Patents Examined by Joseph R. Haley
  • Patent number: 11967168
    Abstract: A method and device of fingerprint image generation for saving memory. The method includes generating a first fingerprint image of an original data size according to a plurality of first analog sensing signals which are read from a fingerprint sensor array before an exposure period ends. Then the first fingerprint image represented by a first data size which is equivalent to or smaller than the original data size is stored. a second fingerprint image of the original data size is generated after generating the first fingerprint image of the original data size according to a plurality of second analog sensing signals which are read from the fingerprint sensor array during the exposure period. The second fingerprint image represented by a compressed data size smaller than the original data size is then stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Weilun Shih, Wu-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11967261
    Abstract: There is provided a method for adjusting white balance of a spliced screen, which includes: acquiring an image to be analyzed; the image to be analyzed includes a picture, to be analyzed, displayed by a display screen to be adjusted, and the display screen to be adjusted is at least a portion of all display screens of the spliced screen; and determining a white balance adjustment mode of the display screen, to be adjusted, corresponding to the picture to be analyzed according to at least the picture to be analyzed in the image to be analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingchuan Shi, Xingxing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11948396
    Abstract: A display assembly and a display apparatus. The display assembly comprises a display panel, a first flexible circuit board and a fingerprint sensor, wherein the first flexible circuit board is connected to the display panel in a binding manner and is positioned on the side of the display panel that faces away from a display surface; a display signal line coupled to the display panel is arranged on the first flexible circuit board; the fingerprint sensor is fixed on the side of the first flexible circuit board that is close to the display panel, and a light-sensitive surface of the fingerprint sensor is close to the display panel; and at least some sections of at least some fingerprint identification signal lines in fingerprint identification signal lines connected to the fingerprint sensor are arranged on the first flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengxian Wang, Chuanyan Lan, Qiang Tang, Jing Gao
  • Patent number: 11948395
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an under-screen fingerprint identification device and a display device. The under-screen fingerprint identification device comprises a light guiding plate comprising a light guiding region, wherein the light guiding region is disposed in a display area of the display panel, and a light emitting element disposed under the light guiding region. Wherein the light emitting element comprises a plurality of light emitting pixel columns, the plurality of light emitting pixel columns form a light emitting pixel region as a light source for fingerprint identification, each of the plurality of light emitting pixel columns comprises a plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuan Shuai
  • Patent number: 11948266
    Abstract: The subject technology detects a first gesture and a second gesture, each gesture corresponding to an open trigger finger gesture. The subject technology detects a third gesture and a fourth gesture, each gesture corresponding to a closed trigger finger gesture. The subject technology, selects a first virtual object in a first scene. The subject technology detects a first location and a first position of a first representation of a first finger from the third gesture and a second location and a second position of a second representation of a second finger from the fourth gesture. The subject technology detects a first change in the first location and the first position and a second change in the second location and the second position. The subject technology modifies a set of dimensions of the first virtual object to a different set of dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Goodrich, Maxim Maximov Lazarov, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno
  • Patent number: 11948394
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes a pattern detector, a force detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to store reference data in advance, acquire new data, and determine whether an object pressed against a contact surface when the new data is acquired is a human finger based on difference between acquisition target data indicated by the reference data at a plurality of timings and the acquisition target data indicated by the new data at a plurality of timings. The timings are two timings or more that are included in a pressing operation period from start to end of pressing of an external object against the contact surface, and the force detected by the force detector is different between the timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takuya Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 11941910
    Abstract: A user interface display method of a terminal includes receiving, by the terminal, a first operation from a user to unlock the terminal when a screen of the terminal is off or the terminal displays a first interface, where the first interface is a lock screen of the terminal, displaying, by the terminal, a third user interface when the first operation meets a preset unlock condition and when the user continues to operate the terminal after entering the first operation, receiving, by the terminal in the third user interface, a second operation from the user, and executing a function corresponding to the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiqiang Gao, Chuang Cui
  • Patent number: 11935474
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including an under display camera (UDC) region and a non-UDC region, the UDC region including a plurality of sub-regions, and processing circuitry configured to, receive image data, select at least one first filter from a plurality of filters based on a spatial coordinate value of the received image data, the plurality of filters corresponding to a respective sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions, and perform first pixel rendering for the UDC region based on the at least one first filter and the image data, and the at least one first filter is generated based on a pixel arrangement pattern of the UDC region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Unki Park, Sewhan Na, Jonghyuk Lee, Hyeonsu Park, Hyunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11928885
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a fingerprint identification method, a fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device. The fingerprint identification method is applied to a fingerprint identification apparatus disposed under a display screen of an electronic device, the fingerprint identification apparatus includes a pixel array and a colour filter layer, the colour filter layer includes at least one filter unit, and the at least one filter unit is disposed above at least one first type pixel of the pixel array, respectively, and the method includes: capturing a first light signal transmitting through the at least one filter unit and sensed by the first type pixel; determining a fingerprint identification environment according to an intensity of the first light signal; and determining, based on the fingerprint identification environment, a target capturing parameter of capturing a fingerprint light signal, the fingerprint light signal being used for fingerprint identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangfang Qiu
  • Patent number: 11928883
    Abstract: A device for capturing a biometric print of a user, the user compartment including a frontal opening designed for the passage of part of a hand into said user compartment and a lateral opening allowing the passage of the thumb of the user's hand, the lateral opening extending as far as the frontal opening to form a continuous open space, the lateral opening being delimited in a direction of insertion of the user's hand into the user compartment by a user hand positioning stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventors: Joël-Yann Fourre, Elise Le Gouil, Mokrane Malek
  • Patent number: 11928795
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and techniques for capturing a fingerprint image using an electronic device with an under-display fingerprint sensor (UDFPS) embedded under a display screen of a display system. The display system utilizes a pulse-width modulation circuit to generate a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control light emitted by the display screen. As the display screen illuminates a user's touch, the UDFPS captures light reflected off the user's touch, therefore, capturing the fingerprint image. The captured fingerprint image, however, includes a PWM noise. The electronic device uses a noise-filtering algorithm to filter out and/or reduce the PWM noise in the captured fingerprint image. In one aspect, the noise-filtering algorithm estimates and/or determines the PWM noise in the captured fingerprint image. The noise-filtering algorithm then reduces, extracts, and/or filters out the PWM noise from the captured fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Firas Sammoura, Omar Sze Leung
  • Patent number: 11928886
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel including an image sensor arranged to receive incident light reflected by an external object, a first guide structure arranged between the display panel and the image sensor and configured to change the direction of the incident light which is introduced through a fingerprint recognition area of the display panel, a second guide structure arranged between the first guide structure and the image sensor and configured to change the direction of the incident light which is introduced therein after passing through the first guide structure, and a processor operatively connected to the display panel and the image sensor. According to an embodiment, the electronic device performs fingerprint recognition by acquiring image information through the image sensor on the basis of at least a part of the incident light introduced through the first guide structure and the second guide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinho Kim
  • Patent number: 11929032
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel which comprises scan lines, sensing lines, pixels electrically connected to each of the scan lines, and photo sensors electrically to each of the scan lines and the sensing lines, a scan driver which outputs scan signals to the scan lines according to a scan control signal, a timing controller which outputs the scan control signal to the scan driver, and a readout circuit which receives light sensing signals of the photo sensors from the sensing lines. The timing controller sets a frame frequency of the scan control signal to a first frame frequency in a first mode in which the display panel displays an image. The timing controller sets the frame frequency of the scan control signal to a second frame frequency in a second mode in which the photo sensors sense a fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Dae Lee, Il Nam Kim, Seung Hyun Moon, Dong Wook Yang, Kang Bin Jo, Go Eun Cha
  • Patent number: 11929026
    Abstract: A display device can include a light emitting element, and a pixel driving circuit connected to the light emitting element and configured to include first to fourth nodes. The pixel driving circuit can include a driving transistor connected to the first to third nodes, a plurality of switching transistors, and a storage capacitor. Among the plurality of switching transistors, the switching transistor connected to a source node of the driving transistor is controlled by a second scan signal, and is configured to apply a data voltage to the source node of the driving transistor. The second scan signal can be applied one or more times during one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SungBin Ryu, JaeYong You
  • Patent number: 11922718
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor package may include a film substrate, an interconnection substrate on the film substrate, a semiconductor chip on the interconnection substrate, a conductive structure on the interconnection substrate and laterally isolated from direct contact with the semiconductor chip, and an interposer substrate on the semiconductor chip and the conductive structure. The conductive structure may include first and second conductive structures, which are electrically separated from each other. The interposer substrate may include a first sensing pattern electrically connected to the first conductive structure and a second sensing pattern on a top surface of the first sensing pattern and electrically connected to the second conductive structure. The second sensing pattern may be vertically isolated from direct contact with from the first sensing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Younghwan Park
  • Patent number: 11922715
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including a light source that radiates light in at least two different wavelength bands and an imaging element that acquires signals individually from the light in the two different wavelength bands. The two different wavelength bands include a first wavelength band from 400 to 580 nm for use in dermatoglyphic pattern authentication, and a second wavelength band of 650 nm or more mainly including near-infrared rays for use in vein authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Koji Furumi
  • Patent number: 11922716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a passive terahertz biometric imaging device configured to be arranged under an at least partially transparent display panel and configured to capture a terahertz image of an object located on an opposite side of the transparent display panel, the terahertz biometric imaging device comprising: an image sensor comprising an antenna pixel array arranged to detect terahertz radiation produced by the object, for capturing a terahertz image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB
    Inventor: Johan Hammersberg
  • Patent number: 11915510
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor including: a substrate; a light sensing element that includes a sensing electrode disposed on the substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the sensing electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer; a light-blocking conductive layer disposed on the common electrode and including light transmitting holes; and a light guide unit disposed on the light-blocking conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyo Won Ku, Young Sik Kim, Jung Hak Kim, Jeong Heon Lee, Hee Yeon Choi
  • Patent number: 11910716
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack that includes a display stiffener, and an additional stiffener between the ultrasonic sensor stack and the foldable display stack. The additional stiffener forms an acoustic resonator with the display stiffener and an adhesive layer between the display stiffener and the additional stiffener in order to amplify transmission of ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack. The additional stiffener includes a material having a high modulus of elasticity, low density, and high acoustic impedance value. In some cases, the additional stiffener includes a metal, a ceramic, a glass, or a glass ceramic. The additional stiffener increases an overall stiffness and mechanical integrity of the apparatus so that a foam backer may be omitted from the ultrasonic sensor stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chin-Jen Tseng, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Ila Badge, Shiang-Chi Lin, Min-Lun Yang, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh
  • Patent number: 11900721
    Abstract: A novel electronic device is provided. An electronic device capable of executing various types of processing by simple operation is provided. An electronic device with a high security level is provided. The electronic device includes a control portion, a detection portion, and a memory portion. The detection portion has a function of detecting touch operation and a function of obtaining fingerprint data on a touching finger. The memory portion has a function of retaining fingerprint data on a plurality of finger registered in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Koji Kusunoki