Patents Issued in March 28, 2017
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Patent number: 9607528Abstract: A surgery simulator includes a physical surrogate surgical interface that represents an interface between a user and a simulated patient in a simulated surgical scenario that involves manipulation of both simulated hard and soft tissue. Sensor(s) sense the user's manipulation of the surrogate surgical interface. A surgical simulation generator generates a real time 3D surgical simulation of the surgical scenario based on the manipulation sensed by the sensor(s). The real time 3D surgical simulation comprises real time simulation state data. The surgical simulation generator renders the real time simulation state data into a real time computer graphics generated video representation of the surgical simulation and provides the real time video representation to a display for real time viewing by the user. The surgical simulation generator simulates effects of the manipulation on both simulated hard tissue and simulated soft tissue of the simulated patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SIMQUEST INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventors: Dwight A. Meglan, Daniel R. King, Albert Dvornik, Julien Lenoir, Louai Adhami
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Patent number: 9607529Abstract: A method of manufacturing a taxidermy mannequin includes providing a mold having an open end, a wall having an internal surface and an opposing external surface, and an internal cavity surrounded by the internal surface of the wall. The method further includes applying a layer of a mold release material to a portion of the internal surface, applying a powder material on an exposed surface of the mold release material, applying a layer of a glue mixture on an exposed surface of the powder material and the mold release material layer, applying a granular or fibrous material on an exposed surface of the glue mixture layer, allowing the glue mixture to at least partially dry, filling at least a portion of the internal cavity of the mold with a liquid expandable urethane foam, allowing the expandable urethane foam to expand and harden, and removing the taxidermy mannequin from the mold.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: MCKENZIE SPORTS PRODUCTS LLCInventor: Scott Lennard
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Patent number: 9607530Abstract: A label form that includes a sheet material and a substrate piece is disclosed. The sheet material has a covering section and a concealable section connected to the covering section. The reinforcing piece is attached to a surface of the sheet material. When the concealable section is folded under the covering section, at least a portion of the undersurface of the reinforcing piece is revealed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.Inventors: F. Paul Valenti, Jr., Carl Opel, Daniel P. Hedger
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Patent number: 9607531Abstract: A label for use on store shelves in a retail environment. The label include adhesive strips applied to a bottom surface of each label and a top laminate layer with a release coating applied to the top surface of each label.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Weidauer, Michael Wilkinson
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Patent number: 9607532Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system that includes a support member and a sign supported by the support member. The sign may have a generally planar shape and may extend in a plane. The system also includes a repositioning mechanism coupled to the sign and the support member. The repositioning mechanism rotates the sign substantially in-plane. The system may further include a controller for controlling rotation of the sign. In one implementation, the repositioning mechanism is retrofitted on an existing sign and an existing support member. The repositioning mechanism may include a power source attached to the support member that provides power to the repositioning mechanism. The repositioning mechanism may further include a linkage attached to the sign and a transmission for transferring rotational power to the sign, wherein the transmission is interconnected between the power source and the linkage.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Inventors: James Gibson, Wendy Gibson
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Patent number: 9607533Abstract: A vented LED display is described including an LED display panel having a plurality of LEDs disposed thereon and defining a plurality of vent slots between the plurality of LEDs, each of the plurality of vent slots having a vent height. The vented LED display also includes a unitary injection-molded vent having a plurality of louvers and coupled to the LED display panel such that each louver corresponds to at least one vent slot and includes a louver length extending downwardly to at least 75% of the vent height of the corresponding vent slot.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: DIGITAL OUTDOOR LLCInventor: Zeming Qi
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Patent number: 9607534Abstract: A badge mounted on a vehicle is provided herein. The badge includes a housing having a viewable portion. A light source is disposed inside the housing and is configured to direct light toward the viewable portion. Light emitted from the light source illuminates in a plurality of colors which may create a prismatic appearance.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul Kenneth Dellock, Stuart C. Salter, Cornel Lewis Gardner, Michael A. Musleh, Brian Siler
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Patent number: 9607535Abstract: In a method of driving an organic light emitting display device, the organic light emitting display device includes: a plurality of data lines; a plurality of scan lines; and a plurality of pixels coupled to the data lines and the scan lines, the method includes: applying dummy-data signals and pre-data signals to the pixels from respective ones of the scan lines during a non-emission period; and non-sequentially applying scan signals and data signals to the pixels from the respective ones of the scan lines during an emission period, wherein the data signals include data information corresponding to respective subfields in a unit time.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Jung-Tak Kim
