Physically Integral With Display Elements Patents (Class 345/205)
  • Patent number: 10712887
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal supply part, a substrate including a display region and a second region having a width increase section, a display line on the display region and through which a signal for display is transmitted, a line on the first region and through which a signal is transmitted, a signal receive part on the second region, a display lead line connected to the signal supply part and an end of the display line close to the signal supply part, a first lead line connected to the signal supply part and an end of the line close to the signal supply part, and a second lead line connected to the signal receive part and another end of the line opposite from the end of the line close to the signal supply part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10705386
    Abstract: A method for avoiding an image sticking effect includes acquiring a color tone status of an image during a predetermined time interval according to an input signal of a liquid crystal display panel, rotating pixel molecules of at least one region of a plurality of regions of the image by using a pixel inversion process when the color tone status is maintained at a steady state, and after the pixel molecules of the at least one region of the image are rotated, suspending the pixel inversion process of the image when the color tone status is changed from the steady state to an unstable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: BenQ Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsin-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 10706773
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area including a pixel array part, a connection area including a connection terminal part and a bending area including first and second connection lines disposed between the pixel array part and the connection terminal part. Each of the first connection line and the second connection line includes a first layer wiring on a first layer and a second layer wiring on a second layer different from the first layer, the first layer wiring being disposed obliquely and rightward to an extending direction of the first connection line and the second connection line, the second layer wiring being disposed obliquely and leftward to the extending direction and connected to the first layer wiring. The first layer wiring of the first connection line and the second layer wiring of the second connection line are disposed to intersect each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Hanari
  • Patent number: 10707000
    Abstract: An integrated driving module with energy conversion function includes a patterned conductive circuit layer, an integrated electromagnetic induction component layer, a second dielectric layer, an embedded electrical component and a conductive component. The integrated electromagnetic induction component layer, which has a plurality of conductive coil layer, a plurality of conductive connecting component and a first dielectric layer, is disposed on the patterned conductive circuit layer. The conductive coil layers are stacked. Each conductive connecting component is electrically connected between the two conductive coil layers and between the corresponding conductive coil layer and the patterned conductive circuit layer. The first dielectric layer covers the conductive coil layers and the conductive connecting components. The second dielectric layer covers the patterned conductive circuit layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: PHOENIX & CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen-Hung Hu, Tsung-Yueh Chen
  • Patent number: 10691259
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a driving method, and a driving circuit. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a driving method, and a driving circuit capable of preventing touch sensitivity from being affected by display driving even though simultaneously performing the display driving and touch driving by supplying a data voltage to a plurality of data lines disposed in a display panel, supplying a common voltage to a plurality of common electrodes disposed in the display panel, displaying an image through the display panel, and supplying a common voltage to the common electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: CheolSe Kim, HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim
  • Patent number: 10670865
    Abstract: A head-up display device for a vehicle may include: a light source part configured to generate light; a lens part configured to concentrate the light irradiated from the light source part; a film part configured to make a scattering angle of the light different in horizontal and vertical directions, the light having passed through the lens part; and an image generation part configured to generate image information using the light having passed through the film part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki Hyuk Song
  • Patent number: 10651212
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are provided. The TFT array substrate includes: a substrate, and a gate electrode, a common electrode, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode arranged on the substrate. The TFT array substrate further includes: a pixel electrode, arranged on the gate insulation layer, overlapped with and jointed to the drain electrode; a passivation layer, arranged on the gate insulation layer and a channel between the source and drain electrodes; and a common electrode line, arranged on a plane identical to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hehe Hu
  • Patent number: 10643523
    Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a display module and electronic apparatus. The display module may include: a display panel including a first long side; a first driving circuit board arranged on a back surface of the display panel. The first driving circuit board may be connected to the first long side of the display panel by a first bending portion. The electronic apparatus may include the above-mentioned display module. In the present disclosure, a driver circuit board may be arranged on the first long side. A width of a lower frame of the display module may be shortened, and a screen ratio of the electronic apparatus may be improved without significantly increasing a number of manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Hu, Szu Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 10636847
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Ho Yu, Chin-Wei Lin, Shyuan Yang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Shih-Chang Chang, Yu Cheng Chen, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10621929
    Abstract: A driving method and an apparatus for a display apparatus, the driving method includes: acquiring a target color scheme to be adjusted; acquiring original gray scale display voltages corresponding to the target color scheme in an input signal and color cast gray scale display voltages corresponding to a color cast generated in the target color scheme; deleting parts of the original gray scale display voltages corresponding to the target color scheme and less than the color cast gray scale display voltages, thus obtaining map gray scale display voltages corresponding to the target color scheme; distributing the original gray scale display voltages corresponding to the target color scheme to the map gray scale display voltages corresponding to the target color scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianfeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10620731
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a touch area overlapping the display area, a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area, and a plurality of touch cells disposed in the touch area and individually driven. At least some of the pixels are disposed on a same layer as at least some of the touch cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ACONIC INC.
    Inventor: Min Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10615242
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, a display element layer, a pad group, a touch electrode layer, and a touch insulating layer. The display element layer includes display elements provided in the display region in a plan view. The pad group may include output pads provided on substrate and provided in the non-display region in the plan view. The touch electrode layer is provided on the display element layer. The touch insulating layer is provided on the display element layer and contacts the touch electrode layer. An intaglio pattern is provided in the touch insulating layer overlapped with the non-display region, and the intaglio pattern is not overlapped with the pad group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiwook Kim, Kyongtae Park, Hyesong Kwun, Dae-won Lee, Donghoon Jeong, Won-kyu Kwak, Kwangmin Kim, JoongSoo Moon, Changkyu Jin, Kyu-sik Cho, Sungho Cho
  • Patent number: 10608209
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. A process of forming an inspection pattern, in which a protective film unit is partially removed in a thickness direction, in a pad area portion of the protective film unit, which corresponds to a pad area of a display unit, may be performed, and then, a process of delaminating the pad area portion of the protective film unit may be performed. A process of checking whether the inspection pattern exists may be performed to check whether the delamination has succeeded, and, at the same time, a process of measuring distances from an alignment mark to each of a long side and a short side of the display unit may be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beomjun Cheon, Kyungsik Kim, Yun-seok Eo, Sang-geun Lee, Seungkuk Lee, Sehee Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 10586494
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device including a display panel and a scan driver. The display panel displays an image. The scan driver includes a scan signal generation circuit disposed on one side of the display panel, and an emission signal generation circuit disposed on the other side of the display panel. The emission signal generation circuit outputs an emission signal having at least two Logic High sections in response to an external clock signal and a first scan signal output from the scan signal generation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junho Bong, Changheon Kang, Jungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10580850
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first insulating layer, a power lines, and connection lines. The substrate includes a peripheral area adjacent to at least one side of a pixels area. The first insulating layer including one or more contact holes. The power line is in the peripheral area and provides a driving voltage to pixels. The power line includes a first metal layer on the substrate and a second metal layer connected to the first metal layer through the contact hole. The connection lines extend to the peripheral area from the pixels and overlap part of the power line. The power line includes a first area in which the first and second metal layers are electrically connected through the contact hole. The connection line does not overlap the first area of the power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Lee, Deuk Jong Kim, Shin Jeong Han
  • Patent number: 10564748
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor including a first drive electrode, a second drive electrode disposed to be adjacent to the first drive electrode, a third drive electrode disposed to be adjacent to the second drive electrode, a first shift register circuit connected to the first drive electrode, a second shift register circuit connected to the first shift register circuit and the third drive electrode, and an OR circuit connected to the second drive electrode, the first shift register circuit, and the second shift register circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 10567698
    Abstract: A modular television with removable peripheral hardware components for simple service and repair thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: James Veon
  • Patent number: 10546531
    Abstract: A method of driving a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a drive transistor, a storage capacitor connected between a gate and a source of the drive transistor, a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, and a third switch circuit. The method includes: performing a data write phase including: bringing a second node out of conduction with the second power supply voltage by the first switch circuit, and charging the storage capacitor via the first switch circuit with a data voltage applied to the data line; performing a detection phase including directing a driving current generated by the drive transistor based on the data voltage to the sensing line via the third switch circuit; and detecting a magnitude of the driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Quanhu Li
  • Patent number: 10546532
    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: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10515584
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device including a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to scan lines, and configured to supply emission control signals to emission control lines, a data driver configured to supply data signals to data lines, pixels respectively including driving transistors configured to be initialized by a voltage of an initializing power source, an initializing power source generator configured to supply the voltage of the initializing power source to an initializing power source line commonly connected to the pixels, and a timing controller configured to control the scan driver, the data driver, and the initializing power source generator, wherein the initializing power source generator is configured to supply the initializing power source having different voltages during a first period in which the scan signals are supplied, and during a second period of a low frequency driving period in which the scan signals are not supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Yeon Cho, Hui Nam, Tae Jin Kim, Myung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10509293
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid, a first, light scattering particle (typically white) and second, third and fourth particles having three subtractive primary colors (typically magenta, cyan and yellow); at least two of these colored particles being non-light scattering. The first and second particles bear polymer coatings such that the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed by the third and the fourth particles is greater than that required to separate an aggregate formed from any other two types of particles. Methods for driving the medium to produce white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow, red, green and blue colors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Stephen Bull, David Darrell Miller, Christopher L. Hoogeboom, Ana L. Lattes, Brandon MacDonald, Kosta Ladavac
  • Patent number: 10510822
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a display area and a non-display area, a plurality of pixels in the display area, scan lines for supplying a scan signal to the pixels, the scan lines extending in a first direction, data lines for supplying a data signal to the pixels, the data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a first dummy part in the non-display area, adjacent to an outermost pixel, connected to an outermost data line of the display area, forming a parasitic capacitor with the outermost pixel, and including a first dummy data line and a first dummy power pattern extending in parallel to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Hyung Jun Park, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee, Jin Tae Jeong, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 10503025
    Abstract: In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Eisuke Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10482808
    Abstract: A pixel control circuit and a control method thereof, and a display device. The pixel control circuit includes a control-signal output sub-circuit and a switch sub-circuit. An input terminal of the switch sub-circuit is electrically coupled to an output terminal of the control-signal output sub-circuit. An input terminal of the control-signal output sub-circuit is electrically coupled to a data line. The control-signal output sub-circuit is configured to: compare a voltage received by the data line with a reference voltage; and if a value of the voltage is equal to a value of the reference voltage, output a first control signal, otherwise output a second control signal. The switch sub-circuit is configured to be turned off under control of the first control signal and turned on under control of the second control signal. The reference voltage is a corresponding gamma voltage when the display panel is in a dark state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifan Yang, Na Li
  • Patent number: 10482821
    Abstract: A pixel, wherein: gates of second and fifth transistors receive a first gate signal; gates of third and fourth transistors respectively receive second and third gate signals; first terminals (FTs) of the second to fifth transistors respectively receive a data voltage, reference voltage, initialization voltage, and first power supply voltage (PSV); a second electrode of a second capacitor receives the first PSV; a second terminal (ST) of a light emitting element (LEE) receives a second PSV; a gate of a first transistor, STs of the second and third transistors, and a first electrode of a first capacitor are connected to a first node; STs of the first and fourth transistors, a FT of the LEE, and second and first electrodes respectively of the first and second capacitors are connected to a second node; and a ST of the fifth transistor is connected to a FT of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehoon Yang, Jongchan Lee, Woonghee Jeong
  • Patent number: 10418388
    Abstract: A gate driver circuit and a display device using the same are disclosed. The gate driver circuit includes a first transistor supplying a start signal to a Q node in response to a clock, a second transistor adjusting a gate voltage of the first transistor in response to the clock, a third transistor adjusting a gate voltage of the second transistor in response to the start signal, a fourth transistor changing a voltage of a QB node, a fifth transistor switching a current path between the first transistor and the Q node in response to a first line control signal, a sixth transistor supplying a gate-off voltage to an output node, a seventh transistor supplying a gate-on voltage to the output node, and an eighth transistor supplying a second line control signal to the QB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minseo Kim, Youngsun Jang
  • Patent number: 10416808
    Abstract: A device includes a display client configured to output pixel data at a display and a processor. The processor is configured to determine one or more user input events based on user interaction data. The processor is further configured to select a video mode or a command mode as a selected mode, for operating the display processor, using the quantity of touch events. Pixel data for each frame to be displayed is output to the display client when operating in the video mode. Pixel data for frames that include different pixel data for at least one pixel than a previously output frame is output to the display client when operating in the command mode. The processor is further configured to output an instruction to operate in the selected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jayant Shekhar, Raviteja Tamatam, Krishna Chaitanya Devarakonda, Kalyan Thota, Sandeep Panda
  • Patent number: 10403382
    Abstract: The invention provides a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The gate driving circuit includes 1st to Nth stage shift registers for respectively generating and sequentially outputting 1st to Nth stage scan signals to the display panel, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 4. Each of the shift registers is configured to receive a starting signal, and the starting signal is utilized to trigger the 1st and 2nd stage shift registers to generate the 1st and 2nd stage scan signals respectively, and the starting signal is utilized to reset the 3rd to Nth stage shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Sung-Chun Lin, Chien-Ting Chan, Yu-Tuan Hsu, Po-Yi Chen, Hsien-Tang Hu, Hsuan-Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 10397487
