Patents Examined by Ryan A Lubit
  • Patent number: 11775087
    Abstract: In the touch operation method, a touch signal is generated in response to a touch operation performed on the touchpad, whether the touch operation is located in at least one predetermined region of the touchpad is determined according to the touch signal, and when the touch operation is located in the predetermined region, whether there is a displacement of the touch operation in a preset time interval is determined according to the touch signal. When it is determined that there is a displacement of the touch operation in the preset time interval, an operation signal corresponding to a predetermined function of the electronic device is generated according to the displacement of the touch operation, to perform the predetermined function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wei Tong Lin, Chun-Tsai Yeh, Wen-Yun Liu
  • Patent number: 11775125
    Abstract: A touch electrode structure, a touch screen and a touch display device. The touch electrode structure includes: a plurality of touch electrode blocks electrically insulated from each other, wherein each of the plurality of touch electrode blocks includes a main body portion and a sawtooth portion electrically connected to the main body portion, and the sawtooth portions opposite to each other in adjacent touch electrode blocks are nested with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongshan Wu, Jiandong Guo, Yan Liu
  • Patent number: 11774767
    Abstract: The present application provides a diffractive optical waveguide for optical pupil expansion and a display device. The diffractive optical waveguide comprises a waveguide substrate having a coupling-in region and a coupling-out region that includes a first coupling-out region, a second coupling-out region, and a transitional region; a coupling-in grating; and a coupling-out grating. The coupling-out grating comprises first and second coupling-out gratings and a plurality of transitional coupling-out grating. The first and second coupling-out gratings are arranged in a first direction. The transitional region comprises a plurality of sub-regions each correspondingly provided with one of transitional coupling-out gratings. The transitional coupling-out grating has a first, a second, and a third vector direction. The third vector direction is parallel to the vector direction of the first coupling-out grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: JIAXING UPHOTON OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuming Song, Chenhao Dou, Kehan Tian
  • Patent number: 11768399
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a backlight module configured to provide a light source; a cover plate on a light-emitting side of the backlight module; a display module between the cover plate and the backlight module; and a photosensitive device configured to sense ambient light. The photosensitive device is between the cover plate and the backlight module, and at an edge of the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiujun Cai, Cuie Wang, Wenli Lan, Sa Li, Dong Wang, Dawei Wang
  • Patent number: 11762501
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit; a touch panel configured to detect a touch position at which a touch operation is performed on the display unit; a function setting module configured to set at least one area of a first area functioning as a touch screen and a second area functioning as a precision touch pad with respect to a touch panel area where the touch panel is formed; and a polling rate setting module configured to raise a polling rate in an area where the second area is set in the touch panel area when the second area is set for the touch panel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Shigematsu, Seiichi Kawano, Ryohta Nomura, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11762202
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for using a flexible electronic device to selectively interact with an eyewear device. A portable eyewear device includes a processor, a memory, and a display projected onto at least one lens assembly. A flexible electronic device includes an integrated circuit, a plurality of input sensors, and a power system, all mounted on a flexible substrate that is sized and shaped to conform to a graspable object such as a ring. The flexible electronic device operates according to a power budget, operating on a sensor power budget until it detects a first interaction with at least one of the input sensors. If the first interaction exceeds a sensitivity threshold, the flexible electronic device sends a wake signal to a nearby eyewear device. In response to the wake signal, the eyewear device presents a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 11755136
    Abstract: A control device having an exterior panel and a control module, where the control module includes a sensor layer, and the exterior panel overlays the sensor layer. The control module is configured to determine one or more characteristics of a touch input, and to select a scene based at least in part on the one or more determined characteristics of the touch input. The control module further controls an operational aspect of each device of the set in accordance with the selected scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Bozhi See
  • Patent number: 11747934
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a light-emitting functional layer, a second substrate, an optical adhesive layer and a polarizer stacked in sequence. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area. The display panel further includes a touch-control driving plate disposed on a surface of a first portion of the second substrate facing away from the light-emitting functional layer. The first portion of the second substrate is in the non-display area. The optical adhesive layer covers a second portion of the touch-control driving plate. A distance between a surface of the optical adhesive layer facing away from the light-emitting functional layer and the light-emitting functional layer is greater than or equal to a distance between a surface of the touch-control driving plate facing away from the light-emitting functional layer and the light-emitting functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shuihu Xiong, Feng Guo, Yongxue Hu, Lingling Zhao, Kai Feng
  • Patent number: 11740731
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11726603
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11721496
    Abstract: Axis orientation compensation is provided in a system in which movement of a controlling device is used to control navigational functions of a target appliance by determining which one of plural sides of the controlling device is an active side of the controlling device and by causing navigational functions of the target appliance made relative to at least one of an X, Y, and Z axis of the target appliance to be dynamically aligned with movements of the controlling device made relative to at least one of an A, B, and C axis of the controlling device as a function of the one of the plural sides of the controlling device that is determined to be the active side of the controlling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Gerben Meijer
  • Patent number: 11720192
