Spatial Processing (e.g., Patterns Or Subpixel Configuration) Patents (Class 345/694)
  • Patent number: 12167635
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same. Between first and second pixel areas having different pixels per inch, a third pixel area is provided to have the same pixels per inch as the first pixel area. In the third pixel area, some of pixels emit light as ON pixels, and remaining background pixels except for the ON pixels are driven as OFF pixels or low luminance pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Taek Oh, Seong Ho Cho, Min Sung Kang, Bo Gun Seo
  • Patent number: 12167657
    Abstract: A transparent display panel and a transparent display device including the same are disclosed. The transparent display panel includes a display region and a non-display region. The display region includes a plurality of light-emitting regions, a plurality of transmissive regions, a plurality of line regions spaced from each other and arranged in one direction, and a plurality of pixel circuit regions electrically connected to the light-emitting regions respectively to drive the light-emitting regions. Alternately-arranged adjacent line regions include alternately-arranged adjacent VSS voltage connection line and VDD voltage connection line, respectively. Thus, a new pixel arrangement structure that may increase or maximize a transparent area of a bezel and reduce or minimize a haze value without reducing transmittance of the display region may be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Euitae Kim, Kiseob Shin, Soyi Lee
  • Patent number: 12165561
    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: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhenzhen Li, Lujiang Huangfu, Shanshan Bai, Kuo Sun
  • Patent number: 12159561
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display device of a vehicle is disclosed. The display device is configured to acquire data information sent by an external terminal by communicating with the external terminal. The method includes: acquiring a driving parameter collected by the vehicle; determining a target display mode and a target display content based on the driving parameter, wherein the target display mode comprises at least one of a projection display mode or a screen display mode; and displaying the target display content based on the target display mode. The method may also include determining a current driving scenario type of the vehicle or determining a target priority of the target display content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: XIAOMI EV TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liangji Li
  • Patent number: 12159565
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display apparatus can include a display panel including a first active region configured to display first image data and a second active region configured to display second image data. The apparatus can further include a first memory configured to store a first main compensation value and a first boundary compensation value, corresponding to first pixels in the first active region, and a second memory configured to store a second main compensation value and a second boundary compensation value, corresponding to second pixels in the second active region. The apparatus can further include a first timing controller configured to correct the first image data based on the first main compensation value and the first and second boundary compensation values, and a second timing controller configured to correct the second image data based on the second main compensation value, the second boundary compensation value, and the first boundary compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Ju Park
  • Patent number: 12148395
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, a scan driver configured to scan signals to the pixels through the scan lines, a date driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixels through the data lines, and a controller configured to control the scan driver and the date driver, and including an image data processor configured to receive input image data at variable input frame frequency. Accordingly, display quality is improved because a flicker is minimized or reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 12131695
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a drive backplane having a transparent region and a pixel region surrounding the transparent region, wherein a plurality of pixel circuits are provided in the pixel region, and the pixel circuits include a plurality of columns of first pixel circuits and a plurality of columns of second pixel circuits distributed along a row direction; and a light-emitting layer including a plurality of light-emitting devices, wherein the light-emitting devices include a plurality of first light-emitting devices located in the transparent region and a plurality of second light-emitting devices located in the pixel region, each of the first light-emitting devices is connected to one of the first pixel circuits via one of transparent electric conductors, and a deviation between delay time of a signal transmitted by any of the electric conductors and a standard delay time is not greater than a deviation threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yudiao Cheng, Yue Long, Yuanyou Qiu, Qiwei Wang, Chao Wu
  • Patent number: 12125431
    Abstract: A local active matrix display panel, circuits and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a local active matrix display panel includes an array of pixel driver chip, a thin film transistor layer in electrical contact with the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes electrically connected with the thin film transistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Thomas Charisoulis, Xia Li
  • Patent number: 12118146
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of determining an eye convergence angle using a magnetometer sensor is provided. The magnetometer sensor is capable of reporting angle readings in three dimensions that is aligned with an eye gaze direction of each eye of a user. The magnetometer which is incorporated into the device can fit into a human eye like a contact lens and determine the angle of the gaze direction of both eyes with respect to an object within a field of view. By obtaining this eye convergence angle for an object, it is possible to accurately detect depth information. The electronic device also functions as a digital contact lens that can automatically adjust the focal point of the object to provide the user with a clear vision. The electronic device also includes a display that provides the user with additional information about the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Dominique Paul Barbier
