Patents Assigned to Synaptics Incorporated
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Patent number: 11657784Abstract: A processing system comprises a first integrated circuit (IC) and a second IC. The first IC comprises first image processing circuitry, first display panel driver circuitry, and first communication circuitry. The first image processing circuitry is configured to generate a first overlay image by overlaying a first partial input image with a first image element based on first partial input image data representing the first partial input image and first image element data representing the first image element. The first display panel driver circuitry is configured to drive a display panel based on the first overlay image. The first communication circuitry is configured to output second image element data representing a second image element to the second IC.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Akihito Kumamoto, Keiichi Hirano
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Patent number: 11656712Abstract: An example a method of detecting a force applied to a side of an input device including sensor electrodes, the method including: detecting first capacitive responses corresponding to a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed near the side of the input device; detecting second capacitive responses corresponding to a second plurality of sensor electrodes disposed near a center of the input device; and determining a magnitude of the force applied to the side of the input device based on at least one of: a number of the second capacitive responses satisfying a first threshold; or magnitudes of the second capacitive responses.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Shunsuke Araki
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Publication number: 20230152925Abstract: Driving a display of an input-display device includes generating, during a first display frame, a first touch sensing waveform to be applied to a touch screen of the display, and generating, during a second display frame, a second touch sensing waveform to be applied to the touch screen. The first touch sensing waveform generates on the display a first touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch sensing waveform generates on the display a second touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch-to-display noise pattern mitigates the first touch-to-display noise pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Daisuke Ito, He-Wei Li
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Publication number: 20230142900Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to determine a total current of a display panel and perform an IR-drop compensation using the total current and a first graylevel for a first subpixel of the display panel to determine a first voltage level for the first subpixel. The drive circuitry is configured to update the first subpixel based at least in part on the first voltage level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
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Patent number: 11646915Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of signal inputs, a receiver, calibration circuitry, and input switch circuitry. The receiver includes differential input terminals. The calibration circuitry is configured to calibrate an input offset between the differential input terminals of the receiver in response to the integrated circuit being placed in a calibration mode. The input switch circuitry is configured to switch electrical connections between the plurality of signal inputs and the differential input terminals of the receiver in response to the integrated circuit being placed in a mode different from the calibration mode. The input switch circuitry is further configured to electrically disconnect the plurality of signal inputs from the differential input terminals of the receiver in response to the integrated circuit being placed in the calibration mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Yoshihiko Hori, Takefumi Seno, Takashi Tamura, Kazuhiko Kanda
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Patent number: 11644895Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for indicating an attentiveness of a user of a head-mounted display (HMD) device. The HMD device may include a camera configured to capture images of the surrounding environment, an electronic display configured to display the images captured by the camera, and one or more sensors configured to track a direction of gaze of the user. In some aspects, the HMD device may output an attention cue based on the images displayed on the electronic display and the user's direction of gaze. The attention cue may indicate an attentiveness of the user to a person or object in the surrounding environment. In some implementations, the attention cue may be output via an attention indicator disposed on an outer surface of the HMD device. In some other implementations, the attention cue may be output via a communication interface that communicates with another HMD device.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 11644862Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing multiple integrated circuit (IC) chips for an input device having a display device integrated with a capacitive sensing device. A first one of the IC chips is a master IC chip and a second one of the IC chips is a slave IC chip. The master IC chip is configured to transmit synchronization signals to and from the slave IC chip, such that capacitive frames are acquired by each of the IC chips at substantially the same time, the initiation of the sensing signals is synchronized for each of the IC chips and the clock signals of the slave IC chips are synchronized with the clock signal of the master IC chip.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Jeremy Roberson, David Sobel
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Patent number: 11637546Abstract: Systems and methods for programmable pulse density modulation (PDM) components enable backwards compatibility while maintaining reasonable tolerances. A system includes a programmable PDM device, a PDM master device and a bus communicably coupling the programmable PDM device to the PDM receiver. The PDM device may include an audio sensor, audio input circuitry, a delta-sigma converter and a PDM transmitter and receiver. The PDM transmitter and receiver may send out PDM data from the PDM device and receive programming data from the PDM Master device. The PDM device may further include register space controlled by the PDM master device, a buffer storing audio data for wakeup word systems that store audio data when the PDM receiver is powered down, a bus holder to hold the previous value on the bus if no device is driving it, and/or a clock multiplier to multiply the incoming clock by a factor.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventor: Jens Kristian Poulsen
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Patent number: 11635858Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprises driving a first sensor electrode of a plurality of sensor electrodes with a first sensing signal to acquire a first resulting signal with the first sensor electrode during a period and driving a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes with the first sensing signal to acquire a second resulting signal with the second sensor electrode during the period. Further, a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes is driven with a reference signal during the period. Rotational information for an input object is determined at least partially based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: David Hoch, Guozhong Shen
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Patent number: 11635848Abstract: A capacitive sensing input system includes sensor electrodes disposed in a sensor electrode pattern and a processing system. When under a low ground mass (LGM) condition, proximity-sensing pairs of electrodes formed by a first selective pairing of the sensor electrodes have an increased sensitivity to a presence of an input object in comparison to LGM-sensitive pairs of electrodes formed by a second selective pairing of the sensor electrodes that are primarily sensitive to the LGM condition. The processing system is configured to, while under the LGM condition, determine a first LGM term using a mutual capacitance sensing with a first of the LGM-sensitive pairs of electrodes, obtain a first transcapacitance sensing signal for a sensing element formed by a first of the proximity-sensing pairs of electrodes, and generate an LGM-corrected transcapacitance sensing signal by correcting the first transcapacitance sensing signal using the first LGM term.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Katayoun Goudarzi, David Hoch, Tracy Scott Dattalo
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Publication number: 20230124739Abstract: A display driver includes first interface circuitry, a graphic memory, image processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The first interface circuitry is configured to receive an edge illumination command from a controller external to the display driver. The graphic memory is configured to store image data. The image processing circuitry is configured to render an edge-illuminated image by overlaying an edge illumination graphic on a first image corresponding to the image data in response to the edge illumination command. The edge illumination graphic extends along an edge of a display region of a display panel. The drive circuitry is configured to drive the display panel based on the edge-illuminated image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tomoo Minaki, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
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Publication number: 20230118354Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to generate first voltage data for a first pixel in a first screen area of a display panel using a first gamma parameter. The image processing circuitry is further configured to generate second voltage data for a second pixel in a second screen area of the display panel using a second gamma parameter set. The image processing circuitry is further configured to determine an interpolated gamma parameter set for a third pixel in a connection area of the display panel through interpolation between the first gamma parameter set and the second gamma parameter set. The connection area is disposed between the first screen area and the second screen area. The image processing circuitry is further configured to generate third voltage data for the third pixel using the interpolated gamma parameter set.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Masao Orio
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Publication number: 20230120671Abstract: A method includes generating first demura data comprising first correction amounts for pixels in a first region of a display panel. The first region has a first pixel density. The method further includes generating second demura data comprising second correction amounts for pixels in a second region of the display panel. The second region has a second pixel density different from the first pixel density. The method further includes generating modified second demura data by modifying the second correction amounts by a first factor. The method further comprises compressing the first demura data and the modified second demura data to generate compressed demura data. The method further includes providing the compressed demura data and factor information indicative of the first factor to a display driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Kazutoshi Aogaki, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
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Patent number: 11625127Abstract: A processing system configured to receive a first display control signal corresponding to a non-display update period of a display frame and a second display control signal corresponding to a display update period of the display frame. The processing system is further configured to acquire, based on receipt of the first display control signal, first resulting signals from sensor electrodes electrically connected to the sensor driver by operating the sensor electrodes for a first type of input sensing during a first period overlapping with at least a portion of the non-display update period. Further, the processing system is configured to acquire, based on receipt of the second display control signal, second resulting signals with the sensor electrodes by operating the sensor electrodes for a second type of input sensing during a second period overlapping with at least a portion of the display update period.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan Losh, Dipankar Talukdar
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Patent number: 11625945Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a cover layer and a first sensor apparatus. The cover layer is molded from a first material to have a planar surface and non-uniform thickness, where a thickness of the first material at a first region of the cover layer is less than a thickness of the first material surrounding the first region. The first sensor apparatus is disposed beneath the planar surface of the cover layer, within the first region. The first sensor apparatus is configured to transmit and receive first capacitive sensing signals through a portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region. For example, the first sensor apparatus may be a fingerprint sensor configured to detect a fingerprint on the portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region based on changes in the first capacitive sensing signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Yeh-Cheng Tan, Shengmin Wen
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Patent number: 11620933Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and driver circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to process first image data for pixels of a display panel comprising a first region and a second region to generate output voltage data. The first region and the second region have different pixel layouts. The driver circuitry is configured to update the pixels based on the output voltage data. Processing the first image data comprises IR-drop compensation based on first luminances of the pixels, each of the first luminances being determined based on the first image data and whether a corresponding pixel of the pixels is located in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama, Tomoo Minaki
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Publication number: 20230100358Abstract: A display driver includes an image processing circuit and a driver circuit. The image processing circuit is configured to: receive input image data corresponding to an input image; generate first subpixel rendered data from a first part of the input image data for a first display region of a display panel using a first setting; and generate second subpixel rendered data from a second part of the input image data for a second display region of the display panel using a second setting different from the first setting. The first pixel layout is different than the second pixel layout. The driver circuit is configured to update the first display region of the display panel based at least in part on the first subpixel rendered data and update the second display region of the display panel based at least in part on the second subpixel rendered data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tomoo Minaki, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20230102440Abstract: A display driver that includes image processing circuitry and a source driver. The image processing circuitry is configured to perform a burn-in compensation to determine a first compensated luminance value for a first pixel in a first area of a display panel based at least in part on a first accumulated luminance value for the first pixel. The first area has a first pixel layout. The image processing circuitry is further configured to scale a second accumulated luminance value for a second pixel in a second area of the display panel to determine a scaled accumulated luminance value. The second area has a second pixel layout different from the first pixel layout. The image processing circuitry is further configured to perform a burn-in compensation to determine a second compensated luminance value for the second pixel based at least in part on the scaled accumulated luminance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
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Patent number: 11615735Abstract: A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first slew rate and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second slew rate lower than the first slew rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Takashi Uehara, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11615762Abstract: A display driver includes first interface circuitry, a graphic memory, image processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The first interface circuitry is configured to receive an edge illumination command from a controller external to the display driver. The graphic memory is configured to store image data. The image processing circuitry is configured to render an edge-illuminated image by overlaying an edge illumination graphic on a first image corresponding to the image data in response to the edge illumination command. The edge illumination graphic extends along an edge of a display region of a display panel. The drive circuitry is configured to drive the display panel based on the edge-illuminated image.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tomoo Minaki, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata