Display Elements Arranged In Matrix (e.g., Rows And Columns) Patents (Class 345/55)
  • Patent number: 12112678
    Abstract: A hybrid pulse-width-modulation pixel includes a light controller responsive to a variable power signal specifying different powers and a pixel controller. The pixel controller is operable receive a pixel luminance signal comprising multiple bits specifying a desired light-controller luminance, generate the variable power signal in response to the pixel luminance signal, and drive the light controller to emit light at different luminances in response to the variable power signal for different time periods. The pixel controller is operable to provide the variable power signal at a constant first power for a first time period and provide the variable power signal at a constant second power different from the constant first power for a second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Imre Knausz, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 12106722
    Abstract: A display substrate, and a display apparatus corresponding thereto and a manufacturing method therefor. The display substrate comprises: a display region and a non-display region, wherein the non-display region is provided with a gate driving circuit, which comprises a plurality of cascaded shift register units. Each shift register unit comprises: an input circuit (10), a first control circuit (11), a second control circuit (12) and an output circuit (15), wherein the first control circuit (11) is located between the input circuit (10) and the output circuit (15) in a first direction, and the first control circuit (11) is arranged in the first direction; and the second control circuit (12) is adjacent to the first control circuit (11) in a second direction; the first direction intersects with the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haigang Qing, Yunsheng Xiao, Quanyong Gu
  • Patent number: 12106703
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of red, a second sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of green, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of blue. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are inorganic light-emitting diodes. A light emission intensity of the second sub-pixel is increased at a predetermined ratio with respect to a light emission intensity of the first sub-pixel when the first sub-pixel emits light at a light emission intensity within a low-luminance range equal to or lower than a predetermined level of luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Kazunari Tomizawa, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 12107091
    Abstract: A display device having a display region to be viewed through a lens, the display device comprising: a substrate; and the display region in which the substrate is provided with a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction, and a plurality of signal lines extending in a second direction, wherein the first direction is non-parallel and non-orthogonal to a direction orthogonal to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12100353
    Abstract: In a display device including pixel circuits including oxide TFTs, degradation in display quality caused by light irradiation onto the oxide TFTs is suppressed. A TFT having a channel region formed of silicon is adopted as a drive transistor. A TFT having a gate electrode; a first conductive electrode and a second conductive electrode that function as a drain electrode and a source electrode; a back-gate electrode; and a channel region formed of an oxide semiconductor is adopted as a threshold voltage compensation transistor. A second conductive electrode of the drive transistor is connected to the first conductive electrode of the threshold voltage compensation transistor, and a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to the second conductive electrode of the threshold voltage compensation transistor. Silicon connected to the second conductive electrode of the drive transistor is used as the back-gate electrode of the threshold voltage compensation transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tamotsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 12094431
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes first light-transmitting substrate; second light-transmitting substrate opposed to the first light-transmitting substrate; liquid crystal layer between the first light-transmitting substrate and the second light-transmitting substrate; first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to sandwich the liquid crystal layer; and light emitter comprising a first light emitter configured to emit light in a first color, a second light emitter configured to emit light in a second color, and a third light emitter configured to emit light in a third color, wherein first light emitter has a temperature characteristic in which a relative light intensity decreases more with increase in a heating temperature than in the case of the second light emitter and the third light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Kentaro Okuyama, Masaaki Kabe
  • Patent number: 12094388
    Abstract: A source driving circuit includes: a logic and control sub-circuit configured to convert a source data signal into a data signal; a latch sub-circuit configured to, receive the data signal, latch an odd-numbered row of data in an odd-numbered frame, and latch an even-numbered row of data in an even-numbered frame; and an output sub-circuit configured to: receive the odd-numbered row of data in the odd-numbered frame and output the odd-numbered row of data in a first set duration, which is greater than a charging time of sub-pixels in the even-numbered row and less than or equal to twice the charging time; and receive the even-numbered row of data in the even-numbered frame and output the even-numbered row of data in a second set duration, which is greater than a charging time of sub-pixels in the odd-numbered row and less than or equal to twice the charging time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinlong Zhang, Yanping Liao, Jiantao Liu, Guohuo Su
  • Patent number: 12093477
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of emission areas emitting light and a light blocking area at least partially surrounding the plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the light blocking area on the display panel to sense a touch, a wavelength absorption layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes to absorb light of a specific wavelength, a bridge electrode disposed on the wavelength absorption layer to connect adjacent touch electrodes among the plurality of touch electrodes to each other, and a code pattern having position information determined by a planar shape of the bridge electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Woo Shim, Won Sang Park, Gi Na Yoo, Seong Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 12094383
    Abstract: A display driver and a charge recycling method are provided. The display driver includes a charging and discharging circuit and a control circuit. A first terminal of the charging and discharging circuit is coupled to at least one of the scan lines, and a second terminal of the charging and discharging circuit is coupled to at least one of the data lines. The control circuit is coupled to a first control terminal and a second control terminal of the charging and discharging circuit. The charging and discharging circuit receives a first current generated by discharging the at least one of the scan lines to charge the capacitor based on a first control signal. The charging and discharging circuit discharges the capacitor to generate a second current for charging the at least one of the data lines based on a second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chieh-An Lin, Keko-Chun Liang, Jhih-Siou Cheng
  • Patent number: 12087211
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display apparatus may include a pixel including a driving element having a gate electrode connected to a data line and a source electrode connected to a reference voltage line and a pixel driving circuit applying a sensing data voltage to the gate electrode of the driving element through the data line, detecting a source electrode voltage of the driving element, shifted from a sensing reference voltage based on the sensing data voltage, through the reference voltage line to obtain a detection voltage, calculating an offset voltage based on the detection voltage, and lowering a level of the sensing data voltage based on the offset voltage, in a plurality of vertical blank periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Hyun Hong, Sang Yun Kim, Jae Yoon Bae
  • Patent number: 12080225
    Abstract: A display device includes a sub-pixel connected to a scan write line, a first data line, and a second data line. The sub-pixel includes a light emitting element, a first pixel driving unit configured to generate a control current according to a first data voltage of the first data line, a second pixel driving unit configured to generate a driving current applied to the light emitting element according to a second data voltage of the second data line, and a third pixel driving unit configured to apply the driving current to the light emitting element according to the control current of the first pixel driving unit. The first pixel driving unit includes a first transistor to generate the control current according to the first data voltage, a second transistor configured to apply the first data voltage of the first data line to a first electrode of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nak Cho Choi, Jeong Su Kim, Myung Koo Hur
  • Patent number: 12067928
    Abstract: The present application provides a flicker adjustment method of a frequency conversion display device and frequency conversion display device, by the time controller detect and count the frame number or the total time length of the image frames that are continuous with the same frame rate, and compare the frame number or the total time length to a predetermined constant frequency determination threshold value, when the frame number or the total time length is equal to or greater than the predetermined constant frequency determination threshold value, the white tracking compensation table corresponding to each of the image frames that are continuous with the same frame rate is revised as the same white tracking compensation table. Therefore, the present application avoids the issues of flickering images, achieves the goal of lowered flickering images of the frequency conversion display device and improvement of display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinfeng Liu, Yue Fan
  • Patent number: 12067932
    Abstract: A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements forming a part of an automotive head lamp assembly is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a memory cell operative to pulse width modulate a current mirror pixel drive circuit configured to drive an emissive element. The array of emissive pixel elements is divided into a plurality of interdigitated rows or columns serviced by independent row drivers or independent column drivers that may be driven by data selected to randomize the order in which the data on adjacent pixels of the same row are written, thereby effectively substantially reducing the visibility of any residual structures that may be present in the data driving the pixels of adjacent columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Lyle Hudson, Robert Lo
  • Patent number: 12067800
    Abstract: An input sensing circuit includes a plurality of sensors to sense a touch event and to recognize a fingerprint. Among the sensors, at least one sensor includes two transistors and one capacitor. One electrode of electrodes of the capacitor makes contact with a finger of a person to form a capacitance, and the input sensing circuit senses the capacitance to sense the touch event and to recognize the fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sungjae Moon
