Patents Issued in February 6, 2024
  • Patent number: 11893903
    Abstract: An example of a system for assisting a rescuer in providing CPR includes a motion sensor configured to generate signals indicative of chest motion during CPR chest compressions, and a defibrillator including a display screen configured to provide CPR feedback and defibrillation information and a processor configured to receive the signals, generate a compression waveform based on the signals, detect, in the compression waveform, features characteristic of chest compressions, compare the detected features to a predetermined criterion that distinguishes between manually delivered and compressions delivered by an automated compression device, and selectively provide the CPR feedback based on whether the compressions are the manually delivered or the automated compressions, where the selective provision of the CPR feedback includes displaying CPR parameters for the manually delivered compressions, and a removing from the display screen at least one CPR parameter of the CPR parameters for the automated compression
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Tan, Frederick J Geheb, Gary A Freeman
  • Patent number: 11893904
    Abstract: A system for utilizing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to train contact center agents according to an embodiment includes at least one processor and at least one memory comprising a plurality of instructions stored therein that, in response to execution by the at least one processor, causes the system to place a virtual call from an automated training system to an agent device of an agent, connect the virtual call to a chatbot in response to establishing a communication connection with the agent device, transmit one or more statements from the chatbot, receive, from the agent device, one or more agent responses of the agent corresponding to the one or more statements, and analyze the one or more agent responses to determine one or more training characteristics associated with AI-based contact center training of the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Genesys Cloud Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Stoops, Cliff Bell, Merijn Te Booij
  • Patent number: 11893905
    Abstract: A method for health education, certification, and recordation is disclosed. The method may include obtaining, at a server, a user input from a user interface. The user input may define an interval for a desired CPR certification schedule. The method may include generating, at the server, a CPR certification program. Generating the CPR certification program may include generating at least two task groups. Each task group of the at least two task groups may include a healthcare certification task. The method may include administering, at the server, the CPR certification program. Administering the CPR certification program may include assigning, at the interval defined by the user input, one task group of the at least two task groups to a user enrolled in the CPR certification program, and receiving an indication that the enrolled user has completed the healthcare certification task of the assigned one task group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HealthStream, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Frist, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11893906
    Abstract: A system and method for simulating injury treatment on a living body are provided. The system includes an embedded system configured to be placed on a living body and to simulate an injury of the living body in response to instructions received from a simulation system. Sensors detect a parameter corresponding to a treatment of said injury and transmit said parameter to said simulation system which transmit the instructions to the embedded system to cause it to simulate the injury. The simulation system is further configured to receive sensor data representing the parameter detected by the sensors and the treatment of the injury, and to execute a simulation scenario, which associates the detected parameter with a corresponding effect on the injury. Furthermore, the simulation system is configured to send instructions to the embedded system, which cause the embedded system to simulate the injury such that the simulation reflects the treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik GmbH
    Inventors: Sören Björn Gutekunst, Peter Schneider, Frank Klemmer
  • Patent number: 11893907
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for evidence-based training of aircraft operators. For example, a computer-implemented method may include: analyzing aircraft flight data indicative of actions performed by an aircraft operator in operating aircraft, to thereby determine an assessment of a performance of the aircraft operator in operating aircraft; based on the assessment, determining a training scenario to be presented to the aircraft operator via a training simulator as part of training for the aircraft operator; providing, to the training simulator, information indicative of the determined training scenario; receiving, from the training simulator, training flight data indicative of actions performed by the aircraft operator during a simulation of the scenario using the training simulator; and based on the training flight data and the assessment, determining an evaluation of the training for the aircraft operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu Shamasundar, Mahesh Sivaratri, Kalimulla Khan, Srihari Jayathirtha
  • Patent number: 11893908
    Abstract: The present invention provides a modular advertising system. One object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising system that may be secured to a pole or other external surface and elevated by a user to a desired height without the need of a ladder or lift. Another object of the current invention may also be to provide a quick-release assembly that may be used to quickly couple and de-couple the assembly from a pole or other external surface/structure. Another object of the current invention may be to provide a modular assembly that can be adaptable to a number of surfaces, such as a pole surface, ground surface or horizontal surface. An additional object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising display having interchangeable modular structures that may be configured to vary the position and number of advertising displays presented to consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BALLOON INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Wicken, Gregg A. Wicken
  • Patent number: 11893909
    Abstract: Systems and method for vehicle top advertising are provided. Cross bars span a roof of the vehicle. A vehicle top unit with an electronic display is attached to the cross bars. One or more exterior coverings are connected to at least one of: the cross bars and the vehicle top unit. Wiring is extended from a power source located outside of the vehicle top unit, along at least one of the cross bars, and to the vehicle top unit to place the electronic display in electrical connection with the power source. The exterior coverings each cover at least a respective portion of the wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hornsby, William Dunn, Mike Brown, Doug Bennett
  • Patent number: 11893910
    Abstract: A user-selectable aromatic label for attachment to a beverage container may include a substrate, a scent layer including plurality of scent microcapsules arranged in one or more regions on the substrate, and a removable cover over the scent microcapsules. The removable cover may be selectively removed to rupture the scent microcapsules underneath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: James L. Bartlein
  • Patent number: 11893911
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a main portion, a bending portion extending from a side of the main portion, and a sub portion extending from a side of the bending portion; a driving board connected to a side of the sub portion and overlapping the main portion of the display panel in a thickness direction; and a protective member disposed between the display panel and the driving board, wherein the sub portion is folded with respect to the bending portion and attached to a back surface of the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Min Lee, Dong Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11893912
    Abstract: Provided is a foldable display device. The display device comprises a display panel including a folding area and non-folding areas on both sides of the folding area, a back plate disposed under the display panel, a first support layer disposed under the back plate and having an opening pattern in a portion thereof corresponding to the folding area, and an impact absorbing layer disposed under the first support layer. The impact absorbing layer includes a first portion corresponding to the folding area and a second portion corresponding to the non-folding areas, and a modulus of the first portion is greater than a modulus of the second portion. Accordingly, even when a point impact is applied to the folding area, the point impact is converted into a surface impact, so that damage to the display panel or the touch panel by the point impact can be prevented more effectively. Consequently, impact resistance characteristics of the display device may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunae Cho, Seungkyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11893913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a common electrode located in the peripheral area and surrounding the display area; a panel crack detection line located in the peripheral area and surrounding the display area, wherein the panel crack detection line is located on one side of the common electrode away from the display area; and at least one electrostatic discharge circuit located in the peripheral area, wherein the at least one electrostatic discharge circuit includes at least one first thin film transistor including an active layer, a gate, a source and a drain, the source and the drain are electrically connected to the panel crack detection line, and the gate is electrically connected to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Jiang, Linhong Han, Huijun Li, Huijuan Yang, Yu Wang, Lu Bai, Jie Dai, Lulu Yang, Yi Qu, Siyu Wang, Hao Zhang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11893914
    Abstract: A test circuit and method for a display panel, and a display panel. The test circuit includes a panel test sub-circuit configured to control panel test switch units to turn on or turn off, to transmit multiple panel test signals; an array test sub-circuit configured to control array test switch units to turn on or turn off, to output short circuit determination signals at test terminals according to the multiple panel test signals, which are used to determine whether there is a short-circuited data line in the display panel; at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on in a test sub-period, and under a condition that the at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on, the panel test signals corresponding to different types of sub-pixels in the display panel change alternately to an effective level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu' an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guoxiao Bai
  • Patent number: 11893915
    Abstract: An image sticking test method and an image sticking test device. The image sticking test method includes: acquiring a first correspondence between a source-drain current of a preset drive transistor and time within a first preset time after a voltage of the preset drive transistor in an array substrate is switched from a first preset voltage to a second preset voltage; acquiring a second correspondence between a source-drain current of the preset drive transistor and time within a second preset time after the voltage of the preset drive transistor is switched from a third preset voltage to the second preset voltage; and acquiring a first image sticking test curve of the array substrate according to the first correspondence, the second correspondence and an image sticking evaluation formula, where the first image sticking test curve is a correspondence between time and an image sticking evaluation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Dongfang Zhao, Zhe Du, Shuang Guo, Xun Liu, Zidong Guo
