Subpixels Have Different Shapes Patents (Class 345/695)
  • Patent number: 12183280
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device that includes an organic light emitting device (OLED), and a drive circuit to control the operation of the OLED, comprising a response time accelerator thin film transistor (TFT) configured to short or reverse bias the OLED for a predetermined period of time during a frame time. Other embodiments include an OLED having a plurality of sub-pixels, where one or more of sub-pixels configured to emit light of at least a first color comprises a first emissive area and a second emissive area that are independently controllable, where the first emissive area is larger than the second emissive area. The controller is configured to control the second emissive area to have (i) a higher brightness, and/or (ii) a higher current density than the first emissive area for a first sub-pixel luminance level that is less than a maximum luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Michael O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11730034
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels, an anode disposed in each of the plurality of sub-pixels, a bank layer covering an edge of the anode and defining emission areas, an organic emission layer disposed on the anode, and a cathode disposed on the organic emission layer. Each of sub-pixels includes a respective one of the emission areas and a respective non-emission area. A minor axis length of the emission area in the first sub-pixel, that of the emission area in the second sub-pixel and that of the emission area in the third sub-pixel are identical to each other. A major axis length of the emission area in the first sub-pixel, that of the emission area in the second sub-pixel and that of the emission area in the third sub-pixel are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HakMin Lee, HeeJin Kim
  • Patent number: 11422395
    Abstract: A spatial light modulator includes an array of Faraday domains with each Faraday domain being selectively magnetizable to serve as an individual magnetic domain for selectively changing a polarization state of electromagnetic waves, having wavelengths that are no greater than a maximum wavelength, passing through each Faraday domain with each Faraday domain being characterized by physical dimensions and each Faraday domain is selectively magnetizable so long as the physical dimensions do not exceed a given maximum set of dimensions that correspond to the maximum wavelength. An addressing arrangement addresses the array of Faraday domains to selectively switch a magnetization state of a group of adjacent ones of the Faraday domains such that the Faraday domains that make up the group of Faraday domains cooperate to selectively change the polarization state of at least one electromagnetic wave passing therethrough having a wavelength that is longer than the maximum wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Steel City Optronics, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Partee, Sara Partee
  • Patent number: 11024688
    Abstract: A pixel structure is disclosed. The pixel structure includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups arranged in an array, wherein each sub-pixel group is constituted by 6 sub-pixels of different colors arranged in two rows and three columns respectively. In each row of the sub-pixels, a square pixel unit is constituted by at most two adjacent sub-pixels. The present application further discloses a display panel and a driving method of said pixel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Lei Wang, Ming Yang, Qian Wang, Rui Xu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu, Haisheng Wang, Shengji Yang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10901442
    Abstract: A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Takeshi Noma, Ryo Yonebayashi, Takayuki Nishiyama, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
  • Patent number: 10854684
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure, including a plurality of repeating units, wherein each of the plurality of repeating units includes one first sub-pixel, one second sub-pixel, and two third sub-pixels; in each of the plurality of repeating units, the two third sub-pixels are arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction, and the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are arranged in the other one of the first direction and the second direction; the plurality of repeating units are arranged in the first direction to form a plurality of repeating unit groups, the plurality of repeating unit groups are arranged in the second direction; and the first direction and the second direction are different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Xiaodan Jin, Yinan Liang, Zhenzhen Li, Wenjing Tan, Libin Liu, Qian Yang, Hongli Wang
  • Patent number: 10748972
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting display panel and a display device. The organic light-emitting display panel has display area including fingerprint recognition region and non-fingerprint recognition region; and non-display area surrounding the display area. The organic light-emitting display panel includes: a base substrate; organic light-emitting elements arranged in the display area, located on a side of the base substrate and having at least three different colors; and a fingerprint recognition unit arranged in the fingerprint recognition region. The organic light-emitting elements include first organic light-emitting element disposed in the fingerprint recognition region and second organic light-emitting element disposed in the non-fingerprint recognition region, which emit light of a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xian Chen, Lijing Han, Yu Xin, Yueting Fang, Min Liu
  • Patent number: 10403013
