Patents Examined by Joe H. Cheng
  • Patent number: 11809237
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a first housing, where the first housing includes at least one first housing accelerometer and at least one first housing gyroscope, a second housing, where the second housing includes at least one second housing accelerometer and at least one second housing gyroscope, and a hinge. The hinge rotatably couples the first housing to the second housing, where a hinge angle is determined using data from the first housing accelerometer, the second housing accelerometer, the first housing gyroscope, and the second housing gyroscope if the electronic device is not in a portrait orientation where the hinge is vertical to a ground or not in motion and is determined using data from the first housing gyroscope and the second housing gyroscope if the electronic device is in portrait orientation or is in motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Renjie Cui, Ke Han, Hemin Han, Lili Ma
  • Patent number: 11809631
    Abstract: A reluctance haptic engine for an electronic device includes a core, an attractor plate, and mechanical suspension. The core and/or the attractor plate may be coupled to an input structure, such as a button cap, a trackpad cover, or a touchscreen cover. In an unactuated configuration, flexible support members maintain a gap between the core and the attractor plate. An electrical current may be applied to one or more conduction loops of the core to actuate the reluctance haptic engine and provide a haptic output by moving the input structure. The electrical current may cause a magnetic flux that results in a reluctance force that pulls the attractor and the core together and causes the input structure to move to produce a haptic output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Denis G. Chen, Timothy D. Koch
  • Patent number: 11803254
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus and a control method therefor. The flexible display apparatus comprises: a flexible display panel (10); a bending sensor (11), that is configured to sense bending information of the flexible display panel (10); and a processor, that is coupled to the bending sensor (11), configured to receive the bending information of the bending sensor (11), and determines whether the bending information is valid bending information, and if so, then a currently running application program is controlled according to the valid bending information to perform a corresponding operation. By bending the flexible display panel (10), an application program is controlled to perform a corresponding operation, achieving a convenient, accurate, and effective operation, and improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Zhu, Xiaolin Liu, Chao Sun, Yuanjie Li
  • Patent number: 11803212
    Abstract: A foldable display device may include: a display panel including a first active area, a second active area, and a foldable area between the first active area and the second active area for folding and unfolding the display panel; and a camera in the second active area or overlapping with the second active area. The first active area may be configured to display a test pattern, and the camera may be configured to capture the test pattern to output captured data for compensating a data voltage applied to at least one of the first active area and the second active area of the display panel for displaying an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boyun Jung, SeungTaek Oh
  • Patent number: 11797176
    Abstract: A computing device may segment an input area of an user input device (e.g., the surface of a trackpad) into multiple subsets. At a given time, the computing device may use one of the multiple subsets for mapping to a display device (e.g., instead of mapping the entire input area to the display device). To illustrate, based on receiving user input in one of the multiple subsets, the computing device may map that subset to the display device so that the subset is represented at the display device (e.g., without representing the other subsets at the display device). By segmenting the input area, an aspect ratio of a segment may be matched to an aspect area of the display device. Accordingly, distortions associated with an aspect ratio mismatch between the input area and the display device may be reduced or avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hsu Feng Lee, Karthikeyan Krishnakumar, Chiu-Jung Tsen
  • Patent number: 11798439
    Abstract: An information handling system display monitor transitions between flat and curved configurations by actuation of a shaped memory alloy wire within the display monitor housing. For example, a nickel titanium wire is heated by application of current across the wire to transition its crystalline form, thereby shortening the wire to adjust the configuration of a foldable display film, such as an OLED display film. Separate shaped memory alloy wires may be used to achieve foldable display film movement in each direction, or actuation of a shaped memory alloy wire in one direction may generate bias in a spring in the opposite direction that is released when a change in foldable display film configuration is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Guentaek Oh, Kyung Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 11783734
    Abstract: A foldable display device is provided and includes: a first housing, a second housing rotatably connected to the first housing, a flexible display module, and a rigid foldable functional layer. A side of the flexible display module is disposed on the first housing and the second housing, and the rigid foldable functional layer is disposed on another side of the flexible display module. Furthermore, the rigid foldable functional layer is disposed on a light-emitting side of the flexible display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen Han
  • Patent number: 11782547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a substrate base, including a first region and a second region; a plurality of sub-pixels, at least one sub-pixel including a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode; a plurality of first power lines electrically connected to the first electrode; a first power bus electrically connected to the plurality of first power lines; a second power line electrically connected to the second electrode and including a first portion and a second portion, a gap existing between the second portion of the second power line and the first power bus; a first insulating layer covering the first power bus, the second power line, and the gap; a conductive layer on the first insulating layer; and a plurality of touch electrode lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Yan
  • Patent number: 11775017
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to bendable displays for electronic devices. In one example, a first display region including a glass panel that is rigid, the glass panel including a first interlocking edge. A second display region can include a plastic panel that is bendable, the plastic panel including a second interlocking edge that is shaped to inversely correspond with the first interlocking edge. An interlock zone where the first interlocking edge can be joined with the second interlocking edge such that the first display region and the second display region form a continuous display panel that is bendable at a location along the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Super Liao, Kuan-Ting Wu, Hsing-Hung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11775026
    Abstract: Various embodiments may include methods of detecting a fold state of a foldable mobile device in which the foldable mobile device includes a hinge coupling the first and second faces pivotally to fold into one or more fold states based on images of a visual element obtained by an image sensor. Embodiments may include measuring, using an image sensor disposed on a first face of the foldable mobile device, a predetermined feature on a second face of the foldable mobile device, and determining a fold state of the foldable mobile device based on the measure of the predetermined feature. In some embodiments, the reported fold state may be based on a dimension determined from the measure of the predetermined feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Donghyun Park, Woosung Jeong
