Brightness Or Intensity Control Patents (Class 345/77)
  • Patent number: 11410614
    Abstract: Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays exhibit differences in luminance on a pixel to pixel basis, primarily as a result of process or construction inequalities, or from aging caused by operational use over time. To facilitate image correction, the initial non-uniformity correction data is obtained using methods, such as electrical measurement or a combination of electrical and optical measurement. Typically, the correction data is then stored on a non-volatile-memory chip on the display module itself. The proposed invention offers an alternate method for storing and loading the image correction data, thereby eliminating the need for memory chip in the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Nino Zahirovic, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11410608
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register circuitry, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method. The shift register circuitry includes a blanking input circuit, a display input circuit, an output circuit, and a first control circuit. The blanking input circuit provides a blanking input signal to the pull-up control node and supplies a blanking pull-up signal to the pull-up node. The display input circuit provides a display pull-up signal to the pull-up node in response to the display input signal. The output circuit outputs the output signal to the shift signal output terminal and the pixel signal output terminal under the control of the voltage of the pull-up node. The first control circuit couples the shift signal output terminal to the pixel signal output terminal in response to the display input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li, Can Yuan
  • Patent number: 11405595
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel displays a video image signal that includes a plurality of images having different frame periods. The method includes setting a frame period including one or more light emission periods, and one or more light extinction periods. The method also includes dividing at least one frame period into a plurality of light emission periods and a plurality of light extinction periods, and adjusting lengths of the plurality of light emission periods and lengths of the plurality of light extinction periods based on a ratio between a maximum frequency of the frame period and a currently set frequency of the frame period. The method further includes displaying the video image signal by causing light emitting elements of the display panel to emit light during the adjusted light emission periods, and to extinguish light during the adjusted light extinction periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11403993
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode display device and a light-emission control method thereof are provided. The light-emitting diode display device includes a timing controller, multiple display pixels, and a scanning circuit. The display pixels form multiple display rows. The scanning circuit generates multiple scan signals and multiple light-emission signals that respectively drive the display rows. During a first data-writing time period of a first frame period, the timing controller provides multiple writing data to be respectively written into the display rows. During a light-emitting time period, the scanning circuit drives each of the light-emission signals to generate multiple pulses periodically according to a set period to drive the corresponding display rows. The light-emitting time period is after the first data-writing time period and before a second data-writing time period of a second frame period ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chieh Kuo, Yu-Hsun Chiu, Kai-Hsiang Liu, Che-Chia Chang, Shang-Jie Wu, Mei-Yi Li, Peng-Bo Xi, Chin I Chiang, Yan-Ru Chen, Ting-Wei Guo, Chia-Ting Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11398186
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is provided including a light-emitting element, a drive transistor that supplies a current to the light-emitting element, a light-emission control transistor that controls connection between a drain node of the drive transistor and an anode of the light-emitting element, and a first reset transistor that sets a potential of the anode of the light-emitting element to a predetermined potential. The pixel circuit further includes a second reset transistor that controls connection between a drain node of the drive transistor and a gate node of the drive transistor, a write transistor that controls writing of a signal voltage at the gate node of the drive transistor, and a capacitive element provided between a signal line to which the signal voltage is applied and a source node of the write transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 11393395
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a display device including: a plurality of subpixels between a line of a first power voltage and a line of a second power voltage, the plurality of subpixels configured to be supplied with a driving current and to emit light in response to the driving current; and a power supply unit configured to generate the first power voltage and the second power voltage based on an external input voltage, wherein the power supply unit generates power when the external input voltage corresponds to between a preset maximum voltage and a minimum voltage, and the power supply unit reduces a voltage difference between the first power voltage and the second power voltage when the external input voltage corresponds to between a preset reference voltage and the minimum voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nakyoon Kim, Hyungguk Bae
  • Patent number: 11380749
    Abstract: A display panel which may include a plurality of sub-pixel units (1) and a plurality of photosensitive detection units (2) corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixel units (1) respectively. Each of the plurality of the photosensitive detection units (2) may include at least two photosensitive sensors (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11369993
    Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transducer; a driving signal generation unit configured to generate a driving signal; and a transmission circuit configured to output a driving current corresponding to the driving signal, so as to drive the transducer, the transmission circuit includes: a transducer driving unit formed by a current mirror with a low voltage transistor and a high voltage transistor, the high voltage transistor being connected with the transducer, and a current source configured to supply an operation current corresponding to the driving signal to the low voltage transistor of the transducer driving unit, the driving signal generation unit includes: a transmission circuit driving unit replica that has a configuration same as that of the transducer driving unit, and a feedback control unit to detect a current flowing through a high voltage transistor of the transmission circuit driving unit replica, and to control the current to be constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yazaki, Takuma Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 11373573
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation, in which test pixel data is written to pixels disposed on a screen of a display panel and an image of the screen is captured, a luminance deviation is determined by analyzing luminance characteristics based on a measured luminance value of each of the pixels, which is obtained from data of the image of the screen captured by an imaging device, and a defective pixel is detected, and compensation data for reducing the luminance deviation between the pixels is derived for each pixel, so that a measured luminance value or compensation data of the defective pixel can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 11374069
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel unit layer and an electrochromic layer. The pixel unit layer includes multiple pixel units arranged in an array and each pixel unit includes a main pixel region and a sub-pixel region. Along a direction facing away from the substrate, the main pixel region includes a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer and a second electrode, and the sub-pixel region includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The first electrode is disposed in the same layer as the third electrode, the second electrode is disposed in the same layer as the fourth electrode, and the main pixel region is insulated from the sub-pixel region. The electrochromic layer is disposed on one side of the pixel unit layer facing away from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junqiang Wang, Guofeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11367851
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device including the display panel are provided. The display panel includes first pixel units arranged in a first display area and second pixel units arranged in a second display area, a density of the first pixel units in the first display area is smaller than a density of the second pixel units in the second display area, each of the first pixel units includes a first anode comprising a first reflective metal layer and a first transparent conductive layer, the first reflective metal layer and the first transparent conductive layer are stacked on each other, and an area of the first reflective metal layer is smaller than an area of the first transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yu Cai
  • Patent number: 11367382
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of driving a display device, comprising the steps of: step S1, providing a display device, comprising a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array; step S2: dividing data signals of the sub-pixels in a frame of an image into a plurality of sub-frames having different time weights; step S3, dividing the plurality of sub-pixels into at least two driving groups, and the plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the sub-pixels in different driving groups having different display order; and step S4, driving each of the sub-pixels to display image according to a display order of one of the sub-frames corresponding to each of the sub-pixels, such that through setting different display order of sub-frames of the sub-pixels of different driving groups, the flicker caused by the digital driving can be reduced without increasing driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zeng Wang, Pengfei Liang
  • Patent number: 11367372
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a boost circuit includes: resetting a load to a reference voltage; supplying a charging voltage to the load through a boost circuit for a driving time such that charge sharing is performed in the load; comparing a voltage of the load after the charge sharing with a target voltage; and adjusting a duration of the driving time according to a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Anapass Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Bae Park, Jun Young Jang, Hyun Seung Lee, Dong Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 11355054
    Abstract: The LED display system includes an array of LEDs and a driver circuit. The driver circuit has a PWM engine, an adder, an accumulator, a multiplier, and a frame butter. The multiplier multiplies an image data of a first bit depth (PWM) with a multiple (M) to produce an input data (PWM_M) having a second bit depth. The multiple has an integer section (MI) of one or more bit in length and a fraction section (MF) of one or more bit in length. The input data has an integer section (PWM_MI) and a fraction section (PWM_MF). The adder adds a value of PWM_MF of a current input data with a value of a remainder in an accumulator. The PWM engine receives PWM data from the frame buffer and generates PWM pulses to drive the LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SCT LTD.
    Inventors: Eric Li, Jim Wickenhiser, Shang-Kuan Tang
  • Patent number: 11355577
    Abstract: A display device that can easily achieve higher definition is provided. The display device includes a pixel, a first wiring, and a second wiring. The pixel includes first to fourth transistors, a first capacitor, and a light-emitting element. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is connected to the first wiring, and the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is connected to a gate of the second transistor and to the first capacitor. The light-emitting element is connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor. The first wiring is supplied with a first data potential. The second wiring is supplied with a second data potential and a reset potential in different periods. The third transistor supplies the second data potential to the first capacitor. The fourth transistor supplies the reset potential to the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 11353991
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: generating gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted based on the first clock signal (GCK); sequentially applying the gate driving signals that are sequentially shifted to the plurality of GLs; writing display data in a display driving period for each row of pixels, to the row of pixels, wherein a time length of the display driving period depends on a corresponding gate driving signal and is smaller than the clock cycle; and for a display driving period for each of at least one row of pixels, setting a touch detection period corresponding to the display driving period or corresponding to the display driving period for previous row of pixels at least partially overlapping with the display driving period in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Chen, Kai-Wen Shao, Feng-Lin Chan, Shuo-Wen Jang
  • Patent number: 11335275
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a source driver capable of accurately sensing characteristics of a display panel by minimizing the influence of a floating channel. The source driver may include normal channels connected to pixels of a display panel, a floating channel under no-load; and a sampling circuit configured to sample signals of the normal channels and the floating channel. The source driver may provide a first reference voltage to the floating channel in a first period in which characteristics of the pixels are sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Kim, Young Bok Kim
  • Patent number: 11333888
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display, an optical element, and a light sensor. The electronic display is configured to generate a pixel pattern of display light and the optical element is disposed to pass the display light to a user of the HMD. The light sensor is disposed proximate to the optical element to generate light measurements in response to the pixel pattern. The light measurements are representative of a lateral position of the optical element with respect to the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Rong, Nirav Rajendra Patel
  • Patent number: 11328655
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a drive device that outputs a driving signal to the display panel. The driving signal causes one of the pixels to emit light many times by an active PWM drive method in a 1-frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Ken Kikuchi, Atsushi Yasuda, Hirokazu Imai, Hiroshi Tobita
  • Patent number: 11308892
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an organic light emitting display device that can detect a defect in a scan transistor in the device in which the scan transistor and a sensing transistor simultaneously operate, and the device includes: an OLED in a subpixel; a driving transistor connected between the OLED and a driving voltage line; a scan transistor connected between a first node through which a data voltage is applied to the driving transistor and a data line; a sensing transistor connected between a second node between the driving transistor, the OLED, and a reference voltage line; and a defect detector for applying the data voltage in a state in which both the scan transistor and the sensing transistor are turned off and then detecting an amount of charges charged in a parasitic capacitor of the OLED to determine whether the scan transistor is defective due to foreign substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hyun Cho, Jae-Deok Ko, Seong-Eok Han
  • Patent number: 11295643
    Abstract: Provided are a detection method and a detection device, the detection method includes: in a first writing stage, providing an active voltage to each data line, each power supply terminal, both ends of a first gate line to-be-detected, an absolute value of the active voltage of each data line is smaller than that of the active voltage of the power supply terminal, an absolute value of the active voltage of the first gate line to-be-detected is smaller than that of the active voltage of each data line; in a first detection stage, maintaining the active voltage of the power supply terminal, providing an inactive voltage to the first gate line to-be-detected and providing an active voltage to the data line, detecting voltages at second electrodes of storage capacitors corresponding to the first gate line to-be-detected, determining whether the first gate line to-be-detected has breakpoint according to the detected voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Dongfang Wang, Guangyao Li, Haitao Wang, Qinghe Wang, Tongshang Su, Chen Shen, Xiaoning Zhang, Youpeng Gan
  • Patent number: 11282443
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light emitting element; and a pixel circuit configured to drive the light emitting element. The pixel circuit may include a first capacitor configured to output a first voltage corresponding to an image signal; a first transistor having a control terminal connected to the first capacitor and to which the first voltage is applied, a first terminal to which a second voltage corresponding to a slope signal that changes over time is applied, and a second terminal configured to output an output signal based on a comparison between the first voltage and the second voltage; and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element based on the output signal of the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawae, Junichi Yamashita, Takashige Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11270652
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which a plurality of subpixels are arranged at positions at which a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines overlap with each other. A gate driving circuit drives the plurality of subpixels via the plurality of gate lines. A data driving circuit supplies a data output signal to the plurality of subpixels via the plurality of data lines, and the data output signal includes a data voltage and an offset data voltage which is generated by adding an offset to the data voltage. A timing controller controls the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wonsuk Lee
  • Patent number: 11264436
    Abstract: A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of display areas arranged in an array on the base substrate, and non-display areas between the display areas. A display structure is disposed in the display area and configured to display images. The non-display area is light-transparent and is provided with a photochromic pattern. The photochromic pattern is configured to adjust the light transmittance of the non-display area according to the illumination intensity of the received light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kui Gong, Qingli Feng
  • Patent number: 11257430
    Abstract: A drive method according to the disclosure includes a target row determination step of determining a target row to which a target pixel for which a characteristic of at least one of a drive transistor and an electro-optical element is detected belongs, a luminance calculation step of calculating a representative luminance of a pixel in the target row, and a detection determination step of performing a characteristic detection step of detecting monitoring data indicating the characteristic of at least one of the drive transistor and the electro-optical element of the pixel belonging to the target row in a case where the representative luminance is greater than or equal to a threshold, and skipping the characteristic detection step in a case where the representative luminance is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11250787
    Abstract: A signal control apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, and a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes M rows by N columns of pixel driving circuits arranged in an array, the M pixel driving circuits of each column are grouped into at least a first group of pixel driving circuits and a second group of pixel driving circuits, M and N are integer and N is larger than 2. The first group of pixel driving circuits connect to a first data line to receive a data signal, and the second group of pixel driving circuits connect to a second data line to receive a data signal. The signal control apparatus includes a phase shifting circuit which provides a scanning signal to a pixel driving circuit; and a write control circuit which provides a data signal from a data signal terminal to a pixel driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo Sun, Tian Dong, Guoqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11250780
    Abstract: A system and method for estimating and using pixel compensation coefficients. In some embodiments, the method includes, during a first time interval: comparing a first pixel current for a pixel of the display with a first reference current, to obtain a first pixel current error signal, the first pixel current error signal being the sign of a difference between the first pixel current and the first reference current; and updating one or more compensation coefficients for the pixel, based on the first pixel current error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Amirkhany, Anup P. Jose, Gaurav Malhotra, Younghoon Song, Mohamed Elzeftawi
  • Patent number: 11250785
    Abstract: It is an object to decrease the number of transistors connected to a capacitor. In a structure, a capacitor and one transistor are included, one electrode of the capacitor is connected to a wiring, and the other electrode of the capacitor is connected to a gate of the transistor. Since a clock signal is input to the wiring, the clock signal is input to the gate of the transistor through the capacitor. Then, on/off of the transistor is controlled by a signal which synchronizes with the clock signal, so that a period when the transistor is on and a period when the transistor is off are repeated. In this manner, deterioration of the transistor can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 11251331
    Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a display apparatus and the display apparatus. The method includes forming an emissive layer and a driving layer on a first area of a substrate, forming an exposure line electrically connected to the driving layer, on a second area of the substrate, and forming a color conversion layer on the driving layer by emitting light from the emissive layer using the exposure line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho Kong, Junhee Choi, Deukseok Chung, Junsik Hwang
  • Patent number: 11244614
    Abstract: A pixel driver circuit, a display device, and a pixel driving method are provided. The pixel driver circuit includes a driving module for providing a drive current to a pixel; a threshold voltage compensation module for providing threshold voltage compensation for the driving module; and a first switch module, a second switch module, a third switch module, and a fourth switch module, the terminals of each of which are electrically connected to various components in a particular manner. According to the embodiments of the present application, the threshold voltage of the driving transistor can be effectively compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing He, Chunmiao Tang, Ting Li, Zhonglin Cao, Yuanjie Xu, Pengcheng Zang, Yao Li
  • Patent number: 11244611
    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: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chengchung Yang
  • Patent number: 11244984
    Abstract: For the first type of display pixel, a display device determines a luminance value assigned from a first frame pixel to the green subpixel, a luminance value assigned from the first frame pixel to each of the two red subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value for one red subpixel, and a luminance value assigned from the first frame pixel to each of the two blue subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value for one blue subpixel. For the second type of display pixel, the display device determines a luminance value assigned from a second frame pixel to each of the red subpixel and the blue subpixel, and a luminance value assigned from the second frame pixel to each of the two green subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value determined for one green subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 11222933
    Abstract: A display panel equipped with function of detecting an object and an associated method are provided. The display panel includes a first photosensitive circuit, a second photosensitive circuit, a detection circuit, a first switch and a second switch. The first photosensitive circuit and the second photosensitive circuit accumulate first charges and second charges in response to first incident light and second incident light to generate a first signal and a second signal, respectively, wherein the object reflects light emitted from the display panel to generate the second incident light. The detection circuit discharges the first charges for converting the first signal into a reference signal on a first input terminal of the detection circuit, and the second signal is transmitted to a second input terminal of the detection circuit, to make the detection circuit to generate a detection signal indicating a difference between the second signal and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Jia-Ming He
  • Patent number: 11221509
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are directed to a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, a third color pixel area, and a white pixel area on any one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first color filter is disposed in each of the first color pixel area and the white pixel area, and each of the first, second, third, and white pixel areas includes a plurality of domains, each two adjacent domains having a boundary between them, and the first color filter is disposed at at least one of the boundaries between the domains in the white pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Kyu Yoon, Eun Ju Kim, Hyung June Kim, Byoung Sun Na, Sung Jae Park, Yun Seok Lee, Ik Soo Lee, Jun Pyo Lee, Wan-Soon Im, Jong Hak Hwang
  • Patent number: 11217176
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area includes first sub-pixels, and the second area includes second sub-pixels; and a power supply unit that generates a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage greater than the first driving voltage to supply the first and second driving voltages to the display panel. The first sub-pixels receive the first driving voltage, and the second sub-pixels receive the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Chan Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Hyeong Seok Kim, Young Wan Seo
  • Patent number: 11211014
    Abstract: A display panel, a display panel and a pixel circuit are proposed. The pixel circuit includes a first TFT, a second TFT, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a lighting device. The feedback compensation signal and the first control signal have a same phase but different directions. The second TFT includes a gate receiving a first control signal, a source receiving a data signal, and a drain electrically connected to the first node. The second capacitor includes a first end electrically receiving a feedback compensation signal and a second end electrically connected the first node. The feedback compensation signal has the same phase but different direction of the first control signal. This could realize the self-compensation mechanism of the pixel circuit and thus solve the non-uniformity issue of the conventional display panel and display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Zhibin Han, Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11211445
    Abstract: The foldable display panel includes a substrate and a pixel array. The substrate has a surface and display and periphery areas thereon. The periphery area is on at least one side of the display area, and has first and second bonding areas. The first and second bonding areas are at opposite first and second sides of the periphery area, respectively. The first and second bonding areas are spaced apart by a first distance along a first direction. The substrate has a foldable line passing through a center of the display area between the first and the second bonding areas. The first and second sides are on two sides of the foldable line. The pixel array is on the display area and overlaps the foldable line. The pixel array is between the first and second sides and includes sub pixel units arranged in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Wei Lin, Pao-Yu Huang, Wen-Hui Lee
  • Patent number: 11211000
    Abstract: In a display device including: pixels including a light emitting unit and a plurality of transistors and two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix; and gate wirings of the plurality of transistors formed along a row direction of a pixel array, or an electronic device including the display device, among the plurality of transistors, a gate wiring of a switching transistor connected to an anode electrode of the light emitting unit is formed in a wiring layer different from a gate wiring of another transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kiwamu Miura, Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 11205384
    Abstract: A display screen control method and a terminal for monitoring whether a terminal satisfies a low-power running condition, where a display screen of the terminal is an organic light emitting display screen, and each pixel unit of the organic light emitting display screen includes at least one red subpixel, at least one blue subpixel, and at least one green subpixel, and decreasing a frequency of any one or two of a drive signal of the red subpixel, a drive signal of the green subpixel, and a drive signal of the blue subpixel when it is detected that the terminal satisfies the low-power running condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yung Chi Wen, Gang Xu, Kaiyuan Ko
  • Patent number: 11200839
    Abstract: A system for equalizing the pixels in an array of pixels that include semiconductor devices that age differently under different ambient and stress conditions. The system extracts at least one pixel parameter from the array; creates a stress pattern for the array, based on the extracted pixel parameter; stresses the pixels in accordance with the stress pattern; extracts the pixel parameter from the stressed pixels; determines whether the pixel parameter extracted from the stressed pixels is within a preselected range and, when the answer is negative, creates a second stress pattern for the array, based on the pixel parameter extracted from the stressed pixels, stresses the pixels in accordance with the second stress pattern, extracts the pixel parameter from the stressed pixels, and determines whether the pixel parameter extracted from the stressed pixels is within the preselected range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Nino Zahirovic
  • Patent number: 11195467
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a voltage control circuit and a light-emitting time control circuit. The voltage control circuit is configured to control a voltage at a voltage writing node according to a first data voltage on a first data line; the light-emitting time control circuit is configured to connect the voltage writing node to a first electrode of a light-emitting device or disconnect the voltage writing node from the first electrode of the light-emitting device according to a second data voltage on a second data line and a reference voltage at a reference voltage terminal; and a second electrode of the light-emitting device is electrically connected to a first voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Yue, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Angran Zhang, Minghua Xuan
  • Patent number: 11169320
    Abstract: A light source member including a substrate, and a plurality of unit light source cells disposed on the substrate and arranged in a matrix, each of the unit light source cells including a light source driving electrode disposed on the substrate, a light source disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the light source driving electrode, an organic layer disposed on the substrate and exposing the light source and at least a part of the light source driving electrode, the organic layer having an upper surface including a concavo-convex pattern, and a heat dissipation layer disposed on the organic layer and contacting the light source driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Jeong Oh, Kwang Soo Bae, Beom Soo Park, Young Je Cho
  • Patent number: 11164504
    Abstract: A display panel of a display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a self-light-emitting element as a light source. In a non-display period of the display panel, the display panel detects deterioration data indicating the deterioration condition of the display panel. In the non-display period of the display panel, a host device of the display device generates a correction parameter for correcting the gradation value of each pixel of the input image based on the deterioration data obtained from the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11158257
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to achieve a current-driven display device able to compensate for a variation in threshold voltage of a drive transistor without causing a variation in luminance. A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor, a power supply control transistor, a light emission control transistor, a first writing control transistor, a threshold voltage compensation transistor, a second writing control transistor, an initialization transistor, and a data-holding capacitor. During a data writing period, a scanning signal is active, an initialization voltage is supplied to a first electrode of the data-holding capacitor via the drive transistor, and a data voltage is supplied to a second electrode of the data-holding capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ueno
  • Patent number: 11151949
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, an emission driver and a driving controller. The display panel includes a gate line, a data line, an emission line and a pixel electrically connected to the gate line, the data line and the emission line. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver outputs a data voltage to the data line. The emission driver outputs an emission signal to the emission line. The driving controller determines a number of emission in a single frame of the emission signal according to a luminance of a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Kwang Hwang, Byung Soo You
  • Patent number: 11120740
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a power manager to provide a first power supply voltage to the display panel through a first power supply line, and a second power supply voltage to the display panel through a second power supply line, and to measure a first current flowing through the first power supply line and a second current flowing through the second power supply line; and a panel driver to provide a panel driving voltage to the display panel, and to control the panel driving voltage according to a current difference between the first current and the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi Kyung Kang
  • Patent number: 11114027
    Abstract: The present application discloses a pixel circuit, including a data-input sub-circuit configured to apply a data voltage from the data line to a first node; a reset sub-circuit configured to reset the second node; a driving-control sub-circuit coupled to a first power supply, the first node, and the second node; a power-storage sub-circuit configured to regulate a voltage difference between the first node and the second node; a light-emitting device coupled to the second node and a second power supply; and a sampling sub-circuit coupled to the data line and the second node and being configured to control the data line to connect with the second node for collecting a voltage signal containing information about electrical properties of the driving-control sub-circuit and being used to generating a compensation voltage for compensating any drifts of the electrical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Pan Xu, Zhidong Yuan, Zhenfei Cai
  • Patent number: 11100882
    Abstract: In a display device that adopts an SSD scheme, a demultiplexer circuit has provided for each source bus line, a compensating transistor whose first conduction terminal is connected to the source bus line and whose second conducting terminal is maintained in a floating state. In such a configuration, for example, at the same timing as a connection control transistor changes from an on state to an off state due to a change from a high level to a low level of a control signal that is supplied to a control terminal of the connection control transistor, a control signal that is supplied to a control terminal of the compensating transistor changes from the low level to the high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Takeuchi, Akira Tagawa, Yasuaki Iwase, Jun Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11100840
    Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of pixels is provided. The display panel includes: a plurality of light emitting elements configured to constitute each pixel of the plurality of pixels; and a plurality of pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements and configured to drive the plurality of light emitting elements, wherein the plurality of pixel circuits includes a first pixel circuit for pulse width modulation (PWM)-driving a first light emitting element among the plurality of light emitting elements and a second pixel circuit for pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)-driving a second light emitting element among the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Sangmin Shin, Youngki Jung
  • Patent number: 11093064
    Abstract: A touch panel display includes a pixel including an organic EL element, a first transistor electrically connected to the power supply line and the organic electroluminescence element, and a second transistor electrically connected to the data signal line and the first transistor, a touch sensor overlapping the pixel, and a shield electrode between the pixel and the touch sensor. The shield electrode includes an opening in a region overlapping with the second transistor, the third gate electrode is disposed inside the opening, and the third gate electrode and the fourth gate electrode are electrically connected, the first gate electrode is electrically connected to the shield electrode, and the second gate electrode is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the shield electrode is grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sakae Tanaka