Patents Examined by Jonathan A Boyd
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Patent number: 11903264Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a circuit layer including a metal-made feed line in a surrounding area, an insulating layer covering the circuit layer, a lower electrode, a rib, a partition above the rib, an upper electrode connected to the partition, an organic layer between the electrodes and a conductive layer connected to the partition. The partition and the conductive layer each includes a metal-made lower portion and an upper portion protruding from a side surface of the lower portion. The lower portion of the conductive layer and the feed line are in contact with each other in the first contact portion in the surrounding area.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Tabatake
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Patent number: 11893946Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel, a data driver, and a scan driver. The data driver outputs data signals during a writing frame and outputs a bias voltage during a holding frame. The data driver includes a plurality of driving chips, and each of the driving chips includes: a gamma voltage generator, a data converter, a main output part for outputting corresponding data signals of the data signals during the writing frame, and a sub-output part for outputting the bias voltage during the holding frame. The gamma voltage generator of a selected driving chip among the plurality of driving chips is electrically connected to the sub-output parts disposed in the plurality of driving chips, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-Koo Kang, Hyunha Yang, Myeongbin Lim
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Patent number: 11893205Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for enabling real-time gestures on shared canvases are presented. A shared object service may be associated with a plurality of shared objects. A plurality of user accounts and/or client devices may be granted access to a shared object. Each client device that accesses the shared object may store a distributed data structure locally that corresponds to the shared object. When client devices perform operations associated with the shared object the operations are logged by the shared object service and timestamped. Those operations are then reported to the client devices, where cursor movements can be rendered in real time. If cursor movements and/or user input device operations associated with a cursor meet conditions for a gesture operation the cursor may be transformed to a gesture/animation and rendered on canvases of each connected client device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Nathan Darrel Kile, Jr., Jaewon Hwang, Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci, David Adam Stephens, Kyle David Ryan, Maria Montserrat Lozano Dieck
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Patent number: 11893165Abstract: A display apparatus which is connected to a controller and capable of precisely and quickly shifting the display position of a pointer to the position of a desired object in a three-dimensional display area. When a two-dimensional directional command has not been issued on the controller by an operator, the display apparatus shifts into a first operation state in which a display position of the pointer is shifted according to the tilt and/or displacement of the controller. When a two-dimensional directional command has been issued on the controller by the operator, the display apparatus shifts into a second operation state in which the display position of the pointer is shifted based on two coordinate axes in the display area according to the directional command issued on the controller. In the second operation state, the two coordinate axes are varied according to the tilt of the external control apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryu Kumagai
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Patent number: 11886252Abstract: A foldable device includes: a flexible display configured to display an execution screen of an application; and a controller configured to control the flexible display to display an execution screen of at least one first application on a first surface of the flexible display that is used as a display of the foldable device when the flexible display is folded, and control, in response to the flexible display being unfolded, the flexible display to display the execution screen of the at least one first application and an execution screen of at least one second application related to the at least one first application to be displayed on a second surface of the flexible display that is used as a display of the foldable device when the flexible display is unfolded.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: So-young Kim, Se-hyun Han, Dae-myung Kim, Youn-ho Choi
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Patent number: 11887397Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors that feature an ultrasonic transmitter and multiple subsets of ultrasonic sensor pixels, each subset of ultrasonic sensor pixels associated with a different ultrasonically sensitive display surface, at least two of which are non-coplanar with one another. In some implementations, the ultrasonically sensitive display surfaces may be provided by different portions of a flexible display that has been flexed into a configuration in which two or more portions thereof are non-coplanar. In some instances, a controller may be provided that selectively reads ultrasonic sensor signals from subset(s) of the ultrasonic sensor pixels that are associated with the ultrasonically sensitive display surfaces that a touch-sensing system indicates are experiencing touch events.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Naga Chandan Babu Gudivada, Prakash Tiwari, Rakesh Pallerla
