Patents Examined by Amare Mengistu
  • Patent number: 11500505
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch substrate and a touch display device. In the touch substrate, the first touch control electrodes are provided with the shadow elimination structures at the first intersections, and the orthographic projections of the shadow elimination structures on the base substrate cover the orthographic projections of the connection through holes on the base substrate, so that shadows of the connection through holes can be shielded by the shadow elimination structures, when the user watches the touch substrate from the side, away from the signal line layer, of the base substrate, and thus the ghosting shadow problem of the connection through holes can be resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Min He, Jing Wang, Bin Pang, Xinxiu Zhang, Xue Zhao
  • Patent number: 11501684
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for driving a silicon-based driving back plate and a display apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a watch position of a user on the silicon-based driving back plate within one frame time; determining a watch region of the user on the silicon-based driving back plate according to the watch position; and controlling a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in the watch region to be greater than a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in a non-watch region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengnan Li, Wei Qin, Tieshi Wang, Xiaolong Li, Weixing Liu, Kuanjun Peng
  • Patent number: 11500204
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) comprising a first side for facing a user of the HMD, a second side opposite to the first side, and a reflective layer for at least partially reflecting incident light incident on the second side. At least one processor of the HMD is configured to obtain luminance data indicative of a luminance of the incident light and control a display device, based on the luminance data, to control a luminance of a portion of emitted light directed towards the user of the HMD during the display of the image. Further examples relate to an HMD with a display device configured to emit light of at least one predetermined wavelength range during display of an image by the display device, and a layer arranged to at least partially prevent transmission of the light of the at least one predetermined wavelength range outward from the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Daren Croxford, Roberto Lopez Mendez, Erik Persson, Sean Tristram Leguay Ellis
  • Patent number: 11493991
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting a condition of an augmented reality system and/or controlling an aspect of the augmented reality system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mira Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Mike Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 11488561
    Abstract: Provided are a demultiplexer circuit, an array substrate, a display panel and device, and a driving method. The demultiplexer circuit includes multiple demultiplexers, each demultiplexer includes at least two switching transistor groups, and each switching transistor group includes at least two switching transistors. Sources of the at least two switching transistors in a same switching transistor group are electrically connected to each other, drains of the at least two switching transistors in the same switching transistor group are electrically connected to each other. Input ends of the at least two switching transistor groups in a same demultiplexer are electrically connected to each other. In the same switching transistor group, the common source is electrically connected to the input end, the common drain is electrically connected to the output end, and at least two control ends are electrically connected to gates of the switching transistors in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yahui Xie, Guochang Lai, Zhijie Wang, Jian Liu
  • Patent number: 11488522
    Abstract: A display substrate and a method for driving the display substrate are provided in the present disclosure. The display substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a power supply signal structure configured to apply a power supply voltage signal to each pixel unit. The power supply signal structure includes: a plurality of driving voltage signal VDD lines, a first power supply voltage signal VDD1 line connected to a first end of each driving voltage signal VDD line, and configured to apply a first power supply voltage V1 to the first end of the driving voltage signal line, and a second power supply voltage signal VDD2 line connected to a second end of the driving voltage signal VDD line, and configured to apply a power supply voltage V2 to the second end of the driving voltage signal VDD line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonglin Guo, Yidan Zhu, Tingliang Liu, Yiran Li, Xinyu Wei, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11482171
    Abstract: A display module includes a display panel, a source driving circuit, and a timing control circuit. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, at least one sense signal line, and at least one reference sense signal line. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel driving circuit including a driving transistor. The source driving circuit includes at least one analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit. Two input terminals of an analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit in the at least one analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit are respectively coupled to at least one sense signal line and one reference sense signal line. The analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit is configured to receive a sense voltage signal from the sense signal line and a reference voltage signal from the reference sense signal line, to obtain a sensing digital signal in accordance with a voltage difference between the sense voltage signals and the reference voltage signal, and to output the sensing digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Chen, Lirong Wang
  • Patent number: 11481051
    Abstract: Disclosed are a touch flexible printed circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus. The touch flexible printed circuit includes at least two unfoldable portions and at least one foldable portion, the foldable portion is located between and connected to adjacent unfoldable portions, and the foldable portion is configured to make the adjacent unfoldable portions at least partially overlap to form a fold portion, when the foldable portion is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baoting Hou, Chichang Liu, Bin Zhao, Guofeng Li
  • Patent number: 11482155
    Abstract: Variations in a receiving circuit employing differential signaling are reduced. The receiving circuit converts a first signal and a second signal which are supplied through differential signaling into a third signal which is a single-ended signal and outputs the third signal. The receiving circuit includes an operational amplifier, a first element, a first transistor, and a first circuit. The first element is connected to the first circuit through a first node to which the first transistor is connected. The first signal and the second signal that is the inverse of the first signal are supplied to the operational amplifier. The operational amplifier supplies an output signal to the first element, and a first preset potential is supplied to the first node through the first transistor. A signal including variations of the operational amplifier is stored in the first element in accordance with the first preset potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeya Hirose, Takahiro Fukutome
  • Patent number: 11481045
    Abstract: An image display control device according to the present invention includes a display control unit, an obtaining unit, a drawing unit, a deleting unit, and an operating unit. The display control unit displays an image on a display device. The obtaining unit obtains contact position information or proximity position information of a drawing device, which is relative to a display area of the display device. The drawing unit generates a drawn image, compose a display image of an information processing apparatus with the drawn image, and displays the composite image on the display device. The deleting unit deletes the drawn image from the displayed image, and display on the display device. The operating unit operates the information processing apparatus. The drawing device switches and specifies a generation and deletion of the drawn image, and an operation of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Omura
  • Patent number: 11474641
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a method includes performing a first positive integration by sensing a first rising edge of a charging signal of a touch sensor during a first synchronization period and performing a first negative integration by sensing a first falling edge of the charging signal during a second synchronization period. The method also includes toggling the charging signal, resulting in a second rising edge of the charging signal during the second synchronization period. The method further includes performing a second negative integration by sensing a second falling edge of the charging signal during a third synchronization period and performing a second positive integration by sensing a third rising edge of the charging signal during a fourth synchronization period. The first integrations are associated with a first sample measurement and the second integrations are associated with a second sample measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Grahame Reynolds, Hammad Syed
  • Patent number: 11474534
    Abstract: Each of three floors is adjacent to the other two floor robots so that a position at which three vertices selected each from the three floor robots face each other is set as a central point, and an information processing apparatus includes a floor robot guidance unit to specify an advancing direction and a walking speed of a walking person based on pressures detected by the floor robots when the walking person walks, to move the three floor robots at the specified walking speed in an opposite direction to the specified advancing direction, to specify, as a target vertex, a vertex that can be determined to lie in the specified advancing direction, other than the three vertices, and rotate at least one of the three floor robots so that the position of the target vertex is set as a new central point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11475841
    Abstract: A system may include buffer circuitry that receives an input signal representative of image data for display via a pixel. The buffer circuitry may provide a first driving signal during a first frame of the image data to the pixel based on the input signal. The buffer circuitry may include slew booster circuitry. The slew booster circuitry may supply a voltage boost (e.g., additional voltage) to differential pair stage circuitry of the buffer circuit in response to a difference between the input signal and a second driving signal exceeding a threshold increase a rate of change of the input signal provided. The second driving signal may be provided to the pixel during a second frame of the image data preceding the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Hatanaka, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Kenichi Ueno, Masaki Kinoshita, Nobutaka Shimamura
  • Patent number: 11467704
    Abstract: A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate layer, sensing electrodes disposed on the substrate layer, an insulating layer covering the sensing electrodes on the substrate layer, a bridge electrode electrically connecting neighboring sensing electrodes of the sensing electrodes on the insulating layer, and floating electrodes distributed around the bridge electrode on the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hyoung Kwon, Ji Yeon Kim, Ki Deok Lee, Cheol Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11455815
    Abstract: A touch-fingerprint complex sensor is provided for detecting a touch and a fingerprint of a user, using a touch pad including a touch region and a fingerprint recognizing region. The touch-fingerprint complex sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a substrate, and arranged in parallel in a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the substrate, and arranged in parallel in a second direction crossing the first direction, and an insulating layer disposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. A cross-sectional distance between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes at intersections of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes in the touch region excluding the fingerprint recognizing region is greater than that at intersections of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes in the fingerprint recognizing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seogwoo Hong, Jinmyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11449105
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a controller that invalidates, while an open-close movement state is being detected by an open-close detection device, a touch operation made on a touch panel, and that validates the touch operation made on the touch panel, when either of an open state and a close state is being detected by the open-close detection device and when in a neutral state, the neutral state being where none of the open-close movement state, the open state, and the close state is being detected by the open-close detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Hirabe
  • Patent number: 11442544
    Abstract: A force transducer for an electronic device can be operated in a drive mode and a sense mode simultaneously. In particular, the force transducer can provide haptic output while simultaneously receiving force input from a user. The force transducer is primarily defined by a monolithic piezoelectric body, a ground electrode, a drive electrode, and a sense electrode. The ground electrode and the drive electrode each include multiple electrically-electrically conductive sheets that extend into the monolithic body; the electrically conductive sheets of the ground electrode and the drive electrode are interdigitally engaged. The sense electrode of the force transducer is typically disposed on an exterior surface of the monolithic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph C. Doll, Pavan O. Gupta, Teera Songatikamas, Adam J. Monkowski
  • Patent number: 11435580
    Abstract: A head-up display (HUD) may include at least one HUD sensor configured to acquire one or more images of a field of view (FOV). The HUD may include a HUD image combiner configured to present HUD symbology to a user, a HUD image projector configured to project the HUD symbology onto or through the HUD image combiner, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one HUD sensor and the HUD image projector. The at least one processor may be configured to process the one or more images for luminance data of the FOV, generate a dynamic map including a grid with one or more controllable cells based on the luminance data of the FOV via a dynamic map generation unit, and configure the HUD image projector based on the generated dynamic map to improve an average contrast ratio of the HUD image projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: David R. Sneitzer
  • Patent number: 11423856
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11417251
    Abstract: A flexible circuit board, a display panel, a display device, and a test method are provided. The flexible circuit board includes a flexible circuit board body and a driving chip. First to third dummy terminals are provided on a surface of the flexible circuit board body. Fourth to sixth dummy terminals are electrically connected to a common node in the driving chip. An external sink current output line and an external sink current input line form an external sink current loop through the driving chip. A bonding resistance between the first and fourth dummy terminals is a first bonding resistance, and a bonding resistance between the second and the fifth dummy terminals is a second bonding resistance. The first bonding resistance and the second bonding resistance each are a resistance on the external sink current loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Wu, Houfu Gong, Jun Li