Patents Examined by Liliana Cerullo
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12112001
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving touch inputs from a user corresponding to an activation trigger for an assistant system executing on a head-mounted device at the head-mounted device, accessing signals from inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors of the head-mounted device by the head-mounted device, determining that the user is either donning or doffing the head-mounted device by an on-device don/doff detection model and based only on the signals from the IMU sensors, and overriding the activation trigger to prevent an activation of the assistant system responsive to the received touch inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Rongzhou Shen, Amy Lawson Bearman, Shijun Sun, Qian Fang, Riza Kazemi
  • Patent number: 12112088
    Abstract: A multi-terminal screen combination method, device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining screen sizes of a reference terminal and a target terminal (S10); dividing, according to the screen dimensions, a picture to be displayed to generate display sub-pictures (S20); and displaying the display sub-picture corresponding to the reference terminal, and sending the other display sub-picture to the target terminal for display (S30). A function of combined display by means of a plurality of terminals is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL NEW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si Gao, Yunhua Wang
  • Patent number: 12093480
    Abstract: A lighting touchpad is provided, which includes a substrate module, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) chips mounted on the substrate module, and a controller. The driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes are formed on the substrate module. The driving electrodes define a distribution space that extends along a normal direction of the substrate module. The LED dies are arranged in the distribution space. The controller is electrically coupled to the sensing electrodes, the driving electrodes, and the LED dies through the substrate module. When a coupling capacity is generated between a conductor and at least one of the sensing electrodes, the controller is configured to drive at least one of the LED dies adjacent to the at least one of the sensing electrodes to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Chi-Chieh Liao
  • Patent number: 12093477
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of emission areas emitting light and a light blocking area at least partially surrounding the plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the light blocking area on the display panel to sense a touch, a wavelength absorption layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes to absorb light of a specific wavelength, a bridge electrode disposed on the wavelength absorption layer to connect adjacent touch electrodes among the plurality of touch electrodes to each other, and a code pattern having position information determined by a planar shape of the bridge electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Woo Shim, Won Sang Park, Gi Na Yoo, Seong Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 12086325
    Abstract: A screen wake-up method, which is applied to a wearable device. The method includes: when a screen of a wearable device is in a turned-off state, performing an illuminance monitoring operation on a set position of the wearable device to obtain illuminance data (S10); identifying a contact operation corresponding to the set position according to the illuminance data (S20); and when the contact operation satisfies the set contact condition corresponding to screen wake-up, controlling the screen to be switched to a turned-on state (S30). Further disclosed are a wearable device and a readable storage medium, which may improve the endurance capabilities of the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventor: Liangping Xiao
  • Patent number: 12079430
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel including a display region and a non-display region and an input sensing member disposed on the display panel. The input sensing member includes first sensing electrodes arranged in n rows along a first direction. Second sensing electrodes cross the first sensing electrodes and are arranged in m columns along a second direction. N and m are each a natural number greater than or equal to 2. First signal lines are respectively connected to the first sensing electrodes. Second signal lines are respectively connected to the second sensing electrodes. A guard electrode is disposed along a first row first sensing electrode among the first sensing electrodes or a first column second sensing electrode among the second sensing electrodes. A guard line is electrically connected to the guard electrode. The guard electrode is electrically insulated from the first and second sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinyoung Jeon
  • Patent number: 12062326
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a drive transistor, a storage module, a data writing module, a first initialization module, a second initialization module and a light-emitting element. The first initialization module is configured to initialize the gate of the drive transistor. The control terminal and the first terminal of the second initialization module are connected to a scan signal input terminal. The second initialization module is configured to initialize the light-emitting element. The data writing module is configured to write a data voltage into the gate of the drive transistor. The storage module is configured to store a gate voltage of the drive transistor. The drive transistor is configured to output a drive current according to the data voltage to drive the light-emitting element to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongjun Xie
  • Patent number: 12056303
