Input/output Liquid Crystal Display Panel Patents (Class 345/104)
  • Patent number: 9690129
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel having a back surface and a front surface; a side frame extending along three sides of the display panel and including a flat portion facing a part of the back surface of the display panel and an inclined portion extended rearward away from the flat portion and being exposed outside of the display device; a main frame comprising a plate and being coupled with the side frame; a light source between the display panel and the main frame. Further, the part of the back surface of the display panel is fixed on the flat portion of the side frame via an adhesive layer formed on the flat portion of the side frame. In addition, the side frame further includes an outer frame forming an outer perimeter of the side frame; an inner frame positioned inside the outer frame; and a stepped portion formed by the inner frame and the outer frame and configured to seat the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyojin Won, Yongho Lee
  • Patent number: 9671906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch display circuit of a pixel unit, a drive method thereof, an array substrate and a display device, by means of which the process steps in manufacturing a touch display product can be reduced, and meanwhile, the aperture ratio of the product can be increased to raise the added value. The touch display circuit comprises a touch unit and a display unit; a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a detection signal line, a data line and a signal control line connected with the touch unit; and a gate line and a data line connected with the display unit, wherein the touch unit comprises a first switch transistor, a second switch transistor, a first capacitor, a touch electrode and an amplifier transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shengji Yang
  • Patent number: 9671905
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes, a plurality of display elements performing display operation based on a pixel signal and a display drive signal, a touch detection element detecting an external proximity object based on a touch detection drive signal, a scan drive section performing display scanning by sequentially supplying the pixel signal and the display drive signal to the plurality of display elements in a time-divisional manner, and the scan drive section supplying the touch detection drive signal to the touch detection element, and a touch detection circuit performing touch detection by sampling a detection result from the touch detection element with a period shorter than a period of the display scanning. The scan drive section supplies the touch detection drive signal to the touch detection element in a touch detection operation period different from a display operation period for performing the display scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 9665187
    Abstract: A color input device includes a stylus, a color input unit installed in the stylus. The color input unit includes a circuit board, an MCU, a color sensor, a color display device, a Bluetooth module, a memory, a control interface and a power supply device respectively connected to the MCU. Through the control interface, the color sensor can be activated to capture nature colors and to store intake colors in the memory, and the colors stored in the memory can be displayed on the full color LED display and selected and transmitted to a computing device via the Bluetooth module, enabling the APP of the computing device to temporarily store the inputted colors and synchronously display them on the display device of the computing device. Furthermore, the color input device can receive colors or patterns from the computing device for establishing a diversified color database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: UFRO LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeremy-Pyu Shu
  • Patent number: 9652059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent electroconductive laminate which achieves the required transparency or haze characteristic while having a desirable slipperiness in terms of handleability. Further disclosed is a transparent touch panel having said transparent electroconductive laminate. The transparent laminate (10) has a transparent organic polymer substrate (1), a transparent electroconductive layer (2) on one face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and a cured resin layer (3) with a concavo-convex surface on the other face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and the transparent touch panel has said transparent electroconductive laminate. The cured resin layer (3) has a concavo-convex surface by being formed from a coating composition which contains two types of polymerizable components which mutually phase-separate on the basis of the physical difference therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Itoh, Koichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9653491
    Abstract: An array substrate comprises a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines arranged to intersect with each other, an annular common signal line surrounding the data lines and the gate lines, and at least one annular repair line. The repair line is electrically connected with the common signal line through an anti-static ring. The repair line comprises a first line segment and a second line segment insulated from each other. The first line segment intersects with and is insulated from each of the data lines, the second line segment does not intersect with the data lines and is electrically connected with the common signal line through the anti-static ring. A repair portion is arranged between the first line segment and the second line segment, which is used for enabling the first line segment to be electrically connected with the second line segment after being welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenfei Cai
