Patents Examined by Jonathan Boyd
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Patent number: 12197653Abstract: A position indicating device includes a housing, a position indicator which, in operation, indicates a position, a first pressure sensor which, in operation, detects a pressure applied to the position indicator, a second sensor which, in operation, detects a second pressure applied to the housing, a first communication circuit which, in operation, transmits the pen pressure detected by the pen pressure sensor, and a second communication circuit which, in operation, transmits the gripping force detected by the gripping force sensor. The position indicating device enables control of a line width and transparency in a preferable manner even when there is no actual touch surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Yoshihisa Sugiyama, Yuanhao Chen
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Patent number: 12198463Abstract: A fingerprint identification module provided by the present disclosure includes a fingerprint identification panel provided with a fingerprint identification region; a middle shell including a partition plate and a middle frame, where the partition plate is at a side opposite a fingerprint identification side of the fingerprint identification panel, the partition plate is detachably connected to the middle frame, and the middle frame includes an accommodation space, the accommodation space being internally provided with the partition plate and the fingerprint identification panel; and a main board in the accommodation space, the main board being at a side, far away from the fingerprint identification panel, of the partition plate, and the main board being electrically connected to the fingerprint identification panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd.Inventors: Xin Liu, Chen Meng, Jiaqiang Wang, Ziyan Li
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Patent number: 12197643Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
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Patent number: 12190831Abstract: Implementations for validating sensors using external device(s) are provided. One aspect includes a computing system comprising a first ambient light sensor system; and processing circuitry and memory storing instructions that causes the processing circuitry to: detect the external device in vicinity of the computing device, wherein the external device comprises a second ambient light sensor system; determine an orientation of the first ambient light sensor system; receive information describing an orientation of and sensor data of the second ambient light sensor system; determine a relative orientation based at least upon the orientation of the first ambient light sensor system and the information describing the orientation of the second ambient light sensor system; and perform correction of sensor data of the first ambient light sensor system based at least upon the relative orientation and the information describing the sensor data of the second ambient light sensor system.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Eliyahu Barel
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Patent number: 12193278Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a circuit layer including a metal-made feed line in a surrounding area, an insulating layer covering the circuit layer, a lower electrode, a rib, a partition above the rib, an upper electrode connected to the partition, an organic layer between the electrodes and a conductive layer connected to the partition. The partition and the conductive layer each includes a metal-made lower portion and an upper portion protruding from a side surface of the lower portion. The lower portion of the conductive layer and the feed line are in contact with each other in the first contact portion in the surrounding area.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Tabatake
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Patent number: 12171133Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, and a pixel layer disposed on the base layer. The pixel layer includes reference pixel units and photo-sensing elements. Each of the reference pixel units includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a third light-emitting element. Each of the photo-sensing elements is interposed between two second light-emitting elements adjacent to each other in a first direction, and at least one of the first light-emitting element or the third light-emitting element includes a plurality of sub-light-emitting elements electrically connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTDInventors: Kwang Soo Bae, Gee-Bum Kim, Bokwang Song, Min Oh Choi
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Patent number: 12165592Abstract: There is provided a display device including a substrate, a circuit layer, and an element layer. A display area of the substrate includes a main display area in which emission areas are arranged side by side, and at least one sub-display area surrounded by the main display area. The at least one sub-display area further includes light transmission areas located between the emission areas. The circuit layer includes light-emitting pixel drivers respectively electrically connected to the light-emitting elements of the element layer, data lines transmitting data signals to the light-emitting pixel drivers, first dummy lines extending in a first direction intersecting the data lines, and second dummy lines extending parallel to the data lines and paired with the data lines, respectively. The second dummy lines include reset transmission lines extending from the non-display area to the at least one sub-display area.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong Hun Bang, Ji Hyun Ka, Kyung Hoon Kim, Joong Soo Moon, Jae Sic Lee, Jae Yong Lee
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Patent number: 12154525Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a display region overlapping pixels; a light source device disposed on a lateral side of the display panel; and a drive circuit configured to calculate an output gradation value based on an input gradation value and to output a pixel drive signal corresponding to the output gradation value to a corresponding one of the pixels. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel arranged in a first direction from a first side surface toward a second side surface. The second pixel is between the first pixel and the second side surface. When the input gradation value for the first pixel is equal to the input gradation value for the second pixel, the drive circuit is configured to set the output gradation value for the second pixel to be larger than the output gradation value for the first pixel.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Junji Kobashi
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Patent number: 12147620Abstract: A computing device detects an indication of a data-linkable context for the electronic stylus and transitions communication between the digitizer of the computing device and the electronic stylus from a user interface mode to a data link mode, based at least in part on the detecting. The computing device communicates between the electronic stylus and the digitizer in the data link mode via the multiple electrostatic antennas of the electronic stylus, based at least in part on the transitioning.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Shoham Dekel, Assaf Bar-Ness
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Patent number: 12141388Abstract: A touch interface includes a plate, at least one actuation transducer, at least one detector, and an amplification circuit. The plate defines a contact surface intended to be touched by an external body. The at least one actuation transducer is configured to make the plate vibrate as a function of an activation signal. The at least one detector is configured to detect an amplitude of a vibration of the plate and to generate a detection signal dependent on the detected vibration amplitude. The amplification circuit extends between an input and an output. The input is linked to the detector, and the output is linked to the actuation transducer. The interface also includes a processing unit configured to estimate an intensity of a pressing force exerted on the contact surface by the external body and to generate a force signal depending on the estimated intensity of the force.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: VIBRA NOVAInventors: Maxime Harazi, Matthieu Rupin, Miguel Moleron
