Patents Examined by Robin J Mishler
  • Patent number: 11972082
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technology for sensing a touch input by differently adjusting a ratio of a threshold for each touch location, and can provide a technology for incorporating a difference between touch sensing sensitivity at the center of a touch area and touch sensing sensitivity in the periphery of the touch area by setting a threshold by incorporating a ratio of touch intensity at an offset location and touch intensity at an adjacent location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Ju Park, Young Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 11969660
    Abstract: A messaging gamification device. A messaging gamification device can include a customizable message provisioning system and a customizable display system. A method of operating a messaging gamification device can include controlling reproduction of content on a customizable display system of the gamification device according to how a user interacts with the gamification device and content presentation rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AnsrBall Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Peretz, Scott Fullam
  • Patent number: 11966529
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch detection device, a display device including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same capable of minimizing an area of an outer area of a touch detection area or making the area of the outer area zero by changing disposition positions of touch driving lines and touch detection lines. The touch detection device comprising touch driving lines and touch detection lines, a driving electrode and a detection electrode disposed on the touch driving lines and the touch detection lines to overlap the touch driving lines and the touch detection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mae Um Cho
  • Patent number: 11966526
    Abstract: A touchscreen display includes one or more display drivers coupled to an active matrix display and one or more touch controllers coupled to one or more touch sensor conductors. The one or more display drivers are coupled to the active matrix display via active matrix conductive components. When enabled, the one or more display drivers is configured to transmit a first signal to the active matrix display in accordance with display operation. A touch sensor conductor includes one or more segments of the active matrix conductive components. When enabled, a touch controller of the one or more touch controllers is configured to transmit a second signal via the touch sensor conductor in accordance with touchscreen operation that is performed concurrently with the display operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11966528
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base, a display unit containing pixels, a power supply circuit, a touch controller and a switching circuit disposed between the display unit, the power supply circuit and the touch controller. The pixels each includes a pixel circuit and a display element including a lower electrode connected to the pixel circuit, an upper electrode disposed to oppose the lower electrode and an organic layer including a light-emitting layer disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The upper electrode is connected to the switching circuit, and the switching circuit selectively switches between connecting the upper electrode to the power supply circuit and connecting the upper electrode to the touch controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tabatake, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11966544
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The display may include transistors with gate conductors, a first planarization layer formed over the gate conductors, one or more contacts formed in a first source-drain layer within the first planarization layer, a second planarization layer formed on the first planarization layer, one or more data lines formed in a second source-drain layer within the second planarization layer, a third planarization layer formed on the second planarization layer, and a data line shielding structure formed at least partly in a third source-drain layer within the third planarization layer. The data line shielding structure may be a routing line, a blanket layer, a mesh layer formed in one or more metal layers, and/or a data line covering another data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Suhwan Moon, Dong-Gwang Ha, Jiaxi Hu, Hao-Lin Chiu, Kwang Soon Park, Hassan Edrees, Wen-I Hsieh, Jiun-Jye Chang, Chin-Wei Lin, Kyung Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11966537
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device, including: determining that a touchscreen is in a low frequency display (LFD) mode, determining whether a self-sensing scan was performed in a previous frame of a plurality of frames; after determining, a self-sensing scan was performed in the previous frame, determining a current duration of time corresponding to a current frame based on a previous duration of time corresponding to the previous frame, the previous frame being a frame immediately preceding the current frame; determining, whether the current duration of time is greater than the previous duration of time; and after determining that the current duration is greater than the previous duration, performing a self-sensing scan after the current duration of time, the current duration of time being measured from a beginning of the current frame, the current duration of time having a duration less than a duration of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang soo Lee, Chan Hyuck Yun
  • Patent number: 11961430
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a moving speed calculation unit that calculates a moving speed of a pupil based on a position of the pupil detected by a pupil detection unit. In a case in which the moving speed of the pupil is equal to or lower than a threshold, a pupil diameter calculation unit calculates a pupil diameter at a present time based on the pupil at the present time, and outputs the calculated pupil diameter at the present time to a brightness adjustment unit. On the other hand, in a case in which the moving speed of the pupil exceeds the threshold, the pupil diameter calculation unit outputs a pupil diameter calculated at a previous time to the brightness adjustment unit as the pupil diameter at the present time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11960634
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Serita, Masatoshi Senju
  • Patent number: 11947755
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit having pixels, a touch sensing unit including touch electrodes disposed on the display unit, and a touch driver configured to supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch electrodes and receive a touch sensing signal from the touch electrodes. The touch driver supplies a first touch driving signal having a first phase to one or more first touch electrodes, and supplies a second touch driving signal having a second phase opposite to the first phase to one or more second touch electrodes, at least a part of which is disposed across a specific point from the first touch electrodes. The touch driver receives a first touch sensing signal having the first phase from at least one of the first touch electrodes, and receives a second touch sensing signal having the second phase from at least one of the second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Lim, Ga Young Kim, Young Min Park, Hyun Jee Jeon
  • Patent number: 11941212
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, as disposing a plurality of touch pads located on a plurality of lines alternatively and making a metal other than the touch pad not to expose to outside, the number of the touch pads being capable of disposing on a pad area can be increased and a reliability of the touch pad can be maintained. Furthermore, as disposing pad lines, electrically connected to the touch pad and located adjacently, on different layers, a short between adjacent pad lines can be prevented and a space between the touch pads can be reduced or minimized, a disposition structure of the touch pad can be implemented easily according to increasing the number of channels in a large size of the touch display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Han, YeonGyeong Bae
  • Patent number: 11941195
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including pixels; a touch sensing unit disposed on the display unit and including touch electrodes; a fingerprint sensing unit including fingerprint sensors; a touch driver configured to drive the touch sensing unit to sense a touch of a touch input member; a fingerprint sensor driver configured to drive the fingerprint sensors to sense a fingerprint of a user in a first mode and to drive the fingerprint sensing unit in synchronization with the touch driver to sense a touch of the user in a second mode; and a main processor configured to perform a task based on sensing information of the fingerprint of the user received from the fingerprint sensor driver in the first mode and to perform a task based on sensing information of the touch input member and sensing information of the touch of the user in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soon Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11934601
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a first horizontal electrode including a plurality of first electrode parts spaced apart from one another in a horizontal direction and a plurality of first bridge parts connecting the plurality of first electrode parts; a second horizontal electrode including a plurality of second electrode parts spaced apart from the first horizontal electrode in a vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of second bridge parts connecting the plurality of second electrode parts; a third horizontal electrode including a plurality of third electrode parts spaced apart from the second horizontal electrode in the vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of third bridge parts connecting the plurality of third electrode parts; a first horizontal touch line electrically connected to the first horizontal electrode and disposed to extend in the vertical direction; a second horizontal touch l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haewon Lee, Jinseong Kim, JuHan Kim
  • Patent number: 11935484
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of rows of sub-pixels and at least one gate driver circuit that are disposed on a base substrate. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel driver circuit and a light-emitting device coupled to the pixel driver circuit, and a gate driver circuit includes a plurality of shift registers that are cascaded and a plurality of control signal lines. A shift register is coupled to a plurality of pixel driver circuits in at least one row of sub-pixels and at least a part of the plurality of control signal lines, and includes a plurality of first thin film transistors that are divided into a plurality of first thin film transistors. At least one thin film transistor group is located in the display region and distributed between adjacent sub-pixels in a same row of sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11928275
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a controlling a shared virtual environment are provided. The systems and methods includes a public display connects to a reflector via a network. A shared virtual environment is replicated on the public display. A QR code is displayed on the public display for scanning by a mobile device. The QR code includes instructions to download a controller interface and location of the reflector. The mobile device provides inputs, via the reflector, to the shared virtual environment. This causes mirroring of computations on each of the plurality of objects across the shared virtual environment deterministically. Further, a new message from the reflector with an appended timestamp is transmitted to advance time within the public display. Inputs from the mobile device may include a touchscreen input corresponding to rendered joysticks and buttons, and/or an accelerometer input after position of the mobile device has been calibrated related to the public display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CEO Vision, Inc
    Inventors: Vanessa Ada Freudenberg, Aran Lunzer, Yoshiki Ohshima, David A. Smith, Brian Upton
  • Patent number: 11928273
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a touch substrate, the touch substrate includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of touch electrode wires disposed in an array, each touch electrode includes a plurality of touch sensors disposed in an array, common electrodes of all pixel cells of the array substrate are reused as the touch sensors, and the array substrate includes data wires for providing display data to the pixel cells; the array substrate includes a base substrate and a thin film transistor which are stacked, the touch electrode wires and the data wires are provided on the same layer where a source and a drain of the thin film transistor are located, and the touch electrode wires are abreast provided on the two sides of each data wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Hu, Ning Zhu, Yujie Gao, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11928276
    Abstract: A plurality of gate bus lines are scanned one by one such that a video signal is written, via a corresponding source bus line, into each of pixel forming sections provided in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. When a sensor electrode is driven to detect a touch position, the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped. Operation of a gate driver and operation of a touch sensor drive circuit are controlled such that, when the sensor electrode is driven, a stop row that is a row at which the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped is different in each of a first frame period and a second frame period that are two consecutive frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11921942
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a display panel and display device. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area and includes a touch-control component, including multiple first electrode blocks distributed in sequence along a first direction and multiple second electrode blocks distributed in sequence along a second direction, the first electrode blocks and second electrode blocks being positioned in the display area; and a dummy component including dummy electrode blocks positioned in the display area and dummy traces positioned in the non-display area, each dummy electrode block being positioned between two adjacent first electrode blocks and a second electrode block adjacent to the two adjacent first electrode blocks, wherein there is a first distance S between two adjacent dummy electrode blocks, and a distance from an end of at least one dummy trace to a dummy electrode block is greater than or equal to S/3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Qibing Wei, Peng Zhang, Kang Yang
  • Patent number: 11914815
    Abstract: A display with integrated touch screen includes pixels distributed in an array of rows or pixels connected by row wires and columns of pixels connected by column wires defining a display area on a display substrate. The pixels can comprise mutually exclusive subarrays of pixels forming clusters. Each cluster can be independently controlled and can comprise a touch controller for sensing touches. Each pixel can include one or more micro-iLEDs. A first row wire can be driven with a display signal at the same time the touch controller senses one or more second row wires different from the first row wire. The touch controller can sense multiple row wires at a time or can receive a control signal at a frequency of no less than one MHz on a row wire. In some embodiments, the touch controller comprises a capacitance circuit in an integrated circuit separate from the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Murat Ozbas, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11907472
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a controller. The controller selects, as first detection electrodes, two of the first electrodes and two of the second electrodes positioned outermost in a predetermined detection region, selects, as first driving electrodes, at least one of first electrodes and the second electrodes not selected as the first detection electrodes, and detects a target in a non-contacting state from signals expressing capacitances acquired, by applying a voltage to the first driving electrodes, from the first detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Ito, Yukihiro Ito