Patents Examined by Patrick N. Edouard
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Patent number: 11972721Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes pixels, a memory, and a degradation compensator. The pixels include light emitting elements. The memory is operable to store degradation information including degradation degrees of the light emitting elements. The degradation compensator is operable to receive the degradation information and generate output grayscales by changing each of input grayscales of the pixels in proportion to each of the degradation degrees. The degradation compensator includes a degradation information changer for changing the degradation information by decreasing a degradation degree having a variation greater than a threshold value among variations of the degradation degrees.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Kyoung Ho Lim, Seung Ho Park, Hee Sook Park, Sang Myeon Han
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Patent number: 11967262Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The controller is configured to: receive input image data for the display panel; divide the display panel into a plurality of first pixel blocks each having a first size; divide the display panel into a plurality of second pixel blocks each having a second size different from the first size; generate, based on the input image data, a first stress map for the plurality of first pixel blocks and a second stress map for the plurality of second pixel blocks; and generate output image data by compensating the input image data based on the first stress map and the second stress map. The data driver is configured to provide data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on the output image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeonmin Kim, Yongseok Choi
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Patent number: 11966533Abstract: A device for use with a touch surface digitizer, the device comprising: a sensor configured to receive uplink signals emitted by a grid of antennas in the digitizer; and a controller configured to detect the uplink signals via the sensor; wherein the controller is further configured to determine a speed of the device based on a detected sequence of the uplink signals as received at the sensor from one or more junctions of the antenna grid relative to a predetermined spatial pattern of the uplink signals as emitted across the grid.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Assaf Bar-Ness, Shoham Dekel
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Patent number: 11967259Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel comprises a first substrate is manufactured, a plurality of scanning lines and shorting bars are formed on the first base substrate, the scanning lines are located in the first display area and extend to the first peripheral wiring area, and the shorting bars are located in the first cutting area, a shorting bar is connected to one end of a plurality of odd-numbered scanning lines, or a shorting bar is connected to one end of a plurality of even-numbered scanning lines, to make the odd-numbered scanning lines each in an electrical connection with at least another odd-numbered scanning line, or the even-numbered scanning lines each in an electrical connection with at least another even-numbered scanning line.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Jiankun Han
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Patent number: 11954245Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for displaying representations of physical input devices and overlaying visual features on the representations of physical input devices in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment. The techniques include displaying a virtual application in a CGR environment and, in response to detecting an input field in the displayed virtual application, displaying at least a portion of the displayed application on a representation of a physical input device. The at least a portion of the displayed application includes the detected input field. In response to detecting an input received at the physical input device, the input field is updated with the input, and the updated input field is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pol Pla I. Conesa, Earl M. Olson, Aaron P. Thompson
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Patent number: 11953619Abstract: Radar-based sensing includes, at an electronic device that includes one or more radar-based transmitters and one or more radar-based receivers, transmitting, from one or more of the radar-based transmitters, radio waves into an area in a vicinity of the electronic device and receiving, at one or more of the radar-based receivers, radio waves reflected off one or more objects in the vicinity of the electronic device. The radio waves, as reflected off the one or more objects, can be processed using a radar imaging module.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Santiago Ortega Avila, Cody Wortham, Sajid Sadi
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Patent number: 11955068Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gamma standard voltage generating circuit, a gamma driving voltage generating circuit and a display device. The gamma standard voltage generating circuit includes: a constant voltage element for outputting a constant voltage; a following voltage element coupled to a driving voltage terminal, for outputting a following voltage changing with a driving voltage of the driving voltage terminal; a selecting element electrically coupled to the constant voltage element and the following voltage element, for outputting the following voltage 10 or the constant voltage as an output voltage; a comparison element electrically coupled to the selecting element, for controlling the selecting element to output the following voltage when the output voltage meets a preset standard, and controlling the selecting element to output the constant voltage when the output voltage does not meet the preset standard; the constant voltage does not meet the preset standard.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Baoyun Wu, Zebang Guo, Hui Zhao