  • Patent number: 9638970
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, the non-display region including a first region adjacent to the display region and a second region further from the display region than the first region; a light blocking member disposed in the non-display region of the substrate; and a plurality of step providing layers disposed between the substrate and the light blocking member in the non-display region of the substrate, the step providing layers spaced apart from each other. A height of the light blocking member disposed in the first region of the non-display region is different from a height of the light blocking member disposed in the second region of the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Swae-Hyun Kim, Eun-Kil Park, Hyun-Ho Kang, Ki Kyung Youk, Sang Woo Whangbo
  • Patent number: 9588612
    Abstract: Provided is a display drive circuit which is connected to a display panel including a gate drive circuit that scans gate electrodes, a source driver that drives source electrodes of the display panel, and a gate control driver that supplies a clock signal to the gate drive circuit. The display drive circuit performs an intermittent operation which is alternately provided with a display period in which the source electrodes are driven and an interruption period during which the display panel is not updated. During a start of the display period following the interruption period, the gate control driver extends a pulse width of the clock signal which is supplied to the gate drive circuit, or preliminarily outputs the clock signal before the start of the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Okamura
  • Patent number: 9569048
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch display panel comprising a touch driving electrode and a touch sensing electrode, wherein the touch display panel further comprises a signal enhancement layer which is capable of generating electric field lines by coupling with the touch driving electrode and/or the touch sensing electrode. The present invention also provides a display device including the above touch display panel. When the operator's finger touches the surface of the touch display panel, a large amount of electric field lines generated by coupling of the signal enhancement layer are attracted to the operator's finger, thereby increasing the amount of change in capacitance, and the sensitivity of the touch display panel is further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Hongjuan Liu, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 9563307
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a touch panel control unit, a plurality of scanning electrodes formed on the display panel, a plurality of detection electrodes formed on the display panel so as to intersect with the plurality of scanning electrodes, a drive signal supply unit for inputting a drive signal to each of the scanning electrodes, and a detection unit for detecting a detection signal from each of the detection electrodes. The touch panel control unit supplies the driving signal to each of the scanning electrodes from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of a touch position of a detection object based on the detection signal detected, and supplies the driving signal to all of the scanning electrodes collectively from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of approach of the detection object to the touch panel based on the detection signal detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Nagata, Koji Doi
  • Patent number: 9564089
    Abstract: A handheld dedicated electronic book (“eBook”) reader device and last screen rendering techniques for enhancing user experience are described. The eBook reader device detects certain screen conversion events, such as a timeout period, a scheduled event, or an event derived from user behavior. Upon detection of such events, the eBook reader device renders, as the last screen image to remain visible after the user ceases using the device, an image that conveys to the user some meaningful association with a content item. In the context of eBooks, the eBook reader device renders a representation of the book cover as the last screen image. A progress indicator may further be included to represent user progress through the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: John T. Kim
  • Patent number: 9552117
    Abstract: A system includes a first group of transmit electrodes configured to be driven from a first side of a capacitive touch panel and a second group of transmit electrodes configured to be driven from a second side of the panel. The system also includes receive electrodes and a controller operatively coupled with the transmit electrodes and the receive electrodes. The controller is operable to dynamically configure the transmit electrodes and the receive electrodes to compensate for phase delays introduced by driving the transmit electrodes from different sides of the panel. A method includes driving a first group of transmit electrodes from a first side of a capacitive touch panel, driving a second group of transmit electrodes from a second side of the panel, and dynamically configuring the transmit electrodes and receive electrodes to compensate for phase delays introduced by driving the transmit electrodes from different sides of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Johnson, Guozhong Shen, Firooz Massoudi
  • Patent number: 9548034
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel coupled to a first scan line and a first data line. The first pixel includes a switching transistor including a control terminal connected to the first scan line and an input terminal connected to the first data line, and is turned on by an on-scan signal, a first transistor including a first control terminal connected to the first scan line, a first input terminal connected to the first data line, and a first output terminal connected to the first control terminal; and a second transistor including a second control terminal connected to the first output terminal, a second input terminal receiving a base voltage, and a second output terminal connected to the second control terminal. The first and second transistors respectively convert light into first and second currents outputted respectively to the first and second output terminals in response to an off-scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hun Lim, Hyun Jae Na, Dong Hwan Shim, Byung Du Ahn
  • Patent number: 9535547
    Abstract: A device for control interface sensitive to movement of a body, includes a detection surface; at least one capacitive sensor including a measurement electrode including an active surface facing the detection surface, or substantially coinciding with the detection surface; electronic excitation and processing components for exciting the measurement electrodes at an alternating electrical potential and processing the signals emanating from the capacitive sensors, to provide distance information between the active surface of the electrodes and one or several objects; a guard of electrically conducting material disposed in proximity to the measurement electrodes, at least along the face of the measurement electrodes substantially opposite to the active surface, which guard is excited at an alternating electrical potential substantially identical to the alternating electrical potential of the measurement electrodes, wherein: the measurement electrodes and the guard are made of substantially transparent conducting
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: QUICKSTEP TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Didier Roziere
  • Patent number: 9519175
    Abstract: A variable capacitor is formed from a pair of electrodes and a dielectric interposed between the electrodes over a substrate, and an external input is detected by changing capacitance of the variable capacitor by a physical or electrical force. Specifically, a variable capacitor and a sense amplifier are provided over the same substrate, and the sense amplifier reads the change of capacitance of the variable capacitor and transmits a signal in accordance with the input to a control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kato, Toshihiko Saito
  • Patent number: 9501162
    Abstract: A display device integrated with a touch screen panel includes a display unit in which scan lines and data lines crossing each other, and pixels are arranged, wherein the pixels are positioned at crossing regions of the scan lines and the data lines and each of the pixels comprises first and second pixel electrodes, first touch electrodes extending along a first direction on the display unit, and second touch electrodes extending along a second direction on the display unit, and arranged to overlap the first touch electrodes, the second touch electrodes being spaced apart from the first touch electrodes, wherein the first touch electrodes are implemented by patterning the second pixel electrode in the first direction, and wherein while a touch driving signal is supplied to one or more first touch electrodes among the first touch electrodes, a second pixel power source is supplied to remaining first touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Il Cho, Sang-Hyun Jun
  • Patent number: 9489893
    Abstract: There are disclosed an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and driving method thereof, and array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi
  • Patent number: 9490088
    Abstract: A tactile presentation device has a chassis having a top surface chassis, a bottom surface chassis, and an inner space, a button type operation unit fixed to the top surface chassis and having an operation surface, an actuator arranged in the inner space, and a vibration transmission member arranged between the actuator and the button type operation unit. The top surface chassis has a top surface having a top surface opening exposing the operation surface of the button type operation unit to outside, and a side surface formed along the peripheral edge of the top surface. The actuator is fixed to the side surface of the top surface chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Kagayama
  • Patent number: 9489100
    Abstract: A plurality of first conductors and a plurality of second conductors disposed in first and second directions crossing with each other are disposed in an opposing relationship to each other and in a spaced relationship by a determined distance from each other, and a variation of a capacitance formed between any of the first conductors and any of the second conductors based on a variation of a distance between the first conductor and the second conductor when one of the first conductor and the second conductor is deflected by pressing by a pointer is detected to detect a position pointed to by the pointer. A spacer is disposed between the first and second conductors in a region of a cross point such that a deflection amount of one of the first conductor and the second conductor by the pressing by the pointer has a value higher in a region other than the region of the cross point than in the region of the cross point at which the first conductor and the second conductor cross and overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9477339
    Abstract: A stretchable display device includes: a stretchable display panel including: pixels; a first resistive film extending in a first direction; and a second resistive film extending in a second direction; a scan driver to provide a scan signal to the pixels; a data driver to provide a data signal or a compensated data signal to the pixels; a row detection driver to detect a first current flowing through the first resistive film to generate a first detection signal; a column detection driver to detect a second current flowing through the second resistive film to generate a second detection signal; a compensation control signal generator to receive the first and the second detection signals to detect amounts of variations of the first and the second currents, and to generate a compensation control signal; and a timing controller to generate the compensated data signal based on the compensation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Ho Hyun
