Patents Issued in May 1, 2018
  • Patent number: 9959783
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, a method performed by one or more processes executing on a computer systems includes receiving an audio signal comprising a range of audio frequencies including high frequencies and low frequencies, converting a first portion of the range of audio frequencies into haptic data, shifting a second portion of the range of audio frequencies down to lower audio frequencies, and presenting at least one of the converted first portion and the shifted second portion to a human user. Other implementations of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Gregory F. Hughes
  • Patent number: 9959784
    Abstract: Simulated pregnant abdominal systems and associated devices, systems, and methods are provided. The pregnant abdominal systems allow an interactive scenario simulating a routine gestation palpation of a fetal baby, the performance of an external cephalic version as well as the Leopold's Maneuvers. Further, the pregnant abdominal systems can be used as a platform to physically hear the fetus heartbeat using stethoscope, Doppler instrument, or a prenatal monitor. Further, in some implementations the fetus can be visualized using standard ultrasound systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: GAUMARD SCIENTIFIC COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Siobhain Lowe, Christine M. Tarud
  • Patent number: 9959785
    Abstract: A laparoscopic trainer platform assembly includes: a training platform; a base, configured to accommodate at least one target array; the target array including a planar surface upon which are disposed a plurality of protruding targets oriented at various angles on the base; a left side support for supporting the training platform on the base; and a right side support for supporting the training platform on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: VTI MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Angelo Tortola
  • Patent number: 9959786
    Abstract: A surgical training device includes a model comprising a simulated tissue portion mounted in selectable tension onto a plurality of posts connected to a base. Each post includes at least one notch configured for retaining the simulated tissue portion. Mounting the simulated tissue portion that is in the form of a sheet in notches of different heights creates an angled installation of simulated tissue upon which surgical techniques such as cutting and suturing can be practiced in a simulated laparoscopic environment. More than one sheet can be mounted and each sheet can be mounted with selectable tension by pulling the sheet more or less as desired onto the posts. One variation includes a simulated tumor disposed between sheets, angled or wobbly posts and textured and imprinted simulated tissue surfaces to provide various levels of dynamism and difficulty for surgical skills training in a laparoscopic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy Breslin, Katie Black, Nikolai Poulsen, Serene Wachli, Adam Hoke, Michael Palermo, Amy Garces, Jacqueline DeMarchi
  • Patent number: 9959787
    Abstract: A training method for sclerotherapy. The method includes directing a needle tip into communication with an artificial venous structure, dispensing a fluid through the needle to force fluid from the artificial venous structure and detecting the fluid that is displaced from the artificial venous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Nelson Medical Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Dvora Y. Nelson, Craig B. Berky, Thomas M. Kress
  • Patent number: 9959788
    Abstract: A label includes a first section and a second section that is attached to the first section. The first section includes a panel. The panel includes one or more sides that are detachable from the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: EMERALD CITY LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Ted Shanley, Dan VanWaveren
  • Patent number: 9959789
    Abstract: A sheet assembly and method is provided for applying a facestock layer to a substrate. The facestock layer may include a facestock bridge portion with an adhesive layer. A liner sheet is attached to the facestock layer and may include a strip portion having a first dimension that is configured to be removed to expose a portion of the adhesive layer under the facestock bridge portion. The sheet assembly is positioned as desired and the facestock bridge portion is adhered to the substrate to anchor the sheet assembly to the substrate and allow the remaining liner sheet to be removed in a generally aligned manner as desired. The facestock layer may be made of a see-through material. The facestock layer may be a label. The sheet assembly may include at least one perforation line that divides the sheet assembly into multiple sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: CCL LABEL, INC.
    Inventor: Jay K. Sato
  • Patent number: 9959790
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a first pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying three primary colors respectively; and a second pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying two colors selected among the three primary colors and a predetermined color other than the three primary colors, wherein, in the first pixel, the size of the display surface of a sub-pixel for displaying a specific color included in the three primary colors as a specific color missing from the second pixel is larger than each of the sizes of the display surfaces of the two other sub-pixels for displaying the two other primary colors respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Dispaly Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9959791
    Abstract: A water display is described having different layers that each include a geometric shape. Water is provided to and drained from the display to vary the height of the water between the layers of the display. As the water height increases or decreases from one layer to another, pools of water assuming the geometric shapes formed in a given layer appear. The geometric shapes formed in a given layer appear. The geometric pools of water transform shapes as the water is raised or lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: WET
    Inventors: Mark Fuller, Dave Duplanty, Bill DeLeon, Claire Tuttle
  • Patent number: 9959792
    Abstract: A system to exhibit subjective messages on a vehicle including a memory, controller, transceiver, external display, camera, image recognition module, and technology platform. The memory is configured to comprise modules of executable instructions. The controller is configured to read and execute the modules. The transceiver is configured to communicate data transmissions. The external display is configured to exhibit information on the vehicle, visible in the external environment. The camera is configured to capture an image of the vehicle environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: Anvesh Singireddy
  • Patent number: 9959793
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display system which is related to the field of display technology. The display system enables a display device to be switched between a normal display mode and an anti-peeping display mode. This display system comprises a display device which comprises a display panel for displaying content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanshun Chen, Youmei Dong, Wenbo Li, Qingjiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9959794
    Abstract: An electronic device, a processing method and a device are provided. The electronic device includes: a first and second display devices, an input device, a first component and a second component, a detection device configured to detect a relative position relation between the two components, a processing device is configured to control the first display device or the second display device in different cases to respond to operation data collected by the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Li, Yiqiang Yan
  • Patent number: 9959795
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels. The first group of pixels forms a first region and the second group of pixels forms a second region surrounding the first region. A controller is configured to receive input image data, process the input image data corresponding to the first pixels based on a preset first image processing algorithm so as to generate first modified image data, and process the input image data corresponding to the second pixels based on a preset second image processing algorithm so as to generate second modified image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mincheol Kim, Inhwan Kim, Byunggeun Jun, Uiyeong Cha
  • Patent number: 9959796
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display device; a display device driver which drives the display device; a compression section adapted to an operation of generating compression data by compression processing performed on image data; and a transmission section which, when receiving compressed data from the compression section, transmits the compressed data to the display device driver by using a serial data signal. The compression section performs the compression processing with a data compression ratio selected in response to a frame rate with which the display device driver drives the display device. The display device driver receives the serial data signal from the transmission section, generates decompressed data by decompressing the compressed data transmitted by the serial data signal, and drives the display device in response to the decompressed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 9959797
    Abstract: The circuit of the present invention comprises a detection module and a feedback module, wherein an output end of a power supply management module is coupled to one end of a voltage level shift module, and the other end of the voltage level shift module is coupled to a first end of the detection module, and a second end of the detection module is coupled to a WOA route module or a GOA route module, and a third end of the detection is coupled to one end of the feedback module, and the other end of the feedback module is coupled to an enable end of the power supply management module, and the detection module detects whether the WOA route module or the GOA route module is short, and feeds back a short signal; the feedback module receives the short signal, and sends a disable signal to the enable end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xinhong Chen
