Patents Issued in May 12, 2020
  • Patent number: 10650688
    Abstract: A system for reporting aircraft situational awareness information associated with a first aircraft can include a global positioning system (GPS) receiver configured to receive positioning signals and determine a position of the first aircraft. The system can also include a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) configured to receive collision avoidance information from one or more second aircrafts. The system can also include a processor, coupled to the GPS receiver and the TCAS, configured to generate a situational awareness message using the determined position of the first aircraft and the collision avoidance information received from the one or more second aircrafts. The system can include a high frequency (HF) transceiver coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the generated situational awareness message, through a HF channel, to one or more HF ground stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. DeRoche
  • Patent number: 10650689
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to add information to an existing waveform. Specifically, the systems and methods described herein can add watermark information using transmitted-reference to a legacy waveform without actually controlling the legacy waveform itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Sinkiewicz
  • Patent number: 10650690
    Abstract: An advisor system includes a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon a program of instructions. Execution of the instructions causes a processor to determine a current state of a first aircraft operating on a movement area of an airport including determining a path vector for the first aircraft. The path vector includes a speed and direction of travel of the first aircraft and identification of a runway intersection the first aircraft is projected to enter. The processor processes a surveillance signal transmitted from a second aircraft operating on the movement area, including determining a quality of the surveillance signal. The processor further determines a movement vector of the second aircraft, and compares the path vector and the movement vector to identify possible interference. Finally, the processor provides an advisory at the first aircraft based on the compared path vector and the movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric R Chartier, Evan Eaves, William Colligan, Andrew Murphy
  • Patent number: 10650691
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system (10, 110) for aiding a user to move, comprising: a sensor (20,120) configured to detect a parameter indicating a position of the user's foot; a feedback device (30, 130) operable to provide feedback to the user; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the feedback device (30,130) depending on the sensed parameter. The present invention is beneficial because it increases confidence and/or efficiency in movement, providing visual aids and/or tactile feedback to guide the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Lise S Pape
  • Patent number: 10650692
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein can determine sequences for educational units by evaluating entropies of multiple potential sequences and biasing selection of next units towards those associated with high sequence entropies. Further, an analysis can determine which units are under-represented (relative to a target proportion) in a past sequence and bias towards inclusion of an under-represented unit in the sequence. The available units that are considered for potential selection can include those matched to a learner's skill (e.g., such that all pre-requisite units have been mastered but the unit itself has not been mastered). Thus, techniques can generate sequences of units that promote unit variation and nonetheless conform to relative unit frequencies and skill level appropriateness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventor: Randall Barnhart
  • Patent number: 10650693
    Abstract: A therapeutic tool, and method for using it, for integrating motor, sensory and cognitive skills and progressively developing coordination and cognitive functioning. In a preferred embodiment, a mat is provided with colored shapes forming a figure-8 path. The shapes may be colored differently to progress along the figure-8 path. The shapes may be lights, and a computer may be used to program the lights, or provide music, to prompt the user to progress along the figure-8 path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BRAIN ABC's, INC.
    Inventor: Pam A. Cavallo
  • Patent number: 10650694
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter includes a Ux V system simulator. According to some examples synthetic images are display on the display device, the synthetic images showing an artificial representation of an environment in which operation of a Ux V is being simulated, the images are shown as if viewed from a vantage point of an imaging payload located onboard the Ux V; the images are processed to extract thereform values of one or more graphic image parameters; responsive to a command issued with respect to the synthetic images, the extracted values are compared with respective predefined reference values; A simulation of the issued command is executed only if the comparison between the extracted values and respective reference values complies with at least one predefined condition, thereby increasing similarity between the operation of the simulator and the operation of the real UAV system being simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Ohad Rozenberg
  • Patent number: 10650695
    Abstract: Apparatus to simulate driving a land vehicle comprising a fixed base platform (11), a mobile platform (12) disposed above the base platform (11), a drive station (13) associated with the mobile platform (12), and movement means (18) associated with the base platform (11) and with the mobile platform (12) to provide the movement of the mobile platform (12) with respect to the base platform (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: VI-grade GmbH
    Inventor: Diego Minen
  • Patent number: 10650696
    Abstract: Systems and methods of orienting a vision impaired user with a musical instrument and systems and methods of directing the vision impaired user to tune the musical instrument are disclosed. A method of orienting includes directing the user to play a note on the musical instrument, determining the note and a corresponding location on the musical instrument, the corresponding location being a portion of the musical instrument that generates the note, determining a difference between the corresponding location and a target location, the target location representing at least a portion of a positioning necessary for the user to play the musical instrument, generating one or more non-visual directions based on the difference, and providing the one or more non-visual directions to the user. The one or more non-visual directions direct the user to the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlo Cruz
  • Patent number: 10650697
    Abstract: A medication confirmation method and apparatus. The method of an embodiment of the invention includes the steps of capturing one or more video sequences of a user administering medication via a medication administration apparatus, storing the captured one or more video sequences, and analyzing at least one of the stored video sequences to confirm that the user has properly administered the medication, and has properly positioned the medication administration apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AIC Innovations Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Hanina, Gordon Kessler, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 10650698
    Abstract: Identifying material with which students are struggling can guide educators' decisions on which modifications to the instructional experience will be most impactful to the learning experience. Educators make a finite selection of the near infinite number of possible combinations of instructional content, delivery approaches, instructional order, test questions, approaches for accountability, rubrics, and the like. Educators and administrators with thousands of students are incapable of process the quantities of available data unaided. In some embodiments, a system enables users to view quantized metric data from a population of, for example, students. In some embodiments, the system displays a category-filtered presentation table of a single metric data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SparxTeq, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Reed Olsen
  • Patent number: 10650699
    Abstract: Improved techniques and systems are disclosed for determining the components of resistance experienced by a wearer of a wearable device engaged in an activity such as bicycling or running. By monitoring data using the wearable device, improved estimates can be derived for various factors contributing to the resistance experienced by the user in the course of the activity. Using these improved estimates, data sampling rates may be reduced for some or all of the monitored data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Craig H. Mermel, Alexander Singh Alvarado, Daniel M. Trietsch, Hung A. Pham, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Richard Channing Moore, III
  • Patent number: 10650700
    Abstract: An incident simulation system supports an incident exercise in a virtual environment. The incident simulation system accesses a simulation plan defining an incident within a theater of operation. The incident simulation system simulates the incident exercise by displaying, to a participant in the incident exercise, images representing what the participant would see within the theater of operation as the participant moves within the theater of operation. The incident simulation system further simulates the incident by generating incident data indicating effects of the incident at target locations and at target times as the participant moves within the theater of operation. The incident simulation system further simulates the incident by displaying to the participant images representing the user experience that a detector would provide based on the generated incident data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory K. White, William H. Dunlop, T R Koncher, Steve Kreek
  • Patent number: 10650701
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to operating multiple cutaneous actuators to provide the sensation of motions or actions occurring within the body. A part of receiving user's body (e.g., limb or head) is placed between the cutaneous actuators. The cutaneous actuators are operated in sequence, causing the illusion of motions or actions occurring inside the body part, as opposed to patches of skin where the cutaneous actuators are located. By differing the time interval between the activation of the cutaneous actuators and/or amplitude of vibrations generated by the cutaneous actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Israr
  • Patent number: 10650702
    Abstract: The most active part of a video frame is magnified on a display to accommodate people with eye maladies such as glaucoma or perhaps retinitis pigmentosa. An area of interest in a video frame is identified, and that area is expanded or magnified to the center of the display, where people suffering from loss of peripheral vision can best see. Assuming the viewer sits a benchmark distance from the display, the active part of the image is expanded to fit in what can be seen in the center of the display without moving the head left to right and up and down. This may be done by the display recognizing where most of the action is taking place by means of with motion vectors and I-macroblocks, or by allowing the viewer to switch to various predetermined blocks on screen using a remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Peter Shintani
  • Patent number: 10650703
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for practicing suturing techniques on a training apparatus using a training tool. The training apparatus can include a three-dimensional tracking system to detect a position of the training tool. A processing unit can process the positional data to determine one or more performance parameters. The performance parameters can be output to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Truinject Corp.
    Inventors: Gabrielle A. Rios, Clark B. Foster
  • Patent number: 10650704
    Abstract: A training device simulating ablation of a disc space between adjacent vertebral bodies. A heating apparatus includes an upper surface. A lower plate is provided on the upper surface of the heating apparatus. An upper substantially transparent plate is fixed by a frame above the lower plate. The upper plate is etched with an outline of a vertebral body. Fixed in position proximate the lower frame, the upper plate holds a biological material compressed between the plates. Tool-holding clamps, attached to the frame, are positioned to insert a surgical tool, in a proper location and orientation, into the biological material between the upper and lower plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic Holding Company Sàrl
    Inventor: Stephen W. Lee
  • Patent number: 10650705
    Abstract: A leg for attachment to a main body of a taxidermy mannequin includes first, second, and third portions, each having first and second ends. The first end of the first portion includes a connector for coupling to the main body. The first end of the second portion is connected to the second end of the first portion to form a first joint. At least one of the first or second portions has a first cut-away section proximate the first joint with a reduced thickness. The first end of the third portion is connected to the second end of the second portion to form a second joint. At least one of the second or third portions has a second cut-away section proximate the second joint with a reduced thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: McKenzie Sports Products, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Aaron Martin, Brian E. Hendricks
  • Patent number: 10650706
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive label and method for preparing same, the pressure sensitive label comprising: (a) a support portion, the support portion including at least a carrier layer; and (b) a transfer portion over the support portion for transfer of the transfer portion from the support portion to an article upon application of pressure to the transfer portion while the transfer portion is in contact with the article, the transfer portion including at least a printable layer in confronting relationship with the carrier layer, and an ink layer positioned between the printable layer and carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Multi-Color Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Barnhardt, Barron G. McKillip, Stephen Riccardi, Floyd Needham, A. Craig Bushman
  • Patent number: 10650707
    Abstract: A unitary sheet-like merchandise labeling article that has a labeling tag flatly conjoined along a unifying flat bond zone with a flexible elastic layer that extends away from the tag and includes an elastic fastening loop. The loop sides that define the loop are wider than the thickness of the elastic layer. Further, the flexible elastic layer that extends away from the tag has a thickness greater than the thickness of the tag and has a dispersion zone adjacent the unifying flat bond zone. The dispersion zone allows dissipation of elastic loop in-line stretching forces sufficiently to reduce transmission of such forces into the bond zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Bedford Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Ludlow, John B. Linquist, Colin M. O'Donnell, Ryan M. Korpela
  • Patent number: 10650708
    Abstract: There is provided a system for securing a sign to a support surface. The system comprises a magnetically releasable lock adapted to automatically lock mutually displaceable surface portions together. The system ensures locking of the two mutually displaceable portions without the visible information-carrying part being disfigured. Unauthorized persons cannot remove the information-carrying part without having knowledge about the location of the magnetically releasable lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Dania Technology ApS
    Inventor: Ken Thode
  • Patent number: 10650709
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a flexible screen and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a press parameter with respect to a motor drive switch; and controlling a motor to rotate according to the press parameter, to unfold or fold the flexible screen. The flexible screen can be controlled to unfold and fold to obtain a suitable screen size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yugui Lin
  • Patent number: 10650710
    Abstract: To provide a display body device and a display apparatus that allow for improvement of an electrostatic withstanding voltage, a display body device 10E includes: a wiring substrate 30; a light-emitting element 12 and a drive IC 13 that are disposed on the wiring substrate 30; and a wiring pattern 36 that is disposed on an outermost side, and is at least partially exposed and has a potential equal to a ground of each of the light-emitting element 12 and the drive IC 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Aoyagi, Makio Iida, Norifumi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10650711
    Abstract: A power device comprising: multiple light sources (202A, 202B, 202C) arranged in a housing (205); a mask (204) arranged around each of the multiple light sources in the housing and including multiple chambers (207A, 207B, 207C) corresponding to the multiple light sources to direct light (214A, 214B, 214C) emitted from the multiple light sources to a common area (140, 216) on an outer surface of the housing; and multiple image sources (214A, 214B, 214C) corresponding to the multiple light sources arranged between the multiple light sources and the outer surface of the housing, light emitted from each of the multiple light sources reaching a corresponding image source before reaching the surface of the housing and projecting a corresponding image (212) on the common area on the surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Marinus Arnoldus Martinus Vugts
