Patents Examined by Stephen G. Sherman
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Patent number: 11113504Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a transparent member, a display, wherein at least part of the display is disposed under the transparent member, wherein the display includes an active area, in which a plurality of pixels capable of outputting light to display contents, a biometric sensor, wherein at least part of the biometric sensor is disposed in a first area outside the active area, and a reflector positioned to direct light reflected by an external object in contact with at least a partial area of the transparent member to the biometric sensor through at least a portion of the transparent member, wherein at least some of the plurality of pixels are positioned to irradiate the external object, thereby resulting in the light reflected by the external object.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun Jang Jin, Jeong Hoo Kim, Kyung Hoon Song, Bong Jae Rhee, Se Young Jang, Chi Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 11112918Abstract: A touch display device includes a display panel and a touch recognition module. The touch recognition module includes a first electrode layer disposed on the display panel, an insulating layer disposed on both the first electrode layer and the display panel, and a second electrode layer disposed on the insulating layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first touch electrodes spaced apart from each other, and the second electrode layer includes a touch area and a fingerprint recognition area adjacent to the touch area.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuanhang Li
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Patent number: 11106326Abstract: At an electronic device with a touch screen display, display a user interface, where the user interface includes at least two windows of an application, a first icon displayed in association with a first window of the at least two windows, and a second icon at a location different from the at least two windows. While displaying the at least two windows, detect a gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with detecting the gesture on the first icon associated with the first window on the touch screen display, remove from the display the first window of the at least two displayed windows corresponding to the gesture; and in accordance with detecting the gesture on the second icon at the location different from the at least two windows of the application, display a new window of the application on the touch screen display.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Chris Blumenberg, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Richard J. Williamson
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Patent number: 11100843Abstract: A display device includes a pixel unit including first pixels in a first pixel area, second pixels in a second pixel area, and third pixels in a third pixel area; a first scan driver including first multiplexers configured to operate in response to a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, and to supply first scan signals to first scan lines connected to the first pixels; a second scan driver configured to supply second scan signals to second scan lines connected to the second pixels; and a third scan driver including second multiplexers configured to operate in response to the first mode and the second mode, and to supply third scan signals to third scan lines connected to the third pixels.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Sic Lee, Min Woo Byun, Jae Du Noh, Min Kyu Woo, Seung Yeon Cho
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Patent number: 11087661Abstract: A display device includes a substrate and a plurality of gate driving units. The substrate has at least one curved portion with a curved side edge, and the plurality of gate driving units are disposed along the curved side edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
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Patent number: 11089144Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
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Patent number: 11087111Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fingerprint collection are provided. The method includes: lighting up pixels of a plurality of light source regions on a display panel according to a preset timing sequence, where each light source region includes one or more pixels, all the light source regions are simultaneously lighted up during a first time period and none of light source regions is lighted up during a second time period; controlling a photoelectric sensing module to collect first and second optical signals respectively in the first and second time periods, the first optical signal including a reflected light signal formed by reflecting, with a light-transmissive cover plate, light from the light source regions; correcting the collected first optical signal based on the second optical signal, where the display panel and the photoelectric sensing module are disposed at a same side of the light-transmissive cover plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Shanghai Harvest Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fei Wang, Xueke Hu, Tianyang Wang, Sheng Feng, Fengjun Gu, Jiandong Huang
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Patent number: 11080510Abstract: A fingerprint recognition apparatus with dynamically adjustable power levels of light-emitting modules is introduced, including: a touch detecting module detecting a touch coordinate and a touch area of a finger on a panel; a plurality of light-emitting modules emitting light to the finger on the panel; a processing module coupling to the touch detecting module and the plurality of light-emitting modules and outputting a setting value according to the touch coordinate, the touch area and positions of the plurality of light-emitting modules; a light-emitting power adjusting module adjusting power levels of the plurality of light-emitting modules according to the setting value; and an image outputting module outputting the fingerprint according to the fingerprint image.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chien-Chung Liu, Hsing-Lung Chung, Jou-Chia Chen
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Patent number: 11079601Abstract: An eye projection device is provide comprising an eye projection system configured for projecting a light beam to propagate along a propagation path to an eye.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: EYEWAY VISION LTD.Inventor: Boris Greenberg
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Patent number: 11073943Abstract: An input device is described which comprises a touch-sensitive surface and a force sensor, wherein the force sensor is adapted to detect a force applied to the touch-sensitive surface. The input device further comprises a vibration sensor and a control unit, wherein the control unit is coupled with the force sensor, the touch-sensitive surface and the vibration sensor. The control unit is adapted to validate a force detected by the force sensor as an input in dependence on a touch of the touch-sensitive surface and in dependence on a vibration detected by the vibration sensor. There is further described a motor vehicle which comprises such an input device. A method of detecting an input at an input device is further described.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: E.SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Thomas Franke, Thomas Fuessinger, Michael Beck
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Patent number: 11068690Abstract: [Object] It is desirable that a technology capable of improving the accuracy of biometric authentication through use of image sensors is provided. [Solution] There is provided a detection device for biometric authentication, including: a first image sensor unit; and a second image sensor unit arranged on a same plane as the first image sensor unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventor: Tetsuya Naruse
