Phase Clocking Or Synchronizing Patents (Class 377/78)
  • Patent number: 11636489
    Abstract: A method and system for processing a payment authorization request associated with a payment card is provided. The method comprises: receiving by a server location, updates from a user device based on at least one criterion for location updates from the user device; determining by the server, a cardholder's location based on the location updates; determining by the server, a transaction location based on analysis of a payment authorization request associated with a transaction; generating by the server, at least one of a transaction authorization approval and a transaction authorization denial in connection with the payment authorization request based on selectively matching the transaction location with the cardholder's location at the time of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ONDOT SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Vaduvur Bharghavan, Aurovinda Gangam, Pawan Kumar Maram, Bharanidharan Gunasekaran
  • Patent number: 11183123
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a shift unit and a switch unit. The shift unit receives a start input signal, a first clock input signal and a second clock input signal to generate an enable output signal. The switch unit is connected to the shift unit and receiving the enable output signal. The switch unit outputs a third clock signal based on the enable output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Feng Huang, Chien-Feng Shih
  • Patent number: 11177011
    Abstract: A bit data shifter receives an input signal and a plurality of clock signals. The bit data shifter includes a plurality of data shifter groups cascaded in sequence, and each of the plurality of data shifter groups cascaded in sequence includes a plurality of data latches cascaded in sequence and a master-slave flip-flop. The plurality of data latches cascaded in sequence is configured to delay the input signal in sequence based on the plurality of clock signals to generate a plurality of delayed signals. The master-slave flip-flop is configured to delay one of the plurality of delayed signals based on one of the plurality of clock signals to generate an input signal of a next data shifter group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Te Tu
  • Patent number: 11176902
    Abstract: A shift register circuit includes a plurality of shift registers, each including: a first switch, a control end thereof is electrically coupled to a control signal; a second switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to a first node; a third switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to a second node; a fourth switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to the second node; a fifth switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to the first node; a sixth switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to a fourth node; a seventh switch, where a control end thereof is electrically coupled to a fifth node; and a high frequency signal circuit, electrically coupled to a preset low potential, the sixth switch, and the seventh switch of the shift register circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Beizhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11107432
    Abstract: In a pulse output circuit in a shift register, a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a pulse output circuit at the next stage is set to a low-potential drive voltage, and a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a scan signal line is set to a variable potential drive voltage. The variable potential drive voltage is the low-potential drive voltage in a normal mode, and can be either a high-potential drive voltage or the low-potential drive voltage in a batch mode. In the batch mode, display scan signals can be output to a plurality of scan signal lines at the same timing in a batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiko Amano, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11100881
    Abstract: A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Seung-Hwan Moon, Yong-Soon Lee, Young-Su Kim, Chang-Ho Lee, Whee-Won Lee, Jun-Yong Song, Yu-Han Bae
  • Patent number: 10991725
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a substrate (1); a peripheral circuit including a plurality of first TFTs (10); and a plurality of second TFTs (20), wherein each of the first and second TFTs (10, 20) includes: a gate electrode (3A, 3B); a gate insulating layer (5); an oxide semiconductor layer (7A, 7B) including a channel region (7Ac, 7Bc), a source contact region (7As, 7Bs) and a drain contact region (7Ad, 7Bd), wherein the source contact region and the drain contact region are located on opposite sides of the channel region; a source electrode (8A, 8B) that is in contact with the source contact region and a drain electrode (9A, 9B) that is in contact with the drain contact region; the oxide semiconductor layer of the first TFTs and the second TFTs is formed from the same oxide semiconductor film; a carrier concentration in the channel regions (7Ac) of the first TETs is higher than a carrier concentration in the channel regions (7Bc) of the second TETs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Oda, Yujiro Takeda, Shogo Murashige, Hiroshi Matsukizono
  • Patent number: 10946379
    Abstract: Provided herein are a system and method for using a microfluidics device. The system includes: a plurality of pumps and a plurality of sensors; a first communication line to select a pump from the plurality of pumps and select a sensor from the plurality of sensors; a second communication line selectively connected to the selected pump; and a third communication line selectively connected to the selected sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Matthew David Smith, Manish Giri, Chantelle Domingue
  • Patent number: 10818259