  • Patent number: 12062330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a display panel. The display panel includes a transition display region and a transparent display region. First pixel driving circuits are placed in the transition display region. Dummy pixel driving circuits are placed in the transition display region. One of the dummy pixel driving circuit is adjacently placed within a predetermined distance from at least one side of the first pixel driving circuits arranged along the second direction. This could reduce the environment difference between the pixel driving circuit close to the light sensing region and the pixel driving circuit inside the transition display region and thus reduce the luminance difference between the first display pixels controlled by the pixel driving circuit close to the light sensing region and the first display pixels controlled by the pixel driving circuit inside the transition display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maojun Yin, Shaojing Wu, Cheng Yang, Xiaoguang Zhu
  • Patent number: 12063824
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first area in which first pixels of a first pixel column, second pixels of a second pixel column, and third pixels of a third pixel column are arranged, a second area which cuts off each of the first pixel column, the second pixel column, and the third pixel column and through which an optical signal travels, and first to third data lines. The first data line is connected to the first pixels and a portion of the third pixels arranged on one side of the second area in a direction in which the pixel columns extend, the second data line is connected to the second pixels, and the third data line is connected to a remaining portion of the third pixels arranged on the other side of the second area in the direction in which the pixel columns extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dohyun Kang
  • Patent number: 12062316
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display driving circuit and a frequency correction method of the display driving circuit, capable of quickly correcting a frequency change of a clock signal when a display device is driven at a low scan rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyeong Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 12038659
    Abstract: To minimize the width of a non-light-emitting border region around an opening in the active area, data lines may be stacked in the border region. Data line portions may be formed using three metal layers in three different planes within the border region. A metal layer that forms a positive power signal distribution path in the active area may serve as a data line portion in the border region. A metal layer may be added in the border region to serve as a data line portion in the border region. Data line signals may also be provided to pixels on both sides of an opening in the active area using supplemental data line paths. A supplemental data line path may be routed through the active area of the display to electrically connect data line segments on opposing sides of an opening within the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shin-Hung Yeh, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Chien-Ya Lee, Lun Tsai
  • Patent number: 12039952
    Abstract: A display apparatus which includes a driver with low power consumption and in which an output voltage of the driver is boosted by a pixel is provided. The source driver in which a logic unit and an amplifier unit operate appropriately by the same low voltage is included, and the pixel has a function of retaining first data, a function of adding second data to the first data to generate third data, and a function of supplying the third data to a display device. Thus, even when a voltage output from the source driver is low, the voltage can be boosted by the pixel; accordingly, the display device can operate appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Motoharu Saito
  • Patent number: 12033570
    Abstract: A light emitting display apparatus includes a pixel driving circuit including a driving transistor and an anode reset capacitor connected to a gate of the driving transistor and a light emitting device configured to emit light with a current supplied through the driving transistor. An anode reset period, where a data voltage is not supplied to the driving transistor, is between refresh periods where the light emitting device emits the light with the data voltage supplied to the driving transistor, and an anode reset voltage supplied to the anode reset capacitor in the refresh period is higher than an initial voltage which is input to the gate of the driving transistor in the refresh period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JungChul Kim, HoYoung Lee, Sungwook Chang, Jaesung Kim
  • Patent number: 12035602
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including an opening area and a display area at least partially surrounding the opening area; and a metal layer including a first region and a second region adjacent to a non-display area between the opening area and the display area, the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other, and one of the first region and the second region includes a protrusion extending toward the other of the first region and the second region, and the other of the first region and the second region has a shape to receive the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeyun Han, Gyeongnam Bang, Changho Lee
  • Patent number: 12020643
