Patents Examined by Alecia D English
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Patent number: 11209927Abstract: An apparatus for sensing user input to an electronic device is described. The apparatus utilizes multiple strain gauge (“SG”) sensing units which are each disposed adjacent an inner surface of the device housing. The SGs are configured to detect a particular type of user input administered to the sides of the device housing based on at least one of: the magnitude of strain applied to the SGs, the relative location of the applied strain, and the duration of the applied strain. The SGs are further configured to detect a second type of user input administered to a display screen of the electronic device caused by bowing of the device housing caused by user contact with the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Philip Quinn
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Patent number: 11183100Abstract: A timing controller circuit of an electronic paper display apparatus including an image processing circuit and a timing controller is provided. The image processing circuit receives an image signal and analyzes the image signal according to a signal component of the image signal, so as to determine a display mode of the electronic paper display apparatus. The image processing circuit selects a driving signal waveform according to the determined display mode. The timing controller is electrically connected to the image processing circuit. The timing controller outputs the selected driving signal waveform to drive an electronic paper display panel of the electronic paper display apparatus to display image frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Shu-Cheng Liu, Pei-Lin Tien, Chi-Mao Hung
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Patent number: 11182583Abstract: Display panels and display devices, in order to provide a new full screen solution that can realize fingerprint recognition. The display panel includes a substrate, a display film layer located on a surface of the substrate and a touch film layer located above the display film layer. The display panel further includes a fingerprint recognition film layer including a plurality of image sensing elements arranged in an array, and an orthographic projection of the image sensing element on the substrate is not overlapped with an orthographic projection of the light-emitting sub-pixels in the display film layer on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaolong Yang, Rubo Xing, Jiantai Wang, Qi Shan, Huimin Liu
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Patent number: 11170721Abstract: A pixel circuit performs a threshold voltage correcting function. A sampling transistor becomes conductive in response to a control signal supplied from a scan line and samples a video signal supplied from a signal line to a pixel capacitor during a horizontal scanning period. The pixel capacitor applies an input voltage to a gate of a drive transistor in response to the sampled video signal. The drive transistor supplies an output current in accordance with the input voltage to a light-emitting device. A threshold voltage correcting period is provided to be part of the horizontal scanning period, to detect the threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and to write the threshold voltage in the pixel capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 11164707Abstract: The invention provides a touch device and an input module. The touch device includes a cover plate, a circuit board, a restoration element, a bracket, at least one conductive pad, and a buffer layer. The circuit board is disposed on one side of the cover plate and has a first surface facing the cover plate, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and at least one conductive switch disposed on the second surface. The bracket is disposed on the second surface of the circuit board. The restoration element is disposed on the second surface, and the conductive pad is disposed on the bracket and located between the bracket and the circuit board. The conductive pad and the restoration element are separately disposed, and the conductive pad corresponds to the conductive switch. The buffer layer is disposed between the second surface and the restoration element.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Lite-On Technology CorporationInventors: Cheng-An Lu, Kuo-Hua Kao, Yu-Cang Chen
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Patent number: 11157045Abstract: A terminal is provided with a flexible screen. The terminal includes a first display screen, a second display screen and a screen spreading and housing device. The first display screen and the screen spreading and housing device are respectively disposed on a front side and a back side of the terminal. The second display screen is the flexible screen. The screen spreading and housing device has different structural forms respectively configured to house and spread the second display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Beijing Xiamoi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Peng Li, Gaocai Han
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Patent number: 11139317Abstract: An array substrate, a touch panel and a manufacturing method of an array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a common electrode layer and a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array disposed on the base substrate. Each of the pixel units includes a plurality of sub-pixel units defined by gate lines and data lines disposed to intersect each other laterally and vertically. The common electrode layer includes a plurality of common electrode blocks that double as self-capacitance electrodes, each of the common electrode blocks is connected with at least one wire, and the wires are in the middle of sub-pixel units of a same column. The array substrate is configured to increase aperture ratio of pixel units.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Xi Chen, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Weijie Zhao, Shengji Yang, Hongjuan Liu, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu
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Patent number: 11107433Abstract: This application discloses a data transmission method, a data transmission circuit, a display device and a storage medium, and relates to the field of display manufacturing. The method is used for a timing controller, the method including sending a link stability check data to a source driver after clock calibration, receiving feedback information sent by the source driver, where the feedback information is generated by the source driver when judging that the received link stability check data is correct, and sending target data to the source driver based on the feedback information.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Guo, Xin Wang, Xin Duan, Jieqiong Wang, Ming Chen
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Patent number: 11106302Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function is provided and includes a substrate; pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes; drive electrodes including first and second drive electrodes; a display function layer that exerts an image display function based on a pixel signal; a drive electrode driver configured to apply a touch driving signal for touch detection or a common signal for display to the respective drive electrodes; and a source driver configured to apply the pixel signal to the respective pixel electrodes, wherein when the pixel and common signals are provided, the second pixel electrode is in a floating state and the touch driving signal is provided to the second drive electrode, thereby enabling image display function on a first sub-pixel corresponding to first pixel and drive electrodes and touch detection function on a second sub-pixel corresponding to second pixel and drive electrodes to occur concurrently.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hayato Kurasawa
