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Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd.

HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. demonstrates a strong and sustained focus on display technologies, with Display Drivers accounting for 70.2% of its portfolio and Organic Electronics (OLED) showing rapid growth of +225.0% in 2024, indicating an emerging focus on advanced display materials, despite the partial data for 2026 showing a decline in both categories so far. Concurrently, the company appears to be shifting priorities away from Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement, which has seen a consistent decline of -38.5% and -37.5% in 2024 and 2025 respectively, with no patents so far in 2026.

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446 US filings (since 2023) · 6 categories · 11 themes

Pixel and Gate Driver Architectures is up +21.9% YoY. Worth a look.
Display Pixel Array Structures

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).

Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement
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247since 2023
+7.4%YoY
Pixel and Gate Driver Architectures

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.

Display DriversOrganic Electronics (OLED)
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219since 2023
+21.9%YoY
Display Panel Manufacturing & Encapsulation

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.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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191since 2023
+3.0%YoY
Display Timing and Signal Synchronization

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.

Display Drivers
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124since 2023
-4.7%YoY
On-Chip Sensing & Display Integration

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.

Semiconductor Diodes & Transistors
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55since 2023
+5.6%YoY
Integrated Touch Sensors

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.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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52since 2023
+16.7%YoY
Display Power Management

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.

Display Drivers
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42since 2023
+120.0%YoY
Advanced Image Processing for Displays

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.

Display Drivers
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34since 2023
+157.1%YoY
Display Optical Enhancements

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.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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25since 2023
+83.3%YoY
OLED Emitter Materialsfiltered

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.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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7since 2023
+150.0%YoY
Flexible/Foldable Device Structures

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.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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2since 2023
0.0%YoY

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OLED Emitter Materials
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US 12324343 B2GRANTED
H10K59/80

Top emitting display panels and display devices

Filed:2021-10-27Pub:2025-06-03
Applicant:Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd.

Provided are a top emitting display panel and a display device, the top emitting display panel includes a substrate, a light-emitting structure and a cover layer, wherein the light-emitting structure comprises a first light-emitting structure, a second light-emitting structure and a third light-emitting structure, and corresponding light-emitting wavelengths are a first wavelength, a second wavelength and a third wavelength respectively; the cover layer is located on a side of the light-emitting structure away from the substrate, and includes at least two of a first region located on the first light-emitting structure, a second region located on the second light-emitting structure, and a third region located on the third light-emitting structure, the first region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the first region along a thickness direction is an integer multiple of the first wavelength; the second region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the second region along the thickness direction is an integer multiple of the second wavelength; and the third region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the third region along the thickness direction is an integer multiple of the third wavelength. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, light extraction efficiencies corresponding to the first wavelength, the second wavelength, and the third wavelength can be simultaneously increased, and the display panel have a reduced power consumption and an improved lifetime.

US 20240215403 A1APPLICATION
H10K59/80

TOP EMITTING DISPLAY PANELS AND DISPLAY DEVICES

Filed:2021-10-27Pub:2024-06-27
Applicant:Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd.

Provided are a top emitting display panel and a display device, the top emitting display panel includes a substrate, a light-emitting structure and a cover layer, wherein the light-emitting structure comprises a first light-emitting structure, a second light-emitting structure and a third light-emitting structure, and corresponding light-emitting wavelengths are a first wavelength, a second wavelength and a third wavelength respectively; the cover layer is located on a side of the light-emitting structure away from the substrate, and includes at least two of a first region located on the first light-emitting structure, a second region located on the second light-emitting structure, and a third region located on the third light-emitting structure, the first region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the first region along a thickness direction is an integer multiple of the first wavelength; the second region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the second region along the thickness direction is an integer multiple of the second wavelength; and the third region has a thickness such that twice of the length of an equivalent optical path in the third region along the thickness direction is an integer multiple of the third wavelength. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, light extraction efficiencies corresponding to the first wavelength, the second wavelength, and the third wavelength can be simultaneously increased, and the display panel have a reduced power consumption and an improved lifetime.