Patents Examined by Aaron Midkiff
  • Patent number: 12373531
    Abstract: Provided is a processing system including a moving body identification information acquisition unit that acquires moving body identification information for identifying a moving body, an authentication unit that executes an inspector authentication process, based on biological information of an inspector, an inspection item identification information acquisition unit that acquires inspection item identification information for identifying an inspection item, and an output unit that stores the moving body identification information, the inspection item identification information, and inspector identification information of the inspector which is authenticated in the inspector authentication process in a storage unit in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12366919
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for authentication and password security. The system may detect involuntary and voluntary brain signals of a user and measure the characteristics of those signals. The signals may be detected and analyzed using a wearable device comprising a plurality of sensors. The system may authenticate the identity of the user by triggering the user to imagine content or react to presented content. The content may comprise an image or movement, and brain signals of the user may indicate signals that are consistent for the user. The system may authenticate the user based on the brain signals based on data stored for the user or profile for the user. This determination may be performed by a machine learning model trained to classify users based on the brain signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Quesada, Daisy Henderson, Alexander Brewton
  • Patent number: 12367835
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes a display region and a bonding region on one side of the display region. The bonding region at least includes a lead area. The display region includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of data fanout lines. The lead area includes a plurality of lead wires. Orthographic projections of the plurality of data lines and the plurality of data fanout lines on a plane of the display substrate are at least partially overlapped. A first end of at least one data fanout line is connected to the lead wire, and a second end of the at least one data fanout line extends in a direction away from the lead area, to be connected to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Du, Yuanjie Xu, Qiwei Wang, Benlian Wang, Yudiao Cheng, Pan Xu
  • Patent number: 12300016
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch display including a touch sensor controller, a fingerprint sensor disposed beneath the touch display, a processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to: in response to a touch input to the touch display, obtain, via the touch sensor controller, capacitance data, adjust configuration data for the fingerprint sensor based on the capacitance data, and obtain fingerprint information corresponding to the touch input, using the fingerprint sensor operating with the adjusted configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suna Kim, Jinho Kim
  • Patent number: 12279507
    Abstract: A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a transmit/receive area (120,122) of a display. The transmit/receive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the transmit/receive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements (1242), and as light blocking layer (1222, 1260) to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements (1242).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 12236864
    Abstract: There is provided a display substrate including a base and a pixel circuit layer on the base, the pixel circuit layer includes pixel driving circuits arranged in an array along a first direction and a second direction. The base has recesses, each of which extends in the first direction and has a bottom surface and a side surface, a surface of the base includes the bottom surface and the side surface of each recesses, and a top surface between adjacent recesses, the bottom surface of each recess is substantially parallel to the top surface between adjacent recesses, the side surface of each recesses is at a first angle to the bottom surface of the recess and the top surface between adjacent recesses, and a portion of each pixel driving circuits is formed on the side surface of one recess. A method for preparing a display substrate is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tuo Sun
  • Patent number: 12236869
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel driver circuit. The pixel driver circuit includes a light-emitting module, a drive transistor and at least one light-emitting control transistor. The drive transistor, the light-emitting control transistor and the light-emitting module are connected in series between a first power supply signal terminal and a second power supply signal terminal, and at least one of the drive transistor or the light-emitting control transistor is a first double-gate transistor. The first double-gate transistor includes a first gate, a second gate and a first source, and the second gate is electrically connected to the first source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihua Wang, Yuheng Zhang, Qiongqin Mao, Yang Nan, Tingling Li, Yimiao Ding
  • Patent number: 12230214
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a driving method of the array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pairs of gate lines, each pair including a first gate line and a second gate line, and a pixel array, including pixel units arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A scan signal terminal of a pixel unit of an nth column in an mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in an mth pair of gate lines to receive a first scan signal; m and n are positive integers; a reset signal terminal of the pixel unit of the (n+1)th column in the mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in the mth pair of gate lines to receive the first scan signal serving as a first reset signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuang Zhao, Chenyu Chen, Zhongliu Yang, Wenbo Chen, Zhuo Xu, Jing Yang, Hongting Lu
  • Patent number: 12223764
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for biometric authentication. Rotation covariant convolution kernels at multiple convolution layers are obtained with weights learned via machine learning based on rotation invariant (RI) training data. For an input image with fingerprint information captured therein related to a person to be authenticated, an initial feature map is obtained and then at each convolution layer, a feature map is processed based on the RC convolution kernels for the layer to output a rotation covariant (RC) feature map, with the feature map being either the initial feature map and an output RC feature map from a previous convolution layer. The last convolution layer outputs a rotation invariant (RI) feature vector representing fingerprint features of the person in a rotation invariant manner, which is then used to authenticate the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ARMATURA LLC
    Inventors: Zhinong Li, Xiaowu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12219855
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel and an input sensor. Mesh lines of the input sensor may include first mesh lines extending in a first direction and second mesh lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first mesh lines and the second mesh lines may cross each other at a plurality of cross points. In a unit region of the sensing electrode, first cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines, and second cutting points may be defined in the first mesh lines and the second mesh lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joong-Soo Moon, Kwang-Min Kim, Yangwan Kim, Keunsoo Lee, Youngjin Cho
  • Patent number: 12182344
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting gestures on a reduced-size electronic device at locations off of the display, such as gestures on the housing of the device or on a rotatable input mechanism (e.g., a digital crown) of the device, and responding to the gestures by, for example, navigating lists of items and selecting items from the list; translating the display of an electronic document; or sending audio control data to an external audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Colin M. Ely
  • Patent number: 12183113
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. In some aspects, a device may include a flexible display. The device may include an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that is configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal in an acoustic path through the flexible display. The device may include an acoustics configuration layer that is situated between the display and the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. The acoustics configuration layer may be configured to optimize a signal strength of the ultrasonic signal based at least in part on a configuration of one or more layers of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jessica Liu Strohmann, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Yipeng Lu, Chin-Jen Tseng, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev
  • Patent number: 12174931
    Abstract: A head-mounted device (HMD) may be used to determine an access request for accessing a device. An identifier identifying the device may be received at the HMD and from the device. By verifying receipt of the identifier at the HMD, and that access rights associated with the HMD enable granting of the access request, the access request may be granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brett Barros, Alexander James Faaborg
  • Patent number: 12148328
    Abstract: A spliced screen and a display device are disclosed. The spliced screen includes: a spliced unit screen, wherein the spliced unit screen includes a plurality of unit screens, and a splicing gap is defined between the unit screens adjacent to each other; a light-emitting diode (LED) strip light, wherein the LED strip light is disposed on the splicing gap; and a light-emitting cover plate, wherein the light-emitting cover plate is disposed above the spliced unit screen. By disposing the light-transmitting cover plate, the splicing gap between the unit screens adjacent to each other can be eliminated by the LED strip light without forming an uneven display surface of the spliced screen. Therefore, an entire visual effect of the spliced screen is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD., TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ping Luo
  • Patent number: 12135590
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing and a sensor module disposed in at least a portion of the housing. The sensor module includes a fingerprint recognition sensor, a protective layer covering the fingerprint recognition sensor, an adhesive member placed on the protective layer, and a ceramic layer placed on the adhesive member, wherein the edge of the ceramic layer, the edge of the adhesive member, and the edge of a part of the protective layer include machined surfaces. Other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byungseon Hwang, Deokhee Lee, Sunggyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12136373
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor including a control electrode receiving a write gate signal generated based on clock signals having a duration of M horizontal time, M being a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, a first electrode receiving a data voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first transistor, a third transistor including a control electrode receiving a compensation gate signal generated based on a first next write gate signal applied after the write gate signal is applied, a first and second electrodes electrically connected to the first transistor, and a fourth transistor including a control electrode receiving an initialization gate signal generated based on a previous write gate signal applied before the write gate signal is applied, a first electrode receiving a first initialization voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunho Kim, Yoomin Ko, Juchan Park, Pilsuk Lee
  • Patent number: 12135585
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for automatically aligning a wrist-mounted display device to a primary display device to facilitate simultaneous use of both display devices. Historical usage information corresponding to a user using both devices is leveraged to determine usage patterns for the devices together. Subsequently, when the primary display device is used by the user, the usage patterns are used to determine when the wrist-mounted display device can be used together with the primary display device. Position information from each device is used to determine a position for the wrist-mounted display device to automatically relocate to for aligning the wrist-mounted display device and the primary display device to have similar viewing directions. The wrist-mounted display device is automatically aligned to the position, and a usage of the aligned wrist-mounted display device is initiated based on the historical usage patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Sirisha Akella
  • Patent number: 12118906
    Abstract: A method for sensing a display panel includes: sensing an electrical characteristic parameter of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame, wherein X is a random number, and both N and X are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Wei, Fei Yang, Song Meng, Jingbo Xu, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 12112677
    Abstract: The present application discloses a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes: a first module, configured to generate image data; and a second module, configured to set a state value corresponding to the next image data based on a frame refresh rate corresponding to the current image data, a state value corresponding to the current image data and a state value corresponding to the previous image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jhenwei He
  • Patent number: 12106598
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing device has a sensing area, an operation area, and a peripheral area, and the operation area is disposed between the sensing area and the peripheral area. The fingerprint sensing device includes a substrate, a sensing element located at the sensing area, an operation element located at the operation area, a first signal line located at the peripheral area, a first planarization layer, a first insulating layer, and a first shading layer. The first planarization layer is located on the substrate and has a first trench, and the first trench overlaps the first signal line. The first insulating layer is located on the first planarization layer and in the first trench, and the first insulating layer has a first opening located in the first trench. The first shading layer is located on the first insulating layer and connected to the first signal line through the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Wen Tzeng, Yan-Liang Chen, Jui-Chi Lo