Patents Examined by Hang Lin
  • Patent number: 11965692
    Abstract: A human-machine interaction method for a storage device inside a refrigerator, and a refrigerator are provided. The storage device is arranged in a storage compartment of the refrigerator, and the storage device is provided with an operation panel. An operation surface of the operation panel is provided with a knob module having a display screen, and a touch-sensitive key module. The human-machine interaction method includes: acquiring a startup trigger signal of the operation panel; acquiring an operation instruction received by the knob module and/or the touch-sensitive key module; and making a response to the operation instruction according to a preset interaction solution, and driving the display screen to display a corresponding interface. A user can adjust the functions of the refrigerator through the knob module and the touch-sensitive key module simply and conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Li, Jianguo Hou, Xiang Fei Su
  • Patent number: 11966523
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out inputs in an input capturing unit that can be coupled to the apparatus. An operating device has a receiving part and an operating element that is rotatably mounted on the receiving part. The operating element can be rotated by a finger to effect an input. A torque for the rotation of the control element can be adjusted by way of a controllable braking device. In addition, the control element has at least two actuating zones. The resistance to movement for the movability of the operating element can be adjusted depending on from which actuation zone the operating element is actuated and/or which actuation zone was previously activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTUS Engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Battlogg
  • Patent number: 11961323
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in a matrix having a row-column configuration in a detection area, a plurality of scan lines each coupled to the detection elements arranged in a first direction, a drive circuit configured to drive the scan lines, a plurality of output signal lines each coupled to the detection elements arranged in a second direction different from the first direction, and a detection circuit configured to be supplied with detection signals from the detection elements through the output signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Patent number: 11954271
    Abstract: An active stylus and a method performed by the active stylus are provided. The active stylus includes a touch sensor inside. The touch sensor is arranged corresponding to a preset pen-holding region on an outer surface. The touch sensor is insulated from the pen body, when an external operating subject touches the preset pen-holding region and touches a touch panel, an uplink signal transmitted by the touch panel is coupled to the pen body via the external operating subject, as an uplink interference signal. The signal processing unit is for: generating a compensation signal; obtaining a compensated interference signal generated based on the compensation signal and the uplink interference signal; generating an uplink signal to be processed based on the received uplink signal and the compensated interference signal; and obtaining uplink information based on the uplink signal to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Weijen Chang, Chin-Lin Lee
  • Patent number: 11955039
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for controlling display in a screen projection scenario, a device, a medium and a program product, relating to the technical fields of autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles, intelligent voice, and screen projection in artificial intelligence. The specific implementation is: receiving a voice interaction instruction corresponding to a voice application; if a first page corresponding to a first application in at least one non-voice application has been projected onto a screen of a terminal device, adding to-be-displayed content corresponding to the voice application to the first page to obtain a to-be-projected page corresponding to the first application; and projecting the to-be-projected page onto the screen of the terminal device. The above process can reduce a delay in displaying an image projected on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rong Liu
  • Patent number: 11932779
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing; a functional coated film applied on a surface of the housing, the functional coated film being transparent and having a function; and a fluorescent coated film including transparent fluorescent paint and applied on a part of the functional coated film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsunobu Yui, Motonari Ogura, Kaname Tomita
  • Patent number: 11922851
    Abstract: A method includes: dividing a display area of a display panel into multiple sub-display areas distributed in an array; selecting at least two sub-display areas as reference sub-display areas, the reference sub-display areas being adjacent and one reference sub-display area includes a target sub-pixel to be compensated; determining a weight factor for each reference sub-display area according to a distance between a center point of the target sub-pixel and a center point of the reference sub-display area and a distance between center points of adjacent reference sub-display areas; calculating a weighted sum of average luminance values of the reference sub-display areas under a target grayscale value with the weight factors for the reference sub-display areas to obtain a target luminance value of the target sub-pixel under the target grayscale value; determining a compensation grayscale value of the target sub-pixel under the target grayscale value according to the target luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KUNSHAN NEW FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhui Ren, Xiaokang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11922868
    Abstract: This application provides a pixel driving circuit and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes N pixel driving units connected in cascade. Any one of the pixel driving units includes a light-emitting module, a switch module connected to a first control signal of an nth stage, a detection module connected to a second control signal of the nth stage, and a reset module connected to a reset signal of the nth stage; and the reset signal of the nth stage is connected to an output terminal that outputs a control signal of an mth stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhibin Han
  • Patent number: 11907456
    Abstract: Provided are a touch substrate, a display panel, and a touch display device. The touch substrate, including: a base substrate; a conductive layer on the base substrate, the conductive layer being a single-layer structure, and the conductive layer including a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of leads electrically connected with the plurality of touch electrodes; where: a first grid-like structure is formed between adjacent leads, and a first disconnection line is arranged between the adjacent leads in the first grid-like structure; the touch electrodes have a second grid-like structure, and the second grid-like structure includes a plurality of breakpoints; and a connection line between the plurality of breakpoints has a substantially same shape as the first disconnection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Li, Chao Zeng, Weiyun Huang
  • Patent number: 11899304
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100) comprises a first polarizer (110) and a second polarizer (170), a first liquid crystal layer (130) disposed between the first polarizer (110) and the second polarizer (170), and an optical compensation layer (140) disposed between the first liquid crystal layer (130) and one of the first polarizer (110) and the second polarizer (170). A transmission axis of the first polarizer (110) is perpendicular to a transmission axis of the second polarizer (170). The first liquid crystal layer (130) includes first liquid crystal molecules (130?). An included angle (?) between an orthographic projection of an optical axis of a first liquid crystal molecule (130?) on the first polarizer (110), which is perpendicular to an orthographic projection of an optical axis of the optical compensation layer (140) on the first polarizer (110), and the transmission axis of the first polarizer (110) is an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feifei Wang, Lintao Ji, Bowen Li, Hongming Zhan, Kaixuan Wang, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 11893916
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a method of measuring an ambient temperature by using a temperature sensor provided in an integrated circuit (IC) and a measurement error of a temperature sensor may be improved by correcting an output value of a temperature sensor by using a correction value stored in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Sung Ahn, Hyo Joong Kim, Jae Sik Cho
  • Patent number: 11893929
    Abstract: A display screen frequency conversion method and a terminal (1100). The method is applied to a DDIC chip of an OLED display screen, including: initializing display screen parameters according to a first refresh rate; in response to receiving first image data sent by an AP, performing an image scanning according to the first refresh rate; in response to not receiving second image data sent by the AP within a preset delay duration of a VFP corresponding to the first refresh rate, adjusting the first refresh rate to a second refresh rate; wherein the second refresh rate is less than the first refresh rate; and adjusting the display screen parameters according to the second refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Yang, Zhijia Cui
  • Patent number: 11887514
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a plurality of driving chips. A detection circuit of each of the driving chips includes a plurality of sub-detection circuits. Each of the sub-detection circuits is correspondingly coupled to one data line through a control switch corresponding to each of the sub-detection circuits. The display panel further has a plurality of detection pads. A plurality of detection signals received by the detection pads are transmitted to the data lines through the sub-detection circuits. A portion of the data lines correspondingly coupled to each of the driving chips is grouped into a data line group. Resistance of the sub-detection circuits correspondingly coupled to the portion of the data lines in the data line group is caused to continuously gradually vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Tao
  • Patent number: 11880516
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rolling mechanism and a mouse device using the same. The rolling mechanism comprises a base, a circuit module, a roller module, an encoding element and an elastic element. The circuit module is disposed on the base. The roller module is disposed on the circuit module and movable on the base. The encoding element is disposed on the circuit module and electrically connected with the circuit module, and further connected to the roller module. The elastic element is disposed between the roller module and the encoding element, and the elastic element is propped against the roller module. The mouse device comprises a mouse body and a rolling mechanism disposed in the mouse body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Silitek Electronics (Dongguan) CO., LTD., LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Chiung-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 11875721
