Patents Examined by Jimmy H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12210715
    Abstract: A display device including an input sensor having sensing electrodes disposed in a sensing area and signal lines. Each of the signal lines is connected to a corresponding electrode of the sensing electrodes and disposed in the line area. One signal line of the signal lines includes a first portion having a constant width, a second portion disposed outside a corner area of the sensing area, extending from the first portion, and having a width gradually increasing in a direction that is away from the first portion, a third portion extending from the second portion and having a width gradually varying in a direction that is away from the second portion, and a fourth portion extending from the third portion and having a constant width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jisu Na, Kwangmin Kim, Kiwook Kim, Yangwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12210673
    Abstract: Disclosed are a spatial positioning method of a separate virtual system, and a separate virtual system. The spatial positioning method of the separated virtual system provided by the present application, when the mobile terminal is attached to the virtual head-mounted display device and the mobile terminal performs the virtual mode, the 3DOF is determined from the first image captured by the camera, and the rotational freedom degree is obtained based on the first inertial sensor, so the spatial positioning of the virtual head-mounted display device is determined, and the spatial positioning accuracy of the mobile terminal. In addition, the man-machine interaction based on the spatial positioning enhances the game experience, thereby enhancing the performance of the head-mounted reality device separate from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PIMAX TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhibin Weng, Ke Zhou, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 12213367
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel having an emissive area, and a sensor having a sensing area; and an anti-reflection layer on the display panel, the anti-reflection layer including: a light blocking layer having a first opening overlapping with the emissive area, a second opening overlapping with the sensing area, and an intermediate opening between the first opening and the second opening; a color filter covering the first opening; an over-coating layer on the light blocking layer, and covering the color filter; and a light blocking pattern on the over-coating layer, and overlapping with an area between the intermediate opening and the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bokwang Song, Gee-Bum Kim, Kwang Soo Bae, Dae-Young Lee, Min Oh Choi
  • Patent number: 12198227
    Abstract: To output a virtual smoke image, an electronic device may receive a connection request from an aerosol generating device in a state of being paired with one or more external controllers, determine a controller type of the aerosol generating device, suspend pairing with a target external controller among the one or more external controllers when the determined controller type corresponds to a type of the target external controller, perform connection with the aerosol generating device, receive sensing information about a state of the aerosol generating device, generate a virtual smoke image based on the sensing information, and output the virtual smoke image through a display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Kim, Minseok Jeong, Tae Young Chung
  • Patent number: 12196960
    Abstract: An optical combiner is employed to reflect a first part and a second part of a synthetic light field towards a first eye and a second eye of user(s), respectively, whilst optically combining the first part and the second part with a real-world light field. Portion(s) of the optical combiner from which a part of the synthetic light field is reflecting towards a given eye of a given user is determined, based on a relative location of the given eye with respect to the optical combiner. Portion(s) of active optical device(s) that corresponds to the portion(s) of the optical combiner are activated, to decrease transmittance of the real-world light field passing through the portion(s) of the optical combiner towards the given eye, and/or to increase reflectance of the synthetic light field being reflected by the portion(s) of the optical combiner towards the given eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Distance Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Urho Konttori, Mikko Strandborg
  • Patent number: 12185614
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel layer including a plurality of display devices on the substrate, an encapsulating member encapsulating the pixel layer, a light modulating layer on the encapsulating member, a functional layer on the light modulating layer, and a bonding layer located between the light modulating layer and the functional layer and to bond the light modulating layer and the functional layer, where the light modulating layer has openings corresponding to the plurality of display devices, and where the bonding layer fills the openings and has a refractive index that is greater than a refractive index of the light modulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changmok Kim, Kwanhee Lee, Jiwon Jung, Youngseo Choi
  • Patent number: 12182363
    Abstract: A base noise level of a touchscreen interface for a computing device is actively and adaptively calibrated. Antenna traces forming a digitizer of the touchscreen interface are allocated into antenna regions. Antenna regions with high energy signal levels and antenna regions with low energy signal levels are identified. Signal level information from high energy antenna regions is discarded. A noise level, caused by electrical components of the computing device, is determined within signals generated in the antenna traces based at least in part upon the low energy antenna regions. The digitizer is calibrated by reducing energy levels of signals carried by the antenna traces in all antenna regions by the noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hanan Grinberg, Oren Istrin, Hadas Ruas, Nadav Linenberg, Anton Gorbanev
  • Patent number: 12171116
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woongsik Kim, Jinsu Byun, Sanghyun Lee, Gwangmin Cha, Saehee Han
  • Patent number: 12164725
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Masahiko Takiguchi, Satoshi Uchino
  • Patent number: 12141395
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Yuval Stern
  • Patent number: 12144226
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangsik Lee, JiHyun Jung, SuChang An, JaeGyun Lee, Ruda Rhe
  • Patent number: 12133407
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myoung Seo Park
  • Patent number: 12118172
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 12099665
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hara, Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 12089438
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miran Ji, Hyunduck Cho
  • Patent number: 12086350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Wook Cho, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park, Jinwoo Park
  • Patent number: 12067923
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhengqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12056308
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Wenxu Xianyu
  • Patent number: 12050771
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Tyler McAtee, Baboo Gowreesunker, Michael J. Lamb, Brent W. Schorsch, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 12039135
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Seong Seo, Sung Hyun Park