Patents Examined by Patrick N. Edouard
  • Patent number: 12205532
    Abstract: A scan driver includes a plurality of stages. A n-th stage among the plurality of stages includes a first input unit controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a previous carry signal, a scan output unit outputting a current scan signal corresponding to a scan clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node, a first switching unit controlling a voltage of a second node in response to the previous carry signal, a sensing output unit outputting a current sensing signal corresponding to a sensing clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, a carry output unit outputting a current carry signal corresponding to a carry clock signal in response to the voltage of the second node, and a second switching unit controlling the voltage of the second node in response to the sensing clock signal or the carry clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12198620
    Abstract: In an OLED display panel provided by the present application, a capacitance value of a first capacitor corresponding to a sub-pixel circuit of at least one color is different from a capacitance value of the first capacitor corresponding to a sub-pixel circuit of another one color in red sub-pixel circuits, green sub-pixel circuits, and blue sub-pixel circuits, so that a capacitance value of the first capacitor corresponding to the green sub-pixel circuits is greatest; in the red sub-pixel circuits, the green sub-pixel circuits, and the blue sub-pixel circuits, a capacitance value of the first capacitor corresponding to the blue sub-pixel circuit is least.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Qing Huang
  • Patent number: 12190727
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for alerting passenger vehicles of approaching emergency vehicles is implemented by an alert management computing device. The method includes receiving an emergency vehicle alert request message from an emergency vehicle transmitter, receiving passenger vehicle location data from a plurality of passenger vehicle user computing devices located in a plurality of passenger vehicles, wherein the passenger vehicle location data includes a present passenger vehicle location and a present passenger vehicle trajectory, identifying an alert zone for the emergency vehicle based on the present emergency vehicle location and the present emergency vehicle trajectory, identifying a vehicle zone for each of the plurality of passenger vehicles, identifying a subset of the passenger vehicles within the alert zone by comparing each vehicle zone to the alert zone, and transmitting a warning to the subset of passenger vehicles via the passenger vehicle user computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Invent F & W, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Walsh, Virginia E. Foster, Ryan McNeely
  • Patent number: 12189882
    Abstract: A force sensor includes at least one cavity defining at least two surfaces having different orientations. On each of said surfaces is disposed at least one respective detection structure sensitive to a pressure exerted on the corresponding surface. A resiliently deformable medium at least partially fills the cavity by coming into contact with the surfaces and defines a detection surface, on which a force to be detected is likely to be exerted. The application of this force is likely to generate stresses on each detection structure due to the transmission of forces by the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Saifeddine Aloui, Franck Vial
  • Patent number: 12190771
    Abstract: A display system includes: a display unit that is provided inside a housing mounted on a user's head and that displays an image to the user; a termination detection unit that detects termination of display by the display unit; and an adaptation display determination unit that determines, according to the elapsed time from start to end of display by the display unit, an adaptation display pattern that reduces a difference between an internal illuminance value indicating a brightness inside the housing and an external illuminance value indicating a brightness outside the housing by changing a brightness of the image displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12189859
    Abstract: A method for driving vibration based on micro-touch, including: acquiring, according to a given input of a touch interface, a plurality of node coordinates of a dynamic effect model corresponding to the given input and a total duration of the node coordinates; generating a dynamic effect curve according to the plurality of node coordinates and the total duration; obtaining a vibration characteristic curve from the dynamic effect curve according to a preset mapping rule; and generating a vibration driving file based on the vibration characteristic curve. The vibration driving file is configured to drive a vibrating motor to vibrate. An apparatus for driving vibration, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are also provided. The method for driving vibration based on micro-touch and the related device can achieve generation of an appropriate micro-touch interaction effect according to animation matching of application scenes, and bring better user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanxin Zhang, Yajun Zheng, Shiyu Pei
  • Patent number: 12182335
    Abstract: A head mounted display, tapping input signal generating method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. Based on a plurality of real-time images, the head-mounted display determines whether a first finger among the plurality of fingers corresponds to a tapping pattern. The head-mounted display determines whether a sensing signal received from a wearable device matches a tapping gesture of the first finger in response to having the first finger among the fingers corresponding to the tapping pattern. The head-mounted display generates a tapping input signal corresponding to the first finger in response to the sensing signal matching the tapping gesture of the first finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Hsiang Lai, Cheng-Han Hsieh, HsinYu Feng
  • Patent number: 12183240
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first pixel group including sub-pixels coupled to a first scan line and located in first through N-th sub-pixel columns, where N is an even number greater than or equal to 2, a second pixel group including sub-pixels coupled to the first scan line and located in (N+1)-th through 2N-th sub-pixel columns, a third pixel group including sub-pixels coupled to a second scan line adjacent to the first scan line and located in the first through N-th sub-pixel columns, and a fourth pixel group including sub-pixels coupled to the second scan line and located in the (N+1)-th through 2N-th sub-pixel columns. The first pixel group and the second pixel group are driven during a first scan on time in which the first scan line is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Wook Yang, Soon-Dong Kim, Chang-Noh Yoon, Eun-Gyeong Choe
  • Patent number: 12175024
    Abstract: A method includes receiving electrostatic sensor data in a processor of an electronic device from an electrostatic sensor mounted behind a touchscreen of the electronic device and using the electrostatic sensor data to determine when the touchscreen is being used. Based on whether or not the touchscreen is being used, an on-table detection (OTD) algorithm is selected from a plurality of available OTD algorithms. In one or more examples, the OTD algorithm may also be selected based on the current device mode of the electronic device, which may be determined from a lid angle, a screen angle, and a keyboard angle of the electronic device. The selected OTD algorithm is run to determine whether or not the electronic device is located on a stationary or stable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Stefano Paolo Rivolta, Federico Rizzardini
  • Patent number: 12175025
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a rotating body rotatably supported on an object, a first detection member configured to detect movement of the rotating body, and a second detection member configured to detect movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Saito
  • Patent number: 12170039
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display area including a plurality of pixels arranged to have a non-uniform horizontal resolution in a first direction; a peripheral area extending around the display area; a circuit area at a side of the peripheral area; a first main crack detection line in the peripheral area and extending along a first edge of the peripheral area; a first switching element in the circuit area and connected to a first end of the first main crack detection line; and a first data line connected to the first switching element and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction through the display area. Twice a distance between the first data line and a center of the display area is equal to or greater than a length of the first data line in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choonghee Oh, Tae Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 12159594
    Abstract: A method for generating driving signal is provided. The method includes generating by a first circuit, a first driving signal for a first frame of image, the first driving signal comprising a plurality of first pulse width modulation signals; transmitting the plurality of first pulse width modulation signals to a modulation controller; detecting a vertical synchronization signal; determining whether a most recent first pulse width modulation signal is partially generated when the vertical synchronization signal is detected; and upon determination that the most recent first pulse width modulation signal is partially generated, determining whether to delay generating a second driving signal for a second frame of image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: BOE MLED Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Hao, Chinghua Hung, Lingyun Shi, Feifei Wang, Wengang Su, Xingce Shang, Kaimin Yin, Junwei Zhang, Taotao Duan
  • Patent number: 12159004
    Abstract: A touch panel includes first touch-electrodes and second touch-electrodes, and a bezel region includes first wires and second wires. Each of the first wires is electrically connected a respective one of the first touch-electrodes in a one-to-one correspondence through a respective first connection end, and each of the second wires is electrically connected a respective one of the second touch-electrodes in a one-to-one correspondence through a respective second connection end. First connection ends of at least two adjacent first sub-touch-electrodes located at a central position of the touch region in the second direction are located at a same side of the touch region in the first direction, and/or second connection ends of at least two adjacent second sub-touch-electrodes located at a central position of the touch region in the first direction are located at a same side of the touch region in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Qibing Wei, Yingying Wu, Peng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 12153760
