Gray Scale Capability (e.g., Halftone) Patents (Class 345/89)
  • Patent number: 10796665
    Abstract: A control apparatus for driving a display panel and a method thereof are provided. The control apparatus includes an image flickering detector and a chopper selector. The image flickering detector detects whether a present image pattern displayed on the display panel is flickering or not. The chopper selector selects a first chopper mode from a plurality of chopper modes for adjusting gamma voltages of a display image data, and detects whether the present image displayed on the display panel according to the display image data is flickering or not by the image flickering detector. The chopper selector selects a second chopper mode to adjust the gamma voltages of the display image data in response to the present image being flickering. The first chopper mode is different from the second chopper mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Tsu Hsieh, Shang-Heng Shih
  • Patent number: 10797086
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a semiconductor film, source and drain electrodes, a planarizing insulating film, first and second transparent conductive films, an insulating film, a pixel electrode, and a counter electrode. The semiconductor film overlaps a gate electrode on a substrate across a gate insulating film. The source and drain electrodes are separately provided on the semiconductor film. The planarizing insulating film includes an opening for partially exposing the source and drain electrodes on its bottom. The first and second transparent conductive films respectively come in contact with surfaces of the source and drain electrodes. The insulating film is provided on the planarizing insulating film so as to cover the opening and the first and second transparent conductive films. The pixel electrode is provided on the insulating film and is electrically connected to the drain electrode via the second transparent conductive film. The counter electrode is opposed to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazushi Yamayoshi
  • Patent number: 10789907
    Abstract: A gamma reference voltage generating circuit including a first resistor string disposed between a first reference voltage node and a second reference voltage node, a first multiplexer connected to the first resistor string and determining a level of a first gamma reference voltage, a first amplifier connected to the first multiplexer and outputting the first gamma reference voltage, a first resistor connected between an output terminal of the first amplifier and a first previous gamma voltage output node, a second resistor connected between the output terminal of the first amplifier and a first next gamma voltage output node, a first compensating resistor connected between a second previous gamma voltage output node and the present gamma voltage output node, and a second compensating resistor connected between a second next gamma voltage output node and the present gamma voltage output node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 10783846
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a driving method for the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10777151
    Abstract: Disclosed are a driving method of a display device, which includes the following operations: acquiring at least one of a color parameter of a pixel, image frequency and image isolation; determining a correction coefficient according to the color parameter, image frequency and/or image isolation; determining a display parameter according to the correction coefficient; controlling the pixel to display according to the display parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10776064
    Abstract: A video wall-type display device may include: a plurality of display modules, each including: a display area including: a first sub-area; and at least one second sub-area disposed to adjoin and to surround the first sub-area; and a non-display area disposed to surround the display area, wherein the first sub-area may include at least one first pixel unit. The at least one first pixel unit includes: a first pixel configured to display a first color; a second pixel configured to display a second color; and a third pixel configured to display a third colors, the first, second, and third colors being different from each another. The second sub-area may include at least one second pixel unit, the at least one second pixel unit including: the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel; and at least one fourth pixel configured to display a white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeon Cu Kim
  • Patent number: 10742119
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a display device, a display panel power supply system and a display panel power supply circuit thereof, the display panel power supply circuit includes: a power supply chip connected with an external power supply; and a gamma chip connected with the power supply chip and the data driving chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhi Xiong
  • Patent number: 10733932
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a reference gray mapping table configured to store reference gray mapping information indicating gamma correction reference gray levels to which reference gray levels are mapped, a gray mapper configured to map original gray levels indicated by input data to gamma correction gray levels using the reference gray mapping information stored in the reference gray mapping table, a dither configured to generate dithered output data to represent the gamma correction gray levels using the original gray levels, where a number of bits representing each of the gamma correction gray levels is greater than a number of bits representing each of the original gray levels, and a data driver configured to drive the display panel using the dithered output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si-Beak Pyo, Yunki Baek
