Patents Examined by Abdul-Samad A Adediran
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11875596
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes an opposing substrate, an array substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The array substrate includes: a first base substrate; a color film layer, includes a black matrix and a plurality of color resistors, the black matrix includes a plurality of pixel openings and a plurality of first light transmitting holes, and color resistors is arranged one pixel opening correspondingly; and photosensitive sensors, arranged between the color film layer and the first base substrate, orthographic projections of the plurality of photosensitive sensors on the first base substrate are in an orthographic projection of the black matrix on the first base substrate, and the orthographic projection of each of the plurality of photosensitive sensors on the first base substrate covers an orthographic projection of at least one the plurality of first light transmitting holes on the first base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Shi, Hongrun Wang, Fuqiang Li, Wenqu Liu
  • Patent number: 11869382
    Abstract: A method of supporting self-learning and a system for performing the method are disclosed. The method includes estimating an object of interest of a user in content based on user performance information inputted by the user in response to content situation information and the content being received from a learning module including the content, analyzing the content situation information, determining whether to generate support information for supporting the user to perform the content based on the estimated object of interest and the analyzed content situation information, and generating the support information that allows the user to self-learn the content according to whether to generate the support information, and outputting the support information to the learning module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sungjin Hong, Hee Sook Shin, Youn-Hee Gil, Seong Min Baek, Cho-rong Yu
  • Patent number: 11871634
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a display device for suppressing reflected light includes a driving circuit and a display region which includes a plurality of pixels. In one example embodiment, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel having a first light emitting element which includes a first light emitting portion having a first layer surface. In one example embodiment, first pixel includes a second light emitting element which includes a second light emitting portion having a second, different layer surface. In one example embodiment, the first pixel includes a third light emitting element which includes a third light emitting portion having a third, different layer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 11867993
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device having a fingerprint recognition function. The display device includes: a light source; a fingerprint recognition component including a finger contact substrate, the light source and the finger contact substrate having a gap therebetween; and a light guiding layer at least partially filling the gap and configured to guide light emitted by the light source towards the finger contact substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoquan Hai
  • Patent number: 11869451
    Abstract: Methods for driving color electrophoretic displays including a plurality of display pixels capable of producing a set of primary colors. The method comprises defining a separation cumulate threshold array and using the separation cumulate threshold array to identify areas of the electrophoretic display that are better suited for dithering and not dithering the areas of the electrophoretic display that exceed the separation cumulate threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Crounse
  • Patent number: 11861931
    Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor, a manufacturing method thereof and an electronic device are provided. The piezoelectric sensor includes a substrate, an active layer, the active layer being disposed at a side of the substrate: a first electrode, the first electrode being disposed at a side of the active laver a wav from the substrate, and the first electrode including a plurality of sub-electrodes disposed at intervals: a piezoelectric layer, the piezoelectric layer being disposed at a side of the first electrode away from the active layer; and a second electrode, the second electrode being disposed at a side of the piezoelectric layer away from the first electrode. The active layer is configured to be capable of switching between an insulating state and a conducting state, and in the conducting state the active layer is capable of conducting the plurality of sub-electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Lei Wang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11861934
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driving method of a display device which includes driving a display panel, which includes a pixel and a fingerprint sensor and displays a static image and a dynamic Image, at a first frequency, and driving the display panel at a second frequency lower than the first frequency for the purpose of sensing a finger and reading a fingerprint through the fingerprint sensor. The driving of the display panel at the second frequency includes driving the display panel at a (2-1)-th frequency when the display panel senses the fingerprint and displays the dynamic image, and driving the display panel at a (2-2)-th frequency different in value from the (2-1)-th frequency when the display panel senses the fingerprint and displays the static image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soongyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11853520
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit including an active area configured to display an image, a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, and an input sensing unit disposed on the display unit within the active area. The input sensing unit includes a first sensing electrode disposed in the active area and a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode and disposed in the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunsol Seo, Hyun-Wook Cho, Jaewoo Choi, Taejoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11837159
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, and a method of driving the display device are provided. The display panel can operate in a first mode for displaying an image including a plurality of frames based on a first driving frequency, or in a second mode for displaying the image including the plurality of frames based on a second driving frequency different from the first driving frequency. The image displayed on the display panel operating in the first mode is changed from a first image in which the number of pixels representing a low gray level among the plurality of pixels is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, to a second image in which the number of pixels representing a high gray level among the plurality of pixels is equal to or greater than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HyunKyo Lim, DongSup Sim
