Regulating Means Patents (Class 345/212)
  • Patent number: 12165601
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel which emits light at a luminance corresponding to a data voltage applied thereto; and a data driver which supplies the data voltage to the pixel. The data driver includes: a first amplifier which outputs a first reference voltage; a first booster circuit including an input terminal connected to a first input terminal of the first amplifier, and an output terminal connected to a second input terminal of the first amplifier; a second amplifier which outputs a second reference voltage; a resistance string which receives the first and second reference voltages, and generate gamma voltages which are intermediate voltages between the first and second reference voltages; a digital-analog converter which outputs a gamma voltage corresponding to a gray scale of the pixel among the gamma voltages; and a source amplifier which outputs the gamma voltage as the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se Byung Chae
  • Patent number: 12165555
    Abstract: A direct current-to-direct current (“DC-DC”) converter includes: a first converter which outputs a first power voltage in a normal mode or a power saving mode based on a inductor current generated therein, where the first converter operates in a first driving manner in the normal mode, and operates in a second driving manner in the power saving mode; a second converter which outputs a second power voltage based on a inductor current generated therein, where the second converter operates in a third driving manner in the power saving mode, and a magnitude of the second power voltage in the power saving mode is different from that in the normal mode; and a mode selector which supplies a mode control signal to the first and second converters, where the first and second converters are driven in the normal mode or the power saving mode based on the mode control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Chun Park, Yoon Young Lee
  • Patent number: 12165558
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a power supply, a voltmeter, and a timing controller. The power supply is configured to generate an initialization voltage to be supplied to a sensing pixel among the pixels. The voltmeter is configured to measure a first value of the initialization voltage supplied to the sensing pixel during an active period of a frame period and a second value of the initialization voltage supplied to the sensing pixel during a vertical blank period of the frame period. The timing controller is configured to generate rewrite image data that is supplied to the sensing pixel during the vertical blank period. The rewrite image data is generated from image data applied to the pixels during the active period and a difference between the first and second values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Taek Kim, Jae Woo Ryu, Joon Suk Baik, Se Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 12154908
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, using semiconductor light-emitting diodes, comprising: a wiring board which comprises a row line for providing a row signal, a column line for providing a column signal, a VCC line connected to a VCC input terminal, and a VDD line connected to a VDD input terminal; and an interposer which is provided on the wiring board, has pixels, comprising semiconductor light-emitting diodes, along a plurality of rows and columns, and comprises IC chips for controlling the pixel light emission. The interposer comprises: a first terminal connected to the row line and for transmitting the row signal to the IC chips; a second terminal connected to the column line and for transmitting the column signal to the IC chips; a third terminal connected to the VCC line and connecting the VCC input terminal and the IC chips; and a fourth terminal connected to the VDD line and connecting the VDD input terminal and the IC chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hwanjoon Choi, Yonghan Lee
  • Patent number: 12148382
    Abstract: A first image is rendered on an active area of an OLED display panel with a first refresh rate that is below a threshold refresh rate and, subsequent to rendering the first image with the first refresh rate, a second image that is different from the first image is rendered on the active area, where the rendering of the second image includes rendering a number of initial frames of the second image at a second refresh rate that is at or above the threshold refresh rate. After rendering the number of initial frames of the second image at the second refresh rate, additional frames of the second image on the active area are rendered with the first refresh rate, where the number of initial frames is greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sang Young Youn
  • Patent number: 12148357
    Abstract: The present application relate to an MLED display panel, where a first end of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first end of the second transistor and one end of the capacitor, respectively; a second end of the first transistor is electrically connected to a third end of the second transistor and the other end of the capacitor, respectively; a second end of the second transistor is electrically connected to one end of the first light emitting module; and a third end of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first power supply voltage, and the other end of the first light emitting module is electrically connected to a second power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bo Sun
  • Patent number: 12148763
    Abstract: A display device includes a first region and a second region each including a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of wires connected to the plurality of pixels, respectively, to transmit a signal, where the number of pixels per unit area in the second region is less than the number of pixels per unit area in the first region, and the number of wires per unit area in the second region is less than the number of wires per unit area in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Hwi Kim, Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 12142172
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the disclosure are a driving method for a display panel, and a display apparatus. A display frame includes a data refresh phase and a blanking time phase. The driving method for the display panel includes: in the data refresh phase, loading a clock signal including an active level and an inactive level to a gate driving circuit in a display panel to cause a gate line to load a gate-on signal, loading display data to a source driving circuit in the display panel to cause a data line to load a data voltage, and determining a current operating state of the display panel; and in the blanking time phase, loading a clock signal including an inactive level to the gate driving circuit in the display panel to cause the gate line to load a gate-off signal, and sending the current operating state of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wang, Zhengxin Zhang, Lei Guo, Jiali Zhang, Ye Wang, Junrui Cui, Wei Tang, Pengju Zhang
  • Patent number: 12142222
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a second transistor operating in response to the first gate signal, a third transistor operating in response to the second gate signal, a fourth transistor operating in response to an initialization control signal, a fifth transistor operating in response to an emission control signal, a sixth transistor operating in response to the emission control signal, a seventh transistor operating in response to a bias control signal, a storage capacitor, a first capacitor or a second capacitor, and a light emitting element. The first capacitor or the second capacitor includes a first terminal receiving the first gate signal or the emission control signal and a second terminal connected to a first terminal of the light emitting device, and the voltage of the first terminal of the light emitting element is boosted based on the first gate signal or the light emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungchan Lee, Seongjun Lee, Wangjo Lee
  • Patent number: 12142218
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit including a first end connected to a first power line, a control end connected to a first node, and a second end connected to a second node; and a compensation sub-circuit connected to the first node, the second node, a light emission control signal line to receive one of a first voltage and a reference voltage, a scanning signal line to receive one of the first control voltage and a second control voltage, and a data signal line to receive one of a data voltage and the reference voltage. Under control of the reference voltage received from the light emission control signal line, a first control voltage received from the scanning signal line, and the reference voltage received from the data signal line, when the first power line receives the first power voltage, a threshold voltage of the driving sub-circuit is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 12142204
    Abstract: A disclosed display apparatus may include a display panel having a plurality of sub-pixels and configured to display an image based on an image signal provided to the display panel; a controller configured to determine a required power for at least one frame of the image signal and to output a switch signal based on determining if the required power is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference power; and a power supply device configured to receive an external AC power and to generate a first high-level voltage and a second high-level voltage. The power supply device may be further configured, based on the switch signal, to output the first high-level voltage to drive the display panel, or to combine the second high-level voltage with the first high-level voltage to generate a third high-level voltage and to output the third high-level voltage to drive the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Woo Kim, Jae Han Kim, Sang Yeop Jeon, Sang Yeol Kim
  • Patent number: 12136388
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device comprising: a source device configured to output image data; and a sink device configured to perform a displaying operation based on the image data, wherein the source device is configured to change a frame rate of an image frame composing the image data while the displaying operation is performed, wherein the sink device is configured to change a frame rate of a panel driving frame for the displaying operation as the frame rate of the image frame is changed, and wherein the source device is configured to change the frame rate of the image frame while satisfying a condition in which an emission duty ratio of the panel driving frame is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongmin Sung, Woo-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 12125439
    Abstract: A display device, a data driving circuit and a display driving method are discussed. The display device can include a display panel in which a plurality of subpixel circuits including a light emitting element, a driving transistor, and a sensing transistor are disposed. The display device further can include a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines, a data driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of data voltages to the display panel through a plurality of data lines and supply a constant current to the plurality of subpixel circuits during a resistance sensing period, and a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, and supply compensation image data to the display panel by using the resistance of the sensing transistor detected in the resistance sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyemi Oh, Sangwook Lee, Sojung Lee
  • Patent number: 12125421
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device including a plurality of pixels and a sensing circuit that senses degradation information of the pixels, and a power supply that supplies a power to the display device or stops a supply of the power to the display device. The sensing circuit senses first degradation information of pixels in a first area in which a logo is displayed after the power supply supplies the power to the display device and before the display device displays a logo image including the logo, and senses second degradation information of pixels in a second area other than the first area in a display area after the display device displays the logo image and before the display device displays a normal image not including the logo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Seok Ha, Woon-Rok Jang
  • Patent number: 12118929
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, and the data driver pauses a data latch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Chul Ha, Jin Cheol Hong
  • Patent number: 12118943
    Abstract: A driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. In the driving circuit, the display panel, and the display device disclosed in the present disclosure, the gamma module outputs the first initialization voltage and the second initialization voltage when the display panel is in the internal compensation mode, and the gamma module outputs the third initialization voltage and the reference voltage when the display panel is in the detection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyi Chen, Zhenling Wang
  • Patent number: 12112709
    Abstract: A method used for a control circuit for controlling a display panel includes steps of: determining whether there is an input video data received at a predetermined time; outputting an output video data and a clock signal having a first frequency to the display panel when determining that there is an input video data received at the predetermined time; and stopping outputting the output video data but outputting the clock signal having a second frequency to the display panel when determining that there is no input video data received at the predetermined time. Wherein, the second frequency is higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Tsung Lu, Chih-Cheng Chuang
  • Patent number: 12113955
    Abstract: A head-mounted device includes one or more displays configured to present media content. The media content may be presented in a user interface window. The head-mounted device may include a display controller configured to adjust a frame rate of the one or more displays and may include a frame rate management circuit configured to determine whether to adjust the frame rate of the one or more displays based on the type of the media content being presented in the user interface window and based on additional information such as a preferred frame rate associated with the media content, a size of the user interface window relative to the total display area of the one or more displays, point of gaze data, hand gestures data, head pose data, data associated with other body parts, audio information and other data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Danvin Ruangchan, Nathaniel C Begeman, Samir Gehani, Edwin Iskandar, Chad B Woolf
  • Patent number: 12106715
    Abstract: A light-emitting display device includes a light-emitting element including an anode connected to a first driving voltage line, a first transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode, a second transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to a data line and the gate electrode, a third transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the first driving voltage line and the first electrode of the first transistor, a fourth transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to a sensing line and the second electrode of the first transistor, a fifth transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the second electrode of the first transistor, and a second driving voltage line, and a capacitor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the gate electrode and the second electrode of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 12100370
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display, a processor configured to process image data to be displayed on the display, a transformer including a primary coil and a plurality of secondary coils, a first rectifier connected with a first coil of the plurality of secondary coils and configured to output a first output voltage corresponding to a number of turns of the first coil, a direct current-direct current (DC-DC) converter configured to receive the first output voltage from the first rectifier and output a second output voltage that is different from the first output voltage, and a second rectifier connected with a second coil of the plurality of secondary coils and configured to output a first load voltage which is a sum of the second output voltage and a third output voltage corresponding to a number of turns of the second coil to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeeun Kim, Keonwoo Kim, Moonyoung Kim, Jinhyung Lee, Jeongil Kang
  • Patent number: 12100713
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel, a scanning line, a signal line, and a drive circuit configured to be supplied with a first power supply voltage signal of a positive value and a second power supply voltage signal of a negative value. The drive circuit includes: a gate driver configured to supply a scanning signal to the scanning line; a signal line selection circuit configured to supply a pixel signal to the signal line; and a display control circuit. The display control circuit is configured to, at first time in a power-off sequence, supply the first power supply voltage signal to the scanning line, supply a GND potential to the common electrode, and supply an adjustment potential of a positive value to the signal line. The display control circuit is configured to supply the GND potential to the scanning line at second time after the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Patent number: 12100346
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and an external compensation method thereof. The external compensation method detects real-time source potentials of a driving transistor through n iterations, a single iterative detection time that can be set artificially to limit a time for each iteration to detect a real-time source potential of the driving transistor, until the real-time source potential of the driving transistor is equal to a target source potential, thereby improving threshold voltage detection efficiency of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Dou, Taijiun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12100351
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller, an output inductor and a power compensator. The second switching element is connected to the first switching element. The first amplifier outputs a first switching control signal to control the first switching element. The second amplifier outputs a second switching control signal to control the second switching element. The PWM controller generates a control signal applied to input terminals of the first amplifier and the second amplifier. The output inductor includes a first terminal connected to the first switching element and the second switching element and a second terminal outputting the pixel power supply voltage. The power compensator receives an input voltage and adjusts a power supply voltage applied to a power supply terminal of the first amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon Young Lee, Sungchun Park
  • Patent number: 12094436
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a control circuit, a display device, and a method for driving a main processor. Specifically, there may be provided a control circuit, a display device, and a method for driving a main processor which may reduce power consumption in the transmission/reception circuit connected with the interface by powering off at least one of the source transmission/reception circuit or sink transmission/reception circuit electrically connected with the auxiliary channel AUX during at least a partial period of the vertical blank period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jogtaek Kim, Nakyoon Kim, Hogeun Koo
  • Patent number: 12094417
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a pixel circuit includes a first capacitor connected between a first node and a second node, a first transistor connected to the first node and supplied with a first scan signal, a driving transistor including a gate electrode connected to the second node, a first electrode connected to a first voltage supply line, and a second electrode connected to a third node, a second transistor connected between the second node and the third node and supplied with a second scan signal, a third transistor connected between the third node and a fourth node, a fourth transistor which is connected to the fourth node and is supplied with a second scan signal of a previous pixel row and a light emitting diode connected to the fourth transistor and the third transistor at the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JeongHo Kim, DaeSung Jung, DaeKyu Kim
  • Patent number: 12094397
    Abstract: An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a first power line, a power circuit converting a final feedback driving voltage input through a first input terminal thereof to output a high level driving voltage to a first position of the first power line through a first output terminal thereof, and a feedback control circuit receiving the high level driving voltage as a first feedback driving voltage, receiving a second feedback driving voltage from a second position of the first power line, and supplying the first input terminal of the power circuit with the final feedback driving voltage adjusted based on a first output contribution rate of the first feedback driving voltage and a second output contribution rate of the second feedback driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Chul Kwon, Jung Jae Kim, Nam Kon Ko, Dong Won Park
  • Patent number: 12087229
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data driver which applies data signals to the display panel, a scan driver including scan stages, which sequentially applies scan signals to the display panel, an emission driver including an emission stage which sequentially applies emission signals to the display panel, and a power supply voltage generator which generates a power supply voltage including high voltages and low voltages, and provides the high voltages having different voltage levels from each other or the low voltages having different voltage levels from each other to at least one selected from the scan stages and the emission stage. The power supply voltage generator generates a first high voltage, a first low voltage, a second high voltage lower than the first high voltage, and a second low voltage higher than the first low voltage based on an input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungjin Kim, Jongwon Park, Myeonghee Seo, Huigyeong Yun, Seung-Kyu Lee, Younguk Hwang
  • Patent number: 12087226
    Abstract: Display panel and driving method thereof, and display device are provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data input module, a threshold compensation module, and a bias adjustment module. First electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the data input module and the bias adjusting module. First terminal of the data input module is connected to a data signal, a second terminal of the data input module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. First terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to a bias adjustment signal, a second terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. The threshold compensation module is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Gaojun Huang, Yana Gao, Xueqi Tian, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 12080228
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit connected to a light emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and a capacitor connected with the gate electrode. The pixel circuit is driven according to a first period when a reference voltage is applied to the gate electrode, a second period when a gate-source voltage difference of the driving transistor is a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a third period when the reference voltage is applied to the capacitor, and a voltage of the gate electrode varies due to a coupling phenomenon of the capacitor, a fourth period when a high-potential voltage higher than the reference voltage is applied to the source electrode, and a fifth period when the driving transistor is turned on to cause the light emitting element to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: WooKyu Sang, Moonsoo Chung, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 12080242
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel unit including first pixels disposed in a first area and second pixels disposed in a second area, an emission driver configured to sequentially supply emission signals of a turn-off level to the first pixels and the second pixels based on a first start signal, a first clock signal, and a second clock signal, and a first scan driver configured to sequentially supply first scan signals of a turn-on level to the first pixels based on a second start signal, the first clock signal, and the second clock signal, and sequentially supply the first scan signals of the turn-on level to the second pixels based on a third start signal, the first clock signal, and the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 12073758
    Abstract: A display device may include a pixel unit which includes pixels, a driver which drives the pixel unit based on image data, a voltage generator which provides a driving voltage to the pixel unit, and a global current manager including a compensation voltage generator which receives a comparison result between a sensing current of the pixel unit and a reference current range generated based on the image data from a comparator and generates a compensation voltage for controlling the driving voltage, and a compensation data generator which generates compensation data for controlling grayscale values of the image data in a dithering method based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 12073779
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a display device which, upon consecutive viewing of images of different frequencies, may improve abnormalities on a screen according to frequency change, and a method for controlling same. A digital device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a processor; a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels; and a timing controller for temporally controlling a driving frequency such that the display device is driven, wherein the timing controller controls a light-emitting signal at a preset duty ratio in one frame interval, and when the display unit displays an image of a first input frequency and thereafter displays an image of a second input frequency, a value of a vertical blanking interval for each frame interval gradually changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngho Chun, Byungwoo Ryu, Hyungil Lee, Joonduk Jang
  • Patent number: 12067925
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and an electronic terminal, including pixel units arranged along row and column directions. The pixel unit includes sub-pixels of different colors arranged along the row direction. In a first mode, two adjacent groups of pixel units are simultaneously turned on, and the sub-pixels of a same color in two adjacent columns of pixel units display a same gray scale. In a second mode, a plurality of rows of pixel units are turned on sequentially, and each sub-pixel in a plurality of columns of pixel units displays a corresponding gray scale. The refresh rate of the first mode is greater than that of the second mode, and the resolution of the first mode is smaller than that of the second mode. This shortens the time required for all rows of pixel units to be turned on, thereby increasing the refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liu Yang, Qiang Gong, Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 12067945
    Abstract: Each gate stage of a gate driver may be implemented to operate based on a clock, a set signal, and a reset signal without a driving power, and thus, may not be connected to the driving power. Accordingly, because a driving power line is omitted, a mount area of the gate driver may be reduced, and thus, a narrow bezel may be easily implemented. Each gate stage may be implemented based on the clock without the driving power, and thus, a configuration thereof may be simplified. In this case, because each gate stage includes a leakage current blocker, even when the gate stage is manufactured based on an oxide transistor having a depletion characteristic, the operation stability thereof may be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kil Hwan Oh
  • Patent number: 12067938
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display device, and a method of driving the same are provided. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. In response to a time voltage signal provided by a time voltage line RST, the second transistor T2 is turned off during a display scan period of one frame period and is turned on during a self scan period of one frame period to reset the first transistor T1 during the self scan period of one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mian Zeng, Liang Sun
  • Patent number: 12061826
    Abstract: A printer may include a print executing unit. The printer may, in a case where a predetermined operation is accepted from a user of the printer, cause the print executing unit to execute a print preparation action; and in a case where the print preparation action is executed by the print executing unit, display on a display unit a promotion message for prompting subscription to a service related to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 12062329
