Patents Examined by Ibrahim A. Khan
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Patent number: 11861127Abstract: An electronic device includes: an input sensor including a plurality of unit sensors each having a first unit sensor, a second unit sensor, and a third unit sensor adjacent, wherein each of the first, second, and third unit sensors includes: a first sensing electrode extending in the first direction; a second sensing electrode extending in the second direction; and a first dummy electrode between the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode, wherein the first sensing electrode of the first unit sensor is connected to a first adjacent dummy electrode of the first dummy electrodes of the third unit sensor adjacent to the first unit sensor, and wherein the second sensing electrode of the first unit sensor is connected to a first adjacent dummy electrode of the first dummy electrodes of the second unit sensor adjacent to the first unit sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyeongnam Bang, Yeri Jeong, Eunyoung Kim, Jeongyun Han
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Patent number: 11854491Abstract: A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11822756Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Shouji Nagao
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Patent number: 11822757Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a display device. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image on its front surface, a digitizer layer disposed on a back surface of the display panel and configured to generate a magnetic field by first electrode patterns and second electrode patterns, and an adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the digitizer layer and containing SiOCH3CH3—CH2—CH2—SiCH3OCH3OCH3.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Da Som Gu, Yong Chan Jeon, Sung Ki Jung, Chul Ho Jeong, Seung Kyun Hong
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Patent number: 11815679Abstract: A method, a processing device, and a system for information display are proposed. The system may be disposed in a vehicle and includes a light transmissive display, at least one first information extraction device, at least one second information extraction device, and a processing device. The first information extraction device is configured to extract gaze information of a user in the vehicle. The second information extraction device is configured to extract scene information of a scene outside of the vehicle. The processing device is configured to compute a field of view of the user viewing the scene outside of the vehicle through the display according to the gaze information and the scene information, generate display information according to the field of view of the user, and display the display information on the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hong-Ming Dai, Tzu-Yi Yu, Chien-Ju Lee, Yu-Hsiang Tsai
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Patent number: 11815687Abstract: A method performed by a head-mounted device can include, based on a front-facing camera included in the head-mounted device capturing an image of a wearable device, configuring the head-mounted device to receive input via the wearable device, determining that a gesture received by the wearable device includes a request to launch an application, and, in response to determining that the gesture includes the request to launch the application, launching the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Dongeek Shin, Isaac Allen Fehr, Sean Kyungmok Bae, Ding Xu
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Patent number: 11809661Abstract: A display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a touch sensor operating in one of a normal sensing mode in which a surface touch is recognized and a proximity sensing mode in which a hovering touch is recognized, and a touch driver for supplying a touch driving signal including a plurality of driving pulses to the touch sensor during a sensing period, and receiving a touch sensing signal from the touch sensor. In the proximity sensing mode, the touch driver sets a noise period including a first noise period and a second noise period in the sensing period, and decreases a number of times the driving pulses are supplied during the second noise period when it is determined that a variation of the image is greater than a predetermined reference variation.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Soon Gyu Lee
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Patent number: 11809667Abstract: A transparent conductive substrate structure used for a thermoforming process includes a transparent cover plate and a touch sensing layer structure. The transparent cover plate includes a toughening layer on one side thereof. The touch sensing layer structure arranged on one surface of the toughening layer, and includes a first transparent conductive layer, a dielectric layer, a barrier layer, a second transparent conductive layer, and a buffer protective layer. Each transparent conductive layer is directly applied to the transparent cover plate, so that the thickness between the transparent conductive layers is below 1 ?m. The thickness between layers may be reduced to increase the sensitivity of the touch sensing layer structure. To prevent each transparent conductive layer and an electrode wire layer from breaking during the thermoforming process, the transparent conductive substrate structure is combined with the buffer protective layer to strengthen the structure of each transparent conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NANOBIT TECH. CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng-Chieh Tsai, Yao-Zong Chen, Yu-Yang Chang, Hsiou-Ming Liu
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Patent number: 11810512Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit comprises a first transistor, a pulse amplitude driving module, and a pulse width driving module. The pixel circuit and the display panel utilize a pulse amplitude driving module to drive the first transistor when a middle to high gray value of a frame is being displayed such that the number of frequency divisions in a high gray value could be reduced. Furthermore, the pixel circuit and the display panel utilize a pulse width driving module to drive the first transistor when a middle to low gray value of the frame is being displayed to improve the light emitting efficiency and luminance evenness in a low gray value.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jian Xu
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Patent number: 11762619Abstract: In some exemplary processes for controlling an external device using a computer-generated reality interface, information specifying a function of the external device is received from the external device. First image data of a physical environment that includes the external device is obtained with one or more image sensors. A representation of the physical environment according to the first image data is displayed on a display. While displaying the representation of the physical environment, second image data identifying a gesture occurring between the display and the external device in the physical environment is obtained with the one or more image sensors. A determination is made as to whether the identified gesture satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with the function. In accordance with determining that the identified gesture satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with the function, the external device is caused to perform the function.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
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Patent number: 11756496Abstract: A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei Kinoshita, Chihiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11756477Abstract: A gate driver includes at least one stage, which includes: a first output circuit configured to supply a voltage of a first power source or a voltage of a second power source to a first output terminal and including a fourth capacitor connected between a second node and the first output terminal; a second output circuit configured to supply a signal supplied to a fourth input terminal or the voltage of the second power source to a second output terminal; an input circuit configured to control a voltage of the second node and a voltage of a third node; a first signal processor configured to control a voltage of a first node; a second signal processor configured to control the voltage of the second node; and a third signal processor connected between the first node and the third node, and configured to control the voltage of the first node.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heerim Song, Gyungsoon Park
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Patent number: 11755157Abstract: A pre-fabricated sensor assembly for an interactive object including an object substrate is provided. The pre-fabricated sensor assembly includes a touch sensor comprising a plurality of flexible sensing elements, a first electronics module comprising sensing circuitry in electrical communication with the plurality of flexible sensing elements, a communication interface comprising a first end portion coupled to the first electronics module and comprising a second end portion, a receptacle coupled to the second end portion of the communication interface, and one or more flexible retaining layers that define a housing for a first portion of the pre-fabricated sensor assembly. The first portion of the pre-fabricated sensor assembly can include at least a portion of each of the plurality of flexible sensing elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Tong Wu, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Brendon Allen Beardsley
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Patent number: 11733748Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels and an upper signal line providing a data signal to the pixels. The upper signal line includes a first upper signal line including a first metal material, a second upper signal line including a second metal material which is different from the first metal material, and a third upper signal line including the first metal material. The first, second and third upper signal lines are arranged in order and respectively electrically connected to a plurality of connection lines including the second metal material. The connection lines are connected to a plurality of lower signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jihye Kong, Jeong-Soo Lee
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Patent number: 11733806Abstract: Provided are a driving method, a gate drive unit and a display touch device. The driving method is applied to the gate drive unit in the display touch device. The gate drive unit includes at least one pull-down circuit. The pull-down circuit is coupled with a pull-up node and a pull-down voltage terminal, and is configured to control connection or disconnection between the pull-up node and the pull-down voltage terminal; one frame of image display time includes a display phase and a touch phase that are alternately set, and at least one of the touch phase is set between two adjacent display phases. The driving method includes: during the touch phase, controlling, by the at least one pull-down circuit, the disconnection between the pull-up node and the pull-down voltage terminal. The problem of a screen flashing phenomenon of existing display touch devices during the touch phase is solved.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuang Hu, Jingpeng Zhao, Yajie Bai, Taoliang Tang, Wentao Zhu, Hongxin Pan, Xing Dong, Rui Liu
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Patent number: 11726617Abstract: An electrostatic coordinate input device includes a finger detection unit that detects a proximity position of a finger of an operator on an operation surface by a capacitive sensing method; and a correction unit that, in a case where two proximity positions corresponding to two fingers are detected by the finger detection unit, corrects the two proximity positions so as to increase a distance between the two proximity positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventors: Satoshi Nakajima, Shinichi Endo, Minoru Watanabe, Harry Haryadi
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Patent number: 11721084Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication interface and a processor, wherein the processor receives a first image predistorted and rendered at a first time, from an external device through the communication interface, calculates a pixel shift for each pixel of the received first image at a second time that is different from the first time, generates a second image by reprojecting the first image based on the calculated pixel shift, and transmits the generated second image to the external device through the communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Namseop Kwon, Myungjae Jeon, Hongseok Lee
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Patent number: 11720180Abstract: A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two LimitedInventor: David S. Holz
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Patent number: 11703956Abstract: A joystick control system for a refuse vehicle includes multiple joystick input devices, and a single controller. The single controller is configured to receive a user input from one or more of the multiple joystick input devices. The controller is also configured to identify which of the joystick input devices provide the user input. The controller is also configured to generate control signals, in response to receiving the user input, for one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle based on which of the joystick input devices provides the user input and the user input. The controller is also configured to provide the control signals to the one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle to operate the one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle according to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Oshkosh CorporationInventors: Cody D. Clifton, Vincent Hoover, Joshua Rocholl, Joseph Nelson
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Patent number: 11689104Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a voltage converter including: an inductor in which a first electrode thereof receives an input voltage and a second electrode thereof is connected to a first node; a first transistor in which a first electrode thereof is connected to the first node and a second electrode thereof is connected to a second node providing an output voltage; a second transistor in which a first electrode thereof is connected to the first node and a second electrode thereof is connected to a reference terminal; and a current sensor connected to the first node and the second node, wherein the current sensor includes: a third transistor in which a first electrode thereof is connected to the first node and a second electrode thereof is connected to a third node; and a current mirror circuit that mirrors currents flowing through the second node, the third node, and a sensing terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoon Young Lee