Patents Examined by Nicholas J Lee
  • Patent number: 11754838
    Abstract: A near-eye optical system is configured to receive an image beam. The near-eye optical system includes a first optical waveguide, configured to expand the image beam in a first direction, and including a first surface, a second surface, a plurality of first reflecting slopes, and a plurality of second reflecting slopes. The first surface includes a first light-entering area. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The second surface includes a concave area aligned with the first light-entering area, the concave area including a flat bottom surface, and a first inclined sidewall and a second inclined sidewall opposite to each other. The first reflecting slopes are disposed on the second surface, and the second reflecting slopes are disposed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Hung-Ta Chien
  • Patent number: 11747629
    Abstract: A communication device includes a frame element, a first wireless transceiver, a reflector, and a contact lens element. The first wireless transceiver is disposed on the frame element. The first wireless transceiver is configured to transmit a wireless signal. The reflector is disposed on the frame element. The reflector is configured to reflect the wireless signal. The contact lens element includes a second wireless transceiver. The second wireless transceiver is configured to receive the wireless signal from the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Ta-Chun Pu, Yen-Liang Kuo
  • Patent number: 11747902
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for defining a training data set to include biosignals and categorical labels representative of a context. For example, a categorical label may indicate whether a user was performing a difficult or easy mental task while the biosignal was being recorded. A set of first layers in a neural network can be trained using a portion of the training data set associated with a first set of users and at least one second layer can be trained using a portion of the training data set associated with a particular other user. The neural network can then be used to process other biosignals from the particular other user to generate predicted categorical context labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erdrin Azemi, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Hanlin Goh
  • Patent number: 11749200
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display driving circuit and a display device. The display driving circuit includes multiple pixel circuits. A data terminal of each pixel circuit is connected to a corresponding data line. A scanning gate terminal of each pixel circuit is connected to a corresponding gate line. Power-supply terminals of N1 pixel circuits of the pixel circuits are all connected to a same first common line. N1 is greater than 2 and not greater than a first common number. The first common number is negatively correlated to any of a characteristic parameter of a thin-film field-effect transistor of each pixel circuit, and a current in one of the N1 pixel circuits, and a resistance of a power-supply voltage signal line between adjacent pixel circuits in the N1 pixel circuits, and the characteristic parameter is positively correlated to a channel width-to-length ratio of the thin-film field-effect transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Yuan, Xiufeng Zhou, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11749012
    Abstract: A chip capable of controlling a panel to perform fingerprint sensing is provided. Fingerprint sensing pixels of the panel are divided into a plurality of fingerprint zones along a first direction. The chip includes a control circuit. The control circuit provides multiple control signals for controlling the panel to perform fingerprint sensing. The control signals include multiple start pulse signals. The start pulse signals are used to indicate the selected fingerprint zone. The number of the fingerprint zones is greater than the number of the start pulse signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Lun Shih, Wu-Wei Lin, Huang-Chin Tang, Ting-Hsuan Hung
  • Patent number: 11740527
    Abstract: An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Firka, Ashley E. Fletcher, Benjamin J. Pope, Lee E. Hooton, Scott A. Myers, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Garam Young, Blake M. Coughenour
  • Patent number: 11740500
    Abstract: A driving method and a driving device of a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The driving method includes: loading, within a fingerprint recognition phase (t), a plurality of operating signals to a plurality of operating signal leads (20) connected to a gate driving circuit (200), each operating signal (VGH_G) including first level signals and second level signals which are loaded alternately, and a time that the operating signal (VGH_G) switches between the first level signal and the second level signal being a switching time; and loading, within the fingerprint recognition phase (t), a plurality of fingerprint pulse signals to a plurality of fingerprint scanning leads (30), respectively, and for any fingerprint scanning lead (30), a time when the fingerprint scanning lead is loaded with a fingerprint pulse signal and is in an active level state does not overlap with the switching time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Zhang, Xiaoliang Ding, Changfeng Li, Yingzi Wang
  • Patent number: 11740724
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that leverage machine learning to perform user input motion prediction. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include and use a machine-learned motion prediction model that is trained to receive motion data indicative of motion of a user input object and, in response to receipt of the motion data, output predicted future locations of the user input object. The user input object can be a finger of a user or a stylus operated by the user. The motion prediction model can include a deep recurrent neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Pin-chih Lin, Tai-hsu Lin
  • Patent number: 11739965
    Abstract: A control device for a building includes a segment display. The segment display includes a first character comprising at least seven segments, a second character comprising at least nine segments proximate to the first character, and a connecting character comprising at least two segments located between the first and second character. The control device further includes a processing circuit that, in a first operation, illuminates at least one segment of each of the first character, the second character, and the connecting character to form a first letter and, in a second operation, illuminates at least one segment of each of the first character, the second character, and the connecting character to form a second letter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Richard David Friend
  • Patent number: 11734402
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via an input interface associated with an electronic device, a first user input; identifying a first device class based on a current usage mode of the electronic device and a first set of device property values associated with the current usage mode of the electronic device; obtaining normalized values of input features associated with the first user input, the input feature values being normalized based on representative device property values that are defined for the first device class; and performing authentication of a user of the electronic device based on the normalized input feature values associated with the first user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: John Raymond Herrema, III
  • Patent number: 11733817
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a touch layer. The touch layer includes: a first insulating layer, a first metal layer patterned to form a first floating electrode, a second floating electrode and a bridging electrode, a second insulating layer, a second metal layer patterned to form a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode, and a passivation layer. The first touch electrode is electrically connected to the bridging electrode through the via. This solves the short circuit and abnormal capacitance issues of the conventional DOT technique and raises the consistency of display content and the product yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuanhang Li
  • Patent number: 11720216
    Abstract: A touch control structure having a plurality of first mesh electrodes and a plurality of second mesh electrodes is provided. The touch control structure is limited in a touch control region and absent in a window region. A window-crossing row of the plurality of first mesh electrodes includes a first mesh block and a second mesh block respectively on a first side and a second side of the window region; a first conductive plate directly connected to multiple mesh lines of the first mesh block; a second conductive plate directly connected to multiple mesh lines of the second mesh block; and a first conductive bridge connecting the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. The first conductive plate, the second conductive plate, and the first conductive bridge are respectively around a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion of a periphery of the window region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fan He, Cong Fan, Kemeng Tong, Hongwei Ma, Xiangdan Dong
  • Patent number: 11715421
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode that is configured to output light based on a driving current, and includes a first terminal and a second terminal. A driving transistor is configured to generate the driving current, and includes a first terminal to which a first power supply voltage and a bias power supply voltage are applied, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the organic light emitting diode, and a gate terminal to which a first initialization voltage is applied. The first dual gate transistor is connected between the gate terminal of the driving transistor and the second terminal of the driving transistor. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal to which the bias power supply voltage is applied, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the driving transistor, and a gate terminal to which a light emitting diode initialization signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11715320
    Abstract: A display device relating to a method of operating thereof, including: a display panel having a touch sensing unit to sense an external touch and a display unit including a plurality of pixels; a fingerprint sensing panel to sense a fingerprint disposed on one surface of the display unit, the fingerprint sensing panel having a plurality of fingerprint sensing pixels respectively connected to a plurality of fingerprint scan lines and a plurality of fingerprint sensing lines, and a fingerprint scan driving circuit to drive one or more fingerprint scan lines included in a sensing area; and a read-out circuit to output a selection signal for selecting a sensing area of the fingerprint sensing panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul Kim, Keumdong Jung, KyungTea Park, Sunhwa Lee, Mukyung Jeon, Sanghyun Heo
  • Patent number: 11710342
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fingerprint matching method and apparatus, an electronic equipment and a readable storage medium. The method includes: extracting a plurality of to-be-matched feature points from the to-be-identified fingerprint image; performing a first matching between the plurality of to-be-matched feature points and a plurality of template feature points in the template fingerprint image, wherein the first matching includes: identifying true feature points in the plurality of to-be-matched feature points, and determining feature point pairs each of which includes a true feature point and a template feature point corresponding to the true feature point in the template fingerprint image as a first matching result; removing at least one falsely matched feature point pair from the first matching result; and performing a second matching between the to-be-identified fingerprint image and the template fingerprint image based on remaining feature point pairs in the first matching result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Harvest Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cijie Zheng
  • Patent number: 11700364
    Abstract: A method of displaying a light field to at least one viewer of a light field display device, the light field based on a 3D model, the light field display device comprising a plurality of spatially distributed display elements, the method including the steps of: (a) determining the viewpoints of the eyes of the at least one viewer relative to the display device; (b) for each eye viewpoint and each of a plurality of the display elements, rendering a partial view image representing a view of the 3D model from the eye viewpoint through the display element; and (c) displaying, via each display element, the set of partial view images rendered for that display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Vergent Research Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Paul Lapstun
  • Patent number: 11686830
    Abstract: A method for calculating a reference value of an ultrasonic sensor includes: transmitting a first ultrasonic signal from the ultrasonic sensor toward a first surface of a contact device while an object is positioned on the first surface; generating a plurality of ultrasonic images based on a first ultrasonic echo signal; selecting an ultrasonic image having a highest similarity to a reference image from among the ultrasonic images; storing a first parameter and a second parameter corresponding to a selected ultrasonic image; while the object is not positioned on the first surface, transmitting a second ultrasonic signal based on the first parameter from the ultrasonic sensor toward the first surface; and calculating the reference value of the ultrasonic sensor using the second parameter and a second ultrasonic echo signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mi Young Kim, Kyoung Hun Been, Byeong Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11669205
    Abstract: Various embodiments for detecting and rejecting false, unintended rotations of rotary inputs of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic device is provided with an optical detector that measures the distance between the electronic device and the wearer's forearm or hand, and when the distance is smaller than a threshold distance, the turns of the rotary input are false, unintended turns. In another example, a crown of a rotary input includes a plurality of capacitive sensors that detects the presence of a wearer's finger, which when absent, the turns of the rotary input are false turns. In another example, deflections or positions of a shaft of the rotary input are measured and if the deflections/positions indicate an upward force on the rotary input (which are likely caused by the wearer's forearm or hand), the turns of the rotary input are false turns. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Christopher M. Werner, Colin M. Ely, Samuel Weiss
  • Patent number: 11669185
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel including an active region and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, n first touch sensors which are arranged successively along a first direction, extend in a second direction, each include a plurality of first connecting parts and a plurality of first sensor parts connected through the first connecting parts, and each generate an electric field together with an external touch pen; m second touch sensors which are insulated from the n first touch sensors, extend successively along the first direction, are arranged in the second direction, each include a plurality of second connecting parts and a plurality of second sensor parts connected through the second connecting parts, and each generate an electric field together with an external touch pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsoo No, Yeontae Kim, Jungsu Kim, Hwan-hee Jeong, Inyoung Han
  • Patent number: 11663989
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can supply a signal with sufficient amplitude to a scan line while power consumption is kept small. Further, it is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can suppress distortion of a signal supplied to the scan line and shorten a rising time and a falling time while power consumption is kept small A semiconductor device which includes a plurality of pixels each including a display element and at least one first transistor and a scan line driver circuit supplying a signal for selecting the plurality of pixels to a scan line. A light-transmitting conductive layer is used for a pixel electrode layer of the display element, a gate electrode layer of the first transistor, source and drain electrode layers of the first transistor, and the scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Ryo Arasawa