Patents Examined by Krishna P Neupane
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Patent number: 11587526Abstract: One or more media contents are received. A viewer's light adaptive states are predicted as a function of time as if the viewer is watching display mapped images derived from the one or more media contents. The viewer's light adaptive states are used to detect an excessive change in luminance in a specific media content portion of the one or more media contents. The excessive change in luminance in the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents is caused to be reduced while the viewer is watching one or more corresponding display mapped images derived from the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Alexandre Chapiro, Robin Atkins, Scott Daly
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Patent number: 11579726Abstract: A touch device, an electronic device and a driving method are provided. The touch device includes: a plurality of touch sensors arranged in an array; a plurality of touch lines connected to the plurality of touch sensors; and a controller connected to the plurality of touch lines, wherein the controller is configured to simultaneously send a plurality of first touch signals respectively to the plurality of touch sensors via the plurality of touch lines, and simultaneously receive via the plurality of touch lines a plurality of second touch signals generated by the plurality of touch sensors.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yilin Feng, Hong Yang
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Patent number: 11573653Abstract: The invention provides a touch display apparatus, a driver integrated circuit and a touch display panel. The driver integrated circuit includes a first pad, at least one second pad, a display driving channel, a touch sensing channel, a switching circuit, and a control circuit. The switching circuit is coupled to the display driving channel, the touch sensing channel and the first pad. In a display phase, the switching circuit and the routing circuit are controlled to couple the display driving channel to a data line of the touch display panel via the first pad, and a control signal for controlling the routing circuit is via the at least one second pad. In a touch phase, the switching circuit and the routing circuit are controlled to couple the touch sensing channel to a common electrode of the touch display panel via the first pad.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Wei-Kang Tsai
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Patent number: 11573640Abstract: The input device includes an LCD panel, a touch sensor arranged over the surface of the LCD panel, and a vibration generating unit having an actuator and a strain detector, the vibration generating unit being arranged on the back side of the LCD panel and connected to a securing portion provided on the back surface of the LCD panel via a rigid connecting member.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiyuki Fujimasa
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Patent number: 11561645Abstract: Provided a touch display panel includes a signal transmission layer, an insulation layer, and a touch layer disposed in stack. A surface of the signal transmission layer is provided with first concave-convex structure. The insulation layer covers the first concave-convex structure, and a surface thereof is provided with a second concave-convex structure at least partially overlapping the first concave-convex structure in a light exit direction. The second concave-convex structure includes a second convex portion, a second concave portion, and a second connecting portion, thickness of the second connecting portion smaller than either thickness of the second convex portion or thickness of the second concave portion. A connection via hole is further provided, penetrates at least the second connecting portion, exposes part of the signal transmission layer, and the touch layer electrically connected to the signal transmission layer through the connection via hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ying Li, Yongxiang Lin
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Patent number: 11550423Abstract: A device to enable touchless operation of an instrument is disclosed. The device includes an actuator configured to vibrate the instrument, a controller configured to control the actuator, and an interval detector configured to detect an interval between the instrument and an object to operate the instrument. The controller is configured to start vibrating the actuator having been still after the interval detected by the interval detector reaches a first threshold, keep vibrating the actuator until the interval detected by the interval detector reaches a second threshold larger than the first threshold after the interval reaches the first threshold, and stop vibrating the actuator after the interval detected by the interval detector reaches the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Haga, Koji Shigemura, Hirotsugu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11538414Abstract: A driving circuit of a display panel comprises a scanning driving circuit, a data driving circuit, and a control circuit. The scanning driving circuit is coupled to a plurality of scanning lines of the display panel, and scans the scanning lines. The data driving circuit is coupled to a plurality of data lines of the display panel and provides at least one data signal corresponding to each scanning line to at least one data line of the data lines for driving at least one pixel of the display panel. The control circuit is coupled to the scanning driving circuit and the data driving circuit, controls the scanning driving circuit and the data driving circuit, and determines a scanning order of the scanning driving circuit to scan the scanning lines according to a driving number of the pixels to be driven by the data driving circuit corresponding to each scanning line.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.Inventors: Chih-Te Hung, I-Chen Lin, Chun-Chi Yeh, Chia-Hung Chien
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Patent number: 11526233Abstract: A method for controlling touch screen, apparatus and device, a storage medium and a processor are provided, the method including that: a detection result is acquired, the detection result is used for representing whether a touch behavior over a touch panel of a touch screen exists; a feedback signal is determined according to the detection result; and a working mode of the touch screen is controlled according to the feedback signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: ANALOGIX (CHINA) SEMICONDUCTOR, INC, ANALOGIX INTERNATIONAL LLCInventor: Chuncheng Guo
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Patent number: 11513561Abstract: A flexible display device is provided. The flexible display device includes: a display; a sensor configured to detect at least one rolling characteristic in response to the display being rolled; and a controller configured to perform a first function of the flexible display device based on the detected at least one rolling characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-yeon Kwak, Kyung-a Kang, Hyun-jin Kim, Nipun Kumar, Chang-soo Lee
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Patent number: 11487364Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes detecting input representing motion of an electronic device and sampling an audio input with a microphone of the electronic device. The example process further includes determining, based on the audio input and the input representing motion of the electronic device, whether to initiate a virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes initiating the virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination not to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes forgoing initiating the virtual assistant session.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Michael R. Bastian, Roman Holenstein, Minwoo Jeong, Charles Maalouf, Brandon J. Newendorp, Heriberto Nieto, Timothy Paek, Joanna Peterson, Shawn Scully, Srikrishna Sridhar, Brandt M. Westing, Shiwen Zhao
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Patent number: 11487384Abstract: The invention provides a touch device and a communication method thereof. The touch device includes a display panel and a controller. The controller controls the display panel to perform a display driving operation and a touch sensing operation. The controller may transmit a first wireless signal to another slave communication device via the display panel in a touch sensing period. The controller may receive a second wireless signal sent by another master communication device via the display panel in the touch sensing period. When the touch device serves as one of a master communication device and a slave communication device, a time length of the touch sensing period is a first time length. When the touch device serves as the other of the master communication device and the slave communication device, the time length of the touch sensing period is a second time length greater than the first time length.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Tsung-Yu Wang, Yun-Hsiang Yeh, Yen-Heng Chen
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Patent number: 11468860Abstract: In a pulse output circuit in a shift register, a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a pulse output circuit at the next stage is set to a low-potential drive voltage, and a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a scan signal line is set to a variable potential drive voltage. The variable potential drive voltage is the low-potential drive voltage in a normal mode, and can be either a high-potential drive voltage or the low-potential drive voltage in a batch mode. In the batch mode, display scan signals can be output to a plurality of scan signal lines at the same timing in a batch.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiko Amano, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 11460950Abstract: A display panel includes a touch display region and a border region, wherein multiple touch drive lines and multiple multi-path selection units are disposed within the touch display region, each of the multi-path selection units is electrically connected with at least part of the multiple touch drive lines, the border region includes a wiring region, and input signal lines of the multi-path selection units are arranged within the wiring region.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jing Zhao, Jigang Sun, Shuang Zhao
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Patent number: 11449172Abstract: The invention provides a touch control apparatus and a touch panel thereof. The touch panel includes a plurality of pads and a plurality of sensing electrodes. The pads are suitable for being electrically connected to different pins of a touch driving device. The sensing electrodes are suitable for sensing a touch event of the touch panel. Any column of the sensing electrodes includes a plurality of sensing electrode groups. A plurality of sensing electrodes belonging to any one of the sensing electrode groups among the sensing electrodes are coupled to a corresponding one of the pads. The sensing electrodes in each of sensing electrode groups in a same column are dispersedly arranged in the same column. The arrangement of the sensing electrode groups in any column of the sensing electrodes is different from the arrangement of the sensing electrode groups in an adjacent column adjacent to the any column.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Yaw-Guang Chang
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Patent number: 11449171Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensitive processing method for detecting a liquid line when a touch panel half submerged in conductive liquid, wherein the touch panel comprises multiple parallel first electrodes and multiple parallel second electrodes, the touch sensitive processing method comprising: determining whether a liquid line piece group touches two sides of the touch panel if the liquid line piece group does exists; calculating two averaged values of sensing information with regard to two parts of the touch panel separated by the liquid line piece group if it touches two sides of the touch panel; determining a part of the touch panel having a larger averaged value is above the conductive liquid and another part of the touch panel is below the conductive liquid; and determining a liquid line according to a surface between the part above the conductive liquid and the liquid line piece group.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Shun-Lung Ho, Hsiao-Tsung Lee
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Patent number: 11449164Abstract: A display device includes: a display layer having an active region, and a peripheral region including a first region, a second region spaced from the first region in a first direction, and a third region between the first region and the second region; and a sensor layer on the display layer. The display layer includes: a plurality of pixels at the active region; and a power supply pattern at the peripheral region, and including: a first power supply pattern at the first region; and a second power supply pattern at the second region. The sensor layer includes: a plurality of sensing electrodes at the active region; a plurality of sensing lines including: a first sensing line at the first region; and a second sensing line at at least one of the first region or the second region; and a dummy pattern at the third region.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeri Jeong, Il-Joo Kim, Young-Soo Yoon, Wonjun Choi
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Patent number: 11435831Abstract: A measurement apparatus measures an electronic device that vibrates a touch surface to present a tactile sensation. The measurement apparatus includes a pressing portion that applies pressure to a touch surface, a vibration detector that detects vibration of the touch surface, the vibration being produced in response to pressure applied to the touch surface, and a pressure detector that detects the pressure applied to the touch surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shigeto Hattori
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Patent number: 11435788Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to enhancing the fields of view of one or more cameras of a gesture recognition system for augmenting the three-dimensional (3D) sensory space of the gesture recognition system. The augmented 3D sensory space allows for inclusion of previously uncaptured of regions and points for which gestures can be interpreted i.e. blind spots of the cameras of the gesture recognition system. Some examples of such blind spots include areas underneath the cameras and/or within 20-85 degrees of a tangential axis of the cameras. In particular, the technology disclosed uses a Fresnel prismatic element and/or a triangular prism element to redirect the optical axis of the cameras, giving the cameras fields of view that cover at least 45 to 80 degrees from tangential to the vertical axis of a display screen on which the cameras are mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two LimitedInventors: David S. Holz, Paul Durdik
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Patent number: 11435867Abstract: A display method adapted for an electronic device is provided. The method includes: identifying a target location of the last triggered target point on a screen, wherein the target point is triggered by an input operation applied on an I/O device of the electronic device; setting, according to an identified preset dividing pattern, a target dividing line on the screen based on the target location; identifying, according to an identified preset covering pattern, a target region and one or more non-target regions other than the target region of the screen based on the target dividing line; and adjusting the one or more non-target regions of the screens to decrease the readability of the one or more non-target regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventors: Ching-Chen Lin, Chih-Yu Lin, Thuån Thiên Tchen
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Patent number: 11429213Abstract: A touch display device can include a display panel in which a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; at least one dam formed in a form of protruding from a lower surface in a non-display area of the display panel; a plurality of touch lines disposed in a direction intersecting the dam; and a stepped thickness-gap area in which a boundary portion of the non-display area or both sides of the dam has a stepped thickness-gap structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jonghyun Han, NamKil Park, Seunghyun Kim, DongHyun Byun