Fluid Light Emitter (e.g., Gas, Liquid, Or Plasma) Patents (Class 345/60)
  • Patent number: 10074825
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element containing a flexible substrate having thereon: a first gas barrier layer, an insulating layer, a first electrode, a light emitting unit containing an organic functional layer, and a second electrode, in that order, wherein the first gas barrier layer is a polysilazane reforming layer; the insulating layer is a layer containing a metal oxide; and a metal element in the metal oxide has a lower redox potential than silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shota Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 10026229
    Abstract: An auxiliary device can be used to display a fiducial that contains information useful in determining the physical size of the fiducial as displayed on the auxiliary device. A primary device can capture image data including a representation of the fiducial. The scale and orientation of the fiducial can be determined, such that a graphical overlay can be generated of an item of interest that corresponds to that scale and orientation. The overlay can then be displayed along with the captured image data, in order to provide an augmented reality experience wherein the image displayed on the primary device represents a scale-appropriate view of the item in a location of interest corresponding to the location of the auxiliary device. As the primary device is moved and the viewpoint of the camera changes, changes in relative scale and orientation to the fiducial are determined and the overlay is updated accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Ismet Zeki Yalniz, Rahul Bhotika, Song Cao, Michael Patrick Cutter, Colin Jon Taylor, Mark Scott Waldo, Chun-Kai Wang, Daniya Zamalieva
  • Patent number: 10025114
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device having improved oxygen transmissibility is provided. The ophthalmic device includes a hydrogel lens wherein the peripheral zone of the hydrogel lens includes a plurality of raised portions on the surface of the lens proximal to the ocular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventor: James Daniel Riall
  • Patent number: 10019126
    Abstract: A touch window may include a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position. The electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, a first electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second electrode layer on the second sub-pattern. Another touch window includes a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position, the electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, an electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, a first anti-reflective layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second anti-reflective layer on the second sub-pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Lee, In Tae Kim, Jung Ki Lee, Beom Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 10001638
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes first and second barrier layers which cover first and second electrodes. The electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate which faces a second base substrate, the first electrode on the first base substrate, the first barrier layer which covers the first electrode, the second electrode on the second base substrate, the second barrier layer which covers the second electrode, a barrier wall between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, and an electrowetting layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate. The barrier wall defines a pixel area corresponding to the first electrode, and the electrowetting layer is in the pixel area. The electrowetting layer includes a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid which are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tae Woo Lim, Keunkyu Song, Jihoon Yang, Tae Hyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 9977096
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes one or more connector terminals, which are connected to wiring extending from the connector and are coupled to interconnect with corresponding connector terminals in a mating connector. An active shielding circuit is mounted adjacent to the connector terminals and is configured to sense a first magnetic field in a vicinity of the electrical connector and to generate, based on the sensed magnetic field, a second magnetic field that reduces interference induced in the wiring and the connector terminals by the first magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Andres Claudio Altmann, Yaron Ephrath
  • Patent number: 9977234
    Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. A wall is formed on the first support plate. A portion of the wall is associated with an electrowetting pixel. A distal end of the wall portion forms a non-planar contact surface having a first surface feature. A spacer is positioned between the second support plate and the wall portion. The spacer has a distal end forming a non-planar contact surface with a second surface feature complementary to the first surface feature. The non-planar contact surface of the spacer contacts the non-planar contact surface of the wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeroen Cornelis van der Gaag, Carlo Klein
  • Patent number: 9973100
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a power supply module, a control module, and a gate driving unit. The power supply module is used for generating a supply current according to an induced voltage generated from a secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply current is used for establishing a supply voltage, and the induced voltage corresponds to a control signal of a power switch of a primary side of the power converter. The control module is coupled to the power supply module for turning on or turning off the power supply module according to the supply voltage. The gate driving unit is coupled to the power supply module for generating a gate control signal controlling turning-on and turning-off of a synchronous switch of the secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply voltage is used for driving the gate driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Leadtrend Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chung-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 9965995
