Patents Examined by Laurence J Lee
  • Patent number: 10997895
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a display panel including a plurality of source line groups including a plurality of source lines and a plurality of panel switches for each of the plurality of source lines; and a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) configured to drive the display panel, wherein the DDI includes the plurality of source amplifiers, decoders respectively connected to the plurality of source amplifiers, and at least one switch between source amplifier channels, wherein an operation of the at least one switch causes the number of the source line groups corresponding to a source amplifier to be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jong Kon Bae, Dong Hwy Kim, Hong Kook Lee, Dong Kyoon Han, Yun Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 10990126
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal includes: a body; a touch panel on a front surface and having top and bottom edges longer than left and right edges; a battery storage space; a pen storage space; and a substrate. The battery storage space is between a center line and a bottom edge of the body. A center point of the battery storage space is within a belt-shaped area having a width of 2 cm that spreads in a left-right direction and including the center point of the front surface. The pen storage space is between a bottom edge of the substrate and a top edge of the battery storage space and has a longitudinal axis parallel to a top of the battery storage space. A wiring connecting power terminals of two batteries stored in the battery storage space to the substrate does not intersect the pen storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidehiko Amaki
  • Patent number: 10990219
    Abstract: An integrated circuit and a touch display apparatus are provided. The integrated circuit is configured to drive a touch display panel. The integrated circuit includes a regulator. An output terminal of the regulator is employed as a first node to output a common voltage, wherein the common voltage is configured to be provided to at least one common electrode of the touch display panel. An input terminal of the regulator is coupled to a second node different from the first node to receive a feedback voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Wen-Yi Hsieh, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 10989947
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units, with each of which being provided with a plurality of sub-pixels (R, G, B) arranged in a first direction; a plurality of touch control electrodes, a region where each of the touch control electrodes is located overlapping with a region where the plurality of sub-pixels (R, G, B) are located; and a plurality of touch control signal lines arranged in gaps between the sub-pixels (R, G, B), wherein each of the touch control signal lines is connected to each of the touch control electrodes, there is no touch control floating signal line not connected to each of the touch control electrodes, and one column of pixel units is correspondingly provided with one touch control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Qiao, Zhen Wang, Fei Huang, Xiaozhou Zhan, Han Zhang, Wenwen Qin, Jian Sun
  • Patent number: 10984658
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display part that is arranged in a vehicle and is configured to display a first image as an image of information related to the vehicle on a front side of a driver, a detector configured to detect an action of the driver, and a controller configured to change an image displayed on the display part from the first image to a second image when an action of the driver gazing at the first image is detected. The first image includes an image of the vehicle, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shiota, Kenichi Nagahashi
  • Patent number: 10963096
    Abstract: Circuitry, systems, and methods are provided that can acquire touch sensor data simultaneously for different modes of, for example, self, mutual, and pen, and with simultaneous sampling of the different channels. Drive/receive circuitry and methods of driving and receiving sensor electrode signals are provided that allow digital I/O pins to be used to interface with touch sensor electrodes using external passive filter components. Drive/receive circuitry is provided employing voltage following sigma-delta A/D converters that are adapted to both drive and sense touch sensor signals on multiple frequencies simultaneously. This circuitry may be operated in modes to sense various combinations of mutual, self, and pen touch signals simultaneously. While capacitive multi-touch sensors are preferred, the circuits and methods herein are useful with many other types of touch sensors as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventor: Patrick Troy Gray
  • Patent number: 10963093
    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: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Phuong Huynh
  • Patent number: 10963092
    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: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Phuong Huynh
  • Patent number: 10955937
    Abstract: An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Collin R. Petty, Adam T. Clavelle
  • Patent number: 10950126
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display part that is arranged in a vehicle and is configured to display a first image as an image of information related to the vehicle on a front side of a driver, a detector configured to detect an action of the driver, and a controller configured to change an image displayed on the display part from the first image to a second image when an action of the driver gazing at the first image is detected. The first image includes an image of the vehicle, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shiota, Kenichi Nagahashi
  • Patent number: 10937347
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal detection method and component, as well as a display device. The display device includes a timing controller and a source driver. The source driver receives a test code stream from the timing controller, which is obtained through encoding of an initial code stream by the timing controller, the initial code stream representing a test signal. The source driver decodes the test code stream. When the decoded code stream is different from the initial code stream, configuration information of the source driver is acquired. The configuration information is transmitted to the timing controller, and is adjusted according to reference information of the timing controller when it does not match with the reference information. The source driver receives adjusted configuration information transmitted by the timing controller, and then receives a subsequently transmitted signal according to the adjusted configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifang Chu, Hao Zhu, Xin Duan, Jun Guo, Chengqi Zhou, Jieqiong Wang, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 10936080
    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: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Alex Marcolina, David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 10928944
    Abstract: A processing system comprises a first source amplifier and an analog front end. The first source amplifier comprises a first input electrically connectable to a first sensor electrode of a display panel and configured to generate a first drive signal based on a first grayscale voltage corresponding to a first pixel data and generate a first comparison output signal based on a first sensing signal from the first sensor electrode and a reference voltage. The analog front end is configured to generate a first digital detection data used for proximity sensing based on the first comparison output signal outputted from the first source amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Shinobu Nohtomi, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10928888
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a sensing and tracking system detects objects, such as user input devices or peripherals, and user interactions with them. A representation of the objects and user interactions are then injected into the virtual reality environment. The representation can be an actual reality, augmented reality, virtual representation or any combination. For example, an actual keyboard can be injected, but with the keys pressed being enlarged and lighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Stephen Harvey, Denis O'Keeffe, Andreas Connellan, Damien O'Sullivan, Aidan Kehoe, Noirin Curran, Thomas Rouvinez, Mario Gutierrez, Olivier Riviere, Remy Zimmermann, Mathieu Meisser, Dennin Onorio, Ciaran Trotman, Pierce O'Bradaigh, Marcel Twohig, Padraig Murphy, Jerry Ahern
  • Patent number: 10921053
    Abstract: A domestic appliance, in particular a refrigeration appliance, contains a door having a recessed grip and an illumination device for shining light onto the recessed grip. The illumination device has a projection device for projecting information onto the recessed grip. A method is used to operate a domestic appliance which contains the door having the recessed grip and the projection device for shining light onto the recessed grip, in which method information is projected onto the recessed grip by the projection device. The domestic appliance can be a refrigerator, a freezer, a preservation appliance or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Marco Reitwiessner, Andreas Kessler, Andreas Korte, Thomas Ott, Guenter Gerold, Robert Sachon
  • Patent number: 10921913
    Abstract: A rotatable device has a stationary base including bottom and top surfaces. The bottom surface has a first set of coupling electrodes configured to receive a reference signal from first electrodes of an attached input device, and second and third sets of coupling electrodes each configured to receive resulting signals from a second set of input device electrodes. The top surface of the stationary base has first, second and third top regions respectively connected to the first, second and third sets of coupling electrodes. The rotatable device further includes a rotary wheel, configured to rotate relative to the stationary base, with a bottom portion provided with alternating conductive and non-conductive regions and configured to align with the top portion of the stationary base. The resulting signals of the input device are modified by the relative positions of the stationary base and the rotary wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kelvin Fong, Robert J. Bolender
  • Patent number: 10923048
    Abstract: In a display device including a display panel having two areas and a backlight having two light-emitting sections, a first scanning period, a first blanking period, a second scanning period, and a second blanking period are set sequentially in one frame period, scanning lines in a first area are selected sequentially in the first scanning period, the scanning lines in a second area are selected sequentially in the second scanning period, a second light-emitting section is made to turn on in a first turn-on period set in the first blanking period, and a first light-emitting section is made to turn on in a second turn-on period set in the second blanking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Handa, Kohichi Ohhara, Hideo Tohdoh
  • Patent number: 10923551
    Abstract: A display panel is described that has stretching units connecting display units. Each of the stretching units includes an annular deformation portion and connection portions, where one end of each of the connection portions is connected to the deformation portion while the other end of each of the connection portions is connected to the display unit. When the display panel is stretched, the deformation portion of the stretching unit is elastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhou, Zhongyuan Sun, Weijie Wang, Zhiqiang Jiao, Jingkai Ni, Wenqi Liu
  • Patent number: 10921939
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises first mixer circuitry and processing circuitry. The first mixer circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of first mixer outputs through quadrature decomposition of a sensing signal. The first sensing signal corresponds to a capacitance of a first sensing electrode supplied with a drive signal. The quadrature decomposition is based on an in-phase local carrier which is in phase with the drive signal and an out-of-phase local carrier having a phase different from that of the in-phase local carrier. The plurality of first mixer outputs comprises an in-phase mixer output generated based on the in-phase local carrier and the sensing signal, and an out-of-phase mixer output generated based on the out-of-phase local carrier and the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Patent number: 10921951
    Abstract: A feedback button is configured to receive a feedback expression characterizing a user experience and submit information in a user interface with a single action. When the user hovers an input cursor near the feedback button, icons/text may be displayed that indicate different types of feedback expressions that may be submitted. As the user moves the cursor back and forth over the button, the icons for the different feedback expressions may be emphasized indicating locations where the button may be clicked to submit specific feedback. When the user is satisfied with the displayed feedback expression, the user may click the feedback button at the current location to submit the feedback expression and perform the final submit action for other data in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lynn Ann Rampoldi-Hnilo, Hillel Noah Cooperman, Mahlon Connor Houk