Gray Scale Capability (e.g., Halftone) Patents (Class 345/89)
  • Patent number: 9318062
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a driving module configured to apply a DC bias to a voltage corresponding to a gradation which is displayed on a pixel and to supply a resultant voltage to a pixel electrode, the driving module being configured to apply a higher DC bias in a white display state in which a potential difference is produced between a pixel electrode and a common electrode than in a black display state in which no potential difference is produced between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tsuda, Junichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9305491
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus capable of increasing the video depths depending on the video content of each line in order to provide a maximum of color gradation for each given scene shall be proposed. For this purpose there is disclosed an apparatus for driving a display device including input means for receiving a digital value as video level for each pixel or cell of a line of the display device, reference signaling means for providing at least one reference driving signal and driving means for generating a driving signal on the basis of the digital value and the at least one reference driving signal. The apparatus further includes adjusting means for adjusting the at least one reference driving signal in dependence of the digital values of at least a part of the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Inventors: Sébastien Weitbruch, Rainer Schweer, Sylvain Thiebaud
  • Patent number: 9305521
    Abstract: A display device configured to reduce power consumption, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, includes a signal controller configured to calculate saturation data, luminance data, and power consumption data of input image data, to calculate a compensation ratio based on a rate of change of luminance, a rate of increase of saturation, or a power consumption, to generate compensation image data having a saturation of a red, green, or blue image of the input image data increased up to a threshold value so that the compensation ratio exceeds a reference value, and to send the generated compensation image data to a data driver, and the data driver configured to supply data voltages corresponding to the compensation image data, in response to gate signals sequentially generated from a gate driver to a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Byung-Ki Chun, Yong-Seok Choi, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9293100
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels connected to gate lines and data lines crossing the gate lines, a data driver which drives the data lines, a gate driver which drives the gate lines, a timing controller which controls the data driver and the gate driver in response to an image signal and a control signal and outputs a first kickback signal and a second kickback signal, and a voltage generator which outputs a first gate-on voltage and a second gate-on voltage in response to the first and second kickback signals to drive the gate lines. The gate driver drives a first group of gate lines in response to the first gate-on voltage and drives a second group of the gate lines in response to the second gate-on voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Sung-In Kang, Sedae Ki, Seung-Woon Shin, Hyeongseop Im, Jun-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 9293114
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects the luminance of a backlight unit; and a controller that controls a voltage of a counter electrode, shared by pixels, based on a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 9286828
    Abstract: A plurality of scanning periods are combined to form a composite period (2H). Within the first period of the front half, threshold value (Vth) correction is carried out all at once, and within the second period of the latter half, signal (Vsig) writing operation is carried out. High speed writing can be carried out even where the scanning period is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9285921
    Abstract: A touch panel display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The touch panel display device and the driving method thereof sense illumination of external light using a photo-sensor formed on a touch panel, and control a PWM duty of a light source suited to each mode when the sensed illumination of external light corresponds to illumination in a gray zone to be a difference between the illumination of light created by the light source and that of external light, thereby improving touch recognition capability in a gray zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Ho Ahn, Min Ho Sohn, Deuk Su Lee, Kyo Hyuck Choo
  • Patent number: 9280945
    Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel in which there are a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a data driver configured to apply data voltages to the data lines; a gate driver configured to apply gate pulses to the gate lines; and a charge share device configured to selectively perform a charge share operation by storing charges corresponding to a data voltage applied to one of the data lines during a first interval and providing the stored charges to said one or another one of the data lines during a second interval based on a comparison of first video data corresponding to said one of the data lines in the first interval with second video data corresponding to said one or another one of the data lines in the second interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Seok Oh, Bo Gun Seo, Yong Hwa Park
  • Patent number: 9280934
    Abstract: To reduce the number of sub-frames and perform high resolution display with low power consumption, each of the pixels has a digital emission period Td and an analog emission period Ta, and is driven in a time-divided fashion in a digital manner or in an analog manner. Each of the pixels performs high resolution display when being driven in an analog manner, and performs display with low power consumption when being driven in a digital manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 9270888
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a recording image generation unit which generates recording image data from image data input by an image input unit, based on a first gamma characteristic; a display image generation unit which generates display image data from the image data based on a second gamma characteristic in correspondence with a characteristic of a display unit; a determination unit which determines whether or not the recording image data includes a portion of luminance levels which are not less than a predetermined threshold; a display data generation unit which generates display data for indicating the portion of the luminance levels which are not less than the predetermined threshold; and a display control unit which superimposes the display data on the display image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasushi Ito
  • Patent number: 9265125
    Abstract: A gamma voltage generating circuit includes a gamma voltage distribution unit configured to divide a reference voltage to generate a plurality of initial gamma reference voltages, and a gamma voltage selection unit configured to generate gamma reference voltages by selecting first gamma reference voltages, corresponding to a first color pixel, from among the plurality of initial gamma reference voltages and second gamma reference voltages, corresponding to a second color pixel, from among the plurality of initial gamma reference voltages. Herein, an output part of initial gamma reference voltages selected in common as the first and second gamma reference voltages is shared with input parts of the first and second gamma reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Hun Kim, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 9251749
    Abstract: In the case where the gray-scale value of the pixel X is the minimum gray-scale value, the data line driving circuit (4) outputs a video signal having a voltage obtained by correcting the positive polarity minimum gray-scale voltage corresponding to the minimum gray-scale value only when outputting a positive polarity video signal. In the above, the data line driving circuit (4) outputs the video signal having the voltage obtained by correcting the positive polarity minimum gray-scale voltage, using a voltage correction amount larger than that which is used in outputting the video signal having the voltage obtained by correcting the positive polarity gray-scale voltage corresponding to the intermediate gray-scale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Ryutaro Oke, Yoshihisa Ooishi
  • Patent number: 9247618
    Abstract: A back light brightness adjusting apparatus includes a control unit, a first adjusting unit, and a second adjusting unit. The control unit receives a first control signal from a display chip, and outputs at least one of a first switch signal or a second switch signal. The second adjusting unit receives a second control signal from the display chip. When the electronic device is turned on, the control unit outputs the first switch signal at a first voltage and the second switch signal at a second voltage, a first adjusting signal is received from a CPU and the back light brightness is adjusted. When the electronic device is turned off, the control unit outputs the first switch signal at a third voltage and the second switch signal at a fourth voltage, a second adjusting signal is received from the display chip and back light brightness is adjusted accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRTY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng-Sheng Que, Chun-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9245481
    Abstract: An active-matrix display device employs current-programmed-type pixel circuits and performs the writing data to each of pixels on a line-by-line basis. The active-matrix display device having a matrix of current-programmed-type pixel circuits includes a data line driving circuit 15 formed of m current driving circuits (CD) 15-1 to 15-m arranged corresponding to respective data lines 13-1 to 13-m. The data line driving circuit (CD) 15-1 to 15-m holds image data (luminance data herein) in the form of voltage, and then converts the voltage of the image data into a current signal. The current signal is then fed to the data lines 13-1 to 13-m at a time. The image information is thus written on the pixel circuits 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yumoto
  • Patent number: 9236019
    Abstract: A display device includes multiple pixels, a gate driver and a data driver. Each pixel includes a transistor and a pixel capacitor electrically coupled to the transistor. The gate driver is configured to turn on the transistor of a first pixel for one time during a first turn-on period of multiple turn-on cycles of a frame cycle of a frame displayed by the display device. The data driver is configured to charge the pixel capacitor of the first pixel via the transistor of the first pixel to a first over-charge voltage and a data voltage during an over-charge period and a recovery period of the first turn-on period. The first over-charge voltage is different from the data voltage. A method for driving the display device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Ting, Wei-Chun Hsu, Chung-Lin Fu, Chung-Hung Chen, Chin-Tang Chuang
  • Patent number: 9230488
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes displaying an image corresponding to a left eye image signal during a first frame set including one or more frames and displaying an image corresponding to a right eye image signal during a second frame set including one or more successive frames, in which the first frame set and the second frame set include at least one frame displaying a first image according to a first gamma curve and at least one frame displaying a second image according to a second gamma curve, and the first frame set and the second frame set include two successive frames displaying the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Won Kim, Joon-Chul Goh, Bong Hyun You, Uk Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 9230511
