Patents Examined by Wing H Chow
  • Patent number: 10977985
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first light-emitting diode, a first controller, a second light-emitting diode, and a second controller. The first controller has a first current source. The second controller has a second current source, wherein the first current source is coupled to a coupling point of the second light-emitting diode and the second current source. When the first light-emitting diode is normal, the first current source provides a first driving current to drive the first light-emitting diode. When the first light-emitting diode is open, the first current source stops providing the first driving current, and the second current source provides a second driving current to drive the second light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsun Yang, Hsiang-Yuan Hsieh, Chin-Tang Chuang
  • Patent number: 10969909
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a first touch electrode part, a second touch electrode part, a first touch router, a second touch router and plural third touch routers. The first touch electrode part includes plural first touch units. The second touch electrode part is substantially parallel to the first touch electrode part. The second touch electrode part includes plural second touch units. The first touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to one of an even-numbered first touch unit and an odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The second touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to the other of the even-numbered first touch unit and the odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The third touch routers are connected to each of the second touch units, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Ki Hong, Seung-Ho Nam, Ji-Hong Park, Moon-Sung Choi
  • Patent number: 10964725
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a first side and a second side facing the first side in a first direction, the display panel including a recessed portion having a recessed shape from the first side of the display panel toward the second side in the first direction, the recessed portion including a side extended from the first side of the display panel; a pad portion disposed on a front surface of the display panel, the pad portion being adjacent to at least one side of the recessed portion; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) connected to the pad portion, the FPC being bent to a rear surface of the display panel around the at least one side of the recessed portion, the rear surface opposing the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 10937837
    Abstract: A display control method and apparatus, and a display apparatus. The method includes: acquiring an actual chromaticity coordinate of light of a mixed color sub pixel; calculating respective proportions of light of primary-color sub-pixels within the light of the mixed-color sub-pixel, according to the actual chromaticity coordinate of the light of the mixed-color sub-pixel and chromaticity coordinates of the light of the primary-color sub-pixels; and determining target luminance data of the mixed-color sub-pixel and target luminance data of the primary-color sub-pixels, according to initial luminance data of the primary-color sub-pixels and the respective proportions of the light of the primary-color sub-pixels within the light of the mixed-color sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Danna Song
  • Patent number: 10915620
    Abstract: A system for a touch screen interface that includes a coating including a plurality of a touch activated microchips; and a projector for projecting a light image onto the coating that is applied to a touch screen substrate. The system also includes an image calibrator that calibrates touch activated microchips in the coating to features of the light image projected onto the coating. The system further includes a receiver for receiving signal from the touch activated microchips when said feature of the light image is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maryam Ashoori, Benjamin D. Briggs, Justin A. Canaperi, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger, Michael Rizzolo, Spyridon Skordas
  • Patent number: 10903280
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light-emitting diode display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device. The panel includes: a base substrate, a reflecting metal layer located on the base substrate, and a protruding layer located on the reflecting metal layer; a material of the protruding layer is an inorganic material, the protruding layer comprises a plurality of pixel openings distributed in an array, and the plurality of pixel openings constitute a plurality of sub-pixel areas in different colors, the display panel further comprising an anode layer, an organic functional layer, and a cathode layer stacked in each of the sub-pixel areas sequentially; a structure with a micro-resonant chamber effect is formed between a upper surface of the reflecting metal layer and a lower surfaces of the cathode layer in each of the sub-pixel areas; anode layers in the sub-pixel areas in the different colors have different thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoning Liu, Li Sun
  • Patent number: 10871838
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area where subpixels for emitting light in different colors are arranged in a matrix shape, the display panel having a peripheral area where terminals and a drive circuit are formed; and metal lines for touch sensing on the display panel. The display panel has a non-rectangular shape with a curve part of a contour in a plan view. The metal lines extend in at least two directions and cross at portions to form a mesh shape. The subpixels include some subpixels arranged stepwise in an outline area of the display area next to the curve part of the contour. None of the metal lines is formed on the subpixels arranged stepwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
  • Patent number: 10872677
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, and a driving method thereof, and relates to the field of display technologies. The shift register unit includes an input sub-circuit, an output control sub-circuit, and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is coupled to a first node and a first voltage terminal, and is configured to output a first voltage signal to the first node in response to an input control signal. The output control sub-circuit is coupled to the first node, a second node, and a clock signal terminal, and is configured to output an output control signal to the second node in response to the first voltage signal and a clock signal. The output sub-circuit is coupled to the second node, a DC voltage terminal, and an output terminal, and is configured to output a DC voltage signal to the output terminal under the control of the output control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongkang Hou, Zhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10871801
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an auxiliary monitor is provided. The auxiliary monitor includes a mount including at least one rail, one or more coupling elements coupled to the mount and configured to be coupled to a computer, and a display portion. The display portion includes a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to the computer, at least one display screen configured to display output information, and at least one hinge configured to be slidably coupled to the at least one rail, and configured to allow the display portion to rotate relative to the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: MOBILE PIXELS INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Yao, Wenglong Ng
  • Patent number: 10860064
    Abstract: An electronic device having a pointing stick is disclosed. The electronic device includes a base member for supporting a pointing stick. The base member has a first pressed part provided on one side of the pointing stick with respect to a sliding direction of a slide member and a second pressed part provided on the other side of the pointing stick. The slide member has a first pressing part capable of pressing the first pressed part of the base member and a second pressing part capable of pressing the second pressed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kubota, Fumitake Mizoguchi, Yoshiyuki Shibayama, Tabito Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10845636
    Abstract: An input detection device includes a substrate; detection electrodes disposed on a plane parallel to the substrate, each detection electrode including first and second conductive wires, and opening portions; a display region; and a dummy electrode provided on a plane parallel to the substrate, the dummy electrode including first dummy wires along the first direction, wherein the display region includes pixels in a matrix, wherein each of the pixels includes subpixels, wherein each of the first conductive wires includes a first wide portion, and a first narrow portion, wherein each of the second conductive wires includes a second wide portion, and a second narrow portion, and wherein each of the first dummy wire includes a first dummy wide portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yuzo Kanari
  • Patent number: 10848149
    Abstract: A channel circuit of source driver and an operation method thereof are provided. The channel circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a first switch, an output buffer circuit and a pre-charge circuit. The terminals of the first switch are coupled to the first output terminal of the DAC and the first input terminal of the output buffer circuit, respectively. The pre-charge circuit is coupled to the first input terminal of the output buffer circuit. The pre-charge circuit pre-charges the first input terminal of the output buffer circuit when the first switch is turned off during a pre-charge period, and not to pre-charge the first input terminal of the output buffer circuit when the first switch is turned on during a normal operation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Cheng Cheng, Kuang-Feng Sung
  • Patent number: 10831303
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a driving line including a plurality of touch driving units, a sensing line substantially parallel to the driving line and which includes a plurality of touch sensing units, a first driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a first touch pulse to one of an even-numbered touch driving unit and an odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units, a second driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a second touch pulse to the other of the even-numbered touch driving unit and the odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units and a plurality of sensing routers connected to each of the touch sensing units and which receives a sensing signal from the touch sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Ki Hong, Seung-Ho Nam, Ji-Hong Park, Moon-Sung Choi
  • Patent number: 10828228
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display configured to display content; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair; and a controller configured to acquire information about an urgency degree of the displayed content, and transmit a control command to the massage chair for controlling the massage chair to perform a massage corresponding to the urgency degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaeduck Jung
  • Patent number: 10817095
    Abstract: An electronic device, a touch display panel and a touch display substrate are provided. The touch display substrate includes: a substrate; a common electrode layer disposed on the substrate, where the common electrode layer includes multiple touch display electrodes insulated from each other, and the touch display electrodes are arranged in an array; and multiple touch display wires insulated from each other, where the touch display wires and the touch display electrodes are arranged and connected electrically according to a one-to-one correspondence. Areas of at least two touch display electrodes increase gradually in a first direction, and the first direction is an extending direction of the touch display wire and extends from a contact point between the touch display wire and the touch display electrode to an edge of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gujun Li, Yungang Sun, Lingxiao Du, Conghua Ma
  • Patent number: 10818251
    Abstract: A display device and a method and device of driving a display device are provided. The method includes: dividing sub-pixels of a display panel into a plurality of array blocks, and selecting at least one of the sub-pixels in the blocks as a luminous pixel; receiving a to-be-displayed image, acquiring a pixel signal of a pixel of the display panel, obtaining the pixel signal from a look-up table, and obtaining first driving signals of the sub-pixels of each of the pixels; calculating a first brightness signal of driving the luminous pixel in the array block according to the first driving signals of the sub-pixels in the same array blocks; and using the first brightness signal to drive the luminous pixel, and using the pixel signal to drive other ones of the sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10810397
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display assembly, the display assembly includes an array substrate and a plurality of pixel units disposed on the array substrate; a fingerprint recognition assembly disposed on one side of the array substrate facing away from the plurality of pixel units, the fingerprint recognition assembly includes a first substrate and at least one fingerprint recognition unit disposed on the first substrate; and the array substrate includes a plurality of transparent regions and a plurality of non-transparent regions, the array substrate further includes a plurality of metal wires, a ratio of a line width of a portion of at least one of the metal wires disposed in at least one respective transparent region to a line width of a portion of the at least of the metal wires disposed in a respective non-transparent region is less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zeng, Lihua Wang, Haochi Yu, Qing Zhang, Lingxiao Du
  • Patent number: 10803821
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display panel includes: a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein the plurality of data lines intersect with the plurality of scan lines to define X rows and Y columns of pixel units arranged in a matrix, S types of different polarity inversion positions are existed from an i-th column of pixel unit to an [i+(U?1)]-th column of pixel unit, where 0<i<Y, U?4, S?2, and U is a polarity inversion repetition period in a scan line direction. The liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display device provided by the present invention can alleviate the phenomenon of horizontal equidistant horizontal stripes, and can reduce the problem of excessive power consumption and temperature increase caused by driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusheng Huang, Zihan Liu, Yuyeh Chen, Yuan-Liang Wu
  • Patent number: 10782828
    Abstract: An optical touch apparatus and optical touch method are provided. The optical touch apparatus has a touch area, and includes a light source module, at least one optical sensing module, and a processing unit. The light source module includes a plurality of light emitting elements, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting elements respectively provides a detecting beam to the touch area in different time periods. The processing unit is coupled to the light source module and the at least one optical sensing module. When each of the plurality of light emitting elements provides each of the detection beams, the processing unit controls the at least one optical sensing module to detect a corresponding predetermined region of interest according to the position of each of the detection beams and thereby output a sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: You-Xin Liu, Po-Liang Huang, Kuo-Hsien Lu
  • Patent number: 10777137
    Abstract: A pixel including a light emitting element, a first transistor connected between a first node and the light emitting element to control current flowing from a first power supply to a second power supply, a second transistor connected between a data line and the first transistor to be turned on by an ith first scan signal, a third transistor including a P-type TFT connected between the first transistor and the first node to be turned on by the ith first scan signal and, a fourth transistor including an N-type TFT connected between the first node and an initialization power supply line to be turned on by an i?1th scan signal, and a first connection line connected between the third and fourth transistors to electrically connect semiconductor patterns thereof, in which the first connection line is disposed on the third and fourth transistors and contacts the semiconductor patterns thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Yang, Ki Bum Kim, Jong Chan Lee, Woong Hee Jeong