    Abstract: An array substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the display area is provided with display units therein, the display area includes a curved edge, the peripheral area is provided therein with a plurality of shift register units cascaded, at positions corresponding to the curved edge of the display area, an extending direction in which a first edge of each shift register unit extends is parallel to an outer tangent line of the curved edge or is consistent with an extending direction in which the curved edge extends, and the first edge is an inner edge of each shift register unit close to the curved edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao Bi, Yu Zhao, Xiaojuan Wu, Hongliang Yuan, Jian Wang, Hao Yan, Liping Lei
  • Patent number: 12021071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus using a semiconductor light-emitting device, the display apparatus comprising: a base substrate; a row driver which provides 3-state first signals including a high, a ground, and a low signal; a column driver which provides 2-state second signals including a high and a low signal; and a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices provided on the base substrate, wherein the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices include a first semiconductor light-emitting device and a second semiconductor light-emitting device which are connected to the row driver and the column driver in different pole directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yonghan Lee
  • Patent number: 12020630
    Abstract: The technology of this disclosure relates to a stacked structure, a display screen, and a display apparatus. The stacked structure includes a substrate, a drive chip, and a pixel unit that are stacked. The substrate has a first surface. A line layer is disposed on the first surface, the drive chip is disposed on a surface that is of the line layer and that faces away from the first surface, and the pixel unit and a corresponding drive chip are stacked. A sub-pixel located in each pixel unit is separately electrically connected to the line layer and the corresponding drive chip to form a light-emitting loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dapeng He, Wenjin Huang
  • Patent number: 12014786
    Abstract: A shift register, a display panel, and a display drive method are provided in the present disclosure. The shift register includes an input module, configured to output a first control signal according to an input signal; a pull-down control module, configured to control a potential of a first node according to a first clock signal, a high-level signal, a low-level signal, and the first control signal; a pull-up control module, configured to control a potential of a second node according to the first clock signal, a second clock signal, the high-level signal, and the first control signal; a maintaining module, configured to pull down the potential of the first node; a pull-down output module, configured to control an output terminal of the shift register to output the low-level signal; and a pull-up output module, configured to control the output terminal of the shift register to output the high-level signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma MicroElectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventor: Mengmeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12016097
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode (?LED) array system can include an image post processor configured to translate received image data to pulse width modulation (PWM) and/or analog current control data, an input frame buffer configured to receive the control data, a plurality of individually controllable ?LEDS of a ?LED array, a return frame buffer that receives data indicating a ?LED electrical output characteristic including an output current, and compare circuitry configured to compare image data from the input and return frame buffers, and transfer comparison data to the image post processor, the image post processor configured to alter individual ?LED control data based on the comparison data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Johannes Boone, Sridhar Vajapey
  • Patent number: 12010907
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongbin Um, Joonsam Kim, Jinsic Min, Euncheol Son, Kyeongyeol Heo
  • Patent number: 12008943
    Abstract: The display panel includes a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of pixel circuits, a plurality of rows of gate lines, a plurality rows of reset control lines, and a plurality of columns of data lines, a same row of pixel circuits corresponds to two rows of gate lines, and one/the other row of gate line is electrically connected to odd/even-numbered columns of pixel circuits in the row of pixel circuits, and provides a corresponding gate driving signal for the odd/even-numbered columns of pixel circuits; a same column of pixel circuits corresponds to two columns of data lines, and one/the other column of data line of the two columns of data lines is electrically connected to odd/even-numbered rows of pixel circuits, and provides a corresponding data voltage for the odd/even-numbered rows of pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tian Dong, Can Zheng, Li Wang, Long Han, Yu Feng, Hao Zhang, Jiangnan Lu, Jie Zhang, Bo Wang, Jingquan Wang
  • Patent number: 12010882
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal line extending in a first direction, a first transistor configured to control a driving current, a light-emitting element electrically coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor electrically coupled to a first electrode of the first transistor and configured to transfer a data voltage, a first scan line electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the second transistor and extending in the first direction, a third transistor including a first electrode electrically coupled to the second electrode of the first transistor and a second electrode electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second scan line electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the third transistor and extending in the first direction, wherein the second scan line overlaps one selected from among the signal line and the first scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Jin Cho, Ji Su Na, Joong Soo Moon, Yang Wan Kim, Chang Kyu Jin
  • Patent number: 12009039
    Abstract: An error compensation circuit for analog capacitor memory circuits includes a first transistor and a second transistor with gates connected respectively to top and bottom of an analog memory capacitor to read a voltage charged in the analog memory capacitor; a first switch and a second switch connected respectively to the first transistor and the second transistor to select the voltage to read; a first capacitor and a second capacitor to charge an electric charge to compensate or refresh the analog memory capacitor according to on/off of the first switch and the second switch; and an input terminal connected to sources of the first transistor and the second transistor to apply the voltage to operate the circuit. Accordingly, it is possible to compensate for an unintended phenomenon of the analog capacitor memory or refresh a change in memory value caused by leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Hyung-Min Lee, Minil Kang, Min-Seong Um
  • Patent number: 12002419
    Abstract: A pixel includes a first capacitor including a first electrode connected to a wire of a first power supply voltage, and a second electrode connected to a gate node, a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate node, and a back gate electrode connected to a back gate line, a second transistor which transmits a data signal to a source of the first transistor in response to a first gate signal, a third transistor which diode-connects the first transistor in response to the first gate signal, a fourth transistor which transmits an initialization voltage to the gate node in response to a second gate signal. The first transistor receives a back gate voltage, which is obtained by delaying the first gate signal by a ½ frame, through the back gate electrode in a low-frequency driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11978389
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus, and the display apparatus according to an embodiment comprises: a memory storing at least one command; a display comprising m display modules, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and a plurality of processors that divide the m display modules, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 2, into n groups, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, according to the at least one command stored in the memory, and control the n groups, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daeseong Seo, Yanghyun Kim, Woosik Jung, Davin Baik, Cheolwan Choi, Insu Lee
  • Patent number: 11978393
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, a third transistor, a second capacitor, and a fourth transistor. The first transistor is configured to receive a power voltage. The second transistor is configured to receive a data voltage and is coupled to a gate terminal of the first transistor. The first capacitor is coupled between the gate terminal of the first transistor and a source terminal of the first transistor. The third transistor is coupled between the source terminal of the first transistor and a light-emitting element. The second capacitor is coupled between the source terminal of the first transistor and a reference voltage. The fourth transistor is coupled between the source terminal of the first transistor and a reset voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Shing-Ron Huang
  • Patent number: 11971753
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Scott A. Myers
  • Patent number: 11966527
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function, a drive circuit, and an electronic unit, which make it possible to realize many functions related to touch detection. The display panel includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes extending in one direction; an electrode drive section integrated into a chip, and applying a drive signal to the drive electrodes; and one or more touch detection electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the direction in which the drive electrodes extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11967275
    Abstract: A light-emitting drive circuit, which includes cascaded N light-emitting drive sub-circuits, and an n-th light-emitting drive sub-circuit, includes: a first pull-up control sub-circuit configured to pull up a potential of a first node to a first potential in a trigger phase; a first pull-down control sub-circuit configured to pull down the potential of the first node to a second potential in an output phase and pull up the potential of the first node to a third potential in a reset phase; a pull-up sub-circuit configured to pull up an n-th stage light-emitting drive signal to a high potential; a second pull-down control sub-circuit configured to pull up a potential of a second node to a fourth potential in the output phase; and a pull-down sub-circuit configured to pull down the n-th stage light-emitting drive signal to a low potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiufeng Zhou, Xin Yuan, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11961492
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a driving method. The pixel circuit includes: a first control module, a latch module, a second control module, a first input module and a second input module. The first control module provides a signal on a data line to a first node under control of a signal of first gate line. The latch module latches signals of the first node and a second node. The second control module provides signal on the data line to a third node under control of a signal on a second gate line. The first input module provides a signal of a reference signal terminal to a pixel electrode under control of signal of the first node. The second input module provides a signal of the third node to the pixel electrode under control of signal of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiguo Wang, Jun Fan
