Patents Issued in November 21, 2017
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Patent number: 9824628Abstract: A display device includes: a first pixel including a display element, a pixel circuit to provide a driving signal to the display element, a first transistor to control a connection between the pixel circuit and the display element, and a second transistor to control a connection between the display element and a repair line; a second pixel including a repair circuit to provide the driving signal to the repair line; and a repair control element connected to first and second control lines that are connected to gate electrodes of the first and second transistors, respectively, and configured to control the first and second transistors according to a repair control signal provided by a controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ji Su Na
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Patent number: 9824629Abstract: The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes the 5T1C structure and comprises a first, a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth thin film transistors (M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5), a capacitor (C1) and an organic light emitting diode (D1). The AMOLED pixel driving circuit directly acquires a threshold voltage of the fourth thin film transistor (M4), i.e. the drive thin film transistor to implement threshold voltage compensation; by inputting the data signal (Data) to the source of the fourth thin film transistor (M4), i.e. the drive thin film transistor, the circuit reads the data signal (Data) at the same time while acquiring the threshold voltage of the drive thin film transistor to promote the working efficiency of the circuit; by setting one end of the capacitor (C1) to be coupled to a gate of the fourth thin film transistor (M4), i.e.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chenglei Nie
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Patent number: 9824630Abstract: A pixel unit structure of an organic light emitting diode display panel includes a switch transistor, a storage capacitor, an organic light emitting diode, a driving transistor, a reset circuit, and a control circuit. The organic light emitting diode is controlled by the driving transistor and the control circuit to emit light. The pixel unit operates in a number of time events repeating in sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chung-Wen Lai, Sheng-Han Li
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Patent number: 9824631Abstract: In a display element such as an organic EL element, deterioration progresses due to light emission, and emission luminance is lowered even if the same voltage is applied to the display element. Therefore, use over time causes variations in luminance of each pixel, thereby a so-called “image burn-in” phenomenon occurs. Given this factor, the invention provides a display device which can reduce the difference in deterioration of a display element in each pixel and suppress variations in light emission of a display element in a pixel. It is prevented that only a specific pixel has a long accumulated lighting time. For that purpose, a gray scale of a display pattern is changed to prevent the difference in deterioration of display element in pixels from increasing. Alternatively, a specific display pattern is prevented from being fixedly displayed in a specific region.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Umezaki, Yasunori Yoshida, Hideaki Shishido, Takuya Kimishima, Yasuyuki Arai
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Patent number: 9824632Abstract: Circuits for programming a circuit with decreased programming time are provided. Such circuits include a storage device such as a capacitor for storing display information and for ensuring a driving device such as a driving transistor drives a light emitting device according to the display information. To increase programming time, the pixel circuits may be pre-charged or a biasing current may be applied to charge and/or discharge a data line and/or the driving device. Aspects of the present disclosure allow for the biasing current to drain partially through the storage device to allow the portion of the biasing current applied to the driving device to remain small while the data line discharges. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides display architectures and operation schemes for display arranged in segments each including a plurality of pixel circuits.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Yaser Azizi, Maran Ran Ma, Arokia Nathan
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Patent number: 9824633Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and a method for driving the same.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haigang Qing, Xiaojing Qi
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Patent number: 9824634Abstract: An OLED display device includes an OLED display panel on which subpixels are disposed, a gamma reference voltage supply circuit supplying gamma reference voltages that are variable during driving and when sensing a threshold voltage, and a data driver supplying data voltages based on the gamma reference voltages to data lines. The data driver senses a voltage of a sensing node within each of the subpixels in sensing mode. A timing controller controls the data driver, and performs a compensation process based on the voltage sensed by the data driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Seong-Eok Han, Junghyun Lee, Yonghan Jo
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Patent number: 9824635Abstract: An exemplary land mobile radio control head and method are provided. In one embodiment, the control head has the capability to utilize halo light of the control head to implement a multi-function indicator that communicates a state of the land mobile radio. In another embodiment, the control head has the capability to provide buffer images constructed from data received from the land mobile radio into a video stream for rendering on an electroluminescent display. In another embodiment, the control head provides the capability for a user to modify a configuration stored on the land mobile radio that defines one of several display modes to be utilized in generating data for use in forming images to be rendered on an electroluminescent display.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: E.F. Johnson CompanyInventors: Troy Frandsen, William Earl Dunnigan, Dulie Reavill
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Patent number: 9824636Abstract: A display device and a method of adjusting backlight brightness of the display device are provided. The method includes converting original RGB signals of each pixel to corresponding RGBW signals; determining the color and original brightness value of each pixel based on the gray value ratio of the original RGB signals of each pixel; determining the backlight brightness value of each pixel based on the color of each pixel after the original RGB signals being converted; and performing weighted average calculation on the backlight brightness values of each pixel after the signals being converted, so as to obtain a whole backlight brightness adjustment value of all pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Zhongjun Chen, Xue Dong, Renwei Guo, Peng Liu, Mubing Li, Jinghua Miao
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Patent number: 9824637Abstract: A device, such as an electrowetting display device, includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. A pixel region is on the first substrate. The device includes an input line for applying a driving voltage to a capacitor associated with the pixel region to control a luminance of the pixel region, wherein, after the driving voltage is applied to the capacitor, the pixel region exhibits a reduction in a luminance of the pixel region over time. An illumination device is configured to illuminate at least a portion of the pixel region. A timing controller is configured to modify an output of the illumination device to compensate for the reduction in the luminance of the pixel region over time.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Petrus Maria de Greef
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Patent number: 9824638Abstract: A display device including a display panel, a timing controller, a backlight unit, and a backlight controller. The display panel includes a plurality of display blocks, and receives an image signal and display an image. The backlight unit includes a-numbered red light sources, b-numbered green light sources (a and b are natural numbers, b<a), and a-numbered blue light sources, and provides light to the display panel. The backlight controller calculates a red luminance average, a green luminance average, and a blue luminance average of the block image signals, respectively, controls a duty ratio of the red light sources based on the red and green luminance averages, controls a duty ratio of the green light sources based on the green luminance average, and controls a duty ratio of the blue light sources based on the blue and green luminance averages.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong-hoon Kwon, Junghyun Kim, Seokhyun Nam, Hee-kwang Song, Ho-sik Shin
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Patent number: 9824639Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a plurality of light emitting units; a display panel; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire brightness information, a first control unit configured to determine light emission quantity for each of the light emitting units; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a detected value of light from a predetermined region; a first determination unit configured to determine whether a change due to a difference of the light emission quantity between the light emitting units is generated in the light from the predetermined region; a calibration unit configured to perform calibration of display characteristics; and a second control unit configured to control the calibration on the basis of a determination result of the first determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiyuki Nagashima
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Patent number: 9824640Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit, a light emission amount of which is variably controllable; a display unit configured to display an image by modulating, according to image data, light emitted from the light-emitting unit; and a control unit configured to control the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit according to a maximum and a minimum of a pixel value in a frame. The control unit maximizes the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit irrespective of the maximum when the minimum is larger than a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 9824641Abstract: There is disclosed a method of driving an electrophoresis display device including a display unit having a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode opposite to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a first and second electrophoresis particles that are disposed between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the common electrode, the method including applying a first or second potential to each of the pixel electrodes, and applying the first or second potential, which is periodically switched, to the common electrode, when an image displayed on the display unit is rewritten, wherein, when the first and second potentials are periodically applied to the common electrode, the application of the first potential for a first application time and the application of the second potential for a second application time different from the first application time are repeatedly performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Miyazaki, Kazuki Imai
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Patent number: 9824642Abstract: Rendering techniques are disclosed for displays capable of adjusting/changing the angle of individual pixels (or pixel groups), referred to herein as textured displays. The textured displays may be capable of creating on demand textures which may be used to simulate the surface of an object in a scene. The rendering techniques may be used to improve upon the realism of rendered scenes/objects and they may provide users with a unique rendering experience whereby the textured display physically changes to mimic textures of the rendered scenes/objects. This can be achieved by sending geometric data, such as surface normal information, to individual pixels of the textured display. Other factors may be considered when adjusting the angle of individual pixels of the textured display, such as whether the user is experiencing too much glare.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nathan R. Andrysco, Kevin L. Lin
