Patents Examined by Darlene M Ritchie
  • Patent number: 11687206
    Abstract: A touch screen system includes a touch screen; a capacitive grid associated with the touch screen and including a first capacitive sub-grid and a second capacitive sub-grid; a first controller configured to control the first capacitive sub-grid; and a second controller configured to control the second first capacitive sub-grid. The first controller and the second controller are configured to get respectively a first touch position and a second touch position after a touch input on the touch screen. The first controller and the second controller also are configured to test respectively a second channel associated with the second controller and a first channel associated with the first controller by sending a stimuli signal respectively to the first capacitive sub-grid and to the second capacitive sub-grid. At least one of the first controller and the second controller are configured to determine a consolidated touch position by correlation of the first touch position and the second touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventor: Felipe Castillo Buenaventura
  • Patent number: 11675495
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating feedback based on a handwritten text, comprises the steps of initializing a writing instrument to be used in a writing operation comprising a handwritten text and capturing and processing the handwritten text to generate digital text data. The method further comprises the steps of identifying at least one handwritten text attribute associated with the digital text data, comparing the at least one handwritten text attribute with predefined textual feature attributes, and generating a textual feature based on the compared at least one handwritten text attribute and predefined textual feature attributes. In addition, the method comprises the steps of modifying the digital text data using the textual feature and generating feedback to a user based on the modified digital text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: David Duffy, Christopher-John Wright, Timothy Giles Beard, Wai Keith Lau, William Andrew Schnabel
  • Patent number: 11675459
    Abstract: An electronic device can be configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes to generate various stimulation signals for touch sensing operations. Switching circuitry can selectively couple one or more stimulation circuits to touch stimulation circuitry to reduce electromagnetic interference generated during transitions between the plurality of operating modes. The electronic device can transition from a stimulation phase to a termination phase at an arbitrary time, unconstrained by integration time requirements of accompany touch sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Yong Kang, Du Chen, Christoph H. Krah
  • Patent number: 11675446
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a touch device for sensing a position of a stylus including a resonance circuit, including: a plurality of electrode; and a touch controller configured to receive a sensing signal from the electrodes to determine a position of the stylus, wherein the electrodes includes electrodes in which directions of currents induced in the electrodes by the resonance circuit are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Hyoungwook Woo, Hojun Moon, Hwanhee Lee, Jongsik Kim, Youngho Cho
  • Patent number: 11670429
    Abstract: A method for calculating a PCI margin associated with a loading pattern of a nuclear reactor including a core into which fuel assemblies are loaded according to the loading pattern is implemented by an electronic system. The fuel assemblies include fuel rods each including fuel pellets of nuclear fuel and a cladding surrounding the pellets. This method includes calculating a reference principal PCI margin for a reference loading pattern of the fuel assemblies in the core; calculating a reference secondary PCI margin for the reference pattern; calculating a modified secondary PCI margin for a modified loading pattern of the fuel assemblies in the core, and calculating a modified principal PCI margin for the modified pattern, depending on a comparison of the modified secondary PCI margin with the reference secondary PCI margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gilles Andre Poyaud, Isabelle Galland
  • Patent number: 11662857
    Abstract: The embodiment applies a two-level coding/decoding technology using a spread spectrum code and an orthogonal code, whereby touch sensing can be robust against noise, a touch sensing time can be reduced, and touch sensitivity can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mohamed Gamal Ahmed Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11656726
    Abstract: A control circuit is configured to control a first electrode structure on an electronic device to transmit a first transmitting signal to a touch panel. The control circuit is further configured to control a second electrode structure on the electronic device to transmit a second transmitting signal to the touch panel during a first time interval, and configured to control the second electrode structure to work as a button during a second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Ying Tang, Chih Chang Lai
  • Patent number: 11656468
    Abstract: A display system comprising a foveal display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree is positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the foveal display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the foveal display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Edward Chia Ning Tang, D. Scott Dewald, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III
  • Patent number: 11635837
    Abstract: A display device includes: a temperature distribution obtaining circuit obtaining temperature distribution on a display panel on a basis of a capacitance value signal to be output from a capacitive touch panel overlapping the display panel; and a correcting circuit correcting an input image signal on a basis of the temperature distribution on the display panel, and supplying the input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furukawa, Chie Toridono, Masafumi Ueno
  • Patent number: 11625135
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first sensing electrode unit formed on a substrate in a first direction and a second sensing electrode unit formed on the substrate in a second direction crossing the first direction. A plurality of micro-etched patterns are formed on a boundary of unit transparent electrodes constituting the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit. The unit transparent electrode has a shape in which a portion of a curve connecting vertices of a polygon is removed, and adjacent unit transparent electrodes are electrically connected to each other. It includes a segmental pattern dividing the first or second sensing electrode unit into two or more areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dohyoung Kwon, Cheol Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11621092
    Abstract: The systems and methods generally include a nuclear power plant unit assembled in a shipyard from a plurality of structural modules, each of the structural modules having manufactured components for use in power production when moored or fixed to a floor at least one of in and proximal to at least one of an offshore marine environment, a river environment and a coastal marine environment. The nuclear power plant unit is subdivided into at least one arrangement of structural modules that includes an electrical interface for one of transmitting electrical power generated by the nuclear unit and powering a system of the unit, a communications interface for communications internal or external to the unit, a user interface that is configured to permit a user to access a system of the unit, and a network interface for data communications to or from the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Strong Force IOT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 11620020
    Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrode groups and a touch detection driver. During a period, the touch detection driver does not supply touch detection driving signals to a transmitter electrode overlapping in plan view a pixel electrode group to which gate signals are being supplied, and supply touch detection driving signals to a transmitter electrode disposed so as to overlap in plan view a pixel electrode group to which gate signals are not being supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 11621093
    Abstract: A nuclear-power-plant computer-based procedure display device is disposed in a main control room of a nuclear power plant, and includes a operating procedure storage unit that stores a computer-based procedure in which plant operation procedures of the nuclear power plant are divided into procedure steps and listed, a operating procedure display unit that displays the computer-based procedure, and a operating procedure display control unit that controls display of the computer-based procedure. In a case where the procedure step displayed on the operating procedure display unit is selected by an operator, the operating procedure display control unit displays an indication that the procedure step is selected, on the operating procedure display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Hanada, Kenji Mashio
  • Patent number: 11615896
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate stability of an FRC plasma in both radial and axial directions and axial position control of an FRC plasma along the symmetry axis of an FRC plasma chamber. The systems and methods exploit an axially unstable equilibria of the FRC plasma to enforce radial stability, while stabilizing or controlling the axial instability. The systems and methods provide feedback control of the FRC plasma axial position independent of the stability properties of the plasma equilibrium by acting on the voltages applied to a set of external coils concentric with the plasma and using a non-linear control technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jesus Antonio Romero Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11614831
    Abstract: A pressure calibration method, applicable to a touch panel which sequentially comprises a first electrode layer, an elastic dielectric layer and a second electrode layer, the first electrode layer includes multiple first electrodes in parallel to a first axis, the second electrode layer includes multiple second electrodes in parallel to a second axis, the pressure calibration method comprising: retrieving a depression event according to mutual capacitance sensing between the first electrodes and the second electrodes; finding a corresponding calibration area according to coordinate of the depression event; and calculating a calibrated pressure value according to a pressure sensing value of the depression event and a pressure calibration function of the corresponding calibration area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11604533
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor unit for detecting a proximity state of an object at N detection positions, generating a composite detection signal in conformity with the sum of N detection signals obtained as a result of detection for N detection positions, and controlling a positive or negative polarity of the detection signal having a signal level in conformity with the proximity state at each of N detection positions, a sensor control unit for controlling the sensor unit for generating M composite detection signals having N polarity patterns set at N detection signals different from each other, and a signal regeneration unit for regenerating the signal level of the N detection signal based on the M composite detection signals generated by the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Muranaka, Naoyuki Hatano, Hiroshi Izumi, Koichi Miura, Yasuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11604534
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure may include a controller for an object-recognition system. The controller may include a capacitive-sensor-button controller configured to provide a button-status report at least partially responsive to proximity of the object to specified areas of a capacitive sensor. The controller may also include a recognizer configured to generate an object identifier at least partially responsive to the button-status report when an object having a plurality of detectable elements in a predetermined spatial pattern is in proximity thereof. Some embodiments of the present disclosure may include a controller for an object-recognition system. The controller may include a reader configured to capture channel-capacitance measurements of a capacitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Johan Vaarlid, Petter Diderik Breedveld
  • Patent number: 11604357
    Abstract: Displays and eyewear devices incorporating displays are disclosed. One display includes a light source, a first display region, and a second display region. The first display region includes a first contiguous array of pixels. The first contiguous array of pixels includes a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels interspersed with the first group of pixels. The first group of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in only a first wavelength band and the second group of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in only a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band. The second display region consists essentially of a second contiguous array of pixels. The second contiguous array of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in a predetermined wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II
  • Patent number: 11605474
    Abstract: Method for long-term dry storage of spent nuclear fuel includes injecting the inert gas into a cavity formed in a cask between inner and outer lids under pressure greater than the pressure of the inert gas in the inner cavity of the cask in which the spent nuclear fuel is located. The cask contains a body with a spent nuclear fuel container placed in it, tight inner and outer lids forming a cavity into which the inert gas is pumped under pressure greater than the pressure in the inner cavity of the cask. The outer lid comprises a labyrinth hole closed with a flange and sealed with a gasket. The flange comprises an angle valve, to which at least two pressure sensors are connected. The angle valve and sensors are covered with a protective cover during long-term storage. The gasket is installed in an annular groove of the lower flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NFC LOGISTICS, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY (NFCL JSC)
    Inventors: Evgenii Dmitrievich Petrov, Andrei Valer'evich Sokolov, Andrei Viktorovich Vildeev, Andrei Mikhailovich Mokeichev
  • Patent number: 11592925
    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: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk Hargreaves, Guozhong Shen, Ching-Hsung Wang, Guan-Hua Cao