Patents Examined by Liliana Cerullo
  • Patent number: 11009984
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes scanning signal lines including a first scanning signal line; pixel signal lines including a first pixel signal line; switch elements including a first switch being electrically coupled to the first scanning signal line and the pixel signal line; pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode being electrically coupled to the first switch element; drive electrodes including a first drive electrode opposed to the first pixel electrode; a driver configured to drive the scanning signal lines, the pixel signal lines, and the drive electrodes; and a controller configured to control the driver in a frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11003268
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer, first sensing electrodes arranged on the base layer along a first direction, second sensing electrodes arranged on the base layer along a second direction, first compensation electrodes on the first sensing electrodes, and second compensation electrodes on the second sensing electrodes. The first compensation electrodes entirely cover each of the first sensing electrodes in a plan view, and the second compensation entirely cover each of the second sensing electrodes in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Min Hyuk Park, Jae Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11003145
    Abstract: There is provided an information display device making it possible to improve the reliability of a display against an external force. The information display device includes a case portion for displaying time information in a predetermined operation mode, and a band portion to be worn on an arm, and includes one piece of thin display inside the case portion and the band portion. Inside the band portion, the thin display, a metal sheet, and a resin sheet are laminated. The present technology can be applied to an information display device, etc., for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Mitsugi, Kenji Itoh, Seigo Yoneda, Masatomo Shimoyama, Masaki Miyamoto, Tomokazu Takase, Yoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 10991330
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic device display circuitry and methods of operating the display. The display circuitry includes gate-in-panel (GIP) drivers for each pixel row of a pixel array, and mode selection circuitry coupled between two of the GIP drivers. The mode selection circuitry receives a select signal to switch the display between a full-screen mode of operation and a split-screen mode of operation. The mode selection circuitry allows the pixel rows to be operated in a butterfly driving mode that facilitates reduction of optical artifacts when displaying augmented-reality or virtual-reality content with a multi-function display such as a display of a smartphone or a tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Hopil Bae, Chaohao Wang, Yue Chu, Anshi Liang, Ming Xu, Xiaokai Li, Yang Xu
  • Patent number: 10984757
    Abstract: To improve the display quality of a display device. To provide a method of correcting image data input to the display device. To provide a novel image correction method or an image correction system. Machine learning for a neural network correcting image data input to the display device is performed by the following method: second image data based on an image that is displayed on the display device by input of first image data to the display device is obtained; third image data is generated by obtaining a difference between the first image data and the second image data; fourth image data is generated by adding the first image data and the third image data; and a weight coefficient is updated so that output data obtained by input of the first image data to the neural network is close to the fourth image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10978003
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels. The substrate has a first pixel area, a second pixel area, and a third pixel area. The first pixels are in the first pixel area and are connected to first scan lines and first emission control lines. The second pixels are in the second pixel area and are connected to second scan lines and second emission control lines. The third pixels are in the third pixel area and are connected to third scan lines and third emission control lines. The second scan lines are spaced apart from the third scan lines, and the second emission control lines are spaced apart from the third emission control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Seung Kyu Lee, Sun Ja Kwon, Tae Hoon Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Hyun Ae Park, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 10976823
    Abstract: An electronic device having a display screen that displays a user interface including at least one object, comprising: a display mechanism that displays the user interface; a coordinate detection mechanism that detects coordinates of a user touch point on the display screen; a first feedback presentation mechanism that presents tactile feedback at a prescribed point to make the user perceive the presence of an object; a measurement mechanism that measures a force generated by the user pressing the display screen; and a second feedback presentation mechanism that detects an operation trigger based on the force and generates mechanical vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD., Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiping Yang, Hiroshi Haga, Harue Sasaki, Daisuke Sugimoto, Takuya Asai, Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 10964266
    Abstract: A drive voltage supply circuit, a display panel, and a display device are provided. By supplying a drive voltage lower than a drive voltage for display driving in a period in which sensing deterioration of an organic light emitting diode disposed in each sub pixel, an operating voltage of the organic light emitting diode is kept constant and a degree of deterioration of the organic light emitting diode can be accurately sensed. By discharging the drive voltage supplied to the display panel and controlling a current flowing in the process of discharge before supplying the drive voltage for deterioration sensing, drive voltages of different levels can be stably supplied in a display driving period and a deterioration sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juseok Lee
  • Patent number: 10963671
    Abstract: In one aspect, a fingerprint sensor device includes a touch panel with an integrated touch sensor module. The integrated touch sensor module includes sensing circuitry to generate a sensor signal responsive to detecting a contact input associated with a fingerprint. The sensing circuitry includes a fingerprint sensor to detect the contact input and generate a signal indicative of an image of the fingerprint, and a biometric sensor to generate a signal indicative of a biometric marker different form the fingerprint. The generated sensor signal includes the signal indicative of the image of the fingerprint and the signal indicative of the biometric marker different from the fingerprint. The sensing circuitry includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the sensing circuitry to process the generated sensor signal to determine whether the contact input associated with the fingerprint belongs to a live finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Pi, Yi He
  • Patent number: 10957252
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor connected to a first source/drain of the first transistor, a circuit element connected to a gate of the first transistor and ground and configured to receive a select input and maintain the select input less than or equal to a potential of the ground, and a resistive element connected to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a first source/drain of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • Patent number: 10955918
