Patents Examined by Stephen G. Sherman
  • Patent number: 11825726
    Abstract: A display device having a biometric authentication function is provided. A highly convenient display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a light guide plate, a plurality of first light-emitting elements, a second light-emitting element, and a plurality of light-receiving elements. The light guide plate includes a first portion having a first surface and a second portion having a second surface that connects with the first surface and has a different normal direction from the first surface. The first light-emitting elements and the light-receiving elements are provided between the first substrate and the light guide plate. The first light-emitting elements have a function of emitting first light through the light guide plate, and the second light-emitting element has a function of emitting second light to a side surface of the light guide plate. The light-receiving elements have a function of receiving the second light and converting the second light to an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi, Taisuke Kamada
  • Patent number: 11815953
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an auxiliary monitor system is provided. The auxiliary monitor system includes a first auxiliary monitor configured to be coupled to a primary monitor, a second auxiliary monitor, and at least one fastener configured to removably couple the first auxiliary monitor to the second auxiliary monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MOBILE PIXELS INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Yao, Wenglong Ng, Richard Miller, Brian Yoo, Evan Hunter Williams
  • Patent number: 11810390
    Abstract: A method for fingerprint detection, which may more easily reduce an influence of a brightness change of a display screen on the fingerprint detection and improve performance of the fingerprint detection. The method for the fingerprint detection includes: receiving a synchronization signal of a display screen, the synchronization signal being configured to trigger a pixel array of a fingerprint sensor to expose, where a period of the synchronization signal is synchronized with a dimming period of the display screen, and the dimming period includes a bright period and a dark period; exposing each row of pixels in the pixel array in sequence based on triggering of the synchronization signal, so that a position of the pixel whose exposure time corresponding to the dark period in the pixel array is constant, where data of each row of the pixels after exposure is configured to obtain a fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaogang Qing
  • Patent number: 11803074
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11803238
    Abstract: Eye and hand tracking systems in head-mounted display (HMD) devices are arranged with lensless camera systems using optical masks as encoding elements that apply convolutions to optical images of body parts (e.g., eyes or hands) of HMD device users. The convolved body images are scrambled or coded representations that are captured by a sensor in the system, but are not human-recognizable. A machine learning system such as a neural network is configured to extract body features directly from the coded representation without performance of deconvolutions conventionally utilized to reconstruct the original body images in human-recognizable form. The extracted body features are utilized by the respective eye or hand tracking systems to output relevant tracking data for the user's eyes or hands which may be utilized by the HMD device to support various applications and user experiences. The lensless camera and machine learning system are jointly optimizable on an end-to-end basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Alan Tesdahl, Benjamin Eliot Lundell, David Rohn, Dmitry Reshidko, Dmitriy Churin, Kevin James Matherson, Sayyed Jaffar Ali Raza
  • Patent number: 11803278
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel and an input sensing unit. The input sensing unit includes at least one insulation layer, an electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The electrode includes sensor parts including a metal and having a mesh shape and connection parts connecting adjacent sensor parts of the sensor parts to each other. The auxiliary electrode overlaps the sensor parts, is connected to the sensor parts, and includes transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwa-Jeong Kim, Nayun Kwak, Sanghyun Jun, Changyong Jung
  • Patent number: 11798312
    Abstract: An image sensor, a fingerprint detection apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel circuit array, wherein each pixel circuit is configured to generate an output signal according to a received light signal; and an output circuit is configured to simultaneously receive output signals of a plurality of pixel circuits in the pixel circuit array, and output a signal average value of the output signals of the plurality of pixel circuits. The image sensor has a small area and power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chengzuo Wang
  • Patent number: 11798451
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first surface including first pixels and a second surface including second pixels, the first surface contacting the second surface at a panel center thereof, a first source integrated circuit (IC) sequentially latching first image data, which is to be applied to the first surface, in a first direction facing the panel center at a panel edge of the first surface, and a second source IC sequentially latching second image data, which is to be applied to the second surface, in a second direction facing the panel center at a panel edge of the second surface, wherein the first direction is opposite to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Chul Ha, Hyun Chul Kim, Mi So Kim
  • Patent number: 11790226
    Abstract: The performance of a neural network (NN) and/or deep neural network (DNN) can limited by the number of operations being performed as well as management of data among the various memory components of the NN/DNN. A sparsity-inducing regularization optimization process is performed on a machine learning model to generate a compressed machine learning model. A machine learning model is trained using a first set of training data. A sparsity-inducing regularization optimization process is executed on the machine learning model. Based on the sparsity-inducing regularization optimization process, a compressed machine learning model is received. The compressed machine learning model is executed to generate one or more outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Tianyi Chen, Sheng Yi, Yixin Shi, Xiao Tu
  • Patent number: 11782545
    Abstract: A display device including a flexible display module and provides a display surface on which an image is displayed. The flexible display module includes a display panel including a light-emitting device and a sensor unit disposed on the display panel. The sensor unit senses pressure applied to the flexible display module in a folded-in mode in which the flexible display module is folded such that a portion of the display surface faces another portion of the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-Iyong Bok
  • Patent number: 11774761
