Patents Examined by Sosina Abebe
  • Patent number: 11934583
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of data communication devices comprising a sensor operable to output contextual data associated with a wearer, a plurality of haptic energy generators operable to output a haptic energy toward skin of the wearer, and a control system operable to maintain a data feedback loop with the wearer by causing the plurality of haptic energy generators to output the haptic energy responsive to one of the contextual data and an external data source in data communication with the control system; an electrical network operable to transmit data and power between the plurality of data communication devices; and a wearable structure comprising a biocompatible material shaped to house the plurality of data communication devices and the electrical network, maintain a plurality of air gaps between the plurality of data communication devices, and define a skin contacting surface that is directly engageable with the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DATAFEEL INC.
    Inventor: Matthew Robert Leaper
  • Patent number: 11911651
    Abstract: Embodiments of the presently described device, system and method support upper extremity therapy through a control device. In various embodiments, the control device is provided as a central hub with atomic elements extending outwardly thereof, and the control device can incorporate a movement interpretation circuit, a touch detection circuit and/or one or more sensory transducers. In various embodiments, the control device is interoperable with a valence, an external computing device and a display device. Embodiments of the external computing device are operable to render a graphical depiction of simulated objects in a virtual world upon receiving a transmission of sensed human grasping of one or more atomic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Barron Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Adams, William T. Gressick, Aaron B. Olowin, Matthew Lichter
  • Patent number: 11903290
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel; the first pixel includes a first display element, a first color conversion layer, and a first absorption layer; the first display element emits first light; the first absorption layer overlaps with the first display element; and the first absorption layer absorbs the first light. Furthermore, the first color conversion layer is sandwiched between the first display element and the first absorption layer; the first color conversion layer converts the first light into second light; and the second light has a spectrum including a high proportion of light with a long wavelength compared with the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Yasuhiro Niikura, Tomoya Hirose, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 11868604
    Abstract: If a first tap is detected on a touch screen of an electronic device when the touch screen is in a black screen state, the touch screen displays a fingerprint pattern in a target display area to prompt a user to enter a fingerprint in the target display area. If the electronic device is picked up when the touch screen is in the black screen state, the touch screen displays the fingerprint pattern in the target display area to prompt the user to enter the fingerprint in the target display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Xu, Xuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11861084
    Abstract: An embodiment for splitting a mobile device display is provided. The embodiment may include receiving configuration criteria regarding mobile device display splitting and content mapping from a user. The embodiment may also include identifying a first location of a first finger and a second location of a second finger of the user on a frame of a mobile device. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the user is moving the first finger in a first direction, creating a plurality of split displays on the mobile device. The embodiment may also include identifying a contextual situation of the user. The embodiment may further include displaying a plurality of content adjacent to the second finger of the user. The embodiment may also include mapping one or more items of the plurality of content to one or more of the plurality of split displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asha Velayudham, Chaitanya Korupolu, Sudeep Brajabasi, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri
  • Patent number: 11853493
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transparent conductive film for a touch sensitive panel, comprising: providing a layered structure comprising a plurality of homogeneous layers which include at least a first transparent conductive layer, a second transparent conductive layer, and a transparent support substrate between the first transparent conductive layer and the second transparent conductive layer, the transparent support substrate being the thickest layer of the layered structure; forming an electrode pattern in the first transparent conductive layer by laser ablation of the first transparent layer by a laser beam incident on the first transparent layer from a side of the transparent support substrate on which the first transparent layer is provided; wherein the laser beam and transparent support substrate are configured such that the laser beam energy density is reduced by 50% or more by the transparent support substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: M-SOLV LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip Rumsby, Adam Brunton
  • Patent number: 11844247
    Abstract: An electronic panel including a display panel and an input sensor which includes a base layer, a first sensing electrode, a first signal line electrically connected to the first sensing electrode, a first insulating layer overlapping the first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode, a second signal line electrically connected to the second sensing electrode, and a second insulating layer overlapping the second sensing electrode, in which the first insulating layer includes an open edge that defines an open area, the open area exposes a portion of a first surface of the base layer and a portion of the first signal line in a plan view, and the first insulating layer has a first thickness at a first point spaced apart from the open edge and a second thickness greater than the first thickness at a second point disposed farther away from the open edge than the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minji Lee, Hyungjun An, Jeongoh Jin
  • Patent number: 11832497
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a display panel layer, a touch sensing layer, a reflection prevention layer, and a window layer. The touch sensing layer is disposed directly on a first display panel surface, a second display panel surface facing the first display panel surface in a thickness direction, or a second base surface of the reflection prevention layer. The reflection prevention layer is disposed directly on the second display panel surface or a first base surface of the touch sensing layer. The window layer is disposed directly on the first base surface or the second base surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehoon Yang, Yongsu Lee, Sungchul Kim, Sunghoon Kim, Sungsik Yun, Kyoungah Lee
  • Patent number: 11809648
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate, sensing channels, and a protective layer. The sensing channels are disposed at intervals on a surface of the substrate, and any one of the sensing channels includes an electrode portion and a silver trace portion electrically connected to the electrode portion. The protective layer is disposed on the substrate and covers and encapsulates the sensing channels. After the touch sensor is subjected to a salt spray test with sodium chloride solution of a mass percentage concentration of 5% at a rate of 1 mL/H to 2 mL/H under an ambient temperature of 35° C. for 48 hours, a resistance change rate of any one of the sensing channels is less than or equal to 10%, and a resistance distribution difference between the sensing channels is less than or equal to 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shao Jie Liu, Si Qiang Xu, Chien Hsien Yu, Chia Jui Lin, Jian Zhang, Wei Na Cao, Mei Fang Lan, Jun Hua Huang, Mei Fen Bai, Song Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11811006
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device. The display panel has a display area and a packaging area located on an outer periphery of the display area, and the display panel includes: an array substrate provided with pixel units distributed in an array and corresponding to the display area; the cover plate disposed opposite to the array substrate, the cover plate including a first substrate, a signal wire layer and an insulating layer formed on the first substrate, wherein the insulating layer covers the signal wire layer, wherein the signal wire layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a signal wire electrically connected to the touch electrodes and the signal wire is at least partially located in the packaging area; a packaging adhesive layer disposed between the cover plate and the array substrate to bond the cover plate and the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KunShan Go Visionox Opto Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Peng Xia, Shengzu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11803261
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a sensing structure, a sensing signal transfer film, and a side surface connection electrode structure. The display panel includes a first surface on which an image is displayed, a second surface facing the first surface, and first and second side surfaces connecting the first surface to the second surface. The sensing structure includes a sensing electrode disposed on the first surface of the display panel. The sensing signal transfer film is disposed on the second surface of the display panel. The side surface connection electrode structure is disposed at parts of an upper surface and a side surface of the sensing structure and parts of the first side surface and the second surface of the display panel and electrically connects the sensing electrode and the sensing signal transfer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byoungyong Kim
  • Patent number: 11778871
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to mitigating unintended OLED display emissions arising from a proximity sensor emitter located behind an OLED display panel. One example provides a display device comprising an OLED display panel, a proximity sensor having a proximity sensor emitter positioned behind one or more OLED pixels of the OLED display panel with respect to a viewing surface of the OLED display panel, and a proximity emitter mask positioned between the proximity sensor emitter and the one or more OLED pixels to shield the one or more OLED pixels from the proximity sensor emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eliyahu Barel, Ying Zheng, Eran Arbel
  • Patent number: 11769431
    Abstract: A projection display device includes an image display control unit configured to perform a first display control for generating image data in accordance with information received from a control unit that controls the vehicle, and a second display control for generating image data in accordance with the measurement information acquired from the information measuring device without passing through the control unit, and a warning determination unit, wherein the image display control unit performs the second display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is necessary, and performs the first display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is not necessary, in a first mode in which driving of the vehicle is performed in accordance with an internally generated instruction or an instruction externally and wirelessly received, the image display control unit performs at least the second display control without passing through the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oshima
  • Patent number: 11762490