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Patent number: 11061557Abstract: Touchscreen-enabled devices are provided to display images of either real or virtual environments, the devices having at least one user interface including a graphical overlay laid over the images for navigating the environments. The device can interpret gestures made by a single finger of the user on the touchscreen as commands to achieve intended maneuvers such as translations of the point of view and rotations of the point of view within the displayed environment. This allows for one-finger navigation of the environment. The elevational angle of the viewpoint may be tilted above or below horizontal as the viewpoint approaches topographical features within the displayed environment, and may return to horizontal after transitioning to a level surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: RESCAN, INC.Inventors: John Adam Croston, Botond Bognar
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Patent number: 11062666Abstract: A semiconductor device with a small circuit area that consumes low power is provided. The semiconductor device includes a shift register, a sample-and-hold circuit, a first buffer circuit, and a second buffer circuit. The sample-and-hold circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. An output terminal of the first buffer circuit is electrically connected to the first input terminal. The shift register is electrically connected to the second input terminal. An input terminal of the second buffer circuit is electrically connected to the output terminal of the sample-and-hold circuit. In the semiconductor device, the potential of an input analog signal is retained in the sample-and-hold circuit and the analog signal is output from an output terminal of the second buffer circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Tatsunori Inoue
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Patent number: 11062119Abstract: A fingerprint recognition method includes: from a time when a finger is detected touching a fingerprint recognition portion, a contact area between the finger and the fingerprint recognition portion is acquired at preset time intervals; when the contact area is smaller than a preset area and a number of repeated acquisition times does not reach a preset number of times, the number of repeated acquisition times is updated. The number of repeated acquisition times is configured to determine that fingerprint recognition fails when being accumulated to reach the preset number of times. Prior to the number of repeated acquisition times reaching the preset number of times, when it is detected that the finger leaves the fingerprint recognition portion, the number of repeated acquisition times is reset.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Xuebin Huang
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Patent number: 11054639Abstract: Systems and methods for direct projection of images onto an eye retina including, for example, systems and methods for directing a projection/imaging optical path so as to track a location of the eye in accordance with a gaze direction thereof. This enables for projecting images onto specific/fixed locations on the eye retina, while the gaze direction changes.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Inventor: Boris Greenberg
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Patent number: 11054990Abstract: An electronic device selects content and moves selected content displayed on a touch screen display. Content of an electronic document is displayed, and a selection input corresponding to selection of a respective portion of the content (selected content) is detected. In response, the device concurrently displays the selected content with a changed appearance, to indicate the selection, and a set of options related to the selected content. In response to detecting a single touch input at a location over the selected content, if the single touch input remains, during a first portion of the single touch input, at the location for a predetermined amount of time, followed, during a second portion of the single touch input, by a continuous touch gesture away from the location, the representation of the selected content is moved to a different location in a direction of the continuous touch gesture.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Imran A. Chaudhri, Nicholas K. Jong, Craig M. Federighi
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Patent number: 11055509Abstract: A display device includes: a display portion that includes a plurality of pixels, and displays an image through light emitted from the plurality of pixels; a sensor that includes a plurality of light sensing pixels that receive light and acquires a first image when the display portion displays a test image that includes a marker; a memory that stores calibration image data for calibrating an image acquired by the sensor; and a sensor controller that calculates a movement amount of a marker in the first image and corrects or updates the calibration image data using the movement amount of the at least one marker.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kee Yong Kim
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Patent number: 11048955Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a field-programmable gate array (“FPGA”)-based biometric sampling system for improving biometric data reusability. The system can include one or more FPGAs, each of which can include a plurality of configurable input/output (“I/O”) blocks, a plurality of configurable logic blocks, and a plurality of configurable interconnects that connect the plurality of configurable I/O blocks to the plurality of configurable logic blocks. The FPGA(s) can be configured based upon a hardware description language model to receive biometric input data associated with a user, to apply a sampling scheme to the biometric input data to extract, from the biometric input data, an enrollment biometric data sample, and to cause the enrollment biometric data sample to be stored in a database.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Gary Brian Temerowski, II, Joshua West, Martin Patrick McEnroe
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Patent number: 11048909Abstract: A full-screen electronic device with a fingerprint sensing function and a fingerprint sensing method are provided. The full-screen electronic device includes a panel module, a plurality of fingerprint sensors and a control unit. The plurality of fingerprint sensors are aligned with the panel module and distributed into a plurality of scan regions in an array. The fingerprint sensing method includes the following steps. Firstly, a concerned information about a concerned position of the display panel is generated. After the control unit receives the concerned information, the control unit defines the scan regions of the concerned position as a first scan set according to the concerned information. Then, the control unit controls the fingerprint sensors corresponding to the first scan set according to a first scan strategy.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignees: Egis Technology Inc., Igistec Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Lin, Tang-Hung Po, Chung-Yi Wang
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Patent number: 11048111Abstract: A touch panel which is thin, has a simple structure, or is easily incorporated into an electronic device is provided. The touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a third conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer, liquid crystal, and an FPC. The first conductive layer has a function of a pixel electrode. The second conductive layer has a function of a common electrode. The third and fourth conductive layers each have a function of an electrode of a touch sensor. The FPC is electrically connected to the fourth conductive layer. The first, second, third, and fourth conductive layers and the liquid crystal are provided between the first and second substrates. The first, second, and third conductive layers are provided over the first substrate. The FPC is provided over the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki