Patents Examined by Abhishek Sarma
  • Patent number: 12387680
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a wide range of threshold voltage compensation function is provided. In the display apparatus, a p-channel transistor is used as a driving transistor of the light-emitting device. Discharging is performed through a source-drain path while constant voltage is supplied to a gate so that Vth is extracted between the gate and the source. In addition, when a drain potential is set to the sum of forward voltage and a cathode potential of the light-emitting device or a potential sufficiently lower than the sum, it is possible to continue the discharging even when Vth is positive voltage. That is, compensation can be performed even in the case where Vth variation occurs from positive voltage to negative voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Satoshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 12387489
    Abstract: System and method for reducing latency and bandwidth usage in reality devices include a reality device and one or more processors. The reality device includes a camera to operably capture a set of consequent frames of views external to a vehicle. The one or more processors are operable to monitor movements of one or more eyes of a user to obtain eye-tracking data using the reality device, identify an area of interest (AoI) in the frame based on the eye-tracking data, AoI history, or driving statistics of the user, crop the frame to obtain a reduced-size frame including the AoI in the frame, and transmit the reduced-size frame to an edge server for performing a task on behalf of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daniel Doe, Dawei Chen, Kyungtae Han
  • Patent number: 12387098
    Abstract: A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to execute a multi-task learning (MTL) neural network that includes multi-task layers and single-task layers, and that is configured to receive an image as input to a first one of the multi-task layers and to output respective predictions for each of a plurality of tasks from respective ones of the single-task layers. Activation tensors can be output from the multi-task layers and can be provided as input to the single-task layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Meghana Laxmidhar Gaopande, Nikita Jaipuria
  • Patent number: 12380189
    Abstract: A security feature within an apparatus that includes a fingerprint scanner used for purposes of authentication. Specifically, a first indicator is detected that is a user input to a fingerprint scanner and indicates the occurrence of a duress-inducing event. In response to detecting the first indicator, (i) access to the apparatus is controlled, and (ii) access to functionality provided by the apparatus is controlled. As such, if the user is being forced to input their fingerprint by a nefarious entity desiring access to the apparatus, the present invention provides a means by which the user can covertly activate certain features on the apparatus that prevent the nefarious entity from access to the apparatus and/or functionality provided by the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: George Anthony Albero, Dustin Paul Stocks, Edward Lee Traywick, Jake Michael Yara
  • Patent number: 12361763
    Abstract: This application discloses a fingerprint recognition method and an electronic device, and relates to the terminal field. The method includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, fingerprint images in response to a press operation performed by a user on a fingerprint collection region of the electronic device, and determining image types of the fingerprint images, where the image types include a first type of images, and the first type of images are fingerprint images including a pattern of a foreign matter; and marking the first type of images when it is determined that the fingerprint images include the first type of images, and updating a first type of marked images to a fingerprint template library of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chuang Cui
  • Patent number: 12361849
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel driving circuit and a control method thereof. The pixel driving circuit includes: a signal driving module for driving a light emitting diode to emit light based on connected scanning signal lines and data signal lines; a voltage detection module connected to the signal driving module for collecting a detection voltage of the light emitting diode and comparing the detection voltage with a reference voltage to generate a control signal; and a short circuit processing module connected to the signal driving module and the voltage detection module for controlling the light emitting diode based on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Defang Meng
  • Patent number: 12356548
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a frame, a housing including a first temple connected to one side of the frame and a second temple connected to an opposite side of the frame, a first printed circuit board (PCB) located in the first temple, a first flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) electrically connected to the first PCB, and a second FPCB electrically connected to the first PCB. The first FPCB includes a first overlapping portion that is extracted from the first PCB in a first direction and overlaps the second FPCB. The first FPCB further includes a first branch that extends from the first overlapping portion and does not overlap the second FPCB. The second FPCB includes a second overlapping portion that is extracted from the first PCB in the first direction and overlaps the first FPCB. The second FPCB further includes a second branch that extends from the second overlapping portion and does not overlap the first FPCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hyunmo Yang, Junwhon Uhm, Jungkeun Lee, Yonghyun Park, Junmyeong Jeong, Myeongjae Hong
  • Patent number: 12356814
    Abstract: The display panel includes a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and an eighth transistor. A first terminal of the eighth transistor is connected to a first terminal of the driving transistor, and a second terminal of the eighth transistor is connected to a third initial signal line. The display panel further includes: a base substrate, a first active layer, a first conductive layer, and the third initial signal line. The first active layer is located on a side of the base substrate. The first active layer includes an eighth active portion, a second active portion, a ninth active portion, a tenth active portions, and an eleventh active portion. The eighth active portion is connected between the ninth active portion and the tenth active portion. The eleventh active portion is connected to a side of the second active portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunyan Shi, Hailong Yan, Dongjie Wu, Wenbo Hu, Xinyu Wei, Kai Zhang, Peng Xu
  • Patent number: 12346627
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a picture display method. In the present invention, a target database for storing at least one candidate three-dimensional model and a feature matrix corresponding to each candidate three-dimensional model is created, wherein the candidate three-dimensional model is obtained on the basis of performing incomplete-part completion and/or color restoration on an initial three-dimensional model obtained by means of scanning by a picture scanning device. Therefore, after a picture including a target object is collected and a target feature matrix of the target object is determined on the basis of the picture including the target object, a target three-dimensional model, which matches the target object and has been subjected to incomplete part completion and/or color restoration, can be acquired from the target database on the basis of the target feature matrix of the target object, so as to display the target three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Qin, Lili Chen, Yanqiu Zhao, Peng Han, Hao Zhang, Huidong He, Qianwen Jiang, Weihua Du, Juanjuan Shi
  • Patent number: 12340746
    Abstract: A display device includes first emission areas, second emission areas, and third emission areas for respectively emitting colors of light, first pixel electrodes, second pixel electrodes, and third pixel electrodes overlapping the first emission areas, the second emission areas, and the third emission areas, respectively, first data lines respectively connected to the first pixel electrodes, and overlapping some of the first emission areas, second data lines respectively electrically connected to the second pixel electrodes, overlapping some others of the first emission areas, and being spaced apart from the first data lines, and a demultiplexer configured to divide and output corresponding portions of an input, which is received from one fan-out line, to the first data lines and the second data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ah Young Kim, Won Kyu Kwak, Kwang Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 12334023
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of gate lines. A data driving circuit supplies a data voltage to the data lines. A gate driving circuit supplies a gate signal to the gate lines. A timing controller controls the data driving circuit and the gate driving circuit. A display area of the display panel includes a first area corresponding to the data driving circuit and a second area located outside of the first area. A first data link line group having a linear structure is connected to a first data line group disposed in the first area. A second data link line group having a bending structure is connected to a second data line group disposed in the second areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungMin Park, Jinu Lee
  • Patent number: 12333983
    Abstract: This application provides a display drive method based on frame data, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving to-be-displayed frame data, and calculating an APL percentage of the frame data by using an analysis unit; performing HDR processing on the frame data based on the APL percentage of the frame data, and transmitting the frame data obtained through HDR processing to a display driver circuit; and driving, by the display driver circuit based on the APL percentage of the frame data, a display to display the frame data obtained through HDR processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiehua Tang, Yanfeng Jia, Yue Ding, Peng Wang, Yanling Liu
  • Patent number: 12333847
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wearable device and an operating method thereof. A power circuit provides an analog voltage source to a touch display driver integrated circuit through a first pin; the power circuit provides a digital voltage source to the touch display driver integrated circuit and a fingerprint on display (FOD) recognition circuit through a second pin; and the power circuit provides a first OLED voltage to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and the FOD recognition circuit through a third pin, wherein the FOD recognition circuit uses the first OLED voltage as an analog voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: AUO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Hsien Chu, Chun-Chi Lai, Ching-Sheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 12334009
    Abstract: A display panel that includes a pixel circuit including a plurality of refresh modes, and at least two refresh modes for the pixel circuit to be at different refresh frequencies, different reset signals corresponding to different reset signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yantao Huang, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 12327014
