Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
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Patent number: 10852891Abstract: Disclosed are an ultra-thin touch panel and a method of fabricating the same. Particularly, the ultra-thin touch panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged in a first direction on the flexible substrate, an adhesive insulating layer formed on the flexible substrate and the first sensing electrodes, and a plurality of second sensing electrodes arranged in a second direction, which intersects the first direction, on the flexible substrate and the adhesive insulating layer using a wet transfer method, wherein the flexible substrate is patterned in a shape corresponding to the first and second sensing electrodes by oxygen plasma etching to form a polygonal mesh structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Jong Hyun Ahn, Minpyo Kang
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Patent number: 10853587Abstract: An information terminal with low power consumption is provided. The information terminal includes a liquid crystal element, a light-emitting element, a first transistor, and a touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a photodiode, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor has a function of controlling a current flowing through the light-emitting element. The photodiode is electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor through the second transistor. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the third transistor through at least one transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuki Okamoto
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Patent number: 10845914Abstract: An electronic device (1) includes touch sensors (12, 13) on the front surface and on the back surface and a controller that slides the currently displayed screen, upon detecting performance of a slide operation on the touch sensor (13) on the back surface, by sliding the screen in only the direction of the larger vector component between the longitudinal component and the lateral component of the vector of the slide operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kenji Kono
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Patent number: 10847112Abstract: A VCOM generator circuit generates a VCOM signal for an electronic display. The VCOM circuit includes an operational amplifier having reduced supply rails. In an implementation, the VCOM circuit has at least three supply rails, AVDD, ground or GND, and VP or VN, or both. VP is less than AVDD and greater than VN. VN is higher than ground and below VP. The VCOM circuit with reduced voltage supply rails for VP and VN reduces power consumption of the VCOM op amps. By reducing power consumption, this also reduces the surface temperature of the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: IML InternationalInventors: Alberto Giovanni Viviani, Dimitry Goder, JunGi Lee, ChinFa Kao, Chun Lu
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Patent number: 10831318Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 10831074Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, and an electronic apparatus. The array substrate may include: multiple gate lines each extending along a first linear direction; and multiple data lines each extending along a second linear direction, wherein the multiple gate lines and the multiple data lines are interlaced with each other, the second linear direction is substantially perpendicular to the first linear direction; wherein a notch is defined on the upper edge. By the present disclosure, a wiring path of at least one of the gate lines or at least one of the data lines may avoid the notch. Therefore, a technical problem of uneven distribution of gate lines or data lines and abnormal display image due to the irregular shape of the display panel may be solved.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Jiawei Zhang
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Patent number: 10809832Abstract: A sensor base material and a photic base material such as a polarizing plate are stacked together. An opening is formed in the photic base material. Although the joining part of a flexible wiring board is joined to the sensor base material, a large portion of an opposing edge facing a display and input region, the opposing edge being part of the joining part, is positioned in the opening, so bubbles along the opposing edge are less likely to be generated, making the display quality of the display and input region less likely to be affected. In addition, since the both-side substrate ends of the joining part are sandwiched between the sensor base material and the photic base material, the joining part is less likely to be deformed, making it easy to prevent damage to the sensor base material.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Michiharu Motonishi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10802647Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a flat panel display including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and pixels arranged on a display region of the lower substrate in a stripe arrangement; first sensing cells arranged in a first direction on the upper substrate and second sensing cells arranged in a second direction on the upper substrate; first connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, and second connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, wherein at least one of the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns is inclined so that it partially overlaps with the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
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Patent number: 10803799Abstract: The present disclosure relate to a pixel circuit, a method of driving the pixel circuit and a display device. A pixel circuit, including: a light-emitting element configured to emit light; an input sub-circuit configured to receive a data signal under the control of a scan signal; a storage sub-circuit configured to store the data signal; a node control sub-circuit configured to receive a clock signal; and a driving sub-circuit configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light based on the clock signal from the node control sub-circuit and the data signal stored in the storage sub-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 10796658Abstract: A gamma reference voltage generating circuit comprises a first gamma reference voltage generating module and a second gamma reference voltage generating module. The first gamma reference voltage generating module is configured to receive a source voltage signal, amplify the source voltage signal to obtain a first gamma reference voltage signal, and output the first gamma reference voltage signal to a source driving circuit. The second gamma reference voltage generating module is configured to receive the source voltage signal, step down the source voltage signal to obtain a second gamma reference voltage signal, and divide a current on the second gamma reference voltage generating module into two output currents and transmit the two output currents to the source driving circuit, or buck chop the source voltage signal to obtain the second gamma reference voltage signal and transmit the second gamma reference voltage signal to the source driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Leli Peng, Xue Hu
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Patent number: 10782525Abstract: The present invention is directed to devices, systems and methods for coordinating water-related experiences with virtual reality content. In one aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a virtual reality experience to a rider moving along the surface of water is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing a headset to the rider, wherein the headset is placed over the rider's eyes; providing a surface of water along which the rider can travel; collecting data on the rider's acceleration, velocity or orientation through interaction of the headset with signals generated next to the surface of the water along which the rider travels; using the data to calculate one or more values that are used to coordinate virtual reality content with the rider's position along the water surface; presenting the virtual reality content to the rider through the headset, thereby providing a virtual reality experience to the rider.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Ballast Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Greenwood, Ananda Shah, Alkis Roufas, Allan Evans
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Patent number: 10782874Abstract: The simple gesture control of the user interface can be used by visually impaired or blind people in order to enter telephone numbers or account numbers for example. The user interface and the method constitute a shift from the current paradigm of guiding a user on touchscreens, which has precisely the advantage of the handeye coordination allowed by the touchscreen, wherein a user touches the exact location on the touchscreen where a corresponding selection surface is visualized. Instead, a swiping gesture is supported which can be carried out in any region on the touch-sensitive surface and shifts the focus from one selection surface or virtual button to the next. The swiping gesture can be carried out not just in the horizontal and vertical direction but also in a diagonal direction. Diagonal swiping gestures allow a particularly quick selection of the corresponding virtual buttons.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: AEVI INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Jürgen Görlich, Matthias Lindemann, Michael Nolte, Klaus-Peter Wegge
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Patent number: 10775618Abstract: Systems and methods for synthesizing an image of the face by a head-mounted display (HMD), such as an augmented reality device, are disclosed. The HMD may be able to observe only a portion of the face with an inward-facing imaging system, e.g., the periocular region. The systems and methods described herein can generate a mapping of a conformation of the portion of the face that is not imaged based at least partly on a conformation of the portion of the face that is imaged. The HMD can receive an image of a portion of the face and use the mapping to determine a conformation of the portion of the face that is not observed. The HMD can combine the observed and unobserved portions to synthesize a full face image.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Ilic, Martin Georg Zahnert
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Patent number: 10769983Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a backlight module, a method for manufacturing the backlight module, and a display device. The backlight module includes a substrate, a plurality of LED chips, and a first film having a plurality of channels. Each channel is filled with a channel filling portion. A refractive index n1 of the first film is smaller than a refractive index of the channel filling portion is n2. The first film has a first region and second region. Channels in the first region are astigmatism holes for diverging the light having a high intensity and channels in the second region are light-converging holes for converging the light having a low intensity, thereby alleviating or eliminating the starry phenomenon.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hailiang Wang, Binyi Zheng, Yan Yang, Ling Wu, Boping Shen
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Patent number: 10768738Abstract: Disclosed herein are electronic devices having piezoelectric haptic actuators to generate haptic output. The haptic actuators can be configured as a beam with a bendable material layer and a piezoelectric material layer the cause the beam to bend. The bending force can be increased by coupling a magnet to the beam and positioning a ferritic plate near the magnet. Alternatively, a ferritic plate can be attached to the beam, with the magnet positioned apart from, but near, the plate. The haptic actuator can have a two-sided piezoelectric configuration, having a piezoelectric layer on each side of the bendable material layer. A two-sided piezoelectric configuration can have a second magnet and ferritic plate pair on a side of the beam opposite the first. The haptic actuator may use electromagnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhipeng Zhang, Richard H. Koch
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Patent number: 10747421Abstract: A digital ink generating apparatus is disclosed, which includes: a stroke data generator which, in operation, generates stroke data associated with an input sensor attribute based on pen event data generated by an input sensor when an indicator is operated, a mapping data generator which, in operation, generates mapping data indicative of a transform rule for transforming a value of the input sensor attribute included in the stroke data to a value of one of line width and transparency, and a digital ink assembler which, in operation, outputs, in a determined data format, a digital ink including the stroke data and the mapping data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Branimir Angelov
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Patent number: 10747345Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a first sensor configured to sense a position of a touch of a user and a second sensor configured to sense a pressure of the touch. The first sensor and the second sensor may be provided inside or surrounding an area of the display panel. The second sensor includes a first conductor, a second conductor spaced apart from the first conductor, and configured to form capacitance with the first conductor, and one or more variable resistance elements connected with the first conductor.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Young Ko, Dong Gun Park, Jin Oh Kwag, Young Sik Kim, Tae Joon Kim
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Patent number: 10741122Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting display device including a display panel in which a plurality of Sub Pixels defined by a plurality of Data Lines and a plurality of Gate Lines are arranged, and a control method thereof. The organic light emitting display device includes a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the display panel, and a gate pulse modulator configured to modulate a voltage in a falling section of a scan signal provided to the plurality of GLs, in real time in accordance with the temperature. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent data from being mixed with each other, so that a clearer image can be realized, thereby improving the image quality.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Myung Jin Pyeon
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Patent number: 10740060Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method by which a master device provided by one embodiment of the present invention controls mirroring services between the master device and a slave device comprises the steps of: storing information related to first connection mode mirroring when a termination event of mirroring connected in a first connection mode has occurred; and setting mirroring in a second connection mode by using the stored mirroring-related information.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: In-Young Shin, Se-Hee Han
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Patent number: 10719151Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display screen and a manufacturing method thereof. The display screen includes: a TFT (thin film transistor) array substrate; a first planarization layer deposited on the TFT array substrate; a combining-structure layer deposited on the first planarization layer, the combining-structure layer includes a layer of first touch electrodes, a second planarization layer, and a layer of anode electrodes, the layer of the first touch electrodes and the layer of the anode electrodes are two different layers; an organic light emitting layer deposited on the combining-structure layer; a patterned cathode layer deposited on the organic light emitting layer includes a number of cathode electrodes used as second touch electrodes; and an encapsulation layer formed on the patterned cathode layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jian Ye