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. The array of pixels may have a shape such as a circular shape or other shape with a curved edge. Display driver circuitry may supply data signals to the pixels using folded vertical data lines and bisected horizontal gate lines. Each folded vertical lines may have a first segment in a left half of the array and a second segment in a right half of the display. Curved coupling segments in an inactive area of the display may be used in joining the first and second segments. Display driver circuits may be provided in top and bottom portions of the inactive area to supply data to respective top and bottom portions of the array. Gate driver output buffers may have different strengths in different rows of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Cheng Chen, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shih Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 9947285
    Abstract: A voltage converter includes a conversion unit, a self driver and an output unit. The conversion unit includes at least one inductor and provides a boosting power based on an input voltage and a first driving signal. The self driver includes at least one inductor that forms a magnetic coupling with the at least one inductor of the conversion unit. The self driver generates a second driving signal that is synchronized with the first driving signal through the magnetic coupling. The output unit generates an output voltage based on the boosting power and the second driving signal. Switching loss and conduction loss may be reduced by replacing an output diode with an output transistor and voltage spike and electromagnetic interference may be reduced through zero voltage switching. The driving signal of the output transistor may be controlled efficiently by adjusting the inductance of the driving inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwang-Teak Lee, Seung-Young Choi, Jae-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 9922591
    Abstract: A display driving method includes: performing a display scan function and a display stop function during a plurality of frame periods; during one frame period, outputting, alternately and sequentially along a scan direction, N scan signals according to K clock signals when performing the display scan function, wherein each of the scan signals has an enable period of a scan line, the clock signals sequentially have a delay, and each of the clock signals is a periodic signal with K delays as one period; providing a driving control signal and disabling the clock signals when performing the display stop function during a display stop period, wherein an initiation time position of the display stop period is changed based on an offset between two neighboring frame periods, and the neighboring frame periods have no overlapping or interlacing interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Chuan Ko, Chun-Hung Kuo, Meng-Chieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 9916050
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] To reduce a time constant of an electric circuit including driving electrodes and detecting electrodes in a display provided with an input device, and reduce a temperature variation ratio of the time constant. [SOLVING MEANS] The display 1 includes driving electrodes COML provided along an X axis direction when seen in a plan view, buffer TFT elements Trb serially connected to the driving electrodes COML, and a plurality of detecting electrodes TDL respectively provided to intersect with the driving electrodes COML when seen in a plan view and aligned in the X axis direction. A temperature coefficient of resistance of a sum of an ON resistance of the buffer TFT elements Trb and a resistance of the driving electrodes COML is negative, each of the specific resistances of the plurality of detecting electrodes TDL is not more than 40 ??cm, and each of the temperature coefficients of resistance of the plurality of detecting electrodes TDL is 1×10?3 to 5×10?3K?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 9898956
    Abstract: A method of driving active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels includes: (A) dividing a current frame of a current image corresponding to an i-th color component into a plurality of sub-frames, wherein i?[1,N], and N is a total number of the color component; (B) obtaining a sequence of the sub-frames of a previous frame of a previous image corresponding to the i-th color component, wherein the previous frame has been divided into a plurality of sub-frames by the same way with the current frame; (C) determining the sequence of the sub-frames of the current frame in accordance with the sequence of the sub-frames of the previous frame, wherein the sequence of the sub-frames (SF) of the current image is same with or is different from that of the previous frame; and (D) controlling the panel to display in accordance with the sequence of the sub-frames of the current frame determined by corresponding color components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ping-sheng Kuo, Li-wei Chu
  • Patent number: 9891250
    Abstract: A bidirectional voltage differentiator circuit comprises start-up circuitry, sensing circuitry, and output circuitry coupled to logic circuitry. The start-up circuitry acts to start-up the sensing circuitry when the circuit is powered on, and accelerates the response of the sensing circuitry thereafter. The sensing circuitry senses variation in an input voltage applied to an input node. Responsive to the voltage variation sensed by the sensing circuitry, the output circuitry produces a state change at a first or second output node. The logic circuitry receives the states of the output nodes and produces a logic output signal to indicate the occurrence of the variation sensed in the input voltage. The voltage sensing circuit is operable to sense variation of the input voltage regardless of whether the voltage is rising or falling and without regard to the DC value of the input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Yijun Duan
  • Patent number: 9886887
    Abstract: Techniques for displaying a quality-improved image with reduced power consumption are provided. In one embodiment, a display panel driver is provided that includes a dithering section configured to receive first m-bit image data and configured to generate second image data by performing dithering on the first image data with n-bit dither values each selected from elements of a dither table, and a driver circuit configured to drive the source lines of a display panel in response to the second image data. In generating the second image data corresponding to first pixels belonging to a first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a first column of the dither table, while the second image data corresponding to second pixels belonging to a second pixel column adjacent to the first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a second column of the dither table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 9875698
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises an electrowetting picture element with a first support plate with a first support plate portion comprising a layer substantially non-transmissive for light and second support plate portion substantially non-absorbing for light. A display controller is configured to control a display effect of the electrowetting picture element between a dark and light display effect, and, responsive to input data corresponding to the dark display effect, output at least one signal to a driver corresponding to the dark display effect. The driver is configured to, responsive to the at least one signal output by the display controller, apply a first, non-zero, voltage to the electrowetting picture element to switch a first and a second fluid of the electrowetting picture element to a first configuration with the first fluid and the second fluid in contact with a first surface of the first support plate portion and the first fluid in contact with a second surface of the second support plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Romaric Mathieu Massard
  • Patent number: 9858856
    Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting display, the method including supplying a data signal of an i-th (i is a natural number) frame corresponding to a scan signal non-sequentially supplied during a first period in an i-th frame period, and supplying a data signal of (i+1)-th frame corresponding to a scan signal non-sequentially supplied during a second period, which is different from the first period, in the i-th frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 9812064
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display panel and a method for compensating voltage drop thereof. The organic light-emitting display panel is added with a voltage drop compensation unit, which is connected to a data driving unit, and used for calculating, as per a data voltage output by the data driving unit and inbuilt iterative algorithm, a voltage at a junction between a power wiring and each of a plurality of pixel units. Subsequently, the data voltage output by the data driving unit is compensated based on a voltage difference between the voltage as calculated and a supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping Sheng Kuo
  • Patent number: 9740000
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device comprising: a first fluid adjoining a surface of a support plate; a second fluid; a color filter for outputting light with a predetermined hue; a transmissive region configured to transmit light of at least one wavelength filtered by the color filter; and an electrode for use in applying a voltage to control a configuration of the first and second fluids. In a first configuration the first fluid adjoins a first extent of the surface and overlaps a first extent of the color filter and a first extent of the transmissive region. In a second configuration the first fluid adjoins a second extent of the surface and overlaps a second extent of the color filter and a second extent of the transmissive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Petrus Maria De Greef
  • Patent number: 9711106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display method and a display system, which belong to the field of display technology and solve a problem of large power consumption in the case of light-load images in existing display methods. The display method includes steps of: detecting, when a frame of image is displayed, a variation degree of data voltages on respective data lines; determining, according to the detection result, a load size of the displayed image; and adjusting, according to the determination result, an operating frequency of a charge pump, and outputting, by the charge pump, a voltage corresponding to the operating frequency to a gate driving unit, so that a gate driving voltage is provided to a gate line by the gate driving unit. The overall power consumption of a display system can be reduced and the performance thereof can be improved by the display method according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Wang, Hao Zhang, Lingyun Shi, Jialong Li, Shuai Han, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9685636
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel; a bottom cover configured to accommodate the display panel; and a composite sheet disposed between the display panel and the bottom cover. The composite sheet includes a buffer sheet having at least one through hole and at least one heat-dissipating sheet accommodated in the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Jun Park, Hwan Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 9680126
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) that includes an OLED panel; a back cover supporting the OLED panel and including a reinforcing bent portion; and a heat dissipation member between the OLED panel and the back cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Cheol Kang, Gi-Hyon Jun
  • Patent number: 9660521
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit includes first to fourth switching elements connected in series between ground and high voltage electrical paths, a first reactor, a main battery, a second reactor, a sub battery, a high voltage sensor for detecting a high voltage VH between the ground and high voltage electrical paths, and a controller. Upon issuance of an instruction for turning off all of the first to fourth switching elements, the controller determines that the third switching element is experiencing an ON failure when the high voltage VH is equal to the sum of a battery voltage VB1 of the main battery and a battery voltage VB2 of the sub battery, to thereby allow electrical power to be transferred between the batteries and a load even in the event of occurrence of the ON failure in the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Oi, Tomoko Oba
  • Patent number: 9588336
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include depositing a sacrificial layer on a support plate, etching portions of the sacrificial layer to form liquid duct forms on the support plate, depositing a photoresist layer on the liquid duct forms and the support plate, etching portions of the photoresist layer to form a spacer grid, and removing the liquid duct forms to form liquid ducts between the support plate and the portions of the spacer grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerben Boon, Christian Etienne Hendriks, Daniel Figura
  • Patent number: 9567206
    Abstract: A micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) device is provided. The MEMS device includes a cap substrate and a MEMS substrate bonded with the cap substrate. The MEMS substrate includes a first movable element and a second movable element. The MEMS device also includes a first closed chamber between the MEMS substrate and the cap substrate, and the first movable element is in the first closed chamber. The MEMS device further includes an outgassing layer in the first closed chamber. In addition, the MEMS device includes a second closed chamber between the MEMS substrate and the cap substrate, and the second movable element is in the second closed chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Hua Chu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Shang-Ying Tsai, Chin-Wei Liang
  • Patent number: 9558695
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according this invention includes: a light-emitting unit configured to emit light; a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting the light from the light-emitting unit at a transmittance based on an input image signal; and a control unit configured to set a plurality of lighting periods respectively having different lengths on a frame-by-frame basis and control lighting and extinction of the light-emitting unit in such a manner that the light-emitting unit is lit during the lighting periods and extinguished during a period other than the lighting periods, wherein the control unit makes the number of lighting periods within one frame larger when a brightness of the image is bright than when the brightness of the image is dark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 9536480
    Abstract: An image display device including: a light-emitting unit that is capable of individually controlling emission amounts in each of a plurality of regions constituting a screen; a display unit that displays an image on the screen; and a control unit that sets a first region in which display is performed at a predetermined brightness and a second region in which an image is displayed at a lower brightness than the predetermined brightness in the screen, wherein the control unit sets the second region in a region excluding the first region in the screen on the basis of an influence of light leakage from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chika Masuda, Yuka Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 9528654
    Abstract: A functional apparatus capable of safely securing in place a flat panel viewing device swinging open as a door either right or left hand swing allowing it's user easy accessibility to the various connections in back of the flat panel device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Barry Pachmayr, Charles Cortland Brogan
  • Patent number: 9524644
    Abstract: A notification control method executed by a computer, the notification control method includes: acquiring image data of a displayable image captured by an imaging device, and controlling a notification concerning detection of an object based on output of a sensor, depending on a determination of visibility for the displayable image based on the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kimitaka Murashita
  • Patent number: 9520084
    Abstract: An image quality compensation device for an organic light emitting display includes: a memory having first and second update blocks selectively storing first and second period compensation values, which are sequentially updated at regular intervals; and a timing controller that configures the first update block as either the current memory page for data loading or the next memory page for data writing and the second update block as the other one of the two, based on a preset check code, and updates the memory by calculating the second period compensation value with the passage of driving time based on the first period compensation value loaded from the update block configured as the current memory page, writing the second period compensation value to the update block configured as the next memory page, and then erasing the first period compensation value from the update block configured as the current memory page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangho Yu, Seungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 9495918
    Abstract: A method is provided for driving electro-optic displays, especially bistable displays, to avoid edge effects when driving a limited area of the display. Pixels in an edge elimination region, at least one pixel wide and substantially surrounding the limited area, are driven from their original gray level to an intermediate gray level, and then back to their original gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson, Matthew J. Aprea, Theodore A. Sjodin
  • Patent number: 9485398
    Abstract: A device to capture an image includes a camera oriented to capture a first image of a subject and a display oriented to display a second image that is viewable by the subject. A backlight is coupled to the display to provide light that passes through the display toward the subject. An image processor is coupled to the camera and the backlight to adjust an amount of light provided by the backlight responsive to a quality of the first image. The light provided by the backlight may illuminate the subject and thereby improve the quality of the first image. The image processor may further adjust the amount of light provided by the backlight responsive to an ambient light level sensed by an ambient light sensor. The image processor may further adjust the second image to adjust an amount of light that passes through the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Parin Patel
  • Patent number: 9470902
    Abstract: A light source module includes a double refraction prism, an optical plate, a first laser source, a second laser source, and a third laser source. A first laser beam emitted from the first laser source and a second laser beam emitted from the second laser source are mixed by the double refraction prism and these are mixed together with a third laser beam emitted from the third laser source by the optical plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Chou Chen
  • Patent number: 9460662
    Abstract: A pixel and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a pixel includes an OLED including an anode and a cathode and configured to emit light corresponding to data signals applied during first and second frame periods. Each of the first and second frame periods includes a first discharge period and a light-emitting period subsequent to the first discharge period. The pixel also includes a pixel circuit configured to control light emission of the OLED, apply a first voltage to the anode during the light-emitting period, apply a second voltage to the cathode, the second voltage having a voltage level less than that of the first voltage, and apply a third voltage to the anode so as to discharge the anode during the first discharge period. The second voltage has different voltage levels during the first and second frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Sic Lee, Seung-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9436315
    Abstract: A noise rejection circuit for a touch sensitive display is disclosed. The noise rejection circuit can reject noise introduced by the touch sensitive display's display device into its touch panel. The noise rejection circuit can be integrated into the touch circuitry of the touch sensitive display and can include a resistor to sense the noise and an amplifier to isolate the sensed noise for rejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Christoph Horst Krah
  • Patent number: 9426656
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device is configured to be able to communicate with a mobile device, and includes a reception unit, an interruption detection unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The reception unit receives image information transmitted from a particular mobile device which is a mobile device with which communication is established. The interruption detection unit detects that reception of the image information is interrupted. The determination unit determines whether or not the transmission device which transmits the image information is the particular mobile device, when the reception unit receives image information again after interruption of the reception is detected. The display control unit stops displaying the image information transmitted from the transmission device on a display device when the transmission device is determined not to be the particular mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Takemura, Takanori Fujiwara, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Junichi Hirose
  • Patent number: 9355696
    Abstract: In an example, a control device includes a data path, a clock path, a multiplexing circuit, and a calibration unit. The data path comprises a data delay unit coupled to a data input of a sampling circuit. The clock path comprises a clock delay unit coupled to a clock input of the sampling circuit. The multiplexing circuit selectively couples a reference clock or a data bus to an input of the data delay unit, and selectively couples the reference clock or a source clock to an input of the clock delay unit. The calibration unit is coupled to a data output of the sampling circuit. The calibration unit is operable to adjust delay values of the data delay unit and the clock delay unit based on the data output of the sampling circuit to establish and maintain a relative delay between the data path and the clock path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Terence J. Magee, Xiaoqian Zhang
  • Patent number: 9310602
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to an electrowetting display comprising pixels that include colored subpixels that comprise: a colored reflective layer on a support plate; an electrode; a hydrophobic layer; and a liquid region including an electrolyte, and dark electrowetting oil and white electrowetting oil both being immiscible with the electrolyte. A coverage area of the dark electrowetting oil on the hydrophobic layer and a coverage area of the white electrowetting oil on the hydrophobic layer are individually electronically adjustable to affect light transmission to the colored reflective material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Yee-Ming Chung, Siddharth Gupta, Bokke Johannes Feenstra
  • Patent number: 9293727
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display device, includes a lower electrode on a substrate; an assistant electrode on the substrate and spaced apart from the lower electrode; an organic material layer on the lower electrode and the assistant electrode, the organic material layer including a light-emitting layer on the lower electrode; an upper electrode on the organic material layer; and a carrier generation material layer between the assistant electrode and the upper electrode, the organic material layer being between one or more of the carrier generation material layer and the assistant electrode, or the carrier generation material layer and the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9281818
    Abstract: A method of reducing power consumption caused by leakage current in an interface circuit between modules that are driven by different power sources is disclosed. The interface circuit includes an output driver that operates by a first power supply voltage in a first mode and does not operate in a second mode in which the first power supply voltage is prevented from being applied, an input buffer that is operated by a second power supply voltage in the first and second modes, and a transmission line that connects an output terminal of the output driver to an input terminal of the input buffer. The interface circuit further includes a current leakage prevention circuit that prevents, in the second mode, a current leakage in the input buffer between a second power supply voltage source that supplies the second power supply voltage and a ground voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Lim, Ji-Hyun Lee, Jae-youn Lee
  • Patent number: 9262993
    Abstract: A display panel driver including a moving image determining part, a sensing part and a dithering part. The moving image determining part determines whether an input image data represents a moving image or a static image. The sensing part senses a movement of a display apparatus or a user of the display apparatus. The dithering part performs a dithering operation to the input image data when the input image data represents the moving image or when at least one of the display apparatus and the user moves when the input image data represents the static image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Hyung Lee, Hee-Chul Hwang
  • Patent number: 9224324
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a cascode driver circuit for providing positive and negative polarities of two or more voltages at an output node. The voltages provided by the cascode driver circuit can be used to provide voltages to various interconnects and terminals of the display apparatus. The cascode driver circuit includes a first circuit for providing a positive polarity of two or more voltages to an output node via a first set of cascode transistors and a second circuit for providing negative polarities of the two or more voltages via a second set of cascode transistors. The driver circuit includes body-effect mitigation circuitry for reducing the impact of body-effect on the performance of the driver circuit. The driver circuit also includes circuitry for reducing substrate leakage current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Blaing Nadiguebe, Nada Vukovic-Radic, Didier Henri Farenc
  • Patent number: 9208716
    Abstract: A display drive circuit formed in a chip manufactured by a chip on glass implementation, which is connected to lead lines formed on a glass substrate, includes a rectangularly-shaped substrate, a power supply line formed on the substrate, the line being elongated along the longer side of the rectangular shaped substrate, a plurality of output terminals formed on the rectangular shaped substrate, the output terminal being disposed along the power supply line, a plurality of bump electrodes, each of which connects one of the output terminal to one of the lead lines, switches disposed along the power supply line, each of which is connected between the one of the output terminals and the power supply line, a single power supply terminal, which is disposed near the middle of the power supply line, being connected to the power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hirama
  • Patent number: 9183615
    Abstract: A display device includes a driver connected to a display panel and transmitting scan signals or data signals to the display panel, a frame memory connected to the driver, storing image data and transmitting at least some of the image data to the driver, and a controller connected to the driver and the frame memory, generating a control signal and transmitting the control signal to the driver or the frame memory, wherein each of the sub-fields includes an address period in which the scan signals are transmitted to the respective pixel rows, the controller transmits the control signal to the driver to transmit the scan signals to the pixel rows during a current frame such that the scan signals corresponding to the current frame are transmitted after, among the image data corresponding to the current frame, the image data corresponding to the pixel rows are stored in the frame memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Gong Lee, Sang Jin Pak, Hideo Yoshimura, Sang Kwon Ha
  • Patent number: 9153158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting display device capable of minimizing a current driving capability deviation among driving switching elements. The light emitting display device includes pixels each including a first TFT for supplying data voltage to a first node in response to a scan signal, a second TFT for forming a current path between first and second nodes in response to an emission control signal, a driving TFT for forming a current path between a first driving voltage supply line and a third node in accordance with a voltage level of the second node, a third TFT for supplying a reference voltage to a fourth node in response to a sensing signal, a fourth TFT for supplying an initialization voltage to the third node in response to an initialization signal, and a fifth TFT for supplying the reference voltage to the second node in response to the initialization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Kim, Jong-Sik Shim, Min-Kyu Chang
  • Patent number: 9103578
    Abstract: A substance communicating device for coupling to a host in at least two distinct orientations, as well as a modular system comprising a host, and a functional device in addition to the substance communicating device. The substance communicating device provides a substance from the host to the functional device. The substance communicating device may be an adapter for coupling the functional device to the host, or a functional unit of an adapter and a functional device. The substance communicating device may include a first member having a first interface connectable to the host, and a second member pivotally connected to the first member and having a second interface connectable to the functional device. The modular system may include a plurality of hosts having differently-oriented substance communication service interfaces and the substance communicating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Steven J. Kuehl
  • Publication number: 20150084942
    Abstract: An electrowetting element includes a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid, as well as a surface, wherein display effects depend on an extent that the first and second fluids adjoin the surface, in dependence on applied voltage. Operation includes receiving data representing a first display effect for display; receiving data representing a subsequent display effect for display after display of the first display effect; comparing data representing the first display effect with data representing said subsequent display effect to determine a difference indicative of a change of the extent the second fluid adjoins the surface between display of the first display effect and display of the subsequent display effect; and depending on said difference, selectively outputting data for driving the electrowetting element to display a different display effect, instead of the subsequent display effect, consecutively after displaying the first display effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Hendrikus MENNEN, Nicolas Eugene BERGERON, Gor MANUKYAN, Jozef Elisabeth AUBERT, Henricus Petronella Maria DERCKX, Bokke Johannes FEENSTRA
  • Patent number: 8980141
    Abstract: A dye for a fluid of an electrowetting element, the dye having a general formula selected from the group consisting of: wherein Q has the general formula: -Het1R1 or -Het1R1R2; V has the general formula: -Het2R3 or -Het2R3R4; Het1 and Het2 are heteroatoms; R1 and R3 are H; R2 and R4 are any functional group; T and U are any functional group; W, X, Y and Z are H or an alkyl group; and F, G, L and M are H or an alkyl group, and with the proviso that the dye does not have the general formula: The present invention further relates to a fluid comprising a dye of the present invention, an electrowetting element and an optical display device comprising the fluid, and a use of the dye to reduce photo-bleaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Melanie Maria Hubertina Van De Weijer-Wagemans, Romaric Massard, Robert A. Hayes
  • Patent number: 8976442
    Abstract: Electro-wetting display devices are disclosed. The electro-wetting display may include an upper structure and a lower structure opposite to each other, a hydrophobic insulating layer covering a bottom surface of the upper structure, hydrophilic partitions disposed between the hydrophobic insulating layer and the lower structure to define pixel regions, and a colorless conductive fluid and a colored non-conductive fluid filling each of the pixel regions. A specific gravity of the colored non-conductive fluid may be smaller than a specific gravity of the colorless conductive fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Gi Heon Kim
  • Patent number: 8970455
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing the display of content on a display screen (110) of an electronic device (100). According to certain aspects, a sensor (119) or a set of a plurality of sensors (225) generate image data corresponding to a user viewing the device. Further, in one embodiment, a film (111) generates electrical signals corresponding to a shape or configuration of the display screen. The electronic device can calculate a distortion parameter based on the electrical signals. In another embodiment, an additional set of the plurality of sensors generates image data, from which the electronic device can calculate the distortion parameter. The electronic device generates processed image data based on the viewing position and the distortion parameter, and displays the processed image data on the display screen in such a way that the content appears oriented and proportioned to the user viewing the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Dean E Thorson, William P Alberth, Jr.