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines and a timing controller, in which each pixel includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. In such a display apparatus, the timing controller provides the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel with a first data signal and a second data signal corresponding to one of a high gray scale curve and a low gray scale curve, alternately every frame, when the image signal is a first type of image signal, and the timing controller provides the first sub-pixel with a first data signal corresponding to the high gray scale curve and the second sub-pixel with a second data signal corresponding to the low gray scale curve when the image signal is a first type of image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Gwan Jeon, Yong-Bum Kim, Jaehyoung Park, Youngsoo Sohn, ByungKil Jeon, Akihiro Takegama, Junpyo Lee
  • Patent number: 9224332
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: an organic light-emitting panel in which a plurality of pixel regions are arranged, the pixel regions each including a drive transistor configured to drive an organic light emission element and a sensing transistor configured to detect a threshold voltage of the drive transistor during a sensing interval; and a controller configured to compare a pixel number of a low grayscale range and a pixel number of a high grayscale range, which are obtained from an image signal, and adjust the sensing interval according to a compared resultant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Chan Byun, Jung-Yoon Yi, Dae-Hyeon Park
  • Patent number: 9214122
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which carries out a single tone display with a change in pixel luminance during a single cycle composed of first to mth frame periods (m is an integer of 4 or more), includes: pixels of a first type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods (n is an integer of 2 or more to m or less) or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce rise responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce decay responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods; and pixels of a second type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce decay responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce rise responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 9208736
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having gate lines and data lines, a signal controller driving the display panel, a graphic processing unit transmitting input image data to the signal controller, a gate driver driving the gate lines, and a data driver driving the data lines. The display panel is driven at a first frequency when displaying a moving image and driven at a lower frequency when displaying a still image. The signal controller includes a frame memory storing the input image data, a calculator calculating a representative value of image data stored in the frame memory, a line memory storing the representative value, and a kick-back corrector generating auxiliary image data by correcting the representative value according to a kick-back voltage. The data driver applies an auxiliary voltage corresponding to the auxiliary image data to the data lines in a vertical blank period when displaying the still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Suk Choi, Yong-Jun Choi, Po-Yun Park, Yun-Jae Kim, Min Joo Lee, Jung Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9208712
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a first switching element and a second switching element. The first switching element applies first pixel data to a first pixel connected with a first data line of a display panel during a first sub frame period. The first switching element is connected with a data channel of a data driving part. The second switching element applies second pixel data having a level higher than a level of the first pixel data to a second pixel connected with a second data line of the display panel during a second sub frame period. The second switching element is connected with the data channel. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Hwang, Dae-Gwang Jang, Byung-Sun Kim, Sang-Mi Kim, Ji-Myoung Seo, Seok-Ha Hong
  • Patent number: 9202422
    Abstract: A pixel of a liquid crystal panel is constituted by three subpixels. When the gradation of the pixel can be represented by only the subpixel, with setting the gradations of the subpixels to their minimum gradations, the gradation of the subpixel is determined. When the gradation of the pixel is represented by the subpixels, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its maximum gradation and setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradation of the subpixel is determined so that the ratio of the transmittance of the subpixel to the transmittance of the pixel is less than a limit value. When the gradation of the subpixel cannot be determined to satisfy a condition, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradations of the subpixels are determined to obtain a gradation higher than or equal to the gradation of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9196208
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a gate drive method and a gate drive device of a liquid crystal display, which can avoid the influence by the voltage difference ?Vp between the pixel voltage and the data line voltage, and eliminate the flickering phenomenon and the residual image caused by the residual direct current effectively. The gate drive method of the liquid crystal display comprises: inputting a compensation voltage Vgc to the n-th row of gate line when the n-th row of gate line is turned off completely in the current frame; keep on inputting the compensation voltage Vgc; and stopping inputting the compensation voltage Vgc to the n-th row of gate line when a turn-on voltage Vgh is input to the n-th row of gate line in the next frame; wherein, N?the total number of the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Dong, Wei Qin
  • Patent number: 9190001
    Abstract: A control capacitor (CDown) is connected between a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal capacitor (CLC_Bn) in at least one sub-pixel and a common signal line (COM) through a TFT (3) whose gate electrode is connected to a gate signal line (Gn+1), and a control circuit selectively switches output modes in accordance with whether the pulse periods of a gate pulse to be output to the gate signal line (Gn) and a gate pulse to be output to the gate signal line (Gn+1) partially overlap or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 9183803
    Abstract: A display device capable of reducing power consumption and preventing luminance changes, and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes: a display panel displaying a still image and a motion picture; a signal controller controlling signals for driving the display panel; a graphic processing unit transmitting input image data to the signal controller; a light source unit irradiating the display panel with light; and a light source driver controlling signals for driving the light source unit, in which the signal controller includes a frame memory storing the input image data and controls the display panel so as to be driven at a first frequency or a second frequency, and the light source driver drives the light source unit at a first ratio when the display panel is driven at the first frequency and at a second ratio when the display panel is driven at the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Won Jeong, Kwan-Young Oh, Po-Yun Park, Jung Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9177518
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows of a liquid crystal display panel are connected to source lines arranged on the left side of the pixel electrodes and source lines on the right side of the pixel electrodes, respectively. A DA converter switches between whether a potential higher than a common electrode potential is output from an odd-numbered output terminal and a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from an even-numbered potential output terminal, and whether a potential lower than the common electrode potential is output from the odd-numbered potential output terminal and a potential higher than the common electrode potential is output from the even-numbered potential output terminal. A switch mechanism switches between whether a pixel electrode potential is set using the source line on the left side or is set using the source line on the right side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Gondo
  • Patent number: 9165495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crosstalk compensation method and a display apparatus using the same. The method includes: configuring a compensation range with the compensation range set between the maximum gray level and the minimum gray level; establishing a look-up table to record compensation values for each gray level in the compensation range; determining whether the gray level of a first color sub-pixel on the display panel is set within the compensating range. When it is determined that the gray level of the first color sub-pixel is set within the compensation range selects a compensating value for configuring an initial gray level of an adjacent second color sub-pixel to a correction gray level. When it is determined that the gray level of the first color sub-pixel is set outside the compensation range, maintains the gray level of the second color sub-pixel at the initial gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo-Chin Tsuei, Yao-Lien Hsieh, Chih-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 9158136
    Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a light modulator including a matrix of pixels, the driving circuit includes, a first selecting unit configured to select a row of the matrix of pixels, each pixel having a capacitance element for modulating light; a first transistor configured to reset a voltage of the capacitance element in the selected row; a second selecting unit configured to select a column of the matrix of pixels, information being written in the capacitance element specified by the first and second selecting unit; and a second transistor, the information being written in the capacitance element through the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mamoru Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 9159281
    Abstract: A driving method applied in a display is provided. The display includes M scan lines, N data lines, M control lines and M×N pixels. M and N are natural numbers greater than 1. The driving method includes the following steps of: driving M scan lines in M scan periods respectively; providing a data voltage to each of the N data lines in each of the M scan periods; driving the first to the (M?K)th control lines in the (K+1)th to the Mth scan periods respectively to turn on the discharge switch in each of the pixels on the first to the (M?K)th control lines; and driving the second to the Kth control lines to trigger level shifting events in the first to the (K?1)th scan periods respectively, so that level shifting events are triggered on a scan and control lines in the first to the (K?1)th scan periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo-Chin Tsuei, Yao-Lien Hsieh, Jian-Cheng Chen, Chung-Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 9153185