  • Patent number: 9959798
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processing circuit, a data driver, and a gate driver. The data processing circuit increases a first gamma value of input image data of which the gamma value is 0, according to a second gamma value of the input image data of which the second gamma value is not 0. The data driving part outputs a data signal based on the output image data to a data line. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal to a gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Gu Kim, Bong-Im Park, Ik-Hyun Ahn, Hyun-sik Hwang, Woo-Joo Lee, Jin-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9959799
    Abstract: A driving method for a 3D display apparatus and a driving apparatus thereof, the method includes: receiving an image signal and extracting a first view and a second view from the image signal (S31); dividing the first view and the second view respectively into multiple virtual pixels, and obtaining the color component corresponding to the color of each sub-pixel in the multiple virtual pixels (S32); arranging a sampling region in the pixel array of the display apparatus for each sub-pixel of each view (S33); determining the gray scale signal of the sub-pixel corresponding to the sampling region according to the color component corresponding to the color of each sub-pixel in each virtual pixel covered by the sampling region (S34); and displaying the image signal according to the gray scale signals of the sub-pixels (S35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9959800
    Abstract: A voltage compensation circuit and A method thereof are provided. The voltage compensation circuit includes a power management chip, a feedback circuit, and a control circuit. A gate driving voltage (VGH) connects an input end of the control circuit, the input end of the control circuit connects to a first end of the fifth resistor (R5), and a second end of the fifth resistor (R5) connects to a forward input end of the voltage comparator, and first ends of the sixth resistor (R6) and the first capacitor (C1). A second end of the sixth resistor (R6) and a second end of the first capacitor (C1) are grounded, a backward input end of the voltage comparator connects to the reference voltage (VREF), an output end of the voltage comparator connects to a gate of the first FET (Q1). With such configuration, the display performance may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xianming Zhang, Dan Cao
  • Patent number: 9959801
    Abstract: A picture-frame size of a display device including self light-emitting type display elements which are driven by a current is reduced over conventional devices. Transistors for controlling supply of a light-emission enable signal outputted from an emission driver to emission lines are provided between the emission driver and the emission lines. In such a configuration, based on selection signals provided to the transistors, one of the transistors is brought into an on state in each subframe, and each of the transistors is brought into an on state once during one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 9959802
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and method for image processing, and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Jiang, Xinghua Li, Seungyik Park
  • Patent number: 9959803
    Abstract: A device and methods for content display are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method for content display comprises detecting at least one of an open area or a transparent area in a display cover coupled to an electronic device, setting a partial display-area on a display area of the electronic device in response to the detecting, where the partial display-area corresponds to the at least one of the open area or the transparent area, setting content to the partial display-area, displaying the content in the partial display-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghyung Kim, Boram Namgoong, Yoywang Im, Jiyoung Kim, Buseop Jung
  • Patent number: 9959804
    Abstract: The invention provides a Mura compensation method for display panel, which extracts the luminance information of a grayscale b other than the lowest grayscale from the inputted image through an image console, generates a Mura value index table for 0 to the lowest grayscale; uses linearly interpolation calculate the Mura values for the remaining grayscales; determines the inputted data signal; for low grayscale image smaller than the lowest grayscale, searches the index table for Mura value to perform Mura compensation to make the compensated grayscale larger than the lowest grayscale; for dynamic image, uses linear interpolation to calculate the Mura value corresponding to the inputted data signal; and for static image, uses non-linear interpolation to calculate the Mura value corresponding to the inputted data signal. As such, the Mura compensation effect is improved for static and low grayscale images; moreover, the memory speed requirement is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jimu Kuang, Yichien Wen
  • Patent number: 9959805
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first to sixth external connection terminals, a first receiver connected to the first and second external connection terminals, a second receiver connected to the third and fourth external connection terminals, a third receiver connected to the fifth and sixth external connection terminals, a C-PHY block, a D-PHY block and a main processing section. The C-PHY block is configured to generate first reception data by performing signal processing on signals received from the first, second and third receivers in accordance with the MIPI C-PHY specification. The D-PHY block is configured to generate second reception data by performing signal processing on signals received from the first, second and third receivers in accordance with the MIPI D-PHY specification. The main processing section is configured to selectively receive the first and second reception data and perform desired processing on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Keiichi Itoigawa, Yoshihiko Hori, Tomomitsu Kitamura, Takefumi Seno, Hideaki Kuwada, Takashi Tamura, Jun Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Kanda
  • Patent number: 9959806
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising determining a charge level of a battery of a mobile device, and responsive to determining that the charge level is below a minimum threshold, selecting a first data object from a plurality of data objects stored on the mobile device based on predefined criteria, outputting the first data object on a persistent display device of the mobile device, and powering off the mobile device, wherein the first data object remains visible on the persistent display after the mobile device powers off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siddharth K. Saraya, Alok K. Singh
  • Patent number: 9959807
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel; a deterioration threshold value calculator for calculating a deterioration threshold value from values of accumulated image data respectively input to the plurality of pixels; a current sensor for detecting a current amount flowing through pixels in one of first to nth display areas of the display panel in a power-off section of the display panel; and a deterioration amount calculator for defining a deterioration area including a group of pixels from among the pixels each having a value of image data that is equal to or greater than the deterioration threshold value among pixels in the first to nth display areas, and calculating a deterioration amount of the pixels in the deterioration area, wherein the current sensor is configured to detect a current amount flowing through pixels in one of the first to nth display areas in each power-off section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 9959808
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel structure. The pixel structure includes first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels, and third sub-pixels. In the pixel structure, two adjacent third sub-pixels facing each other form a third sub-pixel group, the second sub-pixels are arranged along a direction of a first axis to form second-sub-pixel rows. The second sub-pixels are arranged along a direction of a second axis to form second-sub-pixel columns, the first sub-pixels and the third sub-pixel groups are arranged in an alternating configuration along the direction of the column axis, the second-sub-pixel columns and columns formed by the first sub-pixels and the third sub-pixel groups are arranged in an alternating configuration. Geometric center of each second sub-pixel is positioned on a perpendicular bisector of a line connecting centers of any two of adjacent third sub-pixel groups and first sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liang Sun
  • Patent number: 9959809
    Abstract: An EL display apparatus according to the present invention includes an EL device adapted to emit light at a luminance corresponding to a current fed thereto. A source driver outputs a current higher than a current corresponding to an analog video signal to the EL device through a source signal line. This operation charges/discharges a parasitic capacitance present in the source signal line. A second gate driver circuit controls a transistor formed between the EL device and the source driver to operate so that the EL device is fed with the current for only a part of a one-frame period. As a result, the El device emits light for only the part of the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 9959810
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display, including a first data line extending along a first direction, a second data line extending along the first direction and disposed parallel to the first data line, a first scan line extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first pixel connected to the first data line and the first scan line, a second pixel connected to the second data line and the first scan line, a first constant current source connected to the first data line, a second constant current source connected to the second data line, and a temperature information generation unit comprising a first input port connected to the first data line and a second input port connected to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 9959811
    Abstract: A sensing unit measuring a bending degree of a flexible substrate includes: a first line formed on the flexible substrate; a second line adjacent to the first line; and a first controller applying a first sensing signal to the first line and measuring a change of crosstalk generated in the second line by the first sensing signal according to bending of the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-Jung Lee
  • Patent number: 9959812
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of compensating AMOLED power supply voltage drop, comprising: step 1, measuring a brightness value L of each light-emitting element line of a panel by starting from a COF end of the AMOLED; step 2, drawing a brightness variation curve of the each light-emitting element line caused by IR Drop according to the brightness value L of the each light-emitting element line measured in the step 1; step 3, calculating a voltage value for compensation of every two adjacent light-emitting elements from difference values between the brightnesses of every two adjacent light-emitting elements according to a ratio conversion between a brightness difference ?L and a voltage difference ?V, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taijiun Hwang, Jihshiang Lee
