Light-controlling Display Elements Patents (Class 345/84)
  • Patent number: 11086417
    Abstract: A stylus for interacting with a magnetic writing medium, such as a magneto-electrophoretic media containing magnetic particles that can be switched electrically in the same way as a conventional electrophoretic display: e.g., between white and black states with the capability of also attaining stable intermediate states of gray. The stylus includes a magnetic sphere and a metal cylinder aligned in the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Evan Griffith, Samantha Morrill, Richard J. Paolini, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11079599
    Abstract: A display device includes a frame, a display, an optical assembly, and a display-moving assembly connected to the display and the frame. The display-moving assembly is configured to move the display between multiple different positions, including a first position and a second position. When the display is in the first position, the display is configured to output image light in a first direction. The first direction is substantially parallel to an optical axis of the optical assembly. When the display is in the second position, the display is positioned away from the optical axis of the optical assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Weichuan Gao, Kieran Connor Kelly, Stephen Choi
  • Patent number: 11073708
    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: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    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: 11030957
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a plurality of column lines and a power line, each sub-pixel being supplied with first and second power voltages and including a light emitting diode, the power line extending along a column line direction and transferring the first power voltage; and a peak luminance control portion which derives a compensation value that is adjusted according to a maximum IR variation amount of IR variation amounts in the column line direction for a picture input thereto, applies the compensation value to an average picture level of the picture to derive a compensated average picture level, and controls a peak luminance of the picture according to the compensated average picture level, wherein the IR variation amount includes IR drop amount for the first power voltage and an IR rise amount for the second power voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang-Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10996461
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a protective wafer including a frame wafer and an optical window, and to a method for manufacturing a micromechanical device including such a protective wafer having an inclined optical window. Also described are a protective wafer including a frame wafer and an optical window, and a micromechanical device including a MEMS wafer and such a protective wafer, which delimit a cavity, the protective wafer including an inclined optical window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Pinter
  • Patent number: 10955702
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device containing a layer of patterned photoluminescent nanoparticles, which can emit highly saturated color lights when excited with backlights, is disclosed in this invention. The patterned photoluminescent nanoparticle layer is disposed between the backlight and the liquid crystal. The display device can improve the light utilization efficiency for 3 times thus saving reduce the backlight power consumption to ? or being 3 times brighter at the same power consumption from conventional LCD displays. The display also can produce an ultra-wide color gamut up to 95% of the CIE 1976 color space or 165% of NTSC color gamut. The display is capable of switching between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional viewing modes without any hardware structures changes applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SUZHOU XINGSHUO NANOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yunjun Wang
  • Patent number: 10937352
    Abstract: The present application relates to a pixel structure, a method for manufacturing the same, a display panel and a display device. The pixel structure includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each of which has a triangular shape. Sub-pixels of four different colors constitute a pixel unit. Any two sub-pixels that have the same common triangle edge have different colors. Each row and each column of sub-pixels are composed of alternately arranged upright triangle sub-pixels and inverted triangle sub-pixels. Every adjacent six columns of sub-pixels constitute a group. Each row of sub-pixels includes sub-pixels of four different colors, and each group of sub-pixels has the same arrangement. The upright triangle sub-pixels are sub-pixels of the other three different colors, and all of the inverted triangular sub-pixels are sub-pixels of the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Hu, Xinxin Wang, Chunjing Hu, Lifang Song, Zhijie Ye, Lingyun Liu
  • Patent number: 10923507
    Abstract: An array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, selection lines, a reset circuit and readout circuits. Second terminals of transistors in pixel units belonging to a same column are connected to at least two of the read lines, so that a part of the pixel units are connected to a same read line, and another part of the pixel units are connected to the other one of the at least two of the read lines. For each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to one of the readout circuits corresponding to the column of the pixel units through a switching element; and for each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to the reset circuit through a switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih Jen Cheng, Pengpeng Wang, Wei Liu, Xueyou Cao, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang, Xiaoliang Ding
  • Patent number: 10900900
    Abstract: A structured illumination microscope includes: a brancher that includes a first substrate on which a plurality of pixel electrodes are provided; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and branches light from a light source into diffracted light beams; an illumination optical system that illuminates a sample with interference fringes formed by at least some of the diffracted light beams; an imaging device that forms an image of the sample irradiated with the interference fringes; a demodulator; and a controller that controls a direction and a phase of the interference fringes. In one frame period during which the imaging device takes the image, the controller applies a first voltage pattern and a second voltage pattern obtained by inverting the first voltage pattern to at least some of the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisao Osawa, Fumihiro Dake
  • Patent number: 10879673
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide a device and method for an integrated white colored electromagnetic radiation source using a combination of laser diode excitation sources based on gallium and nitrogen containing materials and light emitting source based on phosphor materials. A violet, blue, or other wavelength laser diode source based on gallium and nitrogen materials may be closely integrated with phosphor materials, such as yellow phosphors, to form a compact, high-brightness, and highly-efficient, white light source. The phosphor material is provided with a plurality of scattering centers scribed on an excitation surface or inside bulk of a plate to scatter electromagnetic radiation of a laser beam from the excitation source incident on the excitation surface to enhance generation and quality of an emitted light from the phosphor material for outputting a white light emission either in reflection mode or transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Eric Goutain, Troy Trottier, Melvin McLaurin, James Harrison, Sten Heikman, Michael Cantore
  • Patent number: 10861373
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to driving first light emitting diodes (LEDs) of a first color to emit light during first subframes of emission frames, driving second LEDs of a second color to emit light during second subframes of emission frames, and driving third LEDs of a third color to emit light during the second subframes of emission frames. Light emitted from the first, second, and third LEDs is directed onto a mirror that reflects the light onto a plurality of pixel locations of an image field. The first, second, and third LEDs are aligned on an array of LEDs such that the first LEDs are at a first distance away from the second LEDs, and the first LEDs are at a second distance away from the third LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Thomas Blank, Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: 10861382
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first lighting circuit, a second lighting circuit, and a compensation circuit. A first light emitting element of the first lighting circuit receives a first driving current when the first transistor switch of the first lighting circuit is turned on. The second light emitting element of the second light emitting circuit receives a second driving current when the second transistor switch of the second light emitting circuit is turned on. When the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element are driven by the first driving current and the second driving current, the compensation circuit provides a compensation current to the first light emitting element or the second light emitting element according to a difference in impedance between the first light emitting circuit and the second light emitting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yuan Hsieh, Min-Yao Lu, Ming-Chen Hsu, Chin-Tang Chuang
  • Patent number: 10847085
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device comprises a first pixel region including first pixels which are driven in response to data signals when the organic light emitting display device is driven in a first mode and a second mode; a first scan driver which supplies scan signals to first scan lines connected to the first pixels; and a first light emitting driver which supplies light emission control signals to first light emission control lines which are connected to the first pixels. During one frame period in the second mode, the first light emitting driver supplies K light emission control signals to each of the first light emission control lines when a still image is displayed in the first pixel region, and supplies J light emission control signals to each of the light emission control lines when a moving image is displayed in the first pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Tae Kim, Young Seob Kim
  • Patent number: 10803775
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to one embodiment comprises pixels each comprising a liquid crystal display element (LC element) and an organic EL display element (EL element). The EL element comprises an anode and a cathode electrically separated from each electrode of the LC element. Each pixel comprises a first transistor which changes the magnitude of a current flowing through the EL element based on the potential of a first bus line; a second transistor which electrically separates the first bus line and the LC element; and a third transistor which electrically connects the first and second transistor with the first bus line. A method for driving a display device according to one embodiment reduces the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode before turning off the second transistor during switching from display by the LC element to display by the EL element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Mitani, Kohzoh Nakamura, Kiyoshi Minoura, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Yozo Narutaki
  • Patent number: 10802307
    Abstract: An anti-peeping assembly and a manufacturing method thereof, a method for controlling an anti-peeping assembly and a display device are described. The anti-peeping assembly includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer located between said first substrate and said second substrate; wherein, a first electrode is disposed on said first substrate at a side near the liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of second electrodes arranged as an array are disposed on said second substrate at a side near the liquid crystal layer; and wherein, in response to applying a same voltage to said first electrode and any second electrode, liquid crystals between said first electrode and said any second electrode scatter light, and in response to applying different voltages to said first electrode and said any second electrode, liquid crystals between them transmit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang You, Ruizhi Yang, Fei Wang, Yanfeng Wang, Xiaoling Xu, Ruiyong Wang, Zhenhua Lv
  • Patent number: 10795507
    Abstract: The touch panel may be used in any medium, device or system and even an application with a rough surface that has touch properties that detects a touch position and pattern of any desired object that is resistant to environmental effects with a high number of points that may be detected at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SENSOBRIGHT INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Utku Buyuksahin
  • Patent number: 10762824
