Patents Examined by Rodney Amadiz
  • Patent number: 12045419
    Abstract: As described herein, certain embodiments provide improvements to graphical user interface generation by including a specific structure in a generated user interface that provides a specific function derived from that specific structure. For example, in various embodiments, a generated user interface comprises a plurality of interface elements that correspond to a particular menu or interface structure. In other embodiments, the system may modify (e.g., on-the fly) a structural position of one or more interface elements to improve the efficiency of a user using the display device by modifying the structure to improve the accessibility of each of the interface elements. As such, various embodiments described herein are directed to a specific improved method for displaying, accessing, and selecting elements of the generated user interfaces, particularly when the generated user interfaces include a structure defined by user input data and other data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Promethean Limited
    Inventors: Antonio Holguin, Neha Tembey, Thomas Ham
  • Patent number: 12045415
    Abstract: A touch display panel and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device has a touch display panel. The touch display panel has a plurality of touch electrodes, at least two demultiplexing circuit units, and a plurality of bonding pads. The demultiplexing circuit unit has a plurality of demultiplexing circuits. The number of bonding pads can be further reduced by electrically connecting the demultiplexing circuits in different demultiplexing circuit units to the same bonding pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liang Ma
  • Patent number: 12032745
    Abstract: One variation of a system for detecting and responding to touch inputs with haptic feedback includes: a magnetic element rigidly coupled to a chassis; a substrate; a touch sensor interposed between the substrate and a touch sensor surface; an inductor coupled to the substrate below the touch sensor surface and configured to magnetically couple to the magnetic element; a coupler coupling the substrate to the chassis, compliant within a vibration plane approximately parallel to the touch sensor surface, and locating the inductor approximately over the magnetic element; and a controller configured to intermittently polarize the inductor responsive to detection of a touch input on the touch sensor surface to oscillate the substrate in the vibration plane relative to the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Brogan Miller, John Aaron Zarraga, James Junus
  • Patent number: 12032769
    Abstract: A force sensing processing method of a touchpad is provided. The comparison values obtained by subtracting the force induction quantities of different frames are used to determine whether the achievement conditions are met. If it is met, a processing step is executed to respond the event to be triggered by the changing trend of the user's force. When the force changes rapidly and the force sensing amount cannot be quickly returned to the originally set trigger threshold value, the force changing trend detected by the comparison values are be used to provide the processing steps in real time, so as to improve the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Ying-Jie Liu, Hsueh-Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 12032740
    Abstract: In example embodiments, a method includes obtaining a first measurement of at least a first physiological parameter of a user from a time before presentation of an information item to the user. The information item may be, for example, a notification, an advertisement, or an emergency alert, among other possibilities. A second measurement of the first physiological parameter is obtained from a time after a beginning of the presentation of the information item to the user (e.g. during the presentation). Based at least on a comparison between the first and second measurements, a determination is made of whether the user has perceived the information item. The determination may also be based on a corruption coefficient indicating an amount by which an activity of the user is likely to interfere with the first physiological parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Fortin, Jeremy Cooperstock, Sanghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12033568
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a pixel circuit and a light emitting element, a plurality of scan lines connected to the pixel circuit, an emission control line connected to the pixel circuit, and a data line connected to the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a first capacitor connected to a first node and a second node opposite to the first node, a first circuit portion that includes a first transistor connected between the data line and the first node and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and the first node, and a second circuit portion connected to the second node and the light emitting element. Before the light emitting element emits light, a reference voltage is provided to a third node between the first transistor and the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaekeun Lim, Bon-Seog Gu, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Hae-Kwan Seo
  • Patent number: 12027140
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a communication device for receiving an input image containing a first frame and a second frame, an image quality controller for performing a first image quality control on at least a portion of the first frame, and a gain generator for calculating a gain of the second frame based on the first frame where the first image quality control has been performed, wherein the image quality controller performs a second image quality control applied with the gain for at least a portion of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yeonoh Nam, Sangchurl Nam, Chungbin Im
  • Patent number: 12027139
    Abstract: A method for detecting ambient light under a display screen includes: acquiring first sampling data of a sensor under a first sampling parameter; acquiring a current main frequency of the display screen; determining whether the first sampling data is valid according to the current main frequency and a standard main frequency of the display screen; adjusting the first sampling parameter as a second sampling parameter according to the current main frequency and the standard main frequency, when the first sampling data is invalid; acquiring second sampling data of the sensor under the second sampling parameter; and determining intensity of the ambient light according to the second sampling data. The method of the present application can effectively avoid an ambient light detection error caused by the offset of the main frequency of the display screen or the sensor, and improve accuracy of the ambient light detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luming Zhou, Xiaomei Ding, Xiangyu Yang
  • Patent number: 12025815
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display panel including a first display surface, a second display panel opposed to the first display panel, configured to transmit image light emitted from the first display surface, and including a second display surface on a side opposite to a side opposed to the first display surface, and an imaging optical element located between the first display panel and the second display panel, and generating in space an imaging plane where the image light is imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Takemasa
  • Patent number: 12027138
    Abstract: A shooting control method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: within a first duration of each working cycle of a capturing process, adjusting a luminance value of a first screen area of the electronic device from a target luminance value to a preset luminance value that is less than the target luminance value, and controlling an under-screen camera of the electronic device to capture an image, where each working cycle includes a first duration and a second duration; and within the second duration after each first duration in the capturing process, controlling the under-screen camera of the electronic device to stop capturing an image, and adjusting the luminance value of the first screen area from the preset luminance value to the target luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yonghang Xiang
  • Patent number: 12020666
