Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
  • Patent number: 11061505
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device for improving productivity. The display device having a touch sensor is configured such that the total thickness of at least one inorganic insulation layer disposed on the region above each of dams is different from the total thickness of the at least one inorganic insulation layer disposed on a trench region between the dams. Thus, a photoresist for forming a routing line is formed so as to have a uniform thickness on the region above each of the dams and the trench region between the dams, and thus productivity is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyung Jang, Min-Joo Kim, Eun-Pyo Hong, Jae-Won Lee, Sang-Hoon Pak, Sang-Hyuk Won, Yeon-Woo Shin, Ji-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11056079
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display system capable of preventing a change in gradation characteristics from reducing the visibility of an image. The present invention provides a display system that includes a display unit and a display control unit, wherein: the display control unit includes a gradation characteristic converter; the gradation characteristic converter converts first gradation characteristics to second gradation characteristics; the first gradation characteristics maintain a constant level of the difference in the JND correspondence value between each gradation value; the gradation characteristic converter performs the conversion to maintain a constant level of the difference in JND correspondence value between each gradation value which is controlled by the second gradation characteristics; and the display unit displays input image data as an image at a luminance corresponding to the second gradation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sakai, Akihiro Masatani, Shoya Higashi
  • Patent number: 11042284
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing including a first surface and a second surface faced away from the first surface, a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface faced away from the third surface, a first display including a folding part rotatably connecting a side surface of the first housing and a side surface of the second housing facing the side surface of the first housing, the first display being disposed on the first surface and the third surface across the folding part, a second display disposed on the second surface of the first housing, at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangeun Lee, Dasom Kim, Sangki Lee
  • Patent number: 11023070
    Abstract: An input mode trigger is detected so that a computing system treats inputs from a touch sensing device as touch inputs. A focus area input mechanism is displayed on the display screen. A hover mode touch input is detected, and a touch input on the touch sensing device is mirrored by corresponding movement of visual indicia on the focus area input mechanism on the display screen. Other touch gestures are used to perform operations within the focus area input mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Chen, Jonathan Marc Holley, Christopher Court, Taylor Jordan Hartman, Adam Samuel Riddle
  • Patent number: 11024211
    Abstract: A drive circuit and a driving method of a driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The driving circuit comprises: a drive chip comprising N signal lines disposed in order, wherein M signal lines of the N signal lines output a drive signal; and M selection modules, wherein each selection module comprises at least two signal input terminals, a signal output terminal and a control terminal. The signal output terminal is connected to a drive signal line, and the control terminal is connected to a control signal line. Each selection module is configured to control one of the signal input terminals to be connected to the corresponding signal output terminal, and the signal input terminals of the M selection modules, connected to the signal output terminals, are controlled to be correspondingly connected to M signal lines in an one-to-one manner according to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11024254
    Abstract: A display control system and a display apparatus are disclosed. The display control system includes a circuit board including a top edge, a bottom edge opposite to the top edge and a side edge intersecting with the top edge and the bottom edge, a length of the top edge and a length of the bottom edge being larger than that of the side edge; a core module on the circuit board for processing display information; an image data output interface on the circuit board, connected with the core module for outputting display image data; a plurality of function modules on the circuit board, connected with the core module for transmitting the display information to the core module. The function modules and the core module are along the top edge, and the image data output interface is on a side of the function modules close to the bottom edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Rao Hui, Zhiguo Zhang, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 11024830
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; and a touch member disposed on the display panel. The touch member includes a first conductive layer and a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and includes diffraction patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Mok Park
  • Patent number: 11009955
    Abstract: Touch-based input devices, such as a stylus, can provide feedback in the form of shear forces applied to the user. A stylus can produce shear forces that act on a user to provide unique tactile sensations. For example, a shear device can be included at a grip region of a stylus to provide shear sensations at the user's hands (e.g., fingers). The shear forces can be unaligned forces that urge one part of the user's hand in one direction and another part of the user's hand in an opposite direction or that tend to maintain the other part of the user's hand in a stationary location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Bloom, Benjamin G. Jackson, Steven J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11004423
    Abstract: A timing controller and an operation method thereof are provided. The timing controller includes a transmitter circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit ends a normal mode and enter a swing boost mode when quality of data signal is detected to be deteriorated in the normal mode. In the swing boost mode, the control circuit boosts the swing of the data signal to be higher than a normal level of the data signal in the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Syang-Yun Tzeng, Cheng-Kai Kuei, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10998344
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park
  • Patent number: 10989563
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for automatic calibration of rate gyroscope sensitivity are described. One exemplary method includes receiving a first plurality of measurements from a gyroscope and a second plurality of measurements from at least another sensor including at least one accelerometer, generating an orientation estimate of the device and a plurality of orientation corrections based on the first and second plurality of measurements, generating an estimate of a sensitivity of the gyroscope based on the orientation estimate, the plurality of orientation corrections and the first plurality of measurements, and calibrating at least the gyroscope based on the estimate of the sensitivity. In an example, the at least another sensor may include an accelerometer and/or a magnetometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: CLOUDNAV INC.
    Inventor: Erik Anderson
  • Patent number: 10983652
    Abstract: An electronic device according to certain embodiments may include: a sensor, a display panel including a sensor area overlaying or underlying the sensor and a pixel area including at least one pixel and a drive wiring line configured to drive the at least one pixel while surrounding the sensor area, a window disposed over the display panel, and one or more opaque members disposed between the sensor and the window and along an edge of the sensor area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Songhee Jung, Yongkoo Her, Sungyoung Shin, Byungduk Yang, Harksang Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Joongyu Lee
  • Patent number: 10984759
    Abstract: An afterimage compensator includes: a global shifter configured to determine an upscaling area and a downscaling area of a display unit, that together correspond to a preset global shift path, to shift a main image of the display unit; a logo shifter configured to analyze image data corresponding to a logo image and a preset logo peripheral area surrounding the logo image, and configured to determine a logo upscaling area and a logo downscaling area that are each included in the logo peripheral area, the logo shifter being further configured to shift the logo image; and a scaler configured to combine the upscaling area, the downscaling area, the logo upscaling area, and the logo downscaling area and configured to scale image data corresponding to the combined scaling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 10976857
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving a touch display driver integrated circuit (TDDI) of a touch-sensitive display panel are provided. The method may include: in a display phase of the touch-sensitive display panel, utilizing a reference voltage generator to generate a reference voltage having a predetermined voltage level to be a common voltage of the touch-sensitive display panel, and utilizing a common voltage operational amplifier (OPAMP) to drive the common voltage to the TDDI IC through a common voltage path, for performing display control of the touch-sensitive display panel; and in a touch-sensing phase of the touch-sensitive display panel, utilizing a touch-sensing waveform generator to generate a touch-sensing waveform signal carrying at least one touch-sensing waveform, and utilizing the common voltage OPAMP to drive the touch-sensing waveform signal to the TDDI IC through the common voltage path, for performing touch-sensing control of the touch-sensitive display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Hui-Min Wang
  • Patent number: 10969955
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a body, a display screen and a notch defining a notch area fixedly arranged at the body, and a sensor. The sensor is configured to obtain a touch input of an operating entity at the notch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huajun Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10971041
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic display device and an information display method of same, the electronic display device enabling recognition by means of a tactile sensation or three-dimensional visual recognition with respect to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: DOT INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Ju Yoon Kim, Ji Ho Kim, Hyeon Cheol Park
  • Patent number: 10962783
    Abstract: An electronic device has an electrically adjustable optical layer. Displays and other optical components may be supported by a housing structure. The housing structure may form a handheld device housing, a head-mounted housing, or other housing for the electronic device. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust the electrically adjustable optical layer. The control circuitry may reduce light transmission for the electrically adjustable optical layer to hide the optical components, may increase light transmission to reveal the optical components while the optical components are being used to receive light or to output light, and may otherwise adjust the electrically adjustable optical layer to exhibit a desired set of optical characteristics depending on the mode of operation of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Wilson, James W. Vandyke, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 10955916
    Abstract: A system includes a microcontroller, one or more sensors affixed to an object, and memory storing one or more programs including instructions for receiving and storing first sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to motion of the object, determining whether the first sensor data meets a first threshold, in accordance with a determination that the first sensor data meets the first threshold: receiving and storing second sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to subsequent motion of the object for as long as the second sensor data meets a second threshold, performing pattern recognition on the second sensor data, and identifying a first position of the object based on the pattern recognition of the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Rohit Seth
  • Patent number: 10948992
    Abstract: A ring for identify a gesture is provided. A user wears a ring on a first finger, in which the ring has a first contact region facing a second finger adjacent to the first finger, and a second contact region facing a third finger adjacent to the first finger. The first contact region is configured to detect a touch or proximity input from the second finger, and the second contact region is configured to detect a touch or proximity input from the third finger. Each of the first and second contact regions has one or more touch or proximity sensors. The user moves the first, second, and third fingers relative to each other. In response to a first finger and hand gesture, a touch or proximity input is detected at the first contact region but not at the second contact region. In response to a second finger and hand gesture, a touch or proximity input is detected at the second contact region but not at the first contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventor: Guiyu Bai
  • Patent number: 10949019
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a cover glass, a touch sensor disposed under the cover glass and sensing proximity of or contact by an external object, a touch integrated circuit (IC) electrically connected to the touch sensor, a fingerprint sensor disposed under the cover glass adjacent to the touch sensor, including an active area for sensing a biometric pattern of the external object and an inactive area surrounding a periphery of the active area, a fingerprint IC electrically connected to the fingerprint sensor, and a processor electrically connected to the touch IC and the fingerprint IC. The processor is configured, if an input by the external object is sensed by both the touch sensor and the fingerprint sensor, to calculate coordinates of the input based on at least part of data sensed by the touch sensor and data sensed by the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Kwang Jung, Min Woo Lee, Myung Su Kang, Ji Woong Oh, Hyun Ju Hong