    Abstract: A source driver and a driving system for driving an LED panel, and an LED display system are provided. The driving system includes: a plurality of source drivers, for respectively supplying driving currents to channels of different portions on the LED panel, and each source driver includes: a plurality of driving circuits, which are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of channels on the LED panel, and are connected to a same current control line, each driving circuit being configured to supply a driving current to a corresponding channel, wherein, the supplied driving current is associated with a voltage on the current control line which the driving circuit is connected with. When one or more driving circuits switch between a non-driving state and a driving state, the driving current being supplied by the driving circuit(s) being in the driving state in the plurality of source drivers is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Sheng Ma, Jhih-Siou Cheng, Chun-Fu Lin
  • Patent number: 12056314
    Abstract: A data drive input circuit includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) module operable to generate a PWM signal based on input data and a clock signal. The data drive input circuit further includes a mode enable module operable to establish a light emitting diode (LED) transmit mode of a mode signal when the PWM signal is in a first state and establish an LED receive mode of the mode signal when the PWM signal is in a second state. The data drive input circuit further includes a transmit/receive drive module operable to generate a transmit data signal component of an analog input signal based on the PWM signal and the LED transmit mode generate a receive signal component of the analog input signal based on the PWM signal and the LED receive mode and output the analog input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Gerald Dale Morrison, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12057764
    Abstract: Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a first terminal configured to receive a first terminal voltage; a second terminal configured to receive a second terminal voltage; a comparator configured to receive a first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage and to generate a comparison signal based at least in part on the first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage; and a switch configured to receive the first terminal voltage and the comparison signal, the switch being further configured to be closed to allow a current to flow out of the second terminal through the switch if the comparison signal is at a first logic level; wherein the comparator is further configured to: receive a first reference voltage as the first threshold voltage if the first terminal voltage is smaller than a second threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tuofu Liu, Xiangkun Zhai, Lieyi Fang
  • Patent number: 12057056
    Abstract: A driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The driving circuit includes a light-emitting device, a light-emitting controlling module, and a grayscale controlling module. The grayscale controlling module includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A conduction time of the first transistor partially overlaps the conduction time of the second transistor to realize that a light-emitting duration of the light-emitting device is less than a minimum conduction time of the first transistor or the minimum conduction time of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruixiong Li, Jinjia Chen
  • Patent number: 12056315
    Abstract: A method for determining for determining response for a touch display panel begins by receiving an analog input signal from a data drive input circuit that is operable to generate an analog input signal based on a digital input. The method continues by generating a reference signal voltage from the analog input signal, generating a data signal voltage from the analog input signal and using a difference detection circuit, outputting an analog output voltage. The method then continues by generating an error correction current based on the analog output voltage, where the error correction current adjusts the data signal voltage in order to keep inputs to the difference detection circuit substantially equal. Finally, the method finishes by generating a current representative of a light intensity for light received by a sensor cell associated with the touch display panel, converting the analog output signal into a digital representation of the current and producing information representative of light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Gerald Dale Morrison, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12057074
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixels, each of which is connected to a first power line and a second power line; and a power supply which, in a first display mode, supplies a first power voltage to the first power line and supplies a second power voltage to the second power line. The power supply includes: a first power supply which generates the first power voltage; a second power supply which generates the second power voltage; and a shut-down determiner which shuts down the first power supply and the second power supply in a case where the first power voltage is greater than a first reference voltage at a first time point, and the second power voltage is greater than a second reference voltage at a second time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Uk Nam
  • Patent number: 12057049
    Abstract: A driver includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a control circuit, a first drive circuit, and a second drive circuit. The control circuit outputs a first pulse width signal group and a second pulse width signal group. The first drive circuit outputs a first segment drive signal to the first terminal based on a pulse width signal selected according to grayscale data. The second drive circuit outputs a second segment drive signal to the second terminal based on the pulse width signal selected according to the grayscale data. The first terminal is coupled to a first segment electrode and the second terminal is coupled to a second segment electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12045537
