Patents Examined by Jennifer T. Nguyen
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Patent number: 12293046Abstract: An electroluminescent display is disclosed. The electroluminescent display includes an electroluminescent element disposed in a display area of a substrate, an encapsulation unit disposed on the electroluminescent element, a first mesh electrode layer disposed on the encapsulation unit, an insulating layer covering the first mesh electrode layer, and a second mesh electrode layer disposed on the insulating layer. The first mesh electrode layer includes a first mesh electrode and a second mesh electrode separated from the first mesh electrode. The second mesh electrode layer includes a third mesh electrode extended in a first direction and a fourth mesh electrode extended in a second direction intersecting the first direction through the first mesh electrode intersecting the third mesh electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jonghyun Han, Seungrok Shin
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Patent number: 12293742Abstract: A method of presenting sensor data can include receiving a request for data to be displayed on a display area of a display device, determining a data distribution per pixel within the display area for both the first axis and the second axis based on the pixel resolution, the first output range, and the second output range, fitting the data distribution per pixel for data associated with the first axis to provide first axis fitted data, fitting the data distribution per pixel for data associated with the second axis to provide second axis fitted data, and sending the first axis fitted data and the second axis fitted data. The request comprises a pixel resolution of the display area, a first output range of the data along a first axis, and a second output range of the data along a second axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: LYTT LIMITEDInventors: James Crofton Ramsay, Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan
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Patent number: 12292576Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have displays that display images for a user. The images are viewable from eye boxes while the head-mounted device is being worn by the user. A head strap may be removably coupled to the head-mounted housing to help hold the displays in position during operation of the head-mounted device. The head strap and head-mounted housing may have wireless power circuitry and communications circuitry. The wireless power circuitry may be used to transmit power from a battery in the head strap to the head-mounted housing. The communications circuitry may include wireless radio-frequency circuitry and/or optical circuitry that allow the head strap to convey wireless data to the head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may also transmit power and/or data to the strap.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Inventor: Darshan R. Kasar
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Patent number: 12293730Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate; a light-emitting layer; and a light modulation layer. The light-emitting layer is located between the first substrate and the light modulation layer; the light modulation layer includes a first light modulation layer and a second light modulation layer; the light-emitting layer includes at least one light-emitting element; the first light modulation layer includes at least one first opening; an orthographic projection of the first opening on the first substrate overlaps an orthographic projection of the light-emitting element on the first substrate; the second light modulation layer covers the first opening; and a refractive index of the second light modulation layer is greater than a refractive index of the first light modulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shui He, Jinjin Yang, Jiansheng Zhong, Qiaoling Zhong, Ying Liu, Shanshan Zheng
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Patent number: 12295202Abstract: Provided are a foldable optical film with excellent impact resistance and with capability to improve design quality, and an image display device including the same. An aspect of the present invention provides a foldable optical film 10 with a front surface 10A and a back surface 10B opposite to the front surface 10A, wherein optical film 10 includes a hard coat layer 12, a resin layer 13, and a decorative layer 14; the hard coat layer 12 is located closer to the front surface 10A than the resin layer 13 and the decorative layer 14 in the optical film 10; and the resin layer 13 has a film thickness of 10 ?m or more, and the resin layer 13 has a Martens hardness of 1 MPa or more and 100 MPa or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa Ogawa, Keisuke Ebisu, Yousuke Kousaka, Jun Sato, Takahito Kawakami, Atsuhiro Kobayashi, Hiroki Matsushita
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Patent number: 12287675Abstract: Display module having a flexible display unit and a housing having a rear side and a front side, the flexible display unit being arranged on the front side of the housing, characterized in that the housing has a plurality of interior spaces for accommodating electronic components, in that the housing is flexible at least along boundaries of the interior spaces in that the housing has recesses on the rear side which extend at least partially over the rear side, as a result of which the housing with the display unit can be bent within a predefined angular range along the recesses. Furthermore, a use of the display module, a display system comprising a plurality of display modules, and a method of operating a display system are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Dynavisual AGInventors: Marcel Delavy, Roman Paysen-Petersen, Nicola Ramagnano, Heinz Christian Mathis
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Patent number: 12282694Abstract: One embodiment provides a computing device. The computing device is configured to couple to a display. The computing device includes an ambient detection module configured to detect a characteristic of ambient light relative to at least a portion of a display area of the display. The computing device further includes a displayed image optimization module configured to optimize a feature of at least a portion of a displayed image based, at least in part, on the characteristic of the ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInventor: Michael Shur
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Patent number: 12282624Abstract: A touch controller includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the touch controller to: operate in an uplink power saving mode in which an uplink signal is transmitted with reduced power in response to reception of a suspend order from a host computer, and operate in a normal mode in which the uplink signal is transmitted with normal power in response to detection of a predetermined trigger during operation in the uplink power saving mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
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Patent number: 12283218Abstract: A driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The driving circuit includes a level conversion unit and a gate electrode driving unit; and the gate electrode driving unit is configured to sequentially shift and output a plurality of first gate scan signals by a first portion of the 2n gate signal output terminals in response to a first portion of the plurality of first output signals received at a first moment by a first portion of the plurality of second clock signal input terminals, and sequentially output a plurality of second gate scan signals by a second portion of the 2n gate signal output terminals in response to a second portion of the plurality of first output signals received at a second moment by a second portion of the plurality of second clock signal input terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenpeng Ma, Shulin Yao, Yanping Liao, Panhui Zhao, Dongchuan Chen, Pengfei Hu, Zheng Zhang, Yingmeng Miao
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Patent number: 12282614Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular housing having an opening at one end, a core body portion including a rod-shaped core body and a pressure member that holds a rear end of the core body and transmits a force applied to the core body, a writing pressure detector that detects a writing pressure applied to the core body, and a tubular holding member that accommodates and holds the core body portion. At least part of a side surface of the core body portion includes a flat surface portion parallel to an axial direction of the pen. An inner edge of the holding member has a cylindrical shape and at least part of the inner edge includes a protruding portion. With the core body portion mounted in the housing, the flat surface portion of the core body portion and the protruding portion of the holding member face each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Mamoru Ogata
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Patent number: 12277291Abstract: A driver circuit configured to drive a display panel to perform a display function and a touch function is provided. The driver circuit includes a plurality of pads and a switch circuit. The plurality of pads are coupled to the display panel and grouped into several pad groups. A synchronization driving signal is applied to the pad groups in a touch sensing phase, and the synchronization driving signal has a first level. The switch circuit is coupled to the pads. The switch circuit is configured to receive a common signal and a system voltage signal, and output the common signal and the system voltage signal to the pad groups in a time division manner. The common signal has a second level, and the system voltage signal has a third level. Voltage levels of the pad groups are changed from the second level to the first level in different times, and the second level is smaller than the first level.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Kai-Chun Huang
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Patent number: 12279508Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a substrate, where the display panel is divided into a first display region in which a plurality of first pixels is disposed and a second display region in which a plurality of second pixels is disposed; and a sensor overlapping the second display region of the display panel. The second display region includes a plurality of unit pixel blocks, each including two second pixels adjacent to each other in a first direction and two second pixels adjacent to each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a transmissive region through which light is transmitted. A distance between two unit pixel blocks adjacent to each other in the first direction is greater than a distance between two unit pixel blocks adjacent to each other in an oblique direction inclined to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Jin Hong, Gun Shik Kim, Tae Hoon Yang, Ja Eun Lee, Sun Ho Kim
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Patent number: 12272310Abstract: A pixel circuit is disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node; a light emitting element including an anode electrode connected to a fourth node and configured to be driven according to the current from the driving element; a first switch element configured to supply a data voltage to the second node; a second switch element configured to supply an initialization voltage to the first node; a third switch element configured to supply a reference voltage to the third node or the fourth node; a fourth switch element configured to supply a cathode voltage or the reference voltage to the third node or the fourth node; and a fifth switch element configured to supply a pixel driving voltage to the first node.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Won Lee, Seo Jun Yeom, Byeung Jae Woo
