Light-controlling Display Elements Patents (Class 345/84)
  • Patent number: 12205316
    Abstract: The ambient illuminance sensor system disclosed herein includes a light sensor to generate a series of ambient illuminance values from an area surrounding a computing device, a human presence sensor configured to detect presence of a human in vicinity of the computing device, and computer implemented instructions for determining ambient illuminance level (AIL) based on at least in part on the series of ambient illuminance values, determining presence of a human in vicinity of the light sensor, and based on at least in part on determining that the AIL is below a threshold and that a human is present, applying a hysteresis filter to process the series of ambient illuminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Suzuki, Samu Matias Kallio, Ruidong Zhu, Wenjie Shi
  • Patent number: 12183304
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel. The display panel includes: a base substrate, including a display region and a periphery region at least partially surrounding the display region, wherein the display region includes a first display region and a second display region disposed at least on one side of the first display region, a light transmittance of the first display region being greater than a light transmittance of the second display region; a plurality of first pixel units disposed on the base substrate and in the first display region; and a plurality of signal lines disposed at least in the first display region and electrically connected to the plurality of first pixel units, wherein the plurality of signal lines include a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Fang, Ke Liu, Ling Shi, Ruoxiang Li
  • Patent number: 12124076
    Abstract: An image projection system includes a cascaded waveguide system including a first waveguide and a second waveguide arranged downstream along a transmission path from the first waveguide. The first waveguide includes a first output structure and is configured to receive a light beam having a first beam width and output a first expanded light beam at the first output structure, wherein the first expanded light beam has a second beam width greater than the first beam width. The second waveguide includes a second output structure and is configured to receive the first expanded light beam from the first waveguide and output the first expanded light beam multiple times from the second output structure as a plurality of output light beams. Each of the plurality of output light beams is output from a different area of the second output structure along a propagation direction of the second waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Boris Kirillov, Maksym Sladkov
  • Patent number: 12118914
    Abstract: A display control method determines whether a low frame rate compensation function is in an on state when a frame rate of a current frame rendered by a graphics processor is smaller than a minimum refresh rate of a display panel, performs grayscale compensation on at least one frame of display picture in consecutive n frames of display pictures of the display panel when the low frame rate compensation function is in the on state, and controls the display panel to display the compensated consecutive n frames of display pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zeng Huang
  • Patent number: 12111545
    Abstract: A display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes, in a pixel, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a layer containing a liquid crystal material, and a common electrode. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the first transistor. The conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the first transistor, the second transistor, the first insulating layer, and the conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the layer containing a liquid crystal material is positioned over the pixel electrode, and the common electrode is positioned over the layer containing a liquid crystal material. The common electrode overlaps with the conductive layer with the layer containing a liquid crystal material and the pixel electrode therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Susumu Kawashima, Daisuke Kubota, Tetsuji Ishitani, Akio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12112696
    Abstract: A display substrate is provided with a setup region including an acquisition region and a transition region adjacent to the acquisition region. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; light emitting devices on the base substrate, at least a part of the light emitting devices are provided in each of the acquisition region and the transition region; and driving circuits on the base substrate, each of the driving circuits being configured to provide a driving signal to a corresponding light emitting device. A driving circuit corresponding to a light emitting device in the transition region is a first local driving circuit which is in the transition region. A driving circuit corresponding to a light emitting device in the acquisition region is a peripheral driving circuit which is in the transition region and is connected to the corresponding light emitting device in the acquisition region through a connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pinchao Gu, Yao Huang, Tianyi Cheng, Yue Long, Yuanyou Qiu, Meng Li
  • Patent number: 12087227
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a method for driving a display panel, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a light-emitting element, a pixel driver circuit, and a control circuit. The pixel driver circuit includes a driver transistor and a first light emission control switch. A working mode of the display panel includes a first mode. In the first mode, a working cycle of the pixel driver circuit includes a data writing phase and at least one data holding phase subsequent to the data writing phase. The data writing phase includes at least one first light-emitting period. The data holding phase includes at least one second light-emitting period. The control circuit controls a duration of a first one of the at least one first light-emitting period in the data writing phase to be less than a duration of one of the at least one second light-emitting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Kuang, Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao
  • Patent number: 12082462
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first constant voltage lines extended along a first direction and arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of second constant voltage lines extended along the second direction and arranged along the first direction, a first overlap area in which the plurality of first constant voltage lines and the plurality of second constant voltage lines overlap and contact each other, and a second overlap area in which the plurality of first constant voltage lines and the plurality of second constant voltage lines overlap and are insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Cho, Ji Ryun Park, Ki Ho Bang, Won Suk Choi, Yoon Sun Choi
  • Patent number: 12075534
    Abstract: A hybrid dimming control device, which prevents image quality degradation during local dimming of a backlight unit, includes an analysis circuit configured to determine a type of dimming data for controlling the local dimming of a light source included in a backlight unit by analyzing the dimming data, a pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming control circuit configured to control the local dimming of the light source by a PWM method when the type of the dimming data is a first type, and an active dimming control circuit configured to convert some bits of the dimming data into an analog signal and control the local dimming of the light source using the analog signal when the type of the dimming data is a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Sung Wang, Sang Suk Kim, Jang Su Kim
  • Patent number: 12075575
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a display panel body; first and second drive boards spaced apart from each other along one side of the display panel body; a first flexible board which electrically connects the display panel body and the first drive board and a second flexible board which electrically connects the display panel body and the second drive board; a light control panel body switchable between a transmissive state and a non-transmissive state; and a first electrode portion including a first electrode body disposed in an outer peripheral portion of the light control panel body along one side of the display panel body, and a first electrode tab which extends from the first electrode body crossing the one side of the display panel body while avoiding an overlap with the first and second drive boards in a front view of the display panel body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouji Oonishi, Shigeru Aruga, Hidekazu Nishikoori, Ichiro Okuda
  • Patent number: 12073784
    Abstract: The line drive signal enhancement circuit includes a first control unit, a second control unit, a first output unit and a second output unit. The first control unit is used for outputting the first power supply voltage to the first node or the second node under the control of the first control terminal and the second control terminal. The second control unit is used for outputting the second power supply voltage to the second node in response to the first power supply voltage on the first node, and is further used for outputting the second power supply voltage to the first node in response to the first power supply voltage on the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongsheng Li, Longfei Fan, Qian Wu
  • Patent number: 12069781
    Abstract: The LED electronic display board system according to the present invention comprises first to Mth sub-controllers 2-1, 2-2, . . . , 2-M (here, N and M are a natural number), each of which comprises first to Nth LED modules 1-1, 1-2, . . . , 1-N, to control the first to Nth LED modules 1-1, 1-2, . . . , 1-N; and a main controller 3 which is connected to the first to Mth sub-controllers 2-1, 2-2, . . . , 2-M to control the first to Mth sub-controllers 2-1, 2-2, . . . , 2-M, wherein the first to Mth sub-controllers 2-1, 2-2, . . . , 2-M each further comprise a constant current roller 20 and a variable resistance block 21, and the constant current controller 20 adjusts a resistance value of the variable resistance block 21 according to a signal of the main controller 3 to adjust the size of current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ASONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Jae Lee, Jeong Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 12050129
    Abstract: An optical sensor device may comprise an optical sensor comprising a set of sensor elements; an optical filter comprising one or more channels, wherein each channel, of the one or more channels, is configured to pass light associated with particular wavelengths to a subset of sensor elements, of the set of sensor elements, of the optical sensor; a phase mask configured to distribute a plurality of light beams associated with a subject in an encoded pattern on an input surface of the optical filter; and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain, from the optical sensor, sensor data associated with the subject and determine, based on the sensor data, spectral information associated with the subject. The one or more processors may determine, based on the sensor data and information associated with the encoded pattern, spatial information associated with the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Houck, Valton Smith
  • Patent number: 12027531
    Abstract: A display device may include a substrate; a plurality of signal lines on the substrate; a plurality of scan lines on the substrate, the scan lines crossing the signal lines; and a plurality of thin film transistors at crossing positions of the scan lines and the signal lines. The scan lines include some first scan lines and some second scan lines. Each of the second scan lines has an end connected to a load element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Hosokawa, Naoki Miyanaga, Masakatsu Kitani
  • Patent number: 12020644
    Abstract: A current limiting circuit includes: a delay circuit that receives a video signal, and outputs a delay signal obtained by delaying the video signal by a time period corresponding to one frame; a calculation circuit that receives the video signal, and calculates a gain by which the delay signal is to be multiplied, based on power consumption of the pixels corresponding to the delay signal and power consumption of the pixels corresponding to the video signal; and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the delay signal by the gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 12021070
    Abstract: This application provides a display, an electronic device, and a display fabrication method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanfeng Jia
  • Patent number: 12009055
    Abstract: Memory clock drivers, memories, and methods of operating memory clock drivers are provided. A memory device contains two memory clock drivers disposed opposite each other across an array of rows of memory cells. The memory clock drivers contain decoders, which decode an address corresponding to one or more rows of memory cells. The decoders are configured to decode the address to provide a plurality of word line signals to the corresponding rows of memory cells. The memory device also includes a row select circuit, which receives a row select address and activates a corresponding row of memory cells. The memory device includes control circuitry to control the arrays of memory cells at a local and a global level, as well as I/O modules to send signals to different parts of the memory device and integrate the memory device into external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atul Katoch
  • Patent number: 11984076
    Abstract: What is disclosed are methods of non-uniformity compensation for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. For each pixel, greyscale level offsets for a number of predetermined greyscale drive levels which produce a uniform flat field are determined and used to generate a correction function for the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Leerentveld, Daniel Hills, Samer Musa
  • Patent number: 11978841
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display area including pixels on a substrate, a pad portion on the substrate in a non-display area outside the display area, and including a conductive line, a first dummy line around the conductive line, and a first anti-fuse and a second anti-fuse adjacent to the conductive line and spaced apart from each other in a lengthwise direction of the conductive line, the first anti-fuse and the second anti-fuse each including a first electrode electrically connected to a portion of the conductive line, and a second electrode over the first electrode with a first insulating layer therebetween, and electrically connected to a portion of the first dummy line, and a circuit portion overlapping, and electrically connected to, the pad portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeehoon Kim, Shinhyuk Yang, Huiwon Yang, Jongmoo Huh
  • Patent number: 11967261
    Abstract: There is provided a method for adjusting white balance of a spliced screen, which includes: acquiring an image to be analyzed; the image to be analyzed includes a picture, to be analyzed, displayed by a display screen to be adjusted, and the display screen to be adjusted is at least a portion of all display screens of the spliced screen; and determining a white balance adjustment mode of the display screen, to be adjusted, corresponding to the picture to be analyzed according to at least the picture to be analyzed in the image to be analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingchuan Shi, Xingxing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11906871
    Abstract: An electronic paper package structure including a substrate, an electronic ink layer, a cover plate, at least one water vapor barrier and a sealant is provided. The electronic ink layer is disposed on the substrate. The cover plate covers the electronic ink layer, wherein the electronic ink layer is located between the substrate and the cover plate, and a groove is defined by a lower surface of the cover plate, a side surface of the electronic ink layer and an upper surface of the substrate. The at least one water vapor barrier is disposed in the groove. The sealant is filled into the groove to cover the at least one water vapor barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: Jen-Shiun Huang
  • Patent number: 11900892
    Abstract: Methods for driving an electrophoretic medium including two pairs of oppositely charged particles. The first pair including a first type of positive particles and a first type of negative particles and the second pair consists of a second type of positive particles and a second type of negative particles, wherein the first pair of particles and the second pair of particles have different charge magnitudes (identifiable as zeta potentials). In particular, the driving methods produce cleaner optical stakes of the lesser-charged particles with less contamination from the other particles and more consistent electro-optical performance when the intermediate driving voltages are modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Feng-Shou Lin
  • Patent number: 11882746
    Abstract: Disclosed are a panel capable of performing transparent display, a display device and a vehicle-mounted display device. A transmission part includes an organic light-emitting diode so as to perform light emission as well as display, thereby increasing an emission area, reducing the driving voltage required for emission driving, and consequently increasing the lifespan of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Jung Park, Kwan-Soo Kim, Ki-Min Lim
  • Patent number: 11880102
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a frame positioned behind the display panel, a plate positioned between the display panel and the frame, and a side frame, which extends along an edge of the frame behind the frame and which is coupled to the frame, wherein the plate includes a base facing the frame, and a projection, which projects rearwards from the base through the frame and the side frame and which is bent at an end thereof so as to be coupled to the side frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunggyu Kang, Hyuncheol Cho
  • Patent number: 11849137
    Abstract: A motion estimation technique finds first and second candidate bi-directional motion vectors for a first region of an interpolated frame of video content by performing double ended vector motion estimation on the first region. One of these candidate bi-directional motion vectors is selected, and used to identify a remote region of the interpolated frame. This remote region is located at an off-set location from the first region, and is found based on an endpoint of the selected candidate bi-directional motion vector. A remote motion vector for the remote region of the interpolated frame is obtained, and one or more properties of this remote motion vector are used to bias a selection between the first and second candidate vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Steven Fishwick
  • Patent number: 11800218
    Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality display system that controls power inputs to the display system as a function of image data. Image data itself is made of a plurality of image data frames, each with constituent color components of, and depth planes for displaying on, rendered content. Light sources or spatial light modulators to relay illumination from the light sources may receive signals from a display controller to adjust a power setting to the light source or spatial light modulator based on control information embedded in an image data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Martinez Perez, Reza Nourai
  • Patent number: 11774816
    Abstract: A display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes, in a pixel, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a layer containing a liquid crystal material, and a common electrode. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the first transistor. The conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the first transistor, the second transistor, the first insulating layer, and the conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the layer containing a liquid crystal material is positioned over the pixel electrode, and the common electrode is positioned over the layer containing a liquid crystal material. The common electrode overlaps with the conductive layer with the layer containing a liquid crystal material and the pixel electrode therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Susumu Kawashima, Daisuke Kubota, Tetsuji Ishitani, Akio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11750910
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises a housing, a display unit, a backlight module and at least one image capturing device. The at least one image capturing device is located in the housing and is used for capturing an image of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DYNASCAN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chia-Liang Yang
  • Patent number: 11733524
    Abstract: A depth camera assembly for depth sensing of a local area includes an illumination source, an imaging device, and a controller. The illumination source illuminates a local area with light emitted in accordance with emission instructions generated by the controller. The illumination source includes an array of optical sources and an optical assembly. Operation of each optical source in the array is controllable based in part on the emission instructions. The optical assembly is configured to project the light into the local area. The imaging device captures one or more images of at least a portion of the light reflected from one or more objects in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the one or more objects based in part on the captured one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaoming Zhu, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 11715416
    Abstract: A method for driving an active-matrix pixel array is provided. The method includes the following steps: during a first period, inputting a data signal into a control terminal of a second transistor of the each of pixel circuits from a first terminal of a first transistor of the each of the pixel circuits; during a second period, turning-on a third transistor of the each of the pixel circuits, so that a current generated by according to the data signal flows through the light emitting unit of the each of the pixel circuits; and during a third period, inputting a reset signal into the control terminal of the second transistor of the each of the pixel circuits from the first terminal of the first transistor of the each of the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Watsuda, Tzu-Min Yan, Tsau-Hua Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11620928
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may access an image to be displayed on a display. The system may perform compensation operations on the display to compensate for degradation effects of the display. The system may determine a change in an electric signal level associated with one or more light-emitting elements of the display. The change may be caused by the compensation operations. The system may determine a wavelength shift of the light-emitting elements of the display. The wavelength shift may be caused by the change of the electric signal level. The system may adjust values of RGB color components of the pixel values of the image based on the wavelength shift of the light-emitting elements of the display. The system may output the pixel values with the adjusted values of the RGB color components to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: 11605349
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel driving circuit and a reset control circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a light-emitting element, a first reset module, a first control module, a data write module, a driving transistor, a second reset module and a second control module. In the initial reset stage of the pixel driving circuit, the reset control circuit is configured to control the first reset module to turn on and apply a reset voltage of the reset voltage terminal to the first electrode of the light-emitting element, and the first scan signal terminal is configured to control the second reset module to turn on and apply the reset voltage to the gate of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuo Tang, Zhihua Yu, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 11598990
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a direct type backlight module (1) and a display device. The direct type backlight module (1) includes: a back plate (10) including a body (110) and a side plate (120) protruding around an edge of the body (110), the body (110) and the side plate (120) are enclosed to form a receiving cavity (100), and a back surface of the body (110) is partially recessed towards the receiving cavity (100) to form a mounting groove (130); and a rear housing (20), covering the mounting groove (130), a back surface of the rear housing (20) is flush with an edge of the mounting groove (130) of the body (110). The direct type backlight module (1) overcomes the defect in the conventional display device that the rear housing protrudes from the back plate, causing uneven thickness of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL NEW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaocheng Huang, Shaojun Cai, Jianjun Sun
  • Patent number: 11592710
    Abstract: Backlighting panels for LCD displays are described herein which, in some embodiments, enhance contrast ratio, spatial resolution and/or chromaticity differentiation in images output by the LCD displays. In one aspect, an electronic display device comprises a LCD panel comprising pixels, and a backlighting panel comprising an array of solid state lighting devices of differing color. A color management unit is configured to generate color management signals for controlling chromaticity and/or luminance output of the solid state lighting devices, wherein a ratio of the solid state lighting devices to the pixels of the LCD panel is greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Brightplus Ventures LLC
    Inventor: John K. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11568829
    Abstract: An electronic device and a display image compensation method thereof are provided. The display image compensation method includes: receiving a first image signal and a second image signal sequentially at different time points, and displaying the first image signal by using a display unit; calculating current temperature information according to a display time length of the first image signal on the display unit and pixel data of the first image signal, and calculating a variation between the current temperature information and reference temperature information; and generating pixel compensation data corresponding to the current temperature information when the variation is greater than a preset value, compensating the second image signal according to the pixel compensation data, and outputting the compensated second image signal to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Ching Chen, Chin-An Tseng, Chia-Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 11570863
    Abstract: A lighting device for generating a white mixed light having controllable spectral characteristics is provided. The lighting device comprises a number of white light sources for each making a contribution to the white mixed light by generating a white light with a respective spectral expression in each case that can be quantitatively characterized, so that the white lights generated by the white light sources can form corner points of a target range for the resulting mixed light in a spectral light parameter space. The lighting device further comprises control electronics for controlling proportional contributions of the white light sources so that the position corresponding to the resulting mixed white light can be varied within the target area spanned on the corner points in the spectral light parameter space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventor: Krister Bergenek
  • Patent number: 11536950
    Abstract: A digital micromirror device includes a plurality of micromirror cells on a semiconductor die. Each respective cell includes a memory circuit and an electrode selection circuit. At least some of the micromirror cells include a micromirror and each respective memory circuit controls a micromirror tilt angle. For a given memory circuit controlled to a first tilt angle, a measurement circuit measures a first value indicative of a capacitance between a first electrode and the micromirror and measures a second value indicative of a capacitance on the second electrode. For a second micromirror tilt angle, the measurement circuit measures a third value indicative of a capacitance between the first electrode and the micromirror and measures a fourth value indicative of a capacitance on the second electrode. The measurement circuit generates a signal indicative of whether the micromirror is stuck at a particular angle or missing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert F. Payne, Molly Nelis Sing
  • Patent number: 11526042
    Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Un Jin, Woo-Jong Lee, Yang-Wan Kim, Young-Sik Kim, Jun-Sang Lyu, Sang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11506896
    Abstract: An optical device is disclosed. The optical device includes a first lens having a first surface and a plurality of side surfaces; a first display device disposed on a first side surface of the side surfaces of the first lens; and a first active mirror disposed in the first lens. The first active mirror is tilted at a first angle during a first period and is tilted at a second angle during a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Sup Lee, Jin Oh Kwag, Jae Joong Kwon, Ju Hwa Ha
  • Patent number: 11506957
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical module and a projection apparatus. The optical module includes a base, a first frame, an optical element, and at least one first driving assembly. The first frame is disposed in the base and includes a first body and a pair of first shaft portions, the first shaft portion extending outward from the first body, and the first body including a pair of first inner folded edges. The optical element is disposed between the pair of first inner folded edges. The first driving assembly and the optical element abut against two opposite sides of one of the first inner folded edges, respectively, and the first driving assembly is configured to drive the first body to swing relative to the base by taking the first shaft portion as a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Chen, Jing-Si Chen
  • Patent number: 11483010
    Abstract: An output control circuit, a method for transmitting data, and an electronic device are disclosed. The output control circuit includes: a serial-to-parallel conversion circuit configured to obtain at least one group of parallel data through a serial-to-parallel conversion; an intermediate-stage cache circuit configured to divide the at least one group of parallel data into at least two categories of subgroup parallel data according to sequence of serial-to-parallel conversion; a latch output circuit including a plurality of latch arrays each of which receiving any category of subgroup parallel data and latching and outputting any subgroup parallel data in any category of subgroup parallel data; and a selection control circuit configured to, within an effective pulse duration of the any subgroup parallel data, control a latch array for the any subgroup parallel data in the plurality of latch arrays to latch and output the any subgroup parallel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junrui Zhang, Xuehui Zhu, Ronghua Lan, Xin Xiang, Xiaoqiao Liu, Xizhu Peng, He Tang
  • Patent number: 11442313
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first liquid crystal element opposed to a light emitting region, a second liquid crystal element including a first main surface and a second main surface, a first phase difference layer disposed on the second main surface, a second phase difference layer disposed on the second main surface and adjacent to the first phase difference layer, and a diffusion layer opposed to the first phase difference layer and the second phase difference layer. Each of the first liquid crystal element and the second liquid crystal element has a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and is cured in a state in which an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules has continuously changed in plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Lu Jin, Yosuke Hyodo, Shinichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 11435657
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light source system and a control method thereof, as well as a display device and a control method thereof. The light source system includes: an array light source, including M light emitting bodies with independently adjustable brightness; an optical switch disposed on an optical path of light outputted from the array light source, for guiding illumination light emitted by the M light emitting bodies to N sub-regions of a preset illumination region; and a control device for controlling the optical switch to adjust, at a preset frame rate, a direction of the illumination light emitted from each of at least part of the M light emitting bodies, and guiding the illumination light emitted from each of the at least part of the light emitting bodies to a sub-region different from that for one or more image frames previous to the current image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Yu, Chao Wu, Fei Hu, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11430372
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include at least one light emitting circuit. One of the at least one light emitting circuit may include an input sub-circuit, a latch sub-circuit, and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit may be configured to transmit a signal at a data voltage terminal to the latch sub-circuit. The latch sub-circuit may be configured to generate a control signal in accordance with the signal at the data voltage terminal and store the control signal. The output sub-circuit may be configured to transmit one of a signal at a first voltage terminal and a signal at a second voltage terminal to a light emitting unit under control of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Han Yue, Ning Cong, Xiaochuan Chen, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11423322
    Abstract: A novel and useful fully integrated quantum computer containing both quantum core circuitry and associated classical electronic control circuits on the same monolithic die. The integrated quantum computer avoids ESD loading on the quantum structures and minimizes the need for long interconnects with resultant large parasitic inductances and capacitances. Such parasitics reduce the maximum operating frequency of the realized quantum core structures. A cryostat unit functions to provide several temperatures to the quantum computer including a temperature to cool the quantum core to approximately 4° K and the interface SoC to 77° K. Alternatively, the interface circuitry is also integrated with the main QPU on the same die. A programmable pattern generator executes sequences of instructions that control the quantum core. In accordance with the sequences, a pulse generator functions to generate the control signals that are input to the quantum core to perform quantum operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Equal1.Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, George Adrian Maxim, Michael Albert Asker
  • Patent number: 11394001
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first capacitor electrode is provided. The first transistor is disposed above the substrate and includes a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, and a first gate insulator layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a silicon semiconductor layer. The first gate electrode overlaps the first semiconductor layer. The first gate insulator layer is disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode. The second transistor is disposed above the substrate and includes a second semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode. The second semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor layer. The second gate electrode overlaps the second semiconductor layer. The first capacitor electrode overlaps the second gate electrode. The first gate insulator is disposed above the first capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Yu-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 11380243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a scan driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The shift register includes an input module; a control module; a reset module; a first output module; a second output module; and a stabilization module, that a phase of a signal output from the second output module lags behind a phase of a signal output from the first output module, and does not overlap with the phase of the signal output from the first output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Shaorong Yu
  • Patent number: 11380262
    Abstract: A display device and an OLED array substrate, the OLED array substrate includes a non-transparent display area and a transparent area, wherein the non-transparent area is provided with first OLED sub-pixels arranged in a first array and the transparent display area is provided with second OLED sub-pixels arranged in a second array; the first OLED sub-pixels are driven by a part of data signal channels of a display driver integrated chip, the second OLED sub-pixels are driven by a remaining part of the data signal channels of the display driver integrated chip; data in all the data signal channels correspond to one frame of screen display in the display area; when the second OLED sub-pixels are driven, the transparent display area performs a display function; when the second OLED sub-pixels are not driven, the transparent display area performs a light transmitting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhui Lou, Fengzhang Hu, Lu Zhang, Zhihua Shen
  • Patent number: 11378861
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device, including a display area and a non-display area are disclosed. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other, a first electrode and a second electrode, a plurality of charged particles, and a plurality of third electrodes. By respectively controlling different bias voltages of the electrodes in the display area and the third electrode in the non-display area, the present application can realize a capability of switching between different working states of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11372238
    Abstract: In a mirror unit, a first wall portion is higher than a second wall portion. A window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface. When any one of first to fourth wall portions is set as a first reference wall portion, in a cross-section perpendicular to the first reference wall portion, a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first reference wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first reference wall portion by an outer surface and a first side surface in the window member intersects the first wall portion. A wiring portion includes a portion extending inside a base and leads outside a frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Daiki Suzuki, Tomoyuki Ide, Yuki Morinaga