    Abstract: A timing controller includes a degradation quantity generator, a degradation quantity accumulator, a feedback data generator, and a feedback reflector. The degradation quantity generator generates a degradation quantity for each of a plurality of pixels in a display panel based on image data. The degradation quantity accumulator generates an accumulated degradation quantity based on the degradation quantity for each of the pixels. The feedback data generator generates feedback image data based on the accumulated degradation quantity. The feedback reflector generates image data, in which the degradation quantity is compensated, based on the image data and the feedback image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won Chang Chung
  • Patent number: 10755637
    Abstract: A display method includes: determining whether there is a dynamic part in a current frame of picture, according to image data of a previous frame of picture and the current frame of picture; in a case where there is no dynamic part in the current frame of picture, in a display stage of the current frame of picture, providing a first light emitting control signal being always at an effective electric level state to each of pixel units of a display panel; in a case where there is a dynamic part in the current frame of picture, in the display stage of the current frame of picture, providing a second light emitting control signal, including a part at an effective electric level state and a part at a non-effective electric level state, to pixel units corresponding to at least a part of the dynamic part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengchung Yang, Kuanjun Peng, Wei Qin, Zhiqiang Xu, Yan Wei
  • Patent number: 10723260
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system, a system, and method for an autonomous vehicle are provided. The vehicle lighting system includes a light module and a controller. The controller is configured to control a behavior of the light module to communicate an operating status of an autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert King
  • Patent number: 10699621
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of first signal lines and second signal lines. A display area of the display panel includes first regular display area, second regular display area and an irregularly-shaped display area. The first signal lines disposed in the first and second regular display areas are first and second regular signal lines, respectively. The first signal lines disposed in the irregularly-shaped display area are irregularly-shaped signal lines. At least one irregularly-shaped signal line is a first irregularly-shaped signal line and the other is second irregularly-shaped signal line. A non-display area includes first driving circuit and second driving circuit. The first driving circuit is electrically connected to the first regular signal line and first irregularly-shaped signal line, and the second driving circuit is electrically connected to the second regular signal line and second irregularly-shaped signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Tianqing Hu, Zhaokeng Cao
  • Patent number: 10694625
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rollable display, which prevents slippage between a flexible display panel and a back plate attached to the flexible display panel for supporting the same. The rollable display has a feature in different patterns of the back plate for each area. In addition, the rollable display has a feature in that a display unit is foldable and non-foldable via a link unit so as not to be folded or rolled multiple times in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HeongSoo Park, SeungHee Lee, MiJin Han
  • Patent number: 10692454
    Abstract: The invention provides a GOA circuit, other than the first to the fourth GOA units, in each GOA unit: the first pull-down maintenance module receives the first control signal, low voltage signal, scan signal and circuit start signal, and is connected to the first node, wherein the 52nd TFT of the first pull-down maintenance module has a gate connected to the first node, a source receives the circuit start signal, and a drain connected to the gates of the 31st TFT and 41st TFT so that when the first node is at high voltage, the gate-source voltage difference of the 31st TFT and the 41st TFT are both negative to effectively reduce the current leakage and prevent the current leakage from affecting the voltage of the first node, to improve the circuit stability without additional signal lines, able to facilitate production cost reduction and achieving narrow border design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Lv, Yifang Chou
  • Patent number: 10678046
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package assembly and a method of manufacturing the same are provided for Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems. A MEMS package assembly includes a MEMS chip including a front-side surface and a back-side surface, the MEMS chip further including a LIDAR MEMS mirror configured to receive light and reflect the light as reflected light; and a cavity cap disposed on the front-side surface of the MEMS chip and forms a cavity that surrounds the LIDAR MEMS mirror such that the LIDAR MEMS mirror is sealed from an environment, the cavity cap having an asymmetrical shape such that a transmission surface of the cavity cap, through which the light and the reflected light is transmitted, is tilted at a tilt angle with respect to the front-side surface of the MEMS chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Cyrus Ghahremani, Horst Theuss
  • Patent number: 10679577
    Abstract: A shift register and a driving method thereof. The shift register includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a third control circuit and an output control circuit. The first control circuit is connected to a signal input end, a first clock signal input end, a first level signal end, a first node and a third node. The second control circuit is connected to the first clock signal end, a second level signal end, the first node and a second node. The third control circuit is connected to a second clock signal end, the first level signal end, the first node, the second node and the third node. The output control circuit is connected to the second clock signal end, the first level signal end, the first node, the second node and a signal output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiliang Wang
  • Patent number: 10657869
