Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
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Patent number: 11908384Abstract: A circuit for generating a PWM signal includes a shift register having a plurality of clock-controlled register units. Each clock-controlled register unit has an input and an output. The circuit also includes a write unit configured to set the outputs of the register units each to a designated logical value. The circuit further includes a clock generator configured to drive the register units with a common clock signal. The register units are connected in series. The shift register is configured to output the PWM signal at an output contact. The PWM signal is a chronological sequence of the logical values set in the register units, the PWM signal assumes each of the logical values with the duration of one clock of the clock signal, the clock signal is cyclic, during one cycle the duration of successive clocks changes, and the clock signal is identical per cycle.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventors: Christopher Soell, Markus Koesler, Jens Richter
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Patent number: 11908385Abstract: A driving method includes row scanning circuit configured to output scanning signals to sub-pixels in the display panel for plurality of times within one frame and output the scanning signals to the sub-pixels in the display panel in plurality of sub-frames each time; a data processor is configured to receive a display data stream including the display data corresponding to the sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-frames, split the display data stream according to analog-bit display data and digital-bit display data, and output the split display data stream to a column scanning circuit; and the column scanning circuit is configured to generate corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages according to the analog-bit display data and transmit corresponding data signals of dark-state digital data voltages or the corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages to corresponding sub-pixels in the display panel according to the digital-bit display data.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Chengdu Vistar Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Donghao Zhang
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Patent number: 11908386Abstract: A display apparatus, including a display panel which includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines, and a plurality of sub-pixel circuits, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements, and wherein each sub-pixel circuit of the plurality of sub-pixel circuits corresponds to an inorganic light emitting element of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a driver configured to drive the plurality of sub-pixel circuits so that the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements emit light a plurality of times in an order of the plurality of row lines based on an image data voltage corresponding to one image frame, wherein the each sub-pixel circuit includes a discharge transistor configured to remove a potential difference between both ends of a corresponding inorganic light emitting element based on a predetermined cycle.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinho Kim, Seungran Park, Donggun Oh, Jongsu Oh
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Patent number: 11908387Abstract: A display with multiple light sources sharing a device driver is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention a display includes a first device driver, a first light source, a second light source and a first light-source selection circuit which is coupled to the first device driver, the first light source and the second light source. The first light-source selection circuit is configured to pair the first device driver with the first light source during a first time interval and to pair the first device driver with the second light source in a second time interval.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Syndiant, Inc., XDMicro (Zhongshan) Optoelectronics Semiconductor Co., LTDInventors: Chun Chiu Daniel Wong, Craig Michael Waller
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Patent number: 11908388Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module and a compensation module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected to an input terminal of the drive module; a first electrode of the compensation module is connected to an output terminal of the drive module, and a second electrode of the compensation module is connected to a control terminal of the drive module. The data write module includes a data write transistor and a bias transistor, the data write transistor is connected to a data signal input terminal and configured to transmit a data signal, and the bias transistor is connected to a bias signal input terminal and configured to transmit a bias signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Yuan
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Patent number: 11908389Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module, a compensation module and a reset module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected between a data signal input terminal and a source of the drive transistor. The compensation module is connected between a gate of the drive transistor and the drain of the drive transistor. The rest module is connected between a reset signal terminal and the drain of the drive transistor. The reset module also serves as a bias module. An operation of the pixel circuit includes a reset stage and a bias stage, during the reset stage, the reset module and the compensation module are on.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Yuan
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Patent number: 11908390Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module, a compensation module and a reset module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected between a data signal input terminal and a source of the drive transistor. The compensation module is connected between a gate of the drive transistor and the drain of the drive transistor. The rest module is connected between a reset signal terminal and the drain of the drive transistor. The reset module also serves as a bias module. An operation of the pixel circuit includes a reset stage and a bias stage, during the reset stage, the reset module and the compensation module are on.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Yuan
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Patent number: 11908391Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module, a compensation module and a reset module. The drive module includes a drive transistor. The data write module is connected between a data signal input terminal and a source of the drive transistor. The compensation module is connected between a gate of the drive transistor and the drain of the drive transistor. The rest module is connected between a reset signal terminal and the drain of the drive transistor. The reset module also serves as a bias module. An operation of the pixel circuit includes a reset stage and a bias stage, during the reset stage, the reset module and the compensation module are on.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Yuan
