Patents Examined by Kevin M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12282595
    Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer program product enable productivity of a combination desktop and mobile computing environments that are communicatively connected without distracting duplicative notifications on both a desktop and mobile user interface. A controller of the electronic device presents a first version of a user interface at an internal display of the electronic device and a second version at an external display of a second electronic device. The controller monitors input device(s) for an indication that user attention is directed to one of the internal display and the external display. The controller presents a notification via the first user interface at the internal display in response to determining that the user attention is directed to the internal display. The controller presents the notification via the second user interface at the external display in response to determining that the user attention is directed to the external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Ganesh Pradeep P V, Sinchana A P
  • Patent number: 12277285
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive member for a touch panel, a touch panel, and a touch panel display device capable of accommodating a first and a second lead wire in a narrow region. A conductive member for a touch panel includes a first conductive layer disposed on a transparent insulating substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer. The first conductive layer has a plurality of first touch detection electrodes, and a plurality of first lead wires led from the plurality of first touch detection electrodes. The second conductive layer has a plurality of second touch detection electrodes, and a plurality of second lead wires led from the plurality of second touch detection electrodes. At least a part of the first lead wire and at least a part of the second lead wire overlap each other in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 12277895
    Abstract: The present application discloses a gate drive circuit and a display panel. The gate drive circuit includes a plurality of cascaded gate drive units. Each of the gate drive units includes a stage transmission signal selection circuit, a pull-up control circuit, a pulse number reduction circuit, a first inversion circuit, a first output stage and a second output stage, and can output a second gate control signal with a greater number of pulses and a first gate control signal with a less number of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huanxi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12274118
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate, a driving transistor, a first insulation layer, a first electrode and a second insulation layer. The driving transistor is disposed on the substrate and includes a gate electrode, and the gate electrode projects a first projection profile on the substrate. The first insulation layer is disposed on the driving transistor. The first electrode is disposed on the first insulation layer, and projects a second projection profile on the substrate. The second insulation layer is disposed on the first electrode and the first insulation layer. The second insulation layer has an opening, the opening exposes a portion of the first electrode, and the opening projects a third projection profile on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Red Oak Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Hsien Wu, Yu-Sheng Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chandra Lius
  • Patent number: 12265427
    Abstract: A device includes a body having an outer surface. The device includes a plurality of pins in the body, a first pin of the plurality of pins configured to receive a first signal having a first rate, a second pin of the plurality of pins configured to receive a second signal having a second rate less than the first rate. The device includes a shield on a first portion of the outer surface to define an exposed second portion of the outer surface, wherein the second pin is positioned closer to the exposed second portion than the first pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventors: Chien-Ming Nieh, Deepak Pai Hosadurga, Yue Zheng, Jaiyoung Park
  • Patent number: 12260043
    Abstract: A method of driving an electronic device includes displaying a plurality of fingerprint recognition icons on a display device configured to perform fingerprint recognition, and releasing a lock state of the display device through a fingerprint authentication process upon determining at least one first fingerprint recognition icon among the plurality of fingerprint recognition icons is touched. The plurality of fingerprint recognition icons include at least one first fingerprint recognition icon configured to support the fingerprint recognition and at least one second fingerprint recognition icon configured to not support the fingerprint recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Han Yoo, Jung Woo Park, Hyang A Park, Dae Young Lee, Hyun Dae Lee, Kang Bin Jo, Sang Hwan Cho, Sung-Chan Jo
  • Patent number: 12261575
    Abstract: The present application provides a signal amplifying circuit and a display device. In the signal amplifying circuit, a gate of a driving transistor of a first inverter is connected to an output terminal of a reset module, and thereby a potential of the gate of the driving transistor of the first inverter changes when an impedance of an optoelectronic device changes, so that a potential change of each node of the first inverter amplifies the signal. Besides, a first compensation transistor is connected between a second gate of the first driving transistor and a first output node, and the potential of the first output node precharges to the second gate of the first driving transistor to adjust a threshold voltage of the first driving transistor, thereby erasing the difference of the threshold voltages in different transistors, and solving the technical problem of bad uniformity of signals amplified by the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhichao Zhou, Zhiwei Tan
  • Patent number: 12253682
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device includes an eyeglass frame and a solar charging plate. The eyeglass frame has at least a first electrode, at least a second electrode and a battery, in which the first electrode and the second electrode electrically connect the battery respectively through conductive wires. The solar charging plate is detachably located on the eyeglass frame and has at least a third electrode and at least a fourth electrode, in which the third electrode magnetically attaches and electrically connects the first electrode, the fourth electrode magnetically attaches and electrically connects the second electrode. The solar charging plate is configured to charge the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventor: Bo-Jhang Sun
  • Patent number: 12248210
    Abstract: The display device includes: a flexible display panel including a display portion in which scanning lines and signal lines cross each other; a supporting portion for supporting an end portion of the flexible display panel; a signal line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the signal line, which is provided for the supporting portion; and a scanning line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the scanning line, which is provided for a flexible surface of the display panel in a direction which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satohiro Okamoto, Yasuyuki Arai, Ikuko Kawamata, Atsushi Miyaguchi, Yoshitaka Moriya
  • Patent number: 12249768
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna device including an antenna array including a plurality of patch antennas arrayed in a grid, a first switch group including a first switch disposed on a wiring line connecting two adjacent patch antennas, and a second switch group including a second switch disposed on a wiring line between an antenna assembly formed by at least four adjacent patch antennas and a signal source connected to at least one patch antenna constituting the antenna assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Nihei, Junichi Funada, Kenji Wakafuji, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Shingo Watanabe, Kazushi Sugyo, Masakazu Ono, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 12243479
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display panel including the same are disclosed according to embodiments. The pixel circuit according to embodiments includes a first pixel circuit including a first EM transistor to which a pulse of a first EM signal is applied, and a first driving transistor for driving a first light emitting element; and a second pixel circuit including a second EM transistor to which a pulse of a second EM signal is applied, and a second driving transistor for driving a second light emitting element. A node between the first EM transistor and the first driving transistor and a node between the second EM transistor and the second driving transistor are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Jung, Sang Jin Nam, Hyun Suk Lee, Seung Jin Yoo
  • Patent number: 12242692
    Abstract: One example provides a computing device comprising a display, a touch sensor operatively coupled to the display, a non-touch sensor configured to provide an output indicative of user engagement between the computing device and a user of the computing device, a logic machine, and a storage machine. The storage machine comprises instructions executable by the logic machine to determine a touch usage probability based at least upon the output from the non-touch sensor. The instructions are further executable to change the operation of the touch sensor between an idle mode and a scanning mode based at least on the touch usage probability meeting a probability threshold condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shoham Dekel, Uri Ron, Idan Palmor
  • Patent number: 12238964
    Abstract: Discussed is a touch display device that can include a substrate including an active area and a non-active area, a transistor disposed on the substrate, a sub-pixel electrically connected to the transistor, and including an organic light emitting diode, an encapsulation layer disposed on the organic light emitting diode, a planarization layer disposed on the encapsulation layer, and a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the encapsulation layer and the planarization layer, the plurality of touch electrodes including an open area. The planarization layer can include a thickness variation at the open area of the plurality of touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JungSun Baek, Taehwan Kim, Sunmi Lee, Hyeonchul Im
  • Patent number: 12230201
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display substrate and a display apparatus are provided, wherein the pixel circuit includes a first node control sub-circuit, a second node control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a driving sub-circuit; the working process of the pixel circuit includes: a first initialization stage, a data writing stage, a second initialization stage and a light emitting stage; the second node control sub-circuit is configured to provide the signal of the second initial signal terminal to the fourth node under the control of the second reset signal terminal; the second initialization stage occurs between the data writing stage and the light emitting stage, and the signal of the second reset signal terminal is an effective level signal in the second initialization stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiaomei Zhang, Dan Cao
  • Patent number: 12230063
    Abstract: A device comprising at least one camera, a display, a memory and a processor, the memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the device to: display, using the display of the device, a content to be reviewed by the user; detect, using the camera of the device, user's eyes; detect, using the camera of the device, user's eye movements; determine, based on the detected user's eye movements, whether the user has reviewed the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Michael Helmer, Martin Vitt
  • Patent number: 12228971
    Abstract: An e-book reader in which destruction of a driver circuit at the time when a flexible panel is handled is inhibited. In addition, an e-book reader having a simplified structure. A plurality of flexible display panels each including a display portion in which display control is performed by a scan line driver circuit and a signal line driver circuit, and a binding portion fastening the plurality of display panels together are included. The signal line driver circuit is provided inside the binding portion, and the scan line driver circuit is provided at the edge of the display panel in a direction perpendicular to the binding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Yasuyuki Arai, Ikuko Kawamata, Atsushi Miyaguchi, Yoshitaka Moriya
  • Patent number: 12223904
    Abstract: The invention of the application is the invention regarding a semiconductor device and a method for driving the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, first to fifth switches, first to third capacitors, and a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Okamoto, Tatsuya Onuki, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Munehiro Kozuma, Takanori Matsuzaki, Susumu Kawashima, Yutaka Okazaki
  • Patent number: 12217699
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel part including a plurality of pixels, and a gate driving circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels is driven in one first scan period and one or more second scan periods during one frame in a driving mode driven at a first driving frequency lower than a maximum driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyungsoon Park, Sunhwa Lee, Hyunjoon Kim, Jaeyong Jang, Kyunghoon Chung
  • Patent number: 12219829
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit disposed on a substrate, and a display element on the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a first thin-film transistor comprising a first semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer, a second thin-film transistor comprising a second semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode insulated from the second semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer being connected to the first semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, a first shielding layer overlapping the second semiconductor layer, and a second shielding layer overlapping the second semiconductor layer and stacked on the first shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nayun Kwak, Chulkyu Kang, Daesuk Kim, Ilgoo Youn, Dongsun Lee, Soyoung Lee, Jieun Lee, Junyoung Jo, Minhee Choi
  • Patent number: 12217678
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a plurality of pixel circuits, and the pixel circuits each include a sensing circuit and a light-emitting control circuit. In a second direction, adjacent three rows of pixel circuits are a first row of pixel circuits, a second row of pixel circuits and a third row of pixel circuits. A region between the first row of pixel circuits and the second row of pixel circuits is a first gap region. In the first row of pixel circuits and the second row of pixel circuits, a sensing circuit of each pixel circuit is closer to the first gap region than a light-emitting control circuit of the pixel circuit, and sensing signal terminals of sensing circuits of two pixel circuits in a same column are a same signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li