Patents Examined by Mihir K Rayan
  • Patent number: 12290736
    Abstract: An input assembly is for an exercise machine. The input assembly has a housing having a keypad window, an insert in the housing, and a keypad in the keypad window, the keypad being sandwiched between the housing and the insert such that a seal is formed there between, the seal being configured to prevent ingress of liquid to the housing via the keypad window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Life Fitness, LLC
    Inventor: Warren A. Rickert
  • Patent number: 12282596
    Abstract: A head-mounted device having a plurality of electrodes configured to detect optical events such as the movement of one or more eyes or coarse eye gestures is disclosed. In some examples, the one or more electrodes can be coupled to dielectric elastomer materials whose shape can be changed to vary contact between a user of the head-mounted device and the one or more electrodes to ensure sufficient contact and electrode signal quality. In some examples, the one or more electrodes can be coupled to pressure sensors and control circuitry to monitor and adjust the applied pressure. In some examples, the optical events can be used as triggers for operating the device, including transitioning between operational power modes. In some examples, the triggers can invoke higher resolution sensing capabilities of the head-mounted device. In some examples, the electrodes can be used as an on-head detector to wake-up and/or unlock the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erdrin Azemi, Ali Moin, Christoph H. Krah, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Kaan Emre Dogrusoz, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
  • Patent number: 12272414
    Abstract: A shift register includes a first scan unit, a leakage prevention unit, and a leakage prevention input unit. The first scan unit includes a first input circuit configured to transmit an input signal to a first pull-up node. The leakage prevention input unit is configured to: transmit a first voltage signal to a leakage prevention input node; and transmit a second voltage signal to the leakage prevention input node. The first voltage signal and the second voltage signal are different. The leakage prevention unit is configured to transmit one of the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal from the leakage prevention input node to a first leakage prevention node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 12260146
    Abstract: Provided is a wearable device that includes: a first display provided on a first surface of the wearable device configured to face a face of a user wearing the wearable device, and a second display provided on a second surface of the wearable device configured to face an external environment of the wearable device when the wearable device is worn by the user. The wearable device may be configured to display a first execution screen of a first application on the first display, while the wearable device is worn by the user, determine a display type for information to be displayed on the second display, while displaying the first execution screen on the first display, and display information related to the first execution screen on the second display based on the display type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungoh Kim, Choelmin Park, Jaeyung Yeo, Chungwan Hong
  • Patent number: 12243475
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes an input interface, a display panel, at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to identify an object included in an image corresponding to the image signal, adjust a dimming value of an area of the display panel corresponding to the object so that a brightness of the object is increased, and control the display panel to display the image based on the adjusted dimming value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwasun Lee, Doyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 12242675
    Abstract: A multi-way input device includes a strain-generating element, strain detection elements, and a tilt operation unit including an operation shaft configured to tilt. The strain-generating element includes a base portion, detection arms extending in respective directions from the base portion, support legs, and locking arms each of which is provided to extend from the base portion, each of the locking arms having an upper surface and being situated between adjacent detection arms among the detection arms. The upper surface of each of the locking arms contacts a lower surface of the tilt operation unit, and each of the detection arms does not contact the lower surface of the tilt operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunio Hosono, Yasuji Hagiwara, Tetsuo Muranaka, Sadayuki Yaginuma
  • Patent number: 12242700
    Abstract: A touch structure includes: a first conductive layer, an insulating layer and a second conductive layer that are sequentially stacked. The second conductive layer includes touch electrodes and touch lines. The touch structure includes: a first connection line and two second connection lines that are located in the second conductive layer, and a connection pattern located in the first conductive layer. The two second connection lines are arranged at two sides of the first connection line, respectively. The connection pattern crosses the first connection line, and passes through the insulating layer to be connected to the two second connection lines. For a portion of the connection pattern located between the first connection line and a second connection line, a length of a contour from the first connection line to the second connection line is greater than a distance between the first connection line and the second connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Luo, Shun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuanqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12236870
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel circuit including a drive sub-circuit, a writing sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, a coupling sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, and a light emitting element, wherein the drive sub-circuit is configured to provide a drive current to the light emitting element under control of signals of a first node and a second node; the writing sub-circuit is configured to write a signal of a data signal terminal to the second node under control of a signal of a scan signal terminal; the coupling sub-circuit is configured to raise the voltage of the first node through a coupling action; the reset sub-circuit is configured to reset an anode terminal of the light emitting element under control of a signal of the scan signal terminal and reset a control terminal of the drive sub-circuit under control of a signal of a reset control signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ziyang Yu, Zhiliang Jiang, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 12229380
    Abstract: A detector is shown for detecting manually applied pressure. A substrate defines a position of activation and electrodes are mounted on this substrate. A processing device is energized such that the electrodes are configured to identify a position of applied pressure by detecting a change in resistance in response to a first energizing signal received from the processing device. Furthermore, the electrodes are configured to confirm this position of applied pressure by detecting a change in capacitance in response to a second energizing signal received from the processing device. The electrodes comprise a first electrode located on an upper surface which detects the change in capacitance, and second and third electrodes which detect the change in resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Peratech IP Ltd
    Inventor: Carl Olof Fredrik Jonsson
  • Patent number: 12230182
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, a display substrate, and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub circuit, a data writing sub circuit, a first light-emitting control sub circuit, a first reset sub circuit, and a bias sub circuit; the first reset sub circuit is connected to a first node and configured to write a first reset voltage to the first node in response to a first reset control signal; and the bias sub circuit is connected to a second node and configured to write a reference voltage to the second node in response to a bias control signal, thereby turning on the driving sub circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinyu Wei, Kai Zhang, Qiang Fu, Gang Wang, Erlong Song, Hongmei Fan, Kunyan Shi
  • Patent number: 12226771
    Abstract: A driving circuit, a driving method and a microfluidic substrate are provided. The driving circuit includes a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a reset unit, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. In a first stage of a driving process of the driving circuit, the first switching unit is turned on, a first voltage signal is transmitted to a first node, the second switching unit is turned on, a second voltage signal is input to an output terminal of the driving circuit, and the driving circuit outputs an AC signal. In a second stage of the driving process, the first switching unit is turned off, the valid signal output by the second scan signal terminal controls the reset unit to be turned on, a third voltage signal is input to the output terminal of the driving circuit for reset, and the driving circuit outputs a DC signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaidi Zhang, Baiquan Lin, Wei Li, Yunfei Bai, Kerui Xi, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 12222511
    Abstract: A conventional head-mounted display (HMDs) can display a virtual image at a fixed focus (e.g., infinite focus). If the user looks at an object that appears closer than the virtual image, then accommodation by the user's eyes will cause the virtual image to appear blurry. The HMDs disclosed herein include a dynamic electro-active focusing element that changes the focus of the virtual image to account for accommodation by the user. This dynamic electro-active focusing element may include a curved layer of electro-active material, such as nematic or bi-stable (e.g., cholesteric) liquid crystal, disposed between a static concave mirror and a convex surface on a beam splitter or other optical element. Changing the refractive index of the electro-active material causes the focus of the dynamic electro-active focusing element, making it possible to shift the virtual image's focus in as the user's eyes change focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Van Heugten
  • Patent number: 12216815
    Abstract: A computing system may receive sensor data from one or more sensors coupled to a user. Based on sensor data, the computing system may generate an upper body pose that corresponds to a first portion of a body of the user, which comprises a head and an arm of the user. The computing system may determine contextual information associated with the user. The computing system may generate a lower body pose corresponding to a second portion of the body of the user comprising a leg of the user based on the upper body pose and the contextual information. The computing system may generate a full body pose of the user based on the first upper body pose and the lower body pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux, Samuel Alan Johnson, Carsten Sebastian Stoll, Kishore Venkateshan
  • Patent number: 12216876
    Abstract: A touch structure includes a plurality of electrode plates, the plurality of electrode plates are located on a same virtual reference plane, and each electrode plate has a sensing surface. A minimum enclosed pattern region where a whole of the plurality of electrode plates is located is a touch region. The plurality of electrode plates include a plurality of first electrode plates, each first electrode plate has a designated edge, the designated edge constitutes a part of a boundary of the touch region, and at least one designated edge is arc-shaped. An area of a sensing surface of each first electrode plate is in a range of 10 mm2 to 35 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Siyu Wang, Tianci Chen, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12198625
    Abstract: The present inventive concept provides a display device including a pixel unit which includes pixels, a sensing unit connected to the pixels through sensing lines, a first power voltage generator connected to the pixels through a first power line and generating a first power voltage for driving the pixels, a second power voltage generator connected to the pixels through the first power line and generating a second power voltage for sensing the pixels, and a timing controller selectively controlling operations of the first power voltage generator and the second power voltage generator according to a driving method of the pixel unit, and a method driving the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Lee, Dae Sik Lee, Keun Oh Kang, Si Duk Sung, Song Yi Han
  • Patent number: 12190824
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a capacitor connected between a first gate of a pull-down transistor and a control node, and a control transistor connected between the control node and a ground terminal and having a gate connected to the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp
    Inventors: Kyungho Kim, Keechan Park, Yikyoung You, Sangyong No, Gichang Lee, Nokyung Park, Sunkwun Son, Donghee Shin
  • Patent number: 12190775
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, a display substrate, and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub circuit, a data writing sub circuit, a first light-emitting control sub circuit, a first reset sub circuit, and a bias sub circuit; the first reset sub circuit is connected to a first node and configured to write a first reset voltage to the first node in response to a first reset control signal; and the bias sub circuit is connected to a second node and configured to write a reference voltage to the second node in response to a bias control signal, thereby turning on the driving sub circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinyu Wei, Kai Zhang, Qiang Fu, Gang Wang, Erlong Song, Hongmei Fan, Kunyan Shi
  • Patent number: 12190785
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a drive module and a first reset module. The data write module is configured to transmit a data signal in response to a scan signal of a first scan terminal. The drive module is configured to provide a drive current for the light-emitting element and includes a drive transistor. The drive transistor is configured to generate the drive current according to the data signal. The first reset module is connected between a first signal line and a gate of the drive transistor and configured to transmit a signal of the first signal line to the gate of the drive transistor. The data write module is connected between the first signal line and an input terminal of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Tianma Advanced Display Technology Institute (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingteng Zhai, Tianyi Wu, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 12183307
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be formed from liquid crystal display pixels, organic light-emitting diode pixels, or other pixels. The display may have an active area that is bordered along at least one edge by an inactive area. The active area contains pixels and displays images. The inactive area does not contain any pixels and does not display images. The inactive area may have a layer of black ink or other masking material to block internal components from view. The active area may have an opening that contains an isolated portion of the inactive area or may contain a recess into which a portion of the inactive area protrudes. An electrical component such as a speaker, camera, light-emitting diode, light sensor, or other electrical device may be mounted in the inactive area in the recess or opening of the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikael M. Silvanto, Dinesh C. Mathew, Victor H. Yin
  • Patent number: 12183257
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit and a control unit. The display panel includes a display scan line and a dummy scan line. The gate driving circuit includes a first output unit for providing a display scan signal to the display scan line, and a second output unit for providing a test scan signal to the dummy scan line. The control unit is electrically connected to the gate driving circuit for receiving the test scan signal, updating a driving voltage according to the test scan signal, and driving the gate driving circuit according to the updated driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Feng, Yu-Tse Lu, Jen-Chieh Hsieh, Yao-Lien Hsieh