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Patent number: 11081053Abstract: A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels. Each display pixel may include a drive transistor coupled in series with one or more emission transistors and a respective organic light-emitting diode (OLED). A semiconducting-oxide transistor may be coupled between a drain terminal and a gate terminal of the drive transistor to help reduce leakage during low-refresh-rate display operations. To compensate for variations in the threshold voltage of the semiconducting-oxide transistor, the magnitude of a high voltage level of a scan control signal provided to the gate terminal of the semiconducting-oxide transistor may be adjusted. Sensing circuitry may be used to sense a display current while displaying a calibration image. The sensed display current may be compared to an expected display current associated with the calibration image. Processing circuitry may update the high voltage level based on the actual display current compared to the expected display current.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiayi Jin, David A. Doyle, Kyung Hoae Koo, Maofeng Yang, Michael H. Lim, Paolo Sacchetto, Timothy M. Johnson, Venkatesh Rajendran, Weijun Yao, Yue Jack Chu
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Patent number: 11079812Abstract: 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 for detecting the received inputs and transmitting 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: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: 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: 11075633Abstract: A proximity sensor, and a portable device equipped therewith, with at least two superposed sense electrodes, one partially screening the other. By reading the capacity first of one electrode, then of the other, while setting the potential of the counter-electrode either to ground or to guard, the sensor of the invention discriminates between a body part, or another electrically equivalent object, and water drops at closer distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Semtech CorporationInventors: Chaouki Rouaissia, Sébastien Grisot
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Patent number: 11054908Abstract: A method may include obtaining, using a first set of resulting signals from various proximity sensor electrodes, positional information regarding a location of an input object in a sensing region. The method may include obtaining, using a second set of resulting signals from various force sensor electrodes, force information regarding an input force that is applied to an input surface. The method may include loading, using a loading actuator and in response to the positional information or the force information, energy in a spring element coupled to a buckling element. The spring element may apply a compression force to the buckling element based on the energy in the spring element. The method may include generating, using a buckling actuator and in response to the positional information or the force information, a haptic event by applying a force to the buckling element to trigger the haptic event.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Doug Krumpelman
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Patent number: 11036050Abstract: A wearable apparatus includes a first display screen having a first display plane, a second display screen having a second display plane, a first optical mirror including a first reflective surface facing the first display screen, a second optical mirror including a second reflective surface facing the second display screen, a first eyepiece arranged between the first display screen and the first optical mirror, and a second eyepiece arranged between the second display screen and the second optical mirror. An optical axis of the first eyepiece is approximately parallel to the first display plane. An optical axis of the second eyepiece is approximately parallel to the second display plane. The first reflective surface and the first display screen form a first predetermined angle. The second reflective surface and the second display screen form a second predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Huaiyu Liu, Ming Gong, Mengyao Jiang
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Patent number: 10997937Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: two pixels having different areas; a first signal line extending in an arrangement direction of the two pixels and coupled to one of the two pixels; a second signal line extending in the arrangement direction and coupled to the other of the two pixels; and a scan line extending between the two pixels in an intersection direction intersecting the arrangement direction and coupled to the two pixels.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Nakao, Takehiro Shima
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Patent number: 10983299Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a wearing device, a display-source arrangement portion and an optical assembly. The wearing device has a head-wearing portion and a hat brim portion connected to the head-wearing portion. The display-source arrangement portion is connected with the hat brim portion. The optical assembly is movably disposed on the hat brim portion, and arranged between the head-wearing portion and the display-source arrangement portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chun-Lung Chen, Yuan-Peng Yu, Wei-Jen Chang, Hung-Chieh Wu
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Patent number: 10953191Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first pixel including a first blue sub-pixel, and a second pixel including a second blue sub-pixel, the second blue sub-pixel being configured to emit light having a wavelength different from that of the first blue sub-pixel and being adjacent to the first pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rangkyun Mok, Jongin Baek, Ilnam Kim, Wonsang Park
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Patent number: 10936118Abstract: A touch detection device and a method of detecting a touch employ: a current-to-voltage converter configured to convert a reception signal received from a touch panel into a sensing signal, and further configured to be periodically reset for a first time period in response to a reset signal; a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert an analog signal based on the sensing signal into a first digital output signal, and a controller configured to generate a second digital output signal based on the first digital output signal by performing data interpolation on a first portion of the first digital output signal corresponding to the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Pil Nam, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Michael Choi
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Patent number: 10921936Abstract: To block noise and achieve slimness and integration, a liquid crystal display device includes according to an embodiment a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer formed therebetween, a shielding electrode formed throughout the entire rear surface of the second substrate of the liquid crystal panel, a first polarizing plate formed on the shielding electrode, a third substrate formed above the first polarizing plate and including intersecting first and second electrodes, a touch FPC including a touch drive IC to control driving and sensing of the first and second electrodes, and a printed circuit board formed at one side of the liquid crystal panel and generating a main panel control signal to control driving of the liquid crystal panel, a touch control signal to control the touch drive IC, and a voltage signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae-Hwan Kim, Min-Woo Hwang
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Patent number: 10915210Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HwiDeuk Lee, Yangsik Lee, Jaeseung Kim