Patents Examined by Jarurat Suteerawongsa
  • Patent number: 11663963
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a first local light emitting switch, a second local light emitting switch, a common light emitting switch, and a driving block. The light emitting element has a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part. The first local light emitting switch is coupled between a first power terminal and the driving block. The second local light emitting switch is coupled between a second power terminal and the driving block. The common light emitting switch is coupled between the driving block and the light emitting element. The driving block provides a first driving current and a second driving current to the first light emitting part and the second light emitting part respectively based on a first frame gate signal and a second frame gate signal; a direction of the first driving current is different from that of the second driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Ya-Ling Hsu, Peng-Bo Xi
  • Patent number: 11662866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel and a positioning method thereof. The touch panel includes: a transparent conductive film layer including a plurality of first self-capacitance touch electrodes arranged along a first direction, wherein the plurality of first self-capacitance touch electrodes are configured to detect a coordinate of a touch point in the first direction, at least one of the plurality of first self-capacitance touch electrodes is a transparent conductive film block extending along a second direction, and the first direction intersects with the second direction; and a wire layer including a plurality of second self-capacitance touch electrodes arranged along the second direction, wherein the plurality of second self-capacitance touch electrodes are configured to detect a coordinate of the touch point in the second direction, and at least one of the plurality of second self-capacitance touch electrodes is a group of wires extending along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lianghao Zhang, Wenchao Han, Yilin Feng, Xiaoyang Shen, Mingming Wang
  • Patent number: 11650679
    Abstract: A pen holder includes a holder to hold an electronic pen including a replaceable pen tip that contacts a screen of a display apparatus for input to the display apparatus. The pen holder further includes a pulling-out portion to pull out the pen tip, having an open end in a first direction and including a gripping portion. The gripping portion includes a first wall and a second to grip the pen tip inserted from the open end in the first direction. The first wall linearly extends in the first direction, and the second wall linearly extends in the first direction and disposed at a distance from the first wall in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Mikawa, Keiichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11609644
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
  • Patent number: 11609665
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing and manipulating digital content allows users an intuitive mechanism with which to interact with touchscreen devices. A provided device with short-range wireless connectivity can interact with a mobile device by providing physical contact points that can be moved or adjusted to interact with displayed content. A series of the physical contact points distributed about the perimeter of the provided device allows an application to collect data regarding the position and orientation of the provided device placed upon the screen of the mobile device. A second set of physical contact points, also made of conductive material, contains at least one individual contact point that functions as a capacitive ‘button’ when the user touches it. Upon placement of the provided device on the capacitive screen of a mobile device, real-time tracking of the changing touch patterns can provide a more intuitive interface for handling digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Andras Vikar
  • Patent number: 11586283
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a multi-sensor don/doff detection system for an artificial reality device headset. The multi-sensor don/doff detection system can use a combination of a proximity sensor, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and an eye tracking/face tracking (ET/FT) unit to make these determinations. However, when both the ET/FT system and proximity sensor system are active, they can have system coexistence issues. Thus, only one of these systems can be used simultaneously. The multi-sensor don/doff detection system can more accurately identify don events by using input from the proximity sensor and the IMU. The multi-sensor don/doff detection system can also more accurately identify doff events by using input from the IMU and either A) the proximity sensor when the ET/FT system is disabled or B) the ET/FT system when the ET/FT system is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dong Yang, Qiang Zhang, Wen Song, Theresa Loney Casarez
  • Patent number: 11573660
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor controller, and a pen configured to periodically transmit a pen-pressure value of N bits to the sensor controller, in which the sensor controller and the pen perform pairing by bidirectionally communicating with each other. After processing for the pairing is completed, the pen periodically transmits the pen-pressure value, and, during a period before the processing for the pairing is completed, the pen transmits, instead of the pen-pressure value, a shortened pen-pressure value of high-order M bit(s) that are shorter than the N bits for the pen-pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruhiko Hisano
  • Patent number: 11567587
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for implementing a mixed reality system with less power. In some examples, a passive state of the mixed reality system can have a GPU render predictable content that does not need to be processed by a CPU. In such examples, the predictable content can be identified and rendered by the GPU while the CPU is in a low-power mode. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide benefits not available with conventional techniques because a CPU may consume more power than a corresponding GPU. In some examples, the passive state can take advantage of the fact that predictable content can be identified and rendered without the use of the CPU. In such examples, the passive state can render predictable content that does not need to be processed by the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Xintian Li
  • Patent number: 11567613
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal processing system, a chip and an active stylus. The signal processing system includes: a pre-amplifier circuit, configured to pre-amplify a received DSSS signal and output a pre-amplified DSSS signal; a low-pass filter circuit, configured to filter the pre-amplified DSSS signal and output a filtered DSSS signal; an analog-to-digital converter circuit, configured to sample the filtered DSSS signal and output a sampled DSSS signal; a noise detecting and filtering-out circuit, configured to filter out a noise in the sampled DSSS signal and output a noise-filtered DSSS signal; and a digital demodulation circuit, configured to demodulate the noise-filtered DSSS signal to output a demodulated signal. The signal processing system can have strong anti-interference ability and high sensitivity through the noise detecting and filtering-out circuit and automatically controlling a gain of the pre-amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanjun Zhang, Shibo Li, Feipeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11556155