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a substrate, a display device disposed on the substrate, and a touch control device, disposed on a side of the display device away from the substrate. The touch control device includes a bridge layer, an insulation layer, and a touch control electrode layer; the bridge layer includes a plurality of bridge electrodes; and the touch control electrode layer includes touch control electrodes. A touch control electrode includes a touch control electrode portion, where along a direction perpendicular to a plane of the display panel, the touch control electrode portion at least partially overlaps a bridge electrode. The touch control electrode portion includes a plurality of touch control metal portions formed in a metal grid shape and electrically connected with each other; and the bridge electrode includes a plurality of bridge metal portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huangyao Wu, Hongbo Zhou, Xiufeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11709561
    Abstract: A computing device includes signal generation circuitry and also includes a location on the computing device that is operative to couple a signal generated by the signal generation circuitry into a user. For example, the computing device includes signal generation circuitry that generates a signal that includes information corresponding to a user and/or an application that is operative within the computing device. The signal generation circuitry couples the signal into the user from a location on the computing device based on a bodily portion of the user being in contact with or within sufficient proximity to the location on the computing device that facilitates coupling of the signal into the user. Also, the signal may be coupled via the user to another computing device that includes a touchscreen display that is operative to detect and receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11703973
    Abstract: An input apparatus and an electronic device applying the input apparatus. The input apparatus includes: at least one sensor, configured to detect an inputting operation, and output a first signal based on the inputting operation; at least one amplifying circuit, configured to amplify a difference between the first signal and a referential signal, to output a second signal, where each of the at least one amplifying circuit comprises a plurality of stages, each of the plurality stages comprises an amplifier, and a high-pass filter is connected between last two stages of the plurality of stages; and an analog-digital converter, configured to convert the second signal into a digital signal characterizing a state of the inputting operation, where the ADC comprises at least one comparator. Users can give instructions through novel inputting operations, and performances of the electronic device are greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: GOERTEK TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotada Taniuchi
  • Patent number: 11698684
    Abstract: A gesture-recognition (GR) device is disclosed that includes a capacitive touch sensor panel and a controller. The capacitive touch sensor panel comprises a plurality of sensing pads arranged in a cylindrical pattern inside a handle of the GR device and detects a multi-factor touch assertion at a set of sensing pads of the plurality of sensing pads. The controller transmits a driving signal to each of the plurality of sensing pads for the detection of the multi-factor touch assertion, generates an assertion signal, determines a signal sequence based on the assertion signal, and converts a current inactive state of the GR device to an active state based on a validation of the determined signal sequence corresponding to the multi-factor touch assertion and an inferred user intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Nocon, Tom McWilliams
  • Patent number: 11698701
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a touch structure arranged over an ultrasound port; an array of transceiver transducers arranged inside the ultrasound port and configured to generate a main directivity lobe directed at a touch interface, receive an ultra-sonic reflected wave produced at least in part by internal reflection of the main directivity lobe at the touch interface, and convert the ultra-sonic reflected wave into at least one measurement signal; a controller configured to modulate a directivity characteristic of the main directivity lobe by selectively activating the transmit transducers; and a receiver circuit configured to determine a size of a contact patch of a touch event present at the touch interface based on the at least one measurement signal and the directivity characteristic of the main directivity lobe, and determine an amount of contact force applied during the touch event based on the size of the contact patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Emanuel Stoicescu, Erhard Landgraf
  • Patent number: 11687182
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes an array substrate, and includes control devices, light emitting diodes (LEDs) and an electrode pattern disposed on the array substrate. The LED includes first and second semiconductor layers, and includes a light emitting layer disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers. The electrode pattern includes first electrodes, second electrodes and touch driving signal lines. Each first electrode is electrically connected with the first semiconductor layer of at least one of the LEDs. Each second electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer of one of the LEDs and one of the control devices. The touch driving signal lines are respectively disposed between adjacent first electrodes. At least an edge of each first electrode is adjacent to a line section of the touch driving signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Yi Tsao, Pin-Miao Liu
  • Patent number: 11687185
    Abstract: A touch display panel, including a pixel circuit substrate, a color filter substrate, and a display medium layer, is provided. The pixel circuit substrate includes pixel structures, data lines, touch sensing electrodes, touch signal lines, and at least one test circuit. Each pixel structure has an active element and a pixel electrode. The data lines are electrically connected to active elements. The touch sensing electrodes are overlapped with pixel electrodes. The touch signal lines are electrically connected to the touch sensing electrodes. The test circuit is electrically connected to at least part of the touch signal lines or the data lines and includes a peripheral line and first and second test pads. The first and second test pads are respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of a display area. The display medium layer is disposed between the pixel circuit substrate and the color filter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Biing Nan Lin, Ya-Wen Lee, Hung Ling Hsieh, Jen Fu Wu
  • Patent number: 11687199
    Abstract: A touch sensing unit includes first touch electrodes, a first touch signal line, and a second touch signal line. The first touch electrodes are disposed in a touch sensor area. The first touch signal line is electrically connected to some of the first touch electrodes arranged in a first column. The second touch signal line is electrically connected to some of the first touch electrodes arranged in a second column different from the first column. The second touch signal line includes a first bent portion bent at least once in an intersection region of the first touch signal line and the second touch signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Yang, Tae Ik Kim, Hyun Sik Park, Chun Gi You, Sung Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11688354
    Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Takeshi Nomura