  • Patent number: 11961322
    Abstract: Provided are a force sensor, a display device including the same, and a method of driving the same. The force sensor includes a first base substrate and a second base substrate facing each other; first force sensor electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction on the first base substrate; second force sensor electrodes extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction on the second base substrate; and a sensor hole configured to transmit light. Any one of the first force sensor electrodes includes a first sub-force sensor electrode disposed on a first side of the sensor hole and a second sub-force sensor electrode disposed on a second side opposite to the first side of the sensor hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Seomoon, Won Ki Hong, Hyeon Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11961488
    Abstract: A method for controlling a screen of an electronic device includes the following. A switching instruction sent by an application layer is received. The switching instruction is configured to control a display chip to switch between an AOD state and a non-AOD state. In response to the switching instruction, it is determined whether a first display interface received from the application layer at a current moment matches the switching instruction. In response to determining that the first display interface matches the switching instruction, the display chip switches between the AOD state and the non-AOD state based on the switching instruction to display the first display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11961447
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device, including a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area includes a circuit area and a fan-out wiring area arranged side by side with the display area along a first direction in sequence. The fan-out wiring area includes a plurality of first fan-out wirings with lengths gradually decreasing along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The circuit area includes a plurality of first sub-circuit areas in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first fan-out wirings. Widths of the plurality of the first sub-circuit areas in the first direction gradually decrease along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuoyuan Xu
  • Patent number: 11961453
    Abstract: A pixel drive circuit and a drive method thereof, a display panel, and a terminal device, which are applied to the field of terminal technologies. The pixel drive circuit includes a first reset module, a light-emitting control module, and a drive module, and both the first reset module and the light-emitting control module are connected to a light-emitting control signal terminal, where one of the first reset module and the light-emitting control module is turned on when the light-emitting control signal is at a high level, and the other of the first reset module and the light-emitting control module is turned on when the light-emitting control signal is at a low level. Therefore, by increasing the frequency of the light-emitting control signal to greater than 120 Hz, a problem of a phenomenon of frequent flickering on an image during low-brightness display may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Su, Yabin An
  • Patent number: 11955082
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is disposed in the display substrate, the display substrate includes a display stage and a non-display stage, the pixel circuit is configured to drive the light emitting element to emit light in the display stage, and includes a first control sub-circuit, a second control sub-circuit, a third control sub-circuit, a fourth control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a driving sub-circuit; the third control sub-circuit is electrically connected with a third reset signal terminal, a control signal terminal and a third node respectively, and is configured to provide a first signal to the third node in the display stage and a second signal to the third node or acquire a signal of the third node in the non-display stage under control of the third reset signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Ming Hu, Haijun Qiu, Juntao Chen
  • Patent number: 11955060
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate; the base substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region on at least one side of the display region; the peripheral region includes a first peripheral sub-region and a second peripheral sub-region, the display region includes a first display sub-region corresponding to the first peripheral sub-region and a second display sub-region corresponding to the second peripheral sub-region, and the second display sub-region is different from the first display sub-region; the second peripheral sub-region includes a first gate driving circuit, and the first gate driving circuit is configured to be connected to a plurality of gate scanning signal lines in the first display sub-region through a plurality of connecting lines in the display region, to respectively providing a gate scanning signal to a plurality of rows of pixel units in the first display sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghui Tian, Rong Wang, Xiangdan Dong, Mengmeng Du, Fan He, Cong Fan, Yujing Li
  • Patent number: 11957017
