Patents Examined by Joseph R. Haley
  • Patent number: 11605238
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification module may include an array substrate (201), a plurality of point light sources (202) on the array substrate (201), and a plurality of photosensors (203) on the array substrate (201). The array substrate (201) may include a switch array (204) and a light emitting unit array (205) on the switch array (204). The plurality of point light sources (202) is configured to emit light to irradiate different regions of a finger at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Lei Wang, Changfeng Li, Pinchao Gu, Xueyou Cao, Wei Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Xiaoquan Hai
  • Patent number: 11599609
    Abstract: A system, device and method for fingerprint authentication using a watermarked digital image is provided. A device includes a display device including a touch screen configured to detect fingerprints; and, a controller. The controller: generates, at the display device, an image that includes, in one or more given areas, image-embedded fingerprint information; detects, at one or more portions of the touch screen respectively corresponding to the one or more given areas, user-fingerprint information representing a fingerprint; implements a comparison between the user-fingerprint information and the image-embedded fingerprint information; and when the comparison between the user-fingerprint information and the image-embedded fingerprint information is successful, implement an access process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Marcin Jasinski
  • Patent number: 11600098
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for fingerprint imaging. The apparatus includes: a light source configured to generate light, wherein a light intensity distribution of the light generated by the light source conforms to a preset encoding mode; a sensing surface on which the light generated by the light source forms a signal light with fingerprint information; and an imaging module configured to image the signal light to obtain a fingerprint image. Embodiments of the present disclosure can encode the fingerprint image by the encoding mode and can “encrypt” the fingerprint image by the encoding mode, thus a clear fingerprint image can be obtained by decoding based on obtaining the preset encoding mode, which can effectively improve the security of fingerprint imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HARVEST INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lee Ya-Ti Chang
  • Patent number: 11600102
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes a plurality of light-receiving elements configured to receive light, and a light guide portion one surface of which faces the light-receiving elements. The light guide portion includes a plurality of light guide paths provided throughout from the one surface to the other surface of the light guide portion, and a light-absorbing portion having higher absorbance of the light than that of the light guide paths. When viewed from a direction in which the light-receiving elements and the light guide portion are stacked, more than one of the light guide paths overlap one of the light-receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Kazuki Matsunaga, Toshiyuki Higano, Kazuhiro Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11600099
    Abstract: A biological feature identification device includes a display device and a sensing device. The display device includes multiple pixels arranged along a first direction. The pixels each has a sub-pixel having a display element and a switch element. The sensing device includes multiple sensing units arranged along a second direction. The sensing units each has a sensing element. When the spatial frequency relation is |4*(RE/100)?(1/SU)|>A, the first and second directions are the same, and the biological feature identification device satisfy the criteria: A<|4*(RE/100)?(1/SU)|<B. When the spatial frequency relation is |4*(RE/100)?(1/SU)|?A, the first and second directions form an angle, and the biological feature identification device satisfy the criteria: A<|4*(RE/100)?{1/[SU*Cos(?)]}|<C. RE is the resolution of the display device, SU is the sensing unit size, ? is the angle, 0°<?<90°, B and C>A, and A is not equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuo-Hong Wang, Chao-Chien Chiu, Shang-Wei Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11587307
    Abstract: A control method includes collecting a biometric image through a sensing area of a biometric recognition sensor provided at a control button of an electronic apparatus, in response to a press operation of a user on the control button; determining whether the biometric image meets a condition; in response to determining that the biometric image meets the condition, allowing the control button to be moved from a first position to a second position; and in response to determining that the biometric image does not meet the condition, prohibiting the control button from being moved from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Ying Gao
  • Patent number: 11587352
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection control circuit, a fingerprint detection control method and a display device. The fingerprint detection control circuit includes a sensing circuitry, a resetting circuitry, a control circuitry and a conversion circuitry. The control circuitry provides a switch control signal to a control end of the resetting circuitry under the control of a first control signal. The resetting circuitry provides a resetting voltage to a conversion control end under the control of a potential at its control end. The conversion circuitry converts a photovoltage signal into a corresponding current signal under the control of a potential at the conversion control end when a first voltage end is electrically connected to a first signal output end, and outputs the current signal via the first signal output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinlan Yang, Wenkai Mu, Yi Liu, Shijun Wang, Jun Fan, Bo Feng, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Tengfei Ding, Yingzi Wang
  • Patent number: 11579898
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition-based synchronous application starting method and device. By providing a sensing unit below a fingerprint recognition area of a display unit, when a user needs to start an application, the user only needs to synchronously click an icon corresponding to an application to be started in the fingerprint recognition area of the screen; the sensing unit acquires fingerprint information of the user, and then compares the acquired fingerprint information with preset fingerprint information, to start the application or perform unlocking. Compared with an existing approach for a mobile apparatus to start an application by means of fingerprint recognition, the method and device improves the operability of application icons on a screen and enhances user experience, and can also effectively reduce the overall thickness of a mobile apparatus, making the mobile apparatus thinner and lighter to meet the market demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Jinadong Huang
  • Patent number: 11580849
    Abstract: Wearable electronic systems having varying interactions based on device orientations are described herein. The systems include a first wearable electronic device and a second wearable electronic device having an input device and a device orientation sensor. The device orientation sensor detects a device orientation of the second wearable electronic device and generates a device orientation signal. The systems have a first mapping orientation mode that performs a first mapping between inputs from the input device and functions of a user interface displayed on the first wearable electronic device when the second wearable electronic device has a first device orientation and a second mapping orientation mode that performs a second mapping between inputs from the input device and functions of the user interface displayed on the first wearable electronic device when the device orientation of the second wearable electronic device detected by the device orientation sensor is a second device orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jason T. Griffin, Steven Henry Fyke
  • Patent number: 11579701
    Abstract: An electronic device may include touch input components and associated haptic output components. The control circuitry may provide haptic output in response to touch input on the touch input components and may send wireless signals to the external electronic device based on the touch input. The haptic output components may provide local and global haptic output. Local haptic output may be used to guide a user to the location of the electronic device or to provide a button click sensation to the user in response to touch input. Global haptic output may be used to notify the user that the electronic device is aligned towards the external electronic device and is ready to receive user input to control or communicate with the external electronic device. Control circuitry may switch a haptic output component into an inactive mode to inform the user that a touch input component is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, James H. Foster, Duncan Kerr, Adam S. Meyer, Per Haakan Linus Persson, Peter C. Tsoi, Stuart J. Wood
  • Patent number: 11580772
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a mobile input device with a screen on which information can be displayed in a first pixel raster of image elements and which comprises a flat optical fingerprint reader and a second pixel raster of light-sensitive sensor elements. A fingerprint and fingerprint characteristics, comprising position of the finger on the screen are detected. The sensor elements detect the light intensity incident on them. The intensity levels are assembled into a static pattern of the fingerprint. The combination of the static pattern and the fingerprint characteristics are compared with a database. If the combination is in the database, a check is carried out whether an action is associated with this combination, which is then carried out, or whether no action is associated with this combination, whereupon a first standard action is carried out. If the combination is not stored, a second standard action is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: JENETRIC GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Krenzer, Jörg Reinhold, Philipp Riehl, Daniel Gläsner
  • Patent number: 11574496
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition device including a light emitting layer, an image sensing layer and a micro-lens layer is provided. The image sensing layer has a plurality of pixels. The micro-lens layer is disposed between the light emitting layer and the image sensing layer and has a plurality of micro lenses respectively corresponding to the pixels. A distance between the micro-lens layer and the light emitting layer is less than or equal to 800 um and greater than or equal to h1, where h1=(x/2×tan ?), x is the minimum distance between two micro lenses respectively corresponding to different pixels on a plane where the micro-lens layer is disposed, and ? is an FWHM light receiving angle of each of the micro lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shang-Wei Hsieh, Ken-Yu Liu, Chao-Chien Chiu, Yan-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 11551468
    Abstract: An input sensing device includes a display panel, a sensor pixel, and a fingerprint detector. The display panel displays a fingerprint detection pattern corresponding to a target object. The sensor pixel generates a sensing signal by detecting light reflected from the fingerprint detection pattern by the target object. The fingerprint detector detects a fingerprint for the target object based on the sensing signal, and changes an exposure time of the sensor pixel based on a size of the fingerprint detection pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kee Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 11544959
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition system, includes a touch surface configured so as to provide location information for at least one contact point (PCO) of a finger having a fingerprint in contact with the touch surface, wherein the system comprises: a TFT panel, arranged underneath the touch surface, comprising a detection array comprising M rows at least some of which comprise detection cells for detecting an image representative of the fingerprint, a row-addressing system being integrated into the array, and configured so as to activate, row after row, the detection cells of a corresponding row in a scanning direction of the rows, a calculation device, configured so as to receive the location information and so as to command the addressing system to address the array starting from an address range (ZA) grouping together a subset of rows from among the M rows of the array, and determined on the basis of the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ISORG
    Inventor: David Blanchon
  • Patent number: 11538271
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of optical fingerprint identification structures, each optical fingerprint identification structure includes a display region and a sensing region, the display region includes a driving circuitry layer, a planarization layer, a pixel definition layer, and a light-emitting element, and the light-emitting element includes an anode, a light-emitting material layer and a cathode. The sensing region includes a sensing region opening, an optical sensor and a cathode metal layer, the cathode metal layer includes a first cathode metal layer and a second cathode metal layer, and the first cathode metal layer is separated from the second cathode metal layer by a gap, so that light emitted by the light-emitting element is allowed to enter the optical sensor through the gap after being reflected by a fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Liu, Hongwei Tian, Hao Liu, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11537231
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of detection electrodes, the second substrate being located between the detection electrodes and the liquid crystal layer; a shield electrode apart from the detection electrodes in a plane view, the second substrate being located between the shield electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a resistive layer overlapping the detection electrodes and the shield electrode, the detection electrodes and the shield electrode located between the resistive layer and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11527098
    Abstract: A displaying base plate and a fabricating method thereof, and a displaying device. The displaying base plate includes: a substrate, and a plurality of displaying units and a plurality of fingerprint identifying units that are located on the substrate; each of the displaying units includes at least one sub-pixel; orthographic projections of the fingerprint identifying units on the substrate are separated from orthographic projections of the displaying units on the substrate; and each of the fingerprint identifying units includes a first electrode and a shielding trace that are insulated from each other, an orthographic projection of the shielding trace on the substrate surrounds at least part of an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the substrate, and the shielding trace is electrically connected to an earthed end of the displaying base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Li, Hao Liu, Huijuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11520425
    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: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinseong Kim, YongChan Park, Haewon Lee, JuHan Kim
  • Patent number: 11521416
    Abstract: An ultrasonic fingerprint recognition sensor and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The ultrasonic fingerprint recognition sensor includes a resonant cavity, a receiver electrode, a drive electrode, and a piezoelectric thin film layer between the receiver electrode and the drive electrode, the resonant cavity is on a side, closer to the piezoelectric thin film layer, of the receiver electrode, and is configured to increase vibration amplitude of the piezoelectric thin film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Lei Wang, Pengpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11508176
    Abstract: A display substrate having a fingerprint recognition region includes an array substrate, and a light shielding layer disposed at a side of the array substrate and at least located in the fingerprint recognition region. The material of the light shielding layer is an insulating material. A portion of the light shielding layer located in the fingerprint recognition region is provided with a plurality of light transmission holes, and each of the plurality of light transmission holes is configured to provide a transmission channel for fingerprint imaging light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Sun, Zhen Zhang, Wei Deng, Daniel Youn, Yiyang Zhang