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Patent number: 12265664Abstract: A method for aligning coordinate systems of user devices in an augmented reality system using somatic points of a user's hand as alignment markers. Images captured from multiple user devices are used to align the reference coordinate systems of the user devices to a common reference coordinate system. In some examples, user devices capture images of a hand of a user and use object recognition to identify somatic points as alignment markers. The somatic points of a user device are translated to a common reference coordinate system determined by another user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Georgios Evangelidis, Bernhard Jung, Ilteris Kaan Canberk, Daniel Wolf, Balázs Tóth, Márton Gergely Kajtár, Branislav Micusik
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Patent number: 12267633Abstract: A projector according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a light modulation section that has a pixel region containing a plurality of unit pixels segmented by a black matrix, a projection system, and a pixel shifting device that shifts the optical path of image light output from the light modulation section. One of the plurality of unit pixels in the pixel region is set as a reference unit t pixel, and the pixel shifting device superimposes the image light output from the reference unit pixel at a shifted display position on the region corresponding to the black matrix and surrounding the reference unit pixel at a reference display position in such a way that the image light does not overlap with other unit pixels adjacent to the reference unit pixel out of the unit pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichi Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 12260835Abstract: A driving method and drive circuit of a display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: receiving initial image data of a frame to be displayed, the resolution of an initial image corresponding to the initial image data being different from the resolution of a display panel; the initial image data including a plurality of pieces of initial gray scale data for displaying the initial image; according to the initial gray scale data in the initial image data, the resolution of the initial image, and the resolution of the display panel, determining target gray scale data corresponding to panel sub-pixels in the display panel; and driving the display panel to display according to the target gray scale data.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shaolei Zong, Xin Duan, Jigang Sun, Wei Sun, Rui Liu
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Patent number: 12254846Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a display device that is driven by using PWM signals, the method comprising: obtaining, by a controller, a type of display contents which are displayed on the display device; and controlling, by the controller, a duty of the PWM signals for driving the display device according to the type of the display contents, wherein the duty of the PWM signals is set to a first value if the type of the display contents is a video, and the duty of the PWM signals is set to a second value larger than the first value if the type of the display contents is a static-image.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeyuki Tsuruma, Teppei Isobe, Masafumi Matsui
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Patent number: 12256591Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a first element and a second element. The first element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first optical functional layer. The first optical functional layer includes a region interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first optical functional layer includes a first layer and a layer containing a first light-emitting material. The second element includes a third electrode, the second electrode, and a second optical functional layer. The second optical functional layer includes a region interposed between the third electrode and the second electrode. The second optical functional layer includes the first layer and a layer containing a photoelectric conversion material.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Taisuke Kamada
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Patent number: 12256622Abstract: A display device includes: an electronic module; and an electronic panel including: a base layer including an upper surface having a recessed portion and a dam portion; and an alignment mark disposed on the base layer, wherein the electronic panel includes: a first area including the electronic module; a second area surrounding at least a portion of the first area in a plan view; and an active area surrounding at least a portion of the second area in a plan view, wherein: the recessed portion and the dam portion are disposed in the second area, the second area includes a pattern area surrounding the first area and a line area surrounding the pattern area, and the alignment mark includes a conductive pattern and is disposed in the pattern area.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jongsoo Lee, Jong-Won Choo
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Patent number: 12236044Abstract: Disclosed is an accidental touch prevention method applied to a wearable device including a touch control structure and a capacitive touch sensor configured to collect capacitance values of at least two touch channels. The distances between the touch channels and the touch control structure are not equal. The method includes: when an event of triggering a touch control structure is detected, obtaining a capacitance value of each touch channel collected by the capacitive touch sensor; determining whether the capacitance values of all of the touch channels meet a preset capacitance value distribution state which is the distribution state of the capacitance values of all of the touch channels when the touch control structure is triggered under the conditions of a non-accidental touch; and if not, determining that the touch control structure has been touched accidentally, and not responding to the event of triggering the touch control structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Zongxu Yang, Tao Sui, Guiming Cao, Shupeng Li, Shumin Tan