Color Patents (Class 345/88)
  • Patent number: 11323590
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a generation unit configured to generate a sharpness recovery amount for recovering degradation of a spatial frequency response from a target image; and a line width correction unit configured to perform line width correction processing for the target image based on the sharpness recovery amount, and the line width correction unit corrects a line width in accordance with a sign of a pixel whose absolute value of the sharpness recovery amount is large in a case where signs of the sharpness recovery amounts reverse between adjacent pixels of the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Otani, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11284193
    Abstract: An audio enhancement system that is incorporated into displays used for artwork and educational items. The system detects when an individual is in proximity of the displayed work, and outputs audio information related to the artwork or educational item if in question. Audio data can be stored locally or in a remote system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Laurie Cline
  • Patent number: 11276675
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate and light-emitting diodes including display light-emitting diodes. A display area includes sub-pixel regions including display sub-pixel regions and backup sub-pixel regions. In each of first and second directions, the display sub-pixel regions and the backup sub-pixel regions are arranged alternately. Display anode and cathode are provided in each display sub-pixel region. Backup anode and cathode are provided in at least one backup sub-pixel region. The display anode located in one display sub-pixel region is connected to the backup anodes of at least two backup sub-pixel region, and/or, at least two backup anodes provided in one backup sub-pixel region are electrically connected to the display anodes of at least two display sub-pixel regions, respectively. A positive pin of the display light-emitting diode is bonded to the display anode, and a negative pin thereof is bonded to the display cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shui He, Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 11276712
    Abstract: A display panel has a display area; and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the peripheral area comprising a first area, a second area, a third area opposite to the first area, and a fourth area opposite to the second area. The display panel may further include a data driving integrated circuit provided in the first area; a gate drive circuit provided in the third area; and a plurality of signal transmission lines arranged in at least one of the second area and the fourth area. The configuration of the data driving integrated circuit and the gate drive circuit makes it possible to manufacture a display panel with a narrow bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Luo, Xinchao Cui, Delong Zhong, Zhiqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11262628
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel defines a display area and a non-display surrounding the display area. The panel includes a color filter substrate and a thin film transistor array substrate opposite to the color filter substrate. The color filter substrate includes a first substrate and a black matrix on the first substrate. The black matrix is in the display area and extending to the non-display area. A gap is defined in the black matrix and in the non-display area. The gap extends to be a circle around the display area and divides the black matrix into two independent parts. The color filter substrate includes a second substrate and a metal ring on a side of the second substrate facing the thin film transistor array substrate. The metal ring surrounds the display area and aligns with the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Guo-Dong Xu, Hui Wang, Ning Fang, Chen-Fu Mai, Chih-Chung Liu, Meng-Chieh Tai
  • Patent number: 11249355
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal based color switch for use with an image sensor having sub-diffraction-limited (SDL) pixels. The color switch may switch between a first mode where green light is passed (and blue and red light is blocked) and a second mode where blue and red light is passed (and green light is blocked). The color switch may include an achromatic switch (such as a liquid crystal switch) and retarder stack filter that are both sandwiched between a first and a second polarizer. The SDL pixels may be distributed so that green subpixels are never adjacent to other green subpixels in the same row or column, so that red subpixels are always adjacent to green subpixels in the same row or column, and so that blue subpixels are always adjacent to green subpixels in the same row or column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: GARY SHARP INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Gary D. Sharp
  • Patent number: 11250778
    Abstract: The present application relates to a driving selection circuit for a display panel. The driving selection circuit comprises a first multiplexer circuit provided between a display area and a first data driving circuit, and a second multiplexer circuit provided between the display area and a second data driving circuit. Further provided are a display panel and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 11244653
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a driving method and driving device of a display panel and a display device. Under the partial display mode, different gamma curves may be called for different display regions, to drive different regions of the same picture. In one embodiment, a first gamma curve with relatively low brightness may be called for a first display region provided with an under screen sensor, that is, the first display region is driven by the first gamma curve with the relatively low brightness. A second gamma curve with relatively high brightness may be called for a second display region in normal display, that is, the second display region is driven by the second gamma curve with the relatively high brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuejun Tang, Xudong Liang, Yongzhi Wang, Tao Peng
  • Patent number: 11237656
    Abstract: A touch display panel and an electronic device are provided, the touch display panel includes a first data line, a second data line, a first touch line, a second touch line, a first sub-pixel column, a second sub-pixel column, a third sub-pixel column, and a fourth sub-pixel column. A distance from the first sub-pixel column to the first data line a right side of the first sub-pixel column is a first distance, a distance from the second sub-pixel column to the first data line on a left side of the second sub-pixel column is a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance. A distance from the third sub-pixel column to the second data line is a third distance, a distance from the fourth sub-pixel column to the second data line is a fourth distance, and the third distance is greater than the fourth distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Zhang, Yanyan Yin, Weixiong Chen, Xuchen Yuan, Hong Liu, Pengcheng Tian, Hanqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11232758
    Abstract: A pixel driving method is provided. The method includes: acquiring a pixel signal of each unit pixel in a pixel block; determining whether the pixel signal of the corresponding pixel block meets a first condition according to the pixel signal of each of the unit pixel and a signal determination interval; and if the graininess is determined during display, first-type gray-scale signals are loaded to a part of unit pixels of the pixel block and second-type gray-scale signals are loaded to the remaining unit pixels based on a preset rule, where the first-type gray-scale signals are not equal to the corresponding second-type gray-scale signals. The display quality is improved by controlling the unit pixel proportion loaded with the first-type gray-scale signals and the second-type gray-scale signals and reducing the difference among pixel signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11231539
    Abstract: A multiview backlight and a multiview display employ multibeam elements configured to provide a tilted plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a plurality of views of the multiview display. Further, the tilted plurality of light beams has a tilt toward a center of a view zone of the multiview display to provide converging views. The multiview backlight includes a light guide and an array of the multibeam elements. The multiview display further includes multiview pixels that include view pixels to modulate the tilted plurality of light beams having the tilt and the different principal angular directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LEIA INC.
    Inventor: David A. Fattal
  • Patent number: 11217147
    Abstract: A light-emitting control circuit and a driving method of a display device are disclosed. The display device includes a plurality of rows of sub-pixels; each row of sub-pixels includes at least first color sub-pixels and second color sub-pixels; each of the first and second color sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting unit; the light-emitting control circuit includes a plurality of light-emitting control circuit groups which are in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of rows of sub-pixels; each of the plurality of light-emitting control circuit groups at least includes a first light-emitting control sub-circuit and a second light-emitting control sub-circuit; the first and second light-emitting control sub-circuit provide a first light-emitting control signal and a second light-emitting control signal, respectively; and each of the first and second light-emitting control signal is used for driving the pixel circuit to output a driving current to the light-emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Libin Liu
  • Patent number: 11205364
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a display substrate are provided. The gate driving circuit may provide a driving signal to gate lines, and include output units cascaded to each other and having a same circuit structure. Each output unit includes at least one output transistor, outputs the driving signal to a corresponding gate line through the output transistor, and all the at least one output transistor is coupled to one gate line. The output units are classified as first and second output units. A number of sub-pixels coupled to the gate line corresponding to each first output unit is greater than a number of sub-pixels coupled to the gate line corresponding to each second output unit, and an output capability of at least one output transistor of the first output unit is greater than an output capability of a corresponding output transistor of the second output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libin Liu, Can Zheng, Yu Feng, Jiangnan Lu
  • Patent number: 11187937
    Abstract: Disclosed are a color filter, a fabrication method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The color filter comprises a plurality of filter units distributed in an array; each filter unit comprises: a substrate and a color film layer arranged on the substrate; the color film layer comprises a red color film, a green color film, a blue color film and a white color film; and the areas of the red color film, the green color film and the blue color film are all larger than the area of the white color film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Li, Ruilin Bi, Yuanhong Peng, Qiang Xiong
  • Patent number: 11183113
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a pixel from among the pixels being coupled to a scan line and a data line; a scan driver configured to supply a first scan signal to the scan line in a scan period in one frame, and to supply a second scan signal to the scan line in a compensation period after the scan period; and a data driver configured to supply a first data signal to the data line in synchronization with the first scan signal, and to supply a second data signal to the data line in synchronization with the second scan signal, wherein the first data signal is generated based on input image data supplied from an image source, and the second data signal is generated based on a conversion image data obtained by converting a grayscale of the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zail Lhee, Yong Sung Park
  • Patent number: 11176867
    Abstract: Disclosed are a chroma compensation method and apparatus, a display device and a storage medium. The chroma compensation method includes: acquiring an initial color of a display sub-pixel in a target pixel unit under a target luminance, and a target color of the target pixel unit under the target luminance, the target pixel unit including: at least two display sub-pixels of different light colors; acquiring a complementary color gain of each of the display sub-pixels under the target luminance based on the target color and the initial color of each of the display sub-pixels; and compensating for chrominance of the target pixel unit based on the complementary color gain of each of the display sub-pixels under the target luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Yang, Mingi Chu, Lirong Wang
  • Patent number: 11158231
    Abstract: This application relates to a drive method of a display panel. The method includes dividing sub pixels of the same color on the display panel into a plurality of sub pixel groups, acquiring a difference curve that is of each color sub pixel and that is between a curve of brightness changing with a drive voltage at a front view angle and a curve of brightness changing with the drive voltage at a side view angle, and for each color sub pixel, respectively regulating gamma values of various sub pixel groups based on the difference curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11153529
    Abstract: A conversion method for converting luminance of a video, including a luminance value in a first luminance range, to be displayed on a display apparatus includes: acquiring a first luminance signal indicating a code value obtained by quantization of the luminance value of the video; and converting the code value indicated by the acquired first luminance signal into a second luminance value determined based on a luminance range of the display apparatus, the second luminance value being compatible with a second luminance range with a maximum value smaller than a maximum value of the first luminance range and larger than 100 nit. This provides the conversion method capable of achieving further improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 11107409
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a first pixel, a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, a third pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth pixel disposed adjacent to the third pixel in the first direction. Each of the first to fourth pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The display device further includes a data driver that outputs a plurality of data voltages, a selective output unit that outputs the data voltages to the first to fourth pixels in a different order for each of a plurality of frames, and a scan driver that outputs a first scan signal to the first and second pixels and outputs a second scan signal, which is delayed from the first scan signal, to the third and fourth pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Wook Yang, Soon-Dong Kim, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11100874
    Abstract: A pixel driving method includes: dividing blue subpixels on a display panel into multiple blue pixel sets; acquiring original driving data of each of the blue pixel sets an average thereof; acquiring unequal first and second voltage signals corresponding to the original driving data of each blue subpixel according to the average; dividing the blue subpixels of each blue pixel set into sets of blue pixel pairs comprising neighboring first and second blue subpixels; acquiring a first brightness signal according to the first voltage signal of the first blue subpixel and multiple first voltage signals of the neighboring blue subpixels and according to different weighting coefficients, and driving the first blue subpixel; and acquiring a second brightness signal according to the second voltage signal of the second blue subpixel and multiple second voltage signals of the neighboring blue subpixels and according to different weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11094265
    Abstract: A display device capable of suppressing the display quality deterioration is provided even if an optically transparent nondisplay area is formed inside the display area of the display panel of the display device. The display device comprises a display panel including signal lines, scanning lines, and pixels that are connected to the signal lines and scanning lines and surrounded by the signal lines and scanning lines. The display panel includes a display area and an optically transparent nondisplay area inside the display area, and a drive circuit for driving the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Motonari Kato, Ryutaro Nitobe, Norio Mamba
  • Patent number: 11086428
    Abstract: A touch circuit includes a touch circuit, a first energy storage circuit, a second energy storage circuit and a resetting circuit. A first end of the first energy storage circuit is connected to a control end of the touch circuit, and a second end thereof is connected to a first voltage input end. A first end of the second energy storage circuit is connected to a first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to the control end of the touch circuit. A first end of the touch circuit is connected to the first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a third conductive line. A control end of the resetting circuit is connected to a second conductive line, a first end thereof is connected to the third conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a second voltage input end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangxing Wang, Dianzheng Dong, Qiang Zhang, Pengming Chen, Wenpeng Xu, Kan Zhang, Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11081530
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure, a display panel, a mask component, and an evaporation apparatus are provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction. The plurality of sub-pixels are divided into a plurality of rows of sub-pixel groups. Each of rows of sub-pixel groups include at least two rows of the sub-pixels, and include a plurality of repeating units arranged in sequence, and each of the repeating units includes at least two sub-pixel groups of different colors. Each of the sub-pixel groups includes at least two sub-pixels of a same color that are located in at least two rows and are adjacently arranged, and sub-pixels adjacent to each other and having different colors, which are located in sub-pixel groups of different colors, constitute one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11048133
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including a liquid crystal layer, wherein a first pixel region, a second pixel region, and a third pixel region are defined in the display panel and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel. A first color light emitted from the first pixel region has a red color, a second color light emitted from the second pixel region has a green color, and a third color light emitted from the third pixel region has a blue color. A first ratio at which the light passes through the first pixel region and a second ratio at which the light passes through the second pixel region is greater than a third ratio at which the light passes through the third pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Heung-sik Tae, Yoonseop Shim
  • Patent number: 11017729
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a first correction circuit configured to perform, using a gamma correction value, a gamma correction for first image data; a second correction circuit configured to receive the gamma-corrected first image, and to generate second image data by performing gray-scale compensation for the gamma-corrected first image data; and a data driver configured to provide a data signal corresponding to the second image data to the plurality of pixels, wherein the second correction circuit performs the gray-scale compensation based on the gamma correction value and a threshold value measured for each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyun Ho Kim, Sung In Kang, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11009981
    Abstract: Provided is a driving method of a touch display panel. The driving method of the touch display panel drives the touch display panel with an indentation design. Common voltages are inputted to touch electrodes, and a common voltage inputted to the touch electrode with a larger area is smaller than a common voltage inputted to the touch electrode with a small area. Or, common voltages are inputted to the touch electrodes and data voltages are inputted to pixel electrodes, so that the data voltages of the pixel electrodes corresponding to the touch electrodes with the same area are the same when an area corresponding to pixel electrodes of the touch display panel displays an image with a same gray scale, a common voltage inputted to the touch electrode with a larger area is smaller than a common voltage inputted to the touch electrode with a small area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoli Huang, Xinglong He
  • Patent number: 10971107
    Abstract: A display device is provided. A first pixel is coupled to a first scan line and a first data line and includes a first light-transmitting area. A second pixel is coupled to a second scan line and a second data line and includes a second light-transmitting area. The size of the second pixel is equal to the size of the first pixel. The area of the second light-transmitting area is different from the area of the first light-transmitting area. A first color area overlaps the first pixel. When first light passes through the first light-transmitting area and the first color area, the first light has a first color. A second color area overlaps the second pixel. When second light passes through the second light-transmitting area and the second color area, the second light has a second color, which is the same as the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Tso Chen, Hui-Min Huang, Li-Wei Sung
  • Patent number: 10964757
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color that is a red-shifted color of a deep blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels. Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may also provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color, and where the plurality of sub-pixels comprise a light blue sub-pixel, a deep blue sub-pixel, a red sub-pixel, and a green sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Julia J. Brown
  • Patent number: 10948784
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus and a window. The light emitting apparatus includes a liquid crystal device that includes a support substrate, a first electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a sacrificial structure, separating the sacrificial structure from the liquid crystal layer to expose one surface of the liquid crystal layer, and a second electrode on the one surface of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gi Heon Kim, Sujung Kim, Yong Hae Kim, Chi-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 10948770
    Abstract: A light source includes a light emitting element and a light conversion layer configured to convert light emitted from the light emitting element into white light; wherein the light conversion layer includes a matrix resin and a quantum dot, wherein the white light includes a red light component, a green light component, and a blue light component each having a color purity configured to display a color gamut having a concordance rate of greater than or equal to about 99.0% with an Adobe RGB color gamut of a display device, and wherein the green light component has a peak wavelength of about 525 nanometers to about 528 nanometers and a full width at half maximum of less than or equal to about 40 nanometers, and a red light component having a peak wavelength of about 625 nanometers to about 645 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hyung Kim, Eun Joo Jang, Hyun A Kang, Yongwook Kim, Jihyun Min, Jeong Hee Lee, Shin Ae Jun, Oul Cho
  • Patent number: 10943522
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel and a display driver. The display panel comprises a plurality of gate lines. The display driver is configured to control, based on a first image data, an order in which the plurality of gate lines are driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Takahide Iwase, Hirotaka Osawa
  • Patent number: 10937377
    Abstract: Disclosed are driving method and device for driving an LCD apparatus, as well as an LCD apparatus. The driving method includes: receiving an image to be displayed, obtaining a first pixel signal and positional information of each pixel, and looking up the first pixel signal to retrieve a first voltage panel driving signal of the pixel; determining whether each pixel is a first- or second-position liquid crystal pixel; when the pixel is a first-position pixel, computing a second pixel signal based on the first pixel signal and first voltage panel driving signal of the first-position pixel; otherwise when the pixel is a second-position pixel, computing a first luminance signal based on the first voltage panel driving signals of the second-position pixel and of the first-position pixels adjacent to the second-position pixel; and driving the pixels using the second pixel signal and the first luminance signal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10923056
    Abstract: An array board includes a display area having a non-rectangular shape, TFTs disposed in the display area, a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and connected to the TFTs, a non-display area surrounding the display area, unit circuits disposed in the non-display area and connected to the gate lines, and a block connection line. The unit circuits are linearly arranged in the non-display area to form circuit blocks. The circuit blocks in the non-display area form a gate circuit portion in which at least two of the circuit blocks are away from each other in an oblique direction with respect to an arrangement direction of the unit circuits. The block connection line extends across the circuit blocks in the non-display area. The block connection line is connected to the circuit blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehisa Sakurai, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10884175
    Abstract: A multiview backlight and a multiview display employ multibeam elements configured to provide a tilted plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of a plurality of views of the multiview display. Further, the tilted plurality of light beams has a tilt toward a center of a view zone of the multiview display to provide converging views. The multiview backlight includes a light guide and an array of the multibeam elements. The multiview display further includes multiview pixels that include view pixels to modulate the tilted plurality of light beams having the tilt and the different principal angular directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: LEIA INC.
    Inventor: David A. Fattal
  • Patent number: 10867579
    Abstract: A data processing method, an image display driving method, a data processing device, a display panel and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The data processing method includes: based on input RGB grayscale values, calculating a chromaticity coordinate of the input RGB grayscale values on a chromaticity diagram, in which the chromaticity diagram includes a white basic point; calculating to obtain intermediate grayscale values containing a white component, based on the input RGB grayscale values and according to a position relationship between the chromaticity coordinate and the white basic point; and adjusting the intermediate grayscale values to obtain output RGBW grayscale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Sun, Xiaomang Zhang, Yanhui Xi, Chuan Shuai, Bin Dai
  • Patent number: 10861905
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of pixel rows. Two adjacent ones of the pixel rows are disposed to be misaligned with each other. Each of the pixel rows includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first sub pixel; a second sub pixel; and a third sub pixel. The first sub pixel in an N+1-th pixel row is disposed adjacent to the first sub pixel of one of the pixels in an N+2-th pixel row, the second sub pixel in an N-th pixel row is disposed adjacent to the second sub pixel of one of the pixels in the N+1-th pixel row, and N is a positive odd number greater than or equal to 1. An organic light-emitting diode display device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10853587
    Abstract: An information terminal with low power consumption is provided. The information terminal includes a liquid crystal element, a light-emitting element, a first transistor, and a touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a photodiode, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor has a function of controlling a current flowing through the light-emitting element. The photodiode is electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor through the second transistor. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the third transistor through at least one transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10847685
    Abstract: A photoluminescence apparatus includes a base substrate, a first color conversion pattern disposed on the base substrate, and having a color conversion material, wherein a first stop pattern is formed at the first color conversion pattern, and a capping layer disposed on the first color conversion pattern for capping the first color conversion pattern, wherein a first hole overlapping the first color conversion pattern in a plan view is formed through the capping layer. The first stop pattern is disposed adjacent to the first hole in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hee-Keun Lee, Taejin Kong, Hoon Kim, Keunwoo Park
  • Patent number: 10824045
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed compositions and devices that include a spatially-variant lattice (SVL), such as spatially variant photonic crystals (SVPC), as well as methods for making and using the same. In particular, the compositions and devices include SVPCs that are configured for manipulating the path and/or properties of electromagnetic radiation flowing through the SVPC in a variety of ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
    Inventors: Raymond C. Rumpf, Stephen Kuebler, Noel P. Martinez, Cesar Luis Valle
  • Patent number: 10824044
    Abstract: A Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: first and second resistive elements each having first and second contact areas, the first and second contact areas of the first resistive element being arranged in a direction of a first axis, the first and second contact areas of the second resistive element being arranged in a direction of a second axis; a common conductor connecting the first contact areas of the first and second resistive elements with each other; first and second waveguide structures each including a waveguide portion extending in a direction of a third axis intersecting the first and second axes; a first signal conductor connected to the waveguide portion of the first waveguide structure and the second contact area of the first resistive element; and a second signal conductor connected to the waveguide portion of the second waveguide structure and the second contact area of the second resistive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Kono, Masataka Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10810954
    Abstract: Disclosed are a driving method and a driving device for driving a display apparatus, as well as a display apparatus. The driving method includes: obtaining a first voltage driving signal and a second voltage driving signal of a sub-pixel of each of a plurality of pixels in an image; dividing each of all the sub pixels into two parts that are adjacent to each other with a stagger interval; and further dividing each of the parts into second luminescence signal values with the first luminescence signal values, where the second luminescence signal values and first luminescence signal values are adjacent to each other with a stagger interval, so as to control a display of the corresponding pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10803654
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method of three-dimensional face reconstruction by inputting a single face image to reconstruct a three-dimensional face model, therefore, the human face image is seen at various angles of three-dimensional face through rotating the model images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bing-Fei Wu, Chun-Hsien Lin, Yi-Chiao Wu, Bing-Jhang Wu, Chih-Cheng Huang, Meng-Liang Chung
  • Patent number: 10803829
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first controller that outputs an output image signal having the same resolution as that of pixels to an image display panel; and a second controller that transmits an input image signal to the first controller, generates second luminance distribution data divided into regions at a second density lower than a first density equal to the resolution, and transmits the second luminance distribution data to the first controller. The second controller generates first luminance distribution data divided into regions at a third density lower than the second density, controls an illuminator based on the first luminance distribution data, and generates the second luminance distribution data by applying a polynomial interpolation to the first luminance distribution data. The first controller generates third luminance distribution data having the resolution, and generates the output image signal by adjusting the input image signal based on the third luminance distribution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Kazuhiko Sako
  • Patent number: 10788914
    Abstract: The touch panel according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes one or more first pressure detection electrodes and one or more second pressure detection electrodes, and one or more conductive connecting columns. When the touch panel is not touched, one or more connecting columns are in electrical contact with either the one or more first pressure detection electrodes or the one or more second pressure detection electrodes. When the touch pressure is greater than a certain value, the touch panel is deformed, and both ends of the plurality of connecting columns are in electrical contact with both the one or more first pressure detection electrodes and the one or more second pressure detection electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honggang Gu, Xianjie Shao, Jie Song
  • Patent number: 10789882
    Abstract: An optical compensation apparatus applied to panels is disclosed. A panel of the panels includes sub-pixels. The optical compensation apparatus includes an optical measurement module, a data processing module and an optical compensation module. The optical measurement module measures optical measurement values corresponding to the sub-pixels. The data processing module determines first optical compensation values needed for the sub-pixels according to the optical measurement values, determines an overall compensation operation reference of the panel accordingly, determines a demura algorithm suitable for the panel according to at least one threshold compensation value and the overall compensation operation reference and obtains second optical compensation values accordingly. Then, the optical compensation module outputs the second optical compensation values to perform optical compensation on a display data provided to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Shang-Ping Tang, Hung Li
  • Patent number: 10777632
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first circuit configured to supply a first data signal to a first pixel circuit through a first data transmission line, a second circuit configured to supply a second data signal to a second pixel circuit through a second data transmission line, a first signal line connected to the first circuit, and a second signal line connected to the second circuit. One of the first signal line and the second signal line is at least partially formed in a wiring layer that differs from that of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 10762855
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes displaying each picture with two frame images in sequence; drive voltages of adjacent two sub-pixels on each frame image including a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage, and the drive voltages of each sub-pixel in the first frame image and in the second frame image including a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage; determining backlight brightness adjusting signals of each backlight sub-area according to the drive voltages of a first frame image area and a second frame image area corresponding to each backlight sub-area; the backlight brightness adjusting signals being in groups; and performing independent brightness adjustment on a backlight source of the sub-pixels of various colors in corresponding backlight sub-areas in respective frame images of a next picture according to the backlight brightness adjusting signal of each backlight sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10741133
    Abstract: A display device may include first-type gate lines, second-type gate lines, a data line, and a pixel. The first-type gate lines include a first gate line. The second-type gate lines include a second gate line and traverse the first gate line. The pixel includes a first switching transistor and a second switching transistor. The first switching transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode. The first gate electrode is electrically connected to the first gate line. The first source electrode is electrically connected to the data line. The second switching transistor includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The second gate electrode is electrically connected to the second gate line. The second source electrode is electrically connected to the first drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Soo Choi, Eui-Myeong Cho, Jang-Hoon Kwak, Jun Pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 10726770
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel circuit array, a scanner-drive type drive circuit configured to sequentially drive each of blocks of data line groups in the pixel circuit array, and a control circuit configured to control the drive circuit. The control circuit receives determination information for determining whether or not a display line corresponding to display data is a black display line. Based on the determination information, the control circuit sets amplifier circuits included in the drive circuit to an operation off state or a low power consumption state during a period in which the black display line is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 10714036
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Gray levels of the pixels are determined according to a gray level of a first frame, a gray level of a second frame and positions of the pixels in the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Watanabe