Physically Integral With Display Elements Patents (Class 345/205)
  • Patent number: 11942029
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a light-emitting element, a first capacitor, and first to fifth transistors. The first transistor is connected between a first voltage line receiving a first driving voltage and the light-emitting element, and operates in response to a potential of a first node, and the second transistor is connected between a data line and the first node, and receives a first scan signal. The first capacitor is connected between the first node and a second node, and the third transistor is connected between the first transistor and the first node, and receives a second scan signal. The fourth transistor is connected between a reference voltage line and the first node, and receives a third scan signal, and the fifth transistor is connected between the first transistor and the second node, and receives an emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Byungchang Yu, Oh-Kyong Kwon, Kyunghoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11908381
    Abstract: A display driver device (210) receives a downloadable “sequence” for dynamically reconfiguring displayed image characteristics in an image system. The display driver device comprises one or more storage devices, for example, memory devices, for storing image data (218) and portions of drive sequences (219) that are downloaded and/or updated in real time depending on various inputs (214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Howard V. Goetz, Glen Sands
  • Patent number: 11903268
    Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method and a brightness compensation method therefor, and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a drive structure layer disposed on a substrate, a light-emitting element disposed on the drive structure layer, and a light detection unit which is disposed on the light-emitting element and is configured to detect the brightness of the light-emitting element, wherein the drive structure layer includes a pixel drive circuit, the light-emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic functional layer and a second electrode which are stacked on the drive structure layer, and the first electrode is connected to the pixel drive circuit; and the light detection unit includes a third electrode, a photosensitive active layer and a fourth electrode which are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tiancheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11893946
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel, a data driver, and a scan driver. The data driver outputs data signals during a writing frame and outputs a bias voltage during a holding frame. The data driver includes a plurality of driving chips, and each of the driving chips includes: a gamma voltage generator, a data converter, a main output part for outputting corresponding data signals of the data signals during the writing frame, and a sub-output part for outputting the bias voltage during the holding frame. The gamma voltage generator of a selected driving chip among the plurality of driving chips is electrically connected to the sub-output parts disposed in the plurality of driving chips, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-Koo Kang, Hyunha Yang, Myeongbin Lim
  • Patent number: 11881188
    Abstract: A array substrate includes a plurality of stages of cascaded GOA units and a plurality of corresponding clock signal lines electrically connected to them. Each stage of GOA units includes a first output transistor. In the plurality of stages of GOA units, the plurality of first output transistors increase in size along a predetermined direction. The predetermined direction is a signal transmission direction of any of the clock signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhida Xu, Ilgon Kim
  • Patent number: 11864334
    Abstract: A display device includes a display assembly including a display panel and a back cover configured to support a rear surface of the display panel, a roller configured to wind or unwind the display assembly, a drive assembly configured to move the roller in an amount corresponding to a winding amount or an unwinding amount of the display assembly about the roller, and a housing configured to accommodate the display assembly, the roller and the drive assembly, the housing having an opening through which the display assembly moves in and out of the housing in response to rotation of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungHee Lee, MiJin Han, Hyosung Lee
  • Patent number: 11854490
    Abstract: To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels. This allows for the thin-film transistor sub-pixels to be grouped adjacent to the central area of the active area, leaving room along an edge of the active area to accommodate one or more additional display components such as gate driver circuitry or fanout portions of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Levent Erdal Aygun, Chin-Wei Lin, Yun Wang, Xin Lin, Aida R Colon-Berrios, Shih Chang Chang, Fan Gui, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Ran Tu, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Ricardo A Peterson, Shyuan Yang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Yuchi Che
  • Patent number: 11837178
    Abstract: A display device may include: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel being configured to be driven in a first driving period, a blank period, and a second driving period; a data driver configured to provide a data voltage to at least one of the pixels to display an image based on a compensated image data, and detect a sensing voltage from a reference voltage line connected to the at least one of the pixels to convert the sensing voltage into a sensing data during the first driving period and the second driving period; and a timing controller configured to determine a first compensation data based on a difference between the sensing data detected during the first driving period and the sensing data detected during the second driving period, and determine the compensated image data based on an input image data and the first compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: JungHoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11830414
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of subpixels, and a plurality of reference voltage lines electrically connected with the plurality of subpixels, each of the plurality of subpixels including a driving transistor and a light emitting element and a gate driving circuit configured to supply a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines, wherein there are three or more periods during which a voltage change slope of a reference voltage line electrically connected with any one subpixel of the plurality of subpixels is decreased and then restored while the gate driving circuit applies the gate signal of a turn-on level voltage to the any one subpixel, thereby reducing the voltage level of the high-potential driving voltage applied to the display panel, to the minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SangHyun Park
  • Patent number: 11793010
    Abstract: A display device having a high display quality is provided. A display device that can perform desired display without image data conversion is provided. The display device includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first light-emitting element, a color conversion layer, and a first memory circuit. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue light. The color conversion layer has a function of converting light emitted by the first light-emitting element into light having a longer wavelength. A first image signal and a first correction signal are supplied to the first pixel. The first memory circuit has a function of retaining the first correction signal and a function of adding the first correction signal to the first image signal. The first pixel has a function of displaying an image using the first image signal and the first correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Seo, Koji Kusunoki, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11783762
    Abstract: An arrangement for operating a diode array includes a plurality of LEDs. Each LED is assigned a respective sensor element which is configured to detect a characteristic value representative of a luminous flux of the respective LED. The arrangement also includes a respective supply input for providing a current for light-emitting operation of the respective LED. The arrangement further includes in each case a control unit which is coupled on the input side to the respective supply input and the respective sensor element and on the output side to the respective LED and is configured to control the current for light-emitting operation of the respective LED as a function of the corresponding characteristic value. The arrangement additionally includes a respective supply input for providing a current for light-emitting operation of the respective LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Richter, Christopher Söll
  • Patent number: 11694641
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preserving a pulse width modulation (PWM) resolution while increasing the frequency of a pulse width modulation (PWM) clock are provided. An electronic display backlight system may include a backlight element and backlight dimming circuitry. The backlight element may be driven according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal over a PWM clock cycle equal to a multiple M of a baseline PWM clock frequency associated with a baseline PWM resolution. The backlight dimming circuitry may receive a brightness code of the baseline PWM resolution and generate the PWM signal at least in part by dividing the brightness code by M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Behzad Mohtashemi, Mohammad J Navabi-Shirazi, Feng Guo, Omar Alnaggar, Venkataraman V Iyer, Jingdong Chen, Yang Zhang, Ming Gu, Asif Hussain
  • Patent number: 11600675
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display area and a second display area adjacent to the first display area in a first direction, driving elements, light-emitting elements including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a corresponding one of the driving elements, signal wirings that transfer a driving signal to the driving elements, and connection wirings that transfer a driving signal to signal wirings disposed in the second display area. At least one of the connection wirings includes a first signal-transferring portion extending in the first direction, a second signal-transferring portion extending in a second direction, and dummy portions extending in a direction intersecting the first and second signal-transferring portions. The pixel electrode overlaps a gap between dummy portions of adjacent connection wirings in an area where the connection wirings are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Joo Kim, Sun Ho Kim, Seung-Hwan Cho, Tae Woo Kim, Tae Hoon Yang, Jong Hyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11580910
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first display area; a second display area protruding in a first direction from the first display area; and a first non-display area adjacent to a side of the second display area. Each of the first display area and the second display area includes subpixels that display an image and scan lines electrically connected to the subpixels. The first non-display area includes dummy pixels; a common scan line electrically connected to the dummy pixels; load matching switch elements respectively disposed between the scan lines and the common scan line; and a load matching driving circuit that outputs load matching control signals to control turn-on and turn-off of the load matching switch elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Sung Park, Hyun Woo Kim, Dae Hyun Noh, Seung Bin Lee
  • Patent number: 11557248
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11556231
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining a ranking of class members of a task component class. A task component class identifier may be identified, the task component class identifier having a plurality of associated class members. One or more task completion indicators having the identified at least one task component class identifier may be determined. Each of the task completion indicators may indicate which of the associated class members was utilized to complete a task. One or more of the associated class members for the task component class identifier may be ranked. The ranking may be based on frequency of occurrence of the given associated class member in the task completion indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Erwin Can Sar, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Andrew Tomkins, Vijay Umapathy
  • Patent number: 11551597
    Abstract: An electronic device including a substrate, a plurality of first signal lines, and a plurality of second signal lines is provided. The first signal lines are disposed on the substrate. Each of the first signal lines includes a first intersecting section and a first extending section. The first intersecting section each has a constant extending direction. The first intersecting section is connected to the first extending section, while the first intersecting section and the first extending section have different extending directions. The second signal lines are disposed on the substrate. Each of the second signal lines includes a second intersecting section. The second intersecting section each has a constant extending direction. The second signal lines intersect with the first signal lines to form a plurality of intersections on each of the first signal lines, and the intersections are located on the first intersecting sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Chi Chang, Chih-Chun Chen, Chi-Ming Wu, Yi-Ching Wang, Jia-Hung Chen, Shu-Fen Tsai
  • Patent number: 11551630
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for controlling a display module, and a display device. The apparatus for controlling the display module includes a voltage sampling circuit and a data processing circuit. The voltage sampling circuit may acquire a data voltage and a common voltage and transmit the acquired data voltage and common voltage to the data processing circuit. The data processing circuit may determine, based on the data voltage and the common voltage, whether liquid crystal molecules are deflected abnormally, and control a main control circuit to restart if the liquid crystal molecules are deflected abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingxiao Hu, Ruwen Tang, Xiang Wang, Jiawei Wu, Bowen Qu
  • Patent number: 11532276
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area, the display apparatus includes: a substrate; an auxiliary sub-pixel arranged in the component area on the substrate; an auxiliary pixel circuit arranged in the peripheral area on the substrate; a connection line connecting the auxiliary sub-pixel to the auxiliary pixel circuit; an auxiliary scan line arranged in the peripheral area on the substrate and connected to the auxiliary pixel circuit; and an auxiliary scan driving circuit arranged in the peripheral area on the substrate and configured to output a scan signal to the auxiliary pixel circuit through the auxiliary scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Junki Jeong, Seonyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11516416
    Abstract: An image sensor compensates for noise. The image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a common monitor output line, a first monitoring pixel outputting a first monitoring signal, a second monitoring pixel outputting a second monitoring signal, and an active pixel configured to output a sensing signal based on an incident light. The image circuit also includes a binning circuit that receives the first and second monitoring signals through the common monitor output line and generates an average monitoring signal by performing binning on the first and second monitoring signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that detects an alternating current (AC) component of the average monitoring signal and couples the sampled AC component of the average monitoring signal to the sensing signal, thereby compensating for noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Min Kim, Heesung Chae, Jaeyoung Bae, Sukki Yoon
  • Patent number: 11488516
    Abstract: Provided are a circuit, a method of driving the panel, and a display device. The driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of clock signal connecting lines, a time controller and a multiple shift register unit. The input end of the shift register unit is correspondingly connected to the other end of the clock signal connecting line to receive clock signals of the time controller, and the output ends of the shift register units are connected with the scanning lines in one-to-one correspondence; Starting from the first shift register unit, the adjacent two shift register units are taken as a shift register group, and the clock signals sent by the time controller to the two shift register units in the same group via the clock signal connecting line have the same waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Chiayang Cheng, Chongwei Tang
  • Patent number: 11436983
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a Q node controller generating a voltage of a Q node by using a first clock, a second clock, a third clock, and a start signal; a QB node controller generating a voltage of a QB node by using the second clock and the third clock; and an output part including a pull-up TFT and a pull-down TFT and generating an output signal including a first pulse interval, of a gate-on voltage, synchronized with a part of the first clock according to the voltages of the Q node and the QB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Lim, Nakwoo Kim, Donghyang Lee
  • Patent number: 11423836
    Abstract: A display device including a first pixel area including first pixels, a second pixel area including second pixels, a third pixel area including third pixels, and a display driver configured to control image display operations of the first pixel area, the second pixel area, and the third pixel area according to a first mode or a second mode, wherein the first pixel area includes a first sub-pixel area, and a second sub-pixel area between the first sub-pixel area and the second pixel area, and wherein the first sub-pixel area is configured to display a black image in the first mode, and the second sub-pixel area is configured to display a dummy image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kwon, Ji Hyun Ka, Min Ku Lee, Seung Ji Cha, Hyun Uk Oh, Jin Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11423827
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display region including a plurality of pixel regions, and a non-display region at a periphery of the display region; a pixel circuit layer including a plurality of circuit elements in the display region; a display element layer including a plurality of light emitting devices in the display region on the pixel circuit layer; and first and second alignment lines in the non-display region, the first and second alignment lines each having a multi-layered structure. Each of the first and second alignment lines includes: a main line in a same layer as at least one electrode in the display element layer; and at least one sub-line electrically connected to the main line, the at least one sub-line in a same layer as at least one electrode in the pixel circuit layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Bo Kim, Won Jun Lee, Yoon Jung Chai, Chol Ho Kim, Hyo Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11398471
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to display technologies, and in particular, to a display motherboard, and a method of fabricating the display motherboard. A display motherboard includes a plurality of display substrate units on a base substrate, a gap between adjacent display substrate units, and at least one electrostatic equilibrator in the gap. Each display substrate unit includes at least one trace comprising a display portion that extends into the display substrate unit and a gap portion that extends into a gap adjacent to the display substrate unit. Each electrostatic equilibrator is configured to electrically couple gap portions of traces of the adjacent display substrate units, so as to form a conductive path between the gap portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xincheng Chen, Youxiong Wu, Xinquan Xie
  • Patent number: 11387548
    Abstract: A liquid crystal antenna, a method of driving the same, and a communication device are provided. The liquid crystal antenna includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate and on a side of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a second electrode on the second substrate and on a side of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, the second electrode being opposite to the first electrode; and a control circuit configured to output a first voltage signal to the first electrode and output a second voltage signal to the second electrode, wherein the first voltage signal is opposite in polarity to the second voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tuo Sun
  • Patent number: 11374079
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a thin film transistor for driving image display including an active layer; and a first light shielding layer on the base substrate and in an inter-subpixel region between two adjacent subpixel regions. A projection of the first light shielding layer on the base substrate at least partially covers a projection of the inter-subpixel region between two adjacent subpixel regions on the base substrate. The projection of the first light shielding layer on the base substrate is outside a projection of the active layer on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11348951
    Abstract: A display substrate includes an active area; and a gate-driver-on-array (GOA) circuit area, wherein the active area includes a display pixel area and a dummy pixel area located in the periphery of the display pixel area, and wherein the GOA circuit area includes at least one dummy GOA circuit having an output terminal connected to a pixel electrode of at least one dummy pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifang Du, Xiaofang Gu, Xiaoye Ma, Donghui Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11348501
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register includes: a pre-charging circuit coupled to a pre-charging signal input terminal and a pull-up node to pre-charge a potential of the pull-up node; a pull-down control circuit coupled to the pull-up node, a pull-down node and a reset signal input terminal to pull down a potential of the pull-down node or pull up the potential of the pull-down node; a pull-up circuit coupled to the pull-up node and a signal output terminal to pull up a potential of the signal output terminal; a pull-down circuit coupled to the pull-down node and the signal output terminal to pull down the potential of the signal output terminal; reset circuit coupled to the pull-up node and the pull-down node reset the potential of the pull-up node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Hu, Hui Jing, Danhong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11335224
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a light-emitting assembly including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a driving sub-circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting assembly and configured to generate driving current for driving the light-emitting assembly; and a repair sub-circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting assembly and configured to: receive a repair scanning signal (Gate_R, Gate_Ri) and a repair data signal (Data_R, Data_Ri), and provide the driving current to at least one light-emitting element capable of emitting light normally among the plurality of light-emitting elements under the control of the repair scanning signal (Gate_R, Gate_Ri) and the repair data signal (Data_R, Data_Ri).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongni Liu, Minghua Xuan, Han Yue, Li Xiao, Liang Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11335271
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a data writing unit, a driving unit, a light emitting unit and an initialization unit. The initialization unit is configured to initialize a second node with an initialization voltage. The data writing unit is configured to set voltage of a first node to the voltage of a data signal and update voltage of the second node. The driving unit is configured to drive the light emitting unit to emit light according to a control signal. Due to the second node being initialized and compensated by the initialization unit, the storage capacitor leakage paths and the electric leakage of the storage capacitor during the light emitting stage are reduced, thus improving the quality of the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Lina Xiao
  • Patent number: 11335756
    Abstract: An OLED display device including an OLED pixel driving circuit is provided. A driving thin film transistor in the OLED pixel driving circuit is configured as a double gate oxide thin film transistor, and a switch thin film transistor is configured as a top gate self-aligned oxide thin film transistor. A manufacturing method of a TFT array substrate is also provided, and the TFT array substrate is used for preparing the OLED display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Letao Zhang, Xiaoxing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11328667
    Abstract: A display panel driver drives pixels based on first power having at least three voltage levels, second power having a constant voltage, and third power having two voltage levels. Each pixel includes a first transistor connected between first and second nodes and including a gate electrode to receive a scan signal, a second transistor connected between the second node and a third node in series with the first transistor and including a gate electrode to receive the third power, and a driving transistor connected between a source of the first power and the third node and including a gate electrode connected to the first electrode to control a driving current for an organic light emitting diode. A first capacitor is connected between a source of the third power and the first node, and a second capacitor is connected between the second node and one of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-Hyun Park, Young-Wan Seo, An-Su Lee, Bo-Yong Chung, Kang-Moon Jo, Chong-Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 11322061
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel and a detection method are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of display pixels and at least one detection element. When an aging process is performed on the plurality of display pixels, a first driving signal is applied on the at least one detection element and the at least one detection element changes from a first state to a second state, wherein the second state is different from the first state. The second state of the at least one detection element indicates that the plurality of display pixels has undergone the aging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Suo, Yana Gao, Lilian Kuang
  • Patent number: 11314369
    Abstract: A display device including a display member including a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, and light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the non-active area including a bending region, and a touch member disposed on the display member and having a main touch area, in which the touch member includes touch electrodes disposed in the main touch area and touch lines connected to the touch electrodes, the main touch area corresponding to the active area and a portion of the touch lines corresponding to the non-active area, the touch lines include a first touch line part disposed on an upper side of the bending region, and a second touch line part disposed on a lower side of the bending region, and a number of conductive layers forming the first touch line part is greater than a number of conductive layers forming the second touch line part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Cheol Kim, Gyeong Nam Bang, Hwan Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 11302233
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a timing control method and a timing control circuit for a display panel, a driving device, and a display device. The method includes: in respective display periods, supplying a data enable signal to a source driving circuit. The source driving circuit supplies a data signal to a plurality of sub-display regions under the control of the data enable signal. The data enable signal is switched between an active level and an inactive level, and the active levels of the data enable signal are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of sub-display regions of the display panel. The farther one of the plurality of sub-display regions from the source driving circuit, the longer time period, at an active level, of the data enable signal for controlling the source driving circuit to provide the data signal to at least one row of pixels in the sub-display region is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Yang, Rui Liu, Wei Sun, Ming Chen, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 11295685
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a driving method of a display panel and a driver device thereof. The method comprises steps of: applying drive voltages with opposite polarities to drive the positional corresponding sub-pixels of the two adjacent rows of pixel units, wherein the voltages with opposite polarities comprise voltage with positive polarity and voltage with negative polarity; applying voltages with positive polarity to a part of the positional corresponding sub-pixels of the two adjacent rows of pixel units; applying voltage with negative polarity to the other part of the positional corresponding sub-pixels of the two adjacent rows of pixel units; applying two drive voltages with opposite polarities to drive sub-pixels of the same pixel unit; applying drive voltages with at least two voltage levels to drive sub-pixels of the same pixel unit, and separating the plurality of sub-pixels according to the drive voltages with voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Beizhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11282462
    Abstract: A display pixel is provided that is operable to support hybrid compensation scheme having both in-pixel threshold voltage canceling and external threshold voltage compensation. The display may include multiple p-type silicon transistors with at least one n-type semiconducting-oxide transistor and one storage capacitor. An on-bias stress phase may be performed prior to a threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase to mitigate hysteresis and improve first frame response. In low refresh rate displays, a first additional on-bias stress operation can be performed separate from the threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase during a refresh frame and a second additional on-bias stress operation can be performed during a vertical blanking frame. The display pixel may be configured to receive an initialization voltage and an anode reset voltage, either of which can be dynamically tuned to match the stress of the first and second additional on-bias stress operations to minimize flicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Shinya Ono, Zino Lee, Yun Wang, Fan Gui
  • Patent number: 11249363
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first line which is arranged across a display portion, and includes a first end portion and a second end portion located at a non-display portion such that the display portion is located between the first and second end portions, a first switch electrically connected to the first end portion, a second switch electrically connected to the second end portion, a first terminal electrically connected to the first end portion via the first switch, and a second terminal electrically connected to the second end portion via the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Hiroshi Inamura, Keita Sasanuma, Kengo Shiragami
  • Patent number: 11243626
    Abstract: A display system circuitry capable of saving power consumption includes a display panel and a driver circuitry. In particular, the display panel includes a plurality of source electrodes with a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate electrodes further includes a gate driver which is directly incorporated into a thin film transistor array to form Gate on Array (GOA) electrode, a source electrode transmitting a plurality of data driving signals, a gate electrode transmitting gate driving signals, a VCOM electrode transmitting voltage driving signals, a display electrode transmitting displaying driving signals. The driver circuitry includes a display driver IC which includes a source driver operably configured to drive the source electrode and gate control to control gate driver output, and a touch driver IC configured to generate the touch scan signal from a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Solomon Systech (Shenzhen) Limited
    Inventors: Chen Jung Chuang, Hyong Cheol Shin, Chih Chiang Tsai, Yu Wei Liang
  • Patent number: 11238763
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a detection circuit of a gate driver, an array substrate, a display device and a detection method thereof. Gate scanning signals of each of the signal output ends are derived to a detection signal line through signal deriving circuits, such that the gate scanning signals are transmitted to a discrimination circuit outside the array substrate. The discrimination circuit can acquire in real time and record the gate scanning signals, so as to detect the gate scanning signals in real time, and further rapidly diagnose whether the gate scanning signals are abnormal based on detection results, and rapidly locate the positions at which the gate scanning signals are abnormal, so as to timely troubleshoot the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Zhigang Song
  • Patent number: 11227530
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel, including a display body and a plurality of driving modules including a driving unit electrically connected to the display body; wherein at least a part of the driving modules further includes a voltage conversion unit, an input terminal of the voltage conversion unit is connected to a high-potential power supply voltage, and an output terminal of the voltage conversion unit is electrically connected to an input terminal of the driving unit to provide a preset driving voltage for the driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11217145
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to driving methods for a color display device which can display high quality color states. The display device utilizes an electrophoretic fluid which comprises three types of pigment particles having different optical characteristics, and provides for displaying at a viewing surface not only the colors of the three types of particles but also the colors of binary mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Jo-Cheng Huang, Heng-Che Chen, Peter B. Laxton, Ming Wang, Ping-Yueh Cheng, HongMei Zang
  • Patent number: 11211016
    Abstract: A source driver is configured to drive an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel. The source driver includes a sensing circuit and an operational amplifier. The sensing circuit is configured to sense pixel information of an OLED pixel circuit through a sensing line of the OLED display panel. The operational amplifier includes an amplifier circuit and at least one switch circuit. The amplifier circuit includes at least one gain circuit. An input terminal of the amplifier circuit is coupled to an output terminal of the sensing circuit. Each of the at least one switch circuit is coupled between a pair of output terminals of a corresponding one of the at least one gain circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsien Chou, Jhih-Siou Cheng, Jin-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 11211012
    Abstract: A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a display region including at least one rounded corner; and a non-display region located at a periphery of the display region. The non-display region includes: a gate drive circuit; and a plurality of first dummy pixels located outside the at least one rounded corner of the display region, a first power line of each of the plurality of the first dummy pixels being connected with a signal line of the gate drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Xinyin Wu, Yong Qiao
  • Patent number: 11195453
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display region where pixels are arranged. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a first capacitance electrode layer opposed to the pixel electrode and held at a constant potential, and an insulating layer forming an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and the first capacitance electrode layer. A value of the auxiliary capacitance of the first pixel, of the values of the auxiliary capacitance of the pixels is the largest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Morita, Yasuhiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11189215
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; a data driver for transmitting a data voltage to the data line; and a signal controller for receiving input image signals from the outside and outputting a digital image signal to the data driver. The signal controller includes an adjacent image signal compensator for comparing input gray data of the input image signals to be continuously input to the data line and generating adjacent image signal compensation data based on the comparison, and a pixel characteristic compensator for generating pixel characteristic compensation data according to a characteristic of a pixel to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Seok Yoo, Hoi Sik Moon
  • Patent number: 11189680
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel region, a second pixel region having an area smaller than that of the first pixel region, and a peripheral region surrounding the first pixel region and the second pixel region, a second pixel provided in the second pixel region, a second line connected to the second pixel, an extension line extended to the peripheral region, a dummy part located in the peripheral region to overlap with the extension line, a power line connected to the first and second pixel regions, and a connection line located in the peripheral region to be connected to the dummy part, the connection line being electrically connected to a portion of the second pixel region, wherein the second pixel region includes a first sub-pixel region connected to the connection line and a second sub-pixel region except the first sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keon Woo Kim, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Ho Kyoon Kwon, Min Ku Lee, Zail Lhee, Jin Tae Jeong, Seung Ji Cha, Byung Du Ahn, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11183117
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising an emitting unit including at least two emitting elements, a driving unit configured to control the emitting unit, and a capacitor unit formed over the driving unit. A shield layer may be located between the two emitting elements. In one example, the capacitor unit is formed at a level higher than a level of the driving unit, and a shield layer that is located between the two emitting elements is formed at a level that is higher than the level of the driving unit and equal to or lower than the level of the capacitor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11176905
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. In the display panel, subpixels input with a first voltage data signal and subpixels input with a second voltage data signal are alternately arranged, and among the subpixels with a same color in a same row, the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a positive polarity is equal to the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a negative polarity; two adjacent pixel groups in a same column adopt contrary polarity driving manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huai Liang He