Patents Examined by Mark Edwards
  • Patent number: 11921961
    Abstract: A display device including a non-sensing area and a sensing area with a first sensing area and a second sensing area spaced apart from each other in a first direction, includes a light emitting element emitting light, and a sensor unit including a plurality of first sensor electrodes disposed in the first sensing area and extending in the first direction, a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed in the second sensing area and extending in the first direction, a plurality of third sensor electrodes disposed in the first sensing area and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of fourth sensor electrodes disposed in the second sensing area and extending in the second direction, and a connection pattern disposed in the non-sensing area. The connection pattern electrically connects the plurality of third sensor electrodes to the plurality of fourth sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Gyu Lee, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11914826
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch display panel and a display device. A plurality of touch units of the touch display panel includes a plurality of first electrode sets, a plurality of second electrode sets, and dummy electrodes. The first electrode sets include a plurality of first electrodes, the second electrode sets include a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrodes, the second electrodes, and the dummy electrodes are disposed insulatively from one another. The dummy electrodes are disposed in dummy electrode regions surrounded and formed by the first electrode sets and the second electrode sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11907470
    Abstract: A touch display device and a touch sensing system are disclosed. When a touch controller transmits or receives data to or from a plurality of touch driving circuits through a common line, the touch driving circuit that does not transmit a sensing completion signal to the touch controller may identify whether a malfunctioned state occurs based on an operation state when a read command is received from the touch controller and may transmit transformed sensing data to the touch controller. Accordingly, the touch controller easily identifies the malfunctioned state of the touch driving circuit and performs control according to a type of the malfunctioned state, thereby preventing or reducing the performance degradation of touch sensing due to a malfunction of the touch driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HyunWoo Jang
  • Patent number: 11903657
    Abstract: This document describes devices used during surgical procedures for the treatment of heart conditions. For example, this document describes technology to monitor the operations of a heart-lung machine and then shows associated read outs on a head-worn display in order to provide an augmented-reality presentation. For example, various sensors on and around a heart-lung machine, patient, and/or extracorporeal circuit can monitor the operations of the procedure using the heart-lung machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geric, Takeshi Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 11907489
    Abstract: A sensor module includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of terminals respectively corresponding to the plurality of sensor electrodes; and a plurality of sensor wirings respectively corresponding to the plurality of sensor electrodes. Each of the plurality of sensor wirings electrically connects the respective sensor electrode to the respective terminal without passing through any other sensor electrode. Each of the plurality of sensor electrodes does not overlap at least the plurality of sensor wirings other than the corresponding sensor wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11899866
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a plurality of first sensing electrodes disposed on the display panel, and a plurality of second sensing electrodes disposed on the first sensing electrodes and isolated from the first sensing electrodes. A wire width of each first sensing electrode of a second group is smaller than a wire width of each first sensing electrode of a first group, and a wire width of each second sensing electrode of a fourth group is smaller than a wire width of each second sensing electrode of a third group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jisu Yeom, Suyul Seo, Seongjun Lee, Dong-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11886663
    Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch function and an operating method thereof are provided. The display apparatus with a touch function according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a touch line connected to a touch electrode disposed in a display area of the display apparatus, a noise sensing line disposed to be spaced apart from the touch line by a first distance in a non-display area of the display apparatus, a driving signal line for providing a driving signal of the display apparatus in the non-display area, and a touch driving circuit for identifying information on a touch input using a touch input signal acquired through the touch line and a noise signal acquired through the noise sensing line. Accordingly, the information on the touch input can be more accurately identified by controlling a touch input signal using a line for detecting a noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyurag Lee, DongHoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11886671
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes first touch cells disposed in a first touch sensing area, the first touch cells each including a first touch pattern and a first dummy pattern, and second touch cells disposed in a second touch sensing area, the second touch cells each including a second touch pattern and a second dummy pattern. An area of a first dummy pattern area in which the first dummy pattern is disposed is greater than an area of a second dummy pattern area in which the second dummy pattern is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Bae Kim, Min Hong Kim, Sang Kook Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Jae Hyun Park, Ji Yeong Lee, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11874973
    Abstract: A computer mouse including a base with bottom surface for sliding across a work surface, with a retrievable tip for providing a resistance point for precision movements. At retrieved position, the tip is not touching the work surface, providing regular mouse movement. At working position, the tip is touching the work surface and creating resistance for precise movement of the mouse over the work surface. In some embodiments, computer mouse operated with tip in braked position allows the user to make rotational movements/gestures that can be registered by computer program to invoke actions. This new type of gesture is especially important for people with disabilities that have difficulties with existing gesture like clicking button. In some embodiments, computer mouse operated with tip in braked position allows users with hand tremor to improve cursor positioning by stopping cursor in vicinity of target, then reaching target by rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Yoffe, David Yoffe
  • Patent number: 11868607
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes circuitry to receive input of a hand drafted input, convert the hand drafted input into a shape, and determine whether the shape is an object selecting shape that is preset to be available for selecting an object displayed in the object selecting shape on a display. In a case that the shape is determined to be the object selecting shape, the circuitry displays, on the display, a display component to be operated for receiving selection of the object. In a case that the display component is operated, the circuitry causes the object to be a selected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Furumi, Takuroh Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11868671
    Abstract: A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication includes a first touch display forming a portion of a first surface of the mobile communication device, a second touch display forming a portion of a second surface of the mobile communication device, and a processor configured to display in the first touch display a first screen corresponding to an application executed in a first folding state while a state of the device is the first folding state, identify the state of the mobile communication device changing to a second folding state, and display in the second touch display, based on the identification, a second screen corresponding to the application and an image partially overlapping the second screen, a touch input on the second touch display while the second screen and the image are displayed in the second touch display as overlapping is configured to not be processed as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongjin Kwon, Hyoyeon Kim, Wooyoung Park, Sukjae Lee, Byungseok Jung, Seonghoon Choi, Jongwu Baek
  • Patent number: 11868558
    Abstract: An electronic device including: a display panel; and an input sensor disposed on the display panel, wherein the input sensor is configured to sense an external input, the input sensor including: a first sensing electrode including a plurality of first mesh lines; and a second sensing electrode including a plurality of second mesh lines insulated from the first mesh lines and a bridge pattern overlapping the first mesh lines, and wherein the first mesh lines include a plurality of metal layers, the first mesh lines include a first portion overlapping the bridge pattern and a second portion that does not overlap the bridge pattern, wherein the first portion includes an outermost metal layer including a material different from a material of an outermost metal layer of the second portion, and wherein the outermost metal layers of the first and second portions are adjacent to a display surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Yang, Hyunsik Park
  • Patent number: 11861131
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display unit including a display area, a transmitting portion surrounded by the display area, and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a touch sensing unit having a transmissive area, dummies overlapping the transmitting portion and surrounding the transmissive area, and a touch sensor area surrounding the dummies and including first touch electrodes, and second touch electrodes respectively between the first touch electrodes, connected in a first direction, and spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the dummies include a main dummy surrounding the transmissive area, and at least one sub-dummy surrounding the main dummy, and wherein an outermost sub-dummy of the at least one sub-dummy that is at an outermost position of the dummies includes a first cut corresponding to a gap between adjacent first and second touch electrodes among the first and second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Yang, Hyun Sik Park, Chun Gi You
  • Patent number: 11853484
    Abstract: A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11847261
    Abstract: A computer device is provided that includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew D. Wilson, Hakim Si Mohammed, Christian Holz, Adrian Kuo Ching Lee, Ivan Jelev Tashev, Hannes Gamper, Edward Bryan Cutrell, David Emerson Johnston, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Mihai R. Jalobeanu
  • Patent number: 11836324
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display layer configured to define a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, and display an image, a sensor layer disposed on the display layer to detect an external input, a first digitizer disposed under the display layer and overlapping the first non-folding area, a second digitizer disposed under the display layer and overlapping the second non-folding area, and a main driver configured to calculate coordinates of a pen based on a first signal obtained from the sensor layer, a second signal obtained from the first digitizer, and a third signal obtained from the second digitizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoseok Son, Hawon Yu
  • Patent number: 11836299
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at an information handling device utilizing a virtual sign language system, sign language element inputs from a user provided on a virtual keyboard; determining, utilizing the virtual sign language system, a set of sign language element search results resulting from the sign language element inputs; receiving, from the user at the virtual keyboard, input selecting one search result from the set of search results; and providing, utilizing the virtual sign language system, an output corresponding to the selected one search result. Other aspects are claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Joao VĂ­ctor de Araujo Lima, Jonatan Lemes, Alexandre de Faustino Miranda, Jampierre Vieira Rocha
  • Patent number: 11829519
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing feedback to a human operator during performance of a manufacturing or other motor task. The system comprises a plurality of neuromuscular sensors configured to collect or record a plurality of neuromuscular signals from the human operator, wherein the plurality of neuromuscular sensors are arranged on one or more wearable devices, and at least one computer processor programmed to determine, based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals and/or information based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals, one or more metrics associated with a performance of the manufacturing or motor task by the human operator, and provide via an extended reality interface such as an augmented reality (AR) interface, feedback to the human operator regarding their performance of the manufacturing task, wherein the feedback is based, at least in part, on the determined one or more metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony D. Moschella
  • Patent number: 11822742
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display device which includes a display panel and a flexible circuit board coupled to the display panel. The flexible circuit board includes a display functional region and a touch functional region, the display functional region is coupled to a control mainboard of the touch display device via a first connector, and the touch functional region is coupled to the control mainboard of the touch display device via a second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Pan Zhao, Zhiliang Jiang, Dianjie Hou, Zhenhua Zhang, Chang Liu, Zhihong Cui, Na Zhang
  • Patent number: 11822754
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels; and a touch sensing unit on a surface of the display unit, the touch sensing unit including first and second touch sensor areas adjacent to each other along a first direction, wherein the touch sensing unit comprises: a plurality of driving electrodes branched off from a plurality of driving lines, with the plurality of driving electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in each of the first and second touch sensor areas; a plurality of sensing electrodes extending in the first direction; a plurality of odd electrodes extending in the second direction in the first touch sensor area; and a plurality of even electrodes extending in the second direction in the second touch sensor area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Ho Hyun, Eun Sup Kim, Joon Hee Song