Patents Assigned to Synaptics Incorporated
  • Patent number: 11184705
    Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting a loudspeaker from excessive excursion include an audio source, an adaptive excursion protection filter, an audio clipper, an inverse excursion protection filter, an amplifier and a loudspeaker. The system performs operations including receiving an audio signal, applying an excursion protection filter, the excursion protection filter adapting in real-time to one or more speaker conditions, clipping the audio signal, applying an inverse excursion protection filter, and amplifying, using an amplification circuit, the audio signal for output to the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Richard Hodges, Harry Lau, Michael Townsend
  • Publication number: 20210358375
    Abstract: A display driver comprises image processing circuitry and driver circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to receive spatial distribution information of a physical quantity related to a display panel. The image processing circuitry is further configured to generate output voltage data by processing input pixel data associated with subpixels of the pixel. The drive circuitry is configured to drive the display panel based on the output voltage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Publication number: 20210357047
    Abstract: A processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an amplifier configured to generate a feedback signal including a spatial common mode estimate from spatial-common-mode-processed signals. The processing system further includes charge integrators configured to obtain resulting signals from capacitive sensor electrodes, the resulting signals including a spatial common mode, and generate the spatial-common-mode-processed signals by mitigating the spatial common mode in the resulting signals using the feedback signal. The processing system also includes a controller including a programmable gain amplifier capturing the spatial common mode estimate over a summing resistor of the amplifier and a demodulator configured to remove a modulation voltage from the spatial common mode estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11177229
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip comprises a plurality of pads and a plurality of bumps. The plurality of pads includes a first pad. The plurality of bumps is disposed on the plurality of pads. The plurality of bumps includes a first bump disposed on the first pad. The first bump as a width that is different than an exposed with of the first pad. The center of the first bump is not aligned with a center of the first pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Naoki Hasegawa, Shinya Suzuki, Hiromasa Hiura, Yuichi Nakagomi
  • Patent number: 11176899
    Abstract: A display driver comprises image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to output display image data representing a display image comprising an effective area to be displayed in a display area of a display panel and an invalid area not to be displayed in the display area. The drive circuitry drives the display panel based on the display image data comprising effective pixel data associated with first pixels included in the effective area and invalid pixel data associated with second pixels included in the invalid area. Effective pixel data associated with first pixels located within a boundary area adjacent to the invalid area is set to first grayscale values. The invalid pixel data associated with second pixels located within an insert area defined in the invalid area is set to second grayscale values comprising a value different from the first grayscale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomoo Minaki, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11176859
    Abstract: A method comprises acquiring measured luminance levels at a measurement point of a display area for a plurality of test images displayed in the display area, and estimating one or more luminance levels at one or more corresponding luminance estimation points of the display area using the measured luminance levels. The method further comprises determining, based on the one or more estimated luminance levels, a correction parameter using the estimated one or more luminance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Xi Chu, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 11175177
    Abstract: A method for determining an amount of ambient light illumination is disclosed. The method includes: estimating a contribution per color component in an optical sensing region of an input frame to be displayed on a display device, wherein the optical sensing region corresponds to a location of an optical sensor in the display device, wherein the input frame comprises digital information for each color component for each pixel of the input frame; causing the optical sensor to detect an amount of illumination in the optical sensing region based on illuminating the display device with a representation of the input frame; and determining the amount of ambient light illumination based on the estimated contribution per color component in the optical sensing region of the input frame and the amount of illumination in the optical sensing region detected by the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Patrick A. Worfolk, Erik Jonathon Thompson
  • Patent number: 11170692
    Abstract: The display driver includes control circuitry and signal supply circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store a first setting table for a first frame rate and a second setting table for a second frame rate. The control circuitry is further configured to, in response to adjusting a frame rate of a display device from the first frame rate to the second frame rate, generate an interpolated control parameter through interpolation of a first control parameter obtained from the first setting table and a second control parameter obtained from the second setting table. The signal supply circuitry is configured to generate at least one first signal to be supplied to a display panel based on the interpolated control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11171111
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device comprises: a resin film that is flexible; a plurality of traces bonded on a surface of the resin film and arrayed in a specific direction; an IC chip bonded on the surface of the resin film, located offset to the traces in a direction perpendicular to the specific direction, and connected to the traces; and a protection pattern formed on the surface of the resin film, located in the specific direction with respect to a disposition region in which the IC chip and/or the traces are disposed, and formed of the same material as that of the traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Okamura, Takeshi Okubo, Yuichi Nakagomi, Takefumi Seno
  • Patent number: 11164527
    Abstract: A processing system comprises a plurality of output terminals connectable to data lines of a display panel and a plurality of output amplifiers configured to output a plurality of drive voltages, respectively. The drive voltages have the same polarity. The processing system further comprises first switch circuitry configured to connect a first output terminal of the plurality of output terminals to a selected one of the plurality of output amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Hikichi
  • Patent number: 11164500
    Abstract: A display driver comprises color gamut adjustment circuitry and drive circuitry. The color gamut adjustment circuitry is configured to generate an in-use parameter set based on a plurality of parameter sets corresponding to different color gamuts and a position of a target pixel and generate an output pixel data by performing color gamut adjustment processing on an input pixel data of the target pixel based on the in-use parameter set. The drive circuitry is configured to drive a display panel based on the output pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11163406
    Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprises driving a first sensor electrode of a plurality of sensor electrodes with a first sensing signal to acquire a first resulting signal with the first sensor electrode during a period and driving a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes with the first sensing signal to acquire a second resulting signal with the second sensor electrode during the period. Further, a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes is driven with a reference signal during the period. Rotational information for an input object is determined at least partially based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: David Hoch, Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11164511
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first scan driving circuit, a second scan driving circuit, and a third scan driving circuit. The first scan driving circuit is configured to generate a first gate scan signal to control programming of a first display line in a first horizontal sync period that includes a long horizontal blank (LHB) period. The second scan driving circuit is configured to generate a first dummy gate scan signal to control initialization of a second display line in the LHB period of the first horizontal sync period. The third scan driving circuit is configured to generate a second gate scan signal to control programming of the second display line in a second horizontal sync period that follows the first horizontal sync period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsushi Maruyama, Kazuhiro Okamura, Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 11157106
    Abstract: A system and method for input sensing comprises a display device having at least one piezoresistive sensing transistor. During a first period, a first resulting signal is received with a first data line by driving a first piezoresistive sensing transistor of a first subpixel of the display device with a first select signal. The first resulting signal corresponds to a change in resistance of the first piezoresistive sensing transistor. Further, at least one of force information and positional information associated with an input object may be determined at least partially based on the change in resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Seiki Takahashi, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 11158333
    Abstract: Audio processing systems and methods include an audio sensor array configured to receive a multichannel audio input and generate a corresponding multichannel audio signal and target-speech detection logic and an automatic speech recognition engine or VoIP application. An audio processing device includes a target speech enhancement engine configured to analyze a multichannel audio input signal and generate a plurality of enhanced target streams, a multi-stream target-speech detection generator comprising a plurality of target-speech detector engines each configured to determine a probability of detecting a specific target-speech of interest in the stream, wherein the multi-stream target-speech detection generator is configured to determine a plurality of weights associated with the enhanced target streams, and a fusion subsystem configured to apply the plurality of weights to the enhanced target streams to generate an enhancement output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Francesco Nesta, Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari
  • Patent number: 11159152
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided to correct the duty cycles and convert differential clock signals in synchronized systems. In one example, a method includes receiving an input differential clock signal having a distorted duty cycle. The method also includes adjusting the input differential clock signal to provide an output differential clock signal with a corrected duty cycle. The adjusting is performed in response to signals provided by a differential amplifier and a common mode amplifier of an analog feedback circuit receiving the output differential clock signal. Additional methods and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chandrashekhar Reddy Ayya, Srishti Garg
  • Patent number: 11159150
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to electronic devices, and more specifically, to a waveform generation circuit for input devices. One or more embodiments provide a new waveform generator for an integrated touch and display driver (TDDI) and methods for generating a waveform for capacitive sensing with a finely tunable sensing frequency. A waveform generator includes accumulator circuitry, truncation circuitry, and saturation circuitry. The accumulator circuitry is configured to accumulate the phase increment value based on a clock signal, and output the accumulated phase increment value. The truncation circuitry configured to drop one or more bits of the accumulated phase increment value to output a truncated value. The saturation circuitry is configured to compare the truncated value to a saturation limit and output a signal corresponding to accessed data samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeremy Roberson, David Sobel, Damien Berget
  • Patent number: 11152001
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for voice search. A voice search system for a voice-enabled device captures one or more images of a scene, detects a user in the one or more images, determines whether the position of the user satisfies an attention-based trigger condition for initiating a voice search operation, and selectively transmits a voice query to a network resource based at least in part on the determination. The voice query may include audio recorded from the scene and/or the one or more images captured of the scene. The voice search system may further determine whether the trigger condition is satisfied as a result of a false trigger and disable the voice-enabled device from transmitting the voice query to the network resource based at least in part on the trigger condition being satisfied as the result of a false trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Boyan Ivanov Bonev, Pascale El Kallassi, Patrick A. Worfolk
  • Patent number: 11151941
    Abstract: A display driver includes signal supply circuitry and a power source controller. The signal supply circuitry is configured to update a display panel during a refresh period and not update the display panel during a non-refresh period that follows the refresh period. The power source controller is configured to modify a high-side power source voltage supplied to the display panel at least during the non-refresh period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Atsushi Shikata, Kazuhiro Okamura, Hirobumi Furihata, Shigeru Ota, Makoto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11153513
    Abstract: A device comprises a first camera, wherein the first camera includes one or more photosensors configured to detect visible light passing, in a first direction, through a first surface. The device further includes a light source configured to emit infrared (IR) light, in a second direction opposite the first direction, through the first surface. The device also includes a second camera configured to detect reflections of the IR light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Boyan Ivanov Bonev, Marek Mienko