Display Power Management Patents: Top Companies & Trends 2026
Display power management and compensation patents: who is filing, and where the claim space is still open
One assignee dominates the ranked field. the leader holds 385 records against a fifth-place count of 47 and a tenth-place count of 12, a steep drop-off rather than an even spread. Filings peaked at 156 in 2017. The confirmed decline from 85 filings in 2021 to 21 in 2024 — a -75% change over that span — is the clearest read available; years after 2024 are still incomplete due to publication lag and should not be read as a continued fall.
- 1LG DISPLAY CO LTD385
- 2BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD195
- 3SHARP KK93
- 4HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD53
- 5HEFEI BOE ZHUOYIN TECH CO LTD47
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Common questions about this landscape
Who holds the most patents in display power management and compensation?
One assignee leads the ranked field with 385 records, well ahead of the fifth-place company at 47 and the tenth-place company at 12. That gap suggests the leader has built out a broad base of external-compensation and pixel-driver circuit claims that any new entrant needs to check against. The ranking covers 46 companies in total, so this is a concentrated field rather than one with many roughly equal competitors.
Is patent filing in this area growing or shrinking?
Filing peaked at 156 records in 2017 and has since pulled back, with a confirmed drop from 85 filings in 2021 to 21 in 2024 — a -75% change over that span. Because publication lags filing by around 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures in any chart are still incomplete and should not be read as evidence of a continued decline. Treat 2024 as the last year with a reasonably complete picture.
What does external compensation mean in a display patent context?
External compensation refers to circuitry and algorithms that sense variation in a pixel’s drive transistor or light-emitting device — caused by manufacturing variation or aging — and adjust the data voltage supplied to that pixel to correct for it. It sits apart from purely internal, in-pixel compensation schemes because the sensing and correction logic lives outside the pixel circuit itself. Representative filings in this dataset, such as US10984712B2, claim specific transistor arrangements that route a sensed or adjusted data voltage back into the pixel’s drive path.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Display Power Management and Compensation covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.