Patents Examined by Darlene M Ritchie
  • Patent number: 11966543
    Abstract: An operating device contains a sensor surface, a signal generator for providing a control signal with a predetermined frequency for the sensor surface, an evaluation device which is configured to provide a sensor signal which is dependent on the capacitance of the sensor surface, and a control facility. In this process, the control facility is configured to determine measuring noise on the evaluation device at different frequencies and to select the frequency of the control signal in order to determine the sensor signal as a function of the determined measuring noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Stadler, Carsten Zei, Oliver Fischer, Florian Rötzer
  • Patent number: 11966539
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a device for adjusting a touch capacitance data, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring the touch capacitance data; calculating a variation of a compensation capacitance value required to adjust the touch capacitance data to a target value according to a configured compensation step value; judging whether the touch capacitance data is in a nonlinear range; according to the judgment result, performing a corresponding compensation operation with the variation of the compensation capacitance value. The method enables the touch capacitance data to be automatically adjusted to being close to the target value, thus improving the accuracy of adjusting the touch capacitance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CHIPONE TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Yan, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11955038
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Ping-Yen Chou, Fu-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 11948696
    Abstract: A nuclear fusion reactor includes a chamber containing plasma and two or more devices which include superconducting electromagnetic coils. At least one of the two or more devices may be biased to a high voltage to provide thermal energy to ions in the magnetic confinement region. In some examples, the chamber and the two or more devices can be coaxial and toroid shaped. In some examples, the chamber can be spherical or cylindrical with the two or more devices being toroid or elongated toroid shaped and formed on opposite faces of a cuboid. The two or more devices may be disposed in the chamber to provide a high-beta magnetic confinement region for the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Horne Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tanner L. Horne
  • Patent number: 11934614
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for an anomaly detection framework that operates as an executable analysis tool for devices to operate in order to determine whether the device contains an unresponsive touch screen (e.g., defective or malfunctioning touch screen). The disclosed framework can analyze the capacitance capabilities of the touch screen, inclusive of the touch layers associated with the touch screen panel, and determine when a device's touch screen is unresponsive to user provided input, which can be any type of touch or gesture provided on a touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Ranganathan, Saurabh Tahiliani
  • Patent number: 11928284
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices detect defects in touch panels. Methods include scanning, using a designated integration window, a plurality of electrodes of a sensing device to obtain a plurality of measurements and determining a plurality of variance values for the plurality of electrodes based on the plurality of measurements, the plurality of variance values identifying variances in the plurality of measurements between adjacent sense locations of the sensing device. Methods also include determining if a defect is present in the sensing device based, at least in part, on a comparison of the plurality of difference values with the plurality of threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Vadym Grygorenko, Viktor Kremin, Oleksii Bukhtii, Oleksandr Pirogov, Jens Weber, Taras Kuzo
  • Patent number: 11927878
    Abstract: Provided is a projection screen. The projection screen includes a first transparent cover plate, a transparent touch panel, and a first nanoparticle layer, wherein the first nanoparticle layer and the first transparent cover plate are sequentially laminated on one side of the transparent touch panel, and the first nanoparticle layer comprises a plurality of dispersed nanoparticles of different particle sizes. A method for manufacturing a projection screen, a projection display system, and a projection display method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyun Tong, Yu Zhang, Zhuolong Li, Xuefei Qin, Junning Su
  • Patent number: 11928274
    Abstract: A protective film includes a transparent substrate layer and a transparent hardened layer covering a surface of the transparent substrate layer. The transparent hardened layer includes a first region covering a middle portion of the transparent substrate layer and a second region covering an edge of the transparent substrate layer, where hardness of the first region is greater than hardness of the second region. The transparent hardened layer includes the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Han, Yuanhui Guo, Xiaoguang Yang, Xiaoyu Huang, Yang Hu
  • Patent number: 11929184
    Abstract: A method of controlling a plasma in a nuclear fusion reactor. The nuclear fusion reactor comprises sensors and plasma control inputs. An initial control model is provided, relating readings of at least a subset of the sensors to control of the plasma control inputs. A control loop is performed, comprising: operating the plasma control inputs in dependence upon the sensors according to the control model; determining correlations between readings of each of the sensors, and/or between readings of the sensors and states of the plasma control inputs; and adjusting the control model based on the determined correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tokamak Energy Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Antony Milton McNamara, Peter Buxton, David Kingham
  • Patent number: 11914800
    Abstract: An information handling stylus housing defines an expansion bay that accepts conforming replaceable modules to support a variety of different functions, such as a trigger, a capacitive touch input area, a haptic output film and an extra battery. The replaceable module couples into the replacement bay with magnetic attraction and a pin to hole interface. A set of pogo pins extending up from the main circuit board of the stylus contacts pads of the replaceable module to provide power and communication support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Suet Chan Law, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11914781
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive user input device comprising: a first electrode layer comprising a first plurality of electrodes; a second electrode layer comprising a second plurality of electrodes; an insulating layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and at least one piezoelectric transducer, wherein an electrode of the at least one piezoelectric transducer is coupled to the first plurality of electrodes of the first electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Doy
  • Patent number: 11914814
    Abstract: A touch driving circuit and a touch display device are disclosed. A group sensing control switch connected between lines connected to sensing units included in a touch driving circuit is disposed, thereby providing a structure in which one sensing unit can drive a touch electrode driven by another sensing unit. One sensing unit simultaneously drives two or more touch electrodes according to an operation state of a group sensing control switch to perform touch sensing, thereby providing a touch driving circuit and a touch display device capable of maintaining the resolution of touch sensing and improving touch sensitivity according to a driving environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HyongHwan Kim, JinBong Chung, Sunkyung Shin
  • Patent number: 11907526
    Abstract: A touch region adjustment method includes: determining a region on a touch display of a terminal device and in which a sensing parameter changes to determine a grasping gesture of a user for the terminal device; and adjusting a location of a touch response region on the touch display based on the grasping gesture of the user for the electronic device to avoid an accidental touch caused by the grasping gesture of the user for the screen of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hang Li, Weigang Cai, Junyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11899876
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus includes drive electrodes, comprising at least first and second electrodes; a receiver electrode; drive circuitry configured to generate first and second time-varying voltage signals, wherein the time-varying voltage signals are the inverse of one another; and control circuitry that performs a first measurement on the receiver electrode during a first time period, wherein the control circuitry supplies at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the first time period; and perform a second measurement on the at least one receiver electrode during a second time period, wherein the control circuitry is configured to supply at least one of the time-varying voltage signals to the drive electrodes during the second time period; and determine a resultant signal corresponding to the mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the receiver electrode based on both the first measurement and the second measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TouchNetix Limited
    Inventors: Peter Timothy Sleeman, Stephen William Roberts
  • Patent number: 11893297
    Abstract: In the display control device according to the present embodiment, a first index and a second index are assigned to a plurality of first still images and a plurality of second still images, respectively, such that the feature points having periodic movements correspond between the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; a first animation included in a first display screen and a second animation included in a second display screen are displayed by means of continuous playback of the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; when there is a transition from the first display screen to the second display screen, a pre-transition image, which is the first still image immediately before the screen transition, is displayed, the second index corresponding to the first index assigned to the pre-transition image is selected to play back the second still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Amano
  • Patent number: 11894150
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing multi-scaled capture type vacuum pumping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Van Drie
  • Patent number: 11868560
    Abstract: A sensor device of the present invention includes first sensors; second sensors forming capacitance with the first sensors; a multi-frequency generator generating a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal having different frequencies; a sensor transmitter supplying first driving signals based on the first frequency signal to first sensors of a first group among the first sensors, supplying second driving signals based on the second frequency signal to first sensors of a second group among the first sensors, and simultaneously supplying the first driving signals and the second driving signals; and a sensor receiver simultaneously receiving sensing signals from the second sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keum Dong Jung, Ji Woong Kim, Hyung Gun Ma, Kyung Tea Park, Moon Jae Jeong, Sang Hyun Heo
  • Patent number: 11868555
    Abstract: A processing system configured to detect an input object proximate the processing system. The processing system includes sensor circuitry configured to make a determination, when the processing system is in a low ground mass (LGM) state, that a large object is proximate to sensor electrodes of the processing system. The sensor circuitry is further configured, in response to a determination that a large object is proximate the sensor electrodes while the processing system is in the LGM state, to drive a first group of sensor electrodes with one of an inverted signal or a non-inverted signal and drive a second group of sensor electrodes with a static DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk Hargreaves, Guozhong Shen, Ching-Hsung Wang, Guan-Hua Cao
  • Patent number: 11867909
    Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, having at least two parallel major surfaces, edges and an output aperture, an optical element for coupling light waves into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one redirecting element positioned outside of the substrate, and at least one reflecting surface having at least one active side located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, wherein light waves trapped inside the substrate are coupled out from the substrate through the output aperture substantially inclined in relation to the normal to the substrate major surfaces and are reflected from the redirecting element into a viewer's eye, and wherein the redirecting element is a single flat reflecting surface parallel to the major surfaces of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Menachem Amitai
  • Patent number: 11861130
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch module, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device. The touch module includes: a base substrate; an array of touch units arranged on the base substrate. Each touch unit includes a first touch electrode extending along a first direction and two second touch electrodes arranged on two sides of the first touch electrode along a second direction, the first direction and the second direction intersecting each other; wherein, the touch unit further includes: a bridging region between the two second touch electrodes, and a boundary region between the first touch electrode and each of the second touch electrodes. The bridging region includes a first cutting pattern, the boundary region includes a second cutting pattern, and the first cutting pattern and the second cutting pattern are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liyan Liu, Xinxing Wang, Xuefei Sun, Jaegeon You