Patents Examined by Liliana Cerullo
  • Patent number: 12242067
    Abstract: A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a camera, and a processor. The processor may be configured to display, based on a direction in which a region in an image faces being different from a reference direction, a widget or a first visual object including at least a part of information, in at least a part of the region in the image. The processor may be configured to display, based on the direction in which the region in the image faces being corresponding to the reference direction, a second visual object representing a virtual outdoor environment with a weather condition, in the region in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunho Kim, Kyunghwa Kim, Sanghyun Park, Minseoung Woo, Sanga Yoo, Hyunjun Lee
  • Patent number: 12236080
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson
  • Patent number: 12236885
    Abstract: A shift register is provided to include a voltage control circuit coupled to an output control node; at least one driving output circuit, each including an output transistor and a capacitor structure sequentially arranged along a first direction; a first conductive line therebetween and extending along a second direction and coupled to a signal output line configured for the driving output circuit; the output transistor includes a gate electrode coupled to the output control node and a first voltage writing electrode of the capacitor structure, a first electrode coupled to a clock signal line configured for the driving output circuit and a second electrode coupled to the first conductive line; a second conductive line is disposed between the first conductive line and the capacitor structure, and the first conductive line is coupled to a second voltage writing electrode of the capacitor structure through the second conductive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Dacheng Zhang, Yongqian Li, Mingming Xie
  • Patent number: 12236891
    Abstract: This application provides a shift register, a gate drive circuit, a display panel, and an electronic device. The shift register includes: a node control module, electrically connected to a first level signal receive end that receives a low level, a second level signal receive end that receives a high level, a first clock signal end, a second clock signal end, a first node, and a second node; an input module, electrically connected to the second clock signal end, a trigger signal input end, and the second node; a voltage regulator module, electrically connected to the second node, a third node, and the second clock signal end; and an output module, electrically connected to the first level signal receive end, the second level signal receive end, a drive signal output end, the first node, and the third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Linhong Han, Wanming Wu, Di Geng, Ling Li, Zheng Tian
  • Patent number: 12229359
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a sensing area having display pixels and sensing pixels; a sensing panel overlapping with the display panel, the sensing panel including sensing electrodes; a fingerprint sensor overlapping with the sensing panel, the fingerprint sensor having light emitting elements of the display pixels and light receiving elements of the sensing pixels; a panel driver configured to drive the display panel; and a sensor driver configured to drive the sensing panel and the fingerprint sensor, wherein the panel driver and the sensor driver are configured to vary a driving mode according to an operation of the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soon Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12229463
    Abstract: A display method includes receiving a first operation of selecting one of pieces of layout information for designating a first region and a second region different from the first region from a user, receiving a second operation of determining a first input image to be a base of an image to be displayed in the first region from the user, displaying a part or a whole of an image based on the first input image in the first region designated by the one of the pieces of layout information, receiving a third operation of determining a second input image to be a base of an image to be displayed in the second region from the user, and displaying a part or a whole of an image based on the second input image in the second region designated by the one of the pieces of layout information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koya Kokubo
  • Patent number: 12219839
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an input sensor, and a circuit board. The input sensor includes first detection electrodes arranged in a first direction, second detection electrodes arranged in a second direction, first detection wires respectively electrically connected to the first detection electrodes, and second detection wires respectively electrically connected to the second detection electrodes. Resistance values of the first detection wires decrease as a corresponding first detection electrode among the first detection electrodes is disposed closer to a center of the display panel. Resistance values of the second detection wires increase as a corresponding second detection electrode among the second detection electrodes moves away from the circuit board, and a difference between the resistance values of the second detection wires adjacent to each other increases as the corresponding second detection electrode moves away from the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gayeon Yun, Bongil Kang, Taejoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12211426
    Abstract: An image dis play method applied to a display apparatus includes: establishing a correspondence table between a threshold voltage of a sub-pixel and a compensation voltage, the correspondence table including at least one adjustment interval, an adjustment interval including a first and second threshold voltage endpoint values, the first threshold voltage endpoint value being less than the second threshold voltage endpoint value; acquiring a threshold voltage of each sub-pixel; determining an adjustment interval in which the acquired threshold voltage is located according to the corresponding table; acquiring a compensation voltage corresponding to the acquired threshold voltage according to the correspondence table and the determined adjustment interval; and determining, in a case where the display apparatus is to display a black image, a data voltage required by each sub-pixel according to the acquired threshold voltage and the acquired compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huihui Li, Wenchao Bao, Song Meng, Jingbo Xu
  • Patent number: 12210701
    Abstract: A method for configuring a touch sensor system is provided. The method may be performed automatically by a controller of the system. The system comprises a touch panel operatively coupled to the controller, where the touch panel comprises a plurality of transmit electrodes and a plurality of receive electrodes. The method comprises selectively and individually driving, by the controller, at least one of the transmit electrodes. For each driven transmit electrode, signal outputs from one or more of the receive electrodes are received while the transmit electrode is driven. One or more characteristics of the touch panel is determined as a function of the signal outputs from the receive electrodes. At least one operation setting of the controller is configured based on the one or more characteristics. The one or more characteristics of the touch panel may include a number of transmit electrodes and a number of receive electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: 1004335 ONTARIO INC.
