Patents Examined by Afroza Chowdhury
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Patent number: 11714541Abstract: A touch sensor system includes touch sensors, drive-sense circuits (DSCs), memory, and a processing module. A DSC drives a first signal via a single line coupling to a touch sensor and simultaneously senses, when present, a second signal that is uniquely associated with a user. The DSC processes the first signal and/or the second signal to generate a digital signal that is representative of an electrical characteristic of the touch sensor. The processing module executes operational instructions (stored in the memory) to process the digital signal to detect interaction of the user with the touch sensor and to determine whether the interaction of the user with the touch sensor compares favorably with authorization. When not authorized, the processing module aborts execution of operation(s) associated with the interaction of the user with the touch sensor. Alternatively, when authorized, the processing module facilitates execution of the operation(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
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Patent number: 11711901Abstract: A display device includes a display module having a display region and a non-display region, and a window module disposed on the display module. The window module includes a thin glass substrate, a window protective layer disposed on the thin glass substrate, and a bezel pattern disposed on a surface of the thin glass substrate or disposed on a surface of the window protective layer. The bezel pattern overlaps the non-display region. The edge of the thin glass substrate does not overlap the bezel pattern in a plan view, and the edge of the thin glass substrate is not aligned with the outer edge of the bezel pattern in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Heeyoung Lee, Jin Yong Sim, Jung-Hun Lee, Jihwa Lee, Sung Chul Choi
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Patent number: 11704091Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mixed reality application to use a multi-channel audio input to identify a character and origin of a given sound, then present a visual representation of the given sound on a near eye display. The visual representation including a vector to the source of the sound. The visual representation further including graphical elements that describe various attributes of the given sound including the magnitude, directionality, source, and threat level. Where the source of the given sound is moving, the visual representation shifts to illustrate the movement.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventor: Eric Browy
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Patent number: 11703997Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for controlling a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment displayed on a two dimensional touchscreen display of a handheld mobile computing device include: rendering a camera-control user interface (UI) element in a portrait mode UI; receiving first input indicating contact with the UI element, and then receiving second input indicating movement of the maintained contact point; rotating the camera view around a targeted location responsive to the second input indicating movement along a first axis of the UI element; zooming the camera view in and out from the targeted location responsive to the second input indicating movement up and down along a second axis of the UI element; and rendering changes to which portion of the three dimensional environment is shown from which perspective responsive to changing the camera view while the second input is received.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Topgolf International, Inc.Inventor: Brett Jason Levin
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Patent number: 11698676Abstract: An eye-tracking electronic device is provided. The eye-tracking electronic device includes a scanner, at least two photodetectors configured to generate electric pulses when a scanning line reflected from a cornea is incident thereon, and at least one processor configured to generate at least one scanning line through the scanner, radiate the at least one scanning line to the cornea, and determine a direction of gaze based on time information when the at least two photodetectors generate the electrical pulses.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gavril Nikolaevich Vostrikov, Nikolay Victorovich Muravev, Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov, Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Popov
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Patent number: 11698698Abstract: A sensing method includes sensing a first touch source at a first time point; transferring a first sensing signal of the first touch source to a CPU at the first time point; sensing a second touch source at a second time point; transferring a second sensing signal of the second touch source to the CPU at the second time point; stopping transferring the second sensing signal at a third time point, and the second touch source is away from the touch display device at a fourth time point; and the second time point is earlier than the third time point, the third time point is earlier than the fourth time point, and the first touch source is different from the second touch source.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaneko, Hung-Wei Tseng, Yi-Chun Kuo
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Patent number: 11676974Abstract: An electronic device has a display substrate including a display area, a driver area, and a fan-out area. The fan-out area has interconnects providing electrical accesses to display elements of the display area. The device has a driver chip disposed on the driver area. The driver chip includes a first edge adjacent to the display area and multiple pad groups, each pad group including a respective row of electronic pads that is (i) arranged substantially in parallel with the first edge and (ii) electrically coupled to a respective subset of display elements via respective interconnects routed on a respective region of the fan-out area. The pad groups include a first pad group and a second pad group. The first and second pad groups have two different distances from the first edge and correspond to two different subsets of interconnects routed on two non-overlapping regions of the fan-out area.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yueh-Lin Yang, Haijun Chen, Tatao Hsu, Jonathan Huang
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Patent number: 11662847Abstract: A touch screen display includes a display, a video graphics processing module, electrodes integrated into at least a portion of the display, and drive-sense circuits coupled to the electrodes. The drive-sense circuits, when enabled and concurrent with the display rendering frames of data into the visible images, detect changes in electrical characteristics of electrodes. At least some drive-sense circuits monitor sensor signals on at least some electrodes. A sensor signal includes a drive signal component and a receive signal component. The at least some drive-sense circuits generate the drive signal components of the sensor signals. The receive signal component is a representation of a change in an electrical characteristic of an electrode of the at least some electrodes when a corresponding drive signal component is applied to the electrode. The change in the electrical characteristic of the electrode is indicative of a proximal touch to the touch screen display.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
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Patent number: 11656706Abstract: A touch display apparatus sensing a touch of a user and/or a tool is provided. The touch display apparatus may include a light-emitting device including an upper electrode which extends in a first direction, an encapsulating element on the upper electrode, a touch wire on the encapsulating element and a link wire disposed between a device substrate and the light-emitting device, wherein the link wire is connected to the upper electrode of the light-emitting device, and wherein the touch wire includes a portion overlapping with the upper electrode of the light-emitting device. Thus, in the touch display apparatus, a process of forming components for sensing the touch may be simplified.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Sik Lee, Hwi Deuk Lee
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Patent number: 11651537Abstract: A method for generating visual feedback based on a textual representation comprising obtaining and processing a textual representation, identifying at least one textual feature of the textual representation, assigning at least one feature value to the at least one textual feature, and generating visual feedback based on the textual representation. The generated visual feedback comprises at least one visual feature corresponding to the at least one textual feature. A system for generating visual feedback based on a textual representation, comprising a capturing subsystem configured to capture the textual representation, a processing subsystem configured to identify at least one textual feature and to generate visual feedback based on the textual representation, and a graphical user output configured to display the generated visual feedback. The visual feedback generated based on the textual representation comprises at least one visual feature corresponding to the at least one textual feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BICInventors: David Duffy, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
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Patent number: 11647645Abstract: A cover plate used in an electronic device includes a glass layer and at least one transparent covering layer. The glass layer has a first surface and a second surface. The transparent covering layer contacts and is disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and the transparent covering layer is laminated with the glass layer. The cover plate has a Young's modulus of about 10 GPa to about 200 GPa.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.Inventors: Chun Yan Wu, Lien-Hsin Lee, Shi Yuan Lian, Xian Bin Xu, Ming Qiang Fu, Ming Hsien Ko
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Patent number: 11640215Abstract: A touchpad module includes a touch member, a base plate, a supporting element and a switch. The touch member includes a first touch region and a second touch region. The base plate is located under the touch member. The supporting element is arranged between the touch member and the base plate. The supporting element is aligned with the second touch region. The switch is arranged between the touch member and the base plate. The switch is aligned with the second touch region. When a pressing force is applied to the second touch region of the touch member, the pressing force is transmitted to the base plate through the supporting element. Consequently, the base plate is subjected to deformation. The switch is triggered in response to the deformation of the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Wei-Chiang Huang, Chao-Wei Lee, Hsueh-Chao Chang, Sian-Yi Chiu
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Patent number: 11635830Abstract: Supplementing the movement stroke of a trackpad with a haptic response is one way to restore some or all of a reduced trackpad feel and overall performance caused by a reduction in the movement stroke. However, incorporating haptic responses in a clickable trackpad may interfere with accurate force measurement using physical movement of the trackpad as a proxy. The following describes haptic trackpads with anisotropic compliant spacers. The disclosed haptic trackpads permit selective haptic responses to a user, while also permitting accurate force measurement using displacement of a sensing surface caused by the user's finger(s) as a proxy.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Federico Zannier, Tianyu Zhao, Thomas Joseph Longo
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Patent number: 11634150Abstract: A display device includes an electronic control unit configured to: obtain a traveling plan from an automatic driving system of a vehicle, the traveling plan including a course of the vehicle under automatic drive control of the automatic driving system; obtain, from the automatic driving system, a system confidence level of the automatic drive control calculated based on at least an external environment around the vehicle; and display, on a display, a pointer as an image indicating the course during the automatic drive control in a display mode set based on the system confidence level.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sayaka Ono, Yoshitaka Fuwamoto
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Patent number: 11637155Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; an input sensor on the display panel; a panel driving circuit to drive the display panel, and to output a synchronization signal; and a sensor controller to control the input sensor. The sensor controller determines a sensing mode in response to the synchronization signal, and changes the sensing mode to a second sensing mode when the synchronization signal is activated in a first sensing mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyeong-Ub Moon, Yun-Ho Kim, Chui Kim, Jaeuk Choi
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Patent number: 11626045Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel electrically connected to a feedback line, a sensor electrically connected to the feedback line, the sensor being configured to measure an impedance of the pixel in response to a first control signal, and to measure a driving current flowing through the pixel in response to a second control signal, and a timing controller configured to selectively generate the first control signal and the second control signal based on an aging time of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wook Lee
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Patent number: 11620770Abstract: A topic being discussed by a presenter during a presentation is determined, where the presentation relates to a software application. A software object of the software application that is associated with the topic is identified. The software object is located at a position of a screen of a user that is consuming the presentation. The software object is located at this position as a result of the software object being graphically generated on a local instance of the software application. An indication for the software object at the first position on the local screen is graphically generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Zachary A. Silverstein, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jeremy R. Fox
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Patent number: 11620021Abstract: Cross-coupling correction techniques on a touch sensor panel can be improved using machine learning models (particularly for touch sensor panels with relatively low signal-to-noise ratio). In some examples, the machine learning model can be implemented using a neural network. The neural network can receive a touch image and perform cross-coupling correction to mitigate cross-talk due to routing traces of the touch sensor panel. Mitigating cross-talk can improve touch sensing accuracy, reduce jitter, and/or reduce false positive touch detection.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sai Zhang, Behrooz Shahsavari, Ari Y. Benbasat, Nima Ferdosi
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Patent number: 11621301Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device and a signal processing device that have made it possible to actively utilize maximumly a color gamut that a display panel can express. Provided is a display device, including: a display section in which display pixels that each include a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel that emit three-basic-color light and a fourth subpixel that emits non-basic-color light are arranged two-dimensionally; a first signal processing section that expands a video signal being input and corresponding to the basic-color light and adapts the video signal to a color gamut that the display section can express; and a second signal processing section that converts an expanded video signal being the video signal having been expanded into a first signal, a second signal, and a third signal that correspond to the basic-color light and a fourth signal that corresponds to the non-basic-color light, and outputs the signals to the display section.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventor: Yasuo Inoue
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Patent number: 11609607Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured for modifying the display of virtual objects docked to a movable input device are provided. In one implementation, the computer readable medium may be configured to receive image data from an image sensor, the image data representing an input device placed at a first location on a supporting surface. At least one processor may generate a presentation of at least one virtual object in proximity to the first location. Operations may include docking the at least one virtual object to the input device. The processor may determine that the input device is in a second location on the support surface. The virtual object presentation may be modified based on the second location. Operations may further include determining that the input device is in a third location removed from the support surface and modifying the virtual object presentation accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MULTINARITY LTDInventors: Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan, Orit Dolev, Doron Assayas Terre