  • Patent number: 9959813
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including: a substrate including a pixel part for displaying an image and a peripheral part enclosing the pixel part; a plurality of scan lines formed on the substrate, each for transferring a scan signal; a plurality of data lines for transferring a data voltage, and a plurality of driving voltage lines intersecting the plurality of scan lines for transferring a driving voltage, respectively; a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines, respectively and formed in the pixel part; and at least one dummy pixel connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines and formed in the peripheral part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Sung An, Min Ho Ko
  • Patent number: 9959814
    Abstract: Provided is a display device and display method that can improve the moving image display performance. A display device includes a display panel and a backlight for the display panel. The display device also includes control means configured to output a control signal for controlling illumination and extinction of the backlight, to the backlight in synchronization with start of update of a frame on the display panel and update means configured to update a frame in each predetermined period in order to change one image displayed on a screen of the display panel. The control means outputs a control signal for controlling the backlight so that the backlight starts to illuminate after the update means starts to update one frame and ends illumination at the time point when the update means starts to update a frame subsequent to the one frame or after the time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Hayashi, Nobunari Tabata, Masanori Katsura, Daiki Takeda, Tatsunori Fuchino, Masahiro Kasashima
  • Patent number: 9959815
    Abstract: A light emitting assembly is described. In one embodiment, one or more light emitting diode (LED) devices and one or more microcontrollers are bonded to a same side of a substrate, with the one or more microcontrollers to switch and drive the one or more LED devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Andreas Bibl, Kelly McGroddy
  • Patent number: 9959816
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying information at a fuel dispenser comprises an electrophoretic display that may be configured to operate in low temperature environments. The fuel dispenser may comprise a keypad located beneath the electrophoretic display in order to present a graphical user interface to a customer and receive the customer's selections. The fuel dispenser may comprise additional electrophoretic displays to present additional information to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Gilbarco Inc.
    Inventors: Edward A. Payne, Rodger K. Williams, Ryan C. Garrett
  • Patent number: 9959817
    Abstract: A scanning method of a display of the present invention changes a driving order of a plurality of gate driver lines according to a frame data so as to reduce switching currents generated while a plurality of voltages on a plurality of source driver lines are changed. Thereby, the goal of saving power can be reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Fitipower Integrated Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Kuei-Kai Chang, Chun-Fu Liu, Li-Shen Chang, Lu-Yao Wu
  • Patent number: 9959818
    Abstract: A display engine includes light emitting elements, an optical subsystem to produce a single collimated beam of light from the light emitted by the light emitting elements, one or more image producing MEMS mirrors, one or more image reprojecting MEMS mirrors, and a controller. One of the image producing MEMS mirror(s) is positioned to reflect the single beam of light produced by the optical subsystem. The controller controls the image producing MEMS mirror(s) and the image reprojecting MEMS mirror(s). The image reprojecting MEMS mirror(s) is/are controlled and is/are positioned relative to the image producing MEMS mirror(s) and relative to input-coupler(s) of optical waveguide(s) so that a pupil corresponding to a scanned image that the image producing MEMS mirror(s) project onto one of the image reprojecting MEMS mirror(s), is reprojected by the image reprojecting MEMS mirror(s) onto the input-coupler(s) of the optical waveguide(s) and thereby coupled into the optical waveguide(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 9959819
    Abstract: An RGB to RGBW brightness compensation method and device is disclosed. The method includes: retrieving multiple gray scale values of RGB color RGB(x, y, z), wherein x, y, z are gray scale levels of red, green and blue sub-pixels of an RGB model, 0?x, y, z?1; multiplying the gray scale values of RGB color RGB (x, y, z) by N to obtain an enhanced gray scale values of RGB color RGB (Nx, Ny, Nz), wherein N is 4/3 and a minimum value selected from x, y, z is taken to represent a first conversion value W1; and obtaining multiple gray scale values of RGBW color RGBW (Nx?W1, Ny?W1, Nz?W1, W1) according to the enhanced gray scale values of RGB color RGB (Nx, Ny, Nz) and the first conversion value W1. Accordingly, a brightness of the RGBW model of a liquid crystal panel is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yufeng Jin
  • Patent number: 9959820
