Patents Examined by Lisa S Landis
  • Patent number: 11568802
    Abstract: A backplane suitable to pulse width modulate an array of emissive pixels with a current that is substantially constant over a wide range of temperatures. A current control circuit provides means to provide a constant current to an array of current mirror pixel drive elements. The current control circuit comprises a thermally stable bias resistor and a thermally stable band-gap voltage source to provide thermally stable controls and a large L p-channel reference current FET with an associated large L n-channel bias FET configured to provide a reference current at a required voltage to the gate of a large L p-channel current source FET. The current control circuit and the current mirror pixel drive elements are similar circuits with one current control circuit able to control a substantial number of pixel drive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bo Li, Kaushik Sheth
  • Patent number: 11567605
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and operable in a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, wherein the input sensor may include a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of sensing wirings electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, respectively, and a blocking part covering the plurality of sensing wirings. The blocking part is configured to be floated in the first mode and to receive a substantially constant voltage in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Wook Cho, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park
  • Patent number: 11561642
    Abstract: In an embodiment, various active pens may be searched for in every frame, so that various active pens may operate in a touch sensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moon Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 11556218
    Abstract: A sensor includes a first substrate on a back side of a display panel, a first coil extending in a first direction at a predetermined angle between 0 and 90 degrees with respect to a long-side direction of the first substrate and including a first long-side portion provided with first and second end portions, a second coil including a second long-side portion extending in a second direction, a first leader line including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to the first end portion, and the second end is connected to wiring on a second substrate arranged to extend at a right angle toward the outside of the sensor from one side of the first substrate, and a second leader line including first end connected to the end portion and a second end connected to the wiring on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanhao Chen, Yoshihisa Sugiyama, Akira Ito
  • Patent number: 11556188
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a signal generator, a power supply, and a resonance circuit. The signal generator is configured to generate a signal. The power supply is configured to supply power to the signal generator. The resonance circuit is configured to generate a current based on the signal and emit a magnetic field based on the current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chul Kim, Yun-Ho Kim, Jaeuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11550438
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch display device, a method of driving the touch display device, a touch driving circuit, and a touch controller, for sensing a touch using a touch driving signal whose frequency is changed in sync with a touch driving timing. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to have a high signal-to-noise ratio as well as improved immunity to the EMI, and acquire improved touch sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Kim, Jaehun Jun, Sojung Jung
  • Patent number: 11543926
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display module in which a folding area is defined, a plate disposed below the display module to support the display module, a digitizer disposed between the plate and the display module, a first adhesive layer disposed between the display module and the digitizer, and a second adhesive layer disposed between the digitizer and the plate. At least one of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer includes first and second sub-adhesive layers spaced apart with respect to the folding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Yongchan Jeon, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11537235
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display layer; a sensor layer on the display layer; a sensor driving part to provide a transmission signal to the sensor layer; and a display driving part to drive the display layer. The display layer includes: a plurality of pixels; first scan lines electrically connected to a first group of pixels; second scan lines electrically connected to a second group of pixels; and data lines electrically connected to the plurality of pixels. The display driving part is to drive the first scan lines, the second scan lines, and the data lines, and to alternately provide a pixel data signal and a compensation signal to data lines corresponding to the first group of pixels and data lines corresponding to the second group of pixels, the compensation signal being a signal that is complementary to at least one of the pixel data signal or the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Lim, Hyun-Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11531445
    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: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
  • Patent number: 11532677
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a display device. The OLED display panel includes a substrate, a driving circuit layer, a planarization layer, a luminescent functional layer, an encapsulation layer, and a touch layer including touch electrodes. The luminescent functional layer includes a pixel electrode layer, a pixel definition layer, a luminescent material layer, and a common electrode layer. The pixel definition layer is patterned to form pixel definition regions and grooves. Projections of the touch electrodes on the substrate and projections of the grooves on the substrate are at least partially overlapped, thereby improving a touch report rate of the OLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11526240