    Abstract: A force touch judgement method is applied to a force touch pad with two force sensors. Firstly, a force touch operation corresponding to a real force value is performed on a force touch position. Then, a first sensing signal value and a second sensing signal value corresponding to the force touch operation are respectively generated by the two force sensors. Then, the first sensing signal value and the second sensing signal value are added as a total sensing signal value. A calibration force value corresponding to the force touch position is obtained. A first calibration signal value and a second calibration signal value corresponding to the force touch position are added as a total calibration signal value. A ratio of the total sensing signal value to the total calibration signal value is equal to a ratio of the real force value to the calibration force value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Chieh-Hung Hsieh, Chao-Wei Lee, Hsueh-Chao Chang, Wei-Chiang Huang
  • Patent number: 12148945
    Abstract: An operating device (1) having a housing (3) is provided, and the housing (3) is equipped with a housing body (4), a lid member (7) that slides in a first direction with respect to the housing body (4) to be mounted to the housing body (4) and slides in the direction opposite to the first direction to be separated from the housing body (4), and a locking member (8) that is provided to the housing body (4) and that locks the lid member (7), and the locking member (8) has a mounting portion (81) attached to the housing body (4), a hinge portion (82) connected to the mounting portion (81), an operating portion (84) that is connected to the hinge portion (82) and that moves around the hinge portion (82) so as to be insertable into and projectable from the housing body (4), and a regulating portion (853) that comes in contact with the lid member (7) so as to restrict sliding of the lid member (7) in the direction opposite to the first direction, and upon insertion of the operating portion (84) into the housing bod
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 12147630
    Abstract: A method for detecting locations of objects in a plane, including emit light beams, one at a time, at locations along a first edge of a detection area, refract each light beam into multiple divergent light beams, direct each of the divergent beams to arrive at a respective pair of focusing lenses mounted along a second edge of the detection area, opposite the first edge, wherein an intensity profile of each divergent beam has maximum intensity along the center of the beam, for each of the focusing lenses, measure an intensity profile of that portion of the divergent beam that enters the focusing lens, for each pair of focusing lenses receiving a single divergent beam, compare the measured intensity profiles for light arriving at each lens, and determine a location of an object that partially blocks at least one of the divergent beams, based on the compares.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventor: Stefan Johannes Holmgren
  • Patent number: 12145444
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a display section that is configured to cause display at a plurality of display areas provided adjacent to each other inside a vehicle cabin; and a display item changing section that is configured to change respective display items displayed at the plurality of display areas by the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuaki Nadaya, Akinori Shin, Takahiro Hirota
  • Patent number: 12141373
    Abstract: A stylus pen includes a pen barrel extending along a longitudinal axis, and the pen barrel includes a main body, a pen nib part disposed at one end of the main body, and a pen end part disposed at another end of the main body and that corresponds to the pen nib part; and an antenna disposed on the main body of the pen barrel, where at least one part of the antenna is located outside the pen barrel and is close to the pen nib part and/or the pen end part, and the antenna comprises a loop antenna or a planar inverted-F antenna close to the pen end part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun Chen, Ning Ma, Yanbo Li, Kemeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12136381
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area which displays an image, and a non-display area disposed around the display area and including a pad part. The display area includes pixels of a first pixel row which are pixels arranged in a first direction along the first pixel row, pixels of a second pixel row, which are pixels arranged in the first direction along the second pixel row next to the first pixel row, and pixel circuits of a first circuit row which are pixel circuits arranged in the first direction along the first circuit row, where the pixel circuits of the first circuit row are electrically connected to the pixels of the first pixel row, respectively. The first pixel row and the first circuit row are spaced apart from each other with the second pixel row interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ki Jeong, Hyun Joon Kim, Kye Uk Lee, Sang Jin Jeon, Jung Hwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 12130995
    Abstract: An electrode member includes a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. In each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern, first end portion wires of the first thin metal wires form a pair across the insulation gap, and first end surfaces of the paired first end portion wires are located so as to include portions that face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween in a direction that intersects a first direction. In each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern, second end portion wires of the second thin metal wires form a pair across the insulation gap, and second end surfaces of the paired second end portion wires are located so as to include portions that face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween in a direction that intersects a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Masayoshi Takeuchi, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yusuke Umetsu, Hiroki Majima