Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12602132
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit and a plurality of sensing units. The control circuit switches between a first touch sensing mode and a second touch sensing mode of the electronic device. A first amplitude of a first touch driving signal provided by the control circuit operating in the first touch sensing mode is smaller than a second amplitude of a second touch driving signal provided by the control circuit operating in the second touch sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: CARUX TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Tsan-Po Weng
  • Patent number: 12578822
    Abstract: One or more processors of a computing device may map touch input data generated by a touch sensor of a presence-sensitive display to a touch location at the presence-sensitive display, wherein the touch input data is indicative of a touch input detected at the presence-sensitive display, determine that the touch location is within an edge region of the presence-sensitive display, in response to determining that the touch location is within the edge region of the presence-sensitive display, determine, based at least in part on the touch location, a corrected touch location at the presence-sensitive display that is closer to a nearest edge of the presence-sensitive display than the touch location, and determine that the touch input corresponds to user input at the corrected touch location of the presence-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Philip Quinn
  • Patent number: 12578813
    Abstract: A touch display substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a touch display device are provided. The touch display substrate includes an active area and a first peripheral area and a second peripheral area located at peripheries of the active area, the second peripheral area includes a first binding area used for binding a driver chip and a second binding area located at one side of the first binding area away from the active area and used for binding a flexible circuit board; the first binding area includes a first gate drive circuit pin area and a first touch pin area; the second binding area includes a second gate drive circuit pin area electrically connected to the first gate drive circuit pin area and a second touch pin area electrically connected to the first touch pin area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guo Liu
  • Patent number: 12566469
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyusung Han, Hongki Kim
  • Patent number: 12561003
    Abstract: A haptic feedback apparatus is described. The haptic feedback apparatus comprises a headpiece that conforms to a neurocranium of a user and a haptic processor. The headpiece comprises left and right haptic actuators. The haptic processor is configured to process an input signal and activate the left and right haptic actuators according to the input signal. The left and right haptic actuators are located on the headpiece to abut the neurocranium of the user when the headpiece is worn by the user. The left and right haptic actuators provide haptic feedback to the user via the neurocranium upon activation by the haptic processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignees: LEMON INC., BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syed Asad Tirmizi, Ali Israr, Zachary Schwemler, Dehao Zhao, Erting Cheng, Kaochoy Saetern
  • Patent number: 12561019
    Abstract: A touch-control method, an electronic device, and a touch-control system are provided. The touch-control method includes: obtaining an ambient brightness level via a light sensor; recording a duration in which the ambient brightness level is lower than a threshold, and determining, in response to the duration being greater than a predetermined minimum time length and less than a predetermined maximum time length, whether or not a first brightness characteristic of the ambient brightness level before the duration matches a second brightness characteristic of the ambient brightness level after the duration; and determining, in response to determining that the first brightness characteristic matches the second brightness characteristic, occurrence of a touch-control behavior, and triggering the electronic device to perform an operation corresponding to the touch-control behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jiunn-Jye Lee, Tzu-Yi Chuang
  • Patent number: 12554365
    Abstract: A user interface assembly for a domestic appliance may include a fascia. The fascia may include a consumer icon. The user interface assembly may include a main control board coupled to the fascia. The main control board may define an aperture therethrough. The aperture may be aligned with the consumer icon along an axial direction of the user interface. The main control board may include a controller mounted thereto. The user interface assembly may include a capacitive touch sensor module coupled to the main control board. The capacitive touch sensor module may include a secondary control board, a capacitive touch sensor, and a light source. The capacitive touch sensor may include an electrical capacitor mounted to the secondary control board. The capacitive touch sensor may be aligned with the consumer icon along the axial direction. The light source may be disposed within the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald James Leisl, III, Richard Gary Woodham, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12542079
    Abstract: A display motherboard comprises at least one substrate region; the substrate region comprises at least one test pad region, at least one test wire region and at least two display substrates; the test pad region comprises a plurality of pads; the test wire region comprises a plurality of signal wires, first ends of the plurality of signal wires being correspondingly connected to the plurality of pads, and second ends of the plurality of signal wires extending to the display substrates in the substrate region, so as to be connected to test circuits of the display substrates; the plurality of pads are configured to allow an external test device to provide, by means of the plurality of pads, test signals to the test circuits of the display substrates in the substrate region, so as to simultaneously perform light-on tests or aging procedures on the display substrates in the substrate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjun Zhou, Zhenli Zhou, Fengli Ji, Chengjie Qin, Yanwei Lu