Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
  • Patent number: 12266308
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, a first light-emitting control sub-circuit, a second light-emitting control sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, and a first reset sub-circuit, and is configured to generate a driving current to control a light-emitting element to emit light, the first reset sub-circuit comprises a first transistor, the compensation sub-circuit comprises a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor are both polysilicon oxide thin film transistors, and an active layer type of the first transistor and an active layer type of the second transistor are different from an active layer type of a transistor comprised in at least one selected from a group consisting of the driving sub-circuit, the data writing sub-circuit, the first light-emitting control sub-circuit, and the second light-emitting control sub-circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Ming Hu, Haijun Qiu, Weiyun Huang, Yao Huang, Chao Zeng, Yuanyou Qiu, Shaoru Li, Tianyi Cheng
  • Patent number: 12265688
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a window display method and a related apparatus. The method includes: An electronic device displays a first window. The electronic device determines a hot region of the first window based on a first display region of the first window, where the first display region includes a display region of a response control in the first window, and the response control is a control capable of responding to a touch operation. According to embodiments of this application, the hot region of the window can be determined based on a display region of display content in the window. In this way, an operable region for a user on a display screen is increased, and screen utilization is effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xu Li
  • Patent number: 12260022
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method comprises obtaining, by a processing system and using a piezoelectric device, piezoelectric signals associated with user input on a sensing region of an input device; obtaining, by the processing system and using a corrective device, corrective signals associated with the user input on the sensing region of the input device; determining, by the processing system and based on the piezoelectric signals and the corrective signals, one or more events to be performed in response to the user input; and performing, by the processing system, the one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Patrick A. Worfolk, Stuart W. Hutson
  • Patent number: 12253224
    Abstract: An interactive illumination apparatus and methods and systems for executing functions of the interactive illumination apparatus are disclosed. The interactive illumination apparatus includes a housing, a light emitting device arranged on a first end of the housing, a first button on the housing configured to detect a first input, a touch input device on the housing configured to receive a touch input from a user, and a battery in the housing. The light emitting device may be configured to generate a first illumination based on the first input. The light emitting unit may be configured to generate a second illumination based on the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TMRW FOUNDATION IP S.ÀR.L.
    Inventors: Cevat Yerli, Neva Yerli
  • Patent number: 12249269
    Abstract: A data driver includes output channels configured to output data signals, output controllers selectively outputting data signals having a first arrangement or data signals having a second arrangement to output channel groups each of which includes N output channels in response to arrangement control signals, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and a control signal generator outputting the arrangement control signals to the output controllers to control the output controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangmin Lee, Se-Byung Chae, Subin Kim, Hyunchang Kim
  • Patent number: 12243493
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device, and can provide a display panel and a display device that have a clock signal line arrangement structure that is advantageous to electrostatic discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeyi Choi, SooHong Choi, HongJae Shin
  • Patent number: 12223905
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes plural pixels, a scan driver, a data driver, and a read-out circuit that reads out an electrical characteristic of each of the pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected with a power node, a second electrode connected with a first node, and a gate connected with a first emission control line, a fifth transistor including a first electrode connected with a third node, a second electrode, and a gate connected with a second emission control line, a sixth transistor including a first electrode connected with a read-out line, a second electrode connected with the third node, and a gate connected a the read-out/initialization control line, a capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and an organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Uijong Song, Sunkwon Kim, Hyungjoong Kim, Seongyoung Ryu, Yilho Lee, Heejin Lee
  • Patent number: 12223132
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device includes a sensor driver receiving firmware from an host in which the firmware is stored, the sensor driver including a second memory storing the firmware supplied from the host and initialized when a reset signal is supplied from the host, and a sensing unit for supplying a recovery signal corresponding to an abnormal state of the sensor driver to the host while sensing at least one of an internal voltage and a clock signal of the sensor driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Hong Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Jung Mok Park, Jin Woo Park, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 12223119
    Abstract: A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having plural input sensors, each aligned with a key assembly having a key cap coupled with a scissors to a holder plate, the holder plate configured to couple to a coupling extension extending up from a housing cover upper surface. A flexible planar sheet couples between the membrane and plural keys so that a lifting force applied to the flexible planar sheet separates the plural keys from the housing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files, Chiu-Jung Tsen
  • Patent number: 12216863
    Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 12217684
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel configured to receive a first initialization voltage during a first period between a writing period of a first scan period and a first emission period of a frame and to receive a second initialization voltage different from the first initialization voltage from a start time point of a second period before a second emission period of a second scan period subsequent to the first scan period, a display apparatus including the pixel, and a driving method of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Lee, Jihyun Ka, Seokje Seong, Joosun Yoon
  • Patent number: 12216820
    Abstract: A method for compensating for a visual impairment in a virtual reality environment, by multiple computer systems associated with a head mounted display, including, rendering an initial image for display in a virtual reality environment, determining a first visual adjustment to the HMD based on an input received by the HMD, the input being associated with a visual impairment of a user of the HMD, determining that the first visual adjustment does not satisfy a threshold measure of compensation for the visual impairment of the user, determining a second visual adjustment to the HMD, and rendering an adjusted image for display in the virtual reality environment based on the first visual adjustment and the second visual adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Penumbra, Inc.
