Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
  • Patent number: 11977697
    Abstract: A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce or minimize loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line, and may detect a defective touch sensor. The device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area, a plurality of touch sensors respectively provided in the plurality of transmissive areas, including a touch sensor electrode, a plurality of pixels provided in the non-transmissive area, including a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of driving transistors respectively connected to the plurality of subpixels, a plurality of touch transistors respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, and a reference line applying a reference voltage to the plurality of driving transistors in accordance with a control signal or transferring a voltage of each of the plurality of touch sensors to an analog-to-digital converter through the plurality of touch transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghyeok Im, JaeHee Park, MiReum Lee
  • Patent number: 11966550
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a sensor that includes a first sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of first detection units arranged two-dimensionally and a second sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of second detection units arranged two-dimensionally, the first sensor layer being provided on the second sensor layer, and a control unit that scans the plurality of first detection units and the plurality of second detection units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Ken Kobayashi, Kei Tsukamoto, Tomoko Katsuhara
  • Patent number: 11966541
    Abstract: A compensation circuit, a touch screen, and an electronic device are provided in the disclosure. The compensation circuit includes a logic circuit, a selection circuit, and a switch circuit. The logic circuit is configured to obtain a first selection signal, a second selection signal, and a third selection signal according to an enable signal and a timing signal. The selection circuit is configured to obtain a first control signal according to the first selection signal, obtain a second control signal according to the second selection signal, and obtain a third control signal according to the third selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Dehuai Li, Huiqi Wang, Changfu Liu, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11960676
    Abstract: A transparent display device with a touch sensor is provided, which may minimize or reduce loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line and may detect a defective touch sensor among a plurality of touch sensors provided in a touch block. The transparent display device comprises a substrate provided with a transmissive area and a non-transmissive area, a touch sensor provided in the transmissive area over the substrate, including a touch sensor electrode, a pixel provided in the non-transmissive area over the substrate, including a plurality of light emitting elements comprised of an anode electrode, a light emitting layer and a cathode electrode, a reference line provided in the non-transmissive area, a plurality of switching transistors connecting the reference line with each of the plurality of light emitting elements, and a touch transistor connecting the reference line with the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JaeHee Park, MiReum Lee
  • Patent number: 11960089
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing a high transmission see-through view of the environment while trapping escaping light from the display system. In embodiments, a camera system is also provided that is aligned with the display system to provide images of the environment in a viewing direction of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: John N. Border
  • Patent number: 11960090
    Abstract: An optical assembly a substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to and substantially parallel with the first surface. The first surface has a first curved profile and the second surface has a second curved profile. The optical assembly also includes a beam splitter on the first surface and a reflector on the second surface. The optical assembly is configured to transmit image light received at the first surface in an optical path that includes reflection at each of the reflector and the beam splitter before the image light is output from the second surface. The optical assembly is also configured to transmit ambient light received at the first surface such that the second light is output from the second surface without undergoing reflection at either the reflector or the beam splitter. A method of transmitting light through the optical assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ying Geng, Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Babak Amirsolaimani, Weichuan Gao, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
  • Patent number: 11943951
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area, a planarization film disposed over the substrate, an anode electrode disposed on the planarization film and including a first hole in the non-active area, a bank disposed on the anode electrode, a cathode electrode disposed on the bank, an encapsulation layer disposed on the cathode electrode, and a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer and including a touch line in the non-active area. Here, the first hole may be disposed not to overlap with the touch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongwoong Jeong, MinKyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11941210
    Abstract: A detection circuit is provided herein, which includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a light sensor, a capacitor, and a fourth transistor. The first transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The second transistor is coupled to the control terminal. The third transistor is coupled to the control terminal and the second terminal. The light sensor is coupled to the control terminal. The capacitor is coupled to the control terminal. The fourth transistor is coupled to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ya-Li Tsai, Hui-Ching Yang, Yang-Jui Huang, Te-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 11930655
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area, a planarization film disposed over the substrate, an anode electrode disposed on the planarization film and including a first hole in the non-active area, a bank disposed on the anode electrode, a cathode electrode disposed on the bank, an encapsulation layer disposed on the cathode electrode, and a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer and including a touch line in the non-active area. Here, the first hole may be disposed not to overlap with the touch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongwoong Jeong, Minkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11911133
    Abstract: Provided are an operation method and device for physiological health detection, wherein by arranging a body part identification area on a display unit, and arranging a sensing unit below the body part identification area, when a body part of a user is close to the body part identification area, the sensing unit may capture optical signal information reflected by the body part, and a processing unit may obtain, according to the optical signal information reflected by the body part, physiological health information corresponding to the body part, and the physiological health information may be displayed on the display unit. Compared with the existing method of a mobile device additionally arranging a sensor outside a display screen region, the present invention facilitates user operations and improves the user experience, and the whole thickness of the mobile device may also be effectively reduced, thereby enabling the mobile device to be lighter and thinner and satisfy the requirements of the market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HARVEST INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiandong Huang
  • Patent number: 11910915
    Abstract: An ergonomic keyboard apparatus comprising a keyboard frame including an ergonomic contour defined in part by a gabled portion of the keyboard frame that is pitched into a contoured peak that forms a first slope and a second slope on either side of the keyboard frame. A plurality of keys are disposed within the keyboard frame such that key tops of each of the plurality of keys follow the ergonomic contour of the keyboard frame. A wrist pad coupled to the keyboard frame has a gabled center portion and a surface contour that corresponds to the ergonomic contour of the keyboard frame defined by its gabled portion, first slope, and second slope. Each location along at least a portion of the surface contour of the wrist pad is elevated to at least a height of corresponding key tops of the plurality of keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Sylvain Sauvage, Maxence Perret-Gentil, Lars Holm Lauridsen
  • Patent number: 11899882
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of quadrature modulation and compensation are described. One touch controller includes a receiver sensing channel to measure a sense signal and generate at least four samples per one period of the sense signal. The touch controller includes quadrature demodulation logic to determine phase information of the sense signal using the at least four samples per one period of the sense signal and processing logic to execute a compensation algorithm to compensate for a phase mismatch of the touch controller based on the phase information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Oleksandr Pirogov, Viktor Kremin, Jens Weber
  • Patent number: 11886668
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes: a transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic transmit wave towards a touch structure; a receiver configured to receive an ultrasonic reflected wave produced from the ultrasonic transmit signal being at least partially reflecting by the touch structure; a receiver circuit configured to convert the ultrasonic reflected wave into a measurement signal; the receiver circuit configured to generate an error value representative of a difference between a measured value of the measurement signal and a reference value; a programmable voltage source configured to provide a bias voltage to the transmitter or to the receiver; a controller configured to adjust the bias voltage based on the error value; a measurement circuit configured to measure the DC bias voltage and determine whether a no-touch event or a touch event has occurred at the touch structure based on at least one measurement of the bias voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Matthias Eberl, Fabian Merbeler, Emanuel Stoicescu
  • Patent number: 11874966
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include a substructure configured to support various components, an actuator configured to provide substantially linear motion along a specified axis in response to an electrical input, an input component hingedly coupled to the substructure, where the input component is configured to receive input from a user, and a mechanical linkage coupled to the input component and to at least a portion of the actuator. The mechanical linkage may be configured to translate the substantially linear motion provided by the actuator to a rotary force applied to the input component via the mechanical linkage. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Tu, Lorenz Henric Jentz, Khaled Boulos, Derrick Readinger, Robert Carey Leonard
  • Patent number: 11874711
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating electrical current from at least one photovoltaic cell are described herein. In some embodiments, a dual-cell arrangement of photovoltaic cells may be disposed on a face. Equal parts of a first photovoltaic cell and a second photovoltaic cell may be disposed on the face such that when a portion of the face is shaded, the first photovoltaic cell and the second photovoltaic cell receive substantially equal amounts of electromagnetic radiation. In some embodiments, the first photovoltaic cell and the second photovoltaic cell comprises a plurality of sub-cell connected in series and parallel to optimize the power output form the partially exposed cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: John M. Kenkel, Mohamed Bouchoucha, Jing-Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11868561
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of multi-phase scanning of a touch panel are described. One apparatus selects a sequence having a number of one values, negative one values, and zero values. The one values correspond to an in-phase drive signal, the negative one values correspond to an opposite-phase drive signal, and the zero values correspond to a reference signal (e.g., reference voltage or ground). A sum of the sequence is equal to zero. The apparatus applies one of the in-phase drive signal, the opposite-phase drive signal, or the reference signal to each of a first set of electrodes at a first stage according to the sequence. The apparatus rotates the sequence to obtain a rotated sequence and applies one of the signals according to the rotated sequence. The apparatus receives sense signals to detect a presence of an object on the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Volodymyr Bihday, Andriy Maharyta, Igor Kravets, Mykhaylo Krekhovetskyy, Ihor Musijchuk
  • Patent number: 11841745
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel which includes a main region configured to display an image and a protrusion region protruding from one side of the main region to be bent, a lower film which is disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, and a metal layer which is disposed on a rear surface of the lower film and comprises a notch region. The protrusion region includes a first bending portion which has a first curvature and a pad portion which faces the main region in a thickness direction of the display panel, and the pad region is disposed in the notch region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Baek, Hyung Woo Kwon, Gyun Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11803263
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a driving backplane; a cathode layer located at one side of the driving backplane; and an encapsulating layer located at the side, facing away from the driving backplane, of the cathode layer. The encapsulating layer includes a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer which are stacked. The display panel further includes: a first conductive layer located between the first inorganic layer and the organic layer, where the first conductive layer includes first electrode parts; and a second conductive layer located between the first conductive layer and the second inorganic layer and insulated from the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Xia, Tao Gao, Yuanzheng Guo, Yongzhan Han, Peng Hou, Yanqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11800998
    Abstract: Provided is a personal authentication device based on an auditory brainstem response signal. The personal authentication device includes a signal generator, a signal acquirer, and a signal processor. The signal generator may output an auditory stimulus to an ear of a user, using a sound generator. The signal acquirer may acquire a first reference potential corresponding to a first interval, from a first electrode in close contact with the other ear of the user, and acquire a first evoked potential corresponding to the first interval from a second electrode in close contact with the ear, based on the first reference potential. The signal processor may generate a first auditory brainstem response signal, based on the first reference potential and the first evoked potential, generate authentication data for the user from the first auditory brainstem response signal, and compare the authentication data with registration data to authenticate the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyung Wook Noh, Joo Yong Sim, Chang-Geun Ahn, Bong Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11775076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ting-Yang Chang, Yen-Min Chang, Nien-Tse Chen