Brightness Or Intensity Control Patents (Class 345/77)
  • Patent number: 12148391
    Abstract: An embodiment of a display apparatus includes a scan driver, a pixel, a first scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, a second scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, and a third scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, wherein in operation: the pixel receives first, second, and third scan signals from the scan driver by way of the first, second, and third scan lines, respectively; the first and second scan signals produce a display period of a frame period in the pixel; and the third scan signal produces a black insertion period of the frame period in the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanghwa Choi, Junghwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 12142174
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a normal pixel in a display region and a test pixel in a peripheral region, a sensing line coupled to the test pixel, and a sensing circuit configured to sense a mobility characteristic of the test pixel by measuring a current at a source node of the test pixel through the sensing line. The source node of the test pixel is electrically separated from the sensing line in a data writing period of a frame period, and is electrically coupled to the sensing line in an emission period of the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongjoo Lee, Joon-Chul Goh, Ohjo Kwon
  • Patent number: 12141398
    Abstract: A gate driver includes a plurality of stage groups each including a plurality of stages; and a plurality of start circuits each configured to output a start signal to each of the plurality of stage groups, wherein each of the plurality of start circuits outputs the start signal to an uppermost stage among the plurality of stages of each of the plurality of stage groups, so that an area of the gate driver can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hojin Jung, ChungSik Kong
  • Patent number: 12136382
    Abstract: A timing controller for controlling a plurality of driving circuits of a light-emitting diode (LED) display device is provided. The timing controller comprises: a voltage level conversion circuit and a setting circuit. The voltage level conversion circuit is configured to determine a plurality of voltage level settings with respect to a plurality of image regions of an input image. The setting circuit is configured to respectively set the plurality of driving circuits of the LED display device according to the plurality of voltage level settings, wherein the third circuitry is configured to set each of the plurality of driving circuits to utilize a drive voltage at a specific level that is indicated by a corresponding one of the voltage level settings, to respectively drive LED units of the LED display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Tung-Ying Wu
  • Patent number: 12125441
    Abstract: A light-emitting device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a pixel circuit including a light-emitting part; and a gradation controller that performs gradation control. The pixel circuit includes a light emission time controller that controls a light emission time of the light-emitting part, and an amplitude modulator that includes an output transistor coupled in series to the light-emitting part. The gradation controller performs the gradation control by performing, via the light emission time controller, on/off control on the output transistor of the amplitude modulator, and modulation control on the amplitude modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12118959
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel including a scan line, a data line, and a pixel connected thereto, a gate driver, and a source driver including a gamma voltage generator to generate gamma voltages having different voltage levels, a digital-to-analog converter to generate the data voltage corresponding to a gray scale value using the gamma voltages, and a source buffer, in which the gamma voltage generator includes a first resistor string to set a voltage range of the gamma voltages, a second resistor string to set tab gamma voltages corresponding to some of the gamma voltages within the voltage range, gamma buffers to output the tab gamma voltages, and a third resistor string including tabs respectively connected to output terminals of the gamma buffers, the third resistor string being configured to divide a voltage between the tabs to generate the gamma voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Bin Kim, Se Byung Chae
  • Patent number: 12119436
    Abstract: A display device may include a substrate, pixels disposed on the substrate, each of the pixels including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plurality of light emitting elements electrically connected between the first and the second electrodes, and a first oscillator disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to a first electrode of a first pixel of the pixels, the first oscillator including at least one transistor and at least one capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Ho Lee, Sung-Chan Jo, Jong Hyuk Kang, Hyun Deok Im, Hyun Min Cho, Won Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 12118912
    Abstract: A pixel structure and a display panel are provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are located on the same side of the third sub-pixel along the first direction. Each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel is arranged opposite to the third sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixel is arranged opposite to the second sub-pixel along the second direction. The areas of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel increase sequentially. The third sub-pixel includes a body portion and an extension portion. The body portion extends in the second direction, the extension portion is connected to the body portion and extends in the first direction towards the first sub-pixel and is arranged opposite to the first sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Lei Jiang, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 12100330
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data modulator configured to modulate input image data with reference to a gray offset to output modulated image data, a gamma voltage generator configured to output gamma compensation voltages including a plurality of gamma reference tap voltages, and a digital-to-analog converter configured to map the modulated image data to the gamma compensation voltages to output data voltages which are to be input to the plurality of pixels, wherein the gray offset has different magnitudes in a plurality of gray levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyeong Min Moon
  • Patent number: 12100343
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is to a display device with high resolution of display image and low current consumption. In the display device of the disclosure, the activation width of a modulation signal that causes a current to flow in a light emitting element of a display panel, reflects an activation width of a micro response signal that can be divided into a short unit time. Accordingly, the light emitting element that emits light with a brightness corresponding to the activation width of the modulation signal, can implement a high-resolution display image. The micro modulation part that includes a high frequency clock generating unit and a micro modulation unit, is disabled in a subframe in which the micro response signal is inactivated. Therefore, according to the display device of the disclosure, current consumption can be reduced with maintaining a high resolution of a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TLI INC.