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Patent number: 11947765Abstract: According to a touch panel and a display panel provided in embodiments of the present application, a first connecting structure for connecting adjacent two first electrode units and a second connecting structure for connecting adjacent two second electrode units are improved. In this way, graphic design is performed on the second connecting structure and a wired manner of the first connecting structure is designed, so that an area of an intersection between the first connecting structure and the second connecting structure can be reduced, thereby reducing parasitic capacitance between the first connecting structure and the second connecting structure, and further improving or eliminating an impact of a bridging point of a touch electrode on touch linearity of a touch panel, to ensure better stability of the touch panel in use.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yichao Deng
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Patent number: 11947766Abstract: A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yutaka Ueno, Masaya Morohashi, Takuya Ozawa, Hideyuki Hagihara, Yuji Makiuchi
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Patent number: 11941218Abstract: The invention relates to an input device comprising: a touch-sensitive input surface facing towards an operator (B); a detection device for the spatially resolved detection of an approach towards and touch on the touch-sensitive input surface having a sensor array for capacitive and/or inductive detection, which extends parallel to the input surface; an input part, which is disposed on the input surface and mounted so as to be movable from a rest position (X0) into an actuation position (XE) along an actuating direction (B1) extending perpendicularly to the input surface, for enabling a performance of an operating input by the operator (B) through a manual displacement of the input part along the actuating direction (B1); a position indicator for contactless position detection, which is attached to the input part and cooperates with the detection device; restoring means for generating a restoring force (F) with snap haptics counteracting the manual shifting from the rest position (X0); wherein the detection dType: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PREH GMBHInventors: Norbert Bauer, Thomas Kleffel
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Patent number: 11941170Abstract: The invention is related to a method and system for calibrating an eye tracking device configured to track a gaze point of a user on a display The method comprises: presenting a video on the display to a user, the video having a start size and a start position; tracking the gaze of the user, using an image sensor of the eye tracking device; and sequentially completing, for at least one calibration position, the steps of: resizing the video to a calibration size, wherein the calibration size is smaller than the start size, and translating the video to a calibration position; recording calibration data, using the eye tracking device, for the user viewing the video in the calibration position; and resizing the video to a second size that is greater than the start size.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Sergey Slobodenyuk, Mikkel Rasmussen, Andreas Jansson, Thomas Gaudy, Evgeniia Farkhutdinova, Jonas Högström, Richard Andersson
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Patent number: 11936927Abstract: A multimedia signal transmission control system is provided, which includes a transmitter control circuit and a receiver control circuit coupled with each other. The transmitter control circuit packs a control signal and at least one of multimedia signals into first hybrid data packets in an active video period of a video frame, and packs the control signal and another at least one of the multimedia signals into second hybrid data packets in a vertical front porch and a vertical back porch of the video frame. The receiver control circuit receives the first hybrid data packets in the active video period, and receives the second hybrid data packets in the vertical front porch and the vertical back porch. The receiver control circuit unpacks the first hybrid data packets and the second hybrid data packets to provide the control signal and the multimedia signals to a display module.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Yun-Hung Lin, Po-Hsien Wu, Li-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11928302Abstract: A touch panel device includes a cover panel having a front surface including an operation region on which a touch operation is performed and a back surface as a surface on a side opposite to the front surface, a first adhesive material provided on the back surface, a touch panel unit that includes a base substrate and a plurality of touch sensor electrodes provided on a region of the base substrate corresponding to the operation region and is arranged to face the back surface via the first adhesive material, a first displacement detection electrode provided on a part of the back surface outside a region of the back surface corresponding to the operation region, and a second displacement detection electrode provided on a part of the base substrate outside the region of the base substrate corresponding to the operation region to face the first displacement detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ono, Tae Orita, Seiichiro Mori, Yusuke Shimasaki, Yuichi Sasaki, Masaya Nidaira
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Patent number: 11928960Abstract: A computer-implemented method for alerting passenger vehicles of approaching emergency vehicles is implemented by an alert management computing device. The method includes receiving an emergency vehicle alert request message from an emergency vehicle transmitter, receiving passenger vehicle location data from a plurality of passenger vehicle user computing devices located in a plurality of passenger vehicles, wherein the passenger vehicle location data includes a present passenger vehicle location and a present passenger vehicle trajectory, identifying an alert zone for the emergency vehicle based on the present emergency vehicle location and the present emergency vehicle trajectory, identifying a vehicle zone for each of the plurality of passenger vehicles, identifying a subset of the passenger vehicles within the alert zone by comparing each vehicle zone to the alert zone, and transmitting a warning to the subset of passenger vehicles via the passenger vehicle user computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Invent F & W, LLCInventors: Michael Walsh, Virginia E. Foster, Ryan McNeely
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Patent number: 11929029Abstract: A display device includes first and second initialization voltage sources and first and second pixel circuits. The first initialization voltage source provides a first initialization voltage. The second initialization voltage source provides a second initialization voltage less than the first initialization voltage. The first pixel circuit includes a first organic light emitting diode. The second pixel circuit includes a second organic light emitting diode with an organic material having a band gap different from a band gap of an organic material in the first organic light emitting diode. The first pixel circuit is coupled to the first initialization voltage source and the second initialization voltage source. The second pixel circuit is coupled to a single initialization voltage source.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyung Jun Park, Yang Wan Kim, Byung Sun Kim, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee
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Patent number: 11922898Abstract: A display device includes a display controller and a plurality of source drivers that supply gradation voltage signals to a plurality of pixel parts in a display panel. The plurality of source drivers each includes a setting register that stores setting data, at least one calculation circuit that performs calculation based on the setting data and calculates a setting value for a gradation voltage signal to be outputted, a source output unit that outputs a gradation voltage signal based on a video data signal and the setting value, and a code value calculation unit that calculates an error detection code value based on the calculation result of the calculation circuit. The display controller detects failure that has occurred in the calculation circuit in the plurality of source drivers, based on a calculation result of the code value in each of the plurality of source drivers.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
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Patent number: 11916582Abstract: Systems and methods of determining a noise-robust acquisition configuration for a sensor or communication system are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises a noise scan with: obtaining a sensor receive signal from the sensor system; determining a digital receive signal from the sensor receive signal by A/D conversion of the sensor receive signal at a predefined noise scan frequency; determining a plurality of decimated digital receive signals by integer decimation of the digital receive signal using two or more decimation rates that differ from each other, wherein each of the two or more decimation rates is associated with a respective candidate acquisition configuration; determining one or more noise measures for multiple of the candidate acquisition configurations using one or more of the plurality of decimated digital receive signals; and using the one or more noise measures, determining the acquisition configuration for operation of the sensor system from the candidate acquisition configurations.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventor: Axel Heim
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Patent number: 11915634Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. In the display substrate, a first display region includes a first light emitting unit column and a second light emitting unit column each connected with a column of first sub-pixel circuits; a second display region includes a third light emitting unit column and a fourth light emitting unit column each connected with a column of first sub-pixel circuit pairs; each second sub data line is connected with each second light emitting unit column, and each fourth sub data line is connected with each fourth light emitting unit column. The first sub-pixel circuits connected with the fourth light emitting unit column and the first sub-pixel circuits connected with the second light emitting unit column are located in different columns, and the second sub data line and the fourth sub data line are connected by a data line connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lili Du, Yao Huang, Yue Long, Benlian Wang, Weiyun Huang
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Patent number: 11907443Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes an acoustic isolation enclosure coupled proximate a switch and having a first position that suppress actuation sound of the switch and a second position that directs actuation sound of the switch out from the mouse. In one embodiment, the acoustic isolation enclosure has a first portion in a fixed position around the switch and a second portion in sliding engagement with the first portion and having an opening that is blocked in the first position and exposed in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Patent number: 11908398Abstract: A display device includes: a display area; a non-display area around the display area; a substrate; and a first terminal in the non-display area on the substrate, the first terminal including: a plurality of first conductive patterns spaced apart from each other, an insulating layer covering each of the plurality of first conductive patterns, and a second conductive pattern on the insulating layer, covering the plurality of first conductive patterns, and including concave and convex portions on a surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Byoung Yong Kim