Patents Examined by Nicholas J Lee
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Patent number: 11861928Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11853517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Kousuke Matsumoto, Mitsuru Kagase, Teruyuki Kogo
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Patent number: 11852830Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Yonghee Jeung, Dongok Choi
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Patent number: 11854293Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chao-Yu Meng, Shih-Cheng Chen, Chih-Peng Hsia
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Patent number: 11842043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Barry Paul Easter, Julia A. Ogbevoen, Andelon Xuan Tra, Frank Quintanilla
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Patent number: 11830428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kaoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11825244Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventors: Jörg Erich Sorg, Hubert Halbritter, Ann Russell
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Patent number: 11816327Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kanae Igarashi
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Patent number: 11816196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Tissot SAInventor: Edoardo Franzi
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Patent number: 11809620Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Norman N. Wang, Tyler L Casella, Benjamin Breckin Loggins, Daniel M. Delwood
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Patent number: 11810389Abstract: 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 signType: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: 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
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Patent number: 11803062Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: LARGAN INDUSTRIAL OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jih Chung Huang, Yu Jie Hong
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Patent number: 11804064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi
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Patent number: 11798956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Sung An, Seok Je Seong, Seong Jun Lee, Ji Seon Lee
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Patent number: 11798307Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Shiang-Chi Lin, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yipeng Lu, Chin-Jen Tseng, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Min-Lun Yang, Chia-Wei Yang
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Patent number: 11797121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Niki Mani, Alex Hamid Mani
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Patent number: 11789530Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Salvael Ortega Estrada
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Patent number: 11782563Abstract: A touch substrate and a display device are provided. The touch substrate includes a touch structure layer arranged on a base.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Wang, Fan He, Peng Xu
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Patent number: 11771506Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.Inventors: André Koza, Ronny Kucharczyk
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Patent number: 11775115Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device dynamically assigns functionalities to one or more buttons depending on an orientation associated with the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dylan R. Edwards, Morgan A. Price, Bryant A. Jow, Nathan De Vries, Nahir A. Khan, Simon J. Parsons