    Inventors: Ju Hyun Park, Hwi Jeong Jo
  • Patent number: 12067931
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel. The device includes a reference voltage generator, a controller, and a data driver. The controller is configured to receive an input image signal and a dimming value, convert the dimming value into the dimming control signal, and convert the input image signal into image data. The reference voltage generator is configured to receive the dimming control signal and output a correction reference voltage by correcting at least one of a first gamma reference voltage and a second gamma reference voltage based on the dimming control signal. The data driver is configured to receive the correction reference voltage, generate gamma voltages based on the correction reference voltage, convert the image data into data voltages based on the gamma voltages, and output the data voltages to a display panel with pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyongdo Choi, Hyangwon Moon, Yun-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 12067944
    Abstract: In order to prevent a rapid decrease in luminance of a screen as an average picture level (APL) increases, a display device for controlling luminance of an image through a peak luminance control (PLC) curve may comprise a display unit and a controller configured to obtain a first average picture level (APL) of a first image, to determine whether a second APL of a second image is increased compared to the first APL as the first image is switched to the second image, and to control image quality of the second image to reduce an output level of the second image when the second APL is increased compared to the first APL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Beduero Hong
  • Patent number: 12057041
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The driving controller is configured to predict a panel temperature according to a position in the display panel based on input image data, to calculate a block current of a display block of the display panel and a panel resistance according to the position in the display panel based on the panel temperature, to calculate a voltage drop according to the position in the display panel based on the block current and the panel resistance and to compensate the input image data based on the voltage drop to generate a data signal. The data driver is configured to convert the data signal to a data voltage and to output the data voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokha Hong, Joon-Chul Goh
  • Patent number: 12052893
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device comprises a first thin-film transistor disposed on a substrate; and a second thin-film transistor disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first thin-film transistor. The first thin-film transistor comprises a first semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and that overlaps the first semiconductor layer, and a first insulating layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer. The second thin-film transistor comprises a second semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer and that overlaps the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Ho Jeong, Se Myung Kwon, Yoon Ho Kim, Seok Je Seong, Joon Hoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12046188
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display device and a driving method of the display device. The display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a driver for driving the display panel, a controller for controlling the driver, and a duty cycle controller for defining an unknown area in which vertical resolution information is not known and a known area in which the vertical resolution information is known within one frame when a driving frequency of the display panel is changed, and varying a duty cycle for driving the known area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Yeong Go, Tae Gung Kim, Dae Sung Park
  • Patent number: 12039939
    Abstract: An emission driver includes a plurality of stages. A stage of the plurality of stages receives a start signal, a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a protection signal, a first gate power voltage and a second gate power voltage and outputs an emission signal. The stage of the plurality of stages includes a pull-up switching element connected between a first gate power voltage terminal which receives the first gate power voltage and an emission signal output terminal which outputs the emission signal, a pull-down switching element connected between a second gate power voltage terminal which receives the second gate power voltage and the emission signal output terminal and a protection switching element which applies the first gate power voltage to a control electrode of the pull-down switching element in response to the protection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Kimyeong Eom, Ji-Hyun Ka
  • Patent number: 12008959
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and configured to supply an electric current to a light emitting element; a first switch element discharging the second node; and a second switch element configured to supply a data voltage to the second node. The light emitting element and the first switch element are commonly connected to a VSS node to which a low-potential power supply voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Won Lee, Hyun Soo Lee, Ki Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 12008951
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device which includes a display panel, a voltage generator, and a driving controller. The voltage generator generates a driving voltage and determines a voltage level of the driving voltage based on a voltage control signal. A current compensator calculates a load based on previous image data and outputs compensation image data with target luminance by compensating for current image data based on the load. The driving controller turns on the current compensator in a normal mode such that an image is displayed with the target luminance, and turns off the current compensator in a setting mode such that an image corresponding to the current image data is displayed with given reference luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11990073
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-emission control signal generation circuitry, a light-emission control signal generation method and a display device. The light-emission control signal generation circuitry includes a first control node control circuitry, a second control node control circuitry, a first node control circuitry, a second node control circuitry and an output circuitry. The first control node control circuitry is configured to control a potential at a first control node to be a first voltage at a first stage; the second control node control circuitry is configured to control a second control node to be electrically decoupled from the first control node at the first stage; and the output circuitry is configured to generate a light-emission control signal under the control of a potential at a first node and a potential at a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xilei Cao, Yingsong Xu, Jingyi Feng
  • Patent number: 11984063
    Abstract: A pixel includes: a first transistor including a gate coupled to a first node, a first terminal, and a second terminal coupled to a second node; a first capacitor coupled between the first and second nodes; a second transistor including a gate receiving a first signal, a first terminal coupled to a data line, and a second terminal coupled to the first node; a third transistor including a gate receiving a second signal, a first terminal receiving a reference voltage, and a second terminal coupled to the first node; a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a third signal, a first terminal coupled to the second node, and a second terminal receiving an initialization voltage; a light emitting element including an anode; and a fifth transistor including a gate receiving a fourth signal, a first terminal coupled to the second node, and a second terminal coupled to the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jaehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11984069
    Abstract: A image sticking compensating device according to example embodiments includes a degradation calculator configured to calculate a degradation weight based on input image data, and to calculate degradation data of a frame, an accumulator configured to accumulate the degradation data, and to generate age data using the accumulated degradation data, and a compensator configured to determine a grayscale compensation value corresponding to the age data and an input grayscale of the input image data, and to output age compensation data by applying the grayscale compensation value to the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 11984081
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit and a method of driving the same, and a display device. A pixel circuit, including: a light emitting device; a driving sub-circuit configured to drive the light emitting device, the driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor configured to generate a driving current flowing through the light emitting device so that the light emitting device emits light; and a reset sub-circuit configured to reset a voltage between a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chengchung Yang
  • Patent number: 11984074
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a first reset transistor connected between a first reset voltage end and a gate electrode of a driving transistor, a first capacitor connected in series between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and one of a source electrode or a drain electrode of the driving transistor, and a second capacitor connected in series between the first capacitor and a second voltage end, thereby reducing an influence of a threshold voltage of the driving transistor on a driving current and ensuring light emission stability of light-emitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Liuqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11978400
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technology for converting, into digital data, a sensing signal sensed from each pixel of a display panel and compensating for differences between LED elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Young Shin, Ye Ji Lee, Min Young Jeong, Jung Bae Yun
  • Patent number: 11978383
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system capable of reducing power consumption of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11978408
    Abstract: A backlight unit, a control method thereof, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The control method includes following steps: obtaining backlight data corresponding to each of the partitions, the backlight data including multiple bits of data; dividing a frame of a lighting process of each light-emitting unit of the partitions into a plurality of sub-fields having different durations, wherein each of the sub-fields corresponds to one of the bits of data; and outputting the sub-fields having different durations corresponding to each of the partitions in a preset order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuyi Wang, Fengcheng Xu, Qingsheng Lan, Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11967264
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a memory, and a driver. The memory stores at least one set of correspondences, and each set of correspondences includes 2N grayscale data and 2N register values in a one-to-one correspondence with the 2N grayscale data; each register value represents a grayscale voltage value of corresponding grayscale data; and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 6. The driver obtains the at least one set of correspondences from the memory; receives image data from a signal transmission interface, the image data including a plurality of grayscale data corresponding to a plurality of sub-pixels; for any grayscale data in the image data, obtains a register value corresponding to the grayscale data in a set of correspondences; and outputs a grayscale voltage corresponding to a grayscale voltage value represented by the register value to the display panel according to the register value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xin Bi, Kun Zuo
  • Patent number: 11961465
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting diode display device capable of changing a frame size. The organic light emitting diode display device includes: a display including a panel, a frame memory configured to store image data in units of frames, and a timing controller configured to control the panel to display an image based on the image data stored in the frame memory; a memory configured to store information of the panel; and a controller configured to, when operating in a preset image mode, change a frame size, which is a size of the image data stored in the frame memory, based on the information of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngho Chun, Seungkyu Park
  • Patent number: 11961480
    Abstract: A scan driver and an organic light emitting display apparatus including the same, where a narrow bezel is realized, are provided. The scan driver includes a plurality of stages, wherein each of the plurality of stages includes a Q1 node controller controlling a voltage of a Q1 node by using first and second clock signals whose phases are opposite to each other, a QB node controller controlling a voltage of a QB node by using the first and second clock signals, an output clock signal, and a start signal, a first transistor outputting a gate low voltage as a scan signal while the QB node is activated, and a second transistor outputting a gate high voltage as the scan signal while a Q2 node is activated, and outputting the gate low voltage as the scan signal when the Q2 node is bootstrapped to a voltage lower than the gate low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Seok Park
  • Patent number: 11963417
    Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting diode electrically connected between a driving voltage line and a common voltage line; a driving transistor electrically connected between the driving voltage line and the light emitting diode; a second transistor electrically connected between a first electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the driving voltage line and a data line; a first scan line electrically connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor; a third transistor electrically connected between a second electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the light emitting diode and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a connection electrode that connects the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the third transistor, wherein at least a part of a contact portion where the connection electrode contacts the third transistor does not overlap the first scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Hee Choi, Ji-Eun Lee, Jin Tae Jeong, Yun Sik Joo
  • Patent number: 11955072
    Abstract: An OLED display system is provided having visual performance pixel compensation for loss of brightness, including display pixels, where each display pixel has OLED subpixels and pixel drive circuitry; a sensing system having sensors and analog to digital conversion circuitry connected to each of the sensors, and a processor to provide an image data drive signal to each of the display pixels, receive the sensor signal from the ADC circuitry for each sensor, estimate a state of degradation of at least one of the display pixels, determine a drive-signal compensation for each display pixel having an estimated state of degradation and compensate the image data drive signal to each display pixel having an estimated state of degradation. Methods for compensating pixels for an image in a display are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: eMagin Corporation
    Inventors: Seonki Kim, Amalkumar P. Ghosh, Olivier Prache, Hyuk Sang Kwon
  • Patent number: 11955058
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The display panel includes N types of display areas which includes an i-th type display area and a j-th type display area. The display panel includes M display parts which include a first display part and a second display part. The first display part includes at least one i-th type display area, and the second display part includes at least one i-th type display area. At least one j-th type display area is arranged between the i-th type display area included in the first display part and the i-th type display area included in the second display part. Light-emitting time periods of the i-th type display area and the j-th type display area at least partially do not overlap, to reduce the number of sub-pixels driven at the same time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingteng Zhai, Yuan Ding
  • Patent number: 11935461
    Abstract: A method for control of a pixel array based on a temperature estimate is provided. A method includes sampling an anode voltage of each LED of a plurality of pixels resulting in sampled voltages, determining an average voltage based on the sample voltages, and determining a total voltage to provide to the pixels based on the average voltage and voltage data from a memory coupled to the controller, the voltage data including one or more of a 3-sigma value, a driver headroom value, a resistance value, or a k-factor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Johannes Bonne, Claire Yue Gao, David Christopher Jansson, Zhi Hua Song
  • Patent number: 11935472
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel sensing circuit which extends an operation section of an integrator by using an additional signal and allows securing a time required for a stable output of a sensing voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Ji, Sang Min Lee, Gi Baek Choi, Jung Bae Yun
  • Patent number: 11929024
    Abstract: The organic light emitting display device is driven to be divided into a refresh frame when the data voltage is programmed in the pixel and a reset frame when the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode is reset, and the data voltage is maintained to a first level during the reset frame. Accordingly, a separate stage for applying an on bias stress is not provided so that the bezel may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minsu Kim, Wonkeun Park, Haejun Park, Jieun Kang, Youngtaek Hong
  • Patent number: 11929025
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device comprising a light emitting element, and a pixel driving circuit connected to the light emitting element and configured to include first to fourth nodes, wherein the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor connected to the first to third nodes, a plurality of switching transistors, a storage capacitor, and a plurality of signals and voltage lines, wherein an initialization voltage applied through an initialization line among the plurality of signals and voltage lines is varied based on a data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongkyu Lee, Wookyu Sang