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas spaced from each other, and a plurality of non-pixel areas respectively located between neighboring pixel areas, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively located in at least a part of the plurality of pixel areas, and a scattering layer on the plurality of pixel electrodes, and including a plurality of non-scattering areas respectively at a central portion of each of the plurality of pixel areas, and a plurality of scattering areas respectively between neighboring non-scattering areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chungsock Choi, Soyoung Lee, Sunyoung Jung, Sanghwan Cho
  • Patent number: 11774766
    Abstract: A layout of Micro LED for augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) is provided in the present invention, including multiple display cells arranging into a cell array, multiple micro LEDs set on the edge region of each display cell and exposing the transparent region surrounded by the edge region, and pixel driver circuits set on the edge region right under the Micro LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Zhibiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11762461
    Abstract: A method for updating information for a graphics pipeline including executing in the first frame period an application on a CPU to generate primitives of a scene for a first video frame. Gaze tracking information is received in a second frame period for an eye of a user. In the second frame period a landing point on an HMD display is predicted at the CPU based at least on the gaze tracking information. A late update of the predicted landing point to a buffer accessible by the GPU is performed in the second frame period. Shader operations are performed in the GPU in the second frame period to generate pixel data based on the primitives and based on the predicted landing point, wherein the pixel data is stored into a frame buffer. The pixel data is scanned out in the third frame period from the frame buffer to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Young, Javier Fernandez Rico
  • Patent number: 11758092
    Abstract: To provide a display control device that enables a passenger to understand when an image shot of the outside of the moving body and reproduced in the moving body was shot. When displaying images shot of the outside of a moving body in the moving body, the display control device, while updating with a lapse of time, how far back in a past from now the image being displayed was shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Koh
  • Patent number: 11758795
    Abstract: A display device includes a fingerprint sensor layer that receives light reflected by an external object; a substrate disposed on the fingerprint sensor layer; an optical pattern layer disposed on the substrate and that includes a light blocking portion and a light transmitting portion that passes through the light blocking portion in one direction; a first light transmitting layer with a first refractive index and that is disposed on the light blocking portion; a second light transmitting layer with a second refractive index different from the first refractive index and that is disposed on the first light transmitting layer; and a light emitting element layer disposed on the second light transmitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Ik Lim, Gee Bum Kim, Byung Han Yoo, Dae Young Lee, Chaun Gi Choi
  • Patent number: 11756483
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for driving the same are provided. The display apparatus includes pixel circuits and a threshold detection module. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a data voltage writing module including an output terminal electrically connected to the driving transistor. The threshold detection module is configured to detect a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. An operating process of the pixel circuit includes a first phase and a second phase. The first phase includes a data writing phase and a light-emitting phase. The second phase includes an adjusting phase and a light-emitting phase. The driving transistor receives a data voltage during the data writing phase. During the adjusting phase, the driving transistor receives an adjusting voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor that is detected by the threshold detection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Yana Gao, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11755123
    Abstract: An illuminated keyboard including a backlight module and a key structure is provided. The backlight module includes a reflector, a light guide plate, a light source, and a light shielding plate. The light guide plate is disposed on the reflector, and a surface of the light guide plate facing the reflector has multiple microstructures. The light source is located on a light incident surface side of the light guide plate. The light shielding plate is disposed on the light guide plate. The light shielding plate has a shielding area and a light transmissive area, and the microstructures are correspondingly disposed in the light transmissive area. The key structure has multiple keycaps. In the microstructures correspondingly disposed under one single keycap, peaks of any two microstructures adjacent to each other keep different distances from the surface of the light guide plate facing the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chin-Chia Hsu
  • Patent number: 11747897
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes avatar monitoring circuitry to receive gaze data for a first user associated with a first avatar in a virtual reality environment, the gaze data for the first user indicative of a gaze point for the first user with respect to the virtual reality environment, in which the avatar monitoring circuitry is configured to select one or more objects in the virtual reality environment in dependence upon the gaze data for the first user and to store first avatar information for the first avatar indicative of one or more of the selected objects, input circuitry to receive gaze data for a second user indicative of a gaze point for the second user with respect to the virtual reality environment, and processing circuitry to generate one or more images for the virtual reality environment for display to the second user, in which the processing circuitry is configured to: select the first avatar in dependence upon the gaze point for the second user with respect to the first avatar; and gen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Patent number: 11741909
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, and a display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit may output an initial power supply signal to a first node, and a driving circuit may drive a light-emitting element to emit light according to a potential of the first node and a second power supply signal provided by a second power supply end. And, each driving circuit which the display panel includes may start to work from the same bias situation and drive the corresponding light-emitting element to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhichong Wang
  • Patent number: 11733842
    Abstract: A processing method includes displaying a first content, acquiring input information, and displaying a second content in response to the input information satisfying a condition. The input information satisfying the condition indicates presence of a viewer of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Qian, Hang Cai