Patents Examined by Nicholas J Lee
  • Patent number: 11079864
    Abstract: Touch-based input devices, such as a stylus, can receive tactile input from a user. The tactile input functions can be performed by a touch sensor, such as a capacitive sensing device. A touch sensor can be integrated into a stylus in a low profile form. Wireless charging and magnetic coupling with a host device are also facilitated. The stylus can be provided with the above features in a small form factor that improves a user experience with the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joel N. Ruscher, Ryan P. Brooks, Henry N. Tsao, Wing-Shan Wong
  • Patent number: 11074429
    Abstract: The application relates to the field of terminals and provides a user identification method, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes that: responsive to detecting that a fingerprint of a user is in contact with a preset fingerprint identification region, a surface humidity of the preset fingerprint identification region is determined; when the surface humidity is greater than a preset humidity, the fingerprint of the user is acquired through the optical fingerprint sensor; the fingerprint acquired through the optical fingerprint sensor is matched with pre-stored fingerprint information; and screen unlocking is performed in case of successful matching. Through the technical solutions, the sensor for fingerprint unlocking may be determined according to a humidity of a screen, thereby ensuring stability of fingerprint unlocking and further improving a user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiping Zhang, Yibao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11073938
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a substrate and a touch electrode array. The touch electrode array is disposed on the substrate, and includes a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode. The first touch electrode receives a first touch signal in a first time interval, and receives a second touch signal in a second time interval. The second touch electrode is adjacent to the first touch electrode in a first direction, and receives a third touch signal in the first time interval. A voltage polarity of the first touch signal is different from a voltage polarity of the second touch signal, and the voltage polarity of the first touch signal is different from a voltage polarity of the third touch signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsan-Po Weng, Li-Wei Sung
  • Patent number: 11062114
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel and a sensor, wherein the sensor includes a first piezoelectric material layer, a second piezoelectric material layer disposed under the first piezoelectric material layer to overlap the first piezoelectric material layer, a first common electrode disposed on the first piezoelectric material layer; a first sensor pixel electrode disposed under the second piezoelectric material layer, and a first element layer disposed under the first sensor pixel electrode and connected with the first sensor pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JaeHyun Kim, TaeHyoung Moon, SungJin Lee, DeukHo Yeon
  • Patent number: 11062111
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of drive electrodes provided on one surface side of the substrate and arranged in a first direction; and a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the one surface side and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The detection electrodes intersect the drive electrodes in a normal direction of the substrate. Each of the detection electrodes includes: a plurality of first line portions; a plurality of second line portions extending in a direction intersecting the first line portions; and a plurality of bent portions each connecting one of the first line portions and one of the second line portions adjacent to the one of the first line portions to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshitaka Ozeki, Toshinori Uehara, Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11056064
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first shift register, a first demultiplexer, a plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of rows of first sub-pixels. The first shift register outputs a first shift signal. The first demultiplexer is coupled to the first shift register and receives the first shift signal and outputs a plurality of first gate driving signals. The plurality of first gate lines receive the plurality of first gate driving signals. Each row of first sub-pixels is coupled to a corresponding first gate line of the plurality of first gate lines. The first sub-pixels of the same row emit light of a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Chia-Hao Tsai, Chang-Chiang Cheng, Yung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 11051375
    Abstract: A color adjusting method for a color light-emitting element is provided. Firstly, a first white light beam is produced by red, green and blue light-emitting units collaboratively, and a second white light beam is produced by a white light-emitting unit. Then, a second chromaticity value corresponding to the second white light beam is acquired. Then, the red, green and blue light-emitting units are controlled to produce a third white light beam according to the second chromaticity value, and a first adjusting parameter is acquired. Then, the white light-emitting unit is controlled to produce a fourth white light beam according to a third luminance value corresponding to the third white light beam, and a second adjusting parameter is acquired. Then, a gray level adjustment process is performed according to the first and second adjusting parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Ding-Hsiang Pan, Hui-Ling Lin, Chuan-Tai Hsiao, Chun-Han Huang
  • Patent number: 11036351
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling presentation of information to a user in a more easy-to-understand manner according to the situation. A control section controls an output associated with a position of an object which is disposed in a three-dimensional space, on the basis of user action information indicating a user's action and a position relationship between a display region of a display device and the object. The present technique is applicable to an AR-use display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Akane Kondo, Kei Nitta
  • Patent number: 11029843
    Abstract: A touch sensitive keyboard is disclosed. In one embodiment, a touch sensitive keyboard is provided that has a touchpad area separate from the keyboard keys. The keyboard is configured to disabled touchpad sensitivity when certain touch signals are received. In another embodiment, a touch sensitive keyboard is used as a controller. In a controller mode, keys on a touch sensitive keyboard are adapted to output a signal strength corresponding to a distance between the key and a finger operating as a control. In an embodiment, a touch sensitive keyboard includes a processor adapted to output a keystroke in response to one of the plurality of touch sensitive keys being pressed, and to output one or more touch points determined by interpolating signal strength for each of the plurality of touch sensitive keys on the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Clifton Forlines, David Holman, Stephen Dennis, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Steven Leonard Sanders, David Clark Wilkinson, Braon Moseley, Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo
  • Patent number: 11029910
    Abstract: A display screen of a terminal includes a substrate, and a display layer over the substrate. The display layer includes a primary display area and a secondary display area. The secondary display area has a resolution equal to or greater than that of the primary display area. The light transmission performance of the secondary display area is superior to that of the primary display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Bai
  • Patent number: 11017196
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for look-ahead column sensing for fast voltage-mode read on ultrasonic sensors. For example, certain aspects are directed to an ultrasonic sensor that generally includes a column line, a pixel having a transistor coupled between a voltage rail and the column line, a receiver circuit, and a first column control circuit coupled between the receiver circuit and the pixel, the first column control circuit being configured to electrically isolate the column line from the receiver circuit during a look-ahead settling phase of the ultrasonic sensor, and electrically couple the column line to the receiver circuit during a sensing phase of the ultrasonic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer Wadhwa, Subbarao Surendra Chakkirala, Mowen Yang
  • Patent number: 11017728
    Abstract: A display device includes: first and second dots arranged on a first horizontal line in a first direction, each of the first and second dots including first to fourth pixels; a switch unit configured to selectively couple first to fourth output lines respectively to the first to fourth pixels of each of the first and second dots, in response to a first control signal and a second control signal; and a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the first to fourth output lines in a time-sharing manner. The data driver may include: a data processor configured to generate data signals corresponding to the first to fourth output lines; and first to fourth digital-to-analog converters (DACs) configured to convert the data signals into the data voltages. Each of the first to fourth DACs may be supplied with a corresponding one of first to fourth gamma voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Gyeong Choe, Jin Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11016605
    Abstract: An optical IR touch sensing apparatus can determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor can operate an image reconstruction algorithm on at least part of the thus-generated transmission values and determine a position of a touching object on the touch surface, an attenuation value corresponding to the attenuation of the light resulting from the object touching the touch surface, and an occlusion compensation value for compensating the occlusion affect from other objects on the touch surface. Using these values, the processor can identify the type of object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventors: Tomas Christiansson, Kristofer Jakobson
  • Patent number: 11012670
    Abstract: A device includes an illuminance information referring unit configured to refer to an illuminance information database that stores therein illuminance information indicating illuminance at each of positions in a lighting device installed place in which lighting devices are installed, an identification information acquiring unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying the lighting device installed place in which a vehicle travel, and a display controller configured to cause a projection device of a head-up display device to project a virtual image. The display controller is further configured to control luminance of the virtual image projected by the projection device in accordance with the illuminance information at each of the positions in the lighting device installed place based on the illuminance information referred to by the illuminance information referring unit and the identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Okazaki, Makoto Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11003885
    Abstract: A high-precision fingerprint sensing method includes providing a fingerprint sensor (10) having a plurality of transistor switches (Q), a plurality of sensing electrodes (SE), a plurality of gate lines (GL), a plurality of data lines (DL), arranging at least one sampling conductor (SC) near the gate lines (GL) to form a coupling capacitance between the sampling conductor (SC) and the gate lines (GL) and to render the sampling conductor (SC) sensing noise on the adjacent gate lines (GL), inverting the noise signal (Vn) obtained from the sampling conductor (SC) into a noise-suppressing signal (Vc) and sending the noise-suppressing signal (Vc) to the fingerprint sensor (10) to suppress noise of the fingerprint sensor (10) and enhance fingerprint sensing accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin, Chia-Hsun Tu
  • Patent number: 11003888
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fingerprint recognition device, which includes a luminescent display panel, a substrate, an image capturing module, a plurality of first prism arrays and a plurality of second prisms. The first prism arrays are disposed on the substrate and paralleled to each other, and each of the first prism arrays receives an incident ray from the luminescent display panel. The first prism arrays provide a first light guiding direction, and the first light guiding direction is orthogonal to the incident ray. The second prisms are disposed on the substrate, and the second prisms are corresponding to the first prism arrays respectively. Each of the second prisms has a light-emitting surface, and the light-emitting surface faces toward the image capturing module. The second prisms provide a second light guiding direction, and the second light guiding direction is perpendicular to the first light guiding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Liang Liao
  • Patent number: 10996771
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus for controlling a touch screen is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a touch screen for sensing a signal generated by an electronic pen and displaying an image, and at least one processor configured to, in response to an object displayed on the touch screen being selected based on a first signal generated by the electronic pen, control the touch screen to obtain a search result for the selected object and provide the search result, and in response to the object displayed on the touch screen being selected based on a second signal generated by the electronic pen, control the touch screen to display a user interface (UI) for preforming a function related to the selected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: So-young Youn
  • Patent number: 10997392
    Abstract: An electronic device, including a touch recognition unit; a display unit receiving a signal from the touch recognition unit; a fingerprint recognition unit receiving a signal from the display unit. A processor is configured to transmit and receive a signal to/from the touch recognition unit, the display unit, and the fingerprint recognition unit. The processor may remain in an inactive state while the touch recognition unit, display unit, and fingerprint recognition unit are activated. The processor is activated when a preset user's fingerprint input is provided. A method operates the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Sub So, Sang Jin Pak, Moon Sang Hwang
  • Patent number: 10989926
    Abstract: A near-eye display based on a polarization-selective diffusive combiner includes a polarizer for polarizing impinging ambient light to have a first polarization state, and a polarization-selective scatterer downstream of the polarizer, for passing through the ambient light having the first polarization state substantially without scattering, while scattering impinging display light having a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. The display light at the second polarization state may be provided by a projector, the polarization-selective scatterer playing the role of a projector screen. A polarization-selective ocular lens may be disposed downstream of the polarization-selective scatterer for viewing images generated by the projector while propagating through orthogonally polarized light from outside environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Ying Geng, Brian Wheelwright, Douglas Robert Lanman, Afsoon Jamali, Jasmine Soria Sears, Alireza Moheghi
  • Patent number: 10990175
    Abstract: A method and system of a brain computer interface in a headset including an augmented reality display, one or more sensors, a processing module, at least one biofeedback device, and a battery. The interface may include a printed circuit board that has the sensors to read bio-signals, provides biofeedback, and performs the processing, analyzing, and mapping of bio-signals into output. The output provides feedback via stimulation of multiple sensory brain systems of a user, including audio and visual on the augmented reality display, or audio and haptic in terms of vibration patterns that a human user may feel. All together this forms a closed-loop system, by detecting the bio-signal, then providing sensory-feedback, which in turn enhances the bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Cognixion
    Inventors: Andreas Forsland, Leonard Zerman