Patents Examined by Sahlu Okebato
  • Patent number: 12386468
    Abstract: An electrode structure is provided. The electrode structure includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a first wire, a second wire and an isolated wire, wherein the first wire is electrically connected to the second wire, and the isolated wire is electrically insulated from the first wire and the second wire. The second layer is disposed on the first layer and has a third wire, wherein the third wire is electrically connected to the first wire. In a top view of the electrode structure, the isolated wire is disposed between the first wire and the second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Jui-Jen Yueh
  • Patent number: 12386448
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel including a light emitting element; a sensor including a sensing element and a sensor driving circuit; and a sensor driver to output a sensor scan signal to the sensor driving circuit. The sensor driver includes: a switching circuit connected between a first input terminal for receiving a first clock signal of a first operating frequency and a first clock node, and to output a first filtering clock signal of a second operating frequency to the first clock node in response to a first enable signal; and a driving circuit to output the sensor scan signal in response to the first filtering clock signal of the first clock node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heerim Song, Taegyun Kim, Heejean Park, Yujin Lee, Cheol-Gon Lee, Mukyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 12373093
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing control functionality of a display of an electronic device. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, an event and partitioning, by the electronic device, a rear side of the electronic device into dynamic tiles based on multiple parameters associated with the display, based on determining the event. The method also includes detecting, by the electronic device, a user gesture on the dynamic tile on the rear side of the electronic device and classifying, by the electronic device, the detected gesture into a gesture category. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, a functionality based on the gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the corresponding gesture category. The method includes controlling, by the electronic device, the functionality on the display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Choice Choudhary, Ankit Agarwal, Shivam Singh Rajput
  • Patent number: 12340019
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for performance improvement in multimodal communication according to one embodiment of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seong Whan Lee, Ji Won Lee, Seo Hyun Lee, Soowon Kim, Jung Sun Lee
  • Patent number: 12340059
    Abstract: The touch sensor includes a touch detection area with at least a part of a curved area having a curved edge. In the touch detection area, a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes disposed side by side in a first direction and in a second direction are disposed. A plurality of first electrodes disposed side by side in the first direction are connected to each other. A plurality of second electrodes disposed side by side in the second direction are connected to each other. In the curved area, distances between the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrodes in the first direction gradually change in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuhide Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12333199
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor, in which the processor is configured to: receive a setting value of a predetermined function, and cause a display unit to display identification information which is determined according to the setting value and with which a content of the predetermined function to be executed according to the setting value is identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Makino, Yuji Onozawa, Takafumi Haruta, Tatsuo Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12315172
    Abstract: In combination, a detection section detects a target based on a first image signal from a first image sensor, a setting section sets an area of interest in which at least part of the target is included, a calculation section calculates, based on a second image signal from a second image sensor that asynchronously generates an image signal when a change in intensity of light incident on each of pixels is detected, a distribution of the second image signal in the area of interest, a tracking section tracks the detection target in the area of interest on the basis of at least one of the first image signal and the second image signal, a tracking controlling section discerns a movement of the detection target in the area of interest based on the tracking, and an information outputting section outputs a result of the tracking by the tracking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Miyada, Hideki Yanagisawa, Mamiko Ishida, Masayoshi Mizuno, Naoki Egawa, Hiromasa Naganuma
  • Patent number: 12300175
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus having a first light emitting region and a second light emitting region, the second light emitting region including the first light emitting region and having a larger area than that of the first light emitting region, a first light emitting element being included in the first light emitting region, a second light emitting element being not included in the first light emitting region but included in the second light emitting region, the light emitting apparatus having a first emission mode where only the first light emitting region emits light and a second emission mode where the second light emitting region emits light, the light emitting apparatus includes a control unit configured to, in the second emission mode, control a difference between an amount of light emitted by the first light emitting element and an amount of light emitted by the second light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kentaro Ito
  • Patent number: 12299229
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a shielding electrode disposed between a touch electrode and a signal line for driving the display. The shielding electrode enables a generation of a compensation voltage based on a feedback signal received from the shielding electrode. The compensation voltage compensates for noise on a voltage that is applied to the shielding electrode due to direct or indirect coupling between the signal line and the touch electrode. Thus, noise is, reduced in a touch sensing signal according to display driving, and improving the performance of touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changhee Youn, KunYoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12300196
    Abstract: Cross reality (XR) display devices, such as augmented reality devices, with enhanced state control for anchor-based augmented reality applications are disclosed. In some embodiments, the devices are configured to obtain information identifying applications with respective anchor locations located within a first threshold distance metric of an XR device, with an anchor location corresponding to a real-world location at which virtual content is to be presented; determining respective states, selected from a multitude of states, to be assigned to the applications, the states being determined based on a proximity of the anchor locations to the XR device; implementing the states, with a first application being assigned a state to render virtual content, and with the first application presenting virtual content via the XR device; and in response to movement of the XR device, determining updated states of the one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Praveen Babu JD
  • Patent number: 12293712
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a data writing circuit, a driving circuit, and a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit is connected to a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal of the driving circuit, and is configured to write a compensation voltage based on a first reset voltage into the control terminal of the driving circuit; the data writing circuit is connected to the control terminal of the driving circuit and is configured to write a coupling voltage based on a data voltage into the control terminal of the driving circuit; and the driving circuit is configured to control a driving current for driving a light-emitting element to emit light under control of a voltage applied to the control terminal of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao Huang, Cong Liu
  • Patent number: 12293695
    Abstract: A driver is disposed in a display panel, and includes a plurality of stages. At least one stage of the plurality of stages includes an input circuit which transfers an input signal to a first node in response to at least one of a clock signal and an inverted clock signal, and inverters which generate an output signal based on a voltage of the first node. At least one of the inverters includes a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (“PMOS”) transistor and an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (“NMOS”) transistor connected in series between a line transferring a relatively high gate voltage and a line transferring a relatively low gate voltage. A first active region of the PMOS transistor includes a material different from a material of a second active region of the NMOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyonghwan Oh, Taehoon Kwon, Mina Kim, Kyung-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12272292
    Abstract: A method for controlling voltage output is disclosed. The method is used to control a power supply module to provide a required operating voltage to a display panel, and a display frame of the display panel comprises a plurality of sequential row driving periods, each row driving period comprising a charging period and a non-charging period, wherein during the charging period, a connection between a data line and a corresponding row of sub-pixels is enabled so that data voltages are written into the corresponding sub-pixels. The method comprises controlling the power supply module to output an operating voltage at a preset first operating frequency during a display of a picture to be displayed, wherein a time period during which the power supply module outputs the operating voltage to the display panel does not overlap with the charging period of each row driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Wang, Haotian Yang, Xin Li, Xin Mu, Bin Zhang, Seungyong Oh, Jiaxiang Zhang, Yuren Zhang, Hongjin Hu
  • Patent number: 12265647
    Abstract: A first device coupled with a first display and an image sensor receives output data from a second device having a second display different from the first display. The output data represents content displayable by the second device on the second display. The first device determines, using the image sensor, a position of the second display relative to the first device and causes the first display to display content based on the output data received from the second device and the determined position of the second display relative to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clément Pierre Nicolas Boissière, Timothy R. Oriol
  • Patent number: 12236634
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a positional sensor. The method includes capturing image data of an eye using the image sensor. The method includes, while the electronic device is in a first position, determining a gaze vector based on the image data. The method includes detecting, based on positional sensor data from the positional sensor, a positional change of the electronic device from the first position to a second position. The method includes, in response to detecting the positional change, updating the gaze vector based on the positional sensor data. In some implementations, updating the gaze vector includes repositioning the gaze vector. In some implementations, updating the gaze vector includes increasing a targeting tolerance associated with the gaze vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Anshu K. Chimalamarri
  • Patent number: 12222512
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may determine contextual information by analyzing sensor data. The head-mounted device may use computer vision analysis to determine contextual information from images of the physical environment around the head-mounted device. Instead or in addition, the head-mounted device may determine contextual information by receiving state information directly from external equipment within the physical environment. Based on the received state information, the head-mounted device may display content, play audio, change a device setting on the head-mounted device, the external equipment, and/or additional external equipment, and/or may open an application. The head-mounted device may receive the state information in accordance with identifying the external equipment in images of the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Lutter
  • Patent number: 12212480
    Abstract: In various examples, latency of human interface devices (HIDs) may be accounted for in determining an end-to-end latency of a system. For example, when an input is received at an HID, an amount of time for the input to reach a connected device may be computed by the HID and included in a data packet transmitted by the HID device to the connected device. The addition of the peripheral latency to the end-to-end latency determination may provide a more comprehensive latency result for the system and, where the peripheral latency of an HID is determined to have a non-negligible contribution to the end-to-end latency, a new HID component may be implemented, a configuration setting associated with the HID component may be updated, and/or other actions may be taken to reduce the contribution of the peripheral latency to the overall latency of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: David Lim, Hsien-Li Lin, Tom Jozef Denis Verbeure, Gerrit Slavenburg, Seth Schneider
  • Patent number: 12197877
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a visual language processing modeling framework via an attention-on-attention mechanism, which may be employed for object identification, classification, and the like. In association with a display of a user interface, an eye tracking via images captured by an imaging device is performed to programmatically detect eye movement and fixation relative to sub-regions of the user interface. Eye fixations on at least one of the sub-regions from the eye tracking. Visual cues are extracted from the user interface based at least in part on the eye fixations, the visual cues being in a sequence of identification. A visual language sentence is generated based at least in part on the visual cues as extracted. The visual language sentence of the visual cues in the sequence of identification is correlated to at least one decision using a visual language understanding routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ran Jin, Xiaoyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12194934
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a smart switch devices for vehicle subsystems or electronic control units (ECUs). One embodiment of a smart switch comprises a programmable interface and a main switch box that may be controlled using the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SSV Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Kaplan, Eleuterio Lopez, Jeremy Prater
  • Patent number: 12189890
    Abstract: A display panel, including: a substrate base plate; touch electrodes; touch lead wires on the substrate base plate, one end of the touch lead wire is coupled with the touch electrode, the other end thereof is in a peripheral area, the touch lead wires in the display panel are divided into touch lead wire sets, each touch lead wire set includes touch lead wires; data lead wires on the substrate base plate in the peripheral area, the data lead wires are divided into data lead wire sets, each data lead wire set includes data lead wires, the touch lead wire sets and the data lead wire sets are distributed in a staggered manner; at least one shielding line on the substrate base plate in the peripheral area, an orthographic projection of the shielding line is between orthographic projections of the touch lead wire and the data lead wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Fang, Zhu Wang, Ling Shi, Bo Yang