Patents Examined by Patrick N. Edouard
  • Patent number: 11823615
    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: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11823614
    Abstract: A novel display device where a light-emitting element is turned on by a triangle wave is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a method for driving a display device including a first pixel, a second pixel, a first wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring. The first wiring is electrically connected to the first pixel and the second pixel. The second wiring and the third wiring are electrically connected to the first pixel and the second pixel, respectively. At a first time, the first pixel reaches the maximum luminance corresponding to first display data and the second pixel reaches the maximum luminance corresponding to second display data. The first pixel and the second pixel are initialized at a second time different from the first time by input of a reset signal to the first wiring to stop light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Takahiro Fukutome
  • Patent number: 11803286
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 11804162
    Abstract: A display device includes: a timing controlling part generating a three color image data, a data control signal and a gate control signal using an image signal and a plurality of timing signals, generating a first four color data having a white gray level data greater than 0 and a second four color data having the white gray level data of 0 using the three color image data, and generating a four color image data using the first and second four color data; a data driving part generating a data signal using the four color data and the data control signal; a gate driving part generating a gate signal using the gate control signal; and a display panel including a pixel having red, green, blue and white subpixels and displaying an image using the data signal and the gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Chul Byun
  • Patent number: 11803302
    Abstract: A user interface device based on proactive and reactive input quantification, includes a data acquisition unit configured to record input and screen output of a user, an input filtering unit for extracting an input timing for the input of the user, an output filtering unit for extracting an output timing to start a visual change beyond a specific reference for the screen output, an input/output interval extraction unit for generating a distribution of input/output intervals through timings for the input and the screen output of the user, and a model fitting unit for estimating proactiveness and reactiveness by adjusting the distribution of the input/output intervals to a proactive distribution and a reactive distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: UIF (UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION), YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Byungjoo Lee, Hyunchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11804340
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an input apparatus and an electronic device including the input apparatus. The input apparatus includes a top cover, where at least one trench is disposed in a first area of the top cover; a base, where at least one slot group is disposed in a second area of the base, and projections of the second area and the first area in a pressing or tapping direction overlap; a tactile switch, including a force-bearing surface and disposed on the top cover or the base; and at least one connecting rod, disposed between the top cover and the base, where the connecting rod includes a main rod and a side rod group, the main rod is rotatably nested in a corresponding trench, and each side rod in the side rod group is slidably nested in a corresponding slot in the slot group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Luo, Yi Yu, Peng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11794694
    Abstract: Utilizing an access device is provided. A command mapping of user input to RKE commands is utilized to identify a RKE command based on the user input to one or more motion or orientation sensor of the access device. Responsive to the environmental input from one or more environmental sensors of the access device being indicative of command entry, a transceiver of the access device is activated, the RKE command is sent, and the transceiver is deactivated. Otherwise, the user input of the RKE command is ignored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Vivekanandh Elangovan, Jochen Schubert
  • Patent number: 11797136
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel. A touch panel is disposed on the display panel. A printed circuit film is electrically connected to the touch panel and includes a first portion having a first thickness, and a second portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness. A boundary between the first portion and the second portion overlaps the touch panel in a thickness direction of the touch panel and at least a portion of the second portion contacts the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changbum Kim, Siyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11791352
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of light-sensing circuits and a position detection circuit. The plurality of light-sensing circuits are disposed in the display panel and are arranged in an array. Each of the plurality of light-sensing circuits includes a light-sensing transistor. The present application disposes a quantum dot layer, which can absorb interactive light and convert its light intensity signal into an electrical signal, and determines an irradiation position of the interactive light through the position detection circuit, so that an interaction with light with a longer wavelength can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Cui, Miao Jiang, Jiangbo Yao, Lixuan Chen, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11776497
    Abstract: A smart glass display includes a first glass layer, a second glass layer, a display layer, an auto-shading layer and a control module. The display layer is disposed between the first glass layer and the second glass layer and includes an array of light emitting diodes and at least one ambient light sensor. The at least one ambient light sensor is configured to detect a level of ambient light at the display layer. The auto-shading layer includes suspended particle devices each of which configured to selectively provide different levels of transparency. The control module is configured to, based on an output of the at least one ambient light sensor, adjust a transparency level of at least a portion of the auto-shading layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jarvis Chau, Chris Wisniewski
  • Patent number: 11775021
