Temporal Processing (e.g., Pulse Width Variation Over Time Patents (Class 345/691)
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Patent number: 11953803Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method for controlling voltages of a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) two-dimensional array which includes a plurality of pixel sets, and the plurality of pixel sets include a first pixel set and a second pixel set. The method includes: determining a plurality of bit sequences, where the plurality of bit sequences include a first bit sequence and a second bit sequence; controlling a voltage of the first pixel set by using the first bit sequence; and controlling a voltage of the second pixel set by using the second bit sequence, where the first pixel set and the second pixel set are in different phase cycles in a port direction of the LCoS two-dimensional array, the first pixel set and the second pixel set have a same phase, and duty ratios of the first bit sequence and the second bit sequence are the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zeshan Chang, Lei Mao, Liangjia Zong, Tong Li, Hong Yang
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Patent number: 11955045Abstract: A display device includes a communicator; a memory; a display panel including a plurality of display modules; and one or more processors. The processor receives position information and corrected pixel value of a first area in a first display module; identifies a pixel corresponding to the first area based on the position information; obtains a correction coefficient corresponding to the identified pixel based on the corrected pixel value and an output pixel value of the identified pixel; obtains correction coefficients corresponding to each of a plurality of remaining pixels based on the correction coefficient and a distance between the identified pixel and each of the remaining pixels and stores same in a memory; processes an input image based on the correction coefficients, and controls the display panel to display the processed input image. The device thereby improves display uniformity between display modules more effectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jihye Kim, Jiyong Park, Younghoon Cho
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Patent number: 11950456Abstract: This disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device. In the array substrate, the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a first transistor and a second transistor. The driving transistor and the first transistor are P-type transistors, and the second transistor is N-type transistor. The array substrate also includes a base substrate, and a first conductive layer arranged at a side of the base substrate and including: a first conductive portion forming a gate electrode of the driving transistor; a first gate line at a side of the first conductive portion, a part of the first gate line being configured to form a gate electrode of the first transistor; and a second gate line at a side of the first gate line away from the first conductive portion, a part of the second gate line being configured to form a first gate electrode of the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi, Wenqiang Li, Shuai Xie, Yang Yu
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Patent number: 11942037Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display control circuit and a control method thereof are provided. The OLED control circuit includes a counting unit, a judgment unit, a remainder calculation unit and a signal compensation unit. The counting unit counts display lines of a current frame according to a vertical synchronization signal to generate a first count value. The judgment unit compares the first count value and a second count value to generate a judgment result. The second count value represents the number of display lines of a previous frame preceding to the current frame. The remainder calculation unit calculates a remainder generated by dividing the first count value by a period of an emission control signal. The signal compensation unit adjusts the emission control signal to compensate for an incomplete period of the emission control signal occurring in the end of the current frame period.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Zi-Yi Lian, Yen-Tao Liao
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Patent number: 11935473Abstract: In a display device that changes the number of light emissions per frame period, a display control circuit outputs a control signal specifying an emission period included in a frame period to an emission control line driver circuit. The emission control line driver circuit adds sequential delays to the control signal and thereby generates signals to be applied to the emission control lines. When leading and trailing frame periods have the same proportion of emission periods but include different numbers of emission periods, the leading and trailing frame periods are intervened by a transition frame period having a different proportion of emission periods from the leading frame period. This configuration prevents flickering caused by the changing of the number of light emissions per frame period.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yousuke Nakamura, Masaaki Nishio, Noriyuki Tanaka, Hongbing Weng
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Patent number: 11928797Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device, and a method for controlling same. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electronic device, and a method for controlling same, which can secure high visibility of a subject by acquiring, from an original image, a plurality of sub images having a smaller bit number than the original image, and acquiring a synthesized image on the basis of information about the shapes of objects included in the plurality of sub images.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehee Lee, Jihye Kim, Sahng-Gyu Park, Seunghoon Han