  • Patent number: 11893916
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a method of measuring an ambient temperature by using a temperature sensor provided in an integrated circuit (IC) and a measurement error of a temperature sensor may be improved by correcting an output value of a temperature sensor by using a correction value stored in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Sung Ahn, Hyo Joong Kim, Jae Sik Cho
  • Patent number: 11893917
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided including: modulating or modifying light output by one or more light sources, wherein the light output is for use in rendering content in a first direction using a display, wherein the display has at least one curved portion, wherein the modulating or modifying of the light output by the one or more light sources modulates or modifies said light within said at least one curved portion such that said content is rendered in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Nicholas Jeffers, Ian Davis, Akshat Agarwal, Diarmuid O'Connell, Oliver Burns
  • Patent number: 11893918
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method, a driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a first node control circuit, a second node control circuit, an output node control circuit, an output circuit, a maintaining circuit, and a potential control circuit. The first node control circuit controls the potential of the first node, the second node control circuit controls the potential of the second node, the output node control circuit controls the connection between the output terminal and the first voltage terminal under the control of the potential of the output node, the potential control circuit control the potential of the control terminal of the maintaining circuit according to the second clock signal; the maintaining circuit controls the connection between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal under the control of a potential of the control terminal of the maintaining circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haigang Qing
  • Patent number: 11893919
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The gate driving circuit includes M shift registers and N clock signal lines; every N adjacent shift registers among the M shift registers are respectively connected to the N clock signal lines, where N is an even number greater than or equal to 4, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; a signal output terminal (OUTPUT) of an ith shift register is connected to a signal input terminal (INPUT) of a (i+p)th shift register, where (N?4)/2?p?N/2, and i is taken from 1 to (M?p); and a pull-up reset signal terminal of a jth shift register is connected to a signal output terminal (OUTPUT) of a (j+q)th shift register, where 1<q?p<N/2, and j is taken from 1 to (M?q).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiujie Su, Feng Qu, Zhihua Sun, Seungmin Lee, Yanping Liao, Hongli Yue
  • Patent number: 11893920
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels in a display area, scan lines disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the pixels, a gate driving circuit disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the scan lines, and clock lines disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit includes stage blocks adjacent to each other and outputting a scan signal in response to a clock signal provided through a corresponding clock line among the clock lines, and a scan signal output from a stage block among the stage blocks is supplied to scan lines of another stage block among the stage blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Hyeon Cha, Sun Kwun Son, Dong Hee Shin, Chong Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 11893921
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, both the high-speed communication and the low-speed communication are performed using a single communication line, thereby reducing limitations on wiring on a PCB and increasing the utilization efficiency of a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok Kim, Yong Hwan Mun, Young Soo Ryu
  • Patent number: 11893922
    Abstract: A shift register, a gate drive circuit and a display panel. The shift register includes: a first input module, a second input module, a first output module, a second output module, a first output control module and a second output control module, the first input module is configured to control the potential of a first node according to a first start signal and a first clock signal; the second input module is configured to control the potential of a second node according to a second start signal and the first clock signal; the first output control module is configured to control the potential of the second node; the first output module is configured to transmit a first potential signal or a second potential signal to a first output terminal of the shift register according to the potential of the first node and the potential of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Enqing Guo, Cuili Gai, Ling Wang, Junfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11893923
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided, which includes a display module, a biosensor, an ambient-light sensor, and a display controller. The ambient-light sensor is configured to detect ambient-light brightness and an ambient-light color temperature of the display apparatus. The display controller is configured to receive a video signal from a host, and displays the video signal on the display module. When the biosensor detects that a user is located in front of the display apparatus, the biosensor transmits an image-adjustment control signal to the display controller to control the display apparatus to enter an image-adjustment mode. When the display apparatus is in the image-adjustment mode, the display controller adjusts screen brightness and a screen color temperature of the image signal displayed on the display module according to the ambient-light brightness and the ambient-light color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Lung Lin, Chih-Cheng Huang, Tzu-Yi Tsao, Chia-En Liu
  • Patent number: 11893924
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gary B. Mandle, James M. DeFilippis, Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi
  • Patent number: 11893925
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F Holland, Christopher P Tann, Ramana V Rachakonda
  • Patent number: 11893926
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an emissive display device including a driving transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a driving gate electrode, a second transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to a data line, a transfer capacitor including a first transfer electrode electrically connected to a second electrode of the second transistor and a second transfer electrode electrically connected to the driving gate electrode; a fifth transistor electrically connecting the first electrode of the driving transistor and the driving gate electrode; a ninth transistor including a second electrode electrically connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor; and a light emitting diode including an anode and a cathode receiving an output current outputted to the second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Chang Yu, Hae Min Kim, Myunghoon Park, Dong-Hoon Lee, Kyung Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11893927
    Abstract: A display device includes a processor which supplies grayscale data in active periods of frame periods and stops supply of the grayscale data in blank periods of the frame periods, a timing controller which generates a change signal when a difference between a first blank period of a first frame period and a second blank period of a second frame period is greater than a threshold value, a power supply which supplies a first power voltage having a voltage level changed based on the change signal to a first power line, and pixels commonly connected to the first power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Taek Kim, Kyun Ho Kim, Jae Woo Ryu, Joon Suk Baik, Se Keun Lee, Sang Su Han
  • Patent number: 11893928
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a related display panel and a related display device. An array substrate includes a plurality of pairs of scan signal lines. A first scan signal line of the m-th pair of scan signal lines is configured to provide a first scan signal to a sub-pixel in a (2n?1)-th column from sub-pixels in the m-th. And a plurality of pairs of driving reset control signal lines. A second driving reset control signal line of the m-th pair of driving reset control signal lines is configured to provide a second driving reset control signal to the sub-pixel in the 2n-th column from the sub-pixels in the m-th row. The m and n are integers greater than or equal to 1. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first scan signal line of the m-th pair of scan signal lines and the second driving reset control signal line of the m-th pair of driving reset control signal lines are the same signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Yang, Chenyu Chen, Shuang Zhao, Zhongliu Yang, Wenbo Chen, Hongting Lu
  • Patent number: 11893929
    Abstract: A display screen frequency conversion method and a terminal (1100). The method is applied to a DDIC chip of an OLED display screen, including: initializing display screen parameters according to a first refresh rate; in response to receiving first image data sent by an AP, performing an image scanning according to the first refresh rate; in response to not receiving second image data sent by the AP within a preset delay duration of a VFP corresponding to the first refresh rate, adjusting the first refresh rate to a second refresh rate; wherein the second refresh rate is less than the first refresh rate; and adjusting the display screen parameters according to the second refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Yang, Zhijia Cui
  • Patent number: 11893930
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel circuit, a flexible layer, a lead structure, a control circuit and a planarization layer. The flexible layer includes a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion, and the lead structure includes a first lead portion and a second lead portion. The pixel circuit, the first lead portion and the first substrate portion are all arranged on a first side of the base substrate, the control circuit, the second lead portion and the second substrate portion are all arranged on a second side of the base substrate, and the second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Zhu, Hua Huang, Guangcai Yuan, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 11893931
    Abstract: An electronic device including a power supply circuit according to the disclosure may include: a battery; a display module including a display panel; a regulator; a power supply circuit configured to: based on an input voltage of the battery, provide a first voltage and a second voltage to the display module, and provide a third voltage to the regulator; and a switch control circuit configured to: control a switching operation of the power supply circuit, wherein the power supply circuit includes: a first power circuit and a second power circuit, wherein the first power circuit includes multiple switch elements, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, and a first inductor, and is configured to: for a first time interval, based on a drive signal of the switch control circuit, charge the first capacitor and the second capacitor, based on a current of the first inductor and discharge the third capacitor to provide a first output current to the display module, and for a second time interval, bas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hangseok Choi, Sangwoo Kang
  • Patent number: 11893932
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a current limiting circuit that limits current consumption in the plurality of pixels, the current limiting circuit includes a gain computation circuit that computes a screen power value in reference to a pixel value included in a video signal and that determines a gain in reference to the screen power value, and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the pixel value by the gain and that outputs a limit signal including the pixel value multiplied by the gain, the display panel includes a display unit, and a lighting control circuit that controls a lighting state of the plurality of pixels in reference to a predicted power value computed according to the limit signal, to reduce a power consumption value in the plurality of pixels to a value equal to or smaller than a control target power value, the gain is 1 when the screen power value is equal to or smaller than the control target power value, and the gain is a value equa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11893933
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for compensating an image to be shown on a display including an array of light-emitting pixels and a sensor arranged to receive light transmitted by adjacent light-emitting pixels. A method includes collecting, from the sensor, a luminance of light received by the sensor during an emission-on period, and a luminance of light received by the sensor during an emission-off period. The method includes calculating, by comparing the luminance during the emission-on period to the luminance during the emission-off period, a luminance of light internally reflected from the adjacent pixels and received by the sensor during the emission-on period. The method includes determining that an error between the luminance of light internally reflected and a reference luminance equals or exceeds a threshold error, and adjusting a driving voltage for driving the pixels to reduce the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sun-il Chang, Hyunchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11893934
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit configured to supply a driving signal to an element to be driven; a detection sub-circuit electrically connected to a detection control signal terminal and a detection node and configured to detect a voltage value of the detection node in response to a detection control signal received at the detection control signal terminal. The detection node is equivalent to a point on a connection line between the driving sub-circuit and the element to be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Yue, Minghua Xuan, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Ming Yang, Ning Cong, Angran Zhang, Jiao Zhao, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11893935
    Abstract: A display substrate comprises: an AA and an AA?. The display substrate comprises: a base, and a VSS located in the AA?, a Gate, an Init1 and a plurality of display units located in the AA, disposed on the base. The display unite comprises: a driving structure layer and a light-emitting structure layer. The light-emitting structure layer comprises: a light-emitting element. The driving structure layer comprises a pixel driving circuit configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light. The pixel driving circuit comprises: a reset sub-circuit. The reset sub-circuit is separately connected to the Gate, the Init1, and a first pole of the light-emitting element, and is configured to provide a signal of the Init1 to the first pole of the light-emitting element for initializing the first pole. A second pole of the light-emitting element is connected to the VSS. The Inti1 is electrically connected to the VSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Qiang Fu, Songyuan Ma, Dan Cao, Yiran Li
  • Patent number: 11893936
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a signal writing sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting control sub-circuit and an initialization sub-circuit. The signal writing sub-circuit is configured to write a voltage of a data signal terminal into the driving sub-circuit as a data voltage. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to, in conjunction with the driving sub-circuit, drive a light-emitting device to emit light. The initialization sub-circuit is configured to transmit the voltage from the data signal terminal to the compensation sub-circuit as a reset voltage. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to transmit the reset voltage from the initialization sub-circuit to the driving sub-circuit to reset the driving sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhichong Wang, Fuqiang Li, Peng Liu, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan
  • Patent number: 11893937
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a first initialization module, and a data write module. A control terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first node, a first terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first power supply voltage terminal, and a second terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first electrode of a light-emitting element. The first initialization module includes a first N-type transistor and a second N-type transistor, where a control terminal of the first N-type transistor is electrically connected to a scan signal terminal, a first terminal of the first N-type transistor is electrically connected to a first reference signal terminal, a second terminal is electrically connected to a first terminal of the second N-type transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qinyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11893938