    Abstract: A display device includes, in a display area: scan control lines and data signal lines intersecting with each other; subpixels each including a subpixel circuit provided at an intersection of the scan control lines and the data signal lines; and light-emitting elements, one for each of the subpixels. The subpixel circuit includes a drive transistor, a write transistor, and a capacitor that retains a data signal. The write transistor includes a conduction terminal connected to an associated one of the data signal lines, another conduction terminal connected to a first gate terminal of the drive transistor, and a control terminal connected to an associated one of the scan control lines. Each of the light-emitting elements includes a first element electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second element electrode, the first element electrode being connected to a conduction terminal of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11955065
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit including a driving transistor and a preset module, a light-emitting element and a gating module. A first terminal of the preset module is connected to the driving transistor, and a second terminal of the preset module is connected to a preset signal terminal or the driving transistor, a control terminal of the preset module is connected to a control signal line, a control terminal of the gating module is connected to a gating signal line configured for receiving a gating signal, the gating module is connected between the control terminal of the preset module and the control signal line, or between the first terminal of the preset module and the driving transistor, or between the second terminal of the preset module and the preset signal terminal or the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11953792
    Abstract: The irregularly-shaped display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a shielding layer. some of the pixel units are shielded by the shielding layer to form irregularly-shaped pixel units, and each of the irregularly-shaped pixel unit at least comprises a first irregularly-shaped pixel unit; in the first irregularly-shaped pixel unit, the areas of opening regions of at least two sub-pixels shielded by the shielding layer are different, and the sub-pixel having a larger area of an opening region shielded by the shielding layer has a greater pixel pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Li Lv, Tingting Shen, Yunyang Liu, Yuchun Xu, Guangchen Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11948922
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display substrate, and light emitting devices arranged on an upper surface of the display substrate. At least one of the light emitting devices includes a first LED unit including a first light emitting stack, a second LED unit including a second light emitting stack, and a third LED unit including a third light emitting stack. The second LED unit is disposed between the first LED unit and the third LED unit. Each of the first to third light emitting stacks includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer in each of the first to third light emitting stacks are stacked in a horizontal direction with respect to the upper surface of the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hoon Lee, So Ra Lee
  • Patent number: 11942039
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit comprises a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a trigger, a first response switch and a second response switch. The driving transistor has a first terminal connected to a power source, a second terminal connected to a light emitting unit, and a control terminal connected to the storage capacitor, and a second terminal of the storage capacitor is connected to the power source. The first response switch has a first terminal connected to a data line, a control terminal connected to a scan line, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the storage capacitor, an input terminal of the trigger is connected to the scan line. The second response switch has a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the drive transistor, a second terminal connected to an initial voltage terminal, and a control terminal connected to an output terminal of the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Renjie Zhou, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11941211
    Abstract: In some examples, a touch screen can include touch electrodes that can function as drive (Tx) electrodes and sense (Rx) electrodes during a touch sensing operation of the electronic device. The drive electrodes can include +Tx electrodes and ?Tx electrodes that can receive drive signals that can have the same amplitude and frequency and opposite phases, for example. In some examples, the surface areas of the +Tx electrodes and the ?Tx electrodes can be the same and the distances of the +Tx electrodes and ?Tx electrodes from the Rx electrodes can be different. In some examples, the total charge coupled to a proximate or touching object can be zero, which can mitigate problems associated with ungrounded or poorly grounded objects in contact with the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Matthew Pender Paul, Christoph H. Krah, Bin Huang, Stanley Bo-Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 11937476
    Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate; a circuit array layer comprising pixel drivers, data lines, first dummy lines, and second dummy lines; and a light emitting array layer. The display area comprises middle, first side, and second side regions. The data lines comprise first, second, and third data lines disposed in the middle, first side, and second side regions, respectively. The first dummy lines comprise a first data detour line disposed in the first side region and adjacent to a part of the second data line, and auxiliary lines. The second dummy lines comprise a second data detour line configured to connect the first data detour line to the third data line, and additional lines. The auxiliary lines comprise a bias auxiliary line to which a bias power is applied; and a second power auxiliary line to which a second power is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Sung An, Sung Ho Kim, Yong Jae Kim, Yun Hwan Park, Yoon Jee Shin, Sug Woo Jung, Hyun Wook Choi