Patents Issued in November 6, 2018
  • Patent number: 10121403
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate turn on voltage compensating circuit, a display panel, a driving method and a display apparatus thereof. The gate turn on voltage compensating circuit includes a voltage generation module, a clock control module and a chamfering module. The voltage generation module is used for correspondingly outputting generated first voltage signal and second voltage signal to a first voltage input terminal and a second voltage input terminal of the chamfering module; the clock control module is used for controlling the chamfering module to output corresponding chamfered voltage signals in the corresponding time periods, so that the chamfering depths of gate turn on voltage signals input correspondingly to respective gate drive chips in different time periods are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Lu, Yih Jen Hsu, Fei Shang, Haijun Qiu, Lijun Xiao, Shuai Hou
  • Patent number: 10121404
    Abstract: A data driver includes a receiver, a transition minimization coding (“TMC”) decoder, a dithering adder and a voltage generator. The receiver receives a clock signal and first image data which is generating by removing a dithering from a dithered original image data and performing a TMC. The TMC decoder removes the TMC from the first image data to generate second image data. The dithering adder restores the removed dithering based on the clock signal and the second image data to generate third image data. The voltage generator generates a plurality of data voltages based on the third image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Whee-Won Lee, Ga-Na Kim, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10121405
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a first connector, and a driving device having a second connector configured to electrically connect to the first connector, wherein the display panel includes a connection state confirmation unit configured to output a connection state signal including connection information between the first connector and the second connector, and wherein the driving device includes a first power supply configured to supply power to the display panel when the connection state signal includes the connection information that a connection state between the first connector and the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongsoo Kim, Sehyuk Park, Woomi Bae, Myungho Lee, Myoungseop Song
  • Patent number: 10121406
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shift register which is an embedded shift register using an oxide transistor is capable of improving output performance, operation range and output stability, and a display device using the same. In the shift register, each stage includes at least two light shielding layers individually overlapped with the transistors of the stage by dividing the transistors into at least two regions, and a connection transistor selectively applying a voltage to a first shielding layer overlapped with the pull-up transistor of the two light shielding layers to allow the first light shielding layer to float.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 10121407
    Abstract: A display system including a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) display modules is provided. Each LED display module of the plurality of display modules may include a plurality of LEDs. The display system may also include a plurality of connection hubs, where each connection hub of the plurality of connection hubs is configured to provide power to two or more LED display modules of the plurality of LED display modules. One or more of the LED display modules of the plurality of LED display modules may be configured to selectively route the power provided by a connection hub of the plurality of connection hubs to an LED display module that is adjacent to the one or more LED display modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Anthem Displays, LLC
    Inventor: Evan Brooks
  • Patent number: 10121408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of eliminating OLED display panel Mura. First, a corresponding calculation formula is selected by comparing the gamma value of the OLED display panel and the local gamma value at the present display gray scale, and the compensation gray scale which should be utilized is calculated, and then the OLED display panel is made to show the present compensation gray scale captured with the present calculation to determine whether the preset condition of ending the calculation of the compensation gray scale is achieved, and if the preset condition of ending the calculation of the compensation gray scale is not achieved, the iterative computation does not stop until the preset condition of ending the calculation of the compensation gray scale is achieved, which can rapidly and effectively eliminate the OLED display panel Mura to ensure the brightness uniformity of the OLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yufan Deng
  • Patent number: 10121409
    Abstract: An HMD worn by a user to use includes a right display unit and a left display unit, an image display section for making a right eye of the user visually recognize an image based on light emitted by the right display unit and making a left eye of the user visually recognize an image based on light emitted by the left display unit, temperature sensors for detecting respective temperatures of the right display unit and the left display unit, and a control section for controlling the luminance of at least either one of the light display unit and the left display unit based on the temperatures detected by the temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Fujimaki, Yuichi Kunitomo
  • Patent number: 10121410
    Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a display panel. Specifically, the embodiments discussed herein relate to a panel pixel charge scheme that allows the current output of a display driver to be modified based on the content to be displayed at the display panel. The display driver can compare current and upcoming display content in order to determine how the line voltage for one or more output lines will change over time. If, based on the comparison, the voltage for an output line is not going to vary substantially over time, the bias current output from the display driver can be modified in order to save power. The modification to the bias current can depend on the amount of change the line voltage will undergo in subsequent executions of the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fenghua Zheng, Sandro H. Pintz
  • Patent number: 10121411
    Abstract: A display device includes pixel units, a source driver and a control unit. The source driver applies voltage corresponding to gray level values to data signal lines. Each of the pixel units includes a light-emitting element, a capacitance element and a driving transistor. The light-emitting element emits light according to a driving current. The capacitance element accumulates charge corresponding to a voltage at a connected data signal line. The driving transistor supplies the driving current corresponding to the accumulated charge to the light-emitting element. The control unit decreases voltage(s) to be outputted from the source driver, when an appearance frequency of display pixels having a low gray-level value is lower than a first reference frequency, or when an appearance frequency of display pixels having a high gray-level value is lower than a second reference frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 10121412
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device and a timing controller that can check the status of a display driving related unit, take a proper countermeasure according to the check result, and prevent an abnormal operation of the display driving related unit or prevent a failure in driving, damage to a device, and screen abnormality that may happen according to the abnormal operation of the display driving related unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinsol Choi
  • Patent number: 10121413
    Abstract: A flash phenomenon of OLEDs at the time of power source ON of a display device is suppressed. The OLED emits light when reference potentials VSS and VDD are applied from power source lines to the OLED's cathode and anode respectively. While the anode can be connected to one of the power source line via a driving TFT and a lighting switch, a reset potential VRS can be applied to the anode via a reset switch and the driving TFT. The lighting switch is turned OFF and the reset switch and the driving TFT are turned ON so that VRS is applied to the anode, before starting the application of the reference potentials to the power source lines. Following this state, the application of the reference potentials to the power source lines starts, and thus a normal operation of allowing the OLED to emit light starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Hiroyuki Kimura, Makoto Shibusawa, Hiroshi Nakayama, Hiroshi Tabatake, Yutaka Umeda
  • Patent number: 10121414
    Abstract: A display device that includes a pixel including an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a driving transistor connected to the driving voltage and supplying a driving current to the OLED, a compensation capacitor connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor, and a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor electrically connected to or blocked from the compensation capacitor, and a driving method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 10121415
    Abstract: An OLED display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a scan line on the substrate and configured to transmit a scan signal; a data line crossing the scan line and configured to transmit a data voltage; a driving voltage line crossing the scan line and configured to transmit a driving voltage, a portion of the driving voltage line being a second storage electrode; a switching transistor connected to the scan line and the data line; a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor and including a driving gate electrode; a driving connecting member connected to the driving gate electrode; a first storage electrode, the second storage electrode overlapping the first storage electrode; a shielding member connected to the second storage electrode and between the driving connecting member and the data line; and an organic light emitting diode connected to the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Sun Lee, Dong-Hwi Kim, Jae-Sic Lee
  • Patent number: 10121416
    Abstract: The invention discloses an AMOLED pixel driver circuit and pixel driving method, by using a pixel driver circuit of 3T2C structure to effectively compensate threshold voltage of driving TFT in each pixel; through adding a third TFT (T3) and introducing control signal voltage (Vc) to control the third TFT (T3) to prevent current from flowing through in the threshold voltage detection phase and threshold voltage compensation phase so as to reduce the complexity of the power supply (Vdd); by adding a second capacitor (C2) to regulate the influence on the source voltage of the driving TFT by the data signal voltage (VData) so as to reduce the data signal complexity. As a result, the data signal only needs to switch once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuying Cai
  • Patent number: 10121417
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display panel includes calculating an on-pixel ratio based on gamma information corresponding to image information, providing maximum current information based on a dimming level, calculating an average current of the display panel based on the on-pixel ratio and the maximum current information, and providing pixel average current information for each of a plurality of pixels in the display panel. The on-pixel ratio is based on the turned-on pixels of the pixels in the display panel. The pixel average current information is determined based on the average current of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Woo Park, Sung-Hoon Bang
  • Patent number: 10121418
