Patents Examined by Joseph P Fox
  • Patent number: 11079886
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate, a first insulator, a metal film, a second insulator, an alignment film, a line, and film forming area defining recesses. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The metal film is disposed in a layer upper than the first insulator. The second insulator is disposed upper than the metal film and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first insulator. The alignment film is disposed upper than the second insulator. The line extends to straddle the display area and the non-display area and includes a section of the metal film. The film forming area defining recesses in the non-display area to extend in a direction crossing an extending direction of the line but not to overlap the line include recessed sections of the first insulator to define a forming area of the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Maeda, Yoshihito Hara
  • Patent number: 11054642
    Abstract: An optical binocular is provided, including a main body, a lens module, a display module, a first light source assembly and a second light source assembly. The lens module is disposed on one side of the main body. The display module is disposed in the main body and electrically connected to the lens module, and is configured to display an image. The first light source assembly includes a first light source and a first lens, and emits a first light. The second light source assembly includes a second light source and a second lens, and emits a second light. The first light source emits a long-range light through the first lens, and the second light source emits a close-range light through the second lens, wherein the focal length of the first lens is greater than the focal length of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CHANGING INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Han-Che Chen
  • Patent number: 11043160
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a common-gate transistor, a pixel circuit, a driving method and a display, including: a first doped region, a second doped region, a third doped region, a fourth doped region and a fifth doped region; the second doped region, the third doped region, the fourth doped region, and the fifth doped region are indirectly communicated through the first doped region, and the second doped region, the third doped region, and the fourth doped region, the fifth doped region and the first doped region are hetero-doped respectively. The two transistors in the common-gate transistor share one gate doped region, i.e., the first doped region, which can not only save one gate doped region, but also can make the gates of the two transistors have the same electrical parameters, and then the cascode effect of the two transistors is more ideal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xingyu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11029786
    Abstract: A touch sensitive method for reducing interference from pixel refreshing: comprising: performing three detections, each separated by a time interval, via multiple sensing electrodes of a touch screen to generate multiple first detection values, second detection values and third detection values, respectively; adding detection values with respect to the multiple sensing electrodes up as multiple sums of detection values; determining that an external conductive object is approximating or touching the touch screen nearby a N-th sensing electrode according to the multiple sums; and determining a position of the object locates according to one of the first detection values, the second detection values and the third detection values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11016583
    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: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ian N. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11009941
    Abstract: A system having a plurality of sensor modules and a stereo camera and a computing device. Each sensor module has an inertial measurement unit (IMU) measuring its orientation relative to a reference orientation. Different IMUs may have different reference orientations. To calibrate the IMUs with respect to a common reference (e.g., defined based on a standardized pose of a user), the stereo camera captures a stereo image of a respective sensor module attached to a respective portion of the user; the inertial measurement unit of the respective sensor module generates an orientation measurement at a time of capturing the stereo image; and the computing device calculates, based on the stereo image, at least one orientation and uses the orientation and the orientation measurement in determining a rotation that calibrates measurements of the inertial measurement unit relative to the common reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Finch Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Alexander Sergeevich Lobanov, Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov, Daniil Olegovich Goncharov, Ratmir Rasilevich Gubaidullin
  • Patent number: 11003286
    Abstract: A touch panel system 1 includes: a touch panel body part V having a touch face 11 through which electromagnetic waves in the visible-light or near-infrared wavelength range transmit, and a counterface-side face 12 through which such electromagnetic waves transmit, wherein a space is provided between the touch face and the counterface-side face; a magnetic fluid 20 including a fluid blocking/absorbing such electromagnetic waves, and magnetic substance; a camera 50; an image analysis part 100; and a magnetic field control mechanism 24 for controlling the magnetic fluid by applying a magnetic field thereto. The camera captures, when an external force is applied to the touch face, the change in such electromagnetic waves resulting from the touch face and the counterface-side face coming closer in distance and the magnetic fluid moving from this distance-reduced location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NETAPPLI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Nishida
  • Patent number: 10991305
    Abstract: An organic light emitting (OLE) display device includes pixels connected to scan lines (SLs), data lines (DLs), and a first control line (FCL) commonly connected to the pixels. Each pixel includes: an OLE diode connected between a first power source (PS) and a second PS; a first transistor (TFT1) connected between the first PS and the OLE diode, a gate electrode (GE) of the TFT1 being connected to a first node (N1); a second transistor (TFT2) connected between the N1 and a second node (N2), a GE of the TFT2 being connected to a SL; a third transistor (TFT3) connected between the N2 and a third node (N3), the N3 being connected between the TFT1 and the OLED, a GE of the TFT3 being connected to the FCL; a first capacitor connected between the first PS and the N1; and a second capacitor connected between the N2 and a DL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Cheol Gon Lee, Yang Hwa Choi
  • Patent number: 10983690