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium includes a fluid, a first, light scattering particle (typically white) and second, third and fourth particles having three subtractive primary colors (typically magenta, cyan and yellow); at least two of these colored particles being non-light scattering. The first and second particles bear polymer coatings such that the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed by the third and the fourth particles is greater than that required to separate an aggregate formed from any other two types of particles. Methods for driving the medium to produce white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow, red, green and blue colors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Karl Raymond Amundson, Kenneth R. Crounse, Alain Bouchard, Sunil Krishna Sainis
  • Patent number: 10653486
    Abstract: A remote control apparatus according to one or more embodiments includes a manipulator that supports surgical equipment; a display configured to display an image captured by an endoscopy; a display supporting arm that includes a joint and a locking mechanism and supports the display, the locking mechanism is configured to lock the joint; an operation handle that allows an operator to operate the manipulator; and an unlocking mechanism configured, in response to an operation by the operator, to unlock the locked joint of the display supporting arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Ishihara, Shiro Horita
  • Patent number: 10604012
    Abstract: A display control device is connected to a display device, and the display control device includes a storage unit to store moving object information which is acquired on a first cycle in correlation with time information. A generation unit reads the moving object information stored in the storage unit and generates image data. The image data generated by the generation unit is displayed on a second cycle which is longer than the first cycle. The generation unit calculates the moving object information corresponding to a generation start time of the N-th generated image data on the basis of the moving object information which is stored in the storage unit at times before and after the generation start time and generates the (N+1)-th image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Wararu Tamura
  • Patent number: 10598994
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first display panel; and a second display panel opposing to the first display panel. Each of the first and second display panel includes a plurality of source lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of thin film transistors, and a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to corresponding one of the thin film transistors. In a second display panel, at least two thin film transistors are electrically connected to a same second source line and a same second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Teruhisa Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Tsuda, Katsuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10578897
    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: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    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: 10567741
    Abstract: The stereoscopic image display device which displays images corresponding to each of a plurality of viewpoints includes: a stereoscopic image display panel which includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light-ray separating module provided on the display panel for separating parallax images from each of the pixels towards a plurality of N-viewpoints (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) according to the layout direction of each of the pixels; an observer position measuring unit which measures an observing position of the observer who is facing the display surface; a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of the observer with respect to the stereoscopic image display panel based on the measurement result; and an image generation processing unit which generates viewpoint image by corresponding to the relative position and outputs the image towards the stereoscopic image display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 10534212
    Abstract: A novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable, or a novel data processor and a novel semiconductor device are provided. The inventors have devised a structure in which a display portion and an input portion are included; the display portion includes a first display element, a first conductive film electrically connected to the first display element, a second conductive film including a region overlapping with the first conductive film, an insulating film including a region between the second conductive film and the first conductive film, a pixel circuit electrically connected to the second conductive film, and a second display element electrically connected to the pixel circuit; the insulating film includes an opening; and the second conductive film is electrically connected to the first conductive film through the opening. The input portion has a function of sensing an object that approaches a region overlapping with the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 10529759
    Abstract: An optical sensor package module and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The optical sensor package module includes a substrate, a sensor chip and a shielding assembly. The sensor chip is disposed on the substrate and includes an array of pixels located at a top side thereof for receiving light. The shielding assembly surrounds the sensor chip for limiting influx of light onto the sensor chip, and the shielding assembly has a first aperture to expose at least a first subset of the pixels that is configured to receive corresponding light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Chih Shen
  • Patent number: 10504458
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device comprising an electrowetting element comprising a control system, a first fluid, a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid, and a first and second support plate. A first and second electrode are, respectively, overlapped by a first and second portion of a surface of the first support plate. The control system is operable to, in response to input data indicative of a grey level and with the first fluid in a retracted configuration and at least partly in contact with the first portion, apply a first voltage between the second fluid and the first electrode to translate the first fluid from the retracted configuration to contact the second portion over a first area, and apply a second voltage between the second fluid and the second electrode to retract the first fluid to contact the second portion over a second area smaller than the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Hayes, Gor Manukyan, Melanie Maria Hubertina Wagemans, Daniel Figura, Bokke Johannes Feenstra, Toru Sakai
  • Patent number: 10490141
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device may comprise pixel regions arranged on a support plate, wherein each of the pixel regions includes a thin film transistor (TFT); a sensor disposed on the support plate, wherein the sensor is configured to generate a voltage based, at least in part, on light impinging on at least a portion of the pixel regions; and a reset control circuit configured to: based, at least in part, on the voltage generated by the sensor, determine an amount of modulation of the light; generate a reset pulse based, at least in part, on the determined amount of modulation of the light; and apply the reset pulse to each of the TFTs of at least some of the pixel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pavel Novoselov, Jozef Elisabeth Aubert, Petrus Maria de Greef
  • Patent number: 10373571
    Abstract: A method of controlling an electrowetting element. The method includes receiving first data corresponding with a first voltage with a first magnitude, generating the first voltage and applying the first voltage to the electrowetting element. Second data corresponding with a second voltage with a second magnitude is received. It is determined that the first magnitude is smaller than the second magnitude and, responsive thereto, a third magnitude of a third voltage is determined, the third magnitude larger than the first magnitude and smaller than the second magnitude. The third voltage is generated and applied to the electrowetting element instead of the second voltage, consecutively after the first voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Hendrikus Mennen, Nicolas Eugene Bergeron, Gor Manukyan, Jozef Elisabeth Aubert, Henricus Petronella Maria Derckx
  • Patent number: 10368030
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for capturing, at a sensor of a device, an image frame including frame composition data, generating histogram metadata for the image frame, encoding the histogram metadata as supplemental enhancement information (SEI) for the image frame, receiving, at a display post-processing module of the device, the image frame and the histogram metadata, computing, by the display post-processing module of the device, a target display setting for the image frame based at least in part on the histogram metadata; and outputting the image frame to a display based at least in part on the computed display setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajeshwar Kurapaty, Venkata Nagarjuna Sravan Kumar Deepala, Srinu Gorle
  • Patent number: 10353135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight unit for minimizing consumption power in realizing partial luminance. The backlight unit includes a light guide member including a first light incident part and a second light incident part, a first light source unit disposed in the first light incident part, and a second light source unit disposed in the second light incident part. The first light source unit and the second light source unit have different luminous intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngki Song, MyungJoon Park
  • Patent number: 10345575
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device comprises electrowetting pixels. Each of the electrowetting pixels includes a hydrophobic layer portion disposed on a first electrode, an electrolyte solution overlying the hydrophobic layer, and a thin film transistor (TFT) that is switched on to select each of the electrowetting pixels using active matrix addressing, wherein the TFT is in electrical contact with the first electrode. The electrowetting display further includes a second electrode in electrical contact with the electrowetting pixels, and a reset control circuit in electrical contact with the second electrode to provide a reset pulse in unison to the electrowetting pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Shih-Chieh Wei, Siddharth Gupta, Robert Waverly Zehner
  • Patent number: 10325565
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region around the display region. The display region comprises a plurality of rows of pixel units arranged sequentially along a first direction and a plurality of gate scanning lines corresponding to the plurality of rows of the pixel units, respectively, and the gate scanning lines extend along a second direction. Cascaded first shift register units are disposed at at least one edge of the non-display region parallel to the second direction, and each of the first shift register units is connected with a corresponding one of the plurality of gate scanning lines; and cascaded second shift register units are disposed at at least one edge of the non-display region parallel to the first direction, and each of the second shift register units is connected with a corresponding one of the plurality of gate scanning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaokeng Cao, Zhongshou Huang
  • Patent number: 10317787
    Abstract: A display screen includes a filter layer, a fluorescent layer having parallel fluorescent stripes, and an attachment layer between an excitation side of the fluorescent layer and a first side of the filter layer to attach the excitation side of fluorescent layer to the filter layer while providing vertical separation therebetween. The attachment layer includes attachment regions that are separated from each other by lateral spacings such that excitation-side air gaps are formed between areas of the fluorescent layer and the filter layer that correspond to the lateral spacings. During display operation, excitation light received on a second side of the filter layer propagates through to the first side of the filter layer, and at least a portion of the excitation light that propagates from the second side of the filter layer travels through the excitation-side air gaps to excite the fluorescent stripes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Prysm, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Graves, Michael P. McMahon, Philip J. Ralli
  • Patent number: 10311810
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines and a pixel array including a plurality of subpixels formed of first-color to fourth-color subpixels. The plurality of subpixels has a first arrangement or a second arrangement. The first arrangement is an arrangement in which in each row of the pixel array two of the first-color to fourth-color subpixels is interleaved. The second arrangement is a different arrangement than the first arrangement in which in each row of the pixel array two of the first-color to fourth-color subpixels are interleaved. A data driver is configured to drive the pixel array according to a first driving method when the pixel array has the first arrangement and drive the pixel array according to at least one second driving method that is different from the first driving method when the pixel array has the second arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wookyu Sang
  • Patent number: 10242623
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a thermal sensor configured to sense temperature and a controller including a first leakage current compensation unit configured to supply a first compensation signal to a plurality of sub-pixels based on the sensed temperature from the thermal sensor and a second leakage current compensation unit configured to supply a second compensation signal, which is different from the first compensation signal, wherein the controller compensates an amount of leakage current of the plurality of sub-pixels according to the sensed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyuil Han
  • Patent number: 10229638
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yutaka Mitomi, Tetsuo Minami, Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 10206073
    Abstract: A call switching method and a mobile device are provided that rapidly and conveniently switch calls. The method includes performing a first operation; receiving an event for a second operation that is different from the first operation, while the first operation is being performed; detecting a movement of the mobile device; and performing the second operation, based on determining that the detected movement satisfies a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dayama Dwarkaprasad, Das Kumarbrata
  • Patent number: 10204546
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel group having first, second, third, and fourth pixels arranged along a column direction, and a second pixel group having fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels arranged along the column direction. A gate line is connected to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels. A first data line is connected to the first pixel, the third pixel, the fourth pixel, and the sixth pixel, and a second data line is connected to the second pixel, the fifth pixel, the seventh pixel, and the eighth pixel. The first pixel group and the second pixel group are alternately disposed along a row direction. This arrangement allows inversion driving wherein the first data line receives a voltage having a different polarity from that of the second data line so as to reduce line flickering and reduce power consumption in the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungman Kim, Junho Song, Seongsu Lim, Taehyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10185058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protection films comprising an optical film suitably sized for an illuminated display device, the optical film having perimeter surface portions defining a central region. The protection film further comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive layer at the perimeter surface portions of the optical film. The optical film and/or pressure sensitive adhesive layer has been adapted such that the at least the central region of the optical film contacts the illuminated display device or the central region of the optical film is bonded to the illuminated display device by means of a self-wetting layer. The protection film may be preassembled or may be provided as a kit, the kit comprising an optical film and a double-faced pressure sensitive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas M. Snyder, Michelle L. Toy, Scott M. Tapio, Audrey A. Sherman, Joan M. Noyola, Patrick E. Bisek, John P. Baetzold, John J. Stradinger
  • Patent number: 10182224
    Abstract: A method for creating 3D image is provided. First, capture device, subject to be captured, and lenticular array are provided. Lenticular array comprises strip-shaped lenticular lenses, subject is disposed between capture device and lenticular array, length of a bottom of each lenticular lens is 2L, and center of the bottom is set as 0. Lens of the capture device is aimed at a top of one of lenticular lenses and ?xL of bottom coordinate of lenticular lens, and the value of x is smaller than 1 but greater than 0. Capture device is turned with top of lenticular lens as center to capture the subject until lens of capture device is aimed at xL of bottom coordinate of lenticular lens. Pixel from ?L to ?xL and from L to xL of bottom coordinate is mapped with pixel from ?xL to 0 and from xL to 0 captured by capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Lin, Tang-Hung Po
  • Patent number: 10162170
    Abstract: An optical device includes: an excitation light source; a first light transmitter that transmits excitation light emitted from the excitation light source; a fluorescent light part that is disposed on a surface of the first light transmitter opposite a surface through which the excitation light enters, and emits fluorescent light from the excitation light; a second light transmitter that interposes the fluorescent light part with the first light transmitter, and transmits light emitted from the fluorescent light part; a light transmission fiber that guides the light exiting from the second light transmitter; and a microfabricated film that is disposed on a side of the second light transmitter closer to the light transmission fiber, and collects, toward the light transmission fiber, the light emitted from the fluorescent light part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamae, Shintaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10156351
    Abstract: A temperature control device includes a first light source unit; a second light source unit, a temperature control effort for which is different from a temperature control effort for the first light source unit; a heat exchanger plate in contact with the first light source unit and the second light source unit; a single temperature control element configured to control temperature of the first light source unit and temperature of the second light source unit via the heat exchanger plate; and a thermal resistance adjustment part configured to adjust at least one of a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the first light source unit and a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the second light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Takahashi, Naoyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10153461
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display device, a first anti-reflection layer and a cover layer. The first anti-reflection layer is disposed over the display device, wherein the first anti-reflection layer comprises a first structural layer including a plurality of first protrusion structures opposite to the display device. The cover layer is disposed over the first anti-reflection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: INT TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Chen Liu