    Abstract: A video wall control device is provided in which a data processor is configured to determine a backlight control signal controlling an intensity of light supplied by at least one backlight unit among a plurality of backlight units based on image data obtained by capturing an image of a video wall device including a plurality of display panels and the plurality of backlight units supplying the light to each of the plurality of display panels, and signal transmission and reception circuitry configured to transmit the backlight control signal to the video wall device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-kyun Beon, Min-jung Kim, Oh-yun Kwon
  • Patent number: 10121419
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device periodically measures a gamma characteristic of each of a plurality of display panels, then adjusts the characteristic of one of the panels to closely match the other. For example, the HMD device can periodically apply a set of currents to selected pixels at each display panel and measure the resulting sets of voltages at the selected pixels. The set of voltages for each display panel indicates the gamma characteristic of the corresponding panel. The HMD device can apply the sets of voltages to a filter to generate a gamma figure of merit (FOM) for each display panel, and adjust a bias (e.g., a backlight bias or a bias of a light emitting diode (LED)) of one or more of the display panels, so that each display panel exhibits similar gamma characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Zhibin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10121420
    Abstract: In a display device, an image display panel updates an image in a frame cycle including an image scanning period and a vertical blanking period, a light modulation layer is disposed at a back of the panel and switched to a scattering or transmission state depending on an electric field applied, a light source emits light which enters the light modulation layer from its side and travels therethrough, electrodes are formed according to divided areas of the light modulation layer arranged in a direction of the light and apply the electric field to the light modulation layer, and a controller drives the electrodes in synchronization with image scanning to switch the divided areas to the scattering state in order during the image scanning period, and drives the electrodes according to distances from the side to control the scattering state on the individual divided areas during the vertical blanking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
  • Patent number: 10121421
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel whose display is controlled by an image signal, a backlight which includes light sources and lights the image display panel from behind, and a display control section which calculates, based on the image signal, the required luminance value of the backlight for each divided area of the image display panel, calculates a tentative lighting level of each light source based on luminance distribution information for the backlight stored previously and the required luminance values, sets the lighting level of a first light source whose tentative lighting level exceeds an upper limit to the upper limit, determines the lighting level of a second light source whose tentative lighting level does not exceed the upper limit, based on the lighting level of the first light source, luminance distribution information, and required luminance value, and controls the backlight by the lighting levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Takasaki, Tsutomu Harada, Susumu Kimura
  • Patent number: 10121422
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel units, where each pixel unit includes two suppression color changing sub-pixel units configured for exciting light waves of different colors. Each suppression color changing sub-pixel unit includes: a first transparent electrostatic sheet and a second transparent electrostatic sheet which are disposed opposite to each other and insulated from each other, where the first transparent electrostatic sheet is disposed on a substrate and the second transparent electrostatic sheet is disposed on the first transparent electrostatic sheet. The display device further includes: a suppression color changing light emitting layer disposed between the first transparent electrostatic sheet and the second transparent electrostatic sheet; and a transparent pressure deformation sensor disposed at a side of the second transparent electrostatic that is away from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbin Jia, Ronggang Shangguan, Xinwei Gao, Guangcai Yuan
  • Patent number: 10121423
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes an over-driving part, where the over-driving part is configured to receive first image data, and to output second image data using first over-driving data and second over-driving data, the first over-driving data is generated according to previous frame data and present frame data for a minimum blank period between the previous frame data and the present frame data of the first image data, the second over-driving data is generated according to the previous frame data and the present frame data for a maximum blank period between the previous frame data and the present frame data of the first image data, and a high display quality of a display apparatus may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Hyun Yeo, Po-Yun Park, Dong-Won Park, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10121424
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a transparent electrode. Sub-pixel units are defined on the first substrate and the second substrate. A sub-pixel unit has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The transparent electrode is disposed on the second substrate, and the transparent electrode receives a first common potential and a second common potential. When grey levels displayed by the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are in the range of about 96 to 180, a potential difference between the first common potential received when the first sub-pixel has the maximum brightness and the second common potential received when the second sub-pixel has the minimum brightness is in the range of about 0 mV to 100 mV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yueh-Hung Chung, Hsueh-Ying Huang, Wei-Chun Wei, Shu-Cheng Kung, Ken-Yu Liu, Ya-Ling Hsu, Chen-Hsien Liao
  • Patent number: 10121425
    Abstract: An adaptive black clipping circuit in a display device includes a data corrector, a register, a pattern detector and a clipping selector. The data corrects input image data to generate corrected image data such that the corrected image data is equal to or greater than a black clipping value where the black clipping value corresponds to the input image data having a grayscale value of zero and the black clipping value is greater than zero. The register stores and provides configuration data. The pattern detector generates a pattern detection signal based on the input image data corresponding to a plurality of rows. The clipping selector selects one of the corrected image data and the configuration data in response to the pattern detection signal to provide output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Yoon-Gu Kim, Woo-Joo Lee, Bong-Im Park
  • Patent number: 10121426
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device and the like capable of achieving a function with which the charging polarity for the liquid crystal panel is not deviated even when the frame rate for writing to the liquid crystal panel changes dynamically only with simple structures and low power consumption. A polarity inversion control circuit is for supplying polarity inversion signals to the liquid crystal panel, and it is characterized to switch the levels of the polarity inversion signals in such a manner that a difference between an integrated value of frame periods when the polarity inversion signal is in a first level and an integrated value of the frame periods when the polarity inversion signal is in a second level becomes small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10121427
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes an over driving data generator that compares a gray level of a data signal of a present frame with a gray level of a data signal of a previous frame to output an over driving data signal. The data signal has a bit number of n. A data drive IC generates level voltages having a number of more than 2n and outputs one of the level voltages of the over driving data signal. A liquid crystal panel includes a pixel applied with the one of the level voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Ho You, Yong-Sung Ham
  • Patent number: 10121428
    Abstract: A power supply module includes a source driver power supply circuit, a gate driver power supply circuit, a first capacitor group, a second capacitor group and a switch module. The source driver power supply circuit and the gate driver power supply circuit are utilized for driving a source driver and a gate driver of a display device, respectively. The first capacitor group includes at least one first storage capacitor for storing electric charges for driving source driving signals, and at least one first flying capacitor. The second capacitor group includes at least one second storage capacitor for storing electric charges for driving gate driving signals, and at least one second flying capacitor. The switch module is utilized for switching the first capacitor group to be used for the gate driver power supply circuit or switching the second capacitor group to be used for the source driver power supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Tsun-Sen Lin, Min-Nan Liao
  • Patent number: 10121429
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of reducing power consumption when switching a gate line between a selected state and a non-selected state, and of providing a narrower frame for an active matrix substrate. A gate driver (11) that scans each gate line is formed inside a display area in an active matrix substrate (20a) having gate lines (13G) and data lines formed therein. The gate driver (11) switches the gate line to either a selected state or a non-selected state, in accordance with a control signal supplied via a line (15L). The gate driver (11) includes a high-charge drive circuit (11a), a low-charge drive circuit (11b), and a shift register (11c). The high-charge drive circuit is supplied with a first DC voltage signal corresponding to the selected state via the line (15L), and charges the gate line to the potential of the first DC voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohhei Tanaka, Hidefumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10121430
    Abstract: A display may have an array of light-emitting diode pixels or pixels containing portions of a liquid crystal layer to which electric fields are applied using electrodes. A pixel with a light-emitting diode may have a drive transistor coupled in series with the light-emitting diode. A storage capacitor may be coupled to a gate of the drive transistor. A pixel with a liquid crystal portion may have a storage capacitor coupled to a given one of the electrodes in that pixel. Switching circuitry in each pixel may be used to load data from a data line into the storage capacitor of the pixel. The switching circuitry may include a semiconducting-oxide transistor coupled to an associated data line and a series-connected silicon transistor that is coupled to the storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Jungbae Kim, Kyung Wook Kim, MinKyu Kim, Shih Chang Chang, Vasudha Gupta, Young Bae Park
  • Patent number: 10121431
    Abstract: A shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display screen and a method for driving the display screen are proposed. A first and/or a second node control unit are incorporated. The first node control unit controls a first node according to a first control signal to put a pulling-up unit in an OFF state; the second node control unit controls a second node according to a second control signal to put a pulling-down unit in an OFF state. During the period that the display screen is powered off, the level at the driving signal output terminal is prevented from being affected by the pulling-up unit through the first node control unit and by the pulling-down unit through the second node control unit, such that thin film transistors connected to a gate line corresponding to the shift register are all turned on and thus accumulated charges can be released rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Li, Jian Sun, Cheng Li, Seong Jun An
  • Patent number: 10121432
    Abstract: A shift register includes a primary circuit and a secondary circuit including an inverting circuit and a pull-down circuit. The pull-down circuit includes a first transistor. The primary circuit has an output terminal, a first and a second input terminals, and is electrically connected to a first common terminal. The secondary circuit is electrically connected to the first common terminal. The pull-down circuit is electrically connected to the inverting circuit. The first transistor has a first top gate, a first bottom gate, a first first electrode and a first second electrode, wherein the first second electrode is configured to receive a first voltage level, the first top gate is configured to receive a second voltage level, and the second voltage level is higher than the first voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: HANNSTAR DISPLAY (NANJING) CORPORATION, HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung-Chun Lin, Hsuan-Chen Liu, Chien-Ting Chan
  • Patent number: 10121433
    Abstract: A gate on array (GOA) circuit for used in an LCD includes GOA units connected in cascade. An Nth GOA unit includes an Nth stage-transmittance circuit, an Nth Q-node controlling circuit, an Nth P-node controlling circuit, an Nth outputting circuit, and a first switch circuit where N is a positive integer. The first switch circuit connected to the Nth scanning line, for inputting an enabling signal to the Nth scanning line before the LCD shows images so as to turn on a TFT in a pixel which the Nth scanning line is connected to. The benefit of the function is that the display does not leak electricity when the black screen is woken up and that the stability of the circuit is enhanced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Ronglei Dai, Shangcao Cao, Yao Yan
  • Patent number: 10121434
    Abstract: There is provided a stage circuit capable of minimizing a mounting area. The stage circuit includes: an output unit configured to supply a voltage of a first node, an i-th (i is a natural number) carry signal, and to supply an i-th scan signal in response to the voltage of the first node, a voltage of a second node, and a first clock signal, a controller configured to control the voltage of the second node in response to the first clock signal; a pull-up unit configured to control the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage and a voltage of a first node of the previous stage, and a pull-down unit configured to control the voltage of the first node in response to the voltage of the second node and a carry signal of a next stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Sung Hwan Kim, Se Young Song, Kyoung Ju Shin, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 10121435
    Abstract: To suppress malfunctions in a shift register circuit. A shift register having a plurality of flip-flop circuits is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes a transistor 11, a transistor 12, a transistor 13, a transistor 14, and a transistor 15. When the transistor 13 or the transistor 14 is turned on in a non-selection period, the potential of a node A is set, so that the node A is prevented from entering into a floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 10121436
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus. The shift register may comprise an inputting module, a resetting module, a pulling up module, a pulling down module for a first node, a pulling down module for a second node, an output controlling module and an output noise reducing module. The inputting module is used to pull up a potential of the first node. The resetting module is used to pull down the potential of the first node. The pulling up module is used to pull up the potential of the second node. The pulling down module for the first node is used to pull down the potential of the first node. The pulling down module for the second node is used to pull down the potential of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Huang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10121437
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shift register and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The shift register of the present invention includes an input module, an output pulling-up module and a reset-and-noise-reducing module, wherein the input module is connected to a signal input terminal, a second clock signal input terminal, a power supply voltage terminal and a pulling-up node, the output pulling-up module is connected to a first clock signal input terminal, the pulling-up node and a signal output terminal, and the reset-and-noise-reducing module is connected to the second clock signal input terminal, a reset signal input terminal, a low voltage terminal, the pulling-up node and the signal output terminal. The shift register of the present invention has a simple structure, thereby facilitating the implementation of a narrow-bezel display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honggang Gu, Xiaohe Li, Xianjie Shao
  • Patent number: 10121438
    Abstract: A shift register and a display device are provided. The shift register includes a pre-charge unit, a pull-up unit, a first pull-down unit and a second pull-down unit. The pre-charge unit receives first and second input signals, and outputs a pre-charge signal via a first node. The pull-up unit receives the pre-charge signal and a clock signal, and outputs a scanning signal via a second node. The first pull-down unit receives the pre-charge signal, first and second pull-down control signals, and controls whether to pull-down the scanning signal to a reference voltage level. The second pull-down unit receives the pre-charge signal and first and second pull-down control signals, and controls whether to keep the scanning signal at the reference voltage level. The period of the first second pull-down control signal and the period of the second pull-down control signal are in a range from 12 frames to 180 frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: HannStar Display (Nanjing) Corporation, HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Tean-Sen Jen, Sung-Chun Lin, Hsuan-Chen Liu, Chien-Ting Chan
