Patents Examined by Antonio Xavier
  • Patent number: 12724513
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a touch sensing device which drives a touch screen panel comprising: a touch driving electrode extending in a first direction; and a touch sensing electrode extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The touch sensing device comprises: a first driving unit and a second driving unit, which are driven in at least one among a mutual sensing mode, a first self-sensing mode, and a second self-sensing mode; and a control unit for determining a touch situation on the basis of a mutual sensing signal, which is input according to the mutual sensing mode, to drive the first driving unit and the second driving unit in the first self-sensing mode or the second self-sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Eun Lee, Gyu Min Gil
  • Patent number: 12725364
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, in an extended reality environment, including virtual objects that aid a user in navigating within the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, including objects displayed based on changes in a field-of-view of a user, in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yiqiang Nie, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Devin W. Chalmers, Allison W. Dryer, Thomas G. Salter, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 12725447
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a layer overlapped with the substrate and having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, a sensor unit disposed between the substrate and the layer, a first blocking layer disposed on the first side, and a second blocking layer disposed on the sensor unit. The layer includes flexible material. The second side is disposed between the sensor unit and the first side, and the first side is between the first blocking layer and the second side. The first blocking layer has a first opening, and the second blocking layer has a second opening. A width of the first opening is smaller than a width of the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee, Nai-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 12726606
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device. For example, the method may include, based on obtaining an execution request of a first camera, identifying whether a light emitter used for providing a notification indicating that the first camera is activated has an abnormality, based on identifying that the light emitter has no abnormality, controlling the light emitter to output the notification, based on identifying that the light emitter has the abnormality, identifying whether an alternative notification method is available to provide an alternative notification indicating that the first camera is activated is, and based on identifying that the alternative notification method is available, outputting the alternative notification using the alternative notification method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyojung Lee, Jinchoul Lee, Juhwan Yun, Hyunseung Yoon, Junmyeong Jeong
  • Patent number: 12718761
    Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second areas, and a third area therebetween in a first direction, pixel drivers each including pixel transistors, a driving circuit in the second area, a first group of light-emitting elements in the second and third areas and each including a first electrode connected to a first group of a pixel driver, a second group of light-emitting elements in the first area and each including a first electrode connected to a second group of pixel driver, connection lines connecting the light-emitting elements and the first and second group of the pixel drivers, respectively, a first conductive layer receiving a first constant voltage, and a second conductive layer receiving a second constant voltage. The connection lines are between the first and second conductive layers, and capacitances between the connection lines and the first electrodes next to the connection lines are uniform in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungeun Lee, Ki Nyeng Kang, Chanju Park, Keunkyu Song, Bekhyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12717448
    Abstract: There is a provided a pointing device, for example a remote pen which includes a multimode switch or button for transitioning the pointing device between three or more modes of operation. The mode of operation can include a first mode, an annotation mode and an air mouse mode. The remote point device further includes an inertial measurement unit configured for determination orientation information associated with the pointing device, which provides a means for determination of changes in x and y with respect to a cursor associated with a screen of a display device being controlled by the pointing device. The pointing device is further configured to provide different control/display (C/D) gains depending on the action being performed by the pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junwei Sun, Jun Li, Zhe Liu, Qiang Xu, Wenhao Wu, Jiaxi Wang, Zhongjia Bai, Yanhai Zhang
  • Patent number: 12717382
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a main digitizer and a sub-digitizer disposed behind the display panel. A main flexible circuit board is disposed on a rear surface of the main digitizer and is connected to the main digitizer. A sub-flexible circuit board disposed on a rear surface of the sub-digitizer and connected to the sub-digitizer. A bridge flexible circuit board disposed on the rear surface of the main digitizer and the rear surface of the sub-digitizer and connected to the main flexible circuit board and the sub-flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyeon Cho, Hoseok Son, Sungun Park, Jongin Baek, Kyung-Hwa Lim
  • Patent number: 12711716
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) system for use by a user in a surrounding environment includes a head-mounted display (HMD), a handheld computing device (HCD) and a control module operatively connected with one or both of the HMD and the HCD. The system is configured to enable digital content to be displayed simultaneously on the HMD and on the HCD, and/or to use one of the HMD and the HCD to modify digital content or to execute an action on the other of the HMD and the HCD, with the HCD being positionable by the user outside of the HMD's lens field of view, thereby providing an enhanced or extended user field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Samuel Helm Neblett, David Wesley Ross, Alexus Hunter, Richard T. Moore, Brian Dale Laughlin
  • Patent number: 12700347
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a voltage applier which generates an alternating control voltage based on a data voltage and a sweep voltage, an alternating signal generator which outputs an alternating signal based on the alternating control voltage, an emission controller which applies a driving current to a light emitting element in response to an emission signal and the alternating signal, and the light emitting element connected to the emission controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gichang Lee
  • Patent number: 12687755
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display substrate includes a first common voltage line, a second common voltage line and an integrated circuit. The first common voltage line is provided in the peripheral area and at least partially surrounds the display area; the second common voltage line is provided in the peripheral area, located on a side of the first common voltage line away from the display area, and at least partially surrounds the display area; the integrated circuit is provided in the peripheral area, and located on a first side of the display area, configured to provide first signals to the first and second common voltage line during a display stage, and provide second signals to the first and second common voltage line during a touch stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yadong Zhang, Ting Li, Chunhua Wang, Zheng Liao, Ze Zhao
  • Patent number: 12688814
    Abstract: An image display method for a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a first display area. The image display method for a display panel includes, according to original image data and first position information for recording the position of first pixel data corresponding to a first display area in the original image data, obtaining the first pixel data corresponding to the first display area from the original image data; and synthesizing the first pixel data and the original image data into target image data, such that the display panel displays at least part of an original image corresponding to the original image data. By means of the image display method, the size of a frame can be reduced, and an image can be normally displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Yusheng Liu, Hongjun Xie
  • Patent number: 12675133
    Abstract: A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes an aperture that can retract parallel to the respective planes of each flexible display segment structure. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also have the size and mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device may also have a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The device may also be folded 360 degrees about a hinge such that it can fold to a compact folded state in one direction with its flexible display segments facing inward towards each other, or to an inverted compact folded state in the opposite direction such that the flexible display segments are facing outward along the device's segment structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Lepton Computing LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 12646349
    Abstract: A method of fingerprint verification includes capturing a fingerprint image by an image sensing device. The image sensing device including a pixel array of a combination of sensing pixels configured to capture minutia points in the fingerprint image and positioning pixels configured to provide positioning codes. The method further includes calculating vectors of the minutia points with reference to the positioning codes, comparing the vectors to reference vectors generated from a reference fingerprint image, and determining a match between the fingerprint image and the reference fingerprint image based on the comparing of the vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMINCONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Feng-Chien Hsieh, Yun-Wei Cheng, Kuo-Cheng Lee, Cheng-Ming Wu, Wei-Li Hu
  • Patent number: 12638946
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touchscreen having a bending region. A touch layer is disposed in the bending region, a grid line is arranged at the touch layer, a plurality of channels for disconnecting the grid line are further disposed at the touch layer, the plurality of channels divide the grid line into a plurality of electrode regions, a grid line between any two adjacent electrode regions forms a fracture at a channel, and a width of the fracture is greater than or equal to 8 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Tang, Jianping Fang, Haohui Long, Yao Wang, Junyong Zhang, Hailong Jing, Hao Wu, Gang Fang
  • Patent number: 12633262
    Abstract: A scan driver includes a plurality of stage circuits. A last stage circuit among the plurality of stage circuits includes a self-initialization signal unit charging a node of the last stage circuit to a first level in response to a clock signal an initialization initializing the last stage circuit when the node is at the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Hee Kim, Tak Young Lee, Bo Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 12626643
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display area including a plurality of pixels arranged repetitively. Each of the plurality of pixels in the first display area includes a light emitting diode, a first pixel circuit, and a second pixel circuit adjacent to the first pixel circuit, and in at least one first pixels included in the plurality of pixels, the light emitting diode is electrically connected to the first pixel circuit and insulated from the second pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD
    Inventors: Joon Woo Bae, Guanghai Jin, Dong Min Lee, Samtae Jeong
  • Patent number: 12626669
    Abstract: A processing system for simultaneously presenting brightness performance of different areas on a single display screen includes: a detection processor and a control processor. The detection processor performs a multi-point photometry of a pre-imaging area to find out the difference in ambient light intensity distribution among the points on the display screen after a display device is installed, where the pre-imaging area refers to an area of a display device set up or projected for viewing. The control processor connected to the detection processor for correspondingly cutting a screen range of the display device into multiple modulation areas based on the ambient light intensity difference of the pre-imaging area. In this way, the display screen can be adjusted to adapt to various environments with differences in brightness or position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: STARLIGHT DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Yu Tsai, Shao-Wei Chiu, Yin-Cheng Huang
  • Patent number: 12620367
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a luminance processing circuit and a color correction circuit. The luminance processing circuit computes lighting luminance information indicating luminance at which a target pixel of a display panel is illuminated by a plurality of light source elements, based on light source luminance information indicating luminance of light emitted by each of the plurality of light source elements and attenuation rate distribution information indicating an attenuation rate distribution of light with respect to a distance between each of the light source elements and each of pixels. The color correction circuit performs color correction on input image data based on the lighting luminance information. The luminance processing circuit computes the lighting luminance information by disabling light source luminance information of virtual light source positions where the plurality of light source elements are not arranged in a computing grid used for computation of the lighting luminance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stanislav Zaozerskii, Sebdani mahmood Mazrouei, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand
  • Patent number: 12609083
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light emitting element on a substrate; a third-first transistor and a third-second transistor connected in series between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a drain electrode of the first transistor; a first metal layer on the substrate and comprising a gate electrode of the third-first transistor and a gate electrode of the third-second transistor; a hydrogen passivation layer on the first metal layer; a semiconductor region of each of a first transistor, the third-first transistor, and the third-second transistor on the hydrogen passivation layer; a gate electrode on the capping layer; a first bias electrode on a same layer as the gate electrode of the first transistor and overlapping the semiconductor region of the third-first transistor; and a second bias electrode on a same layer as the first bias electrode and overlapping the semiconductor region of the third-second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun Woo Kim, Hye Na Kwak, Chan Yeob Seol, Bum Mo Sung, Ji Yeong Shin
  • Patent number: 12603039
    Abstract: A display device including elementary components for composing an image. Each component is made up of a compact assembly of light-emitting diodes, one group of diodes comprising a red diode and one or more other diodes which together have an emission spectrum comprising, during nominal operation, less red than that of the red diode, the group carrying out with the other elementary components a colour display for an operator to the naked eye. The assembly further comprises an additional diode which has, during nominal operation, with respect to the red diode, a wavelength that is less close to red, and with respect to the common spectrum a supplementary emission spectrum, for a colour display compatible with the use by an operator and in the vicinity of the display device of a night-vision tool sensitive to the near-infrared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Vincent Toraille, Thierry Kretz