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Patent number: 9824643Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provides an array substrate, a pixel driving method, and a display device, and the array substrate is provided with a first pixel unit set used to display a first image, and pixel units in the first pixel unit set are coupled to a first gate line set in the plurality of gate lines; a second pixel unit set configured to display a second image, and pixel units in the second pixel unit set are coupled to a second gate line set in the plurality of gate lines; the pixel units in the first pixel unit set and the pixel units in the second pixel unit set are alternately provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Chulgyu Jung
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Patent number: 9824644Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display element includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines orthogonal to the plurality of scanning lines. A pixel of the display element includes sub-pixels of a plurality of colors to be respectively formed in the regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines. The size of a sub-pixel of a predetermined color among the plurality of colors is larger than the sizes of the sub-pixels of the other colors. Switching elements of the display element are connected to the scanning lines and the signal lines and drive the sub-pixels, respectively, and are formed into different shapes corresponding to the sub-pixels with different sizes.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masato Nakamura
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Patent number: 9824645Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first, second, and third interconnects, switch elements, pixel electrodes, a display layer, first, and second color filters, and a controller. The first interconnects extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction. The second interconnects extend in the second direction and are arranged in the first direction. The switch elements are electrically connected to the first and second interconnects. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the switch elements. The third interconnects extend in the second direction and are arranged in the first direction. The display layer performs an optical operation of light emission or a change of an optical characteristic. The first color filters are of a first color. The second color filters of a second color have a higher visibility than the first color. The controller is electrically connected to the first, second, and third interconnects.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Toshiaki Fukushima
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Patent number: 9824646Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display area in which pixels are disposed in a matrix with rows and columns. The display area includes first and second configuration columns. The first configuration column is a column where first pixels are aligned. The first pixels each include a pixel electrode including first and second areas. In the first area, electrodes extending in a first direction inclined to the column direction are disposed. In the second area, electrodes extending in a second direction inclined differently from the first direction are disposed. The second configuration column is a column where second and third pixels are alternately aligned. The second pixels each include a pixel electrode including electrodes extending in a third direction inclined to the column direction. The third pixels each include a pixel electrode including electrodes extending in a fourth direction inclined differently from the third direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Ryou Shimmen
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Patent number: 9824647Abstract: A controlling method of a display apparatus, which includes pixels each including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, includes receiving image data in a unit of frame, analyzing the image data to extract pixel data with respect to a first pixel among the pixels and block data with respect to a first block of a backlight unit, which corresponds to the first pixel, normalizing the pixel data and the block data, comparing the normalized pixel data and the normalized block data, and generating white compensation data corresponding to the white sub-pixel on the basis of the compared result.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho-Sik Shin, Junghyun Kim, Yong-hoon Kwon, Hee-kwang Song
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Patent number: 9824648Abstract: A transparent display apparatus and a method for driving transparent display panel thereof are provided. The transparent display apparatus includes a transparent display panel, an image processor and a display driver. The image processor receives a display data signal having multiple display data and a transparency control signal having transparency values to provide multiple driving data. When each of display data corresponds to a transparent state, the image processor sets the corresponding driving data according to a predetermined transparent state gray-level corresponding. When each of display data corresponds to a non-transparent state, the image processor transforms the each of display data into the driving data corresponding to the non-transparent state. The display driver drives the transparent display panel to display a display frame having all gradations of a black state, a white state and the transparent state according the driving data.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD.Inventors: Pei-Lin Hsieh, Hsiang-Tan Lin
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Patent number: 9824649Abstract: A gray scale control system for a liquid crystal display (LCD) positioned in a vehicle may include a microcontroller unit, a filter, and a switching network. The microcontroller unit may include a PWM port that is configured to supply a PWM signal to a LCD segment of the LCD. The filter may be operable to adjust voltage applied to the LCD segment. The switching network may include a switch device that is connected to the filter. The switching network is operable by the microcontroller unit to electrically couple and decouple the filter between the PWM port and the LCD segment by way of the switch device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shunji Yamauchi, Kazuki Kita
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Patent number: 9824650Abstract: A method for an electronic device with a display unit and an electronic device are provided. The method may comprise: obtaining an environmental parameter under an environment where the electronic device is disposed when the display unit is in a first display status, the environmental parameter including at least an environmental color temperature parameter of the environment and configured for adjusting the display status of the display unit; determining whether to adjust the display status based on at least the environmental color temperature parameter included in the environmental parameter to get a first determination result; and adjusting the display status from the first display status to a second display status different from the first display status if the first determination result indicates that it is to adjust the display status.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Zhenhua Zhang, Ke Shang
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Patent number: 9824651Abstract: A display device disclosed includes a liquid crystal panel (6), and an image optimization circuit (4) for switching, in accordance with an update frequency of image data, between (i) a first mode in which a liquid crystal driver (7) is driven at a first driving frequency and (ii) a second mode in which the liquid crystal driver (7) is driven at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency. The display device can therefore be used even in a case where a transmission path for image data is limited and optimally display high-resolution image data with reduced electric power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Umekida, Kenji Maeda, Tatsuo Watanabe, Masayuki Natsumi, Yuichi Sato, Kazuya Takayama
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Patent number: 9824652Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel which displays an image; a data driver which supplies a data voltage to the display panel in response to a polarity control signal, where the polarity control signal controls a polarity of the data voltage; a timing controller which outputs a polarity signal corresponding to a polarity of the data voltage; and a polarity converter which receives a common voltage from a common electrode of the display panel and the polarity signal from the timing controller, where the polarity converter outputs the polarity control signal to the data driver in response to a difference in voltage level between the common voltage from the common electrode and the polarity signal from the timing controller.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunmi Kim, Kihyun Pyun, Sung-Jun Kim, Kyung-Hwa Lim, Juhyun Kim, Yongjae Lee, Jeongdoo Lee
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Patent number: 9824653Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a display panel including data lines, scan lines and a plurality of pixels connected to the data lines and the scan lines; a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the data lines; and a timing controller configured to control operation timings of the scan driver and the data driver, where the timing controller is configured to output a plurality of scan output enable signals to the scan driver, and the scan driver is configured to supply odd scan signals to odd scan lines based on a first scan output enable signal of the scan output enable signals and to supply even scan signals to even scan lines based on a second scan output enable signal of the scan output enable signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Su-Hyeong Park, Ji-Myoung Seo, Ho-Yong Jung, Eun-Ho Lee, Cheol-Woo Park
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Patent number: 9824654Abstract: A pixel portion has a liquid crystal sandwiched between a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The liquid crystal is driven in response to a potential difference between a voltage applied to the pixel electrode and a voltage applied to the common electrode, and incident light is modulated in the liquid crystal in response to the potential difference. A drive portion has: a transistor that has a gate terminal connected to the row scanning line, is subjected to a conduction control based on a row selection signal supplied to the row scanning line, and selectively receives a pixel signal supplied to a column data line; a holding capacitance portion that holds the pixel signal selectively received from the column data line through the transistor; and a gate capacitance portion having one electrode portion connected to the gate terminal of the transistor, and the other electrode portion given a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventor: Masato Furuya
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Patent number: 9824655Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a gate line, source lines, and switching elements connected to the gate line and the respective source lines. A gate driver selects the gate line. A source driver supplies an image signal to the source lines. The image signals can be supplied to pixel electrodes through the switching elements. A frame period includes a first scan period in which the gate line is selected, a first hold period subsequent to the first scan period, a second scan period in which the gate line is selected subsequent to the first hold period, and a second hold period subsequent to the second scan period. The first hold period is longer than the second hold period.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daiichi Suzuki, Yukio Tanaka, Hirofumi Wakemoto
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Patent number: 9824656Abstract: A gate driver unit, a gate driver circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. In the gate driver unit, an input module is configured to pull up a voltage at a pulling-up node to a high level, the pulling-up node being a connection node of an output end of the input module and a control end of an output module; the output module is configured to output a gate driving signal under a control of a second dock signal; a pulling-up module is configured to reverse the voltage at the pulling-up node under a control of a fourth clock signal; a pulling-down module is configured to reverse a voltage at an output end of the output module under a control of the second clock signal; and a reset module is configured to reset the output end of the output module.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mo Chen, Jinliang Liu, Jian Zhao
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Patent number: 9824657Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a liquid crystal display are provided, wherein the gate driving circuit comprises a gate pulse modulator and a controlling circuit, the controlling circuit comprises at least one sub controlling circuit; an input terminal of each sub controlling circuit of the at least one sub controlling circuit is connected to an output terminal of the gate pulse modulator; an output terminal of each sub controlling circuit is connected to a power source; the power source outputs a level signal to each sub controlling circuit; each sub controlling circuit controls a conduction between each sub controlling circuit and the gate pulse modulator according to the level signal, so as to control the gate driving circuit to output at least one gate driving voltage. The present disclosure may generate a plurality of gate driving voltages, thereby increasing the display effect of the liquid crystal display.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Xianming Zhang, Dan Cao
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Patent number: 9824658Abstract: A GOA circuit and an LCD device. The GOA circuit includes multiple cascaded GOA units, and each includes a transferring circuit, a latch circuit and an output circuit. In a forward scanning, the transferring circuit receives a (N?1)th stage-transfer signal of a (N?1)th stage, and sending to the latch circuit. In a backward scanning, the transferring circuit receives a (N+1)th stage-transfer signal of a (N+1)th stage, and sending to the latch circuit. In the canning period, the latch circuit receives a first clock signal and a second clock signal simultaneously, and outputs an Nth stage-transfer signal the same as the first clock signal and opposite to the second clock signal. The output circuit receives the Nth stage-transfer signal, and outputs an Nth scanning signal the same as the Nth stage-transfer signal. The present invention utilizes two clock signals to commonly drive the GOA circuit to improve the stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Shangcao Cao
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Patent number: 9824659Abstract: A shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The shift register comprises a pull-up node control unit, a pull-down node control unit, a pull-up output unit, a noise reduction unit, and a touch scanning control unit. Herein, the pull-up node control unit is connected to a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, and a pull-up node (PU); the pull-down node control unit is connected to a high level terminal (VGH), a low level terminal (VGL) and the pull-up node (PU) and a pull-down node (PD); the pull-up output unit is connected to a clock signal input terminal (CLK), the pull-up node (PU), a signal output terminal (Output); the noise reduction unit is connected to the pull-up node (PD) and the low level terminal (VGL); the touch scanning control unit is connected to a control signal input terminal (SW), the pull-up node (PU), the signal output terminal (Output), and the low level terminal (VGL).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Honggang Gu, Chuncheng Che, Xiaohe Li, Xianjie Shao, Jie Song
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Patent number: 9824660Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller which receives a first image signal and a first control signal from an external device and outputs a second image signal and a second control signal, and a data driving part including a plurality of source integrated circuits (“IC”s) having different channel numbers based on a distance thereof from the timing controller, in which the data driving part receives the second image signal and the second control signal and outputs a third image signal and a third control signal to the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Bong-Hyun You
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Patent number: 9824661Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel blocks, each pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks including a first pixel electrode connected to a first switching element and a second pixel electrode connected to a second switching element; gate lines which extend along a first direction and include a first gate line connected to the first switching element and a second gate line connected to the second switching element; and data lines which extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction. A gate voltage is applied to the first gate line before the second gate line, and the first pixel electrode of each of the pixel blocks displays a same color.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-Man Kim, Hong-Woo Lee, Jong-Hwan Lee, Hyeon-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hyuk Lee
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Patent number: 9824662Abstract: The present disclosure provides a Thin Film Transistor Array Substrate and a Liquid Crystal Display apparatus thereof, and relates to the technical field of liquid crystal displaying. The Thin Film Transistor Array Substrate of the present disclosure includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein regions surrounded by the gate lines and the data lines are pixel regions, and wherein a high level common voltage line being used when signal on the data line is at a low level and a low level common voltage lines being used when signal on the data line is at a high level are also arranged in parallel to the gate lines in each of the pixel regions. With the Thin Film Transistor Array Substrate of the present disclosure, the Greenish phenomenon in the existing liquid crystal display apparatus may be effectively solved.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chao Xu, Chunfang Zhang, Yan Wei, Heecheol Kim
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Patent number: 9824663Abstract: A waveform-shaping circuit, a liquid crystal display device having the same, and a driving method for the same are provided. The device includes a pixel unit, a data line for transmitting a data signal to the pixel unit, a clock signal generation chip for generating a first clock signal and a second clock signal, a waveform-shaping circuit connected with the clock signal generation chip for receiving the first clock signal and the second clock signal, outputting a scanning signal having a trimmed rising edge as a chamfered waveform according to the first clock signal and the second clock signal, and a scanning signal for transmitting the scanning signal having the trimmed rising edge to the pixel unit. The present invention can reduce the waveform difference of the scanning signals at two sides and a middle portion of a panel in order to increase the display quality of the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Hua Zhang
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Patent number: 9824664Abstract: A calibration device for a display device having a plurality of image quality adjustment items, the calibration device comprises a storage unit that stores set values of a plurality of parameters which are used respectively in processing of the plurality of image quality adjustment items, a calibration unit that implements calibration to update the set values of the plurality of parameters, by implementing, a plurality of times, processing for displaying a colorimetry image on the display device and determining the value of any of the parameters, using colorimetry results from the colorimetry image, and a display unit that displays, on the display device, a confirmation image for confirming the effects of calibration. The display unit displays the confirmation image at the image quality settings during calibration.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsu Fukuda
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Patent number: 9824665Abstract: A method is provided for dynamically displaying graphical and textual overlays on geospatial arrangements. Glyph information provided by one or more third party systems may be stored in a centralized system. Upon request from a client terminal, the glyph information may be applied to a geospatial arrangement to generate an updated map to be displayed by the client terminal. Newly created glyphs, including new visual content, may be provided seamlessly after initial configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Change Healthcare LLCInventors: Bryan Self, Brandon Wedgeworth, Todd Morgan
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Patent number: 9824666Abstract: A smart bracelet display control system and a smart bracelet. The smart bracelet display control system comprises a processing module, a position detecting module, a displaying module and a storing module, the position detecting module is configured to detect current position information of itself; the storing module is configured to store a correspondence relationship between set position information of the position detecting module and a display position of the displaying module; the processing module is configured to determine a current display position of the displaying module according to the correspondence relationship and the current position information; and the displaying module is configured to display content to be displayed according to the current display position. The present disclosure does not need a user to rotate the bracelet to change the position of the display screen, and is capable of facilitating the user to view the display content.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhiguo Zhang
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Patent number: 9824667Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided including: a plurality of buffers, a first buffer from a among the plurality of buffers storing a first frame; and a controller configured to obtain frame information of a second frame, which includes second object information about a second object added in the second frame and second object location information indicating a second object area that is an area of the second object in the second frame, detect a duplicate area in the first frame, copy the duplicate area stored in the first buffer to a second buffer from among the plurality of buffers, and draw the second object in the second buffer based on the frame information.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo-young Jung, Tae-young Lee, Woo-ram Ann, Jae-gil Lee, Cheul-hee Hahm
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Patent number: 9824668Abstract: A display device is mounted on and/or inside the eye. The eye mounted display contains multiple sub-displays, each of which projects light to different retinal positions within a portion of the retina corresponding to the sub-display. The projected light propagates through the pupil but does not fill the entire pupil. In this way, multiple sub-displays can project their light onto the relevant portion of the retina. Moving from the pupil to the cornea, the projection of the pupil onto the cornea will be referred to as the corneal aperture. The projected light propagates through less than the full corneal aperture. The sub-displays use spatial multiplexing at the corneal surface. Various electronic devices interface to the eye mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Spy Eye, LLCInventors: Michael Frank Deering, Alan Huang
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Patent number: 9824669Abstract: A wooden guitar cabinet features a door equipped with one or more interior channels that allow the interior of the door to be in contact with the air in the interior of the cabinet, thereby keeping the interior of the door at the same level of humidity as the interior of the cabinet. This allows for the interior of the cabinet to be maintained at the optimal humidity levels for storing guitars while minimizing the risk of unsightly warping in the cabinet doors. The cabinet may be optionally equipped with a locking mechanism to prevent guitars from falling off shelves in the case of movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: American Music Furniture Co., LLCInventor: Roger Horneff
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Patent number: 9824670Abstract: A musical instrument activity monitoring system having a tracking and monitoring assembly including a microcontroller with non-volatile memory, an accelerometer, at least one sensor, and an antenna each in communication with the microcontroller, a power source, and a coupler. In-use parameters of musical instrument activity is tracked and monitored by the tracking and monitoring assembly. The microcontroller with non-volatile memory stores data. The data relates to values and timestamps retrieved from use of the at least one musical instrument and environmental conditions at least one musical instrument is in to analyze performance of the at least one musical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventors: Shannon Pahl, Earl Goedvolk, Dawn Pahl
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Patent number: 9824672Abstract: A modular approach to large string array electronic musical instruments such as specialized harps, zithers, sympathetic string arrays, the Harry Partch Kithara, the Harry Partch Harmonic Cannon, and other large string array electronic musical instruments is presented. A mounting frame is used to interchangeably secure a plurality of a plurality of musical instrument modules, each comprising a plurality of strings configured to vibrate and create electronic signals. An electronic interface is configured to transmit electrical signals from the plurality of musical instrument modules to an external system. The electronic interface can be configured to provide a multichannel output. The arrangement can further comprise either or both of at least one audio mixer and at least one signal processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: NRI R&D PATENT LICENSING, LLCInventor: Lester F. Ludwig
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Patent number: 9824673Abstract: Methods and digital circuits providing frequency correction to frequency synthesizers are disclosed. An FLL digital circuit is provided that is configured to handle a reference frequency that is dynamic and ranges over a multi-decade range of frequencies. The FLL circuit includes a digital frequency iteration engine that allows for detection of disappearance of a reference frequency. When the digital frequency iteration engine detects that the reference frequency signal is not available, the oscillator generated frequency is not corrected, and the last value of the oscillator generated frequency is held until the reference frequency signal becomes available again. This FLL circuit is also preceded by a low-pass filter which is dynamically tuned to the frequency to which the FLL locks, eliminating harmonic components in the original signal which might otherwise cause errors in frequency estimation.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Second Sound LLCInventors: Brian James Kaczynski, Noam Lavi
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Patent number: 9824674Abstract: A recording method includes acquiring each piece of acoustic data representing a sound from each of a plurality of portable terminal devices. The each of the plurality of portable terminal devices includes a recording unit configured to generate the piece of acoustic data. The recording method also includes executing synchronization processing for synchronizing the respective pieces of acoustic data and executing mixing processing for mixing a plurality of pieces of acoustic data for which the synchronization processing has been executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yu Takahashi, Kazunobu Kondo, Motoichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9824675Abstract: A method for suppressing interference noise in an acoustic system with a microphone that generates an input signal and a loudspeaker that generates an acoustic signal which partially feeds back to the microphone. A first intermediate signal is formed along a primary signal path as a function of the input signal, and an output signal is formed via a frequency distortion. The output signal is coupled into a signal feedback path. A second intermediate signal is formed in the signal feedback path via a decorrelation and used as an input value for an adaptive filter. The adaptive filter generates a compensation signal which compensates the input signal. A third intermediate signal is formed from the input signal and/or compensated input signal, which is used as an input value for the adaptive filter. The output signal is fed to the loudspeaker for reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Tobias Daniel Rosenkranz, Tobias Wurzbacher
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Patent number: 9824676Abstract: A cabinet structure includes multiple cover members configured to spatially partition an inside from an outside of a cabinet, and a clearance communicating between the inside and the outside of the cabinet is left between two cover members, the two cover members being adjacent to each other, of the cover members, and a passage defined by the clearance and leading from the inside to the outside of the cabinet through the clearance has a shape with multiple bends.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Naoki Matsuda, Masahiro Ishida
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Patent number: 9824677Abstract: A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes noise canceling that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal and injects the anti-noise signal into the speaker or other transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. An error microphone is provided proximate the speaker to measure the output of the transducer in order to control the adaptation of the anti-noise signal and to estimate an electro-acoustical path from the noise canceling circuit through the transducer. The anti-noise signal is adaptively generated to minimize the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone. A processing circuit that performs the adaptive noise canceling (ANC) function also filters one or both of the reference and/or error microphone signals, to bias the adaptation of the adaptive filter in one or more frequency regions to alter a degree of the minimization of the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.Inventors: Nitin Kwatra, Ali Abdollahzadeh Milani, Jeffrey Alderson
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Patent number: 9824678Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method and a system for self-tuning active noise canceller (STANC) and a headset apparatus. The headset apparatus is placed on a measurement device to emulate user scenario where the user receives audio signal from the headset. The STANC system receives environmental noise signal from a microphone inside the headset. The output of the STANC system acts as reverse noise signal to suppress the environmental noise signal via a speaker unit. The corresponding mixture signal is defined as an error signal. In a calibration mode, the error signal received from the measurement device can be used to update the STANC parameters. The process will be done when the error signal is lower than a predefined threshold. The final parameters can be saved as default settings for the headset apparatus in a user mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: C-MEDIA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Kuen-Ying Ou