  • Patent number: 10121439
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; and a gate driving circuit, a kth driving stage from among driving stages for outputting a kth gate signal from among gate signals, where k is a natural number of two or more, including: at least one output transistor including a control electrode connected to a first node, an input electrode to receive a clock signal, and an output electrode to output an output signal; a first control transistor to output an activation signal to the first node before the kth gate signal is outputted; a capacitor to boost a voltage of the first node after the activation signal is provided to the first node; second and third control transistors connected in series between the first node and a voltage input terminal; and a first intermediate node between the second control transistor and the third control transistor for receiving the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghwan Kim, Junhyun Park, Kyoungju Shin, Woongsik Choi
  • Patent number: 10121440
    Abstract: Provided is a display device causing less noise on a signal. A display device (10) includes a plurality of signal lines (SL), a plurality of gate lines (GL), and a driving unit. The plurality of gate lines crosses the plurality of signal lines. The driving unit is connected to the plurality of gate lines and controls a potential of each of the gate lines. The driving unit includes a plurality of gate drivers (11) and a plurality of lines. The gate drivers are disposed in a display region, and at least one of the gate drivers is connected to each of the gate lines. The lines are each provided with a potential for operation of one of the gate drivers. Each of the lines crosses one of the signal lines. The plurality of lines includes a first line (17A) and a second line (17B). The driving unit switches a potential of the first line at predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishiyama, Kohhei Tanaka, Takeshi Noma, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 10121441
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) driver circuit and a liquid crystal display are proposed. The GOA driver circuit includes cascaded GOA units. The Nth-stage GOA unit includes a pull-up module, a pull-up control module, a pull-down holding module, a transferring module, and a bootstrap capacitor module. The pull-up module, the pull-down holding module, and the bootstrap capacitor module are electrically connected to an Nth-stage gate signal node Qn and an Nth-stage horizontal scan line Gn, respectively. The pull-up control module and the transferring module are connected to the Nth-stage gate signal node Qn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Lv, Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 10121442
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving method and a driving unit of GOA circuits. The driving unit includes a timing control chip and a GOA circuit including a plurality of cascaded GOA driving units. The timing control chip inputs first clock signals, second clock signals, and a constant-voltage potential to the GOA driving units at each of levels to drive the GOA driving units to output the scanning driving signals level-by-level, wherein scanning initial signals are further inputted to the GOA driving units at the first through the fourth level. The first clock signals and the second clock signals are two different clock signals selected from one clock signals set including eight high-frequency clock signals (CK1˜CK8), wherein CKm and CKm+4 are inverting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Longqiang Shi, Shu Jhih Chen
  • Patent number: 10121443
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first gate driving circuit, a second gate driving circuit, a first pixel element and a second pixel element. The first gate driving circuit generates a first gate pulse signal. The second gate driving circuit generates a second gate pulse signal. The first gate pulse signal and the second gate pulse signal are simultaneously activated. The first pixel element receives the first gate pulse signal. The second pixel element receives the second gate pulse signal. While the first pixel element is in a negative polarity state, the second pixel element is in a positive polarity state, the first pixel element is turned off in response to a first low gate voltage of the first gate pulse signal, and the second pixel element is turned off in response to a second low gate voltage of the second gate pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Konoshita
  • Patent number: 10121444
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a grayscale voltage outputting part which generates a first positive polarity grayscale voltage and a first polarity negative grayscale voltage, compares the first positive polarity with a first reference voltage to output a first comparison voltage, compares the first negative polarity grayscale voltage with a second reference voltage to output a second comparison voltage, compares the first comparison voltage with the second comparison voltage to output a voltage deviation value, and outputs a second positive polarity grayscale voltage and a second negative polarity grayscale voltage based on the voltage deviation value, and a data driving part which outputs a data signal based on image data to a data line of a display panel, using the second positive polarity grayscale voltage and the second negative polarity grayscale voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyong-Do Choi, Yun-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 10121445
    Abstract: An active matrix LCD display of the multi-pixel drive (MPD) type, in which a pixel comprises a plurality of sub-pixels with each sub-pixel of a pixel being associated with a respective storage capacitor address lines so that the voltage applied across an individual sub-pixel depends on both the signal voltage and the voltage applied to the associated storage capacitor address line, is driven such that the relationship between at least a first one of the capacitor line voltages and a second one of the capacitor line in a first display refresh period of the frame is different to the relationship between the first of the capacitor line voltages and the second of the capacitor line voltages in a second display refresh period of the frame. This allows the root-mean-square (RMS) voltage applied over the frame across a first of the sub-pixels to be controlled at least partially independently of the RMS voltage applied over the frame across a second of the sub-pixels, thereby providing increased resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Paul Antony Gass, Benjamin John Broughton, Emma Jayne Walton, Christopher James Brown
  • Patent number: 10121446
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a rotation support member; a support member configured to support the rotation support member; a rotation member movably coupled to the rotation support member; a display movably coupled to a surface of the rotation member; a driving device configured to drive the display; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control, if input information is received, driving of the rotation member to make the display corresponding to the received input information face a first direction, control, if the display moves to face the first direction, driving the rotation member to face a second direction for identify an external object, identifying, if the display is located to face the external object in the second direction, the external object, and display information on at least one function executed in connection with the identified external object on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Mi-Hyun Jeong, Eun-Seok Kim, Do-Hyeong Park, Pyo-Je Cho, Jin-A Choe, Jin-Soo Ha, Dong-Il Son
  • Patent number: 10121447
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for controlling a display screen brightness level for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the electronic device determines a first ambient light level and associates the first ambient light level with a first priority weight value. The electronic device further determines a second ambient light level and associates the second ambient light level with a second priority weight value. A display controller within the electronic device sets the display screen brightness level based, at least in part, on the first ambient light level, the second ambient light level, and at least one of the first and second priority weight values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul Ghosh, William R. LaRiccia, Ravi K. Muthukrishnan, Aaron J. Quirk, Xianjun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10121448
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a normal function means is provided, in which the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased even when a digital circuit using transistors having one conductivity is employed. By turning OFF a diode-connected transistor 101, the gate terminal of a first transistor 102 is brought into a floating state. At this time, the first transistor 102 is ON and its gate-source voltage is stored in a capacitor. Then, when a potential at the source terminal of the first transistor 102 is increased, a potential at the gate terminal of the first transistor 102 is increased as well by bootstrap effect. As a result, the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yutaka Shionoiri
  • Patent number: 10121449
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided comprising a processor configured to: identify one or more sink devices; for each sink device, generate a respective display data structure; for each sink device, generate a respective data stream, the respective data stream being generated by encoding content produced by one or more applications based on the respective display data structure of the sink device; and transmit, to each of the sink devices, that sink device's respective encoded data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soung-Kwan Kimn, Su-Hyun Kim, Dong-Hyun Jo, Dae-Sik Hwang, Seung-Ryong Kook, Jong-Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10121450
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for eye protection based on a screen of a virtual reality headset, the method comprising: calculating, based on a plurality of weight areas divided on a screen of a virtual reality headset, a total cumulative amount of a blue component of pixels on the screen from a t0 moment to a t1 moment, wherein the plurality of weight areas is divided according to weights of impact of blue light on human eyes; determining, according to the total cumulative amount of the blue component from the t0 moment to the t1 moment, a blue light suppression factor at the t1 moment, and then obtaining a suppressed blue component value of each pixel of an image at a next frame; outputting the image of the next frame with the suppressed blue component value. In such a way, the present invention can strike a balance between eye protection and guarantee of display performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rui Wang
  • Patent number: 10121451
    Abstract: The examples relate to a method and apparatus to measuring ambient light information that is used in the manipulation or augmentation of an image presented on a display. The apparatus measures ambient light characteristic information from at least one direction in an environment in which the apparatus is located. The measured ambient light characteristic enable substantially real time generation and application of an image effect to an image presented on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Lloyd Goodman
  • Patent number: 10121452
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. A display device comprises a display area, a non-display area, signal lines, and compensating capacitors. The display area and the non-display area are defined on a substrate. The signal lines are located within the display area, and their wiring lengths differ depending on location. The compensating capacitors are connected to at least one of the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byongwook Shin, Jaeho Sim, Jungyoup Suk