Patents Assigned to Synaptics Incorporated
  • Patent number: 11561612
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) system includes: a display configured to display a user interface to a user; an integrated scrollwheel and fingerprint sensor (FPS) user input apparatus, comprising a scrollwheel configured to detect a rotational navigation input from the user and an FPS configured to detect a biometric input from the user; and a processing system configured to: receive the rotational navigation input via the scrollwheel of the integrated scrollwheel and FPS user input apparatus; update a displayed user interface on the display based on the received rotational navigation input, wherein updating the displayed user interface comprises updating a user selection on a displayed menu; receive an activation input for the updated user selection on the displayed menu via the FPS of the integrated scrollwheel and FPS user input apparatus; and execute an operation corresponding to the updated user selection on the displayed menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Raymond A. Trent
  • Patent number: 11558170
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for improved performance of phase-locked loop based clock generators, particularly in the context of wireless audio. A PLL clock generator includes a PLL core configured to receive a module reference clock provided by a communications module and generate a subsystem data clock corresponding to a module data clock of the communications module; and a data clock tracker module configured to receive the module data and subsystem data clocks and determine a corresponding data clock correction factor. The bandwidth of the PLL core may be dynamically changed thereby enabling both fast and very precise settling. The PLL core may use a low jitter frequency reference for the phase detector while an a synchronous and jitter-prone audio sample clock is used to ensure a mean frequency of the PLL core tracks the audio sample clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Jens Kristian Poulsen, Lorenzo Crespi
  • Patent number: 11556195
    Abstract: An input-display device includes a display screen on a display substrate and capacitive sensing electrodes for capacitive sensing in a sensing region of the display screen. The input-display device also includes a touch and display driver integration (TDDI) circuit on the display substrate, the TDDI circuit including a source driver circuit driving a subset of display pixels of the display screen based on a processed image signal, and an analog frontend for the capacitive sensing, interfacing with the capacitive sensing electrodes to obtain touch signals. The input-display device also includes an image processing circuit generating the processed image signal based on a received image signal and a display parameter, a touch processing circuit generating a touch output signal by processing the touch signals based on instructions of a touch firmware, and a memory physically separate from the display substrate, the memory storing the display parameter and the touch firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Daisuke Ito, Toshifumi Ogata
  • Patent number: 11556212
    Abstract: A processing system includes a level shifter, a drive circuit, and a capacitive sensing circuit. The level shifter is configured to generate a first level-shifted output corresponding to a graylevel value and a second level-shifted output corresponding to capacitive sensing control data. The drive circuit is configured to generate an output voltage based at least in part on the first level-shifted output. The capacitive sensing circuit is configured to receive a resulting signal from a sensor electrode and generate, based at least in part on the second level-shifted output, a capacitive sensing output corresponding to the resulting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Shinobu Nohtomi
  • Publication number: 20230009465
    Abstract: Regulator circuitry includes first to third output transistors, a first control transistor and a circuit stage. The first and second output transistors, and the first control transistor have a first channel conductivity type. The second output transistor has a second channel conductivity type. The first and second output transistors each have a drain coupled to an output node and a source coupled to a first power supply line. The third output transistor has a drain coupled to the output node and a source coupled to a second power supply line. The first control transistor has a gate coupled to a gate of the first output transistor and a source coupled to a gate of the second output transistor. The circuit stage is configured to drive the gates of the first output transistor, the third output transistor, and the first control transistor based on a specified level of the output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Yutaka Saeki
  • Patent number: 11550482
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to memory is disclosed. In one implementation, a memory controller may receive a memory access request that may include a virtual memory address, a device identifier (ID) and a protected access indicator. Additionally, the memory controller can receive page table entries including a physical memory address based on the virtual memory address and a security attribute associated with the physical memory address. The memory controller may access a memory based on the physical memory address, the security attribute, the protected access indicator, and the device ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Pontus Evert Lidman, Fook Shian Toong, Jingliang Li, Hongjie Guan
