Patents Examined by Jimmy H. Nguyen
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Patent number: 12171116Abstract: A display apparatus may include a substrate, a display element disposed above the substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed above the display element and including an inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer, and a touch-sensing layer disposed above the encapsulation layer. The touch-sensing layer may include a first insulating layer including a side surface inclined with respect to a top surface of the encapsulation layer and including an organic material. The touch-sensing layer may include a conductive layer including sensing electrodes, and a second insulating layer covering the conductive layer and including a refractive index that may be different from that of the first insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Woongsik Kim, Jinsu Byun, Sanghyun Lee, Gwangmin Cha, Saehee Han
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Patent number: 12164725Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel and which outputs a sensing signal in response to an external input and an approach of an object, and a sensing controller which controls a drive of the input sensing layer and receives the sensing signal from the input sensing layer. The sensing controller includes a location sensing block which generates a location information signal including location information of the external input in response to the sensing signal, and an approach sensing block which determines whether the object approaches in response to the sensing signal and generates an approach information signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Masahiko Takiguchi, Satoshi Uchino
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Patent number: 12144226Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area; a thin film transistor in the display area; a light emitting film layer on the thin film transistor; an encapsulation layer on the light emitting film layer; a touch buffer layer on the encapsulation layer; a bridge, first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes disposed on the touch buffer layer; a touch insulating film disposed between the bridge and the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes; a touch pad in the pad area; a touch sensing line connected to the first touch electrodes; and a touch driving line connected to the second touch electrodes, wherein at least one of the touch sensing line and the touch driving line is provided on a side surface of the encapsulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yangsik Lee, JiHyun Jung, SuChang An, JaeGyun Lee, Ruda Rhe
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Patent number: 12141395Abstract: A method for capacitive based detection with a digitizer sensor including a plurality of conductive elements that are capacitively coupled is described. The method includes generating a drive signal including transient sections separated in time by flat sections, providing the drive signal generated to at least one conductive element of the digitizer sensor, and sampling outputs transferred to a second conductive element that is capacitively coupled to the at least one conductive element in response to providing the signal generated to the at least one conductive element. The sampling events of the sampling are timed to take place both in response to the transient sections of the drive signal and to the flat sections of the drive signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Yuval Stern
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Patent number: 12133407Abstract: In non-limiting example embodiments, an electroluminescent device may include a lower structure including an emission area, and an encapsulation structure located on the lower structure. The lower structure may include a window. The window may be a light transmitting region or a notch. The light transmitting region may be spaced apart from the emission area and completely or partially surrounded by the emission area in a plan view. The notch may be formed at one side of the lower structure and recessed inward in a plan view such that one side of the emission area substantially conforms to the notch.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Myoung Seo Park
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Patent number: 12118172Abstract: Electronic equipment includes a touch sensor including a plurality of electrodes arranged in a plane shape and separated from each other in an array direction, a differential amplifier that amplifies a difference between a positive-side signal and a negative-side signal selectively output from the plurality of electrodes and that outputs the difference, a position detection unit that detects a touch position in a sensor area that is formed by the touch sensor, based on an output signal from the differential amplifier, and a conductive part that is a part made of a conductive material or contains a conductive material and that is arranged to partially overlap the sensor area in plan view. The conductive part is arranged such that an outermost end point thereof in the array direction is positioned on one of the plurality of electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
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Patent number: 12099665Abstract: A stylus capable of bidirectionally communicating with a sensor controller includes a receiver that receives an uplink signal sent by the sensor controller, a controller that determines whether a signal having a predetermined waveform is to be continuously sent over a second time period or to be continuously sent over a first time period longer than the second time period, on the basis of the uplink signal, and a transmitter that continuously sends the signal having the predetermined waveform over the first time period or the second time period on the basis of the result of determination by the controller. As a result, the sensor controller can detect a burst signal from the stylus over a wide range in a sensor touch surface, to thereby reduce the possibility that the sensor controller may fail to detect the burst signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Hara, Yoshio Nomura
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Patent number: 12086350Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a detection electrode in an active area of the input sensor, a signal line connected to the detection electrode, a slave chip connected to the signal line and overlapping a non-active area adjacent to the active area, a master chip overlapping the non-active area, and a plurality of connection lines connecting the master chip and the slave chip so that a sensed signal of the detection electrode is delivered to the master chip through the slave chip.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Wook Cho, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park, Jinwoo Park
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Patent number: 12089438Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus includes a substrate including a first area and a second area; a first display element arranged in the first area; a second display element arranged in the second area; an input sensing layer disposed on the first display element and the second display element; an anti-reflection layer disposed on the input sensing layer; and a light blocking layer disposed on the anti-reflection layer, the light blocking layer having a first hole overlapping the emission area of the first display element and a second hole overlapping the emission area of the second display element, wherein an area of the first hole is greater than an area of the second hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miran Ji, Hyunduck Cho
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Patent number: 12067923Abstract: An ambient illumination intensity determining method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the field of display technologies. In the method, a terminal device (20) includes a display (21, 304) and an ambient light sensor (12, 303), an ambient light detection area (211) is disposed in the display (21, 304), and the ambient light sensor (12, 303) is disposed in a coverage area of the ambient light detection area (211).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhengqi Zhang
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Patent number: 12056308Abstract: A sensing module and a wearable device having same are disclosed. Wherein the sensing module comprises sensing electrodes, including a plurality of first sensing groups and a plurality of second sensing groups, wherein a width of the electrodes in the first sensing groups and a width of the electrodes in the second sensing groups are both less than a predetermined width; a driving chip, respectively connected to at least some of the first sensing groups and at least some of the second sensing groups. The driving chip has a fingerprint recognition function and a touch function.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Li, Wenxu Xianyu
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Patent number: 12050771Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to receiving a user input corresponding to a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism and in accordance with the user input, adjusting a brightness level of a display screen during a brightening configuration session.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Tyler McAtee, Baboo Gowreesunker, Michael J. Lamb, Brent W. Schorsch, Kevin Lynch
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Patent number: 12039135Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting including: resetting a preset offset value based on a detection region in which an object approaching a display is first detected among a plurality of detection regions predetermined by a sensor having a sensing element linearly disposed in parallel with the display; displaying at least one ghost menu icon around an original menu icon on the display screen by determining whether a calibration mode is ON; determining whether the ghost menu icon has been selected by a user; increasing or decreasing, when the ghost menu icon is selected by the user, the reset offset value based on the a position of the selected ghost menu; and correcting a position of an object detected by the sensor based on the increased or decreased offset value.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Seong Seo, Sung Hyun Park
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Patent number: 12033575Abstract: In a pixel circuit of a display device in which display luminance is controlled by a holding voltage of the capacitor Cst, a gate terminal of a drive transistor M1 is connected to a source terminal of the drive transistor M1 via a capacitance selection transistor M3 and the holding capacitor Cst and is also connected to the source terminal via only an auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa. During a data writing period Tw, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned off, and data voltage is provided from a data signal line Dj to the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa via a writing control transistor M2. Thereafter, the writing control transistor M2 is turned off, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned on, so that charges are redistributed between the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa and the holding capacitor Cst, whereby a driving holding voltage is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
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Patent number: 12029096Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including an active area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-active area; a plurality of light emitting elements in the active area on the substrate; an emission driver and a plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; a connection pattern on the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and formed of the same material as an anode; an encapsulation layer on the plurality of light emitting elements and the connection pattern; a touch sensing unit on the encapsulation layer in the active area; a low potential power line disposed more outwardly than the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; and a shielding layer between the connection pattern, and the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and electrically connected to the low potential power line.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeongmin Park, Donghun Jung
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Patent number: 12008961Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel which includes a plurality of display areas having different pixel densities from each other, where each of the display areas includes a plurality of pixels; a gate driver, which provides a first gate signal and a second gate signal to each of the pixels; and a data driver, which provides data voltages to the pixels in an address-scan period and provides different bias voltages to the display areas, respectively, in a self-scan period following the address-scan period.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Moonsang Hwang
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Patent number: 12010868Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting element layer, an intermediate layer disposed on the light emitting element layer, a lens layer having a convex shape and disposed on the intermediate layer to correspond to the light emitting element layer, and a lens protecting layer disposed on the intermediate layer and configured to cover the lens layer, wherein a total reflection of light output from a light emitting area of the light emitting element layer does not occur on an interface between the lens layer and the lens protecting layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Keongjin Lee, Byungjoo Lee, Juhoon Jang, Ara Yoon, Woonchan Moon
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Patent number: 11995268Abstract: A display device can include a display panel including pixels and touch electrodes; a timing controller to output a touch enable signal based on a display driving section for displaying image and a second level in a touch driving section for providing a touch driving signal to the touch electrodes; and a touch driver configured to provide a common voltage or the touch driving signal to the touch electrodes based on the touch-enable signal, in which a frame section comprises a plurality of long horizontal blank (LHB) sections, each including the display driving section and the touch driving section. Also, the touch enable signal includes a first level during the display driving section and second level during the touch driving section, the timing controller adjusts the touch enable signal by varying a period of the first level and a period of the second level.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yeonwook Kang
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Patent number: 11996052Abstract: A display device can include a display panel having a plurality of subpixels; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines, and output a feedback voltage; a data driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of data voltages to the display panel through a plurality of data lines; a power management circuit configured to supply a plurality of driving voltages to the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, and supply a compensating high-potential gate voltage to the gate driving circuit based on the feedback voltage transferred from the gate driving circuit. The display device can further include a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit, the data driving circuit, and the power management circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: MooKyoung Hong, Uitaek Jeong, HyeonWoo Lee, DongKyu Yang, SinKyun Park, SeungWon Lee
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Patent number: 11995280Abstract: A touch structure, a touch display panel and an electronic apparatus are provided. The touch structure includes a first touch electrode extended along a first direction and a second touch electrode extended along a second direction; the first touch electrode includes first electrode main body portions in a first conductive layer (201) and a first connection portion in a second conductive layer (202); the second touch electrode includes second electrode main body portions and a second connection portion in the first conductive layer; the first connection portion is overlapped with the second connection portion in a direction perpendicular to the first conductive layer; the first conductive layer includes first metal meshes formed by first metal lines. The touch structure also includes a dummy electrode in the second conductive layer. The dummy electrode is coupled with at least one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chunping Long