Backlight Control Patents (Class 345/102)
  • Patent number: 11087715
    Abstract: Provided is a light transmittance adjustable eyewear. The light transmittance adjustable eyewear includes a lens unit including a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel of which a light transmittance is changed, an illuminance sensor configured to sense an ambient illuminance, and a controller configured to receive an ambient illuminance from the illuminance sensor, increase a light transmittance of the LCD panel in response to the ambient illuminance being equal to or less than a first threshold, and decrease the light transmittance of the LCD panel in response to the ambient illuminance being equal to or greater than the second threshold that is greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SPOCOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sooan Park
  • Patent number: 11082570
    Abstract: An information processor including a voice inputter, a display, and a controller is provided. The controller executes a voice operation mode allowing an operation by voice input via the voice inputter, and performs control to reduce visibility of the display when execution of the voice operation mode is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Okumura
  • Patent number: 11081065
    Abstract: A display control method having dynamic backlight adjusting mechanism is provided that includes the steps outlined below. A backlight control signal having a backlight period that is 1/N times of a Vsync period of a Vsync signal is generated. A first Vsync period end time after the Vsync period switches from a first period length to a second period length is calculated. A first backlight period end time after the first Vsync period end time is determined as a transition period start time. A time difference between the transition period start time and the first Vsync period end time is calculated. A transition period length between the second period length and the time difference is calculated and divided into interval lengths each equals to a third period length. The backlight control signal operated to have the third period length is generated within the transition period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wen-Yi Mao
  • Patent number: 11074870
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus which selects one output setting level among the plurality of output setting levels based on the received user input, selects one ambient characteristic level among the plurality of ambient characteristic levels based on the detected ambient characteristic, selects an output setting value corresponding to the selected output setting level and the selected ambient characteristic level among the plurality of output setting values, and controls the display to cause the light source to output light based on the selected output setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyuheon Lee, Jungmin Ku, Jihyeok Choi
  • Patent number: 11074869
    Abstract: A display method includes selecting a display mode from a plurality of display modes, acquiring a data clock signal having a data period including a pixel active interval and a blank interval, and setting waveforms of a backlight driving signal within the pixel active interval and the blank interval according to the display mode in order to meet a motion blur effect corresponding to the display mode. A power ratio of the backlight driving signal within the blank interval to the backlight driving signal within the pixel active interval determines the motion blur effect. The waveforms of the backlight driving signal within the pixel active interval and the blank interval are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Min-Jye Chen
  • Patent number: 11069305
    Abstract: A display device with a backlight includes a PWM signal generation circuit configured to generate a PWM signal, which alternates between an ON level at which the backlight is lit up and an OFF level at which the backlight is turned off, such that the luminance of the backlight is controlled by driving the backlight in accordance with the PWM signal. The PWM signal generation circuit divides a plurality of horizontal periods corresponding to a horizontal synchronization signal to be used for displaying an image for one frame, into a plurality of group periods each consisting of two or more horizontal periods, and generates the PWM signal such that the PWM signal is equal in frequency to the horizontal synchronization signal when the two or more horizontal periods included in each group period are regarded as one horizontal period, and such that the PWM signal is randomly modified every group period in terms of the time at which to change the PWM signal from the OFF level to the ON level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11070777
    Abstract: A projection apparatus and its operation method are provided. The projection apparatus includes a light-emitting device, a driving circuit coupled to the light-emitting device, and a control circuit receiving at least one video frame and analyzing color content of the at least one video frame. According to at least one control signal, the driving circuit drives the light-emitting device to generate a projected beam. The control circuit selects a highlight mode or a normal mode as a selected mode according to the color content and correspondingly sets at least one control signal to the driving circuit according to the selected mode. A brightness of the projected beam of the light-emitting device in the highlight mode is greater than that in the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Su, Sheng-Yu Chiu, Po-Yen Wu, Jung-Chi Chen, Chih-Lin Wang
  • Patent number: 11069327
    Abstract: A method for controlling a frame refresh rate of a screen can be executed by a terminal including a display screen and include: acquiring a first target frame rate, wherein the first target frame rate is a maximum frame refresh rate corresponding to a display scene of the terminal; setting a second tartlet frame rate that is not greater than the first target frame rate as a frame refresh rate of the display screen; and setting the first target frame rate as the frame refresh rate of the display screen when the terminal receives a user operation by a user on the display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donglei Ji, Guilin Zhong
  • Patent number: 11061272
