Patents Examined by Emily J Frank
  • Patent number: 11262876
    Abstract: An electronic device, a touch detection circuit and an update method for a reference value of a touch screen are provided. The update method includes: acquiring a temperature value of an environment of the touch screen; when determining that the acquired temperature value is less than a preset temperature threshold and determining that a continuously touched area exists in the touch screen, collecting N data frames of the continuously touched area; calculating N feature values of the N data frames; and updating N reference values corresponding to the N data frames according to the N feature values; wherein, N is greater than 1 and N is an integer. A difference between a reference value and a sensed value of the continuously touched area may not be decreased with a temperature rise due to the heat transferred by a touched object, thus point elimination at a low temperature is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Wingho Pang, Songsong Liu, Haikuan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11249600
    Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes a touch panel, a dielectric sheet, a frame, and a display panel. The touch panel has a touch sensor portion in the middle and a first electrode in an inner peripheral portion. Further, the dielectric sheet is closely adhered the back surface of the touch panel in its front surface. The frame has an opening in the central portion thereof and a second electrode in a marginal portion that is closely adhered the back surface of the dielectric sheet. The display panel has a display surface to display a screen image and the display surface is closely adhered the back surface of the dielectric sheet in the opening of the frame. The first electrode and the second electrode constitute a pressure-sensitive sensor that has a function to detect a pressing force when an operation element touches the front surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Agari, Tae Orita, Takeshi Ono, Toshiaki Fujino, Kozo Ishida, Seiichiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11238787
    Abstract: A deterioration compensation apparatus includes a zone determiner, a stress generator, a first memory and a stress compensator. The zone determiner divides a display area into zones based on a distance from a central portion of the display area. The stress generator generates stress values of output image data for blocks including a plurality of pixels in the display area. The first memory accumulates the stress values of the output image data for the blocks and stores the accumulated stress values of the output image data for the blocks. The stress compensator receives the accumulated stress values of the output image data for the blocks and compensates input image data in a unit of pixels. A number of the pixels included in a block of the blocks varies according to the zone in which the pixels included in the block are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Boyoung An
  • Patent number: 11238767
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a display device. The array substrate comprises first power lines and second power lines disposed on a substrate, wherein the first power line crosses the second power line to define a pixel region, wherein the first power lines crosses the second power lines at intersection points, and the intersection points include a first intersection point where the first power line is electrically connected to the second power line and a second intersection point where the first power line is insulated from the second power line are insulated; the first intersection points for each of the first power supply lines and/or the first intersection points for each of the second power supply lines are distributed at intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Can Yuan, Zhidong Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhenfei Cai, Meng Li, Xuehuan Feng
  • Patent number: 11231777
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device is provided. The method includes receiving eye movement information of a user. A gazed position within a display area of the device is identified based on the eye movement information of the user. A position of a cursor corresponding to the gazed position is corrected based on the eye movement information. A control command corresponding to an area within the display area of the device is generated, based on the gazed position and the eye movement information. An operation of the device is controlled based on the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-seok Lee, Kyung-hwa Yu, Sang-won Leigh, Jin-yong Chung, Sung-goo Cho
  • Patent number: 11226661
    Abstract: An arrangement for securing a touch sensor assembly within a mobile communication or other device with at least one touch button defined within a touch button area. The touch sensor assembly includes a touch sensor (such as a sense inductor coil), and multiple back-side spring clips attached at the back-side of the sensor assembly. A touch sensor pocket integral with the device case is disposed at an interior-side of the touch button area, the sensor pocket to position the sensor assembly relative to the associated touch button. The touch sensor assembly can be secured within the touch sensor pocket by the back-side spring clips, spring-urged toward the front-side of the sensor pocket, and spaced from the device case by spacer elements (which can be attached to the sensor assembly, or integrated into the device case). The touch sensor pocket can include back-side alignment elements for aligning the spring clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Oberhauser, Evgeny Fomin
  • Patent number: 11222593
    Abstract: A top-emitting AMOLED panel includes a pixel circuit for each of multiple pixels. The circuit includes a first TFT connected to first, second, and third nodes; a second TFT connected to a scan signal, the first node and a data signal; a third TFT connected to the scan signal, the second node, and a reference voltage; a fourth TFT connected to the scan signal, the third node, and a high voltage power source; a first capacitor connected to the first node and the second node; a second capacitor connected to the third node and the reference voltage; and an OLED connected to the second node and a low voltage power source. The voltages supplied from the high voltage power source and the low voltage power source to the pixel are variable as functions of the location of the pixel on the panel, such that a voltage difference therebetween keeps unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11189240
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit is provided, which includes shift registers and a reset signal line. The shift registers respectively provide scan signals to gate lines of a display panel. Each shift register includes a precharge unit and pull-up unit. The precharge unit is coupled to a first node and outputs a precharge signal through the first node. The pull-up unit is coupled to the first node and the second node and outputs one of the scan signals to a corresponding one of the gate lines through the second node. The reset signal line is coupled to the shift registers and provides a reset signal to the shift registers. The reset signal is used to reset the shift registers after the shift registers respectively output the scan signals. The reset signal line is arranged between a layout area of the precharge unit and a layout area of the pull-up unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Sung-Chun Lin, Chien-Ting Chan
  • Patent number: 11099630
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using motion sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor motions within a real environment. A virtual object can be projected to a user of a portable device integrated into an augmented rendering of a real environment about the user. Motion information of a user body portion is determined based at least in part upon sensory information received from imaging or acoustic sensory devices. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the motion of the portable device and the detected motion of the user. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 11069301
    Abstract: A display device can include a gate driver configured to drive gate lines of a panel; a data driver configured to drive data lines of the panel; a timing controller configured to control operations of the gate driver and the data driver; and a level shifter integrated circuit (IC) configured to receive a plurality of control signals from the timing controller, and generate and output a plurality gate control signals for controlling driving of the gate driver, in which the plurality of control signals include an on clock and an off clock, and the level shifter IC stores the on clock and the off clock in buffers based on one or more control signals from the timing controller, generates a plurality of scan clocks by logically processing the on clock and the off clock, and outputs the plurality of scan clocks to the gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Cho, Jung-Jae Kim, Sang-Uk Lee, Hyung-Jin Choe
  • Patent number: 11061520
    Abstract: A system and method for increasing the proximity sensing distance of a touch and proximity sensitive touch sensor to thereby enable greater distance of detectability of a user in a proximity sensing mode of a touch sensor by driving a time varying voltage or drive signal onto a user who is also holding a touch sensor with at least one hand, and then sensing the drive signal from the user's fingers or thumb on sense electrodes that are on the touch sensor when the fingers are within a proximity sensing distance of sense electrodes in the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventors: Jared G. Bytheway, David C. Taylor, Jon Alan Bertrand
  • Patent number: 11009994
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for decreasing latency between an acquisition of touch data and processing of an associated rendering task in a touch sensitive device having a touch sensing system capable of producing touch data at a touch sampling rate and having a display system that displays frames at a refresh rate. In an embodiment, the system estimates at least one of (a) a period of time for sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) a period of time for computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) a period of time for rendering of a frame to a frame buffer. The system determines a period of time Tc for (a) sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) rendering of a frame to a frame buffer, based at least in part on the estimate. The system determines a point in time Tr at which the display system will be refreshed from the frame buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo, Clifton Forlines, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa
  • Patent number: 10996770
    Abstract: Disclosed are computer peripheral interface devices (such as computer mice) that include a wheel member configured to rotate around an axis in a plurality of modes, where each of the plurality of modes corresponds to a respective unique friction profile. The plurality of operation modes includes a freewheel mode and at least two additional modes. The at least two additional modes includes two or more different ratchet modes, two or more different constant friction modes, or at least one constant friction mode and at least one ratchet mode. The interface device also includes an actuator assembly configured to set the wheel member to each of the plurality of operation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Padraig McLoughlin, Arnaud Perret-Gentil, Nuno Miguel Pereira dos Anjos Valverde, Jan Stoeckli, Lars Lauridsen, Jean-Claude Dunant
  • Patent number: 10997901
    Abstract: A method of recovering a display having a plurality of pixels, each having a light emitting device and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting device. The driving transistor and the light emitting device are coupled in series between a first power supply and a second power supply. The method illuminates the semiconductor device while negatively biasing the pixel circuit with a recovery voltage different from an image programming voltage. The illuminating may follow a first cycle implementing an image display operation that includes programming the pixel circuit for a valid image and driving the pixel circuit to emit light according to the programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arokia Nathan, Gholamreza Chaji, Joseph Marcel Dionne
  • Patent number: 10990215
    Abstract: The present disclosure is applied to touch technology, and provides an integrating circuit. The integrating circuit comprises an impedance unit, an amplifier, an integration capacitor, a discharge capacitor, a first switch and a second switch. The amplifier comprises a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal configured to output an output signal; the integration capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and the output terminal; the first switch is coupled between the first input terminal of the amplifier and the second terminal of the discharge capacitor; and the second switch is coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal of the discharge capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ya-Nan Wen, Fu-Chiang Yang, Yingsi Liang
  • Patent number: 10984717
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which is connected to a scan line, a data line, a first power line and a second power line, and includes a light-emitting diode. A voltage applied to an anode of the light-emitting diode is higher than a voltage applied to a cathode in a first operation period, and a voltage applied to the anode of the light-emitting diode is lower than a voltage applied to the cathode in at least a part of a second operation period different from the first operation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 10976820
    Abstract: Methods and devices for providing a haptic responses to a haptic feedback device may include receiving, by an application providing a virtual environment executing on a computer device, physical movement input based at least on movement of the haptic feedback device that corresponds to a virtual movement interaction with a virtual object in the virtual environment. The methods and devices may include accessing a haptic signature associated with the virtual object. The methods and devices may include determining a haptic response based at least upon the haptic signature to identify the virtual object through the haptic response. The methods and devices may include transmitting the haptic response to the haptic feedback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Priya Ganadas, Kenneth Liam Kiemele, Christian Michael Sadak, Adolfo Hernandez Santisteban, Scott Christopher Speirs
  • Patent number: 10963208
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for operating an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device may comprise: a communication interface for receiving a first image from a first external electronic device and receiving a second image from a second external electronic device; a display for displaying the first image in a first area and the second image in a second area, and a processor for determining a bit rate of the first image on the basis of the size of the first area, determining a bit rate of the second image on the basis of the size of the second area, transmitting information on the bit rate of the first image to the first external electronic device via the communication interface, and transmitting information on the bit rate of the second image to the second external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-Chul Jeon, Hyun-Jun Ko
  • Patent number: 10957268
    Abstract: An active-matrix substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of first TFTs that are arranged within a display area, an inorganic insulating layer that covers the plurality of first TFTs, an organic insulating layer that is provided on the inorganic insulating layer, a plurality of second TFTs that are arranged within a non-display area, and a source and gate metal connection portion that is positioned within the non-display area, a first conductive layer that is formed from an identical conductive film with a gate wiring line and a second conductive layer that is formed from an identical conductive film with a source wiring line being connected to each other at the source and gate metal connection portion. Each of the plurality of first TFTs is an oxide semiconductor TFT. At least one second TFT among the plurality of second TFTs is covered with the organic insulating layer. The source and gate metal connection portion is not covered with the organic insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hajime Imai, Takashi Terauchi, Shinya Ohira, Isao Ogasawara, Satoshi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10930232
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for color shift compensation based on an abnormal image detection and a display device, including storing inputted n numbers of sub-pixel values in a row storage space; judging every spaced two of the sub-pixel values whether are the same or not; initiating a color shift compensation if the spaced two of the sub-pixel values being different; judging every adjacent two of the sub-pixel values whether are different if every spaced two of the sub-pixel values are the same; judging every one of the sub-pixel values in a current row storage space whether is different from a sub-pixel value in a previous row storage space corresponding to the sub-pixel value in the current row storage space; doing not initiate a color shift compensation if every one of the sub-pixel values in the current row storage space is different from that in the previous row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dekang Zeng