Patents Examined by Darlene M Ritchie
  • Patent number: 11927878
    Abstract: Provided is a projection screen. The projection screen includes a first transparent cover plate, a transparent touch panel, and a first nanoparticle layer, wherein the first nanoparticle layer and the first transparent cover plate are sequentially laminated on one side of the transparent touch panel, and the first nanoparticle layer comprises a plurality of dispersed nanoparticles of different particle sizes. A method for manufacturing a projection screen, a projection display system, and a projection display method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyun Tong, Yu Zhang, Zhuolong Li, Xuefei Qin, Junning Su
  • Patent number: 11914781
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive user input device comprising: a first electrode layer comprising a first plurality of electrodes; a second electrode layer comprising a second plurality of electrodes; an insulating layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and at least one piezoelectric transducer, wherein an electrode of the at least one piezoelectric transducer is coupled to the first plurality of electrodes of the first electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Doy
  • Patent number: 11914814
    Abstract: A touch driving circuit and a touch display device are disclosed. A group sensing control switch connected between lines connected to sensing units included in a touch driving circuit is disposed, thereby providing a structure in which one sensing unit can drive a touch electrode driven by another sensing unit. One sensing unit simultaneously drives two or more touch electrodes according to an operation state of a group sensing control switch to perform touch sensing, thereby providing a touch driving circuit and a touch display device capable of maintaining the resolution of touch sensing and improving touch sensitivity according to a driving environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HyongHwan Kim, JinBong Chung, Sunkyung Shin
  • Patent number: 11914800
    Abstract: An information handling stylus housing defines an expansion bay that accepts conforming replaceable modules to support a variety of different functions, such as a trigger, a capacitive touch input area, a haptic output film and an extra battery. The replaceable module couples into the replacement bay with magnetic attraction and a pin to hole interface. A set of pogo pins extending up from the main circuit board of the stylus contacts pads of the replaceable module to provide power and communication support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Suet Chan Law, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11907526
    Abstract: A touch region adjustment method includes: determining a region on a touch display of a terminal device and in which a sensing parameter changes to determine a grasping gesture of a user for the terminal device; and adjusting a location of a touch response region on the touch display based on the grasping gesture of the user for the electronic device to avoid an accidental touch caused by the grasping gesture of the user for the screen of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hang Li, Weigang Cai, Junyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11899876
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus includes drive electrodes, comprising at least first and second electrodes; a receiver electrode; drive circuitry configured to generate first and second time-varying voltage signals, wherein the time-varying voltage signals are the inverse of one another; and control circuitry that performs a first measurement on the receiver electrode during a first time period, wherein the control circuitry supplies at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the first time period; and perform a second measurement on the at least one receiver electrode during a second time period, wherein the control circuitry is configured to supply at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the second time period; and determine a resultant signal corresponding to the mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the receiver electrode based on both the first measurement and the second measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TouchNetix Limited
    Inventors: Peter Timothy Sleeman, Stephen William Roberts
  • Patent number: 11893297
    Abstract: In the display control device according to the present embodiment, a first index and a second index are assigned to a plurality of first still images and a plurality of second still images, respectively, such that the feature points having periodic movements correspond between the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; a first animation included in a first display screen and a second animation included in a second display screen are displayed by means of continuous playback of the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; when there is a transition from the first display screen to the second display screen, a pre-transition image, which is the first still image immediately before the screen transition, is displayed, the second index corresponding to the first index assigned to the pre-transition image is selected to play back the second still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Amano
  • Patent number: 11894150
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing multi-scaled capture type vacuum pumping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Van Drie
  • Patent number: 11867909
    Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, having at least two parallel major surfaces, edges and an output aperture, an optical element for coupling light waves into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one redirecting element positioned outside of the substrate, and at least one reflecting surface having at least one active side located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, wherein light waves trapped inside the substrate are coupled out from the substrate through the output aperture substantially inclined in relation to the normal to the substrate major surfaces and are reflected from the redirecting element into a viewer's eye, and wherein the redirecting element is a single flat reflecting surface parallel to the major surfaces of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Menachem Amitai
  • Patent number: 11868555
    Abstract: A processing system configured to detect an input object proximate the processing system. The processing system includes sensor circuitry configured to make a determination, when the processing system is in a low ground mass (LGM) state, that a large object is proximate to sensor electrodes of the processing system. The sensor circuitry is further configured, in response to a determination that a large object is proximate the sensor electrodes while the processing system is in the LGM state, to drive a first group of sensor electrodes with one of an inverted signal or a non-inverted signal and drive a second group of sensor electrodes with a static DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk Hargreaves, Guozhong Shen, Ching-Hsung Wang, Guan-Hua Cao
  • Patent number: 11868560
    Abstract: A sensor device of the present invention includes first sensors; second sensors forming capacitance with the first sensors; a multi-frequency generator generating a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal having different frequencies; a sensor transmitter supplying first driving signals based on the first frequency signal to first sensors of a first group among the first sensors, supplying second driving signals based on the second frequency signal to first sensors of a second group among the first sensors, and simultaneously supplying the first driving signals and the second driving signals; and a sensor receiver simultaneously receiving sensing signals from the second sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keum Dong Jung, Ji Woong Kim, Hyung Gun Ma, Kyung Tea Park, Moon Jae Jeong, Sang Hyun Heo
  • Patent number: 11861104
    Abstract: A touch sensing device is connected to a plurality of touch sensors to drive the plurality of touch sensors and to receive a sensing signal. The touch sensing device includes an input unit generating pieces of sensing data by using a sensing signal input from each of the plurality of touch sensors and a correction unit dividing the pieces of sensing data into a plurality of groups and applying different correction values to the sensing data of each of the plurality of groups to generate correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Min Choi, Jin Yong Kim, Jae Hyun Cho, Jae Duck Kim
  • Patent number: 11861110
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The shielding layers may include shielding structures such as a conductive mesh structure and/or a transparent conductive film. The shielding structures may be actively driven or passively biased. In the active driving scheme, one or more inverting circuits may receive a noise signal from a cathode layer in the display and/or from the shielding structures, invert the received noise signal, and drive the inverted noise signal back onto the shielding structures to prevent any noise from the display from negatively impacting the performance of the touch sensors. In the passive biasing scheme, the shielding structures may be biased to a power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Donggeon Han, Jason N Gomez, Kyung Wook Kim, Nikolaus Hammler, Pei-En Chang, Saman Saeedi, Shih Chang Chang, Shinya Ono, Suk Won Hong, Szu-Hsien Lee, Victor H Yin, Young-Jik Jo, Yu-Heng Cheng, Joyan G Sanctis, Hongwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11861130
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch module, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device. The touch module includes: a base substrate; an array of touch units arranged on the base substrate. Each touch unit includes a first touch electrode extending along a first direction and two second touch electrodes arranged on two sides of the first touch electrode along a second direction, the first direction and the second direction intersecting each other; wherein, the touch unit further includes: a bridging region between the two second touch electrodes, and a boundary region between the first touch electrode and each of the second touch electrodes. The bridging region includes a first cutting pattern, the boundary region includes a second cutting pattern, and the first cutting pattern and the second cutting pattern are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liyan Liu, Xinxing Wang, Xuefei Sun, Jaegeon You
  • Patent number: 11853502
    Abstract: Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate and a cover plate disposed opposite to the array substrate, touch electrode layers on a side of the cover plate facing the array substrate, and a plurality of first touch pads and a plurality of second touch pads disposed opposite to the plurality of the first touch pads. Each of the array substrate and the cover plate include a display area and a non-display area at least partially surrounding the display area. The non-display area of the array substrate includes a step area provided with bonding pads. The non-display area of the array substrate includes at least one irregularly-shaped area adjacent to the step area. A first touch pad is electrically connected to a second touch pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Qibing Wei, Peng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11852811
    Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11852832
    Abstract: A waveguide comprising a pair of parallel surfaces arranged to provide waveguiding therebetween. A first surface of the pair of parallel surfaces comprises a plurality of layers of a first dielectric and a plurality of layers of second dielectric arranged in an alternating configuration. Each layer of the first and second dielectric has a first end and a second end. A percentage change in the thickness of each layer from the first end to the second end of that layer has one of a plurality of discrete allowable values. The total number of layers of the first and second dielectric is greater than the total number of discrete allowable values. A difference in refractive index between the first dielectric and second dielectric is greater than 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ENVISICS LTD
    Inventors: Yiren Xia, Timothy Smeeton
  • Patent number: 11853521
    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: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11852826
    Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate having at least two major surfaces and edges, a display source based on a time-sequential color imaging, characterized by a frame time, three different primary colors, and coupled-in brightness, an optical element for coupling light waves from the display source into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one flat reflecting surface located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, and a dynamic partially reflecting element for re-directing the coupled-out light waves into a viewer's eye, wherein the transmittance and the reflectance of the dynamic partially reflecting element is dynamically controllable to yield high reflection in each one of the three primary colors, while simultaneously having high transmittance of two other colors of the three primary colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Menachem Amitai
  • Patent number: 11847980
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display apparatus capable of preventing damage due to sunlight and ensuring user convenience. A reflection mirror M1 reflects an image created by a display panel and projects it onto a display region. A solar radiation sensor detects a sunlight intensity when a position of sun exists within a predetermined detection range. A blocking mechanism forms a projected light path of an image between the display region and the display panel when being turned off, and blocks the projected light path of the image and an incident light path of the sunlight which is direction opposite thereto when being turned on. A protection processor controls ON/OFF of the blocking mechanism based on an estimated temperature of the display panel, which is estimated by using a sunlight intensity from the solar radiation sensor, luminance of a light source, and an ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamamoto, Toshinori Sugiyama, Akio Misawa, Nobutaka Amada, Nagayasu Tsutsumi, Yuji Fujita, Souta Sato