    Abstract: According to one aspect of this disclosure, a scanning trigger unit includes a clock signal terminal, a first signal input terminal, a fixed level signal terminal, a first input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a first holding sub-circuit, and a signal output terminal. The first input sub-circuit is connected to the first signal input terminal and a control node, and is configured to provide a first valid signal to the control node; the output sub-circuit is connected to the fixed level signal terminal, the clock signal terminal, and the control node, and is configured to provide a second valid signal to the signal output terminal; and the first holding sub-circuit is connected to the fixed level signal terminal and the signal output terminal, and is configured to hold the second valid signal at the signal output terminal for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Xue, Silin Feng, Zhifu Dong, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 10769978
    Abstract: The selecting circuit includes first and second switch units. The first switch unit includes a first control terminal, a first input terminal, and a first output terminal. The second switch unit includes a second control terminal, a second input terminal, and a second output terminal. The first output terminal connects to the second output terminal, the first input terminal connects to an output terminal of a first-stage of driving units, the second input terminal connects to an output terminal of a last-stage of the driving units. A first control signal inputted from the first control terminal controls the first switch unit to be turned on or off, a second control signal inputted from the second control terminal controls the second switch unit to be turned on or off, to selectively output an output signal of first or second output terminals based on an output sequence of the scan driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Caiqin Chen, Yiyi Wang, Shaobo Wang
  • Patent number: 10621940
    Abstract: A circuit block of a driving circuit of a display device includes a first transistor that has a gate being connected to a first node having an active potential during an output period, and controls electrical conduction between a first clock signal line being applied with a first clock signal and the scanning signal line, a second transistor that has a gate being connected to a second node having an active potential during a non-output period, and controls electrical conduction between the first node and an inactive potential line, and a third transistor that has a gate being connected to the first node, and controls electrical conduction between the second node and a first cyclic signal line applied with a first period signal having an active potential at the time of termination of the output period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Motoharu Miyamoto, Takahiro Ochiai
  • Patent number: 10467937
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit comprises an input circuit, a reset circuit, a control circuit, a pull-down circuit and an output circuit, a first control terminal of the output circuit is coupled to a first node, its first input terminal is coupled to a second clock signal terminal, its first output terminal is coupled to a signal output terminal, both terminals of the pull-down circuit are coupled to a first clock signal terminal and the first node, respectively, and the pull-down circuit may pull down the potential of the first node via the first clock signal terminal, which may thus avoid that the potential of the first node also rises when the potential of the second clock signal terminal rises, and the signal of the second clock signal terminal is mistakenly provided to the signal output terminal to cause various poor display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dianzheng Dong, Bin Zhang, Ming Tian, Qiang Zhang, Guangxing Wang, Kan Zhang, Pengming Chen
  • Patent number: 10453412
    Abstract: This application provides a shift register circuit, a waveform generating method for same, and a display panel using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10114500
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving unit, a driving method and a driving circuit of a touch driving electrode and a touch display panel. The driving unit of the touch driving electrode includes a start signal shift sub-unit, configured to control a start signal output terminal to output a first level during an adjacent time period next to a time period in which a potential of the start signal is the first level, then reset the start control signal so as to control the start control signal output terminal output the second level, and control the touch driving signal output terminal to output a touch scanning signal when the potential of the start control signal and the potential of the touch control signal are both the first level. The first clock signal has a phase opposite to that of the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Huang, Jian Sun, Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 9842551
    Abstract: A touch screen display may include gate line driver circuitry coupled to a display pixel array. The display may be provided with intra-frame pausing (IFP) capabilities, where touch or other operations may be performed during one or more intra-frame blanking intervals. In one suitable arrangement, a gate driver circuit may include multiple gate line driver segments each of which is activated by a separate gate start pulse is that received through a demultiplexing circuit. In another suitable embodiment, the gate driver circuit may include analog or digital gate driver units that include control circuits for selectively (dis)charging internal nodes in the gate driver circuit so as to balance the amount of stress that is experienced by a drive transistor in gate driver units at or near an IFP row and the amount of stress that is experienced by the remaining gate driver units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 9653179
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a shift register, a driving method and a gate driving circuit. In an embodiment, the shift register includes: a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, an eighth transistor, a ninth transistor, a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor. The shift register is driven by the cooperation of the respective transistors. In the case that the shift register is applied in the gate driving circuit to implement a line-by-line scanning, shift registers corresponding to two adjacent pixel rows are cascaded directly and no inverters are provided following the shift registers corresponding to the respective pixel rows, thereby decreasing the number of transistors in the gate driving circuit, reducing the layout area of the gate driving circuit, and being advantageous for narrowing the border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Wu, Dong Qian, Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9647495
    Abstract: A load control device is directly connected to a power utility line carrying electrical power using alternating current (AC) and to a load provided by a device located at premises. At the load control device, values are monitored for one or more load-responsive parameters of the electrical power over a period of time. A nominal value is determined for each of the one or more load-responsive parameters based upon the monitored values over the period of time. Threshold values are determined for the one or more load-responsive parameters based upon an acceptable deviation from the corresponding nominal value. A load-responsive parameter is detected as being outside of the threshold values. The load control device is then used to interrupt the providing of power to the load in response to the one or more load-responsive parameters being detected as being outside of the threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Damian Bonicatto
  • Patent number: 9437323
    Abstract: A shift register circuit may include a first latch capable of latching an input signal in synchronization with a first clock, a first flip-flop capable of latching the output signal of the first latch in synchronization with a second dock having the same skew as the first clock, a second latch capable of latching the output signal of the first flip-flop in synchronization with a third clock having a different skew from the second clock, and a second flip-flop capable of latching the output signal of the second latch circuit in synchronization with a fourth clock having the same skew as the third clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Soo-Bin Lim
  • Patent number: 9406398
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a driver circuit including a normally-on thin film transistor, which driver circuit ensures a small malfunction and highly reliable operation. The driver circuit includes a static shift register including an inverter circuit having a first transistor and a second transistor, and a switch including a third transistor. The first to third transistors each include a semiconductor layer of an oxide semiconductor and are depletion-mode transistors. An amplitude voltage of clock signals for driving the third transistor is higher than a power supply voltage for driving the inverter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Koyama, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 9042509
    Abstract: An LCD and a bidirectional shift register device thereof are provided. The bidirectional shift register device of the invention is disposed on the substrate of the panel and includes multi-stages shift registers in series connection. Each stage shift register includes a pre-charging unit, a pull-up unit and a pull-down unit, in which the pre-charging unit receives a first preset clock signal and the output from a (i?1)th stage shift register or a (i+1)th stage shift register so as to thereby output a charging signal. The pull-up unit receives the charging signal and a second preset clock signal so as to thereby output a scan signal. The pull-down unit receives the second preset clock signal, a third preset clock signal and the output from the (i+2)th stage shift register or the (i?2)th stage shift register so as to decide whether or not pulling down the scan signal to a reference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hua Yu, Chien-Ting Chan, Chien-Chuan Ko, Chun-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 9036766
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which shifts a low-level signal is provided. In an example, a first transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a first wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a second wiring, a second transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to the second wiring, a third transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fourth wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor, a fourth transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fifth wiring, a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor, and a gate electrically connected to a sixth wiring, and a first switch including a first terminal electrically connected to the third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 9014327
    Abstract: An output thin film transistor threshold voltage offset compensation circuit, a GOA circuit, and a display. The circuit includes: a first capacitor, comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode being connected to the gate of an output thin film transistor and receiving a charge signal, the second electrode being connected to the drain of the output thin film transistor, the first capacitor being used for, under the action of the charge signal, making the first electrode and the second electrode have a same voltage, so that a voltage difference between the drain and the source of the output thin film transistor is equal to a threshold voltage thereof; a first switch unit, connected to the drain and the source of the output thin film transistor, and opening under the action of a first clock signal, so that a voltage difference between the gate and the source of the output thin film transistor is equal to the threshold voltage thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Xu, Chunfang Zhang, Yan Wei
