Patents Examined by Benjamin C. Lee
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Patent number: 12288511Abstract: A dynamic-voltage-control pixel includes a pixel memory, an input circuit operable at a refresh voltage to receive pixel data and store the received pixel data in the pixel memory, a light emitter, and an output circuit operable at a drive voltage to read the stored pixel data from the pixel memory and control the light emitter to output light according to the read stored pixel data. The drive voltage can be less than the refresh voltage. The input circuit, pixel memory, and output circuit can be connected to a common-voltage wire providing a common voltage for operating each of the input circuit, pixel memory, and output circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: X Display Company Technology LimitedInventors: Murat Ozbas, Ronald S. Cok
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Patent number: 12282600Abstract: A wearable haptic modulation device for real-time simulation of texture properties of a material surface in mixed reality environments is provided. Particularly, it includes a U-shaped pneumatic actuator surrounds a user's fingertip, a finger-housing support creating a space for fingertip containment, a resonant actuator on the finger-housing support generating vibrotactile feedback to enhance perceived roughness on touched physical surfaces, and a pneumatic control system generating pneumatic actuation to reduce the perceived roughness on touched physical surface. Notably, the U-shaped pneumatic actuator allows direct contact of the user's fingerpad with the touched physical surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: City University of Hong KongInventors: Kening Zhu, Xinge Yu, Shaoyu Cai, Haichen Gao, Qi Zhang
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Patent number: 12284830Abstract: 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 an 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. The first transistor further includes a third gate electrode. Along the direction perpendicular to the base substrate, a distance between the third gate electrode and the first active layer is D3, and D1<D3.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Yong Yuan, Ping An, Zhaokeng Cao
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Patent number: 12282695Abstract: A visual display covered by a veneer displays information in a manner that the information is not obscured by a pattern that appears in the veneer. To do this, a processor receives a pixel map of the pattern. When the processor receives a command to display an image, the processor will process the image to align: (a) a first set of features of the image to regions of a display device that correspond to first class areas in the pixel map; and (b) a second set of features of the image to regions of the display device that correspond to the second areas in the pixel map. The processor will then cause the display device to display the processed image while the veneer that exhibits the pattern is positioned over the display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: JOYSONQUIN AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA, LLCInventors: Mario J. Enriquez Ortiz, Frances A. Elenbaas
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Patent number: 12279459Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate, a third transistor and a fourth transistor. The third transistor and the fourth transistor are formed on the base substrate. The third transistor includes a sixth gate electrode, a third active layer, a third source electrode, and a third drain electrode. The third active layer includes an oxide semiconductor. The fourth transistor includes an eighth gate electrode, a fourth active layer, a fourth source electrode, and a fourth drain electrode. The fourth active layer includes another oxide semiconductor. Along a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, a distance between the sixth gate electrode and the third active layer is D6. A channel region of the third transistor defined by the sixth gate electrode is a sixth channel region. A length of the sixth channel region is L6. A sixth area S6=L6×D6.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Yong Yuan, Ping An, Zhaokeng Cao
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Patent number: 12266320Abstract: A gray scale compensation method for a display panel includes: dividing a display region of the display panel into a first display region, a second display region and a transition display region arranged between the first and second display regions; configuring a first compensation algorithm for the first display region to obtain a first compensation gray scale of the first display region, configuring, for the second display region, a second compensation algorithm different from the first compensation algorithm to obtain a second compensation gray scale of the second display region, and configuring, for the transition display region, a third compensation algorithm different from the first and second compensation algorithms to obtain a third compensation gray scale of the transition display region; and configuring the display panel to display an image according to the first compensation gray scale, the second compensation gray scale and the third compensation gray scale.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Kunshan New Flat Panel Display Technology Center Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chunhui Ren, Xiaokang Zhou, Jinquan Zhang
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Patent number: 12266287Abstract: A Gamma debugging method, apparatus and device. The method includes: determining a target display parameter of a display module at an ith gray scale binding point according to a target display parameter of the display module at a first gray scale binding point and a preset Gamma mapping relationship, controlling the display module to display an initial gray scale picture according to the target display parameter at the ith gray scale binding point, and collecting an actual display parameter of the display module at the ith gray scale binding point; and adjusting, under a condition that a difference between the actual display parameter at the ith gray scale binding point and the target display parameter at the ith gray scale binding point goes beyond a preset deviation threshold range, a data signal parameter corresponding to the ith gray scale binding point.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: KunShan Go Visionox Opto Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yuqing Wang, Tao Tang, Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 12260798Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: X Display Company Technology LimitedInventors: Matthew Alexander Meitl, Ronald S. Cok, Lee B. Baker, Christopher Andrew Bower
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Patent number: 12260020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Nakagawa, Yohei Fukuma, Ryo Yokoyama
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Patent number: 12254128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Bhargav Krishnamurthy, Ankit Taparia
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Patent number: 12254138Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.Inventors: Wei-Ching Kuo, Xu Yang, I-Min Shu, Rong-Fu Lee
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Patent number: 12253784Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventor: Craig Lin
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Patent number: 12217701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Weonjun Choe
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Patent number: 12217694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keun Woo Kim, Mee Jae Kang, Doo Na Kim, Yun Jung Oh, Yong Su Lee, Jae Hwan Chu
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Patent number: 12218145Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Yihua Zhu, Yong Yuan, Ping An, Zhaokeng Cao
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Patent number: 12216872Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLCInventors: Jenna Lopez, Maxwell Watson, Sukanya Ranganathan, Frank A. Nardelli
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Patent number: 12217665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
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Patent number: 12217378Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Inventors: Matthew Ryan Gilg, Timothy Chia-Chieh Sun
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Patent number: 12211430Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junhyun Park, Hyeongseok Kim, Jangmi Kang, Minjae Jeong, Mukyung Jeon
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Patent number: 12211437Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Miao Wang