Patents Examined by Abdul-Samad A Adediran
  • Patent number: 11978276
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device is provided and includes a housing, a support frame which is arranged in an internal space of the housing and has a first surface, a second surface facing a direction opposite to the first surface, and a through hole, a display supported by the first surface and arranged to be seen from outside through at least a part of the housing, and an optical sensor module arranged in the second surface to face the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhee Han, Hanul Moon, Soohwan Kim, Seungjae Bae, Inho Shin, Jiyoung Lim, Yongwon Cho, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11972730
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel and a panel driver for driving the display panel during a plurality of driving frames whose frequencies are varied. Among the driving frames, a first driving frame having a first frequency includes a first write period, and a second driving frame having a second frequency lower than the first frequency includes a second write period and a variable blank period. The panel driver includes a data driver and a driving controller. Each of the first and second write periods includes N horizontal periods (N is an integer number equal to or greater than 1), each of the N horizontal periods has a first duration, and each of the first and second write periods has a second duration corresponding to N times of the first duration. The driving controller applies a training synchronizing signal to the data driver during the variable blank period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donggyu Lee, Jin-Wook Yang, Jae-Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11974464
    Abstract: A driving backplane includes a base substrate, and data lines, a first gate line, a second gate line and pixel driving circuits that are disposed on the base substrate. The first gate line and the second gate line are adjacent. Each pixel driving circuit includes a first transistor including an active layer. The active layer includes an active portion, a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. Active portions of first transistors further include first contact portions. The pixel driving circuits include a first pixel driving circuit and a second pixel driving circuit that are coupled to a data line and the first gate line. A first conductive portion in the first pixel driving circuit and a first conductive portion in the second pixel driving circuit are in contact through a first contact portion, and are coupled to the data line through the first contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11961324
    Abstract: An optical fingerprint recognition device includes a light-emitting diode (LED) array and a fingerprint sensing device. The LED array includes a central LED area and an edge LED area, and configured to display a light source pattern in response to a fingerprint sensing request. The light source pattern includes a central portion and a surrounding portion. During displaying the light source pattern, a plurality of red display subpixels of the central LED area are not illuminating and a plurality of red display subpixels of the edge LED area are illuminating. The fingerprint sensing device generates a first fingerprint image according to a plurality of first sensing signals obtained from a plurality of first sensing pixel area, and the first fingerprint image is adapted to be used for examining whether a finger which triggers the fingerprint sensing request is real or fake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shu-Fang Wang, Wan-Ting Huang, Kuan-Ting Lee
  • Patent number: 11955041
    Abstract: The control circuit for controlling a display panel is provided. The control circuit includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit for driving the display panel. The first driving circuit includes first output terminals and first input terminals. The first driving circuit outputs a plurality of test signals to the first output terminals sequentially during different periods in a diagnosis stage. The second driving circuit includes second input terminals and second output terminals. The second driving circuit receives the test signals through the second input terminals in the diagnosis stage, and outputs a plurality of response signals to the second output terminals sequentially during different periods in response to the test signals. The first driving circuit receives the response signals through the first input terminals, and judges a connecting status of the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit according to the response signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih-Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 11955064
    Abstract: A system may include a set of light-emitting diode (LED) circuits, wherein each LED circuit of the set of LED circuits comprises: a first electrode; a set of second electrodes; and a set of pixels, wherein each pixel of the set of pixels corresponds to a combination of the first electrode and a respective second electrode of the set of second electrodes. A plurality of pixels may include the set of pixels corresponding to each LED circuit of the set of LED circuits. The first electrode may be located within a center portion of the respective LED circuit, and each second electrode of the set of second electrodes may be located within an outer portion the respective LED circuit. The system also includes a controller circuit configured to control whether each pixel of the plurality of pixels is activated or deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Dietrich Bonart
  • Patent number: 11948537