  • Patent number: 10733702
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a memory device configured to store pre-scaling data and compensation data, and a panel driver configured to generate first image data by performing a pre-scaling operation on input image data based on the pre-scaling data, generate second image data by performing a compensation operation on the input image data based on the compensation data, and provide a driving signal to the pixels to display a pre-scaled image corresponding to the first image data, or to display a compensated image corresponding to the second image data, wherein the pre-scaling operation is performed before the compensation operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Shin Kim, Seungho Park
  • Patent number: 10714037
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including sub-pixels; and a signal processor. The sub-pixels are arranged such that either a first sub-pixel or a third sub-pixel is between a second sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel arranged in one direction. The signal processor outputs output signals to assign, to a set of the sub-pixels included in the display unit, color components assigned to two pieces of pixel data arranged in the one direction in input signals. The set of the sub-pixels is made up of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels. The signal processor assigns a first color component that is a part or the whole of a white component in one of the two pieces of the pixel data to the fourth sub-pixel and second color components other than the first color component in the two pieces of the pixel data to the first to third sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunari Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10714033
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processing part. The data processing part calculates a first pretilt value of previous image data to output a first pretilt signal, calculates a second pretilt value of current image data to output a second pretilt signal, analyze a luminance distribution of unit pixels from image data to output luminance distribution analysis data, analyzes a color pixel to which a pretilt is applied based on the unit pixel from the image data to output color analysis data, outputs a determination signal indicating whether the pretilt is applied to the image data, according to the luminance distribution analysis data and the color analysis data, and outputs pretilt compensation image data according to the first pretilt signal, the second pretilt signal and the determination signal, as compensation image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-Gon Choi, Dong-Won Park, Seung-Hwan Moon, Byung-Kil Jeon
  • Patent number: 10713992
    Abstract: A display driver includes a first D/A converter circuit configured to output a gradation voltage corresponding to upper-bit data of display data, a second D/A converter circuit configured to output a reference voltage corresponding to lower-bit data of the display data, and an inverting amplifier circuit configured to amplify the gradation voltage with reference to the reference voltage, and to drive a data line of an electro-optical panel. The second D/A converter circuit includes a first resistor provided between a node of a high potential-side power source and an output node of the reference voltage, a second resistor provided between the output node and a first node, a reference voltage ladder resistance circuit provided between the first node and a node of a low potential-side power source, and a switch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 10650737
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for hybrid micro-driver architectures having time multiplexing for driving displays are described. In one embodiment, a display (e.g., hybrid display architecture) includes a backplane and a micro-driver circuitry that is coupled to the backplane. The backplane includes circuitry (e.g., sample and hold circuitry) for sampling and holding analog data and for time multiplexing analog data. The micro-driver circuitry includes at least a capacitor of a ramp generator for generating a ramp voltage based on the analog data of the backplane and drive circuitry to cause at least one emission pulse for emitting a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Yafei Bi, Kapil V. Sakariya, Hopil Bae, Shinya Ono, Thomas Charisoulis, Chin-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10643550
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device, including a display panel having a display component and a backlight module having a backlight component divided into a plurality of backlight sub-areas, wherein the liquid crystal display device further includes a drive component, connected to the display component and configured to display each picture with two frame images in sequence; the two frame images include a first frame image and a second frame image; drive voltages of adjacent two sub-pixels on each frame image include 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 include a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage; a backlight control component, connected to the drive component; and a backlight adjusting component, connected to the backlight control component and the backlight component respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10643567