    Abstract: Disclosed are an auxiliary display device of a light emitting diode (LED) module and an LED display. The auxiliary display device includes a shared hub provided with a dual input port and an independent output port. The dual input port is configured to receive a dual supply voltage, and the dual supply voltage includes a first voltage and a second voltage. The independent output port is connected to a common anode LED module and/or a common cathode LED module. A first LED of the common anode LED module and a second LED of the common anode LED module are configured to receive the first voltage; and a first LED of the common cathode LED module is configured to receive the first voltage, and a second LED of the common cathode LED module is configured to receive the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: UNILUMIN GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventor: Qianghong Xing
  • Patent number: 12046198
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in m rows and n columns, where the pixels receive write scan signals, data voltages and compensation scan signals, a plurality of write scan lines which provides the write scan signals to the pixels, a plurality of data lines which provides the data voltages to the pixels, and a plurality of compensation scan lines which provides the compensation scan signals to the pixels, wherein in h-th to p-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels arranged in first to i-th rows, and in h-th to (h+k)-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels of a row unit by increasing sequentially the number of the row unit to which the data voltages are applied in at least one row unit from an i-th row to an (i+1)-th row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Hui Nam, Soon-Dong Kim, Changnoh Yoon, Seungjae Lee
  • Patent number: 12039907
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit is provided, including N-stages of cascaded shift registers divided into at least one group of K-stages in which a clock signal terminal of a k-th stage of shift register is connected to receive a k-th clock signal, where 1?k?K?N; and an input signal terminal of a n-th stage is connected to an output signal terminal of a (n?i)-th stage, and reset signal terminals of the n-th and (n+1)-th stages are connected to an output signal terminal of a (n+j)-th stage, where 1<n<N, (K?2)/2?i?K/2, and K/2<j?K?2. K=12, the input signal terminal of the n-th stage is connected to an output signal terminal of a (n?6)-th stage, and the reset signal terminals of the n-th stage and the (n+1)-th stage are connected to an output signal terminal of a (n+8)-th stage or a (n+10) stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiujie Su, Zhihua Sun, Yingmeng Miao, Yinlong Zhang, Feng Qu, Seungmin Lee, Yanping Liao, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 12033578
    Abstract: A driving method of a display panel and a display panel are provided. Time for displaying one frame includes N times of first node potential adjustment stages, a data writing stage, and at least one first bias stress stage; the data writing stage is after the first node potential adjustment stage and before the first bias stress stage; the N times first node potential adjustment stage include N reset stages and N first adjustment voltage writing stages; and an i-th first voltage writing stage is after an i-th reset stage. In the reset stage, the first reset module is turned on to write a reset signal to the first node; in the first adjustment voltage writing phase, the first reset module is turned off, and the compensation module is turned on to write a first adjustment voltage into the first node to adjust the bias state of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Yue Li, Peng Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Xueqi Tian, Shuai Yang, Yana Gao, Gaojun Huang
  • Patent number: 12035607
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a through portion passing through the substrate and the first insulating layer, a display unit disposed on the first insulating layer and including a plurality of pixels surrounding at least a portion of the through portion, and a dummy pixel unit. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element including a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode facing each other, and an emission layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The dummy pixel unit includes a plurality of dummy pixels disposed between the through portion and the display unit, and including a metal pattern including a same material as the pixel electrode. The dummy pixels are disposed adjacent to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Sunkwang Kim, Kangmoon Jo
  • Patent number: 12027118
    Abstract: Various examples are provided related to driving a light emitting display in which variations in image quality and brightness can be suppressed despite long-term use, without adding a complicated circuit configuration. In one example, a method includes applying a voltage based on image data to be displayed to a gate electrode of a vertical organic light emitting transistor and applying a voltage, having a polarity opposite to that of the voltage applied to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor, to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor based on a value of a voltage being applied to a source electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: JSR CORPORATION, MATTRIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Katsui, Bo Liu, Maxime Lemaitre
  • Patent number: 12020639
    Abstract: Provided are a drive method of a display panel, a storage medium, a drive device and a display device. The drive method includes: in an Nth frame, applying a first voltage to the second electrode and a first data signal matched with a first voltage to the first electrode through the pixel drive circuit based on grayscale data of the Nth frame; wherein N is a positive integer; in an (N+1)th frame applying a second voltage to the second electrode and a second data signal matched with the second voltage to the first electrode through the pixel drive circuit based on grayscale data of the (N+1)th frame, wherein the first voltage is different from the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingyong Li, Fei Xu, Yanbin Wang, Jun Hong, Wenhong Tian