Patents Examined by Lisa S Landis
  • Patent number: 11693557
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enable users to interact with user terminals having a touch screen interface without requiring the user to physically contact a surface of the touch screen interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Aron Ezra, Slav Kulik
  • Patent number: 11681407
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a touch substrate, a touch substrate, and a touch displaying device. The touch substrate comprises a base plate and touch electrodes, wherein a first film layer, a second film layer and a third film layer are sequentially stacked on one side of the base plate, and the refractive index of the second film layer is smaller than that of the first film layer and the third film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN BOE OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xia Shi, Yuanhui Guo, Jie Han, Jian Zhao, Peipei Zhang, Yujie Gao
  • Patent number: 11662871
    Abstract: The disclosed coil-integrated housing component may include an injection-molded housing dimensioned to house a display module of a computing device. Additionally, the coil-integrated housing component may include a conductive coil integrated into the injection-molded housing to surround a periphery of the display module, wherein the conductive coil may be electronically coupled to the computing device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Young Bae Kim, Jong Uk Kim, Aaron Jacob Steyskal, Yang Chu
  • Patent number: 11662852
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area having first and second areas for displaying an image. The display panel is positioned in first and second states. A sensing panel is disposed on the display panel and includes sensing electrodes. A panel driver drives the display panel. A sensor driver drives the sensing panel. The panel driver drives the first and second areas at a first driving frequency when the display panel is in a first state and drives the first area at the first driving frequency and drives the second area at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency when the display panel is in the second state. The sensor driver drives the first and second areas in a sequence that includes the first and second sensing modes each for a predetermined time, when the display panel is in the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Soo Kim, Dong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11650693
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes, and a sensor controller configured to control the input sensor. The sensor controller receives a first signal from the input sensor and transmits a second signal to the input sensor. The first signal received from the input sensor includes down-link signals from first sensing electrodes corresponding to a first input position and a second input position among the plurality of first sensing electrodes and down-link signals from second sensing electrodes corresponding to the first input position and the second input position among the plurality of second sensing electrodes. The first input position corresponding to a first input source, and the second input position corresponding to a second input source, are spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soongyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11644936
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a position detection sensor and signal processing circuitry. The position detection sensor has first loop electrodes arranged in a first direction and second loop electrodes arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The signal processing circuitry switches the position detection sensor between a first state in which the first loop electrodes and the second loop electrodes are coupled as coils to a first pointer through electromagnetic inductive coupling, and a second state in which the first and second loop electrodes are coupled to a second pointer through capacitive coupling with opposite ends of each of the first loop electrodes and the second loop electrodes connected together or with one end of each of the first loop electrodes and the second loop electrodes left open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Katsurahira, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 11635859
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electrode substrate that has a transparent first electrode and a transparent second electrode that are provided on one surface of a transparent insulating substrate, and an insulating film that electrically insulates the first electrode from the second electrode, the electrode substrate being configured so as to cover a surface of a display medium where an image is displayed; and a driver circuit that is connected to the electrode substrate and generates an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode by applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Sato, Hiroshi Haga, Daisuke Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11635858
    Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprises driving a first sensor electrode of a plurality of sensor electrodes with a first sensing signal to acquire a first resulting signal with the first sensor electrode during a period and driving a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes with the first sensing signal to acquire a second resulting signal with the second sensor electrode during the period. Further, a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes is driven with a reference signal during the period. Rotational information for an input object is determined at least partially based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: David Hoch, Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11632529
    Abstract: Content is projected onto the surface of water such that it can be viewed from either above or below the surface. Using distortion mapping, depth sensing, and de-noising, the image can remain unaffected by ripples and allow the user to interact within the body of liquid and/or use it as input. Liquids of different density can be layered on the surface to create different refraction planes. Water currents and jets can be used to actively reduce ripples from user interaction, as well as actively adding or removing liquid from the container to counteract displacement or create effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Black, Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 11625118
    Abstract: An electronic device, includes: a display panel; and an input sensor on the display panel, wherein the input sensor includes a plurality of sensing electrodes, each having a first region and a second region that surrounds the first region, each of the plurality of sensing electrodes including a pen electrode configured to detect an input tool and a touch electrode configured to detect a touch input, wherein the pen electrode is at the first region, and wherein the touch electrode is at the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghak Kim, Youngsik Kim, Kyowon Ku, Jeongheon Lee
  • Patent number: 11625139
    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: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
  • Patent number: 11625127
