Patents Examined by Hong Zhou
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Patent number: 11209939Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Sean Tomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
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Patent number: 11194424Abstract: The driving apparatus for driving a touch display panel includes a first voltage generating circuit configured to generate a common reference voltage, a second voltage generating circuit configured to generate a touch driving signal, and a control circuit configured to generate a switching signal. The switching signal is at the first voltage level during display periods for providing the common reference voltage to the touch display panel. The switching signal is at the second voltage level during touch periods for providing the touch driving signal to the touch display panel. A first touch display period includes a first display period a first touch period adjacent to the first display period. A second touch display period includes a second display period and a second touch period adjacent to the second display period. The first touch display period and the second touch display period are different in time length.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Feng-Lin Chan, Hung-Kai Chen, Yuan-Fu Hsueh, Chun-Yuan Pai
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Patent number: 11188181Abstract: A transform is used to transform raw sensor data from the time domain to the frequency or sequency domain. The transformed data falls into several signal bins. The transformed data in at least one of the signal bins is analyzed to determine whether a touch event or release event has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TOUCHSENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: James W. Citta
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Patent number: 11175778Abstract: The present disclosure relates to touch display device and display panel. Provided are a touch display device and a display panel able to improve touch sensing performance by reducing crosstalk occurring between data lines and touch lines. A shield pattern is disposed in an area in which the touch lines overlap the data lines. A shield signal is applied to the shield pattern through shield lines in an area in which the shield pattern does not overlap the touch lines or the data lines. Direct capacitance is not formed between the touch lines and the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haewon Lee, JuHan Kim, Jinseong Kim
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Patent number: 11170726Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a terminal portion, a switching transistor, a driver circuit portion, and a pixel circuit portion including a pixel transistor and a plurality of pixels, a second substrate provided with a common electrode electrically connected to the terminal portion through the switching transistor, and liquid crystal between a pixel electrode and the common electrode. In a period during which a still image is switched to a moving image, the following steps are sequentially performed: a first step of supplying the common potential to the common electrode; a second step of supplying a power supply voltage to the driver circuit portion; a third step of supplying a clock signal to the driver circuit portion; and a fourth step of supplying a start pulse signal to the driver circuit portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Koyama, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 11164536Abstract: A gate on array circuit for a display device using dual-gate architecture is disclosed. The GOA circuit comprises circuitry configured to, for a first display line of the display device, generate a first gate driving signal and a second gate driving signal for driving a first gate line and a second gate line of the first display line respectively. A first time period when the first gate driving signal is in an activation state for activating the first gate line of the first display line does not overlap with a first time period when the second gate driving signal is in the activation state for activating the second gate line of the first display line.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Hung-Hsiang Chen, Tso-Hua Chien, Huang-Chin Tang
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Patent number: 11158230Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch screen display including an organic light emitting layer that is formed of a plurality of pixels, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively coupled with the display and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively coupled with the processor.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Inventors: Jaeho Lee, Minseung Kim, Taekyoung Kim, Jongkon Bae, Youngil Yoon, Yohan Lee, Jihoon Jeon, Hyesoon Jeong, Yunpyo Hong, Jongwu Baek
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Patent number: 11150692Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing. The housing may be characterized by a vertical axis and may have housing structures such as cylindrical housing structures with a cylindrical surface. A speaker may be mounted in the housing to provide sound through openings in the housing structures. A visual output device may be mounted in the housing to provide light through openings in the housing structures. The visual output device may include an electrophoretic display, a light-emitting diode display, or other display with an array of pixels that display images or may include other components for emitting light. During operation, voice commands may be received by a microphone in the device and action taken based on the commands and other information. The action taken may include playing sound with the speaker and providing visual output with the visual output device.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Jie Gu
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Patent number: 11151952Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display or the like that is able to achieve prevention of or recovery from an image sticking phenomenon in the liquid crystal display, while ensuring convenience for an operator of the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel that displays an image, and a display control unit that controls display of a predetermined image to respond to image sticking on the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal display includes a selection receiving unit that receives a selection of a display mode from among a plurality of display modes in which the predetermined image is displayed, and the display control unit controls the display of the predetermined image in accordance with the display mode selected at the selection receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Koshimizu, Yoshitaka Matsui
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Patent number: 11144129Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a hand tracking device. The hand tracking device includes a first infrared camera for capturing a plurality of images of a user hand indicating a first gesture for requesting a first action associated with operating a display device. The hand tracking device utilizes the plurality of images to generate a three-dimensional image of the user hand; and detects the first gesture from the three-dimensional image using a trained model that stores a plurality of input gestures corresponding to three-dimensional images of user hands. A first operation is executed in response to the detected first gesture. The hand tracking device continuously monitors the user hand to detect a second gesture from the trained model for executing a second operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Avionics CorporationInventor: Gurmukh Khabrani
