Patents Examined by Nicholas J Lee
  • Patent number: 11861928
    Abstract: Optical sensors and their making methods are described herein. In some embodiments, a described sensing apparatus includes: an image sensor; a collimator above the image sensor, wherein the collimator includes an array of apertures; and an optical filtering layer above the collimator, wherein the optical filtering layer is configured to filter a portion of light to be transmitted into the array of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: You-Cheng Jhang, Han-Zong Pan, Wei-Ding Wu, Jiu-Chun Weng, Hsin-Yu Chen, Cheng-San Chou, Chin-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 11853517
    Abstract: A touch sensor, including a transparent film substrate; a front electrode formed on one surface of the transparent film substrate; a front terminal formed on the surface of the transparent film substrate where the front electrode is formed, the front terminal being connected to the front electrode; a back electrode formed on the other surface of the transparent film substrate; and a back terminal formed on the surface of the transparent film substrate where the back electrode is formed, the back terminal being not overlapping with the front terminal in a plan view and being connected to the back electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke Matsumoto, Mitsuru Kagase, Teruyuki Kogo
  • Patent number: 11852830
    Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) glass is provided. The AR glass includes a first light source which emits display light for displaying an AR image, an eye tracking (ET) sensor for detecting reflected light reflected from the eye of a user, glass, which includes a display waveguide for guiding the display light, emitted from the first light source, to a display area of a see-through display, and an ET waveguide for guiding the reflected light to the ET sensor, and a processor electrically connected to the first light source and the ET sensor, wherein the processor controls the first light source so as to emit the display light, and tracks, through the ET sensor, the gaze of the user on the basis of the detected reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Yonghee Jeung, Dongok Choi
  • Patent number: 11854293
    Abstract: A display apparatus and an fingerprint sensing method thereof are provided. A display panel of the display apparatus has a pixel circuit array, an in-display touch sensor array, and an in-display fingerprint sensor array. A driving circuit drives the in-display fingerprint sensor array to read a fingerprint image. A current display frame period is divided into a plurality of unit periods, each of the unit periods includes at least one fingerprint sensing period and one or both of a display driving period and a touch sensing period. The driving circuit resets a current fingerprint sensor in the in-display fingerprint sensor array during a first fingerprint sensing period among these fingerprint sensing periods of the first display frame period. The driving circuit reads a sensing result of the current fingerprint sensor during a second fingerprint sensing period succeeding to the first fingerprint sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chao-Yu Meng, Shih-Cheng Chen, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Patent number: 11842043
    Abstract: An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. A cursor touch rejection logic is applied at the touchpad to interpret touches as inputs to the information handling system based upon a presented cursor position. A separate application touch rejection logic is applied to the application area with the control icons are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Barry Paul Easter, Julia A. Ogbevoen, Andelon Xuan Tra, Frank Quintanilla
  • Patent number: 11830428
    Abstract: In a display device having an external compensation function, a decrease in compensation accuracy caused by coupling noise generated in a data signal line is prevented. A source driver includes an integration circuit that measures a current corresponding to the characteristic of a drive transistor. An emission driver applies a light-emission control signal to each light-emission control line on the basis of a plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) outputted from a display control circuit. In a current measurement period, the flow of a current corresponding to the characteristic of the drive transistor into the integration circuit is stopped at an edge timing, which is a timing at which the level of at least one of the plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11825244
    Abstract: A planar light circuit comprises a substrate and a first pixel. The first pixel comprises a first number N of laser diodes, a first waveguide located on the substrate, a first number N of inlets which couple the first number N of laser diodes to the first waveguide and a first outlet. The first waveguide couples the first number N of inlets to the first outlet. An arrangement comprises the planar light circuit. The arrangement is realized as data glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Erich Sorg, Hubert Halbritter, Ann Russell
  • Patent number: 11816327
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes circuitry that displays, on a screen, a table including one or more table elements; receives handwritten data input on the screen by a user operation; and selects, based on the handwritten data, at least one table element of the table. The table element is a row or a column of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kanae Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11816196
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a watch (100) including: authentication (10) of the wearer of the watch (100) with a view to authorising access to the functions of this watch (100) based on an interaction between the wearer of the watch and a graphic representation included in the watch (100), and periodic checking (20) of the identity of the wearer of the watch through a verification of the validity of a digital data item determined based on at least one biometric data item of the wearer of said watch with a view to retaining/removing the authorisation for access to the functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 11809620
    Abstract: A method includes determining an eye focus depth and determining a focus point relative to a viewing location in a virtual environment based on the eye focus depth, wherein the virtual environment includes a computer-generated object. The method also includes, upon determining that the focus point is located within a threshold distance from the computer-generated object, activating a function of a computer-executable code development interface relative to the computer-generated object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Norman N. Wang, Tyler L Casella, Benjamin Breckin Loggins, Daniel M. Delwood
  • Patent number: 11810389
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides fingerprint recognition substrate including fingerprint recognition units arranged in array, signal reading line groups and gating circuits, fingerprint recognition units are divided into first fingerprint recognition groups arranged along row direction, first fingerprint recognition groups, signal reading line groups and gating circuits are in one-to-one correspondence with one another; first fingerprint recognition group includes fingerprint recognition units consecutively arranged in row direction, signal reading line group includes signal reading lines each coupled to corresponding column of fingerprint recognition units; gating circuit includes switch circuits each coupled to one signal transmission channel on signal receiving unit through corresponding switch circuit; among all signal reading lines, different signal reading lines in same signal reading line group are coupled to different signal transmission channels, and at least two signal reading lines in different sign
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Shijun Wang, Wenkai Mu, Bo Feng, Xinlan Yang, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Tengfei Ding, Jun Fan, Chengfu Xu
  • Patent number: 11803062
    Abstract: An optical system includes an aperture stop, an image display surface, a reflective polarizer, a partial reflector, first and second quarter-wave plates, and first, second and third optical lens elements. The aperture stop and the image display surface are respectively at front side and rear side of the optical system. The reflective polarizer is between the aperture stop and the image display surface. The partial reflector is between the reflective polarizer and the image display surface. The first quarter-wave plate is between the reflective polarizer and the partial reflector. The second quarter-wave plate is between the partial reflector and the image display surface. The first, second and third optical lens elements are between the aperture stop and the image display surface in order from the front side to the rear side. The first optical lens element has negative refractive power. The second optical lens element has planar front-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN INDUSTRIAL OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jih Chung Huang, Yu Jie Hong
  • Patent number: 11804064
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch is provided. An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch with a small number of components is provided. An electronic device capable of executing various types of processes with simple operation is provided. The electronic device includes a control portion and a display portion. The display portion has a function of displaying an image on a screen and includes a detection portion. The detection portion has a function of detecting a touch operation and a function of imaging, at least twice, a detection object touching the screen. The control portion has a function of calculating a difference between the area of the detection object in first imaging and the area of the detection object in second imaging to execute a different process depending on whether the difference is larger or smaller than a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi
  • Patent number: 11798956
    Abstract: A display device includes a first active pattern, a first conductive pattern including a gate electrode overlapping the first active pattern, a first gate line overlapping the first active pattern and extending in a first direction, and a second gate line extending in the first direction, a second conductive pattern disposed on the first conductive pattern and including a third gate line extending in the first direction and a fourth gate line extending in the first direction, a second active pattern disposed on the second conductive pattern and including a material different from a material of the first active pattern, and a third conductive pattern disposed on the second active pattern and including a first upper electrode overlapping the third gate line and connected to the third gate line, and a second upper electrode overlapping the fourth gate line and connected to the fourth gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Sung An, Seok Je Seong, Seong Jun Lee, Ji Seon Lee
  • Patent number: 11798307
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack and a transmission enhancement layer. The foldable display stack may include a display stiffener and display stack layers. The display stack layers may form one or more display stack resonators configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in a first ultrasonic frequency range. In some implementations, a transmission enhancement resonator may include the display stiffener and the transmission enhancement layer. In some examples, the transmission enhancement resonator may include at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor stack. The transmission enhancement resonator may be configured to enhance the ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in the first ultrasonic frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shiang-Chi Lin, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yipeng Lu, Chin-Jen Tseng, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Min-Lun Yang, Chia-Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11797121
    Abstract: An assistive device and method to provide non-visual assistance to a user comprises a haptic feedback interface that includes a plurality of haptic elements. The assistive device generates a touch-discernible output layout on the haptic feedback interface using the plurality of haptic elements. The touch-discernible output layout corresponds to a reproduction of a 3D real-world area within a proximity range of the assistive device and includes a set of different haptic indicators to discern movement of a set of moving objects within the proximity range. The assistive device receives a user input via the haptic feedback interface, the user input indicating a specific amount of pressure applied on the set of different haptic indicators by a user of the assistive device. The assistive device further executes different actions based on different amounts of pressures applied by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Niki Mani, Alex Hamid Mani
  • Patent number: 11789530
    Abstract: A method for managing a user interface in a smart glass is provided. The method includes identifying an eye gesture of the user of the smart glass, based on an eye-tracking signal indicative of a pupil location of the user, assessing a user intention for an application displayed in a user interface in the headset based on the eye gesture, and activating the application based on the user intention. A smart glass for use with the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Salvael Ortega Estrada
  • Patent number: 11782563
    Abstract: A touch substrate and a display device are provided. The touch substrate includes a touch structure layer arranged on a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Fan He, Peng Xu
  • Patent number: 11771506
    Abstract: A method, system and a computer readable storage media for operating dental machines through an augmented reality control interface A hands free interface may enable the control of a dental machine during dental treatment by using dexterous parts of the body other than the upper limbs (e.g. by using the lower limbs) on a first user/control interface to send instructions corresponding to a second user/control interface that is different from the first user/control interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
    Inventors: André Koza, Ronny Kucharczyk
  • Patent number: 11775115
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device dynamically assigns functionalities to one or more buttons depending on an orientation associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan R. Edwards, Morgan A. Price, Bryant A. Jow, Nathan De Vries, Nahir A. Khan, Simon J. Parsons