Patents Examined by Deeprose Subedi
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Patent number: 12733365Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate and pad terminals arranged on the substrate in a first direction in a pad area and including a first pad terminal disposed at outer side and an ith pad terminal disposed at inner side. Each of the pad terminals includes a lower conductive layer, convex portions, and an upper conductive layer. An overlapping area between the lower conductive layer of the first pad terminal and the convex portions is different from an overlapping area between the lower conductive layer of the ith pad terminal and the convex portions in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kikyung Youk, Hanbum Kwon, Cholong Won
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Patent number: 12730541Abstract: A sensor is provided, which includes an on-cell mutual-capacitance touch sensor and a RX electrode layer (RX sensor coil group) including a plurality of RX electrodes that detect a pen alternating magnetic field generated by a pen, which has accumulated energy through an alternating magnetic field from a TX electrode layer (TX sensor coil group). The TX electrode generates the alternating magnetic field for detecting a position of the pen by using an electromagnetic induction effect. In the RX electrode layer (RX sensor coil group), floating patterns, which are surrounded by touch electrodes formed by a mesh electrode pattern provided in an on-cell touch layer of the on-cell mutual-capacitance touch sensor and which are adjacent to one another in an extension direction of the RX electrodes, are connected to one another by jumper wires to linearly form RX electrode wires.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2025Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Fumitaka Goto, Joo Hoon Lee, Hayato Kurasawa
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Patent number: 12727350Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel driving circuit on a side of a substrate. The pixel driving circuit includes a drivier transistor; a ninth transistor with a first electrode being connected to a third initial signal line, and a second electrode being connected to a first electrode of the driver transistor; an eighth transistor with a first electrode being connected to a gate of the driver transistor; a first transistor with a first electrode being connected to a first initial signal line, and a second electrode being connected to a second electrode of the eighth transistor; and a second transistor with a first electrode being connected to the second electrode of the eighth transistor, and a second electrode being connected to a second electrode of the driver transistor.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Libin Liu, Yu Feng, Li Wang, Baoyun Wu, Shiming Shi, Dawei Wang, Haijun Qiu
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Patent number: 12726097Abstract: A vibration structure that includes: a housing; a panel having a main surface; an inner frame physically connected to the panel and the housing, the inner frame including a first portion overlapping the housing as viewed in a normal direction of the main surface; an outer frame physically connected to the panel and the housing, the outer frame surrounding the inner frame as viewed in the normal direction, and the outer frame including a second portion overlapping the panel as viewed in the normal direction; and a vibration body that vibrates the panel, wherein (A) or (B): (A) the vibration body is attached to the panel or the inner frame; or (B) the vibration body is attached across the panel or the inner frame, and the housing or the outer frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shozo Otera, Jun Endo, Yutaka Ishiura
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Patent number: 12717536Abstract: A display device configured to detect a wireless connection to a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connection device connected to an external source device, determine a first distance to the HDMI connection device based on a time difference between a first time point of the wireless connection to the HDMI connection device and a second time point of reception of the first IR signal, based on the first distance being within a determined IR signal arrival range, set the IR signal transceiver as an IR signal output device for the external source device, determine whether a second IR signal output by the IR signal transceiver at least partially overlaps a third IR signal transmitted through the HDMI connection device, and, based on determining that the second IR signal does not overlap the third IR signal, set the HDMI connection device as the IR signal output device for the external source device.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2025Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaehyeong Jeong, Minsang Kim
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Patent number: 12720863Abstract: An array substrate includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits. A respective pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a data write transistor, a first capacitor including a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, and a second capacitor including a third capacitor electrode and a fourth capacitor electrode. The second capacitor electrode and the third capacitor electrode are coupled to a second electrode of the data write transistor. The array substrate includes a stacked structure of capacitor electrodes. The stacked structure includes the first capacitor electrode; an insulating layer on the first capacitor electrode; an electrode block including the second capacitor electrode and the third capacitor electrode on a side of the insulating layer away from the first capacitor electrode; an inter-layer dielectric layer on a side of the electrode block away from the insulating layer; and the fourth capacitor electrode on the inter-layer dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianchao Zhu, Tuo Sun, Shiming Shi, Libin Liu, Hao Liu
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Patent number: 12711922Abstract: A conduction control circuit includes: a gating control circuit, coupled to a first node, and configured to provide a signal of a first clock signal terminal to the first node in response to signals of a plurality of different gating control signal terminals; a control circuit, coupled to the first node and a second node, and configured to provide the signal of the first clock signal terminal or a signal of a first power supply terminal to the second node in response to a signal of the first node; and a conduction signal output circuit, coupled to the second node and a third node, and configured to provide a signal of a second clock signal terminal to a driving output terminal in response to a signal of the second node, and provide a signal of a first reference signal terminal to the driving output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology, Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhidong Yuan, Yongqian Li, Xue Dong
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Patent number: 12710852Abstract: An electronic device includes a display layer including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area and a sensor layer on the display layer. The sensor layer includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction and intersecting the first electrodes, a plurality of first auxiliary electrodes arranged in the first direction and overlapping the first electrodes, a plurality of second auxiliary electrodes arranged in the second direction and overlapping the second electrodes, and an auxiliary trace line electrically connected to at least one second auxiliary electrode among the second auxiliary electrodes. At least a portion of the auxiliary trace line overlaps the display area.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sanghyun Lim
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Patent number: 12710907Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to an interface display method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying an interface of a first application on a first screen at a first time point; then displaying a two-dimensional code of a second application on a second screen at a second time point in response to a preset target operation; and then controlling, at a third time point in response to an event for ending display on the second screen, the second screen to be turned off. Between the second time point and the third time point, a container node of the second screen is above a container node of the first screen. When the second screen is turned off, the container node of the first screen may be adjusted to be above the container node of the second screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventor: Huanfu Wang
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Patent number: 12707001Abstract: An electronic device includes a display module including a first non-folding area and a second non-folding area spaced apart from each other, a folding area to be folded about a folding axis where the folding area is interposed between the non-folding areas, a digitizer disposed under the display module, a cushion layer disposed under the digitizer and including a first cushion layer overlapping the first non-folding area and a second cushion layer spaced apart from the first cushion layer and overlapping the second non-folding area, and a shielding layer disposed under the cushion layer and including a first shielding layer overlapping the first cushion layer and a second shielding layer spaced apart from the first shielding layer and overlapping the second non-folding area.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2024Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sojeong La, Jaiku Shin, Sung Chul Choi
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Patent number: 12699487Abstract: An electronic device includes multiple, non-parallel touch-sensitive surfaces for touch input. In some examples, the electronic device includes a housing comprising a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The second surface is arranged between and non-parallel to the first surface and the third surface. In some examples, a plurality of first sense electrode segments is disposed on the first surface and a plurality of second sense electrode segments is disposed on the second surface. In some examples, a plurality of drive electrodes separates one or more pairs of the first sense electrode segments and one or more pairs of the second sense electrode segments. In some examples, at least one drive electrode of the plurality of drive electrodes is disposed on the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2025Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew D. Hollands, James E. Pedder
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Patent number: 12699481Abstract: An electronic device includes: a sensor layer including a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer, and a fourth conductive layer on the third conductive layer; and a sensor driving unit driving the sensor layer and selectively operated in a first mode of sensing a touch input or a second mode of sensing a pen input, wherein two conductive layers include: a plurality of first touch electrodes; and a plurality of second touch electrodes and insulated from and intersecting the plurality of first touch electrodes, and wherein another two conductive layers among the first to fourth conductive layers include: a plurality of first pen electrodes arranged in the first direction; and a plurality of second pen electrodes arranged in the second direction and insulated from and intersecting the plurality of first pen electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2025Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeongyun Han, Yeri Jeong
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Patent number: 12699486Abstract: There is described a touch sensor for a keyboard, the touch sensor comprising one or more holes. Also described is a keyboard comprising the touch sensor as well as methods of manufacturing the touch sensor and the keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2025Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Clevetura LTDInventors: Yury Lahutsik, Dzmitry Zakreuski, Mikhail Krupiankou, Yury Litvak, Vasily Borysyonok, Raman Sakovich, Siarhei Kostevitch
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Patent number: 12696650Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate including a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a first dam on the non-display area of the base substrate, a second dam on the non-display area of the base substrate, the second dam between the first dam and the display area, a touch conductive layer between the first dam and the second dam, and a touch sensor layer including a touch organic layer, the touch organic layer on the touch conductive layer, wherein the touch organic layer ends inside the first dam without extending past an end of the first dam, and the first dam and the second dam include a same material.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2024Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eonseok Lee, Heeyoung Kwack, Taeho Kim
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Patent number: 12681611Abstract: A display panel includes a display substrate, first touch structures and second touch structures. A first touch structure includes first touch electrodes arranged in at least one column and first connection portions, and first touch electrodes in at least one column are connected through first connection portions. A second touch structure includes second touch electrodes arranged in at least one row and second connection portions, and second touch electrodes in at least one row are connected through second connection portions. An overlapping region where an orthographic projection of a second connection portion on the display substrate partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of a first connection portion on the display substrate is a bridge sub-region. A curvature radius of the display substrate is greater than or equal to 4.5 mm in a bridge sub-region that is in a curved region of the display substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Wang, Yang Zeng, Yi Zhang, Hongwei Ma, Zhiwen Chu
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Patent number: 12663905Abstract: An electronic device includes: a sensor layer; and a sensor driver to drive the sensor layer, and selectively operate in a first mode of sensing a touch input or a second mode of sensing a pen input. The sensor layer includes: first electrodes, each extending in a first direction, and located along a second direction crossing the first direction; second electrodes, each extending in the first direction, and located along the second direction; first lines electrically connected to the first electrodes; and a second line electrically connected to the second electrodes. Each of the first electrodes includes: a first split electrode extending in the first direction; and a second split electrode extending in the first direction, and spaced from the first split electrode in the first direction. At least a portion of the second line connects adjacent ones of the second electrodes to each other inside a sensing area.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2024Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gayoung Kim, Sanghyun Lim
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Patent number: 12656920Abstract: A display device includes a panel layer including pixels disposed in a display area, and an input sensing layer disposed on the panel layer. The input sensing layer includes a sensing electrode including mesh lines defining mesh openings corresponding to the pixels. The mesh lines include first mesh lines extending in a first direction and second mesh lines extending in a second direction. The first mesh lines and the second mesh lines intersect each other at intersection points. In some of the mesh lines, a cut point is defined between two adjacent intersection points. In a mesh line in which the cut point is not defined between two adjacent intersection points among the mesh lines, a compensation pattern protruding from side surfaces of the mesh line is defined. The compensation pattern includes a through-hole pattern positioned at a central portion of the compensation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Gi Na Yoo
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Patent number: 12650747Abstract: A sensing device and method for driving segmented electrodes is provided. The sensing device includes a sensing area having a first sensing region and a second sensing region. The sensing device also includes a plurality of receiver electrodes comprising a first set of receiver electrodes disposed in the first sensing region and a second set of receiver electrodes disposed in the second sensing region and a plurality of segmented transmitter electrodes. Each segmented transmitter electrode comprises a first transmitter electrode and a second transmitter electrode. The first transmitter electrode is isolated from the second transmitter electrode such that the first transmitter electrode is separately controllable from the second transmitter electrode. The first transmitter electrode is disposed in the first sensing region and the second transmitter electrode is disposed in the second sensing region.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Vishal S. Shah, Fabrice Dayan, Prerak Kiran Baxi, Danny Joseph, Guozhong Shen
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Patent number: 12648278Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes at least two splicing light-emitting units spliced with each other. A first signal line and a second signal line are respectively disposed on a first side surface of the carrier substrate and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface of the carrier substrate. The first signal line is electrically connected to the first connection line, and the second signal line is electrically connected to the second connection line. The present application adds input paths of the first input signal and the second input signal, and improves the problems of brightness difference and uniformity deterioration.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhuhui Li
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Patent number: 12645317Abstract: A touch display device including a pixel array substrate, a touch substrate, a display medium layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a conductor is provided. The touch substrate is disposed above the pixel array substrate. The display medium layer is disposed between the pixel array substrate and the touch substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on one surface of the touch substrate. The second conductive layer is disposed on the other surface of the touch substrate. The conductor is disposed along a sidewall of the touch substrate to connect between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2025Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Hung Wei Tseng, Chen Cheng Lin, Yi Chun Kuo