    Abstract: A field sequential liquid crystal display device includes a circuit unit producing RGB reference voltages and scanning signal voltages using RGB data and control signals, a liquid crystal display panel changing alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules in accordance with the RGB reference voltages and the scanning signal voltages, and a backlight device emitting light to the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the circuit unit includes an interface receiving the RGB data and the control signals, a timing controller generating gate control signals and data control signals, at least two gamma generating units generating the RGB reference voltages, a switch selecting one of the RGB reference voltages, a data driver receiving the data control signal and the selected RGB reference voltage selected from the switch, and supplying an RGB image voltage to the liquid crystal display panel in accordance with the selected RGB reference voltage and the data control signal, and a gate driver receiving the gate cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Jin Yoo, Hyeon-Ho Son
  • Patent number: 9153159
    Abstract: A display driver integrated circuit includes a regulator configured to convert an externally supplied driving voltage to a working voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of power domains of the display driver integrated circuit, a graphic data processing unit configured to process image data input to the graphic data processing unit, and output the image data to a display panel, a control switch configured to control a supply of the working voltage to the graphic data processing unit, and a core logic unit configured to receive the working voltage from the regulator and control the control switch in response to a mode of operation of the display driver integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DongWook Suh, Sooyoung Woo, Ji Haeng Lee
  • Patent number: 9147367
    Abstract: A display device capable of reducing power consumption and preventing luminance changes, and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes: a display panel displaying a still image and a motion picture; a signal controller controlling signals for driving the display panel; a graphic processing unit transmitting input image data to the signal controller; a light source unit irradiating the display panel with light; and a light source driver controlling signals for driving the light source unit, in which the signal controller includes a frame memory storing the input image data and controls the display panel so as to be driven at a first frequency or a second frequency, and the light source driver drives the light source unit at a first ratio when the display panel is driven at the first frequency and at a second ratio when the display panel is driven at the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Won Jeong, Kwan-Young Oh, Po-Yun Park, Jung Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9142168
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving device of a display device. The driving device comprises a gamma voltage generator, for generating a gamma voltage according to a control signal to a source driver of the display device, and a logic unit, for generating the control signal to the gamma voltage generator according to a difference among image properties of a plurality of frames to be displayed, to adjust the gamma voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Xie-Ren Hsu, Wei-Song Huang
  • Patent number: 9134869
    Abstract: A test method of pressing a touch panel includes driving at least one pressing element such that a bottom surface of the at least one pressing element presses on a top surface of the touch panel. Pressing forces and corresponding pressing strokes are recorded while the touch panel is continuously pressed. The recorded pressing forces and the pressing strokes are converted into a test curve diagram, according to which a first turning point is determined at which the corresponding pressing force represents a force when the pressed touch panel contacts a test platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Henghao Technology Co. Limited
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Yeh, Cheng-Hsiung Lee
  • Patent number: 9124851
    Abstract: In a video display control device, a control data generating section allocates a part of a dynamic range of a high gradation region of a video signal to a low gradation region, and a backlight controlling section controls a light emission luminance of a backlight so as to cancel an increase or decrease of a mean luminance of a video displayed on a screen in accordance with an increase or decrease of the mean luminance of a video signal after correction with respect to a mean luminance of the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takuma Shimura, Terumitsu Suenaga
  • Patent number: 9111475
    Abstract: A display device includes first and second display pixels connected to a first source line, third and fourth display pixels connected to the second source line. The device further includes a receiver receiving display voltage for each display pixel, a calculator calculating first difference voltage between the display voltages of the first and second display pixels, and calculating a second difference voltage between the display voltages of the third and fourth display pixels. A parasitic capacitance is generated between the first display pixel and each source line and between the third display pixel and each source line. The display device further includes a generator correcting the first display voltage based on the first and second difference voltages and generating first write voltage for the first display pixel, and correcting the third display voltage based on the second difference voltage and generating third write voltage for the third display pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tsuchiya, Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 9111504
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which includes one image signal line which is connected to a plurality of pixels, a scanning line drive part which outputs an ON voltage to the respective pixels in a predetermined order, and a data line drive part which outputs image signal voltages. The data line drive part outputs a gray level signal voltage corresponding to a gray level value of the pixel as an image signal voltage in a first period, and outputs a correction gray level signal voltage different from the gray level signal voltage as an image signal voltage in a second period which precedes the first period. The liquid crystal display device further includes a control part which generates the correction gray level signal voltage based on the gray level value of the pixel and one or plurality of gray level values of pixels which precede the pixel in order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Masato Ishii, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima
  • Patent number: 9110300
    Abstract: In a display apparatus, a frame rate converter divides an image signal into a first image frame for a left eye and a second image frame for a right eye, and generates a first intermediate image frame and a second intermediate image frame. A timing controller converts the first and second image frames to a first compensation frame and a second compensation frame, respectively, and sequentially provides the first compensation frame, the first intermediate image frame, the second compensation frame, and the second intermediate image frame to a data driver. The data driver converts the first and second compensation frames to left-eye and right-eye data voltages, respectively, and converts the first and second intermediate image frames to a predetermined black data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Won Kim, Junpyo Lee, Seonki Kim, Kang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 9105954
    Abstract: The broadband directional coupler is used for measuring the power of a forward and/or a returning high-frequency signal on a line. For this purpose, the broadband directional coupler provides a voltage splitter which is connected to an inner conductor (1) of the line. This voltage splitter provides a first resistor (8) which is connected to an outer conductor of the line. The voltage splitter comprises ohmic resistors, and a first connection of a second resistor (4) is connected to the inner conductor (1) of the line, and a second connection of the second resistor (4) is connected to a first connection of a third resistor (6). A second connection of the third resistor (6) is connected directly or indirectly to a first connection of the first resistor (8) and at the same time to the outer conductor of the line. In this context, a measured voltage is picked up at the second connection of the second resistor (4) or at the first connection of the third resistor (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Morgenstern, Dirk Fehse
  • Patent number: 9105254
    Abstract: A data line driving section (6) outputs a video signal voltage for each pixel to a data line (DL) for each predetermined period in order. In outputting a video signal voltage for a pixel, the data line driving section (6) outputs a gradation signal voltage having a voltage corresponding to a gradation value of the pixel as the video signal voltage during a second part of the predetermined period, and outputs a correction gradation signal voltage different from the gradation signal voltage as the video signal voltage during a first part of the predetermined period. A control section (4) changes a relationship between the correction gradation signal voltage and the gradation signal voltage based on a combination of the gradation value of the pixel and a gradation value of a pixel preceding the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Misa Owa, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima
  • Patent number: 9105225
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon, a gate driver which applies a gate signal to the gate lines, and a controller which controls the gate driver, where the controller includes a signal controller which generates a scanning start signal and a gate clock signal comprising a plurality of pulses, where the scanning start signal instructs to start a scanning of the gate signal, and a driving voltage modulator which generates a modulated gate-on voltage and a modulated gate-off voltage based on a basic gate-on voltage and a basic gate-off voltage, where the driving voltage modulator adds an overshoot voltage corresponding to a rising edge of a pulse of the gate clock signal to the basic gate-on voltage or adds an undershoot voltage corresponding to a falling edge of the pulse of the gate clock signal to the basic gate-off voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hun Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 9106126
    Abstract: A voltage generating circuit includes a first charge pumping part and a second charge pumping part. The first charge pumping part pumps a switching voltage, in response to a reference voltage, to output a first voltage. The second charge pumping part pumps the switching voltage, in response to the first voltage, to output a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage that is varied in accordance with time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Han Bae, Young-Su Kim, Jae-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9100998
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes: a first transistor having a first end a second end, and a first control electrode; a light emitting device having a first electrode and a second electrode; a second transistor having a third end connected to the first end and a fourth end connected to the first electrode; a third transistor having a fifth end connected to the first electrode and a sixth end connected to an first power supply line; a fourth transistor having a seventh end connected to the first control electrode and a eighth end connected to the first end; a capacitive device which has a third electrode connected to first control electrode and a fourth electrode; and a fifth transistor having a ninth end connected to the fourth electrode and a tenth end connected to a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gakuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9099049
    Abstract: A plurality of gray-scale values is extracted from image signals corresponding to a dimming area to calculate a mean value of the gray-scale values, and at least one of a variance, a standard deviation, a kurtosis, a skewness, a central moment, and an image moment is calculated using the mean value. Then, a representative gray-scale value corresponding to the dimming area is determined using the calculated values, and a dimming function for the light sources included in the dimming area is determined based on the representative gray-scale value. Then, the light sources included in the dimming area are driven based on the dimming function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Kwon Jung, Dongmin Yeo, Byungchoon Yang, Yong-Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 9093046
    Abstract: A signal processing device which is used in a liquid crystal apparatus, includes a detection portion that detects a boundary between a first pixel to which a first voltage lower than a first reference voltage is applied and a second pixel to which a second voltage higher than a second reference voltage is applied on the basis of signals for controlling voltages applied to a plurality of pixels, and a correction portion that corrects the first voltage correlated with the first pixel to a third voltage which is higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage correlated with the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Hidehito Iisaka
  • Patent number: 9093035
    Abstract: An LCD device has a reflective area that reflects light incident from a polarizing film side using a reflection film, and a transmissive area that transmits light of a backlight incident from a TFT substrate side. The drive voltages of the reflective area and transmissive area are Vr and Vt, the black voltage in the reflective area is Vr (K), the black voltage in the transmissive area is Vt (K). The reflectance R, the transmittance T, characteristics of R with respect to drive voltage [Vr (K)?Vr] and characteristics of T with respect to drive voltage [Vt?Vt (K)] substantially match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichirou Naka, Michiaki Sakamoto, Kenichi Mori, Hiroshi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9094031
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes channels, a positive converting unit, a negative converting unit, an input switch, and an operational amplifier. A first digital data and a second digital data are alternatively transmitted in a first channel and a second channel. The positive converting unit and negative converting unit are respectively disposed in first channel and second channel and convert first digital data and second digital data into a positive analog data and a negative analog data. A first input terminal and a second input terminal of operational amplifier are respectively in first channel and second channel. After input switch respectively transmits positive analog data and negative analog data to first input terminal and second input terminal or to second input terminal and first input terminal, positive analog data and negative analog data are transmitted in a channel of the channels corresponding to entering operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Lung Lo, Kuan-Hung Chou, Chien-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 9087478
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving a display device including: storing information on a stitch pattern; setting a data processing region disposed in a vicinity of a horizontal center line of a display panel and including a plurality of pixels; and performing data processing of changing gray of data for a portion of the plurality of pixels of the data processing region according to the information on the stitch pattern. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a form of a matrix, a plurality of first data lines disposed in a first display panel region on a first side of the horizontal center line, and a plurality of second data lines disposed in a second display panel region on a second side of the horizontal center line opposite the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Woong Jeong, Nam-Gon Choi, Geun Jeong Park, Dong-Won Park, Yong Jun Jang, Cheol Woo Park, Jeong-Hun So, Hyun Dae Lee
  • Patent number: 9087484
    Abstract: A control apparatus specifies a response time required for a pre-change transmittance specified by image data of an image to be displayed on the liquid crystal display panel to become a post-change transmittance specified by image data of a subsequent image, subsequent to the image, to be displayed on the liquid crystal display panel, for each pixel of the liquid crystal display panel, based on the pre-change transmittance and on the post-change transmittance; derives a representative response time defined as a response time of an image in a frame, based on the response time specified for each of the pixels; and sets an unlit time period of the backlight, between display of the image and the subsequent image, according to the representative response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Hironori Shiroto, Shogo Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka, Atsushi Hatagaki, Tomoyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9082359
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light-source driving circuit that drives a light source to cyclically change brightness. A control unit controls a pixel to turn on and off over a plurality of subfields in a field so that transmittance or reflectance in the pixel over the plurality of subfields in the field corresponds to a gray level specified for the pixel. The control unit also arranges the plurality of subfields such that two or more gray-level defining subfields maintain a predetermined relationship with respect to the cyclical change in brightness of the light source caused by drive of a light-source driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Toyooka