Patents Examined by Peter D McLoone
  • Patent number: 11556196
    Abstract: A display device includes a display and a transflective module. The transflective module is disposed at one side of the display and includes a glass substrate and a transflective structure layer. The transflective structure layer is disposed on the glass substrate and located between the glass substrate and the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Yao Lin, Ming-Chang Chan, Leng-Chieh Lin, Po-Ching Chan, Meng-Chia Chan, Kuo-Feng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11550417
    Abstract: A touchscreen for a narrow-frame electronic device including a conductive layer, a display module, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board. The conductive layer includes a touch sensing electrode and N first traces. The first circuit board includes a touch driving integrated circuit. The second circuit board includes at least one wire. The touch sensing electrode is coupled to a first end of each of the N first traces. A second end of each of M first traces is coupled to a first end of one wire on the second circuit board through the display module, and a second end of each wire on the second circuit board is coupled to the touch driving integrated circuit. The at least one wire on the second circuit board is configured to couple the second end of each of the M first traces to the touch driving integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanfeng Liang, Shanshan Wei
  • Patent number: 11550409
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Nomura, Yuhi Hatano
  • Patent number: 11543922
    Abstract: Techniques enabling improved classification of touch or hover interactions of objects with a touch sensitive surface of a device are presented. A speaker of the device can emit an ultrasonic audio signal comprising a first frequency distribution. A microphone of the device can detect a reflected audio signal comprising a second frequency distribution. The audio signal can be reflected off of an object in proximity to the surface to produce the reflected audio signal. A classification component can determine movement status of the object, or classify the touch or hover interaction, in relation to the surface, based on analysis of the signals. The classification component also can classify the touch or hover interaction based on such ultrasound data and/or touch surface or other sensor data. The classification component can be trained, using machine learning, to perform classifications of touch or hover interactions of objects with the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QEEXO, CO.
    Inventors: Taihei Munemoto, William Isaac Levine
  • Patent number: 11531369
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of a user interface display panel includes a top or cover glass layer which extends to the perimeter of the panel housing. A touch-sensitive display layer is adhered to the bottom surface of cover glass layer to form a touch sensitive display assembly and is just smaller in area than that of the cover glass layer to provide a peripheral lip region for adherence to a waterproof gasket to bond the cover glass and display layer to the housing structure. The display layer is supported above the surface of the tub wall. The arrangement results in an active touch-sensitive display area significantly larger than display areas provided in the past by interface panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Balboa Water Group, LLC
    Inventors: Graham J. Campbell, Steven Kuo
  • Patent number: 11520442
    Abstract: A touchscreen for a display device may include a top layer, a bottom layer, and a middle layer between the top layer and the bottom layer. The touchscreen may also include a deposited material that extends around a perimeter of the touchscreen. A length of the deposited material has a length that extends from at least a first portion of the top layer to at least a second portion of the bottom layer. The deposited material may form a seal over the middle layer between the touchscreen and an environment of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Van Hecke, Mark S. Williams, Christopher Genthe, Garron Morris, Paul Leone
  • Patent number: 11513559
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laptop having dual monitors that are arranged vertically, the laptop comprising: a main monitor 210 having a vertical width of a first size; a body 220 having, on one side thereof, a first hinge unit 221 formed so as to fold the main monitor 210, and a keyboard 222 spaced from the first hinge unit 221 so as to be arranged on the lower end of an upper plate; and a folder-type sub monitor 230 which has a vertical width of a second size that is relatively smaller than the vertical width of the first size, and which is adjacent to the keyboard 222 so as to ascend at a certain inclined angle on the basis of a second hinge unit 231 formed on the upper end of the upper plate of the body 220, and thus the present invention divides a screen so that different UIs may be respectively provided through the main monitor 210 and the sub monitor 230.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BLD CO., LTD
    Inventors: Euy Sub Hyun, Tae Hoo Jung
  • Patent number: 11513626
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a display device including a touch sensor and a manufacturing method thereof including a first touch signal line and a second touch signal line disposed on a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first touch signal line and the second touch signal line, a first via connected to the first touch signal line and a second via connected to the second touch signal line through a first contact hole and a second contact hole respectively included in the second insulating layer, and a common electrode disposed on the second insulating layer, wherein the first via is connected to the common electrode and the second via is not connected to the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duha Kim, Jinho Cho
  • Patent number: 11494027
    Abstract: Discussed is a touch display device and a touch sensing method. More particularly, according to the number of pens that have been paired, the frame can be reconfigured by changing the type of all or part of the multiple touch time periods in the frame, and it is possible to provide high-speed pen search and pen pairing by designing a highly scalable pen protocol to flexibly change the pen mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongsung Kim, HyungUk Jang, YoungGyu Kim, NamYong Gong
  • Patent number: 11494042
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a sensor detecting electric capacitance of a touch key group comprising a plurality of touch keys arranged in a matrix; and a control device configured to perform character recognition based on a change in the electric capacitance of the plurality of touch keys detected by the sensor and on a sampling pattern that is time-series data of a loci.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Hamada, Koji Hirano, Kakeru Kimura
  • Patent number: 11488558
    Abstract: A display device is configured to alternately execute an operation in a display period and an operation in a detection period in a time division manner. The display device includes: scanning lines; signal lines; a drive electrode; a scanning-line drive circuit; a signal-line drive circuit; a drive-electrode drive circuit configured to supply an alternating-current drive signal to the drive electrode in the detection period; a power circuit configured to generate a first potential for a high potential of each scanning signal and a second potential for a low potential of each scanning signal; a first-potential supply line; and a second-potential supply line. A potential supply period is included in a low-potential period of the drive signal, the potential supply period being a period in which the first potential is supplied to the first-potential supply line and the second potential is supplied to the second-potential supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshio Owaki
  • Patent number: 11481081
    Abstract: An electronic device, including a touch screen. The touch screen includes a special-shaped touch region, and the special-shaped touch region includes multiple touch electrodes. The multiple touch electrodes include multiple first touch electrodes located in a non-edge region of the special-shaped touch region and multiple second touch electrodes located at an edge region of the special-shaped touch region; first edges of the multiple second touch electrodes coincide with the edge of the special-shaped touch region; the area ratios of the second touch electrodes to the first touch electrodes range from 0.9 to 1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yin Deng, Chengwei Ji, Shiqi Chen
  • Patent number: 11474654
    Abstract: Sensing systems and methods that utilize zero row sum code division multiplexing (CDM) drive matrices to reduce or eliminate radiative emissions. Measurements corresponding to an input received at a sensing region of the input device are obtained by driving a first subset of transmitters of the input device according to a first portion of a CDM drive matrix, wherein the CDM matrix is a zero row sum matrix, and obtaining first measurement signals with the plurality of receivers, and driving a second subset of the transmitters according to a second portion of the CDM drive matrix, wherein the first and second subsets of transmitters include at least one transmitter in common, and obtaining second measurement signals with the plurality of receivers. An image of the input may be generated based on the obtained measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Gian Mario Manca
  • Patent number: 11467684
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch display panel including a substrate and a first mesh electrode. The first mesh electrode is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of first extending portions, a plurality of second extending portions, and a plurality of first disconnection regions. The first extending portions are arranged along a first direction and extend in a second direction. The first direction intersects with the second direction. The second extending portions are arranged along the second direction and extend in the first direction. The first disconnection regions are arranged along the first direction and extend in the second direction. The first disconnection regions overlap the second extending portions and do not overlap the first extending portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Meng-Ju Li, Mei-Ling Chou, Ding-Wei Liu, Wei-Chih Hsu, Chen-Hao Su
  • Patent number: 11460966
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, and an input sensor on the display panel, and in which an active area and a peripheral area and includes a first area and a second area spaced apart in a first direction, are defined, the input sensor including first sensing electrodes extending in the first direction, and arranged in a second direction crossing the first, second sensing electrodes extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction, first sensing lines extending in the second direction within the active area, connected to the first sensing electrodes, and partially located in the first area, respectively, second sensing lines electrically connected to the second sensing electrodes, respectively, and at least partially located in the second area, and a first guard electrode between the first sensing lines and the second sensing lines, and at a boundary between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miyoung Kim, Kwanghyeok Kim, Soyeon Park, Yong-Hwan Park, Sanghyun Jun
  • Patent number: 11460933
    Abstract: In some examples, a stylus can include a conductive shield. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a plurality of traces along an edge of a printed circuit board (PCB) including the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a shield can coupled to the PCB and disposed around the components of the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a hollow portion into which the stylus circuitry can be disposed and a solid portion that can act as a reference electrode. In some examples, the conductive shield can include a hollow sleeve disposed around the stylus circuitry. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be attached to the PCB. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be disposed between layers of a housing of the stylus. In some examples, the conductive sleeve can be integrated with the stylus housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jacob Benjamin Bechstein, John Stephen Smith, Siddharth Shekar, Teera Songatikamas, Elvis Mwenda Kibiti, Jared A. Brauner, Lindsay Diane Rego Corbet, Wang Chung Alston Cheung, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, Nitin Sitaraman, Joyan Gratian Sanctis, Blake R. Marshall
  • Patent number: 11460705
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system comprises a head-mounted frame removably coupleable to the user's head; one or more light sources coupled to the head-mounted frame and configured to emit light with at least two different wavelengths toward a target object in an irradiation field of view of the light sources; one or more electromagnetic radiation detectors coupled to the head-mounted member and configured to receive light reflected after encountering the target object; and a controller operatively coupled to the one or more light sources and detectors and configured to determine and display an output indicating the identity or property of the target object as determined by the light properties measured by the detectors in relation to the light properties emitted by the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Nastasja U. Robaina, Adrian Kaehler, Mark Baerenrodt, Eric Baerenrodt, Christopher M. Harrises, Tammy Sherri Powers
  • Patent number: 11460986
    Abstract: A method for displaying pictures, a device, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium. The display interface includes a display region and operation region, and the method includes: switching a picture in the display region a picture to be switched corresponding to the picture switching operation in response to the picture switching operation in the operation region. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing an operation region in the display interface, as long as a user performs the picture switching operation in the operation region, the picture displayed in the display region can be replaced and updated, so that the user can flexibly switch the picture to be displayed, thus improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CHENGDU STAR ERA AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuan Lu, Long Wang, Shuting Zhou
  • Patent number: 11455046
    Abstract: An electronic device suitable for a stylus is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a touch module, and a processor. The display panel includes a display area. The touch module includes a touchable area. The processor is electrically connected to the display panel and the touch module. The processor defines an effective input area in the touchable area in response to the operation of the stylus, defines a mapping display area in the display area corresponding to the effective input area, and adjusts the display ratio of the mapping display area according to the input ratio of the effective input area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Ting Chen, Hung-Yi Lin, Chien-Chih Tseng, Chun-Tsai Yeh, Wei-Tong Lin, Ming-Chieh Chen, Yi-Ou Wang, Chao-Chieh Cheng
  • Patent number: 11449184
    Abstract: A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate layer having an active region and a peripheral region, a plurality of sensing channel columns and a plurality of sensing channel rows disposed on the active region of the substrate layer and extending in directions crossing each other, channel column traces branching from the sensing channel columns and extending on the peripheral region, channel row traces branching from the sensing channel rows and extending on the peripheral region, and a trace connector coupling the channel column traces branching from the same sensing channel columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheol Hun Lee, Jin Bok Yang