Patents Examined by Joseph R. Haley
  • Patent number: 11841566
    Abstract: A ubiquitously mountable image display system includes a shape-reconfigurable display screen component to which is attached a plurality of circuit modules each having at least one light source. The shape-reconfigurable display screen component is formed of a material that accommodates flexing of the display screen component without creating a perceivable aberration in separation distance between two or more picture elements of an image that is rendered upon a viewing plane of the display screen component when light from the plurality of light sources is directed towards the viewing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Cope, Aris Silzars
  • Patent number: 11842559
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for controlling an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor are disclosed. Some examples involve determining that a first bias voltage is not sufficient for one or more affected ultrasonic receiver pixels of the ultrasonic receiver array and determining one or more affected regions of the ultrasonic receiver array in which the one or more affected ultrasonic receiver pixels are located. Some examples involve determining one or more unaffected regions of the ultrasonic receiver array in which the one or more affected ultrasonic receiver pixels are not located. Some examples involve determining a second bias voltage for the one or more affected regions and recalibrating the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor to apply the second bias voltage to the affected regions and to apply the first bias voltage to the one or more unaffected regions when the ultrasonic receiver array receives ultrasound signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chandrika Singasani, Nirma Lnu
  • Patent number: 11837011
    Abstract: A button module with vibration feedback and fingerprint sensing, a fingerprint sensing module for the same, and a control method for the same are provided. The fingerprint sensing module has a fingerprint sensing unit stacked on a vibration unit. When the fingerprint sensing module detects a fingerprint, the control unit or a host of an electronic device determines whether the fingerprint is authenticated. If it is not authenticated, the vibration unit is activated, so that the user realizes that the authentication is not passed in real time through the vibration. Then the user may quickly change another finger or move the finger's position to speed up the authentication process. This can prevent users from waiting to improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan-Jung Liu, Tung-Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 11837014
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a sensor in which detection elements each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged in a detection region; a drive circuit configured to supply drive signals to the detection elements; and a detection circuit configured to process a detection signal output from each detection element. Each detection element includes: a source follower transistor configured to output a signal corresponding to an electric charge generated in the photoelectric conversion element; and a read transistor configured to read an output signal of the source follower transistor and output the detection signal. A potential obtained by superimposing a threshold voltage of the source follower transistor and a voltage drop caused by on-resistance of the read transistor on a reset potential serving as a reference value for a voltage variation amount of the detection signal is set as an initial value of a potential applied to the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Patent number: 11830281
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, an image lens positioned under the display panel to form a fingerprint image by using light reflected from user fingerprints, an image sensor configured to convert an image into an electrical signal, a first aperture positioned on a first surface between the image lens and the image sensor to block a light component scattered on the display panel, a relay lens positioned between the first surface and the image sensor to collect light having passed through the first aperture to the image sensor, and a second aperture positioned on a second surface between the relay lens and the image sensor to block a light component scattered on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinho Kim
  • Patent number: 11829520
    Abstract: Disclosed is a controller for sensing deformation. Transmit antennas are located on a first structure and transmit signals. Receive antennas are located on a second structure and receive signals. Received signals are processed to determine an amount of deformation. The amount of deformation that occurs may then be correlated to the position of a hand or the location of another body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: David Holman, Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, David Clark Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 11830279
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a screen fingerprint component and a terminal device. The screen fingerprint component includes: a first glass cover plate, a display module, a strobe light, and a fingerprint module, where the first glass cover plate, the display module, and the fingerprint module are stacked, a first side of the display module is attached to a first surface of the first glass cover plate, the strobe light is located on one side of the first glass cover plate and adjacent to both the first surface of the first glass cover plate and the first side of the display module, and the strobe light faces the first glass cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huaping Wu
  • Patent number: 11823621
    Abstract: A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels operating at a low refresh rate. Each display pixel may have six thin-film transistors and one capacitor. One of the six transistors may serve as the drive transistor and may be compensated using the remaining five transistors and the capacitor. One or more on-bias stress operations may be applied before threshold voltage sampling to mitigate first frame dimming. Multiple anode reset and on-bias stress operations may be inserted during vertical blanking periods to reduce flicker and maintain balance and may also be inserted between successive data refreshes to improve first frame performance. Two different emission signals controlling each pixel may be toggled together using a pulse width modulation scheme to help provide darker black levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Shyuan Yang, Chuang Qian, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 11823485
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint reading device and a fingerprint reading method that can appropriately read a fingerprint even when reading a fingerprint of a relatively soft finger that may be easily subjected to significant elastic deformation. The fingerprint reading device includes: a placement portion on which a finger is placed, provided with a reading face so as to be able to move between first and second positions; a drive unit that causes the reading face to move between the first and second positions; and a reading unit that reads a fingerprint when the reading face is positioned at the first position, the drive unit causes the reading face to move to the second position and further move from the second position to the first position, and the reading unit reads a fingerprint when the reading face has moved from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11803267
    Abstract: In a touch display panel and a touch display device, a shielding pattern including the common electrode (COM) used as the touch electrode (TE) is disposed between a touch line (TL) and a data line (DL), and the touch line (TL) and the data line (DL) are arranged so as not to overlap each other in a boundary area between shielding patterns. The parasitic capacitance between the touch line (TL) and the data line (DL) can be reduced to improve the performance of touch sensing. In addition, the arrangement of the touch lines (TL) and data lines (DL) in the boundary area between shielding patterns is repeated at regular intervals to prevent an image abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinseong Kim, YongChan Park, Haewon Lee, JuHan Kim
  • Patent number: 11798315
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a plurality of microlenses arranged in a hexagonal periodic structure, and provided in the plurality of sensor regions, and a plurality of spacers between the plurality of sensor regions, wherein the plurality of sensor regions include a first sensor region adjacent to the plurality of spacers, a second sensor region adjacent to the first sensor region in the first direction, and a third sensor region adjacent to the first sensor region in the second direction, and include at least one microlens overlapped with the first sensor region and the second sensor region, and at least one microlens overlapped with the first sensor region and the third sensor region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11790688
    Abstract: The fingerprint recognition panel includes fingerprint recognition circuits arranged in a matrix, reading signal lines, a gate driving circuit and scanning lines connected with the gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit is for outputting scanning signals to the scanning lines successively; each fingerprint recognition circuit is in connection with two scanning lines, a reading control end is connected with a first scanning line, and a reset control end is connected with a second scanning line; the first scanning line in connection with the fingerprint recognition circuits of the nth row and the second scanning line in connection with the fingerprint recognition circuits of the (n?m)th row are the same; or the second scanning line in connection with the fingerprint recognition circuits of the nth row and the first scanning line in connection with the fingerprint recognition circuits of the (n?m)th row are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Shijun Wang, Wenkai Mu, Bo Feng, Jun Fan, Xinlan Yang, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Tengfei Ding, Yingzi Wang
  • Patent number: 11790684
    Abstract: A multi-segment pixel matrix, a sensor or device, a system, and a method, for biometric sensing, are provided. Such a device or system includes a sensor comprising a pixel matrix having two or more pixel arrays as separate segments logically divided in the pixel matrix. The pixel matrix may include both thermal sensing pixels and capacitive sensing nodes. The device or system may include a plurality of application-specific intergrade circuits (ASICs) coupled to the sensor. Each ASIC is configured to capture image data of a biometric pattern measured by at least one pixel array. Each pixel array is independently driven and scanned by one or more of the plurality of the ASICs. The device or system further includes a microcontroller unit coupled to the plurality of ASICs and are used to process the image data and/or control operation of the system. Such a sensor can be a fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXT Biometrics Group ASA
    Inventors: King Hong Kwan, Tian Xiao, Ryan John Higgins
  • Patent number: 11790691
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification sensor includes a base, and at least one light sensing unit disposed on the base. The at least one light sensing unit is configured to collect at least two different monochromatic lights of light reflected by a finger to identify a fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Lin Zhang, Yingming Liu
  • Patent number: 11783616
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device. The display device includes a display region, a fingerprint recognition region disposed in the display region, and further includes a display panel. The display panel includes a light-shielding structure. A plurality of light-transmitting holes is disposed in the light-shielding structure in the fingerprint recognition region. A fingerprint recognition group is disposed under the display panel and corresponds to the fingerprint recognition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanhang Li
  • Patent number: 11774788
    Abstract: A ubiquitously mountable image display system includes a shape-reconfigurable display screen component to which is attached a plurality of circuit modules each having at least one light source. The shape-reconfigurable display screen component is formed of a material that accommodates flexing of the display screen component without creating a perceivable aberration in separation distance between two or more picture elements of an image that is rendered upon a viewing plane of the display screen component when light from the plurality of light sources is directed towards the viewing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Cope, Aris Silzars
  • Patent number: 11776301
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The fingerprint detection apparatus is applied under a display screen to implement under-screen optical fingerprint identification, including: a fingerprint sensor; the fingerprint sensor includes: N groups of sub-pixels, where N is a positive integer greater than 1; and different groups of sub-pixels in the N groups of sub-pixels respectively receive light signals with different characteristics in light signals returned by reflection or scattering via a finger, and light signals received by each group of sub-pixels in the N groups of sub-pixels are used to form one pixel in a fingerprint image of the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Zhan, Liang Li, Peng Jiang, Ming Ma
  • Patent number: 11776297
    Abstract: This invention is related to a technical field of optical fingerprint recognition. It particularly designs a coordinate transformation method for imaging under screen, a storage medium and an electronic device. The a [sic] coordinate transformation method for imaging under screen includes steps of: calculating a coordinate system shrink coefficient; copying each luminous point in a fingerprint image to a shrunken coordinate system; and moving the entirety to the shrunken coordinate system with a relative distance between fingerprint information around a luminous point and a center of the luminous point being kept unchanged. Through coordinate transformation, restoration of the fingerprint image is guaranteed, and also pixels are guaranteed to not be lost at the same time, thereby ensuring the definition of the fingerprint image thus restored. In addition, this manner for restoring fingerprint images is simple in calculation process, fast in restoration speed, and good in quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HARVEST INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zongwen Chen
  • Patent number: 11755711
    Abstract: A method for detecting a biometric feature of humans includes a steps of: dividing signal lines into a plurality of input groups each including a number m of consecutive ones of the signal lines; dividing scan lines into a plurality of output groups each including a number n of consecutive ones of the scan lines such that a plurality of electrode patterns are formed and each is formed by one of the input groups and one of the output groups; outputting a detecting signal to the input groups sequentially; scanning the output groups sequentially; and reading out a plurality of electrical signals respectively of the electrode patterns. The values of m and n can be adjusted to meet various resolution needs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: William Wang, Yu-Sung Su
  • Patent number: 11740696
    Abstract: A headware for computer control is presented in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In various embodiments, the headware includes an inner layer including a first surface and a second surface, an outer layer disposed on the first surface of the inner layer, and at least one sensor disposed on the second surface of the inner layer, and at least one sensor configured to measure electrical signals from a brain and extract meaning from the electrical signals, or communicate the electrical signals to a computing device. The headware is configured to sit at the top of a head and apply pressure to at least one side of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Jay Keller, Alexander Aziz Castillo Alvarez, Charles Bain