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus that processes a video signal includes a signal conversion unit configured to convert a first video signal quantized according to a first characteristic to represent a video image with a relative luminance, into a second video signal quantized according to a second characteristic to represent the video image with an absolute luminance in an output of a display device based on a predetermined conversion correspondence relationship, and a signal output unit configured to output information representing the conversion correspondence relationship in association with at least one of the first video signal and the second video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiki Ishii
  • Patent number: 10379411
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided with a TFT array substrate serving as a first substrate and a CF substrate serving as a second substrate, which are disposed to face each other, and liquid crystal sealed between the TFT array substrate and the CF substrate. The TFT array substrate includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, TFTs serving as switching elements, a non-rectangular display region having a non-rectangular shape formation part, and a common line. A plurality of pixels is arrayed in a stepped pattern at the non-rectangular shape formation part of the display region, and a portion of the common line corresponding to the non-rectangular shape formation part of the display region is formed into a shape following the plurality of pixels arrayed in a stepped pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naoya Hirata
  • Patent number: 10354604
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes first-kind data lines and second-kind data lines. Each of the first-kind data lines is connected to one of two pixels arranged in a k-th pixel row and a (k+1)th pixel row. Each of the second-kind data lines is connected to two pixels arranged in different pixel columns in the k-th pixel row and the (k+1)th pixel row. At least two first-kind data lines are consecutively arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinpil Kim, Yu-Kwan Kim, Sungjae Park, Namjae Lim, Iksoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10332868
    Abstract: A micro-transfer printed high-resolution inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) display includes a display substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed over the display substrate, each pixel including a pixel controller disposed or formed in or on a pixel substrate and controlling one or more iLEDs disposed or formed in or on respective iLED substrates. The one or more iLEDs are disposed above or below the pixel controller in a separate layer from the pixel controller. The display substrate, the iLED substrate(s), and the pixel substrate are all separate, independent and distinct, and the one or more iLEDs and pixel controller are each separate devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: X-Celeprint Limited
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Brook Raymond, Christopher Andrew Bower
  • Patent number: 10325559
    Abstract: A display includes a plurality of pixels in a non-quadrangular display area and a plurality of first driving circuits and a plurality of second driving circuits in a peripheral area of the display area. Each of the pixels is connected to a first signal line in a first direction and a second signal line in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the first driving circuits outputs a first signal to the first signal line of a corresponding one of the pixels. Each of the second driving circuits outputs a second signal to the second signal line of a corresponding one of the pixels. The number of second driving circuits between neighboring first driving circuits is different depending on a position in the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Kwang-Min Kim, Byoung Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 10311790
    Abstract: A system for controlling a display in which each pixel circuit comprises a light-emitting device, a drive transistor, a storage capacitor, a reference voltage source, and a programming voltage source. The storage capacitor stores a voltage equal to the difference between the reference voltage and the programming voltage, and a controller supplies a programming voltage that is a calibrated voltage for a known target current, reads the actual current passing through the drive transistor to a monitor line, turns off the light emitting device while modifying the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, modifies the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, and determines a current corresponding to the modified calibrated voltage based on predetermined current-voltage characteristics of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 10288963
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Display driver circuitry may be provided along an edge of the display. Data lines that are associated with columns of the pixels may be used to distribute data from the display driver circuitry to the pixels. Gate lines in the display may each have a horizontal straight portion that extends along a respective row of the pixels and may each have one or more non-horizontal segments such as zigzag segments. The non-horizontal portion of each gate line may be connected to the horizontal straight portion of the gate line by a via. The non-horizontal portions may each have portions that are overlapped by portions of the data lines. Dummy gate line structures may be provided on the display that are not coupled to any of the pixels in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick B. Bennett, Kwang Soon Park, Chun-Yao Huang, Byung Duk Yang, Shih Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 10288922
    Abstract: A rollable display device includes a roller having a cylindrical shape and an outer circumferential surface on which a display panel is rolled. A cylinder member supports rotation of the roller, using a rotation support member coupled thereto. A housing member is rotatable together with the roller. A torsional elastic member is fixed to the cylinder member and the housing member. A housing inner member is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the housing member, such that impurities are attached thereto. Noise is prevented from being generated by impurities due to friction during operations, and impurities are prevented from moving outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SeokHyo Cho
  • Patent number: 10283211
    Abstract: Disclosed are a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a shift register and a display device. The shift register unit comprises: an input module (P1), which connected to a first clock signal end (Clk1), a second clock signal end (Clk2) and a data carry signal end (STV) and is used for providing a selection signal according to signals input via the first clock signal end (Clk1), the second clock signal end (Clk2) and the data carry signal end (STV); and an output module (P2), which is connected to a high level end (VGH), a low level end (VGL), and an output end (Output) of the shift register unit and is used for selectively outputting a high level or a low level at the output end (Output) according to the selection signal provided by the input module (P1). The shift register comprises a plurality of stages of shift register units, and the display device comprises a shift register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhanjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10275057
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a method for detecting and restoring a display panel. The detection and restoring unit is configured to provide signals to the touch sensing units to perform detection and restoring. In the display region, each of the touch sensing units is provided with one first line and one second line, and the first line is connected with the touch sensing unit through a via hole. The first terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first terminal of the first line. The second terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first terminal of the second line. Each of the first terminal of the first line, the first terminal of the second line and the control terminal of the first switch element is connected with the detection and restoring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Zheng, Min Huang, Zhonghuai Chen, Kangpeng Yang, Yumin Xu
  • Patent number: 10276600
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes a first insulating layer, a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a third metal layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the first insulating layer, and the second metal layer includes at least one first data line, at least one source, and at least one first drain, wherein the first data line is electrically connected to the source. The second insulating layer is disposed on the second metal layer, the second insulating layer includes at least one opening that is disposed corresponding to the first drain, and the area of the opening is greater than the area of the first drain. The third metal layer includes at least one second drain that is electrically connected to the first drain, the second drain is disposed corresponding to the opening and disposed on the first drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chu-Hsuan I, Yi-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10276077
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes an amplifier circuit, a control path, and a control circuit. The control path is coupled to the amplifier circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the control path. The control circuit receives a control signal and outputs a modulation signal to the control path according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chun Lin, Ching-Chuan Chiu
  • Patent number: 10242632
    Abstract: A halt period is inserted between a drive period in an odd-numbered field and a drive period in an even-numbered field in interlace driving. When drive signals driving subpixels are time-divisionally supplied to the display panel in units of subpixel types, switch control signals controlling source line switches which distribute the drive signals associated with respective subpixels to the corresponding source lines are generated so that the number of switching of the source line switches are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Shigeru Ota, Atsushi Shikata, Go Toyoda, Makoto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10235943
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, its controlling method and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of gate scanning lines arranged on a display substrate and a plurality of data lines arranged on the display substrate and crossing the gate scanning lines. Each pixel unit includes a data writing module, a driving module and a light-emitting element. The data writing module is configured to apply a data voltage to the driving module under the control of a current-level gate scanning signal, and the driving module is configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light in accordance with the data voltage. The data writing modules of N adjacent pixel units in an identical row are connected to an identical data line, and N is an integer greater than 1. The data voltage across the data line is applied to the data writing modules of the N adjacent pixel units in a time-division manner under the control of the current-level gate scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongxu Han, Guangcai Yuan, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 10235941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pixel circuit comprising a first sub-pixel circuit and a second sub-pixel circuit, and the first sub-pixel circuit comprises a first light-emitting element which emits light in the first half of a frame period, and the second sub-pixel circuit comprises a second light-emitting element which emits light in the second half of the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: EVERDISPLAY OPTRONICS (SHANGHAI) LIMITED
    Inventor: Sisi Zhou
  • Patent number: 10210805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an OLED pixel circuit, a display device and a control method. The OLED pixel circuit includes: an OLED; a driving transistor; a first switching unit; a second switching unit; a compensation circuit connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor and configured to maintain a voltage of the gate electrode of the driving transistor during a light-emitting period, so as to enable a current flowing through the OLED to be irrelevant to a threshold voltage Vth of the driving transistor; and a reference signal generation module configured to generate, based on a current threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a reference signal to be used by the compensation circuit, wherein a voltage of the reference signal and the threshold voltage meet at least one of validation conditions capable of validating the compensation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagayama, Song Song
  • Patent number: 10204580
    Abstract: A scan-driving device is disclosed herein. The scan-driving device comprises a plurality of scan-driving circuits, a detective-driving circuit, and a modulating module. The scan-driving circuit comprises a n up-pull control module, an up-pull module, a down-transfer module, a down-pull module, a down-pull-sustain module, a bootstrap capacitor. The detective-driving circuit in the scan-driving device of the present invention is able to better maintain the ability of down-pull-sustain of the down-pull-sustain module, whereby the stability of the scan-driving device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chao Dai
  • Patent number: 10186192
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a first reverse bias unit, and a first sub-pixel circuit and a second sub-pixel circuit adjacent to each other. The first sub-pixel circuit includes a first light-emitting unit; the second sub-pixel circuit includes a second light-emitting unit. The first light-emitting unit is connected with a first drive node and a second bias output node; the second light-emitting unit is connected with a second drive node and a first bias output node; the first reverse bias unit is connected with the first drive node, the second drive node, the second bias output node, the first bias output node, a first bias control terminal and a second bias control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxiao Tong, Dongmei Wei
  • Patent number: 10168559
    Abstract: The present invention provides an LCD detecting system including timing control (TCON) IC. The TCON IC includes a process unit to receive lock signal, a detecting control unit connected with the process unit, and a point-to-point transmission unit connected with the detecting control unit. The detecting control unit detects mode of the point-to-point transmission unit and sends a control signal to the process unit based on a detecting result. The TCON IC transmits timing control signal based on the control signal received by the process unit and starts to transmit normal RGB data. Priority of the control signal transmitted by the detecting control unit is higher than that of the lock signal. The present invention also provides an LCD detecting method. The present invention can increase the speed of detecting and time to market, enhance competitiveness, increase the speed of manufacturing analysis, saves working time and productivity, and reduces cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhi Xiong
  • Patent number: 10134678
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a chip-on-film, a flexible display panel and a display device. The COF includes a plurality of output pads independent of each other. The plurality of output pads are disposed at a side of the substrate and are arranged in at least one row in the first direction. Virtual extension lines of all the output pads intersect at the same intersecting point on the base line. The flexible display panel includes a plurality of input pads independent of each other. The plurality of input pads are disposed in the binding region and are arranged in at least one row in the first direction. Virtual extension lines of all the input pads intersect at the same intersecting point on the base line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Li, Liqiang Chen, Weifeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10133427
    Abstract: An embedded touch-screen display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate sandwiching a driving circuit disposed on the second substrate. The second substrate also carries a touch electrode layer and a first selecting circuit. The driving circuit generates signals of touches and driving signals, and includes a plurality of touch detecting pins and a plurality of controlling pins. The touch electrode layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes. At least two touch electrodes are electrically connected to one touch detecting pin via the first selecting circuit. A touch signal is transmitted between the two touch electrodes and the touch detecting pin. The controlling pin generates signals to the first selecting circuit to establish or cut off electrical connections between the touch detecting pins and the touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Fu Weng, Chien-Wen Lin, Chia-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 10121988
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel which includes a flexible display substrate having an active area and an inactive area outside the active area. The inactive area which extends from the active layer and includes a bending area foldable or adapted to be folded in a first direction. The bending area includes a deformation unit that includes a plurality of unit deformable portions such that the flexible display panel is foldable or adapted to be folded in a second direction. The flexible display substrate may include an encapsulation layer on the flexible display substrate. The flexible display apparatus may include a functional layer on a side of the flexible display panel. A folded end portion of the flexible display panel may be on the functional layer. The flexible display apparatus may also include a driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soohee Oh, Hyunggyu Park, Seonggeun Won, Hirotsugu Kishimoto