Patents Examined by Chun-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 11924969
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hwa Lim, Sangan Kwon, Kyunho Kim, Yong-Jin Shin, Shimho Yi, Heebum Park
  • Patent number: 11914803
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byungseok Soh, Daeyeon Yun, Eungsik Yoon, Hyeyun Na
  • Patent number: 11910689
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-hwan Park, Miyoung Kim, Jongseok Kim
  • Patent number: 11907466
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Koshiro Hori
  • Patent number: 11907444
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11907441
    Abstract: An information handling system mouse has a plastic chassis that assembles without the use of metal screws to that the mouse more readily breaks down to recycle at end of life. The mouse chassis has a complete perimeter at a bottom side to accept a bottom surface within the interior and having the assembly gap hidden from view under the mouse when in normal use. An inner frame heat stakes to the chassis to provide structural support without metal coupling devices like metal screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11903294
    Abstract: A touch detecting unit comprises first sensor electrodes arranged in a first direction and electrically connected with one another; second sensor electrodes arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and electrically connected with one another, the second sensor electrodes electrically separated from the first sensor electrodes, and third sensor electrodes electrically separated from the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes. Amounts of change in first capacitances between the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes are detected in a first mode. Amounts of change in the first capacitances and amounts of change in a second capacitance between the first sensor electrodes and the third sensor electrodes are detected in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Won Lee, Do Ik Kim, Choon Hyop Lee, Jang Hui Kim, Sang Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11886657
    Abstract: A method of palm rejection is executed by a sensor controller that is connected to a plurality of sensor electrodes and that detects a downlink signal transmitted from an active pen. The method includes determining whether or not a phase of the detected downlink signal matches a phase shared in advance between the sensor controller and the active pen, and outputting, when it is determined that the phases match, a position of the active pen derived on the basis of a distribution of levels of the downlink signal in the plurality of sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 11886653
    Abstract: A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce or minimize loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line, and may repair a defective touch sensor. The device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area, including a plurality of light emission areas, a plurality of touch sensors respectively provided in the plurality of transmissive areas, including a touch sensor electrode, a plurality of touch lines provided in the non-transmissive area and extended in a first direction, a plurality of touch bridge lines provided in the non-transmissive area over the substrate and extended in a second direction to be connected to one of the plurality of touch lines, and a plurality of touch connection portions connecting the plurality of touch bridge lines with the plurality of touch sensors, including a high resistance line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghyeok Im, JaeHee Park, MiReum Lee
  • Patent number: 11875003
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a sensor circuit, a digitizer panel, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: detecting whether an electronic pen is detached from the electronic device via the sensor circuit, activating the digitizer panel based on detecting detachment of the electronic pen from the electronic device, identifying a state of the electronic pen through a communication linkage with the electronic pen via the communication circuit, and deactivate the activated digitizer panel based on the identified state of the electronic pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaehoon Lim, Dusun Choi
  • Patent number: 11869455
    Abstract: Novel methods and systems for compensating for ambient light around displays are disclosed. A shift in the PQ curve applied to an image can compensate for sub-optimal ambient light conditions for a display, with the PQ shift being either an addition to a compensation value in PQ space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in linear space, or an addition to the compensation value in linear space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in PQ space. Further adjustments to the PQ curve can also be made to provide an improved image quality with respect to image luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth G. Pieri, Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz, Jake William Zuena
  • Patent number: 11869439
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, a driving controller and a power voltage generator. The display panel displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to a gate line. The data driver outputs a data voltage to a data line. The driving controller drives display areas of the display panel in different driving frequencies. The power voltage generator outputs a data power voltage to the data driver. The driving controller outputs an output data enable signal including a writing period having an active signal and a holding period having an inactive signal for the respective display areas. The power voltage generator generates the data power voltage having a high power voltage level during the writing period and a low power voltage level in at least a portion of the holding period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Hongsoo Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Bonghyun You, Hyojin Lee, Jaekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 11868571
    Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11868672
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for improving the utilization of an extended display system. Some aspects relate to an extended display generator having an input stream module to generate or receive input streams. Input streams may be generated locally (e.g., by a game engine) or remotely (e.g., from the internet). A function module of the generator provides functions that modify or extract information from the input streams. Then extended display generator applies a template to the input streams and function outputs, defining how such display content is presented to a user. A graphical user interface is used to specify which input streams, functions, and visual template should be used. The extended display shows the selected input stream(s) and the functional output(s) in a format defined by the visual template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Brelyon, Inc.