    Inventors: Robert Donald McCulloch, Albert M. David, Guy Michael Amyon Farquharson Duxbury
  • Patent number: 12204710
    Abstract: A novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A semiconductor device is provided. The present inventors have reached an idea of a structure including a plurality of conductive films configured to be capacitively coupled to an approaching object, a driver circuit that selects a conductive film from a plurality of conductive films in a predetermined order, and a sensor circuit having a function of supplying a search signal and a sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12204747
    Abstract: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, Scott M. Herz, Wayne C. Westerman, Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie
  • Patent number: 12197652
    Abstract: A control device includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a reception unit configured to be capable of receiving an input operation by an operation device that is a wearable-type device and an input operation by hand tracking; and a determination unit configured to determine which of the input operation by the operation device and the input operation by the hand tracking is employed as an input operation used to control an information processing system on a basis of priorities set in advance when simultaneously receiving the input operation by the operation device and the input operation by the hand tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Rui Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 12182357
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes a panel and a control circuit. The panel includes an insulating layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The control circuit including a first circuit including a timing control circuit and a first amplifier, and a second circuit including a detection circuit connected to a ground line. During a first sensing drive period, the first output unit outputs a first synchronization signal, the timing control circuit outputs a second synchronization signal, the first amplifier provides the amplified second synchronization signal to each of the floating ground line and the first electrode, and the detector reads a change in a sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Takada, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kisho Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12181922
    Abstract: A digitizer includes a base member including a front surface and a rear surface opposing the front surface, first sensing lines disposed on the base member, arranged in a second direction, and extending in a first direction crossing the first direction, and second sensing lines disposed on the base member, spaced apart from the first sensing lines, arranged in the first direction, and extending in the second direction. The base member is foldable about an imaginary folding axis extending in the second direction and is provided with a through-hole penetrating at least a portion of the base member. The through-hole is surrounded by the first sensing lines and the second sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 12175047
    Abstract: A capacitive touchpad is provided, which includes a substrate module, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) dies. The plurality of sensing electrodes and the plurality of driving electrodes form a touch sensing region of the capacitive touchpad, and the touch sensing region is divided into a plurality of sensing units having same areas. Each of the LED dies is arranged in two adjacent ones of the plurality of sensing units, and a position of each of the LED dies corresponds to one of the plurality of driving electrodes, and the LED dies are electrically isolated from the plurality of sensing electrodes and the plurality of driving electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Che-Chia Hsu, Chi-Chieh Liao, Yu-Han Chen
  • Patent number: 12170289
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel component including scan lines, data lines, and pixels electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines, and defining pixel columns and pixel rows, a data driver disposed on a side of the pixel component, and a scan driver disposed on the side of the pixel component. The pixel component includes sub-scan lines, and dummy lines. Each scan line may be electrically connected to the sub-scan lines by contacts. The contacts are divided into contact groups having a same arrangement. The pixel component is divided into pixel blocks corresponding to the contact groups. Each pixel block includes first and second area divided by contact group. The first area is closer to the scan driver than the second area. The pixel component further includes supplementary power lines spaced apart from the respective sub-scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Yeong Park, Kyung Bae Kim, Jong Woong Chang
  • Patent number: 12153751
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel, an input sensor that is disposed on the display panel and that includes a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode that crosses the first sensing electrode, and an optical sensor disposed on the input sensor. The optical sensor includes a photo-electrode disposed on one of the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode and a light receiving element that electrically connects one of the first sensing electrode to the second sensing electrode and the photo-electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjee Jeon, Sanghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12153744
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical pen housing having an opening on a pen tip side and having a hollow portion inside, and an electronic pen main body having a cylindrical main body housing to be housed in the hollow portion of the pen housing. An axial member is installed on one end side of the main body housing, while another end side of the main body housing is locked in the pen housing. A projection portion projecting in a direction crossing the axial direction is formed on an outer circumference portion of the main body housing at a predetermined position in the axial direction. A stopper portion to be engaged with the projection portion in a state in which a tip end side of the axial member is exposed outside from the opening is formed on an inner wall surface of the hollow portion of the pen housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 12141338
    Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual taste generator comprising: a virtual taste interface including: a housing having taste generation channels orthogonally extending through the housing from a top surface to a bottom surface; conductive tastable gels accommodated in the plurality taste generation channels respectively; each having a top end exposed on the top surface of the housing and a bottom end exposed on the bottom surface of the housing; a control system including: switches respectively connected to conductive tastable gels and configured for conducting or blocking electrical currents flowing through the conductive tastable gels respectively; and a controller connected to the switches and configured to generate electrical signals for turning on or off the switches respectively; and wherein each conductive tastable gel is embedded with one or more tastable ion electrophoresis tastable chemical agent and controllably to produce a specific taste through ion electrophoresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Xinge Yu, Yiming Liu, Wooyoung Park
  • Patent number: 12142196
    Abstract: A flicker reduction device of a display apparatus can include a frame memory configured to store image data of an input frame synchronized with an input frame frequency, a first circuit configured to output a first control signal when a plurality of fixed active periods based on a reference frame frequency are allocated within each input frame time corresponding to the input frame frequency and output a second control signal when only one fixed active period is allocated within each input frame time, and a second circuit configured to copy the image data of the input frame according to the first control signal and output image data of a plurality of input frames according to the reference frame frequency. The second circuit outputs the image data of the input frame according to the reference frame frequency without copying according to the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Jun You, Tae Gung Kim