Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 11093064
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sakae Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11087660
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Tung-Ying Wu
  • Patent number: 11086444
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weijun Yao, Wei Hsin Yao, Yingxuan Li, Bingrui Yang, Marduke Yousefpor, Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari, Ahmad Al-Dahle
  • Patent number: 11081075
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hyunwook Lee, Pilgyu Kang, Minchan Lee, Sungjin Lee, Chanyoung Lim, Solip Jeong
  • Patent number: 11068106
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingsi Liang, Ya-Nan Wen
  • Patent number: 11068086
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventors: Sylvain Maillard, Melaine Antoine Julou
  • Patent number: 11061565
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeki Kizaki
  • Patent number: 11061500
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Wei-Song Wang
  • Patent number: 11062672
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaeseung Lee
  • Patent number: 11056960
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Jong Hyung Jung, Jong Hun Lee, Nam Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 11054925
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Yin Xia, Lu Fu, Lei Pan, Xiao Lin Sun
  • Patent number: 11056659
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei Zhou, Xiuqi Huang, Zhenzhen Han, Yanqin Song, Weilong Li, Siming Hu
  • Patent number: 11048109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11043181
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Jiro Yamada, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11024237
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongsung Park, Minwoo Byun, Keonwoo Kim, Seungbin Lee, Deok-young Choi
  • Patent number: 11016570
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Togawa, Sho Sonoda, Kai Masamoto
  • Patent number: 11011122
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Ophir, Gil Benesh
  • Patent number: 11009953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Kentaro Usui
  • Patent number: 11004387
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anup P. Jose
  • Patent number: 11004395
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juhee Lee, Jongwoo Park, Youngtae Choi, Daeyoun Cho