    Inventors: Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi, Christopher Barsi, Albert Redo Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11862094
    Abstract: A power management driver and a display device having the power management driver are provided, including a first power supply configured to supply a first voltage to a first driving power terminal of a pixel through a power line during a sensing period, and supply a second voltage to the first driving power terminal of the pixel through the power line during a display period; a controller configured to control timing at which the first voltage is output and timing at which the second voltage is output during a transition period between the display period and the sensing period in response to a sensing control signal; and a fault detector configured to detect a fault in the power line based on a current flowing through an output terminal during the sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Sik Lee, Si Duk Sung, Sang Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11853489
    Abstract: An electronic pen of a capacitive system includes a tubular pen casing, which houses an electronic circuit including a signal transmitting circuit that generates a signal to be supplied to a position detecting sensor and which houses a power storage device that provides a supply voltage to the electronic circuit and is chargeable. The electronic pen further includes a first conductor part and a second conductor part that are disposed to be exposed to outside to contactlessly form electric field coupling with power transmitting electrodes of a power transmitting part of an external charging device, to operate as power receiving electrodes. The electronic circuit includes a charging circuit that allows charging of the power storage device by being connected to the first conductor part and the second conductor part, and at least one of the first and second conductor parts is configured by part of the pen casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Horie
  • Patent number: 11847282
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a conductive part, and a first nonconductive part connected to the conductive part, an antenna structure positioned inside the housing, and a pen input device attachable/detachable to/from the housing, wherein the pen input device comprises a second nonconductive part having at least a portion thereof overlapping the first nonconductive part when viewed in a direction in which a main beam of the antenna structure is radiated while the pen input device is attached to the housing, and at least a portion of the at least one antenna element overlaps the first nonconductive part and the second nonconductive part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Jo, Dongyeon Kim, Hosaeng Kim, Seongjin Park, Chaejun Lee, Woomin Jang, Myunghun Jeong
  • Patent number: 11841585
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a backlight module, first and second electrically-controlled elements, electrically-controlled first and second polarizers, a half-wave plate, and a display panel is provided. An included angle between first and second alignment directions of first and second alignment layers of the first electrically-controlled element is between 75 degrees and 105 degrees. An included angle between third and fourth alignment directions of third and fourth alignment layers of the second electrically-controlled element is between 165 degrees and 195 degrees. The half-wave plate is disposed between the second polarizer and the second electrically-controlled element. The display panel is disposed on the second electrically-controlled element. An included angle between an extending direction of prism structures of each of two optical brightness enhancement films of the backlight module and a viewing angle control direction of the display apparatus is less than 45 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Chun-Wei Lee, Jung-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 11841565
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a backlight module, first and second electrically-controlled elements, electrically-controlled first and second polarizers, a half-wave plate, and a display panel is provided. An included angle between first and second alignment directions of first and second alignment layers of the first electrically-controlled element is between 75 degrees and 105 degrees. An included angle between third and fourth alignment directions of third and fourth alignment layers of the second electrically-controlled element is between 165 degrees and 195 degrees. A first absorption axis of the first polarizer disposed between the backlight module and the first electrically-controlled element is perpendicular to a second absorption axis of the second polarizer disposed between the first and second electrically-controlled elements. The half-wave plate is disposed between the second polarizer and the second electrically-controlled element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Chun-Wei Lee, Jung-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 11839451
    Abstract: An interface pressure sensor includes a fluid pressure sensor disposed in a volume defined by a shear wall. The volume is enclosed, and the fluid pressure sensor is encapsulated by, an infill material. The infill material defines a sensing surface that, when pressed, can impart a force that is detectable by the fluid pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert K. Montgomery, II, Chin San Han, Pablo A. Escobar, Zijing Zeng