Patents Examined by Lisa S Landis
  • Patent number: 11900848
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a color gamut mapping method, a color gamut mapping assembly, and a display device. The method includes: obtaining a first connection line between a white point and an original point of the original color gamut; obtaining a first mapping point in a target color gamut of an intersection point of the first connection line and the original color gamut; obtaining a second connection line between a reference point in the original color gamut and the first mapping point; obtaining color coordinates of a second mapping point of the original point in the target color gamut; obtaining a luminance value of the second mapping point according to the original point and the white point; and obtaining grayscale values of the second mapping point according to the color coordinates and the luminance value of the second mapping point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Chen, Daxue Xia, Renli Xie
  • Patent number: 11893172
    Abstract: An information processing method includes, in a situation that a connection between a first electronic device and a second electronic device is established for first time, obtaining identity information of the second electronic device; obtaining a communication protocol corresponding to the identity information; and based on a data path formed after the first electronic device is connected to the second electronic device, sending the communication protocol to the second electronic device, to enable the second electronic device to communicate with the first electronic device based on the communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Junbin Gong, Dan Zhang, Song Ye, Lianqiang Lv
  • Patent number: 11893181
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a touch driving device and a display device including the same, and more particularly, to a touch driving device capable of reducing the power consumption thereof by changing a sampling method thereof and a pulse of a touch drive signal, compared to a conventional touch driving device, and a display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11874996
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a touch display device and a level shifter for a touch display device. Specifically, embodiments of the disclosure may provide a touch display device comprising a plurality of touch electrodes and an overcurrent detection circuit configured to detect a current flowing through at least one touch pad electrically connected with at least one touch electrode among the plurality of touch electrodes. Thus, embodiments of the disclosure may provide a touch display device and a level shifter for a touch display device, which may increase the accuracy of touch sensing and easily determine whether the touch panel has an abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangug An, SungIl Byun
  • Patent number: 11871618
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. A second source electrode of the second thin-film transistor and a second gate electrode of the second thin-film transistor overlap each other with an upper interlayer insulation film interposed therebetween so as to form a first storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Young Kim, Kyoung-Nam Lim, Yu-Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11868579
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device including electronic paper and a position detection sensor disposed on a lower side of a display screen of the electronic paper and configured to detect a position indicated by an electronic pen on the display screen. The position detection sensor includes an insulating substrate having a first surface on a side facing the display screen, and a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a first direction on the first surface of the insulating substrate. One or more first linear members extended in a direction along the first electrodes are arranged in each space between two of the first electrodes having a predetermined distance from each other in the first direction, among the plurality of first electrodes, on the first surface of the insulating substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11853098
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detection circuits, touch control panels and electronic apparatuses. The circuit includes: a charge amplifier including a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal; a feedback capacitor, both ends of which are electrically connected to the first input terminal and the output terminal respectively, wherein the feedback capacitor is in parallel connection with a first switch; and a sensor electrode electrically connected to the first input terminal. A first excitation signal is applied to a thin film transistor (TFT) in a touch control panel where the detection circuit is located. A second excitation signal is applied to the second input terminal, wherein the first excitation signal is in-phase with the second excitation signal. An amplitude of the first excitation signal is larger than an amplitude of the second excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11853522
    Abstract: A touch display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device are provided. The touch display panel includes a driving circuit layer, a light-emitting functional layer, an encapsulation layer, and a touch layer stacked on the substrate. The touch layer includes an electrode layer and a signal conversion layer. The electrode layer is formed by growing a ferromagnetic material on the encapsulation layer. The signal conversion layer is configured to convert a change of a magnetic signal at a touch position into an electrical signal. An interaction between a human bioelectricity and the touch layer is used to improve touch sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tienwang Huang, Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 11847271
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing, a power supply disposed within the housing, a controller disposed within the housing and that receives power from the power supply, a resonance circuit disposed within the housing and that generates a first type signal based on a signal received from the controller, and a conductor disposed within the housing and that transfers a second type signal received from the controller, and the first type signal and the second type signal have different waveforms from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 11842004
    Abstract: The present application provides a method of signal transmission, which can improve transmission performance of an uplink signal between a touch screen and a stylus. The method is performed by a touch control chip in an electronic device, a touch screen of the electronic device includes a transmission channel for sending an uplink signal to a stylus, and the method includes: detecting whether a user's hand and/or the stylus approaches or touches the touch screen; determining a sending mode of the uplink signal according to a detection result, where the transmission channel for sending the uplink signal in the touch screen is different in different sending modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guanjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11836318
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device includes a touchscreen controller determining based on a frequency of a vertical synchronization signal (Vsync), whether a first display frame includes an idle time, the idle time being a duration of time remaining in the first display frame after an image displayed on a display of the electronic device is updated during the first display frame. The method further includes in response to determining that the first display frame includes the idle time, the touchscreen controller transmitting an uplink signal in the first display frame, the uplink signal being transmitted during the idle time of the first display frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Tchung Jing Siaw, Chen Khoi Chin, Jenn Woei Soo, Cheng Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 11829563
    Abstract: A method for initiating a safety-critical function in an appliance. The method including receiving a first user input for the safety-critical function via a touchscreen and receiving a second user input confirming the safety-critical function via a first separate input element adjacent to the touchscreen. The operation of the touchscreen can be manipulated externally, directly or indirectly, via wireless communication while a safety-critical function is active. The first separate input element communicates via a wired connection to a control device that is not capable of being manipulated externally via wireless communication while a safety-critical function is active, wherein the control device controls initiation of the safety-critical function. In the method, both the first user input and the second user input are required to initiate the safety-critical function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Roman Vila, Omar Fernandez, Kristi Mare Cooke
  • Patent number: 11822769
    Abstract: A radar target simulator for simulating a radar target is disclosed. The radar target simulator comprises a display module and an input module via which a user of the radar target simulator is enabled to define a target to be simulated. The radar target simulator also comprises a processing module that is connected with the display module and the input module in a signal transmitting manner. The display module and the processing module together provide a graphical user interface for the user of the radar target simulator. The graphical user interface provides a two-dimensional representation of an at least two-dimensional space. The processing module receives at least one input signal from the input module based on an input of the user. The input of the user is associated with input coordinates in the two-dimensional representation. The processing module processes the at least one input signal, thereby generating a symbol of the target defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Baris Guezelarslan, Dominik Hettich, Yassen Mikhailov
  • Patent number: 11822745
    Abstract: Provided are a driving method of a touch display panel, a driving circuit and a touch display device. The driving method includes: obtaining a touch position of an active stylus; determining a first region on the touch display panel based on the touch position of the active stylus; and transmitting an uplink (UL) signal to touch sensing electrodes in the first region and transmitting an anti-interference signal to the touch sensing electrodes in at least a part of the region except for the first region on the touch display panel during an UL transmission period, wherein the UL signal transmitted to the touch sensing electrodes in the first region during the UL transmission period is for transmission to the active stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hao-Wei Cheng, Cheng-Wei Pan
  • Patent number: 11816301
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a window, a display panel disposed on a lower surface of the window, and a digitizer disposed on a lower surface of the display panel. The digitizer includes a first photosensitive resin layer, a first sensing coil disposed on one surface of the first photosensitive resin layer, a second photosensitive resin layer disposed spaced apart from the first photosensitive resin layer, and a first adhesive layer disposed between the first photosensitive resin layer and the second photosensitive resin layer and which adheres the first photosensitive resin layer and the second photosensitive resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11803777
    Abstract: Displaying an indication of ancestral data is disclosed. An indication that a genetic interval corresponds to a reference interval that has a likelihood of having one or more ancestral origins is received. One or more graphic display parameters are determined based at least in part on the indication. An indication of the one or more ancestral origins is visually displayed using the one or more graphic display parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
  • Patent number: 11797126
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel that resonates with an electromagnetic signal provided from an external input device in a first frame to generate a first sensing signal, and a sensing controller including a calculation unit calculating input information of the external input device based on the first sensing signal. The input sensing layer includes a first sensing area, a non-sensing area, and a second sensing area defined between the non-sensing area and the first sensing area, the sensing controller includes a correction unit correcting an edge signal to generate a correction edge signal when the first sensing signal is the edge signal generated in the second sensing area, and the calculation unit calculates edge input information provided to the second sensing area as input information based on the correction edge signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeuk Choi, Yun-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11797118
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of light emitting areas; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the plurality of light emitting areas and that sense a touch; a light blocking member that forms a code pattern by covering a portion of a front surface of at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes with a preset code shape; and a reflective electrode formed on a rear surface of the light blocking member and that has an area that at least partially overlaps the light blocking member and reflects light from the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gi Na Yoo, Ju Yeon Kim, Won Sang Park, Chang Woo Shim, Seong Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11797112
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device which is paired with a host device to control content of the host device, wherein the electronic device includes a touch sensing module, a movement sensing module for acquiring first movement information of the electronic device based on an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a magnetometer, and a control signal output unit for acquiring second movement information through operation of the first movement information, and determining, under a gesture mode, a motion corresponding to the movement of the electronic device based on the second movement information and outputting a motion signal indicating the determined motion to the host device, and determining, under a mouse mode, a mouse action based on at least one of touch information acquired from the touch sensing module and the second movement information and outputting a mouse signal indicating the mouse action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: COX SPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11797135
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of light emitting areas, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the plurality of light emitting areas to sense a touch, a plurality of light blocking pattern layers formed by covering intersection areas of driving electrodes and sensing electrodes among the plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of connection electrodes formed on the plurality of light blocking pattern layers to electrically connect the driving electrodes or the sensing electrodes adjacent to each other, and a plurality of code patterns formed of the same material as the plurality of light blocking pattern layers through the same process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Ri Jeong, Hwan Hee Jeong, Gyeong Nam Bang