Patents Examined by Duane N Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11755161
    Abstract: A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of first mesh electrodes along a row direction and a plurality of second mesh electrodes along a column direction. The touch control structure is limited in a touch control region and absent in a window region surrounded by the touch control region. The plurality of second mesh electrodes includes a first mesh block and a second mesh block; a first conductive plate connected to one or more mesh lines of the first mesh block; a second conductive plate connected to one or more mesh lines of the second mesh block; and a first conductive bridge connecting the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. A second segment of the first conductive bridge is in a layer different from a first segment of the first conductive bridge, the first conductive plate, and the second conductive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping Wen, Wei Wang, Shun Zhang, Yuanqi Zhang, Chang Luo, Yang Zeng, Yu Wang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11755159
    Abstract: A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a corner row including a plurality of row mesh blocks electrically connected along a row direction; and a plurality of residual portions in a corner region, and electrically connected to the plurality of row mesh blocks. The touch control structure includes a corner column including a plurality of column mesh blocks electrically connected along a column direction; and a corner column mesh block at least partially in the corner region. The corner column mesh block includes a main portion and a plurality of protrusion portions along an edge of the main portion. The plurality of residual portions and the plurality of protrusion portions are alternately arranged along a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the main portion. The touch control structure further includes a residual connecting conductive plate electrically connecting the plurality of residual portions together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Cheagdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Zhang, Ping Wen, Yuanqi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Tingliang Liu, Chang Luo, Wei Wang, Yu Wang, Yang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11758085
    Abstract: A mixing device for mixing a first video signal and a second video signal to form a third video signal, the device comprising electronic circuits configured such that the third video signal is representative of the first video signal when the amplitude of a control signal is lower than a first predetermined threshold, such that the third video signal is representative of the second video signal when the amplitude of the control signal is greater than a second predetermined threshold, or else such that the third video signal is representative of a combination of the first and second video signals when the amplitude of the control signal lies between the two predetermined thresholds or is equal to one of them. A mixing method is performed by the abovementioned mixing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Maxime Lefort
  • Patent number: 11756329
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection array substrate is provided. The fingerprint detection array substrate includes a plurality of touch electrode blocks in a plurality of touch detection regions configured to detect a touch position, wherein touch electrode blocks in a respective one of the plurality of touch detection regions are inter-connected through bridges, forming a touch electrode unit, and the touch electrode unit is isolated from touch electrode blocks in adjacent touch detection regions of the plurality of touch detection regions; a plurality of touch signal lines configured to respectively transmit touch signals to a plurality of touch detection regions, wherein a respective one of the plurality of touch signal lines is electrically connected to the touch electrode unit limited in the respective one of the plurality of touch detection regions; and a fingerprint sensor configured to perform fingerprint sensing limited in a fingerprint scanning region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Hua, Yong Zhang, Haobo Fang, Jian Lin, Limin Zhang, Zhichao Yang, Yawei Zhang, Xianglei Qin, Zepeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11749210
    Abstract: A signal control apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, and a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes M rows by N columns of pixel driving circuits arranged in an array, the M pixel driving circuits of each column are grouped into at least a first group of pixel driving circuits and a second group of pixel driving circuits, M and N are integer and N is larger than 2. The first group of pixel driving circuits connect to a first data line to receive a data signal, and the second group of pixel driving circuits connect to a second data line to receive a data signal. The signal control apparatus includes a phase shifting circuit which provides a scanning signal to a pixel driving circuit; and a write control circuit which provides a data signal from a data signal terminal to a pixel driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo Sun, Tian Dong, Guoqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11747949
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel including a pixel and an input sensing panel including a first sensing insulating layer disposed on the display panel, a first conductive layer disposed on the first sensing insulating layer, a second sensing insulating layer covering the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the second sensing insulating layer and including a plurality of mesh lines, a passivation layer disposed on the second conductive layer, and a third sensing insulating layer covering the passivation layer. The passivation layer has the same shape as that of the second conductive layer when viewed in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Su Byun, Woongsik Kim
  • Patent number: 11740720
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a display cathode electrode, a first touch cathode electrode adjacent to and disposed in the same layer as the display cathode electrode, a first touch line coupled with a touch driving circuit, a first touch bridge coupled with the first touch line, a second touch cathode electrode adjacent to and disposed in the same layer as the display cathode electrode, a second touch line coupled with the touch driving circuit, and a second touch bridge coupled with the second touch line. The first touch cathode electrode is electrically separated from and the second touch cathode electrode is electrically shorted with the display cathode electrode. The first touch bridge is coupled with the first touch cathode electrode. The second touch bridge is separated from the second touch cathode electrode, and the second touch line and the second touch cathode electrode are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YongChan Park, JuHong Kim
  • Patent number: 11740745
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 includes pixel electrodes 11g that are spaced apart from each other, touch electrodes 14, each of which forms a capacitance with a finger, which is a position input body performing position input, to detect a position of input by the finger, which is the position input body, a touch line 15 that is sandwiched between adjacent pixel electrodes 11g and is connected to the touch electrodes 14, and at least two source lines 11j that extend parallel to the touch line 15. The source lines 11j transmit image signals to the pixel electrodes 11g. The source lines 11j are disposed such that one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between the touch line 15 and one of the two source lines 11j and another one of the two pixel electrodes 11g is sandwiched between another one of the two source lines 11j and the touch line 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakatsu Tominaga, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11733819
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a base substrate through which a hole is defined, a cover portion, a first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode, a dummy electrode, and a ground line. The cover portion surrounds the hole and includes at least one cover pattern. The first sensing electrode includes first sensing patterns. The second sensing electrode includes second sensing patterns. The dummy electrode includes dummy patterns disposed between the first sensing patterns and the second sensing patterns. The ground line is electrically connected to the cover portion through at least some of the dummy patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungsu Lee, Jong-Hwa Kim, Jeongyun Han