    Abstract: A processing system configured to receive a first display control signal corresponding to a non-display update period of a display frame and a second display control signal corresponding to a display update period of the display frame. The processing system is further configured to acquire, based on receipt of the first display control signal, first resulting signals from sensor electrodes electrically connected to the sensor driver by operating the sensor electrodes for a first type of input sensing during a first period overlapping with at least a portion of the non-display update period. Further, the processing system is configured to acquire, based on receipt of the second display control signal, second resulting signals with the sensor electrodes by operating the sensor electrodes for a second type of input sensing during a second period overlapping with at least a portion of the display update period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Losh, Dipankar Talukdar
  • Patent number: 11620025
    Abstract: An input detection system includes a plurality of electrodes arrayed in a detection region, and an input support device including an LC circuit, a first electrode coupled to the LC circuit and arranged so as to overlap with at least equal to or more than one of the electrodes, and a housing accommodating therein at least the LC circuit. The housing is a conductor, and one end side of the LC circuit is coupled to the housing through a coupling member or a capacitor and another end side of the LC circuit is coupled to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuto Kakinoki, Makoto Hayashi, Takaaki Kono
  • Patent number: 11614820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to touch sensor detector systems and methods incorporating an interpolated variable impedance touch sensor array and specifically to such systems and methods for gesture recognition and associating a UI element with the recognized gesture. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a variable impedance array (VIA) system for receiving a gesture that includes: a plurality of physical VIA columns connected by interlinked impedance columns; a plurality of physical VIA rows connected by interlinked impedance rows; and a processor configured to interpolate a location and/or pressure of the gesture in the physical columns and rows from an electrical signal from a plurality of column drive sources (connected to the plurality of physical VIA columns through the interlinked impedance columns) sensed at a plurality of row sense sinks (connected to the plurality of physical VIA rows through the interlinked impedance rows).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: John Aaron Zarraga, Alexander Meagher Grau, Bethany Noel Haniger, Bradley James Bozarth, Brogan Carl Miller, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, James Frank Thomas, Mark Joshua Rosenberg, Peter Hans Nyboer, Reuben Eric Martinez, Scott Gregory Isaacson, Stephanie Jeanne Oberg, Timothy James Miller, Tomer Moscovich, Yibo Yu
  • Patent number: 11614827
    Abstract: Discussed is a touch display device, including a display panel on which a touch screen panel including a plurality of touch electrodes is embedded, and a touch control unit configured to generate a pen detection signal corresponding to a pen driving signal of a stylus from a touch sensing signal transmitted from the display panel, and generate a touch driving signal synchronized with the pen driving signal of the stylus by using the pen detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HongJu Lee, Youngwoo Jo, HyunWoo Jang
  • Patent number: 11609654
    Abstract: An interface device includes an electronic device and an input device for communicating with the electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes a display layer, a sensor layer which is disposed on the display layer and senses a first input by the input device, a display driving unit for generating a vertical synchronization signal for driving the display layer, and a control unit for controlling the sensor layer, wherein the control unit outputs, in synchronization with a first vertical synchronization signal, a first uplink signal to the sensor layer and outputs, in synchronization with a second vertical synchronization signal, a second uplink signal having a phase different from a phase of the first uplink signal to the sensor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yerin Oh, Soowon Kim, Jaseung Ku, Jisu Yeom, Suhyun Jeong
  • Patent number: 11586319
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; an input sensor on the display panel; an approach sensing electrode arranged around the input sensor; and a sensor controller connected to the input sensor and the approach sensing electrode, wherein the sensor controller is configured to drive the input sensor in a first driving mode during a first input sensing frame and to drive the input sensor in a second driving mode during a second input sensing frame, and the sensor controller is further configured to provide an uplink signal to the approach sensing electrode in response to the input sensor operating in the first or second driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongsub So, Yun A Ma, Mi-Hee Son
  • Patent number: 11579742
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a frame, a display device and a display apparatus. The frame includes at least two frame assemblies. The frame assemblies in different directions are spliced through an adapter, an infrared lamp strip is installed on the frame assembly, the adapter is provided with a bunching member, and a connection line for the infrared lamp strip is bunched around the bunching member when the frame assemblies in different directions are spliced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zifeng Wang, Yan Ren, Yunpeng Wu, Wenbin Wang, Junmin Sun, Lei Cao
  • Patent number: 11577165
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: generating image data for an application to be displayed on an output device; recording the image data generated by the image generating unit; and receiving operation information from an input device, where the recording includes storing the image data for an application for a predetermined period of time up to the point in time at which operation information is received during the receiving operation information from a specific input unit provided in the input device while displaying an application image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoki Takaichi, Kiyobumi Matsunaga, Toshimasa Aoki, Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takahiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11579741
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display module divided into a first non-folding area, a folding area foldable along an imaginary folding axis extending in a second direction crossing a first direction, and a second non-folding area, which are sequentially arranged in the first direction, and a sensing sensor including a first base layer disposed under the display module, first sensing coils disposed on the first base layer, second sensing coils insulated from the first sensing coils, and a first cover layer disposed between the first sensing coils and the second sensing coils. The first cover layer has a modulus less than a modulus of the first base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Jaiku Shin, Yongchan Jeon, Sung-Ki Jung, Chul Ho Jeong, Seungkyun Hong, Hyun-Been Hwang