  • Patent number: 10650712
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting visual media on a structure having a plurality of unordered light sources, e.g., fiber optic light sources, light emitting diodes (LEDs), etc. Visual media can be created based on a computer model of the structure. Images of the structure can be analyzed to determine the location of each of the light sources. A lookup table can be generated based on the image analysis, and used to correlate pixels of the visual media to one or more of the actual light sources. A visual media artist or designer need not have prior knowledge of the order/layout of the light sources on the structure in order to create visual media to be presented thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Steven M. Chapman, Joseph Popp, Mehul Patel
  • Patent number: 10650713
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes a body portion, a display panel, a lens module, an infrared transmitter, and an infrared receiver. The display panel is provided in the body portion. The lens module is disposed in front of the display panel, and includes an outer frame, a lens and a mounting portion. The lens is provided in the outer frame. The mounting portion is disposed at the periphery of the outer frame. A reference line is connected between the viewing point and the mounting portion. The infrared transmitter is disposed on the mounting portion. The outer frame is provided with a light exit surface between the viewing point and the mounting portion. The infrared transmitter projects a light along the reference line via the light exit surface which limits the exit angle of the light. The infrared receiver is disposed on the body portion for receiving the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Huang, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 10650714
    Abstract: A volumetric type three-dimensional display device can include a plurality of voxels having a polyhedron shape laminated three-dimensionally. A unit display panel in which an organic electroluminescent device and a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal device are laminated from the outside is configured on at least one surface of the polyhedron shape of the voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JungSub Hwang
  • Patent number: 10650715
    Abstract: A short circuit detector includes a first transistor connected between a first portion of a data line and a second portion of the data line and including a gate electrode connected to a first node; a second transistor connected between a first voltage source and the first node and including a gate electrode configured to receive a short-circuit test signal; a third transistor connected between a second node included in the second portion and a third node and including a gate electrode configured to receive the short-circuit test signal; a fourth transistor connected between a second voltage source and the first node and including a gate electrode connected to the third node; and a fifth transistor connected to the first node and a third voltage source and including a gate electrode connected to the third node in common with the gate electrode of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong Heon Cho
  • Patent number: 10650716
    Abstract: A gate shift register unit comprises an activation signal terminal, a deactivation signal terminal, a reset signal terminal, a first level signal terminal, a second level signal terminal, a first control terminal, a first clock signal terminal, a second clock signal terminal, an output terminal, a first node, a second node, a first node control unit, a second node control unit, a reset unit, and an output unit. The first node control unit is connected to the first control terminal, the activation signal terminal, the first level signal terminal, the second level signal terminal, the deactivation signal terminal, the first node, and the second node, and configured to transfer a signal at the first level signal terminal or the second level signal terminal to the first node under a control of potential signals at the activation signal terminal, the deactivation signal terminal, the first control terminal, and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yian Zhou, Kerui Xi, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 10650717
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display substrate, first interconnections, second interconnections, a driving circuit and a polarizing plate. The display substrate includes a bend portion which is curved with respect to an axis parallel to a first direction. The first interconnections extend in the first direction and are on the display substrate. The second interconnections are on the display substrate, connected to the first interconnections and extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnections and the second interconnections and provides driving signals to the first interconnections and the second interconnections. The polarizing plate is on the display substrate and overlaps the first interconnections and the second interconnections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taehyeog Jung
  • Patent number: 10650718