    Abstract: A display driver that includes image processing circuitry and a source driver. The image processing circuitry is configured to perform a burn-in compensation to determine a first compensated luminance value for a first pixel in a first area of a display panel based at least in part on a first accumulated luminance value for the first pixel. The first area has a first pixel layout. The image processing circuitry is further configured to scale a second accumulated luminance value for a second pixel in a second area of the display panel to determine a scaled accumulated luminance value. The second area has a second pixel layout different from the first pixel layout. The image processing circuitry is further configured to perform a burn-in compensation to determine a second compensated luminance value for the second pixel based at least in part on the scaled accumulated luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 12007574
    Abstract: The present invention provides an eye detection based smart glasses display device including: a plurality of distance measurement units irradiating a laser to an eyeball including a fundus and measuring a first distance from the fundus and a second distance from a surface of the eyeball; an eye detection unit detecting an eye direction based on the first distance and the second distance; an image acquisition unit acquiring an overlay image; a screen synthesis unit recognizing an eye contact object within a predetermined range in the eye direction, and computing a location so as to display the overlay image at a designated location according to the eye contact object; and a display unit displaying the overlay image at the computed location and has a smart glasses type. Accordingly, according to the present invention, a display method and a display device which are capable of naturally displaying related information without disrupting an eye of a doctor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: MEDITHINQ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungil In, Seungjoon Im
  • Patent number: 12008170
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including at least one communication module comprising communication circuitry; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: establish a first communication connection with a first external device using the at least one communication module, receive a first signal from the first external device through the first communication connection, perform a first function of a first application corresponding to the first signal upon receiving the first signal from the first external device through the first communication connection, based on identifying that a second communication connection with a second external device using the at least one communication module is not established, and perform a second function of a second application related to the second external device corresponding to the first signal upon receiving the first signal from the first external device through the first communication connection, based on identifying that the second communication connection w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungnyun Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Doosuk Kang, Bokun Choi
  • Patent number: 12010432
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include an illuminance sensor including a first modulator obtaining a first signal for first illuminance values during a first integration time and a second modulator obtaining a second signal for second illuminance values during a second integration time, and a processor. The processor may be configured to calculate the first illuminance values and the second illuminance values based on the first and second signals, determine that an ambient light source is a flickering light source based on the second illuminance values, if obtaining display parameter information associated with an image output through the display, compensate for the first illuminance values based on the display parameter information and adjust a brightness value of the display based on the compensated first illuminance values, and if failing to obtain the display parameter information, adjust the brightness value of the display based on the second illuminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongho Cho, Jongah Kim, Heewoong Yoon, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Gwangho Choi
  • Patent number: 11996043
    Abstract: Deterioration of an image is suppressed. A display device includes: pixels including a plurality of light emitting units that emits light of each of a plurality of colors; a pixel array in which the pixels are arranged in an array of pixel lines along a line in a first direction and pixel columns along a column in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a signal line connected to the pixels belonging to the pixel array in the second direction; and a selector circuit connected between a predetermined number of the pixel columns and the signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Toyoda, Shun Ishijima
  • Patent number: 11989373
    Abstract: A circuit to cancel the effect of parasitic capacitances (“initial signals”) in calculations as to precise touch locations on a touch display screen (signal compensation circuit) includes first and second compensation circuits connected to a charge-discharge node. The first compensation circuit receives initial signals, generates first charging currents to charge, and first discharging currents to discharge, the charging-discharging node. The second compensation circuit generates second charging currents to charge, and second discharging currents to discharge, the charging-discharging node. Values of the first charging currents, the second charging currents, the first discharging currents, and the second discharging currents are of different magnitudes and are applied in order to amount to a more precise match for the exact compensation value required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: JADARD TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Feng-Wei Lin, Yu-Chieh Hsu, Long Chen
  • Patent number: 11990076
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides ambient light and optical proximity detection methods, a photographing method, and a terminal, so that an entire display screen of the terminal is used to display a user interface, and this improves user experience. The method specifically includes: controlling, by a terminal, some areas of a display screen to display a black picture for a plurality of times; and when the areas display the black picture, obtaining an intensity of ambient light detected by an ambient light sensor to adjust luminance of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenlong Li, Hongxia Gui, Xin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11960649
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus to be worn on a wrist of a user includes a first pulse sensor, a second pulse sensor, and a processor. The second pulse sensor is provided at a different position from the first pulse sensor in a direction from an arm to a fingertip when the user wears the electronic apparatus. The processor determines whether the electronic apparatus is worn on a right wrist or on a left wrist based on a difference between a timing at which the first pulse sensor detects a predetermined pulse and a timing at which the second pulse sensor detects the pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Imai
  • Patent number: 11948532
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peak driving determination part determining peak driving based on an input image signal, a normal driving compensation part including a first luminance lookup table having a first luminance as a peak luminance, a peak driving compensation part including a second luminance lookup table having a second luminance higher than the first luminance as a peak luminance, a compensation adjusting part that generates a peak driving gamma curve by smoothing a first and second luminance gamma curves corresponding to the first and second luminance lookup tables and generates a peak driving lookup table according to the peak driving gamma curve, and a signal controller generating an image data signal by applying one normal driving lookup table to a portion of the display area and applying the peak driving lookup table to an other portion of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11947747
    Abstract: A method for aligning an input interface of a touchscreen with an overlay for the touchscreen is provided. The method comprises receiving a touch input on the touchscreen, wherein the touch input identifies a first position on the touchscreen corresponding to an alignment mark of the overlay; determining, based on the received touch input, a region of the touchscreen in which to render the input interface; and rendering the input interface in the determined region of the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Miura Systems Limited
    Inventors: Darren Shaw, Gareth Richards, Enrique Garrido