Spatial Processing (e.g., Patterns Or Subpixel Configuration) Patents (Class 345/694)
  • Patent number: 11974484
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure includes: first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels, being not overlapped but being spaced apart. The third sub-pixel includes a first edge facing the first sub-pixel, the first sub-pixel includes a second edge facing the third sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel includes a third edge facing the second sub-pixel, and the second sub-pixel includes a fourth edge facing the third sub-pixel, and shapes of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are circles, the first edge and the second edge are curved edges with a same curvature, the third edge and the fourth edge are curved edges with a same curvature; or shapes of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are octagons, at least part of the first edge is parallel to at least part of the second edge, at least part of the third edge is parallel to at least part of the fourth edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijun Qiu, Yangpeng Wang, Benlian Wang, Haijun Yin, Yang Wang, Yao Hu, Weinan Dai
  • Patent number: 11972719
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving a display device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Min Yang, Seung Ho Park, Sung Hoon Bang, Sang Jae Yeo
  • Patent number: 11961478
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device including the same according to an embodiment. A display panel according to the embodiment includes: a display area in which a plurality of first pixels are arranged at a first pixels per inch (PPI); and a sensing area in which a plurality of second pixels are arranged at a second PPI that is lower than the first PPI, wherein the first pixels of the display area and the second pixels of the sensing area are arranged adjacent to each other at a boundary between the display area and the sensing area, the second pixel includes red, green, and blue sub-pixels, and at least one of the red and green sub-pixels of the second pixel is arranged closest to the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sung Kang, Hee Jung Hong, Seong Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11961435
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories. and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungho Park, Guiwon Seo
  • Patent number: 11954950
    Abstract: An information interaction system for a vehicle is provided. The information interaction system comprises: an information processing device including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, that, when executed by the processor, cause the latter to perform steps comprising: providing a first customization option for a user to set a first trigger condition and a corresponding first customized content; detecting whether the first trigger condition is met by a vehicle computer; and when the first trigger condition is met, running the first customized content by the vehicle computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hailan Liu, Xiaojing Zhang, Sheena Meng
  • Patent number: 11946802
    Abstract: An ambient light sensor includes a substrate, a metasurface disposed on the substrate, and an aperture layer disposed on the substrate. The metasurface includes a plurality of nanostructures and a filling layer laterally surrounding the plurality of nanostructures. The aperture layer laterally separates the metasurface into a plurality of sub-meta groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shih-Liang Ku, Zi-Han Liao, Chun-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11948517
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a drive controller. The drive controller classifies an input image signal into a first image signal and a second image signal. The drive controller generates a data histogram by classifying the second image signal based on a plurality of gray levels and selects a first algorithm or a second algorithm based on a number of second image signals included in a part of the plurality of gray levels of the data histogram. The second algorithm calculates a second result value based on a first result value obtained based on the second image signal and a preset kernel matrix, and the drive controller outputs a first data signal corresponding to the second pixel unit in the second display region based on the second result value when the second algorithm is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Deokhwa Woo
  • Patent number: 11948529
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of gate lines. The plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in an array in a row direction and a column direction, and each row of sub-pixels includes sub-pixels of a first color, sub-pixels of a second color and sub-pixels of a third color. The plurality of gate lines includes first gate lines and second gate lines alternately arranged in the column direction, a first gate line and a second gate line adjacent to each other form a gate line pair, and two gate lines in the gate line pair are coupled to a same row of sub-pixels. In the same row of sub-pixels, sub-pixels of the first color are coupled to the first gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaona Liu, Yu Ma, Weitao Chen
  • Patent number: 11941830
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes at least one projector configured to project a plurality of projected patterns, where a projected lighting characteristic of each of the projected patterns varies over a time period in accordance with an associated predetermined temporal lighting-characteristic pattern, a camera configured to capture images of detected patterns during the time period, and one or more processors configured to: determine, for each detected pattern, a detected temporal lighting-characteristic pattern based on variations in a detected lighting characteristic of the detected pattern, identify a detected pattern that corresponds to one of the projected patterns by comparing at least one of the detected temporal lighting-characteristic patterns to at least one of the temporal lighting-characteristic patterns, and compute a depth associated with the detected patterns based on the one or more of the projected patterns, the detected pattern, and a relative position between the camera and the project
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Niv Kantor, Ricardo Garcia, Nadav Grossinger, Robert Hasbun, Nitay Romano
  • Patent number: 11942022
    Abstract: A method of correcting input image data for a display device can include receiving input image data by a controller in the display device, a first portion of the input image data corresponding to a first region of a display panel in the display device and a second portion of the input image data corresponding to a second region of the display panel having a pixel density different than a pixel density of the first region; and correcting, by the controller, at least some of the input image data to generate corrected image data based on at least one white correction value or at least one monochromatic correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YeoMyeong Yoon, Li-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11935453
    Abstract: A display device includes four pixel arrays, a data driver, and a demultiplexer. The data driver is electrically connected to first and second data output lines. The demultiplexer electrically connects first and second data lines to the first data output line and electrically connects third and fourth data lines to the second data output line. The first to fourth pixel arrays are adjacent to the first to fourth data lines, respectively. Each of the first to fourth pixel arrays includes first and second color pixels. The first color pixels in the second pixel array are connected to the second data line, the second color pixels in the second pixel array are connected to the third data line, the second color pixels in the third pixel array are connected to the third data line, and the first color pixels in the third pixel array are connected to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Jinyoung Roh, Woomi Bae, Hae-Kwan Seo, Youngha Sohn, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11935497
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a first panel including pixels; a second panel including light control pixels; and a light source. When any of the pixels is controlled to transmit light in accordance with an input image signal, blurring processing is applied, a blurring area is formed, and light from the light source transmits through the blurring area and the pixel controlled to transmit light and is emitted from the first panel. When a straight line connecting a user viewpoint and the pixel controlled to transmit light has an angle relative to a normal to the first panel, a center of the blurring area is at a position shifted to a side opposite to a reference normal side relative to the normal to the first panel passing through a center of the pixel. The reference normal is a normal to the first panel passing through the viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 11929038
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, and a timing controller, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of gate lines to which a scan signal is applied, a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is applied, a plurality of reference voltage lines to which a reference voltage is applied, and a plurality of subpixels, wherein the data driving circuit senses a voltage on one reference voltage line selected from the plurality of reference voltage lines in a first detecting period and a second detecting period having different voltage detecting paths, and wherein the timing controller controls the data driving circuit, and determining whether or not the reference voltage line is abnormal using a sensing voltage detected from the reference voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: MooKyoung Hong
  • Patent number: 11915667
    Abstract: Provided is a method for displaying an image including: acquiring a to-be-displayed image; correcting the to-be-displayed image based on a target look-up table, wherein in the target look-up table, at least one of the original pixel values and a corresponding corrected pixel value satisfy: an absolute value of a difference between a first chroma and a second chroma is less than or equal to a chroma difference threshold, wherein the first chroma is a chroma of a first pixel, a pixel value of the first pixel being acquired by converting the original pixel value, and the second chroma is a chroma of a second pixel displayed by the display device, a pixel value of the second pixel being acquired by converting the corrected pixel value; and displaying a corrected to-be-displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xian Wang, Ran Duan, Masakazu Okamura
  • Patent number: 11900853
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for driving the same, a display device, and a high-precision metal mask are provided. The display area includes a first display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a high density (e.g., a high resolution), and a second display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a low density (e.g., a low resolution), and a transition display sub-area, with a distribution density of pixels (a resolution) between the distribution density of pixels in the first display sub-area and a distribution density of pixels in the second display sub-area, is arranged between the first display sub-area and the second display sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Li, Lujiang Huangfu, Shanshan Bai, Kuo Sun
  • Patent number: 11881135
    Abstract: A method can be applied to a terminal provided with a light sensor to determine a screen light intensity value. The method can include: obtaining a screen light intensity detection value detected by the light sensor, and obtaining a current environment temperature when the light sensor detects the screen light intensity detection value; determining a light intensity calibration coefficient corresponding to a value of the current environment temperature based on a corresponding relationship between a temperature and the light intensity calibration coefficient; and determining the screen light intensity value of the terminal based on the determined light intensity calibration coefficient and the screen light intensity detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaoxi Chen, Changyu Sun
  • Patent number: 11882259
    Abstract: A method for reducing the parameters defining an acquired light field ray which enables only the colour associated with the light field ray to be stored instead of 4 light field co-ordinates (x,y,i,j) and its associated colour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Boisson, Valter Drazic, Mozhdeh Seifi
  • Patent number: 11877488
    Abstract: A display panel, driving method and display device, where the display panel includes: a substrate (100) that includes a first display area (A1) and a second display area (A2); a pixel circuit layer positioned in the second display area (A2) of the substrate (100) and including multiple pixel circuits; a light-emitting device layer positioned on one side of the pixel circuit layer that is away from the substrate (100) and including multiple active light-emitting devices (120) and multiple passive light-emitting devices (130), where the multiple active light-emitting devices (120) are arranged in the second display area (A2) and each of the pixel circuits is electrically connected to at least one active light-emitting device (120), and the multiple passive light-emitting devices (130) are arranged in an array in the first display area (A1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi
  • Patent number: 11875736
    Abstract: A driving controller includes a compensator that calculates a compensation value based on first accumulated stress, and outputs an output image signal by compensating for the input image signal with the compensation value, a stress converter that converts the output image signal into current stress in response to an enable signal, an accumulation stress calculator that outputs second accumulated stress by adding the first accumulated stress and the current stress in response to the enable signal, a memory that stores the second accumulated stress and provides the first accumulated stress to the compensator and the accumulation stress calculator, and an operating time calculator that receives a current operating frequency and outputs the enable signal of an active level based on the current operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngsoo Sohn, Jong-Woong Park, SeokJeong Song, Jiyeon Baik
  • Patent number: 11869452
    Abstract: In an image processing device, for each of one or two or more picture elements among a plurality of picture elements, the one or two or more picture elements having an input grayscale value included in the input image data being equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the second panel data correction unit corrects the second aperture ratio of each of at least one pixel among the plurality of pixels, the at least one pixel facing the one or two or more picture elements, so that an actual transmittance gets closer to a theoretical transmittance, and the first panel data generation unit generates the first aperture ratio for each of the plurality of picture elements by dividing a normalized input grayscale value included in the input image data by a normalized luminance included in the panel luminance distribution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Naoko Goto
  • Patent number: 11869448
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which an optical area and a normal area outside the optical area are formed in a display area, wherein the optical area is divided into a transmission area and a light emitting area and wherein the normal area comprises a plurality of light emitting areas; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a gate signal to the display panel; a data driving circuit configured to convert an image data into a data voltage and supply it to the display panel; a display controller configured to control a movement path of the image data so that at least a part of the image data moves over time according to a structure of the optical area when an area where the image data is displayed includes the optical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Gyum Kim, Minsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11852911
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 11854498
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a display device includes a display panel which includes sub pixels configured by an upper sub pixel and a lower sub pixel which share a data line and are adjacent to each other; and a data driver which converts only image data corresponding to any one of even-numbered grayscale levels and odd-numbered grayscale levels among 10-bit image data into a data voltage to supply the converted data voltage to the sub pixel, in which when the data driver converts only the even-numbered grayscale levels of image data into the data voltage and the sub pixel displays an X (X is an odd number) grayscale level, the data driver supplies an X?1 grayscale level of data voltage to the upper sub pixel and supplies an X+1 grayscale level of data voltage to the lower sub pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seunghwan Shin
  • Patent number: 11847975
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a gate driver connected to gate lines of the display panel, and a data driver connected to data lines of the display panel, and the data driver provides duplicates of red, green and blue data signals, except for a white data signal, in a digital data signal having a 4:2:0 format externally input thereto, and converts the white data signal, the red, green and blue data signals, and the duplicated red, green and blue data signals, thereby outputting an analog data voltage having a 4:4:4 format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Rok Kim, Min Kim, Hyuck Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 11847962
    Abstract: The present invention provides an active mini LED display and driving method thereof. The driving method comprises: controlling a gate voltage of the metal oxide field effect transistor by a voltage to modulate the current and luminous brightness required to driver the light emitting diode; processing display data to generate timing-controlled channel signals and scanning signals to driver transistors and light emitting diodes to achieve image display; modulating scanning voltage signals or channel voltage signals into analog-type voltages and/or pulse-width-type voltages, and then compensating the unevenness in brightness produced by the epitaxy of each light-emitting diode. The driving method of the active mini LED display of the present invention can reduce the power loss of transmission, and can integrate with various light emitting diodes within a small pixel pitch to manufacture various displays by means of heterogeneous polycrystalline wafer-level packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Tai-Hui Liu, Chung-Hsi Liu
  • Patent number: 11842674
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a display with discrete gate-in-panel circuitry. In some implementations, a display includes an array of emissive pixels arranged in rows and columns, where the array includes a first continuous area having a first pixel density and a second continuous area having a second pixel density less than the first pixel density, and consecutive rows of the emissive pixels extending between the first and second continuous areas. The display also includes gate in panel (GIP) circuits in the second continuous area, a data lines connected to the array of emissive pixels, and signal lines connected to the array of emissive pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sun-il Chang, Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11825104
    Abstract: For a given image in a set of images, residual data is obtained and is useable by a decoder to reconstruct a first representation of the given image at a first level of quality using a second representation of the given image at the first level of quality. The second representation is based on a representation of the given image at a second, lower level of quality. Configuration data relating to processing of the residual data is generated and output for processing by the decoder. The configuration data comprises a temporal processing parameter that specifies an extent of temporal processing associated with reconstructing, for the given image, the first representation using the second representation and the residual data, wherein performing temporal processing comprises using data based on multiple images in the set of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Johnson
  • Patent number: 11818918
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of first pixels on the substrate arranged along a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction and configured to emit light of a first color; and a plurality of second pixels arranged on the substrate arranged along the first direction and the second direction and configured to emit light of the first color, wherein each of the plurality of first pixels includes a plurality of first partial pixels, and the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels are alternately arranged in each of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghoon Kim, Sangshin Lee
  • Patent number: 11790858
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel that includes a first display region and a second display region, a data driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller configured to control the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit so as to operate the first display region and the second display region at different frequencies when an operation mode is a multi-frequency mode, wherein the driving controller changes the operation mode to a normal mode when a difference between an image signal of a current frame of the first display region and an image signal of a previous frame of the first display region is equal to or greater than a reference value during the multi-frequency mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Junhee Moon, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11776491
    Abstract: In an image display device including a backlight (6) divided into multiple regions, color shift information (CSR, CSB) is generated from a light source control value (BL(i,j)) for each region, the region to which a pixel of interest belongs and regions therearound are taken as reference regions, luminance conversion information is generated from the light source control value for each reference region, color conversion information is generated from the color shift information for each reference region, and an image signal is converted based on the color conversion information and luminance conversion information, so that an output image signal is generated. Even when there is light leakage from a peripheral region, it is possible to perform color correction so that the color difference is not noticeable at a region boundary portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11749187
    Abstract: A component for a display device, a display device and a method for operating the display device, a computer program and a storage medium are disclosed. The component comprises LED chips arranged in rows, wherein one red, one green and one blue LED chip are arranged alternately per row in the extension direction of the respective row and per column obliquely to the extension direction, and the rows have an offset from one another in the extension direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Richter
  • Patent number: 11749186
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a correction area in which a correction image including a logo image and a logo background image is displayed, and a panel driving block. The panel driving block includes a luminance correction block which corrects a luminance of the correction image, and the luminance correction block includes a first correction block which divides the correction area into a plurality of sub-areas, based on a distance from the logo image and generates an area correction signal for correcting the luminance of the correction image, a second correction block which generates a luminance correction signal for correcting the luminance of the correction image displayed in each of the sub-areas, based on a grayscale of the image signal and the area correction signal, and a third correction block which corrects the luminance of the correction image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DongHyun Noh, Wonwoo Jang, Kyoungho Lim
  • Patent number: 11727840
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories. and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungho Park, Guiwon Seo
  • Patent number: 11727854
    Abstract: The embodiments of the application discloses a driving circuit, a display panel, a display apparatus and a voltage stabilization control method. The driving circuit includes an input module, a control module, an output module and a voltage stabilization module. The output module is used to output a scan signal via the output module according to level states of signals at first and second nodes. With respect to the voltage stabilization module, an input terminal thereof is connected to the output terminal of the output module, a first control terminal thereof receives a second clock signal, a second control terminal thereof is connected to the second node, an output terminal thereof is connected to the first node, and the voltage stabilization module is to connect the output terminal of the output module to the first node, when the scan signal is to control a data writing transistor to be turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Hu
  • Patent number: 11719972
    Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Atsuko Kanashima, Mariko Honda, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 11721292
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a data driver. The display panel is configured to display an image based on input image data. The driving controller is configured to determine whether the input image data include a display quality deteriorating pattern. The driving controller is configured to determine a first compensation value for compensating a first area disposed at a first side of a main area of the display quality deteriorating pattern and a second compensation value for compensating a second area disposed at a second side of the main area opposite to the first side of the main area, according to a position of the main area. The data driver is configured to apply a data voltage to the display panel using the first compensation value and the second compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Jin Shin, Kyunho Kim, Joonsuk Baik, Bongim Park, Ukjae Jang
  • Patent number: 11709550
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, a method for processing information, and a program capable of adjusting a perceptual position of a tactile stimulus even with one tactile stimulus unit. The information processing apparatus (20) includes an output control unit (120) that performs output control of a vibration on at least one tactile stimulus unit (130), in which the output control unit changes a frequency of the vibration to be output from the tactile stimulus unit depending on a position of the tactile stimulus unit and predetermined positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11699398
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device includes a pixel configured to display an image based on a difference between a display data voltage and a first reference voltage, a driving voltage generation circuit configured to supply the display data voltage to the pixel through a data line, and a sensing circuit configured to supply the first reference voltage to the pixel through a sensing line. The sensing circuit includes a sensing channel terminal coupled to the sensing line, a switch coupled between the sensing channel terminal and an input terminal for the first reference voltage, and a sampling circuit configured to sense a voltage of the sensing line which has changed from the first reference voltage independent of driving characteristics of the pixel in a vertical blank period in which the switch is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Hyun Hong, Seong En Lee, Jung Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11694615
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods for compensating for display OLED degradation. Correction factors k for OLED degradation of each sub-pixel is modelled and tracked based on grey level, temperature, and time, and used to correct image data provided to an OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Shuenn-Jiun Tang, Junhu He, Tong Liu, Gabriel Franklin Yano de Sousa
  • Patent number: 11676526
    Abstract: Methods for verifying and improving angular color shift impact factors are provided. Experiments have verified that angular color shift can be effectively improved by downgrading gray levels of red and green subpixels, while downgrading gray levels of blue subpixels may deteriorate the angular color shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Hai
  • Patent number: 11668974
    Abstract: An illumination unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of first light-emission blocks, a plurality of second light-emission blocks, and a light-emission controller. The first light-emission blocks each include a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in a first direction. The second light-emission blocks are partially overlapped with the respective first light-emission blocks, and each include a plurality of second light-emitting devices arranged in a second direction different from the first direction. The light-emission controller performs light-emission control of the first light-emitting devices for each of the first light-emission blocks, and performs the light-emission control of the second light-emitting devices for each of the second light-emission blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Hiroaki Matsui, Takashi Ikuta
  • Patent number: 11663950
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a signal controller configured to determine whether an input image signal is a still image signal, and determine color coordinates using data values of one frame data of the input image signal, and generate compensated image data by compensating image data of the one frame data based on the color coordinates; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal based on the compensated image data and output the compensated image data to the display panel through a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 11663959
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of red, a second sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of green, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of blue. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are inorganic light-emitting diodes. A light emission intensity of the second sub-pixel is increased at a predetermined ratio with respect to a light emission intensity of the first sub-pixel when the first sub-pixel emits light at a light emission intensity within a low-luminance range equal to or lower than a predetermined level of luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Kazunari Tomizawa, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 11645986
    Abstract: An image processing device generates backlight data from input image data to control outputs of a plurality of light-emitting regions; corrects the backlight data; generates luminance distribution data for the backlight from the backlight data that is corrected; generates second panel data from an input image data to control aperture ratios of a plurality of pixels; corrects the second panel data; generates luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel from the second panel data that is corrected and the luminance distribution data for the backlight; and generates first panel data from the input image data and the luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel to control aperture ratios of a plurality of picture elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko Goto, Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11645988
    Abstract: A pixel driving method is provided and the method includes following steps: acquiring a pixel signal of each unit pixel in a pixel block, acquiring a first average pixel signal of the pixel block according to the pixel signal of each of the unit pixels in the pixel block, and if a signal determination interval corresponding to the first average pixel signal is a first-type interval, determining that the pixel signal of the pixel block meets a first condition; and loading first-type gray-scale signals to a part of unit pixels of the pixel block and loading second-type gray-scale signals to the remaining unit pixels of the pixel block based on a preset rule. The display quality is improved by controlling the unit pixel proportion loaded with the first-type gray-scale signal and the second-type gray-scale signal and reducing the difference among pixel signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11626070
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes: a display panel including a first region and a second region; and a scan driver including a plurality of first stages and a plurality of second stages which are coupled to each other. The plurality of first stages is configured to provide scan signals and sensing signals to the first region, and the plurality of second stages is configured to provide the scan signals and the sensing signals to the second region. A configuration of the plurality of first stages is different from a configuration of the plurality of second stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suyeon Yun, Yoona Kim, Heesoon Jeong, Minsoo Kim, Sunghoon Kim, Young-Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 11621302
    Abstract: A display device includes a first sub-pixel have a square form, a second sub-pixel positioned to face a first side or a second side of the first sub-pixel and having a rectangular form, and a third sub-pixel positioned to face the first side or the second side of the first sub-pixel spaced from the second sub-pixel and having a rectangular form, wherein the first side and the second side of the first sub-pixel come together at an angle, and wherein the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are configured to emit lights of different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangshin Lee, Jongbum Kim
  • Patent number: 11610555
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion having a substantially rectangular area with rounded edges in which a plurality of data lines are arranged. The display device includes a first area corresponding to a rounded edge part and a second area corresponding to a straight edge part adjacent to the first area. A data driving circuit includes a plurality of output channels configured to output data voltages. Odd-numbered output channels output data voltages according to a sequential arrangement of data lines in the second area. Even-numbered output channels output data voltages according to a reverse sequential arrangement of data lines in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyung Soon Park, Seung-Hwan Cho, Jong Hyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11610542
    Abstract: Proposed are a display substrate, a control method thereof and a wearable display device. The display substrate includes M rows and N columns of pixels and 2M rows of scanning lines, a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel of pixels in an i-th row are connected to the same scanning line and electrically connected to one of a (2i?1)-th row of scanning line and a 2i-th row of scanning line, and a third sub-pixel of the pixels in the i-th row is electrically connected to the other of the (2i?1)-th row of scanning line and the 2i-th row of scanning line; when the display substrate is displaying, a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel among two pixels located in a (2i?1)-th row, a j-th column, and a 2i-th row, a j-th column emit light at an i-th stage of each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjin Hu, Chang Wang, Cunzhi Li, Mingqiang Wang, Xin Bi, Bin Zhang, Kun Zuo, Jiaxiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11598955
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may provide, by first multiple light emitting diode (LED) pixels of a display, first light emissions; provide, by second multiple LED pixels of the display, second light emissions; determine a gaze point associated with eyes of a user and associated with the display; and configure multiple liquid crystal display pixels of the display within a distance from the gaze point to: block the second light emissions to a first eye of the eyes of the user, block the first light emissions to a second eye of the eyes of the user, permit transmission of the first light emissions to the first eye of the eyes of the user, and permit transmission of the second light emissions to the second eye of the eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jongseo Lee, Asim Mukarram Siddiqui, Deeder M. Aurongzeb