Patents by Inventor Wenjun Liao

Wenjun Liao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11335221
    Abstract: A method, device and system for detecting a display panel are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of groups of pixels, and the method includes: controlling the plurality of groups of pixels to be successively displayed with a first gray scale, and in condition that an ith group of pixels are displayed with the first gray scale, controlling other groups of pixels in the plurality of groups of pixels except the ith group of pixels to be displayed with a second gray scale, the ith group of pixels being any group of pixels in the plurality of groups of pixels; detecting a first current output by the display panel, in a process of displaying the ith group of pixels with the first gray scale; determining that a display abnormality occurs to the ith group of pixels, in condition that the first current is not within a first current range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Da Zhou, Zailong Mo, Yiyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11288991
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein provide methods, devices, and systems to compensate the drive waveform to a slow-scan mirror in a laser beam scanning (LBS) display device. The slow-scan controller generates the drive waveform, which is combined with feedback and coupled to the input of a notch filter in the control loop. Ripple in the slow-scan mirror trajectory, which occurs as a consequence of mismatches between the notch frequency of the notch filter and the resonance of the slow-scan mirror, is effectively suppressed in real time by an adaptive notch compensator. Consequently, the described compensation scheme allows for relaxed notch filter design criteria with high tolerance and mitigation of ripple is achieved at reduced cost. The parameters, logic and blocks of the adaptive notch compensator scheme may be time-domain or frequency domain solutions that are implemented, in hardware, software or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Seyed Ahmad Mortazavi, Chuan Pu
  • Publication number: 20220059639
    Abstract: A display substrate, comprising including: a display region, a pad bending region, and a first transition region located between the display region and the pad bending region, wherein the display region is provided with a signal line layer; the pad bending region is provided with a first wire layer; the first transition region is provided with a first connecting layer; the first connecting layer is provided with a first step formed by at least one inorganic insulation layer; the signal line layer is electrically connected to the first connecting layer by means of a first through hole provided in the first step; and the first wire layer is electrically connected to the first connecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Taoran ZHANG, Da ZHOU, Wenjun LIAO
  • Publication number: 20220003983
    Abstract: A laser beam scanning (“LBS”) display device is configured with an optical system that includes a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam. The optical system also includes a driver configured to generate a driving signal for controlling a mirror, such as a microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”) mirror. The optical system also includes a controller configured to generate a driving signal while rejecting a system disturbance response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Chuan Pu
  • Publication number: 20210405351
    Abstract: A laser beam display device that can dynamically control the resonant frequency of a mirror is provided. The increase the reliability of a device by controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror instead of requiring components of a display device to react to changes in the resonant frequency of a mirror. A controller can drive a mirror with an input signal, receive a signal or data indicating a target resonant frequency, and bias the input signal to control the resonant frequency of the mirror. In some embodiments, the controller can also receive a feedback signal from a mirror indicating a current resonant frequency. The controller can also bias the input signal to increase or decrease the current resonant frequency. By dynamically controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror, a device can minimize any difference between the current resonant frequency detected in a feedback signal and the target resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Chuan PU, Wenjun LIAO
  • Patent number: 11200838
    Abstract: An aging device for a display panel includes: a bearing device, including a bearing surface that is configured to bear the display panel; a fixture, including a plurality of pins which are configured to provide a screen turning-on signal for the display panel; a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are in an opposite arrangement and configured to apply an electric field to the display panel. The aging device achieves aging by providing an electric field for the display panel, avoids the burning of the thin film transistor devices of the display panel caused by the excessive bias and allows the thin film transistors at different positions to be uniformly aged, and is also easy to operate and implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiawei Qu, Wenjun Liao, Da Zhou, Taoran Zhang, Linxuan Li, Ke Dai
  • Publication number: 20210343748
    Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate, a display area and a non-display area provided on the base substrate; a data line is provided in the display area and a detection line is provided in the non-display area on the base substrate; and the detection line is electrically connected to a data line and is formed by overlapping a plurality of wire segments. A method of manufacturing a display panel, and a display device are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Wenjun LIAO, Taoran ZHANG, Qiao FENG, Linxuan LI, Yanyang SHANG