  • Patent number: 9001959
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that includes transistors having the same polarity consumes less power and can prevent a decrease in amplitude of a potential output. The semiconductor device includes a first wiring having a first potential, a second wiring having a second potential, a third wiring having a third potential, a first transistor and a second transistor having the same polarity, and a plurality of third transistors for selecting supply of the first potential to gates of the first transistor and the second transistor or supply of the third potential to the gates of the first transistor and the second transistor and for selecting whether to supply one potential to drain terminals of the first transistor and the second transistor. A source terminal of the first transistor is connected to the second wiring, and a source terminal of the second transistor is connected to the third wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: 8995606
    Abstract: A stage constituent circuit of a display device drive circuit includes a first-node to a third-node, a thin-film transistor that changes a potential of a scanning signal toward a VDD potential when a potential of the first-node is in a HIGH level, a thin-film transistor that changes a potential of a different stage control signal toward a potential of a clock when a potential of the second-node is in the HIGH level, a capacitor between the first-node and the second-node, and a capacitor between the second-node and the third-node. The potential of the first-node is raised on the basis of a different stage control signal output from the stage constituent circuit in the different stage, and then the potential of the second-node and a potential of the third-node are sequentially raised. Herein, an amplitude of the clock is set to be smaller than an amplitude of the scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yasuaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 8995607
    Abstract: To provide a pulse signal output circuit and a shift register which have lower power consumption, are not easily changed over time, and have a longer lifetime. A pulse signal output circuit includes a first input signal generation circuit; a second input signal generation circuit; an output circuit which includes a first transistor and a second transistor and outputs a pulse signal in response to a signal output from the first and second input signal generation circuits; a monitor circuit which obtains the threshold voltages of the first and second transistors; and a power supply output circuit which generates a power supply potential raised by a potential higher than or equal to a potential which is equal to or substantially equal to the threshold voltage and supplies the power supply potential to the first and second input signal generation circuits. A shift register includes the pulse signal output circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Kenichi Okazaki, Toshiyuki Miyamoto, Masafumi Nomura, Takashi Hamochi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8983021
    Abstract: A reset circuit for Gate Driver on Array, an array substrate and a display is used for increasing reliability and long-term stability of a GOA circuit and thus improving performance of the GOA circuit. The GOA reset circuit includes a first electronic switch circuit (301) connected to an input terminal of a GOA unit of the Gate Driver on Array (INPUT); and a second electronic switch circuit connected to an output terminal of the GOA unit (OUTPUT), wherein the first electronic switch circuit (301) is connected to a low level signal terminal and is switched on to connect the low level signal terminal to a reset terminal of the GOA unit (RESET) when the input terminal of the GOA unit (INPUT) is at a high level; and the second electronic switch circuit (302) is connected to a high level signal terminal and is switched on to connect the high level signal terminal to the reset terminal of the GOA unit (RESET) when the output terminal of the GOA unit (OUTPUT) is at a high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 8983020
    Abstract: A shift register circuit includes a first shift register string and a second shift register string. The first shift register string is configured to receive a first start signal and output a first-stage control signal. The second shift register string, electrically connected to the first shift register string, is configured to receive the first-stage control signal and a second start signal and output the first pulse of a first-stage scan signal according to the first-stage control signal and the second start signal and consequently output the second pulse of the first-stage scan signal according to the second start signal; wherein the first and second pulses are configured to have different pulse widths. A driving method of a shift register circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ling-Ying Chien, Kuang-Hsiang Liu, Yu-Hsin Ting
  • Patent number: 8982015
    Abstract: A shift register includes cascade-connected stages, each of which includes a data latch and an output stage. In at least one embodiment, the latch has a single data input which, in use, receives a date signal from a preceding or succeeding stage. The output stage includes a first switch, which passes a clock signal to the stage output when the output stage is activated by the latch. The output stage also comprises a second switch, which passes the lower supply voltage to the stage output when the output stage is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gareth John, Patrick Zebedee
  • Patent number: 8976922
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shift register unit, a shift register circuit, an array substrate and a display device, and relates to the area of display manufacturing. The time of the bias working on the de-noising transistor can be reduced without affecting the circuit stability, so that the operational lifespan of the device can be extended. A shift register comprises: a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a de-noising control model. The present invention is used for manufacturing displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangliang Shang
  • Patent number: 8964932
    Abstract: A shift register, comprising a plurality of shift register sub-units connected in cascade, each of the plurality of shift register sub-units comprising first to third TFTs, an eleventh TFT, a first capacitor and a first reset control module for controlling the second TFT to be turned on or off. Besides the shift register sub-unit at a first stage, for each of the shift register sub-units at other stages, the second TFT gate control terminal thereof is connected to the third TFT gate control terminal of the shift register sub-unit at a previous stage. Accordingly, a gate driving circuit comprising the shift register and a display comprising the gate driving circuit are provided. Compared with the prior art, reliability of the shift register is highly improved and area occupied by the shift register is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongyuan Wu, Liye Duan
  • Patent number: 8953737
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shift register in which leakage of charges from a voltage at a set node is prevented to stabilize an output from a stage. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequentially outputting scan pulses. Each stage includes a node controller for controlling signal states of a set node and a reset node, and an output unit supplied with any one of a plurality of clock pulses having different phases. The output unit outputs the supplied clock pulse as a scan pulse through an output terminal thereof according to the signal states of the set node and reset node. The node controller includes a first discharging switching device which is turned on or off in response to a scan pulse from a downstream stage. The first discharging switching device is connected between any one of a plurality of clock transfer lines and the set node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Jang, Seung-Chan Choi
  • Patent number: 8947409
    Abstract: A display panel has an amorphous silicon gate driver. A variable capacitor is formed at one end of a gate line to prevent the deterioration of display quality due to high temperature noise. A predetermined level of capacitance is provided to the variable capacitor to the reduce ripple of gate voltage and eliminate the high temperature noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bon-Yong Koo
  • Patent number: 8942339
    Abstract: A shift register is disclosed, which can prevent malfunctioning of device by decreasing the load on a discharging voltage source line, and can decrease a size of stage. The shift register comprises a plurality of stages to sequentially output scan pulses through respective output terminals, wherein each of the stages comprises a pull-up switching unit controlled based on a signal state of node, and connected between the output terminal and any one among a plurality of clock transmission lines to transmit the clock pulses provided with sequential phase differences; and a node controller to control the signal state of node, and to discharge the node by using the clock pulse from any one among the plurality of clock transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 8929506
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register for delaying and outputting a received startup voltage and meanwhile outputting a voltage inverse to the delayed startup voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhanjie Ma
  • Patent number: 8922471
    Abstract: A driving device comprises: a first driver driven by a first input signal and generating a first interim output signal controlled by a first clock signal; a second driver driven by a second input signal and generating a second interim output signal controlled by a second clock signal; and a plurality of shift registers including a buffer driven by the first interim output signal and the second interim output signal and generating an output signal controllable by the first clock signal and the second clock signal. The buffer includes a second transistor connected to a gate electrode of a first transistor for transmitting a voltage with a first level with the output signal and transmitting a voltage with a second level for turning off the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo-Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 8885792
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a shift register and a row-scan driving circuit including the same, the shift register comprising a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor used as an evaluating transistor, a third thin film transistor, a fourth thin film transistor used as a resetting transistor, a first capacitor and a reset voltage controlling unit, wherein the reset voltage controlling unit is used to control the gate voltage of the fourth thin film transistor, so that the gate voltage of the fourth thin film transistor is pulled down to a low level corresponding to a voltage input from a low voltage signal input when a signal input from a first clock signal input is at low level, a signal input from a second clock signal input is at high level and a signal input from a signal input is at high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liye Duan, Zhongyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8867697
