Patents Examined by Benjamin C. Lee
  • Patent number: 12260020
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Nakagawa, Yohei Fukuma, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12260798
    Abstract: An interpolated flat-panel display comprises a display substrate and an array of clusters disposed on the display substrate. Each cluster comprises an exclusive group of display pixels and a cluster controller for controlling the display pixels. The cluster controller is operable to receive input data specifying a desired light output from one or more but fewer than all of the display pixels in the group of display pixels, calculate interpolated data at least in part from the input data, and drive the display pixels to emit light in response to the calculated interpolated data and received input data. The input data can correspond to an image pixel in an input image. The cluster controller can be operable to receive a parameter value describing attributes of a local portion of the input image including the image pixel and the interpolated data is calculated at least in part from the parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Alexander Meitl, Ronald S. Cok, Lee B. Baker, Christopher Andrew Bower
  • Patent number: 12253784
    Abstract: A driving method for driving a display comprising an electrophoretic material having at least one type of colored pigment particle, the method includes applying at least one pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle, applying a separation pulse, and applying a second pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 12254138
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a functional icon display position of a control device is provided. The control device includes a transparent key and a display panel. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, an image capturing device is used to photograph a functional icon, and thus a real spatial relationship of the functional icon in a visible region of the transparent key is obtained. Then, a position offset amount is obtained according to a result of comparing the real spatial relationship with a reference spatial relationship. If the position offset amount is larger than the enable calibration threshold value, a calibrated icon display start coordinate position is obtained according to the position offset amount. The present invention also provides a control device using the calibrating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Ching Kuo, Xu Yang, I-Min Shu, Rong-Fu Lee
  • Patent number: 12254128
    Abstract: A method of controlling an electronic device for enabling a context transfer from a virtual session to an environment external to the virtual session, includes detecting at least one user in an a virtual session; based on detecting the at least one user, obtaining a context of at least one virtual device content present in the virtual session, based on detecting the at least one user; obtaining at least one user interest related with the at least one virtual device content using at least one user input in the virtual session; obtaining correlation information between the at least one user interest and at least one content capability of a plurality of real world user devices of the at least one user; and providing at least one real world user device, among the plurality of user devices, to the at least one user for transferring the context of the at least one virtual device content based on the correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bhargav Krishnamurthy, Ankit Taparia
  • Patent number: 12217665
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit which drives a plurality of first scan lines and a plurality of second scan lines, and a driving controller which controls the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit to drive a first display area of the display panel at a first operating frequency and drive a second display area of the display panel at a second operating frequency lower than the first operating frequency while an operating mode is a multi-frequency mode. During the multi-frequency mode, first scan signals provided to first scan lines, which correspond to the second display area, of the plurality of first scan lines are maintained at inactive levels in predetermined frames, and second scan signals provided to the plurality of second scan lines transition to active levels at least twice in each of the predetermined frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 12217694
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels connected to gate lines and data lines; a gate driver to supply a gate signal to the gate lines; and a data driver to supply a data signal to the data lines. The gate driver includes: a first transistor including a first active layer at a first layer; and a second transistor including a second active layer at a second layer on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun Woo Kim, Mee Jae Kang, Doo Na Kim, Yun Jung Oh, Yong Su Lee, Jae Hwan Chu
  • Patent number: 12217378
    Abstract: A method for an image-captured initialization of an array of devices, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a video stream featuring a plurality of end devices in a gaming station, wherein said end device renders at least one of a lighting, haptic, or air-blowing effect from a specific location within the gaming station; detecting the plurality of end devices by vision processing at least a frame of the gaming station stream; and positioning a virtual representation of the detected end devices on a digital canvas representing a user's physical space based on a tonal frequency-dependent light-emission from a frequency-defined end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Ryan Gilg, Timothy Chia-Chieh Sun
  • Patent number: 12217701
    Abstract: A data compensating circuit includes a stress data generating block which generates stress data for each pixel based on input image data or output image data, a memory control block which updates accumulated stress data for each pixel, a first compensating block which reads the accumulated stress data for each pixel from a first non-volatile memory device to generate afterimage compensation data for each pixel, a compensation data summing block which reads optical compensation data for each pixel from a second non-volatile memory device to generate luminance compensation data for each pixel by summing the afterimage compensation data for each pixel and the optical compensation data for each pixel, an internal memory device which stores the luminance compensation data for each pixel, and a second compensating block which generates the output image data by compensating for the input image data based on the luminance compensation data for each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Weonjun Choe
  • Patent number: 12216872
    Abstract: An exemplary an access control device generally includes a keypad assembly, an antenna, and a controller. The keypad assembly includes a capacitive touch keypad matrix, and the antenna is substantially coplanar with the capacitive touch keypad matrix. The controller is connected with each of the keypad assembly and the antenna such that the controller is operable to receive access codes via each of the keypad assembly and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Jenna Lopez, Maxwell Watson, Sukanya Ranganathan, Frank A. Nardelli
  • Patent number: 12218145
    Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first transistor and the second transistor are formed on the base substrate. The first transistor includes a first active layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode. The first active layer includes silicon. The second transistor includes a second active layer, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The second active layer includes oxide semiconductor. A length of a channel region of the first transistor is L1. Along a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, a distance between the first gate electrode and the first active layer is D1. A length of a channel region of the second transistor is L2. Along the direction perpendicular to the base substrate, a distance between the second gate electrode and the second active layer is D2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Yong Yuan, Ping An, Zhaokeng Cao
  • Patent number: 12211430
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element, a storage capacitor, a data voltage applying switching element and a first leakage compensation switching element. The driving switching element is configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element. The storage capacitor is connected to a control electrode of the driving switching element. The data voltage applying switching element is configured to apply a data voltage to the storage capacitor. The first leakage compensation switching element is disposed between the storage capacitor and the data voltage applying switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Hyeongseok Kim, Jangmi Kang, Minjae Jeong, Mukyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 12211414
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device that includes a full color display. A camera may be disposed below the full color display. A controller may modify a video signal applied to one or more sub-pixels of the full color display based on a predicted degradation of the one or more sub-pixels, such that the modification is updated by the controller based on luminance data for the one or more subpixels acquired by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver
  • Patent number: 12211437
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit. In the pixel circuit, a data write circuit may transmit a data signal to a first node; a compensation circuit may adjust a potential of a second node and a potential of a third node based on a gate drive signal; a first reset circuit may transmit a first initial power supply signal to the third node; a drive circuit may transmit a drive signal to the second node based on the potential of the third node and a potential of the first node; and a second reset circuit may transmit a second initial power supply signal to a first electrode of a light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Miao Wang
  • Patent number: 12210704
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel including a display area and a terminal area adjacent to each other, the terminal area includes a driving chip area bonded with a driving chip, a plurality of touch leads are provided in the driving chip area, first ends of the plurality of touch leads are electrically connected to a plurality of touch electrodes in the display area, and a plurality of test pins is electrically connected to second ends of the plurality of touch leads and used for transmitting a test signal are also located in the driving chip area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zuzhao Xu
  • Patent number: 12205516
    Abstract: The present application relates to light-emitting diode (LED) driver circuits, display devices, and display systems. An example LED driver circuit includes: a driver including a plurality of data channels; a controller electrically connected to the driver. The controller is configured to, in response to detecting that data in all the data channels is 0 in a predetermined time period, control all the data channels to be in a closed state. The predetermined time period is determined based on a duration of an external input signal input to the LED driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanru Zhang, Zhizheng Huang, Jingshuai Wang
  • Patent number: 12205554
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus has a three-TFT structure in which each of pixels includes a first liquid crystal capacitor including a first pixel electrode, a second liquid crystal capacitor including a second pixel electrode, a first TFT including a drain electrode connected to the first pixel electrode, a second TFT including a drain electrode connected to the second pixel electrode, and a buffer capacitor including a buffer capacitor electrode connected to the second pixel electrode via a third TFT. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, a configuration is adopted in which a gate scanning signal is independently supplied to a plurality of gate bus lines one by one, and a sub-gate-on pulse is substantially simultaneously applied to the third TFTs belonging to at least two pixel rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12198609
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first region and a second region, a first driver circuit, a first driver circuit, a function component, a function hole and a virtual hole. The first region includes a pixel unit. The first driver circuit is located in the second region and includes a first drive signal output terminal, where the first drive signal output terminal is configured to provide a first drive signal for the pixel unit in the first region. The function component includes a first function layer, a second function layer and a preset dielectric layer located between the first function layer and the second function layer. The function hole penetrates through the preset dielectric layer and is configured to connect the first function layer to the second function layer. The virtual hole penetrates through the preset dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaxiang Dai, Ping An
  • Patent number: 12198622
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and pixel circuits. The display area includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area is used as an optical element reservation area. The pixel circuits include a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first display area includes minimum repeating units. One of the minimum repeating units includes first light-emitting elements of at least three different colors. Multiple first light-emitting elements include a light-emitting element of a first color, a light-emitting element of a second color, and a light-emitting element of a third color. The first pixel circuit is configured to drive first light-emitting elements to emit light. In at least one minimum repeating unit, at least two first light-emitting elements of at least one same color are electrically connected to a same first pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Hao Dai
  • Patent number: 12175919
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for refreshing an LED display. A signal signaling a timing for refreshing the LED display is received. In response to the signal, a bit-based image block is retrieved from one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a read buffer pointer, which is then toggled to point at the other of the pair of alternate buffers. The bits in the bit-based image block are sequenced in accordance with a connection pattern in which lights of the LED display are connected to generate sequenced image bits for the bit-based image block and control signals are generated for refreshing the lights of the LED display based on the sequenced image bits. The alights of the LED display re the refreshed based on the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ALPHASCALE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Qi Dong, Minglang Wang, Gufeng Xi