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Patent number: 11908392Abstract: A display device including: a first transistor configured to control a control current based on a voltage of a first node; a second transistor configured to electrically connect a second node that is a first electrode of the first transistor to a first data line in response to a scan write signal; a third transistor configured to control a driving current based on a voltage of a third node; a fourth transistor configured to electrically connect a fourth node that is a first electrode of the third transistor to a second data line in response to the scan write signal; a fifth transistor configured to control the driving current based on a voltage of a fifth node having received the control current; and a light emitting element configured to receive the driving current, wherein the fifth transistor is of a different type from that of the first to fourth transistors.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Ki Jeong, Hyun Joon Kim, Jung Hwan Hwang
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Patent number: 11908393Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 11908394Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a driving method, and a display device. The display panel includes: a gate driving circuit, a pixel driving circuit, and a light-emitting component. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a data writing module, a threshold compensation module, and a light-emitting control module. A transistor in the threshold compensation module is a P-type transistor and a transistor in the light-emitting control module is an N-type transistor, or the transistor in the threshold compensation module is an N-type transistor and the transistor in the light-emitting control module is P-type transistor. A control terminal of the threshold compensation module and a control terminal of the light-emitting control module are electrically connected to a same gate driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai BranchInventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Jieliang Li, Xingyao Zhou, Yue Li, Lilian Kuang
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Patent number: 11908395Abstract: An electronic device including a panel, a Chip on Film and a flexible circuit board is disclosed. The panel includes a first gate driver, a switch transistor and a driving transistor. An output terminal of the switch transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the driving transistor. The first gate driver is used for receiving an AC signal and a DC signal and outputting a control signal to a control terminal of the switch transistor. The Chip on Film is electrically connected to the panel and used for transmitting a data signal to an input terminal of the switch transistor and transmitting the AC signal to the first gate driver. The flexible circuit board is electrically connected to the panel and used for transmitting a power signal to an input terminal of the driving transistor and transmitting the DC signal to the first gate driver.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Chun-Hsien Lin, Jui-Feng Ko, Geng-Fu Chang
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Patent number: 11908396Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver is configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to provide a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver is configured to provide an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element and a bias switching element. The driving switching element is configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element. The bias switching element is configured to provide a bias voltage to an input electrode of the driving switching element. A frequency of a bias gate signal applied to a control electrode of the bias switching element is greater than a frequency of a data write gate signal applied to the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junhyun Park, Jangmi Kang, Minjae Jeong
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Patent number: 11908397Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) backlight modulation method based on duty cycle reference point setting is provided, and the LED backlight modulation method is applied to an LED backlight control circuit with row and column scan lines. Different duty cycle reference points are set for the LED string channels in the LED backlight control circuit in row-column scanning mode, whereby the LED string channels can be turned on or off at different time points during a turn-on duration of the row scan line to achieve lighting in the duty cycle, so as to realize the staggered setting of the turn-on time point and turn-off time point of each channel and avoid the need for large current jump at a power drive terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: X-SIGNAL INTEGRATED CO., LTD.Inventor: Guanou Yang
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Patent number: 11908398Abstract: A display device includes: a display area; a non-display area around the display area; a substrate; and a first terminal in the non-display area on the substrate, the first terminal including: a plurality of first conductive patterns spaced apart from each other, an insulating layer covering each of the plurality of first conductive patterns, and a second conductive pattern on the insulating layer, covering the plurality of first conductive patterns, and including concave and convex portions on a surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Byoung Yong Kim
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Patent number: 11908399Abstract: A display includes subpixel emissive areas of first, second, and third colors arranged in an array that includes rows and columns. The display also includes scan lines, column lines, and electronic subpixel circuits arranged in the array, with each subpixel circuit in a column of the array being electrically connected to a same column line and each electronic subpixel circuit configured for receiving electronic signals from a scan line and from a column line and for converting the received signals into a current signal provided to one of the subpixel emissive areas to drive light emission from the subpixel emissive area. The display further includes demultiplexer (DEMUX) switches, where every other column line of the columns lines is configured to be connected to at least two outputs from a column line driver through the DEMUX switches.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Sangmoo Choi
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Patent number: 11908400Abstract: A system including a display module and a system module. The display module is integrated in a portable device with a display communicatively coupled to one or more of a driver unit, a measurement unit, a timing controller, a compensation sub-module, and a display memory unit. The system module is communicatively coupled to the display module and has one or more interface modules, one or more processing units, and one or more system memory units. At least one of the processing units and the system memory units is programmable to calculate new compensation parameters for the display module during an offline operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
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Patent number: 11908401Abstract: A driving controller includes: a logo determiner configured to determine whether or not input image data includes a logo; a logo grayscale value calculator configured to calculate a logo grayscale value of a logo area corresponding to the logo in response to the input image data including the logo; a light emitting element life expectancy determiner configured to determine a life expectancy of a light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; a compensation reference grayscale value generator configured to determine a compensation reference grayscale value according to the life expectancy of the light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; and a logo luminance compensator configured to compare the logo grayscale value to the compensation reference grayscale value to determine whether or not to compensate a luminance of the logo area.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eunjin Choi, Wonjin Seo, Kihyun Pyun
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Patent number: 11908402Abstract: The display device includes: a display panel, having a plurality of pixel assemblies each including a power supply end; a timing control circuit, having a first signal output end configured to output a selection instruction signal, and a second signal output end configured to output a clock signal; and a power circuit, including a voltage generation assembly configured to generate a plurality of step voltages, a voltage selection assembly configured to select at least one step voltage from the plurality of step voltages in response to the selection instruction signal, and a voltage conversion assembly configured to determine a power supply voltage on the basis of the step voltage in response to the clock signal and to output the power supply voltage to the power supply end.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Jianlei Li, Zhicheng Tao, Baohong Kang
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Patent number: 11908403Abstract: A driving circuit of a light-emitting device, a backlight module and a display panel are disclosed in the present disclosure. The driving circuit of the light-emitting device includes a light-emitting device, a driving transistor, a data signal writing module, a first power signal writing module, a second power signal writing module, a light-emitting control module, and a storage module.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bin Liu, Quansheng Liu
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Patent number: 11908404Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a pixel circuit and a method for driving the pixel circuit, the pixel circuit includes: a storage capacitor circuit; a light-emitting element; a driving transistor; a reset circuit, the reset circuit is configured to receive a reset control signal and reset a first node and a second node according to the reset control signal, or receive a writing control signal and/or a timing sequence control signal of an adjacent pixel row and reset the first node and the second node according to the writing control signal and/or the timing sequence control signal of the adjacent pixel row; a threshold compensation circuit, configured to receive a compensation control signal and write a compensation voltage into the first node according to the compensation control signal; a writing circuit; and a light-emitting control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Libin Liu, Can Zheng
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Patent number: 11908405Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit of this disclosure includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and configured to supply an electric current to a light emitting element; a first switch element configured to be turned on according to a gate-on voltage of a scan pulse to supply a data voltage to the second node; and a second switch element configured to be turned off according to a gate-off voltage of a light emitting control pulse generated in antiphase of the scan pulse.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Won Lee, Hyun Soo Lee
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Patent number: 11908406Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of gate1 lines contacting and supplying a gate1 voltage to the plurality of pixels; a plurality of gate2 lines contacting and supplying a gate2 voltage to the plurality of pixels of a portion of the plurality of columns; a plurality of gate3 lines contacting and supplying a gate3 voltage to the plurality of pixels of another portion of the plurality of columns; and a plurality of left data lines and a plurality of right data lines at both sides, respectively, of the plurality of pixels of the plurality of columns.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Boo-Heung Lee, Yong-Min Jeong, So-Yi Lee
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Patent number: 11908407Abstract: A light emitting display device and a compensation method thereof, wherein an optical characteristics detection portion overlapping a signal line is provided in a subpixel, and the optical characteristics detection portion is connected to one of source voltage lines used by the subpixel, whereby optical characteristics of the subpixel can be determined without loss in effective area of an emission portion and to easily compensate for an afterimage of a display panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun Hee Han
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Patent number: 11908408Abstract: Provided is a display device with pixel circuits, each including first compensation transistor connected to a control terminal of a drive transistor at one conductive terminal, an intermediate node at another conductive terminal, and a scanning line at a control terminal, a second compensation transistor connected to the intermediate node at one conductive terminal, a conductive terminal of the drive transistor at another conductive terminal, and the scanning line at a control terminal, and a capacitor connected to the intermediate node at one electrode and a control line at another electrode. The driver circuit changes a potential of the scanning line from on to off level and also changes a potential of the control line from a second level to a first level, in an opposite direction to the change in the potential thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoo Furukawa