  • Patent number: 9477361
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a capacitive in-cell touch panel, its manufacturing method and a display device. The capacitive in-cell touch panel includes a plurality of gate scanning lines and a plurality of data lines arranged perpendicular to each other; a plurality of common electrodes, to which a common electrode signal is applied during a display period and a touch scanning signal is applied during a touch period, so that the common electrodes are also used as touch driving electrodes; and a plurality of touch sensing electrodes arranged at a layer identical to the data lines and at a region corresponding to the gate scanning lines, the touch sensing electrodes outputting a touch sensing signal during the touch period, wherein the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are arranged in a crisscross manner and insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lijun Zhao
  • Patent number: 9467552
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information communication terminal having a configuration in which it is possible to prevent a wrong operation of the information communication terminal due to an unconscious operation of an input equipment during operating an audio output equipment. That is, the information communication terminal includes a controller. The controller operates a detection sensor that detects an object approaching during operating the audio output equipment. And the controller controls a status of being input into the input equipment based on a detected result of the detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Shouji
  • Patent number: 9457544
    Abstract: In some implementations, a process includes forming a layer of a liquid optically clear adhesive (LOCA) on a surface of a first substrate. Additionally, the LOCA can be contacted with a surface of a second substrate. The LOCA can then be exposed to Ultraviolet (UV) radiation. After exposing the LOCA to UV radiation, additional substrates can be coupled to the first substrate, the second substrate, or both to form a display stack. In an implementation, the total energy/unit area for the UV radiation applied to the LOCA can be no greater than 25,000 kJ/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Menon, Weihsin Hou, Chin Siong Khor, Yean Chan Woon
  • Patent number: 9454265
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator is switchable between an open position that permits transmittance of light from the lighting system through a respective aperture and a shut position that blocks light transmission through the respective aperture. The processor switches the light modulators in accordance with a first modulation scheme to render an image and in accordance with a second modulation scheme to selectively pass object illuminating light through at least one of the respective apertures. A light sensor receives light resulting from interaction of the object illuminating with an object and outputs a signal to the processor. The processor recognizes, from the output of the light sensor, a characteristic of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
  • Patent number: 9454029
    Abstract: A touch-sensing liquid crystal panel is provided and includes a color filter substrate and a transistor substrate. The color filter substrate includes a first substrate, a sensing array, touch-sensing circuit contact pads, and color filters. The transistor substrate includes a second substrate and pixel units. In one embodiment, the first substrate has a first edge region and a second edge region having the same width. In another embodiment, the touch-sensing circuit contact pads are disposed at the first edge region and the second edge region of the first substrate, and each conductive pattern in the sensing array is connected to the touch-sensing circuit contact pads of the first edge region and the second edge region. In another embodiment, each conductive pattern of the sensing array includes two first conductive patterns and conductive pattern rows disposed between the first conductive patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hsu-Ho Wu, Yu-Cheng Lin, Ping-Yuan Su, Kun-Hua Tsai, Hsing-Ying Lee
  • Patent number: 9430078
    Abstract: A quantum tunneling composite, or other material exhibiting changing electrical or magnetic properties as force on the material is increased, can be located within a force concentrator integrated into traditional touch screen layers to sense force applied on the touch screen. The force concentrator can be a protrusion from the layer planes of the layers in a traditional touch screen and can be formed, at least in part, from printed elements. The amount of protrusion of the force concentrator can be adjusted through multi-pass printing and thicker deposit printing. The force concentrator can also have optically clear adhesive layered over it. The force-sensitive material can be optionally pre-loaded so as to operate within a substantially linear feedback range. A sensing mechanism can be configured to detect changes in force at multiple locations or to detect the application of force irrespective of location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: David Cranfill, Zubin Parikh
  • Patent number: 9423904
    Abstract: A portable device and method of manufacturing a display device includes a display panel having a glass substrate and a polarizer adhered to the glass substrate, a touch panel which is made of resin material and adhered to the polarizer of the display panel by a first adhesive material, and a front window which is made of glass and adhered to the touch panel by a second adhesive material. One of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an adhesive sheet, and an other of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an ultraviolet-curing adhesive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji Oohira