    Inventors: William Ka-Pui Yee, Jeffrey Peter Bellinghausen
  • Patent number: 12216835
    Abstract: A method for positioning and electronic devices in a virtual space comprising: imaging, by a camera of a second electronic device, a reference object displayed at a first electronic device; obtaining, from the first electronic device, a pointer to information pertaining to position of the first electronic device in a virtual space; obtaining physical dimensions of the reference object; obtaining current position of the first electronic device in the virtual space; determining a relative distance of the second electronic device to the first electronic device based on the physical dimensions of the reference object and dimensions of the reference object as imaged by the camera of the second electronic device; determining position of the second electronic device in the virtual space based on the current position of the first electronic device in the virtual space and the determined relative distance of the second electronic device to the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Auki Labs LTD
    Inventors: Nils Pihl, Andy Lau, Gustav Pihl, Ted Östrem
  • Patent number: 12204719
    Abstract: A touch input device includes M drive lines; N sense lines; (M×N) electrostatic capacitances; and a signal processor configured to output a first drive signal and detect a change in a plurality of electrostatic capacitances of the (M×N) electrostatic capacitances. The signal processor outputs the first drive signal to the at least one first drive line and outputs a second drive signal having a phase opposite to the first drive signal to each of at least two second drive lines. The signal processor outputs the first drive signal and the second drive signal so that a first amplitude total, which is obtained by multiplying an amplitude of the first drive signal by the number of first drive lines, is substantially equal to a second amplitude total, which is obtained by multiplying an amplitude of the second drive signal by the number of second drive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kohji Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 12197254
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a housing, a glass panel provided on the display, and a shielding printed layer provided on a second surface of the glass panel in a region corresponding to a space between a side face of the electronic device and an edge of the display. The glass panel includes a flat portion and a curved portion, which includes a first region having a curvature of the curved portion, a second region perpendicular to the first region and covered by the shielding printed layer, and a chamfer region constructed between the first region and the second region. A ratio of a height of the chamfer region with respect to the first region and a length of the chamfer region with respect to the second region has a value in a range of 2 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungjae Jung, Jeongeun Kim, Sanghoon Han, Byungsun Kim, Dongjun Oh
  • Patent number: 12198630
    Abstract: A display includes a light emitting element that emits light, a driving transistor that controls a driving current flowing through the light emitting element, a light sensing element spaced apart from the light emitting element and generating a photocurrent according to external light, a first sensing transistor that controls a sensing current flowing to a readout line according to a voltage of a gate electrode of the first sensing transistor, which is electrically connected to an electrode of the light sensing element, and a shielding electrode disposed around a side of the gate electrode of the first sensing transistor in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Hee Jean Park, Cheol Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 12189139
    Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus, including: a display screen including pixel island groups each including at least one pixel island which each includes pixel units; a micro-lens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display screen, and including micro-lenses each corresponding to one pixel island, each micro-lens being configured for imaging an image displayed by the pixel island corresponding thereto; an imaging lens group disposed on a side of the micro-lens array away from the display screen and configured for collimating imaging light of the micro-lenses, the pixel island groups are configured for displaying partial images which form a complete image, and imaging field of view angles formed by outgoing light rays, of the pixel island groups adjacent to each other, passing through the micro-lenses corresponding to the pixel island groups and the imaging lens group are continuous with each other. A display method is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiuyu Ling, Wei Wang, Tiankuo Shi, Yifan Hou, Xianqin Meng, Weiting Peng, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 12190762
    Abstract: A display device includes liquid crystal panels, and displays an image, based on emission light from each of the liquid crystal panels. A display control circuit of the display device supplies image data of respective colors R, G, and B to the corresponding liquid crystal panels. A panel pixel having the lowest transmittance of three panel pixels corresponding to white-side pixels at domain boundaries is regarded as a reference panel pixel. The display control circuit reduces a gray scale level of pixel data supplied to two panel pixels other than the reference panel pixel of the three panel pixels. With this, coloring of the white-side pixels can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Osawa, Kazuhisa Mizusako, Daigo Hokazono, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 12189885
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a display area in which a plurality of subpixels are positioned and a non-display area positioned around the display area, a metal line positioned in the non-display area of the display panel, a first pin electrically connected to one end of the metal line, an operational circuit electrically connected to a first pin and configured to sense a characteristic value of the metal line, and a capacitor to be charged with a voltage applied to the first node, thereby providing a display device and an integrated circuit capable of effectively removing electric charges generated by a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Beom Jeong
  • Patent number: 12189892
    Abstract: A method of detecting an application or removal of one of a first touch and a second touch on a capacitive touch screen is provided. The method may include storing respective first touch data for a first set of nodes at a first cycle, storing respective second touch data for a second set of nodes at a second cycle after the first cycle, determining a first total touch data by summing the respective first touch data for the first set of nodes at the first cycle, determining a second total touch data by summing the respective second touch data for the second set of nodes at the second cycle, and determining whether a touch has been applied or removed from the capacitive touch screen based on a comparison between the first total touch data and the second total touch data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Microchip Touch Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Shazia Maqbool