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Patent number: 11908409Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor layers, a first insulation film, a first conductive layer, a second insulation film and a display element includes a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are opposed to each other to form a capacitance unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Omata, Hiroyuki Kimura, Makoto Shibusawa, Hiroshi Tabatake
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Patent number: 11908410Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a repeating unit, the repeating unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is identical to a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel, a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is different from a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Libin Liu, Mei Li, Hongli Wang
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Patent number: 11908411Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits arranged in an array along a row direction and a column direction. The display panel further comprises a plurality of first control lines, a plurality of second control lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of power lines. Each of the pixel driving circuits is correspondingly connected to the first control line, the second control line, the data line, and two power lines, and the two power lines comprises a first power line and a second power line. The pixel driving circuit includes: a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a sampling compensation assembly, a first switch assembly, a second switch assembly and a light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Tao Fan, Rongrong Li
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Patent number: 11908412Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a scan line, a data line, a capacitor, a switch module, and a driving transistor. A scanning voltage is at a first level in a sampling phase and in a light-emitting phase, and at a second level in a data writing phase. A data voltage is at a high level in the sampling phase, and at a low level in the data writing phase and in the light-emitting phase. The capacitor includes a first capacitor-terminal and a second capacitor-terminal. The driving transistor includes a gate terminal electrically connected with the second capacitor-terminal, a source terminal electrically connected with the scan line, and a drain terminal configured to be electrically connected with the gate terminal in the sampling phase and be disconnected from the gate terminal in the data writing phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Tao Fan, Haijiang Yuan
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Patent number: 11908413Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a pixel having a switching element of a first type and a switching element of a second type different from the first type. The display panel driver drives the display panel. In a first mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type and the switching element of the second type with a high driving frequency. In a second mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type with the high driving frequency and the switching element of the second type with low driving frequency which is lower than the high driving frequency. In a third mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type and the switching element of the second type with the low driving frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyo-Jin Lee, Sehyuk Park
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Patent number: 11908414Abstract: A display apparatus and driving method therefor. The apparatus comprises light emitting element, pixel circuit, scan signal line, data signal line, initial signal line, light emission control line, first power source line, and first reset line to third reset line. The pixel circuit comprises: first reset sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the initial signal line to a first node; node control sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the data signal line to a second node, compensate for the first node until a voltage thereof satisfies a threshold condition, provide a signal of the second node to the third node; light emission control sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the first power source line to the second node and a signal of the third node to light emitting element; second reset sub-circuit configured to provide a signal of the initial signal line to light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Haigang Qing
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Patent number: 11908415Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for brightness control for under-display fingerprint sensor are disclosed. A method includes receiving, at a computing device, an indication to activate an under-display sensor that is located underneath a display of the computing device; activating a collection of LEDs of the display to provide illumination for the under-display sensor, including activating an LED in the collection of LEDs by: establishing, by drive circuitry of the LED, a first overdriven voltage across an LED-driving transistor that is arranged to energize the LED; establishing a second overdriven voltage across the LED-driving transistor; and establishing a steady state voltage across the LED-driving transistor; and activating the under-display sensor by reading a signal from the under-display sensor once the collection of LEDs has activated, including once the steady state voltage has been programmed across the LED-driving transistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sang Young Youn, Chien-Hui Wen
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Patent number: 11908416Abstract: A method, includes: (i) receiving information about an ambient light level; (ii) receiving image frame data for an active matrix display panel with an array of pixels each having a light emitting diode (LED) and a pixel circuit to control current supplied to the LED; (iii) selecting a selected current-resistance compensation (IRC) setting based on the information about the ambient light value; (iv) selecting a selected source voltage level based on the selected IRC setting that was selected by the computing system; (v) generating compensated image frame data for the image frame based on the received image frame data and the selected IRC setting; and (vi) displaying the image frame by supplying data signals based on the compensated image frame data to corresponding pixels from the array of pixels, while applying a source voltage corresponding to the selected source voltage level to all of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chien-Hui Wen, Sang Young Youn
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Patent number: 11908417Abstract: A gate driving circuit including a controller for providing a first carry signal to a control node, a first pull-up portion for outputting a first clock signal as a first gate signal in accordance with a signal provided to the control node, and a second pull-up portion for outputting a second clock signal with a phase that is different from the first clock signal as a second gate signal in accordance with the signal provided to the control node.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kang Nam Kim, You Mee Hyun, Beom Jun Kim, Jong Hwan Lee, Sung Hoon Lim, Duc Han Cho
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Patent number: 11908418Abstract: A the display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns; one scan line disposed in each of the rows of the plurality of sub-pixels; two data lines are disposed in each of the columns of the plurality of sub-pixels; a first multiplexer configured to select a data line at one side among the two data lines disposed in each column; and a second multiplexer configured to select a data line at another side among the two data lines disposed in each column that can be operated at a high speed using a 2D1G structure as well as at a low speed in an interlace scheme, thus securing 2H sensing time and removing flickering during switching between operations of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Minjic Lee, Yeseul Han, Jeongok Jo, Kwanghyun Choi
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Patent number: 11908419Abstract: A gate driver and a display device comprising the same are discussed. The gate driver can comprise a plurality of stages for individually driving a plurality of gate lines by a combination of a plurality of group signals, a plurality of block signals, and a plurality of clock signals. Each of the plurality of stages driven independently can include an output buffer including a pull-up transistor configured to generate and output a gate-on level of a scan signal under the control of a first node, and a pull-down transistor configured to generate and output a gate-off level of the scan signal under the control of a second node. Each stage can further include a first controller configured to control the first node, and a second controller configured to control the second node to be opposite to the operation of the first node.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: JunHyeok Yang
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Patent number: 11908420Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a scan driver, a data driver and a timing controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels that are connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines having different lengths. The scan driver apply a plurality of scan signals to the plurality of scan lines. The data driver apply a plurality of data voltages to the plurality of data lines, and receive a plurality of sensing data that represent operating characteristics of all of the plurality of pixels from a plurality of sensing lines. The timing controller controls operations of the scan driver and the data driver, generates output image data considering the operating characteristics of all of the plurality of pixels and supply the output image data to the data drive.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Shin, Kyung Man Kim
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Display apparatus having an initial period with multiple refreshes and method for operating the same
Patent number: 11908421Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus capable of changing a refresh period to improve response characteristics under a low-speed operation mode, and a method for operating the apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel; and a panel driving circuit configured to drive the display panel, wherein in a low-speed operation mode, the apparatus is configured to control the panel driving circuit to: perform multiple refreshes during an initial period of the first frame; and, after the multiple refreshes, change a refresh period and perform refreshes based on the changed refresh period.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sanghun Yoon, Kyeongtaek Min -
Patent number: 11908422Abstract: A digital-analog converter of the disclosure converts digital image data to generate analog data signals. The digital-analog converter includes a voltage divider which generates a plurality of gamma reference voltages based on a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage; a global ramp including a plurality of gamma decoders which generates a plurality of global gamma voltages based on the gamma reference voltages; a decoder which selects one of the global gamma voltages according to the digital image data to generate the analog data signals; and a ramp controller which turns off at least some of the gamma decoders based on the digital image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyung Gun Ma, Oh Jo Kwon, Ji Woong Kim, Jun Yong Song, Seong Joo Lee, Sang Hyun Heo
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Patent number: 11908423Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a gate driver which provides a gate signal to corresponding pixels of the plurality of pixels, a data driver which provides a data voltage to the corresponding pixels of the plurality of pixels, a power voltage generator which provides a pixel power voltage to each of the plurality of pixels, and provides a gate power voltage to the gate driver, and a controller which provides a gate control signal to the gate driver. The pixel power voltage, the data voltage, and the gate control signal sequentially have a ground voltage level in response to a power-off signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Boyong Chung, Jonghee Kim, Hyuk Kim, Joosun Yoon, Tak-Young Lee
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Patent number: 11908424Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment may include a display, a touch sensor, an illuminance sensor configured to generate illuminance information, a memory configured to store brightness data relating the ambient illuminance to brightness of the display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to identify the illuminance information from the illuminance sensor, configure the brightness of the display as first brightness, based on the illuminance information and the brightness data, change the brightness of the display to second brightness, based on a user input, acquire event information for an operation in which the brightness of the display is changed by the user input, reconfigure the brightness data stored in the memory, based on the event information, and determine the brightness of the display according to a brightness value mapped in the reconfigured brightness data to the illuminance information identified by the illuminance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minho Kim, Gilyoung Noh, Taejin Park, Dongin Kim, Hyosun Kim, Jaehun Lim, Hyojong Kim
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Patent number: 11908425Abstract: An information handling system presents visual images at a display through a scalar that adjusts the visual images with a gamma lookup table selected from plural gamma lookup tables based upon a refresh rate of the display. As a graphics processor commands variable refresh rates, a blanking period is used to adjust the refresh rates and a gamma lookup table selection is applied during the blanking period to encourage uniform luminance. Each gamma lookup table is stored in a separate SRAM and input to a multiplexor that uses the refresh rate to select which gamma adjusted visual image is presented at the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Hyunseok Ko, Bongjun Lee
