at least two lines of points, wherein the four possible combinations of two tactile points of tactile points arranged adjacently in a line of points are in each case arranged on a common tactile element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WIEN
    Inventors: Michael Treml, Wolfgang Zagler, Dominik Busse
  • Patent number: 11205396
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display device. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the display panel includes a display area, where pixels arranged in an array are arranged in the display area, each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least some sub-pixels among the sub-pixels included in each pixel have different colors. The driving method includes: driving, polarities of display signals inputted to some sub-pixels among the sub-pixels having the same color in at least one row of sub-pixels to be different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei Zheng, Zhijie Wang, Jiaqian Wu
  • Patent number: 11199935
    Abstract: An input sensing unit includes a first metal pattern layer including a plurality of first conductive lines extending in a first direction. A first insulating layer is disposed on the first metal pattern layer. A second metal pattern layer is positioned above the first insulating layer and includes a plurality of second conductive lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A second insulating layer is disposed on the second metal pattern layer. A sensing electrode is disposed on the second insulating layer and is electrically connected to the second metal pattern layer through a contact hole defined in the second insulating layer. An anti-reflection pattern layer is disposed on the first and second metal pattern layers to overlap the first and second metal pattern layers along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the anti-reflection pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyung Min Baek, Hyun Eok Shin, Ju Hyun Lee, Joon Yong Park, Sang Won Shin
  • Patent number: 11195456
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display area and a non-display area positioned around the display area and including a pad portion and a contact portion that is disposed between the display area and the pad portion; a first circuit portion including an embedded circuit disposed in the display area, a first connection electrode disposed in the pad portion, and a second connection electrode disposed in the contact portion; and a second circuit portion disposed on a layer different from the first circuit portion and including a pixel disposed in the display area, a pad disposed in the pad portion, and a data line extending across the contact portion and the display area and electrically connected to the pixel. The pad is electrically connected to the embedded circuit through the first connection electrode. The data line is electrically connected to the embedded circuit via the second connection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Jung Kyu Lee, Seung Hwan Cho, Min Joo Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Dong Hwan Shim
  • Patent number: 11182037
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area outside the display area, and a pad area within the peripheral area; a testing circuit unit disposed within the pad area; a cover layer covering the testing circuit unit; an output pad disposed within the pad area and arranged between the testing circuit unit and the display area; an input pad disposed within the pad area, disposed at an opposite side with respect to the plurality of output pads; and a protective layer covering the output pad and the input pad, and, on a plane, an end of the protective layer is apart from the cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunbyul Kim, Myonghoon Roh, Boyoul Shim, Changwoo Won, Seungjin Lim
  • Patent number: 11181997
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a signal reception unit; a communication unit for communicating with a remote control device; a storage unit for storing sound data; a speaker; and a processor for playing a sound and outputting the same through the speaker when a specific remote control signal transmitted from the remote control device is received through the signal reception unit, wherein the processor receives, from the remote control device and through the communication unit, recording data in which the point in time, at which the sound is received by the remote control device, is recorded, thereby enabling the distance between the display device and the remote control device to be calculated on the basis of the recording data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-myung Hur, Dong-wook Kim, Seung-il Yoon, Kwan-young Kim, Hyun-kyu Yun
  • Patent number: 11175730
    Abstract: A virtual space configuration system of an artificial reality system can detect a user posture and provide various corresponding customizations of the system's virtual space. The virtual space configuration system can, when a user is in a seated posture, provide for seated virtual space customizations. In various implementations, these customizations can include allowing adjustment of a floor height; setting a flag that can be surfaced to applications to adjust the applications' mechanics for seated users; customizing display of virtual space boundaries when in seated mode to be less intrusive; providing options to detect when a user leaves seated mode and trigger corresponding actions; provide a passthrough workspace area allowing a user to interact with certain real-world objects naturally without having to remove a virtual reality headset; or automatically determining virtual space dimensions for seated users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Alan Johnson, Shaik Shabnam Nizamudeen Basha, Mahdi Salmani Rahimi, Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux
  • Patent number: 11175737
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a control unit performs control such that a selected position in a display is changed, wherein the control unit performs control such that the selected position is changed based on gazing at a first position in response to satisfaction of a viewed point condition corresponding to a fact that gazing at the first position at a first distance from the selected position has been performed for a first period, and the selected position is changed based on gazing at a second position in response to satisfaction of a viewed point condition corresponding to a fact that gazing at the second position at a second distance which is farther from the selected position than the first distance, has been performed for a second period shorter than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11164507
    Abstract: An electronic device for driving a display panel and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first input terminal, a first circuit and a second circuit. The first input terminal receives a first sensing signal from a first sensing line of the sensing lines of the display panel. The first circuit generates a first signal according to the first sensing signal and provides a processing circuit with the first signal during a pre-processing period. The second circuit generates a second signal according to the first sensing signal and provides the processing circuit with the second signal during a normal processing period after the pre-processing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Hsiang Fang, Jhih-Siou Cheng
  • Patent number: 11164480
    Abstract: A braille terminal (2) which extends in a transverse direction (6) and which has a plurality of cells (26), wherein each cell (26) has a plurality of pins (28) that can be felt by a user and are arranged in a plurality of columns (32) and a plurality of rows (30), and wherein the cell (26) is designed to represent an individual character, wherein a respective pin (28) can be actuated in each case individually by means of a piezoelectric bending transducer (54), and the piezoelectric bending transducers (54) are secured on a plurality of printed circuit boards (52) has a plurality of modules (4) which are juxtaposed in the transverse direction (6) and which each have a module housing (12), wherein a plurality of cells (26) are integrated in the module (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Piezo Products GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Guenther, Stefan Klump, Daniel Kuegel, Martin Ruettel, Daniel Schneiderbanger
  • Patent number: 11163362
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing (100), a display (102) disposed in the housing (100) and including an interface surface (112) arranged for user contact and a reference haptic (108). The interface surface (112) includes an active haptic output that provides a time-dependent haptic output and a reference haptic (108) disposed on the housing or the interface surface to provide a time-independent haptic output related to the time-dependent haptic output. The combination of active and reference haptics on an electronic device, such as a wearable display device, can convey information to a user without requiring the user to look at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hong Z. Tan, Zhaoyuan Ma
  • Patent number: 11158251
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel driving circuit and a display panel are disclosed. The OLED pixel driving circuit is a 7T1C type pixel driving circuit consisting of a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, a capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. Each of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh transistors has a control end, a first end, and a second end, wherein the control end and the second end of the seventh transistor are coupled, the control end and the second end of the fourth transistor are coupled, and the second end of the fourth transistor and the second end of the seventh transistor are not connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Caiqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11157118
    Abstract: An electronic panel including a base substrate, a display unit including pixels and an encapsulation layer, a sensing unit including first and second conductive patterns disposed on different layers with a sensing insulating layer therebetween, a planarization portion disposed between the display unit and the sensing unit and including a flat surface, an inclined surface, and a recess portion, and a crack sensing portion spaced apart from the first and second conductive patterns and including a crack sensing pattern overlapping with the planarization portion, a first connection line connected to one end of the crack sensing pattern and extending in a first direction, and a second connection line connected to the other end of the crack sensing pattern, spaced apart from the first connection line, and extending in the first direction, in which at least one of the first and second connection lines overlaps with the recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyeongnam Bang, Wonkyu Kwak, Dongjin Moon, Chung Yi
  • Patent number: 11145233
    Abstract: Implementations for masking for mitigating visual contrast of a camera region of a display are described. Generally, the described techniques provide ways for mitigating visual differences between a camera region and other regions of a display. For instance, visual masks can be generated and displayed overlapping and/or peripherally to a camera region of a display to smooth a visual transition between the camera region and other regions of the display. The masks, for example, are displayed in regions of the display that surround the camera region. Further, color attributes of the masks can be configured to provide a gradual visual transition from color output at the camera region to color output at other regions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Ha Dao