Patents Examined by Robin J Mishler
  • Patent number: 11703980
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch display device, touch display device includes an organic light emitting diodes display panel and a touch layer. The organic light emitting diodes display panel includes common cathode and an encapsulation layer. The encapsulation layer is located between the common cathode and the touch layer. The touch layer includes touch units arranged in an array, each of the touch units is constituted by metal meshes. In each of the touch units, a percentage of a metal area of the metal meshes to an area of each of the touch units is greater than 0% and is less than or equal to 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11679678
    Abstract: A method includes receiving sensed signal data from at least one circuit based on a user in proximity to at least one electrode corresponding to the at least one circuit. Hover detection data indicating a detected hover in proximity to an interactable element of a vehicle is generated. Button feedback display data indicating the interactable element is generated based on the hover detection data. Display of the button feedback display data via a display device is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Patrick Troy Gray, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11669183
    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: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mae Um Cho
  • Patent number: 11656731
    Abstract: A touch screen according to the present invention senses a touch in an idle mode by using an interrupt method of touch event capturing, not by a method of bottom up or top down polling lines of each row or column, thereby implementing an improved touch response speed and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung Guel Kim
  • Patent number: 11650695
    Abstract: A display device including: a display unit having a plurality of pixels; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the display unit; a touch line connected to a first end of each of the plurality of touch electrodes; a common voltage line spaced apart from the plurality of touch electrodes; and a plurality of switching elements connected between the common voltage line and a second end of each of the plurality of touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11644921
    Abstract: Touchscreen display assemblies with status monitoring features and related systems and methods are provided. Touchscreen related signals are monitored and an analysis is made of the signals and interruptions to determine if the touchscreen display assembly is in need of report. Visual reports indicating the need for repair are generated at remote devices based on a determination from the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11644919
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including display pads, display connection pads disposed on a side surface of the display panel and connected to the display pads, a touch member including touch pads disposed on a display surface perpendicular to the side surface of the display panel, and touch connection pads overlapping a top surface of the touch member and the side surface of the display panel and connected to the touch pads. The side surface of the display panel includes a first area overlapping the display connection pads, a second area overlapping the touch connection pads, and a third area which does not overlap the display connection pads and does not overlap the touch connection pads. The first area, the second area, and the third area are located on a same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eui Jeong Kang, Sang Hyuck Yoon, Seung Soo Ryu, Jeong Jin Park, Si Joon Song
  • Patent number: 11644669
    Abstract: Methods and systems for depth-based foveated rendering in the display system are disclosed. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes using different wavefront divergence. Some embodiments include monitoring eye orientations of a user of a display system based on detected sensor information. A fixation point is determined based on the eye orientations, the fixation point representing a three-dimensional location with respect to a field of view. Location information of virtual objects to present is obtained, with the location information indicating three-dimensional positions of the virtual objects. Resolutions of at least one virtual object is adjusted based on a proximity of the at least one virtual object to the fixation point. The virtual objects are presented to a user by display system with the at least one virtual object being rendered according to the adjusted resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Nastasja U. Robaina, Vaibhav Mathur, Timothy Mark Dalrymple, Jason Schaefer, Clinton Carlisle, Hui-Chuan Cheng, Chulwoo Oh, Philip Premysler, Xiaoyang Zhang, Adam C. Carlson
  • Patent number: 11630529
    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 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tabatake, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11620014
    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: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11620026
    Abstract: A touch apparatus includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are interlaced, so as to define first interlaced regions. Each of the first touch electrodes includes first main portions extended in a first direction and second main portions extended in a second direction. The first main portions and the second main portions are crossed, so as to form first grids. Each of the first touch electrodes further includes first branches crossed with two segments of two adjacent first main portions of at least one of the first grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chieh-Ming Chen, Bo-Ru Jian
  • Patent number: 11609672
