Patents Examined by Christopher R. Lamb
  • Patent number: 11966546
    Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, a touch sensing layer, a light guide module and a display panel. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the base layer. The light guide module is disposed on the touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is located between the light guide module and the display panel, and the touch sensing layer and one of the light guide module and the display panel have no adhesive material therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Cheng Lin, Chia-I Liu, Kun-Hsien Lee, Hung-Wei Tseng
  • Patent number: 11954283
    Abstract: A sensor array (10) comprising a plurality of touch sensitive pixels, each pixel (12) comprising a capacitive sensing electrode (14) and a reference capacitor (16) connected in series with the capacitive sensing electrode (14) to provide an indicator voltage that is indicative of the proximity of a conductive object to be sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOUCH BIOMETRIX LIMITED
    Inventors: Henricus Derckx, Wilhelmus Van Lier, Michael A Cowin
  • Patent number: 11951836
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle instrument panel, including: a plurality of displays; a cover glass covering the plurality of displays; and a first frame of a metal material that supports the plurality of displays by being press-fitted to the cover glass with the plurality of displays interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyungpil Kang, Yongjoon Sohn
  • Patent number: 11928288
    Abstract: An operation input device including: a first detection section including a first detection surface that detects a position at which a detection target is touching or within a predetermined distance, the first detection section outputting a first signal representing the position; an operation control section that controls a first operation target based on the first signal; an operation determination section that outputs a second signal only when it has determined that the detection target has moved along the first detection surface; and a switching control section that switches the operation control section between an operation enabled state in which control of the first operation target is enabled, and an operation prevented state in which control of the first operation target is prevented, the switching control section switching from the operation prevented state to the operation enabled state in a case in which the second signal has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Kozono, Shu Nakajima, Takeshi Nawata, Hiroshi Kato
  • Patent number: 11899864
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes: a plurality of first sensor electrodes, each including first sensor patterns extending in a first direction, and being arranged in a second direction; a plurality of second sensor electrodes, each including second sensor patterns extending in the second direction and being arranged in the first direction; an opening in a touch active region separated from the first and second sensor electrodes; a first connection pattern disposed around but not in the opening, the first pattern electrically connecting first opening sensor patterns of the first sensor patterns that are adjacent to respective portions of the opening in the second direction; first lines respectively connected to portions of the first sensor electrodes, the first lines extending to a periphery of the touch active region; and second lines respectively connected to portions of the second sensor electrodes, the second lines extending to the periphery of the touch active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Ki Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 11886664
    Abstract: A touch display and a sensing method are provided. The touch display includes a substrate, a display array disposed on the substrate and having an upper layer which includes a shielding metal layer, a touch sensor disposed above the display array, and a controller coupled to the display array and the touch sensor. The controller is configured to enable the display array to display and obtain a first sensing result from the touch sensor during a first time interval, and disable the display array and obtain a second sensing result from the touch sensor during a second time interval. According to the first sensing result and the second sensing result, a touch determination result of whether the touch display receives a touch from a user is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hsien Chu, Chun-Chi Lai, Ching-Sheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11884205
    Abstract: A messaging system includes a message board and a remote communicatively coupled to the message board and configured for receiving a user input. In the system, the remote is configured to transmit a message to the message board with instructions for displaying a message based on the user input. In some configurations, the messaging system can be installed in a vehicle. In such configuration, the message board can be communicatively coupled to an on-board diagnostics port of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MOD Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: John Stanley, Nina Stanley, Harsha Venna, Matthew Healy, Harshit Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11878586
    Abstract: An information display apparatus and a spatial sensing apparatus for the information display apparatus are provided, the information display apparatus enabling the selection/change of the lot of display images in small point-of-view motion so that an interactive function for a driver is achieved. An information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle includes: an information display apparatus displaying image information onto an image display region on a forward part of a driver seat of the vehicle; and a spatial sensing means detecting positional information of instruction made by a driver in a spatial region between the driver seat and the displayed image display region, and the information display apparatus includes a means displaying the instruction made by the driver onto the image display region on the forward part in response to the positional information of the instruction made by the driver, detected by the spatial sensing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Koji Fujita, Eiji Takagi
  • Patent number: 11836322
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing and a strain sensor group attached on a wall of the housing. The strain sensor group includes at least one strain sensor each configured to detect deformation of the wall in a single direction. When a user presses the housing, the strain sensor group detects deformation of the wall and generates a detection signal indicating direction and magnitude of deformation of the wall. At least one analog-to-digital converter converts the detection signal into a digital signal, and a controller triggers a first event in the electronic device based on the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GOERTEK TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotada Taniuchi, Katsunori Ishimiya, Kenichiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 11829550
    Abstract: A touch display screen is disclosed. The touch module in the touch display screen includes: touch electrodes and touch trace lines. The touch trace lines are all disposed along an edge of the display region. At least part of the touch trace lines include: a first sub trace line and a second sub trace line connected with the first sub trace line. The first sub trace line is in the protrusion sub-region, and the second sub trace line extends to the display region and is electrically connected with the touch electrodes in the display region. An included angle between the first sub trace line and the second sub trace line is greater than 0. An included angle between an angle bisector of the included angle and a weak light leakage direction of the anti-reflection layer is smaller than or equal to 15 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuefei Sun
  • Patent number: 11809213
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for performing duty cycle control operations for a wearable extended reality appliance are disclosed. Performing the duty cycle control operations includes receiving data representing virtual content in an extended reality environment associated with a wearable extended reality appliance; identifying in the extended reality environment a first display region and a second display region separated from the first display region; determining a first duty cycle configuration for the first display region; determining a second duty cycle configuration for the second display region, wherein the second duty cycle configuration differs from the first duty cycle configuration; and causing the wearable extended reality appliance to display the virtual content in accordance with the determined first duty cycle configuration for the first display region and the determined second duty cycle configuration for the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MULTINARITY LTD
    Inventors: Oded Noam, Tomer Kahan, Tamir Berliner
  • Patent number: 11810533
    Abstract: A display device whose aspect ratio can be changed is provided. The display device includes a plurality of display units and a plurality of driver circuit units. The plurality of display units each include a light-emitting portion and a connection region. The plurality of driver circuit units each include a driver circuit portion and a connection region. The connection regions of the adjacent units overlap with each other and one shaft passes through the connection regions. The adjacent units are electrically connected to each other with the one shaft. With such a structure, an angle between the adjacent units electrically connected to each other with one shaft can be changed, which enables the aspect ratio of the display device to be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Chida
  • Patent number: 11803262
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic module which outputs or receives a signal, an electronic panel that is divided into a first area overlapping the electronic module, a second area which surrounds at least a portion of the first area, and a third area adjacent to the second area in a plan view, a window on the electronic panel, an anti-reflection member between the window and the electronic panel, and an adhesive layer between the window and the anti-reflection member. A hole which overlaps at least a portion of the first area is defined in the anti-reflection member, and the adhesive layer fills the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younghye Son, Sang-Gu Lee, Onnuri Kim, Junghoon Shin
  • Patent number: 11778874
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having display pixels formed in an active area of the display. The display further includes display driver circuitry for driving gate lines that are routed across the display. A hole such as a through hole, optical window, or other inactive region may be formed within the active area of the display. Multiple gate lines carrying the same signal may be merged together prior to being routed around the hole to help minimize the routing line congestion around the border of the hole. Dummy circuits may be coupled to the merged segment portion to help increase the parasitic loading on the merged segments. The hole may have a tapered shape to help maximize the size of the active area. The hole may have an asymmetric shape to accommodate multiple sub-display sensor components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Yuchi Che, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Jiun-Jye Chang, Shih Chang Chang, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 11768552
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning signal lines; a drive electrode that faces the pixel electrodes; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes including a detection electrode pattern of a transparent conductive body that faces the drive electrode. The detection electrode pattern includes one or more slits each of which is a region where the transparent conductive body is not present. The slits of the detection electrode pattern of the touch detection electrodes extend in a direction different from an extending direction of the scanning signal lines with a slit pitch having a predetermined interval therebetween in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines. The slit pitch is multiples of a natural number of a predetermined pixel pitch in which the pixel electrodes are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koichiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 11768536
    Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle operations based on user orientation and user interaction data is provided. The method includes detecting, using a sensor operating in conjunction with the computing device of the vehicle, an orientation of a part of a user relative to a location on a display that is positioned in an interior of the vehicle, detecting, using an additional sensor, an interaction between the user and a portion of the display positioned in the interior of the vehicle, determining, using the computing device, whether a distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies a threshold, and controlling, by the computing device, an operation associated with the vehicle responsive to determining that the distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Mikio David
  • Patent number: 11747927
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a light-emitting function layer, a second substrate, an optical adhesive layer and a polarizer stacked in sequence. The display panel further includes a touch-control driving plate disposed on a surface of a first portion of the second substrate facing away from the light-emitting function layer. The first portion of the second substrate is in the non-display area. The optical adhesive layer covers a second portion of the touch-control driving plate. The second portion of the touch-control driving plate covered by the optical adhesive layer includes a thinned portion and a non-thinned portion. Along a first direction of the display area to the touch-control driving plate, the thinned portion and the non-thinned portion are arranged in sequence; a thickness of the thinned portion is less than a thickness of the non-thinned portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xianzhu Deng, Shuihu Xiong, Kai Feng, Chia-huan Chang
  • Patent number: 11726324
    Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a wake control system. The head-mounted display unit provides content to a user and is operable in a low-power state and a high-power state that consumes more power to provide the content to the user than the low-power state. The wake control system determines when to operate in the high-power state. The wake control system may assess a first wake criterion with low power, assess a second wake criterion with higher power than the first wake criterion upon satisfaction of the first wake criterion, and cause the head-mounted display unit to operate in the high-power state upon satisfaction of the second wake criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Fletcher R. Rothkopf, David A. Kalinowski, Jae Hwang Lee, Avi Bar-Zeev, Grant H. Mulliken, Paul Meade, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Ray L. Chang, Arthur Y. Zhang
  • Patent number: 11720191
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a sealing member disposed in the non-display area and coupling the first substrate to the second substrate; a sensing contact area disposed at an inner side of the sealing member; a sensing signal line disposed in the sensing contact area; a sensing contact pattern disposed in the sensing contact area and electrically connected to the sensing signal line; a control signal line disposed between the first substrate and the sensing signal line; and a shielding pattern disposed between the control signal line and the sensing signal line, the shielding pattern overlapping the control signal line or the sensing signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Jun Jo, Kwang Chui Jung, Dong Soo Kim, Mi Na Kim
  • Patent number: 11709381
    Abstract: A heads-up display may comprise a viewing screen having a reflective surface; a housing defining an opening; a display element disposed within the housing and comprising an integral linear polarizer configured to polarize light in a first direction; and a first linear polarizer disposed between the display element and the viewing screen covering the opening defined by the housing configured to polarize light in the first direction. The display element may be capable of causing images to be displayed on the viewing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David J. Cammenga, Adam R. Heintzelman, Gary J. Dozeman, Ryan B. Balili