Patents Examined by Patrick F Marinelli
  • Patent number: 11734943
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a display, a touch sensor operatively coupled with the display, and a fingerprint sensor disposed below the display and operatively coupled with the touch sensor. The fingerprint sensor may be configured to obtain at least one image for calibrating a fingerprint image, receive a signal indicating detection of a touch input from the touch sensor while obtaining the at least one image, and cease to obtain the at least one image, based on the reception of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taeho Kim, Yangsoo Lee, Hosang Lee, Dasom Lee
  • Patent number: 11726338
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Stephen E. Dey
  • Patent number: 11726569
    Abstract: A haptic interface unit may include an application in the operating system of a device in communication with a driver layer. A plurality of sensors and actuators may be in communication with the driver layer. The driver layer analyzes information from the sensors to generate an output signal based on an interaction model stored in the driver layer. The application updates the interaction model in the driver layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11711694
    Abstract: A method of a wearable device displaying icons is provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of circular icons comprising a first circular icon located in a center area of a touch display in a first size and a second circular icon located outside of the center area of the touch display in a second size smaller than the first size, and based on a direction of a touch input received on the touch display, moving the plurality of circular icons such that the first circular icon is moved to a first position located outside of the center area of the touch display and the second circular icon is moved from a second position located outside the center area of the touch display to the center area of the touch display and enlarged in size from the second size to the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-kyu Seo, Young-joon Choi, Ji-yeon Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim, Yeo-jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11693479
    Abstract: A virtual image display device and an object selection method for virtual image thereof are provided. The object selection method for virtual image includes the following: a virtual image display is enabled to capture image information of a hand of a user; whether an image of an auxiliary tool is present in the image information is determined; position information of the auxiliary tool is generated according to the image of the auxiliary tool when the image of the auxiliary tool is present in the image information; the virtual image display is enabled to generate the position information of the auxiliary tool according to inertial measurement information of the auxiliary tool when the image of the auxiliary tool is not present in the image information; and the virtual image display is enabled to display an auxiliary indicator for selecting object according to the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Chu Ho, Ching-Hao Lee
  • Patent number: 11688323
    Abstract: A pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit correspondingly includes a plurality of sub-pixels having a plurality of color types, and the sub-pixels having the color types include at least one blue sub-pixel. In the pixel array, a proportion of the at least one blue sub-pixel is larger than a proportion correspondingly of at least one sub-pixel of the sub-pixels correspondingly having each color type of other color types of the color types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuecu Lin
  • Patent number: 11675454
    Abstract: Multi-touch touch-sensing devices and methods are described herein. The touch sensing devices can include multiple sense points, each located at a crossing of a drive line and a sense line. In some embodiments, multiple drive lines may be simultaneously or nearly simultaneously stimulated with drive signals having unique characteristics, such as phase or frequency. A sense signal can occur on each sense line that can be related to the drive signals by an amount of touch present at sense points corresponding to the stimulated drive lines and the sense line. By using processing techniques based on the unique drive signals, an amount of touch corresponding to each sense point can be extracted from the sense signal. The touch sensing methods and devices can be incorporated into interfaces for a variety of electronic devices such as a desktop, tablet, notebook, and handheld computers, personal digital assistants, media players, and mobile telephones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, John Greer Elias, Kapil Vinod Sakariya
  • Patent number: 11663846
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device. The fingerprint identification apparatus is applicable to an electronic device having a display screen, and includes: a fingerprint sensor chip; and a substrate, where an upper surface of the substrate extends downward to form a first groove, and at least a portion of the fingerprint sensor chip is disposed in the first groove and electrically connected to the substrate. By disposing at least a portion of the fingerprint identification sensor in the first groove, not only could costs and complexity of the electronic device be reduced, but also a thickness of the fingerprint identification apparatus could be effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Liu, Yiping Guo
  • Patent number: 11663991
    Abstract: A display screen display parameter adjustment method. The method includes obtaining a trigger event of display parameters of a display screen, the display screen including a first display area and a second display area; if the trigger event satisfies a preset condition, determining that an adjustment mode of the display parameters of the display screen is a synchronous mode, and simultaneously adjusting the display parameters of the first display area and the second display area; and if the trigger event does not satisfy the preset condition, determining that the adjustment mode of the display parameters of the display screen is an asynchronous mode, and adjust the display parameters of the first display area and the second display area respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Dayang Xian, Zhijian Mo
  • Patent number: 11657768
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a light emitting element emitting light and electrically connected to a data line and a sensing line, a timing controller varying a driving frequency of the display panel based on an input frequency of digital video data, and a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data line based on the digital video data during a data addressing period of a frame period and receiving a sensing signal from the sensing line during a sensing period. The data driver electrically connects the sensing line to an initialization voltage line during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is changed, and electrically connects the sensing line to a high impedance during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Yeon Kim, Tae Gon Im, Jong Jae Lee, Jun Pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11656729
    Abstract: A touch sensor controller for driving a touch sensor that is stacked on a display panel and includes driving electrodes and receiving electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, the touch sensor controller including: a driving circuit configured to sequentially provide driving signals to the driving electrodes; a read-out circuit configured to, in response to the driving signals, generate touch data based on first sensing signals received from the receiving electrodes and generate display noise data based on a second sensing signal received from a first driving electrode to which a driving signal of the driving signals is not applied from among the driving electrodes; and a touch processor configured to determine whether a touch input has occurred on the touch sensor based on the touch data and the display noise data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junchul Park, Jonghee Na, Gwangho Nam, Taekon Yu, Hyunwook Lim, Woohyuk Jang, Bumsoo Kim, Byunghwee Park, Wongab Jung, Yoon-Kyung Choi
  • Patent number: 11640802
    Abstract: A display device, comprising a display panel and a touch panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of scan lines. The plurality of scan lines are respectively classified into a plurality of scan areas, and the display panel is configured to sequentially scan the plurality of scan areas through the plurality of scanning lines. The touch panel is electrically connected to the display panel, and is configured to receive a touch signal. During a first frame period, when a position of the touch signal corresponds to one of plurality of the scan areas, the display panel is configured to start scanning the plurality of scan areas from the one of the plurality of the scan areas to display an image of the plurality of scan areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Huei-Jyun Lin, Chun-Ta Chien, Chia-Hao Kuo
  • Patent number: 11640219
    Abstract: A touch element, a touch substrate, a display device, and a method of manufacturing the touch substrate are disclosed. The touch element includes a first conductive pattern layer. The first conductive pattern layer includes a first conductive pattern. The first conductive pattern includes a first basic pattern and a first incremental pattern. The touch element further includes a second conductive pattern layer. The second conductive pattern layer is stacked with and insulated from the first conductive pattern layer. An orthographic projection of the first incremental pattern on the second conductive pattern layer coincides with a pattern of the second conductive pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tengfei Zhong, Xiaodong Xie, Min He, Shifeng Xu
  • Patent number: 11630533
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11614834
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensing layer, a display controller that receives a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal and controls an operation of the display panel depending on the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal, and a sensing controller that receives the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal and generates a driving control signal for driving the input sensing layer. One frame of the vertical synchronization signal includes a first vertical section and a second vertical section in which the display controller transmits a data signal to the display panel. The sensing controller determines an operating frequency of the driving control signal based on a horizontal synchronization signal, which is included in a first horizontal section overlapping with the first vertical section, in the horizontal synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hyun-Wook Cho, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park
  • Patent number: 11604541
    Abstract: A circuit includes a force driver to apply a force signal to a force node associated with a mutual capacitance to be sensed, and a charge to voltage converter having an input coupled to receive a sense signal from a sense node associated with the mutual capacitance to be sensed. The charge to voltage converter includes an integrator circuit to integrate the sense signal to sense the mutual capacitance, an input switch between the input of the charge to voltage converter and an input of the integrator circuit, and a reset switch between an output of the integrator circuit and the input of the integrator circuit. A control circuit controls generation of the force signal to alternate between at least two different frequencies and generates, for each half cycle of the force signal, a first signal for closing the input switch and a second signal for closing the reset switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Leonard Liviu Dinu
  • Patent number: 11600669
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; an input sensor on the display panel and comprising a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode that is electrically insulated from the first sensing electrode, the input sensor being configured to sense a first input in a first mode and to sense a second input in a second mode; and an input device configured to provide the second input to the input sensor, wherein at least one of the first or second sensing electrodes comprises: a main mesh pattern in a crossing area in which the first and second sensing electrodes cross each other; and a sub mesh pattern in a non-crossing area on which the first and second sensing electrodes do not cross each other and which has a size different from that of the main mesh pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-Seok Na, Younggu Kang, Hyun-Sung Park, Dongjin Seo, Yu Deok Seo
  • Patent number: 11600215
    Abstract: An image adjusting method of a display apparatus includes steps as follows: A plurality of preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves are determined corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day, respectively. A reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve is selected from the preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves according to an acquisition time of an image data, corresponding to one of the time periods. A real-time ambient light is acquired, and it is compared with at least one of a reference contrast and a reference ambient light brightness corresponding to the reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve. At least one other grayscale-brightness relationship curve is selected from the preset grayscale-brightness relationship curves according to a comparison result to at least partially replace the reference grayscale-brightness relationship curve for adjusting the image data. The adjusted image data is then displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventor: Hsin-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 11586322
    Abstract: A device includes a force driver applying a force signal to a force node associated with a mutual capacitance between the force node and a sense node. A sensing circuit receives a sense signal from the sense node associated with the mutual capacitance between the force node and the sense node, and generates an output indicative of the sensed mutual capacitance. A control circuit controls the generation of the force signal to alternate between at least two different frequencies by generating consecutive pulses, with a given pulse of the consecutive pulses at a first of the at least two different frequencies. In a first operating state, a next pulse immediately succeeding the given pulse is at a second of the at least two different frequencies, and in a second operating state the next pulse immediately succeeding the given pulse is at the first of the at least two different frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Leonard Liviu Dinu
  • Patent number: 11580895
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes drive circuits and pixel circuits, where the drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits, the pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel, and the drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit; and further includes signal line groups. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. Along the second direction, a width of the first drive circuit is W1, a width of the second drive circuit is W2, a total width of the M0 signal lines in the first signal line group is D1, a total width of the N0 signal lines in the second signal line group is D2, W2>W1, D2>D1, and D2/W2>D1/W1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fenxiang Zou, Jieliang Li