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Patent number: 11922878Abstract: A display panel includes: a pixel circuit, and a light-emitting element, that the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current for the light-emitting element; a working process of the pixel circuit includes a data writing stage, in which a gate of the driving transistor receives a data signal, and a bias adjustment stage, in which a source or drain of the driving transistor receives a bias adjustment signal; and the pixel circuit has a frame refresh frequency F1, and a data refresh frequency including a first data refresh frequency F11 and a second data refresh frequency F22, that at least one second data refresh period includes N11 bias adjustment stages, a bias adjustment signal V11 is inputted in a first bias adjustment stage, and a bias adjustment signal Vi is inputted in an i-th bias adjustment stage, where V11?Vi.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11922861Abstract: Micro LED display device and driving method thereof. The display device includes a display substrate and a data driving circuit. The display substrate includes multiple pixels, and each pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The first subpixel has a first subpixel circuit and a first light-emitting element. The second subpixel has a second subpixel circuit and a second light-emitting element. The first subpixel circuit and the second subpixel circuit are configured independently. The data driving circuit is electrically connected to the first and the second subpixel circuits. The data driving circuit transmits a first data signal to the first subpixel circuits to drive the first light-emitting elements and a second data signal to the second subpixel circuits to drive the second light-emitting elements. The first data signal is a PWM signal, and the second data signal is a PAM signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PLAYNITRIDE DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuan-Yung Liao, Yun-Li Li
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Patent number: 11900888Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, and a driving controller. The driving controller generates image data based on a received image signal. The driving controller includes a minimum emission gray level determining unit that determines a gray level of the image signal, a pattern determining unit that determines a dither pattern of the image signal, a driving frequency sensing unit that determines a driving frequency of the image signal, and a data compensation unit that compensates for the image data based on the gray level and at least one of the dither pattern and the driving frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehyeong An, Jinpil Kim, Joon-Chul Goh, Dongjoon Kwag, Jaesung Bae
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Patent number: 11903252Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and an electronic device. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a pixel arranged on the base substrate, wherein the pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixel drive circuits sequentially arranged in the first direction in the display area, each of the sub-pixel drive circuits includes a switching transistor, a detection transistor and a storage capacitor, the switching transistor and the detection transistor are respectively located on both sides of the storage capacitor in a second direction; a first gate line configured to provide a first scanning signal to the plurality of sub-pixel drive circuits; and a second gate line configured to provide a second scanning signal to the plurality of sub-pixel drive circuits.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Meng Li, Ying Wang
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Patent number: 11893927Abstract: A display device includes a processor which supplies grayscale data in active periods of frame periods and stops supply of the grayscale data in blank periods of the frame periods, a timing controller which generates a change signal when a difference between a first blank period of a first frame period and a second blank period of a second frame period is greater than a threshold value, a power supply which supplies a first power voltage having a voltage level changed based on the change signal to a first power line, and pixels commonly connected to the first power line.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Taek Kim, Kyun Ho Kim, Jae Woo Ryu, Joon Suk Baik, Se Keun Lee, Sang Su Han
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Patent number: 11887541Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of light-emission control lines; a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element; a scanning line drive circuit that drives the scanning lines based on a first clock signal; a data line drive circuit that drives the data lines; a light-emission control line drive circuit that drives the light-emission control lines based on a second clock signal; and a display control circuit that outputs at least the first and second clock signals. The display control circuit classifies a frame period into a scanning period and a pause period, and during the pause period, the display control circuit stops the first clock signal and makes a frequency of the second clock signal lower than that during the scanning period. This further reduces the power consumption of the display device that performs low-frequency driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Seiichi Uchida
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Patent number: 11887523Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image based on input image data; a gate driver configured to output a gate signal to the display panel; a data driver configured to output a data voltage to the display panel; and a driving controller configured to control an operation of the gate driver and an operation of the data driver, to determine a driving mode of the display apparatus to one of a normal driving mode and a low frequency driving mode based on the input image data, and to determine a driving frequency of the display panel based on the input image data, wherein the driving controller is configured to determine the driving frequency of the display panel using a flicker value varied according to a grayscale value of the input image data and a luminance setting value.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee, Sangan Kwon, Jinyoung Roh
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Patent number: 11871074Abstract: In accordance with increasing communication demand, means for efficiently providing mass downstream communication at a low cost are desired. Accordingly, a communication system providing supplemental downlink as well as multicast communication comprising a display control device for causing a display unit to display a video, and a communication terminal having an image capturing unit for directly capturing the video displayed by the display unit or capturing a video projected or reflected on a wall surface or the like is provided, wherein the display control device includes a video acquiring unit, a region identification unit, a video generating unit, and a display control unit, and the communication terminal includes a region identification unit, a decoding unit, and a mechanism for communicating a control signal for supplemental downlink by the above-described optical communication using means other than optical communication (means such as WiFi, mobile data communication or the like).Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takashi Tsutsui, Ayumu Yabuki
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Patent number: 11862111Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: an offset compensation circuit configured to obtain first data including first low-order bit data, second low-order bit data and high-order bit data, select two compensation values from among a plurality of compensation values based on the first low-order bit data, identify a final compensation value by interpolating the two compensation values based on the second low-order bit data, and compensate the final compensation value to generate second data; and a source driver configured to interpolate and output two gamma voltages from among a plurality of gamma voltages based on the second data.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Se Whan Na, Jong-Hee Na, Byoungyoon Jang, Yoochae Chung, Hyunwook Lim
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Patent number: 11854473Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes: a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, where the pixel circuit includes a light emitting control module, a drive module and a compensation module; the light emitting control module includes a first light emitting control module configured to selectively provide a first power supply signal for the drive module; the drive module is configured to provide a drive current for the light-emitting element and comprises a drive transistor; the compensation module is configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the drive transistor; and a working process of the pixel circuit includes a light emitting stage and a bias stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Ping An
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Patent number: 11854475Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device for preventing a luminance floatation phenomenon in a low grayscale region. The display device includes a display panel, an external input interface configured to receive an image signal from an external device, and a controller configured to adjust a gamma value when an input frequency of the image signal is less than an output frequency of the display panel and a variable refresh rate (VRR) function for changing the output frequency according to the input frequency is activated and to output the image signal to the display panel based on the adjusted gamma value.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Youngho Chun
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Patent number: 11842689Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method of pixel circuit, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a light emitting device, a driving sub-circuit, an energy storage sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit and a pull-down sub-circuit; the data writing sub-circuit is configured to control a voltage signal on a data line to be written into a control end of the driving sub-circuit in response to a data writing control signal; a first end of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to a target node, a second end of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to a power supply voltage, and the driving sub-circuit is configured to control a conduction of the driving sub-circuit under a control of a voltage on a control end of the driving sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongqian Li, Xuehuan Feng
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Patent number: 11836825Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining a posture of a user of an Information Handling System (IHS) during extreme lighting conditions. In particular, the HIS include executable instructions to utilize the visual light camera of the IHS to generate a visual light image of a user of the HIS, identify a plurality of physical feature landmarks of the user in the visual light image such that when a quality of the received visual light image goes below a specified minimum image quality level, utilizing the IR camera of the Information Handling System (IHS) to generate an IR image of the user, and identify the physical feature landmarks of the user based on the IR image.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Seng Khoon Teh
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Patent number: 11830429Abstract: A display panel includes: a pixel circuit, and a light-emitting element, that the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current for the light-emitting element; a working process of the pixel circuit includes a data writing stage, in which a gate of the driving transistor receives a data signal, and a bias adjustment stage, in which a source or drain of the driving transistor receives a bias adjustment signal; and the pixel circuit has a frame refresh frequency F1, and a data refresh frequency including a first data refresh frequency F11 and a second data refresh frequency F22, that at least one second data refresh period includes N11 bias adjustment stages, a bias adjustment signal V11 is inputted in a first bias adjustment stage, and a bias adjustment signal Vi is inputted in an i-th bias adjustment stage, where V11?Vi.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11823607Abstract: A driving controller of a display device, the controller including a segment divider configured to divide the image signal into a plurality of segments and define a predetermined number of adjacent segments among the plurality of segments as a segment block, an image signal adder configured to add up a gray scale value of the image signal of each of the predetermined number of adjacent segments and output the added-up gray scale values, an average gray scale calculator configured to receive the added-up gray scale values and output an average gray scale value, a correction circuit configured to output corrected added-up gray scale values obtained by adding a weight value to each of the added-up gray scale values on the basis of the average gray scale value, and a driving frequency determiner configured to determine the driving frequency of the display device on the basis of the corrected added-up gray scale values.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Sehyuk Park, Eunho Lee, Jinyoung Roh, Hui Nam, Bong-Hyun You
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Patent number: 11790825Abstract: A backlight brightness control method, a backlight brightness control device, and a display equipment are provided. By using a constant current integrated circuit to input constant current to backlight sources in backlight partitions, uniformity of backlight brightness is allowed to be improved. By determining a target peak current inputted to the backlight sources in the backlight partitions according to a grayscale level of partition images, not only can the backlight brightness required by a high grayscale level be ensured, but fine adjustment of the backlight brightness under a low grayscale level can also be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiong Hu, Yu Wu, Haoran Li
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Patent number: 11783782Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, including a display area and a peripheral area, where N pixel unit groups are arranged in the display area, and each pixel unit group is provided with a gate line, a first reset signal line and a second reset signal line; a driving module is arranged in the peripheral area and includes at least two driving circuits, at least two operating signal line groups are further arranged in the peripheral area, the driving circuits and the operating signal line groups are alternately arranged the at least two driving circuits include a gate driving circuit and a reset driving circuit provided with N second signal output terminals the ith second signal output terminal is coupled to the second reset signal line configured for the ith pixel unit group and the first reset signal line configured for the (i+1)th pixel unit group.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenkang Wang, Yongfu Diao, Zhongliu Yang, Chenyu Chen
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Patent number: 11749182Abstract: A display system includes a light emitting array and a driving device. The light emitting array includes multiple scan lines, multiple drive lines and multiple light emitting elements. The driving device includes a controller, a charge balance line and a charge sharing circuit. The controller generates a control output. The charge sharing circuit is coupled to the drive lines, the charge balance line and the controller, and receives the control output from the controller. With respect to each of the drive lines, the charge sharing circuit is operable, based on the control output, to establish or not establish an electrical connection between the drive line and the charge balance line.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Macroblock, Inc.Inventors: Ming-Jia Wu, Che-Wei Chang, Chi-Min Hsieh
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Patent number: 11705053Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof are provided, including a time schedule controller and at least one driver integrated circuit (driver IC). Pulse width modulation (PCM) data between the time schedule controller and the driver IC is transmitted in a decoded manner, and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data is transmitted in an undecoded manner, reducing a transmission rate between the time schedule controller and the driver IC, and thereby reducing or eliminating risks of electromagnetic interference (EMI). Furthermore, using this transmission method can reduce the number of latches used in the driver IC.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Haoran Li
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Patent number: 11699377Abstract: Image data for a current image frame may be compensated for transient response variations due to variations in display panel temperatures at various positions of the display panel by performing pixel drive compensation. The pixel drive compensation may be performed based at least in part upon display panel temperatures at various portions of the display panel. In this way, drive compensation corresponding to various temperature variations in a display panel may be implemented.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Mahesh B. Chappalli
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Patent number: 11682349Abstract: A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a pixel circuit in which the driving circuit controls a driving current for driving the light emitter element to emit light; the first light emission control circuit applies a first voltage to a first terminal of the driving circuit in response to a first light emission control signal; the second light emission control circuit applies the driving current to the light emitter element in response to a second light emission control signal; the first reset circuit applies a first reset voltage to the control terminal of the driving circuit in response to a first reset signal; the first reset signal and the first light emission control signal are simultaneously turn-on signals during a period; the first light emission control line and the second light emission control line extend along a first direction and are arranged in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xueling Gao, Kuanjun Peng, Chengchung Yang, Xiangxiang Zou, Wei Qin
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Patent number: 11682343Abstract: A display driver for driving a display device including a pixel array is provided. The display driver includes a plurality of driving channels. The driving channels is configured to output driving signals in a pulse width modulation manner to drive the pixel array to illuminate in a first frame period which is being divided into a plurality of subframe periods. A first driving channel of the plurality of driving channels outputs a first driving signal in a first subframe period combination. A second driving channel of the plurality of driving channels outputs a second driving signal in a second subframe period combination different than the first subframe period combination. Each of the first subframe period combination and the second subframe period combination comprises at least one subframe period of the first frame period.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Chun-Fu Lin, Tung-Shuan Cheng, Po-Hsiang Fang, Ju-Lin Huang
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Patent number: 11657760Abstract: A light emission driver includes a plurality of stages outputs a light emission control signal. Each of the stages includes an input circuit controlling voltages of a first node and a second node, an output circuit supplying a voltage of first power or a second power to an output terminal, a first signal processor controlling a voltage of a fourth node based on a signal supplied to a third input terminal and a voltage of a fifth node, a second signal processor controlling the voltage of the fourth node in response to the voltage of a third node, a first stabilizer limiting voltage drops of the first node and the second node, and a second stabilizer controlling an electrical connection between the third node and the first node in response to the voltage of the fourth node.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Bon Yong Koo, Yu Jin Lee, Kyung Hoon Chung
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Patent number: 11620958Abstract: A display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a time schedule controller. The display panel is configured to display images. Areas where afterimages of dynamic images occur are identified according to comparison results of dither values. Tailing phenomenon of the dynamic images may be relieved by transmitting backlight data without brightness to a second backlight sub-area corresponding to where the afterimages occur. Furthermore, because frequency multiplication is not applied, risks of display instability will not increase.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yan Li, Yu Wu, Xiong Hu, Haoran Li, Tao He, Guangxing Xiao
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Patent number: 11620948Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a method for driving the same, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. In the pixel driving circuit, a power voltage writing module includes an input terminal electrically connected to a power voltage signal line and an output terminal electrically connected to a driving module, a data voltage writing module includes an input terminal electrically connected to a data voltage signal line and an output terminal electrically connected to the driving module, and a light-emitting control module includes an input terminal electrically connected to the driving module and an output terminal electrically connected to the light-emitting module. A control terminal of the power voltage writing module, a control terminal of the light-emitting control module and a control terminal of the data voltage writing module are electrically connected to a first scan line.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai BranchInventor: Lanlan Wang
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Patent number: 11615751Abstract: The present invention discloses a backlight control method having dynamic backlight adjusting mechanism used in a display control circuit is provided and includes the steps outlined below. A frame refresh time length of a former frame is obtained. When a current frame is started to be displayed, a backlight module is controlled to output a strobe backlight in a backlight turn-on time period. When an actual display time reaches the frame refresh time length and a next frame is not started to be displayed, the backlight module is controlled to output a constant backlight until the next frame is started to be displayed. When the actual display time does not reach the frame refresh time length and the next frame is started to be displayed, the backlight module is controlled to output the constant backlight until the frame next to the next frame is started to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Li-Ang Chen
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Patent number: 11611233Abstract: A power adapter configured to apply power to a device is disclosed. The power adapter comprises a switching module having a recess comprising a first set of contacts for receiving control signals, wherein the switching module comprises a switch for selectively applying power to a device based upon the control signals; and a control module removably coupled to the switching module and having a second set of contacts coupled to the first set of contacts of the switching module when the control module is attached to the switching module; wherein the switching module comprises a user interface element.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Smart Power Partners LLCInventor: John Joseph King
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Patent number: 11610536Abstract: An embodiment relates to an LED driving technique. The embodiment provides a technique of measuring a forward voltage reaching time of a currently driven LED by comparing a forward voltage sensed in a previous scan line and an LED voltage sensed in a current scan line, and compensating an ON period of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal by the measured forward voltage reaching time.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Hwan Kim, Jang Su Kim
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Patent number: 11587488Abstract: A display apparatus include a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a panel block. The display panel driver senses a driving current to generate a sensing current, generates a temperature weight of the panel block based on the sensing current and location information of a circuit component, generates a load value of the panel block based on input image data, and generates a predicted temperature of the panel block based on the temperature weight of the panel block and the load value of the panel block.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Wonjin Seo
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Patent number: 11573475Abstract: Optical states in TIR-based image displays may be modulated by movement of electrophoretically mobile particles into and out of the evanescent wave region at the interface of a high refractive index convex protrusions and a low refractive index medium. The movement of particles into the evanescent wave region may frustrate TIR and form dark states at pixels. Movement of particles out of the evanescent wave region may allow for TIR of incident light to form bright states at pixels. The movement of the particles may be controlled by employing the drive methods of pulse width modulation, voltage modulation or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: CONCORD (HK) INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION LIMITEDInventors: Vivek Porush, Thomas Johansson, Graham Beales, Peter T. Kazlas
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Patent number: 11574574Abstract: A display device includes a processor which supplies grayscale data in active periods of frame periods and stops supply of the grayscale data in blank periods of the frame periods, a timing controller which generates a change signal when a difference between a first blank period of a first frame period and a second blank period of a second frame period is greater than a threshold value, a power supply which supplies a first power voltage having a voltage level changed based on the change signal to a first power line, and pixels commonly connected to the first power line.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Taek Kim, Kyun Ho Kim, Jae Woo Ryu, Joon Suk Baik, Se Keun Lee, Sang Su Han
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Patent number: 11550954Abstract: Corporate information technology (IT) networks can protect sensitive data sent to computers located outside of the corporate IT network. For example, a computer located outside of the corporate IT network may receive a message that instructs the computer to operate in a data protection mode in which the computer reduces a frame rate of a monitor of the computer from a first frame rate to a lower second frame rate. In this example, the computer receives sensitive information that includes sensitive visual content to be displayed on the monitor and displays the sensitive visual content on the monitor configured to operate at the second frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Sumita T. Jonak, Pooja Krishnaswamy, Christopher Russell, Gabriel Carlos Fernandez, Joel S. Hartshorn, Thomas Wayne Schwarz, Jr.
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Patent number: 11538434Abstract: A timing controller includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver is configured to receive image signals of image frames to be displayed. The processor is configured to determine refresh rates of the image frames to be displayed according to the image signals of the image frames to be displayed, and output different control signals according to different refresh rates of the image frames to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Ran, Xianyong Gao, Ying Zhang, Yunsong Li, Shanbin Chen, Zhicai Xu, Sijun Lei, Liang Gao
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Patent number: 11538431Abstract: A display system comprising a plurality of display controller circuits controlling a like number of independent segments of pixel drive circuits of a backplane. Each pixel drive circuit comprises a memory element and associated pixel drive circuitry. The segments of the backplane may be organized vertically. The word line for the memory cells of a first segment of pixel drive circuits passes underneath a second segment of pixel drive circuits without directly interacting with the pixel drive circuits of the second segment in order to reach the pixel drive circuits of the first segment. The plurality of display controller circuits operate asynchronously but are kept at the same frame rate by an external signal such as Vsync.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bo Li, Kaushik Sheth
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Patent number: 11527210Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a method of sensing characteristic value of circuit element and display device using it, which may shorten the threshold voltage sensing and compensation time of the driving transistor and the threshold voltage compensation time driving transistors by sensing the threshold voltage in a mobility sensing period of the driving transistor, calculate the threshold voltage using two or more sensing values of driving current for the driving transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seokyu Jang, Seungbaek Park
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Patent number: 11520035Abstract: Techniques for determining coherency between composite images having phase and amplitude components are disclosed. The coherency can be determined based on the amplitude components of the images, by providing first and second amplitude images indicative of amplitude values of pixels of a respective first and second composite images, applying to each of the first and second amplitude images a first directional derivative operator and a second directional derivative operator, thereby generating for each of the amplitude images respective first directional derivative image and second directional derivative image thereof, and generating a first coherency map based at least on the directional derivative images of the first and second amplitude images. The first coherency map is indicative of decorrelation between the first and second composite images.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.Inventor: Michael Abraham
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Patent number: 11521563Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to techniques (e.g., a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for mitigating the flicker on the displays at low driving frequencies due to drops of the voltage holding ratio of the materials for the display. The techniques to compensate for flicker in a liquid crystal display can include generating a dynamic waveform for the backlight of the display. The dynamic waveform can be synchronized with the driving rate of the liquid crystal display such that the luminosity of the backlight increases during periods when the voltage-holding ratio drops in the materials of the display. In this way, a liquid crystal material can be utilized in a display to generate reduced power consumption with liquid crystal rate minimizing the flicker in response to the drops of the voltage-holding ratio.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Zhibing Ge, Chengrui Le, Yuechen Wu, Xiaokai Li, Lingyu Hong, Chaohao Wang, Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang
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Patent number: 11508305Abstract: A driving method of LED display, configured to be applied to an LED display capable of varying a refresh rate thereof and able to reduce brightness changes due to refresh rate variation, is disclosed in the present disclosure. This driving method includes: controlling an organic light-emitting diode of the LED display by an emission signal having a plurality of frame periods, with each of the frame periods having a PWM part with a duty ratio; detecting whether a change in the refresh rate of the LED display exists; and performing a compensation procedure when the change is detected, with the compensation procedure compensating a brightness difference of the organic light-emitting diode occurring due to the change in the refresh rate by adjusting the duty ratio of the PWM part. Said LED display is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Huifeng Lin, Yen-Tao Liao
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Patent number: 11501684Abstract: Disclosed are a method for driving a silicon-based driving back plate and a display apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a watch position of a user on the silicon-based driving back plate within one frame time; determining a watch region of the user on the silicon-based driving back plate according to the watch position; and controlling a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in the watch region to be greater than a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in a non-watch region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengnan Li, Wei Qin, Tieshi Wang, Xiaolong Li, Weixing Liu, Kuanjun Peng
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Patent number: 11501698Abstract: A display device includes a pixel. The pixel includes an emission unit and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit to provide a first driving current to the emission unit in a first current flowing direction in a first mode, and to provide a second driving current to the emission unit in a second current flowing direction different from the first current flowing direction in a second mode. The emission unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced from each other, a first light emitting element connected between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first current flowing direction, and a second light emitting element connected between the first electrode and the second electrode in the second current flowing direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eui Myeong Cho, Ho Cheol Kang, Seok Young Yoon, Dae Gwang Jang
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Patent number: 11496719Abstract: A projector of the present invention includes a light source unit including a semiconductor light emitting element and a color wheel and emitting lights in first and second wavelength ranges in time division, a display device receiving light source light to form image light, a projection optical system for projecting the image light onto a projection target, a delay time setting module for shifting a start timing of a color mixing period when the lights in the first and second wavelength ranges are emitted in a mixed fashion in a spoke period of the color wheel during which emissions of the lights in the first and second wavelength ranges are switched over based on an index indicating a brightness of light from the light source unit, and a light source driving module for driving the light source unit based on a setting set by the delay time setting module.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yubi Takashimada, Tetsuro Narikawa, Kiyoshi Oda
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Patent number: 11475814Abstract: The present specification provides a display apparatus allowing brightness of a display panel to be more finely controlled as compared with the related art. The display apparatus according to the present specification includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in m×n, and K shift register units configured to sequentially output pulse signals having a width adjusted to adjust brightness of the display panel to m horizontal pixel lines, wherein each of the shift register units includes m main flip-flops and m?1 sub-flip-flops connected between the in main flip-flops.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Jin Woong Jang
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Patent number: 11468854Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to control circuitry for light-emitting diodes. The control circuitry may include feedforward control and a feedback control for a power supply for the light-emitting diodes. The feedforward control may include host circuitry for the device that determines a maximum zone current, a maximum row current, and the maximum row-to-row current step for an upcoming backlight frame while a current backlight frame is being executed. A headroom voltage for the upcoming backlight frame is determined based on the maximum zone current, the maximum row current, and/or the maximum row-to-row current step and provided to the power supply so that the power supply can settle at a corresponding supply voltage before the upcoming backlight frame is executed. The feedback control utilizes dynamic thresholds determined for each backlight frame to fine tune the feedforward-determined headroom voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vehbi Calayir, James E. Brown
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Patent number: 11462173Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; pixels connected to first scan lines, second scan lines, third scan lines, and emission control lines; a first scan driver supplying a first scan signal to the first scan lines; a second scan driver supplying a second scan signal to some of the second scan lines and supplying a third scan signal to the third scan lines; an emission driver supplying an emission control signal to the emission control lines; a first pad and a second pad provided in the non-display area; a first power line connected to the first pad, the first power line transferring a first voltage to the first scan driver and the emission driver; and a second power line connected to the second pad, the second power line transferring a second voltage to the second scan driver.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Hoon Kwon, Ji Hyun Ka, Nack Hyeon Keum, Jae Jin Song, Kwang Sae Lee