Patents Examined by Aaron Midkiff
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Patent number: 11690270Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joong-Soo Moon, Kwang-Min Kim, Yangwan Kim, Keunsoo Lee, Youngjin Cho
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Patent number: 11676414Abstract: A liquid crystal protection film is capable of ultrasonic fingerprint recognition in order to improve ultrasonic fingerprint recognition performance. The liquid crystal protection film includes a liquid crystal protection film part attached to an upper portion of a liquid crystal so as to protect the liquid crystal. The liquid crystal protection film part includes: a first layer attached to the upper portion of the liquid crystal; a second layer formed on an upper portion of the first layer; and a liquid crystal adhesive layer formed under the first layer and provided so that the liquid crystal adheres to the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: REALOOK & COMPANY CORP.Inventor: Nam Il Lim
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Patent number: 11663847Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a fingerprint sensor disposed under a specified area of the display. The fingerprint sensor is bonded to an inner surface of the display, through a bonding layer, and at least a portion of the bonding layer is expanded in a second direction different from a first direction facing the specified area and forms a protrusion structure to surround at least a portion of a side surface, which faces the second direction, of the fingerprint sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventors: Yunjang Jin, Suna Kim, Seyoung Jang, Cheolho Cheong, Chihyun Cho
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Patent number: 11651730Abstract: A display device includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a left data line and a right data line extending in a second direction and crossing the gate line, and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along the first and second directions, wherein the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the first direction are connected to a same gate line, and the sub-pixels of a pixel row of the second direction are alternately connected to the left data line and the right data line.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Boo-Heung Lee, Eui-Hyun Chung, Da-Hye Shim, Sung-Hun Kim
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Patent number: 11631356Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, the display panel includes a gate driving circuit, a first pixel module, and a second pixel module, the first pixel module includes a first pixel circuit, and the second pixel module includes a second pixel circuit; the gate driving circuit respectively provides corresponding gate driving signals for the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; in the first display region, the number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the first pixel module is greater than the maximum number of columns of the pixel circuit included by the second pixel module in the second display region; the display panel further includes a loading structure arranged in a non-display region; the load structure is electrically connected to the gate wiring; the gate wiring is wiring between the gate driving circuit and the second pixel circuit for providing the corresponding gate driving signals to the second pixel circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Hongfei Cheng, Yongda Ma
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Patent number: 11614803Abstract: A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
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Patent number: 11609611Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processor; a memory; first and second body portions coupled to each other by a hinge having a single rotation axis; a flexible display attached to at least one of the first or second body portions, the flexible display having parallel edges, the first body portion covering first opposing portions of the parallel edges, the second body portion covering second opposing portions of the parallel edges; and a flexible cover attached to the first body portion, the flexible cover extending to the second body portion and covering third opposing portions of the parallel edges.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Tsung Peng Lin
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Patent number: 11610428Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCEInventor: Joël-Yann Fourre
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Patent number: 11600685Abstract: A display panel includes an active area including pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other and data lines and gate lines arranged to be intersected; and shift registers supplying a gate pulse to each of the gate lines, wherein each of the shift registers includes GIP circuit portions dispersedly disposed in the active area; and GIP lines supplying a predetermined signal to the GIP circuit portions or connecting the GIP circuit portions with each other, the GIP lines being located between neighboring pixels along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyundong Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Youngin Jang
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Patent number: 11581051Abstract: A shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit, configured to input an input voltage provided by the input voltage terminal to an intermediate circuit under control of a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal; the intermediate circuit, configured to write a second clock signal output by the second clock signal terminal or a first power signal output by the first power terminal to the intermediate output terminal as an intermediate output signal under control of the input voltage and the control circuit; and an output circuit, configured to output an output signal, a phase of which is opposite to a phase of the intermediate output signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Can Zheng
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Patent number: 11545065Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim, Matthew J. Aprea
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Patent number: 11538395Abstract: A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to provide signals of the signal input terminal to the first control node, and provide signals of the first power supply terminal or the first clock signal terminal to the second control node. The first control circuit is configured to provide signals of the second power supply terminal or the second clock signal terminal to the first output terminal. The second control circuit is configured to provide signals of the first power supply terminal to the second output terminal. The output circuit is configured to provide signals of the second power supply terminal to the second output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Jiangnan Lu, Can Zheng, Hao Zhang, Long Han, Libin Liu, Shiming Shi, Dawei Wang
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Patent number: 11514840Abstract: A light emission control driver includes stages, each including: an input circuit controlling voltages of first and second nodes (N1, N2) based on a first clock signal (CS) and one of a start signal and a carry signal; a first main circuit controlling a voltage of a third node (N3) based on the voltage of N1 and a second CS; a second main circuit controlling the voltage of N3 based on the voltage of N2; an output circuit controlling output of an emission control signal (ECS) based on the voltages of N2 and N3; a first auxiliary circuit controlling a low level output of the ECS from a first low level to a second low level based on the second CS; and a second auxiliary circuit controlling the low level output in a single step from a high level to the second low level based on the voltage of N2.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hwan Soo Jang
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Patent number: 11514855Abstract: A display device includes a pixel, wherein the pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor connected to a first power line and the light emitting element and controlled by a voltage of a first node, a second transistor connected to a data line and the first transistor and controlled by an i-th scan signal, a third-first transistor connected to the first transistor and a second node and controlled by a first control signal, a third transistor connected to the second node and the first node and controlled by a second control signal, and a dummy transistor including a first electrode receiving a reference voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a control electrode connected to an emission line.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventors: Jaekeun Lim, Hongsoo Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Sehyuk Park, Hyojin Lee
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Patent number: 11493990Abstract: A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs a moving body process of performing a process of moving a moving body corresponding to a user wearing an HMD in a virtual space, a virtual camera control process of controlling a virtual camera moving in accordance with a movement of the moving body, and a display process of generating an image as viewed from the virtual camera in the virtual space as a display image of the head mounted display. The processor performs, in the display process, an image effect process for motion sickness prevention as a process of blurring, compared with a display object in a given distance range from the virtual camera, an image of a display object in a distance range farther than the given distance range to generate the display image.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takahiro Kakizawa, Masaru Aita, Shusuke Miura
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Patent number: 11482038Abstract: A vehicle includes a first sensor including a capacitance sensor; a second sensor including an ultrasonic sensor; a storage configured to store ultrasonic pattern images; and a controller electrically connected to the first sensor, the second sensor and the storage and configured to: wake up the second sensor based on a user contiguous to the first sensor, obtain a fingerprint pattern image from the second sensor, according to a difference between an area value of a ridge area of the fingerprint pattern image and an area value of a valley area adjacent to the ridge area being less than a predetermined reference value, obtain result data by assigning a weight to the area value of the valley area, and according to the result data and the ultrasonic pattern image data matching more than a predetermined matching value by comparing the result data and ultrasonic pattern image data, recognize as a fingerprint corresponding to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jihye Lee, Taeseung Kim, Dong June Song
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Patent number: 11475694Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch recognition device, including a display device and manufacturing method thereof. The touch recognition device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor layer, a transparent conductive layer, a first metal layer, a piezoelectric material layer and a second metal layer. The transparent conductive layer is disposed on an end of the thin film transistor layer, and the transparent conductive layer includes a plurality of transparent electrodes. The first metal layer is adjacent to the plurality of transparent electrodes. The piezoelectric material layer is disposed on the transparent conductive layer and the first metal layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the piezoelectric material layer to achieve the effect of increasing voltage of signals and power of ultrasound.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignees: Reco Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Reco Biotek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Li-Ting Cheng, Shih-Chieh Huang
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Patent number: 11462156Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a substrate, a display panel including a first display area including first pixels, a second display area including second pixels, and a third display area disposed between the first and second display areas and including third pixels, and a component disposed between the substrate and the display panel so as to overlap the second display area. Transmittance of the second display area is higher than transmittance of the first display area and transmittance of the third display area, and the third pixels are controlled such that a luminance gradually changes according to a distance from the second display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Inventors: Jin Wook Yang, Yu Chol Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Young Ha Sohn, Jae Hyeon Jeon
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Patent number: 11417250Abstract: A method of adjusting a test gray voltages applied to a component of an electronic display during a test frame between image frames, wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on the control signal to the component during a prior image frame. The method may reduce hysteresis effects on the extraction of sensed currents of the component during the test frame, which may increase the accuracy and/or consistency of determined parameters evaluated from the sensed currents. The determined parameters may include temperature and/or aging of the component. The determined parameters may be used to adjust control signals for the component and other components in a region near the component during the next image frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yongjun Li, Jiayi Jin, Maofeng Yang, Jun Li, Weijun Yao, Derek K. Shaeffer, Baris Cagdaser
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Patent number: 11417139Abstract: The present invention is a display device, comprising a display module, a fingerprint recognition module and a speaker module. The back of the display module is provided with a fingerprint recognition module and a speaker module. A common electrode layer is arranged between the fingerprint recognition module and the speaker module, so that the thickness of the display can be greatly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: RECO TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) CO., LTD, RECO BIOTEK CO., LTDInventors: Sincheng Lin, Chungwu Liu