    Abstract: A source driver includes an amplification unit including a plurality of groups of amplifiers, each of the plurality of groups of amplifiers including a first amplifier and a second amplifier, multiplexers configured to select and provide an output of one of the first and second amplifiers in each of the plurality of groups to one of a plurality of data lines, charge share switch units corresponding to the multiplexers and between the plurality of data lines and a common line, and a control switch between the common line and a power supply configured to provide a reference voltage. Based on or in response to a power off reset (PFR) signal, the control switch provides the reference voltage to the common line, and the charge share switches connect the common line to the data lines, based on or in response to a power off rest (PFR) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: DB HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoo Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 10643516
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a data line demultiplexer, a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The data line demultiplexer includes a switching module, a plurality of switching signal terminals and a plurality of data signal terminals. The switching module is respectively connected to the plurality of switching signal terminals, the plurality of data signal terminals and M columns of pixel units in a display device. The switching module is capable of communicating each of the data signal terminals with at least two columns of sub-pixels under control of the plurality of switching signal terminals, wherein every two columns of sub-pixels that are connected with one data signal terminal are spaced apart by an odd number of columns of sub-pixels that are connected with other data signal terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 10629126
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for driving a pixel circuit, a drive device and a display device. The method includes: receiving grayscale data to be displayed; determining a voltage compensation value, which corresponds to theoretical drive voltage corresponding to the grayscale data to be displayed, according to a pre-acquired correspondence relationship between theoretical drive voltage corresponding to respective grayscale data, and corresponding voltage compensation values; wherein the voltage compensation value is a voltage drop caused by a detection transistor and a drive transistor in the pixel circuit; and compensating the theoretical drive voltage corresponding to the grayscale data to be displayed with the determined voltage compensation value, and then driving a light-emitting diode in the pixel circuit to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lirong Wang, Quanhu Li, Fei Yang, Danna Song, Mingi Chu, Song Meng, Yu Wang, Yi Chen, Zhongyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 10622082
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display apparatus having a display area and a peripheral area. The display apparatus includes a gate-driver-on-array circuit in the peripheral area having N numbers of shift register units for respectively outputting a plurality of gate scanning signals to the plurality of gate lines. An n-th shift register unit of the N numbers of shift register units includes an input port for receiving an input signal from an output port of a m-th shift register unit through an input signal line, and a reset port for receiving a reset signal from an output port of a p-th shift register unit through a reset signal line, 1?m<n<p?N. At least one of the input signal line and the reset signal line includes a first segment in a same layer as a plurality of gate lines, and a second segment in a same layer as a plurality of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhengkui Wang
  • Patent number: 10593269
    Abstract: A data driver includes a ramp signal generator generating a first ramp signal and a second ramp signal, a counter generating a count signal based on a clock signal, and channels each generating a data signal based on the first ramp signal, the second ramp signal, and the count signal. Each channel includes a latch circuit dividing the image data into a first partial data and a second partial data and latching the first and the second partial data, a duplication driver generating first and second reference signals by duplicating the first and second ramp signals, a digital-analog converter generating a driving signal corresponding to a first partial data based on the first and second reference signals, and an output circuit sampling the driving signal by comparing the second partial data with the count signal to output the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Sogang University Research & Business Development Foundation
    Inventors: Sang Kuk Kim, Moonsang Hwang, Weonjun Choe, Tai-Ji An, Seung-Hoon Lee, Won-Kang Kim, Jun-Sang Park
  • Patent number: 10586504
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The display panel is configured to display an image and includes a gate line and a data line. The data driving circuit is configured to output a data signal to the data line. The gate driving circuit is configured to output a gate signal to the gate line and to control a kick-back time of the gate signal according to a temperature of the display panel. The kick-back time is a time when the gate signal is decreased from a gate on voltage to a kick-back voltage that is between the gate on voltage and a gate off voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Woon Shin, Jahun Koo, Young-Il Kim, Sung-Jae Park, Sehwan An
  • Patent number: 10580385
    Abstract: A method for enhancing luminance uniformity of a display panel that includes multiple sub-pixels for a same color element is proposed to include: measuring, for each of the sub-pixels, luminance at multiple predetermined luminance codes, so as to obtain a plurality of data points; performing a two-stage curve fitting to obtain a fitting function that describes a curve fitting the data points; and performing demura operation on an image to be displayed by the display panel based on the fitting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventor: Hung-Cheng Kuo
  • Patent number: 10580370
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes first to fourth sub-pixels. The first to fourth sub-pixels are each divided into N (N?2) sub-divided pixels having different areas and can perform N-bit gradation display. Gradation display for a mixed color combining two types out of the first to fourth sub-pixels includes: the N-bit gradation display including 2N-step gradation; and halftone gradation display. In first and second gradation display, an area ratio between the sub-divided pixels driven and those not driven in one of the two types is equal to that in the other of the two types. In the second gradation display, a total area ratio of the sub-divided pixels driven to those not driven is greater than that in the first gradation display. In the halftone gradation display, an area ratio between the sub-divided pixels driven and those not driven is different between the two types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yata, Kazunari Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10580381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of accounting for the kickback voltage in an LCD display. For example, a method may include obtaining, via a processor, a difference between a nominal voltage of a common electrode of a display and a measured voltage of the common electrode. The processor may obtain image data associated with an image to be displayed on the display. The processor may adjust the image data of a pixel of the display based on the difference. The processor may output an image signal indicative of the adjusted image data to a pixel electrode of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Paolo Sacchetto, Yunhui Hou
  • Patent number: 10582176
    Abstract: This application relates to a method and a structure for generating a picture compensation signal, and a restoring system. A center luminance value is obtained by means of an image capturing device; then a grayscale percentage value is set by means of a calculating module, and luminance is adjusted according to the grayscale percentage value; a luminance value is obtained by means of the image capturing device according to the grayscale percentage value; a luminance difference value is obtained by means of a luminance difference detection module; and whether the luminance difference value is less than a default value is determined by a difference determining module; if the luminance difference value is less than the default value, a grayscale percentage value is reduced by the calculating module, and comparison again; and if the luminance difference value exceeds the default value, a sampling grayscale is obtained by a processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bin Qiu
  • Patent number: 10573259
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel including a display area which includes at least one non-quadrangle edge and a plurality of pixels; and a signal controller applying spatial-temporal division processing to an image signal corresponding to a first pixel which is not included in the non-quadrangle edge and bypassing the spatial-temporal division processing to an image signal corresponding to a second pixel which is included in the non-quadrangle edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jae Park, Gi Geun Kim, Jae Sung Bae, Dong Hwa Shin, Kyung Su Lee, Jae-Gwan Jeon
  • Patent number: 10565945
    Abstract: A display driver includes a processing circuit to which information regarding a temperature range is input and that performs gamma conversion processing on display data with respect to gray level. In the gamma conversion processing, at a first set point, a first output gray level is gray level m when the temperature range is a first temperature range, and is gray level n (m and n are integers of zero or more and are different to each other) when the temperature range is a second temperature range, and the processing circuit changes, when the temperature range has transitioned from the first temperature range to the second temperature range, the first output gray level from gray level m to gray level n by a step smaller than |n?m|.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Masahiko Miura
  • Patent number: 10535293
    Abstract: In a method of operating a display device, it is determined whether an image represented by input image data is a single color image, it is determined whether the image represented by the input image data is a low gray image, compensated image data are generated by adding sub-pixel data corresponding to a color different from a color of the single color image to the input image data when the image represented by the input image data is the single color image and the low gray image, and an image is displayed based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-Ho Hwang, Choonyul Oh, Sunjoon Hwang, Dongjun Han
  • Patent number: 10535291
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device and a control method thereof, and a display system. The display device includes a substrate and a pair of sub-pixels disposed on the substrate. The pair of sub-pixels includes a display sub-pixel and an interference sub-pixel, wherein the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are different in at least one of color or gray scale, wherein the display device has a light outgoing direction intersecting with the substrate; in the light outgoing direction, a projection of the display sub-pixel on a main surface of the substrate at least partially overlaps with a projection of the interference sub-pixel on the main surface of the substrate; and the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are configured to be capable of respectively emitting light in non-overlapping time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunbing Zhang
  • Patent number: 10515598
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes determining a present polarity of a pixel data signal of a present frame, generating a first compensated grayscale of the pixel data signal of the present frame using a pixel data signal of a previous frame, the pixel data signal of the present frame, and the present polarity, and displaying an image using the first compensated grayscale. The first compensated grayscale varies according to the present polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Hwang, Daecheol Kim, Yoongu Kim, Bongim Park, Ik Hyun Ahn, Woojoo Lee, Tae-Jong Jun
  • Patent number: 10510284
    Abstract: A display driver includes a drive circuit that receives input of a first reference voltage to an nth reference voltage (where n is an integer of two or more), and outputs a drive voltage that is based on a grayscale voltage obtained by voltage division of an ith reference voltage and an (i+1)th reference voltage (where i is an integer of n?1 or less), and a control circuit that utilizes frame rate control on first display data corresponding to a grayscale voltage obtained by voltage division of the first reference voltage and a second reference voltage to generate second display data, and supplies the second display data to the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Hayashi, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 10504403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device which is capable of improving picture quality by switching an optimal gamma voltage and an optimal common voltage on a basis of an operation time, and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller, a voltage generating unit, a data driver, and a liquid crystal panel. The timing controller can generate voltage control signal for switching initial state to stable state by using certain switching point. The voltage generating unit can receive the voltage control signal, supply the first gamma voltage and the first common voltage during the initial state, and supply the second gamma voltage and the second common voltage during the stable state. The data driver can receive the first gamma voltage in the initial state and the second gamma voltage in the stable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 10497328
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driving part and a gate driving part. The data driving part is configured to convert image data into a data signal and output the data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driving part is configured to output, to a gate line of the display panel, a gate signal having different gate on voltages during a first sub-frame period of a frame period and a second sub-frame period subsequent to the first sub-frame period. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In-Jae Hwang, Hyun-Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 10497331
    Abstract: A source driver, an operation method thereof and a driving circuit using the same are provided. The source driver includes a gamma voltage generating circuit, a first voltage buffer and a reference voltage driving circuit. The gamma voltage generating circuit receives an inter reference voltage to provide a first gray level reference voltage corresponding to a first display gray level. The first voltage buffer is used for receiving the first gray level reference voltage to provide a driving voltage. The reference voltage driving circuit is coupled to the gamma voltage generating circuit and the first voltage buffer and used for accelerating rising speed or falling speed of the first gray level reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuo-Che Hong, Ji-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 10497333
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a display section including first and second areas (ARa and ARb); a first driver substrate (Fa) for the first area; a second driver substrate (Fb) for the second area; a first-driver-substrate-voltage generating circuit (Pa) that supplies a drive voltage to a first voltage input terminal (xa1) of the first driver substrate; a second-driver-substrate-voltage generating circuit (Pb) that supplies a drive voltage to a second voltage input terminal (xb1) of the second driver substrate; and at least one switch (a1 and B1) that electrically connects or separates the first and second voltage input terminals (xa1 and xb1). In this configuration, the liquid crystal display has restrained luminance difference (luminance disparity) between the areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 10475373
    Abstract: A display device including a display unit including a plurality of light emitting elements, and a control unit that individually controls the plurality of light emitting elements in each of a plurality of main frames according to the gradation data externally input based on output from an external device. The plurality of main frames each include a plurality of sub-frames. The control unit turns on predetermined ones of the plurality of light emitting elements in a predetermined one of the plurality of main frames such that a difference between a gradation value of one or more of the plurality of sub-frames having a maximum gradation value and a gradation value of one or more of the plurality of sub-frames having a minimum gradation value is at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10467738
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display gray scale curve correction system and method for molybdenum target mammography, comprising: a key module, an ARM module, an upper computer, an FPGA module connected with the outputs of the ARM module and the upper computer, and a display panel connected with the output of the FPGA module, wherein the upper computer firstly captures the currently displayed mammography, then analyzes the image features, calculates the optimized gray scale correction curve, and the ARM module writes the gray scale correction curve into the FPGA module through a serial communication protocol; the FPGA module performs grayscale mapping twice for pixel values of the input image, and enhances the display of the mammography image. Compared with the standard DICOM calibration curve, the features of the mammography X-ray image are included in the scope of the optimization, which can highlight the possible parts of the lesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nanjing Jusha Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 10467975
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a digital-to-analog converter generating analog image data, a plurality of pads connected to a plurality of data lines included in a display panel, a buffer circuit having a plurality of buffers receiving the analog image data to generate a data voltage, a first switch connected between an output terminal of the plurality of buffers and the plurality of pads, and a second switch connected between an input terminal of the plurality of buffers and the digital-to-analog converter, and a controller turning the first switch off and turning the second switch on to set at least a partial output of the plurality of buffers as new data voltages when the data voltage is output to the plurality of data lines through the plurality of pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Suh, Chang Hee Shin, Hong Keun Yune, Seong Min Cheon
  • Patent number: 10460685
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gray scale voltage compensation method of a liquid crystal panel, a circuit for a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal panel including the circuit. The invention adjusts the common voltage and/or compensates the pixel voltage to minimize the afterimage of the whole liquid crystal panel under the premise of saving the cost of the liquid crystal panel and greatly improves the panel display performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tao He, Yu-Yeh Chen, Yu Wu, Jhen-wei He
  • Patent number: 10453418
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a common voltage generator, a data driver, and a display panel. The timing controller determines a representative grayscale of each frame based on input image data and generates a common voltage control signal having a first digital value ratio (“DVR”) value corresponding to a first frame, a representative grayscale of the first frame being included in a first grayscale range. The common voltage generator generates a first common voltage based on the common voltage control signal. The data driver generates a data voltage based on the input image data. The display panel displays an image corresponding to the first frame based on the data voltage and the first common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-Byul Lim, Seunghwan Moon, Myungbo Sim, Junpyo Lee
  • Patent number: 10453378
    Abstract: A regulating method and a regulating apparatus for a driving voltage of a display module, wherein the method comprises: applying, to the display module, a gamma voltage pair corresponding to a grayscale to be tested, selecting a test image and maintaining the test image for a predetermined time duration (11); switching to a predetermined grayscale image that matches the grayscale to be tested, regulating a common voltage of the display module, and recording a direction and a magnitude of regulation of the common voltage (12); and restoring the common voltage to a magnitude before the regulation, and regulating the first gamma voltage and the second gamma voltage according to the recorded direction and magnitude of regulation of the common voltage (13). Regulation accuracy of the driving voltage can be improved, workload for debugging can be reduced and work efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbo Ding, Ying Zhang, Xin Li, Dawei Li, Changjiang Wang, Xuchen Yuan
  • Patent number: 10453404
    Abstract: A display device operating at high speed is provided. The display device includes a buffer amplifier including first and second transconductance amplifiers and a buffer and pixels arranged in a matrix of x rows and y columns (x and y are integers greater than or equal to 2) and configured to express gray levels. In the first step, the offset voltage of the buffer amplifier is corrected using the second transconductance amplifier. Then, in the second step, a first analog signal corresponding to gray levels expressed by the pixels in two rows or more and x rows or less is input to one of a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, and a second analog signal corresponding to the first analog signal is output from an output terminal of the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10453395
    Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including anode and cathode terminals, the cathode terminal being connected to a common reference voltage; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one source signal line; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 10446108
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller and a data driver. The display panel includes a first gate line, first and second pixels connected to the first gate line and adjacent to the first gate line in a first direction, and third and fourth pixels connected to the first gate line and adjacent to the first gate line in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction. The timing controller is configured to generate a data signal based on a first gamma and a second gamma different from the first gamma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Hwa Shin, Jung-Won Kim, Jae-Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 10438540
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry. The display circuitry includes gate-in-panel (GIP) control circuitry on opposing sides of a display pixel array. The GIP control circuitry can include scan drivers for each pixel row on both sides of that pixel row, the scan drivers on either side configured for enablement or disablement for single-sided reduced-power operations. The GIP control circuitry can include a single scan driver and a single emission controller for each pixel row, in which the scan driver and emission controller for each row are disposed on opposing sides of the row. The scan drivers for a first subset of the pixel rows can be interleaved with the emission controllers for a different subset of the pixel rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shyuan Yang, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
  • Patent number: 10429920
    Abstract: A driving method includes: allocating multiple pieces of channel data to multiple first channel groups and multiple second channel groups; determining, based on the multiple pieces of channel data, a largest gray scale value difference of two adjacent pieces of channel data of each of the first channel groups, to determine multiple drive currents; or determining, based on a first piece of data and a second piece of data that correspond to each of the multiple second channel groups in the multiple pieces of channel data, a first transient value and a second transient value that correspond to each of the multiple second channel groups, where the multiple drive currents are used to drive the first channel groups; and determining, based on the first transient value and the second transient value, whether at least one of the second channel groups performs a power saving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jhih-Syuan Fu, Chun-Fan Chung
  • Patent number: 10416748
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an operation mode in a mobile terminal provides the mobile terminal to determine whether a predetermined time has elapsed, after a lapse of which it enters a first power-saving mode, and drive a camera module if the predetermined time has elapsed. Meanwhile, the mobile terminal determines whether a predetermined subject is recognized by the camera module, and then delays changing to the first power-saving mode if the predetermined subject is recognized, and enters the first power-saving mode if the predetermined subject is not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Soo Jeong, Jin Park, Min-Ji Kim
  • Patent number: 10410565
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a gain calculation section determining a gain, on the basis of a first partial image in a first frame image that includes a process target line; and a correction section correcting pixel luminance information regarding the process target line, on the basis of the gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Fumihiko Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 10403218
    Abstract: A Mura compensation circuit and method, a driving circuit and a display device are provided. The Mura compensation circuit comprises: a vertical Mura compensation unit, for providing a corresponding gamma voltage to a vertical block Mura region and a vertical non-Mura region of a display panel respectively, to compensate for a vertical Mura phenomenon; and/or a horizontal Mura compensation unit, for providing a corresponding gate drive signal and/or a corresponding charging/discharging control signal to a horizontal block Mura region and a horizontal non-Mura region of a display panel respectively, to compensate for a horizontal Mura phenomenon. The Mura compensation circuit can make the different regions of the display panel have the same display effect, and improve reduction of display quality caused by impedance difference at different positions of the display panel, thereby raising the quality of a picture, and can be promoted and applied widely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Mo Chen, Yudong Liu, Xiong Xiong
  • Patent number: 10395608
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for improving an LCD large viewing angle display effect. The method includes: detecting an input RGB gray-scale voltage, when the input RGB gray-scale voltage meets a given preset condition, performing by a display panel an H/L switching display of two frames, and when the input RGB gray-scale voltage does not meet the given preset condition, performing by the display panel a normal display of two frames, wherein the given preset condition is: 80%*Rspecification?R?120%*Rspecification, 80%*Gspecification?G?120%*Gspecification or 80%*Bspecification?B?120%*Bspecification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lixuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10380947
    Abstract: A display including first to n-th pixels electrically connected with a first data line, and a data compensator for generating a reference voltage of a k-th pixel (k being between 1 and n) based on a first coupling voltage between the k-th pixel and the first data line and a second coupling voltage between the k-th pixel and a second data line, and comparing an average voltage generated based on a reference voltage of at least one of the first to n-th pixels with the reference voltage of the k-th pixel to generate a compensation signal, wherein the reference voltage of at least one of the first to n-th pixels is based on a coupling voltage between the at least one of the first to n-th pixels and the first data line and based on a coupling voltage between the pixels and the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Fujii, In Soo Wang