    Abstract: A method for use in an electronic device including selecting, by the electronic device, a filtering region in a first layer of a user interface based on a position of a content item in a second layer of the user interface; applying, by the electronic device, a graphical effect to the filtering region; displaying, on a display of the electronic device, a screen that is produced by merging the first layer with the second layer after the graphical effect is applied to the filtering region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon Jeong Heo, Jee Yeun Wang, Kyung Dae Park, Hyung Min Lee
  • Patent number: 10365674
    Abstract: A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Takeshi Noma, Ryo Yonebayashi, Takayuki Nishiyama, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
  • Patent number: 10345631
    Abstract: A spatial light modulator includes an array of Faraday domains with each Faraday domain being selectively magnetizable to serve as an individual magnetic domain for selectively changing a polarization state of electromagnetic waves, having wavelengths that are no greater than a maximum wavelength, passing through each Faraday domain with each Faraday domain being characterized by physical dimensions and each Faraday domain is selectively magnetizable so long as the physical dimensions do not exceed a given maximum set of dimensions that correspond to the maximum wavelength. An addressing arrangement addresses the array of Faraday domains to selectively switch a magnetization state of a group of adjacent ones of the Faraday domains such that the Faraday domains that make up the group of Faraday domains cooperate to selectively change the polarization state of at least one electromagnetic wave passing therethrough having a wavelength that is longer than the maximum wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Steel City Optronics, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Partee, Sara Partee
  • Patent number: 9871091
    Abstract: Subpixels of R, G, and B corresponding to a scanning line extended in a row direction and a data transfer line extended in a column direction are provided. A plurality of transistors in the subpixel of each of the colors is disposed along the column direction, and a reflective layer in the subpixel of at least one color is disposed along the row direction so as to overlap any transistor of subpixels of each display color. A power source wiring is disposed between the reflective layer and the transistor along the row direction, so as to overlap the transistor. Relay electrodes which connects the reflective layer and any transistor of subpixels of each display color are formed on a layer between a layer on which the power source wiring is formed, and the reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Hitoshi Ota, Ryoichi Nozawa
  • Patent number: 9858870
    Abstract: A pixel unit includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, a fourth pixel and a light-shielding structure. The first pixel has a plurality of first sub-pixels, the second pixel has a plurality of second sub-pixels, the third pixel has a plurality of third pixels, and the fourth pixel has a plurality of fourth sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel has a first electrode extending along a first tilting direction. The second sub-pixel has a second electrode extending along a second tilting direction. The third sub-pixel has a third electrode extending along a third tilting direction. The fourth sub-pixel has a fourth electrode extending along a fourth tilting direction. The first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel and the fourth pixel surround the light-shielding structure collectively. The first tilting direction, the second tilting direction, the third tilting direction and the fourth tilting direction are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Ju-Chin Chen, Hsiao-Wei Cheng, Shih-Chyuan Fan-Jiang
  • Patent number: 9727024
    Abstract: A phase distribution is calculated such that modulated light has a predetermined intensity distribution on a target plane and displayed on a phase modulation plane, readout light enters the phase modulation plane so as to generate the modulated light. When calculating the phase distribution, a region on the phase modulation plane is divided into N regions A1 . . . AN, with sizes set such that integration values of an intensity distribution in the regions are equal to each other. Further, a region on the target plane is divided into N regions B1 . . . BN, with sizes set such that integration values of an intensity distribution in the regions are equal to each other. The phase distribution is calculated by obtaining an optical path length from the region An to the region Bn, and determining the phase of the region An based on the optical path length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Yuu Takiguchi, Takashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9715855
    Abstract: A pixel unit includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, a fourth pixel and a light-shielding structure. The first pixel has a plurality of first sub-pixels, the second pixel has a plurality of second sub-pixels, the third pixel has a plurality of third pixels, and the fourth pixel has a plurality of fourth sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel has a first electrode extending along a first tilting direction. The second sub-pixel has a second electrode extending along a second tilting direction. The third sub-pixel has a third electrode extending along a third tilting direction. The fourth sub-pixel has a fourth electrode extending along a fourth tilting direction. The first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel and the fourth pixel surround the light-shielding structure collectively. The first tilting direction, the second tilting direction, the third tilting direction and the fourth tilting direction are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Ju-Chin Chen, Hsiao-Wei Cheng, Shih-Chyuan Fan-Jiang
  • Patent number: 9613557
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a pentile pattern, the plurality of pixels having at least a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel, and the display panel being configured to display colors corresponding to respective output color data of the first and second pixels, and a color data converter configured to convert input color data to generate the output color data, the color data converter including a determiner configured to receive the input color data, to determine whether the first pixel displays a white color and the second pixel displays a black color, and to generate a first determination signal based on a result of the determination, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the output color data of the first or second pixel based on the first determination signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Da-Jeong Lee, Young-Nam Yun
  • Patent number: 9454939
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to allow a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and to allow a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image. The display apparatus includes a display unit that alternately displays the first and second images; an irradiation unit that provides irradiation light; a color filter that respectively includes first and second areas for the first and second images, through which the irradiation light is transmitted; and a distribution unit that distributes the irradiation light transmitted through the first area of the color filter to the first direction and through the second area of the color filter to the second direction. The color filter includes color components of three primary colors and a white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9024850
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels in a matrix on a substrate. First and second pixels are adjacent to each other along a first direction. The first and second pixels each include first and second switching elements. A first common gate line extends in a second direction different from the first direction and is commonly connected to the first and second switching elements. First and second data lines extend in the first direction and are connected to the first and second switching elements, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Jun Lee, Jong-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9001167
    Abstract: A display device having subpixel repeating groups is presented. Each subpixel repeating group has an even number of four or more subpixels and includes odd-numbered subpixels and even-numbered subpixels alternately arranged in a row direction, each subpixel having a color. A data driver is configured to provide data signals to the subpixels such that the odd-numbered subpixels have a polarity that is opposite that of the even-numbered subpixels in each of the subpixel repeating groups. A first subpixel repeating group and a second subpixel repeating group are adjacent in the row direction. The first subpixel of the first subpixel repeating group and the first subpixel of the second subpixel repeating group have the same color and opposite polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 8994763
    Abstract: In a display device in which a shape of a parallax barrier is changed depending on the relative positional relation to the viewer, the occurrence of crosstalk is suppressed. Images are displayed in a part of a plurality of sub-pixels included in each pixel, and images are not displayed in the other sub-pixels. That is, a display area in the pixel is reduced. Thus, the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. Further, sub-pixels have a square shape or a substantially square shape. Thus, even when sub-pixels which display images are selected depending on the relative positional relation to the viewer, the shape of the display area in the pixel does not change greatly. Therefore, even in the case where the positional relationship is changed (in the case where the arranged parallax barrier is changed), the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed without respect to the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20150077448
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display panel has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the rows has at least one sub-row. The 3D display panel includes at least one first group and at least one second group arranged on the first row. The first group and the second group respectively have a first color region, a second color region and a third color region. The first color region and the second color region of the first group as well as the third color region and the first color region of the second group are arranged on one sub-row, while the third color region of the first group and the second color region of the second group are arranged on another sub-row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 8976083
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, sub-pixels arranged in areas between the data lines and the gate lines, a data driver that drives the data lines, a first gate driver that drives first gate lines from among the gate lines, a second gate driver that drives second gate lines from among the gate lines, and a timing controller that controls the data driver, the first gate driver, and the second gate drivers according to an image signal and a control signal. The second gate driver does not drive the second gate lines during a 3D display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Sun Kim, Chongchul Chai, Yeong-Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 8976209
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel including a scan signal line (16x), a data signal line (15x), and a transistor (12a) that is connected to the scan signal line (16x) and the data signal line (15x). A pixel (101) is provided with pixel electrodes (17a and 17b). The pixel electrode (17a) is connected to the data signal line (15x) through the transistor (12a). The liquid crystal panel further includes capacitance electrodes (37a and 38a) that are formed in the same layer as the scan signal line (16x). The capacitance electrodes (37a and 38a) are electrically connected to the pixel electrode (17a), and form a capacitance with the pixel electrode (17b). Consequently, the yield of a capacitance coupling type pixel division system active matrix substrate can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Patent number: 8933976
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display panel has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the rows has at least one sub-row. The 3D display panel includes at least one first group and at least one second group arranged on the first row. The first group and the second group respectively have a first color region, a second color region and a third color region. The first color region and the second color region of the first group as well as the third color region and the first color region of the second group are arranged on one sub-row, while the third color region of the first group and the second color region of the second group are arranged on another sub-row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 8902265
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display includes providing a plurality of pixels, each pixel including only three light-emitting sub-pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first sub-set of first pixels and a second sub-set of second pixels having locations alternating with the first pixels. Each of the first and second pixels includes a first sub-pixel emitting light of a common first color. The second pixels include a different sub-pixel emitting light of a different color that is not emitted by the first pixels. The light emitted by the sub-pixels of the first pixels defines a full-color gamut and the light emitted by the sub-pixels of the second pixels defines less than a full-color gamut. A controller converts a received image signal to a display signal for controlling the light emitted by the sub-pixels with the display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Publication number: 20140347410
    Abstract: An image display device includes an image display panel configured of pixels made up of first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels being arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, and a signal processing unit into which an input signal is input and from which an output signal based on an extension coefficient is output, and causes the signal processing unit to obtain a maximum value of luminosity with saturation S in the HSV color space enlarged by adding a fourth color, as a variable, and to obtain a reference extension coefficient based on the maximum value, and further to determine an extension coefficient at each pixel from the reference extension coefficient, an input signal correction coefficient based on the sub-pixel input signal values at each pixel, and an external light intensity correction coefficient based on external light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Amane Higashi, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe
  • Patent number: 8896505
    Abstract: A display, including a substrate having a display area including first and second non-overlapping pixel groups and a gutter located between the first and second pixel groups, the gutter having a dimension in a first direction separating the first and second pixel groups, and each pixel group includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel having three or more differently colored sub-pixels; and wherein the pixel centers of the pixels in each pixel group are arranged in a regular two-dimensional array having one dimension parallel to the first direction, and wherein the pixels within a pixel group are separated by an inter-pixel separation in the first direction; and one or more electrical elements arranged within the gutter, each subpixel being connected to one of the one or more electrical elements, wherein the gutter dimension is greater than the inter-pixel separation, so that artifacts in a displayed image are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael E. Miller
  • Patent number: 8836737
    Abstract: A display device includes a first sub-pixel formed by a blue-type-hue colored area included in a visible light region whose hue changes in accordance with wavelength, a second sub-pixel formed by a red-type-hue colored area included in the visible light region, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel formed by colored areas of two types of hues included in the visible light region, the two types of hues being selected from a hue range of from a blue hue to a yellow hue, and a plurality of pixels regularly disposed horizontally and vertically and each including the first to fourth sub-pixels. At least two of the four sub-pixels have different areas, and two of the four sub-pixels having smaller areas among the four sub-pixels are disposed so as not to be adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekuni Moriya, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8803929
    Abstract: A display includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels located on the substrate, each pixel including only three light-emitting sub-pixels that each emit light of a different non-white color, the plurality of pixels including a first sub-set of first pixels and a second sub-set of second pixels, the second pixels having locations alternating with the first pixels, each of the first and second pixels including at least one first sub-pixel emitting light of a common first color, and the second pixels including at least one different sub-pixel emitting light of a different color that is not emitted by any sub-pixel of the first pixels, and wherein the light emitted by the sub-pixels of the first pixels defines a full-color gamut, and the light emitted by the sub-pixels of the second pixels defines less than a full-color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 8786182
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device including first to fourth pixel regions each including red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, each of the first to fourth pixel regions being divided into first and second columns, the first column being divided into first and second rows. A red sub-pixel region and a green sub-pixel region are respectively arranged in the first and second rows, and a blue sub-pixel region is arranged in the second column. A red emitting layer is formed in the red sub-pixel region; a green emitting layer is formed in the green sub-pixel region; and a blue emitting layer is formed in the blue sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hyun Park, Juhn-Suk Yoo, Jong-Sung Kim, Kang-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 8786645
    Abstract: An apparatus including a display and control logic is provided. In one example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a plurality of zigzag subpixel groups. Each zigzag subpixel group includes at least three zigzag subpixel units arranged adjacently along a horizontal or vertical direction. Each zigzag subpixel unit includes a plurality of subpixels of the same color arranged in a zigzag pattern. In each zigzag subpixel unit, a first plurality of subpixels are arranged along one diagonal direction from a turning subpixel disposed at a turning corner of the zigzag pattern, and a second plurality of subpixels are arranged along another diagonal direction from the turning subpixel. In another example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a novel subpixel repeating group. The control logic is operatively coupled to the display and configured to receive display data and render the display data into control signals for driving the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen Yunyinggu Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jing Gu
  • Patent number: 8773481
    Abstract: A pixel structure disposed on a substrate including a scan line, a data line, an active element, a first electrode, and a second electrode is provided. The scan line and the data line are intersected to define a rectangular pixel area. The active element is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The first electrode has stripe patterns and connecting patterns located in the rectangular pixel area. Each connecting pattern is connected to the central parts or the parts near the central parts of two adjacent stripe patterns to demarcate or define two silts between the two adjacent stripe patterns. The extending direction of the slits is intersected to the rectangle length of the rectangular pixel area by an angle ? wherein 0°??<45°. The second electrode is located between the first electrode and the substrate and part of the second electrode is exposed by the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Chi Lu, Chih-Yun Chai, Ming-Chun Li, Hong-Ji Huang, Seok-Lyul Lee
  • Patent number: 8772074
    Abstract: Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting display device comprises a transistor on a substrate, a cathode on the transistor and connected to a source or a drain of the transistor, a bank layer on the cathode and having an opening, a metal buffer layer on the cathode, an organic light emitting layer on the metal buffer layer, and an anode on the organic light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehee Park, Heeseok Yang, Howon Choi
  • Patent number: 8760369
    Abstract: A display device includes: a panel portion, on which a plurality of sub-pixels with a discrete bus line form each individual pixel, the plurality of sub-pixels that form the individual pixel being sequentially arranged in a horizontal and a vertical direction, the panel portion displaying a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image by application of a signal via the bus line; and a filter portion, provided on a front surface of the panel portion, that alternately changes, for each of predetermined horizontal regions, a polarization state of light passing through the panel portion. A boundary of each of the horizontal regions of the filter portion is positioned within a range of a first sub-pixel of each of the plurality of sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel displays a different image when the two-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion to when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the panel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Nakahata
  • Patent number: 8754913
    Abstract: A subpixel arrangement structure for a display device, including a plurality of unit pixels each having a red subpixel, a green subpixel and a blue subpixel which form a delta arrangement structure, wherein openings of the red and green subpixels of each unit pixel are substantially aligned along a direction of a column axis, wherein an opening of the blue subpixel of each until pixel are substantially aligned along the direction of the column axis or a direction of a row axis that is perpendicular to the column axis, and wherein two of the plurality of unit pixels of each pixel group, that are positioned adjacent to each other in the direction of the column axis or the direction of the row axis, share one blue subpixel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soonjae Hwang, Jongsik Shim, Homin Lim, Minkyu Chang, Kyoungsik Choi, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Patent number: 8743111
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, an active black stripe controller, which analyzes an information of a 3D depth between left eye image data and right eye image data, obtains a 3D depth value, compares the 3D depth value with a predetermined threshold value, and assigns data copied from the left eye image data and the right eye image data as data to be written to second division subpixels of pixels of the display panel when the 3D depth value is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold value, a data driving circuit which converts digital data received from the active black stripe controller into a data voltage and supplies the data voltage to data lines of the display panel, and a gate driving circuit sequentially supplying a gate pulse to gate lines of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoungho Lim, Hyungki Hong
  • Patent number: 8730391
    Abstract: Determining video content type of a video displayed on a LCD and triggering adjustment in drive power of the LCD based on the video content type. The video content type indicates relative content motion of the video. A video content type detection module is one or combination of a software and a hardware and directs the LCD to be driven relative slower or faster based upon video content. The module independently or in conjunction with another module identifies an active window from a plurality of windows corresponding to a plurality of applications running on the host device and sets the drive power of the LCD based on speed of a video displayed on the active window. The module may also adapt LCD drive power based upon user input and/or remaining battery life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett
  • Patent number: 8723883
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including red, blue, green and white (RBGW) sub pixels, a signal conversion apparatus for converting an input signal having a first color format and color arrangement into a display signal having a second color format and color arrangement, a color conversion unit configured to convert the first color format into the second color format; a sub pixel position determining signal which determines a color arrangement of a sub pixel position of the display panel, and a sub pixel signal generation unit configured to generate a sub pixel signal having the second color format and color arrangement based on the sub pixel position determining signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuki Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 8723901
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) comprises a gate line formed on a first insulation substrate and extending in a first direction; a data line insulated from the gate line and extending in a second direction; a pixel electrode comprising a first sub-pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the data line and a second sub-pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the data line; first and second voltage lines receiving a pair of voltages having opposite phases, from an external source; and first and second storage lines respectively overlapping the first and second sub-pixel electrodes and respectively receiving first and second storage voltages whose phases are inverted at a cycle of at least one frame, wherein the first storage line is connected to the first and second voltage lines by a first switching unit, the second storage line is connected to the first and second voltage lines by a second switching unit, and the first and second switching units apply the pair of voltages to the first and second s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8711075
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second pixel electrodes, first to fourth data lines, and a first gate line. The first pixel electrode has separated first primary and secondary sub-pixel electrodes. The second pixel electrode has separated second primary and secondary sub-pixel electrodes. The first data line is coupled to the first secondary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the first pixel electrode. The second data line is coupled to the first primary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the second pixel electrode. The third data line is coupled to the second primary sub-pixel electrode and covered by the second pixel electrode. The fourth data line is coupled to the second secondary sub-pixel electrode. The first gate line is coupled to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pei-Chun Liao, Hung-Lung Hou, Ting-Wei Su
  • Patent number: 8711188
    Abstract: A reading device includes a computing device and an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing low resolution images and high resolution images. The reading machine also includes a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium. The medium is in communication with the computing device and includes instructions to operate in a plurality of modes to optimize performance for specific uses of the reading device and process low and high resolution images during operation of at least one of the plurality of modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, James Gashel, Lucy Gibson
  • Patent number: 8654050
    Abstract: A multi-primary-color liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is adapted to conduct a display operation in at least four primary colors. The device has a plurality of pixels that form at least two different types of subsets. The device can perform rendering processing in which at least one of the pixels that form a first one of the at least two different types of subsets lends a luminance to a second type of subset. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that could have mutually different luminance. The second type of subset borrows a luminance from one of the first and second sub-pixels of the at least one pixel that has the higher luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Ueki, Kohzoh Nakamura, Akiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8624806
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes: an OLED; a third N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled to a data line and a first scan line and configured to apply a data signal to a first node; a storage capacitor having one terminal coupled to the first node and the other terminal coupled to a second node; a fourth NMOS transistor coupled between a first power and the second node and configured to apply a voltage of the first power to the second node; a first NMOS transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode coupled to the second node; and a second NMOS transistor coupled between the second node and the first electrode of the first NMOS transistor and configured to diode-connect the first NMOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8598570
    Abstract: An organic transistor array includes gate electrodes provided on a substrate, source and drain electrodes provided above or below the gate electrodes via a gate insulator layer, and an organic semiconductor layer opposing the gate electrodes via the gate insulator layer, and forming a channel region between mutually adjacent source and drain electrodes. The organic transistor array in a plan view is sectioned into sections each forming a single pixel, and each section has a closest packed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Yutani, Takumi Yamaga, Atsushi Onodera
  • Patent number: 8599176
    Abstract: The present invention is applied to e.g. a liquid crystal display apparatus based on a multi-bit memory system. In the invention, input image data (SIG) is recorded in a memory part 62 in each pixel, and the grayscale is represented by time-division driving in accordance with the input image data (SIG) recorded in this memory part 62.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display West, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Yoshitoshi Kida, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8593057
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device including first to fourth pixel regions each including red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, each of the first to fourth pixel regions being divided into first and second column, and the first column being divided into first and second rows, wherein a red sub-pixel region and a green sub-pixel region are respectively arranged in the first and second rows, and a blue sub-pixel region is arranged in the second column; a red emitting layer formed in the red sub-pixel region; a green emitting layer formed in the green sub-pixel region; and a blue emitting layer formed in the blue sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hyun Park, Juhn-Suk Yoo, Jong-Sung Kim, Kang-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 8547406
    Abstract: Display element with at least one color-generating cell of the first type which has an emissive light source, and with at least one color-generating cell of the second type which has a reflective and/or transmissive and/or transflective light source, whereby each cell of the second type can be driven so that it makes visible one of the chromatic colors red, green, blue, magenta, cyan and yellow and the achromatic colors white and black, to compensate at least partly for the absence of the color impression created by at least one color-generating cell of the first type on account of the ambient light of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Advanced Display Technology AG
    Inventors: Andriy Bitman, Dieter Jerosch, Frank Bartels, Karlheinz Blankenbach, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 8546810
    Abstract: A thin film transistor in which an effect of photo current is small and an On/Off ratio is high is provided. In a bottom-gate bottom-contact (coplanar) thin film transistor, a channel formation region overlaps with a gate electrode, a first impurity semiconductor layer is provided between the channel formation region and a second impurity semiconductor layer which is in contact with a wiring layer. A semiconductor layer which serves as the channel formation region and the first impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they overlap with the gate electrode. The first impurity semiconductor layer and the second impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they do not overlap with the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyairi, Yasuhiro Jinbo, Hiromichi Godo, Takafumi Mizoguchi, Shinobu Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8482508
    Abstract: A LCD display device includes a LCD panel including a plurality of LCD units with trapezoid structure, and three sides of the LCD unit all include three liquid crystal molecules (LCM), the LCMs of all of the first side of the LCD unit constitute a first LCM array and form a first display interface, the LCMs of all of the second side constitute a second LCM array and form a second display interface, and the LCMs of all of the third side constitute a third LCM array and form a third display interface. The LCD display device also includes three signal conversion modules configured to convert three display signals into three control signals respectively, and three driving modules configured to drive the three LCM arrays according to the control signals and cause the first, the second, and the third display interface to display corresponding images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Fang Wong, Xin Lu, Yu-Cui Zhou
  • Patent number: 8477150
    Abstract: A display signal conversion apparatus converts a first signal having a first color format and color arrangement into a second signal having a second color format and color arrangement. The display signal conversion apparatus includes a color conversion unit configured to convert the first color format into the second color format, a pattern determination unit configured to determine a signal pattern of the first signal, a unit configured to determine a color arrangement of a pixel position of the second signal corresponding to a pixel position of the first signal, and a sub pixel signal generation unit configured to generate a sub pixel signal having the second color format and color arrangement based on a result of the signal pattern determination and a result of the color arrangement determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuki Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 8456496
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the red and green colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the sub-pixel groupings are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Lloyd Credelle