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are an image display method and apparatus, a computer readable storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The image display method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes: separating a target image into a plurality of image layers, wherein the plurality of image layers at least includes a first image layer and a second image layer; adjusting an image layer parameter of at least one of the first image layer and the second image layer according to a relative relationship between the first image layer and the second image layer; and displaying the target image according to at least one of the first image layer and the second image layer of which the image layer parameter is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiaofan Sun
  • Patent number: 11935493
    Abstract: A virtual window device (100), comprising (i) a display (110) arranged in a first plane (A), wherein the display (110) is arranged to provide a first output (120) for rendering a first image of a view through a window (130) onto a virtual planar surface (140) that is oriented parallel to the display (110) along an axis (C), perpendicular to the first plane (A), (ii) a frame (150) projecting from the display (110), and wherein an edge (160) of the frame (150), oppositely arranged the display (110), spans a second plane (B), (iii) a lighting element (170) configured to emit a second output (180) onto the virtual planar surface (140), wherein the lighting element (170) is arranged within the virtual window device (100) at a distance (D) from the second plane (B), along the axis (C), wherein the second output (180) has a directionality, the directionality being one or more of a spatial direction, a beam angle, a beam width, a light output distribution and a diffusivity, and (iv) a unit (190) configured to registe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn, Leendert Teunis Rozendaal, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg
  • Patent number: 11922847
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus, a drive chip, and an electronic device. When determining that a disconnected signal line exists, a drive chip sends a control signal to a signal line repair module, so that a shift output end of a first shift unit corresponding to the disconnected signal line outputs an enable signal, so as to control a corresponding connection switch in a connection switch group to be turned on, to enable the disconnected signal line to be electrically connected to a repair line. The display apparatus may repair a disconnected signal line without being returned to a factory and a manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengming Chen, Jide Liang, Ruiliang Li, Feng Zhang, Jiandong Deng, Muyao Li
  • Patent number: 11915513
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for performing leveling of a person image and an operating method thereof. The method includes: receiving an original person image; selecting an arbitrary latent vector in a latent space; generating a virtual person image based on the latent vector; optimizing the latent vector such that identity similarity between the original person image and the virtual person image increases; manipulating the optimized latent vector; and generating a levelled person image corresponding to the original person image, by using the manipulated latent vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: NCSOFT CORPORATION, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Seoungyoon Kang, Min Jae Kim, Moo Kyung Song, Hyunjung Shim, Gun Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11917763
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification apparatus and an electrode device. The fingerprint identification apparatus could be configured to be disposed under a variety of different display screens, reducing a thickness of space for installation of the fingerprint identification apparatus under a screen. The fingerprint identification apparatus includes: a support plate; and at least one fingerprint sensor chip, the at least one fingerprint sensor chip being disposed at an upper surface of the support plate; where the support plate is configured to be mounted to an upper surface of a middle frame of the electronic device so that the at least one fingerprint sensor chip is located under the display screen of the electronic device; and the at least one fingerprint sensor chip is configured to receive a fingerprint detecting signal returned by reflection or scattering via a human finger on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fanzhou Zeng, Xiangying Liu
  • Patent number: 11914769
    Abstract: This disclosure describes architectures and techniques to provide information to a user about items with which the user interacts. In some instances, a user may utilize a wearable device that is configured to interact with one or more components of an information discovery system to obtain information about items in the user's environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dilip Kumar, William Spencer Worley, III
  • Patent number: 11908224
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fingerprint identification structure, a driving method thereof and an electronic device. The fingerprint identification structure includes: a driving electrode layer; a piezoelectric material layer; a receiving electrode layer, which includes M receiving electrodes; an auxiliary driving electrode layer, which is located at the side of the piezoelectric material layer away from the receiving electrode layer, and is arranged in a layer different from the driving electrode layer; and a first insulating layer, the auxiliary driving electrode layer includes N auxiliary driving electrodes; the N driving electrodes and the N auxiliary driving electrodes are alternately arranged; and the orthographic projection, on the piezoelectric material layer, of an i-th auxiliary driving electrode overlaps with an interval between the orthographic projections, on the piezoelectric material layer, of an i-th driving electrode and an (i+1)-th driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Xiufeng Li, Lei Wang, Yingzi Wang
  • Patent number: 11900847
