Intensity Or Color Driving Control (e.g., Gray Scale) Patents (Class 345/690)
  • Patent number: 11094263
    Abstract: A display device driving method includes: providing a reference voltage for compensating a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in a pixel; and providing a data signal to the pixel, wherein providing the reference voltage, and providing the data signal to the pixel are performed in a first frame period, and a second frame period successive to the first frame period, wherein the display device driving method further comprises providing a compensation signal generated by comparing a data signal with a reference voltage provided in a previous frame period of each frame period to the pixel before providing the reference voltage is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Chol Kim, Jin Wook Yang, Ji Hye Kim, Young Ha Sohn, Jae Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11096259
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive display brightness adjustment, the method comprising: obtaining current state data characterizing a current state of a device having a display with an adjustable brightness; providing the current state data as input to a brightness prediction machine learning model, wherein the model is configured to process the current state data in accordance with current values of a set of model parameters to generate as output a proposed display brightness for the display of the device; setting the brightness of the display to a brightness that is lower than the proposed display brightness in accordance with an exploration policy; determining whether a user of the device manually adjusts the display brightness; and in response to determining that the user did not manually adjust the display brightness, using the lower brightness as a target output for adjusting the current values of the set of model parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Degris, Benjamin Hal Murdoch, Norman Casagrande, Peeyush Agarwal, Christopher Gamble, Christopher Sigurd Fougner
  • Patent number: 11088179
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel columns, the pixel columns each extending along source lines of the display panel and each having an input end and a plurality of pixels connected to the input end, with the pixels receiving data signal from the input end. The signal generator has a plurality of output ends arranged in a first direction of the signal generator with respect to each other. The wires connect the output ends of the signal generator to the input ends of the pixel columns, respectively. The controller varies voltage waveform of the data signal at the output ends of the signal generator according to location of the output ends of the signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
  • Patent number: 11087688
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a driving method for a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting device and a drive transistor. The method includes: compensating the drive transistor in a first compensation manner including an internal voltage compensation during an operation period of the light emitting device; and compensating the drive transistor in a second compensation manner including the internal voltage compensation and an external voltage compensation during a non-operation period of the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Lin, Guang Yan, Quanhu Li, Mingi Chu
  • Patent number: 11087676
    Abstract: A device and a method for obtaining brightness of a display panel are provided. The display panel includes a flat area and a curved area and the curved areas including at least one first curved area. The device includes a brightness acquisition component; an optical path adjustment component; and a control component. Principle light exited from the flat area is incident on a first area of a viewfinder plane of the brightness acquisition component; the optical path adjustment component is disposed on an optical path of principle light exited from the first curved area, and configured to adjust the principle light to be incident on a second area of the viewfinder plane; the first area does not overlap with and the second area; and the control component is configured to process an image captured by the brightness acquisition component to obtain the brightness of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangyu Gao, Guang Wang, Ruiyuan Zhou, Jingxiong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11087714
    Abstract: A display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The display device includes a backlight panel and a backlight control circuit. The backlight panel provides backlight to a display panel. The backlight control circuit is coupled to the backlight panel. The backlight control circuit receives prompt area information. The prompt area information is configured to indicate a prompt area in a display area of the display panel. The backlight control circuit controls the backlight panel according to the prompt area information to adjust the backlight corresponding to the prompt area. In this way, a backlight effect of the prompt area is different from a backlight effect of one of other areas in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Chueh-Pin Ko
  • Patent number: 11087697
    Abstract: A source driver including a digital-to-analog converter and an output buffer with an interpolation function is disclosed. A digital-to-analog converter converts a plurality of digital input voltages into a plurality of analog input voltages. The output buffer interpolates the analog input voltages. The output buffer outputs a first interpolated output voltage at a first time and a second interpolated output voltage at a second time respectively. A first interpolated voltage output curve of the first interpolated output voltage versus a digital input code and a second interpolated voltage output curve of the second interpolated output voltage versus the digital input code are both non-linear and opposite each other. The output buffer averages the first interpolated voltage output curve at the first time and the second interpolated voltage output curve at the second time to achieve a linear interpolated voltage characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Tzong-Yau Ku, Jun-Ren Shih
  • Patent number: 11082614