    Abstract: The sub-pixel rendering method includes: obtaining a digital image, in which the digital image includes multiple pixels, each of the pixels includes multiple grey levels, and the number of the grey levels in the digital image is greater than the number of the sub-pixel structures; performing a gamma transformation on each of the grey levels to obtain multiple sub-pixel luminances; performing a sub-pixel rendering algorithm on the sub-pixel luminances to obtain multiple rendered sub-pixel luminances; and transforming the rendered sub-pixel luminances into multiple rendered grey levels, and driving the display panel according to the rendered grey levels, in which the number of the rendered grey levels is equal to the number of the sub-pixel structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chi-Feng Chuang
  • Patent number: 10650719
    Abstract: A rapid discharging circuit, a display device, a rapid discharging method and a display control circuit are provided. The rapid discharging circuit includes a discharging unit. A control end of the discharging unit is connected to a driving IC, a first end thereof is connected to a gate line of the display device, and a second end thereof is connected to a display level end of the display device which is connected to the driving IC. The discharging unit is configured to control the display level end to write a first level into the gate line when the display device is powered off abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shicheng Sun, Zhen Wang, Lele Cong, Yezhou Fang, Peirong Huo
  • Patent number: 10650720
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first signal pad and a second signal pad on a substrate. The first signal pad receives a first voltage. The second signal pad receives a second voltage less than the first voltage. The at least one conductive pad is between the first signal pad and the second signal pad and receives an alternating current voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyunuk Oh
  • Patent number: 10650721
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of first gate lines, a first gate driver connected to first ends of the plurality of first gate lines, a second gate driver connected to second ends of the plurality of first gate lines, a feedback line connected adjacent to the first end of one of the plurality of first gate lines, and a gate delay sensing circuit connected to the feedback line. The gate delay sensing circuit includes a time-to-digital converter and a digital comparator. The time-to-digital converter converts an activation time of a feedback gate signal into a digital activation value. The feedback gate signal is retrieved from the feedback line. The digital comparator generates a digital delay value based on the digital activation value. The digital delay value indicates resistive-capacitive (“RC”) delay of the one of the plurality of first gate lines connected to the feedback line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Hyeon-Do Park
  • Patent number: 10650722
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a dummy gate line. The first circuit and the second circuit are disposed adjacent to each other and arranged along a first direction, and the first circuit and the second circuit are electrically insulated from each other. The dummy gate line extends along a second direction and is disposed between the first circuit and the second circuit, wherein the first direction is different from the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi-Cheng Jian, Yu-Hsin Feng, Yu-Tse Lu
  • Patent number: 10650723
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display area includes a first corner, and data lines extending along a first direction and gate lines extending along a second direction are provided on the display area. The first direction intersects the second direction. The non-display area includes a first non-display area, a second non-display area and a first corner non-display area. The first corner non-display area is adjacent to the first and second non-display areas. The first corner non-display area is adjacent to the first corner. A data end circuit, a first signal line section and a first shift register are located in the first corner non-display area. The data end circuit is disposed at a side of the first shift register close to the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 10650724
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first data driving chip including: a first data driving circuit to generate a first data signal; and a first sensor to sense a first overcurrent flowing in the first data driving circuit based on a first power current flowing in the first data driving circuit to generate a first signal; a second data driving chip including: a second data driving circuit to generate a second data signal; and a second sensor to sense a second overcurrent flowing in the second data driving circuit based on a second power current flowing in the second data driving circuit to generate a second signal; and a power controller to control first and second powers respectively supplied to the first and second data driving chips, and to block at least one of the first and second powers based on at least one of the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sujin Kim, Jongjae Lee, Yanguk Nam, Dae-sik Lee
  • Patent number: 10650725
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel area, a second pixel area, and a third pixel area, each of the second and third pixel areas having a smaller surface area than the first pixel area and being connected to the first pixel area, first to third pixels provided in the first to third pixel areas, respectively, first to third lines connected to the first to third pixels, respectively, a line connecting part connecting the second and third lines, and a dummy unit overlapping the line connecting part to compensate for a difference of a load value of the first line and a load value of the second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Ka, Sun Ja Kwon, Tae Hoon Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Yang Wan Kim, Hyun Ae Park, Su Jin Lee, Seung Kyu Lee, Jae Yong Lee, Jin Tae Jeong, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 10650726
    Abstract: A timing controller includes a count control circuit, a pulse width detector, and a pulse generator. The count control circuit receives an external enable signal. Pulses of the external enable signal include an effective and a blank period of image data. The count control circuit counts pulse widths of each of the pulses. The pulse width detector receives the counted pulse widths, compares a pulse width of a present pulse with pulse widths of previous pulses, and detects a pulse width of a previous pulse that has a pulse width smaller than the pulse width of the present pulse. The pulse generator generates three output pulses having pulse widths that are one-third a period of the detected previous pulse. The pulse generator outputs the first, second and third pulses as an internal enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Jae-Hyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10650727
    Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor device with low power consumption. The semiconductor device includes a controller, a register, and an image processing portion. The image processing portion has a function of taking image data from a frame memory and a parameter from the register and processing the image data by using the parameter. The frame memory has a function of retaining the image data while power supply is stopped. The register has a function of retaining the parameter while power supply is stopped. The controller controls power supply to the register, the frame memory, and the image processing portion. The register includes first and second scan chain registers. The first scan chain register stores a parameter related to a first display region. The second scan chain register stores a parameter related to a second display region. A parameter is changed by loading of data of the first or second scan chain register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10650728
    Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a backplate defined by a bottom wall and a backplate sidewall provided with a first clamping slot; a frame defined by a display panel bearing portion and a frame side wall provided with a second clamping slot; and an elastic clamping member including a first clamping portion provided at the first clamping slot, a second clamping portion provided at the second clamping slot, and a connecting portion connecting the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion to secure the frame to the backplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongda Ma, Xinyin Wu, Yong Qiao
  • Patent number: 10650729
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display driving circuit, a driving method thereof, a display driving system and a display apparatus. The display driving circuit includes a processor and a source driver. The processor is electronically connected to the source driver and configured to receive a low voltage differential signal and to output a data signal for sub-pixels of odd-numbered pixel units and a data signal for sub-pixels of even-numbered pixel units among the low voltage differential signal simultaneously to the source driver progressively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenfei Qian, Zhicheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10650730
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus using the same are disclosed. A display panel includes a base substrate including a plurality of pixel regions having corresponding gate lines and data lines, and a plurality of pads arranged at an outer periphery of the base substrate. The display panel further includes a group of subminiature light emitting diodes (LEDs) in each of the pixel regions to display an image. The subminiature LEDs in one of the pixel regions are arranged at locations within the one of the pixel regions based on a location of the one of the pixel regions with respect to a center of the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungeun Son, Hyeonho Son, Jinyeong Kim, Hanchul Park, Seonghwan Ju
  • Patent number: 10650731
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus of the disclosure includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions, a plurality of active elements, a plurality of first signal lines and second signal lines, a plurality of ground signal lines and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The plurality of ground signal lines are disposed on the substrate and arranged to alternate with the first signal lines. At least one LED has first and second electrodes. The first electrode of at least one LED is electrically connected with a corresponding active element. A second electrode of at least one LED is electrically connected with a corresponding ground signal line. At least two LEDs disposed in an identical pixel region is electrically connected with an identical ground signal line between two first signal lines adjacent to each other. The display apparatus of the disclosure has high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Hsien Lin, Chih-Yung Hsieh, Tsau-Hua Hsieh, Shu-Ming Kuo
  • Patent number: 10650732
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel, a power delivery network (PDN), an image controller, and a PDN controller. The display panel may include a plurality of sub-panels. The PDN may be controlled by a control signal, respectively deliver voltages determined by the control signal to the plurality of sub-panels, and generate state information for determining the control signal. The image controller may receive to store frame image data, determine a number of frames to be integrated according to a window size, and integrate the frame image data of frames in the determined number into one image to generate integrated image data. The PDN controller may generate the control signal and a size adjusting signal based on the state information and the integrated image data, provide the generated control signal to the PDN, and may provide the generated size adjusting signal to the image controller. The size adjusting signal may adjust the window size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Woo Joo Lee, Suk Ho Lee, Kyung Jin Byun, Nak Woong Eum
  • Patent number: 10650733
    Abstract: A light-emitting control signal generation circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The light-emitting control signal generation circuit includes a first control unit, a second control unit, and an output unit. The first control unit controls a potential-level on a first node under control of an effective pulse signal, a first clock signal, a second clock signal, and a first voltage signal. The second control unit controls a potential-level on a second node under control of the effective pulse signal, the first clock signal, the second clock signal, the first voltage signal, a second voltage signal, and the potential-level on the first node. The output unit transmits the first voltage signal to an signal output terminal under control of the potential-level on the first node, and transmits the second voltage signal to the signal output terminal under control of the potential-level on the second node, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingteng Zhai
  • Patent number: 10650735
    Abstract: A charge pump, a voltage control method for the charge pump, and a display device are provided. The charge pump includes a voltage output end and a first step-up circuitry. The first step-up circuitry includes a first energy storage unit, a second energy storage unit, a first input control unit, a first voltage application control unit, a first output control unit and a first charging path control unit. The first voltage application control unit is configured to enable a first end of the first energy storage unit to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, a first voltage end, and enable a first end of the second energy storage unit to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, a second voltage end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jituo Tang, Guohuo Su, Shulin Yao, Zhihua Sun, Yinlong Zhang, Xu Zhang, Ning Zhang, Wenpeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10650736
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a voltage calibration method are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a ramp voltage generator, a ramp counter and a timing controller. The ramp voltage generator is configured to generate a ramp voltage. The ramp counter is coupled to the ramp voltage generator and configured to start counting when the ramp voltage generator generates the ramp voltage. The timing controller is coupled to the ramp voltage generator and the ramp counter respectively. When the ramp voltage is increased to be equal to a reference voltage, the timing controller compares an instant count value of the ramp counter with a default value and selectively calibrates a rising slope of the ramp voltage generated by the ramp voltage generator according to a comparing result of the instant count value and the default value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Hsiang Oulee, Tzong-Yau Ku, Jun-Ren Shih
  • Patent number: 10650737
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for hybrid micro-driver architectures having time multiplexing for driving displays are described. In one embodiment, a display (e.g., hybrid display architecture) includes a backplane and a micro-driver circuitry that is coupled to the backplane. The backplane includes circuitry (e.g., sample and hold circuitry) for sampling and holding analog data and for time multiplexing analog data. The micro-driver circuitry includes at least a capacitor of a ramp generator for generating a ramp voltage based on the analog data of the backplane and drive circuitry to cause at least one emission pulse for emitting a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Yafei Bi, Kapil V. Sakariya, Hopil Bae, Shinya Ono, Thomas Charisoulis, Chin-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10650738
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes three transistors, a capacitor, and an OLED. The first transistor includes a gate terminal for receiving a first control signal, a first terminal connected to a first node, and a second terminal connected to a second node. The second transistor includes a gate terminal for receiving a second control signal, a first terminal connected to the second node, and a second terminal connected to a third node. The third transistor includes a gate terminal connected to the first node, a first terminal for receiving a first power signal, and a second terminal connected to the third node. The capacitor may receive an initialization signal and is connected to the first node. The OLED is connected to the third node and may receive a second power signal. The control signals have same voltage levels in a data writing period and have different voltage levels in other periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Cheol-Gon Lee, Yang-Hwa Choi