Patents Examined by Patrick F Marinelli
  • Patent number: 11762455
    Abstract: Augmented reality headgear includes transparent displays that allow a user to simultaneously view the real world and virtual content positioned in the real world and further includes at least one source of coherent light and at least one sensor array for sensing, at a series of times, speckle patterns produced when the coherent light impinges environment surfaces. Circuitry is provided for sensing shifts in the speckle pattern and determining motion which caused the shift of the speckle pattern and adjusting the display of virtual objects displayed by the augmented reality headgear to compensate for the motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Asif Sinay, Barak Freedman
  • Patent number: 11763709
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a display area and a non-display area. A plurality of pixels is disposed in the display area of the substrate. A plurality of data lines is connected to the plurality of pixels. A crack sensing line is connected to at least one of the plurality of data lines. The crack sensing line is disposed in the non-display area of the substrate. A dummy pattern layer is connected to the crack sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Seung Ji Cha, Tae Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11749159
    Abstract: Provided are a gate driver circuit used in a display device and a method for driving the same. Charge sharing is adaptively achieved according to the phase of a clock signal outputted by the output ends of buffers in the gate driver circuit, so that power consumed when a gate line is driven can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Su Byeon, Cheol Ho Lee, Yoon Soo Shin
  • Patent number: 11747942
    Abstract: Facilitating dynamic adjustment of a click/unclick threshold corresponding to a force-based tactile sensor is presented herein. A system can comprise a tactile sensor comprising force-based sensor(s); and a motion detection component that can determine a rate of change of a movement that has been detected via a group of sensors comprising the force-based sensor(s), and based on the rate of change of the movement, modify a defined sensitivity of the force-based sensor(s) with respect to detection of a click and/or unclick event corresponding to the tactile sensor. Further, the motion detection component can decrease the defined sensitivity with respect to detection of the click and/or unclick event in response to the rate of change being determined to satisfy a defined condition representing an increase in the speed at which the stylus or the finger has moved across the tactile sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SENSEL, INC.
    Inventors: Tomer Moscovich, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 11740684
    Abstract: A sensor device includes an image sensing array, a frame buffer, a first read line, a second read line and an energy accumulator. The image sensing array is configured to sense reflected light from a working surface and includes a plurality of sensing pixels and a plurality of self-powered pixels. The sensing pixels respectively output image data according to the sensed reflected light. The self-powered pixels respectively output photocurrent according to the sensed reflected light. The first read line is coupled between the sensing pixels and the frame buffer. The second read line is coupled between the self-powered pixels and the frame buffer. The energy accumulator stores electrical energy of the photocurrent via a charge path between the self-powered pixels and the energy accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Guo-Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11734943
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a display, a touch sensor operatively coupled with the display, and a fingerprint sensor disposed below the display and operatively coupled with the touch sensor. The fingerprint sensor may be configured to obtain at least one image for calibrating a fingerprint image, receive a signal indicating detection of a touch input from the touch sensor while obtaining the at least one image, and cease to obtain the at least one image, based on the reception of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taeho Kim, Yangsoo Lee, Hosang Lee, Dasom Lee
  • Patent number: 11726338
    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: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Stephen E. Dey
  • Patent number: 11726569
    Abstract: A haptic interface unit may include an application in the operating system of a device in communication with a driver layer. A plurality of sensors and actuators may be in communication with the driver layer. The driver layer analyzes information from the sensors to generate an output signal based on an interaction model stored in the driver layer. The application updates the interaction model in the driver layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11711694
    Abstract: A method of a wearable device displaying icons is provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of circular icons comprising a first circular icon located in a center area of a touch display in a first size and a second circular icon located outside of the center area of the touch display in a second size smaller than the first size, and based on a direction of a touch input received on the touch display, moving the plurality of circular icons such that the first circular icon is moved to a first position located outside of the center area of the touch display and the second circular icon is moved from a second position located outside the center area of the touch display to the center area of the touch display and enlarged in size from the second size to the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-kyu Seo, Young-joon Choi, Ji-yeon Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim, Yeo-jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11693479
    Abstract: A virtual image display device and an object selection method for virtual image thereof are provided. The object selection method for virtual image includes the following: a virtual image display is enabled to capture image information of a hand of a user; whether an image of an auxiliary tool is present in the image information is determined; position information of the auxiliary tool is generated according to the image of the auxiliary tool when the image of the auxiliary tool is present in the image information; the virtual image display is enabled to generate the position information of the auxiliary tool according to inertial measurement information of the auxiliary tool when the image of the auxiliary tool is not present in the image information; and the virtual image display is enabled to display an auxiliary indicator for selecting object according to the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Chu Ho, Ching-Hao Lee
  • Patent number: 11688323
    Abstract: A pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit correspondingly includes a plurality of sub-pixels having a plurality of color types, and the sub-pixels having the color types include at least one blue sub-pixel. In the pixel array, a proportion of the at least one blue sub-pixel is larger than a proportion correspondingly of at least one sub-pixel of the sub-pixels correspondingly having each color type of other color types of the color types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuecu Lin
  • Patent number: 11675454
    Abstract: Multi-touch touch-sensing devices and methods are described herein. The touch sensing devices can include multiple sense points, each located at a crossing of a drive line and a sense line. In some embodiments, multiple drive lines may be simultaneously or nearly simultaneously stimulated with drive signals having unique characteristics, such as phase or frequency. A sense signal can occur on each sense line that can be related to the drive signals by an amount of touch present at sense points corresponding to the stimulated drive lines and the sense line. By using processing techniques based on the unique drive signals, an amount of touch corresponding to each sense point can be extracted from the sense signal. The touch sensing methods and devices can be incorporated into interfaces for a variety of electronic devices such as a desktop, tablet, notebook, and handheld computers, personal digital assistants, media players, and mobile telephones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, John Greer Elias, Kapil Vinod Sakariya
  • Patent number: 11663846
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device. The fingerprint identification apparatus is applicable to an electronic device having a display screen, and includes: a fingerprint sensor chip; and a substrate, where an upper surface of the substrate extends downward to form a first groove, and at least a portion of the fingerprint sensor chip is disposed in the first groove and electrically connected to the substrate. By disposing at least a portion of the fingerprint identification sensor in the first groove, not only could costs and complexity of the electronic device be reduced, but also a thickness of the fingerprint identification apparatus could be effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Liu, Yiping Guo
  • Patent number: 11663991
    Abstract: A display screen display parameter adjustment method. The method includes obtaining a trigger event of display parameters of a display screen, the display screen including a first display area and a second display area; if the trigger event satisfies a preset condition, determining that an adjustment mode of the display parameters of the display screen is a synchronous mode, and simultaneously adjusting the display parameters of the first display area and the second display area; and if the trigger event does not satisfy the preset condition, determining that the adjustment mode of the display parameters of the display screen is an asynchronous mode, and adjust the display parameters of the first display area and the second display area respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Dayang Xian, Zhijian Mo
  • Patent number: 11657768
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a light emitting element emitting light and electrically connected to a data line and a sensing line, a timing controller varying a driving frequency of the display panel based on an input frequency of digital video data, and a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data line based on the digital video data during a data addressing period of a frame period and receiving a sensing signal from the sensing line during a sensing period. The data driver electrically connects the sensing line to an initialization voltage line during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is changed, and electrically connects the sensing line to a high impedance during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Yeon Kim, Tae Gon Im, Jong Jae Lee, Jun Pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11656729
    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: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    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: 11640802
    Abstract: A display device, comprising a display panel and a touch panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of scan lines. The plurality of scan lines are respectively classified into a plurality of scan areas, and the display panel is configured to sequentially scan the plurality of scan areas through the plurality of scanning lines. The touch panel is electrically connected to the display panel, and is configured to receive a touch signal. During a first frame period, when a position of the touch signal corresponds to one of plurality of the scan areas, the display panel is configured to start scanning the plurality of scan areas from the one of the plurality of the scan areas to display an image of the plurality of scan areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Huei-Jyun Lin, Chun-Ta Chien, Chia-Hao Kuo
  • Patent number: 11640219
    Abstract: A touch element, a touch substrate, a display device, and a method of manufacturing the touch substrate are disclosed. The touch element includes a first conductive pattern layer. The first conductive pattern layer includes a first conductive pattern. The first conductive pattern includes a first basic pattern and a first incremental pattern. The touch element further includes a second conductive pattern layer. The second conductive pattern layer is stacked with and insulated from the first conductive pattern layer. An orthographic projection of the first incremental pattern on the second conductive pattern layer coincides with a pattern of the second conductive pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tengfei Zhong, Xiaodong Xie, Min He, Shifeng Xu
  • Patent number: 11630533
    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: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11614834
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensing layer, a display controller that receives a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal and controls an operation of the display panel depending on the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal, and a sensing controller that receives the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal and generates a driving control signal for driving the input sensing layer. One frame of the vertical synchronization signal includes a first vertical section and a second vertical section in which the display controller transmits a data signal to the display panel. The sensing controller determines an operating frequency of the driving control signal based on a horizontal synchronization signal, which is included in a first horizontal section overlapping with the first vertical section, in the horizontal synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hyun-Wook Cho, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park