  • Patent number: 11830168
    Abstract: A method for improved compression and filtering of images for foveated transport applications. The improvements including calculating along at least one axis of the full-resolution image data set, the distance from the foveal point to edges of full-resolution image data set, calculating the distance from each edge of the full resolution data set to the closest point on a foveal region surrounding the foveal point, calculating the distribution of available space in the adjacent peripheral regions of the image using a compression parameter, and calculating a compression curve wherein the compression of both adjacent peripheral regions is such that neither side of the adjacent peripheral regions are compressed more than the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Alexey Bezugly, Dennis RĂ¥dell, Ritchie Brannan
  • Patent number: 11823624
    Abstract: A pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to control a driving current provided to the light emitting element, and an initialization transistor configured to provide a first initialization voltage to a gate of the driving transistor, and turned on in response to an initialization gate signal. A voltage level of the first initialization voltage in a blank period of a low-frequency driving mode is higher than a voltage level of the first initialization voltage in the blank period of a high-frequency driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoungjin Park, Jongwon Park
  • Patent number: 11823605
    Abstract: An electronic device including a plurality of pixels and a driving element is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The driving element drives each first sub-pixel of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Tsai, You-Cheng Lu, Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Wei-Yen Chiu
  • Patent number: 11804066
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in a matrix having a row-column configuration in a detection area of a substrate, and an initialization circuit configured to apply an initialization potential to each of the detection elements. The initialization circuit has a first mode to apply a same initialization potential to all the detection elements and a second mode to apply different initialization potentials to the detection elements adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko Fujisawa, Takaaki Kono
  • Patent number: 11804181
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines; a data driving circuit configured to supply data signals to the plurality of data lines; a gate driving circuit configured to supply gate signals to the plurality of gate lines; and a power supply circuit configured to supply a first body voltage and a second body voltage having a voltage level that is less than the first body voltage to the plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being selectively supplied with the first body voltage and the second body voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsung Cho, Byeong-Seong So
  • Patent number: 11804026
    Abstract: A device for processing data sequences by means of a convolutional neural network is configured to carry out the following steps: receiving an input sequence comprising a plurality of data items captured over time using a sensor, each of said data items comprising a multi-dimensional representation of a scene, generating an output sequence representing the input sequence processed item-wise by the convolutional neural network, wherein generating the output sequence comprises: generating a grid-generation sequence based on a combination of the input sequence and an intermediate grid-generation sequence representing a past portion of the output sequence or the grid-generation sequence, generating a sampling grid on the basis of the grid-generation sequence, generating an intermediate output sequence by sampling from the past portion of the output sequence according to the sampling grid, and generating the output sequence based on a weighted combination of the intermediate output sequence and the input sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Weimeng Zhu, Yu Su, Christian Nunn
  • Patent number: 11804172
    Abstract: A display device includes connection lines, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data lines configured to receive pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltages, PWM data lines configured to receive the PWM data voltages, a first connection control line configured to receive a first connection control signal, a second connection control line configured to receive a second connection control signal, subpixels connected to the PWM data lines and the PAM data lines, and a first demultiplexer (demux) unit configured to connect the connection lines to the PAM data lines or to the PWM data lines according to the first connection control signal and the second connection control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hwan Hwang, Hyun Joon Kim, Kye Uk Lee, Jun Ki Jeong, Sang Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 11798466
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel configured to display an image, a scan driving circuit configured to supply a scan signal to the display panel, and a data driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel. The data driving circuit can include a data controller configured to vary an output timing of the data voltage based on independent control for each of at least one latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Won Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 11798308
    Abstract: Some disclosed implementations include an ultrasonic sensor stack and an acoustic resonator. The acoustic resonator may be configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in an ultrasonic frequency range that is suitable for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors. In some examples, the acoustic resonator may include one or more low-impedance layers residing between a first higher-impedance layer and a second higher-impedance layer. Each of the one or more low-impedance layers may have a lower acoustic impedance than an acoustic impedance of the first higher-impedance layer or an acoustic impedance of the second higher-impedance layer. At least one low-impedance layer may have a thickness corresponding to a multiple of a half wavelength at a peak frequency of the acoustic resonator. The peak frequency may be within a frequency range from 1 MHz. to 20 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jessica Liu Strohmann, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Nai-Kuei Kuo, Yipeng Lu, Ali Lopez, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev