Patents Examined by Antonio Xavier
  • Patent number: 10983558
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a cover glass disposed on the display panel, and a biometric sensor device disposed below the display panel. The biometric sensor device includes a printed circuit board, a biometric sensor disposed on the printed circuit board, and a housing disposed on the printed circuit board and in which an opening is formed. The biometric sensor is disposed in the opening of the housing and is attached to a surface of the display panel through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Park, Ji Hun Heo, Joo Han Kim, Jin Man Kim, Bong Jae Rhee, Se Young Jang
  • Patent number: 10984733
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for controlling a backlight source and an operation method are provided. The circuit arrangement includes a generator. The generator receives a sync signal and generates a pulse width modulation signal synchronous with the sync signal to control the backlight source. The sync signal indicates a frequency of a video including a series of image frames. The sync signal includes a sync period corresponding to a frame of the video. The pulse width modulation signal includes a first waveform pattern in a first sub-period of the sync period and a second waveform pattern in a second sub-period of the sync period. Each of the first waveform pattern and the second waveform pattern includes at least one active pulse. The first waveform pattern is substantially identical to the second waveform pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Wu, Wen-Chi Lin, Jiun-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 10976855
    Abstract: A touch sensing assembly includes a touch sensing layer that is configured to couple to an interface. The interface is configured to receive contact with skin of a user on a first surface. A first touch sensing layer is coupled to interface. The first touch sensing layer includes a plurality of touch sensors and a plurality of electrodes. The touch sensors are of a first touch sensing type, configured to detect proximity of the user's skin to the interface. The electrodes provide a plurality of electrical signals corresponding to the proximity of the user's skin to the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raymond Louis Nicoli
  • Patent number: 10977476
    Abstract: A dermatoglyphics data acquisition device, an acquisition method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The acquisition method of dermatoglyphics data includes: detecting a touch region of a dermatoglyphics on a touch device by a capacitive touch control circuit; selecting a touch center region in the touch region and selecting a characteristic region in the touch center region by a controller, according to a signal amount distribution of a touch signal generated by dermatoglyphics contact in the touch region, and determining the characteristic region as a dermatoglyphics scan region by the controller; and scanning a dermatoglyphics in the dermatoglyphics scan region and generating the dermatoglyphics data by a dermatoglyphics identification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Shengji Yang, Ming Yang, Wei Liu, Hongjuan Liu, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 10971107
    Abstract: A display device is provided. A first pixel is coupled to a first scan line and a first data line and includes a first light-transmitting area. A second pixel is coupled to a second scan line and a second data line and includes a second light-transmitting area. The size of the second pixel is equal to the size of the first pixel. The area of the second light-transmitting area is different from the area of the first light-transmitting area. A first color area overlaps the first pixel. When first light passes through the first light-transmitting area and the first color area, the first light has a first color. A second color area overlaps the second pixel. When second light passes through the second light-transmitting area and the second color area, the second light has a second color, which is the same as the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Tso Chen, Hui-Min Huang, Li-Wei Sung
  • Patent number: 10955948
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch display panel includes: a substrate, a light-emitting device layer arranged on the substrate, and multiple touch electrodes arranged on the side of the light-emitting device layer away from the substrate. The light-emitting device layer includes multiple pixels, and each of the pixels has a light-emitting region and a non-light-emitting region on the periphery of the light-emitting region. Each of the touch electrodes has a structure of a metal grid. The pixels include first color pixels, and grid lines of the metal grid are arranged in each of the non-light-emitting regions of at least a part of the first color pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qijun Yao, Hong Ding, Lingxiao Du, Liang Xie
  • Patent number: 10949155
    Abstract: An environ system includes environ panels arranged to form a partial or full enclosure, wherein each environ panel includes display components that together provide a display area across a majority of a surface of the environ panel facing inward within the enclosure. The environ system further includes a local controller coupled to the environ panels and a master controller coupled to the local controller. The master controller provides control information to the local controller to coordinate a presentation of a visual display sequence across the environ panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventor: Shakai Dominique
  • Patent number: 10949086
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using virtual keyboards for high dimensional controllers in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a virtual keyboard system including a processor, and a memory, including a virtual keyboard application, where the virtual keyboard application directs the processor to display a plurality of 3D keys in a virtual environment, where each 3D key represents at least one symbol via a display device, display a cursor in the virtual environment, where the cursor is movable in at least three dimensions via the display device, obtain a user input data from an input device, move the cursor to a 3D key in the plurality of 3D keys based on the user input data, and record the at least one symbol represented by the 3D key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Nir Even-Chen, Krishna Vaughn Shenoy
  • Patent number: 10936114
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided including: at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions and a plurality of applications; a touch screen; and one or more processors in communication with the at least one non-transitory memory and the touch screen, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to: display, via the touch screen, an object and at least a portion of an interface; detect a gesture on the touch screen on the object; when a magnitude of a duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object is less than a first magnitude threshold, perform an operation; when the magnitude of the duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object is greater than the first magnitude threshold, perform a scaling in connection with at least the object, where the scaling includes a reduction in a size such that the size is inversely related to the magnitude of the duration of the gesture being detected on the touch screen on the object; and whe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10930683
    Abstract: To suppress fluctuation in the threshold voltage of a transistor, to reduce the number of connections of a display panel and a driver IC, to achieve reduction in power consumption of a display device, and to achieve increase in size and high definition of the display device. A gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates is connected to a wiring to which a high potential is supplied through a first switching transistor and a wiring to which a low potential is supplied through a second switching transistor; a clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the first switching transistor; and an inverted clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the second switching transistor. Thus, the high potential and the low potential are alternately applied to the gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 10902769
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a multi-layer structure that reduces form factor and provides optimization of the electronic display on a per layer basis. The electronic display includes a driver layer, a control layer, and an interposer layer between the driver layer and the control layer. The driver layer includes one or more drivers to provide control signals. The control layer includes control circuits configured to drive light emitting diodes (LEDs) under control of the control signals from the driver layer. The interposer layer is between the driver layer and the control layer. The interposer layer includes electrical connections between the one or more drivers of the driver layer and the control circuits of the control layer to transmit the control signals from the driver layer to the control layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ilias Pappas
  • Patent number: 10885299
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an optical image sensor and a pin hole array mask layer above the optical image sensor. The electronic device may also include a display layer above the pin hole array mask layer that includes spaced apart display pixels, and at least one light source laterally adjacent the optical image sensor and capable of directing light into a user's finger when adjacent the optical image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Giovanni Gozzini
  • Patent number: 10877276
    Abstract: An electronic display provides pulse-width modulation (PWM), data loading, and calibration. The electronic display includes: a light emitting diode (LED); a driving transistor including a source connected to a first terminal of the LED; a first transistor including a source connected to a second terminal of the LED and a gate connected to a scan driver; a storage capacitor having a first node connected to a gate of the driving transistor, and a second node connected to a drain of the first transistor; a second transistor configured to selectively couple the first node of the storage capacitor to a data driver; and a third transistor configured to selectively couple the second node of the storage capacitor to a calibration driver so that the storage capacitor provides a gate voltage corresponding to a sum of the data voltage and the calibration voltage to the gate of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ilias Pappas
  • Patent number: 10877597
    Abstract: Examples relate to improving unintended touch rejection. The examples disclosed herein enable selecting, from a plurality of available modes of unintended touch rejection, a first mode of unintended touch rejection, capturing a first set of data associated with the first mode responsive to a touch being recognized at a touch-enabled surface of the system, and determining whether the recognized touch was intended based on the first set of data and a first set of criteria associated with the first mode of unintended touch rejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jinman Kang, David Bradley Short, Immanuel Amo
  • Patent number: 10877525
    Abstract: A rollable display comprises a flexible display panel; at least one BRC member having one end coupled with an edge of the flexible display panel; a roller assembly having a roller coupled with another end of the BRC member and a motor for rotating the roller, the roller assembly being ascended while rolling the BRC member onto the roller when the motor is rotated in a first direction, and being descending while unrolling the BRC member from the roller when the motor is rotated in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a panel guide part connected to the roller assembly and moved along with the roller assembly; wherein the flexible display panel is rolled onto the panel guide part when the roller assembly and the panel guide part ascend, and is unrolled from the panel guide part when the roller assembly and the panel guide part descend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chounsung Kang, Geunchang Park, Jungkyu Park
  • Patent number: 10871896
    Abstract: A user interface verification device and a method of use is presented for recognizing a three-hand gesture on a touchscreen of the device. The gesture is recognized by detecting a plurality of contact points in at least two, disparate touching zones, and simultaneously detecting additional contact points in a third, disparate touching zone. In one embodiment, the device displays content in a review mode that can be reviewed in a normal manner. In the execution mode, the device requires a signature, a touch, or another sign of acceptance involving a touch within the third touching zone. The device can ensure that a customer directly provides consent by requiring that the two, multi-point touching zones are tactilely engaged by both hands of a presenter while in the execution mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan R. Buettner
  • Patent number: 10839190
    Abstract: An example gate driver for an array of sensing pixels is disclosed. The gate driver includes a first flip-flop including a first data input and a first data output. The first data output is coupled to a first group of sensing pixels of the array. The gate driver also includes a second flip-flop including a second data input and a second data output. The second data output is coupled to a second group of sensing pixels of the array. The gate driver further includes a first insertion circuit configured to receive a first start signal and to cause, based on the first start signal, the second flip-flop to drive the second group of sensing pixels without the first flip-flop driving the first group of sensing pixels for a scan of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FINGERPRINT CARDS AB
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Ozan Ersan Erdogan
  • Patent number: 10838542
    Abstract: A method is provided, comprising: developing particular application code that is part of a particular application configured to cooperate with an electronic device including a touch screen and memory coupled to at least one processor, where the particular application code, when installed on the electronic device, cooperates with an operating system of the electronic device to cause the electronic device to: display an object and at least a portion of an interface; detect a gesture via the touch screen on the object; perform a first function in a first touch state; perform a second function in a second touch state; identify a change in a pressure of the gesture being detected via the touch screen on the object; and based on the change in the pressure of the gesture being detected via the touch screen on the object, blur the at least portion of the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10831275
    Abstract: A hand-wearable haptic interface device for simulating interaction with a virtual object in a Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) environment is provided. The hand-wearable haptic interface device can provide improved simulation of an obstruction caused by a virtual object in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The device comprises a joint-movement restrictor adapted to be positioned adjacent a finger joint when the device is worn on a hand of a user. The movement restrictor is adapted to provide different magnitudes of flexion resistance force for resisting flexion of the finger joint based on a flexion resistance control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas D. F. Appleyard, Gibson Fahnestock, Perry A. Harwood, Alexandra E. Wishart
  • Patent number: 10804350
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device including: pixels disposed on each of horizontal lines, each of the pixels includes an organic light-emitting diode, and an auxiliary transistor coupled between an anode electrode of the organic light-emitting diode and an auxiliary power source; and at least one reference transistor disposed on each of the horizontal lines and coupled between a reference power source and at least one of the pixels. The auxiliary transistor and the reference transistor may be simultaneously turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Moo Choi, Seung Kyu Lee