Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 11899217
    Abstract: An AR glasses device includes a supporting portion, an optical-mechanical assembly, and an adjustment assembly comprising a first adjustment module and a second adjustment module. The optical-mechanical assembly comprises a first optical-mechanical module and a second optical-mechanical module arranged in a second direction. The first optical-mechanical module comprises a first waveguide sheet and a first fixing portion to drive the first waveguide sheet to rotate about the second direction. The second optical-mechanical module comprises a second fixing portion and a second waveguide sheet. The first adjustment module extends through the supporting portion in a first direction and connects the first fixing portion. An arc-shaped groove about the first direction penetrates the supporting portion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yan Lv
  • Patent number: 11893184
    Abstract: An object is to provide an operating body detection device having improved reliability of a capacitance-type sensor in input detection. An operating body detection device comprising: a capacitance-type sensor having a capacitance sensing surface on which a plurality of sensing electrodes is arranged; and a heat source sensing sensor comprising a heat source sensing film having a heat source sensing membrane with a heat source sensing surface. The detection surface that detects an operating body may have a region in which the capacitance sensing surface and the heat source sensing surface overlap when viewed from a normal direction of the detection surface. Preferably, the control unit that controls the capacitance-type sensor and the heat source sensing sensor starts heat source measurement with the heat source sensing sensor on condition that an object is detected with the capacitance-type sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: IDEAL STAR INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Omote
  • Patent number: 11893186
    Abstract: An input sensing device includes first driving electrodes, second driving electrodes, and sensing electrodes, and a sensing driver that transmits a first driving signal to the first driving electrodes at a first frequency, transmits a second driving signal to the second driving electrodes at a second frequency, and determines a touch or approach of an external object based on sensing signals received from the sensing electrodes. The sensing driver includes analog front-end circuits that separate a sensing signal of the first frequency and a sensing signal of the second frequency that are received from the respective sensing electrodes, and generate digital sensing data based on a result of a recombination of the separated sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Woong Kim, Moon Jae Jeong, Hyung Gun Ma, Tae Hun Lee, Keum Dong Jung, Sang Hyun Heo
  • Patent number: 11886069
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; and a stacked structure on the display panel, wherein the stacked structure includes: a first coupling member on the display panel; a reflective layer on the first coupling member; a second coupling member on the reflective layer; a code pattern part on the second coupling member; and a light blocking layer on the code pattern part and including an ultraviolet absorber, and a thickness between a lower surface of the reflective layer and an upper surface of the light blocking layer is 100 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Yeong Park, Da Som Gu, Ki Jun Roh, Sung Guk An, Hee Young Lee, So Yeon Han
  • Patent number: 11881159
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of gate lines in a display area and extending in a first direction; a scan driver in a non-display area surrounding the display area, connecting the gate lines, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and having a first length in the second direction; and an antistatic pattern in the non-display area, extending in the second direction, and having a second length greater than the first length in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myunghoon Park, Dong-Hoon Lee, Kyunghoon Chung, Haemin Kim, Byungchang Yu
  • Patent number: 11880534
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: performing mutual capacitance detection via a touch panel to retrieve an image which including two-dimension sensing information; calculating one or more touching or approximating event corresponding to externally conductive object according to the image; determining whether an area surrounding a position corresponding to the touching or approximating event is normal; and reporting the touching or approximating event in response to the area is determined normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11874962
    Abstract: A first determination unit determines whether a movement of an eyelid or an eyebrow of a wearer has occurred, based on an electric signal measured by a measurement electrode with a common electrode as a ground potential. A second determination unit determines that a movement of a face of the wearer has occurred when a distortion detection unit detects distortion of the spectacle frame. An output unit outputs a command due to operation of the spectacle frame by the wearer when the first determination unit determines that the movement of the eyelid or the eyebrow of the wearer has occurred and at the same time the second determination unit determines that the movement of the face of the wearer has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ono, Shin Toyota
  • Patent number: 11874998
    Abstract: A touch-screen system comprises adjacent first and second touch-screen sensors, first and second digitizers, and synchronization and return logic. Each of the first and second digitizers is coupled electronically to the respective touch-screen sensor and configured to provide a pen signal responsive to action of a pen on the touch-screen sensor. The synchronization logic is configured to synchronize the pen to the first and second digitizers and to enable pen tracking by any of the first and second digitizers conditionally, based at least partly on the first and second pen signals. The return logic is configured to expose a result of the pen tracking to an operating system of the touch-screen system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matan Slassi, Lior Zagiel, Assaf Cohen, Netanel Hadad, Nadav Linenberg
  • Patent number: 11861078
    Abstract: An electronic pen central rod is provided. The electronic pen central rod includes a connection member having a front end and a back end, and a front-end member having a pen tip part and a back-end extension part that extends in an opposite direction from the pen tip part to be detachably held by the front end of the connection member with a first level of holding strength. The electronic pen central rod further includes a back-end member having an attachment part to be attached to an electronic pen interior and a front-end extension part that extends in an opposite direction from the attachment part to be held by the back end of the connection member with a second level of holding strength. The second level of holding strength is higher than the first level of holding strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11861109
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a touch panel on the display panel, a host processor, and a display panel driver. The host processor receives proximity data of the touch panel. The display panel driver receives an input control signal from the host processor and drives the display panel based on the input control signal. The touch panel includes a proximity area and a non-proximity area. The host processor counts a rise of the proximity data in the proximity area to generate a first count value. The host processor resets the first count value when the proximity data in the non-proximity area increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woomi Bae, Jinwoo Kim, Soongyu Lee, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 11861105
