Patents Examined by Hang Lin
  • Patent number: 12730532
    Abstract: A system includes sensor electrodes, a touch controller, and a transmitter that provides a transmitter signal of a first frequency to an electrode capacitively coupled to a given object. The touch controller is configured to: generate a sensing signal that has a second frequency different from the first frequency during a touch sensing phase and has a DC waveform during a touch identification phase; generate touch sensing signal data based on the sensing signal with the second frequency and resulting signals received from the sensor electrodes during the touch sensing phase; sense a touch object based on the touch sensing signal data; generate touch identification signal data based on the sensing signal with the DC waveform and the resulting signals received from the sensor electrodes during the touch identification phase; and identify whether the sensed touch object is associated with the given object based on the touch identification signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimura, Tomohiro Hirakawa, Takayuki Noto, Shoji Fujita, Taku Yumoto
  • Patent number: 12724520
    Abstract: A touch sensing structure includes a display panel, a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, and a third sensing unit. The first sensing unit is disposed on a first side or a second side of the display panel. The second sensing unit and the third sensing unit are disposed on the second side of the display panel. The first sensing unit and the second sensing unit belong to the same layer when the first sensing unit is disposed on the second side of the display panel. Each of the first sensing unit and second sensing unit is composed of plural metal grid units. Each of the metal grid units is shaped as a rhombus and an acute angle of the rhombus is less than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Wei Tseng, Chen Cheng Lin, Yi Chun Kuo
  • Patent number: 12717430
    Abstract: A controller includes: a main body including at least one rib; a rotating wheel including: a fixed body supported by the main body, and a rotating body facing the at least one rib, coupled to the fixed body and rotatable with respect to the fixed body; and a clicker protruding toward the main body from the rotating body to allow an end portion to be provided between the at least one rib, where the rotating body includes a wheel cover including an accommodation space recessed in a direction away from the at least one rib to allow at least a portion of the clicker to be provided therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jangwon Han, Euishik Yoon, Jungwon Kang, Hyoungmoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12717147
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer display stray-light suppression system for a head-worn computer comprising an eye cover including a flexible material with a perimeter, wherein the perimeter is formed to substantially encapsulate an eye of a person, and the eye cover including an attachment system adapted to removably and replaceably attach to a perimeter of the head-worn computer to suppress light emitted from a computer display in the head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John N. Border, Edward H. Nortrup
  • Patent number: 12711885
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device including a flexible display, an operation method, and a storage medium. According to an embodiment, an electronic device may control the display module to display a first task bar and respective screens of a plurality of running applications on the first display in an unfolded state of the housing. According to an embodiment, the electronic device may generate at least one icon related to the plurality of applications for continuous use of the plurality of screens based on a partial area of the housing being in a folded state. According to an embodiment, the electronic device may control the display module to display at least one screen among the plurality of screens and a second task bar including at least one icon on the second display in the folded state. Other embodiments are possible. Other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngseung Seo, Sangheon Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, Myoungwoo Nam, Minjeong Moon, Taeyong Moon, Chanpyo Park, Bona Lee, Yunsung Choi, Jiwoo Lee, Yeunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 12704901
    Abstract: Bending data is used to facilitate tracking operations of an extended reality (XR) device, such as hand tracking or other object tracking operations. The XR device obtains bending data indicative of bending of the XR device to accommodate a body part of a user wearing the XR device. The XR device determines, based on the bending data, whether to use previously identified biometric data in a tracking operation. A mode of the XR device is selected based on this determination. The XR device performs the tracking operation based on the selected mode. The selected mode may be a first mode in which the previously identified biometric data is used in the tracking operation or a second mode which does not apply previously identified biometric data in the tracking operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Faeulhammer, Matthias Kalkgruber, Thomas Muttenthaler, Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres, Daniel Wolf
  • Patent number: 12700369
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a first display region and a second display region located at at least one side of the first display region, a light transmittance of the first display region is greater than that of the second display region. The first display region is provided with first light emitting devices, the second display region is provided with first pixel driving circuits, second pixel driving circuits, and second light emitting devices. The first pixel driving circuit drives the first light emitting device, and the second pixel driving circuit drives the second light emitting device. The second display region further includes initialization signal lines respectively connected with the first pixel driving circuits and the second pixel driving circuits and apply initialization signals thereto. The first pixel driving circuit and the second pixel driving circuit are respectively connected to different initialization signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuoran Yan, Ni Yang, Yuanjie Xu, Lili Du, Yudiao Cheng, Qiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 12699271
    Abstract: A retinal projection device includes: a projector module including a light source that emits laser light and a movable mirror that performs scanning with the laser light; a reflector that projects an image onto a retina of a user wearing the near eye wearable device by reflecting the laser light having passed through the movable mirror and irradiating the retina with reflected light; and a controller that determines an irradiation range of the reflector to be irradiated with the laser light in accordance with a position of a pupil of the user and controls the projector module to irradiate the irradiation range with the laser light. The reflector includes a plurality of unit regions provided along a surface of a lens of the near eye wearable device, and the surface faces an eyeball of the user. The irradiation range is a part of the plurality of unit regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohito Mizuno, Hideaki Fukuzawa, Kit Chu Lam
  • Patent number: 12699452
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining an eye position and/or eye gesture, in particular for use in controlling a function of an application system, in particular a wearable. The method includes (i) recording a profile of at least one EEG signal over time by way of a contact electrode in order to obtain a signal time series of the at least one EEG signal, (ii) providing input data sets from a signal block which arises from the signal time series, for successive time windows, and (iii) evaluating the input data sets in a data-based eye movement model in order to obtain the eye position or eye gesture, the eye movement model being formed using a neural network with one or more recurrent layers, in particular a respective LSTM layer or GRU layer or a transformer layer, and one or more neuron layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Wieland, Daniela Zoeller-Borst, Victor Pankratius
  • Patent number: 12700366
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver is configured to output a gate signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver is configured to output an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element and a bias switching element configured to apply a bias voltage to the driving switching element. The display apparatus increases a level of the bias voltage when a duration of a light emission time of the pixel is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Youngha Sohn, Jin-Wook Yang, Donggyu Lee, Jae-Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 12694845
    Abstract: A response speed evaluation system for a display device includes the display device configured to display a dynamic video, and to display a static image generated based on input grayscales of the dynamic video, a luminance measurer configured to measure a luminance of the static images, to measure a luminance of the dynamic video, to generate static image graphs based on the luminance of the static images, and to generate a dynamic video graph based on the luminance of the dynamic video, and a response speed evaluator configured to generate an input graph based on the static image graphs, to generate an output graph based on the dynamic video graph, and to compare the input graph and the output graph to evaluate a response speed of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Yeol Yeom, Hyosun Kim, Yongwoo Yi
  • Patent number: 12693738
    Abstract: Augmented and/or virtual reality (AR/VR), near-eye display devices that implement eye tracking via dense point cloud scanning are disclosed. In examples, an eye tracking system for an augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) display device comprises a light beam emission and sensor element located in a first location of the display device to emit a light beam. The eye tracking system may comprises a redirection element located in a second location of the display device to redirect the light beam to illuminate one of line-of-sight and a field-of-view (FOV) of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Youmin Wang, Ehsan Vadiee, Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad
  • Patent number: 12682794
    Abstract: An arithmetic processing device, an imaging device, and a head mounted system are provided. The arithmetic processing device includes a first circuit board, a processor, and a first re-driving circuit. The first circuit board has a first transmission interface. The processor is installed on the first circuit board and configured to evaluate transmission quality of a transmission signal transmitted through the first transmission interface. The first re-driving circuit is installed on the first circuit board and coupled between the processor and the first transmission interface. The processor transmits a first control signal to the first re-driving circuit according to the evaluated transmission quality of the transmission signal to control the first re-driving circuit to re-drive the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Jyun-Miao Hong
