Patents Examined by Charles V Hicks
  • Patent number: 11226697
    Abstract: A touch substrate and a display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a substrate having a surface including a touch region and a fingerprint recognition region, the touch region and the fingerprint recognition region not overlapping with each other; and a plurality of touch units in the touch region and the fingerprint recognition region, respectively. Each of the touch units in the touch region includes a touch structure. Each of the touch units in the fingerprint recognition region includes a plurality of fingerprint recognition units. Each of the plurality of fingerprint recognition units includes a fingerprint recognition structure, and in a touch mode, each fingerprint recognition structure is multiplexed as a touch structure of each touch unit in the fingerprint recognition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guiyu Zhang, Hongqiang Luo, KwangGyun Jang
  • Patent number: 11226692
    Abstract: A knob device is applicable to a touch panel. The knob device includes a knob cover; and a rotation sensing element. The rotation sensing element includes a base and a plurality of sensing pads connected to the knob cover. The rotation sensing element is arranged between the touch panel and the knob cover. The base is connected to the knob cover. When a user touches the knob device, the touch panel generates a rotation sensing signal in response to a location of the plurality of sensing pads. An orthographic projection of the knob cover on the touch panel is divided into a plurality of parts, the plurality of parts are distributed radially from a center of the orthographic projection of the knob cover, each sensing pad is located in a part and connected to another sensing pad located in another part adjacent to the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Chun-Jen Su, Chun-Kai Chuang, Cheng-Hung Tsai, Wai-Pan Wu
  • Patent number: 11227524
    Abstract: A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided to improve a stability of the shift register unit. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit, a second input circuit, an output circuit, a first pull-down circuit, and a second pull-down circuit and further includes: a first pull-down control circuit configured to control a level of the first pull-down node; a second pull-down control circuit configured to output a voltage of the third voltage terminal to the first pull-down node under the control of the fifth voltage terminal; a third pull-down control circuit configured to control a level of the second pull-down node; and a fourth pull-down control circuit configured to output the voltage of the third voltage terminal to the second pull-down node under the control of the fourth voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Mi, Yanna Xue, Zhiying Bao, Yong Zhang, Lu Bai, Gang Hua, Jingpeng Wang, Haobo Fang
  • Patent number: 11222559
    Abstract: A persistence of vision (PoV) display panel (155) comprises first, second, third, fourth and fifth PoV display units (100) having first, second, third, fourth and fifth display areas (140) respectively. The first, second, third and fourth PoV display units (100) are arranged such that their respective display areas (140) form a 2×2 array in at least one display plane and form a display area void (150) bounded by their respective display areas. The fifth PoV display unit (100) is arranged such that the fifth display area (140) is offset from the at least one display plane and corresponds to the display area void (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Kiryl Chykeyuk, Artsiom Stavenka, Dzmitry Malinouski
  • Patent number: 11217135
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit, a driving method, and a display device is provided. The scan driving circuit includes a first scan unit, a first scan line, a first control circuit, and a first switching circuit. The first scan unit includes a first output terminal configured to output a first scan signal. The first control circuit is connected to the first switching circuit, and the first control circuit is configured to control turn-on or turn-off of the first switching circuit under control of the first control signal. The first scan line is connected to the first output terminal through the first switching circuit, so that the first output terminal is electrically connected to the first scan line when the first switching circuit is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhu, Zhengyuan Zhang, Peng Sui, Can Yuan, Qiao Zhu, Qingqiao Jia, Pengcheng Yao
  • Patent number: 11217185
    Abstract: A display device includes first and second pixel areas spaced apart from each other so that corresponding scan lines are separate from each other, a first non-pixel area at a periphery of the first pixel area, a second non-pixel area at a periphery of the second pixel area and opposite to the first non-pixel area with at least one pixel area interposed therebetween, first scan lines in the first pixel area, second scan lines in the second pixel area, a first scan driver in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan lines, a second scan driver in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan lines, first wires in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan driver, second wires in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan driver; and connecting wires connecting the first wires and second wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jin Tae Jeong, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Min Ku Lee, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 11205397
    Abstract: A data transmission device includes a TypeC interface, a wireless module, a first data transformation chip and a microprocessor, wherein the TypeC interface is connected with the first data transformation chip, the first data transformation chip is connected with the TypeC interface and the microprocessor, and the microprocessor is connected with the wireless module. When the TypeC interface of the data transmission device is inserted into a user's terminal device, the data transmission device automatically obtains media data presented on the screen of the terminal device, and transmits the media data being converted and compressed, using the wireless module, to a data receiving device for presentation of the media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Yanxiong Mu
  • Patent number: 11204618
    Abstract: A joystick includes a casing, a stick body and an optical sensor. The casing has a hole. The stick body is movably disposed on the casing via the hole. The stick body includes a pressing portion, an indication portion and an identification pattern. The indication portion is connected to the pressing portion and inserts into the hole. A sunken structure is formed on a bottom of the indication portion. The identification pattern is disposed on an inner surface of the sunken structure. The optical sensor is disposed inside the casing and faces the sunken structure, and adapted to analyze a movement of the identification pattern to identify a control status of the stick body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Chien Huang, Yen-Hung Wang, Yi-Chung Chen, Hui-Hsuan Chen, Yi-Hsien Ko
  • Patent number: 11204645
    Abstract: According to various embodiment of the disclosure, there is disclosed an electronic device that includes a touch sensor that senses a touch, an actuator, a touch controller that generates a touch event based on a touch signal received from the touch sensor, and a haptic controller, wherein the haptic controller receives the touch event generated from the touch controller through direct communication with the touch controller and drives the actuator in response to the reception of the touch event. In addition, it is possible to implement various embodiment understood through the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Ko, Dae Hyun Yoo, Heon Seok Lee, Eun Mi Cha
  • Patent number: 11199914
    Abstract: A hand controller that includes a control member mounted on a hand held base for commanding a remote vehicle or movement of a virtual object within a virtual environment includes an input device mounted for generating tilt commands for a sensor mounted on the remote vehicle or the virtual object, the input device being located on a front of the base and oriented to be displaced up and down to tilt the sensor or the virtual point of view when the base is held during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Brandon Tran, Radley Angelo, Austin Hill
  • Patent number: 11194407
    Abstract: A hand controller for commanding or controlling a target, such as a remote vehicle or a virtual target, includes a display mounted on a free end of a joystick for indicating graphically a direction of the remote vehicle from the hand controller and an orientation of the target relative to the hand controller's frame of reference, based on the location and orientation of the target received by the hand controller from the target and the location and orientation of the hand controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Radley Angelo, Alina Mercedes Matson, Michael Charles Lui
  • Patent number: 11194539
    Abstract: A communication device includes USB Type-C (USB-C) port to receive a media data presented at a user computing device, a signal converter circuit to convert the media data into a formatted media data, a hardware processor, communicatively coupled to the signal converter and the USB-C port, to compress, according to an encoding scheme, the formatted media data into a compressed media data stream, and a wireless transmission interface to transmit, using a wireless network, the compressed media data stream to a large-format display device for presentation of the media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Yanxiong Mu
  • Patent number: 11194358
    Abstract: A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
  • Patent number: 11182034
    Abstract: A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11181999
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology and provides a touch sensor. The touch sensor is provided with a bonding area for bonding a circuit board, and the bonding area is provided with at least one test pin group for detecting a bonding state of the touch sensor and the circuit board. The test pin group comprises two test pins, the two test pins are short-circuited by a short-circuiting wire, and the short-circuiting wire extends beyond the bonding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Gong, Wenxiao Niu
  • Patent number: 11181976
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of and apparatus for predictive tracking for a head mounted display. The method comprises obtaining one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements from a sensor monitoring the head mounted display and setting a prediction interval based upon the one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements such that the prediction interval is substantially zero when the head mounted display is substantially stationary and the prediction interval increases up to a predetermined latency interval when the head mounted display is moving at an angular velocity of or above a predetermined threshold. The method further includes predicting a three-dimensional orientation for the head mounted display to create a predicted orientation at a time corresponding to the prediction interval, and generating a rendered image corresponding to the predicted orientation for presentation on the head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steve LaValle, Peter Giokaris
  • Patent number: 11183152
    Abstract: A method for compensating for a brightness of an abnormal pixel of a display device is provided. The display device includes a plurality of normal pixels. The method includes: enhancing a brightness of at least one of the normal pixels to compensate for the brightness of the abnormal pixel. The at least one of the normal pixels has a same color as the abnormal pixel, and is adjacent to the abnormal pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chia Shih, Chin-Lung Ting, Chi-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11175726
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) enables a user to access a set of options relating to an element of the UI by contacting a region of a touchscreen, or hovering a feature over the region, associated with that element. Upon contacting or hovering for at least a determined period of time, an arranged set of options is displayed and the user can swipe or move the feature in a specified direction to select a specific option. The options can be the same for each instance of a type of item. When a user learns the direction of one of these options, the user does not have to contact or hover long enough to bring up the menu, but can contact or hover long enough to indicate the element of interest and then perform the appropriate motion, which can cause the action to be performed without first displaying the menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Mark R. Privett
  • Patent number: 11175786
    Abstract: A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base layer including a first region and a second region, a touch sensing electrode layer disposed on the first region of the base layer, the touch sensing electrode layer including a plurality of touch sensing unit electrodes having openings formed therein, and a fingerprint sensing electrode layer including a plurality of fingerprint sensing unit electrodes disposed on the second region of the base layer. A space having the same shape as that of the openings is formed between neighboring fingerprint sensing unit electrodes of the plurality of fingerprint sensing unit electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DONGWOOD FINE-CHEM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Dong Pil Park, Ju In Yoon, Jae Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11163385
    Abstract: A device for use with a touchscreen or a touch-enabled computing device. The device includes a first layer, a second layer and an attachment device. The first layer has a first set of characteristics. The second layer has a second set of characteristics with at least one or more characteristics differing from that of the first layer. The attachment device is configured to combine the first and second layers about an outer periphery and at a second internal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Boston Inventions, LLC
    Inventor: Samuel David Provencher