Patents Examined by Nicholas J Lee
  • Patent number: 11881176
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device, and a driving method. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor, a light emitting control circuit, a reset circuit, a threshold compensation circuit, a first data write circuit, and an initializing circuit. The reset circuit includes a first transistor, the first data write circuit includes a third transistor, and a channel length-width ratio of the first transistor is greater than a channel length-width ratio of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Minghua Xuan, Young Yik Ko, Lujiang Huangfu
  • Patent number: 11875530
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display configured to be attached to the head of a user who is an occupant of a vehicle, to display a subject image to be superimposed on a field of vision of the user; a SLAM camera fixed to the display to capture a SLAM image of surroundings of the display; one or more light on-vehicle displays disposed within a vehicle cabin to emit light that serves as an AR marker; and an image controller configured to determine a display position of the subject image based on the SLAM image including the AR marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Aoki, Hideki Kobayashi, Ryusuke Ohta, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
  • Patent number: 11874908
    Abstract: A biometric authentication system includes: a storage device that stores pieces of biometric information and pieces of registered information associated with the respective pieces of the biometric information and identifying the respective pieces of the biometric information; an acquisition device that acquires the biometric information of a user to be authenticated; and a control device that is configured to cause a notification device, when the biometric information acquired by the acquisition device matches a piece of the biometric information stored in the storage device, to notify of a piece of the registered information associated with the matched piece of the biometric information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Takahiko Ando
  • Patent number: 11869271
    Abstract: A method of processing a fingerprint image in an electronic apparatus includes: obtaining an original fingerprint image by sensing a fingerprint of a user; estimating a spatial change trend of original contrast values in the original fingerprint image; generating a reference contrast map based on the estimated spatial change trend; normalizing a contrast distribution of the original fingerprint image based on the reference contrast map, and generating a normalization fingerprint image having a normalized contrast distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huijin Lee
  • Patent number: 11868458
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel structure comprising a plurality of layers for providing a touch sensitive pixel of a sensing array. The layers comprising: a thin film transistor; and a conductive layer deposited on a dielectric shield to be touched by an object to be sensed and arranged to provide a capacitive sensing electrode coupled to the thin film transistor. The present disclosure also provides methods of manufacturing such a pixel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOUCH BIOMETRIX LIMITED
    Inventors: Henricus Derckx, Wilhelmus Van Lier, Michael A. Cowin
  • Patent number: 11864834
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, utilizing at least one image capture device, at least one image of an eye of a user; identifying, from the at least one image, a plurality of characteristics of the eye, wherein at least one of the characteristics includes a position of a pupil of the eye; generating, based upon the plurality of characteristics of the eye, a plurality of images, wherein each of the plurality of images is generated for a portion of the eye; and presenting, utilizing at least one display device, the plurality of images to the eye, wherein each of the plurality of images is presented to a portion of the eye corresponding to the image generated for the given portion of the eye. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOLIDDD CORP.
    Inventor: Neal Weinstock
  • Patent number: 11871640
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a base layer, a light emitting element layer, and an encapsulation layer; and an input detection unit disposed on the display panel, wherein the display panel includes: a first side and a second side, wherein the encapsulation layer includes an organic encapsulation layer including: an inclined part adjacent to the first side and the second side; and a flat part extending from the inclined part, wherein a first angle formed by the inclined part with respect to an upper surface of the base layer in a first part of the display panel and input detection unit adjacent to the first side is less than a second angle formed by the inclined part with respect to the upper surface of the base layer in a second part of the display panel and input detection unit adjacent to the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Hyun, Hyoung Sub Lee, Hyemin Lee, Woo Yong Sung
  • Patent number: 11868157
    Abstract: A conductive sheet includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of thin metal wires formed in a mesh shape on one surface of the transparent substrate. The plurality of thin metal wires includes an n-sided polygon formed in a virtual pattern and an inverted virtual pattern and six connecting lines. The virtual pattern and the inverted virtual pattern obtained by flipping the virtual pattern horizontally are densely laid such that intersection points disposed on respective sides of the virtual pattern and the inverted virtual pattern are overlapped with each other and that opening regions formed by the plurality of thin metal wires are aperiodically arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Asato Fukuda, Takashi Yokoyama, Satomi Teraya, Kousuke Matsumoto, Yoshimasa Shirasaki
  • Patent number: 11871630
    Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, a pixel disposed on the base layer, a signal line electrically connected to the pixel, a signal pad connected to the signal line, and a plurality of insulating layers disposed on the base layer. The signal pad includes a first conductive pattern connected to an end portion of the signal line, a second conductive pattern connected to the first conductive pattern, and at least one insulating pattern disposed between the end portion of the signal line and the second conductive pattern in a cross-sectional view and overlapping the second conductive pattern in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kikyung Youk, Hanbum Kwon, Seung-Soo Ryu, Heeju Woo, Cholong Won, Daehyuk Im, Sun Oh Jeong
  • Patent number: 11868526
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method for recording an XR environment. The method includes: presenting, via the display device, a graphical environment with one or more virtual agents, wherein the graphical environment corresponds to a composition of extended reality (XR) content, including the one or more virtual agents, and an image stream of a physical environment captured from a first point-of-view (POV) of the physical environment; detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input selecting a first virtual agent from among the one or more virtual agents; and in response to detecting the user input, recording a plurality of data streams associated with the graphical environment including a first image stream of the graphical environment from the first POV and one or more data streams of the graphical environment from a current POV of the first virtual agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gutensohn, Payal Jotwani, Mark E. Drummond, Daniel L. Kovacs
  • Patent number: 11868580
    Abstract: A digital television includes: a display; a tuner; a wireless network interface to transmit data to a mobile terminal and receive audio information and screen; and a controller. The controller is configured to control a signal processor to decode the video signal and the screen information, control the display to display first image corresponding to the decoded video signal with second image corresponding to the decoded screen information, the second image corresponding to an image displayed on the mobile terminal, and receive a command from a remote controller. The controller is also configured to control the signal processor to process the audio signal and the audio information and to output the processed audio signal or the processed audio information to an audio output unit, and to control the signal processor to change the second image's size or position depending on the at least one command received from the remote controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwontae Lee, Youngkeun Kim
  • Patent number: 11861094
    Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate including a display area having subpixels and a non-display area excluding the display area, an encapsulation layer that covers the subpixels, a first touch electrode line including a plurality of first touch sensing electrodes in a first direction on the encapsulation layer and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, a second touch electrode line in a same plane as the first touch electrode line and disposed in a second direction, a plurality of pads on one side of the substrate, a first touch routing wiring that connects some of the first touch electrode line and some pads among the plurality of pads and disposed between the plurality of first touch sensing electrodes in the second direction, and a second touch routing wiring that connects the second touch electrode line to some other pads among the plurality of pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bumhee Han, JiWon Kim, MinSeob Song
  • Patent number: 11864449
    Abstract: A display module includes: a display panel having a first area, a second area, and a third area; and a sensor disposed on the display panel, wherein the sensor has a transmissive area, a first sensing area, and a second sensing area, wherein the transmissive area overlaps the first area, wherein the first sensing area overlaps the second area, and the second sensing area overlaps the third area, wherein the sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, and each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes has a mesh structure, and wherein the mesh structure includes a first mesh structure and a second mesh structure, wherein the first mesh structure overlaps the first sensing area, wherein the second mesh structure overlaps the second sensing area. The first mesh structure and the second mesh structure are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Park, Yujin Choe, Young-Seok Seo, Hye Won Jang
  • Patent number: 11861928
    Abstract: Optical sensors and their making methods are described herein. In some embodiments, a described sensing apparatus includes: an image sensor; a collimator above the image sensor, wherein the collimator includes an array of apertures; and an optical filtering layer above the collimator, wherein the optical filtering layer is configured to filter a portion of light to be transmitted into the array of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: You-Cheng Jhang, Han-Zong Pan, Wei-Ding Wu, Jiu-Chun Weng, Hsin-Yu Chen, Cheng-San Chou, Chin-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 11853517
    Abstract: A touch sensor, including a transparent film substrate; a front electrode formed on one surface of the transparent film substrate; a front terminal formed on the surface of the transparent film substrate where the front electrode is formed, the front terminal being connected to the front electrode; a back electrode formed on the other surface of the transparent film substrate; and a back terminal formed on the surface of the transparent film substrate where the back electrode is formed, the back terminal being not overlapping with the front terminal in a plan view and being connected to the back electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke Matsumoto, Mitsuru Kagase, Teruyuki Kogo
  • Patent number: 11852830
    Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) glass is provided. The AR glass includes a first light source which emits display light for displaying an AR image, an eye tracking (ET) sensor for detecting reflected light reflected from the eye of a user, glass, which includes a display waveguide for guiding the display light, emitted from the first light source, to a display area of a see-through display, and an ET waveguide for guiding the reflected light to the ET sensor, and a processor electrically connected to the first light source and the ET sensor, wherein the processor controls the first light source so as to emit the display light, and tracks, through the ET sensor, the gaze of the user on the basis of the detected reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Yonghee Jeung, Dongok Choi
  • Patent number: 11854293
    Abstract: A display apparatus and an fingerprint sensing method thereof are provided. A display panel of the display apparatus has a pixel circuit array, an in-display touch sensor array, and an in-display fingerprint sensor array. A driving circuit drives the in-display fingerprint sensor array to read a fingerprint image. A current display frame period is divided into a plurality of unit periods, each of the unit periods includes at least one fingerprint sensing period and one or both of a display driving period and a touch sensing period. The driving circuit resets a current fingerprint sensor in the in-display fingerprint sensor array during a first fingerprint sensing period among these fingerprint sensing periods of the first display frame period. The driving circuit reads a sensing result of the current fingerprint sensor during a second fingerprint sensing period succeeding to the first fingerprint sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Chao-Yu Meng, Shih-Cheng Chen, Chih-Peng Hsia
  • Patent number: 11842043
    Abstract: An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. A cursor touch rejection logic is applied at the touchpad to interpret touches as inputs to the information handling system based upon a presented cursor position. A separate application touch rejection logic is applied to the application area with the control icons are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Barry Paul Easter, Julia A. Ogbevoen, Andelon Xuan Tra, Frank Quintanilla
  • Patent number: 11830428
    Abstract: In a display device having an external compensation function, a decrease in compensation accuracy caused by coupling noise generated in a data signal line is prevented. A source driver includes an integration circuit that measures a current corresponding to the characteristic of a drive transistor. An emission driver applies a light-emission control signal to each light-emission control line on the basis of a plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) outputted from a display control circuit. In a current measurement period, the flow of a current corresponding to the characteristic of the drive transistor into the integration circuit is stopped at an edge timing, which is a timing at which the level of at least one of the plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11825244
    Abstract: A planar light circuit comprises a substrate and a first pixel. The first pixel comprises a first number N of laser diodes, a first waveguide located on the substrate, a first number N of inlets which couple the first number N of laser diodes to the first waveguide and a first outlet. The first waveguide couples the first number N of inlets to the first outlet. An arrangement comprises the planar light circuit. The arrangement is realized as data glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Erich Sorg, Hubert Halbritter, Ann Russell