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Patent number: 9607536Abstract: A testing apparatus to establish a fault by a process of elimination includes an input unit, a signal converting unit, a switch unit, and a display unit. The input unit receives an input signal and outputs a switch signal. The signal converting unit receives the switch signal and outputs a control signal. The switch unit receives the control signal and outputs a test signal. The display unit receives the test signal and runs a built in self test (BIST) program to test the proper functioning of the display unit. The signal converting unit outputs a data signal and a clock signal to the display unit when the display unit works normally. The signal converting unit not output the data signal and the clock signal to the display unit when the input signal and resulting control signal are repeated.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun-Sheng Chen, Zhen-Sheng Wang
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Patent number: 9607537Abstract: In embodiments of display region refresh, a display panel has addressable display regions that display at different display refresh rates. Display data is buffered to update the addressable display regions, and subsequent display data is received to further update the addressable display regions. A display controller can determine display update deltas that indicate pending display updates based on a comparison of the display data to the subsequent display data. A first addressable display region can then be refreshed at display refresh rate based on a first display update delta that corresponds to the first addressable display region, and a second addressable display region can be refreshed at a different display refresh rate based on a second display update delta that corresponds to the second addressable display region.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rod G. Fleck, Derek Leslie Knee
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Patent number: 9607538Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method for managing power in the electronic device that can control the refresh rate to reduce power consumption. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for managing power in an electronic device that includes: measuring a content rate of a displayed content; and controlling a refresh rate based on the content rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei UniversityInventors: Ho Jung Cha, Dong Won Kim, No Hyun Jung
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Patent number: 9607539Abstract: The present invention discloses a display panel and a drive circuit thereof. The drive circuit comprises: a data signal providing module, generating a data signal; a first select signal generation module, providing a first select signal; a second select signal generation module, providing a second select signal; a select module, comprising a select switch combination receives a first, a second select signal, and outputs the data signal to the pixel array. The present invention can reduce the voltage level changing frequency of the select signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Qingcheng Zuo, Chang Cao
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Patent number: 9607540Abstract: A display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a first substrate with plural pixel units formed thereon, wherein the pixel units at least comprise a first subpixel unit being a blue pixel unit and a second subpixel unit being a green pixel unit, wherein the first subpixel unit comprises a first subpixel electrode comprising a first trunk electrode, and the second subpixel unit comprises a second subpixel electrode comprising a second trunk electrode; and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. When light passes through the display panel, a width of a first dark line corresponding to the first trunk electrode is larger than that of a second dark line corresponding to the second trunk electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chien-Hung Chen, Hsin-Yu Lee, Hsia-Ching Chu, Kuei-Ling Liu, Ming-Chien Sun
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Patent number: 9607541Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of reliably reducing power consumption during pause drive by controlling the timing of performing refresh. When there is an image change in externally inputted RGB data, or when the number of consecutive pause frames reaches a predetermined value, if the number of immediately preceding pause frames is less than a threshold BCTH, image signal refresh is performed once, or if the number of pause frames is greater than or equal to the threshold BCTH, boost charge refresh is performed first, and then, the image signal refresh is performed. As a result, it is rendered possible to reduce flicker due to luminance reduction, and it is also rendered possible to eliminate the need to perform refresh consecutively even if the frequency of RGB data is high (e.g., 30 Hz) during pause drive.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Takuya Sone, Norio Ohmura, Kentaroh Uemura, Kouji Kumada
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Patent number: 9607542Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel driving method, a driving device and a display device, which can improve the time delay of the gate driving signals of a partitioned controlled display panel and reduce the production cost. The display panel comprises at least two time sequence controllers and at least two display areas, each of the time controllers corresponding to one of the display areas respectively; the driving method comprises each of the time sequence controllers obtaining a synchronization signal according to an obtained display signal of the corresponding display area, the synchronization signal comprising a starting time of a first line of scanning signals of the corresponding display area, the time sequence controllers adjusting the starting times of the first lines of the scanning signals according to the synchronization signals of at least one display area so as to make the starting times of the first lines of the scanning signals of all display areas are the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: BEIJING BOE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xin Duan, Xuezheng Li
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Patent number: 9607543Abstract: A driving circuit is provided, a driving unit of the driving circuit includes: a control unit utilized to control an output of a stage transmission signal; a stage transmission signal latch unit utilized to receive the stage transmission signal for generating a latch signal; a first and second scanning signal generation units; a first inverted output unit utilized to invert the first scanning signal; a second inverted output unit utilized to invert the second scanning signal. A configuration of a GOA circuit can be simplified.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sikun Hao, Xin Zhang, Ronglei Dai
