Patents Examined by Chun-Nan Lin
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Patent number: 11983365Abstract: An electronic device includes a capacitive sense array and is coupled to a stylus including a conductive tip and a conductive wire module. The conductive tip and wire module of the stylus are driven by a tip drive signal and a wire drive signal simultaneously. The tip and wire drive signals have a single stylus drive frequency. While the conductive tip and wire module are driven by the tip and wire drive signals, the electronic device scans the capacitive sense array to obtain a plurality of capacitive sense signals from a plurality of sense electrodes of the capacitive sense array. The electronic device generates a composite image of the capacitive sense array based on the plurality of capacitive sense signals and processes the composite image to determine one or more orientation parameters (e.g., a tilt angle) of the stylus with respect to a surface of the capacitive sense array.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTDInventors: Yi Ling, Pete Vavaroutsos, Roel Coppoolse
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Patent number: 11978747Abstract: A touch screen panel using a thin film transistor (TFT) photodetector includes a touch panel including a plurality of unit patterns for sensing light reflected by a touch by using a TFT photodetector including an active layer formed of amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon on an amorphous transparent material, and a controller configured to scan the plurality of unit patterns and read touch coordinates as a result of the scanning.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Inventor: Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11977690Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Noboru Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11977701Abstract: A sensor panel includes a detection area and is coupleable to an integrated circuit (IC) for detecting a position of an active stylus in the detection area. The sensor panel includes a plurality of first electrodes which are elongated and extending along a first direction in the detection area, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are arrayed along a second direction that is transverse to the first direction; a plurality of first routing traces associated respectively with the first electrodes and connected respectively to the first electrodes; and a plurality of first terminals associated respectively with the first routing traces and connecting the first routing traces to the IC. The first routing traces include extension lines formed in an area farther distanced from the first terminals along the second direction, than locations of junctions between the first routing traces and the first electrodes relative to the first terminals.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
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Patent number: 11972066Abstract: An information handling system mouse has a variable speed scroll wheel with magnetic tactile response. A ferromagnetic wheel coupled to the scroll wheel and having spikes and valleys interacts with a magnetic field of magnet as the scroll wheel rotates to resist rotation in variable amounts. The magnetic field is selectively removed to reduce the tactile response, such as by disengaging a magnet from a magnetic focus lens that directs the magnetic field, moving an opposing magnet into contact with the magnetic focus lens that cancels the magnetic field and moving the magnet away from the ferromagnetic wheel.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Patent number: 11972850Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide hands-free medication tracking. A method includes providing an augmented reality device attachable to a face of a user. The method also includes determining, using one or more sensors of the augmented reality device, a user action to be carried out with respect to a medication. The method also includes presenting, via a display interface of the augmented reality device, a visual indicator to assist with the user action. The method also includes confirming, via the one or more sensors of the augmented reality device, a completion of the user action. The method also includes sending, via a communication interface of the augmented reality device, an update message to a server indicating the completion of the user action, wherein the update message causes the server to update a medication inventory in a database.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: John Langan, Evan Chen
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Patent number: 11972084Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel, a cover member overlapping the touch panel, and a controller. The controller includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a pointer, based on a signal value obtained from a position detection electrode, an amplification processing unit configured to perform amplification processing on at least one signal value in a pressing force detection range corresponding to the position of the pointer detected by the position detection unit among signal values obtained from a pressing force detection electrode, and a pressing force detection unit configured to calculate magnitude of a pressing force generated by the pointer, based on a signal value after the amplification processing being a signal value in the pressing force detection range including a signal value obtained by amplification by the amplification processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Shinji Yamagishi, Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11966535Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensor that is disposed on the display panel and that includes sensing electrodes, a master readout circuit that is electrically connected with a first portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates first reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the first portion of the sensing electrodes, and a slave readout circuit that is electrically connected with the a second portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates second reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the second portion of the sensing electrodes. The master readout circuit provides a synchronization signal to the slave readout circuit, and the slave readout circuit operates in response to the synchronization signal and provides a sensing signal corresponding to the second reception signals to the master readout circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sanghyun Lim, Youngsik Kim
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Patent number: 11960684Abstract: A light-emitting touch panel includes a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a shading plate and a cover plate. The light emitting element has a first height in a first direction. The shading plate has a plurality of spacing regions corresponding to the light emitting elements, respectively. A first width is provided between two partition walls of each spacing region in a second direction. Each partition wall has a second height in the first direction, and the second height is greater than the first height. The cover plate has a light-transmitting region, the light emitted by the light-emitting elements passes through the light-transmitting region, and a bright region is formed on the top surface of the cover plate away from the shading plate, wherein a second width of the bright region in the second direction is related to the second height and the first width.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chen-Hao Chiu
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Patent number: 11948529Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of gate lines. The plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in an array in a row direction and a column direction, and each row of sub-pixels includes sub-pixels of a first color, sub-pixels of a second color and sub-pixels of a third color. The plurality of gate lines includes first gate lines and second gate lines alternately arranged in the column direction, a first gate line and a second gate line adjacent to each other form a gate line pair, and two gate lines in the gate line pair are coupled to a same row of sub-pixels. In the same row of sub-pixels, sub-pixels of the first color are coupled to the first gate line.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaona Liu, Yu Ma, Weitao Chen
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Patent number: 11947759Abstract: With a projection device, a projection system including the projection device and a display device receives an image from the display device, projects the received image onto a projection target, captures a range including the projection target, and transmits the captured image to the display device. With the display device, the projection system receives the captured image from the projection device, displays the received captured image on the display, generates a drawing image based on a drawing operation, and transmits the generated drawing image to the projection device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Eiji Morikuni
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Patent number: 11941193Abstract: The disclosed technology controls a digital inking device by communicating electrostatic inking signals between the digital inking device and an ink-receiving computing device in an inking mode enabling the digital inking device to render digital ink in a display of the ink-receiving computing device via the electrostatic inking signals, detecting proximity of a peripheral communication device relative to the digital inking device, transitioning the digital inking device from the inking mode to a non-inking mode that terminates communication of the electrostatic inking signals between the digital inking device and the ink-receiving computing device, based at least in part on the detecting operation, and communicating electrostatic data signals in the non-inking mode between the digital inking device and the peripheral communication device in the non-inking mode, based at least in part on the transitioning to the non-inking mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nir David, Assaf Bar Ness, Roei Avraham Halokhem, Arie Yehuda Gur, Oren Istrin, Anton Gorbanev
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Patent number: 11934589Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a mouse device (102) through pressure detection, and further proposes a corresponding mouse device (102). Pressure detected between the mouse device (102) and an operation surface (104) may be obtained. An operating state corresponding to the pressure may be determined. The mouse device (102) may be configured to the operating state.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Masaaki Fukumoto, Hao Zhuang, Jianjun Ju, Paul Kos, Nicolas Schmitt
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Patent number: 11928289Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel includes following operations: entering a first touch sensing process and performing a non-water mode; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; entering a second touch sensing process and performing a water mode when there is water detected on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process; and entering the first touch sensing process and performing the non-water mode when there is no water detected on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Ting-Yu Chan
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Patent number: 11927993Abstract: A biomechanically optimizing mobile device use system having a mobile computer device with readable storage and a display; an orientation determination system included with the mobile device and adapted to determine a position of the mobile device; and, an operating system that, when the mobile device is powered on and upon each repositioning of the mobile device, is adapted to: determine a current position, determine a reference position relative to one of a vertical position and a face down position, determine a stress angle of the mobile device according to a difference between the current position and the reference position, and, actuate a user notification according to a determination that the stress angle exceeds a predetermined angle for a predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: UpBright LLCInventor: Shawn LaBelle
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Patent number: 11924969Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a first circuit board, a control unit disposed on the first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a coupling film which electrically couples the control unit and the second circuit board to each other. The coupling film includes a first coupling part including a first region attached to the first circuit board, and a second region overlapping the display panel when viewed in a thickness direction of the display panel, a second coupling part including a third region attached to the second circuit board, and a fourth region overlapping the display panel when viewed in the thickness direction of the display panel, and a third coupling part coupled to each of the second region and the fourth region to electrically couple the first coupling part and the second coupling part to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyung-Hwa Lim, Sangan Kwon, Kyunho Kim, Yong-Jin Shin, Shimho Yi, Heebum Park
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Patent number: 11914803Abstract: An example electronic device may determine relative position information of the remote control device to the electronic device; calculate a yaw angle of an aiming direction of the remote control device in a global coordinate system based on coordinates of the remote control device and on the electronic device; and based on the coordinates and the yaw angle, determine a target device to be controlled by the remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byungseok Soh, Daeyeon Yun, Eungsik Yoon, Hyeyun Na
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Patent number: 11910689Abstract: A display device including a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area defined outside the display area, a circuit layer disposed on the substrate, a device layer disposed on the display area, an encapsulation layer covering the device layer, a touch sensing unit including at least one touch insulating layer disposed on the encapsulation layer, touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation layer, and touch signal lines connected to the touch electrodes, a first section disposed in the peripheral area and including a first part having a first thickness, a second part having a second thickness less than the first thickness and overlapping the touch signal lines, and an intermediate part connecting the first part and the second part and being inclined, and a first thickening pattern overlapping at least the intermediate part.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong-hwan Park, Miyoung Kim, Jongseok Kim
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Patent number: 11907466Abstract: A display apparatus includes circuitry to display, on a display, a display component along with an object. The display component indicates a presence of information that is additional information corresponding to the display component and related to the object. The circuitry displays, in response to receiving a selection of the display component, an information display section that includes the information, along with the display component and the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Koshiro Hori
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Patent number: 11907444Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes a sliding power button on a bottom surface that slides to actuate a power switch on and off. When slid to an on position, the sliding power button is freed to move inward to actuate a tactile button under the sliding power button, such as with an end user inward push. In the off position the sliding power button catches under lip that prevents an inward push at the tactile button. Dual motion of the sliding power button offers intuitive varied end user interactions with a single button structure to save space at the mouse bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb