Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 12254810
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic displays and display components, specifically to a method of addressing more pixels with a smaller number of driver outputs while also allowing very narrow frames on three sides of a display. It further discloses a display driver integrated circuit capable of providing the signals required for the disclosed addressing method and display systems capable of being addressed by the disclosed method and display driver integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: New Vision Display, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthias T. Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 12249277
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an system on chip and a display device. The system on chip includes a shared storage unit, a micro-processing unit, a display calibration unit, and an image processing unit. In response to a calibration instruction, the display calibration unit obtain image sampling data in the shared storage unit to perform a compensation computation operation and generate optical compensation data. In response to a display instruction, the image processing unit obtains display configuration data and the optical compensation data in the shared storage unit to perform a picture compensation operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL NEW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Feng, Yikai Chen
  • Patent number: 12242680
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing and a pen configured to communicate with the apparatus, in which the apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a movement trace of the pen, a touch sensor unit that detects a contact position of the pen on a screen of the display unit, a display processing unit that displays, on the display unit, the movement trace of the pen based on the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, an image transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, image data displayed by the display unit and including the movement trace, and a position transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, and the pen includes a vibration generator that outputs vibration based on a vibration waveform signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Zhouxing Wu
  • Patent number: 12236572
    Abstract: An inspection system for inspecting a display device including pixels includes a camera for capturing the display device and providing a sensing image signal and an inspection device for receiving the sensing image signal and outputting a compensation signal for compensating for luminance of a defective pixel. The inspection device includes an image detector outputting a sensing input signal corresponding to the sensing image signal, a defect coordinate detector detecting the defective pixel based on the sensing input signal and outputting defect coordinates indicating a position of the defective pixel, an image analyzer analyzing consistency of the defect coordinates based on the sensing image signal and the sensing input signal and outputting final coordinates, and a defect compensation calculator outputting a compensation signal for adjusting luminance of compensation pixels adjacent to the defective pixel from among the pixels based on the final coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingyu Kim, Seyun Kim, Seungho Park, Hyungwoo Yim
  • Patent number: 12223130
    Abstract: A touch panel and a display apparatus. The touch panel has a touch region and a fingerprint identification region and includes a first metal mesh layer, a second metal mesh layer, and a dielectric layer. The first metal mesh layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the touch region and a plurality of fingerprint identification electrodes disposed in the fingerprint identification region. The second metal mesh layer includes a plurality of fingerprint lead wires. Each of the plurality of fingerprint lead wires is electrically connected to corresponding one of the plurality of fingerprint identification electrodes. The dielectric layer is disposed between the first metal mesh layer and the second metal mesh layer. The dielectric layer is provided with a plurality of contact holes via which the identification lead wires are electrically connected to the fingerprint identification electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haofeng Zhang, Rui Guo, Meng Zhang, Ching Tung Hsu
  • Patent number: 12216843
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a circuit board disposed such that an axial direction of a casing is aligned with a longitudinal direction of the circuit board, an electronic circuit on the circuit board, and a battery having a columnar shape disposed on a side of the circuit board opposite to a pen tip side of the circuit board inside a hollow portion of the casing such that positive and negative electrode conductors protruding from an end surface of the battery extend toward the circuit board. The battery is disposed such that a separation space is formed between the end surface and an end portion of the circuit board and such that tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are in contact with the circuit board. The circuit board and the tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are electrically connected to each other by soldered portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 12216846
    Abstract: Provided are a pen state detection circuit, a pen state detection system, and a pen state detection method that can improve estimation accuracy for a pen state in an electronic pen including at least one electrode. A pen state detection circuit acquires, from a touch sensor, a first signal distribution indicating a change in capacitance associated with approach of a first electrode and uses a machine learning estimator to estimate an instruction position or an inclination angle of an electronic pen from first feature values related to the first signal distribution. The first feature values include first local feature values related to a first local distribution corresponding to sensor electrodes in a number fewer than the number of arranged sensor electrodes exhibiting the first signal distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Maeyama, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 12217662
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a first region and a second region defined in the display panel, in which the second region is adjacent to the first region in a first direction. The display panel includes: a first pixel disposed in the first region, a second pixel disposed in the second region, a first bias voltage line electrically connected to the first pixel to transmit a first bias voltage, and a second bias voltage line electrically connected to the second pixel to transmit a second bias voltage. A time point, at which a level of the first bias voltage is changed, differs from a time point at which a level of the second bias voltage is changed, when the display panel operates at a first frame frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minseong Son, Sunjoon Hwang, Yunseong Kim, Boram Shin, Seung-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12211456
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on first and second color component input image data. The electronic display may include a first illuminator to generate a first light at a first brightness level, a second illuminator to generate a second light of a different color at a second brightness level, a first set of pixel locations to emit the first light based on a first set of pixel values, and a second set of pixel locations to emit the second light based on a second set of pixel values. The electronic device may also include pixel contrast control circuitry that determines the first brightness level and the first set of pixel values based on the first color component input image data and determines the second brightness level and the second set of pixel values based on the second color component input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P Tann, Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12210705
    Abstract: A touch device and an operation method for the touch device are provided. The touch device includes touch keys, controllers, and a processing circuit. The controllers group selected touch keys among the touch keys into at least one touch key group. Each of the at least one touch key group includes at least two selected touch keys. When the selected touch keys of a first touch key group among the at least one touch key group are simultaneously touched, the processing circuit sequentially provides touch driving signals to the first touch key group and receives touch sensing signal groups corresponding to the touch driving signals. When the touch sensing signal groups all indicate that the selected touch keys of the first touch key group are simultaneously touched, the processing circuit determines that the touch on the first touch key group is a valid touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Fu-Chiang Chuang
  • Patent number: 12204711
    Abstract: An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a touch panel of an input device including the touch panel, and supports user operation on the input device by being attached to the touch panel. The attachment includes one or more operation units that receive user operation and transmit the user operation to a corresponding position of the touch panel when attached to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12198617
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels having light-emitting elements; a timing control unit for variably changing the driving frame frequency of the display panel according to the input frame frequency of digital video data; and a data driving unit for outputting data voltages according to the digital video data, wherein the display panel operates at a first frame frequency for a first frame period and operates at a second frame frequency, which is lower than the first frame frequency, for a second frame period, the second frame period includes a data addressing period in which a data voltage corresponding to each of the pixels is applied to the pixels, and a blank period in which no data voltage is applied to each of the pixels, and the blank period includes a period of initializing a first electrode of a light-emitting element into an initialization voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hye Kim, Joon Chul Goh, Yu Chol Kim, Jin Wook Yang, Ja Kyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 12198614
    Abstract: A micro light-emitting diode display device having a resistive switching electrode to prevent a cross-talk phenomenon and a method for driving the same are provided. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the micro light-emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a light emitting unit formed on the substrate, and a resistive switching electrode formed on the light emitting unit, and configured to have a resistance changed depending on switching power. The resistive switching electrode includes a lower metal line formed on the light emitting unit, a nonconductor line formed on the lower metal line to cross the lower metal line and including an insulating material, and an upper metal line stacked on the nonconductor line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae Geun Kim, Kyung Rock Son, Jun Young Kim
  • Patent number: 12182347
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting the angle of passive rotary knob partially located on a touch screen are described. In embodiments the apparatus includes a touch screen having an array of sensors and a dial that includes a base and a knob attached to the base and rotatable relative to the base. The knob includes a plurality of conductive elements, each positioned a distance from a center point of the knob. A controller is also included, coupled to the touch screen, and configured to receive signals generated by one or more sensors of the array in response to the sensors detecting one or more of the conductive elements. The controller can determine a rotational angle of the knob based on the signals generated by the one or more of the sensors in the array while a portion of the knob does not overlap the array of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jens Weber, Taras Kuzo, Viktor Kremin
  • Patent number: 12170063
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display apparatus, and a driving method. The pixel circuit include: a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, a compensation circuit, a light emission control circuit, a first reset circuit, a second reset circuit, and a light-emitting element. The data writing circuit is for writing a data signal into the first terminal of the driving circuit based on a writing control signal; the first reset circuit is for applying a first reset voltage to the control terminal of the driving circuit based on a first reset control signal; and the second reset circuit is for applying a second reset voltage to a first electrode of the light-emitting element based on a second reset control signal. The writing control signal and the second reset control signal are synchronized in each write frame, and the writing control signal remains at an invalid level in each skip frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi, Weifeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 12164680
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that provide an emotional compass that reflects the emotional states of human beings, dynamics of the emotional states over time periods, emotional synchronization between humans and between humans and automated interactive systems, and the degree to which the emotional state of one human is influenced or affected by the emotional state of another human or by an automated interactive system. The emotional compass can be used for continuous or intermittent emotional orientation by both automated systems and human analysts. The emotional awareness provided by the emotional compass facilitates continuous or intermittent strategy selection for achieving various different types of emotion-related results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Affective Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Brayman, Yuriy Gulak, John Gottman, Rafael Lisitsa, Robert W. Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 12164721
    Abstract: A display panel and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of touch control electrodes spaced apart from each other and a plurality of touch control lead lines spaced apart from each other. The touch control electrodes include a plurality of touch control electrode columns. At least part of the touch control lead lines include a first line section and a second line section which extend along different directions. The first line section of the touch control lead lines overlaps the corresponding touch control electrodes, and the second line section at least overlaps the touch control electrodes, which are closest to the non-display area, of the corresponding touch control electrode columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liang Ma
  • Patent number: 12159010
    Abstract: A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with at least a portion of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC to determine characteristic(s) of the overlay that is associated with the at least a portion of the surface of the TSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Kevin Joseph Derichs, Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12153771
    Abstract: A touch controller includes a processing module operably coupled to a plurality of sensing circuits, the processing module is operable to receive a sense signal regarding an electrical characteristic of a sensor of a plurality of sensors. The processing module is further operable to determine the sense signal indicates the electrical characteristic is affected by an identifying signal emitted by a finger. The processing module is further operable to determine a coordinate location of the sensor. The processing module is further operable to generate a proximal touch signal that includes the coordinate location of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Derichs, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12154637
    Abstract: A stage circuit includes an input unit connected to a first input terminal receiving a gate start pulse or a previous stage carry signal to control a voltage of a first node, a first output unit connected to a fourth input terminal to which a clock signal is input and supplying a scan signal to a first output terminal corresponding to a voltage of the first node and a second node, a second output unit connected to a third input terminal to which a second carry clock signal is input and supplying a carry signal to a second output terminal corresponding to the voltage of the first node and the second node, a first control unit connected to a first power input terminal to which first power is input and controlling a voltage of a third node, and a second control unit connected to a second power input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il Hun Jeong, Hai Jung In, Hye Sung Kim