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Patent number: 9607544Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a brightness compensating method and a self-illuminating display device. The brightness compensating method includes: retrieving a table of compensation parameters pre-stored in the self-illuminating display device, which includes compensation parameters of the N zones, where a compensation parameter of a zone at higher temperature than the temperature in the reference zone is smaller than G, and a compensation parameter of a zone at lower temperature than the temperature in the reference zone is larger than G; and compensating for the brightness of an image displayed in each of the N zones according to the compensation parameters. The embodiments of the application can be applicable to compensation for the brightness of the self-illuminating display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: HISENSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Lin Lu, Mingsheng Qiao, Jianwei Cao, Zhicheng Song
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Patent number: 9607545Abstract: The present invention discloses a pixel compensation circuit and method for an organic light emitting display. The circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a driving transistor, a capacitor, and an organic light emitting element. The first transistor transmits a data signal to a first plate of the capacitor; the second transistor applies a reference voltage to the first plate of the capacitor; the driving transistor determines a magnitude of a driving current; the third transistor establishes a connection between the gate electrode and the drain electrode of the driving transistor; the fourth transistor passes the driving current from the driving transistor to the organic light emitting element; and the organic light emitting element emits light in response to the driving current.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Qian, Hanyu Gu, Tong Zhang
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Patent number: 9607546Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of pixel circuits comprises an emission unit including an organic light emitting diode, a pixel driving unit configured to drive an emission unit based on a scan signal and a data signal, and a switch unit configured to control an electrical connection between an emission unit and a pixel driving unit based on an emission signal. A first parasitic capacitance between an emission unit included in a first pixel circuit of pixel circuits and a pixel driving unit included in a first pixel circuit is smaller than a second parasitic capacitance between an emission unit included in a first pixel circuit and a pixel driving unit included in a second pixel circuit of pixel circuits adjacent to a first pixel circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chang-Yeop Kim
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Patent number: 9607547Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display capable of preventing lowering of brightness and prolonging its a lifespan, and a driving method thereof. The organic light emitting display controls a level of a gate signal, by outputting a gate high voltage after controlling a level of the gate high voltage, according to a level of a threshold voltage sensed from each pixel of a display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: KiSu Park, JeongHwan Kim
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Patent number: 9607548Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of subpixels, each subpixel including a luminescent element, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of image signal lines, a plurality of reset power source lines, a first power source line, a scanning line driving circuit and a signal line driving circuit, wherein at least one subpixel comprises an output switch, a driving transistor, a retaining capacitance, a pixel switch and a reset switch, and the output switch is shared with a plurality of subpixels included in at least one pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kimura, Tetsuo Morita, Hiroshi Tabatake
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Patent number: 9607549Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display panel and an OLED display device have a sensing driving stabilizer that can increase accuracy in sensing and compensation by providing potential stability to a reference voltage line acting as a sensing line during the sensing driving.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryosuke Tani, SungJin Hong, NaYoung Bae
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Patent number: 9607550Abstract: A scanning line driving device drives scanning lines in a display unit including data lines each connected to a plurality of pixels arranged in a column direction and the scanning lines each connected to a plurality of pixels arranged in a row direction, the pixels arranged at respective intersections of the data lines and the scanning lines. The device is configured to sequentially keep each of the scanning lines in a selected state pursuant to a predetermined order and output a scanning line drive signal, which is set to a low level in a high-luminance display drive and to a high level in a low-luminance display drive, to all the scanning lines during a blanking period between a period in which one scanning line is kept selected and a period in which a next scanning line is kept selected.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Terukazu Sugimoto, Keisuke Kawana
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Patent number: 9607551Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device is provided. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising: a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to a scan line, a first electrode connected to a data line and a second electrode connected to a first node; a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first node, a first electrode connected to a first power supply voltage and a second electrode connected to a second node; a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to a sensing control line, a first electrode connected to the scan line and a second electrode connected to the second node; and an organic light-emitting element including an anode electrode connected to the second node and a cathode electrode connected to a second power supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Gyu Kim, Na Young Kim
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Patent number: 9607552Abstract: A display device and a luminance control method therefore are provided. The display device comprises a luminance controller that establishes multiple peak luminance control (PLC) points by equally dividing a PLC curve and limits the luminance at the PLC point corresponding to the highest average pixel level (APL) at the initial luminance as the PLC curve slopes downward.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyongho Lim
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Patent number: 9607553Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display and a method for sensing driving characteristics thereof are discussed. The organic light emitting diode display supplies a data voltage of an input image to pixels each including an organic light emitting diode in a driving mode and senses changes in driving characteristics of the pixels in a sensing mode. The organic light emitting diode display in one example includes a low potential power voltage adjustment unit configured to reduce a low potential power voltage of the pixels to a negative voltage in the sensing mode and adjust the low potential power voltage to a ground level voltage in the driving mode, and a sensing unit configured to sense an anode voltage of the organic light emitting diode using an analog-to-digital converter in the sensing mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiwoong Park
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Patent number: 9607554Abstract: An image pickup device, having first, second and third imaging modes, includes: a camera; a display that displays a video image obtained by the camera in the first, second and third imaging modes; and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least left and right directions. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the right direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the right direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the left direction in the third imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the left direction in the second imaging mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
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Patent number: 9607555Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit that includes a plurality of light-emitting devices; a display unit; a first determination unit configured to determine, in a region, whether a ratio of a total number of first type pixels is a first ratio or more; a second determination unit configured to determine, in the region, whether a ratio of a total number of second type pixels is a second ratio or more, when the determination result of the first determination unit is affirmative; and a control unit configured to increase emission brightness of a target device based on the determination result of the second determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takushi Kimura
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Patent number: 9607556Abstract: In one embodiment, a dual modulator display systems and methods for rendering target image data upon the dual modulator display system are disclosed where the display system receives target image data, possible HDR image data and first calculates display control signals and then calculates backlight control signals from the display control signals. This order of calculating display signals and then backlight control signals later as a function of the display systems may tend to reduce clipping artifacts. In other embodiments, it is possible to split the input target HDR image data into a base layer and a detail layer, wherein the base layer is the low spatial resolution image data that may be utilized as for backlight illumination data. The detail layer is higher spatial resolution image data that may be utilized for display control data.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Robin Atkins, Rabab Kreidieh Ward
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Patent number: 9607557Abstract: An electrowetting display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode that receives a gray-scale voltage and a second electrode insulated from the first electrode and receiving a reference voltage, a second substrate, a fluid layer, and a color filter. The color filter has a first thickness in an area corresponding to the first electrode and a second thickness in an area corresponding to the second electrode, and the first thickness is larger than the second thickness. Accordingly, a cell gap of the electrowetting display apparatus is reduced, and color reproducibility of the electrowetting display apparatus is improved without sacrificing brightness.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sanghyun Lee, Yungkyung Park, Dohyoung Kwon, Gichang Park, Jongseo Lee, Andrea Giraldo, Nicolas Bergeron
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Patent number: 9607558Abstract: Power levels of a backlight are adjusted in a number of ways and based on a number of criteria. The adjustments result in a lower power consumption and, in some cases, may enhance audience attention to important objects in a scene. The adjustments comprise, for example, a combination of ramping down power (lowering final display brightness) in concert with corresponding compensatory LCD adjustments (increasing final display brightness). The adjustments may also include, for example, system dimming after ramp down/LCD adjustments are exhausted, or the shifting of an LDR2HDR curve.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Damir Wallener, Neil W. Messmer
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Patent number: 9607559Abstract: A charge-sharing controlling method and a display panel are disclosed. The charge-sharing controlling method is suitable for the display panel including plural sub-pixels. The charge-sharing controlling method includes following steps: determining whether the display panel is displaying a primary color screen; if the display panel is displaying a primary color screen, prolonging an activated time of a charge-sharing circuit, which is coupled between any two of the sub-pixels displaying the same color, adjacent to each other and having opposite polarities.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chun-Kuei Wen, Yu-Ting Huang, Hung-Min Shih, Tian-Hua Su
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Patent number: 9607560Abstract: Discussed are an LCD device and a method of driving the same in which, by decreasing the number of lines of a PCB, the manufacturing cost is saved, and the influence of noise is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: SunUng Kim, JungSik Park, JunHo Yoo, JaeHoon Park
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Patent number: 9607561Abstract: An image determination part configured to determine whether or not an image based on an input image signal is an image analogous to a polarity reversal pattern in a reversal driving scheme employed by default and to output a determination result, and a reversal pattern decision part configured to decide a reversal driving scheme based on the determination result are provided as constituent elements anterior to a liquid crystal drive unit. With regard to each unit area where the determination by the image determination part is made, the reversal pattern decision part decides the reversal driving scheme in the unit area, as a reversal driving scheme different from the reversal driving scheme employed by default, when the determination result indicates that the image based on the input image signal is the image analogous to the polarity reversal pattern in the reversal driving scheme employed by default.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
