Patents Examined by Calvin C Ma
  • Patent number: 11320943
    Abstract: A touch sensor stack structure according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a touch sensor structure including a bonding portion, a circuit connection structure bonded to the bonding portion of the touch sensor structure, and an optical film stacked on the touch sensor structure. The optical film includes a protrusion covering an end portion of the circuit connection structure and overlapping the bonding portion. Damages of electrodes included in the touch sensor structure can be prevented by the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Min Shin, Heon Kim
  • Patent number: 11308863
    Abstract: Disclosed is a timing controller including a coordinate data generation circuit configured to generate X coordinate emission data for acquiring X coordinates and Y coordinate emission data for acquiring Y coordinates of the touch coordinates, a selection circuit configured to time-divide 1 frame duration, to output image data to a display driving circuit during a display field, to output the X coordinate emission data to the display driving circuit during an X coordinate field, and to output the Y coordinate emission data to the display driving circuit during a Y coordinate field, and a control data generation circuit configured to generate source control data and gate control data for outputting the image data, the X coordinate emission data, and the Y coordinate emission data to a display panel and to output the source control data and the gate control data to the display driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You Jin Kwon, Sang Kwon Kim, Chang Sung Hong, Pyeong Keun Oh, Jun Ho Kwak
  • Patent number: 11308876
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit including: N pixel circuits each including a first node and a power supply terminal, N being an integer greater than 1; and N multiplexing circuits configured to selectively couple a data line to the first nodes of the N pixel circuits. A first one of the N multiplexing circuits includes a multiplexing control circuit, and a second one to an N-th one of the N multiplexing circuits include respective multiplexing control circuits and respective reset circuits. The reset circuit of a (j+1)-th one of the N multiplexing circuits is configured to reset the first node of a (j+1)-th one of the N pixel circuits with a power supply voltage in response to a j-th multiplexing control signal being active, j being an integer and 1?j<N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongni Liu, Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen, Lei Wang, Zheng Fang, Li Xiao, Liang Chen, Shengji Yang, Pengcheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11307700
    Abstract: Disclosed is a timing controller including a coordinate data generation circuit configured to generate X coordinate emission data for acquiring X coordinates and Y coordinate emission data for acquiring Y coordinates of touch coordinates, a selection circuit configured to time-divide 1 frame duration, to output the X coordinate emission data to a display driving circuit during an X coordinate field, and to output the Y coordinate emission data to the display driving circuit during a Y coordinate field, and a control data generation circuit configured to output control data for allowing each pixel to emit light in units of data line groups including i data lines using the X coordinate emission data during the X coordinate field and for allowing each pixel to emit light in units of gate lines including j gate lines using the Y coordinate emission data during the Y coordinate field, to the display driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You Jin Kwon, Sang Kwon Kim, Chang Sung Hong, Pyeong Keun Oh, Jun Ho Kwak
  • Patent number: 11307607
    Abstract: A pointing device includes: a substrate; an operation member that is provided tiltably with respect to the substrate, and includes a protrusion protruded from one of an inner wall and an outer wall; and a rotation member that is provided rotatably on the substrate, and includes a hole which the protrusion enters when the rotation member overlaps the operation member; wherein the rotation member rotates in conjunction with the operation member when the protrusion contacts an edge of the hole according to rotation of the operation member, wherein the hole is formed in a range in which the protrusion is movable by tilt of the operation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Arita, Tamotsu Koike
  • Patent number: 11307678
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an electronic pen including a first pen module which includes a first pen core including a writing material used for a medium and a pattern sensing unit configured to acquire a handwritten image of a user in order for the electronic pen to acquire first location information that is location information of the electronic pen with respect to the medium, a second pen module which generates at least one of a magnetic field and an electronic field in order for the electronic pen to acquire second location information that is location information of the electronic pen with respect to an electronic device, a main body in which the first pen module is disposed at a first end portion thereof and the second pen module is fixed to at least one of the first end portion and a second end portion thereof and which has a cavity therein, and a control unit which generates a signal for controlling the first pen module and the second pen module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEOLAB CONVERGENCE INC.
