Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
  • Patent number: 11481046
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a housing, a core body having a front end that protrudes from an opening in a side of the housing, and a coupling member housing one or more components of the electronic pen. The housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion separated in an axial direction of the housing. The first housing portion includes an opening arranged such that the front end of the core body protrudes outside while the first housing portion is electrically separated from the core body. A protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling member electrically separates the first and second housing portions. One side of the cylindrical coupling member in the axial direction with respect to the protrusion portion is fitted to the first housing portion, and another side in the axial direction is fitted to the second housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
  • Patent number: 11474656
    Abstract: A position detector as one electronic part is configured by clamping and holding a stacking body obtained by stacking a display comprising a resin frame and an LCD part and a position detecting sensor by a back bezel and a front bezel. By using an auxiliary member, an upper surface frame part of the front bezel is kept from covering a part, in a loop coil, that is disposed outside an effective display area and relates to detection of an indicated position at an end part of the effective display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kei Dobashi
  • Patent number: 11474643
    Abstract: The position detection method includes projecting a detecting image on a projection surface from a projection section, taking, by an imaging section, an image of the projection surface in a first direction from the projection section in a situation in which the detecting image is projected on the projection surface and a pointing body touches the projection surface to thereby generate imaging data, and detecting a position of a touch portion by the pointing body on the projection surface based on the imaging data, wherein the detecting image represents a plurality of objects located in a matrix and the position of the touch portion is detected based on a positional relationship in the predetermined direction corresponding to a first direction of the plurality of objects represented by the imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Otani
  • Patent number: 11474609
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining, by at least one physical processor of a haptic device, driving signal data. The haptic device comprises a first haptic actuator exhibiting a first frequency response characteristic, and a second haptic actuator exhibiting a second frequency response characteristic different from the first frequency response characteristic. The processor may also generate first and second driving signals by applying first and second pre-processing functions to the driving signal data, respectively. The second pre-processing function is different from the first pre-processing function and the second driving signal is different from the first driving signal. The processor may also drive the first and second haptic actuators by supplying the first and second driving signals to the first and second haptic actuators, respectively. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Filipp Demenschonok, Gene R Obie
  • Patent number: 11474647
    Abstract: A control system including a touch-sensitive surface and an actuator fixed to the touch-sensitive surface, the actuator having a control element rotatable relative to the touch-sensitive surface between at least two selection positions. The actuator has a first sensor element rotationally fixed to the control element and coupled to the touch-sensitive surface in all selection positions, and a second sensor element. The control element is translationally movable relative to the touch-sensitive surface between a selected position and a release position. The second sensor element is rotationally fixed to the element and uncoupled from the touch-sensitive surface in the selected position and coupled to the touch-sensitive surface in the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Lefort, Ahamed El Sayed
  • Patent number: 11474634
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes a first panel, a second panel, and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The first panel that includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction and second electrodes arranged in a second direction. The second panel includes third electrodes arranged in a third direction and fourth electrodes arranged in a fourth direction. The DSC is operably coupled via a single line to a coupling of a first electrode of the first electrodes and a first electrode of the third electrodes. The DSC is configured to provide the signal, which is generated based on a reference signal, via the single line to the coupling and simultaneously to sense the signal via the single line. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the at least one electrical characteristic associated with the first electrode of the first electrodes and/or the first electrode of the third electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventor: Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11467671
    Abstract: An electronic device for touch translation includes a body, a plurality of pins extending from the body, the pins including couplings to facilitate movement of a first portion relative to a second portion of the pins, the pins being controllable to control movement of the first portion relative to the second portion and to control force applied by the pins on an external object. Sensors cooperating with the pins detect forces externally applied to the pins and a communication subsystem is utilized to communicate over a network, with a remote electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Shuster, Gary Stephen Shuster
  • Patent number: 11467689
    Abstract: A printing device includes a panel unit including: a display panel; a capacitive touch sensor in which a position detection sensor and a cover glass are laminated and which includes a first side and a second side located facing each other; a panel circuit board; a flexible wiring board, a display section, a switch, and a panel housing, and being rotatably attached so as to take a second attachment state in which an angle formed by a horizontal direction and a normal direction of the capacitive touch sensor is smaller than an angle formed by a vertical direction and the normal direction of the capacitive touch sensor, the capacitive touch sensor in the second attachment state is disposed so that the first side is lower than the second side, and the flexible wiring board is located between the display section and the switch and is curved to electrically couple the capacitive touch sensor and the panel circuit board to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11460932
    Abstract: An input device includes a pressure sensitive unit and a sensing unit. The pressure sensitive unit includes a clicking part and a pressure sensor. The clicking part has a press surface and is configured to provide a sense of click to an operation body which applies pushing force to the press surface. The pressure sensor is disposed on an opposite side of the clicking part from the press surface. The sensing unit is aligned with the pressure sensitive unit when viewed from a front side of the press surface and is configured to sense that the operation body comes in proximity to or comes into contact with a second detection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Saito, Masaaki Yamabayashi, Ryo Nakae, Kenichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11460943
    Abstract: A touch control method is applied to a touch drive module of a terminal device. The terminal device includes an application processor. The method includes: receiving a vertical synchronization signal; collecting position information corresponding to a touch operation; determining a reporting frequency of the position information based on the vertical synchronization signal, such that the position information is reported once in one signal interval, the signal interval being an interval between two adjacent vertical synchronization signals; and reporting the position information the application processor based on the reporting frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsangchih Wu, Chihjen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11460944
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensitive processing method for detecting a liquid line when a touch panel half submerged in conductive liquid, comprising: driving at least one of the first electrodes and sensing the first electrodes for determining which first electrodes are being covered by the conductive liquid; driving at least one of the second electrodes and sensing the second electrodes for determining which second electrodes are being covered by the conductive liquid; determining a liquid line according to the second electrodes which are not covered by the conductive liquid when all of the first electrodes and some of the conductive electrodes are covered by the conductive liquid; and determining the liquid line according to the first electrodes and the second electrodes which are not covered by the conductive liquid when some of the first electrodes and some of the second electrodes are covered by the conductive liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Shun-Lung Ho, Hsiao-Tsung Lee
  • Patent number: 11460929
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik
  • Patent number: 11460956
    Abstract: A system includes an image capturing device, a user input device, and a processor coupled to the image capturing device and user input device. The processor includes instructions for capturing a data image with the image capturing device. The data image includes a signal from the user input device. The processor further includes instructions for deactivating the signal from the user input device and, after deactivating the signal from the user input device, capturing an ambient image. The processor further includes instructions for subtracting the ambient image from the data image and determining a position of the user input device in a three-dimensional space using a result of the subtracting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Bradley Short, Robert L Mueller, Jinman Kang
  • Patent number: 11455065
    Abstract: A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base layer, a first electrode layer disposed on the base layer, and a second electrode layer disposed at an upper level of the first electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first sensing electrode rows extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the base layer, and first traces branched from each of the first sensing electrode rows and alternately distributed on both lateral portions of the base layer. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of second sensing electrode columns extending in a second direction that is parallel to the top surface of the base layer and intersects the first direction, and second traces branching from the second sensing electrode columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Soo Park, Sung Woo Yu, Jae Hyun Lee, Keon Kim, Ju In Yoon
  • Patent number: 11449163
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a display area and a non-display area at least partially disposed around the display area; and a touch sensor disposed on the display panel and including a touch sensor area and a touch pad area adjacent to the touch sensor area, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the touch sensor area, a plurality of touch pads disposed in the touch pad area, and a plurality of touch signal lines electrically connecting the touch electrodes with the touch pads, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Seon Park, Dong Jin Moon, Ye Ri Jeong, Hwan Hee Jeong, In Young Han
  • Patent number: 11442548
    Abstract: A touch sensing device including a housing, a movable part, a covering, and a lifting actuator. The movable part is relatively movable within an opening of the housing relative to an edge portion of the opening, between first and second heights. The covering includes a flexible layer covering at least the edge portion and the movable part. The flexible layer includes first and second portions directly or indirectly fixed to the edge portion and to the movable part, respectively. The flexible layer can partly flex and stretch or partly shrink in accordance with a relative movement of the second portion relative to the first portion, from a third height to a fourth height, or vice versa. The lifting actuator can move the movable part or the edge portion to relatively move the movable part, from the first height to the second height, or vice versa, relative to the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Shimizu, Naoki Toyota, Hitoshi Ao
  • Patent number: 11442570
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a display panel; a backlight that includes a back plate; a pressure touch detection chip; a pressure sensing layer and a voltage reference layer arranged between the display panel and the back plate, the pressure sensing layer and the voltage reference layer are opposite to each other and arranged in different layers. The pressure sensing layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged as an array, where each sensing electrode is electrically connected to the pressure touch detection chip through a lead wire. The voltage reference layer is configured to receive a stable reference voltage signal; and the pressure touch detection chip is configured to determine a value of a pressure on the display panel according to a detected change of capacitance between the pressure sensing layer and the voltage reference layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hu Li, Jian He
  • Patent number: 11435855
    Abstract: A capacitance detection circuit, a touch control chip and an electronic device are provided, which could reduce the influence of a display screen noise on capacitance detection. The capacitance detection circuit includes: an amplification circuit, connected to a detection capacitance in a touch screen, and configured to amplify a capacitance signal of the detection capacitance and convert the capacitance signal into a voltage signal, the voltage signal configured to determine the detection capacitance; and a control circuit, connected to the amplification circuit, and configured to control a magnification of the amplification circuit, where a period in which a noise peak of a noise signal of a display screen is located includes consecutive N sub-periods, and a magnification of the amplification circuit in the N sub-periods is inversely proportional to a magnitude of the noise signal in the N sub-periods, N>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangkai Yuan, Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11435848
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to touch display devices, touch driving circuits, touch controllers, and sensing data transmission methods, provide effects of reducing the amount of sensing data transmitted as a touch driving circuit transmits encoded sensing data to a touch controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunkyu Park, Jaehun Jun, JuneYoun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11428740
    Abstract: A battery charge state indicator presents an information handling system battery charge state with an illumination element at a housing side surface in response to end user proximity detected at both first and second capacitive sensor electrodes disposed at the side surface. The capacitive sensor electrodes are supported at a nonconductive material, such as a plastic palm rest covered by carbon fiber material, to provide a proximity detection path, and are grounded to an outer surface of the information handling system housing to reduce false detection induced by end user grasp of the information handling system housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ching Wei Chang, Jeffrey D. Kane, Allen B. McKittrick