  • Patent number: 11775093
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided. The touch display comprises a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area. The touch display device further comprises a display panel, a touch panel disposed opposite to the display panel, and a first narrow frame glue disposed between the display panel and the touch panel in the non-display area. The display panel comprises a non-display transparent portion corresponding to the first narrow frame glue in the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongchen Huang, Chingyuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 11775025
    Abstract: A display method for a device having a foldable screen includes: detecting a status of the foldable screen; displaying an application interface on one or more of a first screen of the foldable screen or a second screen of the foldable screen according to a first display policy if the status of the foldable screen is a support state or a folded state; or if the status of the foldable screen is an unfolded state, displaying the application interface on the foldable screen in the unfolded state according to a second display policy, where in the unfolded state the first screen and the second screen form a same plane or form an approximately same plane, and where the first display policy is different from the second display policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Hao Chen, Yuyan Chu, Hua Jiang, Lin Gao
  • Patent number: 11769467
    Abstract: A timing controller includes a receiving circuit, a timing control circuit, and a plurality of insertion loss circuits. The receiving circuit is configured to receive N frames of signals. The timing control circuit is configured to: detect a bit error rate of an (M-1)th-frame signal in a blanking interval of an Mth-frame signal; adjust a swing of the (M-1)th-frame signal according to a target swing value corresponding to the bit error rate of the (M-1)th-frame signal; and select the corresponding insertion loss circuit according to the target swing value corresponding to the bit error rate of the (M-1)th-frame signal, wherein M and N are both positive integers, and M is greater than 1 and less than or equal to N. The present disclosure is applied to signal adjustment of the timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Liu, Xuanxuan Qiao, Shuai Liu, Xianfeng Yuan, Zejun Chen, Jianjun Wang, Zhenzhou Xing
  • Patent number: 11763702
    Abstract: A cover plate and a foldable display apparatus. The cover plate is applied to a foldable display apparatus. A surface of the cover plate that is away from a first display panel is a first surface; the first surface includes a central plane, and a marginal plane, a first marginal cambered surface, a second marginal cambered surface and a third marginal cambered surface which surround the central plane and are successively connected end to end; wherein the marginal plane is located on a side of the second marginal cambered surface that is close to a foldable area, and the curvatures of the first marginal cambered surface and the third marginal cambered surface gradually decrease along a direction from the second marginal cambered surface to the marginal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cui, Binfeng Feng
  • Patent number: 11762519
    Abstract: Provided are a flexible touch substrate, a flexible touch panel, and a flexible touch apparatus. The flexible touch substrate includes: a flexible base, a plurality of light-emitting devices, a touch electrode layer, and a shielding layer. The light-emitting devices are located on the flexible base; the touch electrode layer is located on the side of the light-emitting devices distant from the flexible base; the shielding layer is located between the light-emitting devices and the touch electrode layer; the shielding layer is insulated from the light-emitting devices and the touch electrode layer, the shielding layer comprises a plurality of openings; and light emitted by the light-emitting device can pass through the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zewen Bo, Tawei Kuo, Baofeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11763703
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a main body; and a power supply device configured to be electrically connected to the main body. The power supply device includes: a first housing comprising a first circuit configured to receive alternating current (AC) power; a second housing comprising a second circuit configured to supply direct current (DC) power to the main body; a hinge connected to the first housing and the second housing, and configured to be folded; and a flexible conductive structure electrically connecting the first circuit and the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonmyung Woo, Jeongil Kang, Kangmoon Seo, Sanghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11762472
    Abstract: An input device and an input module are provided that vibrate in a direction along the surface of a cantilevered operation unit. The input device includes a fixed member rotatably supporting a rotation shaft, an operation unit having an end rotatably supported by the rotation shaft and being rotatable relative to the fixed member, and a vibrating element that generates vibration of the operation unit in the axial direction of the rotation shaft in response to a rotation operation performed on the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hajime Suzuki, Hiroshi Wakuda, Ko Owada, Tetsu Numata, Toshiki Tachioka
  • Patent number: 11756327
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing device includes a double-sided substrate between a first substrate and a second substrate, and first strip electrodes formed on the double-sided substrate and contacting first electroconductive pads disposed on the first substrate and downwardly contacting connecting pads on a second substrate. Second strip electrodes are formed on the double-sided substrate and downwardly contacting second electroconductive pads disposed on the second substrate. The connecting pads and the second electroconductive pads are electrically connected to a chip unit. A method of making the same is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: William Wang, Yu-Sung Su
  • Patent number: 11755135
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a light-emitting region and a reflection region, a plurality of sensing patterns disposed in the light-emitting region and the reflection region, and including a material having a first reflectivity, and a reflection pattern disposed in the reflection region, and including a material having a second reflectivity, and overlapping the plurality of sensing patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Lyong Bok, Young-Seok Seo, Mu-Gyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 11747869
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a sensor substrate, sensing electrodes, an antenna pattern, an antenna signal line, an antenna pad, and an antenna frame. The sensor substrate is disposed on an upper surface of the display panel and includes a touch sensing area, a first peripheral area adjacent to the touch sensing area, and a second peripheral area bent from the first peripheral area. The sensing electrodes and the antenna pattern are disposed on the touch sensing area of the sensor substrate. The antenna signal line is connected from the antenna pattern and extends to the first peripheral area and the second peripheral area. The antenna pad is disposed in the second peripheral area and connects to the antenna signal line. The antenna frame is attached to a lower surface of the display panel and defines a bending shape of the sensor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jae Lee, Sung Hwan Kim, Young Seok Yoo