Having Compensating Pulse Patents (Class 345/78)
  • Patent number: 9812218
    Abstract: A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 so that the TFTs would turn ON and then potential of a node ? rises. When the potential of the node ? reaches (VDD?VthN), the node ? became in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 then turns ON, and potential of an output node rises as a clock signal reaches the level H. On the other hand, potential of a gate electrode of the TFT 105 further rises due to an operation of capacitance 107 as the potential of the output node rises, so that the potential of the output node would be higher than (VDD+VthN). Thus, the potential of the output node rises to VDD without voltage drop caused by a threshold of the TFT 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehiro Azami, Shou Nagao, Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 9773456
    Abstract: A data voltage compensation circuit includes a compensation information provider, a gamma register, and a compensation data voltage provider. The compensation information provider generates a test data voltage based on a test power supply voltage and a test reference voltage, and provides compensation information corresponding to the test data voltage. The gamma register provides a gamma value corresponding to display data. The compensation data voltage provider provides a compensation data voltage based on the gamma value, the compensation information, and a reference voltage. Changes in the reference voltage change a power supply voltage of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Suk Kang
  • Patent number: 9678614
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch display panel, a detecting method thereof, and a display device. The common electrode layer is divided into a plurality of independent self capacitance electrodes, and the common electrode is multiplexed as self capacitance electrodes. There is no need to provide an additional film, and it is only required to modify the pattern of the common electrode layer in the current LCD panel. Thus, the production cost is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved. Since the self capacitance electrodes are formed by dividing the common electrode layer in the above-mentioned touch display panel, a compensating electrode is further provided which is arranged in a layer different from that of the self capacitance electrodes, is insulated from the self capacitance electrodes, and at least covers a portion of a partition gap between neighboring self capacitance electrodes. A common electrode signal is applied to the compensating electrode during a display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Boe Optoelectronoic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Lei Wang, Yanchen Li, Xi Chen, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Zhiying Bao, Yue Li, Zhenhua Lv, Weijie Zhao, Hailin Xue
  • Patent number: 9660192
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent display device, a method for manufacturing the same and a display apparatus. The organic electroluminescent display device comprises: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate and including a gate electrode and an active layer insulated with each other, and a source electrode and a drain electrode connected with the active layer; and an organic electroluminescent structure disposed on the substrate and including an anode, a luminescent layer and a cathode stacked sequentially, the anode and the drain electrode being electrically connected with each other. The anode and the active layer are disposed in the same layer. The active layer is made of a transparent oxide semiconductor material. The anode is made of the transparent oxide semiconductor material undergone a plasma treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhangchun Ren
  • Patent number: 9462254
    Abstract: An image sensor 2 includes: a photoelectric conversion layer 1d including a plurality of photosensitive cells; a reflective layer 1c that reflects light that has been transmitted through the photoelectric conversion layer 1d; a micro lens layer 1a that includes a plurality of micro lenses that are arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c; and a transmitted light controlling layer 1b that is arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c and that is able to change optical transmittance in accordance with an instruction given by a controller. The micro lens layer 1a is arranged so that light that has been transmitted through one of the photosensitive cells and then reflected from the reflective layer 1c is incident on the same photosensitive cell again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Hiramoto, Yasunori Ishii, Yusuke Monobe
  • Patent number: 9384693
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes one organic light emitting diode, five first transistors and two capacitors. The first and third transistors have terminals coupled to a first voltage. The second transistor has two terminals coupled to another terminal of the first transistor and a second voltage through the organic light emitting diode, respectively. The first capacitor has a terminal coupled to one terminal of the second transistor. The third transistor has a terminal coupled to one terminal of the first capacitor. The second capacitor has two terminals coupled to a control terminal of the second transistor and another terminal of the first capacitor, respectively. The fourth transistor has two terminals coupled to the terminal of the second transistor and a control terminal of the second transistor, respectively. The fifth transistor has a terminal coupled to the another terminal of the second transistor. A display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hua-Gang Chang, Yu-Shian Lin
  • Patent number: 9349315
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: an organic light-emitting panel defined into a plurality of pixel regions which each includes a drive transistor configured to drive an organic light emission element and a load capacitor configured to charge a threshold voltage of the drive transistor; and a controller configured to calculate an offset information on the basis of the threshold voltage and derive a second image signal by reflecting the offset information to a first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ui Taek Jeong
  • Patent number: 9349324
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes four transistors, two capacitors and a light emitting element. A gate of first transistor receives a scan signal and a source/drain thereof receives a display data. A terminal of first capacitor couples to another source/drain of first transistor. A gate and a source/drain of second transistor couple to another terminal of first capacitor; and another source/drain thereof receives a switch signal. A terminal of second capacitor receives a reset signal; and another terminal thereof couples to another terminal of first capacitor. A gate of third transistor couples to a terminal of first capacitor. A gate of fourth transistor receives an enable signal; a source/drain thereof couples to a first power supply voltage; and another source/drain thereof couples to one source/drain of third transistor. The anode and cathode of the light emitting element couple to one source/drain of third transistor and a second power supply voltage, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hua-Gang Chang, Man-Wen Shih, Ching-Kai Lo, Chien-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 9336715
    Abstract: A display device comprising a plurality of pixels is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 9336706
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a plurality of pixels, a luminance measuring unit, a current measuring unit, and a compensation data generator. The luminance measuring unit measures the luminance of each pixel and generates luminance information corresponding to the measured luminances. The current measuring unit measures the current output from each pixel and generates current information corresponding to the measured currents. The compensation data generator generates compensation data including a compensation value for each pixel based on the luminance information and/or the current information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Man Kim
  • Patent number: 9153631
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode display device comprising a substrate comprising a display region and a non-display region, a thin film transistor formed in the display region; an organic light emitting layer connected to the thin film transistor, a bank formed to define a light emitting region of the organic light emitting layer, a metal pattern disposed in the non-display region and not covered with the bank; and a conductive pattern connected to the organic light emitting layer while covering the metal pattern and partially physically separated on the metal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoung Sung, Sangsoo Kim, Sang-il Shin
  • Patent number: 9123296
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device and a display panel thereof, which are capable of performing a recovery driving for recovering a threshold voltage of a driving transistor to be within a range of compensation for the threshold voltage if the threshold voltage of the driving transistor deviates from the range of the compensation for the threshold voltage as a driving time of the driving transistor of a pixel increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: WooJin Nam, HongJae Shin
  • Patent number: 9123297
    Abstract: A method for driving a display apparatus including a current light emitting device which allows a threshold voltage of a driving transistor to be detected independently of an image signal voltage Vsg (j), such that a writing period of the display apparatus can be shortened. The writing period T3 of the display apparatus is larger than a sum of a time needed for determining image signal voltage Vsg (j) and a time needed for charging a first capacitor which is coupled to a gate of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 9041631
    Abstract: A display device, a method for driving the same, and an electronic device capable of making ? correction function reliably even in the case where light emission luminance is low. A potential difference between the gate and the source of a transistor is corrected to a threshold voltage of the transistor. After that, while a horizontal drive circuit outputs a third voltage Vofs2, correction of mobility of the transistor starts. Subsequently, while the horizontal drive circuit outputs a second voltage Vsig, writing of a voltage according to the second voltage Vsig to the gate of the transistor is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji Araki
  • Publication number: 20150130780
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a plurality of pixels and a compensation unit. Each of the pixels includes a driving transistor to control an amount of current supplied to a corresponding organic light emitting diode. The compensation unit is coupled to the pixels by data lines and includes at least one sensing unit. The sensing unit extracts threshold voltage information from the pixels corresponding to respective driving transistors. The sensing unit receives noise currents from a plurality of data lines, offset the noise currents, and extracts the threshold voltage information after offset of the noise currents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Oh-Jo KWON, Boo-Dong KWAK, Choong-Sun SHIN
  • Publication number: 20150130690
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a power supply source and a power voltage compensation unit. The power supply source supplies at least a first power voltage to a first power voltage line of the display. The power voltage compensation unit to generate a first compensation power voltage based on the first power voltage and a feedback power voltage from the first power voltage line. The first power voltage compensation unit outputs the first compensation power voltage to the first power voltage line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: In-Hwan KIM, Min-Cheol KIM, Byung-Geun JUN
  • Patent number: 9030452
    Abstract: The described technology relates to a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form. The pixels include a liquid crystal capacitor including a pixel electrode and a common electrode as two terminals. A plurality of data lines transfer data to the plurality of pixels. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other. First and second common signals are applied to the common electrode of the first and second pixels, respectively. The second common signal is inverted to the first common signal. The first and second common signals swing between a first voltage and a second voltage. The polarity of the data voltage transferred by a data line with respect to the first common signal or the second common signal is constant during one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Gwang Jang, Seok Ha Hong, Joon-Chul Goh, Byung Sun Kim, Sang Mi Kim, Ji Myoung Seo
  • Publication number: 20150123953
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display can include a display panel including a plurality of pixels of a source following manner, in which a source voltage of a driving thin film transistor (TFT) is changed according to a current flowing between a drain electrode and a source electrode of the driving TFT, a gate driving circuit for generating a mobility sensing gate pulse for operating the pixel in the source following manner, a data driving circuit for detecting a sensing voltage corresponding to mobility of the driving TFT from the pixel in response to the mobility sensing gate pulse, and a timing controller for setting a mobility sensing period in a period, in which a gate-source voltage of the driving TFT is greater than a threshold voltage of the driving TFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongsik SHIM, Hongjae SHIN, Nayoung BAE
  • Publication number: 20150109189
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a plurality of emitting pixels coupled to a plurality of scan lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction; a plurality of dummy pixels arranged in the row direction; a plurality of first repair lines extending in the column direction, that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels, and that are adapted to be coupled to the plurality of emitting pixels; a plurality of second repair lines extending in the column direction, and that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels; and a plurality of repair switching devices arranged in a matrix array and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of second repair lines and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-In Hwang, Young-Jin Cho, Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 9013372
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row of the pixels; a second scanning section configured to drive the switching transistors in synchronism with scanning by the first scanning section; and a third scanning section configured to control the second switching transistors to a non-conducting state within a period after the image signal is written by the writing transistor until the signal writing period of the same row of the pixels ends but to a conducting state within any other period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Mitomi, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9013379
    Abstract: A pulse generator that is capable of improving (e.g., increasing) the rising and falling speeds of its pulses. The pulse generator includes a third switch and a first diode serially coupled between a first power source and a data line; a fourth switch and a second diode serially coupled between the data line and a second power source configured to have a voltage lower than that of the first power source; a pulse controller for increasing a voltage of the data line to a voltage higher than that of the first power source or for reducing the voltage of the data line to a voltage lower than that of the second power source; and a first capacitor coupled between the pulse controller and the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Ik Kim, Joo-Hyeon Jeong
  • Patent number: 8994635
    Abstract: The invention provides an image display device capable of reducing the transmission delay of a scanning signal. A plurality of scanning signal lines are wired in one pixel circuit row. Pixel circuits of the pixel circuit row are connected to any of the plurality of scanning signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Kajiyama, Takeshi Izumida, Norihiro Nakamura, Naoki Tokuda
  • Patent number: 8994621
    Abstract: A display device (100) includes a plurality of pixel circuits (10), a gate driver circuit (2) coupled to a plurality of scanning signal lines Gi and a plurality of control lines Ei, and a power control circuit (4) coupled to a plurality of power lines VPi via a common power line. The pixel circuits (10) each include an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor, and are controlled to collectively receive initialization potentials at the beginning of a frame through the power lines VPi, collectively perform threshold detection immediately thereafter, and then perform writing and light-emission operations. Thus, the aperture ratio of the pixel circuits (10) can be kept high, the power control circuit (4) typically has only one output buffer so that the circuit scale thereof is small, drive by potential is performed only once, so that power consumption is low, and threshold detection is performed only once, so that a sufficient amount of time can be ensured for a detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 8994711
    Abstract: An EL display having high operating performance and reliability is provided. LDD regions 15a through 15d of a switching TFT 201 formed in a pixel are formed such that they do not overlap gate electrodes 19a and 19b to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the reduction of an off-current. An LDD region 22 of a current control TFT 202 is formed such that it partially overlaps a gate electrode 35 to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the prevention of hot carrier injection and the reduction of an off-current. Appropriate TFT structures are thus provided depending on required functions to improve operational performance and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamauchi, Takeshi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 8982019
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a plurality of OLED pixels. In one aspect, each pixel respectively includes a first capacitor connected between a data line and a first node, a switching transistor connecting the first node and a second node, a second capacitor connected between the second node and a third node, a driving transistor having a gate electrode connected to the third node and controlling a driving current flowing from a first power source voltage to an OLED, and a reference voltage transistor transmitting a reference voltage to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Myeon Han
  • Patent number: 8976090
    Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit capable of obtaining high-luminance while suppressing power consumption. Further, there are provided a display panel having the pixel circuit, and a display device including the display panel. Still further, there is provided an electronic unit including the display device. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor driving a light-emitting element, a plurality of holding capacitors connected in series between a gate and a source of the first transistor, a second transistor provided between a first signal line and the gate of the first transistor, and a third transistor provided between a second signal line and one of junctions of the holding capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8970642
    Abstract: In one aspect, the display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines, light emission control lines, and data lines, where each pixel is configured to emit light with a driving current corresponding to image data signals transmitted through the data lines based on light emission control signals transmitted through the light emission control lines. Each of the pixels includes subpixels, each configured to display one of a plurality of colors. The device also includes a controller configured to convert external video signals to image data signals, output the converted signals to a data driver, generate light emission driving control signals for controlling the light emission duty ratio of the light emission control signals, and calculate the pixel-on-ratio for each subpixel to reduce the driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ho-Suk Maeng
  • Publication number: 20150054864
    Abstract: A color compensation method is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes predetermining target color coordinates, measuring luminance and chromaticity from an image displayed on a display panel, and calculating compensation color coordinates by using the target color coordinates and the device color coordinates. The method also includes generating compensation data by using the target color coordinates, the device color coordinates, and the compensation color coordinates, receiving an external video signal, and converting the RGB data of the external video signal into the RGB data of the compensation color coordinates by using the compensation data corresponding to the RGB data of the external video signal. The compensation color coordinates are determined according to the values of the target color coordinates and the device color coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yong-Seok CHOI
  • Patent number: 8963816
    Abstract: There are provided a light emitting display comprising at least a light emitting unit comprising at least two light emitting diodes which are electrically connected to the same driving unit to emit light, and a plurality of voltage sources whereby one voltage source supplies a voltage different from the other voltage(s) supplied from the other voltage source(s) to each of the light emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Ho Baik, In Hwan Kim, Seung Chan Byun
  • Patent number: 8957837
    Abstract: A pixel is capable of securing enough threshold voltage compensating time in high resolution and high frequency driving and of compensating for the IR drop of a first power source ELVDD, and an organic light emitting display includes the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sam-Il Han
  • Publication number: 20150042688
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a plurality of pixels, a luminance measuring unit, a current measuring unit, and a compensation data generator. The luminance measuring unit measures the luminance of each pixel and generates luminance information corresponding to the measured luminances. The current measuring unit measures the current output from each pixel and generates current information corresponding to the measured currents. The compensation data generator generates compensation data including a compensation value for each pixel based on the luminance information and/or the current information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Man Kim
  • Patent number: 8952951
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display that includes pixels having organic light emitting diodes and driving transistors for supplying a driving current to the respective organic light emitting diodes. Also included is a compensator for receiving a predetermined voltage applied to a gate electrode of the respective driving transistors, finding a threshold voltage, mobility, and a change of mobility of the driving transistors, and determining a compensation amount caused by an input image data signal while sinking a predetermined current to a path of a driving current to the organic light emitting diode through a data line connected to the pixels. Further included is a timing controller for receiving the compensation amount, correcting the input image data signal, and transmitting the corrected image data signal and a data driver for generating a data voltage based on the corrected image data signal, and supplying the data voltage to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Hwan Yoo, Choon-Yul Oh
  • Patent number: 8947324
    Abstract: A display apparatus, that can prevent thermal destruction and burning with a simple structure, has been disclosed. In the apparatus it is judged that there is possibility of a pattern, whose area with high brightness is small, being displayed frequently, when a state in which the total light emission pulse number remains large occurs with high frequency, and if such a state is detected, the total light emission pulse number (sustain frequency) is reduced to prevent the thermal destruction and burning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayahito Kojima, Shigeki Kameyama, Hirohito Kuriyama, Yoshikazu Kanazawa, Toshio Ueda
  • Patent number: 8937583
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus, includes: a pixel array section including a plurality of scanning lines disposed in rows, a plurality of signal lines disposed in columns, and a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns at places at which the scanning lines and the signal lines intersect with each other; and a driving section configured to drive the pixels through the scanning lines and the signal lines; the driving section carrying out block-sequential driving wherein the scanning lines are grouped for each predetermined number to form blocks and the pixels disposed in rows and columns are sequentially driven in a unit of a block and line-sequential driving wherein the scanning lines are scanned in each of the blocks to sequentially drive the pixels in a unit of a row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8937582
    Abstract: A display includes a plurality of pixels and operates in a selected load period, a separate deselected load period, and a separate illumination period. Light may be generated by the plurality of pixels during the illumination period based on voltages stored in the plurality of pixels during the selected and deselected load periods. Methods of operating a display are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Visam Development L.L.C.
    Inventor: Roger Green Stewart
  • Patent number: 8933865
    Abstract: Provided is a display device that can sufficiently secure a period for threshold value detection with a simple configuration and that can inhibit occurrence of luminance non-uniformity. The display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits; a gate driver circuit connected to a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of control lines; and a power control circuit connected to a plurality of power lines through a common power line. Each pixel circuit includes an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor. During each frame period, after initialization and threshold value detection are collectively performed on a plurality of rows, writing and light emission are performed sequentially on a row-by-row basis. Here, in a preceding frame (first frame) of two consecutive frame periods, writing is performed in order from the first row to the nth row (ascending order).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noritaka Kishi
  • Publication number: 20140375533
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display including pixels, a scan driver, a data driver, a control line driver, and a compensation unit. The pixels are positioned in an area defined by data lines, scan lines, and control lines, and each includes an organic light emitting diode. The scan driver drives the scan lines. The data driver drives the data lines. The control line driver drives the control lines. The compensation unit extracts threshold voltage information of a driving transistor included in each pixel during a sensing period. In the organic light emitting display, the compensation unit supplies a preset voltage to a gate electrode of the driving transistor so that a second current flows during the sensing period, and supplies a reference voltage to a drain electrode of the driving transistor during the period in which the second current flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol-Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20140368416
    Abstract: An OLED display device includes multiple pixel units arranged in a matrix and a power supply driver chip located at one side of the multiple pixel units. The power supply driver chip is configured to supply input voltages to the multiple pixel units. The power supply driver chip provides the input voltages to the multiple pixel units through a plurality of input paths. The input paths are associated with input points, each of the input points corresponds to a pixel unit at a different location. The power supply driver chip compensates the input voltages to ensure that all of the pixel units at different locations may have an approximately equal input voltage, enabling the entire display region of the OLED display device to display with a uniform brightness and improving the display performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanyu Gu, Chang-ho Tseng
  • Publication number: 20140361964
    Abstract: A pixel driving method of a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, data lines and pixels. Each of the pixel includes a first transistor with a first end coupled to the data line, and a gate end coupled to the scan line, a second transistor with a first end selectively coupled to a voltage source or current source, and a gate end coupled to a second end of the first transistor, and a light-emitting unit with a first end coupled to a second end of the second transistor. The method includes turning on the first transistors of the pixels; coupling the data lines and first ends of the second transistors to the current source; reading voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors; and providing corresponding data voltages to the pixels according to voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Chih-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8907874
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Taneda, Katsuhide Uchino, Yukihito Iida
  • Patent number: 8907876
    Abstract: A pixel circuit has a light emitting element and a driver electrically connected to the light emitting element. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the driver to reduce a shift amount of a threshold voltage of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Hasumi, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Keigo Kanoh
  • Patent number: 8902132
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a self light emission display device includes a buffer memory configured to delay the supply of pixel data to a self light emission panel, a lookup table configured to store all gradation values corresponding to a variable range of the pixel data and electric power values to be consumed for light emission respectively at the gradation values, in association with each other, and a power consumption calculator configured to add respective power consumption values of all pixels of a frame which are determined by referring to said lookup table to calculate a power consumption value of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 8890822
    Abstract: A method for controlling operations of a touch panel includes synchronizing timing of a plurality of gate lines and timing of a plurality of touch sensors; determining whether polarities of common voltages of a display layer are consistent when driving signals are outputted to a first gate line and a second gate line, the second gate line following the first gate line; and if the polarities are consistent, outputting at least one driving pulse to a touch sensor of the plurality of touch sensors after image data corresponding to the second gate line is transmitted to the display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Yang, Jing-Jhih Huang, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
  • Patent number: 8884852
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel circuit for generating a signal value for display by synthesizing signal values input within one horizontal period, and making display at a gradation corresponding to the signal value for display; a signal line disposed in a form of a column on a pixel array where the pixel circuit is arranged in a form of a matrix; a scanning line disposed in a form of a row on the pixel array; a signal line driving section configured to output signal values as a signal value to be supplied to each pixel circuit to the signal line within one horizontal period; and a scanning line driving section configured to sequentially introduce the signal values within one horizontal period, the signal values being generated in the signal line, into the pixel circuit in each row by driving the scanning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8884853
    Abstract: The present invention an organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel regions, a gate driving unit for driving gate lines and light emitting control lines of the display panel, a data driving unit for driving data lines of the display panel, a power supply unit for supplying first and second power signals to power lines of the display panel as well as a compensating voltage to a compensating power line, and a timing controller for controlling the gate and data driving units for displaying an image with a data voltage compensated with the compensating voltage and controlling the power supply unit to supply the compensating voltage after converting a level of the compensating voltage just before display of a first image on the display panel at an initial driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun-Choul Kim, Chang-Hoon Jeon
  • Patent number: 8884851
    Abstract: In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8884847
    Abstract: A display apparatus disclosed herein includes a plurality of pixel circuits, each having a plurality of switches configured to receive a driving signal of a predetermined period and to be controlled for opening and closing operation by the driving signal, a drive circuit configured to control the open/closed state of the switches, being operable to scan the pixel circuits and open and close the switches in periods independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Asano, Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 8878755
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a method of driving an OLED display includes providing scan signals and data signals and applying the scan signals to scan lines and the data signals to the data lines, respectively. Each scan signal is characterized with a waveform having a compensation duration and a scan duration immediately following the compensation duration. The waveform has a first voltage and a second voltage periodically and alternately varied from one another defining a period in the compensation duration, and has the first voltage in the scan duration. The period is equal to the scan duration but shorter than the compensation duration. As such, during the compensation duration of a scan signal, pixels of a corresponding pixel row are charged for compensation, and during the scan duration, the data signals are written into the pixels of the corresponding pixel row for driving the OLEDs thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hua-Gang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai
  • Patent number: 8878754
    Abstract: The inventors found out that in the case of performing a low gray scale display in which a very small amount of current is supplied to a light emitting element, variations in threshold voltages of driving transistors become notable since the gate-source voltage is low. In view of this, the invention provides a display device in which variations in the threshold voltages of the driving transistors are reduced even in the low gray scale display, and a driving method thereof. According to the invention, a gate-source voltage of the driving transistor is set higher in the low gray scale display than that in the high gray scale display. As one mode to achieve this, different power source lines are provided for the low gray scale display and the high gray scale display and their potentials are set to be different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miyagawa, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: RE45291
    Abstract: A system and method for driving an AMOLED display is provided. The AMOLED display includes a plurality of pixel circuits. A voltage-programming scheme, a current-programming scheme or a combination thereof is applied to drive the display. Threshold shift information, and/or voltage necessary to obtain hybrid driving circuit may be acquired. A data sampling may be implemented to acquire a current/voltage relationship. A feedback operation may be implemented to correct the brightness of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arokia Nathan, Richard I-Heng Huang, Stefan Alexander