Patents Examined by Yong H Sim
  • Patent number: 8373696
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides an electro-optical device including a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of power lines extending in a direction intersecting with the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel circuits provided corresponding to intersections of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines, wherein pixel circuits of the plurality of pixel circuits provided adjacent to each other along one of the plurality of data lines is coupled to one of the plurality of power lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 8373665
    Abstract: Computing devices are disclosed which include a digitizer and a display, wherein the digitizer and the display are mounted on opposite surfaces of the device. For example, a computing device such as portable hand held device includes a display mounted on a front surface of the device and a digitizer is mounted on a rear surface of the device, wherein the digitizer receives a pointing action to be displayed on the display and wherein locations on a digitizer surface are mapped to locations on the display surface so that a user may easily indicate locations or objects on a screen without obscuring the user's view of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Liam D. Comerford
  • Patent number: 8350791
    Abstract: In displaying image data received from a camera module on a display device such as a view finder, image data having a size suited for display from an image size conversion circuit is displayed via line memories included in a signal-for-display generation circuit. Vertical synchronization in an image data storage including these line memories is established by initializing a reading address in accordance with a frame head pixel indication and a reading completion indication of one line in the line memories. It is possible to reduce power consumption of an image display system for displaying an image of a imaging subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Takahashi, Soichi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8334834
    Abstract: A backlight control system and method are disclosed. An overdrive device modifies a backlight duty signal according to a current-frame backlight duty signal and a previous-frame backlight duty signal. In one embodiment, the overdrive device is implemented with a lookup table that outputs the modified backlight duty signal. The backlight driven by the modified backlight duty signal then emits light to a display panel, thereby increasing a response time of the backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shing-Chia Chen
  • Patent number: 8325107
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for optimizing the transmission of video configuration data in a system comprising a host computer and a display monitor. The invention comprises a wireless video source adapter connected to the host computer and a wireless video sink adapter connected to the monitor. Upon system startup, the video sink adapter acquires EDID information from the monitor and transmits it to the video source adapter, which does not activate its connection and indicate its presence to the host computer until after receiving the EDID information. The video source adapter then supplies the EDID information to the host computer in response to EDID requests from the computer. In this manner, the video source adapter acts as a virtual proxy for the display monitor from the point of the view of the host computer. The host computer then uses the EDID information to configure its video signal to match the parameters of the display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory L. Christison, Brian R. Doherty, John C. Sarallo, Sidney B. Schrum, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8300070
    Abstract: To provide a technology for performing brightness range expansion processing suitable for a scene change when a scene change occurs. If an expansion coefficient output mode determination module 250 detects a scene change, it changes an expansion coefficient output mode from a normal mode to a scene change mode. An expansion coefficient derivation module 200 outputs an ideal expansion coefficient Gid(n) if the scene change is detected, and outputs a corrected expansion coefficient G(n) if the scene change is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Nobori
  • Patent number: 8289258
    Abstract: A disclosed display includes a display panel including a first group of data lines and second group of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the first and a second groups of data lines, and a plurality of picture cells arranged in a matrix. The display also includes a first source PCB coupled to first data integrated circuits (ICs) to supply first data voltages to the first group of data lines and a second source PCB coupled to second data ICs to supply second data voltages to the second group of data lines. The display further includes a timing controller having a single output port with a plurality of output pins which are configured to output video data to both the first and second data ICs, and to output a timing control signal to control both the first and second data ICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Hoon Cha, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8237652
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes: an LCD panel which displays an image; a backlight unit which is formed of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and emits light to the LCD panel; a cooling fan which radiates heat generated from the backlight unit; a fan driver which drives the cooling fan; and a controller which selectively controls either the fan driver or the backlight unit to set a rotation speed of the cooling fan to be corresponded with a luminance value of the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-kook Kim
  • Patent number: 8228318
    Abstract: A frame buffer apparatus is disclosed. The frame buffer apparatus includes a hold-type display for displaying and holding previous frame data; a data reading device for reading back the previous frame data held in the hold-type display. A driving circuit for a hold-type display is also disclosed. The data driving circuit for a hold-type display includes a video data input terminal for receiving video data; a driving voltage output terminal for outputting a driving voltage to a display panel of the hold-type display; a sample and hold unit for sampling and holding voltages of the driving voltage output terminal to generate a sampled voltage according to a sampling signal; and a driving voltage generation unit for performing signal processing for the video data to output the driving voltage according to a plurality of reference voltages, a polarity selection signal and the sampled voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Jui-Lin Lo
  • Patent number: 8207933
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a substrate and has a plurality of light emitting areas. In each light emitting area, at least one light emitting diode and a bypass current path are connected in parallel between a connection node and a switching unit. The switching unit is configured to connect a selected one of the light emitting diode and the bypass unit to the connection node of the next light emitting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Sik Shin, Gi-Cherl Kim, Sang-Il Park, Yong-Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8199079
    Abstract: A demultiplexing circuit, a light emitting display using the same, and a driving method thereof, in which the number of output lines provided in a data driver is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Yong Sung Park, Bo Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 8194019
    Abstract: A color conversion circuit converts a three-primary-color signal PS0 to a 5-color signal PS5, and includes (i) a color component extraction module that generates, by performing isochromatic conversion, a 7-color signal PS2 made up of 7 color components equivalent in terms of color to color components d1 through d5 of the 5-color signal PS5, and (ii) a matrix operation module that generates color components of the 5-color signal by performing linear combination of the color components of the 7-color signal. With this, it is possible to realize a color conversion circuit by which colors represented by a signal after conversion can be adjusted using intuitively-understandable parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Kozo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8188949
    Abstract: Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light emitting diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays with greater efficiency. Display driver control circuitry (506) comprises a frame memory interface (505) for reading data from a frame memory (504) for presentation on a passive matrix OLED display. A blank line identifier (507) identifies one or more substantially blank rows of pixels defined by the data in the frame memory and the control circuitry (506) skips past these rows when the passive matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the control circuitry includes a power controller (505) for reducing a power supply to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The invention is particularly suited to a display driver providing a controlled current drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Euan C. Smith, Paul R. Routley, William Goodchild
  • Patent number: 8184108
    Abstract: A folded optical element waveguide that allows a minimum width bezel to be used around the perimeter of a light-based touch screen display. The apparatus and method includes a touch screen and a waveguide substrate provided adjacent the touch screen. The waveguide substrate includes a plurality of waveguides and a plurality of optical elements provided adjacent the touch screen. The waveguides include an internally reflective surface to reflect light perpendicular to the surface of the touch screen. The emitting and detecting waveguides are thus folded and provided around the side edges of the display. As a result, the width of the bezel around the display can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Poa Sana Liquidating Trust
    Inventor: Gerard Dirk Smits
  • Patent number: 8179347
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of driving a liquid crystal display device include receiving gamma-treated data, performing a reverse gamma correction of the data, the reverse-gamma-corrected data having a first linear characteristic, performing a signal processing of the reverse-gamma-corrected data having the first linear characteristic, performing a gamma correction of the processed data, and generating data signals based on the gamma-corrected data using analog voltage values, the data signals having a second linear characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui Yeol Oh, Ki Duk Kim, Chul Sang Jang
  • Patent number: 8179336
    Abstract: A tiled display comprising: a plurality of display tiles aligned so that they provide the emissive image area; each display tile including: a plurality of light-emitting pixels arranged in groups of pixels; a plurality of sequentially arranged pixel drive circuits and each pixel drive circuit being electrically connected to a particular group of pixels for controlling the light emission of such pixels; one or more signal communication line(s) for providing data for controlling the operation of each pixel drive circuit; and each pixel drive circuit controlling the light emission of its corresponding group of pixels and providing information to the next sequential pixel drive circuit to cause such next sequential pixel drive circuit to respond to its corresponding data to control the operation of its group of light-emitting pixels and repeating this operation until a predetermined number of pixel drive circuits have caused the desired light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: John W. Hamer, Dustin L. Winters
  • Patent number: 8139009
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display panel includes a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell operating in a half V-switching mode. The ferroelectric liquid crystal cell includes a reflective portion and a transmissive portion. A cell gap of the reflective portion is similar to a cell gap of the transmissive portion. A voltage applied to the ferroelectric liquid crystal cell depends on a brightness level of ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Su Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 8130174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent display device for preventing a voltage drop and a short between power supply elements by simultaneously forming a reflective film and a power supply element using a low resistance metal. The invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device comprising gate lines, data lines and a power supply element formed on an insulating substrate, a pixel region limited by the gate lines, the data lines and the power supply element, and pixels arranged on the pixel region and comprising of a reflective film and a pixel electrode, wherein the reflective film is formed on the same layer as the power supply element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hun-Jung Lee, Jae-Bon Koo, Sang-Il Park
  • Patent number: 8130188
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for realizing gray levels of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, which realize various gray levels by interworking a gamma voltage and a sub-frame. The method includes the steps of dividing a liquid crystal response time interval for a pixel during one frame into n sequential sub-frames, enabling the pixel and applying a gamma voltage having a fixed level to the pixel, filling electric charges in the pixel by using the gamma voltage during each of the n specific sub-frames, and disabling the pixel at an end time point of a predetermined ith sub-frame, the i being an integer, wherein an amount of light projected on the pixel is adjusted by regulating a time point at which the pixel is disabled during each of the n specific sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventor: Yong Seob Shin
  • Patent number: 8120596
    Abstract: A tiled touch system comprises a display on which a computer-generated image is presented. The image is formed of an array of image segments. A digitizer is mapped to the display and senses pointer contacts made thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: David Gregory Popovich, Douglas Blair Hill, Serguei Vdovine