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Patent number: 9607562Abstract: A method of driving a display panel is proposed. The method includes determining whether an input image data represents a video image or a static image, determining whether an image transition occurs in the input image data when the input image data represents the static image, and inserting a plurality of image sticking compensation frames between normal frames in a low frequency driving when the image transition occurs in the input image data between the normal frames. The number of the image sticking compensation frame may be properly adjusted during a cycle of low frequency driving.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gi-Geun Kim, Jung-Won Kim, Ja-Kyoung Jin, Nam-Gon Choi
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Patent number: 9607563Abstract: A liquid crystal display device supplies an active scan signal to each scan line while skipping a portion of a plurality of the scan lines, per one horizontal scan period, in a direction of the m-th to the first scan lines, by a first scan line drive circuit, and supplies the active scan signal to each scan line while skipping the portion of the plurality of the scan lines, per one horizontal scan period, in a direction of the m+1-th to the 2m-th scan lines, by a second scan line drive circuit. Therefore, the liquid crystal display device synchronizes with a timing of supplying the active signal with the first scan line drive circuit and the second scan line drive circuit, and supplies a data signal whose polarity is inverted to a positive polarity potential and a negative polarity potential per one horizontal scan period, to a data line.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Yatabe, Kazuhisa Mizusako, Nariya Takahashi
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Patent number: 9607564Abstract: A clock generator circuit of a liquid display panel includes a charge sharing switch unit, a first capacitor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch and a fourth switch. The charge sharing switch unit is configured to receive control signals and accordingly output a first-polarity voltage to the first capacitor. The clock generator circuit is configured to turn on the first switch, the second switch, the third switch and the fourth switch according to a specific sequence thereby outputting a clock signal. An operation method for the aforementioned clock generator circuit is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chun-Kuei Wen, Yu-Ting Huang, Hung-Min Shih, Kuan-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 9607565Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that comprises: a display panel; a level shifter shifting a start pulse, an initialization pulse, and N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2)-phase shift clocks to a predetermined voltage; and a gate shift register comprising multiple stages respectively connected to scan lines of the display panel and shifting the start pulse in response to the N-phase shift clocks within a driving period defined by the start pulse to sequentially output a scan pulse, wherein the stages are simultaneously reset in response to the initialization pulse and the N-phase shift clocks within an initialization period preceding the driving period.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTDInventor: Hyunjae Lee
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Patent number: 9607566Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having gate lines and source lines, a GIP circuit which drives the gate lines and a source driver IC3 which drives the source lines. The source driver IC3 includes a gate control signal generator which generates gate control signals SOUT1-SOUTn which control the GIP circuit. The gate control signal generator is configured so that it is possible to control the waveforms of the gate control signals SOUT1-SOUTn in software.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SYNAPTICS JAPAN GKInventors: Satoshi Saito, Kota Kitamura, Hajime Tanabe
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Patent number: 9607567Abstract: A display panel comprising a light guide plate; a main light source configured to emit light from a first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a first direction; a sub-light source configured to emit light from a second lateral surface vertical to the first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a liquid crystal panel provided in a front surface of the light guide plate and configured to output image information.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seungmin Seen, Seongcheol Lee, Gunseek Oh, Jongin Im, Jeongwoo Lee
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Patent number: 9607568Abstract: A display panel driver includes: a grayscale amplifier receiving an input grayscale reference voltage and generating an output grayscale reference voltage corresponding to the input grayscale reference voltage; a voltage dividing resistor receiving the output grayscale reference voltage and generating a plurality of grayscale voltages by using the received output grayscale reference voltage; a decoder circuit selecting grayscale voltages from among the plurality of grayscale voltages in response to image data and outputting the selected grayscale voltages; and an output circuit outputting drive voltages corresponding to the selected grayscale voltages to output terminals to be connected to source lines of a display panel. The grayscale amplifier is configured such that the output grayscale reference voltage is adjustable by adjusting an offset voltage of the grayscale amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SYNAPTICS JAPAN GKInventor: Takao Kinsho
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Patent number: 9607569Abstract: To provide a small driver IC, in a pass transistor logic circuit that converts k-bit digital signals into analog signals, transistors supplied with a first-bit signal are arranged in a line in the channel width direction. The channel width of transistors supplied with second to kth-bit signals is made larger than (e.g., preferably larger than two times and smaller than eight times) that of the transistors supplied with the first-bit signal. The transistors are preferably arranged such that transistors of the same conductivity type are located adjacent to each other wherever possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Keita Sato
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Patent number: 9607570Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a magnifying tool is provided in a user interface for magnifying content displayed on a mobile device and any other device with a restricted or limited viewing screen. A mobile device, including a magnifying tool for magnifying content displayed on the mobile device, can comprise a computer readable storage medium and processor. The mobile device can include a touchscreen operable to receive input from a user and display content. When the mobile device receives a selection of a location on the touchscreen, the mobile device determines a position of the location on the screen, determines a portion of the screen to magnify, and magnifies the portion of the screen and overlays the magnified portion on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Brandon Yoshimoto, Hugh Zhang, Prashant Singh
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Patent number: 9607571Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device, the method comprising: acquiring a first value of a first parameter by the first sensor; acquiring a second value of the first parameter by the second sensor; judging whether a difference value between the first value and the second value is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not; determining a third value based on a first algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the third value as a value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is larger than or equal to the first threshold; determining a fourth value based on a second algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the fourth value as the value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is smaller than the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Tao Sun, Zhenhua Zhang, Wenjun Gao, Ke Shang, Guang Yang
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Patent number: 9607572Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are described. The method includes acquiring a first sensing parameter through a first sensor; determining whether the first sensing parameter satisfies a first predetermined condition, the first predetermined condition being a distance threshold of a distance between an object that operates the electronic device and a display output area to which a display unit of the first display module of the electronic device corresponds; generating a first control instruction when the first sensing parameter satisfies the first predetermined condition; and controlling the first display module to switch from a first state to a second state based on the first control instruction.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Su, Zhijun Gao
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Patent number: 9607573Abstract: A method, system and computer program for modifying avatar motion. The method includes receiving an input motion, determining an input motion model for the input motion sequence, and modifying an avatar motion model associated with the stored avatar to approximate the input motion model for the input motion sequence when the avatar motion model does not approximate the input motion model. The stored avatar is presented after the avatar motion model associated with the stored avatar is modified to approximate the input motion model for the input motion sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dimitri Kanevsky, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 9607574Abstract: A method and device for data compression are presented, in which a data processor may receive a packet of image data which includes four groups of N bits, where N is an integer greater than 2. The data processor may compress the received packet of data, such that a total number of bits for the converted packet is less than four times N. The data processor may compress the received packet of image data by reducing the resolution of three of the values while maintaining the resolution of the fourth value. To reduce the resolution of the three values, the data processor may apply a dithering formula to the values. The data processor may then send the converted packet via an interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter F. Holland, Brijesh Tripathi
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Patent number: 9607575Abstract: A display mode adjusting method and a display mode adjusting module executing the adjusting method are provided. The method includes the following steps: generating a saturation adjusting output color according to an input color to adjust the saturation; obtaining a relative color temperature adjusting parameter according to a target color temperature and an original optical characteristic of a display device; generating a color temperature adjusting output color according to the saturation adjusting output color and the relative color temperature adjusting parameter to adjust the color temperature; obtaining a brightness adjustment value according to the brightness of ambient light to adjust the brightness. Therefore, the display mode of the display device is adjusted to suitable for reading, which avoids the eyestrain when the users read for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.Inventor: Chih-Jung Wang
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Patent number: 9607576Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for generating images on a display using a hybrid scalar-vector dithering process. The hybrid scalar-vector dithering process includes a combination of a scalar dithering process and a vector dithering process. In the scalar dithering process, at least one color subfield is dithered based on the data within just that color subfield. In the vector dithering process, data across multiple color subfields is dithered together. In some implementations, the color subfield processed by the scalar dithering process is a composite color subfield, such as white (W), yellow (Y), cyan (C) and magenta (M). The color subfields processed by the vector dithering process can be component color subfields, such as red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color subfields. In some implementations, an identical dither mask is applied in both the vector and scalar portions of the hybrid scalar-vector dithering process.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.Inventor: Edward Buckley
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Patent number: 9607577Abstract: An image is displayed on an electronic display device at a reduced power level. Power used by the display device is maintained below a predetermined maximum power level by uniformly scaling the initial optical intensity of an image to a lower optical intensity whenever displaying the image at the initial optical intensity would result in power consumption of the display device exceeding the predetermined maximum power level.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: PRYSM, INC.Inventors: Roger Hajjar, Anand Budni