Patents Examined by Sosina Abebe
  • Patent number: 12073024
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling activation of different input elements using an actuator are disclosed herein. An example method includes in response to detecting that a representation of a finger is located by a first input element: obtaining information regarding a first amount of force to actuate the first input element, and causing adjustment of a physical characteristic of an actuator so that a first amount of force directed to a component of the actuator activates the first input element. In response to detecting that the representation of the finger is located by a second input element, the method also includes: obtaining information regarding a second amount of force distinct from the first amount of force, and causing adjustment of the physical characteristic of the actuator so that the second amount of force directed to the component of the actuator activates the second input element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Priyanshu Agarwal, Nicholas Colonnese, Li Yao, Harsha Prahlad, Tianshu Liu, Felippe Jose Pavinatto, Daniele Piazza
  • Patent number: 12062341
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a data signal supply circuit, a first switching element including a first end electrically coupled to the data signal supply circuit, and a second end, a first capacitor electrically coupled to the second end of the first switching element and configured to hold an electric charge according to a gradation voltage, a second switching element including a first end electrically coupled to the second end of the first switching element, and a second end, a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element and a transistor, and a data line electrically coupled to the pixel circuit. The first capacitor is disposed to overlap the transistor in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 12056345
    Abstract: A matrix operation method performed by a computer includes the following, displaying on a display a matrix in which a plurality of components are arrayed; and changing an arrangement of at least one of the plurality of components in the matrix displayed on the display based on a gesture operation to the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12045395
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and device, the device comprising: a touch sensor disposed adjacent to the outside of a housing and including touch interfaces for a plurality of areas; an inertial sensor having a set sensor axis; a biometric sensor disposed adjacent to the inside of the housing; a communication module comprising communication circuitry; a memory which maps and stores an angle corresponding to a touch detection range of each touch interface of the touch sensor; and a processor operatively connected to the touch sensor, the inertial sensor, the biometric sensor, the communication module, and the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinik Kim, Namjoon Park
  • Patent number: 12045406
    Abstract: An electronic device including a cover and a stretchable sensing unit is provided by the present disclosure. The cover has a curved surface, the curved surface has a first region with a first Gaussian curvature, and the first Gaussian curvature is not equal to zero. The stretchable sensing unit is attached to the cover, wherein the stretchable sensing unit includes a stretchable substrate and a first sensing element disposed on the stretchable substrate. The first sensing element is disposed between the first region of the curved surface and the stretchable substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Chia Huang
  • Patent number: 12046168
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a hole area, a peripheral area, and a bending area, a printed circuit board disposed on the pad area, a first hole crack detection line and a second hole crack detection line disposed in the peripheral area and extending to the bending area and the pad area, a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first signal line to apply a first signal, a first electrode, and a second electrode connected to the first hole crack detection line, and a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second signal line to receive a second signal, a first electrode connected to a high voltage line applying a high voltage, and a second electrode connected to the first hole crack detection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haegoo Jung, Yeon-Shil Jung
  • Patent number: 12029062
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a plurality of supporting pillars disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and located in the display area; and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and located in the non-display area. The second substrate includes a plurality of film layers, the plurality of film layers include a polarizer and at least one first layer, and a thickness of a portion of the at least one first layer located in the display area is greater than a thickness of a portion of the at least one first layer located in the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma MicroElectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Huiping Chai, Baoyan Chai, Lijing Han, Yuantao Wu
  • Patent number: 12019836
    Abstract: A touch screen which is provided comprising: a display; multiple first electrodes in parallel to a first axis and multiple second electrodes in parallel to a second axis, wherein the first and the second electrodes are overlapped with the display; and an opaque and non-conductive frame which surrounds and overlaps on top of edges of the display, wherein the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis, the first electrodes intersect with the second electrodes, a distance between center lines of any two adjacent second electrodes is a second pitch, a distance in the first axis between a center line of the first one of the second electrodes and a second edge of the frame in parallel to the second axis is less than or equals to a quarter of the second pitch, a distance in the first axis between a center line of the last one of the second electrodes and a fourth edge of the frame in parallel to the second axis is less than or equals to a quarter of the second pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: EGALAX EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Cheng-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11989365
    Abstract: An electronic device including an electronic pen and a method of controlling a communication connection with the electronic pen is provided. The electronic device include a housing, a touch-screen display, a first wireless communication circuit, an extended recess disposed inside the housing, a first wireless charging circuit; an electronic pen including a second wireless communication circuit and a second wireless charging circuit electrically coupled to the first wireless charging circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions causing the processor to detect whether the electronic pen is inserted into the recess, charge the electronic pen through the first wireless charging circuit based on the detection, receive inherent information of the electronic pen through the first wireless communication circuit during or after the charging, and maintain or re-establish a communication connection with the electronic pen based on at least a portion of the received inherent information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongmu Choi, Byunghoon Kang, Banghyun Kwon, Hyunwoong Kwon, Chunho Park, Namyong Kang, Doosuk Kang, Bokun Choi
  • 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