  • Patent number: 9423897
    Abstract: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. A transparent conductive shielding layer may be formed on the lower surface of the thin-film transistor layer. Grounding structures may ground the transparent conductive shielding layer to a ground. The ground may be formed form metal traces on a flexible printed circuit. The display may have a backlight unit. Light-emitting diodes may be used to provide backlight for the backlight unit. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on the flexible printed circuit. The grounding structures may be formed from a rectangular ring-shaped conductive tape or other conductive structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 9395849
    Abstract: Disclosed are an infrared touch screen multipoint recognizing method and an infrared touch screen. The method comprises the following steps: driving infrared transmitting tubes and infrared receiving tubes to scan a touch detection area and saving scan data (601); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes, to determine boundaries of quasi-touch points and obtain a quasi-touch point set (602); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a first direction off-axis, to obtain a first calibrated touch point set (603); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a second direction off-axis, to obtain a second calibrated touch point set (604); and comparing the quasi-touch point set, the first calibrated touch point set and the second calibrated touch point set, to eliminate ghost points and determine real touch points (605).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING IRTOUCH SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haibing Zhang, Wujun Wang, Jianjun Liu, Xinlin Ye, Xinbin Liu
  • Patent number: 9377906
    Abstract: Discussed are a display device with an integrated touch screen and a method of operating the same. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes; a touch screen including m number of electrodes which are formed to overlap with the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein m is a multiple of n, and n is an integer equal to or greater than two, and wherein the m electrodes are divided into n number of electrode groups; a touch driver configured to generate a touch scan signal and to supply the generated touch scan signal to a display driver; and the display driver configured to apply a common voltage or the touch scan signal to one or more of the m electrodes depending on a driving mode of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JungHan Lee, HongChul Kim, SungChul Kim, JeongSeop Lee, SeungEun Pyo
  • Patent number: 9342202
    Abstract: A conductive multi-touch touch-sensitive panel includes two intersecting but electrically isolated arrays of linear conductors which can be brought into electrical contact by touching the panel. A display element may be positioned beneath the two arrays of linear conductors to provide a touchscreen panel. A touch to a cover plate or member causes one or more linear conductors in one array to contact one or more linear conductors in the other array. The location of a touch to the panel can be detected by individually or sequentially applying an electrical signal, such as a voltage or current, to each linear conductor in one array while sensing voltage or current on each of the linear conductors in the other array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mustafa Keskin, Cheong Kun, Louis Dominic Oliveira
  • Patent number: 9310921
    Abstract: Screen control methods and apparatus are provided. When it is determined that a touch control pressure value on a touch control screen exceeds a pre-set pressure threshold value to, a touch control operation by a finger on the touch control screen can be obtained. Corresponding to the touch control operation, a control instruction can be called according to a mapping relationship table that is pre-set. The mapping relationship table includes a mapping relationship between the touch control operation and the control instruction. The touch control screen can be controlled to display contents according to the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Bo Hu, Tingyong Tang, Renfang Liu, Zhipei Wang, Ruiyi Zhou, Xi Wang, Zhengkai Xie, Bosen He, Ying Huang, Wei Li, Cheng Feng, Huijiao Yang, Yulei Liu, Sha Mo
  • Patent number: 9311838
    Abstract: The present invention proposes an LCD of switching to show 2D/3D image. The LCD adds a plurality of switch units to every row of scan lines while no additional gate driver is added. The plurality of switch units separately control charging and charge sharing of pixel units, therefore pixel charging and charge sharing are separately controlled. Hence the present invention fixes flicker in 3D image display while no additional gate driver is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Meng Li, JinJie Wang
  • Patent number: 9287857
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device having: a latch circuit having a plurality of data holding nodes; a first capacitance element connected to the first data holding node included in the plurality of data holding nodes; and a first switch element provided between the first data holding node and the first capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Taiki Uemura, Yoshiharu Tosaka
  • Patent number: 9286843
