Patents Examined by Calvin C Ma
  • Patent number: 11557263
    Abstract: A display panel for displaying an image is provided with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes one or more units each including a plurality of subunits. Each subunit includes a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided so as to overlap a gate electrode with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, a pixel electrode which drives liquid crystal connected to a source or a drain of the transistor, a counter electrode which is provided so as to face the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. In the display panel, a transistor whose off current is lower than 10zA/?m at room temperature per micrometer of the channel width and off current of the transistor at 85° C. can be lower than 100zA/?m per micrometer in the channel width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11552271
    Abstract: A mask plate for fabricating a display panel and an application thereof are provided. The mask plate is configured to vapor-deposit a metal cathode layer of the display panel and includes a first blocking region and a first opening region disposed in the first blocking region, wherein a second blocking region is disposed in the first opening region, and the second blocking region is provided with a plurality of second opening regions spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Sun, Mian Zeng
  • Patent number: 11550393
    Abstract: A metaverse multimedia system based on user brainwaves causes that emotional messages, voice messages and color messages could be captured from the brainwaves of the users. The emotional messages are integrated to the role of the user in the metaverse space. Hence, the role in the metaverse can respond the emotions of the user, while the voice messages and color messages are integrated into the sceneries in the metaverse, which is selected by the user. As a result, the metaverse space completely presents user's states of mind which are captured from the brainwaves of the users. Furthermore the whole sceneries and presentations of the roles in the metaverse space are adjustable with the changes of the users. It can also express user's personalities. Interaction modes between the users and visitors entering into the metaverse space of the user could be analyzed based on the method disclosed in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Ching Lee, Ruey Yuan Lee
  • Patent number: 11550416
    Abstract: A touch display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch display panel, a power management circuit, a display driving circuit, and a touch circuit. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to display an image, and notifies the power management circuit to perform a voltage adjustment of a common voltage supplied to the touch display panel in a voltage adjustment period. The touch circuit individually performs a touch sensing operation on multiple sensing lines of a touch sensing layer of the touch display panel, so as to generate multiple touch sensing data corresponding to the sensing lines. The touch circuit ignores the touch sensing data corresponding to the voltage adjustment period, or the touch circuit suspends performing the touch sensing operation on the sensing lines of the touch sensing layer during the voltage adjustment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Feng-Lin Chan
  • Patent number: 11543924
    Abstract: An input sensor includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, a plurality of first sensing lines, a plurality of second sensing lines, a first connection line, and a second connection line. The plurality of first sensing lines are electrically connected to the plurality of first sensing electrodes, respectively. The plurality of second sensing lines are electrically connected to the plurality of second sensing electrodes, respectively. The first connection line electrically connects a pair of first sensing electrodes of the plurality of first sensing electrodes. The second connection line electrically connects a pair of second sensing electrodes of the plurality of second sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jungmok Park
  • Patent number: 11537241
    Abstract: An ultrasonic induction circuit is provided, a first electrode of an ultrasonic sensor is electrically connected with a first terminal of the ultrasonic sensing circuit, a second electrode is electrically connected with a second terminal of a first potential supply sub-circuit, and the first terminal of the first potential supply sub-circuit is electrically connected with a first potential supply end. A gate of M1 is electrically connected with the second electrode and the second terminal of the compensation sub-circuit. The second electrode is electrically connected with the first terminal of the compensation sub-circuit. The first electrode is coupled to the second potential supply end. The first terminal of the signal output sub-circuit is electrically connected to the second electrode of the first transistor, and the second terminal is electrically connected to the second terminal of the ultrasonic induction circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Lei Wang, Pengpeng Wang, Changfeng Li, Xiufeng Li, Chenyang Zhang, Tianqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11532272
    Abstract: A pixel includes a light-emitting device, a driving TFT for controlling a magnitude of a current from a power line to the light-emitting device according to a gate-source voltage, a storage capacitor disposed between the power line and a gate of the driving TFT, a scan TFT to transfer a data voltage to a source of the driving TFT in response to a first signal, first and second compensation TFTs serially connected between a drain and the gate of the driving TFT, a gate initialization TFT to apply a first voltage to the gate of the driving TFT in response to a second signal, an anode initialization TFT to apply a second voltage to an anode of the light-emitting device in response to a third signal, and a shield capacitor disposed between a node between the first and second compensation TFTs and the power line or a second voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghwan Kim, Eunju Kim
  • Patent number: 11526183
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to technologies for a sensor network, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of Things (IoT). This disclosure can be utilized in intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail sales, security and safety related services, etc. This disclosure relates to a method for generating an instruction for controlling equipment on the basis of biometric information, comprising: a step of obtaining at least one biometric information; a step of determining whether to calculate a calorific value by using stored biometric information and the obtained biometric information, and calculating the calorific value by using the stored biometric information and the obtained biometric information according to the determined result; and generating an instruction for controlling the equipment on the basis of the calculated calorific value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong-Hoon Kwak, Chang-Hyun Lee, Jae-Ho Jung, Yang-Wook Kim, Yong-Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 11523760
    Abstract: An arousal state estimation apparatus includes: a feature value acquisition unit acquiring a plurality of types of feature values regarding an arousal state of a human body from physiological data obtained by measuring the human body; and an estimation unit estimating the arousal state of the human body by using a principal feature value that is some type among the plurality of types of feature values. In a case where the principal feature value is unacquirable due to a defect of the physiological data, the estimation unit estimates the arousal state of the human body by using a different type of feature value than the principal feature value among the plurality of types of feature values acquired by the feature value acquisition unit instead of the unacquirable principal feature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Kubota, Tomohiro Imai, Shigekazu Higuchi, Kosuke Okusa, Hisao Yoshida, Yuka Egashira, Yuki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11526876
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for calibrating a brain activity morning system. The system may receive a transmission that indicates a user desires to calibrate a brain activity measuring device. The system may determine a calibration procedure appropriate for the user. The system can also store one or more settings based on the calibration procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar Chauhan, Ravi Kumar Kesani
  • Patent number: 11520405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP)-based stimulus detection device and a method thereof. The SSVEP-based stimulus detection device may include a sensor that acquires a multichannel ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG) signal, a storage that stores a plurality of reference signals having different stimulation frequencies, and a controller that periodically determines correlation coefficients between the plurality of reference signals and the multichannel EEG signal for a reference time, normalizes the determined plurality of correlation coefficients for stimuli, determines slopes of regression lines for stimuli by performing analysis of covariance on the normalized plurality of correlation coefficients for stimuli, and detects a stimulus intended by a user according to the determined slopes of the regression lines for stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Kyu Nam, Tae Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11520411
    Abstract: Dual, ergonomically ideal, neutral-posture, wireless-and-programmable, joinable keys-input devices/housings (FIGS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Boak John Ferris, Curtis Irwin
  • Patent number: 11500462
    Abstract: A system assists a worker in performing manufacturing tasks involving one or more objects. The system comprises an augmented-reality display system, a task-state sensing system that determines a state of a manufacturing task, a physiological-state-sensing system that detects a physiological state of the worker, and an electronic processing system. The electronic processing system determines a guidance setting for the worker from their detected physiological state and determines assistance information to display to the worker based on the state of the manufacturing task and the determined guidance setting for the worker. The augmented-reality display system displays the determined assistance information to the worker in a controlled spatial relationship to the object(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KIT-AR LIMITED
    Inventors: Manuel Fradinho Duarte De Oliveira, Felix Mannhardt, Youngjun Cho, Simon Justin Julier, Joao Carlos Antunes Goncalves Costa
  • Patent number: 11487394
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer, a first electrode unit, second electrode units, and a first strain gauge. The first electrode unit includes first touch electrodes arranged on the base layer along a first direction and electrically connected to each other along the first direction. The second electrode units are spaced apart from one another along the first direction. Each of the second electrode units includes second touch electrodes arranged on the base layer along a second direction intersecting the first direction and electrically connected to each other along the second direction. Each of the second touch electrodes includes a first opening. The first strain gauge includes first resistance lines electrically connected to each other along the first direction. Each of the first resistance lines is disposed in a respective first opening disposed in a first row among the first openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Hui Kim, Ga Young Kim, A Ra Jo
  • Patent number: 11467665
    Abstract: A system including a power source, one or more stimulating devices for stimulating the visual cortex of a user to present a perceived virtual image responsive to the stimulating, one or more sensing devices for sensing electrical signals in the motor and/or pre-motor cortex of the user and a processor/controller connected to the stimulating and sensing devices and programmed to sense signals from the motor and/or pre-motor cortex of the user. The sensed signals result from the user performing a movement and/or intending to perform a movement and/or imagining the performing of a movement and are used to interact with the presented virtual image. The processor/controller processes the sensed signals to obtain computed data indicative of a user's interaction with the virtual image, and performs a general computing task responsive to the computed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Meron Gribetz
  • Patent number: 11469603
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for charging a stylus of an information handling system includes: receiving, by a stylus docking slot of a keyboard of the information handling system, the stylus, the keyboard communicably coupled to the information handling system; causing, by a plurality of keyboard magnets of the keyboard, a partial alignment of the stylus in relation to the stylus docking slot, the plurality of keyboard magnets attracting a plurality of stylus magnets of the stylus; causing, by an alignment nub of the keyboard, an alignment of one or more spring contacts of the stylus in relation to one or more charging contacts of the keyboard, the alignment nub configured to removably couple to a beveled recess of the stylus; and providing, by the one or more charging contacts, power to an energy storage unit of the stylus via the one or more spring contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Allen B. McKittrick, Christopher Barnard, Deeder Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11460706
    Abstract: An optical system for displaying light from a scene includes an active optical component that includes a first plurality of light directing apertures, an optical detector, a processor, a display, and a second plurality of light directing apertures. The first plurality of light directing apertures is positioned to provide an optical input to the optical detector. The optical detector is positioned to receive the optical input and convert the optical input to an electrical signal corresponding to intensity and location data. The processor is connected to receive the data from the optical detector and process the data for the display. The second plurality of light directing apertures is positioned to provide an optical output from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Marsupial Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Parker, Michael A. Strauss, Ian M. Rousseau, Eric M. Gallo
  • Patent number: 11462163
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Shih Chang Chang, Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 11450291
    Abstract: The resolution of a low-resolution image is made high and a stereoscopic image is displayed. Resolution is made high by super-resolution processing. In this case, the super-resolution processing is performed after edge enhancement processing is performed. Accordingly, a stereoscopic image with high resolution and high quality can be displayed. Alternatively, after image analysis processing is performed, edge enhancement processing and super-resolution processing are concurrently performed. Accordingly, processing time can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11429227
    Abstract: There is achieved an electronic device including a position detector that can detect a touch position with high accuracy even when thickness reduction proceeds. A touch position detection method includes: a first determination step (S710) of determining whether or not negative-value data is included in mutual capacitance detection data; a second determination step (S720) of determining whether or not a mutual capacitance detection region and a self-capacitance detection region overlap; a third determination step (S730) of determining whether or not the maximum value of the absolute value of negative-value data and the area of a negative-value data region are equal to or greater than thresholds; a correction step (S740) of correcting the mutual capacitance detection data on the basis of self-capacitance detection data; and a touch position specification step (S750) of specifying a touch position on the basis of the mutual capacitance detection data after the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Mayumi, Daiji Kitagawa, Atsushi Aoki