Patents Examined by Andrew B Schnirel
  • Patent number: 11386711
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to highly functional/highly accurate motion sensory control devices for use in automotive and industrial control systems capable of capturing and providing images to motion capture systems that detect gestures in a three dimensional (3D) sensory space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO LIMITED
    Inventors: David S. Holz, Justin Schunick, Neeloy Roy, Chen Zheng, Ward Travis
  • Patent number: 11340124
    Abstract: A sensor includes a plurality of piezoresistive elements and a plurality of electrical connection terminals. The plurality of piezoresistive elements are fabricated on a first side of a substrate. A second side of the substrate is configured to be coupled to an object where a physical disturbance is to be detected. A plurality of electrical connection terminals are coupled to the first side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Shih-Ming Shih, Yenyu Hsieh, Shirish A. Altekar
  • Patent number: 11341896
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device comprises a pixel including a plurality of subpixels; a plurality of power lines for providing a power voltage to the plurality of subpixels; a data line for providing data signals to the plurality of subpixels; a plurality of gate lines for providing gate signals to the plurality of subpixels; and a reference node line for connecting a plurality of reference nodes included in the plurality of subpixels, wherein each of the subpixels comprises a light emitting diode and a subpixel driving circuit for controlling light emission of the light emitting diode, and wherein the subpixel driving circuit provides a driving current without including a high potential voltage to the light emitting diode as a reference voltage that is applied from one of the plurality of power lines to the reference node included in the subpixel driving circuit, and some of the plurality of subpixels include a compensation transistor connected to the reference node receiving the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Ko, JuhnSuk Yoo
  • Patent number: 11333891
    Abstract: Provided are a wearable display device and a light guide element thereof, the display device including: a display element configured to project a first light forming a virtual image; and a light guide element configured to guide the first light from the display element and a second light input from outside of the wearable display device to a predetermined position. The light guide element includes: a first optical surface facing the display element; a second optical surface and a third optical surface configured to reflect the first light input through the first optical surface; and a fourth optical surface configured to reflect the reflected first light to the predetermined position. The first to third optical surfaces are flat surfaces, and the fourth optical surface is a rotationally asymmetric reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Cheol Bae, Myong-Jo Choi, Jun-ho Koh, Chang-han Kim, Hyun-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 11314314
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display unit configured to display an image, a sound output unit configured to output a sound, a mounting state determination unit configured to determine a mounting state of the head-mounted display apparatus, and an image sound output control unit configured to turn ON/OFF display, and turn ON/OFF an output of a sound, based on the mounting state. The image sound output control unit is configured to turn ON display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is the first state, turn OFF display of an image and turn ON an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is the second state, and turn OFF display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is not the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Okano, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11287935
    Abstract: Disclosed are a stretchable touchscreen, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device including the same. After using a material having a high elastic restoring force as a substrate and determining regions where touch electrodes are formed by defining grooves thereon, touch electrodes are formed by filling the grooves with nanowires. Accordingly, it is possible to maintain elastic restoring force of the substrate and electrical connection between wires of nanowires, so that the touch electrode neither breaks nor factures despite being stretched any direction, and reliable stretchable touchscreens can be provided due to no resistance increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 11287901
    Abstract: An optical detecting device capable of detecting a lift height of an optical navigation apparatus is disclosed. The optical detecting device includes a sensor module and a processor. The sensor module includes a sensor array and at least one detector strip. The sensor array is adapted to acquire navigation information of the optical navigation apparatus moved relative to a working surface by sensing an illumination area, and the detector strip has a detection region across an edge of the illumination area. The processor is electrically connected to the sensor module, and adapted to compute the lift height of the optical navigation apparatus relative to the working surface according to a detection result of the detector strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Kwai Lee Pang, Wooi Kip Lim, Siew Chin Lee
  • Patent number: 11263956
    Abstract: An LED display system has and LED display panel coupled to a driver circuitry. The driver circuitry includes a scrambled PWM generator, a register, and a memory. The scrambled PWM generator receives an image data from an external source and, after certain compensations, is sent to a scramble PWM generator to be distributed according to a new set of rules that involves a compensation image data K. Image data K can be an empirical value or obtained according a formula using coefficients p and q, which can be obtained by calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SCT LTD.