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Patent number: 11908426Abstract: A display panel driving method, a display device and a driving device are provided. The method obtains a standard driving voltage value of a target pixel when a subject display content is being displayed and a target compression unit corresponding to the target pixel, determines a target compensation curve parameter from compressed de-Mura data corresponding to the target compression unit according to the standard driving voltage value, determines an effective driving voltage value of the target pixel when the subject content is being displayed according to a position information where the target pixel is in the target compression unit and the target compensation curve parameter, and drives the display panel according to the effective driving voltage. This method could correctly identify the corresponding decompression data and thus the decompressed data could be close to the actual data. This raises the decompression accuracy of decompressing the de-Mura data.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun Zhang, Xinhong Chen
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Patent number: 11908427Abstract: This display device includes n number of liquid crystal displays, where n is an integer of 2 or more, light sources that can emit light of a plurality of different colors and that are provided to the respective liquid crystal displays, and a processor that causes the light sources to emit light of different colors so as to vary emission start timings for the respective light sources provided to the liquid crystal displays on the basis of input signals including color information regarding sub display images to be displayed on the respective liquid crystal displays.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kado, Hiroshi Mitani
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Patent number: 11908428Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel column extends in a first direction and each pixel row extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first data line extending in the first direction and configured to transfer a data voltage to pixels included in at least two pixel columns, and for each pixel row, a first gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a first side of the pixel row, and a second gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a second side of the pixel row, the first and second sides of the pixel row are opposite to each other. In a pair of adjacent pixel columns, pixels, which are connected to the first gate line of their respective pixel row, are arranged in a zigzag arrangement in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung-Won Kim, Dongwon Park, Jaesung Bae, Nam-Gon Choi
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Patent number: 11908429Abstract: A timing controller is provided. A data enable signal in a timing control module is regenerated by a signal regenerating module. A number of vertical valid display rows is regenerated as a vertical valid display period. A total charge time of all rows of pixels in each frame can be increased effectively. A horizontal blanking period is changed sequentially in a row-by-row manner, thereby compensating charge effects of rows of pixels accurately.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Guangxing Xiao, Bin Zhao, Mingjong Jou, Yinhung Chen, Yu Wu, Yuhong Fu
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Patent number: 11908430Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of shift register units; each of the plurality of shift register units includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first reset circuit and a frame reset signal connection wire; the frame reset signal connection wire and is configured to provide a frame reset signal to the first reset circuit; the first reset circuit is configured to respond to the frame reset signal, so as to reset a first node and an output end within a time period between two display frames of the display substrate; the first reset circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor, and the frame reset signal connection wire, a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor are provided on a first conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. LTD.Inventors: Rui Ma, Xiaoye Ma, Xianjie Shao, Ruifang Du
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Patent number: 11908431Abstract: A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus has a display region, a transparent region and a frame region. The display apparatus includes a plurality of scan signal lines extending in an X direction in the display region and a plurality of image signal lines extending in a Y direction in the display region. The plurality of image signal lines include a first wiring (image signal line) and a second wiring (image signal line). The first wiring includes a first bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a first extension wiring portion connected to an end of the first bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. The second wiring includes a second bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a second extension wiring portion connected to an end of the second bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. In a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring intersect with each other at the frame region.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Gen Koide, Akihiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 11908432Abstract: An apparatus and a method for automatically controlling a screen brightness of an AVN system are provided to automatically change screen brightness in a user customized manner in a response to a change in illumination outside the vehicle. The apparatus include a screen brightness control module that controls such that a screen brightness of a display provided in the AVN system is automatically changed according to a change in the illumination data received from the illumination sensor, based on a default matching relationship between previously stored illumination data and screen brightness and a gain adjustment module that generates a new customized matching relationship by correcting the screen brightness matched to each illumination data based on the default matching relationship in accordance with an input of a user who adjusts to enhance or weaken the screen brightness and provides the screen brightness control module with the new customized matching relationship for screen brightness control.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Woo Koo, Mun Jun Hur, Tae Ho Lee, Hyeo Jin Kim, Kwang Seung Heo, Kyowoong Choo
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Patent number: 11908433Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi