Patents Examined by Patrick F Marinelli
  • Patent number: 12106722
    Abstract: A display substrate, and a display apparatus corresponding thereto and a manufacturing method therefor. The display substrate comprises: a display region and a non-display region, wherein the non-display region is provided with a gate driving circuit, which comprises a plurality of cascaded shift register units. Each shift register unit comprises: an input circuit (10), a first control circuit (11), a second control circuit (12) and an output circuit (15), wherein the first control circuit (11) is located between the input circuit (10) and the output circuit (15) in a first direction, and the first control circuit (11) is arranged in the first direction; and the second control circuit (12) is adjacent to the first control circuit (11) in a second direction; the first direction intersects with the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haigang Qing, Yunsheng Xiao, Quanyong Gu
  • Patent number: 12106692
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device with a display is provided. The wearable electronic device includes: a stereo camera configured to detect infrared light, a self-luminous display including a plurality of visible light pixels configured to output visible light corresponding to a virtual object image and a plurality of infrared pixels configured to output infrared light, an optical waveguide configured to output the virtual object image by adjusting a path of the visible light, a first control circuit configured to supply driving power and a control signal to the self-luminous display, and a second control circuit configured to supply driving power and a control signal to the stereo camera. The optical waveguide includes a half mirror configured to output reflected infrared light and transmitted infrared light in response to the output infrared light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Dongok Choi, Heonjun Ha
  • Patent number: 12086331
    Abstract: An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Collin R. Petty, Adam T. Clavelle
  • Patent number: 12073042
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12075668
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a first metal signal layer and a metal touch layer. The first metal signal line layer includes a plurality of first metal signal lines extending along a first direction, a plurality of metal connection signal lines are included between every two adjacent first metal signal lines. The metal touch layer is includes a plurality of grid lines which are intersected. At least one part of each of the plurality of metal connection signal lines is parallel to the plurality of grid lines of the metal touch layer, and in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the part of each of the plurality of metal connection signal lines parallel to the plurality of grid lines of the metal touch layer is overlapped with the plurality of grid lines of the metal touch layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Liu, Cong Fan, Xiangdan Dong
  • Patent number: 12067201
    Abstract: A touch sensor controller for driving a touch sensor that is stacked on a display panel and includes driving electrodes and receiving electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, the touch sensor controller including: a driving circuit configured to sequentially provide driving signals to the driving electrodes; a read-out circuit configured to, in response to the driving signals, generate touch data based on first sensing signals received from the receiving electrodes and generate display noise data based on a second sensing signal received from a first driving electrode to which a driving signal of the driving signals is not applied from among the driving electrodes; and a touch processor configured to determine whether a touch input has occurred on the touch sensor based on the touch data and the display noise data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchul Park, Jonghee Na, Gwangho Nam, Taekon Yu, Hyunwook Lim, Woohyuk Jang, Bumsoo Kim, Byunghwee Park, Wongab Jung, Yoon-Kyung Choi
  • Patent number: 12061736
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire a moving image captured by an image capturing device attached to an operator; detect an eyeball movement of the operator using a sensor attached to the operator; and specify, from among the acquired moving image, a portion that was captured when a speed of the detected eyeball movement satisfied a predetermined condition as a boundary between actions of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12061345
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Stephen E. Dey
  • Patent number: 12046187
    Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M?1, and N?1. The first drive circuit includes S1 level shift registers extending along a first direction. The second drive circuit includes S2 level shift registers extending along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenxiang Zou, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 12046199
    Abstract: A pixel including: a light emitting element; a first transistor connected between a first node and a second node, and to generate a driving current to flow from a first power line to a second power line through the light emitting element; a second transistor connected between a data line and the first node; a third transistor connected between the second node and a third node corresponding to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the third node and a third power line; a fifth transistor connected between the first power line and the first node; a sixth transistor connected between the second node and a fourth node corresponding to a first electrode of the light emitting element; a seventh transistor connected between the fourth node and a fourth power line; and an eighth transistor connected between the fourth node and a fifth power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Youn Cho, Jong Woo Park, Sang Kil Kim, Ji Ho Moon, Young Tae Choi
  • Patent number: 12046070
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a sensor panel under the display panel, and including a fingerprint sensor, a proximity sensor between the fingerprint sensor and an edge of the sensor panel, and an illuminance sensor between the fingerprint sensor and the edge of the sensor panel, and adjacent to the proximity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwoo Kim, Taekyung Ahn, Byung Han Yoo, Taehoon Yang, Dae-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 12046186
    Abstract: A display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and signal line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M?1, and N?1. The first drive circuit includes S1 level shift registers extending along a first direction, and/or the second drive circuit includes S2 level shift registers extending along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenxiang Zou, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 12039920
    Abstract: A display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and signal line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M?1, and N?1. The first drive circuit provides a light-emitting control signal for a light-emitting control transistor of the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenxiang Zou, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 12039949
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a blanking input circuit, a blanking control circuit, a blanking coupling circuit, a display input circuit and an output circuit. The blanking input circuit is configured to charge a control node in response to a compensation selection control signal, and to maintain a level of the control node. The blanking control circuit is configured to charge a first node, by using a first clock signal, under control of the level of the control node and the first clock signal. The blanking coupling circuit is electrically connected to the control node, and is configured to control, by coupling, the level of the control node in response to the first clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 12032746
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic displacement of a virtual object for an interaction between a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and the virtual object in a virtual space that the control object interacts with. In particular, it relates to detecting free-form gestures of a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and generating for display a 3D solid control object model for the control object during the free-form gestures, including sub-components of the control object and in response to detecting a 2D sub-component free-form gesture of the control object in the 3D sensory space in virtual contact with the virtual object, depicting, in the generated display, the virtual contact and resulting rotation of the virtual object by the 3D solid control object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Alex Marcolina, David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 12014675
    Abstract: A display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and signal line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M?1, and N?1. The first drive circuit provides a light-emitting control signal for a light-emitting control transistor of the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenxiang Zou, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 12014786
    Abstract: A shift register, a display panel, and a display drive method are provided in the present disclosure. The shift register includes an input module, configured to output a first control signal according to an input signal; a pull-down control module, configured to control a potential of a first node according to a first clock signal, a high-level signal, a low-level signal, and the first control signal; a pull-up control module, configured to control a potential of a second node according to the first clock signal, a second clock signal, the high-level signal, and the first control signal; a maintaining module, configured to pull down the potential of the first node; a pull-down output module, configured to control an output terminal of the shift register to output the low-level signal; and a pull-up output module, configured to control the output terminal of the shift register to output the high-level signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma MicroElectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventor: Mengmeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12007824
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes: a graphics processor to execute a workload; and a power controller coupled to the graphics processor. The power controller may include a voltage ramp circuit to receive a request for the graphics processor to operate at a first performance state having a first operating voltage and a first operating frequency and cause an output voltage of a voltage regulator to increase to the first operating voltage. The voltage ramp circuit may be configured to enable the graphics processor to execute the workload at an interim performance state having an interim operating voltage and an interim operating frequency when the output voltage reaches a minimum operating voltage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Bhushan M. Borole, Wenyin Fu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray
  • Patent number: 12008192
    Abstract: A display panel, a touch test method, and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, touch test terminals, a multiplexing circuit, touch units, and a touch display chip. Before the touch display chip is bonded to the display panel, the multiplexing circuit is configured to reduce a number of traces of the touch units connected to the touch test terminals to facilitate execution of a touch test. In addition, a number of the touch test terminals used is reduced, which can save space occupied by a frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 12002427
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit including a first capacitance element and a second capacitance element, in a writing sub-frame, a voltage corresponding to a gray scale level is held in a first capacitance element, a plurality of OLEDs are off in a vertical scanning line flyback period after the writing sub-frame, and in a light-emitting sub-frame after the vertical scanning line flyback period, a current corresponding to the voltage held in the first capacitance element is supplied to the OLED, and the voltage corresponding to the gray scale level is held in the second capacitance element. In an optical path shifting element, an optical path is shifted in the vertical scanning line flyback period, and in the light-emitting sub-frame, the optical path is stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Momose