    Abstract: A touch control substrate, a preparation method thereof, a touch control module, and a display device are provided. The touch control substrate comprises: a substrate, a conductive functional layer, and a second protection medium. The conductive functional layer is arranged on one side of the substrate, and comprises patterned nano conductive structure, first protection medium, and frame lead structure. The conductive functional layer is protected by providing a two-layer protection medium structure, wherein the first protection medium fixes the structural position of the nano conductive layer and protects the partial structure of the conductive functional layer, and the second protection medium at least completely covers the nano conductive layer located in the conductive functional area; and at the same time, the touch control substrate directly disposes the frame lead layer in the peripheral area of the nano conductive layer, making the frame lead directly contacting the nano conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Semiconductors, Guangdong Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Zibai Li, Yao Wang, Chuan Hu, Boqian Chen, Zhitao Chen
  • Patent number: 11609658
    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 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang soo Lee, Chan Hyuck Yun
  • Patent number: 11609649
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area, the display panel includes: a substrate, a touch component arranged on the substrate, the touch component comprising touch electrodes located in the display area and touch leads connected to the touch electrodes and located in the non-display area; and a circuit board connected to the substrate in the non-display area, the touch leads being connected between the touch electrodes and the circuit board; and wherein the non-display area has a cutting track arranged surrounding at least part of the display area, at least part of the touch leads includes first redundant winding segments and connection segments, at least part of the first redundant winding segments extend along a direction away from the circuit board and fill between the cutting track and the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Qibing Wei, Qingxia Wang, Peng Zhang, Kang Yang
  • Patent number: 11605679
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel; and a touch member on the display panel and including a first touch conductive layer, a second touch conductive layer, and a first touch insulating film between the first touch conductive layer and the second touch conductive layer, wherein the first touch conductive layer includes a first touch connection pattern including a first connecting area and a second connecting area having a larger width than that of the first connecting area, wherein the second touch conductive layer includes first touch sensor patterns connected by the first touch connection pattern, second touch sensor patterns insulated from the first touch sensor patterns, and a second touch connection pattern connecting the second touch sensor patterns with one another, and wherein the second connecting area of the first touch connection pattern is between the first touch sensor pattern and the second touch sensor pattern facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeong Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11596857
    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: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AnsrBall Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Peretz, Scott Fullam
  • Patent number: 11600210
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array including touch blocks; a plurality of test pads in a bezel area outside the pixel array for performing a pixel test and a touch block test; a plurality of pixel test lines and a plurality of touch block test lines connected to the test pads within the pixel array; a switching unit between the test pads and the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines and applying a test signal to any one of the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines; a pixel test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing pixel operation in the pixel array to the switching unit; and a touch block test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing the touch blocks within the pixel array to the switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Se-Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11592947
    Abstract: A touch structure and a touch display panel are provided. The touch structure includes a first touch; the first touch electrode includes a plurality of first touch electrode portions connected in series, each of the first touch electrode portions includes a first main body portion and a plurality of first finger portions, and the plurality of first finger portions protrude from the first main body portion; at least one first finger portion of at least one of the plurality of first touch electrode portions includes a first finger effective electrode and a first finger dummy electrode, the first finger dummy electrode is insulated from the first finger effective electrode, and the first finger effective electrode is connected with the first main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan He, Kemeng Tong, Cong Fan, Xiangdan Dong, Shun Zhang, Ping Wen, Yi Zhang, Yu Wang, Siyu Wang, Tingliang Liu, Chang Luo
  • Patent number: 11592919
    Abstract: An electronic panel including a base layer having a sensing area and a peripheral area adjacent to the sensing area, sensing electrodes overlapping the sensing area and disposed on the base layer, first lines overlapping the peripheral area and connected to one end and the other end of each of the sensing electrodes, an insulation layer including a first insulation portion configured to cover the sensing electrodes and disposed on the base layer and a second insulation portion configured to cover at least a portion of each of the first lines and disposed on the base layer, and second lines disposed on the second insulation portion and respectively electrically connected to the first lines through contact holes defined in the second insulation portion. The at least a portion of each of the first lines has a meandering shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hwa Kim, Wonkyu Kwak, Il-Joo Kim, Youngbae Jung
  • Patent number: 11592921
    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: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs