Patents Assigned to Synaptics Incorporated
  • Patent number: 11360613
    Abstract: An input device includes a display substrate and a stack of display layers disposed on the display substrate, the stack of display layers including a conductive layer. The input device further includes at least one capacitive sensing layer in the stack of display layers and a multitude of capacitive sensing electrodes disposed in the at least one capacitive sensing layer, and configured for capacitance sensing. The input device also includes a processing system configured to selectively drive the multitude of capacitive sensing electrodes to emit a first sensing signal while balancing a total current induced in the conductive layer, caused by an electromagnetic emission associated with the first sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Cungang Ding, Tracy Scott Dattalo
  • Patent number: 11360614
    Abstract: A method of detecting shift of a rotatable interface is disclosed. The rotatable interface has a fixed base with a conductive region on a bottom surface, the fixed base attached to a display screen of an input device. The method includes providing, during a first time period, a reference signal to first and second sets of electrodes of the input device that are each capacitively coupled to the conductive region. The method further includes, during a second time period, providing the reference signal to the first set of electrodes, providing a sensing signal to the second set of electrodes, and receiving, during the second time period, a resulting signal on the second set of electrodes. The method still further includes determining a translation of the rotatable interface relative to the display screen based, at least in part, on the resulting signal values received during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Kelvin Fong
  • Patent number: 11353909
    Abstract: An operational amplifier comprises a front stage and an output stage. The front stage comprises a first input transistor, a second input transistor, a first node, a second node, and a first current mirror. A first voltage based on a first current through the first input transistor is generated on the first node. A second voltage based on a second current through the second input transistor is generated on the second node. The output stage is configured to output an output voltage based on at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage. The first current mirror comprises a first transistor having a drain connected to the first node, a second transistor having a drain connected to the second node, and a first offset canceling capacitor connected between gates of the first transistor and the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Yutaka Saeki
  • Patent number: 11354000
    Abstract: A processing system and method are provided. The processing system includes a sensor circuit that drives, during a first sensing period, a first plurality of sensor electrodes with first sensing signals, receives first resulting signals from the first plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the first resulting signals with a first mixer signal to generate a first mixed signal, wherein the first mixer signal has a first phase and the first mixed signal corresponds to at least a portion of a capacitive image. The processing system also includes a noise measurement circuit that receives second resulting signals from a second plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the second resulting signals with a second mixer signal to generate a second mixed signal, wherein the second mixer signal has a second phase and the second mixed signal corresponds to a first noise measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11335295
    Abstract: A processing system includes a timing controller and source driver circuitry. The timing controller is configured to stop scanning of a plurality of gate lines of a display panel in response to a detection of a communication failure between the processing system and a controller. The source driver circuitry is configured to update a plurality of display elements of the display panel to cause a black display in response to expiration of a time limit after the detection of the communication failure. The timing controller may be further configured to resume the scanning of the plurality of gate lines in response to the expiration of the time limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hirakawa, Takayuki Noto, Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Yoriaki Miyoshi, Keiichi Yoshida, Hiroshi Shimura
  • Patent number: 11334199
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing device has a first plurality of sensor electrodes, and a second plurality of sensor electrodes overlapping the first plurality of sensor electrodes. A first sensor electrode of the second plurality of electrodes overlaps a first subset of the first plurality of electrodes and comprises apertures disposed according to first codes. The first codes comprise first and second coefficients and along one of the first plurality of sensor electrodes. Each aperture may correspond to one of the first coefficients. The capacitive sensing device further comprises a processing system coupled to the first and second plurality of sensor electrodes. The processing system may be configured to receive resulting signals with the second plurality of sensor electrodes to determine positional information for an input object within a sensing region of the capacitive sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Petr Shepelev
  • Publication number: 20220148470
    Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry, driver circuitry, and test circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to generate first output data during a first display update period and generate second output data during a second display update period. The driver circuitry is configured to update a display panel based on the first output data during the first display update period and update the display panel based on the second output data during the second display update period. The test circuitry is configured to test the image processing circuitry during a test period disposed between the first display update period and the second display update period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama, Kota Kitamura, Chirinjeev Singh, Dipankar Talukdar, Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11327605
    Abstract: A processing system for an input device comprises sensor circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to operate sensor electrodes for input sensing during a first sensing frame. During a first period of the first sensing frame the sensor circuitry is configured to drive a first portion of the sensor electrodes with a sensing signal, drive a second portion of the sensor electrodes with a guarding signal, and drive a third portion of the sensor electrodes with a reference signal. The guarding signal and the sensing signal have at least one characteristic in common selected from the group consisting of amplitude, phase and frequency. The third portion of the sensor electrodes overlaps a first gate line of a display panel selected for updating during the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Daisuke Ito, Hiroshi Takeyama, Jonathan Losh
  • Patent number: 11328733
    Abstract: Systems and methods for speaker verification comprise optimizing a neural network by minimizing a generalized negative log likelihood function, including receiving a training batch of audio samples comprising a plurality of utterances for each of a plurality of speakers, extracting features from the audio samples to generate a batch of features, processing the batch of features using a neural network to generate a plurality of embedding vectors configured to differentiate audio samples by speaker, computing a generalized negative log-likelihood loss (GNLL) value for the training batch based, at least in part, on the embedding vectors, and modifying weights of the neural network to reduce the GNLL value. Computing the GNLL may include generating a centroid vector for each of a plurality of speakers, based at least in part on the embedding vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari, Atabak Pouya
  • Patent number: 11315518
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for overdriving pixel elements to a desired voltage. A display device comprises a pixel array and overdrive circuitry to determine a current pixel value for a first pixel element of the pixel array and a target pixel value for the first pixel element. The overdrive circuitry is further configured to determine a first voltage to be applied to the first pixel element to cause the first pixel element to transition from the current pixel value to the target pixel value by a first instance of time. The first voltage is determined based at least in part on a position of the first pixel element in the pixel array. The display device further comprises a data driver to apply the first voltage to the first pixel element before the first instance of time and a backlight to illuminate the pixel array at the first instance of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen L. Morein
  • Publication number: 20220121298
    Abstract: A processing system is configured to drive a transmitter electrode with a repetitive multi-burst pattern. The repetitive multi-burst pattern includes a first multitude of bursts of a sensing waveform and a second multitude of bursts of the sensing waveform. The second multitude of bursts is a repetition of the first multitude of bursts. The processing system is further configured to receive, from a receiver electrode, a resulting signal in response to the repetitive multi-burst pattern, and identify, in the resulting signal, a segment least affected by a noise, and that temporally coincides with a burst in the first multitude of bursts or a burst in the second multitude of bursts matching the burst in the first plurality of bursts. The processing system is also configured to decode the resulting signal using the segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Cungang Ding, Longming Cheng, Guanhua Cao
  • Patent number: 11308309
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing device having an image sensing device and configured to detecting fingerprint data of an input object. The image sensing device includes a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of sensing elements. The plurality of sensing elements includes a first sensing element has a field of view associated with a first lens of the plurality of lenses and laterally offset from a center of the first lens, and a second sensing element has a field of view associated with a second lens of the plurality of lens and laterally offset from a center of the second lens. Further, a processing system may be coupled to the image sensing device and operate the image sensing device to acquire fingerprint image to authenticate a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Bob Lee Mackey, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20220114942
    Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and driver circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to process first image data for pixels of a display panel comprising a first region and a second region to generate output voltage data. The first region and the second region have different pixel layouts. The driver circuitry is configured to update the pixels based on the output voltage data. Processing the first image data comprises IR-drop compensation based on first luminances of the pixels, each of the first luminances being determined based on the first image data and whether a corresponding pixel of the pixels is located in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama, Tomoo Minaki
  • Patent number: 11294514
    Abstract: Baseline update for input object detection includes determining raw measurements from resulting signals acquired for a sensing region, obtaining a masked region of the sensing region based on the raw measurements, and generating a baseline update value using a subset of the raw measurements corresponding to an unmasked region. A baseline value of the masked region is updated using the baseline update value to obtain an updated baseline. A location of an input object is detected using the updated baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Katherine Kuan, Nickolas Fotopoulos
  • Patent number: 11297429
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting proximity of a wireless listening device to a user's ear comprise a housing adapted for positioning in and/or adjacent to an ear canal of a user, wireless components disposed within the housing, the wireless components operable to receive a wireless signal from a host device, and in-ear detection components operable to analyze the wireless signal and detect a proximity of the housing to the ear canal of the user. The in-ear detection components may include a differentiator operable to receive a gain of the wireless signal and output a rate of change of the gain, a comparator operable to output a proximity state if the rate of change is greater than a threshold value, wherein the proximity state includes an in-ear state and an open-air state, and false detection components operable to analyze the wireless signal to confirm the determined proximity state for an interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Thavatchai Montreevat
  • Patent number: 11294505
    Abstract: A sensor driver comprises a receiver and an interference mitigation element. The receiver is configured to acquire a resulting signal from a sensor electrode. The interference mitigation element is communicatively coupled with the receiver and is configured to receive interference data, generate an interference estimate from the interference data and a transfer function, and communicate the interference estimate to the receiver. The interference estimate removes charge from a resulting signal, mitigating effects of interference within the resulting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Losh, Derek Solven, Vladan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 11289045
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating pixel elements of a display device. The display device comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixel elements and one or more light sources to illuminate the pixel array at a first instance of time. A data driver is configured to receive a frame of display data corresponding to an image to be displayed on the pixel array at a first instance of time. The data driver scans each row of the pixel array, during a pixel adjustment period prior to the first instance of time, to drive a plurality of first voltages onto the plurality of pixel elements, respectively, based on the received frame. The data driver further rescans a subset of rows of the pixel array, during the pixel adjustment period, to drive second voltages onto respective pixel elements in the subset of rows based on the received frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen L. Morein
  • Patent number: 11290073
    Abstract: A self-biased differential transmitter is provided. The transmitter may include a differential output driver powered by a supply voltage provided by a differential signal receiver. The output driver may include a bias voltage generator to generate bias voltages to enable one or more transistors in the output driver to operate with differential signals that are beyond the safe operating voltage range of transistors included within the differential transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shao-Jen Lim, Shriram Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11282480
    Abstract: A display driver includes gamma curve control circuitry and a converter controller. The gamma curve control circuitry is configured to generate a first gamma curve for a first display brightness value (DBV), and a second gamma curve for a second DBV lower than the first DBV. The converter controller is configured to control a digital-analog converter (DAC) configured to perform digital-analog conversion of an input image data. Further, the converter controller is configured to adjust an analog signal voltage amplitude of the DAC based on a range of an output voltage associated with the second gamma curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Kazutoshi Aogaki, Tomoo Minaki, Akio Sugiyama, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11282431
    Abstract: A system and method for updating a display of a display device. The display device may include a plurality of subpixels, and a display driver coupled to the plurality of subpixels. The display driver may be configured to compare a first data signal of a first statistically selected subpixel of the plurality of subpixels to a first statistically selected threshold, increase a value of a first counter corresponding to the first statistically selected subpixel in response to the first subpixel data signal exceeding the first statistically selected threshold, adjust the first subpixel data signal in response to the first counter value satisfying a second threshold, and drive the first statistically selected subpixel based at least in part on the adjusted first subpixel data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Damien Berget, Joseph Kurth Reynolds