  • Patent number: 12106734
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus with gaze-tracking means, light source(s), eyepiece lens, and processor(s) configured to: process gaze-tracking data to determine a gaze direction; determine relative position of a pupil with respect to eyepiece lens and relative orientation (A) of the pupil with respect to optical axis (OO?) of eyepiece lens; estimate distortions per pixel(s) in image, based on the relative position, the relative orientation and distortion information; identify an image segment whose pixels' estimated distortions are higher than predefined threshold distortion; modify image by replacing pixels of identified image segment with black pixels or near-black pixels; and utilise modified image for display to given eye via light source(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Strandborg, Antti Hirvonen
  • Patent number: 12100371
    Abstract: An image apparatus includes a pixel array, an optical modulator, a controller, and a memory device storing information of a frame memory and information of a view map. The optical modulator modulates the light emitted from the pixel array to different viewing angles. The controller generates images of a scene with different lighting profiles corresponding to different viewing angles according to the information of the frame memory and the information of the view map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sumi, Keiko Edo, Jian-Cheng Chen, Toshihiko Araki
  • Patent number: 12092791
    Abstract: Various embodiments and configurations of optical imaging systems are described herein that utilize a metalens for narrowband deflection of target frequencies. For example, one embodiment of a multifrequency metalens includes an in-plane spatially multiplexed array of frequency-specific nanopillars or frequency-specific rows/columns of nanopillars that are intermingled with one another. In other embodiments, transmissive metalenses and/or reflective metalenses are tuned to focus color-separated visible light into red, green, and blue (RGB) channels of a digital image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Imagia, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Kress, Abdoulaye Ndao, Arindom Datta
  • Patent number: 12087083
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a substrate, a first circuitry, a first light emitting unit, a sensor circuitry, and a sensor unit. The first circuitry, the first light emitting unit, the sensor circuitry and the sensor unit are disposed on the substrate. The first light emitting unit is driven by the first circuitry. The sensor unit is driven by the sensor circuitry. A first portion of the sensor circuitry is overlapped with the first light emitting unit and a second portion of the sensor circuitry is overlapped with the sensor unit in a top view direction of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 12087222
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device with subpixels that share switch transistors that selectively connect sources of driving transistors to a high voltage source. Further, part of reset transistors or part of a select transistor may be shared across multiple subpixels. The reset transistor selectively connects an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) to a low voltage source. The select transistor selectively passes through pixel data from a data line when a gate signal is received via a gate line. Driver transistors and capacitors of the subpixels are independent and not shared. In this way, the dimensions of the subpixels may be reduced and enable increase in the density of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Qianqian Wang, Min Hyuk Choi
  • Patent number: 12089441
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device. The first display region of the display panel includes a first boundary on a side of the display panel, the second display region includes a second boundary on the same side and is connected with the first boundary, and the display panel includes a first pixel unit which is located in the first display region and includes a plurality of first sub-pixels of different colors. A second pixel unit which is located in the second display region and includes a plurality of second sub-pixels of different colors, and dummy sub-pixels which are located in the first display region and between the first pixel unit and the first boundary. A color of the dummy sub-pixels is the same as that of the second sub-pixels in the second pixel unit adjacent to the second boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhiyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12080252
    Abstract: A driving method of a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are provided. Pixel units are grouped, so that the pixel units include the same number of sub-pixels. Each of the pixel units performs a display grayscale switching in a corresponding switching frame. A number of the sub-pixels having a first display gray level and a number of the sub-pixels having a second display gray level in each of the pixel units are the same. A the frame time of maintaining the first display grayscale by each of the pixel units and a frame time of maintaining the second display grayscale by each of the pixel units are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jhenwei He
  • Patent number: 12080241
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and sub-pixels on the base substrate, a sub-pixel includes an organic light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode which is electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The sub-pixels include first color sub-pixels, second color sub-pixels and third color sub-pixels, current efficiency of a first color sub-pixel is different from that of a second color sub-pixel. The display substrate includes a source-drain metal layer which includes a first power signal line, the display substrate includes a second power signal line and reset power signal lines, the reset power signal lines include a first reset power signal line and a second reset power signal line which are electrically connected to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Mou, Yongfu Diao
  • Patent number: 12073776
    Abstract: An afterimage compensator includes: a pixel data generator configured to generate characteristic data for one or more pixels from among a plurality of pixels by using a captured image; a stress accumulator configured to generate an accumulated stress for the one or more pixels in which stress corresponding to the one or more pixels is accumulated based on an image signal of a voltage domain; a domain converter configured to convert the accumulated stress for the one or more pixels from the voltage domain to accumulated stress data for the one or more pixels of a grayscale domain; and a compensator configured to generate compensation data using the characteristic data for the one or more pixels and the accumulated stress data for the one or more pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Ha Hong, Joon Chul Goh, Dong Joon Kwag, Jae Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 12066630
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for a head-mounted device are provided. In some examples, a head-mounted device comprising a frame having at least one arm, at least one display coupled at a proximity edge of the at least one arm, an electronic system coupled at a proximity another edge of the at least one arm, a data processing unit configured to send and receive data from the display, wherein the data processing unit coupled through the arm between the electronic system and the display; and an optical system configured to project an image from the display to a user's eye, wherein the optical system is mounted at the top of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: VueReal Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 12066721
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units comprises a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel disposed between adjacent two of the scan lines. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are arranged along the first direction, and the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel are arranged along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqiang Yu, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 12063823
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of display technologies, and provides a display panel including a base substrate; a plurality of pixel structures arranged in an array on the base substrate including a main light-emitting portion and an auxiliary light-emitting portion independently driven and having a same light-emitting color, as well as a microstructure covering the main light-emitting portion and the auxiliary light-emitting portion, light emitted by the main light-emitting portion and the auxiliary light-emitting portion of the same organic light-emitting sub-pixel is emitted through the microstructure; and wherein the initial brightness of the organic light-emitting sub-pixel is the initial brightness of the main light-emitting portion; and a control structure configured to control brightness of the auxiliary light-emitting portion according to brightness of the main light-emitting portion to compensate the brightness of the main light-emitting portion, so that brightness of the organic ligh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guang Jin, Chao Kong, Ming Zhao, Wanmei Qing
  • Patent number: 12057087
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of source drivers outputting a gradation voltage signal and a selector switchably supplying the output gradation voltage signal to a plurality of data lines. The plurality of source drivers include a first source driver that has a first output buffer outputting a switching signal and a second source driver that has a second output buffer. The first output buffer has first and second transistors coupled via output terminals of the switching signal and turned ON and OFF complementarily. The second output buffer has third and fourth transistors coupled via output terminals of the switching signal and turned ON and OFF complementarily. The first and the second output buffers have the output terminals electrically coupled, and the first source driver has an abnormal detection circuit detecting a state causing a flow-through current to occur between the output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ozawa
  • Patent number: 12039954
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for gamma lookup table compression based on dimensionality reduction. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a particular display condition for a display panel from among different display conditions for the display panel, selecting, based on the selection of the particular display condition, a set of weights for a set of basis functions from among different sets of weights that correspond to the different display conditions for the display panel, determining a gamma lookup table for the particular display condition for the display panel based on the set of weights that were selected and the set of basis functions, and remapping an image to be output on the display panel based on the gamma lookup table for the particular display condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Sun-il Chang, Wonjae Choi
  • Patent number: 12039921
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a first pixel, a first emission signal line and a second emission signal line. The first pixel includes a blue sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a red sub-pixel. The blue sub-pixel includes a first emission control switch. The green sub-pixel includes a second emission control switch. The red sub-pixel includes a third emission control switch. The first emission signal line is electrically connected to the first emission control switch and the second emission control switch. The second emission signal line is electrically connected to the third emission control switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Watsuda
  • Patent number: 12033391
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for inference quality determination of a deep neural network (DNN) without requiring ground truth information for use in driver-assisted vehicles, including receiving an image frame from a source; applying a normal inference DNN model to the image frame to produce a first inference with a first bounding box using a normal inference DNN model; applying a deep inference DNN model to a plurality of filtered versions of the image frame to produce a plurality of deep inferences with a plurality of bounding boxes; comparing the plurality of bounding boxes to identify a cluster condition of the plurality of bounding boxes; and determining an inference quality of the image frame of the normal inference DNN model as a function of the cluster condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gurjeet Singh, Apurbaa Mallik, Zafar Iqbal, Hitha Revalla, Steven Chao, Vijay Nagasamy
  • Patent number: 12035598
    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: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangshin Lee, Jongbum Kim
  • Patent number: 12027086
    Abstract: A driving circuit of a display panel includes: a first driving control circuit configured to, in a first display state, provide a signal of an OFF signal terminal to a starting node of a first light emitting signal driver according to a control signal of an ON level provided by a control signal terminal; the first light emitting signal driver configured to, in the first display state, control a light emitting signal output terminal to provide an OFF-level signal to a light emitting control terminal of a pixel driving circuit in a first display region according to the signal of the OFF signal terminal; and a second light emitting signal driver configured to, in the first display state, control a light emitting signal output terminal to provide a light emitting signal to a light emitting control terminal of a pixel driving circuit in a second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhu Wang, Fei Fang, Ling Shi, Zhenglong Yan
  • Patent number: 12019236
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diffractive exit pupil expander arrangement for display applications. The arrangement comprises a first lightguide element (51) comprising an exit pupil expander (53) and arranged in a first plane and a second lightguide element (41) comprising an in-coupler (42) and arranged in a second plane. The in-coupler is optically coupled with the exit pupil expander (53). Further, the first lightguide element (51) is arranged to confine propagation of light laterally in said first plane by reflections, and the first plane and the second plane are arranged at an angle (a) with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: DISPELIX OY
    Inventor: Juuso Olkkonen
  • Patent number: 12020629
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel; a scan driver; and a data driver, wherein the data driver includes: a controller configured to generate a gamma voltage control signal with respect to gamma voltage information corresponding to a target luminance level of an image displayed by the display panel; a gamma voltage generator configured to generate gamma voltages having a voltage range corresponding to the target luminance level based on the gamma voltage control signal; and a decoder configured to generate the data signal corresponding to a grayscale value using the gamma voltages, and wherein the controller calculates an offset value corresponding to the target luminance level and applies the offset value to values obtained using gamma voltage information about sample luminance levels to obtain gamma voltage information corresponding to the target luminance level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se Byung Chae
  • Patent number: 12022204
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image, where the image includes one or more frames. The method also includes performing multi-frame processing and image signal processing on the image to produce a processed image. The method further includes performing image restoration on the processed image to produce an output image. Performing the image restoration includes generating a dither signal, applying a dither signal corner attenuation to the dither signal in order to generate an attenuated dither signal, combining the attenuated dither signal with a sharpened denoised signal in order to generate a combine signal, and applying a halo suppression on the combined signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yibo Xu, Hamid R. Sheikh
  • Patent number: 12014665
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. A first display area of the display panel is located at least one side of a second display area, and a first data line in the first display area is electrically connected to a demultiplexing unit through a first connection line segment and a second connection line segment. The second connection line segment is located between the adjacent first sub-data line and second sub-data line in the second display area, and a distance between the second connection line segment and the first sub-data line is smaller than a distance between the second connection line segment and the second sub-data line. The control terminal of the switch element in the demultiplexing unit corresponding to the first data line is connected to a same switch control line as the control terminal of the switch element corresponding to the first sub-data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dian Zhang
  • Patent number: 12007640
    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: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 12002188
    Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Takagi, Nobuhiko Yokoo
  • Patent number: 12003696
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel and a microlens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of pixel islands in which a first pixel island displaying a first color, a second pixel island displaying a second color, and a third pixel island displaying a third color adjacent to one another form a repeating unit. In a same repeating unit, three sub-pixels at the same positions relative to their respective microlens units in the first pixel island, the second pixel island, and the third pixel island are disposed at three vertexes of a triangle respectively, and thus form a color fusion pixel. In addition, the display device further includes microlens arrays in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixel islands to realize 3D display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 12002401
    Abstract: A gamma correction method and apparatus, electronic device and readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting Han, Yuanzhang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11997905
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including a first electrode, a pixel defining layer positioned on the first electrode and including a first opening having a first polygonal shape opening the first electrode, and a first organic emission layer positioned on the pixel defining layer through the first electrode corresponding to the first opening and including a first chamfer adjacent to a corner of the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Oh-Seob Kwon
  • Patent number: 11984078
    Abstract: A system including a plurality of image display apparatuses including at least a first image display apparatus and a second image display apparatus, and a control device controlling the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sunbon Koo
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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