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Patent number: 12118819Abstract: A fingerprint recognition sensor having an excellent S/N ratio and capable of realizing thinning and an optical element including the fingerprint recognition sensor. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes a light-receiving element; and an optical element including a near infrared absorbing dichroic substance, in which a fingerprint reading surface is positioned on a side of the optical element opposite to the light-receiving element side. The optical element has an absorption axis with respect to near infrared light in an in-plane direction. When linearly polarized light of near infrared light orthogonal to the absorption axis is radiated from a normal direction of the optical element and from a direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction at an azimuthal angle orthogonal to the absorption axis, an absorbance during the radiation from the direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction is more than an absorbance during the radiation from the normal direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryoji Himeno, Shinichi Morishima, Yuki Hirai, Makoto Kamo, Megumi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 12111993Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a drive electrode that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes that are metal wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The metal wirings are arranged with a predetermined pitch so as to make capacitive coupling with the drive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi
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Patent number: 12112567Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a biometric detection sensor and a signal processing method thereof. The biometric detection sensor includes an array of detection pixels, the signal processing method includes: acquiring a first detection signal of each detection pixel in the array of detection pixels; for each detection pixel of at least part of detection pixels, processing the first detection signal of the detection pixel based on a reference signal to obtain a detection processing signal of the detection pixel, wherein a resolution of the detection processing signal is lower than that of the first detection signal; and outputting the detection processing signals of the at least part of detection pixels in the array of detection pixels, wherein the detection processing signals are used for biometric identification. The signal processing method can effectively reduce the amount of data for the processor to receive and process during biometric identification.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Egis Technology Inc.Inventor: Bruce C. S. Chou
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Patent number: 12111989Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting the resonance frequency of a resonance circuit included in an electronic pen. The method uses adjusting means for adjusting the capacitance of an internal capacitor array and measuring means for measuring an alternating magnetic field generated by the resonance circuit. The method includes (1) a step of changing the state of a predetermined portion of multiple capacitive elements constituting the internal capacitor array, and (2) a step of changing, according to reference resonance frequency variations of the resonance circuit before and after the state change, the state of a portion or all of at least one capacitive element constituting the inner capacitor array other than said predetermined portion of the capacitive elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Yamashita, Masamitsu Ito, Toshihiko Horie
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Patent number: 12099654Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods that provide content that distracts a user's attention away from discomfort, for example, occurring due to a prior injury or ongoing medical condition. The content is adjusted over time based on tracking the user's attentiveness towards the content. Specifically, the user's current attentive state may be tracked using physiological sensors and used to adapt content to mitigate the perception of discomfort. In some implementations, the user's stress is also assessed and used an indication of the user's current discomfort level to better track when the user's attentive state is shifting from the content to the discomfort and adjust the content accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Grant H. Mulliken, Srinath Nizampatnam, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Brian Pasley, Izzet B. Yildiz
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Patent number: 12100238Abstract: A capacitive biometric skin contact sensor configured to resolve the contours of skin in contact with the sensor, wherein the sensor comprises: an array of sensor pixels, wherein each sensor pixel comprises a thin film transistor and a capacitive sensing electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a plurality of gate drive channels, wherein each gate drive channel is arranged to provide a gate drive signal to one or more of the sensor pixels; a plurality of read-out channels, wherein each read-out channel is arranged to receive a read-out current from one or more of the sensor pixels, each read-out current being indicative of a proximity to a respective capacitive sensing electrode of a conductive object to be sensed; a current multiplexer connected to a plurality of the read-out channels to receive read-out currents therefrom; and a current mirror assembly connected to the multiplexer to receive an input current therefrom and to provide a selected gain to the input current; wherein the sensor is configuType: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: TOUCH BIOMETRIX LIMITEDInventors: Henricus Derckx, Michael Cowin, Wilhelmus Van Lier, Toru Sakai
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Patent number: 12093496Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheolse Kim, Buyeol Lee, Sunjung Lee, Sangsoo Hwang, Yoonhwan Woo, Manhyeop Han
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Patent number: 12093488Abstract: Signal of inputs made by a finger on a touch-sensitive capacitive operating element are evaluated by calculating a finger position from sensor strokes of individual capacitive sensors. The calculated finger position is not output if a difference between the maximum and minimum sensor stroke of the sensors is smaller than a preset value or smaller than the error tolerance of the sensors. The finger position is output if the difference between the maximum and minimum sensor stroke of the sensors is greater than the first preset value and if the sensor stroke of a sensor closest to the detected finger position at the edge of the touch-sensitive capacitive operating element is smaller than a second preset value.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventors: Sebastian Mörz, Jürgen Oehmen, Matthias Winkler
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Patent number: 12093486Abstract: An electronic device comprises a touch sensor, a movement sensor, and recalibration logic. The touch sensor provides input to the electronic device. The movement sensor has an output that varies in dependence on movement of the electronic device, and the recalibration logic is configured to vary a rate of successful recalibration of the touch sensor based at least partly on the output of the movement sensor. The successful recalibration comprises replacement of a stored calibration mapping of each of a plurality of (X, Y) coordinates of the touch sensor to a corresponding touch-free capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Gilad Pundak
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Patent number: 12087227Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a method for driving a display panel, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a light-emitting element, a pixel driver circuit, and a control circuit. The pixel driver circuit includes a driver transistor and a first light emission control switch. A working mode of the display panel includes a first mode. In the first mode, a working cycle of the pixel driver circuit includes a data writing phase and at least one data holding phase subsequent to the data writing phase. The data writing phase includes at least one first light-emitting period. The data holding phase includes at least one second light-emitting period. The control circuit controls a duration of a first one of the at least one first light-emitting period in the data writing phase to be less than a duration of one of the at least one second light-emitting period.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Kuang, Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao