Patents Examined by Laurence J Lee
  • Patent number: 11456440
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate that includes an opening and a display area that surrounds the opening; a plurality of grooves formed in the substrate between the opening and the display area; a display element layer on the substrate and that includes a plurality of display elements in the display area; a thin-film encapsulation layer disposed on the display element layer, the thin-film encapsulation layer including a first inorganic encapsulation layer, an organic encapsulation layer, and a second inorganic encapsulation layer which are sequentially stacked; a planarization layer disposed over the plurality of grooves and that includes an organic insulating material, wherein the planarization layer is disposed over the second inorganic encapsulation layer, and the organic encapsulation layer is disposed below the second inorganic encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wooyong Sung, Wonwoo Choi, Sooyoun Kim, Junghan Seo, Seoyeon Lee, Hyoungsub Lee, Moonwon Chang, Seunggun Chae, Seungyong Song
  • Patent number: 11422612
    Abstract: The present disclosure, which relates to a technology for controlling power of a display device, allows reducing power consumption by driving circuits for a display operation and circuits for a touch sensing operation with low power depending on a display operation or a touch sensing operation of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11417266
    Abstract: According to various disclosed examples, a pixel that includes micro light-emitting elements is disclosed as well as a display device that includes such micro light-emitting elements. By way of example, a pixel may include a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other with light-emitting elements electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode. In addition, a first pixel circuit may be connected to a first power source with the first pixel circuit generating a driving current based on a scan signal and a data signal. Further, the pixel may include a first selection circuit that, based on a first selection signal, controls an electrical connection between the first pixel circuit and the first electrode and an electrical connection between a second power source and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 11409392
    Abstract: Included are a first cover base including an alkali glass layer, a first alkali-free glass layer provided on one face of the alkali glass layer, and a second alkali-free glass layer provided on another face of the alkali glass layer and a sensor that is provided on the first alkali-free glass layer of the first cover base and includes a plurality of first electrodes configured to detect the unevenness of a surface of an object to be detected that comes into contact with or close to the first cover base and a switching element. At least the first electrodes are formed above the first alkali-free glass layer and in a transmissive area that passes an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Shoji Hinata, Toshinori Uehara, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yuji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11402913
    Abstract: A system for aircraft display device feedback may include a personal electronic device. The personal electronic device may be configured to generate a feedback response based on a signal received from an aircraft controller of an aircraft. In addition or in the alternative, the system may include a personal electronic device configured to generate a feedback response, where the feedback response may be generated by an aircraft controller via the personal electronic device. The feedback response may be based on an input received via an aircraft touchscreen display device coupled to the aircraft controller. The feedback response may at least include a haptic feedback response. The input received via the touchscreen aircraft display device may be directed to at least one of adjusting, troubleshooting, or updating one or more components of an avionics system installed within the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph L. Tchon, Tracy J. Barnidge
  • Patent number: 11392212
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic displacement of a virtual object for an interaction between a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and the virtual object in a virtual space that the control object interacts with. In particular, it relates to detecting free-form gestures of a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and generating for display a 3D solid control object model for the control object during the free-form gestures, including sub-components of the control object and in response to detecting a 2D sub-component free-form gesture of the control object in the 3D sensory space in virtual contact with the virtual object, depicting, in the generated display, the virtual contact and resulting rotation of the virtual object by the 3D solid control object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Alex Marcolina, David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 11385717
    Abstract: A vehicle input device includes: an interior panel that is an opaque plate-shaped member; and multiple fixing portions for fixing the interior panel to a vehicle. In the interior panel, an operation area portion in which multiple symbols indicating multiple control contents and a non-operation area portion are set. On a rear surface side of the operation area portion, a press sensor for detecting a press operation on a switch portion and a vibrator that vibrates the operation area portion are placed. The switch portion is a portion in which the multiple symbols are placed. The vehicle input device includes a controller that specifies an operation content and causes the vibrator to vibrate. The multiple fixing portions are placed in the non-operation area portion and are not placed in the operation area portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Yamauchi, Harunori Fujitsu, Kazuteru Itou
  • Patent number: 11386834
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) display driver circuit includes: a set of scan lines, each scan line having a respective switch; a set of channels coupled to each scan line of the set of scan lines; and a scan line controller coupled to each respective switch of the set of scan lines, the scan line controller configured to provide a programmable sequence of control signals to respective switches of the set of scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yang Wang, Huibo Zhong, Haibin Shao, Yan He, Shang Ding, Yongxiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11366509
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display device having a first interface to which a first image signal is inputted and a second interface to which a second image signal is inputted from an image supply device having an auto sleep function is provided. The method includes: shifting to a sleep mode in response to a continuous stop of the first image signal for a first time, in a first mode in which a first image based on the first image signal is displayed on a screen; and shifting to the sleep mode in response to a continuous stop of the second image signal for a second time that is shorter than the first time, in a second mode in which a second image based on the second image signal is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11367302
    Abstract: An interface display method and an electronic device are provided. The interface display method comprises steps of: during processing an interface display request of an application program, determining whether the interface display request meets a preset condition or not (101); if the interface display request meets the preset condition, acquiring at least one fingerprint acquisition area according to the interface display request (102); displaying an interface according to the interface display request (103), and activating a fingerprint recognition sensor corresponding to the at least one fingerprint acquisition area (104); and if the interface display request does not meet the preset condition, displaying the interface according to the interface display request, and controlling the fingerprint recognition sensor of the electronic device to be in an inactive state (105). The method reduces the power consumption of the electronic device, and prolongs the service life of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HUAQIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Yu
  • Patent number: 11360570
    Abstract: A method for hand pose identification in an automated system includes providing depth map data of a hand of a user to a first neural network trained to classify features corresponding to a joint angle of a wrist in the hand to generate a first plurality of activation features and performing a first search in a predetermined plurality of activation features stored in a database in the memory to identify a first plurality of hand pose parameters for the wrist associated with predetermined activation features in the database that are nearest neighbors to the first plurality of activation features. The method further includes generating a hand pose model corresponding to the hand of the user based on the first plurality of hand pose parameters and performing an operation in the automated system in response to input from the user based on the hand pose model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ayan Sinha, Chiho Choi, Joon Hee Choi, Karthik Ramani
  • Patent number: 11354090
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic apparatus, a display apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The electronic apparatus includes a speaker configured to output a sound; a microphone configured to receive a user voice; a communicator configured to perform communication; and a processor. The processor is configured to: identify a state of an external apparatus through the communicator based on reception of the user voice, process the received user voice and output a sound corresponding to a process result through the speaker based on identification that the external apparatus is in a turned-off state, and control the communicator to transmit information about the received user voice to the external apparatus and request the external apparatus to process the voice based on identification that the external apparatus is in a turned-on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hansoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11347309
    Abstract: An electronic interaction device may include an image sensor, a display, a storage device, a memory storing instructions, and a processing unit including one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to: receive at least one image of a predetermined space adjacent the electronic interaction device, identify a plurality of persons in the predetermined space adjacent the electronic interaction device, generate a positional mapping of the predetermined space adjacent the electronic interaction device, identify a user and one or more onlookers, extract eye tracking information corresponding to the one or more onlookers, calculate one or more points of focus representing a point at which one of the one or more onlookers is looking, determine whether any of the one or more points of focus is within a predetermined zone of interest of the electronic interaction device, and alert the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Medeiros, Chelsea Shi
  • Patent number: 11340725
    Abstract: A force input sensor includes a load cell to adapt a compressive force applied to the force input sensor into a strain experienced by a strain sensor in the load cell. In particular, the load cell includes two compression plates separated from one another by a gap so as to define a volume between them. A flexible substrate (a “diaphragm”)—includes a strain sensor and is disposed and supported within the volume. One of the two compression plates includes a feature (a “loading feature”) that extends toward a central region of the flexible substrate. As a result of this construction, when the compression plates receive a compressive force, the loading feature induces a bending moment in the flexible substrate, thereby straining the strain sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Deng, Travis N. Owens, Shubhaditya Majumdar, Wei Lin, Ying-Da Wang, Timothy D. Koch, Nathan K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11340727
    Abstract: A channel driver circuit includes a differential module and a driver module. In some examples, the channel driver circuit also includes a sigma-delta module. The differential module receives, via a single node of a load, a channel driving signal that is provided to the load at the single node (e.g., that is based on an electrical characteristic of the load) and generates an analog error signal that is based on the channel driving signal and a reference signal. The driver module is coupled to the differential module and generates the channel driving signal based on the analog error signal or a digital error signal corresponding to the analog error signal and transmits the channel driving signal via the single node to the load. The channel driver circuit simultaneously transmits the channel driving signal to the load at the single node and senses the channel driving signal at the single node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Phuong Huynh
  • Patent number: 11334179
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display technology and, particularly, to a display panel and a display device. In the display panel, a bridging connection layer includes multiple bridge electrodes and a touch electrode layer includes multiple first touch electrodes and multiple second touch electrodes. A first electrode unit of each first touch electrodes includes a first electrode subsection. A vertical projection of the first electrode subsection on a plane where the bridging connection layer is located is within a cover of a bridge electrode. In one embodiment, each bridge electrode includes a bridge electrode terminal and a bridge trace, in a second direction where multiple second electrode units of each second touch electrode are arrange, and extension length of the bridge electrode terminal is greater than a width of the bridge trace, and a first corner is formed at a joint of the bridge electrode terminal and the bridge trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Li, Jiachang Gu, Xianbao Song, Tao Peng, Pei He
  • Patent number: 11327598
    Abstract: A control chip comprising: at least pin; a control circuit; a clock generation circuit, configured to generate a clock signal; a power providing circuit, configured to provide an always on power; a touch detection circuit, configured to receive the always on power, and configured to detect a touch event via the pin to generate a touch detection signal; a logic circuit, configured to receive the always on power, the clock signal and the touch detection signal, wherein the logic circuit controls the power providing circuit to provide a core power to the control circuit according to the touch detection signal. The control circuit is further configured to set the logic circuit such that the logic circuit can control the touch detection circuit. A related touch detection method is also discloses. Via the control chip and the touch detection method, the circuit area and the power consumption can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Audiowise Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-So Chuang, Pin-Hsuan Huang, Tsung-Han Yang
  • Patent number: 11327532
    Abstract: A foldable display panel comprises a first display area, a second display area, a third display area, a first folding area, and a second folding area. The first folding area is configured to connect the first display area and the second display area. The second folding area is configured to connect the third display area and the second display area. When the first folding area is in a folded state, the first display area is located directly above the second display area. When the second folding area is in a folded state, the third display area is located directly below the second display area. A first sub-pixel of the first display area, and both a second sub-pixel of the second display area and a third sub-pixel of the third display area, each corresponding to the first sub-pixel, constitute a single pixel unit of the combined display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11320860
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11307709
    Abstract: The present disclosure of the disclosure are related to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device, in a touch sensor structure performing a touch sensing based on a mutual-capacitance, as performing a touch sensing based on a self-capacitance and a touch sensing based on the mutual-capacitance, a performance of a touch sensing may be improved. Furthermore, as driving channels of X-touch electrode line of Y-touch electrode line partially in a period performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance, the number of channels driven in each period is reduced and a noise according to a display driving may be reduced when performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: DaeUk Jeong