Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
  • Patent number: 10942386
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and an adhesive layer. The first substrate includes drive electrodes arranged at a first intervals in a first direction. The second substrate is opposed to the first substrate and includes detection electrodes arranged at a second intervals in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The adhesive layer bonds the first substrate and the second substrate together. A first detection electrodes of the detection electrodes are shaped in accordance with a shape of a display area which displays an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Teranishi
  • Patent number: 10930233
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a display device and a compensation method for the display device. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting diode display panel and a liquid crystal display panel, where the organic light-emitting diode display panel in a first display region is configured as a backlight for the liquid crystal display panel. The organic light-emitting diode display panel includes a first array substrate and an organic light-emitting function film. The first array substrate includes a first pixel driving circuit, where the first pixel driving circuit includes a first A-type pixel driving circuit and a first B-type pixel driving circuit, and a density of the first A-type pixel driving circuit is less than a density of the first B-type pixel driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaojun Huang, Zhongjie Zhang, Sha Lin
  • Patent number: 10928952
    Abstract: A touch display panel including first electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, and second electrodes extending in a second direction and arranged in the first direction; each first electrode includes first electrode blocks and first connecting electrodes arranged at intervals in the first direction; in the first electrode, two adjacent first electrode blocks are electrically connected by a first connecting electrode; each second electrode includes second electrode blocks and bridge structures arranged at intervals in the second direction; in each second electrode, two adjacent second electrode blocks are electrically connected by a bridge structure; the second electrode blocks are arranged in a different layer from the bridge structures; the bridge structures intersect the first connecting electrodes, and the dummy electrode is located between each second electrode block and the first connecting electrode adjacent thereto and intersects with the bridge structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingxia Wang, Min Chen, Kaihong Huang
  • Patent number: 10923071
    Abstract: The disclosed display device may include a display screen having (1) a front surface and (2) a pair of display regions that emit image light from the front surface, the pair of display regions separated from each other by a non-display region in a longitudinal direction of the display screen, each of the pair of display regions including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns, the plurality of pixel rows and the plurality of pixel columns each extending obliquely relative to a peripheral edge of the front surface. The display device may also include a display driver circuit for driving the plurality of pixels of both of the pair of display regions, the display driver circuit disposed apart from the pair of display regions in a lateral direction of the display screen. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 10915190
    Abstract: There are provided a touch substrate and a display device, the touch substrate includes touch elements arranged in rows and columns, each of the touch elements includes first electrode blocks coupled together by a connection part and second electrode blocks coupled together by a bridge part, the bridge part crosses the connection part, and an insulation layer is provided between the connection part and the bridge part, the touch elements include a first touch element close to an arc-shaped edge of the touch substrate and a second touch element far away from the arc-shaped edge, a cross point of the connection part and the bridge part in the first touch element is far away from the arc-shaped edge of the touch substrate, and a cross point of the connection part and the bridge part in the second element is at a center position of the second touch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qing Gong
  • Patent number: 10908731
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition device with a wake-up function is provided, which includes a signal wiring, a sensing array at least partially surrounded by the signal wiring, a first electrode, and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled with the signal wiring, the first electrode, and the sensing array. The control circuit detects capacitance between the signal wiring and the first electrode in a first operation mode to generate a sensing result, and determines whether an object is on or near the sensing array according to the sensing result. If the control circuit determines that the object is on or near the sensing array, the control circuit switches from the first operation mode to a second operation mode. The control circuit drives the sensing array by the signal wiring to generate multiple sensing signals in the second operation mode, and calculates a sensed image according to the multiple sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Wen Chou, Yu-Jing Chen, Chia-Ching Chen, Tsun-Chien Cheng, Chun-Ku Kuo, Po-Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10910168
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided, which includes a substrate, a protruding pattern, a first conductive pattern, an insulating layer, and a second conductive pattern. The protruding pattern is disposed on the substrate. The first conductive pattern is disposed on the substrate and covers the protruding pattern. The insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive pattern. The insulating layer includes an opening overlapping at least a portion of the protruding pattern. The second conductive pattern is disposed on the insulating layer. The second conductive pattern is connected to the first conductive pattern through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-hee Jeong, Yong-hwan Park, Yeontae Kim, Taejoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10910463
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixel columns including pixels arranged along a first direction; pixel rows including pixels arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction; data lines connected to respective pixel columns, each of the data lines including a first sub-data line provided at one side of a corresponding pixel column and a second sub-data line provided at another side of the corresponding pixel column; scan lines extending along the second direction and connected to respective pixel rows; and a power line to supply driving power to the pixels, one of the pixels of the pixel columns is connected to the first sub-data line, and a pixel adjacent to the pixel connected to the first sub-data line is connected to the second sub-data line, and the first sub-data line and the second sub-data line in the same pixel column are on different layers from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Won Choi, Jun Yong An, Yun Kyeong In, Won Mi Hwang
  • Patent number: 10911748
    Abstract: A display calibration system may include a first electronic device that includes an ambient light sensor and a display to be calibrated in a second electronic device. The first electronic device may generate test patterns to be displayed on the display. The ambient light sensor may receive light emitted from the display based on the test patterns to generate display color space data. The first electronic device may generate calibration data for the display based on the display color space data and a target reference color space. The second electronic device may store the calibration data and use the calibration data to generate more accurate images. Because the first electronic device may include other functionalities other display calibration, specialized display calibration equipment may be omitted. Additionally, a third electronic device that acts as an intermediary between the first and second electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Molholm, Mingxia Gu, Lu Zhang, Francisco H. Imai, Jiaying Wu, Shahram Peyvandi, Gabriel Marcu, Po-Chieh Hung, Xiran Wang
  • Patent number: 10901536
    Abstract: A sensor controller is provided, to be connected to a sensor electrode group configuring a surface. The sensor controller supplies a determined AC signal to one or more AC signal transmission electrodes that form part of a plurality of sensor electrodes included in the sensor electrode group, and the sensor controller transmits, from cancellation signal transmission electrode(s) different from the AC signal transmission electrodes, a cancellation signal configured to prevent a signal transmitted from the AC signal transmission electrodes from appearing in a ground terminal of a detection circuit of the stylus. The sensor controller thusly configured may facilitate preventing a situation in which the stylus cannot detect an uplink signal and facilitate preventing the uplink signal from affecting the operation of another apparatus such as a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kadowaki, Hideyuki Komatsu, Haruhiko Hisano
  • Patent number: 10877568
    Abstract: Various embodiments for a three-dimensional in-the-air finger motion based user login framework for gesture interface are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Dijiang Huang, Duo Lu
  • Patent number: 10871653
    Abstract: A system included in a wearable viewing device (10) prevents reduction in legibility of a near-eye image display for observation in combination with an observer's visual exterior view. The system includes a near-eye image source (14) from which emanates near-eye image-carrying light and which is positioned out of the observer's direct visual exterior view. A dimming matrix display (12) including multiple pixels is positioned so that the observer (22) can see though them a scene (30, 32) in an exterior view. A partly transparent optical element (20) is positioned so that the observer can see the scene in the exterior view and reflect the near-eye image-carrying light to provide an image for observation by the observer. A dimming controller (34) controls amounts of scene-carrying light propagating through the multiple pixels from the locations in the scene and thereby prevents wash-out of the near-eye image when outside illumination is very bright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LC-TEC Displays AB
    Inventors: Jesper Osterman, Fredrik Kihlborg, Terry J. Scheffer
  • Patent number: 10866423
    Abstract: A method operates a display system having a pair of data glasses in a motor vehicle. The method transmits brightness information, especially supplied by a driver assistance system, to the data glasses, and adapts, depending on the transmitted brightness information, an aperture opening and/or an exposure time of a data glasses camera which is used to recognize a position and orientation of the data glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Matthias Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 10860087
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a screen by using a device are provided. The method includes obtaining, at the second device, a display screen displayed on the first device and information related to the display screen according to a screen display request regarding the first device, determining, at the second device, an additional screen based on the display screen on the first device and the information related to the display screen, and displaying the additional screen near the display screen on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-sik Kim, Su-jung Bae, Moon-sik Jeong, Sung-do Choi
  • Patent number: 10861384
    Abstract: A method of controlling image data includes the steps of: receiving an image frame; generating an image data distribution of the image frame; and controlling a parameter for displaying the image frame according to the image data distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Yang, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10859831
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an indication of a baseline elevation representing a base plane of a real-world environment, receiving a request via a user device to initiate a boundary definition state, monitoring an elevation and an orientation of the user device during manipulation to generate elevation data and orientation data during the boundary definition state, and defining a virtual boundary in a virtual-world environment based on the baseline elevation, the elevation data, and the orientation data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Pollard, Jimmy K. Yun, Jason Dong Uk Kim
  • Patent number: 10852816
    Abstract: A method for improving user interaction with a virtual environment includes presenting a virtual environment to a user, measuring a first position of a user's gaze relative to a virtual environment, receiving a magnification input, and changing a magnification of the virtual environment centered on the first position and based on the magnification input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Sophie Stellmach
  • Patent number: 10847070
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of subpixels are disposed; a gate driver circuit driving the plurality of gate lines; and a data driver circuit driving the plurality of data lines, wherein the data driver circuit outputs a detection set voltage to at least one data line among the plurality of data lines during a blank period, and the detection set voltage is higher than a detection reference voltage, and wherein the data driver circuit stops outputting a data voltage to the at least one data line during at least one period of active periods after the blank period if a voltage of the at least one data line which the detection set voltage is supplied to be lower than the detection reference voltage during the blank period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventors: YongDuk Lee, YongJoon Heo
  • Patent number: 10831261
    Abstract: A cognitive display interface operatively couples to a display device and provides augmentation data for display to a user within a restricted access space based on user input. The interface receives user input and context-related data, with the user providing the user input within the space, and one or more sensors providing the context-related data. The interface analyzes the context-related sensor data to determine a location and an orientation of the user within the space at the time of providing the user input, resolves context of the user input based, at least in part, on the determined location and orientation of the user within the space, and determines a search query from the input and the resolved context. A response to the search query is generated based, at least in part, on searching a database(s), and the interface provides a response as augmentation data for rendering on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sougata Mukherjea, Saiprasad Kolluri Venkata Sesha, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 10817117
    Abstract: An input-sensing device may include a plurality of sensors, and each of the plurality of sensors includes a plurality of protruding portions, and a plurality of signal lines that are connected to some of the plurality of sensors. The number of the protruding portions included in a sensor that is connected to one of the plurality of signal lines may be less than the number of the protruding portions included in another sensor that is connected to another one of the plurality of signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoseok Son, Kwan-ho Kim, Sungyeon Cho, Jaseung Ku