    Abstract: An electronic device may have an optical touch sensor that is insensitive to the presence of moisture. The display may present images through a display cover layer. A light source may illuminate an external object such as a user's finger when the object contacts a surface of the display cover layer. This creates scattered light that may be detected by an array of light sensors. A metasurface grating may be used to couple light from the light source into the display cover layer at an angle such that total internal reflection within the display cover layer is sustained across the display cover layer even when the display cover layer is immersed in water or otherwise exposed to moisture. Additional metasurface gratings may be formed on the display cover layer to redirect light propagating within the display cover layer away from edges that might otherwise defeat total internal reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakov G. Soskind, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Patrick B. Wright, Giovanni Gozzini
  • Patent number: 11776448
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a light emitting diode (LED) that is capable of emitting a plurality of lights having different wavelengths from one another, and independently controlling the intensity of the plurality of emitted lights and a manufacturing method of the LED, and a display device including the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jitsuo Ota, Jihoon Kang
  • Patent number: 11763715
    Abstract: An electronic device and a scan driving circuit each including a shift register and a demultiplexer are provided. The demultiplexer is electrically connected to the shift register. The demultiplexer includes at least one scan unit. The at least one scan unit includes a switch circuit and a buffer. An input terminal of the buffer is electrically connected to the switch circuit. An output terminal of the buffer is electrically connected to a scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Chia-Hao Tsai
  • Patent number: 11762513
    Abstract: A mesh-patterned touch panel includes a base layer, a first transparent oxide layer formed on the base layer, a metal electrode layer formed on the first transparent oxide layer, and a blackening layer formed on the metal electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Joon Park, Sung Jin Noh, Jungu Lee
  • Patent number: 11762517
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: first electrodes disposed in parallel at a position corresponding to a viewing area of a panel member and have a capacitance changing according to a proximity of an object to be detected; second electrodes that intersect with the first electrodes, are disposed in parallel, and similarly change in capacitance; third electrodes disposed in parallel between the first or second electrodes and have electrical resistances changing according to posture and temperature; and fourth electrodes extending along the respective third electrodes and similarly change in electrical resistance. A resistance change rate of the fourth electrodes due to temperature is the same as for the third electrodes. The resistance change rate of the fourth electrodes due to the posture change is 90% or less than for the third electrodes due to the posture change. This allows a pressing force to be accurately measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Watazu, Takashi Yokoyama, Yuichiro Yonemura
  • Patent number: 11765006
    Abstract: A device includes an analog to digital converter configured to convert voltages into a digital signal by sampling the voltages at a fixed sampling time; a first multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with in-phase coefficients, the in-phase coefficients generated to produce a demodulated in-phase signal at a demodulation signal frequency; a first adder configured accumulate the demodulated in-phase signal to output in-phase magnitude values; a second multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with quadrature coefficients, the quadrature coefficients generated to produce a demodulated quadrature signal at the demodulation signal frequency; and a second adder configured to accumulate the demodulated quadrature signal to output quadrature magnitude values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Ade Putra, Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Mythreyi Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 11756490
    Abstract: A display device which can suppress erroneous display of a display panel is provided. A source driver receives a serial data signal in which a preamble and video data of the display panel are alternately continuous via an interface from a display controller. The source driver controls timing of supply of a gate signal from a gate driver based on the video data included in the serial data signal, and supplies a gradation voltage signal which corresponds to the video data to a plurality of data lines of the display panel. The source driver has a detection portion which detects that the interface is in an unstable state, and a gate reset signal output portion which outputs a gate reset signal for stopping an operation of the gate driver when the unstable state of the interface is detected at the time of the supply of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11754896
    Abstract: To provide a display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced while preventing increase in wiring resistance. To provide a display device with improved display quality. To provide a display device with low power consumption. A pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a signal line, a scan line intersecting with the signal line, a first electrode projected from the signal line, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the second electrode. Part of the scan line has a loop shape, and part of the first electrode is located in a region overlapped with an opening of the scan line. In other words, part of the first electrode is not overlapped with the scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hirose
  • Patent number: 11745466
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver nanowire film including: silver nanowires A unidirectionally aligned in a longitudinal direction; and silver nanowires B randomly aligned in the longitudinal direction, in which the silver nanowires A and the silver nanowires B each are plural and satisfy Equation 1 below. [A]/([A]+[B])>???[Equation 1] (In Equation 1 above, [A] represents the number of silver nanowires A having an alignment degree of less than ±15° from the alignment direction, and [B] represents the number of silver nanowires B having an alignment degree of ±15° or more from the alignment direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY), DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyunhyub Ko, Seungse Cho, Saewon Kang, Stephen L. Craig
  • Patent number: 11740746
    Abstract: The present application discloses a sensor device and a display device. The sensor device includes a substrate, a light control component, a touch control component, and a functional dielectric layer, wherein the light control component and the touch component are disposed on the substrate, the touch component is disposed on the light control component, and the functional dielectric layer is disposed on a side of the touch control component away from the substrate and at least covers the touch control component, and configured to apply an electrostatic force to an external object when the external object is in contact with the functional dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bao Zha