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an active area configured to display images and an inactive area that is free of pixels and that does not display images. Touch sensor sense lines may have portions located in the active area and portions located in the inactive area. The active and inactive areas may be characterized by respective reflectivity values. To match the reflectivities of the active and inactive areas and thereby avoid undesired visually distinguishable differences in the appearances of these areas, the touch sensor circuitry in the inactive areas may be configured to match the reflectivity values of the active and inactive areas. Sense line portions in the inactive area may have metal traces of enhanced reflectivity and/or uneven surface topology to enhance ambient light reflections through a circular polarizer that overlaps the active and inactive areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kyounghwan Kim, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Chien-Ya Lee, Ching-Sang Chuang, Jae Won Choi, Jonathan H. Beck, Ming E. Tai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Wen-I Hsieh, Yuchi Che
  • Patent number: 11763756
    Abstract: A display device includes first pixels in a first pixel area, and second pixels in a second pixel area. The first pixels are electrically connected to first signal lines, second signal lines, and data lines. The second pixels are electrically connected to third signal lines, fourth signal lines, and the data lines. The fourth signal lines include a first conductive line crossing at least one of the third signal lines, and a second conductive line that does not cross any of the third signal lines. The first conductive line is not in contact with the third signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Sun Ja Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Hyun Ae Park, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11755102
    Abstract: An eyewear device presents, via an image display, an initial displayed image. The initial displayed image has an initial field of view corresponding to an initial head direction or an initial eye direction. Eyewear device detects movement of a user of the eyewear device by: (i) tracking, via a head movement tracker, a head movement of a head of the user, or (ii) tracking, via an eye movement tracker, an eye movement of an eye of the user of the eyewear device. Eyewear device determines a field of view adjustment to the initial field of view of the initial displayed image based on the detected movement of the user. Field of view adjustment includes a successive field of view corresponding to a successive head direction or a successive eye direction. Eyewear device generates a successive displayed image based on the field of view adjustment and presents the successive displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, David Meisenholder, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II
  • Patent number: 11733802
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of first electrodes overlap a display area, extend in a first direction, and are arranged in a second direction, a plurality of second electrodes overlap the display area, extend in the second direction, and are arranged in the first direction, a plurality of conductive lines are provided along the first electrodes, and connected to the second electrodes, respectively, and a touch detection driver is configured to detect contact or approach of an object with respect to the display area. In a case where a distance between a conductive line and one of the first electrodes near the conductive line is less than a predetermined value, a shielding portion is formed in the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Japn Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Takada
  • Patent number: 11714287
    Abstract: A display device includes a display, an optical assembly, and a display-moving assembly connected to the display for moving the display between a first position and a second position. When in the first position, the display outputs image light in a first direction substantially parallel to an optical axis of the optical assembly. When in the second position, the display is positioned away from the optical axis of the optical assembly. The display device also includes a partial reflector and a partial reflector-moving assembly connected to the partial reflector for moving the partial reflector between a third position and a fourth position. When the partial reflector is in the third position, the display is in the first position and the display is disposed between the optical assembly and the partial reflector. When the partial reflector is in the fourth position, the display is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Weichuan Gao, Kieran Connor Kelly, Stephen Choi
  • Patent number: 11703954
    Abstract: A touch input display system includes a display device and a touch input device. The display device includes a display, a frame enclosing the display, and a light receiver that receives infrared light emitted from an external operation device. The touch input device has a touch inputter and a frame body that encloses the touch inputter. The touch input device is attached to the display such that the frame body overlaps on a front side of the frame. The frame body has an infrared light guide. The infrared light guide guides infrared light emitted from the external operation device to the light receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotaka Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11681380
    Abstract: This application is directed to a capacitive sense array including a two-dimensional array of capacitive sense elements. Each capacitive sense element is formed by a respective intersection of (i) a respective row electrode in a first electrode layer and (ii) a respective column electrode in a second electrode layer. Each column of the capacitive sense elements includes two or more interdigitated column electrodes. Each row electrode forms two or more rows of capacitive sense elements at intersections with the column electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Kiernan, Frederick Jaccard, Pete Vavaroutsos