Patents Examined by Alecia D English
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Patent number: 12142180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mohammad B Vahid Far, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang
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Patent number: 12130672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong, Trevor J. Ness, James G. Horiuchi, Steven P. Cardinali
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Patent number: 12130973Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Kadowaki, Yutaka Kamioka
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Patent number: 12124641Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, Ki Hyun Ahn
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Patent number: 12111965Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Yu-Hsun Chung
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Patent number: 12105892Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Yi-Lun Lai, Cheng-Hui Wu, Huan-Hsun Huang, Hung-Yi Lin, Yi-Ou Wang
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Patent number: 12056290Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Rao, Leli Peng
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Patent number: 11996066Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yutaka Yokokawa, Jeffrey R. Stafford
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Patent number: 11960671Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Inyoung Han, Jonghwa Kim
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Patent number: 11954394Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ran Duan
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Patent number: 11947860Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Nick Eubanks, Darshak Harisinh Bhatti
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Patent number: 11928267Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: William James McDermid
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Patent number: 11892287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Araki, Sohui Jeon, Hiroaki Nishiono, Satoshi Yoshihara
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Patent number: 11861101Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Hyoung Lee, Joo Yul Ko
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Patent number: 11816298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: David Hoch
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Patent number: 11803257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Yuto Kakinoki, Takaaki Kono
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Patent number: 11762474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11747938Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 11740736Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anshi Liang, He Yi, Yang Xu, Paolo Sacchetto, Jun Li, Jingyu Huang, Marc Joseph DeVincentis, Yue Jack Chu
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Patent number: 11740692Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a method for tracking the movement of an eye includes emitting a first modulated light and a second modulated light toward an eye of a user, wherein the first modulated light and the second modulated light have substantially the same modulation frequency, but the modulation phases of the two modulated lights are substantially opposite to each other; receiving at a photodetector module a returned light including at least a partial retroreflected light from the eye of the user based on the first and second modulated lights; and processing the output signal from the photodetector module to determine positional and dimensional parameters of the eye of the user based at least on the partial retroreflected light corresponding to the first and second modulated lights.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi He, Bo Pi