    Abstract: A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel that is disposed on a display panel of a display device that drives a plurality of pixels according to a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal, and includes a plurality of first touch electrodes for sensing a touch input in a first direction and a plurality of second touch electrode for sensing a touch input in a second direction; a driver/receiver that applies a driving signal to at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes during a first section, and receives a detection signal from at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes during a second section after the first section; and a controller that generates touch information by using the detection signal, wherein the driving signal is synchronized with at least one synchronization signal of the horizontal synchronization signal and the v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Youngho Cho, Sein Lee
  • Patent number: 11853546
    Abstract: At least one processor included in an electronic device can acquire first motion data about the motion of the electronic device through at least one motion sensor, acquire second motion data about a motion of an external device through a connector included in the electronic device, determine, on the basis of the first motion data and the second motion data, the folding angle between the electronic device and the external device connected to the electronic device, and determine, on the basis of the determined folding angle, an input mode that sets whether to display a user interface on a display or whether to block an input signal received through the connector. Various other embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gijae Lee, Jebin Lee, Sunggu Kim, Jiyoung Kim, Daehee Cho, Hoon Choi, Bumryong Hong, Pilwon Seo, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11853509
    Abstract: One example provides a computing device comprising a touch sensor, a camera, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image data from the camera; determine, based on the image data, information regarding one or more of a hand of a user or a stylus held by the user; and based at least on the information regarding one or more of the hand of the user or the stylus held by the user, control operation of the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gilad Pundak, Eran Arbel, Ben Fishman
  • Patent number: 11853490
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pen with a front end having magnetic conductivity, comprising a pen housing, an inductance component, and a PCB board, the inductance component and the PCB board are arranged in the pen housing and the inductance component is electrically connected to the PCB board. The front end of the pen housing is provided with a front magnetic conductive shell, the front magnetic conductive shell is made of magnetic conductive material, wherein a coil is arranged in the front magnetic conductive shell, and the coil is electrically connected to the PCB board. A front end of a pen core protrudes from the front magnetic conductive shell, and the front magnetic conductive shell makes the distribution of the magnetic field lines closer to the pen tip, which can meet the magnetic conductivity conditions in electromagnetic induction and improve the characteristics of the magnetic field lines of the inclination angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Daiyun Chen
  • Patent number: 11853510
    Abstract: Driving a display of an input-display device includes generating, during a first display frame, a first touch sensing waveform to be applied to a touch screen of the display, and generating, during a second display frame, a second touch sensing waveform to be applied to the touch screen. The first touch sensing waveform generates on the display a first touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch sensing waveform generates on the display a second touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch-to-display noise pattern mitigates the first touch-to-display noise pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Daisuke Ito, He-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11853487
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a circuit board disposed such that an axial direction of a casing is aligned with a longitudinal direction of the circuit board, an electronic circuit on the circuit board, and a battery having a columnar shape disposed on a side of the circuit board opposite to a pen tip side of the circuit board inside a hollow portion of the casing such that positive and negative electrode conductors protruding from an end surface of the battery extend toward the circuit board. The battery is disposed such that a separation space is formed between the end surface and an end portion of the circuit board and such that tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are in contact with the circuit board. The circuit board and the tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are electrically connected to each other by soldered portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11842667
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic displays and display components, specifically to a method of addressing more pixels with a smaller number of driver outputs while also allowing very narrow frames on three sides of a display. It further discloses a display driver integrated circuit capable of providing the signals required for the disclosed addressing method and display systems capable of being addressed by the disclosed method and display driver integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: New Vision Display, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthias T. Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 11841999
    Abstract: Provided are a pen state detection circuit, a pen state detection system, and a pen state detection method that can improve estimation accuracy for a pen state in an electronic pen including at least one electrode. A pen state detection circuit acquires, from a touch sensor, a first signal distribution indicating a change in capacitance associated with approach of a first electrode and uses a machine learning estimator to estimate an instruction position or an inclination angle of an electronic pen from first feature values related to the first signal distribution. The first feature values include first local feature values related to a first local distribution corresponding to sensor electrodes in a number fewer than the number of arranged sensor electrodes exhibiting the first signal distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Maeyama, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 11835986
    Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes a first and a second housing having corresponding portions coupled to a hinge, a flexible display disposed on the first and second housings, and at least one processor configured to: based on an execution command of a first application and an angle between the first and second housings corresponding to a first angle range, display an execution screen of the first application comprising at least one first object, based on the angle between the first and second housings corresponding to a second angle range, display at least one second object, receive an input on a first touch area among at least one touch area, and based on the angle between the first and second housings corresponding to the first angle range, display an execution screen of a second application corresponding to the first touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sangheon Kim
  • Patent number: 11830402
    Abstract: A display circuit of a special-shaped screen and a display device. The display circuit includes multiple pixel circuits arranged in a special-shaped region of the special-shaped screen in a manner of a non-rectangular array; pixel circuits located at both ends of each row of the plurality of pixel circuits being edge pixel circuits, one of two adjacent edge pixel circuits being connected to a Nth level gate signal line, the other one of the two adjacent edge pixel circuits being connected to a (N+1)th level gate signal line, and N is a natural number greater than 0; a voltage-dividing circuit connected to each of the two adjacent edge pixel circuits, to enable the two adjacent edge pixel circuits to have equal storage voltages, a control end of the voltage-dividing circuit being connected to a (N+M)th level gate signal line, and M being a natural number greater than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tingting Shen, Rongrong Li