Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 12710673
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel arrangement structure, a display panel and a display device. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel area including a plurality of first-category pixel groups, each of which is arranged according to a first arrangement manner; and a second pixel area including a plurality of second-category pixel groups, each of which is arranged according to a second arrangement manner; wherein the first pixel area is adjacent to the second pixel area, and the first pixel area has a pixel density lower than a pixel density of the second pixel area. Embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the optical signal reception of the under-screen functional elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenjing Tan
  • Patent number: 12710834
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular pen housing, a first position indication portion arranged on one end side of the pen housing in an axial direction, a second position indication portion arranged on another end side of the pen housing in the axial direction, and a knock cam mechanism portion driven by a load applied from the other end side in the axial direction. The electronic pen further includes an elastic member for the knock cam mechanism portion to push in and out a front end side of the first position indication portion from an opening of the pen housing when a pressure larger than a pressure applied to the front end side, located on the other end side in the axial direction, of the second position indication portion during use of the second position indication portion is applied to the other end side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12704924
    Abstract: Methods for automatic calibration of a braille interface. In embodiments, a user begins typing braille characters in 2×3 matrix into an interface without an initial calibration step. The implementing system detects the patterns of the keystrokes and determines the orientation and placement of the user's hands by comparing the keystrokes against known braille characters, identifying which row and column of the 2×3 matrix within which each finger is positioned. The interface is then calibrated based on the identified positions of the fingers within the 2×3 matrix. For touch interfaces, the surface area of each finger may also be used to enhance identification of fingers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tarakesava Reddy Koki, Venkata Mahesh Gunnam, Phani Alaparthi, Venkataramana Kotakonda
  • Patent number: 12705011
    Abstract: A digital display device including digital signal processing (DSP) hardware controller executing machine readable code instructions of a digital display device augmented mirror system comprising a display panel and an onboard camera. The DSP hardware controller detects absence of an incoming video data signal from an operatively coupled information handling system and receives user selection of an auxiliary mirror mode at the digital display device to display an on screen display (OSD) graphical user interface (GUI) for selection of user modes and to activate the onboard camera and display panel. The onboard camera captures a user image and provides it to the DSP hardware controller to render the user image for display on the display panel. The DSP hardware controller automatically switches to display images pursuant to the incoming video data signal when detected and received from the operatively coupled information handling system and ceases display of the user image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Francis Joseppee Pascual, Loo Shing Tan, Lei Guo
  • Patent number: 12704914
    Abstract: A position indicating device includes a housing in which an electronic pen including a pen tip is mountable, a force sense generator configured to generate a force sense, and a processor configured to control the force sense generator to generate the force sense when, with the electronic pen mounted in the housing, a distance between a position of the pen tip of the electronic pen in a virtual reality space and an object in the virtual reality space is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ide, Hiroshi Tamano
  • Patent number: 12704927
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a touch driver configured to generate a plurality of signals, and a plurality of channels configured to generate the plurality of signals, the plurality of channels including a driving channel configured to transmit a driving signal having a fundamental frequency, a first cancellation channel configured to transmit a first cancellation signal having the fundamental frequency and having an inverse phase of the driving signal, and a second cancellation channel configured to transmit a second cancellation signal having an harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency and having an inverse phase of an harmonic frequency of the driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungrok Lee, Il Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 12700352
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel including a display area including a first pixel area and a second pixel area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, an optical sensor disposed to overlap the second pixel area, a plurality of infrared (IR) light sources disposed in the display area, and a driving circuit configured to drive the pixels and the IR light sources, wherein the pixels and the IR light sources alternately emit light to improve the amount of light received from the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guen Sik Lee, Tae Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 12699418
    Abstract: A display device includes a panel assembly including a display panel including a first unfolding area, a second unfolding area, and a folding area between the first unfolding area and the second unfolding area, and a plate under the display panel and including a slit pattern on the folding area, and a middle plate under the plate, wherein the middle plate includes a first middle plate portion on the first unfolding area, a second middle plate portion on the second unfolding area, and a vertical middle plate portion on the folding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youngbin Lee
  • Patent number: 12699482
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a touch sensitive display and an electrode electrically isolated from the touch sensitive display. The electrode can be configured to receive a first signal associated with performing a first function of the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device can include a controller in electrical communication with the touch sensitive display and the electrode. The controller can be configured to perform a second function via the electrode, the second function including driving a second signal to the electrode when the electrode and the touch sensitive display are touched simultaneously. The second signal can have a characteristic distinguishable from naturally occurring capacitive noise detected by the touch sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Tyler S. Atura Bushnell
  • Patent number: 12699417
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a device, including: a display including a stand including electrical connections; and a base including a memory device, a processor, and a power source; wherein the base is electrically couplable to the display via at least the electrical connections. Other aspects are claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Cyan Godfrey
  • Patent number: 12701789
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area, the peripheral area includes a first frame area and a second frame area that are arranged opposite to each other, and the display area is located between the first frame area and the second frame area; the display substrate further includes: a plurality of first power branch lines, at least part of the first power branch lines are located in the display area; a first power bus, the first power bus includes a first sub-power line, the first sub-power line is located in the first frame area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Han, Pan Xu, Xing Zhang, Chengyuan Luo, Donghui Zhao, Guangshuang Lv, Cheng Xu, Yuxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12687894
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first housing for disposing a display screen, and a second housing for disposing a system circuit board, wherein a first side of the second housing is directly connected to a first side of the first housing through a rotating pivot; wherein an antenna circuit board is disposed on a second side of the first housing relative to the rotating pivot, the antenna circuit board has a radiating portion and a first grounding portion, and the radiating portion includes an antenna segment; wherein a second side of the second housing relative to the rotating pivot has a conductor layer, and the conductor layer has a coupling portion and a second grounding portion; when the electronic device is in the tablet mode, the conductor layer overlaps the antenna circuit board. In this way, the impedance mismatch and frequency offset of the antenna in tablet mode are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Cheng Yu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12681591
    Abstract: Provided is a pen state detection circuit for detecting a state of an electronic pen based on a signal distribution detected by a touch sensor including a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged in a plane shape, the electronic pen including at least one electrode, the pen state detection circuit, in operation, acquires, from the touch sensor, a first signal distribution and a second signal distribution, generates a two-dimensional signal distribution by synthesizing the first signal distribution and second signal distribution, or generates a two-dimensional feature distribution by synthesizing a first feature distribution relating to a shape of the first signal distribution and a second feature distribution relating to a shape of the second signal distribution, and estimate a position indicated by the electronic pen or a posture of the electronic pen from the two-dimensional signal distribution or two-dimensional feature distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Maeyama
  • Patent number: 12681587
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes initiating a virtual assistant session responsive to receiving user input. In accordance with initiating the virtual assistant session, the process includes determining, based on data obtained using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied prior to a first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session prior to the first time. The first time is defined by a setting of the electronic device. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are not satisfied prior to the first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session at the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Musa M. Hindi, Rohit Dasari, Trungtin Tran
  • Patent number: 12682796
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring light emissions in electronic devices. The disclosed techniques herein provide for determining a display duration of display devices for a user. Light emission profiles for each of the display devices are determined. A cumulative emissions exposure is determined that is based on the light emission profiles for the display devices and the display duration of the display devices for the user. A determination is made whether the cumulative emissions exposure exceeds a light emission exposure limit set for the user. In a positive determination, an instruction is transmitted to the display devices for execution of a remedial action based on predefined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Pande, Madhusudhan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 12675174
    Abstract: This application relates to the stylus field, provides a stylus and an electronic device assembly. The stylus includes a main circuit board, a pressure sensing module, and a first flexible printed circuit. The main circuit board includes a pressure sensing chip; the pressure sensing module includes a pressure strain collection element; one end of the first flexible printed circuit is electrically connected to the pressure strain collection element, and the other end of the first flexible printed circuit is electrically connected to the main circuit board for communication between the pressure sensing chip and the pressure strain collection element. The stylus may be further configured to transmit a first coded signal and a second coded signal. The second coded signal of a coding chip is transmitted by using a second flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Tengfei Leng
  • Patent number: 12675198
    Abstract: An input device includes a detection electrode, a drive electrode facing the detection electrode, a power supply that applies an alternating current drive voltage to the drive electrode, a detector that detects an output of the detection electrode, and a capacitor disposed in series between the drive electrode and the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Umemura
  • Patent number: 12676112
    Abstract: A display substrate includes: a base substrate; pixel units; and a first scanning signal line, a data line, and a sensing signal line on the base substrate. The first scanning signal line includes first sub scanning signal lines; two adjacent first sub scanning signal lines are spaced in a first region; the sensing signal line and the data line extend in the second direction; orthographic projections of the sensing signal line and the data line on the base substrate do not overlap an orthographic projection of the first sub scanning signal lines on the base substrate, and extend through an orthographic projection of the first region on the base substrate. The first sub scanning signal line and the first gate are spaced in the second direction, and the fourth sub scanning signal line and the third gate are spaced in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Wang, Tongshang Su, Jun Wang, Yongchao Huang, Jun Cheng
  • Patent number: 12669879
    Abstract: A stylus detecting system includes a sense array including N number of first lines and M number of second lines crossing the N number of first lines; and a touch controller connected to the sense array and configured to: (i) in a touch object detecting mode, drive the N number of first lines as transmission (TX) lines with a finger sensing TX signal and measure reception (RX) signals on the M number of second lines as RX lines, and (ii) in a stylus detecting mode, measure a stylus TX signal transmitted by a stylus, on both the N number of first lines and the M number of second lines, using # number of multiple RX channels (#RX channels) to sense more than one line of the N number of first lines and the M number of second lines at the same time, such that a stylus scanning time is reduced as compared to using a single RX channel to scan all lines, thereby completing a stylus scan in fewer total scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Viktor Kremin, Andriy Ryshtun, David G. Wright
  • Patent number: 12658082
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to display devices and driving methods thereof. A display device includes a display panel including a sub-pixel arranged thereon and configured to display an image, a power controller configured to supply a reference voltage to the sub-pixel, a sensing circuit configured to sense a voltage of the sub-pixel during a blank time within a frame during the display driving of the image, and a timing controller configured to detect a defect of the display panel based on the voltage sensed during the display driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojoon Park, Mookyiung Hong