Patents by Inventor Yifan HOU

Yifan HOU 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: 12223621
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a virtual viewpoint synthesis method, including: pre-processing a depth image with zero parallax corresponding to an original image to obtain a processed depth image; generating virtual viewpoint images corresponding to a plurality of virtual viewpoints respectively according to the processed depth image and the original image; and filling holes in the virtual viewpoint image to generate a plurality of filled virtual viewpoint images. The present disclosure further provides an electronic apparatus and a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Sun, Minglei Chu, Tiankuo Shi, Yanhui Xi, Zhihua Ji, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Zhao, Shuo Zhang, Xiangjun Peng, Xiaomang Zhang, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 12211417
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a A driving method of a display panel, including: determining a target region and a non-target region in the display panel; dividing the target region into a plurality of target sub-regions, and dividing the non-target region into a plurality of non-target sub-regions, wherein an area of the target sub-region is less than that of the non-target sub-region; determining brightness compensation values of each target sub-region and each non-target sub-region according to a gray scale value of each pixel in an input image; determining a compensated brightness of each pixel unit in the display panel according to the gray scale value of each pixel in the input image, the brightness compensation values of each target sub-region and each non-target sub-region; and driving each pixel unit in the display panel to emit light according to the compensated brightness of each pixel unit in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifan Hou, Tiankuo Shi, Zhihua Ji, Wei Sun, Xiaomang Zhang, Minglei Chu, Yan Sun, Shuo Zhang, Xiangjun Peng
  • Patent number: 12205551
    Abstract: A dimming method for a display panel is provided, including: acquiring image data of an image to be displayed; determining initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels according to the image data; determining a dimming pixel to be filtered in the dimming screen according to the initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels; determining a first filtering region according to the determined dimming pixel to be filtered; determining a filtering parameter of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region according to a relationship between each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region and initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region; and updating dimming pixel data of the dimming pixel to be filtered according to the filtering parameter of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region, so as to obtain updated dimming pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangjun Peng, Tiankuo Shi, Shuo Zhang, Yifan Hou, Zhihua Ji, Xiaomang Zhang, Xin Duan, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 12189139
    Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus, including: a display screen including pixel island groups each including at least one pixel island which each includes pixel units; a micro-lens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display screen, and including micro-lenses each corresponding to one pixel island, each micro-lens being configured for imaging an image displayed by the pixel island corresponding thereto; an imaging lens group disposed on a side of the micro-lens array away from the display screen and configured for collimating imaging light of the micro-lenses, the pixel island groups are configured for displaying partial images which form a complete image, and imaging field of view angles formed by outgoing light rays, of the pixel island groups adjacent to each other, passing through the micro-lenses corresponding to the pixel island groups and the imaging lens group are continuous with each other. A display method is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiuyu Ling, Wei Wang, Tiankuo Shi, Yifan Hou, Xianqin Meng, Weiting Peng, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 12177645
    Abstract: A sound-generating device, a display device, a sound-generating controlling method, and a sound-generating controlling device are provided. The sound-generating device includes: a reflection plate which includes a first sound wave reflection face arranged towards a first direction; a plurality of main loudspeakers, the plurality of main loudspeakers are distributed in an array in a preset three-dimensional space, and the preset three-dimensional space is located at one side of the first sound wave reflection face towards a first direction; the plurality of main loudspeakers include first main loudspeakers with a sound-generating direction towards the first direction, and second main loudspeakers with a sound-generating direction towards a second direction, the second direction is an opposite direction of the first direction; and the sound waves emitted by the second main loudspeakers are transmitted to the first sound wave reflection face and can be reflected by the first sound wave reflection face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuo Zhang, Tiankuo Shi, Xiaomang Zhang, Yanhui Xi, Zhihua Ji, Yan Sun, Chenxi Zhao, Xiangjun Peng, Yifan Hou, Lianghao Zhang, Li Tian, Jing Liu, Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20240371336