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Patent number: 11132080Abstract: A touch circuit includes a first pull-up sub-circuit, a first switching sub-circuit, a second pull-up sub-circuit, a second switching sub-circuit and a touch IC. The touch IC includes a data signal port and a clock signal port. The first pull-up sub-circuit is electrically connected to a first signal input terminal and the data signal port. The first switching sub-circuit is electrically connected to the data signal port, the first signal input terminal and a data signal input terminal. The second pull-up sub-circuit is electrically connected to the first signal input terminal and the clock signal port. The second switching sub-circuit is electrically connected to the clock signal port, the first signal input terminal and a clock signal input terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Rao, Cheng Zuo, Dayu Zhang, Kangpeng Dang, Hong Chen, Peng Qin, Zhong Jin, Bo Wang, Zhongli Luo, Xiong Guo, Shifei Huang, Teng Liu, Yuansheng Tang
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Patent number: 11132085Abstract: A pressure-sensing touch control display substrate is provided. The pressure-sensing touch control display substrate includes a base substrate; a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes; a light emitting layer on a side of the first electrode layer away from the base substrate, the light emitting layer including a plurality of light emitting blocks; a second electrode layer on a side of the light emitting layer away from the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes spaced apart from each other; a plurality of touch control signal lines respectively connected to the plurality of second electrodes; and a plurality of pressure sensors on the base substrate and configured to detect a pressure applied on a touch position.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Hui Wang, Pengcheng Lu
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Patent number: 11126315Abstract: A touch electrode layer and a touch display device are provided. By setting first and second electrodes of a touch electrode unit to a trunk and a branch structure, respectively. First electrode branches are electrically connected to first electrode trunks. Second electrode branches are electrically connected to second electrode trunks. The first electrode branches and the second electrode branches form “a homocentric squares pattern” of a limit coupling shape, which can increase rate of change of a basic mutual capacitance value when a finger touches it. In addition, third electrodes having “a homocentric squares pattern” are disposed between the first branch electrodes having a homocentric squares pattern and the second branch electrodes having a homocentric squares pattern and are not connected to the first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes. This effectively reduces a basic mutual capacitance value Cm and can effectively reduce parasitic capacitance to ground.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jian Ye
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Patent number: 11114020Abstract: A mobile computing device comprising a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display; including a display panel and a substrate, and two or more controller integrated circuits mounted (ICs) mounted on the substrate to directly drive a serial interface into the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kunjal Parikh, Dong Yeung Kwak, Prakash Radhakrishnan, Peter Chang
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Patent number: 11112890Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a housing; a conductive tip configured to have at least a portion that is exposed to an exterior of the housing; a resonance circuit disposed in the housing to be connected to the conductive tip and to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip; and a conductive blocking member disposed to correspond to a portion of the housing in which the conductive tip is exposed to the exterior.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Hyoungwook Woo, Kiryoung Jung, Seyeob Kim
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Patent number: 11106296Abstract: A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a third control circuit, a first output circuit, and a second output circuit. The first and second output circuits selectively transfer a first reference voltage from a first reference voltage terminal and a third reference voltage from a third reference voltage terminal to an output terminal of the shift register unit. This allows the shift register unit to output a desired output signal in an easy manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Jing Lv, Xiaochuan Chen, Dongni Liu, Lei Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Jie Fu, Han Yue, Li Xiao
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Patent number: 11107862Abstract: A pixel unit including a substrate; a first light emitting device, a second light emitting device and a third light emitting device on the substrate; and a light absorbing layer at a light exiting side of the first light emitting device or a light exiting side of the second light emitting device. The first light emitting device is configured to emit light of a first color, the second light emitting device is configured to emit light of a second color, the third light emitting device is configured to emit light of a third color. A degree of attenuation of the light of the first color caused by a microcavity effect of the first light emitting device and a degree of attenuation of the light of the second color caused by a microcavity effect of the second light emitting device are smaller than a degree of attenuation of the light of the third color caused by a microcavity effect of the third light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Weilong Zhou
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Patent number: 11094262Abstract: A display device may include a pixel, a chip pad spaced apart from the pixel, a film pad spaced apart from the chip pad, a wiring connecting the chip pad and the film pad and including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer disposed on the first wiring layer, and an organic insulation layer covering the chip pad and the wiring. A first groove may be defined in the second wiring layer, and a second groove corresponding to the first groove may be defined in the organic insulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Deok-Young Choi, Hagyeong Song, Ki Wook Kim, Jin-Yup Kim
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Patent number: 11094245Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a shift register, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. The shift register includes: an inputting sub-circuit, an outputting sub-circuit, a resetting sub-circuit, a pulling-down sub-circuit, a pulling-down controlling sub-circuit, and a voltage regulating sub-circuit. The voltage regulating sub-circuit is coupled to a pulling-down node, a pulling-down controlling node, a second clock signal terminal, a third clock signal terminal, a first voltage signal terminal and a second voltage signal terminal, and is configured to regulate a voltage at the pulling-down controlling node based on a first voltage signal from the first voltage signal terminal and a second voltage signal from the second voltage signal terminal, under a control of the second clock signal from the second clock signal terminal, a third clock signal from the third clock signal terminal, and the voltage at the pulling-down node.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Qing Yang, Silin Feng
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Patent number: 11087713Abstract: A gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The gate driving circuit includes N gate driver on array (GOA) units, wherein the N GOA units are cascaded. An nth-stage GOA unit is any one of the N GOA units. The N GOA units include at least one first GOA unit and at least one second GOA unit. Each first GOA unit and each second GOA unit include pull-up control circuits, bootstrap capacitors, pull-up circuits, pull-down circuits, and pull-down holding circuits. Each second GOA unit further includes a reset circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaojin He, Bangyin Peng, Ilgon Kim