Patents Examined by Sejoon Ahn
  • Patent number: 11079883
    Abstract: A display module includes: a display panel; and an input sensing circuit disposed thereon, the input sensing circuit including: a first sensor group including a plurality of first sensors arranged in a first direction; a plurality of first connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent first sensors of the plurality of first sensors, respectively; a second sensor group including a plurality of second sensors arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of second connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent second sensors of the plurality of second sensors, respectively; a first signal line electrically connected to one first sensor of the plurality of first sensors; a first measuring line electrically connected to the one first sensor among the plurality of first sensors and spaced apart from the first signal line; and a second measuring line electrically connected to another first sensor among the plurality of first sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miyoung Kim, Janghui Kim, ChangBum Kim, Jungmok Park, ByeongKyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 11073901
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to be visually recognizable through an outside scene. The HMD includes a position detecting section configured to recognize an input and a control section configured to cause the image display section to display information and change the display in the image display section according to the input recognized by the position detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Nishizawa, Masahide Takano, Teruhito Kojima
  • Patent number: 11074884
    Abstract: A control circuit and a display panel applied by the control circuit are provided. The control circuit includes a plurality of stages of shift registers, wherein each of the shift registers includes a first switch, wherein a control terminal of the first switch is configured to receive a first control signal, a first terminal of the first switch is configured to receive the first control signal, and a second terminal of the first switch is electrically coupled to a first node; a second switch, wherein a control terminal of the second switch is electrically coupled to the first node, a first terminal of the second switch is configured to receive a first clock signal, and a second terminal of the second switch is configured to receive a second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Tianhong Wang, Suping Xi
  • Patent number: 11068083
    Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Patrick Foss, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11068065
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: sensing, by a personal computing device, a non-verbal communication of a user of the computing device; classifying the non-verbal communication according to at least one attribute of the user; and programming a computer-generated avatar to perform a body movement for an audience viewing the avatar by comparing a determined attribute of the audience and the classified non-verbal communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, Aaron K. Baughman, Michael Bender, Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo
  • Patent number: 11069284
    Abstract: A light-emitting display device and a method of driving the same including scan signals having a turn-on level voltage concurrently supplied to N scan lines of a plurality of scan lines during a first supply period in which the scan signals having a turn-on level voltage are supplied first, for each of the N scan lines corresponding to N subpixel lines included in each of M blocks into which subpixels are grouped, the scan signals having a turn-on level voltage may be supplied to the N scan lines during a second supply period for each of the N scan lines, in which the scan signals having a turn-on level voltage are supplied second, and time intervals of the N scan lines between the first supply period and the second supply period may be the same or have a difference within a preset range, thereby not only securing sensing and compensating times during driving of an image display through block driving, but also preventing luminance non-uniformity during the block driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventor: KwangIl Chun
  • Patent number: 11061516
    Abstract: A flexible touch panel includes a flexible substrate bent in a first direction, and a touch sensor unit disposed on the flexible substrate, the touch sensor unit including a bridge extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Chul Kim, Jung Mok Park
  • Patent number: 11054939
    Abstract: Discussed are a display device with an integrated touch screen and a method of operating the same. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes; a touch screen including m number of electrodes which are formed to overlap with the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein m is a multiple of n, and n is an integer equal to or greater than two, and wherein the m electrodes are divided into n number of electrode groups; a touch driver configured to generate a touch scan signal and to supply the generated touch scan signal to a display driver; and the display driver configured to apply a common voltage or the touch scan signal to one or more of the m electrodes depending on a driving mode of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JungHan Lee, HongChul Kim, SungChul Kim, JeongSeop Lee, SeungEun Pyo
  • Patent number: 11056046
    Abstract: A display device includes: a data line; a first scan line configured to sequentially receive a first scan pulse and a second scan pulse, each of which has a turn-on level; an emission line configured to sequentially receive a first emission pulse, a second emission pulse, a third emission pulse, and a fourth emission pulse, each of which has a turn-on level; and a pixel configured to receive the data signal according to the first and second scan pulses, the pixel being further configured to emit light based on the received data signal according to the first to fourth emission pulses, wherein the first emission pulse is generated before the first scan pulse, the second emission pulse and the third emission pulse are generated in a period between the first scan pulse and the second scan pulse, and the fourth emission pulse is generated after the second scan pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Ku Lee, Ji Hyun Ka, Eun Ju Kim, Kwang Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 11048341
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a computer mouse includes a chassis to provide support for a user's hand, where the chassis includes a knuckle support region, a palm support region, a first side region having a first ledge to support a thumb, a second side region having a second ledge to support one or more of a pinky or ring finger, and a button region having one or more buttons to support one or more of a tip of an index finger or middle finger. Each region can be physically separated from one another on the surface of the chassis by a gap. The knuckle support region can include a coating or covering on a surface of the knuckle support region to provide a directionally dependent friction. The friction on the surface of the knuckle support region is higher for side-to-side movements then for front-to-back movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Cormac O'Conaire, Andreas Connellan, Christopher Pate
  • Patent number: 11042221
    Abstract: An example method of identifying a touch gesture on a user is provided. The method includes receiving, by one or more transducers of a wearable device attached to an appendage of the user, a set of signals that propagate through the user's appendage and establish a signal pathway to the wearable device. The method also includes, while receiving the set of signals, determining baseline characteristics for the signal pathway, and sensing a change in the baseline characteristics caused by user interaction with an affordance of a user interface projected or perceived on the user's appendage. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the sensed change in the baseline characteristics satisfies a contact criterion, reporting a candidate touch event on the user's appendage to a separate electronic device that creates the user interface or is in communication with another electronic device that creates the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 11043155
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a technology for performing both high-speed data communication and low-speed data communication and transmitting a configuration value for the high-speed data communication through the low-speed data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok Kim, Yong Hwan Mun
  • Patent number: 11036293
    Abstract: Smart gloves and methods for using smart gloves are provided. In embodiments of the disclosure, gloves are integrated with a display and controls in such a way as to allow a user to access and/or manipulate the controls using the same hand on which the user wears the glove. A user can thus access and/or control the glove and the content or information embodied therein while also accomplishing other tasks with his or her hands. Embodiments also comprise touch- and/or force-sensitive sensors, e.g. resistive or capacitive sensors, integrated into the glove that the user can access and/or manipulate with one or more fingers, preferably the thumb, of the hand on which the user wears the glove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Flex Ltd.
    Inventors: Mukul Varma Penmatcha, Mesut Gorkem Eraslan
  • Patent number: 11037479
    Abstract: A source driver includes a gamma voltage generator to generate gamma voltages having mutually different voltage levels, a digital-to-analog converter to generate a data voltage corresponding to a grayscale value using the gamma voltages, an output buffer unit to output the data voltage, and a chopping controller to generate a chopping control signal, and to provide the chopping control signal to the output buffer unit. The output buffer unit includes an amplifier connected to an output terminal of the digital-to-analog converter, and a chopping circuit to periodically change a polarity of an offset of the amplifier in response to the chopping control signal. The chopping controller is to change a slew rate of the chopping control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Byung Chae, Su Bin Kim
  • Patent number: 11029763
    Abstract: An input device and an electronic device are provided. The input device includes one or more force-receiving portions configured to receive an external force applied by an operation object. The input device also includes a moving portion corresponding to each force-receiving portion and configured to move in response to the external force received on a corresponding force-receiving portion satisfying a first condition. In addition, the input device includes a trigger portion corresponding to each moving portion and configured to generate an input signal after a motion of a corresponding moving portion satisfies a second condition. Further, the input device includes one or more radiation portions configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingjie Wu, Jen-chen Lu, Bin Shi, Kohei Shibata
  • Patent number: 11029792
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sensor and a touch screen display. The sensor includes: a plurality of touch units, each of which including: a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes. The driving electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in at least two different directions, and some of the driving electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in a first direction, while some of the driving electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in a second direction. The sensing electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in at least two different directions, and some of the sensing electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in the first direction, while some of the sensing electrodes in each touch unit are arranged in the second direction. The driving electrodes in each touch unit are electrically connected, and the sensing electrodes in each touch unit are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Zhao, Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 11030931
    Abstract: Provided are a shift register unit, a driving method, a gate drive circuit and a display device in the field of display technology. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a first pull-down circuit. The output circuit is coupled to a first clock signal terminal, a first node, a first DC power supply terminal, and a first output terminal respectively, and configured to output a first power supply signal from the first DC power supply terminal to the first output terminal in response to a potential of the first node and a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Meng Li, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 11030961
    Abstract: A DC to DC converter includes: an input voltage source; an inductor connected to the input voltage source; a diode connected to the inductor; a capacitor connected to the diode; a plurality of switching elements connected to a node between the inductor and the diode in a parallel connection; and a controller configured to set duty ratios of currents flowing through the switching elements such that the duty ratios of the currents flowing through the switching elements are equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Taek Hong, Songyi Han
  • Patent number: 11024245
    Abstract: A gate driver and a display device using the same are disclosed. The gate driver includes a plurality of stages connected in a cascade connection manner, and each of the stages include a clock input configured to receive a shift clock signal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. Each of the stages generates a first output voltage that is transmitted to another stage through the first output terminal and a second output voltage that is supplied to a gate line of a display panel through the second output terminal. Each of the stages includes a first diode connected between the clock input and the first output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyelim Ji, Yongseok Park
  • Patent number: 11022322
    Abstract: A cooking appliance can include a cooking chamber and an imaging device for capturing an image of a food item inside the chamber. The appliance can include a transparent, touchscreen display for displaying the interior contents of the cooking appliance to a user without requiring the user to open the cooking appliance, as well as providing for the user controlling, operating, and interacting with the cooking appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander L. Clayton, Brandon Satanek, Michael Tsai, Christopher Cullen, Heng Tong Pit, Donald John Gilmore, Cristiano Vito Pastore, Matthew P. Ebrom, Pallavi Manjrekar, Bruce Wiatrak, John Doyle, Joshua Abdoo, Ariana Bruno, Neomar Giacomini, Tamara Distaso, Gianpiero Santacatterina, Seth Herndon