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, a method for displaying an image, and an electronic device are provided. In the first operation mode, a control circuit of the display device is configured to: receive display data of an mth image frame, and control the display device to display n sub-field images. The display data includes initial gray scales under n base colors. In a sub-field image of the mth image frame: pixels include a target pixel, and an actual gray scale of the target pixel is an average of an intermediate gray scale and initial gray scales of T non-target pixels. An actual gray scale of at least a part of non-target pixels is an initial gray scale thereof. The target pixel meets at least one of a first condition and a second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiong WU, Xiangjun PENG, Xin DUAN, Ce NING, Lizhong WANG, Yifan HOU, Shuo ZHANG, Huiling XUE, Hui GUO
  • Publication number: 20240363054
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a circuit component, an electronic device and a driving method. The circuit component includes: an input end and at least one signal channel end, wherein the input end is configured to receive an ith image signal at a first frequency, and i is a positive integer. The circuit component includes a logic control circuit, configured to generate an ith drive control signal based on the ith image signal and repeatedly send the ith drive control signal at a second frequency, wherein the ith drive control signal is configured to control a current flowing through the at least one signal channel end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Tao YANG, Zhitao ZHANG, Xiurong WANG, Qibing GU, Mengmeng WANG, Yifan HOU, Shicai CAO
  • Patent number: 12133056
    Abstract: A display device, a sound producing control method, a method and device for determining parameters. The display device includes a plurality of exciters arranged on the display panel, the display panel producing sound on a screen through the plurality of exciters; wherein, the plurality of the exciters are formed as at least one sound producing unit, each sound producing unit includes at least two exciters, and each exciter in the same sound producing unit is connected to a same audio signal input end, in one sound producing unit, a signal filter is provided on an audio transmission line from the audio signal input end to at least one exciter, and used for low frequency compensation of a sound produced by the entire sound producing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanhui Xi, Xiaomang Zhang, Wenchao Han, Yaqian Ji, Wei Sun, Minglei Chu, Xiangjun Peng, Tiankuo Shi, Zhihua Ji, Yan Sun, Yifan Hou, Chenxi Zhao, Shuo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240321225
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight diffusion parameter generation method, including: selecting and measuring illumination diffusion data of at least one of multiple light emitting regions, wherein the illumination diffusion data includes brightness data of multiple pixels on a display panel and distance data between positions corresponding to multiple pixels and a position where an illuminated light emitting region is located when only one light emitting region is illuminated; preprocessing the illumination diffusion data to obtain an effective pixel; performing function fitting according to data corresponding to multiple effective pixels to obtain a point spread function representing a relationship between diffusion brightness and a diffusion distance; storing a backlight diffusion parameter lookup table, which includes multiple diffusion distance bonding points and diffusion brightness corresponding to each of the diffusion distance bonding points, and also includes a diffusion slope between two adjacent diffusion di
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Huiling XUE, Yifan HOU, Xiangjun PENG, Shuo ZHANG, Qiong WU, Xin DUAN, Wei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240319537
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight diffusion parameter generation method, including: selecting and measuring illumination diffusion data of at least one light emitting region in a plurality of light emitting regions, the illumination diffusion data includes brightness data of a plurality of pixels on a display panel and distance data between positions corresponding to the plurality of pixels and a position where an illuminated light emitting region is located when only one of the light emitting regions is illuminated; preprocessing the illumination diffusion data to obtain an effective pixel; performing function fitting according to data corresponding to a plurality of effective pixels to obtain a point spread function representing a relationship between diffusion brightness and a diffusion distance; and storing a backlight diffusion parameter lookup table, which includes a plurality of sub-tables, each sub-table corresponds to one or more light emitting regions affected when only one light emitting region is illuminat
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Huiling XUE, Yifan HOU, Shuo ZHANG, Xiangjun PENG, Qiong WU, Xin DUAN, Wei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240290010
    Abstract: An image processing method based on a dither algorithm and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-displayed image, and determining a first region and a second region of the to-be-displayed image, where the first region and the second region are determined according to a coverage range of a visual field of a user on a display screen; determining a first dither algorithm corresponding to the first region and a second dither algorithm corresponding to the second region, where parameter matrices the first dither algorithm and the second dither algorithm are different; and obtaining a rendered image of the to-be-displayed image by rendering the first region according to the first dither algorithm and rendering the second region according to the second dither algorithm, and displaying the rendered image on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Xiangjun PENG, Tiankuo SHI, Minglei CHU, Yifan HOU, Yan SUN, Yaofeng LI, Rui LIU, Xin DUAN, Wei SUN, Xiao CHU, Hui LI, Shuo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12067935
    Abstract: A display compensating method, display compensating device, and display device are provided, which relates to field of display and addresses the issues of poor screen uniformity, grayscale relationship change of sub-pixel due to ambient temperature change, and display screen brightness affected by ageing offset of threshold voltage corresponding to the sub-pixel. The display compensating method is applied to the display device, including: converting a received grayscale signal into a brightness signal; performing an optical compensation on a display brightness of the display device based on the brightness signal; converting a corresponding brightness signal on which the optical compensation is performed into a voltage signal; compensating for a threshold voltage corresponding to each sub-pixel in the display device based on the voltage signal; and compensating for operating parameters of the display device for the display device at different operating temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifan Hou, Tiankuo Shi, Zhihua Ji, Xiaomang Zhang, Xin Duan, Wei Sun, Tao Yang, Chenxi Zhao, Xiangjun Peng, Shuo Zhang, Minglei Chu, Yan Sun, Yanhui Xi
  • Publication number: 20240272335
    Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus, including: a display screen including pixel island groups each including at least one pixel island which each includes pixel units; a micro-lens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display screen, and including micro-lenses each corresponding to one pixel island, each micro-lens being configured for imaging an image displayed by the pixel island corresponding thereto; an imaging lens group disposed on a side of the micro-lens array away from the display screen and configured for collimating imaging light of the micro-lenses, the pixel island groups are configured for displaying partial images which form a complete image, and imaging field of view angles formed by outgoing light rays, of the pixel island groups adjacent to each other, passing through the micro-lenses corresponding to the pixel island groups and the imaging lens group are continuous with each other. A display method is further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Qiuyu LING, Wei WANG, Tiankuo SHI, Yifan HOU, Xianqin MENG, Weiting PENG, Xiaochuan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240249690
    Abstract: A dimming method for a display panel is provided, including: acquiring image data of an image to be displayed; determining initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels according to the image data; determining a dimming pixel to be filtered in the dimming screen according to the initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels; determining a first filtering region according to the determined dimming pixel to be filtered; determining a filtering parameter of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region according to a relationship between each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region and initial dimming pixel data of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region; and updating dimming pixel data of the dimming pixel to be filtered according to the filtering parameter of each of dimming pixels in the first filtering region, so as to obtain updated dimming pixel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangjun Peng, Tiankuo Shi, Shuo Zhang, Yifan Hou, Zhihua Ji, Xiaomang Zhang, Xin Duan, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 12033592
    Abstract: Provided is a method for displaying an image, including acquiring a first target image with a third resolution and a second target image with a fourth resolution; determining a reference grayscale value of each of the backlight sections based on grayscale values of respective pixels in the first image region corresponding to the backlight section; determining grayscale values of respective pixels in a first display image based on grayscale values of respective pixels in the first target image; determining grayscale values of respective pixels in a second display image; driving each of the backlight sources to emit light based on the reference grayscale value of the backlight section where the backlight source is disposed; driving the first display panel to perform display based on the first display image; and driving the second display panel to perform display based on the second display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO. , LTD.
    Inventors: Shuo Zhang, Tiankuo Shi, Xiaomang Zhang, Yanhui Xi, Zhihua Ji, Yan Sun, Chenxi Zhao, Xiangjun Peng, Yifan Hou, Minglei Chu
  • Publication number: 20240203314
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method of a display panel, including: determining a target region and a non-target region in the display panel; dividing the target region into a plurality of target sub-regions, and dividing the non-target region into a plurality of non-target sub-regions, wherein an area of the target sub-region is less than that of the non-target sub-region; determining brightness compensation values of each target sub-region and each non-target sub-region according to a gray scale value of each pixel in an input image; determining a compensated brightness of each pixel unit in the display panel according to the gray scale value of each pixel in the input image, the brightness compensation values of each target sub-region and each non-target sub-region; and driving each pixel unit in the display panel to emit light according to the compensated brightness of each pixel unit in the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Yifan HOU, Tiankuo SHI, Zhihua JI, Wei SUN, Xiaomang ZHANG, Minglei CHU, Yan SUN, Shuo ZHANG, Xiangjun PENG
  • Patent number: 11961479
    Abstract: A display device and a method for driving the display device are described, where the display device includes a plurality of pixel island groups, a plurality of lenses, a positioning module, and a gate driving chip. The plurality of pixel island groups are arranged in array, wherein each of the pixel island groups includes a plurality of pixel islands, and different pixel islands are able to be scanned in different scanning modes. The positioning module is configured to determine a gaze area and a non-gaze area according to gazed coordinates of human eye. The gate driving chip is configured to provide gate driving signals in a first driving manner to sub-pixel units in the gaze area, and provide gate driving signals simultaneously in a second driving manner to sub-pixel units in the non-gaze area during a scanning stage of the sub-pixel units in the non-gaze area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tiankuo Shi, Wei Sun, Yifan Hou, Zhihua Ji, Xiaomang Zhang, Rui Liu, Jigang Sun, Yuxin Bi, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 11941318
    Abstract: The present application provides an audio and video playing system, a playing method and a playing device. The system comprises: a display device; a directional sound output module configured to output a directional sound signal; a tracking element configured to monitor a target visual area and to monitor the target display area on the display screen; and a processor, connected with the directional sound output module and the tracking element respectively, and configured to acquire a first audio and video data to be output in the target display area, display image information of the first audio and video data in the target display area, and output sound information of the first audio and video data to the directional sound output module such that the directional sound output module output a directional sound signal towards the target visual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaomang Zhang, Xiangjun Peng, Tiankuo Shi, Chenxi Zhao, Shuo Zhang, Yifan Hou, Yan Sun, Li Tian, Jing Liu, Wei Sun, Zhihua Ji, Yanhui Xi
  • Patent number: 11922848
    Abstract: Provided is a method for compensating a displayed picture in a display screen. The display screen includes a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions including a plurality of pixels; the method includes: determining transformation matrices corresponding to pixels in the plurality of regions based on texture complexities of pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions; acquiring compensated grayscales by compensating grayscales of pixel points in the pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions based on the transformation matrices corresponding to the pixels in the plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiankuo Shi, Yifan Hou, Xiangjun Peng, Chenxi Zhao, Xiaomang Zhang, Minglei Chu, Xin Duan, Wei Sun, Ming Chen, Lingyun Shi
  • Patent number: 11917167
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image compression method, including steps of: acquiring a human-eye fixation point on an original image, and determining a fixation region and a non-fixation region of the original image according to the human-eye fixation point; and compressing the non-fixation region, and generating a compressed image according to the fixation region and the compressed non-fixation region. The present disclosure also provides an image display method, an image compression apparatus, an image display apparatus, and a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Ji, Tiankuo Shi, Xiaomang Zhang, Chingwen Kung, Rui Liu, Yifan Hou, Minglei Chu, Yanhui Xi, Yan Sun, Chenxi Zhao, Xiangjun Peng, Shuo Zhang