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Patent number: 11880443Abstract: The present invention provides a sensing device and a keycap. The sensing device includes a sensing unit and a base unit. The sensing unit includes a first sensing unit surface having a binding area and a non-binding area, wherein the binding area and the non-binding area do not overlap with each other and correspond to each other in shape. The base unit includes a first base unit surface having a contact area and a non-contact area, wherein the contact area and the non-contact area do not overlap with each other and correspond to each other in shape. The sensing unit is attached to the contact area of the base unit by the binding area; and sides of the sensing unit and the base unit side are flush with each other. The sensing device can function as a keycap.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: CAREWE TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Hsien-Lung Fan, Chih-Chung Chiang
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Patent number: 11874975Abstract: An electronic pen includes a projector configured to generate a virtual code pattern, a light-emitting unit configured to emit light to a detection area, a light-receiving unit configured to detect light reflected from the detection area, and a code processor configured to control the projector, the light-emitting unit, and the light-receiving unit. The code processor is configured to, when a code pattern is detected in a portion of the detection area, generate the virtual code pattern, which corresponds to a remaining portion of the detection area. The projector is configured to output the virtual code pattern to the remaining portion of the detection area.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyung Chul Kim, Won Ki Hong
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Patent number: 11861092Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixel areas is defined, a light-emitting diode (“LED”) on the display substrate, a touch sensor electrode on the display substrate and including at least one touch electrode, and a bank separating the plurality of the sub-pixel areas, where each of the plurality of the sub-pixel areas may include a first area in which the LED is disposed and a second area in which the touch sensor electrode is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seunglyong Bok, Mugyeom Kim
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Patent number: 11862091Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display panel includes a driving transistor, first to fifth transistors, and a light emitting device. The driving transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate terminal. The first transistor is coupled between a power supply terminal and the first terminal of the driving transistor. The second transistor is coupled between the first terminal of the driving transistor and the gate terminal of the driving transistor. The third transistor is coupled between the second terminal of the driving transistor and the gate terminal of the driving transistor. The fourth transistor is coupled between a data input terminal and the second terminal of the driving transistor. The fifth transistor is coupled to the second terminal of the driving transistor. The light emitting device is coupled between the fifth transistor and a reference voltage terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Kuo-Wei Cheng
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Patent number: 11861113Abstract: A contactless touchscreen interface has a digital display to display digital information; the proximity detector and a proximity detector comprising an image sensor to detect user interaction at a virtual touch intersection plane offset a distance from the digital display and to resolve the interaction into XY offset-plane interaction coordinates with reference to the digital display. A gaze determining imaging system comprising an image sensor determines a gaze relative offset with respect to the digital display using facial image data captured by the image sensor. An interface controller comprising a parallax adjustment controller to convert the XY offset-plane interaction coordinates to XY on-screen apparent coordinates using the gaze relative offset and the distance and an input controller generates an input at the XY on-screen apparent coordinates accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Marthinus Van Der Merwe
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Patent number: 11861065Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for using a wearable ring device for extended reality (XR) functionalities. An example wearable device can include a structure defining a receiving space configured to receive a finger associated with a user, the structure including a first surface configured to contact the finger received via the receiving space; one or more sensors integrated into the structure, the one or more sensors being configured to detect a rotation of at least a portion of the structure about a longitudinal axis of the receiving space; and a wireless transmitter configured to send, to an electronic device, data based on the rotation.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sebastien Mounier, Ramesh Chandrasekhar, Jonathan Kies, Tom Edward Botterill
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Patent number: 11854298Abstract: A sensing device includes a substrate, a first circuit, a second circuit, a first photodetector, and a second photodetector. The first circuit is disposed on the substrate, and configured to sense a fingerprint. The second circuit is disposed on the substrate, and configured to detect a data of a living body. The first photodetector is electrically connected to the first circuit. The second photodetector is electrically connected to the second circuit. The area of the second photodetector is larger than the area of the first photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Wei-Lin Wan, Yu-Tsung Liu, Te-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 11837168Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a driver for driving the display panel, and a temperature detector connected to anodes of organic light emitting diodes included in at least two sub-pixels positioned in the display panel, wherein the temperature detector detects at least two voltage values from the at least two sub-pixels and calculates a temperature measurement value for measuring a temperature of the display panel based on a difference between the at least two voltage values.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Gwang Beom Heo, Dong Ho Choi
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Patent number: 11836320Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying spurious signals in capacitive touch sensors. In some examples, the technology may include a capacitive touch sensor having an input surface, a stylus configured to transmit a first electrical signal through its exterior surface based on a determination of an orientation of the stylus, and one or more processors configured to: identify a contact to a first area of the input surface based on one or more changes in electrical charge sensed in the first area, determine that the one or more changes in electrical charge sensed in the first area include the first electrical signal, and determine whether to identify the contact to the first area as spurious based on the determination that the one or more changes in electrical charge sensed in the first area include the first electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Douglas James Stockwell
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Patent number: 11837008Abstract: The present invention is to provide a touch sensor with a fingerprint sensor capable of making brightness uniform by removing a difference in brightness in a portion to which a touch sensor and the fingerprint sensor are applied, in which an output of a touch display device of uniform brightness may be obtained by applying dummy electrodes to a portion constituting the touch sensor to change a structure so that light transmittances of the fingerprint sensor and the touch sensor are the same as or similar to each other or controlling a portion at which the finger sensor is positioned in an entire region of a light emitting layer to be brighter than the rest portion by a control unit of touch display devices to which the fingerprint sensor according to various embodiments of the present invention is applied.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: SK Innovation Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei UniversityInventors: Jun Hyung Kim, Sang Yoon Ji, Jang-Ung Park
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Patent number: 11836319Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for sensing touch at a surface. Sensing touch can be achieved while decreasing the number of sensors at a surface as well as data and computation complexity, but maintaining accuracy. Such sensing touch can be achieved via applying excitation and detecting emission waveforms at a surface that are associated with touch at a surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMCInventor: David A. Anderson
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Patent number: 11830276Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic biometric imaging system comprising: a cover structure having a touch surface; a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged at a periphery of the touch surface; a plurality of mixed-signal integrated circuits configured to: AD-convert a received analog echo-signal to form a digital echo signal for each active ultrasonic transducer in the subset of ultrasonic transducers; perform local beamforming by introducing a first controllable delay to each digital echo signal to form a plurality of delayed echo signals; and sum the delayed echo signals to form an intermediate signal. The biometric imaging system further comprises a host processor connected to each of the plurality of mixed-signal integrated-circuits and configured to: receive intermediate signals from the of mixed-signal integrated-circuits; perform global beamforming by introducing a second controllable delay to each intermediate signal; and sum the delayed intermediate signals to form a final echo signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: FINGERPRINT CARDS ANACATUM IP ABInventor: Hamed Bouzari
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Patent number: 11816263Abstract: A handheld controller to operate with a head-mounted display (HMD) and information handling system may include a data storage device; the HMD having an HMD processor and an HMD display device to present to a user an extended reality extended reality image of an environment; and the handheld controller, including: a handheld controller processor executing code instructions of a strap fit adjustment system to activate a strap tensioner mechanism to tighten a strap across a user's hand until a tightness threshold level has been achieved; a strap tightness measurement system to measure a tightness level of the strap across a user's hand as the strap tensioner mechanism tightens the strap across the user's hand; and the tightness level of the strap being set to the tightness threshold level by the user and accessible at a data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
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Patent number: 11816916Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display panel. A window is disposed on the display panel. An input sensor is disposed between the display panel and the window. The input sensor includes a first sensing electrode extending in a first direction and a second sensing electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. At least a partial portion of each of the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode includes a plurality of fine sensing electrodes that is configured to be a fingerprint sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-Lyong Bok, Kicheol Kim, Jongin Baek