    Abstract: A brain computer interface system includes a retainer and cap assembly for transmitting light to a user's head region and transmitting optical signals from the user's head region to a detector subsystem. The retainer is configured to secure the cap assembly to a head region of a user. The cap assembly includes an array of ports that retain an array of ferrules. A first ferrule in the array of ferrules can include a channel that extends at least partially through the body of the ferrule. The channel retains a fiber optic cable such that the fiber optic cable is in communication with a head region of a user during a mode of operation. The cap includes an elastic portion such that in a mode of operation, the cap and array of ferrules are biased towards the head region of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Wettersten, John Michael Sundberg
  • Patent number: 10949017
    Abstract: A projected capacitive to surface capacitive interface comprises a projected capacitive touch controller connected to a projected capacitive touch sensor either with a chip on flex circuit or with a discrete chip on board controller, a connector wire, which coordinates the interface between the projected capacitive touch controller and an emulation board, a surface capacitive touch controller and a connector connecting the surface capacitive touch controller to a host computer. The interface communicates with the microcontroller that converts a calculated touch position to resistance values that are then sent to the surface capacitive touch controller as if the resistance values were measured values at four corners of a touch screen. The surface capacitive controller then is able to recalculate the calculated touch position using these resistance values and sends/reports a final touch position to the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TES America, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene L Halsey, IV, Steven Mainville
  • Patent number: 10928636
    Abstract: A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system comprises a processor, a power source, and one or more sensors coupled to a frame connector. The processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more sensors and output image data. A display is mounted on a display arm extending from the frame connector. The display is configured to display images based on the image data. A goggles frame is configured to releasably receive the frame connector. The display is located within a field of view of a user wearing the goggles frame when the frame connector is received by the goggles frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Adam Capelin, Xichi Zheng, Braden Fraser Hall
  • Patent number: 10921888
    Abstract: The system and methods described herein determine a subject's indication of attention to a first and a second sensory stimuli. The system determines a sensory evoked response of the subject by calculating the statistical relationship between the subject's neural response to the stimuli and a signal feature of the first and the second sensory stimuli. A magnitude value of the sensory evoked response is extracted to determine whether the subject attended-to or ignored the sensory stimuli. The system will select the stimuli that elicited the greater indication of attention, and then trigger further processing by a computer. Such processing can include selecting future content for improving safety warnings, educational materials, or advertisements or further processing can include controlling and navigating a brain computer user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Nicholas Schiff, Chananel Braiman, Chagit Reichenbach
  • Patent number: 10923073
    Abstract: In a display control apparatus, a cooperation unit capable of detaching from a meter device is prepared, and a smartphone is connected to the cooperation unit. The display control apparatus responds to changes in specification of a smartphone by cooperation function of the cooperation unit. The cooperation unit reads a cooperation pattern number stored in a memory on a meter device, and grasp an output image size, a display position, presence and absence of blank image. The cooperation unit receives an image data on a screen of the smartphone, and transmits image data in which change of display size, position adjustment and so on is performed to the meter device. The cooperation unit accepts a user input operation on an operation input device, transmits it to the smartphone so as to enable remote operation during driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 10922516
    Abstract: A display device has a display area with a first area in which a fingerprint is recognized and a second area in which a fingerprint is not recognized, and a non-display area. A fingerprint sensing unit is disposed to overlap with the first area. A first pixel set is disposed to overlap with the first area, and a second pixel set is disposed to overlap with the second area, each set including a plurality of pixels. A first voltage signal is provided to the first pixel set as a variable frequency signal, and includes a first period during which the first voltage signal is a first frequency signal, a second period during which the first voltage signal is a second frequency signal having a lower frequency than the first frequency signal, and a third period during which the first voltage signal is the first frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeon Kyoo Kim, Jun Yong Song, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 10915164
    Abstract: An electromagnetic tracking system includes a hand held controller including an electromagnetic emitter configured to generate an electromagnetic field characterized by an electromagnetic field pattern and a first electromagnetic reflector positioned adjacent the electromagnetic emitter and configured to form a modified electromagnetic field pattern. The electromagnetic tracking system also includes a head mounted augmented reality display including an electromagnetic sensor configured to sense the electromagnetic field and a second electromagnetic reflector adjacent to sensor configured to optimally sense electromagnetic field pattern in a region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Richmond B. Chan
  • Patent number: 10901555
    Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device is able to determine the locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The optical touch-sensitive device can include an optical waveguide, an emitter, and an emitter coupler. The emitter produces optical beams, and the emitter coupler is on a surface of the waveguide and is configured to direct at least some of the optical beams to propagate via total internal reflection (TIR) through the waveguide as coupled optical beams. Touches on the top surface of the waveguide disturb the coupled optical beams, and the touch-sensitive device determines touch events based on the disturbances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Beechrock Limited
    Inventor: Owen Drumm
  • Patent number: 10890330
    Abstract: A knob assembly with a display that displays information such as power level and a timer time, and a cooking apparatus including a knob assembly are provided. The knob assembly may include a knob coupled to an adjustment shaft configured to adjust power level and a knob ring configured to surround a periphery of the knob, configured to be rotatable independent of the knob, and provided with a display. The display may be provided at the knob ring, and information may be displayed on the display so that a user may easily manipulate the knob assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yeonsik Ha, Seong Sik Cho
  • Patent number: 10891010
    Abstract: A touch display device including a substrate, a first touch electrode, a display layer and an insulating layer is provided. The substrate includes a first bending portion. The first touch electrode is disposed over the substrate. Over the first bending portion of the substrate, the display layer is disposed between the substrate and the first touch electrode, and the insulating layer is disposed between the display layer and the first touch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Jui-Jen Yueh, Hsiao-Lang Lin