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display. The electronic device detects an input along a device edge. In response to detecting the input and in accordance with a determination that the input meets one or more criteria and is detected at a first input location, the device displays a user interface at a first display location on the display that corresponds to the first input location. In response to detecting the input and in accordance with a determination that the input meets the one or more criteria and is detected at a second input location, the device displays the user interface at a second display location on the display that corresponds to the second input location. While the user interface is displayed, the device detects another input and, in response, the device adjusts a parameter for a function represented in the user interface in accordance with the other input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gemma A. Roper, David H. Bloom, Benjamin G. Jackson, Steven J. Taylor, Megan M. Sapp, Samuel L. Iglesias
  • Patent number: 12315467
    Abstract: A system and method for creating trompe-l'oeil skylights and windows where a light emitting image of scene is provided in a structure configured to emulate a skylight or window frame, including an embodiment of a system that modulates using multiple modalities, the light emitted by the light emitting image so as to improve realism experienced by users exposed to the light emitting image over an extended period of time, where the multiple modalities includes a circadian rhythm modality, and an ultradian modality, where the ultradian modality is provide by randomly calling on grayscale video files to module the signals from DMX decoders to LEDs by using captured data from actual sky observations over extended periods of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: The Sky Factory, LC
    Inventor: Skye Witherspoon
  • Patent number: 12315441
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device including scan lines, data lines, control signal lines, and subpixels. A first subpixel among the subpixels includes a first light emitting element including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode; a first driving circuit connected to a first scan line of the plurality of scan lines and a first data line of the plurality of data lines and configured to drive the first light emitting element; a first light emitting control transistor configured to be turned on or off according to a first light emitting control signal supplied to its gate node and control a connection between the first light emitting element and the first driving circuit; and a first light emitting control circuit configured to output a first light emitting control signal to the gate node of the first light emitting control transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjun Choi, SoJung Lee, YoungIn Jang
  • Patent number: 12300156
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first active pattern above the substrate, a first gate layer above the first active pattern, and including a first capacitor electrode, a second gate layer above the first gate layer, and including a second capacitor electrode overlapping the first capacitor electrode, a second active pattern above the second gate layer, and including an extension portion above the second capacitor electrode, and a connection electrode above the second active pattern, and connecting the extension portion and the first capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Hyeongseok Kim, Heejean Park, Minjae Jeong, Mukyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 12300165
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel circuit including a drive sub-circuit, a writing sub-circuit, a first reset sub-circuit, and a light emitting element. The drive sub-circuit is configured to provide a drive current between a first electrode and a second electrode of the drive sub-circuit in response to a control signal of a first node; the writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data voltage signal to the first electrode of the drive sub-circuit in response to a control signal of a first scan signal line; the first reset sub-circuit is configured to reset an anode terminal of the light emitting element in response to a control signal of a second scan signal line; and in a low frequency display mode, an input frequency of the control signal of the first scan signal line is the same as a data refresh frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Wang
  • Patent number: 12287948
    Abstract: A virtual interface operation method, a head-mounted display device, and a computer-readable medium are disclosed. The virtual interface operation method includes: in response to detecting a single-finger sliding operation performed on a touch-sensitive display screen of a target device, determining a first sliding offset value corresponding to the single-finger sliding operation, where the target device is communicatively connected to a head-mounted display device; sliding an anchor corresponding to the single-finger sliding operation in a 3D virtual interface of the head-mounted display device based on the first sliding offset value and a first preset sliding ratio, and displaying a ray from a target start point to the anchor in the 3D virtual interface; and, creating a 2D virtual interface in the 3D virtual interface, and displaying an application window corresponding to the single-finger tap operation in the 2D virtual interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: HANGZHOU LINGBAN TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Chao, Shi Wenfeng, Li Tongyu