    Abstract: An array substrate, display device and image display method. In this array substrate, among the sub-pixels two adjacent columns of sub-pixels are grouped together, and sub-pixels in different groups do not overlap each other; in each group, all of the sub-pixels are electrically connected with a same data line; each row of the sub-pixels corresponds to two gate lines, and in each row of the sub-pixels, two sub-pixels belonging to the same group are electrically connected with one of the two gate lines corresponding to this row of the sub-pixels respectively; thus, in the process of sequentially loading a gate scanning signal to each grid line within the display time of one frame, charging difference between rows of sub-pixels caused by the jump of voltage loaded on the data line may be reduced, whereby poor stripes present when a flat panel display is displaying a screen may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaixuan Wang, Wei Li, Hongliang Yuan, Jiantao Liu, Yingzi Wang, Zhenfu Ma
  • Patent number: 9959821
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a drive unit is controlled in a direction of eliminating a polarity bias of a data voltage corresponding to image data at a point of time when a refresh signal for updating an image displayed on a display unit by periodical refreshment or forced refreshment is generated, and the polarity bias is obtained for each of subsequent frame periods. In this manner, not only the polarity bias after the point of time when the refresh signal is generated is obtained so that the polarity bias at the point of time when the refresh signal is generated is eliminated, but also the polarity bias is repeatedly obtained in the same way every time the refresh signal is generated, and accordingly, the polarity bias can be prevented from being increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaroh Uemura, Norio Ohmura, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9959822
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels in a display portion and configured to performed display in a plurality of frame periods, each of the frame periods includes a writing period and a holding period, and after an image signal is input to each of the plurality of pixels in the writing period, a transistor included in each of the plurality of pixels is turned off and the image signal is held for at least 30 seconds in the holding period. The pixel includes a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor layer, and the oxide semiconductor layer has a carrier concentration of less than 1×1014/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Ryo Arasawa, Jun Koyama, Masashi Tsubuku, Kosei Noda
  • Patent number: 9959823
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a driving unit. The driving unit is configured to perform polarity inversion driving by applying, to the pixel electrode, positive and negative video signals. When applying the video signals to the pixel electrode, the driving unit superposes a correction signal corresponding to a polarity inversion frequency and the gray level on the video signals in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Toshiyuki Higano, Kenji Nakao, Hirofumi Wakemoto
  • Patent number: 9959824
    Abstract: A flat panel display includes a display panel comprising a display area and a non-display area which is disposed on a outside of the display area and has at least one recess on one end side thereof; a driving substrate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel; and at least one connection member connected to the display panel and the driving substrate through at least one recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwook Lee, Kibok Park
  • Patent number: 9959825
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that performs intermittent driving involving a driving period and an idle period includes a gray scale level control unit that generates, from an input image signal, an image signal for display and an image signal for correction. A signal line control unit writes the image signal for correction to the plurality of signal lines before writing the image signal for display during a driving period. An LUT stores a correction gray scale value associated with a gray scale value of at least a current frame. An adding circuit corrects the input image signal based on the correction gray scale value read from the LUT. The subtracting circuit specifies, in a pixel region, a regular image pattern including at least a first pixel and a second pixel and changes an output from the adding circuit for the first image by a predetermined gray scale width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka, Ken Inada
  • Patent number: 9959826
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided where deterioration of the liquid crystal panel is prevented while reducing power consumption. A liquid crystal panel (12) includes a display region (26) in which a video is displayed. The display region (26) includes a plurality of sub-regions (26A, 26B, 26C, 26D). A drive unit (14) rewrites the display on at least one of the plurality of sub-regions (26A, 26B, 26C, 26D) based on a video signal. An identification unit (38) identifies the one of the plurality of sub-regions (26A, 26B, 26C, 26D) on which the drive unit (14) has not rewritten the display for a predetermined number of frames. An output unit (40) outputs an interrupt signal for requesting a video signal for rewriting the display on the sub-region identified by the identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Tanaka, Akizumi Fujioka, Kazuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9959827
    Abstract: A black matrix of the display panel comprises N columns of first sub-regions and M columns of second sub-regions, the pixel electrodes comprise N columns of first pixel electrodes in one-to-one correspondence with N columns of first sub-regions and M columns of second pixel electrodes in one-to-one correspondence with M columns of second sub-regions. A width of the M columns of second sub-regions and a width of the M columns of second pixel electrodes along the row direction of the black matrix are increased only by reducing a width of the N columns of first sub-regions along the row direction of the black matrix, such that some signal lines in the divided gate driver may be placed at the M columns of second sub-regions to enable the display panel not having frames at the left and the right, without substantially not changing the aperture ratio of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Song, Kazuyoshi Nagayama
  • Patent number: 9959828
    Abstract: A method for driving a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) panel during a display-off period is provided for avoiding image flickering when the panel resumes image display. Flickering when resuming image display is due to charge accumulated on liquid crystals (LCs) during the display-off period. For a cell having a TFT and a LC, the method releases the accumulated charge by driving a gate electrode with a VGH voltage to turn on the TFT for a short pre-determined duration regularly over the display-off period. Over the pre-determined duration, a VCOM electrode and a source electrode of the cell are also driven with a GND voltage, thereby releasing the accumulated charge from the LC as the TFT is turned on. The remaining time in the display-off period may be advantageously used for touch sensing while avoiding flickering after image display is resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Solomon Systech Limited
    Inventors: Cheung Fai Lee, Jun Chen, Hongyi Qian
  • Patent number: 9959829
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal drive display device, including a display area and a liquid crystal drive circuit, the liquid crystal drive circuit including a plurality of stage GOA circuits, each stage GOA circuit includes a signal line and an auxiliary pull-down circuit, wherein the signal lines are divided into odd-numbered signal lines and even-numbered signal lines, the auxiliary pull-down circuits are divided into first auxiliary pull-down circuits and second auxiliary pull-down circuits; wherein the odd-numbered signal lines and the even-numbered signal lines are separately located on two sides of the display area, and the first auxiliary pull-down circuits and the second auxiliary pull-down circuits are also separately located on two sides of the display area, any two adjacent stage GOA circuits of the plurality of stage GOA circuits share the first auxiliary pull-down circuits and the second auxiliary pull-down circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peng Du
  • Patent number: 9959830
    Abstract: The present invention provides a GOA circuit, comprising a forward-backward scan control module, an output module, an output pull-down module, a node control module, a second node signal input module, a second node signal control module, a voltage stabilizing module and a second capacitor; the forward scan of the circuit is controlled with the ninth and the tenth thin film transistors, and the signal input of the second node is controlled with the first and the eleventh thin film transistors, and the mutual control of the first node and the second node are achieved with the second, the fourth and the fifth thin film transistors, and meanwhile, as the GOA circuit applies to a display of dual side drive interlaced scan structure, the GOA circuits of the two sides can respectively receive four different clock signals to reduce the loading of the signal line of the GOA circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Yao Yan, Ronglei Dai, Shangcao Cao
  • Patent number: 9959831
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drive method of a liquid crystal display panel and a drive system, in which a sequence controller (3) comprises a counter (31), a TFT activation voltage calculation module (32) and an I2C instruction module (33), and the counter (31) adds 1 as outputting the display data of each row, and as adding to i×M/N, the TFT activation voltage calculation module (32) operates to obtain the target TFT activation voltage of the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)) and transmits the same to the I2C instruction module (33), and the I2C instruction module (33) controls the PWM IC (2) correspondingly output the corresponding target TFT activation voltage to the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)), which can adjust the TFT activation voltage in real time so that the TFT activation voltages, which the respective gate drive ICs actually receive are consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinhung Chen, Yu Wu, Anle Hu
  • Patent number: 9959832
    Abstract: A GOA circuit and a liquid crystal device (LCD) are disclosed. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of GOA units and a control module. Each of the cascaded GOA units is configured for charging corresponding horizontal scanning lines within a display area when being driven by a first level clock, a second level clock, a first control clock, and a second control clock. After the horizontal scanning lines are fully charged by the GOA circuit, the control module is configured for resetting the gate driving signals to be at the first level, i.e., the invalid level, via the turn-on pulse signals and the negative-voltage constant-voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Mang Zhao