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a display driver. The display panel has a first pixel structure. The display driver is configured to receive input image data including first data, and generate a driving signal for driving the display panel based on conversion data. The display driver includes a converter configured to convert the first data into the conversion data. The conversion data include conversion data in N rows and M columns. Each of (2K?1)-th column conversion data include first color conversion data representing a first color and second color conversion data representing a second color. Each of 2K-th column conversion data include third color conversion data representing a third color and fourth color conversion data representing the second color. N, M and K are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Jinyoung Roh, Woomi Bae, Hae-Kwan Seo, Youngha Sohn
  • Patent number: 11900713
    Abstract: A display device includes a window on which a fingerprint detection region in which fingerprint information is detected is defined, an optical layer disposed below the window and in which at least one transmission hole overlapping the fingerprint detection region is defined, a protection layer disposed below the optical layer, and a sensor. A refractive index of the protection layer is greater than a refractive index of the window. A distance from the optical layer to the window is less than a distance from the optical layer to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Ryu, Kwanghyun Baek, Jongin Baek, Suyul Seo, Jaehyung Jo, Sungho Jin
  • Patent number: 11900716
    Abstract: An electronic device which has a narrow viewing angle state and a wide viewing angle state includes a diffuser layer, a panel and a light source. The panel is disposed on the diffuser layer. The light source provides a light passing through the panel. In the narrow viewing angle state, the light has a first relative light intensity and a second relative light intensity. The first relative light intensity is the strongest light intensity, and the second relative light intensity is 50% of the strongest light intensity. The first relative light intensity corresponds to an angle of 0°, the second relative light intensity corresponds to a half-value angle, and the half-value angle is between ?15° and 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Kuei-Sheng Chang, Po-Yang Chen, Kuo-Jung Wu, I-An Yao, Wei-Cheng Lee, Hsien-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11887401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display backplane, a method for manufacturing the same and a full-screen fingerprint identification display device. The display backplane includes a substrate; a circuit layer disposed on a surface of the substrate; a light emitting device layer disposed on a surface of the circuit layer away from the substrate; and a plurality of fingerprint identification photodetectors disposed in at least one of the circuit layer and the light emitting device layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Hongfei Cheng, Yongda Ma
  • Patent number: 11886506
    Abstract: A system and method for providing object-level driver attention reasoning with a graph convolution network that include receiving image data associated with a plurality of image clips of a surrounding environment of a vehicle and determining anchor objectness scores and anchor importance scores associated with relevant objects included within the plurality of image clips. The system and method also include analyzing the anchor objectness scores and anchor importance scores associated with relevant objects and determining top relevant objects with respect to an operation of the vehicle. The system and method further include passing object node features and edges of an interaction graph through the graph convolution network to update features of each object node through interaction with other object nodes and determining importance scores for the top relevant objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ashish Tawari, Zehua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11881011
    Abstract: A fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method and an electronic device are provided. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method includes: After detecting a fingerprint input action of a user, an electronic device obtains a fingerprint image generated by the fingerprint input action, and obtains a vibration-sound signal generated by the fingerprint input action. The device determines, based on a fingerprint anti-counterfeiting model, whether the fingerprint input action is performed by a true finger. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting model is a multi-dimensional network model obtained through learning based on fingerprint images for training and corresponding vibration-sound signals. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method in embodiments of this application helps improve a protection capability of the electronic device for a fake fingerprint attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingchao Huang, Shuiping Long, Teng Shi, Bing Chang, Xiaona Zhao, Wenchao Lei
  • Patent number: 11882726
    Abstract: An OLED display panel and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The OLED display panel includes a base plate, a first electrode layer and a pixel definition layer on a first side of the base plate, a plurality of electroluminescent layers on the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer covering the pixel definition layer and the plurality of electroluminescent layers, an encapsulation layer covering the second electrode layer, a black matrix and a color filter layer on the encapsulation layer and a plurality of photosensitive fingerprint sensors on a second side of the base plate; a plurality of light-transmitting holes are arranged in the black matrix, and orthographic projections of the plurality of light-transmitting holes on the second electrode layer are in hollow-out regions of the second electrode layer, respectively; and the photosensitive fingerprint sensors are in the orthographic projections of the light-transmitting holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Gao, Ao Huang, Can Huang, Jiandong Bao, Jiwei Wang