    Abstract: A touchpad module includes a bracket, a touch member and a supporting plate. The supporting plate is arranged between the bracket and the touch member. When an end of the touch member is pressed down, the end of the touch member is swung relative to the bracket through the supporting plate. The supporting plate includes a plate body, at least one supporting part and a swingable part. The plate body, the at least one supporting part and the swingable part are integrally formed as a one-piece structure. The present invention further provides a computing device with the touchpad module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chih Liu, Wei-Chiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11556214
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control element, which can be arranged on a capacitive surface, for controlling a function of the capacitive surface, comprising a carrier structure, a rotary element rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the carrier structure, comprising at least one electrically conductive area, at least one electrically conductive contact element arranged on the carrier structure, wherein the contact element comprises a contact area which is arranged at least in some areas on an underside of the control element, so that the contact area, when the control element is arranged on the capacitive surface, is arranged at least partially touching the capacitive surface, wherein the electrically conductive area of the rotary element is in contact with a contact element in at least one rotational position of the rotary element. The rotary element can be moved along the axis of rotation with respect to the carrier structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Edouard Da Silva, Ruddy Cittadini, Martin Schulz, Nils Hollemann
  • Patent number: 11531409
    Abstract: A stylus includes a body, a carrying structure, and a tip structure. The carrying structure is disposed at the body and has a ring-shaped positioning portion, and the ring-shaped positioning portion has an axial hole. The tip structure is disposed on the carrying structure, a segment of the tip structure penetrates the axial hole, and the ring-shaped positioning portion entirely covers the segment of the tip structure along a peripheral direction of the axial hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo-Nan Wu
  • Patent number: 11526245
    Abstract: A touch panel equipment for air conditioning has a plurality of electrodes arranged in two-dimensional matrix, a touch sensing IC for scanning capacitance of the electrodes, and a touch panel controller for deciding a touch position from the capacitance sensed by said touch sensing IC. The touch panel controller resets the touch sensing IC when the capacitance of the electrodes located in a check area is not changed during predetermined threshold timings, and does not reset the touch sensing IC when the capacitance of the electrodes located in the check area is changed within the threshold timings. As the touch panel controller resets the touch sensing IC due to the change of the capacitance value of the electrodes located in the check area, the resetting operation is operated automatically so that the touch panel equipment could avoid the user's external work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shunya Aoki, Yuya Morita, Toru Hattori
  • Patent number: 11488557
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit layout is provided, including a plurality of driving thin-film transistor units, wherein each of the driving thin-film transistor units includes a wiring side and a capacitor side, and any two adjacent driving thin-film transistor units are spaced apart and connected in series with each other; and a plurality of first capacitor areas, wherein each of the first capacitor areas is disposed between two adjacent capacitor sides of the driving thin-film transistor units. The GOA circuit layout according to the present invention increases heat dissipation area for the driving thin-film transistors, which is more advantageous for heat dissipation. On the other hand, because of sufficient use of the first capacitor areas, a size of layout is basically not increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuqi Zhang, Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11481049
    Abstract: A system for providing input to a computer, the system including: a stylus with a first end, the first end to provide position information to the computer; and a plurality of divots, wherein when the first end of the stylus is in a divot, the system detects an orientation of the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Craig Peter Sayers, Ian N. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11435828
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensitive device including an electroactive layer formed of an electroactive matrix, wherein the electroactive matrix has a structure in which a piezoelectric ceramic and an electroactive polymer (EAP) are bonded and an electrode disposed on at least one surface of the electroactive layer. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the touch sensitive device uses an electroactive matrix has an excellent transparency, can be made thin, and has a high piezoelectric property so that the light transmittance and the vibration intensity of the touch sensitive device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ChiWan Kim, TaeHeon Kim, SungEui Shin, YongWoo Lee, KyungYeol Ryu, YuSeon Kho
  • Patent number: 11423814
    Abstract: A wearable display with coherent replication of optical beams is presented. The display includes a replication element comprising a plurality of features configured to receive and split impinging light into a plurality of sub-beams for propagation in a plurality of directions. At least a portion of the split sub-beams propagating in a direction of an eyebox of the NED form an image by optical interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Maimone, Douglas Robert Lanman, Grace Kuo
  • Patent number: 11416102
    Abstract: A content input method is provided. The content input method includes: obtaining pressure information applied to a first preset area of a display area; determining, according to a first pressure threshold, whether the pressure information applied to the first preset area is inadvertent touch information; when the pressure information applied to the first preset area is the inadvertent touch information, ignoring the pressure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanlong Li
  • Patent number: 11392225
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device comprises: a housing which comprises a first plate, a second plate facing the opposite direction from the first plate and a lateral member surrounding a space between the first plate and second plate; a hole which is formed through the lateral member and is connected to the space; a stylus pen which can be inserted to the space through the hole, wherein the stylus pen comprises a pen housing extending long between a first end part and a second end part and a first coil positioned inside the pen housing, wound about the axis in a first direction extending from the first end part to the second end part and having the coil length of a first length; a second coil which is disposed inside the space of the housing so as to partly face the first coil of the stylus pen when the stylus pen is fully inserted to the housing, wherein the second coil comprises a conductive wire extending over a first area facing the first coil and a second are
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Junghui Park, Yongwoon Kim, Sungjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11360583
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic fountain pen, which includes a pen core, a housing, and a pen body located in the housing, the housing includes a front housing and a rear housing, the pen body includes a first iron core and an iron core holder, the iron core holder is provided with a pen core clamp link, a second iron core, and a third iron core, coils are wound outside the first iron core and the second iron core, the first iron core is close to a pen tip of the pen core, the pen core is configured to pass through a center of the first iron core, and then is clamped by one end of the pen core clamp link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HANVON UGEE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanzhi Li, Liming Deng