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels connected to gate lines and data lines, a gate driver configure to drive the gate lines, a data driver including a plurality of data driving parts configured to drive the data lines. The control board includes a processor that outputs an image signal and a control signal and a timing controller that outputs a first control signal to control the gate driver and a second control signal and a data signal to control the data driver in response to the image signal and the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongjun Jang, Nam-Gon Choi, Geunjeong Park, Hyundae Lee, Cheolwoo Park, Jeong-hun So, Bonghyun You, Yun Ki Baek, Kyoung Ho Lim
  • Patent number: 9274626
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a panel module, an assembly member, a glue layer, and a touch module. The assembly member is engaged with a sidewall of the panel module. The glue layer is disposed on the panel module and at least one portion of the glue layer is disposed on the assembly member. The touch module is disposed on the glue layer. The panel module and the assembly member are adhered to a first side of the glue layer. The touch module is adhered to a second side of the glue layer opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Chen, Te-Hen Lo, Hao-Liang Chao
  • Patent number: 9274664
    Abstract: A display device with touch panel includes a display panel having a display area in which pixels are arranged in a matrix form and displaying an image by outputting lights corresponding to gray levels with respect to each pixel, and a touch panel electrode as one electrode of a set of electrodes forming capacitance for sensing contact in an area superimposed on the display area, extending in one direction, including a plurality of linear transparent conducting materials arranged in parallel, and having a periodically changing line width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Ootani
  • Patent number: 9268430
    Abstract: If a corresponding area that is an area in a touch sensor related with an option is set larger than the size of a displayed option and corresponding areas related with different options overlap each other, any user-selected options may be properly identified. A processing execution block controls such that an option is displayed on a display block. An option identification block identifies, if a detection corresponding position that is a position in the display block related with a detected position detected by a touch sensor is inside an area in which a corresponding area that is an area including an area in which an option is displayed overlaps two or more options, any of these two or more options on the basis of a positional relation between said detection corresponding position and a corresponding area for each of these two or more options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Hatakeda
  • Patent number: 9250740
    Abstract: It becomes possible to use drive pulses having different pulse widths for one kind of drive pulse signal period. Therefore, even if a voltage acting on a crossing part of drive and detection electrodes is periodically changed through a stray capacitance attributed to an external object such as a finger in an undesired manner, the pulse width of the drive pulse is never fixed with respect to the period, and the periodic buildup of a certain voltage on a detection signal, which would make appreciable noise, is suppressed. Thus, the reduction of detection signals can be suppressed in quantity without switching the pulse signal frequency of the drive pulse of a touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Display Devices GK
    Inventors: Akihito Akai, Tatsuya Ishii, Kazuo Okado
  • Patent number: 9244552
    Abstract: A touch display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of first conducting layers, and a plurality of third conducting layers. The plurality of scan lines are coupled to the plurality of pixels. The plurality of data lines are coupled to the plurality of pixels and the plurality of first conducting layers to provide a touch driving signal. Each first conducting layer of the plurality of first conducting layers is configured to receive the touch driving signal. The plurality of third conducting layers is configured to output a touch sensing signal according to the touch driving signals outputted by the plurality of first conducting layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Gui-Wen Liu, Chao-Chen Wang, Chao-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 9239644
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a second substrate has detection electrodes of a touch panel, each of pixels has a pixel electrode and a counter electrode divided into a plurality of blocks. The counter electrodes of the respective blocks are commonly provided for the respective pixels of plural continuous display lines, the counter electrodes of the respective blocks double scanning electrodes of the touch panel, and a driver circuit that applies a counter voltage and a touch panel scanning voltage to the counter electrodes of the respective blocks is provided. The driver circuit sequentially applies the touch panel scanning voltage to the counter electrodes of the respective blocks in plural times, while a drive pulse for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display panel is not varied, and drive frequencies of the respective touch panel scanning voltages are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Doi, Kouji Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 9214976
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display module further including a control board for controlling an operation of the display module to display an image. An outer casing unit accommodates the display module, and a wireless communication unit performs wireless communication with an external communication device. The wireless communication unit includes at least one antenna for transmitting and receiving a radio signal to and from the external communication device, and a wireless communication board converts the radio signal received from the antenna into an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal to the control board or transmits the electrical signal provided from the control board to the antenna, wherein the antenna and the wireless communication board are arranged to be spatially separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In-beom Kim, Chang-joo Jung
  • Patent number: 9207797
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed that determines the location of an object touching a display screen. The system and method modifies already existing display technology, including using the underlying structure of many types of existing displays as the touch detecting structure. The systems and methods are applicable to virtually all LCD and LCD-like displays, including emissive displays (OLED, PLED, quantum dot displays, etc.), electronic paper, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Konicek
  • Patent number: 9164593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexion state detecting and handling method and apparatus for detecting and handling a flexion state of a flexible display. A sensing unit includes a bend sensor array having a plurality of bend sensors arranged on the flexible display in a predetermined form. Each of the bend sensors detects a degree of bending as the bend sensor is bent along a flexion of the flexible display at a point where the bend sensor is arranged. A controller generates flexion state information indicating a flexion state of the flexible display based on the degree of bending detected by the bend sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Duck Chae, Jong-In Kwak
  • Patent number: 9134826
    Abstract: A touch panel which includes a molecule oriented polylactic acid film, the polylactic acid film has a first principal plane and a second principal plane formed with electrodes, and the electrode on the first principal plane includes divided electrodes which are electrically divided into at least four sections. A touch panel input device having the touch panel is configured to have the respective divided electrodes connected to a processor which outputs position information and/or pressed information based on voltages detected independently from the divided electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MAUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi Andoh
  • Patent number: 9128553
    Abstract: A sensing apparatus that includes a polylactic acid film having a first surface and an opposing second surface. The polylactic acid film is molecularly oriented and thermally treated so as to have a shear piezoelectric property. An electrode arrangement is provided adjacent at least one of the first and second surfaces of the polylactic acid film, and is configured to detect a relative position of an input on the polylactic acid film and detect a pressure of the input toward the polylactic acid film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi Andoh
  • Patent number: 9091894
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate, a switching element, a pixel electrode, and a light sensing part. The switching element is disposed on the substrate and is electrically connected to a gate line and a data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the switching element. The light sensing part is electrically connected to the switching element and the pixel electrode, and is configured to control a grayscale of a pixel according to a brightness of an external light. The pixel includes the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Lim, Byung-Du Ahn, Je-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 9087491
    Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function, includes: a plurality of common drive electrodes disposed in parallel so as to extend in one direction; a display element displaying on the basis of a pixel signal and a display drive signal; a touch detection element detecting an external approaching object on the basis of a touch-detection drive signal; and a scan drive section performing first scan driving to apply the display drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division and second scan driving having a scan speed different from a scan speed of the first scan driving to apply the touch-detection drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division, wherein the scan drive section drives the common drive electrodes for each plurality of the electrodes in the first and the second scan driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 9082363
    Abstract: A driving device is configured for driving a display panel and includes a data driver, a plurality of switches, and an image determiner. The switch is electrically coupled between data lines of a first data line group. The data driver is configured to output data signals to the data lines of the first data line group. The data signals transferred by the data lines of the first data line group include a plurality of pulse transitions while the display panel displays an image. The image determiner is configured to determine the image displayed by the display panel and output a driving signal based on a determined result for activating a corresponding switch such that the data lines of the first data line group can perform charge sharing therebetween. Furthermore, a method for driving a display panel is disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Meng-Sheng Chang, Shih-Chieh Kuo, Hung-Min Shih
  • Patent number: 9075463
    Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen including a panel including electrodes divided into n number of groups, where n is an integer more than or equal to two; a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the n divided groups when a driving mode of the panel is a display driving mode, and to selectively apply a touch scan signal or the common voltage to the n divided groups when the driving mode of the panel is a touch driving mode; and a touch IC configured to generate the touch scan signal to apply the touch scan signal to the display driver IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SeungEun Pyo, HongChul Kim