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes: a first resetting switching transistor, a first data writing switching transistor, a storage capacitor, a first compensation capacitor, a second compensation capacitor, and a driving transistor; the first resetting switching transistor includes a first switching sub-transistor and a second switching sub-transistor connected in series, and the first data writing switching transistor includes a third switching sub-transistor and a fourth switching sub-transistor connected in series. The first compensation capacitor and the second compensation capacitor are used to enable a voltage Vn1? of the first node to be smaller than a voltage Vn3? of the third node and larger than a voltage Vn4? of the fourth node in a light-emitting stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Wang, Can Zheng
  • Patent number: 11893939
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a driving signal control sub-circuit and a driving duration control sub-circuit. The driving signal control sub-circuit is configured to provide a driving signal to the driving duration control sub-circuit under control of a first scanning signal terminal and a enable signal terminal. The driving signal is related to a first data signal received at a first data signal terminal and a first voltage signal received at a first voltage signal terminal. The driving duration control sub-circuit is configured to transmit the driving signal to the element to be driven under control of a second scanning signal terminal and a enable signal terminal. A duration for which the driving signal is transmitted to the element to be driven is related to a second data signal received at a second data signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 11893940
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting panel including a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode, a third light-emitting diode, and transistors. The display device includes a color panel disposed on the light-emitting panel and including a first color area, a second color area, a third color area, and a light-shielding area. The light-emitting panel includes a scan line extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and storage capacitors disposed adjacent to one another in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangmoon Jo, Ansu Lee
  • Patent number: 11893941
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device may include a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a first data line, a second data line, a defect sensing line, a first input pad, and a static electricity discharge element. The substrate may include a display area and a peripheral area neighboring each other. The plurality of pixels may be positioned on the display area and may include a first pixel and a second pixel. The first data line may be electrically connected to the first pixel. The second data line may be electrically connected to the second pixel and may be electrically isolated from the first data line. The defect sensing line may be positioned on the peripheral area. The first input pad may be electrically connected to the defect sensing line. The static electricity discharge element may be electrically connected through the defect sensing line to the first input pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Min Kim, Seung-Kyu Lee, Won Kyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 11893942
    Abstract: A GOA unit circuit is provided with an input sub-circuit configured to set a turn-on voltage to a first node and a turn-off voltage to a second node in response to an input signal and a first clock signal; a first pull-down sub-circuit, a pull-up sub-circuit, a first control sub-circuit, and a second control sub-circuit configured to set voltage levels of the first, the second, and a third nodes. The gate on array unit circuit also includes a first output sub-circuit to output a first output signal at the turn-on voltage triggered by a second clock in response to voltage levels at the first, second nodes and a second output sub-circuit to output a second output signal falling to the turn-off voltage triggered by the first clock and rising to the turn-on voltage triggered by the third clock in response to voltage levels at the first, third nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Shi, Ke Meng
  • Patent number: 11893943
    Abstract: A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to provide a signal of a first clock signal line or a first power line to a first control node. The first control circuit is configured to provide a signal of the first power line or a second power line to a first output terminal. The second control circuit is configured to provide a signal of the first power line or the second power line to a second output terminal. The output circuit is configured to output an effective level signal of the first power line or the second power line to a third output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co.,Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng Chen, Faming Jiang, Ri Chen, Xinxing Jia, Weixin Meng, Jonguk Kwak
  • Patent number: 11893944
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display panel including a first display region having first pixels, a second display region having second pixels, and a third display region located between the first and second display regions and having third pixels, and a component disposed between the substrate and the display panel and which overlaps the second display region in a plan view. The first and third pixels are disposed at a first density in the first display region and the third display region, respectively, and the second pixels are disposed at a second density smaller than the first density in the second display region, and less than all of the third pixels are controlled to emit light during a predetermined display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoo Min Ko, Dong Hyun Kim, Dong Hwan Shim, Seung Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 11893945
    Abstract: The display device includes a first data line group including data lines connected to pixels arranged at a first resolution; a second data line group including data lines connected to pixels arranged at the first resolution and pixels arranged at a second resolution; a first gamma compensation voltage generation unit that divides a first reference voltage and outputs a gamma compensation voltage; a second gamma compensation voltage generation unit that divides a second reference voltage and outputs gamma compensation voltages; a first data drive unit that converts pixel data into the gamma compensation voltage output from the first gamma compensation voltage generation unit and outputs a data voltage to the first data line group; and a second data drive unit that converts pixel data into the gamma compensation voltage output from the second gamma compensation voltage generation unit and outputs a data voltage to the second data line group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Jin Yoo, Hyun Gi Hong
  • Patent number: 11893946
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel, a data driver, and a scan driver. The data driver outputs data signals during a writing frame and outputs a bias voltage during a holding frame. The data driver includes a plurality of driving chips, and each of the driving chips includes: a gamma voltage generator, a data converter, a main output part for outputting corresponding data signals of the data signals during the writing frame, and a sub-output part for outputting the bias voltage during the holding frame. The gamma voltage generator of a selected driving chip among the plurality of driving chips is electrically connected to the sub-output parts disposed in the plurality of driving chips, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-Koo Kang, Hyunha Yang, Myeongbin Lim
  • Patent number: 11893947
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, an image data corrector configured to generate a corrected image data by adjusting an image data and a data driver providing data signals to the plurality of pixels based on the corrected image data. The image data corrector divides the display panel into a plurality of unit areas, and adjust the image data for a unit area among the plurality of unit areas by using a full image load for the entire display panel, a first image load for the unit area, and a second image load for peripheral unit areas surrounding the unit area among the plurality of unit areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Lee, Deokho Kang, Jong Wook Kim, Youngwoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11893948
    Abstract: A display device, including: a light source, used for emitting light source light; a control unit, used for controlling a drive current for the light source, the modulation period of each frame of image to be displayed comprising at least one pulse modulation period, and within the pulse modulation period, the drive current for the light source being an overshoot current so that the average luminous brightness of the light source in the modulation period reaches preset brightness; and a light modulation unit, used for modulating the light source light according to image data of the image to be displayed and the luminous brightness of the light source to obtain a modulated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Chen Chen, Fei Hu, Xin Yu, Zuqiang Guo, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11893949
    Abstract: When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shuji Nishi, Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11893950
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a display device which can favorably display a image without delayed or distorted signals. The display device includes a first gate driver and a second gate driver. The first gate driver and the second gate driver each include a plurality of flip flop circuits and a plurality of transfer signal generation circuits. Both the flip flop circuit and the transfer signal generation circuit are circuits which output a signal inputted to a first input terminal with a half clock cycle delay. In addition, an output terminal of the transfer signal generation circuit is directly connected to a first input terminal of the flip flop circuit in the next stage. Therefore, delay and distortion of the signal which is inputted from the transfer signal generation circuit to the flip flop circuit can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 11893951
    Abstract: A display device comprises: a panel driving unit comprising panel driving circuitry; a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a processor configured to control the panel driving unit, wherein: the processor is configured to: control the panel driving unit so that gate signals are sequentially output to a plurality of gate lines one gate line at a time, to process, in a first mode, image data in a first driving frequency, and control the panel driving unit so that the gate signals are output to the plurality of gate lines at least two gate lines at a time, to process, in a second mode, the image data in a second driving frequency higher than the first driving frequency; wherein, in the second mode, the respective gate lines output to the plurality of gate lines at least two gate lines at a time can have output timings that differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjin Lim, Changhoon Kim, Hyejin Kim, Jeongphil Seo
  • Patent number: 11893952
    Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first display region, a second display region, and a control device. The first display region is on a side of the second display region, and the second display region includes N display sub-regions; and the control device is connected to the first display region and the second display region, respectively, and configured to control display of the first display region and display of the second display region in i time intervals within one frame period, and sequentially control the display of the first display region and display of an i-th display sub-region in the second display region in an i-th time interval, wherein 1?i?N, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liye Duan, Zongmin Liu, Long Wang, Mengjun Hou, Yao Lu