  • Patent number: 11922859
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a pixel comprising a pixel circuit and a display element, and the display element is electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit is supplied with a selection signal, an image signal, and a pulse width control signal, supplies an output potential, and determines, on the basis of the pulse width control signal, a period during which the output potential is supplied. The pixel circuit includes a first switch and a first transistor. The first switch supplies the image signal on the basis of the selection signal and determines the output potential on the basis of the image signal. The first transistor includes a first and second electrode, and a first gate electrode. The output potential is output from the first electrode, and the first gate electrode is supplied with the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11922876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device, which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and one of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device connected to a first reference node and that emits light, a driving transistor connected between a power supply line receiving a power supply voltage and the first reference node, a scan transistor connected between a data line receiving a data signal and the driving transistor and that receives a scan signal, a first capacitor connected between the first reference node and a second reference node, a shared transistor connected between the first reference node and the second reference node and that receives a shared control signal, and the first capacitor and the shared transistor are connected in series between the first reference node and the second reference node, and a control electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the second reference node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 11917880
    Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting diode electrically connected between a driving voltage line and a common voltage line; a driving transistor electrically connected between the driving voltage line and the light emitting diode; a second transistor electrically connected between a first electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the driving voltage line and a data line; a first scan line electrically connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor; a third transistor electrically connected between a second electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the light emitting diode and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a connection electrode that connects the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the third transistor, wherein at least a part of a contact portion where the connection electrode contacts the third transistor does not overlap the first scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Hee Choi, Ji-Eun Lee, Jin Tae Jeong, Yun Sik Joo
  • Patent number: 11908424
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment may include a display, a touch sensor, an illuminance sensor configured to generate illuminance information, a memory configured to store brightness data relating the ambient illuminance to brightness of the display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to identify the illuminance information from the illuminance sensor, configure the brightness of the display as first brightness, based on the illuminance information and the brightness data, change the brightness of the display to second brightness, based on a user input, acquire event information for an operation in which the brightness of the display is changed by the user input, reconfigure the brightness data stored in the memory, based on the event information, and determine the brightness of the display according to a brightness value mapped in the reconfigured brightness data to the illuminance information identified by the illuminance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minho Kim, Gilyoung Noh, Taejin Park, Dongin Kim, Hyosun Kim, Jaehun Lim, Hyojong Kim
  • Patent number: 11908385
    Abstract: A driving method includes row scanning circuit configured to output scanning signals to sub-pixels in the display panel for plurality of times within one frame and output the scanning signals to the sub-pixels in the display panel in plurality of sub-frames each time; a data processor is configured to receive a display data stream including the display data corresponding to the sub-pixels in the plurality of sub-frames, split the display data stream according to analog-bit display data and digital-bit display data, and output the split display data stream to a column scanning circuit; and the column scanning circuit is configured to generate corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages according to the analog-bit display data and transmit corresponding data signals of dark-state digital data voltages or the corresponding data signals of bright-state analog data voltages to corresponding sub-pixels in the display panel according to the digital-bit display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu Vistar Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Donghao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11908405
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit of this disclosure includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and configured to supply an electric current to a light emitting element; a first switch element configured to be turned on according to a gate-on voltage of a scan pulse to supply a data voltage to the second node; and a second switch element configured to be turned off according to a gate-off voltage of a light emitting control pulse generated in antiphase of the scan pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Won Lee, Hyun Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11900878
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including first to (m*n?1)th pixel rows and a dummy pixel row, where each of m and n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, an emission driver which provides emission signals to the first to (m*n?1)th pixel rows and the dummy pixel row, and a timing controller which provides an emission start signal and a dummy start signal to the emission driver. Each of the emission signals includes a plurality of on-periods and a plurality of off-periods in one frame period, and time points of off-periods of an emission signal provided to the dummy pixel row are the same as time points of off-periods of an emission signal provided to each of k*nth pixel rows, where k is a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Ho Kim, Jeong-Young Kim, Dongwan Park
  • Patent number: 11881178
    Abstract: A light emitting display device can include a display panel including M subpixels sharing a sensing line, wherein M is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and a circuit configured to sense one or more elements included in at least one of the M subpixels through the sensing line, in which the M sub-pixels are initialized based on an initialization voltage during an initial period, the M sub-pixels are sensed based on a sensing voltage during a data writing period, and an amount of time of the initial period is longer than an amount of time of the data writing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Woo Lee, Hye-Min Park, Tae-Gung Kim
  • Patent number: 11875733
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device, includes: supplying a first sensing data signal corresponding to a first grayscale, first power having a first sensing voltage, and a reference voltage to a pixel during a first sensing period; sensing a first sensing current, generated based on the first sensing voltage, from the pixel during the first sensing period; supplying a second sensing data signal corresponding to a second grayscale and different from the first sensing data signal, the first power having a second sensing voltage, and the reference voltage to the pixel during a second sensing period; sensing a second sensing current, generated based on the second sensing voltage different from the first sensing voltage, from the pixel during the second sensing period; and calculating characteristics of a driving transistor of the pixel using the first sensing current and the second sensing current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Soo Hwang, Hideo Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11877482
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a driving method and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, gate lines, data lines and sub-pixels. The sub-pixels include sub-pixel columns corresponding to the data lines in a one-to-one manner. In a sub-pixel driving circuit of the sub-pixel, a driving transistor and a data writing transistor are located at a first side of an aperture area of the sub-pixel; a sensing transistor is located at a second side of the aperture area of the sub-pixel. The first side and the second side are opposite sides of the aperture area along the extension direction of the data lines. Gate electrodes of sensing transistors in a same sub-pixel row, and gate electrodes of data writing transistors in an adjacent next sub-pixel row, are all coupled to a gate line corresponding to the adjacent next sub-pixel row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11862092
    Abstract: The present application provides a display device. The display device includes a pixel circuit and multiple operational amplifiers. Pixel units in the same column are electrically connected to the same operational amplifier. The display device of the present application uses the operational amplifier to stabilize a voltage and amplify a current, which solves non-uniformity of the display panel caused by the difference in a threshold voltage and channel electron mobility of the thin film transistor due to an immature manufacturing process of a thin film transistor, so uniformity of the panel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11862069
    Abstract: A micro-LED driver applies a low baseline power (i.e., a baseline voltage or current) to pre-charge a micro-LED in a nominally-off (i.e., non-light-emitting) state in addition to applying an operating driving power to drive the micro-LED in a light-emitting state. By pre-charging the micro-LED prior to applying the operating driving power, the micro-LED driver significantly decreases the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED. In some embodiments, the micro-LED driver applies an operating driving power having multiple phases of current density to reduce the time between application of the operating driving power and onset of emission of light from the micro-LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aurelien Jean Francois David, Patrick F. Brinkley, Carlin Vieri
  • Patent number: 11854459
    Abstract: A method for driving a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor. The method includes: acquiring a theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at a plurality of different gray levels; determining compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels according to the theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and the actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels; and driving the pixel circuit emit light according to the compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Wang, Cuili Gai, Lei Mi
  • Patent number: 11856669
    Abstract: A driving method, for a controller in a display apparatus, is disclosed. The display apparatus includes LED strings, scan transistors, current regulators and a power converter. The driving method includes following steps. LED cathode voltages are detected on nodes between the LED strings and the current regulators. When a first LED cathode voltage is equal to a minimal operable voltage of the current regulators and a second LED cathode voltage exceeds the minimal operable voltage of the current regulators, a driving current flowing through the second data channel is adjusted by increasing a pulse current level of the driving current and reducing a duty cycle ratio of the driving current flowing through the second data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Chih-Hsien Chou, Ren-Chieh Yang