Patents Examined by Jeffrey Parker
  • Patent number: 11043543
    Abstract: A thin touch panel is provided. A touch panel with a simple structure is provided. The number of components of a touch panel is reduced. Each of a pair of wirings of a touch sensor is positioned closer to a substrate supporting light-emitting elements than a common electrode is, and includes a portion positioned between two adjacent pixel electrodes in a plan view. Furthermore, an island-like structure body with an inverse tapered shape is provided over each of the pair of wirings. A conductive layer in an electrically floating state is provided over the structure body. Each conductive layer has a portion overlapping with one of the pair of wirings. Moreover, the conductive layer and the common electrode are formed using the same conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshizumi, Hideaki Shishido, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11024693
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device may comprise a housing and a display received in at least a portion of the housing, wherein the display comprises: a flexible substrate; a first light-emitting unit which is disposed on a first area of the substrate, has a first attribute, and includes a plurality of first pixels; and a second light-emitting unit which is disposed on a second area of the substrate, has a second attribute different from the first attribute, and includes a plurality of second pixels. Various other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joung-Min Cho, Jong-Kon Bae, Kyongrok Kang, Dong Hun Kim, Taesung Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Jungchul An, Song Hee Jung, Kwang-Tai Kim, Hyungsup Byeon
  • Patent number: 11017738
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit which allows narrower framing of a display screen includes cascade-connected gate driving modules. Each gate driving module is electrically coupled to first and second scan lines and outputs scanning signals to the first and the second scan lines in a time-division manner in response to first and second clock signals. Each gate driving module includes an input transistor, and first and second output transistors. The input transistor receives a trigger signal for activating the gate driving module. The input transistor controls the first output transistor to output first scanning signal to first scan line in response to the first clock signal and controls the second output transistor to output second scanning signal to the second scan line in response to the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Ming-Tsung Wang, Wen-Lin Chen, Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11012274
    Abstract: A demultiplexer includes a voltage boost circuit and at least one data selection output circuit. The voltage boost circuit is coupled to N second-stage selection signal input terminals and N first-stage selection signal input terminals, N is greater than or equal to 2, and N is a positive integer. Each data selection output circuit is coupled to a data input terminal, N data output terminals and the N first-stage selection signal input terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Yuan, Haoliang Zheng, Guangliang Shang, Xing Yao, Mingfu Han
  • Patent number: 10993587
    Abstract: The invention provides a bathroom fixture in the form of an electronic mirror with a touchlessly operated fluid dispenser. The device provides visual cues to assist in the touchless operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Patent number: 10990148
    Abstract: This disclosure generally provides an input device that includes multiple sensor and display electrodes and a processing system. The processing system includes a plurality of local receivers coupled to respective ones of the sensor electrodes, where the local receivers are configured to acquire first resulting signals from the sensor electrodes. The processing system also includes a central receiver coupled to the sensor electrodes and configured to acquire second resulting signals from each of the sensor electrodes simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein
  • Patent number: 10984740
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device. The display driving device may include: a buffer circuit including a positive output amplifier and a negative output amplifier; a switch circuit including output switches connected in series between the positive output amplifier and a first source output terminal, between the positive output amplifier and a second source output terminal, between the negative output amplifier and the first source output terminal, and between the negative output amplifier and the second source output terminal, respectively; and a reset circuit configured to reset output terminals of the positive output amplifier and the negative output amplifier to a middle voltage immediately before switching of the switch circuit for polarity inversion of the first and second source output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Joon Ho Na
  • Patent number: 10978005
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit which includes pixels and displays an image, a data driver which supplies a data signal to the pixels, and a timing controller which controls the data driver using a timing control signal. Here, the timing control signal may include a vertical synchronization signal for defining a frame period and a data enable signal for defining a display period during which an image is displayed and a blank period during which an image is not displayed. Here, lengths of blank periods may be equal to each other in a first driving mode in which the vertical synchronization signal is supplied to the timing controller in a constant cycle and in a second driving mode in which the vertical synchronization signal is supplied in different cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10969902
    Abstract: Various configurations and arrangements for touchscreens are disclosed to accommodate for one or more optical discontinuities that can be present within these touchscreens. When the one or more optical discontinuities are present, these configurations and arrangements of the touchscreens present a single layer of transparent conductive material that can be difficult to perceive by a human eye when viewing the touchscreens. Additionally, various edge correction techniques are disclosed to adjust mutual capacitances along a perimeter of the touchscreens. These edge correction techniques adjust mutual capacitances such that the values of the mutual capacitances are substantially uniform throughout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Kent, Gazi Ali, Khalid Azim
  • Patent number: 10957261
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels, a light source device that emits light that illuminates the display unit, and a controller that controls operation of the light source device. The controller does not lower luminance of the light for a second predetermined time or longer after the controller has raised the luminance of the light by a predetermined amount of luminance change or more within a first predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma
  • Patent number: 10928893
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program code are provided. The method comprises: monitoring a viewer's gaze direction towards a first display while the first display is displaying primary visual content and secondary visual content; determining that the viewer's gaze is directed towards the secondary visual content displayed by the first display; and causing the secondary visual content to be expanded by a second display, different from the first display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 10896649
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first odd source electrode and a first odd drain electrode on a first odd semiconductor layer have the same shapes as a first even drain electrode and a first even source electrode on a first even semiconductor layer, and when viewed in a plan view, a shape of a even pixel, except for a first even transistor, has substantially inversion symmetry with a shape of a odd pixel about a point on a virtual line parallel to a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Il Kim, Sei-yong Park, Yongdoo Park, Joonggun Chong, Sunghee Hong
  • Patent number: 10891005
    Abstract: A electronic device and a display method thereof are provided. A control method of the electronic device includes: detecting a touch input on an auxiliary display area; in response to a touch input being detected on a first area of the auxiliary display area in a and the electronic being in a state in which the electronic is gripped by a user, processing the touch input as a user input; and, in response to the touch input being detected on a second area of the auxiliary display area different from the first area and the electronic being in the state in which the electronic is gripped by the user, disregarding the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-dong Bae, Hyun-sub Park, Dae-myung Kim, Jin-hyoung Park, Shi-yun Cho, So-young Kim, Hee-seok Jeong, Ho-seong Seo, Yu-su Kim
  • Patent number: 10872555
    Abstract: A circuit apparatus is provided for driving source electrodes of a display panel based on image data and to control a backlight of the display panel. For example, the circuit apparatus includes a display drive (DD) circuit having a parameter generation (PG) part and an image data conversion (IDC) part. The PG part is operable to generate an image data-conversion parameter and a backlight control parameter based on a brightness distribution of the image data of one frame. The IDC part is operable to convert the image data based on the image data-conversion parameter. The DD circuit is operable to output source signals generated based on the converted image data and output, control the backlight based on the backlight control parameter, and stop an action of the parameter generation part in response to no change in the image data of one frame from image data of a preceding frame being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventor: Atsushi Shikata
  • Patent number: 10852156
    Abstract: An aircraft cockpit display includes among other things an LCD panel having a liquid crystal matrix, and backlight assembly for illuminating the liquid crystal matrix. The remainder of the display allows for single point failures within the architecture that impact only a portion of the primary display functions of the LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Bushell, Brett Allen Eddy
  • Patent number: 10838535
    Abstract: A method of sensing a touch in a display apparatus includes: determining a display frame rate of an input image applied to the display apparatus; determining a number of touch driving blocks according to the display frame rate; and sensing a touch based on driving one touch driving block of the determined touch driving blocks at each display frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seon-Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 10831304
    Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel and a control chip. The touch panel includes detection electrodes configured to form self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance. The control chip includes an emulation circuit and a subtraction circuit. The emulation circuit is configured to output a reference signal. The subtraction circuit is coupled to the emulation circuit and the detection electrode, subtracts the reference signal outputted by the emulation circuit from a detected signal outputted by the detection electrodes to output a differential detected signal, and identifies a touch event according to the differential detected signal to reduce the power consumption for touch detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Sung-Han Wu
  • Patent number: 10824278
    Abstract: A electronic device and a display method thereof are provided. A control method of the electronic device includes: detecting a touch input on an auxiliary display area; in response to a touch input being detected on a first area of the auxiliary display area in a and the electronic being in a state in which the electronic is gripped by a user, processing the touch input as a user input; and, in response to the touch input being detected on a second area of the auxiliary display area different from the first area and the electronic being in the state in which the electronic is gripped by the user, disregarding the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-dong Bae, Hyun-sub Park, Dae-myung Kim, Jin-hyoung Park, Shi-yun Cho, So-young Kim, Hee-seok Jeong, Ho-seong Seo, Yu-su Kim
  • Patent number: 10795448
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system for human-computer interface, comprising an input device configured to provide two or more dimensions of operational input to a processor based at least in part upon a rubbing contact pattern between two or more digits of the same human hand that is interpreted by the input device. The input device may be configured to provide two orthogonal dimensions of operational input pertinent to a three-dimensional virtual environment presented, at least in part, by the processor. The input device may be configured to detect the rubbing between a specific digit in a pen-like function against one or more other digits. The input device further may be configured to detect the rubbing between the specific digit in a pen-like function and one or more other digits in a receiving panel function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel A. Miller
  • Patent number: 10788692
    Abstract: An LCD device includes a transmissive LCD panel assembly, a backlight assembly for supplying light to the LCD panel assembly, and a selective reflection film provided between the backlight assembly and the LCD panel assembly. A display region of the LCD has a low-resolution area and a high-resolution area, and a pixel formed in the low-resolution area that is larger than a pixel formed in the high-resolution area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kee-Han Uh, Hyung-Guel Kim, Sang-Woo Kim, Seung-Kyu Lee, Bo-Young An, Won-Sang Park, Jae-Hyun Kim, Hae-Young Yun, Jae-Young Lee, Poundaleva Irina, Sung-Eun Cha, Young-Joo Chang, Jae-Ik Lim, Ki-Hun Jeong