Patents Examined by Rodney Amadiz
  • Patent number: 12379792
    Abstract: A touch pad, on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, includes: a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by a hand; an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board; an arm portion configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame; a switch configured to be provided between one end of the arm portion and the sensor board; a shaft support portion configured to support the arm portion to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion; and an elastic body configured to bias the sensor board upward with respect to a base. The other end of the arm portion is supported to be displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Okuni, Issei Kurosawa, Kazumi Nakaju
  • Patent number: 12374309
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores image data of an image captured by an imaging unit; a processor which processes the image data stored in the memory; an internal display; and a connection unit which connects to an external display. The processor performs: face detection processing to process the image data of the image stored in the memory in order to detect a face area with a face captured therein and an orientation of the face from the image; brightness reduction processing to reduce screen brightness of the internal display based on the orientation of the face toward the internal display detected by the face detection processing; and brightness reduction control processing to enable the brightness reduction processing or to disable the brightness reduction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nishio, Yuji Wada
  • Patent number: 12373049
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in displaying an operator on a display screen laminated with an operation surface in an image display device on which a contact operation of operating the operator displayed on the display screen in a state where an instruction object is in contact with the operation surface, and a contactless operation of operating the operator displayed on the display screen in a state where the instruction object is within a preset height range from the operation surface can be performed, acquire information about a height from the operation surface to the instruction object, in a case where the instruction object is not in contact with the operation surface and a distance in which the instruction object is separated from the height range in a height direction is within a preset distance, display an operator for the contactless operation and an operator for the contact operation in a superimposed manner on the display screen, and in a case where the in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Nobumi Kusano
  • Patent number: 12375757
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of display technologies, and discloses a refresh rate setting method and a related device, aiming to meet a requirement of an electronic device for a refresh rate in a video playing process. A method includes: refreshing and displaying the application interface of the application at the first refresh rate in response to receiving an operation of launching the application by a user; displaying a video picture at the first refresh rate in response to receiving an operation of playing a video by the user, determining, in a process of displaying the video picture, whether to perform bullet screen drawing in a preset duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaogang Feng, Fei Li
  • Patent number: 12366921
    Abstract: A method for recognizing blink and eye movement based on electroencephalogram (EEG) and a system thereof are disclosed. The method includes measuring a subject's EEG-based electrooculogram (EOG) signal (hereinafter referred to as “EOG signal”) using three electrodes connected to an EEG head cap. The method further includes performing potential blink detection and zero crossing detection using the EOG signal, and generating a plurality of parameters used for blink and eye movement classification using the EOG signal depending on presence or absence of the potential blink and the zero crossing. In addition, the method further includes classifying the blink and up/down/left/right eye movements of using the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT, KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Laehyun Kim, Yaeeun Han, Jihyeon Ha
  • Patent number: 12360430
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display module, a driving method, and a display apparatus. The display module includes a display panel, a cover, and a color-changing assembly. The color-changing assembly is at least in the first region of the cover extended outside of the display panel; the color-changing assembly includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a plurality of microcapsule structures; the plurality of microcapsule structures includes a plurality of first charged particles and a plurality of second charged particles; the first charged particle and the second charged particles have different colors and opposite charges; a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrode is on a side of the first substrate facing the plurality of microcapsule structures; and an orthographic projection of one first electrode on the first substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of at least one microcapsule structure on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liting Fang, Peiqin Deng, Ling Wu
  • Patent number: 12340137
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to: an image display device having an EOTF for an HDR image which can maximize the expression or vividness of an HDR image output in the image display device even if the output brightness range according to the hardware performance of the image display device is narrower than the brightness range of the HDR image; and a control method therefor. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an image display device may be provided, the image display device comprising: a display; a storage unit for storing a plurality of EOTF curves for displaying an HDR content image; and a control unit for causing the content image to be displayed by using EOTF curves, from among the plurality of EOTF curves, corresponding to the maximum output brightness of the display and the maximum content brightness of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaejun Lee, Taehyoung Kim, Seunghee Seo
  • Patent number: 12340030
    Abstract: A keyboard apparatus includes an enclosure, a plurality of keys located on a top face of the enclosure, and a touch pad provided on at least one side face of the enclosure. A shortest distance D between a key assigned to a home position out of the plurality of keys and an upper end of a side face on which the touch pad is provided, and a width W of the touch pad satisfy an equation below 2 < log 2 ( 1 + D / W ) < 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiichiro Shimosaka, Yoshie Fuchigami, Satoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 12333981
    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: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenlong Li, Hongxia Gui, Xin Zhao
  • Patent number: 12327504
    Abstract: A driving device of an electroluminescent display apparatus, including a display panel where a pixel line including a set of pixels is provided in plurality, includes a pixel line determiner configured to select a representative pixel line, disposed at a position at which an accumulation stress caused by repetitive display of an input image is largest, from among all pixel lines, an over driving control controller configured to select a sample pixel characteristic value from among pixel characteristic values of the representative pixel line and selectively output a first ODC control signal and a second ODC control signal, based on a magnitude of the sample pixel characteristic value, and a sensing and driving circuit configured to pre-sense pixel characteristic values of the representative pixel line in the first sensing period, perform ODC sensing on the pixel characteristic values of the all pixel lines once each according to the first ODC control signal in a second sensing period succeeding the first sensi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moo Kyoung Hong, Dong Kyu Yang
  • Patent number: 12321529
    Abstract: One variation of a system for a haptic actuator includes: a substrate; a baseplate; a magnetic element; and a set of spacer elements. The substrate includes: a first layer including a first spiral trace coiled in a first direction; and a second layer. The second layer is arranged below the first layer and includes a second spiral trace: coiled in a second direction opposite the first direction; and coupled to the first spiral trace to form an inductor. The substrate further includes terminals arranged about a periphery of the substrate and coupled to the inductor. The baseplate is arranged opposite the substrate. The magnetic element is: arranged on the baseplate; and defines a first polarity facing the inductor. The first set of spacer elements are: interposed between the baseplate and the substrate; arranged proximal edges of the baseplate; and defines a nominal gap between the magnetic element and the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Ninad Sathe, Harsha Rao, Darren Lochun
  • Patent number: 12300194
    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: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Aogaki, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 12299209
    Abstract: One variation for a seamless touch sensor includes: a substrate, a baseplate, a haptic actuator, a cover layer, and a controller. The substrate includes: a top layer including a set of drive and sense electrode pairs; and a bottom layer including an array of force sensors. The baseplate: is arranged below the substrate; and including an array of spring elements coupling the baseplate to the substrate. The haptic actuator is arranged below the substrate and includes: a multi-layer inductor; and a first magnetic element facing the multi-layer inductor. The cover layer is arranged over the substrate to define a continuous surface defining an active region and a inactive touch region. The controller is configured to drive an oscillating voltage across the multi-layer inductor to: induce alternating magnetic coupling between the multi-layer inductor and the magnetic element; and oscillate the active touch region of the cover layer relative to the magnetic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ninad Sathe, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Jacob Terracina
  • Patent number: 12300184
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus comprising a data driving circuit configured to output data signals through a plurality of output lines, a data distribution circuit including a first switch and a second switch, wherein the first switch connects a first data line to a first output line in response to a first control signal, and the second switch connects the second data line to the first output line in response to a second control signal, and a control circuit configured to alternately output the first control signal and the second control signal during each line time of one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaesic Lee, Wonkyu Kwak, Kyunghoon Kim, Mincheol Lee
  • Patent number: 12299191
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a virtual reality system. The virtual reality system of the disclosure, comprising: a head-mounted display, an input device and a positioning module, wherein the head-mounted display comprises a central processing unit, a camera module connected with the central processing unit and a wireless connection module; the camera module comprises a binocular fisheye camera, an IR camera and a TOF camera, the positioning module comprises a first inertial measurement unit and an electromagnetic receiver provided on the head-mounted display, a second inertial measurement unit and an electromagnetic transmitter provided on the input device; the central processing unit, configured to implement data interaction and command control with the binocular fisheye camera, the IR camera, the TOF camera, the wireless connection module, the first inertial measurement unit and the electromagnetic receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuzhi Zhang, Hongwei Zhou, Guanghui Liu, Hengjiang Guo
  • Patent number: 12299200
    Abstract: One variation of a system includes a substrate including: a first layer including a first spiral trace coiled in a first direction; a second layer arranged below the first layer and including a second spiral trace coiled in a second direction and cooperating with the first spiral trace to form a multi-layer inductor; and a sensor layer including an array of drive and sense electrode pairs. The system also includes: a cover layer arranged over the substrate and defining a touch sensor surface; and a first magnetic element arranged below the substrate and defining a first polarity facing the multi-layer inductor. The system further includes a controller configured to drive an oscillating voltage across the multi-layer inductor to oscillate the substrate in response to detecting an input on the touch sensor surface based on electrical values from the set of drive and sense electrode pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: James Junus, Ninad Sathe, Shuangming Li, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Eric Rosales
  • Patent number: 12300174
    Abstract: A novel correction method of a display apparatus is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a correction method of a display apparatus. The correction method includes processing in which a voltage correcting a threshold voltage of the transistor is obtained and the voltage is held in the capacitor; processing in which current flowing through the pixel is measured and a second signal based on the current is generated in the first circuit; processing in which the first signal correcting image data using the second signal is generated in the second circuit; and processing in which the first signal is supplied to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Susumu Kawashima, Tomoaki Atsumi
  • Patent number: 12293698
    Abstract: Provided are a method for driving a light-emitting substrate, a driving circuit and a display apparatus. The light-emitting substrate includes: at least one control region, which includes a plurality of light-emitting sub-regions, the light-emitting sub-region includes a plurality of light-emitting elements which are connected in series and/or in parallel; each light-emitting sub-regions includes a first signal end and a second signal end, in a same control region, the first signal ends of all the light-emitting sub-regions are electrically connected with each other, and the second signal ends of the different light-emitting sub-regions are independent of each other; the method includes: loading a first signal to the first signal ends in the control region; and loading second signals to the second signal ends of each of the plurality of the light-emitting sub-regions in the control region when a first duration is delayed after the first signal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Renhui Yu, Xiaoyang Liu, Hongzhou Xie, Xin Chen, Meizhen Chen, Yi Zheng, Zhiliang Zheng, Ying Tian, Chengwei Shi, Shulian Lin, Qingna Hou, Kai Diao, Liangliang Ren
  • Patent number: 12293717
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a driving transistor which includes a first electrode connected to a first node, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node, and supplies a driving current to a light emitting device; a first transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and the second node; a second transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and a data voltage; a third transistor that is electrically connected between the first node and a power supply line that supplies a high potential voltage; and a storage capacitor that includes a first electrode connected to the high potential voltage and a second electrode connected to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehwi Kim, Juhnsuk Yoo, Jungchul Kim
  • Patent number: 12288493
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a memory that stores display data to be displayed on the display, and a processor that controls the stored display data. The processor is configured to switch the display between a first display mode in which an entire screen area of the display is used as a display area and a second display mode in which the entire screen area is divided into a plurality of areas, to select a screen on which any display mode of the first display mode and the second display mode is selectable by an operation of a user, and to control the selection screen to be hidden after a predetermined time elapses since the operation of the user to select the display mode is performed on the selection screen, and to change a setting of the predetermined time based on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Sone, Yoshinori Ito