Patents Examined by Joseph P Fox
  • Patent number: 11537255
    Abstract: A touch substrate, a method for manufacturing a touch substrate, and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate having a first surface; a first over coat layer on the first surface; a first touch electrode on the first over coat layer; and a second over coat layer on the first touch electrode, wherein the first touch electrode is located between the first over coat layer and the second over coat layer, and the second over coat layer covers at least the first touch electrode, and wherein an area of at least one of the first over coat layer and the second over coat layer is less than an area of the first surface in the touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongzheng Yang, Ming Zhang, Qicheng Chen, Ting Zeng, Qi Gao
  • Patent number: 11537256
    Abstract: A touch substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of first electrodes including body segments arranged in an electrode pattern layer; a plurality of second electrodes including body segments arranged in the electrode pattern layer, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes intersect at intersection areas on the touch substrate; and an insulating layer arranged on a side of the electrode pattern layer away from the base substrate and provided with first via holes and second via holes; wherein each first electrode includes a first conductive bridge, each second electrode includes a second conductive bridge, and in an intersection area, two adjacent body segments of a first electrode are electrically connected through the first conductive bridge, and/or two adjacent body segments of a second electrode are electrically connected through the second conductive bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan He, Xiangdan Dong, Jun Yan, Bo Cheng, Zhengwei Luo, Kemeng Tong
  • Patent number: 11520420
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting a touch pattern width and identifying the touch pattern, including receiving, from a touch device, first coordinate information and corresponding touch width information for a touch pattern, and storing the first coordinate information and the touch width information, receiving, from an operating system, second coordinate information for a current touch pattern, and searching, from the stored first coordinate information, for one consistent with the second coordinate information, and determining the touch width information corresponding to the first coordinate information that has been found as width information of the current touch pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Yao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11520446
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor including a sensor electrode unit including: a sensing unit of a capacitance type that detects pressing; and a temperature detection sensing unit of a capacitance type provided in an area corresponding to the sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Tomoko Katsuhara, Akira Ebisui
  • Patent number: 11507206
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to touch-sensitive input devices, systems, and methods for providing user input to a computing device. In one example, a touch-sensitive input device comprises an elongated body and a plurality of force-sensing elements spaced along a length of the body. The touch-sensitive input device also comprises a wireless communication subsystem configured to communicatively couple the input device to the computing device and provide signals from the plurality of force-sensing elements to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Marie Bogan, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Anatoly Churikov
  • Patent number: 11474640
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing method for reducing interference from pixel refresh, comprising: sensing horizontal electrodes of a touch screen three times for gathering three sensing values, the sensing steps are separated by a time period; summing the three sensing values as sums; according to the sums, determining an external conductive object is disposed near a N-th horizontal electrode among the horizontal electrode of the touch screen; emitting driving signal from the N-th horizontal electrode and sensing the driving signal via vertical electrodes of the touch screen for gathering an N-th sensing array; and calculating a position of a touch event according to the N-th sensing array and the position of the N-th horizontal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11468703
    Abstract: A method, storage media and device for biometric identification driving is provided. The method for biometric identification driving includes the steps. First, a touch action of a living organism is detected on a screen. Next, a position information of the touch action is obtained on the screen. Next, a scanning data of a corresponding biometric scanning unit of the screen is obtained according to the position information of the touch action on the screen. the above technical solution could effectively utilize existing screen detection mechanisms. Pre-detection steps is performed before detecting a fingerprint. A relative position of the fingerprint on the screen is obtained according to the existing screen detection mechanism. Thus, the biometric scanning unit or a fingerprint scanning unit detected by the relative position is effective. Finally, an effective scanning result of the biometric scanning unit is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Fengjun Gu
  • Patent number: 11455062
    Abstract: Provided are a non-contact type touch panel system that enables a user to input information even without touching a display panel with a finger, and a method of controlling the system. Further, a non-contact type touch panel display structure is also proposed. The non-contact type touch panel display structure can maximally prevent direct contact by a user when the user inputs information to a touch panel because a touch screen is spaced apart from the outer edges of a display. Further, the non-contact type touch panel display structure has a function of enabling a user to visually or aurally recognize information when the information is input in a non-contact type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GTT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nam Kyu Koo
  • Patent number: 11443686
    Abstract: A display screen including display circuits, each display circuit including a light-emitting diode, a controllable current source powering the light-emitting diode, and a control circuit capable of supplying a pulse-width modulated signal for controlling the current source from a periodic signal. The display screen further includes first electrodes coupled to the control circuits, a circuit for supplying a selection signal successively on each first electrode, and an oscillating circuit or oscillating circuits capable of supplying the periodic signals, the periodic signals being non-synchronous with the display circuit selection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Aledia
    Inventors: Matthieu Charbonnier, Frédéric Mercier
  • Patent number: 11444104
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a substrate, first light emitting units, second light emitting units, an insulation layer, and mesh units. The first and the second light emitting units are disposed on the substrate. The second light emitting units are greater than the first light emitting units in area. The insulation layer is disposed on the first and the second light emitting units. The mesh units are disposed on the insulation layer. Each of the mesh units has a mesh frame and a mesh opening. At least one of the first light emitting units and at least one of the second light emitting units are disposed in the mesh opening respectively. A gap is disposed between a first end portion of at least one of the mesh frames and a second end portion of the mesh frame, and the first end portion is electrically connected to the second end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jui-Jen Yueh, Chao-Hsiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11429228
    Abstract: A grating touch screen based on lattice structure distribution comprises a laser light source, an optical waveguide layer, a grating and a photoelectric detector. In the present invention, the grating with the lattice structure distribution is reasonably arranged on the optical waveguide layer, so that the efficiency of detection light from the laser light source reaching the photoelectric detector at a periphery through the grating touch screen is maximized, and the sensitivity of the touch screen is effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Inventor: Zhicheng Ye
  • Patent number: 11422638
    Abstract: An input device includes an enclosure defining a three-dimensional input space and one or more self-mixing interferometry sensors coupled to the enclosure and configured to produce a self-mixing interferometry signal resulting from reflection of backscatter of emitted light by a body part in the three-dimensional input space. In various examples, movement of the body part may be determined using the self-mixing interferometry signal, which may in turn be used to determine an input. In some examples, a body part displacement or a body part speed and an absolute distance to the body part may be determined using the self-mixing interferometry signal and used to determine an input. In a number of examples, multiple self-mixing interferometry sensors may be used and the movement may be determined by analyzing differences between the respective produced self-mixing interferometry signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Mutlu, Yuhao Pan, Stephen E. Dey
  • Patent number: 11402930
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a stylus tip capable of communicating wirelessly with another device through a touch sensor of the other device. The stylus tip includes one or more surface areas, one or more substrates disposed along one or more of the surface areas of the stylus tip, and a plurality of electrodes disposed on or in the one or more substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Shahrooz Shahparnia
  • Patent number: 11397484
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel including at least one pixel region located in a display area, each pixel region includes: at least one first pixel including at least one display light-emitting sub-pixel and at least one near-infrared light-emitting sub-pixel, wherein the near-infrared light-emitting sub-pixel is configured to emit near-infrared light; and at least one second pixel including at least one display light-emitting sub-pixel and at least one near-infrared receiving sub-pixel, wherein the near-infrared receiving sub-pixel is configured to receive near-infrared light reflected from an external object and generate a measurement signal responsive to the external object. The present disclosure also provides a display device including the display panel, and a method for determining the position of an external object by the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shicheng Sun, Shuang Hu, Peirong Huo, Jianfei Tian, Zhiqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11393409
    Abstract: A display device which can suppress erroneous display of a display panel is provided. A source driver receives a serial data signal in which a preamble and video data of the display panel are alternately continuous via an interface from a display controller. The source driver controls timing of supply of a gate signal from a gate driver based on the video data included in the serial data signal, and supplies a gradation voltage signal which corresponds to the video data to a plurality of data lines of the display panel. The source driver has a detection portion which detects that the interface is in an unstable state, and a gate reset signal output portion which outputs a gate reset signal for stopping an operation of the gate driver when the unstable state of the interface is detected at the time of the supply of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11392224
    Abstract: A digital pen may include an orientation sensors and a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate plane selection module wherein, via input from the orientation sensors describing a position and orientation of the digital pen with respect to a two-dimensional (2D) display, the 3D coordinate plane selection module selects at least one coordinate plane in which an element of a 3D image is to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ian N. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11378804
    Abstract: A display device configured to emit image light to display an image, and a camera or an illuminance sensor as an external light sensor configured to sense external light are provided, and the camera or the illuminance sensor is positioned to overlap a visually transparent light-guiding unit forming a front-of-eye part of the display device in an emission direction of the image light. Thus, the direction of sensing the external light in the illuminance sensor and the camera is set correspondingly to the direction of the line of sight of the viewer and a state, where these are located in the proximity of the eye of the viewer, is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Terashima
  • Patent number: 11372511
    Abstract: A conducting thin film and preparation method therefor, a touch panel, and a display device are provided by the present disclosure. The conducting thin film includes a substrate, a conducting layer arranged on the substrate, a protecting layer arranged on the conducting layer, and an electricity conducting adhesive. The conducting layer includes a conducting net formed of conducting material. The protecting layer defines a plurality of openings for exposing the conducting material. The electricity conducting adhesive is formed on the protecting layer such that the electricity conducting adhesive passes through the plurality of openings in contact with the conducting material, and is filled in the plurality of openings. The protecting layer formed before the electricity conducting adhesive, thus reducing the problem of the conducting net breaking caused by the exposed conducting material being oxidized and vulmayized, and the thereby improving the conductivity of the conducting thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Yao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11366540
    Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrodes, position detection electrodes, a signal supply section, main position detection lines disposed in the display area, and an auxiliary position detection line disposed outside the display area and routed around an area in which the main position detection lines are disposed. One end portions the main position detection lines are connected to the position detection electrodes and another end portions thereof are connected to the signal supply section and cross a space between the signal supply section and the display area. One end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the position detection electrode different from the position detection electrodes connected to the main position detection lines. Another end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the signal supply section. The auxiliary position detection line includes portions of conductive films included in different layers via insulating films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11366513
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are provided to determine an occurrence of a first user indication and determine a plurality of Points of Interest (POI) corresponding to the first user indication, and to determine an occurrence of a second user indication and responsively determine a narrowed POI from the plurality of POIs. An action corresponding to the narrowed POI and the first and/or second user indication is determined and effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., EDGE 3 TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Yamamoto, Pedram Vaghefinazari, Tarek A. El Dokor, Jordan Cluster