  • Patent number: 11726610
    Abstract: A control method, suitable for a controller in an interface device having capacitive sensors, includes following steps. The capacitive sensors are arranged on a plane. During a first period, the controller is configured to set the capacitive sensors as self-capacitance sensors individually. During a second period, the controller is configured to divide the capacitive sensors into at least a first group and a second group, set the first group of capacitive sensors as a mutual-capacitance transmitter and generate a pulse signal to the mutual-capacitance transmitter, set the second group of capacitive sensors as a mutual-capacitance receiver and collect a sensing signal from the mutual-capacitance receiver in response to the pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Ying Lin, Chih-Chang Lai
  • Patent number: 11720212
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel and an input sensor thereon. The input sensor may include an active region and a pad region adjacent to each other and may include a sensing electrode overlapped with the active region to sense an input, a sensing pad overlapped with the pad region, and a sensing line electrically connecting the sensing electrode to the sensing pad. The sensing pad may include a pad portion and an edge portion, which is extended from the pad portion to an edge of the input sensor in a plan view. Each of the pad portion and the edge portion may include a first pad and a second pad, which is at least partially overlapped with the first pad. In the edge portion, at least a portion of the second pad may be spaced apart from the first pad, in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Yang, Hyunsik Park
  • Patent number: 11703941
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, method, and program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place, the system including an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated based on a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified based on the first transmission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Yusuke Sakai, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 11703985
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided. The touch display device includes a touch layer and a display panel. The touch layer is located on a light emitting side of the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The touch layer includes a plurality of touch units, and each of the touch units includes a first electrode electrically connected by a first connecting portion in a first direction. A width of the first connecting portion in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first connecting portion is greater than or equal to a width of 3 sub-pixels, and the first connecting portion and the first electrode are provided in a same layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGYCO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11698667
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel including: a panel main body including a display region, a bendable region and a binding region, wherein a plurality of signal transmission lines extending from the display region to the binding region are arranged in the bendable region; and an enhancement layer in the bendable region of the panel main body and including an electrode layer, wherein the electrode layer includes at least one auxiliary electrode, each auxiliary electrode corresponds to one of the plurality of signal transmission lines, different auxiliary electrodes correspond to different ones of the plurality of signal transmission lines, respectively, and each auxiliary electrode is electrically connected to a corresponding signal transmission line. The present disclosure further provides a flexible display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqiang Chen, Xiangfei He, Weifeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11695018
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a wireless transmission unit and a display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel units and a signal line. The substrate includes a display region and a periphery region. The periphery region surrounds the display region. The pixel units are disposed on the display region. Each of the pixel units includes an active device and a pixel electrode. The active device is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The signal line is on the periphery region. As viewed from a top view, the signal line has an annular shape having a gap and surrounds the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Chi Chang, Chih-Chun Chen, Chi-Ming Wu, Yi-Ching Wang, Jia-Hung Chen, Bo-Tsang Huang, Wei-Yueh Ku
  • Patent number: 11687203
    Abstract: Touch display device, touch display panel, touch module and forming method thereof are provided. The touch module includes a substrate, and a first shadow elimination layer, a touch electrode layer, a second shadow elimination layer, and a bridge layer that are sequentially located on a side of the substrate. The touch electrode layer includes a plurality of first touch electrodes. The bridge layer includes a plurality of bridges, and a bridge of the plurality of bridges connects two adjacent first touch electrodes through a via passing through the second shadow elimination layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiquan Li, Yimiao Ding, Jun Zhou, Lihua Wang, Shanshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11687205
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a base substrate, a first sensing electrode, and a second sensing electrode. A hole is defined through the base substrate. The first sensing electrode includes first sensing patterns and first connection patterns, which are arranged in a first direction. The second sensing electrode includes second sensing patterns and second connection patterns, which are arranged in the first direction. One first connection pattern and one second connection pattern are spaced apart from each other in a second direction with the hole defined therebetween. A first distance in the second direction between the one first connection pattern and the one second connection pattern is greater than a second distance in the second direction between another first connection pattern and another second connection pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungsu Lee, Jong-Hwa Kim, Jeongyun Han
  • Patent number: 11687179
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided by the present disclosure, wherein the electronic device includes a base layer, a sensing layer disposed on the base layer and at least two conductive layers disposed on the base layer. The sensing layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes. The conductive layers respectively include a plurality of signal lines, and each of the signal lines is electrically connected to one of the sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11681830
    Abstract: A method for determining whether or not a display panel is a duplicate is provided. The method includes: generating, by a code generator in an electronic module, a code, the electronic module including a plurality of electronic components; transmitting, by the code generator, the code to each of a first sequence generator in the electronic module and a second sequence generator in a display panel, the display panel being configured to be mounted to the electronic module; generating, by the first sequence generator, a first response value, and transmitting the first response value to a certification component in the electronic module; generating, by the second sequence generator, a second response value, and transmitting the second response value to the certification component; and comparing, by the certification component, the received first response value and the received second response value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon Sang Hwang, Weon Jun Choe, Deok Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11681403
    Abstract: A detecting device includes a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and arrayed in a second direction, a detection electrode facing the drive electrodes in a direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, a drive circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the drive electrodes, and a detector configured to detect proximity of an object to a detection region provided with the detection electrode based on an output from the detection electrode generated according to capacitance generated between the drive electrodes and the detection electrode due to the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takaaki Kono