    Abstract: The application provides a display panel and a driving method thereof. The display panel comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, and the sub-pixels are grouped into a plurality of cell areas arranged repeatedly along the row direction and the column direction. Each cell area comprises at least two sub-pixels, with polarities of adjacent sub-pixels opposite to each other. For at least two consecutive frames during a display cycle, the gray-levels of sub-pixels in the cell area maintain unchanged while polarities of the sub-pixels are reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonglei Zhang, Tao He, Jhenwei He
  • Patent number: 11861080
    Abstract: Provided is a method for unlocking by use of a knob. The method is applied to an electronic device provided with an operation knob. The method includes the following steps: detecting (1) an action of the operation knob in a screen locked state in real time; and starting (2) an unlocking program in response to rotation of the operation knob: calculating the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob along the current rotational direction, determining whether the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob reaches a preset circumferential distance, controlling the electronic device to unlock in response to the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob reaching the preset circumferential distance, and unlocking failed and returning to step (1) in response to the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob not reaching the preset circumferential distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG COROS SPORTS TECHNOLOGY JOINT STOCK COMPANY
    Inventors: Haotian Niu, Yu Tang, Guofeng Yang
  • Patent number: 11853492
    Abstract: A rotary control input device for a capacitive touch screen is disclosed. The control device comprises a mounting element for retaining the device in place on the capacitive touch screen, a circuit frame rotatably mounted on the mounting element, the circuit frame including a rotation electrode, the rotation electrode being disposed to be adjacent and spaced apart from the capacitive touch screen when the device is retained in place. The device further includes a conductive body portion that is electrically connected to the rotation electrode, the circuit frame being rotatable about the mounting element, with respect to the capacitive touch screen, by a user via the conductive body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUIXANT PLC
    Inventors: Fabian Eberwein, Hans Peter Krall
  • Patent number: 11841992
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus controls a general-purpose numerical key unit so as to maintain a state in which a NumLock LED is turned on in the case where a connecting cable of the general-purpose numerical key unit including a NumLock key capable of selectively switching, in a case that the general-purpose numerical key unit is connected to an information processing device including a display screen, a condition when the information processing devices processes an inputted key signal, between a first processing condition in which the key signal is processed as information on a numerical value and a second processing condition in which the key signal is processed as information for moving a cursor displayed on the display screen, and the NumLock LED capable of notifying a user of that the first processing condition is set for the information processing device by being turned on is connected to a connecting portion (step S15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Suga
  • Patent number: 11839026
    Abstract: Circuit board assembly, Display apparatus, Terminal, and Signal processing system. The circuit board assembly comprises a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a third circuit board, and multiple differential signal lines; the first circuit board comprises a first connector which comprises a first lead group comprising N first leads and a second lead group comprising N second lead; the second circuit board comprises a second connector which comprises a third lead group comprising N third leads and a fourth lead group comprising N fourth leads; multiple i-th leads and multiple (i+2)-th leads are in one-to-one correspondence, and the i-th leads and the corresponding (i+2)-th leads are arranged along a first direction; a first differential line of a j-th differential signal line is connected to the (2j?1)-th i-th lead and the (2j?1)-th (i+2)-th lead, its second differential line is connected to the 2j-th i-th lead and the 2j-th (i+2)-th lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongjie Wang, Fan Peng
  • Patent number: 11822738
    Abstract: An information handling system mouse couples a precision scroll button located proximate a scroll wheel of the mouse upper surface to a multidirectional switch, such as a five-way switch, so that movement of the precision scroll button commands through the five-way switch a scroll up or down at a speed defined by the end user and independent of the scroll wheel speed. For instance, a fast scroll at different scroll rates is commanded by actuating the five-way switch forward or backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Wong Hin Loong Justin