Patents Examined by Alecia D English
  • Patent number: 12164719
    Abstract: Base assemblies for knob on display (KoD) devices and related systems and devices are disclosed. A base assembly for a KoD device includes a base portion for positioning between one or more electrode pads and a touch screen of a touch screen device. The base portion includes electrically insulating material. The base portion further includes an exterior surface to face the touch screen, an interior surface to face the one or more electrode pads, and extender pads including electrically conductive material. The extender pads extend through the base portion from the interior surface to the exterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: AMTEL CORPORTATION
    Inventors: Nigel Hinson, Samuel Daniel Brunet
  • Patent number: 12142180
    Abstract: An electronic display includes an active area including multiple pixels. The electronic display also includes a first row driver set including a first column of row drivers and a second column of row drivers. A first active row driver in the first column of row drivers drives a first portion of the multiple pixels, and a first spare row driver in the second column of row drivers is in an inactive state. The electronic display also includes a second row driver set including a third column of row drivers and a fourth column of row drivers. A third active row driver in the third column of row drivers drives a second portion of the multiple pixels, and a second spare row driver in the fourth column of row drivers is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B Vahid Far, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12130672
    Abstract: A modular button assembly includes a button housing that may be disposed in an opening of an enclosure of an electronic device. The modular button assembly may include an input member that forms an exterior surface of the button housing and is configured to receive inputs, for example from a user of the electronic device. The modular button assembly may further include a sensor to detect the received inputs and transmit a signal to a processor of the electronic device. The modular button assembly may be configured such that disposing the button housing in the opening of the enclosure forms a seal that prevents contaminants from entering the button housing and the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong, Trevor J. Ness, James G. Horiuchi, Steven P. Cardinali
  • Patent number: 12130973
    Abstract: A sensor is provided for detecting a pen signal transmitted from a pen. The sensor includes a touch sensor, flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector terminals, and a detection pattern. The touch sensor has linear electrodes, which form a position detection area and are configured to respectively detect the pen signal. The FPC connector terminals are connected to the linear electrodes, respectively, via routing traces arranged outside the position detection area. The detection pattern is arranged in a region outside the position detection area, near the FPC connector terminals, and is configured to detect the pen signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kadowaki, Yutaka Kamioka
  • Patent number: 12124641
    Abstract: A human machine interface (HMI) within a vehicle includes a display screen adapted to display information to an occupant within the vehicle, a track extending along at least a portion of a peripheral edge of the display screen, and a rotary control knob assembly slidably supported within the track for sliding movement within the track, wherein, the rotary control knob assembly is adapted to allow the occupant of the vehicle to provide input to the HMI to control a selected one of a plurality of systems within the vehicle, the selected one of the plurality of systems determined by a position of the rotary control knob assembly within the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, Ki Hyun Ahn
  • Patent number: 12111965
    Abstract: A handheld controller is suitable for controlling an electronic device. The handheld controller includes a first body, a second body and a connecting portion. The first body is suitable for being held by a hand of a user. The connecting portion connects the first body and the second body. The second body is electrically connected to the first body through the connecting portion, and the connecting portion is suitable for being clamped between fingers of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Yu-Hsun Chung
  • Patent number: 12105892
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: at least one connection interface, to receive an external signal. A first signal switching multiplexer is connected to the connection interface. A laptop system is connected to the first signal switching multiplexer, to operate in a laptop mode. A drawing board system is connected to the first signal switching multiplexer, to operate in a drawing board mode and an independent screen mode. A switching switch generates a switching signal and transmits it to the first signal switching multiplexer, the laptop system, and the drawing board system, to select the laptop mode, the drawing board mode, or the independent screen mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Lun Lai, Cheng-Hui Wu, Huan-Hsun Huang, Hung-Yi Lin, Yi-Ou Wang
  • Patent number: 12056290
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of first scan lines, a plurality of second scan lines, a plurality of first read lines, a plurality of second read lines, and a plurality of sensing modules. The first scan lines and the second scan lines are alternately arranged and/or the first read lines and the second read lines are alternately arranged. The sensing modules are disposed at intersections of the first scan lines and the first read lines and intersections of the second scan lines and the second read lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Rao, Leli Peng
  • Patent number: 11996066
    Abstract: Alpha values from an image frame buffer are used to control one or more of a transparent display and an occlusion screen adjacent to the transparent display to render images with coloring perceptible to a person viewing the transparent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yokokawa, Jeffrey R. Stafford
  • Patent number: 11960671
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including an opening defined therein, a display area adjacent to the opening, and a non-display area extended along the opening to be disposed between the opening and the display area; a display element with which an image is displayed, on the substrate in the display area thereof; and a metal layer including a plurality of segments spaced apart from each other, each segment disposed in the non-display area of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Inyoung Han, Jonghwa Kim
  • Patent number: 11954394
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a splicing screen and a control method and system thereof. The splicing screen includes a display panel. A communication unit is configured to receive display data and receive a ready command sent by a slave splicing screen of the splicing screen; a control unit is configured to control, in response to determining that the splicing screen is ready and receiving the ready command, the communication unit to send a specified play command to the slave splicing screen, where the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment; and control the display panel to display the specified play frame at the specified play moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ran Duan
  • Patent number: 11947860
    Abstract: The techniques described herein improve user interface consistency when presenting a guest application running on a guest operating system as if it were a native application running on a host operating system. Specifically, window placement limitations imposed by the guest operating system are overcome by coordinating size and location between the guest application and a host proxy application. When the proxy application is confined to a single display, the size and location of the guest application and corresponding proxy application are synchronized. When the proxy application is moved or resized so as to be rendered on multiple displays, the application hosting engine decouples the location synchronization, leaving the guest application within a single display. Before being forwarded to the guest application, user interface events received by the proxy application are adjusted according to the different locations of the guest application and the proxy application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nick Eubanks, Darshak Harisinh Bhatti
  • Patent number: 11928267
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for user input to a computer. The apparatus consists of movable left and right paddles connected to the ends of a tie bar by 3-axis gimbles. The paddles are shaped to facilitate holding the device and rotating the paddles while keeping a user's fingers and thumbs free to activate tactile key-switches positioned under them. The position of the gimbles relative to the tie bar cause the paddles to rest in a neutral position when the apparatus is pressed between a user's hands. The gimbles rotate off the neutral position based on a user's wrist position. Both the rotations of the paddles and the status of the key-switches are used to determine the input codes sent to a paired computer. A display on the paired computer shows left and right arrays of icons representing available inputs and highlights the inputs currently accessible by the user's fingers and thumbs based on the paddle positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: William James McDermid
  • Patent number: 11892287
    Abstract: An input device includes: a first electrode including a reference potential electrode and two or more sets each including a transmission electrode and a reception electrode; and a second electrode that approaches and recedes from the two or more sets by rotating while facing the first electrode with a predetermined space being provided therebetween. The reference potential electrode faces at least a portion of the second electrode as a result of the second electrode approaching at least one set out of the two or more sets. A phase when a first set of first transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a first region approaches and recedes from the second electrode is different from a phase when a second set of second transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a second region approaches and recedes from the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Araki, Sohui Jeon, Hiroaki Nishiono, Satoshi Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 11861101
    Abstract: A touch sensing device configured to be installed in an electronic device, the electronic device including a side unit and a touch switch unit, the side unit including a non-conductive cover and a conductive frame coupled to the cover, the touch switch unit including a first touch member that is a portion of the cover, the touch sensing device including a first sensing electrode configured to be disposed inside the electronic device near the first touch member; a first sensing coil configured to be disposed inside the electronic device; and a first connection wire including one end connected to the first sensing electrode and another end connected to the first sensing coil, thereby electrically connecting the first sensing electrode to the first sensing coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hyoung Lee, Joo Yul Ko
  • Patent number: 11816298
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing layer of an input device includes a substantially rectangular sensor pattern extending in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, including first and second electrodes. Each of the first electrodes includes a strip extending in the vertical direction. The first electrodes are separated in the horizontal direction by first gaps. Each of the second electrodes includes a substantially rectangular pad, disposed adjacent to one of the first electrodes, in one of the first gaps. Two of the second electrodes are disposed in each of the first gaps in the horizontal direction. The two of the second electrodes in each of the first gaps are separated by second gaps. A subset of the second electrodes are disposed in each of the first gaps, in the vertical direction. The capacitive sensing layers also includes routing traces of the second electrodes disposed in the second gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: David Hoch
  • Patent number: 11803257
    Abstract: An input support device arranged above a detection device including a plurality of electrodes, the input support device comprising: an LC circuit; a first electrode coupled to one end side of the LC circuit; a second electrode coupled to another end side of the LC circuit, and an adjustment circuit coupled to the LC circuit and configured to adjust circuit characteristics of the LC circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Yuto Kakinoki, Takaaki Kono
  • Patent number: 11762474
    Abstract: A method including receiving sound data captured by a wearable device of the user, the sound data indicative of contact between a first portion of the user wearing the wearable device and a second portion of the user wearing the wearable device; receiving motion data captured by the wearable device of the user, the motion data indicative of at least a movement of the first portion of the user wearing the wearable device; and determining, by a processor, based at least in part on the sound data and the motion data, a user input associated with the contact between a first portion of the user wearing the wearable device and a second portion of the user wearing the wearable device and the movement of the first portion of the user wearing the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd, Omer Inan, Pranav Kundra, Thomas Ploetz, Yiming Pu, Thad Eugene Starner, Anandghan Waghmare, Xiaoxuan Wang, Kenneth A. Cunnefare, Qiuyue Xue
  • Patent number: 11747938
    Abstract: A touch panel with higher sensing accuracy or higher detection sensitivity is provided. The touch panel includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a plurality of display elements, and a scan line. In a plan view, the first conductive layer has an outline including a first portion that is linear and parallel to a first direction. In the plan view, the second conductive layer has an outline including a second portion that is linear and parallel to the first direction. The first portion and the second portion face each other. The display element is in a position not overlapping with the first conductive layer nor the second conductive layer. The scan line has a portion extending in a second direction. An angle between the first direction and the second direction is greater than or equal to 30° and less than or equal to 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11740736
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device including a display pixel layer, which writes a display image during an active period and continues displaying the display image during a blanking period, and a touch sense layer, which generates a first touch image during the active period and a second touch image during the blanking period. The electronic device further includes a controller that determines a first noise metric indicative of display-to-touch noise resulting during the active period based on the first touch image, determines a second noise metric indicative of display-to-touch noise resulting during the blanking period based on the second touch image, and instructs the touch sense layer to not generate a third touch image during a subsequent active period in response to the first noise metric being greater than a noise threshold and the second noise metric not being greater than the noise threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anshi Liang, He Yi, Yang Xu, Paolo Sacchetto, Jun Li, Jingyu Huang, Marc Joseph DeVincentis, Yue Jack Chu