Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
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Patent number: 11093064Abstract: A touch panel display includes a pixel including an organic EL element, a first transistor electrically connected to the power supply line and the organic electroluminescence element, and a second transistor electrically connected to the data signal line and the first transistor, a touch sensor overlapping the pixel, and a shield electrode between the pixel and the touch sensor. The shield electrode includes an opening in a region overlapping with the second transistor, the third gate electrode is disposed inside the opening, and the third gate electrode and the fourth gate electrode are electrically connected, the first gate electrode is electrically connected to the shield electrode, and the second gate electrode is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the shield electrode is grounded.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATIONInventor: Sakae Tanaka
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Patent number: 11087660Abstract: A timing controller and an operating method are provided. The timing controller includes a bit capture circuit and a gear position signal generation circuit. The bit capture circuit is configured to capture a first part bit from each of a plurality of original sub-pixel data of a video stream. The gear position signal generation circuit determines a gear position signal related to a current frame according to the first part bits. The gear position signal is provided to a gamma voltage generation circuit of a source driver such that the gamma voltage generation circuit changes a plurality of gamma voltages according to the gear position signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Tung-Ying Wu
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Patent number: 11086444Abstract: A self-capacitive touch sensor panel configured to have a portion of both the touch and display functionality integrated into a common layer is provided. The touch sensor panel includes a layer with circuit elements that can switchably operate as both touch circuitry and display circuitry such that during a touch mode of the device the circuit elements operate as touch circuitry and during a display mode of the device the circuit elements operate as display circuitry. The touch mode and display mode can be time multiplexed. By integrating the touch hardware and display hardware into common layers, savings in power, weight and thickness of the device can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weijun Yao, Wei Hsin Yao, Yingxuan Li, Bingrui Yang, Marduke Yousefpor, Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari, Ahmad Al-Dahle
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Patent number: 11081075Abstract: The present inventive concept is related to a display device in which a compensated voltage is applied to a gate line by compensating for a voltage drop of a voltage applied to the gate line.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Inventors: Hyunwook Lee, Pilgyu Kang, Minchan Lee, Sungjin Lee, Chanyoung Lim, Solip Jeong
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Patent number: 11068106Abstract: A noise sensing circuit is provided according to the disclosure. The noise sensing circuit includes a first filter, which is coupled to a plurality of receiving electrodes, and configured for receiving a plurality of reception signals corresponding to the plurality of receiving electrodes, and performing a high pass filtering operation or a band pass filtering operation on the plurality of reception signals to generate a filtering result; a down-sampling unit, which is coupled to the first filter, and configured for performing a down-sampling operation on the filtering result to generate a down-sampling result; and a noise detection unit, which is coupled to the down-sampling unit, and configured for determining a first operating frequency of the touch device according to the down-sampling result.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingsi Liang, Ya-Nan Wen
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Patent number: 11068086Abstract: The present invention concerns a terminal (1) comprising a frame (10), a touchscreen (11), a glass panel (12) protecting the touchscreen (11), an outer shell (13), characterized in that successively gripped between the frame (10) and the shell (13) there are: a first seal (14a), a peripheral region (120) of the glass panel (12), and a second seal (14b); and in that the touchscreen (11) is arranged between a central portion (121) of the glass panel (12) and the frame (10), the touchscreen (11) being secured to only one from among the frame (10) and the glass panel (12). The present invention also concerns a process for manufacturing the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCEInventors: Sylvain Maillard, Melaine Antoine Julou
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Patent number: 11061565Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first cursor button, a second cursor button, and a processor. The processor prompts a user to select a first direction by selecting one of the first cursor button or the second cursor button, and assigns the first direction to the first cursor button and a second direction to the second cursor button when the first cursor button is selected.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.Inventor: Shigeki Kizaki
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Patent number: 11061500Abstract: A touch display driving apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. A display frame period is divided into a plurality of display driving periods and a plurality of touch driving periods. During the display driving periods, the display driver circuit drives a touch display panel. During the touch driving periods, the touch driver circuit detects common electrode rows of the touch display panel. The common electrode rows are parallel to a plurality of gate lines of the touch display panel. Each of the common electrode rows serves as a current common electrode row, wherein the current common electrode row covers a plurality of corresponding gate lines of the gate lines. The touch driving period during which the current common electrode row being detected is not temporally adjacent to the display driving period during which the corresponding gate lines being driven.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Wei-Song Wang
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Patent number: 11062672Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel; a system board configured to supply a signal and a voltage required to drive the display panel; a timing controller configured to receive the signal from the system board, generate control signals required to drive the display panel, and transmit some of the control signals to the system board; and a level shifter configured to convert voltage levels of the some signal of the timing controller into a signal voltage level suitable for the system board. The level shifter includes an output voltage control terminal configured to control the level shifter not to generate an output voltage when the system board is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jaeseung Lee
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Patent number: 11056960Abstract: A tactile actuator, according to one embodiment, may comprise: a housing defining an accommodation space therein; an upper case for covering the upper part of the accommodation space; a vibration unit arranged inside the accommodation space; an upper elastic member connecting the upper side of the housing and the vibration unit; a lower elastic member for connecting the lower side of the housing and the vibration unit; and a coil for forming a magnetic field to drive the vibration unit, wherein one end of the upper elastic member may be fixed to a position on a side wall of the housing that is apart from the upper case.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Jong Hyung Jung, Jong Hun Lee, Nam Seok Kim
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Patent number: 11054925Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product that facilitate adjusting screen sensitivity of a touch screen are proposed. The computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processing units, one or more operational areas for an interface of an application running on a touch screen device; and determining, by the device, a screen sensitivity for each of the one or more operational areas respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Bin Xu, Yin Xia, Lu Fu, Lei Pan, Xiao Lin Sun
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Patent number: 11056659Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to display panels and display devices. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a display screen body disposed on the base substrate and including a display surface and a back surface, the display screen body being provided with a groove penetrating the display surface and the back surface, and an area of the display surface of the display screen body other than an area of the groove being a display area, a number of data signal wires configured to transmit driving data for pixel units in the display area; a number of power supply wires configured to supply an operating voltage to the pixel units in the display area and connected to a common power bus that surrounds the groove.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiwei Zhou, Xiuqi Huang, Zhenzhen Han, Yanqin Song, Weilong Li, Siming Hu
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Patent number: 11048109Abstract: A display module, display device, and method for controlling same which can suppress power consumption of an electronic device while providing a user with various types of information by various display methods. The display device is configured with two processors with different processing capacities and, with the processors cooperating mutually, image data is written in a driver circuit of a display section via separate interfaces in accordance with an operation mode. A driver circuit writes pixel data based on the image data in each pixel of a display panel which is a memory characteristic liquid crystal panel for retention, thereby controlling the display form of an image in the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
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Patent number: 11043181Abstract: A display unit includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the pixels includes one of an optical modulator and a self-luminescent element, and one of an electrochromic element, an electrophoretic element, and an electrowetting element. Each of the pixels further includes a pixel circuit that is configured to selectively drive the one of the optical modulator and the self-luminescent element, and selectively drive the one of the electrochromic element, the electrophoretic element, and the electrowetting element.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Jiro Yamada, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11024237Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode; a driving transistor including an input electrode connected to a first node (FN), a control electrode connected to a second node, and an output electrode connected to a third node; a switching transistor to apply a data signal to the FN in response to a scan signal in a second period; a first initialization transistor to apply a first initialization voltage to the second node in response to an initialization control signal in a first period (FP); a second initialization transistor to apply a second initialization voltage having a voltage level different from the first initialization voltage to the anode electrode in response to the initialization control signal in the FP; and an on-bias transistor to apply a first driving voltage to the FN in response to an on-bias control signal in the FP.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongsung Park, Minwoo Byun, Keonwoo Kim, Seungbin Lee, Deok-young Choi
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Patent number: 11016570Abstract: An input device includes a movable section having a touch sensor, and an actuator that is mechanically fixed to the touch sensor and vibrates in a lateral direction; a support that supports the movable section via an elastic component; and a pressure sensor that (i) is disposed on a side opposite to a side on which the support supports the movable section and (ii) detects a pressing operation to the touch sensor. At least one of the movable section and the support transmits a force from the pressing operation to the pressure sensor due to the movable section and the support moving integrally and as a whole in a direction of the pressing operation when the pressing operation is performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Togawa, Sho Sonoda, Kai Masamoto
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Patent number: 11011122Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) that may include: a plurality of transistors groups forming a pixel array of said LCD, wherein the transistors groups are independently controllable; a plurality of backlight units, forming a backlight surface of said LCD, wherein the backlight units are independently controllable; a data refresh module configured to periodically refresh data at said groups of transistors, at a specified order, over a refresh cycle time; and a backlight control module configured to periodically dim the backlight units at said specified order over a backlight cycle time which is substantially shorter than the refresh cycle time.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.Inventors: Yoav Ophir, Gil Benesh
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Patent number: 11009953Abstract: A resin film is disposed facing an upper surface of a diaphragm with a gap interposed therebetween. The gap is provided between a lower surface of the resin film and the upper surface of the diaphragm in a tactile feedback keyboard. Consequently, it is possible to secure a key stroke from the resin film to the upper surface of the diaphragm, and make a user feel a sense of an operation that the user has pushed a key. Further, the gap and the resin film reduces the vibrations from the diaphragm reaching an operation surface. Thus, the user feels the vibrations of the diaphragm via only a finger which has pushed the resin film until the resin film contacts the upper surface of the diaphragm, and the other fingers hardly feel the vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Kentaro Usui
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Patent number: 11004387Abstract: A device includes a segmented pull-up current source circuit including a first plurality of transistors, a segmented pull-down current source circuit including a second plurality of transistors, a comparator circuit configured to compare an output voltage level at the output of the device with a target voltage level and generate a comparator output at one of two output terminals of the comparator circuit, wherein the segmented pull-up current source circuit and the segmented pull-down current source circuit are connected to the two output terminals of the comparator circuit via one or more multiplexers, the first plurality of AND gate circuits and a second plurality of AND gate circuits; and a logic circuit connected to at least one output terminal of the comparator circuit and configured to control an operation of the segmented pull-up current source circuit and the segmented pull-down current source circuit based on the comparator output.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Anup P. Jose
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Patent number: 11004395Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, first pixels, second pixels, a power supply line (PSL), a power supply voltage supply circuit (PSVSC), and a feedback wire (FBW). The base layer includes a display area (DA) and a non-display area (NDA) adjacent to the DA. The DA includes a first pixel area (PA) including first pixels and a second PA including second pixels. The second PA protrudes from the first PA. The PSL extends in at least a first direction in the DA. The PSL receives a first power supply voltage (PSV) through a first end of the PSL, and supplies the first PSV to the first and second pixels. The PSVSC supplies the first PSV to the PSL through the first end. The FBW is electrically connected to a second end of the PSL disposed in the second PA. The FBW feeds back the first PSV to the PSVSC.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Juhee Lee, Jongwoo Park, Youngtae Choi, Daeyoun Cho