Light Detection Means (e.g., With Photodetector) Patents (Class 345/207)
  • Patent number: 11107394
    Abstract: An image display device includes pixel circuits arranged in a matrix configuration between a first power supply line and a second power supply line. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light-emitting element and a first circuit connected to the light-emitting element and configured to set a duration during which a current is supplied to the light-emitting element based on a result of comparing a first signal and a first direct current voltage. The first signal includes a triangular wave signal. The first direct current voltage is set in a prescribed period. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a second circuit connected in series to the first circuit. The second circuit is configured to control a current supplied to the first circuit based on a second direct current voltage set in a period different from the prescribed period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11107440
    Abstract: A method of operating or an information handling system operating a dynamic backlight and ambient light sensor (DBL and ALS) brightness control management system comprising a digital display having a selectable brightness level, a processor operatively connected to the digital display for executing code instructions of a dynamic backlight (DBL) control system for modifying brightness levels of some or all portions of the display screen in response to inputs relating to display content type and associated optimal contrast levels for the display content and the processor executing code instructions of an ambient light sensor (ALS) control system to modify brightness levels of some or all portions of the display screen in response to detected ambient light levels of the information handling system where the processor executing code instructions of the DBL and ALS brightness control management system adjusts operation of either the DBL control system or the ALS control system based on location or detected ambient
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Asim M. Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 11106240
    Abstract: A dual display housing information handling system and method comprising a first display screen side having a first portion of a display screen, a second display screen side, hinged to the first display screen side, having a second portion, and a second display screen side RGB detector to activate and the first display to test flash and a first display screen side RGB detector to activate and the second display to test flash. A controller to determine operating color temperature shift for comparison to detect burn-in differences from color temperature readings by the first display screen side RGB detector and the second display screen side RGB detector, and if a threshold difference detected, the controller implementing display color shift management to provide adjusted color mapping data to adjust at least one color component of the first or second display screen side to balance the operating color temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Lawrence E. Knepper
  • Patent number: 11100313
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a detection unit detecting a moving body around the information processing apparatus and a distance to the moving body; a first image capturing unit having a first image capturing range; and a second image capturing unit having a second image capturing range, and performs authentication of the authentication target person based on captured image data. It controls so as to perform authentication based on image data captured by the first image capturing unit, and if the detected distance becomes shorter than a first distance and the authentication is not possible, it controls so as to perform authentication based on image data captured by the second image capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideyasu Tomi
  • Patent number: 11099573
    Abstract: Performance anomalies in complex systems can be difficult to identify and diagnose. In an example, latency associated with one or more of the systems can be determined. An anomalous event can be determined based on the determined latency. In some examples, based at least in part on determining the event, the system may be controlled in a safe state and/or reconfigured to obviate the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Edward Somers, Thomas Michael Flanagan, Andrew Lewis King, Arpan Silas Rajan
  • Patent number: 11087700
    Abstract: A system for image enhancement on digital display device is disclosed. The system includes an image processing subsystem including a digital art metadata collection module to measure the ambient condition on a digital art piece using sensors. The digital art metadata collection module collects a set of metadata corresponding to the digital art piece by analysing the ambient condition. The image processing subsystem includes an image adjustment module to modify parameters on digital display device based on the set of metadata using one or more image processing techniques. The image adjustment module generates a target digital image representative of a printed image quality based on the modified parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Palacio Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh Kumar, Rahul Ranjan, Andrew Kurtz
  • Patent number: 11064172
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a light source driver configured to supply, to a light source, a drive current including a first current and a second current; a processor configured to output the set value of the first current to the light source driver; and a corrector configured to perform a correction process on the first current. The processor is configured to set, based on a correspondence relationship between the gradation value and the current value of the first current, the set value of the first current to a current value determined with reference to the correspondence relationship when the gradation value is in a second gradation range in which numerical values are smaller than numerical values in the first gradation range, the correction process correcting the correspondence relationship such that a difference between a measured intensity and a target intensity of the light source falls within a prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Kosuke Kubota, Yukihiro Chokyu
  • Patent number: 11061641
    Abstract: A screen sharing system is configured to perform screen sharing between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire, as screen-sharing information, an image displayed on the first information processing apparatus, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a first server, when a data amount of the screen-sharing information is below a threshold value, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a second server and transmit, to the first server, storage destination information indicating a storage destination of the screen-sharing information, when the data is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawasaki, Shigeru Nakamura, Masashi Ogasawara, Atsushi Miyamoto, Hiroshi Hinohara, Takeshi Homma
  • Patent number: 11062672
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel; a system board configured to supply a signal and a voltage required to drive the display panel; a timing controller configured to receive the signal from the system board, generate control signals required to drive the display panel, and transmit some of the control signals to the system board; and a level shifter configured to convert voltage levels of the some signal of the timing controller into a signal voltage level suitable for the system board. The level shifter includes an output voltage control terminal configured to control the level shifter not to generate an output voltage when the system board is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaeseung Lee
  • Patent number: 11056078
    Abstract: A multi-screen color correction method and an electronic device are provided. The multi-screen color correction method is adapted with an electronic device with at least two display panels, and includes the following steps: obtaining image characteristics of test images displayed on the display panels respectively; performing a parameter operation on the image characteristics separately to obtain image correction parameters correspondingly; correcting colors of the display panels respectively according to the image correction parameters; obtaining luminance characteristics of the display panels by calculating based on the image correction parameters; and adjusting the luminance of the display panels according to the luminance characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC
    Inventors: Yi-Han Huang, Chin-An Tseng, Hung-Wen Chang, Yi-Han Tu, Yung-Ming Huang, Chia-Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 11049435
    Abstract: An optical detecting device includes a receiving box and a telescopic arm. The receiving box includes an electrical connection port and a first conductive portion electrically connected to the electrical connection port. The telescopic arm is slidably disposed in the receiving box and includes an optical sensor and a second conductive portion electrically connected to the optical sensor. When the telescopic arm and the receiving box are in different sensing positions, the first conductive portion is electrically connected to the second conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Tse-Wei Fan, Feng-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11042184
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the technology disclosed herein integrate a camera with an electronic display. An electronic display includes several layers, such as a cover layer, a color filter layer, a display layer including light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes, a thin film transistor layer, etc. In one embodiment, the layers include a substantially transparent region disposed above the camera. The substantially transparent region allows light from outside to reach the camera, enabling the camera to record an image. In another embodiment, the color filter layer does not include a substantially transparent region, and the camera records the light from the outside colored by the color filter layer. According to another embodiment, while none of the layers include a substantially transparent region, the layers are all substantially transparent, and the camera disposed beneath the layers records light reaching the camera from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: David John Evans, V, Xinrui Jiang, Andrew E. Rubin, Matthew Hershenson, Xiaoyu Miao, Joseph Anthony Tate, Jason Sean Gagne-Keats
  • Patent number: 11036953
    Abstract: Image processing method, electronic device, and storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring an image through an image acquisition component. The image acquisition component and a display screen are arranged one over another. The image acquisition component includes an acquisition area, and the acquisition area corresponds to an input area on a display area of the display screen. Based on a synchronization signal that is at least synchronized with a signal of brightness decrease of the input area on the display area of the display screen, image acquisition of the image acquisition component is suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingfa Tian
  • Patent number: 11036280
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic device is described, which includes a main body, a display unit pivotally connected to the main body, an angle detection unit disposed in the display unit to determine angle of rotation of the display unit relative to the main body, and a control unit to execute at least one command to control the electronic device based on the determined angle of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Po-Kuei Yang, Ann Weng
  • Patent number: 11032517
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for interactive videoconferences are disclosed. Light sensors affixed to a frame in front of the electronic display associated with a host are configured to receive light from a localized area of the display. When a remote participant takes an action to cause a significant change in received light, by moving a dark object to a location such that it is rendered on the host electronic display in front of the light sensor, the light sensor asserts a signal. Based on the asserted signal, the state of an electrical and/or electromechanical device located at the premises of the host is changed in a way that is visible and/or audible to the remote participants via the videoconference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventor: Audie Tatum
  • Patent number: 11025826
    Abstract: An HMD includes a display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, a HMD control section configured to generate, according to the operation detected by the operation detecting section, a command for operating a first mobile body, a communication control section configured to acquire first mobile body image data concerning a captured image captured by the mobile body, and a display control section configured to cause the display section to display an image based on the first mobile body image data acquired by the communication control section. The display control section controls visibility of the outside scene in the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi Ozawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 11018211
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of self-luminous units and photosensitive units disposed on a base substrate, wherein the photosensitive units are located on a side of the self-luminous units proximate to the base substrate, and each of the self-luminous units is correspondingly provided with the photosensitive unit; the self-luminous unit comprises a first electrode, a light-emitting functional layer and a second electrode disposed sequentially in a direction away from the base substrate; the first electrode comprises a light-transmitting region and a reflective region interconnected with each other; the second electrode is a transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guoying Wang, Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 11016608
    Abstract: This application discloses a touch display control apparatus and a touch display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianhao Chen, Youqiao Xie
  • Patent number: 11015973
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for acquiring an ambient light brightness. The method includes acquiring a brightness value monitored by the ambient light sensor; acquiring a luminance value of the screen of the terminal device; and determining an ambient light brightness value of an external environment based on the brightness value and the luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guosheng Li
  • Patent number: 11009703
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a conversion block that converts, based on correction data stored in a memory, an imaging pixel value in a camera image acquired by an outside camera into a correction pixel value in accordance with outside brightness detected by a brightness sensor, and a display control block that controls a light source luminance value of the head-up display in correspondence with the correction pixel value converted from the imaging pixel value by the conversion block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Naruse
  • Patent number: 10997927
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a sensor configured to obtain illuminance values, a display, at least one processor, and at least one memory, and the memory stores instructions set for the processor to obtain illuminance values for a predetermined period by controlling the sensor, adjust at least one brightness change threshold value to change brightness of the display in accordance with the obtained illuminance values for the predetermined period and change the brightness of the display using the adjusted brightness change threshold value. There may be other various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinsung Kang, Kyuheon Lee, Sunghwan Jang
  • Patent number: 10996471
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a conversion block that converts, based on correction data stored in a memory, an imaging pixel value in a camera image acquired by an outside camera into a correction pixel value in accordance with outside brightness detected by a brightness sensor, and a display control block that controls a display pixel value of the display image formed by the head-up display in correspondence with the correction pixel value converted from the imaging pixel value by the conversion block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Naruse
  • Patent number: 10997928
    Abstract: A method for determining ambient light intensity includes: acquiring a plurality of light sensing integral values obtained by sampling light intensity with a predetermined light sensing collecting time window and a predetermined sampling frequency through a photosensitive element, wherein the light sensing collecting time window is greater than a screen blanking time of a terminal; determining a minimum light sensing integral value and a maximum light sensing integral value in the plurality of light sensing integral values; determining a light sensing integral value of a photosensitive element which corresponds to an ambient light according to the maximum light sensing integral value, the light sensing collecting time window, the minimum light sensing integral value and the screen blanking time; and determining the ambient light intensity according to the light sensing integral value of the photosensitive element which corresponds to the ambient light and a predetermined light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruyue Wang, Chaoxi Chen
  • Patent number: 10997908
    Abstract: An electronic device having a display and a sensor and methods for operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display disposed on a surface of the housing, a sensor mounted under the display inside the housing to detect light received through the display, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the sensor, wherein the processor is configured to determine an illuminance of an outside of the housing using detection data obtained by the sensor while the display displays an image and relevant information between the display and the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Taek Jang, Eun-Sook Seo, Dong-Kyoon Han, Tae-Woong Lee, Dong-Hui Kim, Hong-Kook Lee, Kwang-Tai Kim, Dong-Hyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 10991770
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is related to a display device, the display device including: a substrate which includes a display portion, a light sensing portion, and a connection portion located between the display portion and the light sensing portion, in which the connection portion is bent such that the light sensing portion overlaps the display portion by bending of the connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghan Park, Sangmin Kim, Seungho Baek, Youngseok Seo, Seunghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10991848
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Ruiyuan Zhou, Yingjie Chen
  • Patent number: 10991320
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining a frame rate for a current frame, where the frame rate dictates the amount of time the current frame is to be presented on a display. The display may be a backlight that is powered for a specified amount of time as part of a duty cycle. The method may further include calculating a backlight duty cycle time for the current frame. The backlight duty cycle time may include a minimum amount of powered time plus an additional amount of powered time that is dependent on the frame rate for the current frame. The method may further generate a drive signal for the display using the calculated backlight duty cycle time and driving the display using the generated drive signal. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cheonhong Kim, Min Hyuk Choi, Rui Zhang, Samuel Gosselin
  • Patent number: 10984746
    Abstract: A liquid crystal driver (100) includes: a segment driving circuit (150) that outputs a segment driving signal (SGQ) for driving a segment electrode of a liquid crystal panel, a first segment terminal (TSD1) from which a segment driving signal (SGQ) is to be output to the segment electrode, a second segment terminal (TSD2) to which a segment monitoring signal (SMN), which is a monitoring signal from the segment electrode, is to be input, and an anomalous segment detection circuit (160) that detects anomalous driving of the segment electrode based on the segment monitoring signal (SMN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norichika Muraki, Hironori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10986710
    Abstract: A circuit for adjusting a luminance of a backlight is provided. The backlight includes a plurality of partitions that are independent of one another. Each of the partitions includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in an array and connected in series. The circuit includes a plurality of LED drivers each configured to supply a respective drive current to the plurality of LEDs of a respective one of the plurality of partitions, and a plurality of programmable voltage generators configured to receive respective control commands and to supply respective reference voltages to the plurality of LED drivers based on the respective control commands. Each of the LED drivers is further configured to set a level of the drive current supplied by the LED driver in response to the reference voltage supplied to the LED driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuo Chen
  • Patent number: 10984710
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for sending driving data of a backlight source, a control circuit and a display device. The method includes: acquiring driving data of a plurality of rows of light-emitting elements included in the backlight source; and sending the driving data of the plurality of rows of light-emitting elements to a driving circuit of the backlight source at many times, wherein at least one data packet is sent each time, each data packet includes driving data for driving one row of light-emitting elements and a quantity of data packets sent each time is less than a quantity of rows of light-emitting elements included in the backlight source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binhua Sun, Jian Sun, Lin Lin, Feng Zi, Yakun Wang, Jiyang Shao, Xinjian Liu, Ziqiang Guo, Yadong Ding, Bingxin Liu
  • Patent number: 10978007
    Abstract: An AM-EWOD device includes a plurality of array elements arranged in an array of rows and columns; each column including a column addressing line that applies control signals to a corresponding column of array elements, and each row including a row addressing line that applies control signals to a corresponding row of array elements; each array element including an element electrode for receiving an actuation voltage and a switch transistor, wherein the switch transistor is electrically connected between the column addressing line and the element electrode and is switched by the row addressing line; and a column detection circuit comprising an addressing circuit that applies an electrical perturbation during a sensing operation to the column addressing line of an array element being sensed, and a measuring circuit that measures an output signal from one of the column addressing lines, wherein the output signal varies based upon a capacitance present at the element electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Life Science (EU) Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin James Hadwen, Oliver James Beard, Christopher James Brown
  • Patent number: 10965974
    Abstract: It is disclosed a system comprising a display characteristics evaluation unit configured to evaluate display characteristics of a display of an electronic device, a media access unit configured to receive a source media file from a media storage, and a display-dependent processing unit configured to perform, based on the display characteristics, a display-dependent processing of the source media file to obtain a display-dependent media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Klaus Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10965840
    Abstract: A display and a color correction method are disclosed. The display includes a panel and a backlight module. The color correction method includes steps of: (a) sensing a real-time backlight intensity of the backlight module; (b) increasing a backlight intensity of the backlight module when the real-time backlight intensity is different from a standard backlight intensity of the backlight module; (c) sensing a compensated backlight intensity of the backlight module and estimating a first real-time color information of the panel according to the compensated backlight intensity and a first panel color characteristic information, wherein the first panel color characteristic information corresponds to the penetration characteristics of the panel; and (d) estimating a first color gain compensation value for the panel according to the first real-time color information and compensating the colors displayed on the panel when the panel displaying an image according to the first color gain compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Liao, Chin-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 10943546
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a panel including first and second transistors and a driver circuit driving the panel. The first transistor includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a first insulating film disposed on the substrate and having an open area, a second electrode disposed on the first insulating film and overlapping the first electrode, and a first active layer disposed on the first and second electrodes. The second transistor includes third and fourth electrodes which are disposed to space apart from, and on a same layer as, the second electrode, and between which the open area is disposed, and a second active layer disposed on the third and fourth electrodes and across the open area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: InTak Cho, PilSang Yun, Jeyong Jeon, Jiyong Noh, SeHee Park
  • Patent number: 10937229
    Abstract: Directional image sensor data may be acquired with one or more directional image sensors. A light source and illumination image may be generated based on the directional image sensor data. A number of operations may be caused to be performed for an image based at least in part on light source information in the light source image. The operations may include display management operations, device positional operations, augmented reality superimposition operations, ambient light control operations, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Kunkel, Patrick Griffis, Gregory John Ward
  • Patent number: 10923059
    Abstract: An operation method of a display device with high visibility is to be provided. The display device is an electronic device including a first display element, a second display element, an optical sensor, and a gain calculation circuit. In the electronic device, the illuminance of external light is obtained with the optical sensor, and depending on the illuminance, images displayed using the first display element and the second display element are corrected. The gain calculation circuit obtains the illuminance and calculates a gain value depending on the illuminance. In particular, the gain value is calculated for each of the first display element and the second display element. Furthermore, the gain calculation circuit performs dimming and toning on image data displayed using the first display element and the second display element by multiplying the image data by the gain values or values corresponding to the gain values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventor: Yuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10916614
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a light-detecting method for a display panel, and a method for controlling a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array on the base substrate, the pixel regions each including a light-emitting region; and a light-detecting circuit in at least one pixel region, the light-detecting circuit configured to detect light emitted from the light-emitting region of the at least one pixel region in which the light-detecting circuit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengyu Luan, Yuching Peng, Youyuan Hu, Zhongsheng Qi, Bo Mao, Fei Li, Jianhui Zhang, Xinfeng Wu, Huihui Li, Xinzhu Wang
  • Patent number: 10911143
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a visible light communication device and a method for driving the same, a door lock and a visible light communication method. The visible light communication device includes an array substrate, the array substrate including a display region having a plurality of pixels and a photosensitive region having at least one photosensitive sensor, the at least one photosensitive sensor is configured to convert a received visible light signal carrying encoded information into an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10909925
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving circuit and a compensation voltage acquisition circuit. The driving circuit is configured to drive the light emitting element to emit light; and the compensation voltage acquisition circuit is configured to obtain a compensation voltage based on luminance of the light emitting element, and the compensation voltage can be provided to the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Yue, Xiaochuan Chen, Shengji Yang, Dongni Liu, Lei Wang, Li Xiao, Pengcheng Lu, Jie Fu
  • Patent number: 10890945
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel, two camera and at least one light sensor. The display panel includes a full screen display area. The full screen display area includes a display surface and a back surface opposite to the display surface. The display panel defines a slot extending through the display surface and the back surface, and the slot is located in the full screen display area. The full screen display area includes a plurality of image pixels configured to display data information. The two cameras are received in the slot, and the at least one light sensor is received in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, Maozhao Huang
  • Patent number: 10885677
    Abstract: Setting interface element colors is disclosed including rendering an interface element, determining first color values, assigning a value to a color attribute of the interface element based on the first color values, and updating the interface element according to the assigned value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BANMA ZHIXING NETWORK (HONGKONG) CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuai Chen, Zhi Li, Tao Lin, Xushu Lu, Junlin Tian
  • Patent number: 10885852
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having an active array and a reference array. The active array includes a pixel and the reference array includes a reference pixel. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display. The processing circuitry is configured to instruct the active array to drive the pixel based at least in part on a set of degradation ratios and gamma tap points for each brightness setting of the display based at least in part on a reconstructed current-voltage curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chih-Wei Yeh, Yunhui Hou, Chaohao Wang, Wei H. Yao, Paolo Sacchetto, Derek K. Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen, Shingo Hatanaka, Hasan Akyol, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 10884273
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, which the display panel including a display substrate, a counter substrate, and a backlight. The display substrate includes a first thin film transistor layer, a touch electrode, and a pixel definition layer. The substrate includes a second thin film transistor layer and a photosensitive component. The second thin film transistor layer has a plurality of thin film transistors. The photosensitive component is connected to an underside of the second thin film transistor layer. The photosensitive component receives a reflected light of a user's fingerprint to identify an identification of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Fei Ai, Yuan Yan
  • Patent number: 10878747
    Abstract: Methods and systems for compensating a display of an electronic device using internal sensing and external compensation. The external compensation uses a generated compensation map that then is used to compensate for variations that occur outside of display circuitry. The internal sensing compensation is used to compensate for internally sensed parameters (e.g., aging) of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shengkui Gao, Chaohao Wang, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Myung-Je Cho, Myungjoon Choi, Shiping Shen, Sun-Il Chang, Wei H. Yao, Yi Qiao
  • Patent number: 10877610
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a sensing method thereof that include: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels; a first sensing unit configured to detect a touch of the display panel and output a first sensing signal; a second sensing unit configured to detect light and output a second sensing signal; a sensing driver IC configured to output the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal received from the first sensing unit and the second sensing unit as sensing voltages; and a controller configured to divide the sensing voltages received from the sensing device IC into the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soyoung Lee, SeungHwan Shin
  • Patent number: 10866616
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a liquid planarization material is coated on at least one of a first surface and a second surface of the cover glass. The second surface faces a direction opposite the first surface. The liquid planarization material is pressed toward the cover glass by a pressing plate and cured. Then, the pressing plate is detached from the cured planarization material and the cover glass. Other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngmin Seo, Youngsoo Lee, Min Kim, Yongha Kim
  • Patent number: 10867556
    Abstract: A pixel unit circuit, a driving method of the pixel unit circuit, and a pixel circuit are provided. The pixel unit circuit includes at least one sub-pixel sub-unit circuit connected to display signal lines and display signal terminals; and pixel compensation sub-unit circuit connected to two compensation signal lines and at least one compensation signal terminal, wherein one of the display signal lines and one of the compensation signal lines are a same signal line, and/or one of the display signal terminals and one of the at least one compensation signal terminal are a same signal terminal, and/or the pixel unit circuit further includes a multiplexer sub-circuit, one of the display signal lines is connected to a first terminal of the multiplexer sub-circuit, one of the compensation signal lines is connected to a second terminal of the multiplexer sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10860134
    Abstract: The display device of the present disclosure may comprise a display panel equipped with pixels each representing image data and photo sensors each outputting an electric signal through a sensing line responding to light, a data driving circuit providing a data voltage corresponding to the image data to the pixel through a data line, a gate driving circuit supplying, through a gate line, a scan signal for controlling an application of the data voltage to the pixel disposed on a horizontal line and for controlling a connection of the photo sensor disposed on a corresponding horizontal line and the sensing line, a sensing driving circuit outputting digital sensing data by summing the electric signals of two photo sensors disposed on different horizontal lines and sharing the sensing line; and a timing controller supplying control signals for controlling the data driving circuit, the gate driving circuit and the sensing driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moonsoo Chung, Joohee Lee
  • Patent number: 10854695
    Abstract: The present invention provides an OLED display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array. Each of the sub-pixels comprises a base substrate, a TFT layer, a flat layer, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, a light emitting layer, a transparent second electrode, and an encapsulation layer. A portion of at least one of the flat layer and the pixel defining layer is formed by a black shielding material. The OLED display panel can be prevented from reflecting ambient light without improving the light extraction efficiency, thereby improving the viewing experience of the OLED display panel by the arrangement of a portion of at least one of the flat layer and the pixel defining layer is formed by a black shielding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuejun Tang, Xueyun Li
  • Patent number: 10845664
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a terminal device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a backlight module, a lower polarizer, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer, a liquid crystal layer, a color filter, an upper polarizer, an optical adhesive, and a cover glass which are sequentially disposed. A Fresnel lens is disposed at a position corresponding to a first blind hole by one or more of a computerized numerical control (CNC) machining, a glass injection molding, and a casting. The liquid crystal display panel adjusts externally incoming light into parallel light or concentrating light by providing the Fresnel lens on the cover glass. Therefore, issues of low light transmittance in the blind hole provided under the cover glass is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqiang Yu, Chao Wang