Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
  • Patent number: 12717443
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuits are described herein that may be configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors at a processing unit of a touch system and at a bypass control logic circuit of the touch system. The processor unit may include an input coupled to the one or more sensors and an output coupled to a downstream device. The systems, methods, and circuit may be configured to determine an error corresponding to the processing unit and, in response to determining the error, selectively activate the bypass control logic circuit to provide the sensor data to the downstream device, bypassing the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Aurelian Floricica Voicu
  • Patent number: 12717471
    Abstract: A display method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium relate to the technical field of electronic devices. The method is applied to an electronic device including a first system and a second system. The method includes: the first system controlling a screen of the electronic device to display a dynamic interface; and in response to the first system being switched to the second system, the second system controlling the screen of the electronic device to display a static preview image corresponding to the dynamic interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Xiaoliang Cao, Min Hu, Fenghua Huang
  • Patent number: 12717146
    Abstract: An augmented reality system can include a headset frame wearable by a user. A window disposed in or on the headset frame can include adjacent first and second window regions. When the headset frame is worn by the user, a field of view of an eye of the user can extend through at least part of the first window region. A camera can be disposed in or on the headset frame. When the headset frame is worn by the user, the camera can have a field of view that is directed away from the user and through the second window region. A controllably dimmable filter can be located adjacent to the window in the field of view of the eye and the field of view of the camera. The controllably dimmable filter can have a controllable opacity that determines a visibility of the camera through the second window region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Andrew Steger
  • Patent number: 12711918
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels including a first transistor for controlling driving current based on data voltage, a second transistor for receiving the data voltage and a first scan signal having a turn-on level, a first emission transistor between a first power line and the first transistor, and including a gate electrode for receiving a first emission signal, and a second emission transistor between the first transistor and a light-emitting element, and including a gate electrode for receiving a second emission signal, during an address scan period in which the first scan signal having a turn-on level is received, the first and second emission transistors being turned off once or more, and during a self-scan period in which the first scan signal having a turn-off level is maintained, the first or second emission transistor being turned off once or more, with the other maintaining a turn-on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Sun Kwun Son, Cheol Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 12704926
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display device, a touch panel, and a panel control unit. The display device is configured to display an operation screen. The touch panel is configured to detect an operation to the operation screen. The panel control unit is configured to perform transition of the operation screen in accordance with the detected operation. Further, if the operation to go back along the transition is detected with a predetermined frequency or more, the panel control unit displays on the operation screen a first soft key to indicate misrecognition of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shigetoshi Shirafuji
  • Patent number: 12697543
    Abstract: Techniques are described for reducing latency in computer game network streaming using a machine learning (ML) model to determine an optimal bite rate/frame rate/resolution for encoding the video of the computer game to satisfy a just noticeable difference (JND) threshold while minimizing the amount of data being sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Mario Sarria, Eric Hsuming Chen, Hideyuki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 12694843
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display panel includes a first substrate, electrophoretic particles, a scan line, a data line, and a pixel. The scan line, the data line, and the pixel are located on the same side of the first substrate facing the electrophoretic particles. The scan line is configured to transmit a scan signal to the pixel. The data line is configured to transmit a data signal to the pixel, and a data signal includes multiple unit periods. In a write state in a drive stage of the electrophoretic display panel, the data signal includes a drive signal and at least one adjustment signal inserted into the drive signal and configured to divide the drive signal into at least two drive sub-signals, and a voltage of a drive sub-signal of the at least two drive sub-signal is different from a voltage of an adjustment signal in a unit period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wanlong Guo, Tian Xia
  • Patent number: 12675193
    Abstract: A sensing driving device includes a sensing circuit configured to obtain raw data from a panel; and a processor configured to obtain delta data from the raw data using a baseline value. The processor is configured to obtain whether the delta data is included in any one of a first range, a second range, and a third range, and detect different noises in accordance with the range in which the delta data is included. The first range is a range in which the delta data is located below the baseline value, the second range is a range in which the delta data is located between the baseline value and a touch-on threshold, and the third range is a range in which the delta data is located above the touch-on threshold. The touch-on threshold is greater than the baseline value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keon Woo Han
  • Patent number: 12669902
    Abstract: A driving signal output device according to an embodiment comprise a display driving circuit configured to output a display driving signal in a display interval within a first data writing interval, in a low-speed driving mode in which a data holding interval is located between data writing intervals, and a touch driving circuit configured to identify that a first touch is detected in a first touch sensing interval within the first data writing interval and to identify a position of the first touch in a second touch sensing interval within the first data writing interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moon Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 12663897
    Abstract: A touch circuit includes a micro control circuit and a readout integrated circuit configured to communicate with the micro control circuit though a selection signal line, a clock signal line, a master output slave input (MOSI) signal line, and a master input slate output (MISO) signal line. In a first period, the readout integrated circuit generates a first interrupt request signal representing completion of touch sensing, and transfers the first interrupt request signal to the micro control circuit through the MISO signal line. In a second period which differs from the first period, the readout integrated circuit generates a second interrupt request signal, representing a kind of error and whether an operation state thereof is normal, and transfers the second interrupt request signal to the micro control circuit through the MOSI signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Chul Kim, Hyun Woo Jang
  • Patent number: 12663899
    Abstract: A method of operating a touchscreen device includes measuring a raw data value at a touch node among a plurality of touch nodes on the touchscreen device, assigning a positive touch value to each touch node having a positive raw data value greater than a first predetermined threshold, assigning a negative touch value to each touch node having a negative raw data value less than a second predetermined threshold, determining a total count of the positive touch values and negative touch values, determining a differ count for each of the touch nodes, the differ count being a number of touch nodes containing the negative touch values surrounding each touch node, calculating a percentage based on a ratio of a sum of the differ count and the total count, and entering a pre-water mode when the percentage exceeds a threshold percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Da Man, Bin Fan, Yue Ding, Pengcheng Wen
  • Patent number: 12663863
    Abstract: An exemplary system and method are disclosed that can detect unobserved and unobservable signals in a subject, or system, using an auxiliary, secondary signal measured from the subject while the unobserved and unobservable signals are known to be present. In particular, the exemplary system and method can used to measure observed signals, e.g., in a nonlinear time-variant system (NLTV system) such as the brain, to measure the unobserved or unobservable signal of interest via response coupling that employs a test instrument configured to facilitate interactions between the primary and the auxiliary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Ekansh Gupta, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Cheng-Yeh Chen
  • Patent number: 12663856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining movement of a hand-held controller (HHC) with respect to a head-mounted display (HMD) are described. A camera is located at a lower region of the HMD for capturing images of the HHC. The images of the HHC are used to determine a position and an orientation of the HHC with reference to the HMD. Also, the camera or another camera can be used to determine a position and orientation of the HMD with respect to a real-world environment. The position and orientation of the HMD and the position and orientation of the HHC are used to change to state of an application executed on a game cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Todd Tokubo
  • Patent number: 12645415
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises: a first housing connected to a hinge module comprising a hinge; a second housing connected to the hinge module and configured to be foldable with respect to the first housing; a first display; a second display; a first inertial sensor arranged in the first housing; a second inertial sensor arranged in the second housing; a memory; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, wherein at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, may be configured to: determine, based on detecting the electronic device being switched from a folded state to an unfolded state, a posture of the electronic device based on first sensing information of the first inertial sensor, second sensing information of the second inertial sensor, and time information during which an angle between the first housing and the second housing is changed to a designated angle; and set a direction of a screen into a display mode corresponding to the determined posture of the electronic device
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinik Kim, Namjoon Park, Seoyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 12645319
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a state in which a finger of a user stays in space above one of multiple selection elements for a predetermined time or longer, the state being detected by using a touch panel, the multiple selection elements being displayed on the touch panel; and perform control of the touch panel when the state is detected, the control being performed to turn the selection element into a selected display form. The predetermined time is a period of time set to prevent the processor from turning a nontarget selection element of the selection elements into the selected display form when the finger of the user passes space above the nontarget selection element toward a target selection element of the selection elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12638939
    Abstract: A touch panel with a compensation touch sensor pattern and a compensation driving method thereof are disclosed. The touch panel includes: a plurality of touch sensors arranged in a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of upper compensation touch sensors each disposed to be spaced apart from a corresponding touch sensor in an uppermost row among the plurality of touch sensors; and a plurality of lower compensation touch sensors each disposed to be spaced apart from a corresponding touch sensor in a lowermost row among the plurality of touch sensors. The touch panel with the compensation touch sensor pattern and the compensation driving method thereof can improve touch sensitivity of uppermost and lowermost touch sensors of a touch sensor array in matrix form by employing compensation touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: G2TOUCH Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Won Yun, Hong Geun Ji
  • Patent number: 12639027
    Abstract: A method can include determining, by a head-mounted device mounted on a head of a user, a number of degrees of freedom of an input modality of an auxiliary device; determining an input modality of the head-mounted device based on the number of degrees of freedom of the input modality of the auxiliary device; and presenting the input modality of the head-mounted device to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ruofei Du, David Kim, Fengyuan Zhu, Daniel Kalmar
  • Patent number: 12613601
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch detection method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The touch detection method comprises: determining at least one touch area according to sampled values of capacitive sensing nodes of a touch screen; performing, according to the sampled values of each touch area and position information of each touch area, target restoration processing on the sampled values in the touch area to determine target values of the capacitive sensing nodes in each touch area; determining a peak point of the target values in each touch area according to the target values of the capacitive sensing nodes in each touch area; and determining a valid touch area according to a preset touch threshold and the peak point of the target values in each touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HITEVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiezeng Xu, Shuai Wang, Minghua Zhang
  • Patent number: 12616041
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first conductive layer formed on the substrate, a chip disposed on the substrate, a first dielectric layer surrounding the chip, a second conductive layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and electrically insulated from the first conductive layer, a plurality of first vias formed in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first conductive layer, and a plurality of second vias formed in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the second conductive layer. The first vias are arranged in a first direction. The second vias are arranged in the first direction, and the first vias and the second vias are arranged in a staggered fashion in a second direction, which is different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-Shiang Liao
  • Patent number: 12614491
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels, an image source configured to store image data, and image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry may receive the image data configured to be displayed by the plurality of display pixels, wherein the image data comprises gray level data for a first display pixel of the plurality of display pixels, convert the gray level data to first voltage data, and select a plurality of compensation maps based on a brightness level of the display panel. The image processing circuitry may also determine a voltage offset value based on the input voltage and the plurality of compensation maps, apply the voltage offset value to the first voltage data to generate compensated voltage data, and convert the compensated voltage data into compensated gray level data for the first display pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Z Young, Mahesh B Chappalli, Maofeng Yang, Weijun Yao