  • Patent number: 11551614
    Abstract: A system and method for encoding, transmitting and updating a display based on demura calibration information for a display device comprises generating demura correction coefficients based on display color information, separating coherent components from the demura correction coefficients to generate residual information, and encode the residual information using a first encoding technique. Further, the image data may be divided into data streams, compressed and transmitted to from a host device to a display driver of a display device. The display driver decompresses and drives subpixels of the pixels in based on the decompressed data. The display driver updates the subpixels of a display using corrected greyscale values for each subpixel are determined from the decompressed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Damien Berget, Hirobumi Furihata, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11550434
    Abstract: A processing system is configured to drive a transmitter electrode with a repetitive multi-burst pattern. The repetitive multi-burst pattern includes a first multitude of bursts of a sensing waveform and a second multitude of bursts of the sensing waveform. The second multitude of bursts is a repetition of the first multitude of bursts. The processing system is further configured to receive, from a receiver electrode, a resulting signal in response to the repetitive multi-burst pattern, and identify, in the resulting signal, a segment least affected by a noise, and that temporally coincides with a burst in the first multitude of bursts or a burst in the second multitude of bursts matching the burst in the first plurality of bursts. The processing system is also configured to decode the resulting signal using the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Cungang Ding, Longming Cheng, Guanhua Cao
  • Patent number: 11545366
    Abstract: A system and method for thinning an integrated circuit (IC) wafer. The system includes a support structure to hold the IC wafer and a mechanism to operate on the IC wafer. The support structure includes one or more inductive coils configured to transmit a power signal to the IC wafer and receive a feedback signal from the IC wafer. The system further includes a process controller to control the operation based at least in part on the feedback signal received from the IC wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen L. Morein
  • Patent number: 11546514
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling motion-activated cameras. The present implementations more specifically relate to reducing false triggers in motion-activated camera systems. In some implementations, a motion-activated camera system may include a camera, a first motion sensor having a wide field-of-view (FOV), and a second motion sensor having a narrow FOV. In some aspects, the motion-activated camera system may be configured to operate in a wide-FOV mode or a narrow-FOV mode. In some implementations, the first motion sensor may trigger the camera to capture images of a scene responsive to motion detected in the wide FOV when the system is configured to operate in the wide-FOV mode. In some other implementations, the second motion sensor may trigger the camera to capture images of the scene responsive to motion detected in the narrow FOV when the system is configured to operate in the narrow-FOV mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Charles Brading
  • Publication number: 20220404940
    Abstract: A capacitive input device includes sensing electrodes configured to form a capacitive coupling with auxiliary device electrodes of an attached auxiliary device. The auxiliary device electrodes transmit data signals to the sensing electrodes via the capacitive coupling. The capacitive input device also includes processing circuitry configured to decode the data signals received via the capacitive coupling to obtain decoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Vandermeijden, Samuel Toba, Ching-Hsung Wang
  • Patent number: 11531425
    Abstract: A method for operating an input device, the method involving obtaining a number of non-sinusoidal transmitter signals with unique base frequencies, and selecting a sampling frequency of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) such that a number of aliasing artifacts associated with higher harmonics of the non-sinusoidal transmitter signals is located at frequencies different from the base frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11531439
    Abstract: An input device includes transmitter electrodes disposed in a sensing region of the input device, a receiver electrode in the sensing region, and a processing system. The processing system includes demodulators, and is configured to simultaneously drive at least a subset of the transmitter electrodes using a multitude of transmitter signals with unique frequencies. The processing system is also configured to receive, on the receiver electrode, a resulting signal, and demodulate, using the plurality of demodulators, the resulting signal to generate a multitude, of sensing signals. Each of the of the demodulators operates on a different frequency of the unique frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11527094
    Abstract: Low power consumption baseline tracking systems and methods for automatically tracking a baseline input into a capacitive sensor having a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes. A partial baseline scan is captured by driving all or a portion of the plurality of transmitter electrodes simultaneously and detecting receiver signals from a subset of the at least one receiver electrode simultaneously, and the partial baseline scan is compared with a stored baseline image. When a difference between the captured partial baseline scan and the stored baseline image exceeds a threshold value, a full baseline image scan is acquired, and the stored baseline image is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Guozhong Shen
  • Publication number: 20220392385
    Abstract: A display driver comprises control circuitry configured to store a default gamma curve, determine a count of in-region pixels of a target pixel in a display panel and neighboring pixels of the target pixel, the in-region pixels being located in a predetermined region of the display panel, and determine a scale factor based on a ratio of the count of the in-region pixels to a total number of the target pixel and the neighboring pixels. The control circuitry also determines a modified gamma curve by scaling the default gamma curve with the scale factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Tomoo Minaki, Masao Orio, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11522507
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided to reduce common mode disturbance associated with an amplifier, such as a class D amplifier. In one example, an amplifier includes a power stage configured to generate first and second PWM signals. The amplifier further includes an integration stage comprising input nodes configured to receive an input differential analog signal. The integration stage is configured to generate an output differential analog signal in response to the PWM signals and the input differential analog signal. The amplifier further includes an active compensation circuit configured to provide a compensation signal to the integration stage to reduce disturbances at the input nodes associated with the PWM signals switching between a common mode and a differential mode. Additional devices, systems, and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dan Shen, Jinbao Lan, Yunfu Zhang, Lorenzo Crespi
  • Patent number: 11520423
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an input device and associated processing system for sensing force applied by input objects. The input device comprises a display device comprising a plurality of layers formed as a display stack, the display stack including a top surface. The input device further comprises one or more strain gauges disposed within the display stack and configured to detect force applied to the top surface, and a processing system configured to perform display updating using the display device and to perform force sensing using the one or more strain gauges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Tom Vandermeijden, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Patent number: 11519801
    Abstract: A silicon sensor device includes a plurality of metal layers and a plurality of dielectric layers. The plurality of metal layers include: a first metal layer comprising a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes; a second metal layer disposed beneath the first metal layer, wherein the second metal layer comprises a plurality of routing traces for the plurality of transmitter electrodes; and one or more circuit layers disposed beneath the second metal layer. A respective routing trace for a respective transmitter electrode is configured to shield respective portions of the plurality of receiver electrodes which correspond to a width of the respective transmitter electrode from energy and/or noise originating from the one or more circuit layers. The plurality of metal layers and the plurality of dielectric layers are disposed on a same die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11521526
    Abstract: A display driver comprises a decoder, a first source amplifier and a logic circuitry. The decoder is configured to output a grayscale voltage corresponding to an image data. The first source amplifier is configured to output a first source output voltage corresponding to the grayscale voltage to a first external output terminal. The logic circuitry is configured to generate fault detection data for fault detection of a test object connected to the first external output terminal. The fault detection data is based on a comparison output signal generated based on a comparison between a reference voltage and a voltage on the first external output terminal. The comparison is performed by the first source amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Shinobu Nohtomi, Sosuke Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20220383797
    Abstract: A display driver that drives a display panel comprises storage circuitry, color addition processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The storage circuitry stores F subpixel data acquired from color coordinate data indicating color coordinates of a displayed color in a predetermined color space displayed on the display panel when an R subpixel, a G subpixel, and a B subpixel in each of a plurality of pixels of the display panel are driven with drive signals corresponding to a minimum grayscale value and an F subpixel in each of the plurality of pixels which displays an additional color other than a primary color R, a primary color G, and a primary color B is driven with a drive signal corresponding to a maximum grayscale value. The color addition processing circuitry generates output FRGB data from input RGB data, in response to the F subpixel data stored in the storage circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao ORIO, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Kazutoshi AOGAKI, Takashi NOSE