Patents Examined by Jonathan A Boyd
  • Patent number: 12711896
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device has a first working mode and includes a display panel and a driving circuit board electrically connected to the display panel. In the first working mode, the driving circuit board is configured to perform an overcurrent protection on the display panel when a current in the signal line is greater than a preset current during at least two consecutive frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiuling Tian
  • Patent number: 12711653
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for ascertaining a position of a motor vehicle (1; 4) or of an object (2). The method includes: optically recording data of a traffic environment having multiple motor vehicles (1; 2; 4); detecting a reflection (3; 5) of at least a portion of a specific one of the motor vehicles (1; 2; 4) on the object (2) in the data; ascertaining at least one prominent area of the specific motor vehicle (1; 4) in the reflection; and ascertaining the position of the specific motor vehicle (1; 4) or of the object (2) using the prominent area in the reflection (3; 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: DR. ING. H. C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESLLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Manuel Vogel
  • Patent number: 12711886
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which a plurality of gate lines are arranged in a first direction, and a plurality of subpixel arrays each including a plurality of subpixels are arranged in the first direction; a gate driving circuit including a first gate driving circuit located in one edge of the display panel and a second gate driving circuit located in another edge of the display panel, the first gate driving circuit and the second gate driving circuit sharing one gate line connected to one subpixel array; and a timing controller for controlling the gate driving circuit to operate in a defect detecting mode to detect a defect in the display panel during a blank periods in which at least one of the plurality of subpixels of the display panel does not emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jisu Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Kyunghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12705941
    Abstract: This disclosure includes techniques for controlling smart home devices upon entering a home with a fingerprint sensor in a doorbell device. After capturing a fingerprint of a digit of a guest and sending the fingerprint to a server device, the server device matches the fingerprint of the digit to an entry in a guest fingerprint database for a first user. The server device sends an operational command to a smart home device separate from the doorbell device and located at a same premises as the doorbell device. In response to receiving the operational command from the server device, the smart home device performs an action corresponding to the operational command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Resideo USA LLC
    Inventors: José Miguel Díaz Arriaga, Rodolfo Piña Ramírez, César Rodríguez Esqueda, Edgar Abraham González Romero, José Luis García Hernández
  • Patent number: 12707733
    Abstract: The present application provides an array substrate and a display panel; the array substrate includes a display unit and a light sensing unit. A first electrode plate and a second electrode plate of a first capacitor of the light sensing unit are both transparent electrode plates, the first electrode plate is formed from a newly-added transparent conductive layer, the second electrode plate is served by a common electrode of the display unit, and the display unit and the light sensing unit work alternately in time-division within a time period of one frame to alleviate a problem of low aperture ratio in an existing display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhitao Lu
  • Patent number: 12700353
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel; a scan driver configured to provide a first scan signal and a second scan signal to the pixel; and a controller configured to provide a first scan control signal for generating the first scan signal and a second scan control signal for generating the second scan signal to the scan driver, wherein the second scan signal includes an active pulse in an active period having a constant time length and at least one dummy pulse in a vertical blank period having a variable time length, and wherein an interval between the active pulse and a first dummy pulse of the second scan signal is different from an interval between the first dummy pulse and a second dummy pulse of the second scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Kyu Kim, Youngwoon Choi, Seyun Kim, Sungjae Park, Seungho Park, Namjae Lim
  • Patent number: 12700339
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area disposed adjacent to the first display area. The display panel driver is configured to output a first data voltage to the first display area and a second data voltage to the second display area. When the first display area operates in a public mode and the second display area operates in a private mode, the first data voltage is different from the second data voltage for a same grayscale value. A viewing angle of a display image displayed in the private mode is narrower than a viewing angle of a display image displayed in the public mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiyoun Kim, Sangan Kwon, Namjeong Kim, Jihye Kim, Haneul Kim, Hongsoo Kim, Changnoh Yoon, Sukhun Lee
  • Patent number: 12682639
    Abstract: A method for detecting urine formed elements based on deep learning and context relation includes performing video capture on a labeled urine sample to obtain a labeled urine video; extracting an image from the labeled urine video to obtain single-frame image data with a time sequence n; and labeling position and category of a formed element on the single-frame image data to obtain a formed element dataset, and dividing the formed element dataset into a training set and a testing set. The method also includes constructing a urine formed element detection and classification model, and comparing and identifying functions, and using the training set and the testing set to train the model. The method further includes performing video capture on a to-be-detected urine sample in the visual field of the microscopic imaging device to obtain a to-be-detected urine video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOYING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bairui Li, Heqing Lian
  • Patent number: 12682848
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels located thereon. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a pixel electrode electrically connected thereto, and each pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit. The pixel electrode includes a main electrode part and a first electrode extension part extending therefrom. The display substrate includes first type of sub-pixels. The main electrode part of each sub-pixel of the first type of sub-pixels is not overlapped with a control electrode of the driving sub-circuit of the sub-pixel or an electrode part directly electrically connected to the control electrode, and the first electrode extension part of each pixel electrode is at least partially overlapped with the control electrode or the electrode part. The first type of sub-pixels include at least two sub-pixels configured to emit light of different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianqian Zhang, Liangliang Liu, Zhiyong Xue, Liman Peng, Yan Wu, Sihui Duan, Le Gao
  • Patent number: 12669877
    Abstract: This application discloses a device display control method, an electronic device, and a communication system, and relates to the field of wireless remote control technologies. This can accurately determine a presentation position of a displayed object (for example, a cursor) corresponding to a control device on a display device and provide better device control experience for a user. In this solution, the presentation position of the displayed object is determined based on a position that the control device points to on a display. Therefore, in both a single-display device scenario and a multi-display device scenario, convenient, immersive, and precise device control experience can be brought to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengyuan Hu, Weiting Zhai, Rongyou Jia, Haowei Xu, Shufeng Wang, Yuxin Yang, Meng Xue, Xuewen Zhao, Nanxue Gong
  • Patent number: 12663880
    Abstract: Aspects concern a virtual reality control device comprising one or more sensors configured to sense sensor data allowing determining the 3D position of the virtual reality control device in 3D space, at least one rotary wheel switch; and an output interface configured to output the sensor data from the one or more sensors and information about a rotation of the at least one rotary wheel switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: RAZER (ASIA-PACIFIC) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Wooi Liang Chin, Kah Yong Lee, Gil Jr Palma Guerrero, Pengfei Gao
  • Patent number: 12663885
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for providing an input event to a virtual object, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: displaying a first virtual object in a virtual world, wherein the first virtual object includes a plurality of coordinates; obtaining at least one mapping relationship between control events of an input object and the plurality of coordinates on the first virtual object; receiving a control event from the input object; determining a first target coordinate, among the plurality of coordinates, corresponding to the control event based on the at least one mapping relationship, and providing a first input event to the first virtual object based on the first target coordinate, wherein the first input event corresponds to the control event from the input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Sheng-Yang Pan
  • Patent number: 12663877
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device includes a front side having a display screen, and a rear side disposed opposite the front side. An input unit is disposed on the rear side. The input unit is ergonomically positionable to a plurality of different locations on the rear side, so that when the electronic device is gripped the input unit aligns with the finger of the user. The ergonomical positioning of the input unit customizes the device to the hand and finger of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Inventor: Ivan Miramontes
  • Patent number: 12645318
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a cover and a case bottom. The cover includes a first accelerometer and the case bottom includes a second accelerometer. The information handling system detects a tap event on one of the first accelerometer or the second accelerometer, determines whether the tap event is detected on the first accelerometer or the second accelerometer, and wakes the information handling system when the tap event is detected on the first accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Yung-Sheng Lin, Shun-Tang Hsu, Daniel L. Hamlin
  • Patent number: 12645322
    Abstract: A display device includes: a touch array including a plurality of touch electrodes; and a touch driver configured to sense a touch approaching the touch array, wherein the touch driver is configured to generate uplink signals and beacon signals through at least some of the touch electrodes in a first time period, to transmit generated uplink signals and beacon signals to an external device, and to receive position information of the external device above the touch array, which is calculated by the external device, from the external device using the uplink signals in a second time period after the first time period, and wherein a range of the run length of the uplink signals and a range of the run length of the beacon signals are distinct from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keum Dong Jung, Jang Hui Kim, Ji Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12646205
    Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for map optimization for a localization and mapping system. The map optimization method includes segmenting, based on a preset segmentation condition, a trajectory tracked by the localization and mapping system to obtain a plurality of segments of the trajectory, each segment being partitioned into a head part, an interior part and a tail part; performing a global optimization process based on frames in the head and tail parts of each segment to obtain optimized mapping results for the frames in the head and tail parts of the segment; estimating optimized mapping results for frames in the interior part of each segment based on the optimized mapping results for the frames in the head and tail parts of the segment; and updating a map built by the localization and mapping system according to the optimized mapping results for the frames in each segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Tian, Xuesong Shi, Peng Wang, Yujie Wang
  • Patent number: 12632208
    Abstract: A method for processing information, an apparatus for processing information, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method is performed by a first electronic device and includes: in response to a touch operation applied on a cross-screen projection icon of a cross-screen projection application, establishing a screen projection channel with a second electronic device and sending switching indication information to the second electronic device; receiving screen projection data generated by the cross-screen projection application and sent from the second electronic device through the screen projection channel; and playing the screen projection data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Bocheng Tan
  • Patent number: 12632128
    Abstract: A control panel device for providing human-machine interface with aid of optical detection and associated method are provided. The control panel device may include a magnetic component that is positioned below a first surface of the control panel device, a moveable component that is positioned above the first surface, and an optical tracking sensor (OTS) that is positioned below the first surface. The moveable component is magnetically attracted by the magnetic component to attach to the first surface. In addition, the OTS may be arranged to sense movement or rotation of the moveable component as at least one user input in order to generate at least one output corresponding to the at least one user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Tsung-Fa Wang
  • Patent number: 12625550
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display for displaying image content. Head-mounted support structures in the device may be used to support the display. The electronic device may have an eye monitoring system that detects eye saccades and eye blinks. Control circuitry in the electronic device may coordinate operation of the display with periods of suppressed visual sensitivity that are associated with the saccades and blinks. By making adjustments to display circuitry and image content during periods of suppressed visual sensitivity, potentially visually obtrusive changes to displayed images can be hidden from a user of the electronic device. Adjustments to display operation may help reduce burn-in effects, may help reduce power consumption, and may otherwise improve device performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: 12619327
    Abstract: Disclosed is a detection method performed by a sensor controller connected to a sensor including a plurality of sensor electrodes, the method detecting, with use of the sensor, a position of a passive pointer that does not transmit a signal and a position of an active pen that transmits a pen signal from a pen electrode provided on an end of the active pen. The method includes acquiring a pen pressure value indicating pressure applied to a pen tip of the active pen, and controlling an operation mode of the sensor controller according to the pen pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura