Patents Examined by Kirk W Hermann
  • Patent number: 12293038
    Abstract: A position detection apparatus includes a sensor, and a controller that detects a position of a first position indicator and a position of a second position indicator through the sensor. The controller continues detecting the position of the first position indicator and halts detecting the position of the second position indicator after a state in which the positions of the first position indicator and the second position indicator are not detected changes to a state in which the position of the first position indicator is detected, and continues both detecting the position of the second position indicator and detecting the position of the first position indicator after the state in which the positions of the first position indicator and the second position indicator are not detected changes to a state in which the position of the second position indicator is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomo Asakura, Masamitsu Ito
  • Patent number: 12293718
    Abstract: A pixel drive circuit includes a light-emitting device electrically connected to a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal; a drive transistor having a gate electrically connected to a first node and a source and a drain electrically connected to second and third nodes; a first light-emitting control transistor having a source and a drain electrically connected to the first power supply terminal and the second node, and a gate configured to receive a first light-emitting control signal; and a second light-emitting control transistor having a source and a drain electrically connected to the third node and the light-emitting device, and a gate configured to receive a second light-emitting control signal. The first light-emitting control transistor is configured to transmit a first voltage signal supplied from the first power supply terminal to the second and third nodes at a node setting stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weigao Cheng
  • Patent number: 12287938
    Abstract: A touch control processing method is applied to a mobile terminal. A display screen of the mobile terminal is configured with an edge area and a near-edge area that are connected, the edge area is located at a peripheral edge position of the display screen, the edge area surrounds the near-edge area. The method is used to, when receiving a touch control instruction inputted by a user, and determining that a first frame coordinate is in the near-edge area and a sliding direction of the sliding instruction is not toward an original area, supplement a point coordinate supplement at a position in the edge area symmetrical to the second frame coordinate about the first frame coordinate, which is taken as a datum, opposite to the sliding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TLC MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hengjun Guo, Guangyue Luo, Yunguo Zhao
  • Patent number: 12282603
    Abstract: A tactile presentation panel includes a tactile presentation voltage generation circuit that generates a voltage signal having a first frequency to be applied to at least one first electrode located in at least a partial region on an operation surface of the tactile presentation panel, and generates a voltage signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency to be applied to at least one second electrode located in at least a partial region on the operation surface of the tactile presentation panel, a charge discharge portion that is connected to the tactile electrode and discharges charges accumulated in a conductive elastic portion, and a touch detection circuit that detects contact of the user with a tactile presentation knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Orita, Takeshi Ono, Takayuki Morioka, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12277282
    Abstract: A organic light emitting display device includes a substrate comprising a light-emitting region and a reflection region, a first sensing electrode which senses a touch position is disposed in the reflection region, and comprises a material having a first reflectivity and a second sensing electrode which senses a touch position is disposed in the light-emitting region and the reflection region, and comprises a material having a second reflectivity, and overlapping a portion of the first sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Seok Seo, Seung-lyong Bok, MuGyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 12273579
    Abstract: A controlling device has a configurable key. An insert is provided to the configurable key and includes an indicium representative of a media content provider. An image of the indicium or an image of a QR code associated with the indicium is used to assign one or more commands to the configurable key. The one or more commands are used to cause a controllable device to tune to a channel on which the media content provider is being broadcast, to invoke an app associated with the media content provider, to access a website associated with the media content provider, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Menno Koopmans, Rex Xu, Thomas Hascher
  • Patent number: 12272279
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a device includes a plurality of elements arranged in rows and columns and a controller coupled to the plurality of elements, the controller comprising a plurality of driving circuits and a plurality of row scanners. Each of the plurality of elements is coupled to a respective driving circuit of the plurality of driving circuits. The plurality of row scanners include a row scanner having a series of selectors that are arranged in a column between two adjacent columns of elements, each selector of the series of selectors being configured to select a corresponding row of elements through corresponding driving circuits coupled to the corresponding row of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan Macneill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Patent number: 12274016
    Abstract: A display device for presenting 3D images is provided. The display device includes: a display assembly; a hollow housing assembly; a motor connected to the display assembly; a driving assembly connected to the display assembly; and a hollow base assembly; wherein the driving assembly comprises a power transmission structure and a power reception structure, the power transmission structure is independent from the display assembly and wiredly connected to a first driving power supply, and the power reception structure is wiredly connected to the display assembly and capable of delivering power to the power reception structure by electromagnetic mutual inductance; and the base assembly comprises a first cylinder and a first plate fixedly connected to one end of the first cylinder; the first plate comprises a plate body and a cushion, and the cushion covers a side, proximal to the first cylinder, of the plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhong Liu, Zhanshan Ma, Zheng Ge, Jiyang Shao
  • Patent number: 12266280
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. A system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan MacNeill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Patent number: 12244888
    Abstract: An enhanced viewing device may move with a user as the user moves around the room. An amount of movement associated with the enhanced viewing device may be determined. Based on the amount of movement, an enhanced viewing experience may be determined and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 12236053
    Abstract: A sensor controller includes a neural network processing unit to receive a sensing signal from an input sensor and to output one of a first sensing result and a second sensing result using a prediction model. The sensor controller further includes a first input processing unit and a second input processing unit. The first input processing unit is to receive the first sensing result and to determine whether a first input is present based on the first sensing result. The second input processing unit is to receive the second sensing result and to calculate a coordinate signal for a second input based on the second sensing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Takiguchi, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Satoshi Uchino
  • Patent number: 12236861
    Abstract: A method for driving an electronic device may include receiving light passing through a display panel, generating an image signal based on the light, compensating the image signal with a compensation algorithm to generate a compensated image signal, wherein the compensation algorithm is trained with training data including a first comparison image and a second comparison image, and displaying, on the display panel, a compensated image based on the compensated image signal, wherein the first comparison image is a target restoration image and the second comparison image is a composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaebum Cho, Daewook Kim, Seungin Baek, Jewon Yoo, Sang-Gu Lee, Hyung Uk Cho
  • Patent number: 12229368
    Abstract: The driving circuit of the display includes a timing controller. The timing controller is coupled to a general purpose input/output (GPIO) pin of the touch driver. The timing controller receives an instruction signal via the GPIO pin of the touch driver. The timing controller starts a detection period according to a first edge switched from a first voltage level to a second voltage level of the instruction signal. The timing controller detects a number of pulse signals of the instruction signal, and determines a current operating status of the touch driver according to the number of pulse signals of the instruction signal during the detection period. The timing controller determines that the current operating status of the touch driver is one of touch operation type statuses according to the number of pulse signals of the instruction signal during the detection period being a default number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lung Cheng, Shu-Cheng Liu, Pei-Lin Tien, I-Shin Lo, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Patent number: 12232286
    Abstract: A device includes: a first housing, a second housing rotatably connected to the first housing, a display panel, a partial area of which is deformed by rotation of the second housing with respect to the first housing, a support plate disposed on the rear surface of the display panel and having a first area corresponding to the deformable area of the display panel and including openings formed at specified intervals, and a second area excluding the first area, a cushion layer disposed on the rear surface of the support plate at a position corresponding to the second area and including an impact absorbing material, a blocking member comprising flexible material disposed on the rear surface of the support plate and configured to be elongated according to deformation of the display panel, and a reinforcing plate disposed under the cushion layer and the blocking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungchul An, Seonghoon Kim, Hyunsuk Jung, Soyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12223907
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a driving circuit, a first light-emission control circuit, a first initialization circuit, an energy storage circuit, a compensation control circuit and a data written-in circuit. A first terminal of the energy storage circuit is electrically connected to a control terminal of the driving circuit, and a second terminal of the energy storage circuit is electrically connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting element. The data written-in circuit writes a data voltage into a first terminal of the driving circuit under control of a written-in control signal. The compensation control circuit controls the control terminal of the driving circuit to be electrically connected to a second terminal of the driving circuit under control of a compensation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao Huang, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 12217681
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display images, a plurality of circuit boards connected to one side of the display panel, a cable electrically connecting at least two of the plurality of circuit boards, voltage lines disposed on the cable, the plurality of circuit boards, and the display panel, a deviation compensation circuit configured to sense voltages transmitted through a circuit board on one side and a circuit board on the other side connected by the cable among the plurality of circuit boards and to output a signal based on the sensed voltages, and a variable circuit configured to compensate for a current difference between the circuit board on one side and the circuit board on the other side based on the signal output from the deviation compensation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Ju Kim, Won Yong Jang
  • Patent number: 12217341
    Abstract: Communications pertaining to a digital human can include communicating via a lighting system based on determining an aspect of a user based on one or more sensor-generated signals. A communicative lighting sequence can be determined based on the user attribute. The lighting sequence can correspond to a condition of a digital human and can be configured to communicate to the user the condition of the digital human. The light sequence can be generated with an LED array mounted on a digital human display assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pranav K. Mistry, Jiawei Zhang, Seungsu Hong, Abhijit Z. Bendale
  • Patent number: 12210709
    Abstract: A display substrate, including: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels each including at least a pixel electrode and a common electrode; a first interlayer insulating layer between layers where the pixel electrode and the common electrode are respectively located; and a plurality of touch signal lines extending along a second direction and arranges side by side along a first direction, where a distance between orthographic projections of the touch signal line and the pixel electrode in the sub-pixel closest to the touch signal line in the first direction on the base substrate is a first distance; a distance between orthographic projections of the touch signal line and the common electrode in the sub-pixel closest to the touch signal line in the first direction on the base substrate is a second distance, and the first distance is less than the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe Li, Peng Li
  • Patent number: 12204096
    Abstract: A beam of light is directed onto, and scanned across, a controllably-selected portion of a concave-curved light-redirecting surface that provides for redirecting and redistributing the light and illuminating a two-dimensional image-display modulation array. A virtual image of the two-dimensional image-display modulation array is formed by an optical subsystem. Light thereof propagating from an aperture of the optical subsystem is collected onto a subpupil within an exit pupil of the optical subsystem on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye location. The subpupil is associated with the controllably-selected portion of the concave-curved light-redirecting surface, and with a corresponding portion less than all of the light of the virtual image that is associated with a gaze direction of the eye when viewing the subpupil. A location of the subpupil within the exit pupil corresponds to a location of the controllably-selected portion on the concave-curved light-redirecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Panamorph, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 12204730
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel includes a first set of touch electrodes configured to operate as drive lines and that are disposed in a first layer of the touch sensor panel. The touch sensor panel also includes a second set of touch electrodes configured to operate as sense lines and that are disposed in a second layer of the touch sensor panel, different than the first layer of the touch sensor panel, such that one or more mutual capacitance touch nodes are formed by the first set of touch electrodes and the second set of touch electrodes. The touch sensor panel also includes a third set of touch electrodes configured to operate as self-capacitance electrodes and that are disposed in the first layer or the second layer of the touch sensor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe Blondin, Jean-Marie Bussat, Robert Leo Sheridan, Sagar Rajiv Vaze