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and an optical compensation module. The display device includes a light emitting display module and the optical compensation module. The optical compensation module is disposed on the light emitting display module along the transmission direction of an image beam emitted by the light emitting display module, and includes: a first polarizing layer and an optical compensation layer. The optical compensation layer is disposed between the light emitting display module and the first polarizing layer along the transmission direction of the image beam and has a first compensation area and a second compensation area which forms a pattern, wherein the phase compensation value of the first compensation area and the phase compensation value of the second compensation area are different. The display device and the optical compensation module have the effect of displaying the pattern on the display panel at a specific angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Yang-Ching Lin, Jen-Wei Yu, Yu-Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 11062669
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit and driving method for a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device. The driving circuit includes: a signal collector, configured to collect a backlight control signal; and a timing control chip, configured to determine whether a BLU is in the bright state time period or in the dark state time period, and retrieve a first gate control signal from a memory chip and output the first gate control signal to a gate driving circuit, when determining that the BLU is in the bright state time period, or retrieve a second gate control signal from the memory chip and output the second gate control signal to the gate driving circuit, when determining that the BLU is in the dark state time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ke Dai, Yunyun Liang, Liugang Zhou, Zhenlin Qu, Liu He, Qing Li, Jun Wang, Yu Quan, Xiaofeng Yin, Liwei Zhou, Lin Zhang, Tao Li, Yulong Xiong
  • Patent number: 11056031
    Abstract: A control device, which controls a laser scanning display device, includes a laser device, a first current source that generates a first driving current supplied to the laser device, a second current source that generates a second driving current supplied to the laser device, and a controller. The controller controls the first current source to generate the first driving current having a first set current value that is 1/n times a threshold current value at a time when oscillation of the laser device starts, when scanning a non-display area in which no image is displayed, where n is a number greater than 1. The controller controls the second current source to generate the second driving current having a second set current value that is zero or greater and less than 1?1/n times the threshold current value, when scanning the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuji Hayakawa, Toyoki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11056038
    Abstract: A gray-scale compensation device and method for combined pixels, and a display device. The compensation method for the combined pixels includes: measuring a gamma curve of the first pixel group to obtain a first gamma curve; measuring a gamma curve of the second pixel group to obtain a second gamma curve, where an area of the first pixel group is different from an area of the second pixel group; obtaining a compensation voltage based on the first gamma curve and the second gamma curve; and compensating the first pixel group or the second pixel group based on the compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Xu, Shuai Hou, Xinghong Liu, Can Zhang, Yang Liu, Siqing Fu
  • Patent number: 11056069
    Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes sequentially buffering each row of pixel data of a first display image in a corresponding pixel row of the LCD panel. The method also includes activating a backlight of the LCD panel after the last row of pixel data of the first display image has been buffered at the last pixel row of the LCD panel but before liquid crystal settling of the last pixel row of the LCD panel has completed. The method also may include initiating sequential buffering of each row of pixel data of a second display image in a corresponding pixel row of the LCD panel prior to the liquid crystal settling of the last pixel row of the LCD panel completing, wherein activating the backlight of the LCD panel comprises activating the backlight while at least one pixel row of the LCD panel buffers a corresponding row of pixel data from the second display image and other pixel rows of the LCD panel buffer corresponding rows of pixel data from the first display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Huang, Gaurav Shah
  • Patent number: 11049461
    Abstract: A driving method for a display device and a display device are provided. The driving method includes setting mean values of the first, second and third components of a first frame of display image to be equal to a second mean value, mean values of the first and third components of a second frame of display image to be equal to a third mean value, a mean value of second components to be zero; adjusting the backlight module brightness according to the mean values of the first, second and third components of an original display image, the first frame and the second frame of display images; obtaining a driving component of the pixel in the second frame of display image according to the backlight module brightness, the component of one pixel in the original display image and the driving component of the pixel in the first frame of display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Beizhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11041598
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electric current within a semiconductor light source, the light source comprising a substrate with at least two distinct light-emitting regions, wherein the method comprises the following steps: activating a first luminous region, regulating the mean value of the electrical variable relating to the electric current received by the light source as a function of a first setpoint, so as to obtain a first value of a first luminous flux corresponding to the flux emitted by the first luminous region, activating at least a second luminous region of the light source, regulating the mean value of the electrical variable relating to the electric current received by the light source, so as to obtain a second value of a second luminous flux corresponding to the flux emitted by at least the second luminous region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Vincent Godbillon
  • Patent number: 11042053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light modulating method, a light modulating device and a storage medium. The method is applied to a display device and includes: acquiring a light modulating instruction; according to the light modulating instruction, partitioning a displaying region of the display device to form a plurality of light modulating regions; and disposing a light modulating signal in each of the light modulating regions; wherein first electrical level duty ratios of the light modulating signals disposed in the light modulating regions are staggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianfeng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11044409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for estimating cast shadow regions and highlight regions in a scene, said scene being represented by a low dynamic range image, called LDR image, and a high dynamic range, called HDR image, said method comprising the steps of: —computing (S1) a detail map, called LDR detail map, of the LDR image, said LDR detail map associating a detail level to each pixel of the LDR image, —computing (S2) a detail map, called HDR detail map, of the HDR image, said HDR detail map associating a detail level to each pixel of the HDR image, and —detecting (S3) regions of the scene where the detail level in the HDR detail map is greater than the detail level in the LDR detail map, said detected regions corresponding to cast shadow regions or highlights region of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Jurgen Stauder, Philippe Robert, David Gendron
  • Patent number: 11042062
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate; a plurality of first light-emitting elements disposed in a first area of the substrate; a plurality of second light-emitting elements disposed in a second area of the substrate; a first power line disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of first light-emitting elements; a second power line disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of second light-emitting elements; a first circuit connecting element electrically connected to the first power line; and a first power supply element electrically connected to the first circuit connecting element. A projection of the first area on the substrate does not overlap a projection of the second area on the substrate, and the first area is closer to the first circuit connecting element than the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heng-Chang Chang, Chin-Lung Ting
  • Patent number: 11030946
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an ambient brightness detection method, an electronic device, a detection apparatus, and a storage medium. The method can be applied to an electronic device including a display array and a light sensing component that is arranged on a back of the display array. The method can include that a detected brightness is obtained through the light sensing component in a display time slot of a target pixel portion covered by a projection in a plane where the display array is located, and a brightness scene is determined according to present display brightness of the display array. The method can also include that a calculation parameter for calculation of ambient brightness is determined according to the brightness scene, a display refresh rate of the display array, and the detected brightness, and the ambient brightness is determined according to the calculation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chaoxi Chen
  • Patent number: 11030964
    Abstract: An image display processing method for a display device, an image display processing device, a display device, and a non-volatile storage medium are provided. The display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel, the backlight unit includes a plurality of backlight blocks and is driven by a local dimming mode, and the image display processing method includes: obtaining initial backlight data of each of the plurality of backlight blocks corresponding to a display image; performing a peak driving process on the initial backlight data of each of the plurality of backlight blocks by a graphics processing unit to obtain adjusted backlight data of each of the plurality of backlight blocks; and providing the adjusted backlight data to the backlight unit by the graphics processing unit so that the display panel displays the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenyu Li, Jinghua Miao, Yukun Sun, Xuefeng Wang, Zhifu Li, Bin Zhao, Xi Li, Lixin Wang, Qingwen Fan, Jianwen Suo, Yali Liu, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Zhihua Ji, Jinbao Peng, Ziqiang Guo, Xiurong Wang
  • Patent number: 11030962
    Abstract: A backlight unit and a display device are provided. The duty or the like of a light source driving signal is adjusted so that a frequency component causing flicker to be visible, among frequency components of luminance appearing in a driving period of low-speed driving mode. Flicker is prevented or reduced in the low-speed driving mode. The display device is driven in the low-speed driving mode to reduce power consumption. The display device is driven at a lower display driving frequency in the low-speed driving mode, thereby improving the efficiency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungYub Lee, YoungJoon Lee, SeungSeok Oh
  • Patent number: 11024236
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling the screen brightness of a display comprising calculating a brightness data which specifies a screen brightness level of a self-luminous display panel, determining, based on the brightness data, correction control points, calculating an output value from the input grayscale value with input-output characteristics specified by the correction control points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11024346
    Abstract: A semiconductor circuit includes a first circuit to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at a first node to a second node, a second circuit to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at the second node to the first node, a first transistor that includes a gate, a drain, and a source, and stores a threshold state, a second transistor that couples the first node to a first terminal by being turned on, a third transistor that couples a first predetermined node to the gate of the first transistor, and a driving section that controls operations of the second transistor and the third transistor, and applies a control voltage to a second terminal. The first terminal is one of the drain or the source of the first transistor. The second terminal is another of the drain or the source of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Kanda
  • Patent number: 11025871
    Abstract: A driver for powering a pulsed light source of a scanning projector display is configured to provide a succession of powering electric pulses to the light source. Duration of the powering electric pulses is less than a pixel time interval during which a scanner of the projector display is directing the light beam to form a corresponding pixel of the image to be displayed. The amplitude of the powering electric pulses is proportionally higher, such that the light pulse has a pulse energy similar to the light energy provided by the light source when continuously driven through the pixel time interval. This enables the light source to be operated at a steeper portion of the electro-optical transfer curve, thereby improving the wall plug efficiency of the scanning projector display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ziv Magoz, James Laudolff, Daniel Guenther Greif, Scott Charles McEldowney
  • Patent number: 11024212
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus are set forth which adjusts one or more of the brightness, vibrancy and color shift of displayed content based upon the at least approximate age of the viewer. At a display (15) the user's age is at least approximated by accessing an established user data file (835, 837) containing age determining data and/or capturing a facial image (804) of the user and processing the same to determine at least the approximate age of the user. Based upon the age determination the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may be adjusted to account for the effects of the aging of the human eye. User overrides (900, 902, 904) may be provided for the user to alter or turn off the adjustments. Adjustment of the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may also take into account ambient light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin S. Lyons, Scott T. Hilbert, Sean C. Martin
  • Patent number: 11022833
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal device serving as an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal layer as an electro-optical element is disposed between a base material 10s as a first substrate and a base material 20s as a second substrate which are disposed to face each other via a photo-curable type seal material, the substrate 10s and the substrate 20s are transmissive and include a plurality of light-shielding patterns disposed at intervals in a seal region of the substrate 10s where the seal material is disposed, and on the substrate 10s, a semiconductor layer of a transistor included in a driving circuit for driving the electro-optical element is disposed to overlap, in plan view, with at least one of the plurality of light-shielding patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11024240
    Abstract: Effective image correction processing for reducing flicker is executed according to characteristics of images, and an image to be displayed in a liquid crystal display apparatus is generated. Characteristic amount change rate data that is a change rate between a characteristic amount of a sample image and a characteristic amount of a sample image output to a liquid crystal display device is acquired in advance and stored in a storage unit. The correction parameter for reducing flicker is calculated on the basis of the characteristic amount of the image to be corrected and the characteristic amount change rate data of the sample images stored in the storage unit. The correction processing to which the calculated correction parameter has been applied is executed for the image to be corrected to generate a display image. As the characteristic amount, for example, the interframe luminance change amount, the interline luminance conversion amount, or the interframe motion vector is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yiwen Zhu, Kazunori Kamio, Takahiro Nagano
  • Patent number: 11018208
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a region divider configured to receive an image data, generate a convert data by converting the image data by pixel rows, and generate a region dividing information that divides the image data into a plurality of regions based on the convert data, a luminance detector configured to detect a region maximum luminance and a region minimum luminance of each of the regions based on the image data and the region dividing information, and a compensator configured to generate compensation image data that compensate a contrast of each of the regions based on the region dividing information, the region maximum luminance, and the region minimum luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Sonoda
  • Patent number: 11011122
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) that may include: a plurality of transistors groups forming a pixel array of said LCD, wherein the transistors groups are independently controllable; a plurality of backlight units, forming a backlight surface of said LCD, wherein the backlight units are independently controllable; a data refresh module configured to periodically refresh data at said groups of transistors, at a specified order, over a refresh cycle time; and a backlight control module configured to periodically dim the backlight units at said specified order over a backlight cycle time which is substantially shorter than the refresh cycle time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Ophir, Gil Benesh
  • Patent number: 11007418
    Abstract: A smart mirror can show live or recorded streaming video of an instructor performing a workout in a package that is attractive and unobtrusive enough to hang in a living room. The smart mirror includes a mirror surface with a fully reflecting section and a partially reflecting section. A display behind the partially reflecting section shows the video when the smart mirror is on and is almost invisible when the smart mirror is off. The smart mirror also has a speaker, a microphone, and a camera to enable a user to view the video content and interact with the instructor. The smart mirror may connect to the user's smart phone, a peripheral device (e.g., a Bluetooth speaker) to augment user experience, a biometric sensor to provide biometric data to assess user performance, and/or a network router to connect the smart mirror to a content provider, an instructor, and/or other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Curiouser Products Inc.
    Inventor: Brynn Putnam
  • Patent number: 11011111
    Abstract: A display driving device comprising: a high supply voltage operation unit that generates an operating current under application of a high supply voltage so as to supply driving voltages to a display panel; a low supply voltage operation unit that operates under the application of a low supply voltage lower than the high supply voltage and controls the high supply voltage operation unit; and a reuse circuit that receives the operating current from the high supply voltage operation unit and supplies the operating current to a ground side via the low supply voltage operation unit so as to apply the low supply voltage to the low supply voltage operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Ichikura, Hiroki Aizawa, Takeshi Nosaka
  • Patent number: 11010879
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a video image processing method and apparatus thereof, and a display device, relate to the field of image processing technology, and in particular, and can solve the problem in the existing video image processing methods that real-time processing of a video image cannot be achieved due to large computational complexity. The video image includes multiple frames of image, and the method includes: obtaining a brightness characterization parameter representing image brightness for a current frame of image; obtaining a ratio of a brightness value of each input pixel in the current frame of image to the brightness characterization parameter; and obtaining a product of the ratio and a numerical value (M+1), wherein M is a maximum possible pixel brightness value of the current frame of image, and taking the product as a brightness value of an output pixel of the current frame of image. The invention can achieve contrast enhancement of a video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tianmin Rao
  • Patent number: 10997935
    Abstract: A display device including a first substrate, a color conversion layer on the first substrate and containing a wavelength conversion material, a first conductive polarizer on the color conversion layer, and a timing controller electrically connected to the first conductive polarizer. The timing controller may measure a resistance of the first conductive polarizer to generate a compensation signal based on the measured resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Woong Kang, Seung Hwan Park, Cheol Woo Park, Dong Gyu Lee, Yong Jun Jang, Young Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 10989856
    Abstract: A fiber optic shelving system includes a shelf including a plurality of holes, a plurality of fiber optic filaments, each of the plurality of fiber optic filaments having a first end and a second end, and the first end being coupled to one of the plurality of holes, a first camera configured to capture an image of the terminal surfaces of the plurality of fiber optic filaments, and a second camera configured to capture an image of a side of one or more products on the shelf. The fiber optic shelving system identifies, among the plurality of holes, a set of holes that are blocked from light based on the captured image of terminal surfaces of the second ends of the plurality of fiber optic filaments, and determines a number of products on the shelf based on the identified set of holes blocked from light and the captured image of the side of one or more products on the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SUNRISE R&D HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: John Christopher Goss, Gregory Daniel Noble, Kevin Michael Roa, Douglas Steven Meiser
  • Patent number: 10989859
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light guide member disposed below a display member. A light source configured to generate light is disposed adjacent to the light guide member. The light guide member includes a plurality of diffraction on the light guide member. The diffraction patterns are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The plurality of diffraction patterns diffract incident light, which is incident at an incident angle, to change the incident light to diffraction light having a diffraction angle. The incident angle is defined as an angle between the incident light and a normal line that is perpendicular to a top surface or a bottom surface of the light guide member. The diffraction angle, which is defined as an angle between the diffraction light and the normal line, has a magnitude less than that of the incident angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, SEJONG CAMPUS
    Inventors: Seungin Baek, Sujin Choi, Hwi Kim, Mira Gwon, Youngeun Park, Jongha Park, Junghwan Yi, Young jin Jeon, Jungbeom Choi, Younho Han
  • Patent number: 10991729
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate having low susceptibility to contact failure between two conductor films is provided. An oxide semiconductor film converted into a conductor is provided in a layer between a substrate and a first metal film. Within a contact hole, the oxide semiconductor film converted into a conductor is in contact with a second metal film. Outside of the contact hole, the oxide semiconductor film converted into a conductor is in contact with the first metal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Hirohiko Nishiki, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 10986330
    Abstract: Presenting an image preview includes receiving image data from a GPU buffer, wherein the GPU buffer is associated with a media manipulation application, obtaining an orientation data for a display device, rendering a preview image using the image data and the orientation data, and displaying the preview image using the display device, wherein the preview image is displayed while the image data is utilized by the media manipulation application, and wherein the preview image is dynamically modified when the image data is modified by the media manipulation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Dashwood
  • Patent number: 10984732
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an ambient light sensor for gathering ambient light information. The ambient light sensor may be at least partially covered by the display. The ambient light sensor may be switched into use during blanking periods when a portion of the display overlapping with the display is temporarily turned off. The ambient light sensor may include a photodetector, a first stage with an amplifier, first and second capacitors selectively coupled across the amplifier, and a second accumulation stage. During blanking time, the first capacitor may integrate photodetector current. During non-blanking, the charge stored in the first capacitor may be transferred to the second accumulation stage while the second capacitor applies an offset voltage to the photodetector to prevent undesired charge injection into the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Zheng, Ali Motamed, Anand K. Chamakura
  • Patent number: 10984751
    Abstract: Method and system for providing, for display on a display device of an information handling system (IHS), one or more images; generating, by a blue-light mitigation computing module, a model of blue-light energy exposure based on the i) the blue-light energy output level of each image, ii) the environmental illumination brightness level, iii) the environmental illumination white color point, iv) the distance of the user, and v) the user exposure time; determining, by the blue-light mitigation computing module and based on the model, that a current blue-light energy exposure of the user with respect to the display device is above a threshold; and in response to determining that the current blue-light energy exposure of the user with respect to the display device is above the threshold, performing, by the blue-light mitigation computing module, an action to mitigate the blue-light energy exposure of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 10978013
    Abstract: A method for driving a display apparatus. The method comprises: dividing an original gray scale data set of a pixel unit (110) into three grayscale data sets, and then, when the divided grayscale data sets are displayed, turning off backlight units (320), the colors of which are the same and occupy most of the colors corresponding to 0 grayscale data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 10974572
    Abstract: A method and a corresponding device permit an at least partially computer-controlled and/or autonomous vehicle to communicate with its surroundings, in particular with a road user such as a person in its surroundings. A control unit for a vehicle is configured to receive surroundings data from one or more surroundings sensors of the vehicle and to detect at least one road user in the surroundings of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings data. The control unit is configured to determine on the basis of the surroundings data whether there is a need for communication between the road user and the vehicle. The control unit is configured, if it has been determined that there is a need for communication between the road user and the vehicle, to actuate an adaptation system of the vehicle and/or one or more visual communication system in order to communicate with the road user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lenja Sorokin, Gunnar Franz
  • Patent number: 10976605
    Abstract: A picture compensation method and apparatus, a display device and a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihua Ji, Tiankuo Shi, Xiaomang Zhang, Yifang Chu, Yilang Sun, Chuanjun Liu, Xin Duan, Lingyun Shi, Yue Li, Yifan Hou
  • Patent number: 10976480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for a signal light of a motor vehicle, generating increased light propagation in a light guide. To this end, the lighting device comprises a light guide defined by a front face, a light source illuminating a first end of the light guide, and a first mask which is positioned in front of the light source and a part of the front face of the light guide, such that the first mask hides the light source from an observer looking at the front face of the light guide. Advantageously, the front face of the light guide, facing the first mask, is at least partially covered by a separating layer reflecting the light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MARELLI AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Erwan Provot, Sean Patterson
  • Patent number: 10971057
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an embodiment includes an LED module including a plurality of light emitting diodes, an LED driver including a switching element comprising switching circuitry, the LED driver being configured to change a switching frequency of the switching element based on an intensity of a current provided to the LED module, and a processor configured to generate a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) dimming signal based on pixel information of an input image and provide the signal to the LED driver, wherein the processor is further configured to control the LED driver to increase the switching frequency of the switching element within a dimming duty of the PWM dimming signal by reducing the intensity of the current provide to the LED module based on a pixel value of the input image being less than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungbum Jung, Sungyong Joo
  • Patent number: 10963998
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. Standard and high dynamic range content may be produced by content generators operating on control circuitry. Standard dynamic range content and high dynamic range content may be simultaneously displayed. Tone mapping parameters may be produced by a tone mapping engine for use in displaying the standard and high dynamic range content. The tone mapping parameters may be selected based on factors such as ambient light level, user brightness setting, content statistics, display characteristics, point of gaze information, power consumption information, and per-window information. Tone mapping parameters may be selected to accommodate simultaneous display of standard and high dynamic range content. Tone mapping parameters may be temporarily modified in response to a user's point of gaze switching between standard dynamic range content and high dynamic range content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Teun R. Baar, Jiaying Wu, Nicolas P. Bonnier, Ramin Samadani
  • Patent number: 10964276
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a light emission unit including a plurality of light sources that emit light; a display unit displays an image by modulating the light on the basis of frames; a determination unit determines a luminescence intensity of each of the light sources for each sub-frame; and a control unit controls lighting of each of the light sources for each sub-frame at the luminescence intensity, wherein the determination unit (1) determines a leakage light quantity, wherein the leakage light quantity is a transmission quantity of light from other light sources that is generated due to response delay in modulation by the display unit, for each region of the display unit corresponding to each of the light sources, and (2) determines the luminescence intensity in accordance with the difference of the leakage light quantity between the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10957233
    Abstract: A control method, suitable for a display panel including M scan lines and a plurality of source lines, include following operations. M is a positive integer. M gate signals are generated sequentially in M time periods during a first display frame to the M scan lines of the display panel. A level of a data signal to one of the source lines is updated in the M time periods during the first display frame. N gate signals are generated in N time periods selected from the M time periods during a second display frame to N scan lines selected from the M scan lines. (M-N) gate signals are suspended during the second display frame. The level of the data signal is updated in the N time periods and is not updated in the (M-N) time periods during the second display frame. N is a positive integer smaller than M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Te-Hsien Kuo, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10955592
    Abstract: The disclosure describes asymmetric turning films (ATFs) that may be used in conjunction with multiple light sources in a liquid crystal display assembly to provide multiple different characteristic output distributions of light. In some examples, the ATFs include a structured surface defining a plurality of microstructures having two or more faces with each face configured to reflect light in different directions. The microstructure may define a microstructure axis and an angle gradient characterizing the rotation of the microstructure axis across the structured surface of the ATF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Epstein, Nicholas A. Johnson, Michael E. Lauters, Shannon L. Siefken, Gary T. Boyd
  • Patent number: 10957500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selective keyboard backlighting with reduced driver circuitry are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes, inter alia, simultaneously controlling, with a control signal, an output of a first light emitting element that illuminates only one key of a plurality of keys of a keyboard and an output of a second light emitting element that illuminates only one key of the plurality of keys, and maintaining, with a current mirror circuit, uniformity between the output of the first light emitting element and the output of the second light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Lara Ascorra, Qian Zhang, Thai Q. La
  • Patent number: 10937358
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of reducing display image power consumption while maintaining image quality on display devices having a plurality of display power modes. Each display power mode has associated therewith a defined baseline value (K1,BASELINE) first relationship. A display image includes a baseline percentage under-boosted pixels (Xi,BASELINE). Using the first relationship value (K1,BASELINE) and the pixel percentage (Xi,BASELINE), a baseline second relationship value is determined (K0,BASELINE). The value associated with the second relationship is adjusted to a first plurality of values. At each value, the value associated with the pixel percentage is adjusted to each of a second plurality of values. At each combination of second relationship value and pixel percentage, a respective first relationship value is determined. A first relationship value, second relationship value are selected to provide a reduced power consumption while maintaining image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junhai Qiu, Ajit Joshi, Jun Jiang, Sherine Abdelhak, Shravan Kumar Belagal Math, Nandini Mahendran