    Inventors: Eric Li, Yi Zhang, Shang-Kuan Tang, Shean-Yih Chiou
  • Patent number: 11231334
    Abstract: A sensor includes a plurality of piezoresistive elements and a plurality of electrical connection terminals. The plurality of piezoresistive elements are fabricated on a first side of a substrate. A second side of the substrate is configured to be coupled to an object where a physical disturbance is to be detected. A plurality of electrical connection terminals are coupled to the first side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Shih-Ming Shih, Yenyu Hsieh, Shirish A. Altekar
  • Patent number: 11226668
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device can sense touch on its touch screen while in a sleep state in a manner that allows the electronic device to respond to certain touch inputs, while consuming less power due to touch sensing than while in an awake state. For example, sensing touch during the sleep state can allow the electronic device to wake (e.g., transition from the sleep state to the awake state) in response to detecting a certain touch input (e.g., a tap or other touch input) on its touch screen while in the sleep state. Various ways for the electronic device to sense touch during the sleep state are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taif A. Syed, Bingrui Yang, Christopher Tenzin Mullens, Sumant Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 11195481
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Stephen Bull, Alain Bouchard, Craig A. Herb, Kosta Ladavac, Ana L. Lattes, Jennifer M. Morrison, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Michael Thomas Regan, Luke M. Slominski, Lee Yezek, Kenneth R. Crounse, J. Ryan Kruse, Christopher L. Hoogeboom, Jason D. Feick, David Darrell Miller
  • Patent number: 11187908
    Abstract: A method for assembling a head mounted display includes providing a rigid structural frame, and forming an inner optical assembly by assembling optical components to the structural frame including at least one micro-display configured to generate an image, and at least one reflective optical component configured to direct the image to a user's eye. The method includes assembling an outer frame to the inner optical assembly to provide protection for the optical components and customization of the head-mounted display for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Immy Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Peter Magyari
  • Patent number: 11183119
    Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11119575
    Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The gestures comprise symbol gestures each corresponding to a character from a preexisting character set. The device includes an application database maintaining at least one application and a gesture mapping database comprising a gesture input map for the application. The gesture input map comprises mappings of the symbol gestures to corresponding inputs for the application. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: David L. Marvit, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Albert H. M. Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 11119604
    Abstract: A display controller controls changing timing of a waveform of each of gate clock signals (GCK1, GCK2) so that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively short time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho), and that a display driving operation is performed after the lapse of a relatively long time from a starting point of time of a horizontal scanning period in even-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho). A touch panel controller outputs a pulse of a touch drive signal (STD) so that a position detection operation on a touch panel is started in a stable period after an end of the display driving operation in each of the odd-numbered horizontal scanning periods (Ho).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishio, Daiji Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11119603
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of touch technology, and provides a touch control chip, an electronic device and a touch detection method. The touch control chip (1) includes: a processing unit (10), a floating ground driving module (11) and an analog front end (12); the floating ground driving module (11) is connected to the analog front end (12), a detection end of the analog front end (12) is connected to a capacitive sensing component (3), and an output end of the analog front end (12) is connected to the processing unit (10); the processing unit (10) is configured to control the floating ground driving module (11) to provide a floating ground signal to the analog front end (12), the floating ground signal is used to enable the capacitive sensing component (3) to generate a sensing signal, the processing unit (10) performs touch detection according to the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11086428
    Abstract: A touch circuit includes a touch circuit, a first energy storage circuit, a second energy storage circuit and a resetting circuit. A first end of the first energy storage circuit is connected to a control end of the touch circuit, and a second end thereof is connected to a first voltage input end. A first end of the second energy storage circuit is connected to a first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to the control end of the touch circuit. A first end of the touch circuit is connected to the first conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a third conductive line. A control end of the resetting circuit is connected to a second conductive line, a first end thereof is connected to the third conductive line, and a second end thereof is connected to a second voltage input end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangxing Wang, Dianzheng Dong, Qiang Zhang, Pengming Chen, Wenpeng Xu, Kan Zhang, Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11079884
    Abstract: Touch display panel, operating method, and a touch display device are provided. The touch display panel includes a base substrate, a plurality of electrode blocks arranged in an array on the base substrate, a first driving unit including a plurality of first pins, a plurality of switch transistors, and a second driving unit including at least a plurality of first sub-pins and a plurality of second sub-pins. Each electrode block is electrically connected to the first driving unit through at least one touch signal line; a drain of at least one first switch transistor is electrically connected to the same first sub-pin through a same first lead; and a drain of at least one second switch transistor is electrically connected to the same second sub-pin through a same second lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guihua Yin, Songlin Feng, Huanhua Zhi, Huihui Xie, Qingpeng Liao
  • Patent number: 11048369
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, detection electrodes, and connection electrodes. The substrate includes a planar surface portion and a curved surface portion adjacent to the planar surface portion in a first direction, the curved surface portion including an active region and another region disposed outside the active region. The detection electrodes are disposed on the substrate. The detection electrodes are arranged in the first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. The connection electrodes electrically connect adjacent detection electrodes arranged in a same direction as one another. A connection electrode of the connection electrodes connecting detection electrodes adjacent to each other of the detection electrodes arranged in the first direction is disposed in the active region of the curved surface portion. The connection electrode includes a portion extending in a different direction than the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Innam Lee, Choonhyop Lee
  • Patent number: 11042236
    Abstract: A touch display panel is provided and includes a bending section and a non-bending section connecting to two sides of the bending section, the bending section includes a bending centerline; the touch display panel includes a plurality of first metal lines and a plurality of second metal lines in the bending section and the non-bending section; each of the first metal lines is parallel to the bending centerline; each of the second metal lines includes a plurality of second metal line segments spaced apart from each other, each of the second metal line segments is perpendicularly connected to one of the first metal lines; the first metal lines and the second metal lines form a grid-shaped first metal layer; the touch display panel further comprises an organic layer and a plurality of third metal lines in the bending section, the organic layer is disposed on the first metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoliang Feng