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a cover base material opposed to the second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes overlapping a display region on a plane parallel with the first substrate; and a second electrode arranged at the cover base material and overlapping a frame region outside the display region. Proximity or contact of an object with respect to the frame region is detected based on capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The second electrode extends along a side of the frame region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 12045458
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch screen and a processor configured to: based on a touch input of a user being acquired through the touch screen, acquire an image corresponding to the acquired touch input of the user; identify a type of the acquired touch input of the user by inputting, to a neural network model for identifying the type of the touch input of the user, the acquired image, a first image corresponding to a first type touch input obtained by touching the touch screen with a pressure smaller than a preconfigured pressure, and a second image corresponding to a second type touch input obtained by touching the touch screen with a pressure greater than the preconfigured pressure; and perform a function based on the identified type of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongchan Kim, Jinyoung Hwang
  • Patent number: 12032781
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch device and an operation method thereof. A touch panel of the touch device is divided into a plurality of stylus connection areas. During a first discovery period, the stylus connection areas detect a stylus one by one in a first scan order. When the stylus is located in one of the stylus connection areas (a hit area), the first discovery period is ended to enter a normal period, and the hit area establishes a connection to the stylus. When the connection between the stylus and the touch panel is interrupted, the normal period is ended to enter a second discovery period, and the first scan order is adjusted to a second scan order according to the hit area in the normal period. During the second discovery period, the stylus connection areas detect the stylus one by one in the second scan order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Cheng Cheng, Ko Ho Lin, Shih-Chan Huang
  • Patent number: 12032797
    Abstract: An input sensing device includes an input sensing panel including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes, a driving signal generator that provides driving signals to the driving electrodes, respectively, and a sensing unit that receives sensing signals according to the driving signals from the sensing electrodes, and determines whether a touch is performed based on the sensing signals. Each of the driving signals includes a sinusoidal wave, and frequencies of at least some of the driving signals are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Choon Hyop Lee, Jang Hui Kim, Jae Won Kim, In Nam Lee
  • Patent number: 12026335
    Abstract: A touch display panel is provided, which includes a touch structure layer. The touch structure layer includes touch signal lines and touch electrodes. The touch electrodes include electrode lines. Each of the touch signal lines includes signal main lines and redundant signal lines disposed on one side of one row of first sub-pixels. Any one of the signal main lines and signal main lines adjacent to one side of the one of the signal main lines are spaced apart by at least two rows of the first sub-pixels, and the one of the signal main lines and signal main lines adjacent to another side of the one of the signal main lines are spaced apart by at least one row of the first sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liang Fang
  • Patent number: 12026345
    Abstract: A touch panel, sequentially comprising: a conductive layer, a dielectric layer; and at least one layer of touch electrodes, which comprises multiple first electrodes in parallel to a first axis and multiple second electrodes in parallel to a second axis, wherein the first and the second electrodes connects to a touch sensitive processing apparatus, respectively, wherein the touch sensitive processing apparatus detects an external object approaching or touching the touch panel via the first and the second electrodes, wherein the conductive layer is closer to the external object than the at least one layer of touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 12019819
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a front portion, a first side portion which extends from a first side of the front portion, a second side portion which extends from a second side of the front portion, and corner portion disposed between the first side portion and the second side portion. The display panel includes a first display area disposed in the front portion and including a plurality of first emission areas and a plurality of sensor electrodes, and a second display area disposed in the corner portion and including a plurality of second emission areas and a plurality of first sensor lines electrically connected to at least some of the sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye Jin Joo, Byeong Hee Won
  • Patent number: 12008200
    Abstract: A method for operating a touch sensing panel includes a touchscreen controller determining a first plurality of excitation signals in accordance with a first plurality of codes, wherein a sum of the first plurality of codes is a sequence of numbers having a same absolute value and signs alternating between adjacent numbers in the sequence of numbers. The method further includes the touchscreen controller transmitting each of the first plurality of excitation signals to a respective transmitting (TX) touch sensor of the touch sensing panel simultaneously during a first time frame. The method further includes the touchscreen controller determining touch strengths in accordance with a first plurality of output signals received by a plurality of receiving (RX) touch sensors of the touch sensing panel during the first time frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Kien Beng Tan