  • Patent number: 11163153
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of adjusting a notch frequency of an adaptive notch filter (“filter”) to track a resonant frequency of a slow scan MEMS mirror (“mirror”). For instance, an adaptive feedback may be configured to determine one or more resonant frequencies of the mirror based at least in part on a frequency response of an output signal that is proportional to movement of the mirror. The adaptive feedback may be further configured to adjust at least one notch frequency of the filter to track at least one respective resonant frequency of the mirror. The filter may be configured to modify a magnitude of a frequency response of a combination of the filter and the mirror to be substantially constant by suppressing the at least one notch frequency in a frequency response of the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Wenjun Liao
  • Publication number: 20210335246
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a storage capacitor unit, a driving transistor, a compensation unit, a switching unit, a light-emitting element and a current supply unit. The compensation unit is connected to a compensation control end, a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor, and the current supply unit, and configured to, under the control of the compensation control end, control the current supply unit to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the gate electrode, and control the gate electrode to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the second electrode. The switching unit is connected to a light-emitting control end, the second electrode, and a first end of the light-emitting element, and configured to control the second electrode to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the first end of the light-emitting element under the control of the light-emitting control end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicants: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiawei QU, Linxuan LI, Taoran ZHANG, Wenjun LIAO
  • Publication number: 20210320166
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of columns of pixel driving circuits. A column of pixel driving circuits is connected to a corresponding data line, and each pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and a first transistor. The driving transistor is a P-type transistor. The first transistor includes: a first active pattern having a first channel region, and a first doped region and a second doped region on two opposite sides of the first channel region; a first gate; and a first insulating block disposed on a side of the first active pattern away from the base and having a first via. The data line is connected to a portion of the first active pattern located in the first doped region through the first via. Sizes of all first vias in the column of pixel driving circuits gradually decrease in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Honghao ZHAO, Wenjun LIAO, Yanting LU, Taoran ZHANG, Da ZHOU, Jianbo WANG, Wenjin HUANG
  • Patent number: 11137593
    Abstract: A laser beam display device that can dynamically control the resonant frequency of a mirror is provided. The increase the reliability of a device by controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror instead of requiring components of a display device to react to changes in the resonant frequency of a mirror. A controller can drive a mirror with an input signal, receive a signal or data indicating a target resonant frequency, and bias the input signal to control the resonant frequency of the mirror. In some embodiments, the controller can also receive a feedback signal from a mirror indicating a current resonant frequency. The controller can also bias the input signal to increase or decrease the current resonant frequency. By dynamically controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror, a device can minimize any difference between the current resonant frequency detected in a feedback signal and the target resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Wenjun Liao
  • Publication number: 20210225218
    Abstract: A method, device and system for detecting a display panel are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of groups of pixels, and the method includes: controlling the plurality of groups of pixels to be successively displayed with a first gray scale, and in condition that an ith group of pixels are displayed with the first gray scale, controlling other groups of pixels in the plurality of groups of pixels except the ith group of pixels to be displayed with a second gray scale, the ith group of pixels being any group of pixels in the plurality of groups of pixels; detecting a first current output by the display panel, in a process of displaying the ith group of pixels with the first gray scale; determining that a display abnormality occurs to the ith group of pixels, in condition that the first current is not within a first current range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Wenjun LIAO, Da ZHOU, Zailong MO, Yiyang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210183306
    Abstract: An aging device for a display panel includes: a bearing device, including a bearing surface that is configured to bear the display panel; a fixture, including a plurality of pins which are configured to provide a screen turning-on signal for the display panel; a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are in an opposite arrangement and configured to apply an electric field to the display panel. The aging device achieves aging by providing an electric field for the display panel, avoids the burning of the thin film transistor devices of the display panel caused by the excessive bias and allows the thin film transistors at different positions to be uniformly aged, and is also easy to operate and implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiawei QU, Wenjun LIAO, Da ZHOU, Taoran ZHANG, Linxuan LI, Ke DAI
  • Patent number: 10872566
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an OLED pixel circuit, a method for driving the same and a display device. The OLED pixel circuit includes: a data writing and compensating circuit configured to make compensation to a threshold voltage of the first driver; the first driver configured to drive the light emitting device after the threshold voltage is compensated; the second driver configured to drive the light emitting device; the light emitting controller connected to the light emitting device and a second signal terminal, and configured to connect the first driver and the second driver to the light emitting device; and the light emitting device emitting light by joint driving of the first driver and the second driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiawei Qu, Wenjun Liao, Linxuan Li, Taoran Zhang, Qiao Feng, Da Zhou, Zailong Mo, Cailong Zhou
  • Patent number: 10871645
    Abstract: A resonance system is disclosed, which includes a first resonance device configured to receive a drive signal and generate an output signal, a second resonance device configured to receive a control signal and generate the drive signal based on the received control signal, and a controller configured to generate the control signal based on the output signal such that a phase difference between the control signal applied to the second resonance device and the output signal of the first resonance device corresponds to a predetermined phase shift value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Wenjun Liao
  • Publication number: 20200395946
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of adjusting a center frequency of an adaptive voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that is included in an adaptive phase lock loop (PLL) and/or a phase difference target of the adaptive PLL. An adaptive PLL is a PLL that includes an adaptive VCO. An adaptive VCO is a VCO that is capable of adjusting its center frequency and/or a phase difference target of the adaptive PLL that includes the adaptive VCO. The adaptive PLL may be configured to drive (e.g., control) a device. A drive signal that is used to drive the device and a resulting output signal that is proportional to movement of the device may be fed back to respective inputs of the adaptive PLL so that the phases of those signals may be processed to facilitate adjustment of the center frequency and/or the phase difference target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Wenjun Liao
  • Patent number: 10861379
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein provide methods and systems that adaptively adjust control system update rates to optimize power consumption for laser beam scanning display devices. A display device can adjust an update rate based on changes within the system and/or changes of a surrounding environment, e.g., vibration level, a humidity level, a temperature, a resonant frequency, and/or an age of a device. As variations of the environmental properties change, the device can increase or decrease the control system update rates. Additionally, or alternatively, the system can perform a resonance calibration process to determine a resonant frequency. Based on a change in a determined resonant frequency, the system may increase or decrease the control system update rates. By dynamically controlling the system update rates based on environmental and/or physical properties of a device, the device can optimize power consumption while maintaining a desirable image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Pu, Wenjun Liao
  • Publication number: 20200350340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an array substrate, an array substrate, and a display device. By first forming holes in a first thin film transistor, then simultaneously performing hydrogen supplementation on the first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor, and then forming holes in the second thin film transistor, the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor can be repaired and compensated in different degrees by hydrogen supplementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Taoran ZHANG, Jiawei QU, Linxuan LI, Wenjun LIAO, Zailong MO
  • Publication number: 20200285047
    Abstract: A laser beam display device that can dynamically control the resonant frequency of a mirror is provided. The increase the reliability of a device by controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror instead of requiring components of a display device to react to changes in the resonant frequency of a mirror. A controller can drive a mirror with an input signal, receive a signal or data indicating a target resonant frequency, and bias the input signal to control the resonant frequency of the mirror. In some embodiments, the controller can also receive a feedback signal from a mirror indicating a current resonant frequency. The controller can also bias the input signal to increase or decrease the current resonant frequency. By dynamically controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror, a device can minimize any difference between the current resonant frequency detected in a feedback signal and the target resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Chuan PU, Wenjun LIAO
  • Patent number: D945148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Wenjun Liao