Patents Examined by T. Lam
  • Patent number: 11979158
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a master latch circuit having a first clock input and a data output, a slave latch circuit having a second clock input and a data input electrically coupled to the data output of the master latch circuit, and a clock circuit. The clock circuit is electrically coupled to the first clock input by a first electrical connection configured to have a first time delay between the clock circuit and the first clock input. The clock circuit is electrically coupled to the second clock input by a second electrical connection configured to have a second time delay between the clock circuit and the second clock input. The first time delay is longer than the second time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yu Lin, Yung-Chen Chien, Jia-Hong Gao, Jerry Chang Jui Kao, Hui-Zhong Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11977703
    Abstract: A touch detection module, includes: a plurality of driving electrodes arranged side by side; a plurality of sensing electrodes staggered with respect to the driving electrodes; and a touch driving circuit configured to supply touch driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes and to detect touch detection signals through the plurality of sensing electrodes to identify touch position coordinates, wherein the touch driving circuit is configured: to vary frequency modulation parameter set values in response to a change in a frequency of reference clocks, and to generate and supply a frequency of the touch driving signals by using the reference clocks and a varied frequency modulation parameter set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Park, Min Hong Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Il Ho Lee, Wan Kee Jun
  • Patent number: 11977808
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a plurality of display modules and a base module. The base module includes a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of image signals respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of display modules. A first display module is coupled to the base module to receive the image signals and to transmit at least a subset of the image signals to additional display modules, such as a second display module which is coupled to the first display module to receive the at least a subset of the plurality of image signals from the first display module. The plurality of display modules may be thereby coupled with each other to thus receive and further transmit the image signals to and from other display modules, thereby improving convenience in the manufacture, inspection, and repair of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinsub Kim, Yongsik Kwon, Kibo Kim, Sejun Kim
  • Patent number: 11977674
    Abstract: A method for three dimensional visualization and manipulation of downhole data. A measured signal is received a downhole environment and a three dimensional virtualization of the measured signal is generated. A stereographic viewer displays the three dimensional virtualization of the measured signal. The three dimensional virtualization can be manipulated in response to an input from a user, thereby creating a manipulated three dimensional virtualization. The stereographic viewer can display the manipulated three dimensional virtualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ilker R. Capoglu, Burkay Donderici
  • Patent number: 11972707
    Abstract: A source driver for a display panel includes an output buffer configured to output a signal to a data line of the display panel; an output controller configured to control an output of the output buffer; a load resistance measuring unit configured to measure a load resistance of at least one data line of the display panel; and a comparison unit configured to compare the load resistance measured in the load resistance measuring unit with an initial load resistance, wherein the output controller is further configured to control a signal to be output by the output buffer based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jonghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11974210
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a broadcasting message by an access network intended for a group of terminals. The terminals are configured to recurrently and asynchronously transmit polling messages intended for the access network. An instant for transmitting the broadcasting message is determined on the basis of information relating to the recurrence of the polling messages transmitted by the terminals of the group. Before transmitting the broadcasting message and for each polling message received from a terminal of the group, a response message including one or more parameters relating to the transmission of the broadcasting message is transmitted. The response message needs to be received by the terminal during a listening window with a predetermined duration following the transmission of the polling message. The broadcasting message is transmitted over the broadcasting channel at the determined transmission instant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: UNABIZ
    Inventors: Arnaud Mansuy, Juan Carlos Zuniga
  • Patent number: 11972088
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for constrained access to scene information by applications running on an electronic device. A system process of an electronic device may assign a region of a physical environment to an application. A user interface of the application may be displayed in the assigned region. The system process may provide scene information and/or user information to the application only when the scene information and/or user information occurs and/or originates within the assigned region, in one or more implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James T. Turner, Peter L Hajas
  • Patent number: 11973198
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of detecting a micro-short circuit of a secondary battery is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first source follower, a second source follower, a transistor, a capacitor, and a comparator. A negative electrode potential and a positive electrode potential of the secondary battery are supplied to the semiconductor device, a first potential is input to the first source follower, and a second potential is input to the second source follower. A signal for controlling the conduction state of the transistor is input to a gate of the transistor, and an output potential of the first source follower related to the potential between the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the secondary battery is sampled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Matsuzaki, Kei Takahashi, Takahiko Ishizu, Yuki Okamoto, Minato Ito
  • Patent number: 11972040
    Abstract: A virtual space configuration system of an artificial reality system can detect a user posture and provide various corresponding customizations of the system's virtual space. The virtual space configuration system can, when a user is in a seated posture, provide for seated virtual space customizations. In various implementations, these customizations can include allowing adjustment of a floor height; setting a flag that can be surfaced to applications to adjust the applications' mechanics for seated users; customizing display of virtual space boundaries when in seated mode to be less intrusive; providing options to detect when a user leaves seated mode and trigger corresponding actions; provide a passthrough workspace area allowing a user to interact with certain real-world objects naturally without having to remove a virtual reality headset; or automatically determining virtual space dimensions for seated users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Alan Johnson, Shaik Shabnam Nizamudeen Basha, Mahdi Salmani Rahimi, Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux
  • Patent number: 11974380
    Abstract: A scanning light source includes a semiconductor light source and a motor, and scans output light of the semiconductor light source in front of a lamp according to the movement of the motor. A constant current driver supplies a driving current ILED to the semiconductor light source according to a light source control signal. A light source control signal generator generates the light source control signal so as to obtain a light distribution pattern that corresponds to light distribution instruction data. A delay time measurement device measures the delay time required for the transition of the on/off states of the semiconductor light source from the change of the light source control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentarou Murakami, Atsushi Uesugi, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11968546
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes a first wireless communication device receiving, from a second wireless communication device, one or more signals for each of a plurality of candidate sensing beams and a transmission beam. The method also includes determining, for each of the plurality of candidate sensing beams based on at least one of the one or more signals for the respective candidate sensing beam, a first signal measurement. The method also includes determining, based on at least one of the one or more signals for the transmission beam, a second signal measurement with respect to a direction of the transmission beam, and determining, for each of the plurality of candidate sensing beams based on the respective first signal measurement and the second signal measurement, beam coverage information with respect to the transmission beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Giovanni Chisci, Jing Sun, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Vinay Chande, Sumant Jayaraman Iyer, Marco Papaleo, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11960020
    Abstract: A method for sharing user equipment state estimates between nodes within a wireless communication network comprises initiating of transmission of at least one of obtained user equipment kinematic state estimate information and obtained user equipment type state estimate information to a receiving network node as a response to an obtained indication of a need for sharing user equipment state estimates. The obtained user equipment kinematic state estimate information comprising a latest kinematic state update time, as well as mode state vector estimates, mode covariance matrices and mode probabilities for at least one user equipment kinematic mode. The obtained user equipment type state estimate information comprising a latest type state update time and a type state probability estimate. A method for receiving and propagating the user equipment state estimates, and devices for both methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM (publ)
    Inventors: Sholeh Yasini, Torbjörn Wigren, Patrik Persson
  • Patent number: 11961822
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a plurality of emission areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of subpixels for displaying an image, a plurality of light emitting elements respectively located in the plurality of emission areas of a first surface of the substrate and respectively corresponding to the plurality of subpixels, a first planarization layer on the first surface of the substrate and covering the plurality of light emitting elements, and an array layer on the first planarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Joon Kim, Jung Hwan Hwang, Kye Uk Lee, Sang Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 11963046
    Abstract: The application relates to the field of wireless communication, and discloses a roaming method in a multi-link scenario, a multi-link device and a storage medium. The roaming method in the multi-link scenario includes: selecting a target network access device that meets a condition; disconnecting a logical entity on a secondary link of an original network access device from the original network access device; establishing a connection of the logical entity with the target network access device; determining a link through which the logical entity is connected with the target network access device as a primary link; and disconnecting a connection of the other logical entity other than the logical entity with the original network access device. The application realizes roaming of a terminal among different network access devices through link management and interactive control, ensuring service continuity and avoiding packet loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU XGIMI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Fang Xie, Yang Liao
  • Patent number: 11962386
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a first beam detection set including a first reference signal and a second beam detection set including a second reference signal. The first reference signal overlaps in at least one symbol with the second reference signal. The wireless device measures, for beam failure and in response to the first beam detection set being different from the second beam detection set, both the first reference signal and the second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11953612
    Abstract: A method of ranging between a first and a second radio signal transceiver comprises calculating a preliminary estimate of a value proportional to a one-way frequency domain channel response, for a frequency of a plurality of frequencies and for each of a first antenna combination and a second antenna combination of a plurality of antenna combinations; calculating a comparison value for the preliminary estimate, for the frequency and for each of the first antenna combination and the second antenna combination; determining, for the frequency and the first antenna combination, a corrected estimate of the value proportional to the one-way frequency domain channel response based on the preliminary estimate and the comparison value, for the first antenna combination and the second antenna combination; and performing a ranging calculation between the first and the second radio signal transceiver based on a plurality of such corrected estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventors: Lichen Yao, Pepijn Boer, Jac Romme
  • Patent number: 11956053
    Abstract: A network node for a wireless telecommunications network, and a method of operating a network node, are disclosed. The wireless telecommunications network includes a first access point having a first transmitter configured to transmit in a first coverage area, and the method can include receiving, from a sensor, data indicative of an object within the first coverage area of the first access point's first transmitter; determining, from the data, that the object is an illegitimate user; and, in response, causing a modification of the first access point so that the object cannot successfully receive a transmission from the first transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Farhad Mehran, Richard Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 11955976
    Abstract: A quadrant alternate switching phase interpolator includes first and second multiplexer circuits, a phase interpolator circuitry, and a controller circuitry. The first multiplexer circuit outputs one of first and second clock signals to be a first signal in response to first and third bits in a quadrant control code. The second multiplexer circuit outputs one of third and fourth clock signals to be a second signal in response to second and fourth bits in the quadrant control code, and the first, the third, the second, and fourth clock signals are sequentially different in phase by 90 degrees. The phase interpolator circuitry generates an output clock signal in response to the first and the second signals and phase control bits. The controller circuitry performs a bit-shift operation on the phase control bits to adjust a phase of the output clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yao-Chia Liu, Yuan-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 11954278
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device. A functional region and a transition region of the display panel are located between two adjacent touch electrodes, each touch electrode is electrically connected to a first signal transmission line, first signal shielding lines are disposed between the first signal transmission lines of a same touch electrode group and the touch electrodes of an adjacent touch electrode group, and a part of the first signal shielding line is located in the transition region, so as to alleviate a problem of poor touch performance of an existing out-cut screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Fang, Ding Ding
  • Patent number: 11949536
    Abstract: A method for transmitting digital subscriber connection signals to an interface of an end user via a coaxial cable includes: supplying, by a distribution point unit (DPU), first balanced subscriber connection signals to the coaxial cable by a first transformation; coupling unbalanced subscriber connection signals into the coaxial cable into a lower frequency range of an overall frequency range; attenuating, by means of a filtering device, a reflection of the unbalanced subscriber connection signals in the coaxial cable; a second transformation of the unbalanced subscriber connection signals into second balanced subscriber connection signals by means of a balun device assigned to the interface, wherein the input impedance of the filtering device is adjusted with respect to reflections from the direction of the customer terminal output; and separately making the second balanced subscriber connection signals available at the customer terminal output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Peter Muggenthaler, Marko Loeffelholz, Christoph Tudziers, Ralph Leppla