    Abstract: A shift register is provided in which leakage of charges from a voltage at a set node is prevented to stabilize an output from a stage. The shift register includes stages for sequentially outputting scan pulses. An nth one of the stages includes a node controller for controlling voltages at nodes, and an output unit for outputting any one of a corresponding one of the scan pulses and a first discharging voltage according to the voltages at the nodes. The nodes include set and reset nodes. The node controller of the nth stage includes a first switching device controlled by a voltage supplied to the reset node for supplying a second discharging voltage to the set node, and an inverter circuit controlled by a voltage supplied to the set node for supplying any one of a charging voltage and a third discharging voltage to the reset node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Jang, Seung-Chan Choi, Jae-Yong You, Woo-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 8842803
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shift register which is capable of preventing leakage of charges at a set node which occurs when the duty ratio of a scan pulse is small, so as to normally output a scan pulse. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequentially generating outputs thereof. Each of the stages includes a carry output unit for outputting a carry pulse to drive at least one of a downstream stage and an upstream stage, and a scan output unit for outputting a scan pulse to drive a gate line. Each of the outputs generated from the stages includes the carry pulse and the scan pulse. The carry pulse and the scan pulse are paired to correspond to each other. The paired carry pulse and scan pulse have different durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 8836632
    Abstract: A touch device includes gate lines, pixels, sense control lines and sense units. Each pixel is connected to one of the gate lines and is decided whether to receive data according to a voltage on the gate line. Each the sense unit is connected to one of the sense control lines and is decided whether to perform a touch sense operation according to a voltage on the sense control line. The touch device further includes a shift register string including cascade-connected shift registers. Each shift register has first and second output terminals. The first output terminal provides an output to one of the gate lines according to a first clock signal to control the voltage on the gate line. The second output terminal provides an output to one of the sense control lines according to a second clock signal to control the voltage on the detection control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ku-Liang Lin, Wen-Kai Shih, Sheng-Liang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8831167
    Abstract: An Nth shift register includes a pull up unit, a driving unit, a first pull down unit, a second pull down unit, and a third pull down unit. The pull up unit is used for providing a first pull up signal according to a first clock signal, a second clock signal, and a starting pulse. The driving unit is used for providing a driving signal according to the first pull up signal and providing a gate signal according to the first clock signal and the driving signal. The first pull down unit is used for pulling down the first pull up signal according to the first clock signal. The second pull down unit is used for pulling down the driving signal according to a second pull up signal. The third pull down unit is used for pulling down the gate signal according to the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Li-Wei Liu, Tsung-Ting Tsai
  • Patent number: 8824622
    Abstract: A buffer circuit driving method for driving a buffer circuit including: an output terminal; a first transistor connected to a signal source of a clock signal that is of at least a first voltage or a second voltage lower than the first voltage, for supplying the first voltage to the output terminal; and a second transistor connected to a voltage source that supplies a third voltage lower than the first voltage, for supplying the third voltage to the output terminal, includes: causing the first transistor to switch to a conducting state in a period where the clock signal is of the first voltage; and causing the first transistor and the second transistor to switch to the conducting state in a period where the clock signal is of the second voltage, following the period where the clock signal is of the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuge, Masafumi Matsui
  • Patent number: 8817943
    Abstract: A shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequentially outputting A-scan pulses and B-scan pulses. At least one of the stages includes an A-sub-stage for controlling a voltage at an A-set node and a voltage at at least one A-reset node in response to an external A-control signal and generating an A-carry pulse based on the voltage at the A-set node, the voltage at the A-reset node and any one A-clock pulse, a B-sub-stage for controlling a voltage at a B-set node and a voltage at at least one B-reset node in response to an external B-control signal and generating a B-carry pulse based on the voltage at the B-set node, the voltage at the B-reset node and any one B1-clock pulse, and a scan output controller for generating a corresponding one of the A-scan pulses and a corresponding one of the B-scan pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 8811567
    Abstract: A shift register for providing a plurality of gate signals includes an Nth stage shift register unit and an (N+1)th stage shift register unit. The Nth stage shift register unit includes a first pull up unit, a first driving unit, a first control unit and a first auxiliary pull down unit. The (N+1)th stage shift register unit includes a second pull up unit, a second driving unit, a first pull down unit and a second auxiliary pull down unit. The first and second pull up units are both coupled to the first and second driving units for controlling the first and second driving units to generate gate signals. The first and second auxiliary pull down units are both coupled to the first control unit for pulling down the gate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Yi Wu, Ta-Wen Liao
  • Patent number: 8803784
    Abstract: A gate driver is provided with an odd-numbered stage shift register, an even-numbered stage shift register, and main lines including clock signal main lines. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of one of the shift registers receives the first clock and the second clock from the clock signal main lines, and the third clock and the fourth clock from an adjacently provided stage of the other shift register. Each stage of the shift register can receive the second clock from a different stage of the same shift register. With this, it is possible to reduce a picture-frame area of a panel in a display device provided with a scanning signal line drive circuit having the plurality of shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Yasuaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 8798226
    Abstract: A driver circuit of a display device, which includes TFTs of a single conductivity type and outputs an output signal with normal amplitude. A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 to turn ON the TFTs and a potential of a node ? is raised. When the potential of the node ? reaches (VDD?VthN), the node ? becomes in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 is turned ON and a potential of an output node is raised as a clock signal becomes High level. On the other hand, a potential of a gate electrode of the TFT 105 is further raised due to an operation of a capacitance means 107 as the potential of the output node is raised, so that the potential of the gate electrode of the TFT 105 becomes higher than (VDD+VthN). Thus, the potential of the output node is raised to VDD without causing a voltage drop due to a threshold voltage of the TFT 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Nagao, Yoshifumi Tanada, Yutaka Shionoiri, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 8792609
    Abstract: A shift register is discussed in which a pull-up switching device is turned off positively in a period in which no scan pulse is forwarded for securing drive stability and prevents a picture quality from becoming poor. The shift register in one embodiment includes stages having any one of first and second start pulses, and any one of first to fourth clock pulses to forward a scan pulse in succession, wherein the first and second start pulses are in gate high voltage states for two horizontal periods, with the second start pulse forwarded with a delay of one horizontal period than the first start pulse. The first to fourth clock pulses are in gate high voltages for two horizontal periods, with one horizontal period delay to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Eun Ahn, Bo-Young Jung, Ji-Eun Chae
  • Patent number: 8781059
    Abstract: A shift register is formed by connecting unit circuits 11 in multi-stage. One electrode of a capacitor Cap2 in the unit circuit 11 is connected to the gate terminal (node N1) of a transistor T2, and the other connected to a node N2. A compensation circuit composed of transistors T3 to T5 provides a clock signal CKB to the node N2 when the node N1 potential is at low level, and applies a low-level potential to the node N2 when the node N1 potential is at high level. Accordingly, even when the gate potential of the transistor T2 changes with a change in a clock signal CK, a signal that cancels out the change is provided through the capacitor Cap2, stabilizing the gate potential of the transistor T2. Thus, a change in the control terminal potential of an output transistor associated with a change in a clock signal is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Shinya Tanaka, Junya Shimada, Chikao Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8774346
    Abstract: Disclosed are a shift register that shows excellent operation reliability with elements less than those of the conventional structure and a gate driving circuit using the shift register. The gate driving circuit comprises each of a plurality of shift registers sequentially connected and respectively supplying scan signals to a plurality of gate lines of a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki Min Son
  • Patent number: 8774348
    Abstract: A shift register circuit includes plural shift register stages for providing plural gate signals. Each shift register stage includes a pull-up unit, a pull-up control unit, an input unit, a first pull-down unit, a second pull-down unit, and a pull-down control unit. The pull-up control unit generates a first control signal according to a driving control voltage and a first clock. The pull-up unit pulls up a corresponding gate signal according to the first control signal. The input unit is utilized for inputting the gate signal of a preceding shift register stage to become the driving control voltage according to a second clock having a phase opposite to the first clock. The pull-down control unit generates a second control signal according to the driving control voltage. The first and second pull-down units pull down the corresponding gate signal and the first control signal respectively according to the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Ying Lin, Kun-Yueh Lin, Yu-Chung Yang, Kuo-Hua Hsu
  • Patent number: 8767907
    Abstract: A shift register includes a plurality of shift register circuits, where an Nth shift register circuit of the shift register includes a driving unit, a boost unit, a pull up unit, and a key pull down unit. The driving unit is for providing a gate signal, a first boost control signal, and a first transmission control signal according a first driving signal and a high frequency clock signal. The boost unit is for boosting the voltage of the first driving signal according to a first boost signal. The pull up unit is for providing a second driving signal according to the first transmission control signal and the gate signal, and is for providing a second boost signal according to the first boost control signal and a second boost control signal. The key pull down unit is for pulling down the first driving signal according to a second transmission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pin-Yu Chan, Yu-Chung Yang, Yung-Chih Chen, Ming-Yen Tsai