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a processor configured to receive a first image and a second image from the external apparatus through the communicator, identify a region corresponding to the display within the first image, extract an image corresponding to the identified region from the second image, and process the extracted image to be displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung-chang Jang
  • Patent number: 11081072
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a display device with the use of a simple structure and a simple operation. The display device includes an input device. Input of an image signal to a driver circuit is controlled in accordance with an image operation signal output from the input device. Specifically, input of image signals at the time when the input device is not operated is less frequent than that at the time when the input device is operated. Accordingly, display degradation (deterioration of display quality) caused when the display device is used can be prevented and power consumed when the display device is not used can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Wakimoto, Masahiko Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11081036
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a slew rate enhancement apparatus that is connected to an operational amplifier that receives an input signal and generates an output signal according to the input signal for driving a pixel. The slew rate enhancement apparatus comprises a signal edge detector, a comparator, an adjustment unit. The signal edge detector is coupled to the operational amplifier and configured to detect a signal edge and outputting a difference signal corresponding to a difference between the input and output signals. The comparator is coupled to the signal edge detector to receive the difference signal and configured to generate a control signal according to the difference signal. The adjustment unit is coupled to the comparator to receive the control signal, and configured to couple a compensation signal generated by a current source to the operational amplifier according to the control signal to enhance a slew rate of the operation amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Hsiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11081531
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a lower substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes, a light emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a first functional module. The lower substrate includes a first module region that includes sub-pixel regions and transmissive regions, and a display region that surrounds the first module region and includes the sub-pixel regions. The lower electrodes are respectively disposed on the lower substrate in the sub-pixel regions in the first module region. The light emitting layer is disposed on the lower electrodes, and includes a first opening between two adjacent lower electrodes. The upper electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer, and includes a second opening that overlaps the first opening. The first functional module is disposed on a bottom surface of the lower substrate in the first module region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wonje Cho
  • Patent number: 11074840
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring light emissions in electronic devices. The disclosed techniques herein provide for determining a display duration of display devices for a user. Light emission profiles for each of the display devices are determined. A cumulative emissions exposure is determined that is based on the light emission profiles for the display devices and the display duration of the display devices for the user. A determination is made whether the cumulative emissions exposure exceeds a light emission exposure limit set for the user. In a positive determination, an instruction is transmitted to the display devices for execution of a remedial action based on predefined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Pande, Madhusudhan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11074875
    Abstract: Techniques for driving a dual modulation display include generating backlight drive signals to drive individually-controllable illumination sources. The illumination sources emit first light onto a light conversion layer. The light conversion layer converts the first light into second light. The light conversion layer can include quantum dots or phosphor materials. Modulation drive signals are generated to determine transmission of the second light through individual subpixels of the display. These modulation drive signals can be adjusted based on one or more light field simulations. The light field simulations can include: (i) a color shift for a pixel based on a point spread function of the illumination sources; (ii) binning difference of individual illumination sources; (iii) temperature dependence of display components on performance; or (iv) combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Chun Chi Wan
  • Patent number: 11074871
    Abstract: A display controller generates a backlight illumination field (BLIF) based on a coarse point-spread function (PSF) and a correction PSF. The display controller samples the coarse PSF to accumulate light contributions from a larger neighborhood of LEDs around a given LCD pixel. The display controller samples the correction PSF to generate correction factors for a smaller neighborhood of LEDs around the given LCD pixel. The display controller interpolates samples drawn from the coarse PSF and samples drawn from the correction PSF and then combines the interpolated samples to generate a full resolution BLIF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Jens Roever
  • Patent number: 11073722
    Abstract: A display device and a direct-type backlight thereof are provided. The direct-type backlight includes a central area and a peripheral area. The central area is configured with a plurality of central area light-emitting elements to provide light to a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The density of these central area light-emitting elements in the central area is a first density. The peripheral area is configured with a plurality of peripheral area light-emitting elements to provide light to the LCD panel. The density of the peripheral area light-emitting elements in the peripheral area is a second density. Wherein, the second density is less than the first density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Cheng Fan, Chung-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 11069304
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source and a light source driver. The light source includes a plurality of scan blocks. Each scan block includes a plurality of local dimming blocks. The light source driver includes a plurality of channels configured to output light source driving signals to the plurality of local dimming blocks. The light source driving signal includes a light source intensity value representing a light intensity of a local dimming block from among the plurality of local dimming blocks and a delay value representing a degree of a delay of the local dimming block. The delay value is determined by a scan delay value varied according to the plurality of scan blocks and a delay parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Sik Lee, Yoongu Kim, Seung Young Choi, Keunoh Kang, Kihyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11069278
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a gamma reference voltage output circuit of a display device, and more particularly, to a gamma reference voltage output circuit having a structure for sharing an element required for outputting a gamma reference voltage in the gamma reference voltage output circuit included in each of a plurality of driving chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Tae Kim, Jun Sik Woo
  • Patent number: 11069296
    Abstract: The invention provides a regulating device and a regulating method for a gray scale voltage, and a display device. The regulating device includes a voltage dividing circuit configured to generate a gray scale voltage according to a first input voltage and a second input voltage; a first voltage regulator configured to regulate a first fixed voltage to output the first input voltage, such that the voltage dividing circuit can generate a predetermined number of gray scale steps for all display brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanyan Lan, Lixia Shen, Yong Yu
  • Patent number: 11069319
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video playing method, device and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a target video which comprises a plurality of video frames arranged in sequence, and sending sequentially the plurality of video frames to a display module, by a graphics processing unit; for each video frame, receiving and playing the video frame for a target duration from a start moment of receiving the video frame, by the display module; wherein target durations for which the display module plays at least two video frames in the target video are not equal. The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the refresh rate of a video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaohui Meng, Wei Sun, Wenchao Han, Lin Cong
  • Patent number: 11070776
    Abstract: Divided periods by dividing a frame of a video signal are produced. A display element is ON-OFF controlled on a pixel-by-pixel basis according to a video signal in accordance with the divided periods preassigned to each gradation. The light amount of a light source for emitting light to the display element is controlled so that a first light amount in a first divided period corresponding to the lowest gradation except black display becomes a light amount lower than a second light amount in a second divided period other than the first divided period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuki Nakajima, Takatsugu Aizaki
  • Patent number: 11069315
    Abstract: An image processing device that uses pixels displayed in a liquid crystal panel to display, across a plurality of fields, pixels constituting an image specified with image data includes, a temporary determining unit configured to, based on a gradation level specified for one pixel of a liquid crystal panel and a gradation level specified for another pixel adjacent to the one pixel in one field, make temporary determination on whether to correct the gradation level of at least one of the one pixel or the other pixel, and a cancellation unit configured to cancel the temporary determination when the gradation level specified for each of the one pixel and the gradation level specified for the other pixel are identical to a gradation level in a field that precedes, by a plurality of the fields, the one field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 11069310
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a correction data generation unit that generates third correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness of the image display apparatus on the basis of first correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness resulting from the image display apparatus itself and second correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness resulting from an environment set for the image display apparatus, and a correction unit that corrects an image signal using the third correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11070710
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to an electronic device configured to use the device's own display to provide an illumination source for front-facing image sensors and to a method of using the same. An electronic device for capturing a digital image using a front-facing image sensor and a digital display device includes a command input module configured to receive a command to capture the digital image, an illumination adjustment module configured to adjust the display device to an imaging illumination condition in response to the command, and a front-facing image sensor module configured capture the digital image using the front-facing image sensor under the predetermined illumination condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Stepan N. Moskovchenko
  • Patent number: 11062649
    Abstract: A luminance compensation device can include a luminance compensator configured to: receive a pixel driving voltage from a host system, the pixel driving voltage being supplied to both the luminance compensator and a display panel, receive a reference pixel driving voltage generated by a drive IC, compare the pixel driving voltage with the reference pixel driving voltage to detect a voltage drop in the pixel driving voltage, the voltage drop being a difference between the pixel driving voltage and the reference pixel driving voltage, amplify the voltage drop of the pixel driving voltage by a predetermined weighted value to generate an amplified voltage drop, and adjust a gamma reference voltage based on the amplified voltage drop to generate an adjusted gamma reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bonghwan Kim, Daekyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11062663
    Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Shang-Chia Chen, Yajuan Chen, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 11062658
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit adopts a pixel driving circuit with a 4T1C structure to effectively compensate a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in each pixel. A compensation structure of the pixel driving circuit is simpler and easier to operate. By compensating the threshold voltage of the driving transistor through two compensation phases, it can achieve a wider compensation range of the threshold voltage, thereby improving brightness and a lifespan of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lindiao Zheng, Zhenling Wang
  • Patent number: 11054927
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel includes: transistors and pixel electrodes respectively provided in pixels; common electrodes arranged in a first direction and a second direction, each facing one or more of the pixel electrodes and provided separately from each other; gate lines extending along the first direction; data lines extending along the second direction; dummy data lines extending along the second direction, provided in a same layer as the data lines; and touch lines extending along the second direction and connected to a corresponding one of common electrodes. The data lines and the dummy data lines are alternately provided for boundaries between two pixels adjacent in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kajita
  • Patent number: 11056036
    Abstract: A display device and driving method thereof are provided. The display device comprises a display panel and a color compensation part. The display panel comprises a display area which has a flat portion and a bending portion. The color compensation part compensates for input data signals by applying data gains which are set differently for the flat portion and the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Homin Jeon, Seonggyun Kim, Byoungchul Cho
  • Patent number: 11056511
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a first thin film transistor disposed on a substrate and including a first gate electrode and a first active layer including a silicon semiconductor, and a second thin film transistor disposed on the first thin film transistor and including a second gate electrode and a second active layer overlapping the first thin film transistor, the second active layer including an oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunmo Chung, Daewoo Lee, Ilhun Seo, Hojin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11054886
    Abstract: A system of reducing power consumed by a large screen display panel may comprise a display divided into a plurality of segments. A gaze tracker identifies a gaze region where a viewer(s) is looking to increase a refresh rate for segments identified in the gaze region with relation to segments outside of the gaze region. The shading rate of segments outside of the gaze region may also be lowered to save even more power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Ya-Ti Peng, Abhishek R. Appu, Wen-Fu Kao, Sang-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11055833
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device that can appropriately detect an error in a display image in a head up display, an electronic apparatus, an error detection method, and the like. The circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs first mapping processing, which maps an input first image on a second image to be projected onto a projection target object, and second mapping processing, which converts the second image to a third image. The second mapping processing is reverse mapping processing of the first mapping processing. The comparison circuit performs comparison between the first image and the third image, and outputs the result of comparison as information for performing error detection on the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Wittmeir Manfred, Jeffrey Eric
  • Patent number: 11056065
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-emitting display including a display panel, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a compensation circuit. The display panel includes a pixel having an organic light-emitting diode. The first circuit supplies a data voltage to the pixel. The second circuit performs a first sensing operation for sensing a voltage stored at an anode of the organic light-emitting diode and a second sensing operation for sensing a parasitic capacitance of the organic light-emitting diode. The compensation circuit compensates for degradation of the organic light-emitting diode based on a sensed value outputted from the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiyeon Hwang, Jongsin Park
  • Patent number: 11049454
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for a display device provides enhanced performance by performing drain-side initialization and data programming with respect to the drive transistor. The pixel circuit is operable in an initialization phase, a combined threshold compensation and data programming phase, and an emission phase, the pixel circuit including a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current to a light-emitting device during the emission phase depending upon a voltage applied to a gate of the drive transistor, and the drive transistor having a first terminal and a second terminal with the first terminal being electrically connected during the emission phase to a first voltage supply line that supplies a driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tong Lu
  • Patent number: 11049432
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels. The pixels are connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The driving controller determines a compensating value of a present data signal based on a previous data signal and the present data signal which are applied to a same data line of the data lines. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver generates a data voltage based on the present data signal and the compensating value and outputs the data voltage to the same data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyu Kim, Hoisik Moon, Hee Joon Kim, Juneyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11049465
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a driving method and a driving device for a display panel, and a display device, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units disposed adjacently, the driving method includes dividing a plurality of pixel units of the display panel into a plurality of pixel unit groups, each of the pixel unit groups including two columns of adjacent pixel units; driving sub-pixels in corresponding positions in each adjacent two of the pixel unit groups by adopting drive voltages of opposite polarities; driving first position sub-pixels and second position sub-pixels in a same pixel unit by adopting drive voltages of opposite polarities; and driving the sub-pixels in the first pixel units and sub-pixels in the second pixel units respectively by adopting drive voltages of different voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Bei Zhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11043173
    Abstract: A Mura phenomenon compensation method and a device thereof are provided. By dividing compensation data of all areas of a display panel into areas for which corresponding timer control integrated circuits are responsible and storing them in different positions in a storage area of a flash memory respectively, each of the timer control integrated circuits only reads its corresponding part of the compensation data during operation, which prevents a problem that a plurality of timer control integrated circuits cannot distinguish effective compensation data matrices corresponding to their responsible areas, causing errors in compensation effect of each timer control integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11043153
    Abstract: A control circuit board, an additional circuit board and a display device. The control circuit board includes a timing control circuit, the timing control circuit is configured to read a configuration code from a storage circuit on an additional circuit board outside the control circuit board, the configuration code includes a first code for configuring the timing control circuit, and the timing control circuit is further configured to generate, based on the first code, a control signal for controlling the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Dai, Tao Li, Liugang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11043172
    Abstract: A display controller progressively updates LEDs and LCD pixels in scanline order as portions of an image are scanned into a frame buffer. The display controller analyzes a first portion of the image that includes a first pixel value associated with a first LCD pixel. The display controller identifies a first LED that contributes luminance to the first LCD pixel and determines an LED current setting for the LED based on the first pixel value. The display controller then identifies a second LCD pixel that resides above the first LED and is associated with a second pixel value. The display controller configures the second LCD pixel based on the second pixel value and luminance contributions received at the second LCD pixel. Accordingly, the display controller need not wait for the entire image to be scanned into the frame buffer before initiating display of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, Robert Jan Schutten, Jens Roever, Tom J. Verbeure
  • Patent number: 11043175
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving circuit and a display panel to which it is applied. The driving circuit applied to the display panel includes: a timing controller, a level shifter connected to the timing controller and including a first switch group, an operational amplifier connected to the first switch group, and a second switch group connected to the operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Xiaoli Fu
  • Patent number: 11043171
    Abstract: An anti-flicker and motion-blur improvement method includes selecting one of display modes, obtaining a vertical synchronization signal and a data clock signal, and setting waveforms of a backlight driving signal in a vertical blanking interval and a data scan interval according to the display mode to make a motion blur effect correspond to the display mode. A voltage regulation signal is generated according to the display mode. A duty cycle of the voltage regulation signal is set as a first duty cycle in a dynamic image display mode. The duty cycle of the voltage regulation signal is set as a second duty cycle in a still image display mode. A backlight driving current corresponding to the backlight driving signal is generated via the voltage regulation signal. A current setting port generates a constant current. Accordingly, the present invention can improve the motion blur phenomenon by simplifying the backlight control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Min-Jye Chen
  • Patent number: 11043187
    Abstract: An on-vehicle display device, an on-vehicle display method and a vehicle are provided. The on-vehicle display device includes: a first acquisition module, configured to acquire an imaging area of an on-vehicle image; a second acquisition module, configured to acquire an ambient image in a driving direction; a processing module, configured to determine from the ambient image a background image of the imaging area an adjustment module, configured to adjust an image parameter of the on-vehicle image according to an image parameter of the background image; and a display module, configured to display in the imaging area the on-vehicle image of which the image parameter is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dianmeng Li
  • Patent number: 11037492
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driver for a display device, which is improved to stably sense pixels. The driver includes a multiplexer configured to output the sensing signal of a first input stage or second input stage, a first switch configured to switch a connection between an odd channel and the first input stage, a second switch configured to switch a connection between an even channel and the second input stage, and a switching circuit configured to switch a connection between a common power line and the first input stage or the second input stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Young Shin, Min Young Jeong, Ho Sung Hong, Jung Bae Yun
  • Patent number: 11037487
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a power supply configured to generate a gamma power voltage based on a power control signal; a gamma voltage generator configured to generate gamma voltages based on the gamma power voltage and a gamma control signal; a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to a grayscale value included in image data using the gamma voltages and to provide the data signal to the pixels; and a power controller configured to adjust the power control signal and the gamma control signal based on a maximum voltage level of the data signal, wherein a voltage level of the gamma power voltage is proportional to the maximum voltage level of the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Su Min Yang
  • Patent number: 11037506
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device supporting a variable frame mode includes an OLED display panel, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the OLED display panel, a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the OLED display panel, an emission driver configured to provide an emission control signal to the OLED display panel, and a controller configured to control the data driver, the scan driver and the emission driver, to count a time of a current frame, and to control the emission driver to decrease an off period ratio of the emission control signal as the counted time of the current frame increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Noh, Yun Ki Bae, Kwang Suk Shin
  • Patent number: 11037485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for compensating for luminance of a display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region, the display region and the non-display region having a boundary therebetween, the boundary passing through a pixel region and a non-pixel region of the display panel, a portion of the non-pixel region located within the display region forming a dark region within the display region, the method includes determining the luminance of the neighboring pixel adjacent to the dark region among the display pixels of the pixel region based on an area of the dark region, so as to compensate for the luminance of the dark regions with the luminance of the neighboring pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Jianchao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11030967
    Abstract: A display device includes an image analyzing part which determines whether current frame image data includes a crosstalk pattern, and a gamma voltage generator which generates current frame gamma data by applying the asymmetric gamma when the current frame image data do not include the crosstalk pattern, and generates the current frame gamma data by applying a symmetric gamma when the current frame image data includes the crosstalk pattern. The positive polarity and negative polarity data voltages of the asymmetric gamma are asymmetric with each other for each of the grayscales, and the positive polarity and negative polarity data voltages of the symmetric gamma are symmetric with each other for each of the grayscales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyunho Kim, Bonggyun Kang, Sungjin Kim, Neung-Beom Lee, Jun Pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11030950
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display includes: a display panel including first and second pixels, each having an organic light-emitting diode; and a data driver including a first operational amplifier having a non-inverting terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal and an inverting terminal coupled to the first pixel, and a second operational amplifier having a non-inverting terminal coupled to the reference voltage terminal and an inverting terminal coupled to the second pixel. The first pixel includes a sensing transistor, a first driving transistor, and a first switch transistor. The second pixel includes a second driving transistor and a second switch transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh Jo Kwon, Joo Hyung Lee, Kyung Youl Min
  • Patent number: 11024243
    Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The image frames may be displayed with positive and negative polarities to help reduce charge accumulation effects. A charge accumulation tracker may analyze the image frames to determine when there is a risk of excess charge accumulation. The charge accumulation tracker may analyze information on gray levels, frame duration, and frame polarity. The charge accumulation tracker may compute a charge accumulation metric for entire image frames or may process subregions of each frame separately. When subregions are processed separately, each subregion may be individually monitored for a risk of excess charge accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Brijesh Tripathi, Christopher Philip Alan Tann, David S. Zalatimo, Guy Cote, Hao Nan, Marc Albrecht, Paolo Sacchetto, Sandro H. Pintz
  • Patent number: 11024242
    Abstract: A timing controller and an operation method thereof are provided. The timing controller is used to control a signal timing of a display panel. The timing controller includes an analysis circuit and a decision circuit. The analysis circuit analyzes the content of an image frame to obtain an analysis result. The decision circuit is coupled to the analysis circuit to receive the analysis result. The decision circuit determines a global gray level according to the analysis result. In a blanking interval in which a plurality of sub-pixel circuits of the display panel are turned off, a data voltage corresponding to the global gray level is applied to at least one data line of the display panel corresponding to the sub-pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hui-Feng Lin, Yen-Tao Liao
  • Patent number: 11024241
    Abstract: A timing controller may include a first compensator configured to generate second data by optically compensating for first data, based on compensation data, a first compensation memory configured to store the compensation data, a second compensator configured to generate image data by compensating for a lifetime of the second data, based on accumulated data of the second data, and a second compensation memory configured to store the accumulated data and the compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Dae Lee, Seung Hyun Moon, Dong Wook Yang, Bit Na Lee, Hee Chul Hwang