    Abstract: An input device such as a stylus for providing input to a touch-sensitive surface with reduced sensitivity to leakage current variations over temperature is disclosed. A passive stylus may include one or more diodes in parallel with one or more bleed resistors. The non-linear load of the diode and resistor network can be operative to provide a stylus electric field in response to a stimulation signal from an electronic device that can be capacitively coupled to, and sensed by, the electronic device. The signal sensed by the electronic device can be a function of the total leakage current, which can vary greatly as a function of temperature and frequency. In order to improve performance, the diode and resistor network, including the bleed resistor(s) and diodes within that network, can be selected and/or designed to provide a reduced variation in the leakage current and more accurate stylus detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Benjamin Bechstein, Ullas Chandra Sekhar Pazhayaveetil, Jason Chueh-Ren Hu, Robert Ubo Liu, Rexford J. Garland, John Stephen Smith, Blake R. Marshall
  • Patent number: 11526042
    Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Un Jin, Woo-Jong Lee, Yang-Wan Kim, Young-Sik Kim, Jun-Sang Lyu, Sang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11526242
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device which facilitates to prevent a remaining film for a process of forming a metal pattern, wherein the display device may include a substrate including a display area having pixels, and a non-display area having pads to surround the display area, a dam between the display area and the pads, an encapsulation film for covering the dam and the pixels in the display area, a first metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the encapsulation film, an insulating layer provided on the first metal pattern, and a second metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the insulating layer, wherein the first metal pattern is not provided in a dam area with the dam, and the second metal pattern is provided on the dam area while being in contact with the first metal pattern via a contact hole penetrating through the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonghoon Lee, JaeWon Lee, Sungjin Kim, Jaehyung Jang, Hyangmyoung Gwon
  • Patent number: 11520418
    Abstract: In one example, an input pen may include an electronic component, a communication interface to establish a short-range wireless connection with an electronic device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the electronic component and the communication interface. The controller may receive a command from the electronic device via the communication interface. The command may uniquely correspond to an operating mode of the electronic device. Further, the controller may control a power state of the electronic component based on the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles J Stancil, Dale R Knutson, Tai Hsiang Chen, Simon H Wong
  • Patent number: 11514839
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11513654
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electromagnetic handwriting system and electromagnetic handwriting input method. An electromagnetic handwriting system includes an electromagnetic handwriting tablet configured to receive a drive signal, the drive signal drives the electromagnetic handwriting tablet to be in a suspension state or an enable state. A frequency value at which the electromagnetic handwriting tablet enters the suspension state is set as a suspension state frequency threshold f0, A frequency value at which the electromagnetic handwriting tablet enters the enable state is set as an enable state frequency threshold f1. If an actual frequency value of the drive signal received by the electromagnetic handwriting tablet is set to ft, and a virtual frequency value fx is set to satisfy |f0?f1|>|f0?fx| and |f0?f1|>|fx?f1|, then when ft satisfies |f0?fx|>|f0?ft| and |f0?fx|>|ft?fx|, ft is adjusted to fx in response to driving the electromagnetic handwriting tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HUION ANIMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shihua Wu
  • Patent number: 11513653
    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: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11500481
    Abstract: An active pen is provided. The active pen includes a first transceiver and a first control circuit. The first transceiver is configured to receive uplink information and send corresponding touch coordinate information, first-type downlink information, and second-type downlink information through at least one data channel. The first control circuit is coupled to the first transceiver. The first control circuit generates the touch coordinate information and multiple downlink information based on the uplink information and classifies the downlink information into the first-type downlink information or the second-type downlink information according to the amount of data and a required transmission frequency thereof. A touch system including the active pen is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ILI TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chia-Yu Hung, Yifan Lin
  • Patent number: 11487387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for driving a display panel, a display module and a display device. The display panel includes a touch electrode. The method includes: in a touch stage, providing a touch signal to the touch electrode. The touch stage includes: a first touch sub-stage and a second touch sub-stage spaced from each other; the touch signal includes: an uplink signal and a touch driving signal, and an active level of the uplink signal is higher than an active level of the touch driving signal. In the first touch sub-stage, the uplink signal is provided to the touch electrode; and in the second touch sub-stage, the touch driving signal is provided to the touch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangpeng Dang, Cheng Zuo, Hong Chen, Yuansheng Tang, Kuan Li, Bo Wang, Xiong Guo, Zhongli Luo, Ming Gao, Dayu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11481047
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body portion; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body portion to an outside thereof; a resonance circuit portion positioned in the body portion to be connected to the conductive tip to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip; and a conductive blocking member configured to surround at least a portion of the resonance circuit portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Kiryoung Jung, Hyoungwook Woo, Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim