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BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. demonstrates a strong, albeit fluctuating, commitment to display technologies, with Organic Electronics (OLED) representing a significant 33.6% of its portfolio and experiencing a remarkable 153.5% YoY growth in 2024, though patenting in this area, along with Display Drivers and Liquid Crystal & Optical Modulators, has seen a sharp decline so far in 2026. Surprisingly, the company has completely ceased patenting in Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement in 2026, after a substantial 72.8% decline in 2025, indicating a significant shift away from this semiconductor-related area.
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13,316 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 46 themes
Techniques and structural designs for fabricating the physical layers of an OLED display, including material deposition, patterning, and methods to protect the active organic layers from environmental degradation like moisture and oxygen.
Physical layout and material composition of individual pixels within a display panel, including active layers, electrodes, light-emitting elements (LEDs, OLEDs), and associated thin-film transistors (TFTs).
Methods and structures for incorporating touch sensing capabilities directly into OLED display panels, typically involving conductive layers and insulating layers within or on top of the display stack.
Design and implementation of circuits and layouts for driving individual pixels or rows/columns of pixels, including gate drivers, data drivers, pixel driving circuits, and their integration onto the display substrate, often in non-display regions.
Techniques for driving electrophoretic displays, including managing remnant voltage, optimizing particle movement, and specific addressing pulse schemes to improve optical quality and update speed.
Innovations in backlight units, optical films, and light management structures to enhance display performance, uniformity, viewing experience, or specific functionalities like touch.
Integration of various sensor types (e.g., thermal, strain) or display components directly onto semiconductor substrates or within device architectures for compact and high-performance systems.
Engineering solutions for creating electronic devices with bendable, foldable, or stretchable form factors, often involving hinges, flexible displays, and sliding mechanisms to enable dynamic physical configurations.
Methods and circuits for coordinating the timing of display signals, data transmission, and control signals across various display components, ensuring proper image rendering and efficient operation.
Algorithms and hardware implementations within display drivers or associated components to enhance visual quality, resolution, or color reproduction, including upscaling, dithering, and compensation for display artifacts like crosstalk.
Techniques and circuits for optimizing power consumption, voltage stability, and energy efficiency in display panels, often involving dynamic voltage scaling, duty cycle control, or remnant voltage management.
Components and techniques aimed at improving the visual quality of OLED displays, such as color accuracy, contrast, brightness uniformity, and reducing reflections or glare through optical layers and coatings.
Systems that combine light sources, waveguides, and display elements into unified products for backlighting, automotive applications, general lighting, or color-corrected displays.
Optical and pixel-defining materials for display panels, including black matrix compositions, color filter pigments, optical alignment films, and pixel-define layers.
Development and optimization of organic chemical compounds and their structures, including guest-host systems and metal complexes, used within the emission layer to achieve specific light emission characteristics such as color, efficiency, and operational lifetime.
Manufacturing processes and material compositions for creating electronic circuits on flexible or conformable substrates, enabling novel form factors, enhanced durability, and new applications beyond rigid PCBs.
Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.
Methods and structures for integrating and enclosing electronic components into compact, multi-functional modules, often involving embedded components, multi-layer substrates, and electromagnetic shielding for performance and miniaturization.
Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.
Optical systems and components specifically designed for head-mounted displays, augmented reality (AR) glasses, and virtual reality (VR) headsets, focusing on image projection, waveguide integration, and display durability.
Novel materials and processes for forming low-resistance electrical contacts and interconnects within semiconductor devices, including selective deposition, silicidation, and barrier layers for improved performance and scaling.
Techniques for rendering, interacting with, and managing content within augmented or virtual reality environments, including spatial tracking, gaze interaction, and dynamic multi-application display management.
Techniques for designing and fabricating the conductive pathways (interconnects) and their contacts between different components within an integrated circuit, focusing on density, reliability, and performance.
Methods and apparatus for detecting objects and determining their three-dimensional position and orientation (pose) using imagery or point cloud data, often for navigation, surveying, or environmental understanding.
Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.
Structural innovations in individual transistors, such as fin-based field-effect transistors (FinFETs), 3D gate structures, or multi-layer active regions, aimed at improving performance or density.
Methods and materials used to construct robust and protective enclosures for electronic devices, focusing on structural integrity, impact resistance, thermal dissipation, and specialized material properties for enhanced durability.
Focuses on the design and manufacturing of transistors where the gate material fully encircles the channel, often using nanosheets or fins, to improve electrostatic control and reduce short-channel effects.
Utilizing machine learning, particularly deep learning, to analyze medical data such as images, sensor readings, or physiological signals for disease prediction, diagnosis, or treatment assessment.
Layout, material composition, and structural arrangement of photoelectric conversion elements and associated circuitry within image sensor arrays, including infrared detectors and back-side illuminated structures.
Methods and systems for displaying complex data in three-dimensional graphical formats, allowing users to manipulate, explore, and derive insights from the data through interactive controls.
Techniques and hardware architectures designed to efficiently generate and display complex 3D graphics, particularly for interactive applications like virtual reality, focusing on speed and visual quality.
Development and optimization of novel neural network layers or architectures specifically designed to improve performance or efficiency for computer vision tasks.
Engineering of artificial subwavelength structures (meta-atoms) to create metasurfaces that manipulate light properties (phase, polarization, wavelength) for multi-functional optical devices.
Advanced techniques for forming and optimizing gate dielectrics, work function layers, and other dielectric layers within transistor structures to improve performance, reliability, and scaling.
User interface designs and systems that enable multiple users to interact with shared content, provide feedback, or coordinate activities, often across different devices or locations.
Techniques for combining data from disparate sensor types (e.g., cameras, radar, mobile device signals) to achieve a more robust and comprehensive understanding of an environment or subject, often leveraging machine learning for interpretation and correlation.
Processes for creating or manipulating three-dimensional digital representations of objects or environments, including mesh generation, surface fitting, and depth estimation from multiple views.
Techniques utilizing deep learning models like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or diffusion models to create new images, modify existing ones, or generate synthetic data based on various inputs or conditions.
Materials and processes for hermetic encapsulation, conformal coating, optical chip sealing, and stretchable conductors for electronic and optoelectronic devices.
Hardware and control techniques for optimizing memory access latency, ensuring data integrity, and managing storage resources efficiently. This includes error correction, read/write voltage control, and intelligent data placement or in-memory computation.
Techniques for stacking multiple semiconductor dies or active layers vertically to achieve higher density and shorter interconnections, often utilizing through-silicon vias (TSVs) or other vertical conductive paths like through-hole electrodes.
Packaging technologies where bare dies are embedded within a mold compound or substrate cavity, and then interconnected using redistribution layers (RDLs) for fan-out or compact integration, often avoiding through-silicon vias in the chips themselves.
Development of sophisticated optical lens assemblies and computational methods to achieve high-resolution, precise, or specialized imaging, often for medical or scientific applications.
Techniques and hardware for autonomous systems to gather and interpret data about their surroundings, including obstacle detection, object recognition, and depth estimation, to inform control decisions.
Automated systems using image processing and artificial intelligence to identify, classify, and assess the extent of damage to structures or objects, supporting maintenance or insurance claims.
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Gate Stack & Dielectric Engineering