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and one or more motion sensors. The touch-sensitive display detects touch input at a surface of the touch-sensitive display, with the touch input identifying a user input command requesting performance of a control operation. The one or more motion sensors determine whether the electronic device moves in three-dimensional space while the touch input is occurring. The one or more processors preclude execution of the control operation in response to the touch input where the electronic device moved in the three-dimensional space while the touch input was occurring, thereby preventing control operations in response to inadvertent touching when the electronic device is being picked up or moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Yi Wu, Zhengping Ji, Rachid Alameh
  • Patent number: 10976840
    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: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Shahrooz Shahparnia
  • Patent number: 10976875
    Abstract: Provided are a transparent fingerprint recognition sensor and a touch screen device including the transparent fingerprint recognition sensor. The transparent fingerprint recognition sensor includes: a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the substrate in a sensing area; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate and covering the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes disposed within the insulating layer in the sensing area; a plurality of first signal lines disposed within the insulating layer in the bezel area; and a plurality of second signal lines disposed on a top surface of the insulating layer, in the bezel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seogwoo Hong, Jinmyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10964763
    Abstract: A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display backplane and a display cover assembled to be a cell. The display backplane includes a first base substrate, a pixel circuit layer, a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, a second transparent electrode layer, and a plurality of first pixel regions stacked on the first base substrate. The display cover includes a second base substrate, a plurality of optical sensing components and a plurality of second pixel regions on the second base substrate, the plurality of optical sensing components being arranged in the plurality of second pixel regions in one to one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pan Xu, Yicheng Lin, Ling Wang, Guoying Wang
  • Patent number: 10955972
    Abstract: A projector includes: a first camera which receives light emitted from a self-light-emitting pointing element; a position detection unit which detects an operation of the self-light-emitting pointing element to a detection area, based on a light reception state of the first camera; and a light emission control unit which calculates a light emission intensity of the self-light-emitting pointing element, based on distance information from an end part of the detection area to the first camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Higashi
  • Patent number: 10955977
    Abstract: An extender object for use with a multi-modal sensing surface comprises at least two antenna coils. A first antenna coil in the object is electrically connected to a second antenna coil in the object and the two antenna coils may be spatially separated. At least one of the first and second antenna coils comprises a plurality of radial elements extending in and/or out from the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Saul, Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Christian Holz, Haiyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10955958
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display panel, a frame, a touch sensor, and a controller. The display panel includes a display surface of a predetermined display area. The frame includes a frame surface that surrounds the display panel and determines the display area. The touch sensor is configured to detect touches to the display surface and the frame surface. The controller is configured to execute predetermined processing when a touch to a first area on the display surface is detected, and to execute the predetermined processing when a touch to a second area on the frame surface is detected, the second area being adjacent to the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yukawa, Daisuke Kurosaki, Souichi Tsukahara, Hanae Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10948723
    Abstract: A scanning display includes a light source and a scanning assembly. The light source is configured to emit source light from a plurality of rows of emitters that are arranged parallel to a first dimension. The scanning assembly includes at least one optical element that conditions the source light. The scanning assembly is configured to scan the conditioned source light along a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension. The scanning assembly configured to output the scanned light over a portion of a target area of an output waveguide. And a brightness of the scanned image light offsets dimming caused by the output waveguide expanding the scanned light in at least one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Yijing Fu, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 10936050
    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: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., EDGE3 TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Yamamoto, Pedram Vaghefinazari, Tarek A. El Dokor, Jordan Cluster
  • Patent number: 10931906
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor pixel, including: a first transistor controlled depending on a mode selection voltage supplied to one end thereof; a second transistor including a gate connected to the other end of the first transistor; and a photoconductor connected to one end of the second transistor, wherein the sensor pixel operates in an optical mode when the first transistor is turned on, and the sensor pixel operates in a capacitive mode when the first transistor is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kijoong Kim, Jin Hyeong Yu, Young Man Park
  • Patent number: 10923016
    Abstract: A display device may include pixels that display image data. The display device may also include a circuit that receives pixel data having a gray level for at least one pixel, such that the pixel data corresponds to a frame of the image data and the frame includes sub-frames. The pixel data causes the circuit to provide at least one current pulse to the at least one pixel according to a first order of the sub-frames. The circuit may also receive a second order of the sub-frames, such that the second order is mapped with respect to the first order, and at least one current pulse is provided to the at least one pixel according to the second order. As such, visual artifacts depicted on the display are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10902763
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device, a display control method, and a program that enable various states of the device to be expressed in a limited region. A television receiver set includes an indicator unit disposed at least in a part of a periphery of a display unit and including indicator configured to be lit at a predetermined luminance, and an indicator control unit configured to control lighting of the indicator. The indicator control unit performs control such that a lighting method of the indicator is changed according to passage of time. The present invention can be applied to a display device such as a television receiver set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Masao Kondo