    Inventors: Sang Gyu Lee, Ji Wan Park, Bong Ki Park, Sung Hoon Ha, Sang Ho Kim, Sang Won Cho
  • Patent number: 11301085
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing method applicable to a touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes sequentially a third electrode layer, a flexible dielectric layer, and at least one touch electrode layer. The third electrode layer includes multiple parallel third electrodes. The at least one touch electrode layer includes first electrodes in parallel to a first axis and second electrodes in parallel to a second axis. Each of the first electrodes intersects with the second electrodes to form multiple intersections. The touch sensitive processing method comprises: performing self-capacitance detection via the third electrodes to retrieve an approximating event, performing mutual-capacitance detection via the first electrodes and the second electrodes to retrieve a touching event, and reporting the approximating event to a host if the touching event is detected, or reporting the touching event if it is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shun-Lung Ho
  • Patent number: 11302754
    Abstract: The touch display panel of the disclosure includes a first substrate, a first display electrode, a spacer and a first touch electrode. The first display electrode is disposed on the first substrate. The spacer is disposed on the first substrate. The first touch electrode is disposed on the first substrate, wherein the first touch electrode has a first bridge part, and at least a portion of the first bridge part is overlapped with the spacer from a top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jui-Jen Yueh
  • Patent number: 11294524
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technology for mitigating retransmission in a low ground mass (LGM) state and improving the touch sensitivity by not driving two adjacent sensor electrodes simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hee Jin Lee, Jae Hwan Lee, Jeong Kwon Nam, Kyu Tae Lee, Hyun Soo Chung, Jin Yoon Jang, Hee Ra Yun, Kyung Min Shin, Mun Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11287911
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a sensor includes: a pixel group including a predetermined number of pixels, each of which includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting device electrically connected to the pixel circuit; and a sensing pixel including a sensing circuit and a sensing electrode connected to the sensing circuit, where the sensing electrode forms a variable capacitor with respect to a finger, and the sensing circuit is arranged around the pixel circuit of the pixel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jangmi Kang, Jisun Kim
  • Patent number: 11282451
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a reset circuit, a compensation and data-in circuit, a drive transistor, and a light-emitting control circuit. The reset circuit is configured to reset a voltage of a control electrode of the drive transistor according to a first and third control signals. The compensation and data-in circuit is configured to receive a reference signal from the data line according to the first control signal, receive a data signal from the data line according to a second control signal, and apply a compensation voltage to the control electrode of the drive transistor based on the reference signal, the data signal, and a voltage of the first voltage terminal. The light-emitting control circuit is configured to control the light-emitting device to emit light according to a third control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 11281294
    Abstract: Provided is a smart control device including: a collection unit that collects a brain signal generated from a visual stimulus for color; a preprocessing unit that extracts pattern information from the brain signal; a selection unit that selects reference information having the highest correlation by comparing the pattern information to reference information provided in advance; and a control unit that has control commands set in advance and executes the control command matching the selected reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Seong-Whan Lee, Byeong-hoo Lee, Ji-Hoon Jeong, Do-Yeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11276355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a timing controller including a coordinate data generation circuit configured to generate X coordinate emission data for acquiring X coordinates and Y coordinate emission data for acquiring Y coordinates, a selection circuit configured to time-divide 1 frame duration to output the X coordinate emission data to a display driving circuit during an X coordinate field and to output the Y coordinate emission data to the display driving circuit during a Y coordinate field, and a control data generation circuit configured to output control data for allowing pixels connected to one data line to emit light in units of 1 data line using the X coordinate emission data during the X coordinate field and allowing pixels connected to one gate line to emit light in units of 1 gate line using the Y coordinate emission data during the Y coordinate field, to the display driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You Jin Kwon, Sang Kwon Kim, Chang Sung Hong, Pyeong Keun Oh, Jun Ho Kwak
  • Patent number: 11276359
    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 10 zA/?m at room temperature per micrometer of the channel width and off current of the transistor at 85° C. can be lower than 100 zA/?m per micrometer in the channel width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11269471
    Abstract: A sensor device has a plurality of electrode portions configured to provide one or more electrical signals and a non-conductive material provided on or over the plurality of electrode portions. The one or more electrical signals are provided in response to a change in capacitance between (i) at least one of the plurality of electrode portions and a conductive object being near to or in contact with the non-conductive material, and/or (ii) at least one of the plurality of electrode portions and at least one other of the plurality of electrode portions. A system comprising the sensor device and method of manufacturing the sensor device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Tangi0 Limited
    Inventors: Chia-hung Lin, Ilan Johan Eduardo Olivarez Correa, Liucheng Guo, Ming Kong
  • Patent number: 11247234
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module and a display panel. Advantages of the present invention are that a vibration absorbing layer can absorb mechanical energy of a piezoelectric thin film layer such that a number of cycles of later ultrasound is significantly reduces to extremely increase a vertical resolution of ultrasound fingerprint recognition and overall recognition effect and precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongxiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11243616
    Abstract: An input device includes: a sensor; a detection circuit which, in operation, detects a first indicated position indicated by an electronic pen in a two-dimensional space in accordance with transfer of a signal between the electronic pen and the sensor; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: detect a second indicated position indicated by the electronic pen in a three-dimensional space, and generate position information of the electronic pen in the two-dimensional space or the three-dimensional space based on the second indicated position and first indicated position. The input device enables a position indicated by the electronic pen and a pen posture of the electronic pen in the three-dimensional space to be detected in a satisfactory manner in view of precision and response speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Yuanhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11243619
    Abstract: An information handling system stylus makes inputs to a touchscreen display with a writing tip disposed at one end of a cylindrical housing. In an opening at the end of the cylindrical housing opposite the writing tip, a port and a push button are disposed under a removeable flexible cap to provide a cable connection for charging the stylus when the cap is removed and an input device to activate a wireless function when the flexible cap is in place, such as by translating end user pushes through a steel plate integrated in the flexible cap. An attachment member extends from the flexible cap into a sliding engagement with an end cap so that the flexible cap lifts out of the opening and flexes about the attachment member to expose the port in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Wong Hin Loong Justin, Kai Leong Wong
  • Patent number: 11237678
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch substrate. The touch substrate includes a base substrate and a first touch electrode layer on the base substrate and including a plurality of first touch electrodes. Each of the plurality of first touch electrodes has a first side proximal to the base substrate and a second side distal to the base substrate. The touch substrate further includes a first anti-reflective coating on both the first side and the second side of each of the plurality of first touch electrodes for reducing reflection of light on each of the plurality of first touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifeng Hu, Ming Zhang, Ting Zeng, Liuyue Yin, Cui Chen, Youting Zhang
  • Patent number: 11232755
    Abstract: A display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of data lead lines, at least one group of contact pads, and a first insulation layer. The base substrate includes a display region and a bonding region; the data lines are configured to provide data signals to the sub-pixels; the data lead lines are electrically connected to the data lines, respectively; the at least one group of contact pads includes a first group of contact pads and a second group of contact pads; the first insulation layer is in gaps between the contact pads and covers edges of the contact pads, and is configured to expose surfaces, away from the base substrate, of the contact pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongliu Yang, Yudan Shui, Yongfu Diao, Wenkang Wang, Chenyu Chen