  • Patent number: 12681632
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a rotary user interface for a touchscreen display. In one embodiment, a rotary user interface for a touchscreen display comprises: an alignment touchscreen nib; a rotary interface wheel; and a rotary touchscreen nib coupled to the rotary interface wheel and rotatable relative to the alignment touchscreen nib via the rotary interface wheel. The rotary user interface may further include a confirmation touchscreen nib coupled to the rotary interface wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Godwin Christopher Selvi, Andrea Vitagliano
  • Patent number: 12682818
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (300A) includes a first layer (20) and a second layer (30) over the first layer. The first layer includes a logic circuit portion (23). The second layer includes a level shifter portion (24) and a pixel circuit (51). The logic circuit portion has a function of supplying a first signal for operating the level shifter portion to the level shifter portion. The level shifter portion has a function of supplying a second signal with a larger amplitude than the first signal to the pixel circuit. The logic circuit portion includes a transistor including silicon in a semiconductor layer where a channel is formed. Each of the level shifter portion and the pixel circuit includes a transistor including a metal oxide in a semiconductor layer where a channel is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Matsuzaki, Tatsuya Onuki
  • Patent number: 12676093
    Abstract: A method for detecting a frozen screen, includes monitoring a change of a pixel in a video signal outputted to a display screen, and determining whether the display screen is frozen according to the change of the pixel and the policy. The pixel changes based on a policy when the display screen is not frozen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiaofei Dong, Jiahu Li
  • Patent number: 12675173
    Abstract: A computer mouse with non-impact magnet-based switch. In one aspect, the switch includes a deflection plate, the deflection plate having a movable portion, a first magnet coupled on the movable portion of the deflection plate and being translatable along a predefined path, a second magnet disposed proximate the predefined path such that at least a portion of a magnetic field of the second magnet extends into a medial portion of the predefined path, where the first magnet has first and second poles, and the second magnet has third and fourth poles, the third pole facing the first pole and the fourth pole facing away from the first pole, a distance from the first pole to the third pole is less than a distance from the first pole to the fourth pole, and a polarity of the first pole is the same as the polarity of the third pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Jan Stoeckli, Wenjie Liu, Nuno Miguel Pereira dos Anjos Valverde, Fangming Peng, Martin Sigrist, Mario Robert Weiss, Steve Knuchel
  • Patent number: 12664919
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for power and temperature attribution on mobile devices. Example methods include launching a native augmented reality (AR) application together with an external AR application on the user system. The example methods include determining that usage of the external AR application transgresses a usage budget for the external AR application and adjusting one or more operations of the external AR application without modifying operation of the native AR application in response to determining that the usage of the external AR application transgresses the usage budget for the external AR application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John James Robertson, Dheeresh Pratap Mathur, Rishabh Bhatnagar, Richard Zhuang
  • Patent number: 12656909
    Abstract: A pixelated mutual capacitance sensing configuration to detect the presence of floating water is disclosed. An integrated touch screen can be configured in a checkerboard arrangement of alternating drive pixels and sense pixels, where each drive or sense pixel can include a plurality of sub-pixels. The sense pixels can include sense sub-pixels surrounded by ground sub-pixels to reduce the baseline mutual capacitance between the drive and sense pixels. Stimulated drive pixels can capacitively couple onto the sense sub-pixels of the sense pixel, forming a baseline (no touch) mutual capacitance between the drive pixels and the sense sub-pixels. The presence of grounded objects shunts some charge to ground and reduces the mutual capacitance, while floating water provides and additional parallel mutual capacitance path that increases the mutual capacitance. Floating water can be distinguished from a grounded touch based on the direction of the change in mutual capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Paul, Christoph H. Krah
  • Patent number: 12608095
    Abstract: Provided is a mouse including: a ball body; and a mouse body including a receiving part in which the ball body having a spherical shape is rollably received. The receiving part includes: a receiving recess part opening outward and formed to be recessed inward to receive the ball body therein; and a support member disposed on the receiving recess part for supporting the ball body received in the receiving recess part, and the support member is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the receiving recess part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Elecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuki Tabeta, Kiyotaka Hirata